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Submit Your ThesisTheses from 2024
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATION OF VISIBLE LIGHT-ABSORBING, FLUORESCENT-QUENCHING THIOPHENE-BASED o-NITROBENZYL PHOTOLABILE PROTECTING GROUPS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HYDROXAMIC ACIDS, Ophelia Asantewaa Adjei-Sah
Noncovalent Peptide Stapling and Antiviral-Cell Penetrating Peptide Conjugations Targeting the Main Protease of SARS-CoV-2, Md Ackas Ali
Evaluating the effect of noise on Secure Quantum Networks, Karthick Anbalagan
ADAPTABLE QUANTUM EDUCATION PLATFORM USING LEARNING OBJECTS, Krishna Puja Anumula
Impact of Deep Eutectic Solvents on the Structure and Dynamics of Protein and Enzyme, Anusha Bhattarai
Assessment of Georgia’s Royal Catchfly (Silene regia) Along a Forest-Edge Gradient in a Remnant Prairie Community, Megan Brooks
Spatial and abiotic effects of urbanization on small mammal communities, Bri Casement
Antimicrobials produced by ants: chemical properties and microbe specificity, Katy Chon and Clint A. Penick
Modulation of Optoelectronic Properties of Electron Rich Pyrrolopyrroles via Peripheral Alterations, Lillian Daniel
Senegambia and The American South: Where Identity Belongs, Malika David
Investigation of Surface Chemistry from Electron Irradiation of Synthetic Schreibersite, Tyler Davis
Diegetic Sonification for Low Vision Gamers, Jhané Dawes
Primate Social Behavior and Embodied Action, Maria Elbon
Limiting Postharvest Losses of Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushrooms), James M. Flanagan
Gangs and TikTok: A Content Analysis of Violence Exposures on Social Media, Paige Giddens
Analysis of Social Behavior of the African Great Apes During Feeding and Non-Feeding Contexts, Jessica Hale
Characterization and Evaluation of Bacteriophages ΦPa-C and ΦPa-Tc Infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Joanne Harrison
The Unseen Pen: The Hidden History of Black Women Writers During the Civil Rights Movement, Serenity Hill
BUILDING SOFTWARE AT SCALE: UNDERSTANDING PRODUCTIVITY AS A PRODUCT OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTRINSIC FACTORS, Gauthier Ingende Wa Boway
A 2-D NUMERICAL MODEL FOR EVALUATING DAYLIGHT PENETRATION IN SHORT TUNNELS FOR ENHANCED DRIVER SAFETY, Joachim James
See Me Show Me: Black Women Representation in Television Sitcoms, Lauryn Jennings
Patterns and Potential Mechanisms of Phenotypic Changes in Urban Small Mammals, Leslie Lopez
Regulation of intracellular sorting of the Bruno protein in Drosophila flight muscles, Travis Main
Implementing Writing Activities in a Postsecondary Tutoring Program for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Milya Maxfield
Kinetic and Kinematic Effect of Flag-Carrying on Referee Agility and Sprinting Performance, William Reed
Shut Up and Dribble: The Political Contradictions of Black Masculinity in Sports, Isaiah Rogers
Mass Spectrometry Investigation of the Gas Phase Degradation of Pesticides and their Interaction with Biomolecules, Mubassarah Munjirin Sazmi
Semantic Segmentation of Point Cloud Sequences using Point Transformer v3, Marion Sisk
Back to Black: Analyzing the Presence of White Control Over Black Representations in Media and the Responses of Black Creators, Serena Smith
CORRELATING THE CARBONYL INDEX TO CONTACT ANGLE OF WEATHERED PLASTICS, Dhimani Still
Improve Trust and Adversarial Robustness of AI models in Remote Sensing, Sumaiya Tasneem
Soil Bacterial Community Shifts in a Montane Longleaf Pine Restoration Site: Effects of Dominant Herbaceous Species Removal, Prescribed Burn, and Changes in Season, Isabella K. Vahle and Paula Jackson
Generalized Model to Enable Zero-shot Imitation Learning for Versatile Robots, Yongshuai Wu
Theses from 2023
Influence of Woody Vegetation Composition and Structure on Fuels and Prescribed Fire in Mountain Longleaf Restoration, Collin J. Anderson
Long non-coding RNA Hsr-omega provides scaffolding for the nuclear domain B-body, SooBin An
Early Stage or Curable Cancer Diagnoses in Minorities: A Journey of Survivors, Lora Asberry
Azomethine-Containing Moieties for Simple and Degradable Conjugated Polymers, Kimberley Bartlett
Novel Polydentate Bis(Amidines): A Topological Approach to Intertwined Copper(I) Clusters, Keri Dowling
An Integrative Review: Best Practices for Educating and Engaging Care Partners of Patients with New Ostomies, Lauren Flook Brown
Adsorption of Organic Pollutants onto Microplastics, kirstin goff
CM-II meditation as an intervention to reduce stress and improve attention: A study of ML detection, Spectral Analysis, and HRV metrics, Sreekanth Gopi
Testing the Urban Dulling Hypothesis in an Iridescent Passerine Bird, Joanna Gresham
Pyrrolopyrrole-Based Materials for High-Contrast Electrochromics, Allison Marie Hawks
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
Comparing four indices of physiological stress in an urban-adapted songbird between urban and rural habitats, Rachel Kaplan
On Training Neurons with Bounded Compilations, Lance Kennedy
EFFICIENT APPROACHES FOR QUBIT MAPPING ON NISQ COMPUTERS, Sri Sesha Sailaja Lakshmi Tulasi Khandavilli
Novel collective prey evasion response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to soil micropredator Myxococcus xanthus DK1622, Joshua Lummus
The Polycomb Complex 2 contributes to developmental delay when histone methylation is inappropriately inherited, Sydney Morgan- Benitez
Multi-techniques Characterization of Mechanochemically Synthesized Deep Eutectic Solvents, Oluseyi Olawuyi
Interpretation of Infrared and Raman Spectra Using Driven Molecular Dynamics Method, Oluwaseun Omodemi
Enhancing Fidelity through Gate Decomposition: A Strategy to Mitigate Quantum Crosstalk on NISQ Computers, Indu Palanisamy
Variation in Salamander Life History and Community Composition Across an Urban Gradient in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Leah Rittenburg
Analysis of the Adherence of mHealth Applications to HIPAA Technical Safeguards, Bilash Saha
Revolutionizing Attention Training in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Pioneering Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence, Bhavya sri sanku, Selena He, and Joy Li
Assessing Blockchain’s Potential to Ensure Data Integrity and Security for AI and Machine Learning Applications, Aiasha Siddika
MICROBIAL COMMENSALS OF TRICOLORED BATS IN GEORGIA AND THEIR PROBIOTIC POTENTIAL, Jordyn Upton
Elucidating the Impacts of Learning Communities on Retention, Student Sense of Belonging, and Self-Efficacy in STEM, Honour Williams
Resistance Responses in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 in Response to Surface Predation by Myxococcus xanthus DK1622, Sarah Joie Wilson
Theses from 2022
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
Validating ngn-1 transcriptome targets in C. elegans, Amber Baldwin
Sustainably Generating Value-Added Products Using Food-Grade Fungi & Agricultural Waste, William Beeson
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
Analyzing the interactions of thermoresponsive coacervate-forming biodegradable polyester encapsulation on model protein structure and activity, Conner Casterline
The evolution of honeycomb, Grace Cope
Oxidation of Microplastics: Evidenced by Spectroscopy, Hydrophilicity, and Heavy Metal Uptake, Sydney Diehl
THE REHABILITATION OF FULTON BAG & COTTON MILLS: A Case for a Unique Public-History Site and Open-Air Museum, Nina Elsas
The Stakeholder-Profile Framework for Tacit Knowledge Acquisition in Requirements Elicitation Interviews, Rasha Eltigani
Fire and periodical cicadas: impacts on soil nutrients and understory plant germination, Andrea Gamache
Investigation of Akirin Nuclear Localization and the Molecular Interaction between Akirin and Taf4 in Drosophila, Samantha Gibson
A Literature Review On Privacy and Security in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, Yunus Gumbo
THE EFFECTS OF RECYCLED WASTE ON CONCRETE MIXTURE PROPERTIES, Noral Hadbawi
Studying Tissue Specific Diversity of Splicing Regulator Muscleblind, Davron Hanley
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND CURATORIAL PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1902-1967, Katie Hegebarth
Ant cuticle microsculpture: diversity, classification, evolution, and function, John Paul Hellenbrand
A Comparative Study on Blockchain-based Electronic Health Record Systems: Performance, Privacy, and Security Between Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum Frameworks, Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Hossain Shahriar, Maria Valero, and Xia Li
Noxious Cellular Injury Triggers an Oxidative Stress Gene Response, Shawyun Khoshneviszadeh
Sex Ratios and the City: Is parental corticosterone a mediator of the relationship between urbanization and offspring sex allocation?, Denyelle Kilgour
A Maturity Model of Data Modeling in Self-Service Business Intelligence Software, Anna Kurenkov