Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Organic Dairy Profitability in Vermont: Measuring the Impacts of Management and Market Forces on Farm Financial Performance, Jonathan Patrick Walsh, MS, Community Development and Applied Economics
Predicting College Outcomes: A Tool for Assessing Non-Cognitive Traits in Admissions Essays, Caroline Alexandra Weaver, MEd, Educational Leadership
Local farmer knowledge of adaptive management on diversified vegetable and berry farms in the northeastern US, Alissa White, MS, Plant and Soil Science
Phosphorus Mobility and Speciation Under Dynamic Redox Conditions in Shallow Eutrophic Freshwater Systems, Austin Wilkes, MS, Geology
Man's Best Friend: Using Dogs In Middle-Level Education To Improve Self-Efficacy For Students And Teachers, Emily A. Wills, MEd, Interdisciplinary
On The Application Of Computational Modeling To Complex Food Systems Issues, Serge William Wiltshire, PhD, Food Systems
The Incorruptible Integrator: A Streamlined Approach to IMC-PID Controller Tuning, Sam Wisotzki, MS, Electrical Engineering
Happily Arguing: The Role of Parental Positive Emotions During Interparental Conflict on Child Functioning, Hannah Childs Woolfolk, PhD, Psychology
Acoustic Emission Sensing for Crack Monitoring in Prefabricated and Prestressed Reinforced Concrete Bridge Girders, Robert Lee Worley II, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Geochronologic Constraints On The Timing Of Metamorphism And Exhumation Of The Tillotson Peak Complex In Northern Vermont, Cheyne Aiken, MS, Geology
Rna Virus Ecology In Bumble Bees (bombus Spp.) And Evidence For Disease Spillover, Samantha Ann Alger, PhD, Biology
An Automated Analysis Of Single Particle Tracking Data For Proteins That Exhibit Multi Component Motion., Rehan Ali, MS, Neuroscience
Improving Detection And Prediction Of Bridge Scour Damage And Vulnerability Under Extreme Flood Events Using Geomorphic And Watershed Data, Ian Anderson, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Novelty Detection Of Machinery Using A Non-Parametric Machine Learning Approach, Enrique Angola, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Combining Observations Of Soils And Streams To Investigate Trends Caused By Reduced Acid Depositon In The Sleepers River Watershed, Jesse Armfield, MS, Geology
Exploration Of Zirconium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydrophosphination With Primary Phosphines: Photocatalytic Single And Double Hydrophosphination, Christine Anne Bange, PhD, Chemistry
Selenium In Thioredoxin Reductase: Resistance To Oxidative Inactivation, Oxidation States, And Reversibility Of Chemical Reactions, Drew Barber, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
Developing Toward Generality: Combating Catastrophic Forgetting with Developmental Compression, Shawn L. Beaulieu, MS, Complex Systems
Evaluating The Utility Of The Modified Cigarette Evaluation Questionnaire And The Cigarette Purchase Task For Predicting Acute Relative Reinforcing Efficacy In Cigarettes Which Vary In Nicotine Content, Cecilia L. Bergeria, PhD, Psychology
Optimization of Turbulent Prandtl Number in Turbulent, Wall Bounded Flows, Donald Edward Bernard, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Improving Scalability of Evolutionary Robotics with Reformulation, Anton Bernatskiy, PhD, Computer Science
War in the nursery: The impact of transgenerational trauma on refugee infant development, Anne Brassell, PhD, Psychology
Insights From Narrative Reflections Of First Year Medical Students On Their Professional Formation, Laurey Burris, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Examining School Building-Level Implementation of an MTSS Problem-Solving Team, Nicole Carter, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Intersection Of Salt Signaling With Nodule Initiation And Maturation During Medicago Truncatula-Sinorhizobium Meliloti Symbiosis., Sanhita Chakraborty, PhD, Plant Biology
Methylation Controlled J Protein Is A Master Regulator Of Mitochondrial Metabolism, Devin Pierre Champagne, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
The SH2 Domain-Containing Adaptor Protein SHD Reversibly Binds the CRKL-SH2 Domain and Knockdown of shdb Impairs Zebrafish Eye Development, Brendan Chandler, MS, Biology
Chronic Kidney Disease and the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism, Katharine Lana Cheung, PhD, Clinical and Translational Science
La Jaula De Oro Y Dreamers: Wellness Of Latinx Undocumented College Students In A Divisive Political Climate And #45 Era Presidency, Sarah Maria Childs, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Soil Aggregates: The mechanistic link to increased dissolved organic carbon in surface waters?, Malayika Cincotta, MS, Geology
Students in Transition: Introducing English Language Learners from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to U.S. History, Bill Clark, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Fragmentation, Rearrangement, And C-H Insertion: Reactions Of Vinyl Cations Derived From Diazo Carbonyls, Sarah Elizabeth Cleary, PhD, Chemistry
Bottom-up adaptive management and stakeholder participation for clean water and healthy soils in a complex social-ecological system, Sarah Coleman, PhD, Plant and Soil Science
21st Century Approaches To Addressing Childhood Diarrhea In Low And Middle-Income Countries: Zinc As A Cornerstone Of New Prevention Strategies, Elizabeth Ross Colgate, PhD, Clinical and Translational Science
Spectroscopic Insight into Oxidative Heme Cleavage by the Non-canonical Heme Oxygenase IsdG from Staphylococcus aureus, Matthew A. Conger, PhD, Chemistry
Examining Inter- And Intra-Individual Differences In The Neurobiological Mechanisms Associated With Inhibitory Control, Nicholas C. D'Alberto, PhD, Neuroscience
Enhancing The Efficacy And Thermotolerance Of Selected Beauveria Bassiana Isolates For Management Of Sunn Pest, Eurygaster Integriceps, Using Electrofusion Techniques, Agrin Davari, PhD, Plant and Soil Science
Simulacra Of The (un)real: Reading Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle As A Feminist Text Of Bodily Resistance, Kimberly Michelle Dean, MA, English
Some results on a class of functional optimization problems, David Rushing Dewhurst, MS, Mathematics
The Synthesis of Highly Substituted Aromatics and the Reaction of Alkene Pi Systems with Vinyl Cations, Nicholas Jarrod Dodge, PhD, Chemistry
Rural Education Philanthropy: A Case Study of Need and Opportunity, Carolyn Dwyer, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Evaluating The Resistome And Microbial Composition During Food Waste Feeding And Composting On A Vermont Poultry Farm, Korin Eckstrom, MS, Animal Science
Genetic And Demographic Consequences Of Lake And River Habitat Fragmentation On Fishes In Vermont, Peter T. Euclide, PhD, Biology
The Brain Correlates of Personality and Sex Differences, Brittany Fair, MS, Neuroscience
Numerical Modeling Of Collision And Agglomeration Of Adhesive Particles In Turbulent Flows, Farzad Farajidizaji, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
Rotating Magnetometry For Terrestrial And Extraterrestrial Subsurface Explorations, Robert Farrell, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Between Extermination and Child-Rearing: The Foreign Child-Care Facilities of Volkswagen and Velpke, Lauren Elizabeth Fedewa, MA, History
Biochemical Characterization of the Dimerization Domain of Purine-rich Element Binding Protein B: An Essential Subdomain Mediating the Repression of Smooth Muscle Alpha Actin Gene Expression, Lauren Ferris, PhD, Biochemistry
Evidence For The Involvement Of Runx1 And Runx2 In Maintenance Of The Breast Cancer Stem Cell Phenotype, Mark Fitzgerald, MS, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
A Human Side Of The Smart Grid: Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency From Renters Using Real-Time Feedback And Competitive Performance-Based Incentives, Daniel Fredman, PhD, Natural Resources