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.Theses from 2025
Synthetic Modification of Agrobacterium to Inhibit Plant Pathogenesis, Rosemala Agarwala
Development and Functional Characterization of Carbon Nanodot-peptide Conjugates for the Treatment of Bone Disease, Abigail Ali
Organocatalyst Frameworks for CO2 Reduction to Methanol: Selectivity Control and Mild-Condition Activation, Nehal Asif
Associations Between Community Based Learning and Openness to Diversity Among UR Undergraduate Students, Shea T. Baker
Murder, Morality, and the Media: A Comparative Analysis of Sarah Maria Cornell and Lizzie Borden, Mary Beatty
Impact of Categorical versus Dimensional Diagnoses on Mental Health Stigma, Zachary Benedetti
In the Name of National Security: The Federal Surveillance and Weaponization of Sex in Cold War America, Isabel J. Blaylock
Anna on the Go, Emma Burgess
The Ripple Effects of Belonging: How Faculty–Student Connections May Drive Mutual Success, Marissa Burton
The Concept of Character for Narrative Medicine: A Comparative Study, Susannah Daly Carter
Orientalism in Moab: Biblical Scholarship in Transjordan, 1875-1885, Maya Casillas
Beyond the Factory Walls: Black Tobacco Labor, Civil Rights, and Public Health in 20th-Century Richmond, Virginia, Craig Caudill
Assessing the zoonotic and non-pathogenic bacterial microbiome of Norway rats in Richmond, Virginia, using nanopore sequencing, Kalynn Cheeks
From Devotion to Elegy: Sibling Relationships in American Literature 1865–1965, Olivia Couch
Bringing a Ghost Story to Life: Actualizing A Production of The Woman in Black, Benjamin Cudmore
Man Versus Machine: Investigating the likelihood of improvement and perceptions based on AI generated versus human generated feedback on writing assignments, Catherine Cummins
Welfare Federalism and Immigrant Inclusion: How State Ideology, Democracy, and Public Opinion Shape Social Policy, Emily Daniel
The Material of Jewish American Life: The Myers Family of Norfolk, Virginia, 1780s-1820s, Alessandra Brooks DelDonna
Optimizing Bilayer Photonic Emitters for Enhanced Efficiency in Thermophotovoltaic Devices, Paige Delsa
The Cage Versus the Canopy: How Environment Shapes Neuromotor Mechanisms in Male and Female Rattus norvegicus, Isabel DiLandro
Reversing Residential Segregation in Richmond: Recommendations for a More Inclusive Future, Jacob Ellis
Webcam Gaze Estimation in Unconstrained Environments, Anatolii Evdokimov
The Effect of Florida’s HB1557 on the Stigmatization of Gay Students, Madeline Fellner
Past Lessons, Present Strengths: Does Prior Experience Predict Greater Well-Being and Resilience Among Community-Based Learning Students?, Madison Fields
The Implications of Antisemitism in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale, Georgia Gansereit
Can Neutron Star Mergers Alone Reproduce r-Process Enrichment in Ultra-Faint Dwarf Halos?, Christine Gyure
The Impact of Corporate Profits on GDI Estimates: Forecasting and Data Revisions, Peterson Haas
From Prison to Progress: Evaluating the Impact of Second Chance Act Grants on Recidivism, Alexandra Hall
Shame on Us: The Democratic Costs of Public Shaming, Elijah Han
The Effect of Chalcogen-Phosphorus Substituents on Enediynes Undergoing the Bergman Cyclization, Marcos Hendler
Evaluating the Role of Institutional Size and Selectivity in Determining Social Belonging, Christian Herald
Spartan Matriarchs and Female Autonomy Through the Reforms of Agis IV, Will Hisle
‘King of Infinite Space:’ Confinement and Identity in Hamlet & Contemporary Adaptations, Anna-Laura Houston
Chrysanthèmes et camélias: le japonisme littéraire au XIXᵉ siècle et aujourd’hui, Emiko Iguchi
I Am My Mother’s Daughter: Migration, Motherhood, and Labor, Poinsettia Isaw
Genomic Analysis of the Lyme Disease Vector Across Virginia’s Spatial Expansion Front, Amy Jablonski
The Impact of Remittances on Children’s Educational Outcomes: The Case of India, Neha Reddy Kalwala
Les Femmes dans le Monde Médical, Emma Kane
An Ethical Defense of Puberty Blockers as Gender Affirming Care for Adolescents, Alexander Konigsberg
A Cross-Taxa Comparison of Avian Telomere Dynamics, Age, and Lifespan, Benjamin Konigsberg
Substrate Complexity is not Correlated with Skin Pattern Complexity in Callistoctopus Furvus, Emily Lekas
Contributors and Consequences of Avoidant Automatic Thoughts with ADHD, Zirou Liang
Economic Impact of the U.S. and U.N. Sanctions, Maksim Likho
Comparing Spatial Interfaces of the Tower of London Task, Paean Luby
Isolation and identification of active antimicrobial compounds in Alcaligenes and Chromobacterium strains, Hannah Lwin
Sodium-Proton Exchanger Activity Is Required for Zebrafish Larval Tail Fin Regeneration, Anush Margaryan
Biophysical Characterization of Thermophilic Branched-Chain Amino Acid Periplasmic Binding Protein from Thermotoga maritima, Sky Marsicano
Gender Differences in Externalized and Internalized Responses to Interpersonal Insult, Alicia Martinez
NolinNPC: The Natural Products Collection Database, Parisa Mershon
The Politics of Doomsday: Institutional Faith and Individualism in Apocalyptic Fiction Films, Avery Moore
Surveying the Neural Cellular Landscape in Wild and Laboratory Rats: Neuronal and Glial Profiles, Aditya Narayanan
Ritt’s Theorem and the Chebyshev Polynomials, Eric Neuhaus
Tracking the Evolution of Crossings in Memristive Hysteresis Responses, Eric Neuhaus
Adaptation Challenges in Scene-Specific Visual Search for Individuals with ASD, Carmen Ovalle
Left Turn? Progressive Caucus Characteristics & Influence in the 117th Congress, John C. Paschold
Ni soumises, ni sauvées : La quête de l’identité féminine dans la nouvelle vague du film de banlieue, Rachael Ruth
“For here I am, maybe a walking contradiction”: The Womb as a Site of Control and Agency in Morrison and Erdrich, Katherine Schultz
Novel and Efficient Synthesis of 3,4-Diaryl N-Unsubstituted Pyrroles from Chalcones: Optimizing Cyclization Using DEAM Reagent, Anna M. Shklyarevsky
The Assizes of Romania: Feudal Law and the Latin East, Caleb Silvergleid
Hegemony and Homophobia Drive Conservative Men’s Heightened Endorsement of Adverse Relationship Conflict Responses, Abigail Smith
Naked & Hungry, Bella Stevens
Race and Age: How Can Your Identities Change How People See You?, Kumiko Sulla
Psilocybin and the Child Mind: Clinical Implications for Self-Repair and Psychological Resilience, Isabella Flôr Tomé
Evaluating Factors of Coach Compensation in NCAA Division I FBS College Football, Ethan Vest
From Surviving to Thriving: Sense of Belonging and Imposter Syndrome in College Students With PTSD, Amaree Walker
The Time Course of Template Acquisition and Application in Categorical Search, Yining Wang
A Multi-Scale Compartmental Model for Glucose Regulation and Diabetes Treatment, Andrew M. Watts
Fouling-Resistant Voltammetric Xylazine Sensors for Detection of the Street Drug “Tranq”, Ann Holland Wemple
Ruthenium Complexes as Photoactivated Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Lung Cancer, Auden Wilson
Madame de Pompadour: Power and Influence at Versailles 1745-1764, Lauren Wilson
Leptospirosis Infection Risk Posed by Urban Rats Living in Richmond, Lydia Wood
Types of Community-Based Learning on Students’ Sense of Purpose, Lauren Yim
Healing on Their Own Terms: Self-Guided Attuning and Mental Health Among Chinese “youth”, Ziran (Ted) Zhou
The Fragility of Belonging: Interpersonal and Institutional Factors Shaping Student Experiences in Higher Education, Ziran (Ted) Zhou
The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Mental Health: Understanding Disparities and Exploring Solutions in School-Based Services, Halle Zweibel
Theses from 2024
Power Dynamics and Female Autonomy in Enemies-to-Lovers Novels, Julia Abbott
Modeling the Opioid Crisis in Virginia: A Differential Equations Model Assessing the Impact of Medication-Assisted Treatment on the Addicted Population, Maniha Zehra Akram
Computational Study of PregaS and PS Binding to the GluN2A LBD and the GluN1/GluN2A Dimer Interface, Ismar Alickovic
(Re)Constructing Race: How Essentialist Beliefs Shape Social Justice Support, Abbey Alvarado
Dative Bonding in Quasimetallatranes Containing Group 15 Donors and M = Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb Acceptors, Aamy A. Bakry
Unpredictable Positive Experience Response (UPER) Training in Male and Female Rats: Effects on cognition, emotional resilience, and neuroplasticity markers, Eve M. Barringer
Combatting Rightwing Extremism: Punks, Skinheads, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Robert Ware Bentley
Structural phylogenetics of A family DNA polymerases, Yagmur Bingul
Heterocycles as Peptide-Based Cleavable Linkers, John Blobe
Shifting Grounds: Movement and Continuity in Mustang, Nepal, Lauren Carter
Cultural Health Capital and the Organ Transplantation Waitlist, Gracejit Chahal
The Value of Prison Education: Evaluating the Impact of Education Through Desistance, Cheryl Chan
Epistemic Spaces and Fields: A New Framework for Social Epistemology Applied to the Internet, Zizhe Cheng
Examining Differences in Information Processing: A Case Study in Higher Education, Sofi Conway
Exploration of Sulfonamides and Benzothiazoles as Peptide-Based Cleavable Linkers, Abigail Dalton
The Impacts of Identity on Perceptions of Safety on a Predominately White Campus, Rebecca DelRosso
The Continuous Flow Synthesis of Polyfunctionalized Pyrroles, Kinglsey Dwomoh
Assessing Human Influence on Ranavirus Infections in Vulnerable Native Turtle Species, Parker Ernst
To Kill with Kindness: The Ills of Overfeeding Others in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, Makena Gitobu
Black Lives Matter: Is It Political?, Caroline O. Glaser