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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Early Stage or Curable Cancer Diagnoses in Minorities: A Journey of Survivors, Lora Asberry

GEORGIA, Lesley Brian Bargo

Azomethine-Containing Moieties for Simple and Degradable Conjugated Polymers, Kimberley Bartlett

Demystifying the Link Between Loneliness and Materialism: Mediating Roles of Emotion Regulation, Self-Enhancement, and Escapism, Christine Billen

Reality Check, Jaime Blei

“We’re All Teachers Here!”: The Role Peer Relationships Play in Teacher Leaders’ Influence in Schools, Tamara Bodrick

Cue the Paralinguistics: A Qualitative Case Study of Teacher Social Presence, Molly R. Bowden

Student Engagement in Junior High World Languages Classes, John Brittain

Rural Voices: A Photographic Journey of the Intersection of Place and Reading Identity in Rural Adolescents, Gena Brown

BUYER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS: A CASE INVESTIGATION IN THE RUG AND TEXTILE INDUSTRY, OBIE BYRUM

HIRING UX WRITERS FOR CONTENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT IN START-UP BUSINESSES, Josie Carter

Inscribing Violence: Quantifying the Impact of World Heritage Site Inscription on Direct and Structural Violence., Anne Chance

Leading Online Professional Development for Instructional Technology Coaches with Effective Design Elements, Janet Cowart

The Impact of a Design-Based Engineering Curriculum on High School Biology: Evaluating Academic Achievement and Student Perceptions of Epistemology, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Determination in Life Science, Courtney Cox

Navigating the Digital Realm: Perceptions and Challenges of High School Educators in Fostering Digital Citizenship, Kristopher P. Daniels

The Relationship Between Teacher Burnout and Physical Activity Among High School Teachers, Jonathan Davis

Rhetoric vs. Reality: A Critical Analysis of Georgia’s Official Curriculum for United States History, Haley Dawkins

Lean Six Sigma: Impacts on Audit Quality Indicators, Tiffany DeRoy

Measuring the Physiological Effects of Methylobacterium oryzae Foliar Inoculation onto Salt-Stressed Tomatoes grown in a Greenhouse Semi-Hydroponic System, Collin Dice

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

Using Machine Learning Techniques to Model Encoder/Decoder Pair for Non-invasive Electroencephalographic Wireless Signal Transmission, Ernst Fanfan

Investigating the role of Leucine-Responsive Regulatory Protein (Lrp) in the production and regulation of specific virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Kendra Fick

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

The Impact of De-escalation and Mental Illness Trainings on Civilian Complaints, Deaths, and Injuries Across United States' Police Departments in 2005, Annabeth Fox

EnsleyEdits: Creating a Style Resource for Professional Writers, Ensley Fraschillo

Characterizing the Adolescent Male Reader: A Narrative Inquiry into the Reading Lives of 12th Grade Boys Enrolled in IB Language A: Literature, Marsha French

General Education Teacher Challenges with Teaching English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom: A Qualitative Study of 3rd-5th Grade Elementary General Education and ESOL Teachers’ Perceptions, Joanne Gauthier

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

Upper Elementary Teacher, Instructional Technology Coach, and Administrator Experiences with Technology Integration During COVID-19 Related School Closures: A Phenomenography, Amber Gravitt

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

Investigating the activity of alternative warheads for targeted covalent inhibition of the Inhibitor Vertebrate Lysozyme protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Katie Hambrick

High Impact Practices in First Year Composition Courses, Haley Hamilton