Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Gestural Ekphrasis: Toward a Phenomenology of the Moving Body in Joyce and Woolf, Lauren Nicole Benke
Nanoengineering of Next Generation Silicone Rubber Materials for Extreme Applications, Monika Bleszynski
Discourses of Deception: (Re)Examining America's War on Drugs, Benjamin Steven Boyce
Psychotropic Medications and Children: Perceptions of Mental Health Professionals, Elinor Jane Brereton
Examining the Role of Liaison Librarians as Research Collaboration Partners: A Mixed-Methods Multiple-Case Study, Kawanna Michelle Bright
Development of Low Frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Methods and Instrumentation for Biological Applications, Laura A. Buchanan
Understanding Public Library Services and Use: A Structural Equation Modeling Framework, Ian Burke
Superresolved Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Spatial Arrangement of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) Envelope Glycoprotein at Sites of Viral Assembly, Carmen Anne Buttler
National Interests and Security Policies in the Arctic Region Among Arctic States, Hilde-Gunn Bye
Diet Breadth Evolution and Diversification of a Generalist Insect Herbivore, Mayra Cadorin Vidal
Russian Information Operations in the Soviet Strategic Framework, Kyle I. Campbell
Academic Resilience in Newcomers, Jacquelyn M. Carrillo
Force-Canceling Mixer Algorithm for Vehicles with Fully-Articulated Radially Symmetric Thruster Arrays, Joseph Nicholas Casabona
The Ecology of Land Managers in Riparian Restoration, Lisa Buie Clark
A Shifting Island Landscape: Changes in Land Use and Daily Life in the 19th and 20th Century Village of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland, Lauren Marie Couey
The Global Dance Network: Reykjavík, Iceland, Takes on New Moves, Emily Creek
Adolescent Protective Factors Related to Resilience: Issues of Academic Self-Efficacy, Parental Involvement, and Special Education Status, Bethdalie Cruz
Leadership Practices in Similar Schools with Varying Primary Grade Reading Outcomes: A Comparative Multiple-Case Study, Jacqueline M. Cuthill
Algorithmic Music Generation for Pedagogy of Sight Reading, Ryan Stephen Davis
Raça, Jinshu, Race: Whiteness, Japanese-ness, and Resistance in Sūkyō Mahikari in the Brazilian Amazon, Moana Luri de Almeida
Examining the Clinical Prediction of Cohesion in Group Psychotherapy and Potential Moderators, Ron Dolgin
An Exploratory Study of Session Limited Models of Therapy Outcomes in an Employee Assistance Program, Ivy C. Donaldson
The Impact of Sudden Gains and Deteriorations on the Psychotherapy Process, Joanna Mary Drinane
Exploring an Outdoor Experiential and PYD Program's Influence on Youth in a Residential and Day Treatment Program, Rebecca Durbahn
Living Through Terror and Terror Through Living: The Biopolitical Dimensions of Religion, Security, and Terrorism, Donnie Featherston
No Common Ground: Competing Worldviews at Mato Tipila, Wendy Anne Felese
The Foundations of Aleksandr Dugin's Geopolitics: Montage Fascism and Eurasianism as Blowback, Grant Scott Fellows
Symmetry Identified in 2-Dimensional Artwork Compositions Using Visuospatial Ability, Theresa Ferg
Learning from Disorder and Noise in Physical Biology, Taylor Emil Firman
Away from the End of Motherhood: Sites of Haunting in the Social Imaginary in Lemonade and The Handmaid's Tale, Julia Michele Fleming
Attachment Theory as a Framework for Supervision of Supervisors-in-Training, Alyssa Fredricks
Categories of Residuated Lattices, Daniel Wesley Fussner
Sexual Assault and Health: Understanding the Interplay of Trauma-Related Appraisals and Physical Health Outcomes, Kerry Lyn Gagnon
Patient-Specific Quantification of the Relationship Between the Left Atrium Pressure and the Ostial Diameter of the Left Atrial Appendage, Sky Tianqi Gao
How Colonization Impacts Identity Through the Generations: A Closer Look at Historical Trauma and Education, Michelle Garcia-Olp
Relationship Variables in Group Psychotherapy Treatment for Sexual Trauma Survivors, Sarah Gooch
Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Mating Behavior and Fitness, Gabrielle A. Gurule-Small
The Whiteness Project of Gentrification: The Battle over Los Angeles' Eastside, Jaime Guzmán
Improving the Detection Limit of Tau Aggregates for Use with Biological Samples, Emily Rickman Hager
Developing a Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy Experiment for Solid State Materials, Daniel Hammerland
RNN-Based Generation of Polyphonic Music and Jazz Improvisation, Andrew Hannum
Fuel Specific Emissions Trends for In-Use Medium and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fleets in California, Molly J. Haugen
Photochemistry of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with Environmentally Relevant Metals, John P. Haynes
Curiosity and Gifted Identification: A Mixed Methods Study, Cameron Hays
Spg Directs Arp2/3 Mediated F-actin Networks to Support Syncytial Furrow Ingression in Drosophila, Shannon M. Henry
A History of Nondenominational Churches in Denver and Beyond, 1945–2000, R. Norton Herbst
A Descriptive Policy Analysis of State-Level Universal Preschool Adoption, Holly Higgins Wilcher
Tau Aggregation, Conformational Selection, and Inhibition, Michael R. Holden
Development of a School-Based Restorative Practices Training for Parents: Impacts on Parent and Child Outcomes, Christopher R. Hughes
Translating Data from the Laboratory into Simulation: A Computational Framework for Subject-Specific Finite Element Musculoskeletal Simulation, Donald R. Hume
Rethinking Reintegration and Veteran Identity: A New Consciousness, Jeni Hunniecutt
A Multi-State Comparison of NASP Domains of Practice and School Psychologist Evaluation Rubrics, Courtney E. Hutchinson
Cooperative Regulation of Translational Repression by FMRP and the miRNA Pathway, Navneeta Kaul
Predicting Help-Seeking Attitudes and Intentions in a Diné Sample, Chesleigh N. Keene
Study of Optical OFDM System for Wireless LAN Applications, Salih Mohamed S. Kenshil
Looking Through the Trees: An Anthropologist, a Museum, and the Sasquatch, Carissa Kepner
Improving the Accuracy of Mobile Touchscreen QWERTY Keyboards, Amanda Kirk
Tides of Cooperation: The Ebb and Flow of Regional Cooperation in Latin America, Amaleia E. Kolovos
Role of Executive Function and Alcohol-Sex Schema in the Relationship Between Alcohol Use and Sexual Assault, Michelle Seulki Lee
Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform and Community in an Online Fandom, Sarah Leiser
Binocular Rivalry of Emotional Expressions, Daniel Stephen Lumian
Higher Education Student Debt & Tuition Costs, K. Harrison Maloy Jr
Determinants of Well-Being Among Military Caregivers, Ludwig Marcello Martinez
The Political Economy of Sandinismo 2.0: Environmental and Social Implications of Paradoxical Economic Ideologies in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua, Sarah McCall Harris
Fact vs. Fiction: Uncovering the Experiences of Homeless/Street Youths' Involvement in Survival Sex, Amber R. McDonald
Hidden in White(ness)? Using Racial Logics to Interrogate the Instructional Arc of a Crisis Intervention Team Training, Tara N. Meister
Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions, Jiangyue Miao
High-Performing Charter Schools and Leadership Continuum: Reconceptualizing Dual Realities, Brittany M. Miller
Origins of Animal Cell Adhesion, Jennyfer Mora Mitchell
Developing an Affect-Aware Rear-Projected Robotic Agent, Ali Mollahosseini
Chatter and Chant: Religion and Community on the Renaissance English Stage, Rachel Dunleavy Morgan
Exploring the Community Impact of Community-University Partnerships, Stacey D. Muse
College Athletes and Romantic Relationship Conflict: The Moderating Effects of Sport-Relationship Conflict and Enrichment, Keaton Clauss Muzika
Restive Subjects: Russian Protest, 2007–2013, Carey C. Neill
Defections and Democracy: Explaining Military Loyalty Shifts and Their Impacts on Post-Protest Political Change, Kara Leigh Kingma Neu
#FashioningIdentity and #PerformingAuthenticity: Communicative, Relational, and Affective Labor in the Digital Frontier of Fashion and Lifestyle Blogging, Jessica L. Neumann
Surface Entropy of Shifts of Finite Type, Dennis Pace
Crafting Local Food Narratives with Immigrant Voices: Participatory Ethnography Among Somali Bantu Farmers in West Denver, Raymond Alexander Pang
An Examination of the Impact of Racial Ideology and Conversations About Race on Relationship Processes Among African American Couples, Aleja M. Parsons
Narrativizing Theory: The Role of Ambiguity in Religious Aesthetics, Benjamin John Peters
Snapshots of Confinement: Memory and Materiality of Japanese Americans' World War II Era Photo Albums, Whitney J. Peterson
From Dissent to Democracy? The Promise and Perils of Civil Resistance Transitions, Jonathan C. Pinckney
Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision, Jennifer Quichocho
Funds of Knowledge and the College Success of First-Generation Students, Low-Income Students, and Students of Color: A Transformative Mixed Methods Study, Delma Margot Ramos
A Critical Interpretation of Olivier Roy: On Globalization, the Cosmopolitan and Emerging Post-Secular Religiosities, Joshua Rey Ramos
Robust Distributed Stabilization of Interconnected Multiagent Systems, Vahid Rezaei
Automated CFD Optimization to Maximize Wind Farms Performance and Land Use, Rafael Valotta Rodrigues
"Traditioning" Blackness: A Theo-Ethical Analysis of Black Identity in Black Theological Discourse, Ben Sanders III
An Archaeological Exploration of Agriculture, Trade, and Indigenous Relationships at a Seventeenth-Century New England Site, Jasmine Coreen Saxon
A Bi-Encoder LSTM Model for Learning Unstructured Dialogs, Diwanshu Shekhar
Polarized Bow Shock Nebulae Reveal Features of the Winds and Environments of Massive Stars, Manisha Shrestha
Classification of One-Year Student Persistence: A Machine Learning Approach, Ben Siebrase
Play and Exhibitions: Expanding Definitions Within Museums, Helena Sizemore