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.Theses from 2023
Food Related Intrusive Thoughts: A Pilot Study, Hoor Ul Ain
Dungeons & Dragons: Fractals of the Human Self, Katie Anderson
“... I thought you were black .” An autoethnographic exploration of the fragmentation of identity and culture., Sherley Arias-Pimentel
The Big Five and Dark Triad: The Role of Personality in the Development of Passion, Hannah Behar
Ricucire il Tessuto della Società: L’Intersezione di Moda Femminile e Femminismo, Caroline Grace Bisese
Justifying Antipathy?: Examining Racialized Perceptions of Incarceration and Support for Mental Healthcare in Prisons, Jared Brassil
Facing Famine: Justice and the Case of Unilateral Intervention, Tanner R. Brooks
The Commutant of the Fourier–Plancherel Transform, Brianna Cantrall
Optimal method for reconstructing polychromatic maps from broadband observations with an aysmmetric antenna pattern, Brianna Cantrall, Emory F. Bunn, and Solomon Quinn
Magic as Political Might: Harry Potter, Authoritarianism, and Youth Political Behavior, Alexis Cobbs
Perceiving the Poster: How Suspicion of Motives May Impact Perceptions of Potential Allies Engaging in Online Activism, Kathrina Z. Durante
Nous sommes tous des « djadjas » : la question de l’identité dans la musique française et francophone au 21^e siècle, Molly Earle
Debt and the Medicare Eligibility Discontinuity: Disparate Effects across Households, Olivia Falck
Assessing the Dynamic amongst Self-compassion, Connection to Nature, and Well-Being, Yueyi Fan
Constraining H0 Via Extragalactic Parallax, Nicholas Ferree
Exploring the Structure of Partial Difference Sets With Denniston Parameters, Nicolas Ferree
ARTMIND, Riley Fletcher
Investigation of the VirA Linker Domain to Characterize its Phenol Interactions, Jessica Garofalo
The 2015 NCAA Cost-Of-Attendance Stipend and its Effects on Institutional Financial Aid Packages, Sara Greene
Policy Design and the Lived Experience of the Poor: A Test of Policy Feedback Effects and Efficacy, Ava Gural
Offense or Defense? Leadership of the NBA and NFL in Response to Athlete Activism, Katrina Hale
Veiled Victorian Vampires: What Literary Antagonists Reveal About Societal Fears of 19th Century England, Jenna Harford
Care or Compliance? An Examination of Sexual Violence and Institutional Responses at Two Crisis Points, Sophia Hartman
Study of Missing Mass Background in the CLAS12 Detector, Jessie Hess, Gerard P. Gilfoyle, and Lamya Baashen
Out-of-Time & Out-of-Place: Queer Horizons of Popular Culture, Josephine Holland
Une Politique Laïque: L’Utilisation de la Laïcité dans les Discours Politiques Français, Zachary Holmes
The Effects of Positive Anticipation on Optimistic Cognitive Bias and Emotional Resilience in Rats, Megan Hooper
An in Situ One Pot N-allylation and Friedel–Crafts Alkylation of diaryl substituted allyl propionates mediated by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate, Mohamad Ahmad Hussein
An Exploration of Self-Blame, Self-Compassion, and Dissociative Experiences in University of Richmond Students, TaShira Iverson
The Effect of Youth Sports Participation on Health Outcomes for Immigrants in the United States, Emma Kennedy
Understanding and Addressing Disparities in Kidney Transplantation Access: A Focus on Disability and Other Identities, Razan Khalil
what you will, Shaylen Lafferty
Entre multilinguisme et multiculturalisme : Une nouvelle traduction d’Incendies de Wajdi Mouawad, Natalie Larson
Why Diversity is Not Enough: Perceptions of University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives Predict Institutional Belonging, Mckennah Lauber
The Enigmatic Self: An Ongoing Exploration of Literary Selfhood from the American Renaissance to Contemporary Young Adult Literature, Helene Leichter
Length Bias Estimation of Small Businesses Lifetime, Simeng Li
Investigating the Helicase Activity of Methylated vs Unmethylated Ded1, Hannah Lukow
Manifest Destiny, American Domesticity, and the Role of the Immigrant in Ruiz de Burton’s Novels, Madison Rose Martinez
The Inescapable Stigma of a Label: Bias in the Perception of Felons’ Pain, Danielle Maxwell
From Big Farm to Big Pharma: A Differential Equations Model of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella in Industrial Poultry Populations, Rilyn McKallip
Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Using Ruthenium and Amines, Sydney Moise
Generative Beauty: How Engaging with Beauty Sparks Transformation, Rebecca Byrd Musser
Vietnam’s GDP: Re-assessing Growth Rate and Identifying an Alternative Indicator, My Linh D. Nguyen
Hold the Phone: The Relationship Between Visual Cues and Gender Schematic Language in Supreme Court Oral Argument, Kaitlyn O’Leary
The Project That Claire, uh I Mean the Student Completed: Relative Clauses and Repair Disfluencies, Claire O’Shaughnessy
Development of a Mathematical Model for Rickettsia parkeri in Amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast tick), Rachel Pak
Analysis of Wild Rodent Gut Microbiota as a Function of Exposure to Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens, Joshua Pandian
Socialist Legality on Trial: The Purge of the Ukrainian NKVD, 1938-1943, Reide Petty
Seed bank dynamics and germination under differential light regimes of the emerging invasive species wavyleaf basketgrass ( Oplismenus undulatifolius), Dominique Hong-Duc Pham
Bryophytes of Goochland County, Virginia, Mikayla Quinn
“Nails Done, Hair Done, Everything Did!”: Consumption and the Creation of Black Feminine Selves, Simone Reid
The Role of Cerium(III) in Bacterial Growth and the Microbial Transformation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Shruti Sathish
A Tale of Two Venues: Lobbying the Affordable Care Act, Megan Schmitz
Breaking Into Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center: A Lesson in (Non) Quantitative Research, Mackenzie Seward
A Necessary Evil: A Leadership Analysis of Major League Baseball’s Best Managers, Samuel Shapiro
Reflections: A Meditation on Ballet and Pain, Claire Madeline Silverman
Synthesis and Characterization of Rhenium 2,2′-pyridylnaphthyridine Metal Complexes, Benjamin F. Solomon
The Influence of Motivation to Control Prejudice on Facial Processing Flexibility in Individuals who Identify as Biracial, Chloë Steckart
Maladaptive Social Cognitions and Peer Victimization in Elementary-Aged Students, Katelyn Szarko
Role of cdx4 and sp5l in zebrafish development, Wesley Tsai
Elementary School Parent Perceptions of “Critical Race Theory” in the Curriculum, Helen Wallace
Physiological, temporal, and environmental determinants of forage fish caloric content in the Gulf of Mexico, Rebecca R. Walsh
The Parental Labor Gap: The Impact of Daycare Access on the Parental Labor Force during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Acacia Wyckoff
Theses from 2022
Postcolonial Pakistan in Mohsin Hamid’s Novels: Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Reda Ansar
Effectiveness of Photoactivated Chemotherapy on Glioblastoma, Than Thar Aye
The Gamification of Well-Being, Matthew Barnes
Characterization of MEMO1 interactions with Estrogen Receptor alpha and c-Src, Catherine A. Bayas
Towards Asymmetric Mannich Reactions and Alkylation of Indoles, Bianco Bicalho
Crime Pays: How Black Americans Became Central to the Carceral State, Will Brooks
Individual Differences in Processing of Garden-Path Sentences: The Role of Obsessive- Compulsive Personality Traits, Antonio Cardoso
Assessing the Efficacy of CITES Restrictions on Malagasy Rosewood, Nicholas Cargill
Testing the Influence of Arginine Methylation on Ded1’s Protein-Protein Interactions, Andrew Cook
Designing Democracy: A Normative and Empirical Analysis of Redistricting Reform, Morgan Deckert
The Emotional Mechanisms of Altruism Born of Suffering, Mia Dini
Examining the evolutionary trajectories of the ADH1B*2 and ADH1B *3 alleles in modern human populations, Elizabeth Z. Duan
Parents in the Pandemic: Comparison of Employment Changes and Effect of Covid School Closures on Working Parents, Katharine Encinas
Investigation of the Effects of Resveratrol and Epigallocatechin Gallate on Woodsmoke-Induced Inflammation, Sarenna Naomi Enright
Do Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives Cause More Harm Than Good?: Extending Research to the Domain of LGBTQ+ Discrimination, Lindsay Everhart
The Effect of Rhetoric on Progressive Health Care Reform Policies’ Public Perception, Megan Geher
Reactive oxygen species and cysteine modulation of inwardly rectifying potassium channels, Jean Patrick M. Gonzales
Towards the Synthesis of 2,3-dihydroisoxazoles from Ketones and N-benzyl Nitrones, Ramsey Goodner
An Evaluation of the Other Race Effect through the Attentional Blink, Sophia A. Hardten
The Cut Off Price of Taking the Vaccine, Sipeng He
Falling for Moses: The Role of Stroop Inhibition and Language Expertise, Isabella Holmgren
Friendship in a Pandemic: Test of an Experimental Intervention to Boost the Protective Effect of Friendship Quality, Hyewon Hong
Calls to Action Impact: Consumer Behavior and Attitudes Regarding Factory Farming, Haley Huamani
Peoples’ Perception of Race-Based Microaggressions as a Function of Their Background and Beliefs, Emily Huesman
Noble Pagans and Satanic Saracens: Literary Portrayals of Islam in Medieval Italy and Iberia., John Spencer Jones
The Paradox of the UN: A Council of, by, and for the Permanent Five, Sandeep Kumar
Patterns of Invasion by the Emerging Wavyleaf Basketgrass (Oplismenus undulatifolius) Invasion Based on Microsatellite Genetic Markers, Daniel P. Larson
Blurred Realities: AIDS Plays as Activism, Maya Lieberman
Il complesso allontanamento di Boccaccio dal Cristianesimo e dal Giudizio, Olivia Jane Lomax
Investigating the Relationship between Classroom Sense of Belonging, Friendship Quality, and Peer Victimization., Addi Mansini