Theses/Dissertations from 2024
UNDERSTANDING WIDOWHOOD CULTURAL PRACTICES, VALUES, AND BELIEFS, OF NIGERIAN AMERICAN WOMEN: AN ETHNONURSING STUDY, Prisca Anuforo (Fall 2024)
Investigating anomalous experiences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, Pavan Brar (Fall 2024)
Challenges to Reproductive Justice: An Ethical Analysis of Reproductive Technologies and Disparities, Courtney Brenner (Fall 2024)
The Ethics of Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization: A Comprehensive Analysis of Policies, Practice, and Ethical Oversight, Mariah Chobany (Winter 2024)
METHOD DEVELOPMENT OF [3 + 2] CYCLOADDITIONS USING TERTIARY AMINE N-OXIDES AND EFFORTS TOWARDS THE FIRST TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF CHRYSOSPORAZINE D, Alexander Cocolas (Winter 2024)
Development of Methods for Predicting Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) Responses of New Infrared Nonlinear Optical (IR-NLO) Materials, Katherine Colbaugh (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)
TOWARD EFFECTIVE INTERFAITH RELATIONS BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND INDIGENOUS AFRICAN RELIGIOUS TRADITION IN THE OBOLO CONTEXT IN NIGERIA – A DECOLONIAL THEOLOGICAL APPROACH, Jerome Etenduk (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)
ENHANCING NANOPARTICLE VACCINE LYMPH NODE OCCUPANCY: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS, Paul Hartmeier (Winter 2024)
ADVANCING CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURING: THE ROLE OF PROCESS ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGY IN PROCESS DEVELOPMENT, Samuel R. Henson (Fall 2024)
RNA STRUCTURAL-DYNAMICAL HIERARCHY: SARS-COV, SARS-COV-2, AND DELTA/OMICRON VARIANT S2M MONOMERS, KISSING COMPLEXES, AND EXTENDED DUPLEXES, Adam Kensinger (Fall 2024)
DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTI-TARGETING PYRROLOPYRIMIDINE ANTIFOLATES AS POTENTIAL SINGLE AGENT CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC ENTITIES, Tejashree Magdum (Winter 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)
THE ETHICAL REQUIREMENTS TO AVOID CLINICAL ERROR VIA SAFETY, Augustus Nweze and Augustus Ifeanyi Nweze Fr (Fall 2024)
Ethical Considerations in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Ferdinand Okafor (Fall 2024)
MUSLIM SPIRITUALITY AS A FOUNDATION IN BIOETHICS FOR PATIENT ENCOUNTERS IN HEALTH CARE, Sara Rahman (Winter 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)
Efficient Development of Density-Insensitive Near-Infrared Methods for In-Line Drug Content Monitoring in Continuous Powder Streams, Natasha L. Velez-Silva (Winter 2024)
COLLEGE INSTRUCTORS’ EXPERIENCES OF ONLINE ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) TEACHING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, Jianan Zhou (Fall 2024)
The Ethics of Vulnerability in Health Care, Hannah Dieterle (Fall 2024)
UNDERSTANDING THE SUPERVISION OF COUNSELORS IN A GRIEF PROCESS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED A CLIENT’S DEATH BY SUICIDE., Sean Abaray (Summer 2024)
Macromolecular crowding effects on enzymes that display non-hyperbolic kinetics, Kelsey A. Aldrich (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)
STEROID SULFATASE IN RODENT TISSUES AND A CELL LINE: CHARACTERIZATION, REGULATION AND INHIBITION, Barathi Balasubramonian (Summer 2024)
Lateral Others in the Trauma Narrative: The Place of the Sibling in Accounts of Abuse and Neglect, Michelle Browne (Summer 2024)
DELIVERY OF MITOCHONDRIA-CONTAINING ENGINEERED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES TO THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER FOR ISCHEMIC STROKE THERAPY, Kandarp Dave (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)
UPTAKE OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES INTO BRAIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MOTOR NEURON-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES FOR AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS, Jhanvi Rajan Jhaveri (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)
The Ethical Duty of Care for Suicide Ideation, Tah Ngijoi Yogo (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)
Being and Sacrifice: An Essay on Hegelian Logic, Mitch Thiessen (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)
INJECTABLE FORMULATIONS FOR LOCALIZED DELIVERY OF IMMUNOMODULATORS, Ketki Velankar (Summer 2024)
NARRATIVE FORMS OF VIOLENCE: FASCISM, NAZISM, AND THE HOLOCAUST IN 20TH-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION, David Young (Summer 2024)
RNA Secondary Structures: Structure-Function Studies in Viral and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Caylee Cunningham (Summer 2024)
Environmental Factors (Rurality, Distribution of Prescribers, and Altitude) of People Who Died by Suicide in Montana, 2013- 2022, Anne N. Brown (Summer 2024)
STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN NEURODEGENERATIVE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURES BY COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES, Kendy Guarinoni (Summer 2024)
Manipulation of Cellular Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) During Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection, Jessica Packard and Jill A. Dembowski (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)
EXAMINING ENROLLMENT & ENGAGEMENT IN A HOSPITAL-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION INTERVENTION STUDY AT A LEVEL 1 TRAUMA CENTER, Leigh Frederick (Summer 2024)
The Aquatic Microbial Environment Shapes the Gut Microbiota, Brain, and Behavior of Larval Amphibians, Kyle Emerson (Summer 2024)
THE EFFECT OF NOVEL MICROTUBULE MODULATORS ON EXPERIMENTAL LEWY BODY DISEASE, Anuj S. Jamenis (Spring 2024)
The Multipurpose DNA Repair/Redox Protein APE1 in Rodent and Human Lewy Body Disease, Kristin Marie Miner (Spring 2024)
DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF NOVEL HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS, Saloni Patel (Spring 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)
A GIFT NOT GIVEN: AN EXAMINATION OF DISPROPORTIONALITY FOR BLACK STUDENTS AND GIFTED EDUCATION THROUGH THE LENS OF REPRESENTATION AND IMPROVEMENT, Casey Weiss (Spring 2024)
Barriers, Facilitators, and Competencies in Advocating for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities with Health Disparities, Carol Adams (Spring 2024)
ASSESSING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFITS OF BIOPHILIC DESIGN IN THERAPEUTIC COUNSELING SPACES, Andrew Graf (Spring 2024)
ARE CLINICIANS PRIMED FOR BURNOUT?: A MULTIDISCPLINARY APPROACH TO EXPLORING COUNSELOR WELLNESS, Anastasha Homa-Earl (Fall 2024)
School Nurses and Administrators Perceptions of School Preparedness: A Focused Ethnography, Deborah Horton (Spring 2024)
Impact of an Electronic Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Catch-up Module for Women with Criminal-Legal System Involvement, Shawana Moore (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)
Surface Water Quality Assessment of Mingo Creek County Park: The Impacts of Extractive Industries, Mikayla J. Bayto (Spring 2024)
Development of a Rapid Bacterial Quantification Method Based on Droplet Microfluidics, Shawn Bliss (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)
The Ecclesiology of Catalino G. Arévalo: Inculturation, Mission, and Liberation in the Philippine Context, Zachary Ryan Dehm (Spring 2024)
The Contribution of Pope Francis’ Integral Ecology to Global Ethics, Salvatore Enzo Del Brocco (Spring 2024)
Perinatal Ethics: the Role of Ethics Consultation Around Parental Dilemmas Before and After Birth, Giulia Adele Dinicola (Spring 2024)
The Distinctive Contribution of the Catholic Tradition on Emerging Ethical Issues Around Embryos., Michael Donkor (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)
Impact of glycerophosphocholine metabolism on phenotypes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Victoria Hrach (Spring 2024)
Characterization of a novel metalloid reductase outer membrane porin RarA from Sulfurospirillum barnesii SES-3, Narthana Jeganathar Kanmanii (Spring 2024)
Comparative Functional and Computational Analyses of Primate Seminal Proteins: Insights into Sexual Selection and HIV/SIV, Emine Feride Kahveci (Spring 2024)
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ICT USAGE, SELF-EFFICACY AND LITERACY, Malimi Kazi (Spring 2024)
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) on Crisis, Difference, and the Revelatory: A Medieval Dialogic Communication Ethic, Michael Kearney (Spring 2024)
Quaternary diamond-like sulfides for nonlinear optical applications: Investigation into composition-structure-property relationships of the I2-II-IV-VI4 and I4-II-IV2-VI7 formulae, Jordan Kelly (Spring 2024)
The Contributions of Philosophical Anthropology to Healthcare Ethics, Bura Koroba (Spring 2024)
The Moral Legitimacy of Ethics Consultation, Jason Lesandrini (Winter 2024)
Aristotle's Division of the Sciences and the Impossibility of a Science of Everything, Christopher Lutz (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)
TARGETING CANCER- ONE CARBON AT A TIME: DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF PYRIMIDINE BASED HETEROCYCLES AS POTENTIAL CANCER CHEMOTHERAPEUTICS, Md Junayed Nayeen (Spring 2024)
TRANSFORMING CHAPLAIN ETHICS: THE CLINICAL ETHICS OF SPIRITUAL CARE IN A PLURALISTIC HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Robert Alan Price (Spring 2024)
A Critique of the Pivotal Ethical Issues in Organ/Tissue Donation & Transplantation, Francis Sarpong (Spring 2024)
The Ethical Justification of Medical Interventions Across the Spectrum of Healthcare for Patients Preceding the Age of Consent: the Tension between Surrogate Consent and Minor Assent, Erin Scroggins (Spring 2024)