Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
A Phenomenographical Study of Rural Teacher Retention Before, During, and After the COVID-10 Global Pandemic, Stacey LB Collins
The Role of Teacher Leaders in Sustaining School Culture During Principal Transitions: A Case Study, Leah Curtright
We Speak Life Into Their Language: Black Educators’ Approaches to Linguistic Justice in Urban Secondary ELA Classrooms, LaKeisha A. Davis
Navigating the Intersection: Black Women’s Leadership Journey in Educational Technology, Monika Davis
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
Peer Mentoring and Teacher Collaboration: A Case Study of Practices and Self-Efficacy in a Rural Title I School, Whitney Ensley
Opening Access to Advanced Placement English, Tabitha J. Evans
Using Educational Communication Technology To Increase Parent Involvement and Build Parent Capacity at a Title I Elementary School: A Case Study, Mary E. Frankovsky
Educators’ Perspectives, Practices, and Implications of AI in Education for a Title I Middle School, Melanie N. Garland
Religious Tolerance: Lessons From the Land of Fire, Lon Gibson
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
Marginalization and Its Effect on Social Loafing in Online Virtual Teams, Nicolette Gordon
Quantifying Uncertainty in Image-generative Models, Nina Grundlingh
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
Teacher Perceptions of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in High School Social Studies Classrooms: An Ethnographic Case Study, Sheronda L. Hardy
Comparison of STEM Student Reflections of their Undergraduate Research Experiences: CUREs vs. Apprentice Model, Chazzidy Harper
The Effects of Communication Mode Richness and Risk Priming on Auditors’ Skeptical Judgment and Action, Katie Harris
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
African American Males’ Academic Experiences While Enrolled in College Algebra, Willtresca N. Heppard-Streeter
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
Exploring the Impact of Leadership Styles on Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Comparative Case Study of Rural and Suburban High Schools, Stephanie Hill
Together We Can! High School Algebra PLC Members’ Experiences on Implementing New Curriculum and Its Impact on Their Self-Efficacy, Chasity L. Hughes
Dynafeat: Novel Framework for Dynamic Fusion for Emotion Adaptation and Transition in Real-Time Using Physiological Data, Namazbai Ishmakhametov
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
Explorations of Positive Behavior Interventions and Support Programs Through the Perspectives of Black Students at a Rural Middle School, Krystal Kendall
Religion, Identity, and Conflict in Christian-Muslim Interfaith Families Living in the U.S., Rita Kettani
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
Raise Your Digital Hand – Multilingual Learner Student and Teacher Perceptions of Live Digital Feedback, Naveed Khan
Kennesaw State University Student Managed Investment Fund Sector Sensitivity Analysis, John Kiersznowski, Joe Johnson, Kyler Howell, and Geranger Lewis
How New Mathematics Teachers Develop Teacher-Student Relational Pedagogy, Dustin Kinser
Middle School Teacher Perceptions of Digital Game-Based Learning in a 1:1 School District, Brennen Knight
The Inappropriate Inheritance of Histone Methylation Disrupts Muscle Morphology and Function in C. elegans, Josh Labus
Writing Feedback for Middle Grades Students: Commentary that is Timely and Impactful for Creating Self-Sufficient Writers, Kaitlin P. Lambert
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