Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Narratological (Re)Visions: Feminist Poetics and Nontraditional Narrative Structure in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Jenny Albright
Radical Hospitality: Height and Excess of the Other and the New Host Self, Diako Alikhani
Opportunities and Challenges Facing Civic Teachers in Public Schools: A Case Study of Elementary Teachers in Saudi Arabia, Sarah Abdullah Almaghshy
Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Brain Following Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Lujain Almuhanna
Minimum Wage: Theoretical and Empirical Debates, Ghofran ALRebh
Culturally Responsive Leadership for Newcomer Students: A Case Study of an Elementary Newcomer Program School Leadership Team, Ahmad Fayaz Amiri
Cheap Apocalypse, Samuel Rafael Barber
Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Exhibit Making: “On the Gold Mountain: Chinese Mining History and Heritage of Idaho” at the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology, Jordan Kathleen Bennett
The Interplay of Spin, Charge, and Heat: From Metal/Insulator Heterostructures to Perovskite Bilayers, Sam M. Bleser
Honoring Indigenous Worldview: Cultural (Un)Responsiveness in Gifted Education, Vicki Boley
Cascade, Elisabeth L. Booze
The Foundations of Civilian Supremacy: Civil-Military Relations During the American Civil War, Riley Callahan
Understanding the Nuances of Transit Accessibility: Temporal and Spatial Resolution, and Neoliberalism, Joe Chestnut
Everyone to the Front, Kristin M. Corso
Evaluating the Effect of Domain-Specific Large Language Models on Question and Response, Phillip D. Crippen
Culturally Responsive Coaching: Supervision with a Cultural Lens, Jouanna Crossland-Wells
Conducting Culturally Responsive, Strengths-Based Assessment in Schools, Eileen Cullen
Patient-Specific Musculoskeletal Modeling of Total Shoulder Arthroplasty, Brendan M. Curran
Resisting the Historical and Geographical “Other”: The Role of Expertise in Video Game Music, Tommy Dainko
Ensemble Perception of Emotion: Incidental Effects of Social Identity, Spencer T. Dobbs
Bridging Design and Perception: Novel Tools and Technologies for Creating Effective Human-Robot Interactions, Benjamin Dossett
The Role of Care Practices, Mutual Aid, and Racial Formation in Black Newcomer Practitioners’ Lived Experience Within Organizations: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry, Annie Zean Dunbar
The Fold, Cass Eddington
Quantum-Powered Battery Scheduling in Modern Distribution Grids, Diba Ehsani
Trust, Transparency, and Transport: The Impact of Privacy Protection on the Acceptance of Last-Mile Drone Delivery, Jurgen Heinz Famula
Exploring the Experiences of HIV Positive Pregnant Women on Prevention of Vertical Transmission of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi, Gertrude Finyiza
Harmonic Data: AI Music, EDM Transcription, & Minimalist Jazz, Trevor Freed
Combinatorial Problems on the Integers: Colorings, Games, and Permutations, Collier Gaiser
Picturesque Portraiture: The Composition of Reality in Hawthorne, Melville, and James, Angela Michael Gattuso Densmore
Phenomenological Inquiry into Middle School Teachers’ Perception of Creativity, Katalin Grajzel
“We’re Fucking Human Beings Too”: Narratives of Dehumanization and Resistance Among Formerly Incarcerated People, Tyler Miyoshi Han
Spin and Charge Transport in Metallic Ferrimagnets and Disordered Magnetic Oxides, Leopoldo A. Hernandez
A Critical Policy Analysis of Universal Preschool in Colorado: Its Roots, Intentions, and Development, Jamita Horton
Sources of Sexual and Romantic Education: Associations with Sexual Minority Men’s Sexual Experiences and Romantic Relationship Quality, Charlie Huntington
Navigating the Labyrinth: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Rural Secondary School Women Leaders in Malawi, Rachel Anna Kamnkhwani
A Geospatial and Machine Learning Framework for Forecasting Ground Level Ozone Pollution, William J. Keenan
Social Policy and Compliance: An Experimental Study on Taxpayer Behavior, Kristina L. Kesselring
Statistical Modeling of Knee Morphology and Material Properties Considering Diverse Populations, Gabrielle Jeannine Kindy
Adaptation, Nazli Koca
Genres of Parody: Autofiction, Horror, and the Contemporary Novel, Kevin Kohlhauf
A Time to Create Change: A Case Study of Culturally Relevant Education, Colleen Kopay
Building Blocks for W-Algebras of Classical Types, Vladimir Kovalchuk
Philosophical Sundials: Adorno and the Lyric, George Kovalenko
Characterization of Oxidized Tau Protein Aggregation and Inhibition of Tau Aggregation via MAP2, Brad Krzesinski
Self-Efficacy and Racial Identity for Undergraduate Music Majors, Rachel E. Lim
Collective Case Study Career Critique of Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Gifted Adults, Joi Lin
The Power Behind Postsecondary Attainment Goals: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis, Casey McCoy-Simmons
Thermal, Electrical, and Spin Transport: Encompassing Low-Damping Ferromagnets and Antiferromagnetic/Ferromagnetic Heterostructures, Matthew Ryan Natale
Changing the Narrative: Student Empowerment in Unequal School Contexts, Stephanie A. Nisle-Mikos
Biophysical Characterization of the ALS-Linked Protein TDP-43; and Genetic and Small Molecule Rescues from Its Cytotoxicity, Emily Grace Oldani
Cannabis Exposure During Pregnancy and Neural Mechanisms of Parenting: Assessing Neural Responses to Infant Cues and Parenting Outcomes, Shannon Powers
Effect of Oxidation of Graphene on Agglomeration and the Mechanical Properties of Thermosetting Resins, Matthew A. Reil
Navigating University of Denver as a Latinx Male-Identifying Undergraduate Student, Quisi Rodriguez-Oregel
Evidence of Climatic Influence on Subsistence Strategies at Sage Hen Springs, Nevada, Andrew Rogers
Morphological Remodeling of the Endoplasmic Reticulum During Mitosis and Its Influence on the Integrity of the Spindle Apparatus, Katie R. Rollins
Progressive Paradox in Political Rhetoric: The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, Amanda Rolston Henderson
Digital Dialogue: Emancipatory Dialogical Practices in Virtual Collaborative Problem-Based Learning, Chelsie Ruge
Balancing Act: Navigating Employee Autonomy and Neglect, Lekshmy Sankar
Finite Element Analysis of Thermal-Mechanical Instabilities in Nonmetallic Friction Composite Material, Joseph-shaahu Shaahu
An Exploration of Rural Advanced Placement Differentiation, Kristin M. Shapiro
Paradoxes and Potential of Tourism Development in Nicaragua, Cody J. Silveira
The Effects of Wildfire Burn Severity on Bee and Wasp Communities Two Decades Post-Fire, Alaina K. Smith
Data-Driven Approaches for Enhancing Power Grid Reliability, Behrouz Sohrabi
#GetInked: An Anthropological Exploration of Tattooing and Social Media, Delanee Taylor
The Applications and Implications of a (Re)Humanizing Praxis for Early Childhood Educational Contexts, Kristopher M. Tetzlaff
The Elephant in the Baithak: Tabla and Audio Technological Discourse, Tyler Thom
Childhood Discipline Disparities for African American and Latinx Students, Cierra Townsend
Breaking Point: An Examination of the Factors and Motivators That Determine Whether a Teacher Will Stay in the Classroom or Choose to Leave the Profession, Katherine Treloar
The Effects of COVID-19 on Asian American Perception of Mental Health, Emily Tseung
Bridging the Geometric and Quantum Information of Structured Light, Andrew Alexander Voitiv
Rhetorical Resonances: An Affective Logic of Emergence in Space and Time, Craig R. Weathers
The Entrepreneur’s Burden: Investigating the Interplay Between Impostorism and Entrepreneurial Identity, Megan Laura Weber
Capturing Latent Abilities and Latent Capacities of Professional Golfers Using Nonlinear Mixed Effects Growth Modeling, Mac Wetherbee
Foreign Object, David Whelan
Leadership in Extreme Contexts: An Emerging Typology, Ashley Williams
How Well Do Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Address Gender Equity?, Stephanie Efua Yamoah
Incremental Quantities Based Permissive Overreaching Transfer Trip Scheme for Protecting Inverter-Based Renewable Resources, Osama Zangoti
The Role of Edc3 in Drosophila Melanogaster Neuronal Development, Keelan Zius
Reconciling Moral Dissonance: A Framework for Re-Integrating Moral Orientation with Life Agency During Warfighters’ Struggles with Military Moral Injury, Jeffrey L. Zust
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
A Unified Approach to Regression Testing for Mobile Apps, Zeinab Saad Abdalla
Artificial Emotional Intelligence in Socially Assistive Robots, Hojjat Abdollahi
3 Essays on Protests, Repression, and Signaling, Dogus Aktan
Optimal Management and Sizing for Battery Energy Storage Systems for Grid Applications, Abdullah Muslih Alharbi
How Practices Drive Persistence: The Transformational Consumption Journey of Native Americans in Higher Education, Gwen Locklear Almodovar
Exploration of Motion Capture System to Investigate Human Shoulder Kinematics, Ola Alsaadi
Islamic Studies Teachers' Perspectives of Applying Technology in Saudi Arabia Elementary Schools, Amal Abdulmohsen Alsaif
Unsupervised Learning Algorithm for Noise Suppression and Speech Enhancement Applications, Abdullah Zaini Alsheibi
Procedure, Emily Barton Altman
Computational Methodology for Generating Patient-Specific Soft Tissue Representations, Ahilan Anantha Krishnan
Digital Twins of the Living Knee: From Measurements to Model, Thor Erik Andreassen
Exploring College Experiences of Muslim Students at Four-Year Institutions in Colorado: A Narrative Inquiry, Kamal Gamada Ararso
Likeness in Utopia: Situation and Metaphor from Thomas More to Edward Bellamy, Sage Rachmiel Bard Gilbert
Universal Basic Income (UBI): A Cure-All or Band-Aid?, Madison Beckner
Breaking Down Barriers: The Impact of Segregation on Social Capital and Economic Outcomes, Donyetta A. Bennett