Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Breaking Down Barriers: The Impact of Segregation on Social Capital and Economic Outcomes, Donyetta A. Bennett
Identifying the Role of Phospholipase D1 and Phosphatidic Acid in Exocytosis, Broderick L. Bills
Process Depletion in Emotion Regulation, Christian Capistrano Boeckner
Defining Business as Usual in Preschool Interventions for Challenging Behavior, Eleanor Bold
Reviving Heritage in a Historic Gem City: Examining the Management of History at the Colonial Quarter in St. Augustine, Florida, Madeline Bonner
Ethics in Kakadu (1988): Finding Djilile’s “True Tracks”, Natasia T. Boyko
Do-It-Together: Informal Transformative Sustainability Education, Derek Brannon
Let It Go: Cognitive Strategy Use Selectively Changes Temporal Context Effects in Risky Monetary Decision-Making, Hayley R. Brooks
An Empowerment Evaluation of Colorado Mountain College’s Mountain Scholars Program via Latino Alumni Aspirational Goals and Outcomes, Laura Anne Bruch
Study Abroad and the Global Public Good: A Developmental Evaluation of the International Business Major, Sara Barbier Bularzik
Guaranteed Income as a Structural Social Work Response to Homelessness in the United States, Katherine Hoops Calhoun
The Words. Or Holes. Or Both: Writing as an Integrative Methodology for Trauma, Daniel A. Castle
Free Trade is Not Free: A Case for Fair Trade, Wardah Javaid Cheema
Understudy, Wendy Chen
Why Democracies and Autocracies Go to War: Comparing the Cases of Iraq and Ukraine, Ketevan Chincharadze
A Phenomenological Inquiry into Healthcare Professionals Who Are Experts in Cannabinoid Therapy and the Endocannabinoid System (ECS), Courtney Collins
Kinematic Analysis of Gait and Deep Knee Flexion for Pre- and Post-Operative Total Knee Arthroplasty, Samantha Collins
Systemic Risk and Blockchain Technology, Federico Colombo
When Data Matter: Evaluating Data Prioritization for Department-Level Decision-Making in Higher Education, Cindy Cragg
A Study of the Cultural and Geological Environment of the Magic Mountain Site in Golden, Colorado, Brianna K. Dalessandro
Post-Translational Modification of Proteins via Ambient Air Pollutants and Endogenous Reactive Species, Rachel Lauren Davey
The Politics & Poetics of Audience Creation in Contemporary Epistolary Memoir, Sarah M. Davis
Quantification of Nuclear Dynamics During Epithelial Remodeling, Noah de Leeuw
A Participatory Drone Mapping and Critical Physical Geography of Water Security for Irrigation in Northern Ghana, Dinko Hanaan Dinko
Developing Red Fluorescent Zn2+ Sensors and Characterizing Zn2+ Homeostasis in Mucolipidosis Type IV Disease, Anna M. Dischler
Being and Trauma: A Theory of Listening as a Dis/Appropriation of the Listener to the Call of the Unspeakable in Trauma, Kathleen M. Douglass
An Investigation into Machine Learning Techniques for Designing Dynamic Difficulty Agents in Real-Time Games, Ryan Adare Dunagan
Virtual Reality Influence on Moral Reasoning Through Compassion, Dennis W. Dunivan
Embracing Green Chile: An Exploratory Factor Analysis of Community Cultural Wealth, Lynda Duran
Til Valhall: The Formation of Nordic Neopagan Identity, Religiosity, and Community at a Norwegian Heavy Metal Festival, Padraic M. Fitzgerald
Choosing Sides: Military Behavior in Severely Polarized Democracies, Timothy W. Ford
Small GTPase Regulated Intracellular Protein Trafficking in Endothelium, Caitlin Francis
Design of Hybrid Inverters Using Wideband Gap Semiconductors for Microgrid Application, Luca Gacy
Examining Access to Decent Work Among Women Veterans: A Psychology of Working Theory Perspective, Rebecca C. Gaines
Surviving the Serenade: How Conflicting Natural and Sexual Selection Drove Rapid Diversification of Mating Signals in an Insect, James H. Gallagher
Destruction and Resiliency: Decolonizing Settler Knowledge in Native American Literature Through the Peoplehood Matrix, Renissa R. Gannie
Frequency Stability Constrained Grid Operation with High Penetration of Renewables, Ningchao Gao
Power System Dynamic Control and Performance Improvement Based on Reinforcement Learning, Wei Gao
The Struggle Is Real: Constructing Liberative Meaning Making that Facilitates Black Student’s Authentic Identity Formation and Navigation Through Predominately White Institutions, Felicia Marie George
Hemodynamic Assessment of Y-Incision Aortic Root Enlargement Using Computational Simulations, Astitwa Ghimire
Moving from Theory to Practice: Examining Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice in an Elementary School Classroom, Krystal Giles
The Effect of Nondiagnostic Information on Internal Auditor Skepticism: Capturing the Dilution Effect, Joseph Anthony Giordano
An Exploration of Palauan Fishing Methods and Fisheries: A Study for the Conservation of Dugongs, Mia Glover
Plant Community Response to Control of a Dominant Invader at Multiple Scales, Alexander R. B. Goetz
Experience Matters: Exploring How Firms Build Dynamic Capabilities Through Execution of the M&A Transaction Process, Chauntel R. Graves
Fatigue and Fracture of Electron Beam Melting Ti-6Al-4V, William A. Grell
Persistence and Retention of Adult Learners: Results of a Program Evaluation of Tuition Funding Provided by Employers, Andrea J. Gross
Quantitative, Photocurrent Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy, Adam Halaoui
Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, and Performance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, Briana Hanratty
Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance, K. Scarlett Harrington
Reference Frames in Human Sensory, Motor, and Cognitive Processing, Dongcheng He
Counselors’ Spirituality, Attitudes Toward Suicide, and Self-Efficacy in Conducting Suicide Risk Assessment, Tayler Hendrix
Risky Behavior as Motivated Emotion Regulation: A Mixed-Method Approach, Lyneé A. Herrera
CEO, CFO, and Audit Partner Gender, and Accounting Conservatism, Ceara Hintz
Enhancing Employee Voice in Government: Transparency, Trust, and Cognitive Empowerment, Jomarie Phelan Honcoop
Elementary Preservice Math Teachers’ Evolving Dispositions Throughout a Math Methods Course: A Mixed Methods Study, Christine E. Hood
Taiwanese International Students in Clinical Supervision: A Phenomenological Study, Joey Chiao-Yin Hsiao
SAFEST KID (A Sexual Assault Framework in Education to Support Trauma in Kids with Intellectual Disability): Delphi Study Development of a Model and Utilization, Ashley M. Hudson
The Evolutionary Causes and Consequences of Mammalian Hybridization, Kelsie E. Hunnicutt
The Not-So-Silent Period: Testimonios of Recently Arrived Latinx Students, Teri M. Hutchinson
Terrain and Adversary-Aware Autonomous Robot Navigation, Aniekan Ufot Inyang
Putting It Gently: The Other Side of a Peace Corps Volunteer Experience, Nicole Jacobson
The Rural Post-Graduation Plan Development Model: Advancing Student College Choice by Centering Rural Communities, Steve Jenks
Flood Hydrology in Tropical Coastal Catchments: Linking Watershed Dynamics to Mangrove Sedimentation, Shannon L. Jones
What’s Good: Sharing Food and Meaning-Making Among Commensals, Lucor Jordan
Mothers in Law: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mothers in Law School, Sarah M. Jordon
The Treasury of Stories: Policy Narratives of Anti-Illicit Finance, Paul Christopher Kemp
Not Too Scared to Enter: Understanding the Uppsala Model’s Complexity as SME Decision Makers Enter High-Risk Countries, Andrew Kindfuller
Optimizing E-Payment Applications for Older Adults: User-Centered Solutions to Improve Security, Privacy, Usability, and Accessibility, Urvashi Kishnani
Polar Body Membrane Breakdown Occurs Independent of Macroautophagy in C. Elegans, Shruti Kolli
Thermo-Mechanical Instabilities in Next-Generation Friction Materials in High-Speed Sliding Systems, Kingsford Koranteng
Does Publicness Matter? A Mixed Method Analysis Identifying and Measuring Institutional Contributions to State Goals for Public Higher Education, Sophia Laderman
Encounter-Oriented Subjectivity in Levinas and Barth: Conditioned Freedom in Resistance to Ethnonationalism, Michael Laminack
Representing the Mixed Plate: Involving Descendant Communities and Kānaka Maoli in Hawai’i Plantation Museums, Amanda Ku’ualohalanileimakamae Lane
Historical Narrative in the Music of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, Alec Larner
Legitimacy in Conflict Contexts: Shifting Rebel Engagement in Sierra Leone and the Presence of Private Contractors, Anne Lauder
Mechanisms Behind the Chaperone Activity of Nucleic Acids, Theodore J. Litberg
Sense of Community and (Third) Place Among Young Adults in Permanent Supportive Housing: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry, Danielle Maude Littman
Saad éí ná’iiłná, Manny Loley
A View from Within: Timbre as an Analytical Tool in Contemporary Viola Music, Ash Mach
Gender and Disability: An Exploration of Reflective Practice for Protection and Access Amid Complex Emergencies, Lindsey A. Mandolini
A Virtual Method for Establishing Femoral Stem Position in Total Hip Arthroplasty, Samuel Mattei
Water Literacy in Drought-Prone Regions: Case Studies from Aurora, Colorado, USA and Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Meghan McCarroll
'They Were Known Accordingly’: The Journey of the Land Otter Pole and Memorial Pole at the Denver Art Museum, Penske Stranger McCormack
Changes in Balance with Brain Inflammation: Sensitivity in Dual Motor Mechanisms, Hannah McDade
Investing in Your Employees: Understanding the Impact Organizational Commitment Has on Staff Retention, Vanessa Lynne McWhirt
The Queer Ecology of Clouds in Nineteenth-Century British Poetics, Lucien Darjeun Meadows
Problems with Machine Learning, High-Dimensional Data and Forecasting Stock Returns, Erik Mekelburg
Mechanistic Insights into MftR-Dependent Regulation of the Redox Cofactor Mycofactocin, Aigera Mendauletova
Risk and Promotive Factors for Perinatal Mental Health Problems: Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences and Contemporaneous Support and Stress, Jillian S. Merrick
Liberation and Inclusion Through the Voices of Trans Youth: A Phenomenological Approach, Klaudia Neufeld
Endogenous Money and the Structure of Interest Rates, Grishma Neupane
The Post-WWII American Picaro as Prophet of Human Dignity: A Study of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King, Elijah Clayton Null
Queer Is Here, Hopefully to Stay: The Incorporation and Reception of LGBTQ+ History at the History Colorado Center, Madeline Ohaus
The Use of Regularization to Detect Racial Inequities in Pay Equity Studies: An Empirical Study and Reflections on Regulation Methods, Christopher M. Peña