Theses/Dissertations from 2024
“BUT THE TRAUMA DID NOT FADE AWAY” CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE, ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY, AND RURALITY, cynthia H. mcniss (Winter 2024)
APPLICATION OF PEER-MEDIATED INSTRUCTION AND INTERVENTION (PMII) TO ENHANCE SOCIAL INTERACTION SKILLS IN EARLY ELEMENTARY-LEVEL SAUDI STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) IN AN INCLUSION SETTING, Inam Alghamdi (Fall 2024)
EFFECTS OF A REPEATED READING INTERVENTION ON IMPROVING ARABIC READING COMPREHENSION AND FLUENCY IN FEMALE FIFTH GRADERS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SAUDI ARABIA, Jawaher Aljuwayhir (Fall 2024)
FACTORS AFFECTING INVOLVEMENT OF PARENTS OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SAUDI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, Mohammed Alyahya (Fall 2024)
TEACHING VIDEO GAME AS A LEISURE SKILL TO ARAB AMERICAN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER USING VIDEO MODELING IN A SCHOOL SETTING, lubna alzayyat (Fall 2024)
UNDERSTANDING WIDOWHOOD CULTURAL PRACTICES, VALUES, AND BELIEFS, OF NIGERIAN AMERICAN WOMEN: AN ETHNONURSING STUDY, Prisca Anuforo (Fall 2024)
Challenges to Reproductive Justice: An Ethical Analysis of Reproductive Technologies and Disparities, Courtney Brenner (Fall 2024)
The Ethical Contributions of Nudges to Healthcare, Ian Doherty (Winter 2024)
From Policymaking to Legislation, The Need for a Secular Turn in Bioethics Discourse to Uphold, as a Function of the Greater Good, Policy for Legislation of Medically Aided Dying in the United States of America, Scott Dyer (Winter 2024)
Philosophical Hermeneutic Approaches to Communication Studies, David Errera (Fall 2024)
INTERACTIONS OF THE SARS-COV-2 VIRAL GENOME 3’-UNTRANSLATED REGION WITH VIRAL AND HOST RNAS, Caleb Frye and Mihaela Rita Mihailescu (Fall 2024)
HOW DO EXPERT FORENSIC EVALUATORS DO IT? A QUALITATIVE STUDY EXPLORING FORENSIC EVALUATORS’ LIVED EXPERIENCES CONDUCTING PSYCHOSEXUAL EVALUATIONS OF SEX OFFENDERS WITH SUSPECTED AUTISM, Jessica K. Gazzola (Winter 2024)
Excessive before it begins: A critical analysis of racialized encounters between police and African American men, Lucas Goodwin (Winter 2024)
EVALUATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITY SCHOOLS’ STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS POST-PANDEMIC STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH, Dawn Gordon (Fall 2024)
Neuropunk: A Discursive Ethnographic Study of the Do-It-Yourself Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Community, Erick Guzman (Fall 2024)
ADVANCING CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURING: THE ROLE OF PROCESS ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGY IN PROCESS DEVELOPMENT, Samuel R. Henson (Fall 2024)
Hidden Markov Model for Identifying Local Variants in Human Genomes using Simulated Data, Scott McCallum (Fall 2024)
Perceptions of Communication and Collaboration Between Special Education and Career and Technical Education Teachers, Alexander Novickoff (Fall 2024)
“REPEAT A LITTLE:” TIME AND FREEDOM IN DELEUZE’S DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION, Mine Sak (Fall 2024)
IT'S FUNNY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT: FORMAL COMPLEXITY AND EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN HUMOR, Noel Stanger (Fall 2024)
WOUNDED AND HEALING: LICENSED COUNSELORS’ EXPERIENCE WITH PERSONAL SUICIDE LOSS AND THE IMPACT ON CLINICAL PRACTICE, SUPERVISION, AND SELF-DISCLOSURE, Shannon Strohl (Winter 2024)
Gatekeeper, Keep Thyself: How Impairment Impacts the Integration of Counselor Wellness Competencies, Curtis Lee Taylor (Winter 2024)
Intrinsic Gas-Phase Behavior of Uranium Species: A Comprehensive Reactivity Study of [O=U≡CH]+ and [UH]+, Justin Terhorst (Fall 2024)
How Scientists Can Investigate Perception: Phenomenological Foundations for Qualitative Research, Kimberly Tucker (Fall 2024)
COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS’ EXPERIENCES OF ONLINE ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) TEACHING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, Jianan Zhou (Fall 2024)
UNDERSTANDING THE SUPERVISION OF COUNSELORS IN A GRIEF PROCESS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED A CLIENT’S DEATH BY SUICIDE., Sean Abaray (Summer 2024)
The Educational Experiences of Children and Adolescents with an RYR1-Related Disease, Jeremy Armann (Summer 2024)
EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PARENT IMPLEMENTED FUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATION TRAINING THROUGH THE USE OF ZOOM IN CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AT HOME SETTING IN KSA, Abdulrhman Ashgar (Summer 2024)
Lateral Others in the Trauma Narrative: The Place of the Sibling in Accounts of Abuse and Neglect, Michelle Browne (Summer 2024)
SELF-EFFICACY TOWARDS TEACHING, CRITICAL THINKING DISPOSITIONS, AND SUPERVISION OF TEACHING AMONG CES DOCTORAL STUDENTS, Brenda Everett (Summer 2024)
DESIGNING AN EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS CURRICULUM TO TEACH MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS WHILE FOSTERING A GROWTH MINDSET: A SELF-STUDY, Lauren Harter (Summer 2024)
Form and Matter in Kant's Theoretical Philosophy, Aaron Higgins-Brake (Summer 2024)
A Radical Ethnography of Asian American Mental Health, Sofia Huang (Summer 2024)
Place and Placelessness: An Ecocritical Approach towards the Mountain Imagery in Country Music, Siyuan Ma (Summer 2024)
Making and Breaking Bonds: Studying Intrinsic Chemistry in the Gas-Phase, Luke Metzler (Summer 2024)
Effect of a Systematic Mindfulness Intervention on Student Internalizing, Externalizing, and Adaptive Behaviors, Akshita Nayyar (Summer 2024)
Made in the Divine Image: The Interface of Boki Concepts and Pontifical Biblical Commission's Reading of Genesis 1-2, Luther Raymond (Summer 2024)
Rhetorical Tapestries of Water Injustice: The Framing of (In)Access And (In)Justice in The Struggle for Water Security in The United States, Carla R. Richards (Summer 2024)
The Impact of Kangaroo Care (KC) on Parent Stress, Infant Neurobehavioral Regulation, and Parent-Infant Attachment in Very and Extremely Preterm Infants, Justine Vecchiarelli (Summer 2024)
AN EXPLORATION OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCES AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION TEACHERS USING AN INTERPRETIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, Ashley Irene Zehner (Summer 2024)
The Aquatic Microbial Environment Shapes the Gut Microbiota, Brain, and Behavior of Larval Amphibians, Kyle Emerson (Summer 2024)
THE TRANSFORMATION OF ARAB NARRATIVE FROM ORAL TO VIRTUAL REALITY: A MEDIA ECOLOGY PERSPECTIVE, Eman Alaslani (Spring 2024)
UNDERSTANDING THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS: USING DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNICATION ETHICS TO OVERCOME SOCIETAL POLARIZATION IN POST-TRUTH AMERICA, Jessica Neu (Spring 2024)
ASSESSING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF BIOPHILIC DESIGN IN THERAPEUTIC COUNSELING SPACES, Andrew Graf (Spring 2024)
BUT I’M A GOOD PERSON: THE RESISTANCE OF WHITE EMOTIONALITY EXHIBITED BY OFFENDERS OF RACIALIZED INCIDENTS, WHEN ADDRESSED BY STUDENT CONDUCT PRACTITIONERS, Anne Mullarkey Sawa (Spring 2024)
Omani Camels From a Cultural and Genomics Perspective, AL MUATASIM AL ZADJALI (Spring 2024)
On The Cultivation Of Relational Leadership Mindsets Among Graduate Supervisees In The Mental Health Professions: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis, Cristina Bucur (Spring 2024)
EJAGHAM MYSTICISM IN THE FUNERAL PRACTICES OF THE MGBE (EKPE) AND MONINKIM INSTITUTIONS: INSIGHTS FOR RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND THEOLOGICAL EPISTEMOLOGY., Besem Etchi (Spring 2024)
Circumcision—Deal With It! A clinical ethnography of Intactivism at American intersections, Benjamin M. Gaddes (Spring 2024)
CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL READING OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION, Charles Gilmer (Spring 2024)
For The Good of Association: The Call-and-Response Communication Ethics of the Early NAACP, Rodney Adam Lyde (Spring 2024)
EVALUATION OF CHANGES IN EVAPORATIVE LOSSES FROM LAKE POWELL RESERVOIR CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN, Maria Mlinarcik (Spring 2024)
Inclusion Of the Virtual Other: How Closeness On Social Media Moderates The Relationship Between Perceptions Of Close Friends’ Alcohol-Related Posting And Drinking, Angela Tanygin (Spring 2024)
ASSESSING HOW THE HUMANE HEALTH COALITION CONNECTS VETERINARY SERVICES WITH HEALTHCARE FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING POVERTY AND HOUSING INSECURITY, Katie Willis (Spring 2024)
The Ethical Connection Between Patient Care and Patient Safety, Caitlin Walsh (Spring 2024)
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Understanding the Psychological Significance of Astrology in Millennial Women's Lives, Rachel June Floyd (Fall 2023)
Functional Cynicism, Michelle Fried (Fall 2023)
A demonstration of enactivist personality assessment using the five-factor model, Garri Hovhannisyan (Fall 2023)
THE IMPACT OF SITTING AND CRAWLING ON THE ACQUISITION OF OBJECT PERMANENCE IN INFANTS WITH MOTOR DELAYS AND INFANTS WITH TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT, Karl Jancart (Fall 2023)
INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF SUBLETHAL CONCENTRATIONS OF FRACKING BIOCIDES AND ABANDONED MINE DRAINAGE ON AMPHIPOD BEHAVIOR, Kelly Lenhart (Fall 2023)
CHANGING THE FACE OF READING INSTRUCTION: DO CULTURALLY RELEVANT PASSAGES INCREASE THE EFFECTS OF THE REPEATED READING INTERVENTION FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL BLACK GIRLS WITH READING DIFFICULTIES (BGRDs)?, Olajumoke Edith Oshokoya (Fall 2023)
Using a Three-Dimensional Theoretical Orientation Matching Model to Predict Therapeutic Outcomes, Daniel Rhodes (Fall 2023)
Inclusive Education for All: Identifying Teacher Beliefs About Working with Students with Disabilities, Chelsea Sharek (Fall 2023)
Negative Psychology of Anti-Semitism: Fear of the Uncategorizable, Benjamin Strosberg (Fall 2023)
UNDERSTANDING UNACCEPTABLE GRADUATION OUTCOMES FOR HISTORICALLY EXCLUDED TRIO STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES STUDENTS, Erica Willis (Fall 2023)
INVESTIGATING SAUDI ARABIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS’ LEVEL OF SELF-EFFICACY IN THE COMPONENTS OF THE TPACK MODEL, Nouf Alghamdi (Fall 2023)
Examining School Nurses' Knowledge and Confidence Related to Their Intention to Screen for and Report Child Sexual Abuse: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study, Suzanne Ackers (Summer 2023)
The Impact of the Social Story Intervention on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Saudi Arabia, Marwan Alkhudhayri (Summer 2023)
THE IMPACT OF REPEATED READING INTERVENTION ON ORAL READING FLUENCY FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) IN SAUDI ARABIA, Ahmed Al Naji (Summer 2023)
EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING POINT-OF-VIEW VIDEO MODELING ON MATHEMATICS IMPROVEMENT IN STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SAUDI ARABIA, Tirad Alsaluli (Summer 2023)
THE EFFECT OF USING STORY-MAPPING TO ENHANCE READING COMPREHENSION OF STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN SAUDI, Omar Alshikhi (Summer 2023)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A MINORITY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: A CASE STUDY EVALUATION ON AFRICAN AMERICAN/BLACK MALES CAREER TRAJECTORY AT A PREDOMINATELY WHITE INSTITUTION, Marla Bradford (Summer 2023)
EXAMINING THE USEFULNESS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (IPE) FOR LEGAL, SOCIAL WORK, & SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT TRAINING TO SUPPORT JUSTICE INVOLVED YOUTH, Mary Comis (Summer 2023)
Spatial structure formation by the post-transcriptional gene regulator RsmE in Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1, Anton Evans (Summer 2023)
[3+2]-CYCLOADDITIONS OF TERTIARY AMINE N-OXIDES AND DIPOLAROPHILES PROVIDING AN EFFICIENT ROUTE TO HETEROCYCLICS AND 1,2-DIAMINES, AND NICKEL CATALAYZED TRANSFORMATIONS, Sarah Hejnosz (Summer 2023)
ISOLATION AND TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF SIGMA-2 LIGANDS FROM MARINE CYANOBACTERIA, Andrea Hough (Summer 2023)
IMPROVING SCHOOL CULTURE: TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL CULTURE IN A TITLE I SCHOOL AND THEIR BELIEFS ABOUT IMPROVEMENT, Gina Kim (Summer 2023)
GLYCEROPHOSPHOCHOLINE IS USED FOR LIPID AND PHOSPHATE METABOLISM BY CANDIDA ALBICANS, Will King (Summer 2023)
ASSESSMENT OF FACULTATIVE SULFUR REDUCING BACTERIA IN ACIDIC AND CIRCUMNEUTRAL PASSIVE REMEDIATION SYSTEMS USING A NOVEL CULTURING TECHNIQUE, Natalie Lamagna (Summer 2023)
SYSTEMATIC PRODUCT AND PROCESS DESIGN OF VERSATILE PERFLUOROCARBON NANOEMULSIONS FOR ELIMINATION OF HYPOXIA AND REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES, Eric Lambert (Summer 2023)
Hoping as a Transformational Imperative in Puerto Rico: A phenomenological and grounded theory study within colonized space, José Luiggi-Hernández (Summer 2023)
Multiphasic Molecular Mechanisms Regulate Expression of Interleukin 1β, as well as other Immediate-Early Genes, in Monocytes and Macrophages, David Macar (Summer 2023)
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT ON PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING COMMUNICATION WITH AN ABANDONED CONVENTIONAL GAS WELL IN NEW FREEPORT, PA, Kiley Miller (Summer 2023)
Proposing a Measure of Ethicality for Humans and AI, Alejandro Jorge Napolitano Jawerbaum (Summer 2023)
COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF SMALL VERTICAL-AXIS WIND TURBINES AND NATURAL GAS FACILITY AT AN URBAN UNIVERSITY, Mary Kate Ranii (Summer 2023)
"Live Free, Read Hard:" Mass-Market Westerns, Mainstream Readers, and the Far Right, 1970-1999, Indigo Recker (Summer 2023)
ANALYZING PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA WITH BACTERIOPHAGE TAGS USING PHOTOACOUSTIC FLOW CYTOMETRY, Jennifer C. Schinke (Summer 2023)
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACCULTURATIVE STRESS AND DEPRESSION AMONG SAUDI INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN THE USA, Alaa Shawly (Summer 2023)
EQUITY OF ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION: AN EXAMINATION OF RACIAL MINORITY AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS STUDENT ENROLLMENT TRENDS, Jason Stack (Summer 2023)
INDIRECT AGGRESSION AND VICTIMIZATION: INVESTIGATING INSTRUMENT PSYCHOMETRICS, GENDER DIFFERENCES, AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING, Taylor Steeves (Summer 2023)
CONCEPTIONS OF RURALITY: EXAMINING BELIEFS AND THEIR IMPACT ON TEACHER EFFICACY IN A SMALL APPALACHIAN SCHOOL, Lori Wickham (Summer 2023)
ASSESSING SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS’ PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS ENTERING A SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITIES, Emily Wuenschell (Summer 2023)
Development of Air-Jetting System for Bioprinting of Alginate Micro-Droplets, Nathan Lingenfelter (Summer 2023)
Exploring the Lived Experiences of Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex During Postpartum Breastfeeding: A Phenomenological Study, STEPHANIE HERR, Jessica Devido, Richard Zoucha, and Jill Demirci (Summer 2023)
AKAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND CATHOLICISM IN DIALOGUE: ENVISAGING A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE THEOLOGY OF MARRIAGE IN POSTMODERN GHANA, Daniel Adjei (Spring 2023)
Examining the Effectiveness of Using Video Modeling on Increasing Positive Social Interaction in Academic Settings in Students with Learning Disabilities in Saudi Arabia, Ayman Abdullah Alamri and Ayman Abdullah Alamri (Spring 2023)
THE SEMIOTIC USE OF EMOJIS IN MARKETING COMMUNICATION, Naif Albarzan (Spring 2023)
THE RHETORIC OF INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION (IMC) APPROACHES TO MARKETING SPORTING EVENTS, Mohammed Almughaiseeb (Spring 2023)
THE PERSUASIVE USE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA 2030 VISION, Talal Alqahtani (Spring 2023)
DETECTING NATIVE FRESHWATER MUSSELS IN PENNSYLVANIA WATERWAYS: COMPARISON & VALIDATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DNA METHODS, Meredith Bennett (Spring 2023)