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Submit Your ThesisTheses from 2025
EFFECTS OF BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION AEROBIC EXERCISE ON ACUTE METABOLIC RATE AND CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSES, Hana Abouward
THE EFFECT OF BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION DURING ACUTE AEROBIC EXERCISE ON NON-LOCAL MUSCLE FATIGUE, Anna Acosta
Comprehensive Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Lipidomics Studies of Tenualosa Ilisha Fish, Airin Akhter
Simulation of Ground Penetrating Radar for the Detection of Buried Human Remains, Md Shamsul Alam
ENHANCING AD/ADRD MANAGEMENT THROUGH IHELPCARE: A COMPLIANT AND CULTURALLY SENSITIVE AI-DRIVEN DIGITAL HEALTHCARE PLATFORM, Trisha Bhowmick
LLM-POWERED QUESTION ANSWERING FOR OBJECT STATES IN VIRTUAL REALITY, Shiyi Ding
Comparative Analysis of Phyllosphere Microbiota in American and Chinese Wild Type Chestnuts as well as Their Hybrids, Katherine B. Dobson
Establishment of Six Flags Over the Deconstruction of Sandtown, John Ely
POST-FIRE INSPECTION PROCEDURES FOR STEEL AND CONCRETE BRIDGE STRUCTURES, Dale Goff
Developing Peptide Based Inhibitors Targeting Amyloid Beta for Alzheimer's Disease, Lyric K. Gordon
Unified Evaluation of Real-world IoT-based Federated Learning, Yi Gu
Amino Acid Based Deep Eutectic Solvents: Next Generation Charge Reducing Agents for Native Mass Spectrometry, Abdul Hannan
Regulation, nuclear retention, and organization of long-non-coding RNA hsr-omega into nuclear domains, Sharar Naiarin Haque
Comparison of STEM Student Reflections of their Undergraduate Research Experiences: CUREs vs. Apprentice Model, Chazzidy Harper
TRICOLORED BAT (PERIMYOTIS SUBFLAVUS) POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Laura Henderson
Agreement Between Methods for Describing the Intensity of a High Intensity Functional Training Workout, James W. Henley
Impacts of Halophila stipulacea invasion on organic matter dynamics in Thalassia testudinum dominated seagrass meadows, Puerto Rico, Jonathan D. Herald
AN ANALYSIS OF THE ARMORETTES’ MISSION TO HELP THE ATLANTA LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY, Edwin Hernandez
Chemical and Physical Characterization of Verbenaceae Essential Oils Using Modern Analytical Methods and Chemometrics, Aleksandra N. Hilliard
CHARACTERIZATION OF P38alpha AND NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE 3 BINDING, Gillyan M. Jewett
"It's Not Your Job to Save the World, Young Women": Evangelical Women on Social Media, Ilaria P. Johnson
Reverse Engineering of Binary Programs using Graph Attention Networks, Sai Nikhila Kanigiri
Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Relative Frequencies of Alternative Reproductive Tactics in Blue Ridge Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea cf. wilderae), Cooper A. Kework
The Inappropriate Inheritance of Histone Methylation Disrupts Muscle Morphology and Function in C. elegans, Josh Labus
False Starts & Finish Lines: Youth Sports, Coaching, & the Crisis of the American Dream, John S. Lammert Jr
Landscape and Environmental Characteristics that Shape Bat Assemblage Activity Across Varying Levels of Development in North America, Kerrigan Larkin
Chemical pressure Tuning of Magnetocaloric effect in Frustrated Breathing Pyrochlore System CuAlCr4Se8, Rupali Mangotra
Endocrine Responses to Two Distinct Foraging Contexts in the Bonobo (Pan paniscus), Lauren Mitchell
Effects of urbanization on the population genetics and morphology of the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) across an urban–rural gradient, Sydney A. Morton
Genetic Influences on Individual Variability in Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Social Behavior, Hadley Mueller-Hill
A Fixed Cell Fungal Catalyst for Production of Melanin in Submerged Fermentation, William James Murphy
SIMULATED HUMAN-AI TEAMING FRAMEWORK FOR ML MODEL DEVELOPMENT, Sai Sanjay Potluri, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, and Yong Pei
OWLBOT: Designing and Developing an AI-Powered Peer Advisor Chatbot for University Websites, Sai Prakash Reddy Rao
DISASTER VULNERABILITY AND RECOVERY: SOCIOECONOMIC, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND PSYCOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA, Tanjila Rashid Rhythy
Transferring Adversarial Robustness Across Architectures and Datasets, Ravi Kumar Rogannagari
COMBINED EFFECTS OF NANO- AND MICROPLASTICS, PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONIC ACID (PFOS), AND TEMPERATURE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AEDES ALBOPICTUS, Christina M. Roth
Leveraging Data Science for Resilience: Improving Trauma-Informed Care Practice for Adverse Childhood Experience with AI & Data Science Application, Mohmmad Arif Shaik
Computational Study on Protein Docking with Vascular Disease Application, Lohitha Reddy Shanigaram
Pollinator Plant Communities within restored Montane Longleaf Pine Ecosystems, Hanen van Rossem
Cross-Modal Learning for Practical Dual-Task Gait Monitoring, Patrick Wu
Theses from 2024
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATION OF VISIBLE LIGHT-ABSORBING, FLUORESCENT-QUENCHING THIOPHENE-BASED o-NITROBENZYL PHOTOLABILE PROTECTING GROUPS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HYDROXAMIC ACIDS, Ophelia Asantewaa Adjei-Sah
Noncovalent Peptide Stapling and Antiviral-Cell Penetrating Peptide Conjugations Targeting the Main Protease of SARS-CoV-2, Md Ackas Ali
Evaluating the effect of noise on Secure Quantum Networks, Karthick Anbalagan
ADAPTABLE QUANTUM EDUCATION PLATFORM USING LEARNING OBJECTS, Krishna Puja Anumula
Impact of Deep Eutectic Solvents on the Structure and Dynamics of Protein and Enzyme, Anusha Bhattarai
Assessment of Georgia’s Royal Catchfly (Silene regia) Along a Forest-Edge Gradient in a Remnant Prairie Community, Megan Brooks
Spatial and abiotic effects of urbanization on small mammal communities, Bri Casement
Antimicrobials produced by ants: chemical properties and microbe specificity, Katy Chon and Clint A. Penick
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Nutritional Analysis in Diabetic Diet Management: A Multimodal Approach, Afnan Crystal
Modulation of Optoelectronic Properties of Electron Rich Pyrrolopyrroles via Peripheral Alterations, Lillian Daniel
Senegambia and The American South: Where Identity Belongs, Malika David
Investigation of Surface Chemistry from Electron Irradiation of Synthetic Schreibersite, Tyler Davis
Diegetic Sonification for Low Vision Gamers, Jhané Dawes
Primate Social Behavior and Embodied Action, Maria Elbon
Limiting Postharvest Losses of Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushrooms), James M. Flanagan
THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES ON LATER DESISTANCE AMONG SERIOUS JUVENILE OFFENDERS FROM A BROKEN FAMILY COMPOSITION, Olivia Franklin
Gangs and TikTok: A Content Analysis of Violence Exposures on Social Media, Paige Giddens
Analysis of Social Behavior of the African Great Apes During Feeding and Non-Feeding Contexts, Jessica Hale
Characterization and Evaluation of Bacteriophages ΦPa-C and ΦPa-Tc Infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Joanne Harrison
Characterization and Evaluation of Bacteriophages ΦPa-C and ΦPa-Tc Infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Joanne Harrison
DigiMindReady: Enhancing Military Readiness through Edge AI-Driven Wellness, Education, and Digital Discipline via Privacy-First mHealth Innovation, Md Mehedi Hasan
The Unseen Pen: The Hidden History of Black Women Writers During the Civil Rights Movement, Serenity Hill
Victory Gardens: Helping on the Home Front, A Curriculum Outreach Project, Kelly Hoomes
BUILDING SOFTWARE AT SCALE: UNDERSTANDING PRODUCTIVITY AS A PRODUCT OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTRINSIC FACTORS, Gauthier Ingende Wa Boway
Real-Time Feedback-Driven Framework For Automated Cybersickness Mitigation, MD JAHIRUL ISLAM
A 2-D NUMERICAL MODEL FOR EVALUATING DAYLIGHT PENETRATION IN SHORT TUNNELS FOR ENHANCED DRIVER SAFETY, Joachim James
See Me Show Me: Black Women Representation in Television Sitcoms, Lauryn Jennings
Patterns and Potential Mechanisms of Phenotypic Changes in Urban Small Mammals, Leslie Lopez
Regulation of intracellular sorting of the Bruno protein in Drosophila flight muscles, Travis Main
Implementing Writing Activities in a Postsecondary Tutoring Program for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Milya Maxfield
Melanin Production Using Food Grade Fungi, Joseph Mercure
Design, Synthesis, and NMR-Guided Characterization of a Targeted Covalent Inhibitor-Like Molecule against Ivyp1 from P. aeruginosa, Samuel Taylor Moore
Dynamic Knowledge Elicitation: Leveraging Student Feedback For Improved Language Model Distillation, Reuven Muller
EXPLORING CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR THROUGH EMOTION DETECTION, Darlington Omoifo
Kinetic and Kinematic Effect of Flag-Carrying on Referee Agility and Sprinting Performance, William Reed
Shut Up and Dribble: The Political Contradictions of Black Masculinity in Sports, Isaiah Rogers
Mass Spectrometry Investigation of the Gas Phase Degradation of Pesticides and their Interaction with Biomolecules, Mubassarah Munjirin Sazmi
Semantic Segmentation of Point Cloud Sequences using Point Transformer v3, Marion Sisk
Back to Black: Analyzing the Presence of White Control Over Black Representations in Media and the Responses of Black Creators, Serena Smith
CORRELATING THE CARBONYL INDEX TO CONTACT ANGLE OF WEATHERED PLASTICS, Dhimani Still
Improve Trust and Adversarial Robustness of AI models in Remote Sensing, Sumaiya Tasneem
Soil Bacterial Community Shifts in a Montane Longleaf Pine Restoration Site: Effects of Dominant Herbaceous Species Removal, Prescribed Burn, and Changes in Season, Isabella K. Vahle
Generalized Model to Enable Zero-shot Imitation Learning for Versatile Robots, Yongshuai Wu
Theses from 2023
Influence of Woody Vegetation Composition and Structure on Fuels and Prescribed Fire in Mountain Longleaf Restoration, Collin J. Anderson
Long non-coding RNA Hsr-omega provides scaffolding for the nuclear domain B-body, SooBin An
Early Stage or Curable Cancer Diagnoses in Minorities: A Journey of Survivors, Lora Asberry
Azomethine-Containing Moieties for Simple and Degradable Conjugated Polymers, Kimberley Bartlett
Novel Polydentate Bis(Amidines): A Topological Approach to Intertwined Copper(I) Clusters, Keri Dowling