Theses/Dissertations from 2016
My Ántonia and Willa Cather's Reciprocal Regionalism and W.T. Benda's Illustrations, Sean Michael Abrams, MA, English
Unprecedented Ractivity Of 1-Aza-2-Azoniaallene Salts: New Methodologies And Mechanistic Studies For The Formation Of Diazenium Salts And Tetrahydropyridazines, Nezar Al-Bataineh, PhD, Chemistry
The Structural Evolution Of A Portion Of The Median Batholith And Its Host Rock In Central Fiordland, New Zealand: Examples Of Partitioned Transpression And Structural Reactivation, Hannah Jane Blatchford, MS, Geology
Walking With A Ghost: Sodomy, Sanity and the Secular, Kyle Joseph Campbell, MA, English
A Study Of The Physicochemical Properties Of Dense And Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles That Impact Protein Adsorption From Biological Fluids, Alden Michael Clemments, PhD, Chemistry
The Stare-In-The-Crowd Effect: Phenomenology, Psychophysiology, And Relations To Psychopathology, Eileen Tara Crehan, PhD, Psychology
Impacts Of Forest Disturbance On Small Mammal Distribution, Allyson Lenora Degrassi, PhD, Biology
Investigating The Influence Of Gold Nanoparticles On The Photocatalytic And Catalytic Reactivity Of Porous Tungsten Oxide Microparticles, Daniel P. DePuccio, PhD, Chemistry
Exercise in developing rats promotes plasticity in the prefrontal cortex: behavioral and neurobiological indications, Meghan Eddy, PhD, Psychology
Cognitive Vulnerability to Mood Disturbance in an Exercise Withdrawal Paradigm, Margaret C. Evans, PhD, Psychology
Learning Related Regulation of a Voltage-Gated Ion Channel in the Cerebellum, Jason R. Fuchs, PhD, Psychology
Investigations Into Carbon Nanotube And Natural Product Synthesis., Geoffrey Giampa, PhD, Chemistry
Second coordination sphere of heme in Mycobacterium tuberculosis MhuD, and the mechanism of heme degradation, Amanda Graves, PhD, Chemistry
Comparing Meteoric 10Be, In Situ 10Be, and Native 9Be Across a Diverse Set of Watersheds, Emily Sophie Greene, MS, Geology
Using Aqueous Soil Extracts to Study Organic Matter Leaching From Soils of Different River Corridor Land Covers in Vermont, Alyson Hampsch, MS, Geology
The Role of Green Leafy Plants in Atmospheric Chemistry: Volatile Emissions and Secondary Organic Aerosol, Rebecca Harvey, PhD, Chemistry
The Past Isn't Dead: Faulkner's Postcolonialism, Travis Roy Heeren, MA, English
Sexual Conflict and Chemical Communication in Hybridizing Harvester Ants, Michael Philip Herrmann, PhD, Biology
Peer Victimization and the Development of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms: The Roles of Stress Physiology and Gender, Leigh Ann Holterman, MA, Psychology
Establishing Chemical Mechanisms And Estimating Phase State Of Secondary Organic Aerosol From Atmospherically Relevant Organic Precursors, Shashank Jain, PhD, Chemistry
Dcbld2/esdn Is Essential For Proper Optic Tract Formation And Retinal Lamination, Ryan Mears Joy, MS, Biology
International Activism of African Americans in the Interwar Period, Clayton Maxwell Kendall, MA, History
Chronic Stress Potentiates The Response To Intra-Bed Nucleus Of The Stria Terminalis (bnst) Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Peptide (pacap) Infusion., Steven Bradley King, MA, Psychology
The Relationship Between Magmatism and Deformation During the Acadian Orogeny: A Case Study from Eastern-Central Vermont, Samuel William Lagor, MS, Geology
Phylogenetics And Molecular Evolution Of Highly Eusocial Wasps, Federico Lopez-Osorio, PhD, Biology
Excitonic States in Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: A Condensed Matter Approach, Lane Wright Manning, PhD, Physics
Prejudice against Black Americans versus Black Africans in College Admission, Asia McCleary-Gaddy, MA, Psychology
Poetics of The Real, Matthew Mersky, MA, English
Intra-Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Peptide Infusion Reinstates Cocaine Seeeking in Rats, Olivia Miles, MA, Psychology
A Nanoparticle/enzyme System For The Simultaneous Detection And Decontamination Of Organophosphates, Brendon Mark Miller, PhD, Chemistry
Using Long- And Short-Lived Sediment-Associated Isotopes To Track Erosion And Sediment Movement Through Rivers In Yunnan, Sw China, Thomas Bundgaard Neilson, MS, Geology
"The Nest of Tories which has Invested this Precinct": The Loyalists of Newburgh, New York, Kieran John O'Keefe, MA, History
Receptors for the detection of L-amino acids and IMP by mouse taste sensory cells, Shreoshi Pal Choudhuri, PhD, Biology
The Long Red Scare: Anarchism, Antiradicalism, and Ideological Exclusion in the Progressive Era, Adam Quinn, MA, History
High flow events as hot moments of reactive Fe and P export: impacts of land cover and seasonality, Braden Rosenberg, MS, Geology
An integrative chronobiological-cognitive approach to seasonal affective disorder, Jennifer Nicole Rough, PhD, Psychology
Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking of Antagonists to Class B G-Protein Coupled Receptor Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Type 1 (PAC1R), Suzanne Louise Stanton, MS, Chemistry
Missing The Curfew: A Cultural History Case For Re-Reading Thomas Gray's Most Famous Line, Michael Joseph Thomas, MA, English
Autonomic Reactivity and Adjustment in Middle Childhood, Caitlin Reilly Wagner, PhD, Psychology
Novel Mechanisms Governing Autoregulation of the Src Family Kinase Fyn and its Crosstalk with Protein Kinase A, Marion Weir, PhD, Biology
Polarization Charge Density in Strained Graphene, Noah Wilson, MS, Physics
Associations Between Children's Perceptions Of Interparental Conflict And Neuropsychological Correlates Of Interpersonal Emotion Stimuli, Hannah C. Woolfolk, MA, Psychology
Oxygen-Sensitive Luminophores: A Survey of the Literature and Efforts toward a Novel Porphyrin-Pillared Zirconium Phosphonate, Joseph Wright, MS, Chemistry
The Effects of Self-Threats and Affirmations on Romantic Relationship Functioning: The Moderating Roles of Self-Esteem and Relationship-Contingent Self-Esteem, Jennifer Lynn Zangl, PhD, Psychology
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Nazi Collaborators, American Intelligence, and the Cold War: The Case of the Byelorussian Central Council, Mark Alexander, MA, History
The Influence Of Prenatal Stress On Behaviors Associated With Schizophrenia And Autism Spectrum Disorder., Harold Bauerle, MA, Psychology
Investigation Of A Ring Fragmentation Reaction For The Synthesis Of Tethered Aldehyde Ynones And Medium Sized Cyclic Ynones And Ynolides, Ali Bayir, PhD, Chemistry
The Champlain Sea/Lake Champlain Transition Recorded In The Northeast Arm Of Lake Champlain, USA-Canada, Ashliegh Theresa Belrose, MS, Geology
The Molecular Evolution of Non-Coding DNA and Population Ecology of the Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera) in Lake Champlain, Lucas Edward Bernacki, PhD, Biology
Working in Utopia: Locating Marx's "Realm of Necessity" in the Socialist Futures of Bellamy and Morris, Kira Braham, MA, English
Sedimentologic Comparison Of The Late/lower Early Middle Cambrian Altona Formation And The Lower Cambrian Monkton Formation, Ryan A. Brink, MS, Geology
Density Functional Theory Study of Dilute Transition Metal Phthalocyanines, Daniel Burrill, MS, Physics
A Comparative Examination of the Safety Programs at UCLA, UMN, and UVM in Response to Recent Chemistry Laboratory Incidents, Victoria Carhart, MS, Chemistry
Understanding Everyday Decisions: An Examination Of Biases In Decision-Making, Educational Attainment, And Use Of Tobacco And Nicotine Delivery Products Among Women Of Reproductive Age, Laura L. Chivers, PhD, Psychology
A Randomized Pilot Trial: An Internet-Based Mind/body Intervention To Mitigate Anxiety In Women Experiencing Infertility, Jessica Clifton, PhD, Psychology
The Mormon Battalion's Manifest Destiny: Expansion and Identity during the Mexican-American War, Natalie Brooke Coffman, MA, History
Determinants of Termite Species Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Diversity in the Amazonian Forest, Cristian de Sales Dambros, PhD, Biology
The interplay between deformation and metamorphism during strain localization in the lower crust: Insights from Fiordland, New Zealand, Kathryn Elise Dianiska, MS, Geology
Thomas Johnson: Gentleman, Vermonter, Patriot, Angela Nicole Grove, MA, History
Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β: An Investigation Of The Novel Serine 389 Phosphorylation Site, Brendan Deegan Hare, PhD, Psychology
Effects of hybridization and life history tradeoffs on pathogen resistance in the Harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex), Yainna M. Hernaiz-Hernandez, MS, Biology
Distress Intolerance and Cannabis Use: An Initial Empirical Investigation, Julianna Brett Hogan, PhD, Psychology
FNIRS Measures of Prefrontal Cortex Lateralization During Stuttered and Fluency-Enhanced Speech in Adults Who Stutter, Danra M. Kazenski, PhD, Psychology
Factors in the Regulation of Cycles of Binge Eating Behavior, Andrew Knapp, PhD, Psychology
Susceptibility to Peer Influence for Engagement in Relational Aggression and Prosocial Behavior: The Roles of Popular Peers, Stress Physiology, and Gender, Nicole Lin Lafko, MA, Psychology
I. A New Route To Azomethine Ylides: Shifting The Reliance On Amino Ester Precursors II. Applications In Total Synthesis, Natalie Kay Machamer, PhD, Chemistry
Catalytic Main Group Element Bond Formation Reactions Toward the Preparation of Conjugated Materials, Neil Mucha, PhD, Chemistry
Moderating Effects of Coping on Associations Between Stress Reactivity and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, Amy Aliza Paysnick, PhD, Psychology
Meckelin Functions in the Guided Movement and Orientation of Basal Bodies Prior to Duplication in Paramecium tetraurelia, Tyler August Picariello, PhD, Biology
Intuitions or Informational Assumptions? An Investigation of the Psychological Factors Behind Moral Judgments, Nolan Rampy, PhD, Psychology
Studies Toward The Total Synthesis Of Subincanadine E, Corinne Marie Sadlowski, PhD, Chemistry
Discrepant Attentional Biases Toward Sexual Stimuli, Martin Seehuus, PhD, Psychology
Wanting It Told: Narrative Desire in Cather and Faulkner, Monroe Street, MA, English
Polycystin-2 (PKD2), Eccentric (XNTA), and Meckelin (MKS3) in the Ciliated Model Organism Paramecium tetraurelia, Megan Smith Valentine, PhD, Biology
The Common Cause of All Advanced and Progressive Mankind: Proletarian Internationalism, Spain, and the American Communist Press, 1936 - 1937, G. Scott Waterman, MA, History
FGF8a is Required for Proper Vascularization of the Zebrafish Retina, Erin Wysolmerski, MS, Biology
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
An Analysis of the Effect of ß-Hydroxy-ß-Methylbutyrate on the Flight Ability and Lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster, Alexandra Elizabeth Beattie, MS, Biology
The Victorian Governess as Spectacle of Pain: A Cultural History of the British Governess as Withered Invalid, Bloody Victim and Sadistic Birching Madam, From 1840 to 1920, Ruby Ray Daily, MA, History
The Cortisol/DHEA Ratio and Sexual Function in Women with and without a History of Depression, Carolyn Marie Dundon, PhD, Psychology
Assessment Reactivity within the Context of a Web-Based Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use, Tera Leigh Fazzino, PhD, Psychology
Investigations into host-specific interactions and local adaptation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis, Jonathan Gonzalez, MS, Biology
Electron Correlation Effects in Strained Dual-Layer Graphene Systems, Peter Karl Harnish, MS, Physics
Novel Aza-Prins Cyclization and [3+2] Dipolar Cycloaddition Toward N-Heterocyclic Molecules and Studies Toward the Total Synthesis of Borrecapine, Xiaoxi Liu, PhD, Chemistry
Examining Delay Discounting and Response to Incentive-Based Smoking-Cessation Treatment Among Pregnant Women, Alexa Ashley Lopez, PhD, Psychology
Effect Of Thermal Treatment On The Cation Exchange And Disordering In Tourmaline, Jacob Stern Menken, MS, Geology
Local mate competition and the sex ratios of malaria parasites, with a focus on Plasmodium mexicanum, Allison T. Neal, PhD, Biology
Strain localization and exhumation of the lower crust: A study of the three-dimensional structure and flow kinematics of central Fiordland, New Zealand, Alice Newman, MS, Geology
Role of Sensation Seeking in Sensitivity to d-amphetamine Reinforcement, Mollie E. Patrick, PhD, Psychology
The Wanderer's Path through the Age of Goethe: A Literary and Musical Focus, Mark Patrick Russell, MA, German
The Effects of Reinforcer Distribution During Response Elimination on Resurgence of an Instrumental Response, Scott Timothy Schepers, MA, Psychology
Anodic Strategies For The Covalent Attachment Of Molecules To Electrodes Through Ethynyl And Vinyl Linkages, Matthew Vincent Sheridan, PhD, Chemistry
Emotion Regulation Strategies in Binge Eating Disorder: Rumination, Distress Tolerance, and Expectancies for Eating, Lilya Sitnikov, PhD, Psychology
The Contribution of Purinergic P2X and P2Y Receptors to the Excitability of Mouse Vomeronasal Sensory Neurons, Jonathan Vick, PhD, Biology
Pd0-Catalyzed Formal 1,3-Diaza-Claisen Rearrangement. Design And Development Of Cationic 1,3-Diaza-Claisen Rearrangement., Yanbo Yang, PhD, Chemistry
Application Of A Ring Fragmentation/azomethine Ylide 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Sequence In The Synthesis Of Demissidine, Zhe Zhang, PhD, Chemistry
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Role of the Drosophila Melanogaster Indirect Flight Muscles in Flight and Male Courtship Song: Studies on Flightin and Mydson Light Chain - 2, Samya Chakravorty, PhD, Biology
Naughty in the Aughties, 21st Century British Adolescent Culture and Alienation in Skins Seasons 1-2, Megan Griffith, MA, English
Growing up with Vertigo: British Writers, DC, and the Maturation of American Comic Books, Derek Salisbury, MA, History
Rejection Sensitivity as Mediator Between Stigma and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction, Jennifer Zangl, MA, Psychology
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
From the Golden Gate to the Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography and Meta-Critical Reflection, Noelle Brassey, MA, English