Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Spatiotemporal Abundance Patterns and Ecological Drivers of A Nearshore U.S. Atlantic Fish and Invertebrate Assemblage, Mark A. Stratton
Black Capes, White Spies: An Exploration of Visual Black Identity, Evolving Heroism and 'passing' in Marvel's Black Panther Comics and Mat Johnson's Graphic Novel, Incogengro, Ravynn K. Stringfield
Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889, Amanda Stuckey
Investigating the Charge-Transfer Dynamics of Single-Molecule Sensitizers, Jenna Tan
A Phenomenological Investigation of Selected Teachers’ Informal and Incidental Technology-Related Learning, Diana Lee Theisinger
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Health Risk Behaviors among College Students, Morgan Thompson
Evaluating Programming, Performance, and Perspectives in Pursuing Progress for English Language Learners, Patricia Marie Tilghman
An Evaluation of Southeast School District's Special Education Program's Compliance, Jennifer Anne Tingley
A Delphi Study Regarding How, Can, and Should Individual Psychology Demonstrate Efficacy and Effectiveness Given Evidence Based Practice Evaluation Standards, Sterling Price Travis
Enhancing Usability and Security through Alternative Authentication Methods, Nicolas Jorge Van Balen
Teacher Perspectives of Whole Brain Teaching in A Suburban Middle School: A Program Evaluation, Wendy VanHosen
Role of Dbx1-Derived Pre-Bötzinger Complex Interneurons in Breathing Behaviors of Adult Mice, Nikolas C. Vann
Novice Educator Perceptions of the Influences of A New Teacher Mentoring Program in A Hard to Staff School, Jennifer Lee Vaughan
Measurement of the Elastic Ep Cross Section at Q2 = 0.66, 1.10, 1.51 and 1.65 Gev2, YANG WANG
Impact of the Parasitic Nematode Anguillicoloides Crassus on American Eels (Anguilla Rostrata) in Chesapeake Bay, Zoemma Taudel Warshafsky
Songsters and Film Scores: Civil War Music and American Memory, Ari Marie Weinberg
Reading the Gothic at Madame Rivardi's Seminary/Prodigal Sons and Virtuous Daughters, Emily Priscilla Wells
Negotiating American Youth: Legal and Social Perceptions of Age in the Early Republic, Holly Nicole Stevens White
Deep Learning Software Repositories, Martin White
Juvenile Blue Crab (Callinectes Sapidus) Response to Altered Nursery Habitat, Megan Wood
Workload Prediction for Efficient Performance Isolation and System Reliability, Ji Xue
Infrared Spectroscopy and Nano-Imaging of La0.67Sr0.33Mno3 Films, Peng Xu
Exploiting Power for Smartphone Security and Privacy, Qing Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Neutrino Flux Prediction for The Numi Beamline, Leonidas Aliaga Soplin
A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of High School Counselors involved in Determining Serious and Foreseeable Harm in Cases of Student Substance Abuse, Kathryn Goss Atanasov
Synthesis, Structure and Optical Memory Properties of Copper (I) Thiocyanate Networks with Aromatic Amines, Diimines and Alkyl Sulfides, Gerardo Ayala
Thin Film Approaches to The Srf Cavity Problem: Fabrication and Characterization of Superconducting Thin Films, Douglas Beringer
Influence of Perkinsus Marinus Infection and Oyster Health on Levels of Human-Pathogenic Vibrios in Oysters, Lydia M. Bienlien
Modeling Phytoplankton Community Response to Nutrient Loading and Climate Change in A Shallow Temperate Estuary, Sara Aimee Blachman
Longitudinal Links among Adolescent Friend Emotion Socialization, Emotion Regulation, and Internalizing Symptoms: The Role of Gender, Kara Braunstein
A Study of the Degree to Which School Districts in Virginia Include Legal or Illegal Inquiries on Employment Application Forms for Teachers, Rodney Jamel Brown
Selling Race in America: Ideologies of Labor, Color, and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Advertising Imagery, Meghan Bryant
Comprehensive Internationalization: Examining The What, Why, and How at Community Colleges, Debra-Ann C. Butler
Bayesian Mind: Making Sense of Probability-Based Decision Making Strategies, Kunjoon Byun
“I am Truly Delighted, Sir, with the Account You have Given of My Country” / “A Most Confused Feeling Inside”, Katherine Scarlett Cartwright
Reproductive Altruism, Social Diversity and Host Association in Sponge-Dwelling Snapping Shrimps, Synalpheus, Tin Chi Solomon Chak
Differences in Sockeye Salmon Antibody Composition: Testing The Immunological Imprinting Hypothesis, Maxwell Elliott Chappell
Community of Practice: Evaluation of A Collaboration Program in An Educational Setting, Denise Citarelli Jones
Zooplankton Community Composition and Grazing in the Amazon River Plume and Western Tropical North Atlantic Ocean, Brandon J. Conroy
Impacts of Invasive Phragmites Australis on Diamondback Terrapin Nesting, Cassandra Cook
The City at The Falls: Building Culture in Richmond, Virginia, 1730-1860, Elizabeth Cook
Compton Scattering Polarimetry for The Determination of the Proton’S Weak Charge Through Measurements of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry of 1H(E,e')P, Juan Carlos Cornejo
Seeing The Paradigm: Education Professionals' Advocacy for The Gifted Student with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Patricia Costis
Investigating Proton Spin Structure: A Measurement of G_2^p at Low Q^2, Melissa Ann Cummings
A Confluence of Cultures: Complicating The Interpretation of 17th Century Plantation Archaeology using Data from Rich Neck Plantation, Thomas John Cuthbertson
Floristic Change Spanning 45 Years of Global Change in the College Woods, Williamsburg, Va, Caitlin Cyrus
The Constitution of Disability in the Early United States, Laurel Richardson Daen
Modulation of Watershed Nutrient Loads By Tidal Creek Ecosystems on The Virginia Eastern Shore, Britt Leighanne Dean
Characterization of Interfacial Interactions By Functionalized Afm Probes, Laura Rickard Dickinson
Oh Shenandoah! The Northern Shenandoah Valley's Black Borderlanders Make Freedom Work during Virginia's Reconstruction, 1865-1870, Donna Camille Dodenhoff
Voiceless in Medical School: Students with Physical Disabilities, Michael J. Donlan
Prior Knowledge/esto Perpetua Respublica Americana, Phillip Louis Emanuel
Ac Zeeman Force with Ultracold Atoms, Charles Fancher
Optical Characterization of Interface Magnetization in Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures, Fan Fang
District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington, Seth Feman
Teacher and Principal Perceptions of A New Evaluation Program for Teachers, Ruth Shannon Finnegan
"Turkey is the Key": Studies on America's Relationship with the Ottoman Empire, The Turkish Republic, and Islam in the Near and Middle East, Maureen Julia Fischer
Morbid Love: American Decadence in the 1890s, Nicolette Gable
Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World, Lindsay Garcia
“Sugary Mixed-Plate”: Landscape of Power and Separation on 20Th-Century Hawaiian Sugar Plantations, Joshua Timsing Maka'ala Gastilo
Neurometric Profiling of Autism Spectrum Disorder using The Brief Neurometric Battery: A Novel Eeg Based Task, Leigh Catherine Gayle
Relationships, Credit, and Value: Analyzing Money as a Social Institution in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Marine benthic predator-prey interactions and global change., Cassandra N. Glaspie
Enhancing The Sensing Capabilities of Mobile and Embedded Systems, Daniel George Graham
College Athletes’ Reflective Judgment: A Moderator between Sport and Sociocultural Pressures, Body Ideal Internalization, and Body Dissatisfaction, Catie A. Greene
Dietary Mercury Exposure in Male Zebra Finches Does Not Decrease their Attractiveness to Females, Virginia Greene
"What Would Jesus Do?": Modern Revival in the Marketplace, 1896-2000s., Jennifer L. Hancock
School Counselor Involvement in Partnerships with Families of Color: A Social Cognitive Perspective, Pamela Nadine Harris
Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis, Travis Terrell Harris
Different Faces in Our Classrooms: Teachers' Cultural Perspectives of Heterogeneous School Environments, Paige Hendricks
Algonquian Taskscapes and Changing Landscapes: Archaeobotanical Findings from Tidewater Virginia, Jessica Marie Herlich
Muskogee Internationalism in An Age of Revolution, 1763-1818, James L. Hill
Molecular and Performance Properties of Poly(Amides & Imides) and the Use of Graphene Oxide Nano-Particles for Improvement, John-andrew Samuel Hocker
Emerging from Resistance: The Origins of the Virginia Technical College System, Richard Allen Hodges
Development of forested wetland ecological functions in a hydrologically controlled field experiment in Virginia, USA, Herman W. Hudson
The Politics of Empire: The United States and the Global Structure of Imperialism in the Early Twenty-First Century, Edward P. Hunt
New Teacher Induction: A Program Evaluation, Warren Hunter
Gas-Phase Thermochemical Properties of Proline-Containing Dipeptides and Fluorinated Alcohols using the Extended Kinetic Method, Kathy Tang Huynh
Does Sound Help Prevent Birds from Flying into Objects?, Nicole Ingrassia
Experimental Apparatus for Quantum Pumping with a Bose-Einstein Condensate., Megan K. Ivory
Thyroid Hormone Receptor Nucleocytoplasmic Transport, Zhang Jibo
Methodism, Slavery, and Freedom in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1770-1820, Christopher Cannon Jones
Testing The Unconscious Effect of Visual Context Illusions, Evan Douglas Jones
The Infusion of Stars and Stripes: Sectarianism and National Unity in Little Syria, New York, 1890-1905, Manal Kabbani
Influence of Structural Complexity and Location on The Habitat Value of Restored Oyster Reefs, Melissa Ann Karp
Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750-1860, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
A Comparative Case Study of the Role of the School District in Influencing School Improvement: Supporting and Turning Around Low-Performing Schools, Christopher J. Kelly
The Thin Ribbon Silk of the Brown Recluse Spider: Structure, Mechanical Behavior, and Biomimicry, Sean Robert Koebley
Contact and Explicit and Implicit Bias Towards Latinos/as, Jasmine Maria Koech
Developmental, Physiological, and Transcriptomic Analyses of Neurons involved in the Generation of Mammalian Breathing, andrew Kottick
Methods for Estimating The Diagonal of Matrix Functions, Jesse Harrison Laeuchli
Sturgeon (Acipenseridae) phylogeny, biogeography, & ontogeny., Katie May Laumann
Supporting Evolution and Maintenance of android Apps, Mario Linares-Vasquez
Electron Neutrino Appearance in the Nova Experiment, Ji Liu
The Relationship among Teacher Job Satisfaction, Trust in the Principal, and Principal Support, Natalie Elizabeth Lytle