Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
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
Inclusivity within the Digital Age, Jarvis Denmark
Networking for Indigenous Rights: Evolving Relationships between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Civil Society Organizations, Jonathan Taylor Downs
The Value of Mentorship for Black Ballerinas, Anna Dunn
Examining Novice Teacher’s Perspectives on Mentoring Programs and their Influence on Attrition, Lakeisha Ector
Primate Social Behavior and Embodied Action, Maria Elbon
Limiting Postharvest Losses of Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushrooms), James M. Flanagan
Business Students’ Perceptions of the Influence of Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) on Career Readiness and Graduation Outcomes, Spencer T. Fortson Jr
THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES ON LATER DESISTANCE AMONG SERIOUS JUVENILE OFFENDERS FROM A BROKEN FAMILY COMPOSITION, Olivia Franklin
Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact of iReady on Student Reading Achievement for Students in Response to Intervention, Althia Gates
"Something Else Called Order": Mental Inertia and Mentacide in African American and Native American Oral Histories, Steven Gayle
Gangs and TikTok: A Content Analysis of Violence Exposures on Social Media, Paige Giddens
The Perception of the Implementation of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to Support Black Male Students in Mathematics – A Case Study, Chiquita Granville
Perceptions of the Differing Preparatory Needs of Teacher Leaders and Educational Leaders, Kimberly Green
Empowering Female Voices in the ELA Classroom, Jacqueline Gurliaccio Vance
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
High School Principals’ Experiences Implementing the Whole-Child Approach to Education, Elise Heaton
The Thin Edge of the Wedge: Conflicting Institutional Demands and Climate Change Strategies, Scott Henry
The Unseen Pen: The Hidden History of Black Women Writers During the Civil Rights Movement, Serenity Hill
The Impact Establishing a Focus on Learning Through PLCs has on Student Growth in Elementary Mathematics, Heather Hodge
Bridging the Gap and Shaping Behavior: Applying Gilbert’s Behavioral Engineering Model to Explore the role of a Parent-Teacher Communication Tool on Parental Involvement, Christina Holtapp
Victory Gardens: Helping on the Home Front, A Curriculum Outreach Project, Kelly Hoomes
Medical Imaging Dataset Management Leveraging Deep Learning Frameworks in Breast Cancer Screening, Inchan Hwang
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
The Effect of Teacher Identity on the Level of Cultural Inclusion in the Classroom, Jennifer Jones
Remote Vibration Based Monitoring of Bridge Scour, Alan Kazemian
Expanding Capabilities: The Impact of International Student Mobility on Peacebuilding, Kathleen Kirk
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
Multi-Modality Transformer for E-Commerce: Inferring User Purchase Intention to Bridge the Query-Product Gap, Srivatsa Mallapragada
Consumers’ Assessment of Retailer Donation Types: Labor, Product, or Money, Arwen L. Matos-Wood
Implementing Writing Activities in a Postsecondary Tutoring Program for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Milya Maxfield
Impact of Disciplinary Literacy Pedagogy on Student Historical Content Learning: A Mixed Methods Research Study, Jeffrey Mayr
Melanin Production Using Food Grade Fungi, Joseph Mercure
Beyond the Classroom Walls: Examining Educational and Social Outcomes of Cross-Curricular Peer Observation in Secondary Schools, Jacinda Miller
Humanizing History: Empowering Educators To Navigate Difficult History Through Museum-Led Professional Development, Andrea Miskewicz
Design, Synthesis, and NMR-Guided Characterization of a Targeted Covalent Inhibitor-Like Molecule against Ivyp1 from P. aeruginosa, Samuel Taylor Moore
Leveraging Social Practices in the 11th Grade American Literature Classroom: Video Games As Texts, Alora Moser
Dynamic Knowledge Elicitation: Leveraging Student Feedback For Improved Language Model Distillation, Reuven Muller