Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A Program Evaluation of Middle School Science Teachers’ Perceptions and Instructional Practices with the Next Generation Science Standards: Science and Engineering Practices, Antoinette Marie Glenn
Human Dimensions of a Participatory, Collaborative Modeling Process - Oysterfutures, Taylor Dawn Goelz
An Evaluation of Teacher Perceptions of the Effectiveness of the Professional Development Provided through a School-Based Mental Health Program, Nyah Donnielle Hamlett
Research on Efficiency and Security for Emerging Distributed Applications, Zijiang Hao
Injury & Resistance: Centering HIV/AIDS Histories in Times of Queer Equality, Jan Huebenthal
Unexplored Aspects of the Biotic Filter to Seedling Recruitment in Aquatic Environments, Andrew James Johnson
Engaging Teachers to Improve Administrator Support in an Urban Middle School: an Action Research Study, Barbara R. Kimzey
Fluxes, drivers, and composition of carbon exchanged at the Taskinas Creek, VA coastal marsh creek-estuarine interface, Amanda Knobloch
His Majesty's Ship Saphire and the Royal Navy in 17th-Century Newfoundland, Erika Elizabeth Laanela
Distress Tolerance Predicts Day-To-Day Emotion Regulation Behaviors, Maria Alexandra Larrazabal Carrillo
Being Myself in School: A Phenomenological Investigation of Historically Underrepresented High Ability Middle School Students, Melanie Joy Lichtenstein
Optical Characterization of Dynamic Exchange Coupling Interaction in Ferromagnetic Heterostructures, Xiao Liu
On Enhancing Security of Password-Based Authentication, Yue Li
A Program Evaluation of Student and Teacher Perceptions of an Online Edgenuity High School Course Program in an Urban High School, Titinesha Llewellyn
Unfolding the Logic of a 21St Century Learning Center: Program Evaluation, Monica Rene Manns
Improving Wifi Sensing And Networking With Channel State Information, Yongsen Ma
Teacher Perceptions of Professional Development Practices and Their Influence on Self-Efficacy: An Action Research Study, Jennifer McSweeney
The Influence of Family Functioning on Social Competence, Social Support, and Mental Health Among College Students, Sean Newhart
Mental Health Professsionals: Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders and Moral Development, Benjamin Sean Newman
GPGPU Reliability Analysis: From Applications to Large Scale Systems, Bin Nie
An Exploration into the Identification, Etiology, and Distribution of Idiopathic Blindness in the American Lobster, Homarus Americanus, Addison T. Ochs
An Action Research Study: Inclusive Culture Formation in a New High School, David Wayne Parrish
The Lived Experiences of Poor And Working-Class Students at a Wealthy University, Dane A. Pascoe
Influencing Empire: Protest And Persuasion In The Stamp Act Period, Molly FitzGerald Perry
An Evaluation of Evidenced-Based Practice in a Separate Day School for Students with Emotional Disabilities, Sara Pritchard-Mitchell
Scattering a Bose-Einstein Condensate Off a Modulated Barrier, Andrew James Pyle
Impacts of Physical Transport on Estuarine Phytoplankton Dynamics and Harmful Algal Blooms, Qubin Qin
“It's Not about Us": The Erasure of African American Heritage and the Rehistoricization of the First Africans on Jamestown Island, Virginia, LaMarise C. Reid
Fecundity of Triploid Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea Virginica) as a Function of Tetraploid Lineage, Kate Ritter
Impacts of Margalefidinium polykrikoides and Alexandrium monilatum on Oysters Cultured in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Clara L. Robison
Age-Related Differences in Inhibitory Function: Investigation of Simon and Flanker Conflicts in Erps, Rachel Scrivano
Modeling the Effects of Supercomplex Formation and Stress Response on Alzheimer’S Disease Progression, Morgan Griffin Shelton
The Influences on K-2 Teachers' Approaches Towards Assessment and Developmentally Appropriate Practice, Leah K. Shy
Examining Persistence: the Influence of Joining of Pan-Hellenic Black Greek Letter Organizations on African-American Male Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions, Charles R. Smith, Jr.
A Community of Practice for School Leaders: Its Impact on their Perceptions of Collaborative Practice, Levels of Trust, Self-Awareness, and Self-Efficacy, Richard Michael Smith
Evolution of the genome-wide distribution of genes and transposons, Ronald Dutilh Smith
When a Man Loves a Woman: The Lived Experiences of Male Sober Partners in Romantic Relationships with Women Who Struggle with Addiction, Katharine Rose Sperandio
Optimization Approaches for Open-Locating Dominating Sets, Daniel Blair Sweigart
Italy's American West: Brava Gente, American Indians, and the Circulation of Settler Colonialism, Tyler Norris Taylor
Global Shipping Container Monitoring Using Machine Learning with Multi-Sensor Hubs and Catadioptric Imaging, Victor Esteban Trujillo
Learning Code Transformations via Neural Machine Translation, Michele Tufano
Partitioning of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants and Microbial Communities on Microplastics, Kelley Ann Uhlig
Complex Mixtures: Identifying and Characterizing Secondary Organic Aerosols, Emma Quinn Walhout
A School for Leaders: Continental Army Officer Training and Civilian Leadership in the Trans-Appalachian West, David Lawrence Ward
Giant Steps: Toward a Developmental Trajectory of Creative Talent as a Jazz Improviser, Anthony Michael Washington
Computational Graphics and Statistical Analysis: Mixed Type Random Variables, Confidence Regions, and Golden Quantile Rank Sets, Christopher Weld
The Impact of Undergraduate Student Involvement in Creating Engaged Alumni, Katherine Elizabeth Winstead Reichner
A Program Evaluation of Gameday the DIII Way, Erin Beth Wojtkun
Investigation of Pattern Formation in Marine Environments Through Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data, Sofya Zaytseva
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Program Evaluation of the One-To-One Chromebook Initiative in a Rural School District in Virginia, Juvenal Enrique Abrego-Meneses
Improving Stock Assessments and Management Advice for Bluefin Tunas and Other Highly Migratory Species, Lisa Elma Ailloud
Project Based Learning to Promote 21St Century Skills: An Action Research Study, Jason Michael Allison
Development of a One Pot [4+2]/r[4+2] 2-Pyridone Synthesis and the Fluorescence of 2-Pyridone Azafluorenones, Nicholas Angello
Acetylation Controls Thyroid Hormone Receptor Intracellular Localization and Intranuclear Mobility, Cyril S. Anyetei-Anum
Exploring Kindergarten Teachers' Self-Perceptions of Writing Instruction: An Appreciative Phenomenological Approach, Elizabeth Auguste
First -Generation Hindu Indian-American Undergraduates’ Grief After Death of Grandparent(S) in India, Ramya Avadhanam
First Measurements of the Parity-Violating and Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetries in Elastic Electron-Aluminum Scattering, Kurtis David Bartlett
We Shall Remain: Indigenous Influence in Sixteenth-Century "La Florida" and the Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Arctic, Daniella F. Bassi
Education Reform in the New American Republic/education and the Charity of Edward Hopkins, Christina L. Beck
"To Milk the Yankee Tourists": Mid-20Th-Century Heritage Practice and the Social Construction of Whiteness in the American South, Jessica Bittner
The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia, Janine Yorimoto Boldt
Applications of Lattice Qcd to Hadronic Cp Violation, David Brantley
"By the Dear, Immortal Memory of Washington"/The Baptists, Culture, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Douglas Breton
Factors that Contribute to Motivation and Burnout among Teachers of Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders, Adam Joseph Brown
Making a Home Out of No Home: ‘Colored’ Orphan Asylums in Virginia, 1867–1930, August Butler
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Studies of Organic Dyes for Art Conservation and Ph Sensing Applications, Shelle Nicholle Butler
Parent and Friend Emotion Socialization as Correlates of Adolescent Eating Behavior, Margaret Eileen Cameron
Usability, Efficiency and Security of Personal Computing Technologies, Nancy Carter
Buried Beneath The River City: Investigating An Archaeological Landscape and its Community Value in Richmond, Virginia, Ellen Luisa Chapman
History of Prostitution/Vampires in the American Republic, Shannon Elizabeth Christensen
Education Reform as Moral Disengagement: the Racist Subtext of the State Takeover of Little Rock School District, Davis Clement
Impacts of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and Coastal Nitrogen Fluxes on Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia, Fei Da
Range-Wide Variation in Common Milkweed Traits and its Effect on Larvae of the Monarch Butterfly, David De La Mater
Probe of Electroweak Interference Effects in Non-Resonant Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering, James Franklyn Dowd
The Gap on the Block: Aboriginality, Subjectivity, and Agency in Contemporary Urban Australia, Jennifer Michelle Ellis
An exploratory study of leadership, literacy assessments and acceleration for closing the reading achievement gap by third grade, Laura Frances Estes
Proton Spin Structure from Monte Carlo Global Qcd Analyses, Jacob Ethier
The Duality of Dual Enrollment: How The Relationship between Student Demographics, Academic Metrics, and College Enrollment Adds Up, Tiffany Noel Ferrari
Memories in Stone/Reconstructing the Street, Samuel C. Florer
Dissociating Alzheimer’s Disease from Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment using Time-Frequency Based EEG Neurometrics, Wendel Matthew Friedl
Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel, Frank Anthony Fucile
Investigating Emerging Security Threats in Clouds and Data Centers, Xing Gao
Mixed-Weight Open Locating-Dominating Sets, Robin M. Givens
Characterizing the Biological Impacts and Human Dimensions of the U.S. East Coast Recreational Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishery, William Morris Goldsmith
Salud Mental: The Conceptualization and Experiences of Mental Health among Undocumented Mexican Immigrants, Edith Gonzalez
The Serving Supervisor: Supervisor Servant Leadership as a Protective Factor for Counseling Residents’ Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress, Colleen Grunhaus
Utilization of Unnatural Amino Acids to Modulate Protein Structure and Function, John Halonski
Settler Colonialism in Russian America/Alaska and the Indian Reform Movement, Ian Lee Halter
Applicable Outcomes: A Program Evaluation of the Investigations Math Program, Sean Marco Hamer
A Program Evaluation of A Technology Based Formative Assessment for Algebra Readiness, Cassandra Harris