Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Teachers' Perceptions of an Inclusive STEM High School, Carlon Scholz
Powerful Partnerships: Examining Home-School Engagement in the Virtual Setting, Joshua Scott-Pineda
Trauma-Informed Educational Leadership: A Case Study, Robyn Scott
Connection Before Correction: The Impact of Restorative Practices on Students with Disabilities, katrina shirley
Assessing Blockchain’s Potential to Ensure Data Integrity and Security for AI and Machine Learning Applications, Aiasha Siddika
Thunderfort, Lever Stewart
THE MISUNDERSTOOD LINK BETWEEN TRAINING AND REAL-WORLD INFORMATION SECURITY OUTCOMES: SENSEMAKING, Henry Torres
Does a gift in a captive service make me feel better? Examining gift giving in uncertain conditions that influence emotions and firm performance., Martha Troncoza
MICROBIAL COMMENSALS OF TRICOLORED BATS IN GEORGIA AND THEIR PROBIOTIC POTENTIAL, Jordyn Upton
Orion's Run, Bonnie Wakefield
Those Living in the Shadow of Death: A Short Story Cycle, Hope Walker
Elementary Grade Students’ Perspectives on the Impact of Adult Behaviors on School Climate, Tameka Walker
8th Grade Students’ Perceptions of 1:1 Laptops in Algebra 1, Richard Wilford
Elucidating the Impacts of Learning Communities on Retention, Student Sense of Belonging, and Self-Efficacy in STEM, Honour Williams
Growth Mindset Intervention and Its Impact on Productive Struggle in the Eighth-Grade Mathematics Classroom, Jordy Wilson
Resistance Responses in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 in Response to Surface Predation by Myxococcus xanthus DK1622, Sarah Joie Wilson
Courageous School Leadership: Rural Principals’ Perception and Self-Efficacy in Implementing Culturally Responsive Leadership (CRL), Angela Denise Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Teachers’ Burnout Experience in a Title I Suburban Elementary School, Shakoiya Aiken
The Perceptions of High School Art Teachers on their Experiences with Digital Art, Chris Akins
Appley: Approximate Shapley Values for Model Explainability in Linear Time, Md Shafiul Alam
Wildwater, Will Amato
SMART INTERSECTIONS: COOPERATIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR LONGER BATTERY LIFE OF COMMUNICANT AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, Fushata Andani Mohammed
Colocalization between Akirin, the NuRD Complex, and Histone Modifications, Sarah Anglin
Dark Legends, Aneka Bailey
REFLECTIONS, Kiera Baity
THE FOUNDATION AND CENTER OF AMERICAN STUDIES; AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES - A SYLLABUS, Rhonda L. Baldonado
Validating ngn-1 transcriptome targets in C. elegans, Amber Baldwin
Sustainably Generating Value-Added Products Using Food-Grade Fungi & Agricultural Waste, William Beeson
EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT DISCOURSE: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN’S NARRATIVES IN OMAN, Hania Bekdash-Muellers
Simplified Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers Enabled via 1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole, Kenneth-John Jack Bell
Fairness and Privacy in Machine Learning Algorithms, Neha Bhargava
Ethical Analytics: A Framework for a Practically-Oriented Sub-Discipline of AI Ethics, Jonathan Boardman
Miss Hartwright's Most Terrifying Tale: A Novel, Kevin Bomely
The Art of Sketchnoting in a High School Language Arts Classroom, Rachael Bourne
Key Steps and Strategies for Successful Revision in First-Year Composition, Maura Bowden
Service Learning- It’s Elementary! Teacher initiated service learning at an independent school, Kate Burton
Analyzing the interactions of thermoresponsive coacervate-forming biodegradable polyester encapsulation on model protein structure and activity, Conner Casterline
All the Clawed Feet of Winged Gods, Samantha Casto
Courier of Souls, Brian Cochran
The Flipped Model Classroom Experience for 8th Grade Students Enrolled in Algebra 1: A Case Study, Mary Colclasure
Auditing Outside the "GAAP": The Association Between Non-GAAP Reporting and Audit Quality, Casey Colson
LOVE IN THE OORT CLOUD, Rebecca Connelly
Midnight Tarot Pulls, Fern Conte
A Wellbeing@KSU Journey: MAPW Portfolio, Meghan Cooper
The evolution of honeycomb, Grace Cope
Oxidation of Microplastics: Evidenced by Spectroscopy, Hydrophilicity, and Heavy Metal Uptake, Sydney Diehl