Current dissertations and theses from UVM graduate programs are submitted electronically and will be available in this collection approximately twelve weeks after the final submission by the candidate. Print and electronic dissertations and theses are browseable and searchable at UVM Theses & Dissertations.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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A Self-Affirmation Intervention For Responsible Parties in Restorative Justice, Rachel Matthes Gehman, PhD, Psychology

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Advancing Quantitative Research Of Smoker Stigmatization, Thomas Geist, PhD, Psychology

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The Association Between Body Image Dissatisfaction and Mental Health in Men, Emily Pomichter, PhD, Psychology

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Ultra-Brief CBT for Primary Care Visits: Pilot Training and Implementation, Julia M. Terman, PhD, Psychology

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Nesting Habitat Selection and Management of Three Freshwater Turtle Species Along the Shorelines of Lake Champlain, Destini Acosta, MS, Natural Resources

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Diversity, change, and resilience of non-material values: Transdisciplinary studies in a time of ecological crisis, Alison Adams, PhD, Natural Resources

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Analysis of Ultra-wideband Voltage Pulse Propagation on Dispersive Absorptive Transmission Lines, Katherine Aho, PhD, Electrical Engineering

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A Strategic and Efficient Approach to First Principles Crystal Structures Prediction, Saheed Akanji Ajibade, PhD, Materials Science

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Employing Genetic Algorithms for Energy-Efficient Data Routing in Internet of Things Networks, Farzana Akhter, MS, Computer Science

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The Role Of Pac1 Receptors In The Bed Nucleus Of The Stria Terminalis (bnst) In Anxiety, Mahafuza Aktar, PhD, Psychology

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Environmental Equity in Focus: Heat Exposure in Small and Rural Communities of Vermont and Vehicle Traffic Exposure Across the United States, Brittany Antonczak, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Biodiversity, global change, and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes, Natalia Aristizábal Uribe, PhD, Natural Resources

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Online Collective Attention: Standardizing the Measurement of Sociotechnical Systems, Michael Vincent Arnold, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science

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Analysis Of Shear Rate Dependent Flow Liquefaction Behavior Through Experiments And Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling, Soham Banerjee, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Styles And History Of Deformation In The San Gabriel Block, Southern California, Since The Late Cretaceous, Jillyan Baskin, MS, Geology

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Investigating Sensitivity and Resistance of Tumor Cells to KIF18A Inhibition, Anna Belongia, MS, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences

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Looking north and thinking ahead: Understanding the range expansion of vector-borne cervid pathogens, Lauren Berkley, MS, Biology

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Non-Market Food Practices Do Things Markets Cannot: Why Vermonters Produce and Distribute Food That's Not For Sale, Sam Bliss, PhD, Natural Resources

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Radical Resistance: Grounded Normativity In Three Speculative Works, Katherine Lauren Booth, MA, English

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Knee articular cartilage quantitative MRI reliability and left-to-right and visit-to-visit repeatability in healthy subjects under compressive loading, Andrew Borah, MS, Biomedical Engineering

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Estimating coyote density and occupancy in Cape Cod National Seashore, Koryna Boudinot, MS, Natural Resources

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Probabilistic modeling of disease: Addressing uncertainties in within-host and population-level dynamics, Mariah Boudreau, PhD, Mathematical Sciences

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Evaluating The Performance Of Winter Peas As Dual-Use Crops For Both Cover Crop And Profit Crop, Emmanuel Kwame Brefo, MS, Plant and Soil Science

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The Inclusion of Woodchips and Drinking Water Treatment Residuals in Vegetated Bioretention Planters: How Do They Stack Up to Conventional Soil Media?, Samantha Kay Brewer, MS, Plant and Soil Science

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Evaluating The Resource Recovery Potential Of Dairy Processing Waste Through Anaerobic Digestion With Enhanced Microbial Retention, Kennedy Paige Brown, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Was It Really The “age Of Reagan?”: How The National Organization For Women Kept The Fight For Women’s Equality Alive, 1982-1992, Rhiannon Janelle Brown, MA, History

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Selection For Insecticide Tolerance Alters Phenotypic, Transcriptomic, And Epigenetic Responses To Multiple Stressors In The Colorado Potato Beetle., Erika Bueno, PhD, Plant and Soil Science

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A Minority Stress Approach to Kink: Predicting Suicidality via Stigma, Shame, and Community in a Kink-Identified Sample, Wilson Captein, PhD, Psychology

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Evaluating the Role of Tetraspanins in Syncytin-Mediated Syncytiotrophoblast Formation, Madeline Carr, MS, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

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Sudden gains in cognitive-behavioral therapy for seasonal affective disorder, Raquel Esther Castillo Cruz, MA, Psychology

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Measuring in situ 26Al and 10Be in Post-Glacial Sand Reveals Limited Erosion by Quebec-Labrador Ice Dome, Peyton McKinsey Cavnar, MS, Natural Resources

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Evaluating The Zoonotic Potential And Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles Of Staphylococcus Aureus In Dairy Farm Settings: A Genomic Epidemiological Approach, Ashma Chakrawarti, PhD, Animal Biosciences

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Investigating The Effects Of Loss Of Runx1 And Its Role In Mitotic Gene Bookmarking And Breast Cancer, Priyanka Gajanan Chavarkar, MS, Pharmacology

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Characterization Of A Pathological Tau Point Mutation, E342v, Implicated In Frontotemporal Dementia, Liam Clancy, MS, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

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“Everything Must Be Great In Rome”: Aggregate Appropriation Of The Distant And Modern Past In The Repubblica Romana Of 1849, Nathan Gary Colgrove, MA, History

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Characterization Of The 1966 Camp Century Subglacial Sediment Core: A Multiscale Analysis, Catherine Collins, MS, Natural Resources

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Fermentation Of Amino Acids By Anaerobic Microbiomes In The Absence Of Methanogenesis, Leandro Conrado, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Identification Of Novel Sh Protein Phosphorylation-Dependent Binding Partners And Interaction Mechanisms., Phoebe Cousens, MS, Biology

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The Impact Of The Calm-Af10 Fusion Protein On Wnt Signaling In Leukemia, John Matthew Cullen, MS, Biochemistry

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The Power of The Commons, Julia Danielsen, MS, Community Development and Applied Economics

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Cross-Modal Examinations Of Narrative Structural Processing In Autism., Carolyn T. D'Auria, MA, Psychology

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Ring Learning with Errors, Sarah Days-Merrill, PhD, Mathematics

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An Examination Of Cognitive Capacities As Mediators Of The Associations Between Children’s Language Abilities And Adhd Symptoms, Marissa Dennis, PhD, Psychology

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Characterization Of Sars-Cov-2 Variants Of Concern At Multiple Scales, Hannah Wade Despres, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences

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Development of Needed Tools for Babesia duncani, a Rising Cause of Human Babesiosis, Emmett Asa Dews, MS, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

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Development of Needed Tools for Babesia duncani, a Rising Cause of Human Babesiosis, Emmett Asa Dews, MS, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

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Nonbinary BIPOC College Students' Freedom Dreams of Utopia, C. V. Dolan, PhD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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Extreme Weather Events: Perception, Pro-Environmental Behavior, and the Tools to Measure Them, Christopher Donovan, MS, Community Development and Applied Economics

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Effects of Acute Stress on Goal-Directed and Habitual Decision-Making in Female Rats, Russell Jacobs Dougherty, MA, Psychology

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The Roles Of Plexina2-Semaphorin6a Bi-Directional Signaling In Zebrafish Eye Development, Caroline Dumas, PhD, Biology