Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Recruiting, Retaining, and Culturally Sustaining Latine Teachers in a School District with a High Population of Latine Students, Lisa Garcia Simms
Exhibiting Rural Consciousness: A Study of State and Local Level Governance in Rural Higher Education, Steven J. Skadron
An Advanced Hexacopter for Autonomous Exploration of Mars: Attitude Control and Navigation Strategies, Laura Sopegno
Development of an Embedded IoT Board for Real-Time Floor Estimation of Autonomous Robots, Carter J. Sorensen
Archaeological Predictive Meta-Modeling in Pre-Columbian Mexico, Peter Stamm
Inside a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) Process: A Practitioner’s Communicative Experience Navigating Processual and Relational Power Dynamics within YPAR, Lacey Nicole Stein
Synthetic Protein Mimetic Based Therapies for Neurodegeneration, Nicholas H. Stillman
Belonging: Stories from Multilingual Learners in the Linguistic Minority, Riley Stouffer
Value-Based Healthcare Reimagined: A Mixed-Methods Study on Behavioral Health Clinicians' Perspectives, Amanda L. Strickland
Minority Stressors and Internalizing Symptoms in Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Anni R. Subar
Who Gets To Be a Child and When? The Pervasive yet Contextually Shaped Nature of Racialized Adultification across Perceivers and Contexts, Kevin M. Summers
Young Adults’ Metaperceptions of Their Childhood Caregivers’ Appraisals and Young Adulthood Mental Health, Cassandra Svelnys
Britney Is the Password, Eszter Takacs
Global Change & Insect Fitness, Mykaela M. Tanino-Springsteen
A Guidance Practice Model: Reframing Prevention, Identification, and Treatment of Trauma-Impacted Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Mark H. Thomas
Top-Down Effects on a Biocontrol Beetle in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Kelly A. Tobin
Brush-E Bot: Exploring the Benefits of a Robot Companion to Improve Children’s Oral Hygiene Habits, Maisey Toczek
Equilibration and Transport of Binary Mixtures on Planar and Porous Nanomaterials, Andrew Torres
Examining Whiteness: A Narrative Inquiry into Racial Identity Among White Women in Study Abroad Programs, Audrey Moreno Townsend
Paving the Way: Cultural Relevance in College and Career Readiness Programs, Jacqueline Turner
Elevating After-School: Addressing After-School Program Quality Through Improvement Design, Kate Marie Vincent
Capacity, Allocation and Update Dynamics of Human Memory Systems, Shaoying Wang
Called to Create: The Role of Competition for Resources in Motivation and Creativity Outcomes Among Calling-oriented Scientists, Andrea Watson
Novel Signal Evolution in a Rapidly Evolving Field Cricket, Gabrielle T. Welsh
Plant Functional Ecology in the Hawaiian Islands, Hannah Louise Wilson
Potential Reproductive Barriers in Two Hybrid Systems, Lauren Wols
Collaboration across the Silos: Consultation as a Means for Integrating Services for Twice-Exceptional Learners, Kimberly Bowers Yoshino
The Role of Imagination in Archaeology: Linking Contemplation and Method at the Amache National Historic Site, Sami Zepponi
Chinese International Students’ Experiences, Identity Perceptions, and Language Investment, Yating Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
An Archaeological Exploration of Fatty's Place and Its Contribution to Early Tourism in the Garden of the Gods, Aaron Anthony Acosta
Ni de Aquí, Ni de Alla: Exploring the Role of Biculturalism, Cultural Values, and Caregiver-Adolescent Conflict in Chicana Adolescent Suicide, Xochilt Alamillo
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
Developing a Comprehensive Cognitive Model of Math Achievement, Nina Anderson
Technological Acquisitions: The Impact of Intellectual Capital on Stock and Firm Financial Performance, Cynthia A. Arthur
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
A Force to be Reckoned with: Testimonios from Latina/e Senior Leaders Across Psychology Contexts, Sandra Bertram Grant
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
Influences on Small Business Leaders’ Decisions About Supportive Policies and Practices for Employees Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Abuse, Marilyn Lucille Brock
Akt Disruption Leads to Non-Canonical Apical Constriction in Drosophila Embryos, Vincent Brown
Applications of Computer Vision in Biomechanics and Orthopaedics, William Stewart Burton II
The Foundations of Civilian Supremacy: Civil-Military Relations During the American Civil War, Riley Callahan
Baby Dust: A Narrative Analysis of Infertility Journeys on YouTube, Patricia Carrillo
Understanding the Nuances of Transit Accessibility: Temporal and Spatial Resolution, and Neoliberalism, Joe Chestnut
Reproductive Coercion and Intergenerational Trauma: The Role of Reproductive, Sex, and Relationship Education and Family Messaging, Maria-Ernestina Christl
Rapid and Repeated Human-Mediated Selection in a Formerly Migratory Fish, Riley M. Corcoran
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
Striving Toward Racial Solidarity in a Culture of White Christianity: Multi-Race + Multi-Faith Organizing in Texas, Rebecca M. David Hensley
Real Time PII Scanning, John David
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
Just Say Gay: An Exploration of Authenticity and Connection; Queer Identified Therapists’ Lived Experiences of Identity-Based Self-Disclosure, Courtney Dunne
The Fold, Cass Eddington
Quantum-Powered Battery Scheduling in Modern Distribution Grids, Diba Ehsani
Population Genetic Diversity in Two Biological Systems, Alyson Emery
Trust, Transparency, and Transport: The Impact of Privacy Protection on the Acceptance of Last-Mile Drone Delivery, Jurgen Heinz Famula
My Superpower: Research Collaborator Strategies Among Faculty Members Who Are First-Generation College Graduates, Faye Farmer
A Study on Multimodal AI for Mild Cognitive Impairment Detection, Farida Far Poor
Exploring the Experiences of HIV Positive Pregnant Women on Prevention of Vertical Transmission of HIV/AIDS in Rural Malawi, Gertrude Finyiza
Latinx Sleep Health Disparities in Primary Care: The Role of Patient-Provider Communication, Amy L. Fraire
Harmonic Data: AI Music, EDM Transcription, & Minimalist Jazz, Trevor Freed
Combinatorial Problems on the Integers: Colorings, Games, and Permutations, Collier Gaiser
Diagrams in Involutive Residuated Lattices, Isis A. Gallardo
Picturesque Portraiture: The Composition of Reality in Hawthorne, Melville, and James, Angela Michael Gattuso Densmore
Impact of Dialogic Reading Intervention on Language and Literacy Development of Young Dual Language Learners, Ekta Ghosh
A Phenomenological Examination of the Perception of Psychopathological Misdiagnosis in Gifted Men, Tina Glass
Phenomenological Inquiry into Middle School Teachers’ Perception of Creativity, Katalin Grajzel
Investigating Chronic Post-Infection and Post-Injury Symptom Syndromes: Clinical Outcomes, Biological Pathways, and Potential Links to Neurodegenerative Disease, Allison N. Grossberg
Fossil Plant, Gregory Blake Guffey
Undergraduate Students’ Experiences and Perceptions of Foreign Language Education, Miho Hamamoto
“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