Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Engaging the Brave and the Bold: Exploring the Discourses of Disability Through Life Stories, Brian L. Grewe Jr.
The Effects of a Goal-Setting Intervention on Delinquent Adolescent Group Treatment Outcomes, Paul D. Grimsley
Biased Attentional Processing for Negative Emotion and Youth Internalizing Psychopathology: The Role of Attentional Control Deficits, Lauren Darlene Gulley
Doing Good in Guatemala: Perceptions of Voluntourism in San Juan Comalapa, Samantha Grace Hagan
"Maybe Jesus Was Suicidal Too": A Qualitative Inquiry into Religion and Spirituality in Suicide Attempts, Elizabeth Ryan Hall
Aztec Human Sacrifice as Entertainment? The Physio-Psycho-Social Rewards of Aztec Sacrificial Celebrations, Linda Jane Hansen
Bible as Interface, Michael Paul Hemenway
The Dynamics of Community Museums and Their Communities: Museo de las Americas' Spanish Happy Hour Fostering Social Inclusion for the Latino and Denver Metro Area Communities, Maritza Hernandez-Bravo
An Integrated Archaeological Investigation of Colonial Interactions at a Seventeenth-Century New England Site, Maeve E. Herrick
Six Degrees of Freedom: Kinematics of the Healthy Ankle Syndesmosis Joint, Veronica A. Hogg-Cornejo
Burn Fortune: The Real June not Marvelous Enough for Us, Brandi Homan
The Negotiation of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identification in American Heathenry, Thad Nathan Horrell
Meta-Analyses of the Relationship Between Depression and Nine Dimensions of Perfectionism, Gabriel Lynn Hottinger
Protest Beyond Representation: The Vitalism of Digital Protest Art's Political Aesthetics, Kate Drazner Hoyt
Employment Discrimination of Chinese Unmarried Women, Jifan Huang
The Spaces Between Us: A Queer<=>Intersectional Analysis of the Narratives of Black Gay International Students, Bryan S. Hubain
Governmentality/Animacy/Mythology: A Biopolitical and Rhetorical Mosaic of HIV Stigma in a Time of PrEP-aration, Brendan Geoffrey Aaron Hughes
Time-Dependent Spectropolarimetric Modeling of Interacting Core Collapse Supernovae, Leah N. Huk
Family Processes Among Early Head Start Families: Testing the Role of Parental Self-Efficacy in the Family Stress Model, Eliana Hurwich-Reiss
Preclinical Assessment of Immunocal® as a Preventative Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in a Mouse Model of Closed Head Injury, Elizabeth Eugenia Ignowski
Characterization of the ATCC α-TC1-6 Pancreatic Alpha Cell Line to Study Glucagon Secretion, Larissa M. Ikenouye
"Revolution in Religious Language": The Relevance of Julia Kristeva's Theory of 'Signifiance' for Theology, Timothy O. Inman
The Responsible Project, Shannon N. Jackson
An Analysis of the Construction of Parent Identity in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study, Daniel William Johnson
Shapeshifting and Sexuality: A Critical Autoethnography of a Selkie, Sophie Jones
Why Does the Caged Bird Sing? A Phenomenological Analysis of the African American Clergywoman and Her Plight in Black Churches: An Ethical Dilemma, Andriette Dionne Jordan-Fields
Resilience and Struggle: Exploring the Experiences of Undocumented College Students Through Chicana Feminist Theory and Dialogical Performance, Sergio Fernando Juarez
Catholic Girls All Grown Up: A Practical Theological Exploration of Sexuality Formation in Young Adult Women, Emily Susanne Kahm
Development of the Ableist Microaggression Scale and Assessing the Relationship of Ableist Microaggressions with the Mental Health of Disabled Adults, Shanna Katz Kattari
Pre-College Sources of Influence for Traditionally Underrepresented Students Attending College: A Social Network Analysis Approach, Rebekah Kester
Mechanistic Insights into the Radical S-Adenosyl L-Methionine Enzyme MFTC, Bulat Khaliullin
Identifying French Compositional Styles: Subtlety Through Familiarity, Brandon Kinsey
Warm Connections: An Integrated Behavioral Health Intervention Development Study, Susanne Klawetter
Securing Whose Peace? The Effects of Peace-Agreement Provisions on Physical Integrity Rights After Civil War, Melvin R. Korsmo
Abstraction Hierarchies for Multi-Agent Pathfinding, Aaron R. Kraft
Shhhuicide Stories: A Crip Critical Analysis of Attempt Survivors' Narrations of Suicidality, Emily Krebs
Principal Perceptions as Literacy Leaders at High-Need Elementary Schools, Janet Marie Lear
Sequential Growth of Molecular Complexity via Alternating Ground State and Photochemical Reactions, Haibo Li
The Relationship Between Orientation to the U.S. Culture and Affect Among Chinese International Students, Jiquan Lin
Working the Front Lines of Intimate Partner Violence: Responders' Perceptions of Interrole Collaboration, Lisa N. Magruder
Seeing the God of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure and the Optic of Enchantment, Olivia Jayne Mann
Governing Militaries in Liberalizing Economies: China, Iran, Egypt, Loosineh Markarian Senagani
Urban Children's Experience of a Natural Place Outside of Denver, Corey J. Martz
Rock Glacier Hydrology in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, Emilio Ian Mateo
Identifying the Relevance of C-Reactive Protein Conformers and the Advancement of a Membrane Curvature Binding Assay, Carrie Leine Moon
A Conviction of Texts Not Seen: Perceiving Exodus as the Generative Text of Hebrews, Scott Ronald Moore
Family Engagement in Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness in a Suburban School District: An Exploratory Study, Keisha Kayon Morgan
Can You See Me? Ethnography of Women's Experiences with Homelessness in Denver, Colorado, Taylor L. Morrison
Women's Hit Cheating Songs: Country Music and Feminist Change in American Society, 1962-2015, Madeline Rachel Morrow
Terracing, Land Management and Agricultural Soils in the Andagua Valley of the Southern Peruvian Andes, Blaise Murphy
It Is Expensive to Be Poor: Equity in Financing Education in Turkey (2004–2012), Elene Murvanidze
Teaching in Good Faith: An Exploration of the Personal, Professional, and Philosophical Evolution of First-Year Educators, Katherine Newburgh
The Strategic Challenges of Urban Warfare, Christian Aditya Niksch
The Political Economy of the Automobile Industry Development in China, Muyuan Niu
Exploring Occupational Stress Through the Persepectives of the Child Welfare Workforce, Ann Christine Obermann
A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America, Sarah M. Olivier
Selfhood, Historical Consciousness, and the State in International Relations Theory, Edinson Oquendo
In a Material World: Analyzing Religious Peacebuilding in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Catherine Ruth Orsborn
Parallel, Cross-Platform Unit Testing for Real-Time Embedded Systems, Tosapon Pankumhang
Design and Operation of Distribution Markets, Sina Parhizi
Health-Seeking Behaviors in Rural West Ghana, Cathryn Lynn Perreira
Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators, Jacob Patrick Pride
Small Rho GTPase Family Member Cdc42 and Its Role in Neuronal Survival and Apoptosis, Noelle Christine Punessen
Mechanical Effects of Surgical Adhesives on Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Replacement, Dong Qiu
Computational Modeling of Percolation Conduction and Diffusion of Heterogeneous Materials, Jian Qiu
Computational Prediction of Conductivities of Disk-Shaped Particulate Composites, Jian Qiu
Magical and Mysterious Resonances: Structural Principles in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Kreisler Works and Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana, Alison Elizabeth Redman
Computer-Aided Cancer Diagnosis and Grading via Sparse Directional Image Representations, Hadi Rezaeilouyeh
An Evaluation of Critical Realignment Theory: Comparing Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches, Tara A. Rhodes
Ancestral Queerness: Normativity and Deviance in the Abraham and Sarah Narratives, Gil Rosenberg
A Comparative Study of Culture and Cultural Heritage in Humanitarian Aid Efforts: Post-Earthquake Haiti and Post-Tsunami Aceh, Natalie K. Ruhe
Statistical Shape Modeling to Quantify Variation in the Proximal Humeral Anatomy, Paul B. Sade Sr.
Honor, Shame, and Redemption: Explicating the American Evangelical Right's Moral Worldview Regarding Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion, Jeffrey B. Satterwhite
Improved Characterization and Analysis Strategies for UV-LIF Bioaerosol Instrumentation: Lab and Field Application, Nicole Justine Savage
Explaining the Performance of Bidirectional Dijkstra and A* on Road Networks, Sneha Sawlani
Points of Leverage: Interrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Adversity, Lisa Schlueter
Quantifying and Simulating Fine-Scale Spatial Patterns in Plant Populations, Darin Schulte
Politics, Feminism, and Popular Television: Madam Secretary as a Politician, Wife, and Mother, Katie Lynn Schwind
Microgrid Control Strategy Study and Controller Design Based on Model Predictive Control, Yitong Shen
Dense Core Vesicle Heterogeneity in Anterior Pituitary Cells, Kelly Sinak
Statistical Shape and Intensity Modeling of the Shoulder, Irene Sintini
Advancing Sylvia Wynter's Reimagination of the Human and Counter-Poetics: A Critique of Contemporary Western Science Discourse in Cosmos—a Spacetime Odyssey, with Host Neil deGrasse Tyson, Claire E. Slattery-Quintanilla
The Response of High Elevation Wetlands to Past Climate Change, and Implications for the Future, Ian Arthur Slayton
Tears of a Clown: Reexamination of Disabled Narrators in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, Alexandra Rose Smith
We Call It Pulling a Thread: Deconstructing Femininity at the Molly Brown House Museum, Emily J. Starck
3D Bioprinting Hydrogel for Tissue Engineering an Ascending Aortic Scaffold, Benjamin Stewart
Making Crimes? Technology, Law, and DIY Firearms, Mark Andrew Tallman
When Rhinos Are Sacred: Why Some Countries Control Poaching, Paul F. Tanghe
Central Sacrifice and the Sacrificial Other: A Thematic Comparison of Anti-Judaic and Anti-Semitic Artwork Emerging in Germany, Madison Elizabeth Tarleton
Black, Queer, and Blessed: Toward a Biblically Based Black, Queer Narrative of Leadership, Arthur Leon Tredwell
Interpreting American Indian Cultural Heritage: Visitor's Educational Experience at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, Kara Lynn Underwood
Effects of Collaborative Problem Solving Training for Parents of Children with Challenging Behavior in a Public School Setting, Tyra B. Vickers
"There Will Be More Cookies": A Discursive Exploration of Polyamorous Identity in a Monogamous World, Stephanie K. Webb
Energy Efficiency and Demand Response for Residential Applications, Christopher John Wellons II
A Phenomenological Exploration of How Campus Environments Shape the Success of Racially Minoritized Faculty at Predominantly White Institutions, Raquel Wright-Mair
The Association Between Parent-Child Relationship and Child Loneliness, Nanxi Xu