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Submit Your ThesisTheses from 2025
Comprehensive Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Lipidomics Studies of Tenualosa Ilisha Fish, Airin Akhter
Simulation of Ground Penetrating Radar for the Detection of Buried Human Remains, Md Shamsul Alam
Establishment of Six Flags Over the Deconstruction of Sandtown, John Ely
Developing Peptide Based Inhibitors Targeting Amyloid Beta for Alzheimer's Disease, Lyric K. Gordon
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
Agreement Between Methods for Describing the Intensity of a High Intensity Functional Training Workout, James W. Henley
AN ANALYSIS OF THE ARMORETTES’ MISSION TO HELP THE ATLANTA LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY, Edwin Hernandez
"It's Not Your Job to Save the World, Young Women": Evangelical Women on Social Media, Ilaria P. Johnson
Reverse Engineering of Binary Programs using Graph Attention Networks, Sai Nikhila Kanigiri
The Inappropriate Inheritance of Histone Methylation Disrupts Muscle Morphology and Function in C. elegans, Josh Labus
Chemical pressure Tuning of Magnetocaloric effect in Frustrated Breathing Pyrochlore System CuAlCr4Se8, Rupali Mangotra
A Fixed Cell Fungal Catalyst for Production of Melanin in Submerged Fermentation, William James Murphy
Pollinator Plant Communities within restored Montane Longleaf Pine Ecosystems, Hanen van Rossem
Theses 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
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Nutritional Analysis in Diabetic Diet Management: A Multimodal Approach, Afnan Crystal
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
THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES ON LATER DESISTANCE AMONG SERIOUS JUVENILE OFFENDERS FROM A BROKEN FAMILY COMPOSITION, Olivia Franklin
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
Characterization and Evaluation of Bacteriophages ΦPa-C and ΦPa-Tc Infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Joanne Harrison
DigiMindReady: Enhancing Military Readiness through Edge AI-Driven Wellness, Education, and Digital Discipline via Privacy-First mHealth Innovation, Md Mehedi Hasan
The Unseen Pen: The Hidden History of Black Women Writers During the Civil Rights Movement, Serenity Hill
Victory Gardens: Helping on the Home Front, A Curriculum Outreach Project, Kelly Hoomes
BUILDING SOFTWARE AT SCALE: UNDERSTANDING PRODUCTIVITY AS A PRODUCT OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTRINSIC FACTORS, Gauthier Ingende Wa Boway
Real-Time Feedback-Driven Framework For Automated Cybersickness Mitigation, MD JAHIRUL ISLAM
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
Melanin Production Using Food Grade Fungi, Joseph Mercure
Design, Synthesis, and NMR-Guided Characterization of a Targeted Covalent Inhibitor-Like Molecule against Ivyp1 from P. aeruginosa, Samuel Taylor Moore
Dynamic Knowledge Elicitation: Leveraging Student Feedback For Improved Language Model Distillation, Reuven Muller
EXPLORING CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR THROUGH EMOTION DETECTION, Darlington Omoifo
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
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