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Theses from 2023

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Food Related Intrusive Thoughts: A Pilot Study, Hoor Ul Ain

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Dungeons & Dragons: Fractals of the Human Self, Katie Anderson

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“... I thought you were black .” An autoethnographic exploration of the fragmentation of identity and culture., Sherley Arias-Pimentel

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The Big Five and Dark Triad: The Role of Personality in the Development of Passion, Hannah Behar

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Ricucire il Tessuto della Società: L’Intersezione di Moda Femminile e Femminismo, Caroline Grace Bisese

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Justifying Antipathy?: Examining Racialized Perceptions of Incarceration and Support for Mental Healthcare in Prisons, Jared Brassil

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Facing Famine: Justice and the Case of Unilateral Intervention, Tanner R. Brooks

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The Commutant of the Fourier–Plancherel Transform, Brianna Cantrall

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Optimal method for reconstructing polychromatic maps from broadband observations with an aysmmetric antenna pattern, Brianna Cantrall, Emory F. Bunn, and Solomon Quinn

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The Characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 Receptor Binding Domain Interaction with the Human ACE2 Receptor and Potential Small Molecule Inhibitors, Camryn Carter

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Magic as Political Might: Harry Potter, Authoritarianism, and Youth Political Behavior, Alexis Cobbs

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Perceiving the Poster: How Suspicion of Motives May Impact Perceptions of Potential Allies Engaging in Online Activism, Kathrina Z. Durante

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Nous sommes tous des « djadjas » : la question de l’identité dans la musique française et francophone au 21^e siècle, Molly Earle

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Debt and the Medicare Eligibility Discontinuity: Disparate Effects across Households, Olivia Falck

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Assessing the Dynamic amongst Self-compassion, Connection to Nature, and Well-Being, Yueyi Fan

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Constraining H0 Via Extragalactic Parallax, Nicholas Ferree

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Exploring the Structure of Partial Difference Sets With Denniston Parameters, Nicolas Ferree

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ARTMIND, Riley Fletcher

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Investigation of the VirA Linker Domain to Characterize its Phenol Interactions, Jessica Garofalo

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The 2015 NCAA Cost-Of-Attendance Stipend and its Effects on Institutional Financial Aid Packages, Sara Greene

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Policy Design and the Lived Experience of the Poor: A Test of Policy Feedback Effects and Efficacy, Ava Gural

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Offense or Defense? Leadership of the NBA and NFL in Response to Athlete Activism, Katrina Hale

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Veiled Victorian Vampires: What Literary Antagonists Reveal About Societal Fears of 19th Century England, Jenna Harford

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Care or Compliance? An Examination of Sexual Violence and Institutional Responses at Two Crisis Points, Sophia Hartman

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Study of Missing Mass Background in the CLAS12 Detector, Jessie Hess, Gerard P. Gilfoyle, and Lamya Baashen

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Out-of-Time & Out-of-Place: Queer Horizons of Popular Culture, Josephine Holland

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Une Politique Laïque: L’Utilisation de la Laïcité dans les Discours Politiques Français, Zachary Holmes

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The Effects of Positive Anticipation on Optimistic Cognitive Bias and Emotional Resilience in Rats, Megan Hooper

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An in Situ One Pot N-allylation and Friedel–Crafts Alkylation of diaryl substituted allyl propionates mediated by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate, Mohamad Ahmad Hussein

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An Exploration of Self-Blame, Self-Compassion, and Dissociative Experiences in University of Richmond Students, TaShira Iverson

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The Effect of Youth Sports Participation on Health Outcomes for Immigrants in the United States, Emma Kennedy

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Understanding and Addressing Disparities in Kidney Transplantation Access: A Focus on Disability and Other Identities, Razan Khalil

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what you will, Shaylen Lafferty

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what you will, Shaylen Lafferty

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ESG Reporting and Its Effect on Financial Performance of Oil, Gas, and Utility Companies in the United States, Logan Lam

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Entre multilinguisme et multiculturalisme : Une nouvelle traduction d’Incendies de Wajdi Mouawad, Natalie Larson

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Why Diversity is Not Enough: Perceptions of University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives Predict Institutional Belonging, Mckennah Lauber

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The Enigmatic Self: An Ongoing Exploration of Literary Selfhood from the American Renaissance to Contemporary Young Adult Literature, Helene Leichter

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Length Bias Estimation of Small Businesses Lifetime, Simeng Li

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Investigating the Helicase Activity of Methylated vs Unmethylated Ded1, Hannah Lukow

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Gender Based Violence and All It's Erasure, Ana Sofie Martinez

Manifest Destiny, American Domesticity, and the Role of the Immigrant in Ruiz de Burton’s Novels, Madison Rose Martinez

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The Inescapable Stigma of a Label: Bias in the Perception of Felons’ Pain, Danielle Maxwell

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From Big Farm to Big Pharma: A Differential Equations Model of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella in Industrial Poultry Populations, Rilyn McKallip

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Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Using Ruthenium and Amines, Sydney Moise

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Do traits of autism spectrum disorder in the typically developing population relate to early face processing as measured by the N170 and N250 neural signals?, Anna Murdock

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Generative Beauty: How Engaging with Beauty Sparks Transformation, Rebecca Byrd Musser

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Vietnam’s GDP: Re-assessing Growth Rate and Identifying an Alternative Indicator, My Linh D. Nguyen

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Hold the Phone: The Relationship Between Visual Cues and Gender Schematic Language in Supreme Court Oral Argument, Kaitlyn O’Leary

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The Project That Claire, uh I Mean the Student Completed: Relative Clauses and Repair Disfluencies, Claire O’Shaughnessy

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Development of a Mathematical Model for Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast tick), Rachel Pak

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Analysis of Wild Rodent Gut Microbiota as a Function of Exposure to Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens, Joshua Pandian

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Socialist Legality on Trial: The Purge of the Ukrainian NKVD, 1938-1943, Reide Petty

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Seed bank dynamics and germination under differential light regimes of the emerging invasive species wavyleaf basketgrass ( Oplismenus undulatifolius), Dominique Hong-Duc Pham

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Bryophytes of Goochland County, Virginia, Mikayla Quinn

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Characterization of Panagrolaimus namibiensis n. sp. (Rhabditida: Panagrolaimidae), an Anhydrobiotic Nematode from the Namib Desert of Namibia, Christopher Rawson

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Polarized Politics and Science in America: Exploratory study of Political Ideology and Scientific Education’s Effects on Public Perceptions of Scientific Findings, Kathryn Reda

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“Nails Done, Hair Done, Everything Did!”: Consumption and the Creation of Black Feminine Selves, Simone Reid

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Taking the Social out of Social Media: Social Media Induced Loneliness as a Mechanism for Elevated Depression During the Pandemic, Samara Rosen

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The Role of Cerium(III) in Bacterial Growth and the Microbial Transformation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Shruti Sathish

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A Tale of Two Venues: Lobbying the Affordable Care Act, Megan Schmitz

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Breaking Into Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center: A Lesson in (Non) Quantitative Research, Mackenzie Seward

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A Necessary Evil: A Leadership Analysis of Major League Baseball’s Best Managers, Samuel Shapiro

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Reflections: A Meditation on Ballet and Pain, Claire Madeline Silverman

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Synthesis and Characterization of Rhenium 2,2′-pyridylnaphthyridine Metal Complexes, Benjamin F. Solomon

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The Influence of Motivation to Control Prejudice on Facial Processing Flexibility in Individuals who Identify as Biracial, Chloë Steckart

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Maladaptive Social Cognitions and Peer Victimization in Elementary-Aged Students, Katelyn Szarko

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Diaryl Oxazoles as Cleavable Linkers for Drug Discovery Platforms, Elizabeth Taggart

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Role of cdx4 and sp5l in zebrafish development, Wesley Tsai

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Elementary School Parent Perceptions of “Critical Race Theory” in the Curriculum, Helen Wallace

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Physiological, temporal, and environmental determinants of forage fish caloric content in the Gulf of Mexico, Rebecca R. Walsh

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The Parental Labor Gap: The Impact of Daycare Access on the Parental Labor Force during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Acacia Wyckoff

Theses from 2022

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Postcolonial Pakistan in Mohsin Hamid’s Novels: Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Reda Ansar

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Effectiveness of Photoactivated Chemotherapy on Glioblastoma, Than Thar Aye

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The Gamification of Well-Being, Matthew Barnes

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Characterization of MEMO1 interactions with Estrogen Receptor alpha and c-Src, Catherine A. Bayas

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The effects of Effort-Based Reward (EBR) training and chemogenetic activation of the lateral habenula on behavioral and neuroendocrine responses in stressful contexts, Janhavi Bhalerao

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Towards Asymmetric Mannich Reactions and Alkylation of Indoles, Bianco Bicalho

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Crime Pays: How Black Americans Became Central to the Carceral State, Will Brooks

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Individual Differences in Processing of Garden-Path Sentences: The Role of Obsessive- Compulsive Personality Traits, Antonio Cardoso

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Assessing the Efficacy of CITES Restrictions on Malagasy Rosewood, Nicholas Cargill

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Testing the Influence of Arginine Methylation on Ded1’s Protein-Protein Interactions, Andrew Cook

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Designing Democracy: A Normative and Empirical Analysis of Redistricting Reform, Morgan Deckert

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The Emotional Mechanisms of Altruism Born of Suffering, Mia Dini

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Examining the evolutionary trajectories of the ADH1B*2 and ADH1B *3 alleles in modern human populations, Elizabeth Z. Duan

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Parents in the Pandemic: Comparison of Employment Changes and Effect of Covid School Closures on Working Parents, Katharine Encinas

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Investigation of the Effects of Resveratrol and Epigallocatechin Gallate on Woodsmoke-Induced Inflammation, Sarenna Naomi Enright

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Do Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives Cause More Harm Than Good?: Extending Research to the Domain of LGBTQ+ Discrimination, Lindsay Everhart

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The Effect of Rhetoric on Progressive Health Care Reform Policies’ Public Perception, Megan Geher

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Reactive oxygen species and cysteine modulation of inwardly rectifying potassium channels, Jean Patrick M. Gonzales

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Towards the Synthesis of 2,3-dihydroisoxazoles from Ketones and N-benzyl Nitrones, Ramsey Goodner

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An Evaluation of the Other Race Effect through the Attentional Blink, Sophia A. Hardten

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The Cut Off Price of Taking the Vaccine, Sipeng He

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Falling for Moses: The Role of Stroop Inhibition and Language Expertise, Isabella Holmgren

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The Dual Pandemic of 2020: Rhetorical analysis of how American COVID-19 elite messaging, enabled by the monster trope, justifies cultural violence against A/AAPI., Haley A. Hom

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Friendship in a Pandemic: Test of an Experimental Intervention to Boost the Protective Effect of Friendship Quality, Hyewon Hong

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Calls to Action Impact: Consumer Behavior and Attitudes Regarding Factory Farming, Haley Huamani

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Peoples’ Perception of Race-Based Microaggressions as a Function of Their Background and Beliefs, Emily Huesman

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Noble Pagans and Satanic Saracens: Literary Portrayals of Islam in Medieval Italy and Iberia., John Spencer Jones

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The Paradox of the UN: A Council of, by, and for the Permanent Five, Sandeep Kumar