Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Radiation Shielding Bricks for Mars Using Martian Regolith Simulant and Hydrogen-Rich Polymers, Sara Sargent
Monitoring Infection of E. Coli By Bacteriophage T7 through Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics, Amy Swayne Schienschang
Bound among Nations: Labor Coercion in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Casey Schmitt
A State-Level Superintendent Evaluation Policy Analysis, Tracey L. Schneider
Knowledge, Perceptions, and Beliefs of Elementary Principals Regarding Whole-Grade Acceleration for Gifted Students, Allison A. Sheppard
Byting Out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere, Nabeel Siddiqui
Rural Students’ Experiences at Selective Four-Year Colleges: Pathways to Persistence and Success, Amy Sikes
Investigating the Spatiotemporal Distribution of a Tick-Borne Pathogen, Ehrlichia Chaffeensis, Dylan Simpson
Motive-Goal Congruence, Imagination, and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis with A Structural Equation Model, Yoon Young Sim
Crab Larval Abundance and Settlement Patterns in a Changing Chesapeake Bay, Itchika Sivaipram
Immune Changes in the Anterior Kidney of Spawning Sockeye Salmon, Meaghan K. Smith
Promoting Student Success: A Program Evaluation of A Ninth Grade Transition Program, Micah Lonae Smith
Computational Investigations of the Structure and Spectroscopy of Small Biomolecules in the Gas Phase, Zachary Michael Smith
Literary Continuities/Imperative Education, Jane Snyder
The Lonely Ones: Selfhood and Society in Harry Stack Sullivan's Psychiatric Thought, Taylor S. Stephens
Watchful Waiting / Money Bags and Cannon Balls, William Sutherland
Consumption Patterns of Chesapeake Bay Fishes, Christopher James Sweetman
Exploring New Paradigms for Mobile Edge Computing, Yutao Tang
A Program Evaluation of the Behavioral Intervention Component of the Virginia Tiered Systems of Support in Three Middle Schools, Anna Weigel Thomas
Community and Culture: Material Life in Shenandoah County, Virginia, 1750-1850, Sarah E. Thomas
Extensions of the Standard Model Higgs Sector, Richard Keith Thrasher
Constructing the Non-Western 'Other': Euro-American Interpretations of Race and Gender Among Colonial and Indigenous Subjects, Amy Marie Trostle
Posttraumatic Growth of Young Adults Who Experienced A Parental Death during Adolescence: An Eriksonian Developmental Perspective, Victor Tuazon
Assisting Software Developers With License Compliance, Christopher Vendome
On The Table and Under It: Social Negotiation & Drinking Spaces in Frontier Resource Extraction Communities, Megan Rhodes Victor
Distinguishing Between Goosebumps, Tingling, Coldness, and Shivers According to Affective Composition, Lena Marie Wadsworth
Factors that Contribute to and Mediate Master’S Level Counseling Students’ Interest in Working with Older Adults, Nathaniel Jacob Wagner
Understanding and Enriching Randomness Within Resource-Constrained Devices, Kyle Wallace
Heathen Men and Publicans': Excommunicates, Church Discipline and the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience, 1730-1840, Samuel Spencer Wells
Corrupting the Mother Tongue/Broken Constitutions, Megan Whirley
Taking it to the Streets: Race, Space, and Early D.c. Punk, Ashleigh Mae Williams
The Role of Ecological Interactions in Saltmarsh Geomorphic Processes, Bethany Lynn Williams
Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Climate Change on Streamflow and Nutrient Delivery to the New River Estuary, NC, Shanna Williamson
The Family Politic: Free African American Gender and Belonging, 1793-1865, Elizabeth Joyce Wood
Enhancing Usability, Security, and Performance in Mobile Computing, Shanhe Yi
Quantifying and Explaining Causal Effects of World Bank Aid Projects, Jianing Simulation Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
An Evaluation of the Vccs Developmental Math Redesign from A Faculty Perspective, Michael Frank Adkins
Entangled By Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880, Konrad andrzej Antczak
The Eastern Oyster Microbiome and its Implications in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle, Ann Arfken
Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation and Toxin Production during The Uptake of Micromolar Concentrations of Nitrate, Ammonium, and Urea By A Marine Dinoflagellate, Christen Taylor Armstrong
A Paradigm Shift Within University Museums, Emily Bagdasarian
Making History Stick: Representations of Naval Stores in North Carolina Museums, Catherine Widin Bailey
Virginia Principals' Knowledge of Classroom Assessment and Support of Assessment for Learning Practices, Rachel Previs Ball
The Archaeology of Enslavement in Plantation Jamaica: A Study of Community Dynamics among The Enslaved People of Good Hope Estate, 1775-1838, Hayden Frith Bassett
Creating the Border: Defining, Enforcing and Reasserting Physical and Ethnic Borderzone Spaces during the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries in the Lake Champlain Richelieu River Valley, andrew Robert Beaupre
Highly-Correlated Electron Behavior in Niobium and Niobium Compound Thin Films, Melissa Rose Beebe
Native Citizens and French Refugees: Exploring the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution, Frances Bell
Dolly Parton and Southern Womanhood / Race, Respectability, and Sexuality in the Mid-Century South, Madalyn Bell
Literary Theory within a Cross-Classified Multilevel Framework: Personality Similarity between Writers and Readers Predicts Reader Inspiration, William Charles McNeal Belzak
Effects of an Essentialism Manipulation on the Neural Processing of Racial Minorities, JoEllen Blass
Superoxide Dismutase in Songbirds: Effects of Mercury, Exercise, and Sex on an Enzymatic Antioxidant, Juan Mateo Botero
Applying The Broaden-and-Build Theory to offender Counseling, Keosha Meka-Beyanka Branch
Juvenile Blue Crab Survival in Nursery Habitats: Predator Identification and Predation Impacts in Chesapeake Bay, Amanda Marie Bromilow
Superconducting Thin Films for The Enhancement of Superconducting Radio Frequency Accelerator Cavities, Matthew Burton
The Effect of Relational Mobility and Social Attractiveness on Psychological Well-Being, Megan Jessie Buys
Investigating Professional Development Models that Assist Teachers in Developing High Quality Teaching Skills: An Action Research Study, Lindsey Wood Caccavale
Contesting Identity and Citizenship in National Parks, 1900-1935, Rebecca Capobianco
Beyond The Butcher's Block: The Animal Landscapes of Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry Plantations, Jenna Kay Carlson Dietmeier
Folk into Art: John Fahey, Modernism and the American Folk Revival, Lisa Carpenter
Parsing The Aggregation- and Photodegradation-Induced Effects of Rhodamine-Sensitized Tio2 and Zro2 Films, James Cassidy
Quantum and Classical Manifestation of Hamiltonian Monodromy, Chen Chen
Assessment of the High-Resolution Sediment Gravity Flow Record in Prince William Sound, Alaska, Elisabeth Rose Clyne
Surface Modification of Synthetic and Natural Polymers using Deep Uv (172 Nm) Irradiation, Lopamudra Das
Addressing Underrepresentation in Gifted Education: A Historical Case Study of Policy and Practice in One School District, Darlene Wiggins Dockery
Opportunities in the Lived Experiences of Successful High-Ability International Doctoral Students at a Selective U.S. Higher Education Institution, Nataliya Dudnytska
P.s. Don’T Tell My Mother: American Children Debate Race and Civil Rights, 1946-1991, Cara Anson Elliott
Teacher Self-Efficacy and Implicit Theories of Intelligence: Implications for Novice Teacher Retention, Linda E. Feldstein
Subcellular Localization Dynamics of Thyroid Hormone Receptor and Mediator Complex Subunit 1, Matthew Robert Femia
’Wretched Petitioners’: Jamaican Maroon’s Petitions/ Catiline and Caesar in Early American Insults and the Whiskey Rebellion, Connor Fenton
Blood Money: Sex, Family, and Finance in the Antebellum Slave Trade, Alexandra Jolyn Finley
Computational Methods of Lattice Boltzmann Mhd, Christopher Robert Flint
Disconnected Diagrams in Lattice Qcd, Arjun Singh Gambhir
Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Conceptual Change with Respect to The Theory of Evolution By Secondary Biology Students, Kevin David Goff
Understanding Self-Control, Motivation, & Attention in the Context of Eating Behavior, Lisa Stephanie Goldberg
A mass-produced yet "authentic" food : a transatlantic history of pasta, identity, and national values in Italy and the US, 1890 to 1974, Melissa Faith Gray
Determination of the Kinematics of the Qweak Experiment and Investigation of an Atomic Hydrogen Møller Polarimeter, Valerie Marie Gray
A Multiple Case Study of Co-Teachers’ Technology Integration Knowledge: How It Is Held, Built, and Shared, Deborah A. Grosser
“Defenceless Wives” and “Female Furies” / Botany and the Early American Family, Holly Gruntner
Integration of Undulatory Swimming Kinematics and Ram Suspension Feeding in A Model American Paddlefish, Grant Emerson Haines
On The Impact of Internet Naming Evolution: Deployment, Performance, and Security Implications, Shuai Hao
The Influence of a theory based U.S. History curriculum on Student Content Knowledge, Student Historical Interpretation Skills, and Student Self Efficacy for Historical Inquiry, Sherry Joiner Harrell
Rebellion and Ethnicity in Colonial New York: Jacob Leisler, Nicholas Bayard and their World, Rachael Nicole Headrick
Examining Formal and Enacted Curricula for Culturally Responsive Strategies Regarding the Needs of Black Female Students: A Qualitative Content Analysis, Marquita Sherie Hockaday
Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Performance Pay and Performance Evaluation in Yunnan Province, China, Yi Hua
The Implementation of A Principal Mentoring Program and the Corresponding Impact on Leadership Practice, Paula Massey Huffman
Shining Light on The Phase Transitions of Vanadium Dioxide, Tyler J. Huffman
Extensions and Applications of Mean Length Mortality Estimators for Assessment of Data-Limited Fisheries, Quang C. Huynh
Security Enhancements in Voice Over Ip Networks, Seyed Amir Iranmanesh
The Octagon House and Mount Airy: Exploring the Intersection of Slavery, Social Values, and Architecture in 19th-Century Washington, DC and Virginia, Julianna Geralynn Jackson
Psychological Capital: An Internal Resource for Counseling Students Coping with Academic and Clinical Stress, Abbas Javaheri
Formulating Schwinger-Dyson Equations for Qed Propagators in Minkowski Space, Shaoyang Jia
A global normal form for two-dimensional mode conversion, David Gregory Johnston
Investigation of Local Structures in Cation-Ordered Microwave Dielectric a Solid-State Nmr and First Principle Calculation Study, Rony Gustam Kalfarisi
