Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Haven: A Clinical Ethnography of a Farm-Based Therapeutic Community, Monica Lawson (Fall 2020)
Impact of a NICU Bedside Reading Initiative on Self-Reported Maternal Stress and Mother-Infant Attachment, Lauren Lorenzi Quigley (Fall 2020)
The Ethical Accountability of Organizational Leadership to Communities of Stakeholders in Healthcare, Lisa Martinelli (Fall 2020)
An Investigation of Postsecondary Centers for Teaching Excellence Support for Universal Design for Learning, David McGeehan (Fall 2020)
Atom Transfer Radical Processes: From Catalyst Design to Polymer Synthesis, Characterization, and Application, Michael Novak (Fall 2020)
Examining the Intersectionality of Religious Faith, Spirituality, and Healthcare Communication, Felix Okeke (Spring 2020)
Fluoride Removal with Augmented Bentonite in Drinking Water and Community Perceptions in Arusha, Tanzania, Kara Okular (Fall 2020)
Trust in the Nurse and Perceived Quality Nursing Care by Adult Oncology Patients with Implantable Vascular Access Port Devices: A Mixed Methods Study, Lois Rajcan (Fall 2020)
Control of Corrosion on SS316L Using Surface Initiated Polymers, Alexander Rupprecht (Fall 2020)
The Lived Experiences of Males within a Committed Relationship Who Are the Primary Caregivers for a Partner Diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia, Aniela Scanlon (Fall 2020)
The Ethical Challenge for HIPAA’s Privacy Rule in the Genomics Era of Data Analytics., reem shinawi (Fall 2020)
Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture, Michael A. Smith (Fall 2020)
A Catholic Ethic For Smartphones In Tanzania, Faustine Tarimo (Fall 2020)
Identifying the Effects Naturally Forming Bacterial Communities Have on the Efficiency of Passive Remediation Systems Built to Treat Abandoned Coal Mine Drainage, Michelle M. Valkanas (Fall 2020)
Pharmacological Characterization of Novel Serotonin Transporter Inhibitors Identified Through Computational Structure-Based Virtual Screening, Michael Wasko (Fall 2020)
The Contribution of a Global Ethics Approach to Health and the Environment in the Niger Delta Region, Augustine Wayii (Fall 2020)
Epidemics, Politics and Public Health: Ludwig Rajchman, MD, The League of Nations Health Organization and the Creation of a Transnational Health Institution, paul J. weinbaum (Fall 2020)
Approaches to Curricular and Co-Curricular Community Engagement with College Students: Building Relationships, Shifting Power, and Developing a Social Justice Mindset, Luci-Jo DiMaggio (Fall 2020)
The Impact of a Digital Intervention on Perceived Stress, Resiliency, Social Support, and Intention to Leave Among Newly Licensed Nurses: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Lisa Concilio (Fall 2020)
Using Functional Communication Training to Reduce Self-Injurious Behavior for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Maryam N. Alakhzami (Summer 2020)
BACTERIA ANALYSIS BY USING A SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM BASED ON DROPLET MICROFLUIDICS, Yulder Daniel Angarita (Summer 2020)
Communication in the Ruins: Walker Percy and the Art of Symbolic Mediation, Justin Bonanno (Summer 2020)
A Phenomenological Investigation of African American Male Veterans’ Experience of Social Connection, Brian Coleman (Summer 2020)
Multiphysics Computational Model of Fluid Flow and Mass Transport in Aneurysm, Tanja Cupac (Summer 2020)
Impact of Person-Environment-Occupation Model Training on Teacher Transition Problem-Solving, Taylor Dreste (Summer 2020)
The Role of Boredom, Loneliness, and Technology Use as Predictors of Sexual Responsibility among Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Natalie Drozda (Summer 2020)
From Case Study as Symptom to Case Study as Sinthome: Engaging Lacan and Irigaray on "Thinking in Cases" as Psychoanalytic Pedagogy, Erica Freeman (Summer 2020)
The Ontology of Not-Being in Aristotle and His Predecessors, Abraham Jacob Greenstine (Summer 2020)
Afrosofia: Knowledge and Methode Chez Cheikh Anta Diop, Francois Kodena (Summer 2020)
Evaluating the Biological Effects and Safety of Exposure to Low, Putatively Safe Concentrations of the Common Pesticide Chlorpyrifos Using an Anuran Model, Sara McClelland (Summer 2020)
The Dialectic of Naturgeist in Hegel’s Anthropology: Soul, World, and Bodiliness, Jiho Oh (Summer 2020)
Aphasia Friendly Medication Instructions: Effects on Comprehension in Persons with and without Aphasia, Anna Saylor (Summer 2020)
The Influence of Thomas Aquinas’ Concept of Createdness on Josef Pieper’s Moral Philosophy, Sarah Slater (Summer 2020)
Isolation, Structure Elucidation, and Synthesis of Natural Products from Marine Cyanobacteria, Keren Solomon (Summer 2020)
The Effect of Teacher-Child Interaction Training on Children Who Are Exhibiting Disruptive Behaviors Within the Classroom Setting, Jaclynn Susan Stankus (Summer 2020)
Differential Expression of RNA in the Rat Peripheral Nervous System Following Nerve Injury and Treatment with Pain-Relieving Celecoxib-Loaded Nanomedicine, Andrea Stevens (Summer 2020)
The Banality of the Social: A Philosophy of Communication of Social Media Influencer Marketing, Kati Sudnick (Summer 2020)
A Bioethical Paradigm for Enhanced, Post or Transhumans in Medicine and Biological Research, Roderick Williams (Summer 2020)
Without Words: Relational Neuropsychology and Creative Arts Therapies with People Managing Aphasia, Autumn Marie Chilcote (Summer 2020)
Assessing the Effectiveness of Pull-Out Programs for Struggling Readers in Grades K-8, Gloria Agumagu (Summer 2020)
Listening to the Voices of International Undergraduates Regarding their Perceptions of Engagement and their Strategies to Achieve Academic Success, Gulcan Tokluoglu (Summer 2020)
Development of a Pharmaceutical Tablet Authentication system using Spectroscopic Techniques in combination with Multivariate Chemometric Methods, Md Nayeem Hossain (Spring 2020)
Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Modulator Therapies in Cystic Fibrosis: A Retrospective Evaluation of a Nationwide Specialty Pharmacy Database, Zumi Mehta (Spring 2020)
Supporting Biracial Students through an Equity Lens: Multicultural Literature and Advocacy in School Libraries, Jacqueline Ahlborn (Spring 2020)
Quality in All Levels: A Model Defining and Measuring Quality in Bioethics Education, Ercan Avci (Spring 2020)
Characterization of Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry Signals, Craig Benzinger (Spring 2020)
Pilot Study Exploring the Effect of Targeted COX-2 Inhibition in Macrophages Responding to Neuronal Injury; Promoting Enhanced Axonal Regeneration, Alyssa Brauckmann (Spring 2020)
A Genomic Analysis of Bobcat Populations in North America with a Comparison to the Canada Lynx: An Assessment of Local Adaptation to Unique Ecoregions and Phylogeography, Jennifer C. Broderick (Spring 2020)
Pierre Hadot's Holistic Philosophy of Communication, Jonathan Crist (Spring 2020)
A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts, Mary Eberhardinger (Spring 2020)
Apparatgeist and Mobile Communication: Considering Interpersonal Communication Practices, Lisa Enright (Spring 2020)
British Eugenics Failure and Success, Angela Gallagher (Spring 2020)
Exploring and Re-envisioning the Significance of Agrarian Consciousness in Theology with Specific Reference to Kerala, Jinto George (Spring 2020)
The Effects of Teacher Professional Development and Self-Efficacy on Classroom Uses of Information and Computer Technologies, Elif N. Gokbel (Spring 2020)
Using Point of View Video Modeling to Teach Math to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Saudi Arabia, Hamad Hamdi (Spring 2020)
Caring for Victims of Child Maltreatment: Pediatric Nurses’ Moral Distress and Burnout, Angela Karakachian (Spring 2020)
Relations and Folds in Leibniz: Monadological Intimacy, Jeff Lambert (Spring 2020)
Mental Boundaries as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Social Support and Self-Esteem, John Mathe (Spring 2020)
Opening Gates: Elevating Corporate Social Responsibility Communication and Strategic Philanthrocapitalism for Social Change, Beth E. Michalec Ph.D. (Spring 2020)
Evaluating an Evidenced Based Program: Ruling Our Experiences (ROX) for 9/10-year-old girls in the Yough School District, Lisa Mumau (Spring 2020)
Cultural Identity Salience, Individuation, and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood, Matthew L. Nice (Spring 2020)
Analysis of the Hiring Process to Ensure that the Best Teacher Candidate is Selected for a Small Southwestern Pennsylvania School District, Barbara Pagan (Spring 2020)
N-terminal Imine Derivatization for Enhanced De Novo Peptide Sequencing: A Study of the Fragmentation Pattern Generated from CID of Peptide-Imines, Khiry L. Patterson (Spring 2020)
Exploring the Relationship between Dietary Self-Monitoring with a Mobile App and Weight Change, Jason Payne (Spring 2020)
Friendship in the Digital Age: Implications from a Philosophy of Communication Approach, Tiffany Petricini (Spring 2020)
St. Ignatius' Quill Pen: Exploring the Orality-Literacy Difficulty in the Spiritual Exercises, Hongchao Qian (Spring 2020)
Agency, Identity, and Authority in Rwanda: 1950s Political Rhetoric as a Bridge to Post-Colonial Genocide, Amanda E. Rollinson (Spring 2020)
The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, Alessio Rotundo (Spring 2020)
Coping Behaviors of African Americans with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A focused Ethnography, Patricia Scott (Spring 2020)
Risk Factors Associated With Pressure Injury in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Patients, Ashlee Shields (Spring 2020)
Identification of Human Adrenal Carcinoma Cells Using Photoacoustic Flow Cytometry, Alexis Stahl (Spring 2020)
Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry and IRMPD Spectroscopy to Determine the Intrinsic Reactions of Uranyl-Containing Ions, Irena Tatosian (Spring 2020)
The In/Authentic Subject: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Selfhood, Joseph Tighe (Spring 2020)
An Investigation of Technology Implementation through the Lens of Student Centered Learning and the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Paradigm, Adam Wasilko (Spring 2020)
The Physiology and Evolution of Selenite Respiration in Bacteria, Michael Wells (Spring 2020)
Gene Delivery to the Blood-Brain Barrier for Ischemic Stroke Therapy, Wanzhu Zhao (Spring 2020)
The Appearance of the Other Ego in Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology, Paul Zipfel (Spring 2020)
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
An Exploration of Motivational Interviewing and Strengths-Based Supervision to Improve Client Session Attendance, Jeremy Abel (Fall 2019)
A Theological Appraisal of Marriage in Tiv Culture, Emmanuel Ahua (Fall 2019)
Evaluating Perceptions of Student Voice and School Membership of 9th Grade Students and Teachers, Dan Beck (Fall 2019)
Towards Collaboration: A Comparative, Longitudinal, Conversation Analysis of Change in Talk-in-Interaction in Psychotherapy, Kai Bekkeli (Fall 2019)
Midlife Suicide: Examination Through an Ecological and Interpersonal Lens, Jayna Bonfini (Fall 2019)
Determining Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies Utilizing A Delphi Approach, Tracey Chan (Fall 2019)
Patient Satisfaction with Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Services, Trupti Dhumal (Fall 2019)
State-Dependent Mapping of GlyR-Cholesterol Interactions by Coupling Crosslinking with Mass Spectrometry, Nicholas Ferraro (Fall 2019)
Decolonizing American Democracy and the Problem of Gerrymandering: Implications of Border Designs from a Communication Ethics Perspective, Mark Gardner (Fall 2019)
A Darker Side of Venus: An Empirical-Phenomenological Study of Women's Negative Experiences Encountering Pornographic Imagery, Rebecca Gimeno (Fall 2019)
Females in STEM: Self-Efficacy Within Women Who Pursue STEM Majors, Lori Grata (Fall 2019)
"Frontline in Mental Healthcare": A Discourse Analytic Clinical Ethnography of Crisis Intervention Team Trainings for Corrections, Daniel Gruner (Fall 2019)
Design, Synthesis, & Biological Evaluation of Novel Het-Aromatic/Aromatic Analogs for the Treatment of HIV, Cancer, & Cognitive Dysfunctions, MOHIT GUPTA (Fall 2019)
The Beliefs Literacy Specialists Hold Regarding Processes that Assist Struggling Readers with the Comprehension of Informational Text, Marguerite Haldin (Fall 2019)
Exploring Appreciative Advising as an Equity Approach for African American Students: A Grounded Theory Study of Academic Advisors at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), Valerie Harper (Fall 2019)
Bureaucratic Modernity and the Erosion of Practical Reason: A Rhetorical Education as an Antidote, David Impellizzeri (Fall 2019)
Race, Sense of Belonging, and the African American Student Experience at Predominantly White Institutions, Anthony Kane (Fall 2019)
God, Land, Identity: Divine Fluidity and a Spatial Ecclesiology in West Africa, Clement Kanu (Fall 2019)
The Effects of a Virtual Wellness Community upon Participants’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Ashly Locklin (Fall 2019)
Voices on the Horizon: A Theory of Ludic Rhetoric, Jeff Lohr (Fall 2019)
The Impact of Retention Efforts on the Collegiate Experience of Students of Color at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI), Jeffrie Mallory (Fall 2019)
A Case Study of an Online Teacher Study Group as a Digital Professional Development Tool, Jessica Martin (Fall 2019)
Overcoming Negative Employer Attitudes: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Employeees with Visual Impairments, James McNeil (Fall 2019)