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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Lean Six Sigma: Impacts on Audit Quality Indicators, Tiffany DeRoy
Novel Polydentate Bis(Amidines): A Topological Approach to Intertwined Copper(I) Clusters, Keri Dowling
Universal Background Generator 2.0, Konrad Drapela
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in High School Science: Assessing the Implementation in Title 1 Classrooms, Micah Ducre
COVID-19 Crisis: Shifting Educational Leadership Toward a New Normal - A Case Study, Emily C. R. Ellwood
Perceptions of Curriculum Alignment and Student Achievement in US History Courses in an Urban Characteristic Georgia School, Jameka Fields
Exploring High School Students’ Perceptions of the Influence of Fine Arts Education on Academic Achievement, Samantha Fields
DESIGNWRITE: A Professional Editing Website, Jerrie Fillion
An Integrative Review: Best Practices for Educating and Engaging Care Partners of Patients with New Ostomies, Lauren Flook Brown
Beyond Words: An Exploration of Research and Writing for Indigenous Land Acknowledgements, Oksana Flores
Vinyle zine: The Execution of the Pedagogy of Pro-Blackness, Kandice Fowlkes
EnsleyEdits: Creating a Style Resource for Professional Writers, Ensley Fraschillo
AP Statistics Students’ Conceptions of Engagement and Technology in a Flipped Classroom: A Phenomenographical Study, Kimberly Gile
Understanding the Impact of Asset-Based Teaching on the Academic Motivations of High-Achieving Marginalized High School Students, NICHOLE L. GILLIAM
Self-Repair of the African Diaspora in the Americas, Charen Glasgow
Adsorption of Organic Pollutants onto Microplastics, kirstin goff
City of Ruins, Elise Good
CM-II meditation as an intervention to reduce stress and improve attention: A study of ML detection, Spectral Analysis, and HRV metrics, Sreekanth Gopi
Conversations I've Never Had, Rebecca Graham
Six Stories: Short Fiction from Contemporary Life, Richard Grant
The Invisibles of the Civil Rights Movement: Uncovering the Unseen Changemakers, John Greene
Big Screen Heroes with Paper Voices: A Superhero Adaptation Research Essay, Zachary Green
Testing the Urban Dulling Hypothesis in an Iridescent Passerine Bird, Joanna Gresham
Mer: An Audio Drama, Angelica Guilbeaux
High Impact Practices in First Year Composition Courses, Haley Hamilton
Pyrrolopyrrole-Based Materials for High-Contrast Electrochromics, Allison Marie Hawks
Navigating the Context: Implementing Inquiry in the Middle School Social Studies Classroom, Juliann Noble Healy
Digital Bridges: How Art Educators Build Professional Learning Networks on Twitter, Jennifer Heyser
Moral Injury, Identity Dissonance, and Reintegration: A Compendium of Reintegration and Survey of United States Military Veterans, Thomas Hodges
Time is Money: An Examination of Audit Time Budgets and Profitability, Sydney (Tori) Hoffman
It's a Fine Line, Janika Jackson
Detection of Crypto-Ransomware Attack Using Deep Learning, Muna Jemal
Proximate Causes of Alternative Reproductive Tactics in Blue Ridge Two-Lined Salamanders (Eurycea cf. wilderae), Yatin Kalki
Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, Melissa Kane
Comparing four indices of physiological stress in an urban-adapted songbird between urban and rural habitats, Rachel Kaplan
Tracking and mathematical identity for rural adolescent students of color, Joseph Melvin Kelly
On Training Neurons with Bounded Compilations, Lance Kennedy
EFFICIENT APPROACHES FOR QUBIT MAPPING ON NISQ COMPUTERS, Sri Sesha Sailaja Lakshmi Tulasi Khandavilli
Implementing global citizenship education: A case study of exemplary practices, opportunities, and challenges, Judson Kidd