Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
"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
The In-Between: Poetic Counter-Narratives Reimaging the Canon, yisheika lawrence
Teacher Leadership in Social Studies: The Search for Meaning and Identity, Zachary F. Lawson
Secondary English Language Arts Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Constructing Multimodal Arguments, Jasenda R. League
Chemical pressure Tuning of Magnetocaloric effect in Frustrated Breathing Pyrochlore System CuAlCr4Se8, Rupali Mangotra
Imagine the Peace: Exploring the Intimacy of Imagined Intergroup Contact in Kosovo, Eric Manley
Students’ Experience With Virtual Reality Technology in Middle School Science, Lindsey Mason
Strategic Dynamics of SFCS: Leadership Styles and Decentralization in Fostering Salesperson Loyalty, Dierto Matanda Moke
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Teaching and Learning in High School Social Studies Curricula in Georgia: A Case Study, Sharon Ann Mcmeans-Lukiri
The Lived Experiences of High School Students Serving As Peer Mentors, Heather S. Mitchell
Endocrine Responses to Two Distinct Foraging Contexts in the Bonobo (Pan paniscus), Lauren Mitchell
Title I School Principals and Academic Coaches’ Perceptions of School Strategic Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring on Plan Outcomes: A Case Study, Elizabeth A. Mize
Managing High Missingness in Small Sample Longitudinal Sleep Data From Wearable Devices in Low-Resource Settings, Katherine Mobley
Can You Hear Me Now? Student Perspectives of 3D Phenomena-Based Science Teaching Practices, LeShea A. Moncrease
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
Mapping Resting-State Electroencephalography (EEG) Onto Motor Imagery for Cross-Subject Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Applications, Mohammad Yousef Mousa Naser
Voices of Resilience: The Journey of African American Women Superintendents in Public School Systems, Shundreia Neely
The Interplay Between Structure and Teacher Agency in the Detracking of Algebra 1: A Qualitative Case Study, Kristine Norris
Georgia Teachers’ and Leaders’ Perceptions of Teacher Evaluations, Jessica OKelley
Patient Arrival Specialist Workflow Improvement, Heily Ovalle-Siguantay, Daniela Juana Ruiz Azana, Inaru Duarte, and Andrew Slugg
An Examination of Assurance Services Currently (Not) Provided by Blockchain Auditors, Francis Agot Owuor Dr.
Simulated Human-AI Teaming Framework for ML Model Development, Sai Sanjay Potluri
What Does It Mean To Be a Mentor? Perceptions of Mentor Teachers in a Mentoring Program, Karen M. Powell
Using iReady to Support Math Intervention After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Marvin Prather
OWLBOT: Designing and Developing an AI-Powered Peer Advisor Chatbot for University Websites, Sai Prakash Reddy Rao
Region-based Object Recognition and Detection Under Constrained Resolution, Duleep Rathgamage Don
Disaster Vulnerability and Recovery: Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Psycological Insights From Hurricane Katrina, Tanjila Rashid Rhythy
Student Engagement in High School Mathematics Blended Learning Classrooms, Therese A. Rinehart
The Coyote and the Roadrunner Digital Options Impact on Innovation Speed, Barry Robbins
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
Enhancing Off-Angle Iris Recognition Performance, Jitendra Sai Kota