Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Development And Validation Of The Smoker Self-Stigma Questionnaire (sssq), Thomas Geist, MA, Psychology
The Origins of Manufactured Dissent and the Efficacy of Climate Change Narratives, Emma Elisabeth Giering, MA, English
Lcms-Based Analysis Explains The Basis Of Oxidative Resistance In Selenium-Containing Thioredoxin Reductase, Daniel Haupt, MS, Chemistry
Vinyl Cations As Cyclopentenone Precursors Via C‒h Insertion Or Alkene Addition Reactions, Magenta Hensinger, PhD, Chemistry
Effects of changing winter severity on plankton ecology in temperate lakes, Allison Rose Hrycik, PhD, Biology
Healthcare Provider Communication in Teens with Type 1 Diabetes: Parental Overprotection and Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills, Tori Humiston, MA, Psychology
Body Mass Index and Atypical Balance Score as Predictors of Treatment Outcomes for Seasonal Affective Disorder, Praise Iyiewuare, MA, Psychology
Testing Resilience as a Moderator of the Torture-Mental Health Relationship in Refugee Survivors of Torture, Phyu Pannu Khin, MA, Psychology
Adhd Behaviors And Social Functioning In Preschool Children: The Moderating Roles Of Inhibitory Control And Emotion Recognition, Allison Krasner, MA, Psychology
Much needed studies of the three players of Chagas disease in Central America: vertebrate blood meal sources and EcoHealth, a new vector species description, and key phylogenetic analysis of the trypanosome parasite., RAQUEL ASUNCION LIMA CORDON, PhD, Biology
Distinguishing different styles of transpressional deformation at an obliquely convergent plate margin, Fiordland, New Zealand, Emily Sarah Lincoln, MS, Geology
Capturing The Experiences Of Gender Non-Conforming Children Through The Minority Stress Model, Hannah Loso, MA, Psychology
The Developmental Course of ADHD in the Preschool Classroom: Toward a Prevention Treatment Framework, Caroline Martin, PhD, Psychology
Structural Characterization Of The Novel Flightin Domain Wyr And Its Defining Role In The Thick Filament Structure And Mechanics, Lynda Menard, PhD, Biology
Associative Structures Underlying Discriminated Three-Response Behavior Chains, Noelle Loren Michaud, MA, Psychology
Children's Conflict Appraisals, Temperamental Negative Affectivity, Affect and Arousal in the Context of Interparental Conflict., Phuong Nguyen, MA, Psychology
Quantum Simulations Of Low Dimensional Systems And Analytic Continuation Of Imaginary Time Correlation Functions, Nathan Scott Nichols, PhD, Physics
Sarracenia purpurea as a model system for aquatic ecosystem state changes and their impact on bacterial communities, Amanda Claire Northrop, PhD, Biology
Exploring Weight Control Expectancies as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Fear of Fat and Nicotine Dependence in Smokers and Vapers, Emily Pomichter, MA, Psychology
Examining Sex Differences In Habit Formation: Effects Of Methamphetamine Sensitization And Contributions Of Ovarian Hormones, Hannah Schoenberg Book, PhD, Psychology
How Postmodernist Poetry Imagines, Seunghyun Shin, MA, English
Personality Pathology in Winter Depression: Prevalence and Treatment Trajectories in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Light Therapy, Julia Marie Terman, MA, Psychology
A Deed Without A Name: Magical Social Reproduction In Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, And The Tempest, Emily Thibodeau, MA, English
The Development and Validation of the Supportive Other Experiences Questionnaire: Integrating the Perspectives of the Social Support Provider After Traumatic Injury, Katherine Ann van Stolk-Cooke, PhD, Psychology
Trace Metal Contamination In Urban Soils: A Field To Laboratory Methodological Framework For Characterization And Education, Sandra LeighAnne Walser, MS, Geology
Transient effects in solution-processed organic thin films, Jing Wan, PhD, Physics
Parent Status and Post-Traumatic Stress Severity Experienced by Refugees, Holly Taylor Weldon, PhD, Psychology
Perceived Addictiveness of Marijuana, Tobacco and Alcohol Use in Vermont Youth and Young Adults: Associations Between Addiction Perceptions, Sociodemographics, and Substance Use, Julia C. West, MA, Psychology
Two-Dimensional Bose–Hubbard Model for Helium on Graphene, Jiangyong Yu, MS, Physics
Multiscale Modeling Of Biological Complexes: Strategy And Application, Xiaochuan Zhao, PhD, Chemistry
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Investigations Of Pnictogen And Boron-Group Compounds Towards The Synthesis Of Group Iii/v Pre-Ceramic Molecules, Brandon James Ackley, PhD, Chemistry
Apocalypse Out of Time: William Apess's Political Theology, Jeffrey Garfield Adams, MA, English
The Vicissitudes Of Lack: Situating Asexuality Within Psychoanalysis, Nicholas Adler, MA, English
Assessing the Biogeochemical Drivers of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in Forested Headwater Catchments: A Multi-Scaled Approach, Thomas Adler, MS, Geology
The Energetic Consequences Of Winter Foraging For Northern Temperate Fish Species, Benjamin David Block, MS, Biology
Using Chirality-Assisted Synthesis To Construct Light-Responsive, Freeform Helical Foldamers And Shape-Defined Polymers, Jessica Leigh Bocanegra, PhD, Chemistry
Determining the Different Trajectories of PTSD Symptoms During the Acute Post-Trauma Period, Zoe Brier, MA, Psychology
Shame, Pride, and Disclosure: Exploring Paths to Distress in Individuals with Paraphilic Fantasies, Wilson Alexander Captein, MA, Psychology
From Gondwana to GAARlandia: Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography of spiders, Lisa Chamberland, PhD, Biology
William S. Culbertson and The Search for The Geopolitical Imperium, Gerard Colby, MA, History
What Is Wardian?: Formulating Jesmyn Ward’s Literary Style And Technique Through Textual Analysis, Comparison, And Differentiation, Ryan Anthony James Conroy, MA, English
“a Mighty Woman With A Torch”: Dorothy Thompson’s Call For American Action Against Nazism And Jewish Persecution, 1931-1945, Kiara Brynne Day, MA, History
Queer Anxieties in Washington State History, Michael Diambri, MA, History
An Investigation Of The Relationships Between Callous-Unemotional Traits, Emotion Regulation, Antisocial Behavior, And Gender, Amanda Falcon, MA, Psychology
An Exploration Of Β -Hydroxy- Α -Diazo Carbonyls In Synthesis: Fragmentation, Vinyl Cation Formation And Conjugate Addition Reactions, Jian Fang, PhD, Chemistry
Aridity in the Literature of the American West: Water in Stegner's Angle of Repose and Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, Annie Frodeman, MA, English
"Saved? What is saved?": The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise, Kelly Gray, MA, English
Autobiography She Wrote: Agatha Christie and the Problem of Female Authorship, Jesse Marie Keel, MA, English
Seasonal Water Column Dynamics Exert Strong Control On The Chemical Partitioning Of Benthic Phosphorus Pools Of Shallow Eutrophic Freshwater Systems, Meagan Leduc, MS, Geology
Parenting Style and Relational Aggression: The Moderating Role of Physiological Reactivity, Maria Lent, MA, Psychology
The architecture of a lower-crustal shear zone and evidence for along-strike variations in strain localization and partitioning, Fiordland, New Zealand, Peter Carl Lindquist, MS, Geology
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Of Two Contraceptive Services Interventions For Women Receiving Medication For Opioid Use Disorder And At Risk Of Unintended Pregnancy, Heidi S. Melbostad, PhD, Psychology
From Molecules to Whole Organisms: Insect Responses to Climate Change, Emily Elizabeth Mikucki, PhD, Biology
Chirality-Assisted Synthesis of Single-Handed Freeform Helical Ladder Polymers, Kyle Everett Murphy, PhD, Chemistry
Examining sucrose subjective response among individuals with opioid use disorder, Taylor Anne Ochalek, PhD, Psychology
The Intersection of Motherhood and Manipulation: How Slavery Informs The Maternal Identity, Meghan O'Day, MA, English
The Role of Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Reactivity on the Association between Childhood Adversity, Symptoms of Psychopathology, and Metabolic Health, Kerry O'Loughlin, PhD, Psychology
Effects of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi on reproductive traits in Vaccinium corymbosum, Erin O'Neill, MS, Biology
Towards a Developmental Theory of Coping: The Structure and Function of Coping in Emerging Adults, Virginia Diane Peisch, PhD, Psychology
Cognitive Predictors of Depressive Symptoms: Cognitive Reactivity, Mood Reactivity, and Dysfunctional Attitudes, Jessica Perez, MA, Psychology
"Do You Want To Live?": Law, Freedom, and Psychosis in the Modernist Novel, Edward Pomykaj, MA, English
The Axes of Fantasy: A Lacanian Exploration of Time and Space, Amelia Royce, MA, English
The Negative Consequences Of Positive Stereotypes: Positive Gender Stereotypes Elicit Negative Stereotype Beliefs But Not Stereotype Threat For Women In Stem., Elizabeth Scharnetzki, PhD, Psychology
Markers Of Alcohol Use Disorder Outpatient Treatment Outcome: Prediction Modeling Of Day One Treatment, Geoffrey J. Schaubhut, PhD, Psychology
Investigations Into Signaling Mechanisms Of The Dcbld Receptor Family, Anna Schmoker, PhD, Biology
Evidence For Polyphase Deformation In The Shear Zones Bounding The Chester And Athens Domes, Southeastern Vermont, From 40ar/39ar Geochronology, Kristin Schnalzer, MS, Geology
Bottom-Up Synthesis Of Macromolecules And Their Selective Catalytic Performance At The Nanoscale, Mona Sharafi, PhD, Chemistry
Consumption Of Microplastics Impacts The Growth And Fecal Properties Of The Marine Copepod, Acartia Tonsa, Emily Ann Shore, MS, Biology
Sulfur And Selenium In Peptides And Proteins: Part I – Chemoselective Methods For Disulfide Bond Formation, Part Ii – Function Of Selenium In Enzymes., Emma Jean Ste.Marie, PhD, Chemistry
Investigating Tobacco Withdrawal In Opioid-Maintained Smokers And Smokers With Other Vulnerabilities, Joanna Mayers Streck, PhD, Psychology
Spectroscopic Investigation Into The Heme Binding And The Heme Degradation By Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Mhud, Biswash Thakuri, PhD, Chemistry
Waking The Dragon: Routes To Female Empowerment In Fantasy, Claire Theoret, MA, English
The Development And Expansion Of A Cationic 1,3-Diaza Claisen Rearrangement That Affords Guanidines, Jordan Tocher, PhD, Chemistry
Investigation Of The Intramolecular 1,3-Diaza-Claisen Rearrangement In The Ring Expansion Reactions Of Vinyl Pyrrolidines And Vinyl Piperidines, Teruki Watanabe, PhD, Chemistry
Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation Among Perinatal Women At Risk for Depression: Effects on Smoking Abstinence and Depressive Symptoms, Ivori Zvorsky, PhD, Psychology
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Comedy Basque Style: A Recontextualization of Commedia all'Italiana, Zackary Michael Adams, MA, English
Parsing Heterogenity In Non-Episodic, Pediatric Irritability: A Transdiagnostic, Research Domain Criteria Informed Approach, Merelise Rose Ametti, MA, Psychology
The Body In Avant Garde Poetry, Matthew Luis Burkett, MA, English
Toward Macromolecular Shape And Size Control: Novel Enantioselective Nitrations And Iterative Exponential Growth Methods For Polymer Synthesis, Joseph Patrick Campbell, PhD, Chemistry
Quantum entanglement of one-dimensional spinless fermions, Emanuel Casiano-Diaz, MS, Physics
Metal Catalyzed Group 14 And 15 Bond Forming Reactions: Heterodehydrocoupling And Hydrophosphination, Michael Cibuzar, PhD, Chemistry
Multiscale Expression Of Apatite Dissolution, Adele Conde, MS, Geology
Examining The Malleability Of Cigarette Product Preference, Danielle Rose Davis, PhD, Psychology
Early Undergraduate Publishing At The University Of Vermont: Literary And Debating Societies & Their Publications, 1803-1865, Alexander Hampton Ellis, MA, History
Neurodevelopmental Roles of Semaphorin6A/PlexinA2 Signaling in Zebrafish, Sarah Elizabeth Emerson, PhD, Biology
Validation of the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy in Youth, Andrew Douglas Gill, PhD, Psychology
Can Perspective Taking Lead to Prejudice and Discrimination?, James Joseph Hodge, PhD, Psychology
Referral Patterns and Service Provision in Child Protective Services: Child, Caregiver, and Case Predictors, Hannah Mead Holbrook, PhD, Psychology
I. Contorted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Attempted Synthesis Of [12]circulene Derivatives Ii. Synthesis And Characterization Of Novel [1]benzothieno[3,2-B][1]benzothiophene Derivatives, Jonathan Hollin, PhD, Chemistry
Risk profiles for adolescent internalizing problems, Kelsey Elizabeth Hudson, PhD, Psychology
Protein Mass Spectrometry Aids In Chagas Vector Blood Meal Identification And Offers An Innovative Approach To Battling Vector-Borne Diseases, Judith Ina Keller, PhD, Biology
A Randomized Trial to Compare Switching to Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes Versus Reducing Cigarettes Per Day, Elias Mushabac Klemperer, PhD, Psychology
Measuring The Influence Of Environmental Conditions On Dissolved Organic Matter Biodegradability And Optical Properties: A Combined Field And Laboratory Study, Maxwell Landsman-Gerjoi, MS, Geology
As One Who From a Volume Reads: A Study of the Long Narrative Poem in Nineteenth-Century America, Sean Leahy, MA, English
Expansion Of The Intramolecular Zwitterionic-1,3-Diaza-Claisen Rearrangement Beyond Bridged-Bicyclic Electron-Deficient Isothioureas To Generate Substituted Cyclic Guanidines, Matthew William Luedtke, PhD, Chemistry
Warren Robinson Austin: A Reluctant Cold Warrior, Ronald Colin MacNeil, MA, History
Comparing Family Planning Knowledge Among Females and Males Receiving Opioid Agonist Treatment or Seeking Primary Care Services, Heidi S. Melbostad, MA, Psychology
Risk Factors for Suicidal Behavior among Bhutanese Refugees Resettled in the United States, Jonah Meyerhoff, PhD, Psychology
Strain Accommodation, Metamorphic Evolution, And 3d Kinematics Of Transpressional Flow Within The Lower Crust Of A Cretaceous Magmatic Arc In Fiordland, New Zealand, Griffin Amoss Moyer, MS, Geology
Ethics in Iran: Jacques Lacan and the Films of Abbas Kiarostami's "Koker Trilogy", Ryan Nordle, MA, English