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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Pyrrolopyrrole-Based Materials for High-Contrast Electrochromics, Allison Marie Hawks

A Phenomenographic Study to Explore the Perceptions and Experiences of Diversity Directors in Council of Educational Standards and Accountability Member Schools, Joel Hazard

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

A Case Study of Shifting to a Four-Day Student School Week as a Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Teacher Job Satisfaction and Retention, Melanie Hyde

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

The ManhattAnt: Identification, natural history, and nutritional ecology of a recently introduced pest in New York City, Lasius emarginatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Samantha Kennett

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

Improving Students’ Confidence and Competence Using Critical Media Literacy Skills in a Secondary English Language Arts Class, Leeanne Kline

FAMILY FIRM INNOVATION: THE ROLE OF LEADER DARK TRIAD PERSONALITY AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL WEALTH IMPORTANCE, Marek Kolinski

Cultural Classroom Competencies: White Female Social Studies Teachers’ Preparedness and Support to Interact with, Engage, and Teach the Global Majority, Ashley Lamar

WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION ON STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN LEARNING?, Charlotte Lester

Demon's Run (Part 1), Zack Loehle

Smoke and Mirrors, Adara London

From Allies to Co-Conspirators: Unveiling the Many Faces of Solidarity in Contemporary Racial Justice Social Movements in the U.S., Nashay Lowe

Novel collective prey evasion response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to soil micropredator Myxococcus xanthus DK1622, Joshua Lummus

“I Forget to Enjoy the Book”: A Narrative Analysis of Adolescents’ Perceptions of Their Real Selves and Ideal Selves as Readers, Brittany McWhorter

THE BEAUTY OF AUDITOR SELECTION: THE EFFECTS OF AUDITOR ATTRACTIVENESS AND AUDITEE GOALS ON PROCURING GOVERNMENTAL AUDIT SERVICES, Marena M. Messina

Designing Intelligent Energy Efficient Scheduling Algorithm To Support Massive IoT Communication In LoRa Networks, Jui Mhatre

Becoming an Effective Digital Educator: A Case Study of Technology Preparation in a Novel Preservice Teacher Internship Program, Stephanie Milner

The Polycomb Complex 2 contributes to developmental delay when histone methylation is inappropriately inherited, Sydney Morgan- Benitez

It’s A Business, Remember? How a History of Major League Blunders Killed the National Pastime, and On Baseball’s Future as a Cultural Artifact and Global Sport, Rinn Norman

Multi-techniques Characterization of Mechanochemically Synthesized Deep Eutectic Solvents, Oluseyi Olawuyi

Interpretation of Infrared and Raman Spectra Using Driven Molecular Dynamics Method, Oluwaseun Omodemi

Teachers Re-Imagining Parental Involvement: Using Parents' Funds of Knowledge in Math Lesson Designs, Enyinnaya Onyeukwu

Frontlines, Sarah Packer

Enhancing Fidelity through Gate Decomposition: A Strategy to Mitigate Quantum Crosstalk on NISQ Computers, Indu Palanisamy

UNPACKING VALUE CO-CREATION USING THE DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES FRAMEWORK, Perry Parke

How Participation in a Peer-Led Writing Center Impacts Struggling Students’ Self-Efficacy and Motivation, Laura Peterson

High School Student Narratives of Error Analysis: A Qualitative Investigation into Literacy for Geometry Learning, Dean Petti

"The Second Side" A Historic Retelling of African American Life in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Breighlynn Polk

Wronged Women: A Foray into the Wronged Woman's Mind, Suzanna Poole

Identifying Teacher Perceptions of Teaching At-Promise Students Online in an Alternative School, LaNadia Pugh

Administrators' perceptions of reducing exclusionary discipline in Black girls in k - 12 urban schools: A qualitative study, Lorraine Reeves

Variation in Salamander Life History and Community Composition Across an Urban Gradient in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Leah Rittenburg

Effects of adaptive learning technologies on mathematics achievement in low SES settings, William Roberts

The city blues of an iridescent canary: physiological, behavioral, and developmental impacts of lead (Pb) on songbirds along an urban-to-rural gradient, Michelle Ross

Analysis of the Adherence of mHealth Applications to HIPAA Technical Safeguards, Bilash Saha

Classroom Teachers: Why the Mass Exodus?, MaryBeth Sanders

Revolutionizing Attention Training in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Pioneering Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence, Bhavya sri sanku, Selena He, and Joy Li

Quantification of Various Types of Biases in Large Language Models, Sudhashree Sayenju