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.Theses from 2020
Public Perceptions and Knowledge of Transplantation, Kimberly Smith
Internal Migration of Foreign-Born in US: Impacts of Population Concentration and Risk Aversion, Thin Yee Mon Su
Computer-Assisted Coloring-Graph Generation and Structural Analysis, Wesley Su
“The Narrative Is All That Matters”: Storytelling as Justice in Indigenous Women's Writing, Valerie Szalanczy
“Put Your Phone Down, and Say Hi!” Cultivating Positivity Resonance at UR, Natalie Szumel
The effects of signaling molecules to Agrobacterium tumefaciens tumorigenesis at plant wound sites, Nicole Walker
Effects of Curcumin and Dredd in a Drosophila model of Machado-Joseph Disease, Grace Warde
Victory in Defeat: The Power of Loss and the Construction of the Myths of Cato Uticensis and Robert E. Lee, William Wasta-Werner
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest: Restoring and Reclaiming the ‘Asian’ in ‘Asian Immigrant Narrative’, Carson Watlington
Small Lives, Small Worlds: Postcolonial Resistance in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, Savannah Wilson
Almost Difference Sets in 2-Groups, Xin Yutong
Connectiveity and Structures of Coloring Graphs, Xin Yutong
Fast Medial Axis Sampling for Use in Motion Planning, Hanglin Zhou
Investigations into the mutagenic potential of 8-oxo-2’-deoxyguanosine with human polymerase κ, Samuel Zielinski
Theses from 2019
Moderating factors in the relationship between perceived stigma and treatment-seeking propensity in active duty U.S. military service members, Rose Armstrong
Anilda Ibrahimi, Rosso come una spose : traduzione e analisi (capitoli VIII-XVII), Kyra Benforte
Creating a viral sponge : modification and mutation of virus-like particles, Ritwika Bose
Effects of a novel microtube depolymerizer on pro-inflammatory signaling in RAW264.7 macrophages, Madeline Brown
Marketing disability : navigating the ethics of nonprofit development and marketing, Peyton F. Carter
The effect of health literacy on chronic kidney disease patient health outcomes, Mia Castagnero
The effect of positively charged deoxynucleic guanidine (DNG) spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) on cellular uptake in the HEK-293 cell model, John Cavaliere
TMI : an examination of excess returns surrounding phase III FDA approvals, Luke Chiotelis
"It's part of my responsibility to help" : developing a measure of motivations for extrinsic emotion regulation, Sara Cloonan
Establishing a powerful woman's empathy in George Eliot's The mill on the floss, Romola, and Middlemarch, Rosie D'Angelo
Social skepticism, penetralia, and Hawthorne's veiled ethics, John DeAngelis
Légalement exaspérée : la loi, la culture, et les normes sexuelles en transition, Catherine Donovan
Superheroes and "the American way" : popular culture, national identity, and American notions of heroism and leadership, Lydia Dubois
Evaluating the entrenchment of the Patient protection and affordable care act : a comparative case study, Hannah Yvonne Dunn
Investigating heme and heat stress tolerance in sodalis glossinidius, Ruhan Farsin
The effects of health literacy on treatment adherence and health optimism in chronic kidney disease patients, Heather Gardiner
Using 3-dimensional FFTs to simulate CMB maps on a spherical cap, Eric Goetz
Gender and sport inequities : perceiving injustices and galvanizing change, Ashey E. Gross
Waveband luminosity correlations in flux-limited multiwavelength data and the Schwinger effect in Minkowski & De Sitter space-times, Syed Jibran Haider
Rationality, revisions, and real-time data, Jason Hall
Alkylations of ketones with propargyl and allyl carboxylates using TMSOTf, Elizabeth D. Heafner
Histone acetylation in a drosophila model of Machado-Joseph Disease, Jacob Jacisin
Using CRISPRi for knockdown of gene transcription in sodalis glossinidius, Eric Jedel
Re-imagining student achievement : the egalitarian failure of the carrot-stick model in K-12 public education, Michael Johnson
Parent-child interaction therapy as treatment for child physical abuse : relation to internalizing symptoms, EMily Kaminsky
Draw some awesome : the effect of art and awe on grief and giving, Jamie Katz
Adaptable layered first generation amperometric biosensor platforms for clinically relevant measurements, Najwa Labban
Longitudinal associations between childhood self-worth, perceived control, and peer victimization experiences, Lauren Lambert
Censorship of Confederate newspapers during Union occupation, Caitlin Livesey
Cacao agroforestry in southern Belize : effects on soil nematode community structure, Parr McQueen
Polychromatic map-making with asymmetric antenna patterns, Connor Mooney
Gone with the wind and the Depression era, Hunter Moyler
The effects of arginine methylation on the function of Ded1, an RNA helicase, in vitro, McKenzie Murvin
“Il est bon, aujourd'hui, le boudin” : la nourriture esthétique et le goût dans le roman naturaliste Zolien, Elena Palazzolo
Free French "gentlemen of couleur” : reconsidering race, ethnicity, and migration in Philadelphia's catering industry, 1870-1930, Elena G. Palazzolo
Driving anxiety in young people with autism spectrum disorder : a driving simulator pilot study, Rebecca Pasch
Structural investigations using theoretical approaches : a study of metal halides, borylenes, phenalenyl complexes and σ-hole interactions, Supreeth Prasad
Self-interest versus social-interest policy framing : the case of school choice, Benedict Roemer
Stalinist historiography : the General Secretary's elementary narrative of the Soviet foundational period, Rebecca Schwartzkopf
Do older and younger adults know what they know?, Susie Shepardson
An investigation of long-term enriched environment exposure on neurobehavioral responses in female Long-Evans rats, Sharon Shin
I Racconti di Cristina Ali Farah : traduzione e analisi critica, Alexandra Smith
What lies beneath? : removal sampling to test for biases in surface activity of the eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus), Amelia Tedesco
Marginalization and local commemoration of Third Reich victims, Thomas Vanderbeek
Osteology of the most diverse genus of new world microhylids and evolutionary patterns of morphology in chiasmocleis (Mehely, 1904), Hannah VanHuss
How do Percieved Autonomy and Performance-Based Reward Affect Self-Regulation?: Preliminary Results, Thalia Viranda
Does social competence buffer depression's effects on children's peer relationships?, Madeline Meredith Ward
It's written all over your face : examining the relationship between socioeconomic status and empathic accuracy, Megan Roherbeck Wirtz
When does the positivity effect emerge? : age-related emotional biases at encoding and retrieval, Hannah Wolfe
The relationship between housing price and proximity to public land in Denver, CO, Connor Wyman
qualitative exploration of forgiveness in patients living with chronic kidney disease, Minru Zhao
Theses from 2018
Working around cosmic variance : remote quadrupole measurements of the CMB, A. Adil and E. F. Bunn
Slavery, sovereignty, and salvation : missionary conversions and space in 19th century Tanzania, Jack Archie
A self-report measure for self-regulated learning in the undergraduate student population, Melissa Aste
Radical feminism : culture and identity in 1970s America, Jessica Atkins
Investigating long-term cognitive, emotional, and developmental effects of socioeconomic status utilizing rodent models, Milan A. Brooks
Syntheses of 5'-triphosphate derivatives of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine analogs, Mary Burns
The effect of federal sentencing guidelines on federal conviction rates, James Butler
Syntheses of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine nucleoside analogs for DNA template strand, Shelby Cain
Stage management handbook, Gracie Carleton
Understanding the structural basis of SIKE interactions, Alice Catalano
Community structure of the microbiome of ixodes scapularis in relation to sex, stage, lineage, and geography, Christopher Lee Clark
Format-transforming encryption : regular language and machine learning techniques for obfuscating ciphertexts, David Clayton
Layer-by-layer design and optimization of xerogel-based amperometric first generation biosensors for uric acid, Grace Conway, Michael Leopold, Raef H. Lambertson, Margaret A. Schwarzmann, Michael J. Pannell, Helene W. Kerins, Kristin J. Rubenstein, and Jonathan D. Dattelbaum
Characterizing borrelia burgdorferi in Virginia : lyme disease prevalence as a matter of bacterial genetic variation, Hannah Cornman
Applications of vinylogous 3-carbon building blocks to the synthesis of highly-functionalized nitrogen containing heterocycles, Evan Crawford
The effect of arginine methylation on Ded1p function in translation, Alec D'Alessandro
Effects of a novel microtubule depolymerizer on pro-inflammatory signaling in RAW264.7 macrophages, Anna Gonye
Characterization of catecholamine receptors and transporters in murine macrophages, Elizabeth Gonye
Un crime contre l'humanité : une analyse de quelques journaux algériens et français, la mémoire collective et les relations franco-algériennes, Olivia Gustafson
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson's My memoir : a first lady's defense of herself, her husband, and his legacy, Alexandra Harter
Child maltreatment, foster care, and teacher perceived academic outcomes : at the age of six, Olivia Hennessy
Mussolini, Hitler, and Perón : economic conditions and the emergence of Illiberal leadership, Patrick David Hughes
Evaluating Chinese economic statecraft in Chile and Peru, Marcin Jerzewski
Analysis of a custom support vector machine for photometric redshift estimation and the inclusion of galaxy shape information, Evan Jones and J. Singal
Family composition and outcomes following parental bereavement in childhood, Ari M. Kagan
Ann Randolph Page and Liberian colonization in antebellum Virginia, Susana Joy Kenyon
Economic and other advanced forecasting methods applied to stock prices, John Lawrance
An analysis of skill-biased technical change across demographic groups, Madison Lindsay
A different kind of learning for a different kind of learner : justification of and best practices for the use of performing arts education for autistic students, Jacob Anthony Litt
The effects of emotion regulation and child gender on depressed parents' responses to children's sadness, Faith Logan
Future and past anxieties : a look at the origins of the British welfare state through WWII, Emily Maanum
Teachers as protectors : how their support influences the link between depression and peer relationship difficulties, Maroiah Maki