Theses/Dissertations from 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)
Effective Instructional Strategies in Sixth Grade Inclusion Mathematics Classrooms: The Effect of Active and Passive Engagement on Concept Learning and Opportunity to Learn, Christy Mikolaj (Fall 2019)
The Ethical Justification of Increasing Awareness of Preventive Medicine among Healthcare Professionals, Patients and the General Public in the United States, Karishma Ether Moazzam (Fall 2019)
Perceptions of Blended Learning in the High School Classroom, Kelli Murphy (Fall 2019)
C-Metalated Nitriles: Diastereoselective Alkylations and Arylations, Robert John Mycka (Fall 2019)
Mission as Virtuous Practice: A Theology Of Mission Through the Lens of Virtue Ethics, Michael Niebauer (Fall 2019)
Charismatic Renewal and Pentecostalism: The Renewal of the Nigerian Catholic Church, Isidore Nkwocha (Fall 2019)
Characterization of The Effect of Exercise Dose and Integrative Nonpharmacological Therapies in The Treatment of Chronic Pain, Anna M. Polaski (Fall 2019)
A Study of Chloride Levels in Pine Creek, Allegheny County, PA, Selina Prettner (Fall 2019)
Greening of Catalytic Processes Using First-Row Transition Metals for Atom Transfer Radical Addition and Transfer Hydrogenation, Gabrielle Pros (Fall 2019)
Transcription Regulation of Human IL1B Gene in Monocytes and Lymphoid CD4 T Cells, Sree H. Pulugulla (Fall 2019)
Nanomedicine-driven neuropathic pain relief in rat model is associated with macrophage polarity and mast cell activation, Muzamil Saleem (Fall 2019)
Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of a Conserved, Multi-Gene System Regulation Spore-Associated Proteins in Streptomyces Coelicolor, Joseph Sallmen (Fall 2019)
Genetic analysis of a novel FtsK homolog, HfkA, in Streptomyces coelicolor development-associated chromosome segregation, Sumedha Sethi (Fall 2019)
PARENTAL EXPERIENCES PARTICIPATING IN THE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION AND SUPPORT PROCESS IN SCHOOLS, Siddiq Meer Siddiq Ahmed (Fall 2019)
Examining the Moderating Role of Promotive Factors on the Relationship Between Bullying Victimization and Suicidal Behavior, Rachel Simonds (Fall 2019)
Natural Law, the Object of the Act, and Double Effect: Moral Methodology for Catholic Health Care Ethics, Travis Stephens (Fall 2019)
The Mediating Role of Differentiation in the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Working Alliance, Caleb P. Thompson (Fall 2019)
An Exploration of Communication Ethics Scholarship and Economic Spheres, Andrew Tinker (Fall 2019)
Troubling the Water: Dismantling the Ideology of Separate Spheres, Lisa Weddell (Fall 2019)
Investigating the Relation between Saudi Teachers’ Self-Perceptions of TPACK and Their Practical Application in Lesson Design, Amnah Albuloushi (Summer 2019)
Using the Coaching Approach Behavior and Leading By Modeling (CALM) Program to Examine Attachment and Parental Behaviors in Childhood Anxiety, Seana Bandi (Summer 2019)
Mentor as Scaffold: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Feminist-Informed Mentoring in the Undergraduate Setting, Elizabeth Bennett (Summer 2019)
Triple Functionalization of Titanium Aluminum Vanadium for Orthopedic Implant Applications, Ashley Blystone (Summer 2019)
Score Improvement Comparison from PSAT to SAT Between two Schools, Salvatore Brusco (Summer 2019)
Listen for the Desert: An Ecopsychological Autoethnography, Dorothy Cashore (Summer 2019)
Cultural Aspects of End of Life Advance Care Planning for African Americans: An Ethnonursing Study, John Collins (Summer 2019)
Emergency Department Nursing Psychological Care (Early Crisis Intervention) for Adult Victims of Violent Crime: A Quantitative Study, Barbara Conn (Summer 2019)
Carer Information Needs Following a Family Member's Right Hemisphere Stroke, Christyn Davidson (Summer 2019)
Design and Synthesis of Pyrimidine Based Heterocycles as Potential Anti-cancer Agents with Combination Chemotherapeutic Potential or Targeted One Carbon Metabolism Inhibition and Anti-opportunistic Agents, Arpit Doshi (Summer 2019)
Identifying Risk Factors Related to Premature Birth Through Binary Logistic and Proportional Odds Ordinal Logistic Regression, Clayton Elwood (Summer 2019)
Reclaiming Embodiment: An Existential-Phenomenological Exploration of Women’s Tattoos, Ashley Gill (Summer 2019)
Humeral Retroversion, Range of Motion, and Strength Adaptations in Tennis Players, Daniel Hannah (Summer 2019)
Using an Extended Broken Symmetry Approximation to Characterize Structure and Spectroscopic Properties of 2Fe-2S Clusters, Ashlyn M. Koval (Summer 2019)
Does Emotional Intelligence Moderate the Effect of Field Work Experience on Counseling Students' Group Counseling Self-Efficacy, John Lewis (Summer 2019)
A Quantitative Study of Drug Recrystallization in Drug-In-Adhesive Transdermal Patches Using Vibrational Spectroscopy, Yi Li (Summer 2019)
School-Based Services for Children with Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS), Maura Miglioretti (Summer 2019)
Kink in Flux: BDSM theory and sexual praxis, Celeste Pietrusza (Summer 2019)
Genetic Diversity of White-Tailed Deer Populations in Southwestern Pennsylvania and the Development of a Forensics Panel, Melanie Quain (Summer 2019)
Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019, Alexandra Reznik (Summer 2019)
Just Between Us Girls: Discursive Spaces from America's First Gay Magazine to the World's Last Website for Queer Women, 1947-2019, Josie Rush (Summer 2019)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: A Discourse Analysis of Forensic and Psychological Truth in Child Narratives, Elizabeth Samson (Summer 2019)
ImPACT Baseline Composite Score Differences Among Student Athletes, Kerry Schutte (Summer 2019)
School Based Policies Protecting LGBTQ+ Youth, Amy Tiberi (Summer 2019)
Unruly Matter: Masculine Consumption in English Restoration Literature, Shawn Watkins (Summer 2019)
Dual Inhibition of the PI3K/Akt and MEK5/ERK5 Pathways for the Treatment of Breast Cancer, Thomas Douglas Wright (Summer 2019)
Theology of Arcavatara and the Eucharist: A Comparative Study, James Adeoye (Spring 2019)
Examining the Acculturation Experiences of Syrian Refugee Emerging Adults in the United States of America, Fatemah Alghamdi (Spring 2019)
The Ethical Challenge of Conflicts of Interest in Healthcare, Fahad Alhazmi (Spring 2019)
The Attitudes of Secondary School Teachers Regarding Inclusion of Students with Autism in Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Al Jaffal (Spring 2019)