Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Unraveling the Role of HID-1: Insights into SgII Regulation, Breanna L. Sellers
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
Paycheck-to-Paycheck: How Public Service Loan Forgiveness Inhibits Generational Wealth Attainment for Black Women, Ashley Patrice-Rose Sherman
Investigating Mixed Effects Random Forest Models in Predicting Satisfaction with Online Learning in Higher Education, Jiaqi (Jackie) Shi
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
(Dis)Invested Bodies: The Neoliberal Crafting of Disability, T. Wesley
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
Raising Their Voices: Lived Experiences of Gifted Women with ADHD, Jessica Leigh 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
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