Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Black Body Memory: A Philosophy of the Talk, Autumn Redcross (Spring 2019)
Water Quality Assessment of Deer Lakes County Park Before, During and After Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling, Daniel Robinson (Spring 2019)
Precision Medicine and It's Ethical and Social Implications: Public Health and Gobal Persepctives, Evangel Sarwar (Spring 2019)
The Postman Always Rings Twice: Neil Postman's Views on Education are Relevant Again in the 21st Century Classroom, Jennifer Spiegel (Spring 2019)
A Praxis of Oral Homiletics: Preaching from the Heart, Weiwen Tu (Spring 2019)
The Effects of Learning Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction on Psychosocial Variables and HbA1c in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes, Denise Van Sant - Smith (Spring 2019)
Nontraditional hydrogen bonding in asymmetric Lewis acid catalysis, Brandon Vernier (Spring 2019)
Reclaiming Rhetorical Intersectionality: From Silence to Parrhesia and Attuned Listening, Tahirah Walker (Spring 2019)
When Humanity Meets Technology: Contemplating Neil Postman's Critique of Advertising, Yingwen Wang (Spring 2019)
An Ethical Analysis of Reproductive Justice in the Context of the Egenics Movement in the United States, Bernetta Welch (Spring 2019)
Video Games, Influence, and Identification: The Perpetuation of Culture Through Digital Worlds, Steven Zwier (Spring 2019)
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Identity Negotiation, Saudi Women, and the impact of the 2011 royal decree: An investigation of the cultural, religious, and societal shifts among women in the Saudi Arabian Public Sphere, Maha Alshoaibi (Fall 2018)
The Inheritance of this Moment: An Exploration of Temporality, Subjectivity, and Liberation in Non-Dual Contemplative Practice and Psychotherapy, Jeremy Axelrad (Fall 2018)
Four Phases of Subjectivity: A Rhetorical and Phenomenological Analysis of Aimé Césaire And Cahier D’un Retour Au Pays Natal, Chelsea Binnie (Fall 2018)
Well-Trained Mentors: The Missing Component of the Comprehensive New Teacher Induction Program in the Silver Oak Area School, Daniel Bosnic (Fall 2018)
Speaking from Places: A Phenomenological Deconstructive Study of Children’s Places, Child-Centric Methods, and Politics., Sugandh Dixit (Fall 2018)
Beyond Enlightenment: The Evolution of Agency and the Modularity of the Mind in a Post-Darwinian World, Derek Elliott (Fall 2018)
St. Augustine and the Rhetoric of De ordine, Natalie Gigliotti (Fall 2018)
The Association between Depression, Anxiety and Clinical Outcomes for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Elham Heidari (Fall 2018)
Parent-Teacher Relationships in Cyber Charter Schools: Investigating the quality of the Parent-Teacher Relationship and Its Impact on Student Achievement, Theresa Henderson (Fall 2018)
A Disability Theology of Limits for Responding to Moral Injury, Lisa Hickman (Fall 2018)
An exploratory survey of factors affecting satisfaction with educational experiences for parents of children with Cystic Fibrosis, Rebecca Perry Keenan (Fall 2018)
Externality in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature, Martin Krahn (Fall 2018)
Cyberbullying, Relational, and Social Aggression, Latitia Lattanzio (Fall 2018)
Characterization of G-protein coupled receptors in pain, depression and anxiety, Neil Lax (Fall 2018)
Tumble tOTs: Outcomes of a Gymnastics Program for Children with Disabilities, Cayla Leichtenberger (Fall 2018)
Synthesis of Novel 6-Substituted and 5-Substituted Pyrrolo[2,3-D] Pyrimidine Antifolates as Targeted Anticancer Therapies, Xinxin Li (Fall 2018)
The Influence of Age, Gender, and Thiol Repletion in an In Vivo Model of Lewy Body Disorders, DANIEL MASON (Fall 2018)
Independence through Patient Education in a Spinal Cord Injury Population, Justin McTish (Fall 2018)
An Ethical Model for Mandatory Reporting to Avoid Preventable Adverse Harm in Health Care, Kate A. Molchan (Fall 2018)
A Qualitative Inquiry into the Systemic Influences upon the Wellness of Home and Community Based Counselor, Elizabeth Moore (Fall 2018)
Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine Classical Antifolates for Targeted Cancer Chemotherapy- Applications of Bioisosteric and Regioisomeric Substitutions for Improved Tumor-Selectivity and Potency, Manasa Punaha Ravindra (Fall 2018)
Community Pharmacists and Substance Use Disorders: Attitudes, Knowledge and Practices, Deepika Rao (Fall 2018)
Camp Geronimo: Evaluating the Influence of an Animal Assisted Intervention Based Summer Camp on Social Participation in Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Joelle Ruggeri (Fall 2018)
Discarnation: Expounding on Marshall McLuhan's Critique of Modern Subjectivity, Amanda Sevilla (Fall 2018)
HARNESSING THE ANOPHELES MICROBIOME TO CONDITIONALLY EXPRESS ANTI-PLASMODIAL EFFECTORS DURING THE BLOOD MEAL, Jackie Shane (Fall 2018)
Health Equity Through Spatial Justice: A Critical Phenomenology of Urban Trail Makers, Arvin Simon (Fall 2018)
Using an In Vitro-In Vivo Correlation for the ‘Bioequivalence by Design’ Development of an Immediate Release Carbamazepine Product, Douglas Steinbach (Fall 2018)
Access to Care and the Use of Healthcare Services by Women in Rural Cameroon: A Participatory Action Research Study, Grace Tadzong-Awasum (Fall 2018)
Non-symbolic exact quantity representation in a language-impaired population, John Verbos (Fall 2018)
Probiotic Use in Trauma Patients: A Pathway to Determining the Standard of Care to Improve Outcomes, Heather Vitko (Fall 2018)
Take Charge for Therapy Discharge: Outcomes of a Patient Education Program Applying the CO-OP Approach, Kathryn Westley (Fall 2018)
Bullying of Linguistically Diverse Learners: Results from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Jenna Woodarek (Fall 2018)
Sensory-Based Programming in Mental Health: Sense of Self, Nikki Yeckel (Fall 2018)
Corporate Social Responsibility To-Come: A Derridean Interruption of Transparency, Robert Foschia (Fall 2018)
Examining the Legacy of Transgenerational Trauma and its Effects on Contemporary African American Adults in Parenting and Caregiver Roles to African American Adolescents, Amy E. Alexander (Summer 2018)
End-of-life Care Practices in Two Cultures: A Comparative Ethical Analysis and Recommendations, Nora Alharbi (Summer 2018)
Action to Awareness: Surfacing Dysconscious Racism through Focused Professional Development, Dorry Altman (Summer 2018)
Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback and Accent Modification: Effects on Consonant and Vowel Accuracy for Mandarin English Language Learners, Courtney Armstrong (Summer 2018)
Back in the Closet: A Queer-Modified Interpretive-Phenomenological Analysis of Gay Men Creating an Identity Through Clothing, Jose Arroyo (Summer 2018)
Paving the Way for Merleau-Ponty’s Eye and Mind in Organizational Communication Studies, Johan Bodaski (Summer 2018)
GQ noncanonical roles in translational regulation, Brett DeMarco (Summer 2018)
To the Effort Itself: A Phenomenological Study of Wang Yangming's 王陽明 Theory of Moral Effort, Minglai Dong (Summer 2018)
The Zombie Apocalypse Has Already Happened: Queering Subjectivity in Zombie Film, Jessica Dunn (Summer 2018)
Teacher Professional Development: The Impact of Delivery Structure, Student Physical Presence, and Technology-Enhanced Instruction, Rebecca Durbin (Summer 2018)
Building Resilience Through A Positive School Climate, Charles Fleischmann (Summer 2018)
Illuminating the Trauma of the Closet Among Sexual Minorities: A Cinematic-Phenomenological Study of Existential Rights, Nisha Gupta (Summer 2018)
Psychological and Family Variables Associated with the Treatment of Pediatric Idiopathic Pain, Rachael Hoffman (Summer 2018)
Workplace Bullying, Nurse Practice Environment, Patient Outcomes: A Descriptive Study, Noreen Houck (Summer 2018)
Wellness and Karate, Cristina Kumpf (Summer 2018)
Posttraumatic Growth: The Lived Experience of Recurrent and Multiple Trauma Survivors of Kenya’s Skirmishes, 2007 Post-election Violence, and 2009 National Level Oil Tanker Fire Explosion, Jane C. Lang'at (Summer 2018)
The Association of Prescription Opioid Exposure and Patient Factors with Prolonged Postoperative Opioid Use in Opioid Naive Patients, Jennifer Lanzillotta (Summer 2018)
Self-Assembling Bioaffinity Hydrogels for Localized Antibody Delivery, Wen Liu (Summer 2018)
The Impact of Mother and Father Stress on Child Externalizing Behaviors, Allison McCobin (Summer 2018)
Effects of Natural Antioxidants on Motor and Cognitive Deficits in an Animal Model of Aging and Obesity and Dopaminergic-Like SH-SY5Y Cell Line, Sneha Potdar (Summer 2018)
The Effect of the Movie Time Social Learning Method on the Emotional Inferencing Skills in an Adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jenna Reade (Summer 2018)
The Psychology of Self-Surrender: A Contemplative-Hermeneutic Study, Danny Sharara (Summer 2018)
The Philosophical Heritage of Desire for God in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān, Bethany Somma (Summer 2018)
Re-Queering the Trans Binary: Gender Nonconforming Individuals’ Experiences in Counseling and Therapeutic Settings, Michael Stephens (Summer 2018)
Structure and Thermodynamics of Polyglutamine Peptides and Amyloid Fibrils via Metadynamics and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Riley Workman (Summer 2018)
The Myth of Promiscuity: Examining Black Male Sexual Narratives and Sexual Identity, Seth Young (Summer 2018)
Macromolecule Loading on PLGA Particles through Surface Adsorption, Yiwei Wang (Summer 2018)
The Association Between Medication Adherence in Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder Relapse in Patients with Dual Diagnosis, Tyler Dunn (Spring 2018)
Environmental Assessment of Road Brining and Injection Wells for Disposal of Oil and Gas Liquid Waste, Marissa Madia (Spring 2018)
A Qualitative Study of Counseling Students’ Attitudes Toward the Use of Medication Assisted Treatments with Opioid Dependent Clients, Bethany L. Ackerman (Spring 2018)
A Theological Analysis of Confessional-Centric Curriculum of Christian Religious Education: Towards an Inclusive Religious Pluralistic Centered Curriculum for Nigeria Colleges of Education, Ilesanmi Ajibola (Spring 2018)
Designing A Calibration Set in Spectral Space for Efficient Development of An NIR Method For Tablet Analysis, Md Anik Alam (Spring 2018)
The Effect of a Mindfulness Intervention on the Depression Symptoms of Mothers in Treatment for an Opioid Use Disorder, Karen Alexander (Spring 2018)
Life Satisfaction Typologies among Roman Catholic Secular Clergy: A Q Methodological Investigation, Raju Antony (Spring 2018)
On Hypothetical Contracts, Karim Barakat (Spring 2018)
Re-Evaluating Performance Measurement: New Mathematical Methods to Address Common Performance Measurement Challenges, Jordan David Benis (Spring 2018)
Key Components for an Ethics Consultation Curriculum, Joseph Bertino (Spring 2018)
The Word: Jacques Ellul's Dialogic Response To La Technique, Jeffrey S. Bogaczyk (Spring 2018)
Enhancing Quality Ethics Consultations in Pediatric Medicine, Ariel Clatty (Spring 2018)
Illuminating the Eighteenth-Century British Stage: Perfecting Performance through Education, Bethany Csomay (Spring 2018)
The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics, Sarah DeIuliis (Spring 2018)
The Church as a Eucharistic and Prophetic Community in India: A Theological Exploration into the Challenges and Implications of a Eucharistic Ecclesiology Based on the Early Church and the Statements of the Indian Theological Association (ITA), Shibi Devasia (Spring 2018)
An Ethical Framework for Organizational Resource Allocation for Patient Services in Health Care, Natalie Dick (Spring 2018)
The Relationship Between Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture, Nurse Advocacy, and Nurse Sensitive Patient Outcomes, Margaret DiCuccio (Spring 2018)
A Computational Model of Team-based Dynamics in the Workplace: Assessing the Impact of Incentive-based Motivation on Productivity, Josef Di Pietrantonio (Spring 2018)
Effects of a Green Chemistry Laboratory Design on First- Semester General Chemistry Students' Transformative Experiences in Chemistry, Lurea Joan Doody (Spring 2018)
Using an Ethics of Care to Re-interpret Consent in the Management of Care for Addiction Disorders, DiAnn Ecret (Spring 2018)
The Contribution of Ethical Reasoning Skills in Forensic Science, Lyndsie Ferrara (Spring 2018)
The Rhetoric of the Opioid Crisis and Addiction to Prescription Pain Medicine, Rachel Kaplan (Spring 2018)
Synthesis of novel 5-substituted pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine antifolates as selective and potent anti-tumor agents, Mohammad Karim (Spring 2018)
A Narrative of Uncertain Intent: Communication Ethics Literacy and FBI Counterterrorism Practices, Hannah Karolak (Spring 2018)
The Logic of Sexuation in Deleuze and Lacan, Matthew Lovett (Spring 2018)
The Effect of Motivation on Student Persistence in Online Higher Education: A Phenomenological Study of How Adult Learners Experience Motivation in a Web-based Distance Learning Environment, Kevin Lucey (Spring 2018)
Understanding Lists: Umberto Eco's Rhetoric of Communication and Signification, Susan Mancino (Spring 2018)