Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
THE EFFECT OF BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION DURING ACUTE AEROBIC EXERCISE ON NON-LOCAL MUSCLE FATIGUE, Anna Acosta
Comprehensive Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Lipidomics Studies of Tenualosa Ilisha Fish, Airin Akhter
The Impact of Flipped Classroom With Active Learning Model of Instruction in Teaching Stoichiometry in Chemistry Among Black and Brown Students, Lawrence Femi Akintokun
Simulation of Ground Penetrating Radar for the Detection of Buried Human Remains, Md Shamsul Alam
Summer Melt: The Transition of Rural Students to Post-secondary Schools, NiQuan Alston
Roses and Concrete: Black Teachers' Roles and Challenges in Marginalized Communities, Alyse N. Barry
What Is Your Why? An Exploration of Why Teachers Remain in the Professsion at an Urban Elementary School in the South., Malikah Bennett
Feature Significance and Explainability in Neural Networks, Sanad Biswas
BALANCERGNN: Balancer Graph Neural Network for Imbalanced Datasets, Mallika Boyapati
The Impact of Focused Specific Phonemic Awareness Instruction on English Language Learners in the Kindergarten Classroom, Bethany Brewer
The Impact of a Multilingual Learner Professional Development on Teacher Self-Efficacy and Student Perceptions of Teacher Support, Mark A. Bryan
Using Sustained Silent Reading in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom To Increase Reading Engagement, Hannah S. Burwell
Warehouse Reconfiguration with ATS Lab, Ed Cantor, Dana Pazhouhesh, Mathew Oshinski, and Samantha Sanchez
Immersive Learning in Action: A Qualitative Case Study of High School Teachers’ Experiences With Prisms Learning in Science and Mathematics, Hilary A. Cassidy
ONEMONEY - A Design Science Research Artifact for Mobile Remittances From the USA to Zambia, Owen Chilongo
Advanced Multimodal Planetary Surface Exploration for Scientific CanBots, Carrington Chun
Student Engagement in ELA Choice-Based Core Curriculum: A Case Study of the Dramatic Writing for Film, Television, and Theater Course, Brian Thomas Clements
An Endangered Profession: Elevating the Lived Experiences of Current and Retired Black Teachers in Georgia to Confront Retention Challenges and Reimagine the Legacy of Teaching, Thelma Sharese Colbert
A Phenomenographical Study of Rural Teacher Retention Before, During, and After the COVID-10 Global Pandemic, Stacey LB Collins
The Role of Teacher Leaders in Sustaining School Culture During Principal Transitions: A Case Study, Leah Curtright
We Speak Life Into Their Language: Black Educators’ Approaches to Linguistic Justice in Urban Secondary ELA Classrooms, LaKeisha A. Davis
Navigating the Intersection: Black Women’s Leadership Journey in Educational Technology, Monika Davis
LLM-POWERED QUESTION ANSWERING FOR OBJECT STATES IN VIRTUAL REALITY, Shiyi Ding
Establishment of Six Flags Over the Deconstruction of Sandtown, John Ely
Peer Mentoring and Teacher Collaboration: A Case Study of Practices and Self-Efficacy in a Rural Title I School, Whitney Ensley
Opening Access to Advanced Placement English, Tabitha J. Evans
Using Educational Communication Technology To Increase Parent Involvement and Build Parent Capacity at a Title I Elementary School: A Case Study, Mary E. Frankovsky
Educators’ Perspectives, Practices, and Implications of AI in Education for a Title I Middle School, Melanie N. Garland
Religious Tolerance: Lessons From the Land of Fire, Lon Gibson
Developing Peptide Based Inhibitors Targeting Amyloid Beta for Alzheimer's Disease, Lyric K. Gordon
Marginalization and Its Effect on Social Loafing in Online Virtual Teams, Nicolette Gordon
Quantifying Uncertainty in Image-generative Models, Nina Grundlingh
Unified Evaluation of Real-world IoT-based Federated Learning, Yi Gu
Amino Acid Based Deep Eutectic Solvents: Next Generation Charge Reducing Agents for Native Mass Spectrometry, Abdul Hannan
Regulation, nuclear retention, and organization of long-non-coding RNA hsr-omega into nuclear domains, Sharar Naiarin Haque
Teacher Perceptions of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in High School Social Studies Classrooms: An Ethnographic Case Study, Sheronda L. Hardy
The Effects of Communication Mode Richness and Risk Priming on Auditors’ Skeptical Judgment and Action, Katie Harris
Agreement Between Methods for Describing the Intensity of a High Intensity Functional Training Workout, James W. Henley
African American Males’ Academic Experiences While Enrolled in College Algebra, Willtresca N. Heppard-Streeter
Exploring the Impact of Leadership Styles on Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Comparative Case Study of Rural and Suburban High Schools, Stephanie Hill
Together We Can! High School Algebra PLC Members’ Experiences on Implementing New Curriculum and Its Impact on Their Self-Efficacy, Chasity L. Hughes
Dynafeat: Novel Framework for Dynamic Fusion for Emotion Adaptation and Transition in Real-Time Using Physiological Data, Namazbai Ishmakhametov
"It's Not Your Job to Save the World, Young Women": Evangelical Women on Social Media, Ilaria P. Johnson