Theses/Dissertations from 2025
The Pragmatic Engagement Arc, Nathaniel Ahrens
Empowering Educators, Transforming Futures: An Explanatory Multiple Case Study of the Smou Schools in Saudi Arabia, Hana Ali Alzandi Alghamdi
Advancing TKA Biomechanics: From Joint Simulator to Boundary Condition Development, Yashar Ali Behnam
Vorticies in the Nonlinear Optical Fluid, Patrick C. Ford
Determinants of Knee Motion in Health, Disease, and Repair, Sean Edward Higinbotham
A Developmental Evaluation of a Dental Hygiene Program and a Community Health Partnership, Laura Jacob
Bridging the Gap Between Muslim Students and School Leadership in the United States, Sahar Khawaja
Exploring Microbial Utilization of Iron via Mass Spectrometry, Anastasiia Kostenko
Development, Optimization, and Validation of a High-Sensitivity Capillary Zone Electrophoresis System for Bioanalytical Applications, Aaron I. Mena
Intergenerational Knowledge Hiding in the Workplace: The Moderating Role of Identity Salience and Ethical Leadership, Jacqueline L. Patten
Exploring K−2 Elementary School Teacher Perceptions of Culturally Relevant Teaching Before and After Professional Development: An Action Research Study, Sarah Santarelli Barsoum
The Mediation Effect of White Racial Affect on Color-Blind Racial Attitudes and Multicultural Counseling Competence, Noah Schieffer Scanlon
Inside a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) Process: A Practitioner’s Communicative Experience Navigating Processual and Relational Power Dynamics within YPAR, Lacey Nicole Stein
Value-Based Healthcare Reimagined: A Mixed-Methods Study on Behavioral Health Clinicians' Perspectives, Amanda L. Strickland
The Role of Imagination in Archaeology: Linking Contemplation and Method at the Amache National Historic Site, Sami Zepponi
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
A Time to Create Change: A Case Study of Culturally Relevant Education, Colleen Kopay
Supporting Preservice Teachers of Color in Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Kimberly M. Korpita
Building Blocks for W-Algebras of Classical Types, Vladimir Kovalchuk
Philosophical Sundials: Adorno and the Lyric, George Kovalenko
Characterization of Oxidized Tau Protein Aggregation and Inhibition of Tau Aggregation via MAP2, Brad Krzesinski
Utilizing Machine Learning to Forecast Sector-Level Equity Returns from Sector-Level Financial Ratios, Greg Kuppenheimer
Self-Efficacy and Racial Identity for Undergraduate Music Majors, Rachel E. Lim
Collective Case Study Career Critique of Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Gifted Adults, Joi Lin
The Impact of the First Language Usage for Chinese Undergraduate International Students, Qiunan Liu
Computationally Efficient Machine Learning Techniques for TKR Assessment, Chase Maag
The Naked Truth of My Voice: Surveying the Soul of an Aspiring Educator from Dusk to Dawn: An Arts-Based Auto-Criticism Inquiry, Siddharth Maan