Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Principals' perceptions of the effectiveness of a network support structure in a large urban school system, Racquel Jones
Beyond academic preparation: Anticipatory socialization, values, and the experiences of undergraduate male African American engineering students, Jacob David Joseph
Development of the Involuntary Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire (IAMQ), Song Hee Kang
The Relation between Selective Cross-Modal Attention and Emotional Multisensory Integration, Jamie Christine Klein
Toward the global public good: Accountability for higher education in the twenty-first century, Angelo J. Letizia
Behind the Scenes at William and Mary: Front Stage History and Backstage Archaeology, Tiffany Olivia Little
Development of a Large-Scale Storm Surge and High-Resolution Sub-Grid Inundation Model for Coastal Flooding Applications: A Case Study during Hurricane Sandy, Jon Derek Loftis
Effective Resource and Workload Management in Data Centers, Lei Lu
'I Get a Kick Out of You': Cinematic Revisions of the History of the African American Cowboy in the American West, Stephanie Anne Maguire
Using a Sonic Net to Deter Pest Bird Species: Excluding European Starlings from Food Sources by Disrupting their Acoustic Environment, Ghazi Mahjoub
The Roles of Dispersal and Predation in Determining the Seedling Recruitment Patterns of a Zostera marina System, Stephen R. Manley
"Genuine made-in-Americans" : living machines and the technological body in the postwar science fiction imaginary, 1944-1968, Kimberly Lynn Mann
An evaluation of Project iRead: A program created to improve sight word recognition, Theresa Meade Marshall
Building professionals: The intersection of professional learning communities and trust., Patrick McClintock-Comeaux
Measuring fidelity of implementation using the survey of enacted curriculum, Edward Sean McDonough
Fostering parental engagement in a rural Title I elementary school, Joyce R. McDowell
High-Resolution Sediment Records of Seismicity and Seasonal Sedimentation from Prince William Sound, Alaska, using XRF Core Scanning, Eric J. Miller
Meaningful Nonsense: Invented Words Reveal Characteristics of Emotional Stimuli, Emil G. Moldovan
The Technique of the Poquoson-Style Log Canoe, David andrews Moran
Powhatan's White Dog: Tsenacommacah in the English Trading World, Matthew Patrick Morrison
From "Lying Low" to "Harmonious World": Changes in Chinese Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the 2000s, Charles Monahan Murray
An Evaluation of a Reduced Bar Spacing Turtle Excluder Device in the U.S Gulf of Mexico offshore Shrimp Trawl Fishery, Michel Anthony Nalovic
Within-Person Relationships among Prayer, Well-Being, and Daily Events, David Benjamin Newman
Race, Childhood, and Native American Boarding Schools: A Case Study of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Tyler Norris
Factors Influencing Year-Class Strength and Growth of Young-of-The-Year Summer Flounder (Paralichthyidae: Paralichthys dentatus), Lauren N. Nys
"For How Could We Do without Sugar and Rum?": The Semiotics of Abolitionist Aesthetics, James Patrick Padilioni
Exploring a Novel Approach to Technical Nuclear Forensics Utilizing Atomic Force Microscopy, Richard Scot Peeke
Females and STEM: Determining the K-12 experiences that influenced women to pursue STEM fields, Anne Marie Petersen
An analysis of state and local alignment of teacher evaluation in Maryland, Serene N. Peterson
Successful pedagogical practices of elementary teachers of homeless students: A case study, Kimberly Owen Pickles
Spirited enterprises : Venezuela, the United States, and the independence of Spanish America, 1789-1823, Edward P. Pompeian
Sediment and Organic Carbon Burial in Englebright Lake, CA over the Last Century, Christina Rose Pondell
Maternal and Paternal Socialization of Children's Sadness: Links to Emotion Regulation, Psychopathology, and Social Functioning, Jennifer Ann Poon
Using Human Footprint Models and Land-Cover Variability to Predict Ecological Processes, Jessica Anne Pouder
Natural Variation in Fertility and GnRH Neurons in a Wild, Natural Population of White-Footed Mice, Peromyscus leucopus, Melissa Proffitt
Quantification of Nursery Habitats for Blue Crabs in Chesapeake Bay, Gina M. Ralph
From Señor Natural to Siervo de Dios: The Transition of Nahua Nobility Under Spanish Rule, 1540-1600, Shannon A. Retzbach
Superconducting Thin Films for SRF Cavity Applications: A Route to Higher Field Gradient Linacs, Wiliam Michael Roach
Ecosystem Service Potential Capacity Scenarios: Effects from Sea Level Rise and Management Practices, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia., Cielomar Rodriguez-Calderon
Investigating the relationships among primary teachers' math profile, math teaching efficacy, and math content pedagogical knowledge, Theresa Marie Roettinger
Obscured Conflations, (Un)Bending Frames: Considering the Concept of "Truth" in the Politics and Rhetoric of the Religious Right, Anna Catharine Rosenkranz
A descriptive case study of appreciative inquiry as an approach to strategic planning for special education in a public school, Paul L. Ruhlman Jr.
Physiological Stress and Post-Release Mortality of White Marlin (Kajikia albida) Caught in the U.S Recreational Fishery, Lela Sylvia Schlenker
The Formation of the Russian Medical Profession: A Comparison of Power and Plagues in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Samuel Otto Schuth
Whispering-gallery mode resonators for nonlinear and quantum optical applications, Matthew Thomas Simons
Enhancement of MS Signal Processing for Improved Cancer Biomarker Discovery, Qian Si
Temptress of the Stage: Whither the Widow-Woman?, Kathryn Elizabeth Snyder
Fishes in Seagrass Habitats: Species Composition, Trophic Interactions, and Production, Kathryn L. Sobocinski
Korean elementary teachers' perceptions of giftedness and support for talent development, YoungEun Son
Effects of Sub lethal Methylmercury Exposure on Pigment Coloration in a Model Songbird, Jessica Lynn Spickler
Examining the development of self-authorship among student veterans, Sharon L. M. Stone
Teachers' perspectives of effective lesson planning: A comparative analysis, Jessica Miller Wunderle Straessle
Drivin' trucks, huntin' bucks, and reading Aristotle?: The rural student's college choice dilemma, Rachel Mayes Strawn
Choosing mental health: An investigation of the relationship between college student help seeking and self-authorship, Kendra A. Surmitis
Effects of Saltwater Intrusion on Vegetation Dynamics and Nutrient Pools in Low-Salinity Tidal Marshes, Pamunkey River (Virginia, USA), Lori A. Sutter
Studies of Mortality Estimation, Amy Y. Then
'The Scar Must Remain': Memory and the First World War in the Ruth Fielding and Beverly Gray Series, Anna Murell Thompson
"Thus Did God Break the Head of that Leviathan": Performative Violence and Judicial Beheadings of Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century New England, Ian Edward Tonat
Rise of a Floater Class: Behavioral Adjustments by Breeding Bald Eagles in a Population Approaching Saturation, Courtney L. Turrin
New Insights into Fibrous Body Protein Complexes involved in C elegans Spermatogenesis, Christopher M. Uyehara
A program evaluation of a leadership academy for school principals, Kristi E. Wagner
Impact of Mercury Exposure on Birds and the Effect of Molt on Mercury Depuration in Songbirds, Margaret Crossley Whitney
Matching non-uniformity for program optimizations on heterogeneous many-core systems, Bo Wu
Direct vs Indirect Aggression Tactics as a Function of Domin-Specific Self-Esteem, Joy Plumeri Wyckoff
A Biogeochemical Data Assimilative Modeling Study in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, Yongjin Xiao
Magneto-Optics and Magneto-Transport Studies on Thin Films for Sensor Applications, Kaida Yang
Effects of Orexin A on Attention in Rats, Kristin Nicole Zajo
The Dalai Lama in American Documentaries: Symbol, Politics and American Mirroring, Shuting Zeng
Exploiting behavioral biometrics for user security enhancements, Nan Zheng
Nonlinear Optical Studies of Photoelastic Effect and Magneto-Plasmonics, Wei Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Applications of Holographic Dualities, Dylan Judd Albrecht
High-Performance Nanocomposites Designed for Radiation Shielding in Space and an Application of GIS for Analyzing Nanopowder Dispersion in Polymer Matrixes, Joseph Simcha Auslander
Seasonal Nitrogen Uptake and Regeneration in the Water Column and Sea-Ice of the Western Coastal Arctic, Steven E. Baer
"Handing Down Remarkable and Interesting Circumstances": Elizabeth Carrington and Female Intellectual Inheritance in the Early American Republic, Hannah Emily Bailey
Dwelling in Space Through Knowledge of Place: Building on Epistemological Understandings of the Seventeenth-Century British Atlantic, Hayden Frith Bassett
Electroless Gold Deposition with Self-Assembled Monolayers for Gas Chromatography Stationary Phases, Jessica Lynn Belton
Abundance, structure and function of zooplankton-associated bacterial communities within the York River, VA, Samantha L. Bickel
Gathering Places, Cultivating Spaces: An Archaeology of a Chesapeake Neighborhood through Enslavement and Emancipation, 1775--1905, Jon Jason Boroughs
Co-teaching: Perceptions of Urban, Secondary Co-Teachers, Michelle Boyd
Ontological Blackness: A n Investigation of 18th Century Burial Practices among Captive Africans on the Island of Barbados, Brittany Leigh Brown
Women in Engineering: The Impact of the College Internship on Persistence into an Engineering Field, Kimberly M. Brush
Evaluating the Potential for Adaptive Response to Mercury in Captive-Dosed Zebra Finches, Kenton August Buck
A union of church and state: The Freedmen's Bureau and the education of African Americans in Virginia from 1865--1871, Aaron Jason Butler
Nanoscale Mechanical Characterization of Graphene/Polymer Nanocomposites using Atomic Force Microscopy., Minzhen Cai
Improvements in Triploid Crassostrea virginica Production: Characterizing the Diploid Parent, Brian R. Callam
Sublethal Effects of Methylmercury on Flight Performance and Molt in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), Jenna Rae Carlson
Application of Acoustics and Optics for the Characterization of Suspended Particulate Matter within an Estuarine Observing System, Grace M. Cartwright
The Effect of Brand and Caloric Information on Flavor Perception and Food Consumption in Restrained and Unrestrained Eaters, Kevin Vincent Cavanagh
Development of the Chae Optimal Supervision Environment Test, Ki Byung Chae
Southern Orientation: Reimagining Asian American Identity and Place in the Global South, Frank Sung Cha
The Development of Ecological Functions in Created Forested Wetlands, Sean P. Charles
Imagining Saigon: American Interpretations of Saigon in the Twentieth Century, Evan Cordulack
Faculty sense of academic optimism and its relationship to students' achievement in well performing high schools, Michael Tyrone Cromartie
Synthesis and Fluorescence Studies of pH-Responsive Rhodamine B Derivatives, William Lawrence Czaplyski
Dooley's Ferry: The Archaeology of a Civilian Community in Wartime, Carl Gilbert Drexler
"Exile from My Native Shore": The Loyalist Diaspora and the Epistolary Family, Cara Anson Elliott
Optical Characterization of Magnetism in Magnetic/Nonmagnetic Heterostructures, Yichun Fan
The self on the page: Using student teachers' written stories as a reflective tool during the student teaching internship, Deborah O. Farina
