Theses/Dissertations from 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)
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)
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)
CARING FOR THE AGING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A PRINCIPLIST APPROACH TO PSYCHIATRIC CARE FOR GERIATRIC PATIENTS, Gabriella Agostaro (Spring 2024)
ADVANCEMENT OF ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION TECHNOLOGY ALGORITHMS TOWARD CALIBRATION-FREE PROCESS ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS, Adam Rish (Spring 2024)
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
DEVELOPMENT, FABRICATION, AND IN VITRO CHARACTERIZATION OF COCONUT OIL LIPIDIC NANOPARTICLES, Suneera Adlakha (Fall 2023)
The Implications of the Halogen Atom on the Physical Stability of Amorphous Solid Dispersions, Mustafa Bookwala (Fall 2023)
Understanding the Psychological Significance of Astrology in Millennial Women's Lives, Rachel June Floyd (Fall 2023)
Functional Cynicism, Michelle Fried (Fall 2023)
The Contribution of Principlism to Foster Ethical and Clinical Reciprocity in Resolving Healthcare Dilemmas, Dominic Glorioso (Fall 2023)
As Seen on TV: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Using Portrayals of Intersectionality and Intercultural Communication in Pop Culture as a Teaching Tool, Brandy Hadden (Fall 2023)
UNDERSTANDING THE CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT ABOUT OFFICER WELLNESS: A FOCUSED ETHNOGRAPHY, Carrie Hintz (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)
ROLE OF THE ANTI-VIRAL IMMUNE RESPONSE IN NEURAL CELL MODULATION AND NEUROLOGICAL SEQUELAE OF CHILDHOOD VIRAL INFECTIONS, Yashika Kamte (Fall 2023)
INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF SUBLETHAL CONCENTRATIONS OF FRACKING BIOCIDES AND ABANDONED MINE DRAINAGE ON AMPHIPOD BEHAVIOR, Kelly Lenhart (Fall 2023)
Becoming Otherwise: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of Aging, Tristana Martin Rubio (Fall 2023)
The Normative Requirement for Shared Decision Making (SDM) in Healthcare Ethics, Margaret Nornor-Quadjie (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)
Comparative Functional and Genomic Analysis of Protein Targets Of Sexual Selection In Primates, Brianna Ports (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)
Air-Jet Bioprinting of Stem Cell-Encapsulated Alginate Micro-Droplets for Organoid Biomanufacturing, Mirabella B. Stump (Fall 2023)
Difference and Alterity: On Hegel and Deleuze, Thomas Szwedska (Fall 2023)
Large - Scale Manufacturing of Fluorescent Perfluorocarbon Nanoemulsions for Oxygen Delivery, Anneliese Troidle (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)