Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Songbird Social Networks, Carly Elizabeth Hawkins
The Effects of Mating Strategy on Religiosity: Church Attendance as a Mating Strategy Component and the Role of Religious Belief., Jacob Thomas Henicheck
The Actions Institutional Agents Take to Support First-Generation Latino College Students at A Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institution: An Embedded Case Study, Diana Marie Hernández
Reproductive Investment in Crassostrea Virginica as an Indicator of a Tolerance Response to Perkinsus Marinus, Lauren Irene Huey
Shifting Patterns of Ribbed Mussel Distribution and Ecosystem Services in Response to Sea Level Rise, Robert Earl Isdell
Strategic Representations of Black Women in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Masculine British Print, Joan Elizabeth Jockel
The Transitional Generation: Faculty Sensemaking of Higher Education Reform in Ecuador, Mary Amanda Johnson
Vengeance with Mercy: Changing Traditions and Traditional Practices of Colonial Yamasees, Patrick Johnson
A Phenomenological Investigation of the Lived Experiences of Female African American Undergraduate Stem Students at an Elite Predominantly White Institution, Reginald O. Johns
“Terrible in its Beauty, Terrible in its Indifference”: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Sally Mann’s Southern Landscapes, Laura Keller
A Program Evaluation of an After-School Reading Intervention Program in a Small Urban Elementary School, Erin Kershner
“When I Put on My Firespitter Mask”: Jayne Cortez’s (R)Evolutionary Musical Poetic Collaborations, Renee Michelle Kingan
On The Margins of Empire: An Archaeological and Historical Study of Guana Island, British Virgin Islands, Mark Kostro
Beach-Ridge Sedimentology as an Archive of Terrestrial Climate Change: Insights From Geochemical and Stratigraphic Study of the Tijucas Strandplain, Southern Brazil, Julie Lauren Krask
Who Have Always Been Secret Enemies/King of the Irish Traders, Ryan P. Langton
History of Archaeological Research in the Yoruba-Edo Region of Nigeria: New Directions for Urban Earthenworks, Olanrewaju Blessing Lasisi
Of Mammies, Minstrels, and Machines: Movement-Image Automaticity and the Impossible Conditions of Black Humanity, Joseph Frank Lawless
“God Sends Meat and the Devil Sends Cooks”: Meat Usage and Cuisine in Eighteenth-Century English Colonial America, Dessa Elizabeth Lightfoot
An Order to Society/A Place Where "You Can Live Freedom", James Franklin Lowe
On Improving (Non)Functional Testing, Qi Luo
The Public Face(s) of Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire/"The Shop on the Corner of Wing's Lane", Alexandra Macdonald
Zone-Decorated Pots at the Hatch Site (44Pg51): a Late Woodland Manifestation of an Ancient Tradition, Douglas Makin
Individual- and Population-Level Effects of Temperature and Hypoxia on Two Demersal Fishes in Chesapeake Bay, Benjamin Marcek
Critical and Creative Thinking in General Education: A Descriptive Case Study, Nicholas Richard Marsella
The Magnificent Seven: a Narrative Analysis of Suppressed Discourses in Psychiatric Diagnoses, Clayton Vance Martin
The Relationship Between Reproduction and Mortality in Triploid Crassostrea Virginica, Joseph L. Matt
Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensors in Aqueous Environments, Matthew August McCarron
Teacher Perceptions of the Implementation Processes of the Imagine Learning Program in Title I Elementary Schools, Brigitt Angelica McGuinness
The Effects of Dietary Mercury Exposure on Male Fertility in the Zebra Finch, Ananda Menon
Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Tidal Wetland Extent and Distribution, Molly Mitchell
Lattice Qcd for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Short Range Operator Contributions, Henry Jose Monge Camacho
Automating Software Development for Mobile Computing Platforms, Kevin Patrick Moran
A Case Study of the Dynamics of Trust in a Reconstituted Urban Middle School, LaMarr Moses
A Measurement of Nuclear Effects in Deep Inelastic Scattering in Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions, Anne Norrick
The Development of Fiddler Crabs (Uca Spp.) as a Comparative Model System for the Parasitic Dinoflagellate, Hematodinium Perezi and its Natural Host the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus, Patricia Anne O'Leary
Performative Circulations of St. Martín De Porres in the African Diaspora, James Patrick Padilioni, Jr.
Searching for A Dark Photon in the Hps Experiment, Sebouh Jacob Paul
Psychophysiology of the Stress Response and the Hierarchical Structure of Emotional Disorders, Molly Penrod
Principal Support and Academic Optimism in Urban High Schools, Todd Edward Perelli
"Miss Rebecca Story's Book" / "Marrying a Minnister", Anne Catherine Powell
Measuring Hypodescent in the Social Categorization of Multiracial Targets, Matthew Steven Preda
Iron Polypyridyl Catalysts Assembled on Metal Oxide Semiconductors for Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, Nicholas Race
These Graves and Ruinous Houses/So Pertinacious Has Been the Misery, Maddison Jane Rhoa
Producing The Latina Disney Princess, Ashley Sarah Richardson
Carry-Over Effects in Complex Life Cycles: Linking Larval Food Supply with Juvenile Recruitment Success in Sea Stars, Emily Richardson
Ecology and Evolution of Common Milkweed, Angela Ricono
Multi-Scale Phylogenomics of Gadiformes With Emphasis on Hakes (Merluccius, Merlucciidae), Adela Y. Roa-Varon
Effect of Pigment Volume Concentration on Physical and Chemical Properties of Acrylic Emulsion Paints Assessed using Single-Sided Nmr, Mary Therese Rooney
Exotic Phases in Attractive Fermions: Charge Order, Pairing, and Topological Signatures, Peter Rosenberg
Dynamics of Systems With Hamiltonian Monodromy, Daniel Salmon
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
Developing Efficient High-Order Transport Schemes for Cross-Scale Coupled Estuary-Ocean Modeling, Fei Ye
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
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