Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Private Schools for Blacks in Early Twentieth Century Richmond, Virginia, Sharron Smith
The Effects of Drifting Fish Aggregating Devices on Bycatch in the Tropical Tuna Purse Seine Fisheries in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Julia Snouck-Hurgronje
Cabinet of Monkies: Dancing Politics in Anglo Culture, from Jacobite to Jacobin and Royalist to Republican, Amy Stallings
Developing Global Competency Skills in Grades 9-12: Implications for School Leadership, Bettina Staudt
Population Dynamics of Gelatinous Zooplankton in the Chesapeake Bay and Sargasso Sea, and Effects on Carbon Export, Joshua Paul Stone
“The Improvements Made By America on The Ancient Mode”: Classicism and Nationalism in the Early American Republic, 1780-1850, Alexander Strickland
Framing The Degree: An Autoethnography of Trauma in the Graduate Student Experience, Kristen Tarantino
Blurring The Lines between Collaboration and Resistance: Women in Nazi Germany and Vichy and Nazi-Occupied France, Katherine Michelle Thurlow
Radiant Exposure: The Art and Spectacle of the X-Rayed Body in American Visual Culture, Lita Tirak
Physical Properties of Traditional and Water-Miscible Oil Paints as Assessed By Single-Sided Nmr, Nicholas Anthony Sanchez Udell
A Test for Heritable Variation in A Wild Population in Response to Endocrine Disrupting Events, Emily van den Blink
“Killing The Cattle, Hogs, and Fowls”/stories of Osceola, andrew Stephen Vickory
High Achieving English Language Learners: The Schooling Experiences of Former Ell Students Enrolled in Advanced High School Courses, Anthony Vladu
Uncanny Objects: The Art of Moving and Looking Human, Khanh Van Ngoc Vo
The Effectiveness of the Achievable Dream Parent Involvement Program, Lee Vreeland
"Dread of Elder Titles": John Haywood and the Occult Origins of the Confederacy, Charles Allen Wallace
On Shelf-Slope Water Mass Exchanges Near Washington Canyon and Norfolk Canyon in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, Haixing Wang
Turbulent Particle Transport in H-Mode Plasmas on Diii-D, Xin Wang
Applications of High Energy Theory to Superconductivity and Cosmic Inflation, Zhen Wang
Protecting Web Contents Against Persistent Crawlers, Shengye Wan
Managing Micro Vms in Amazon Ec2, Jiawei Wen
Between Third Reich and American Way: Transatlantic Migration and the Politics of Belonging, 1919-1939, Christian Wilbers
Williams Hierarchical Integrated Model Measurement: Assessment Design, Construction, and Initial Validation, Amy Elizabeth Williams
The Effect of Methylmercury on The Auditory Brainstem Response in Domestic Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia Guttata), Sarah Elizabeth Wolf
Algorithms for Large Scale Problems in Eigenvalue and Svd Computations and in Big Data Applications, Lingfei Wu
Investigating Fraudulent and Privacy Activities in Online Business., Haitao Xu
Understanding Security Threats in Cloud, Zhang Xu
Workload Interleaving with Performance Guarantees in Data Centers, Feng Yan
A Precision Measurement of the Weak Charge of Proton at Low Q^2: Kinematics and Tracking, Siyuan Yang
Factors Affecting Temporal Variation in Occupancy of Two Common Species of Butterflies in Woodlands of the Eastern United States, Papilio Glaucus and Eurytides Marcellus., Angela Louise Zappalla
Study of Spatial Structure of Squeezed Vacuum Field, Mi Zhang
Dye-Sensitized Tio2 Modified with Iron Polypyridyl Catalyst for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, Wanji Zhang
The Role of Impulsivity in Dietary Restraint and Counter-Regulation, Wen Winnie Zhuang
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dynamic social networks with beneficial and detrimental interactions, Shadrack Adu Antwi
Group Status and Inter-Group Trust in Nepal and India, Gagan Atreya
The relationship between student infractions and social emotional competence: A program evaluation of Responsive Classroom(RTM), Bloodine Barthelus
Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Regulation as Mechanisms of Compensation from Notch Signaling Perturbation in the Developing Nervous System of Xenopus laevis, Catherine Hope Bianchi
A Mathematical Model of Tau Protein Hyperphosphorylation: The Effects of Kinase Inhibitors as a Theoretical Alzheimer's Disease Therapy, Patrick Neil Blank
A Widow's Purview: A Microhistory of Widowhood and Gender Relations in the Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia Backcountry, Eve Bourbeau-Allard
Heavy flavor interactions and spectroscopy from lattice quantum chromodynamics, Zachary S. Brown
A Value-Added Study of Math Teacher Effectiveness: A Comparative Analysis of Principal Evaluations, Self-efficacy Ratings, and Classroom Observations, Shannon Schmidt Butler
Ballistic atom pumps, Tommy Byrd
Storm event impact on organic matter flux, composition and reactivity in Taskinas Creek, VA, Sarah Schillawski Cammer
Nineteenth Century Enslaved African Americans' Coping Strategies for the Stresses of Enslavement in Virginia, Allison Michelle Campo
"In Noe Wise Cruelly Whipped": Indentured Servitude, Household Violence, and the Law in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, Caylin Elizabeth Carbonell
Afro-Barbadian Foodways: Analysis of the use of Ceramics by Freed Afro-Barbadian Estate Workers, Camille Lois Chambers
Internally Hydrogen-Bonded PRODAN Derivatives, Douglas William Cheek
Two-Component, Four Reaction Domino Sequence toward Novel Tricyclic 1,4-dihydro-2H-benzo(f)sochromenes, Yuzhou Chen
Building a consensus on the professional dispositions of counseling students: A content analysis on counseling student retention policies, Jeffrey Kyle Christensen
Development of Boron-Containing Polyimide Materials and Poly(arylene Ether)s for Radiation Shielding, Brittani May Collins
The Economics of Loyalty: Robert Bonner, the "New York Ledger", and Sentimental Capitalism., Kathryn Conner Bennett
Women in the Trenches: Barriers to Female Staff's Advancement in Higher Education, Carla A. Costello
Evaluation of a Brief Neurometric Battery for the Detection of Neurocognitive Changes Associated with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Probable Alzheimer's Disease, Emily Christine Cunningham
The Corporate Person: How U.S Courts Transformed a Legal Phantom into a Powerful Citizen, Zachariah J. DeMeola
Influence of Emotional Stimuli on Working Memory in Schizotypy, Docia L. Demmin
Sterile Neutrino Search with MINOS., Alena V. Devan
Configuring and Assembling Information Retrieval based Solutions for Software Engineering Tasks., Bogdan Dit
African American Civil Rights Museums: A Study of the R.R Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia, Christina S. Draper
Human Induced Cyclical Erosion Due to Altered Sediment Bypassing Mechanisms of a Barrier Island and the Resultant Impact on the Housing Market, Andrew R. Fallon
An Investigation of Hermaphroditism in R sp SB 347, Maureen Catherine Farrell
"A Mode of Correcting the Existing Evils": Swindlers, Inland Passage Tickets, and the Federalization of Immigration Policy in the Antebellum United States, Joseph Patrick Fitzgibbon
Surface-Enhanced Raman and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Studies of Fugitive Artists' Pigments, Kristen A. Frano
The Influence of Zostera marina and Ruppia maritima on Habitat Structure and Function in a Changing Environment in the Chesapeake Bay, Emily D. French
The Black Gothic Imagination: Horror, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship from the Civil Rights Era to the New Millennium., Mikal J. Gaines
The Reproductive Biology of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in Chesapeake Bay, Carissa L. Gervasi
Of Circuit Riders and Circuit Courts: A Case Study of the Methodist Border Conflict in Antebellum Virginia, Douglas Paul Gleason
Performing Jane: a cultural history of Jane Austen's fans in America, Sarah G. Glosson
Influences of Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom on Bias, Melissa Anne Gomez
Beating the Odds: Towards Understanding How Principal Leadership Practices in High Schools Support School Completion for African American Males with Learning and Emotional Disabilities, Elaine Butler Gould
Inviting the Principle Gentlemen of the City: Privacy, Exclusivity, and Food Complexity in Colonial Taverns, Lauren Elizabeth Gryctko
Hawaiian Emancipation?: Slavery, Free Labor, and Indentured Labor in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, Mark Thomas Guerci
"Written in Indian": Creating Legitimized Literacy and Authorized Speakership in Koasati., Stephanie Hasselbacher
Understanding the lived experiences of students in a comprehensive four-year undergraduate leadership development program, Jessica Walker Hench
Culture Clash: A case study of the issues that non-traditional college presidents face in adjusting to academic culture, Sean Michael Heuvel
Determination of the Proton's Weak Charge via Parity Violating e-p Scattering., Joshua Russell Hoskins
Diel, Seasonal, and Interannual Patterns in Mesozooplankton Abundance in the Sargasso Sea, Jami Alora Ivory
Habitat use of the Declining Wood Thrush in Coastal Virginia, Vitek Jirinec
The Influence of Environmental Factors and Resource Availability on Zostera marina Flowering Intensity, Andrew J. Johnson
"Members, Don't Git Weary": Max Roach, "Treme", and the Sound of Resistance, Brian Edward Jones
The Influence of Short-Term Events on the Hydrographic and Biological Structure of the Southwestern Ross Sea, Randolph M. Jones
"Pretty girls and fascinating boys" : the adolescent journey of evangelical youths, 1970-2000, Maria Alexandria Kane
Artful Manipulation: The Rockefeller Family and Cold War America, Julia Kaziewicz
Stressed, Pregnant, and Behind Bars, Caroline Malory Kelsey
Could You Point Me to Your Nearest Clay Source, Please?: A XRF Study of Barbadian Historic Era Ceramics, Benjamin Crossley Kirby
"The Pretended Riot Explained": Citizen Sovereignty and the Mashpee Revolt, Michaela Kleber
Making the Bronx Move: Hip-Hop Culture and History from the Bronx River Houses to the Parisian Suburbs, 1951-1984., Kevin Waide Kosanovich
Neurotransmitter Systems and Age Related Cognitive Decline: A Focus on Attention and Plasticity, Christine Teal Kozikowski
Academic optimism, organizational citizenship behavior, and principal support: An examination of factors effecting teacher agency in elementary schools., Maria Terese Krug
A Model of Carrying Capacity and Ecosystem Impacts in a Large-Scale, Bivalve-Dominated Agro-Ecosystem: Hard Clam Aquaculture in Cherrystone Inlet, VA, Michael A. Kuschner
Development of a Solid-Supported Glaser-Hay Reaction and Utilization in Conjunction with Unnatural Amino Acids, Jessica S. Lampkowski
To experience something greater than myself: An exploratory case study of the impact of a faculty-led short-term study abroad on college student identity, E. Ashleigh Schuller Lee
The use of functional traits to elucidate the causes and consequences of biological diversity., Jonathan S. Lefcheck
Development of a Three Step Cascade Synthesis of 2,4-Dihydro-1H-benzo[f]isochromenes, Shane E. Lewis
Linking structure and function of microbial communities responsible for sedimentary nitrogen processes in North Carolina estuaries, Jessica A. Lisa
Noble Metal Free Catalysts for Hydrogen Generation from Aqueous Solutions, Dan Liu
Spread and interaction of epidemics and information on adaptive social networks, Yunhan Long
