Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Health Literacy among Rural Emerging Adults with Chronic Pain: Implications for Behavioral Health and Treatment, Tori Humiston, PhD, Psychology
Savoring and Overgeneral Memory as Moderators of the Relationship between Childhood Trauma and Mental Health Outcomes among Black Sexual Minority Women, Praise Iyiewuare, PhD, Psychology
Control of Pneumatically Actuated Drones, Benjamin Scott Jackson, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Economics, Platforms and the Formal Structure of Webcomics, Aki Jacobson, MA, English
Pka Signaling In Focal Adhesions: A New Niche For Pka Targets And Anchoring Proteins, Mingu Kang, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
From Silence and Survival to Growth and Empowerment: A Mixed Method Evaluation of the Therapeutic Empowerment Self-Defense™ Program for Survivors of Sexual Trauma, Nancy Keller, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Dynamical Modeling of Resistojet Style Thrusters for Fault Detection, and Fault Identification, Jonathan Leo Kerivan, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Trauma And Resilience Mechanisms During Political Violence: Survivors Of The 2021 Military Coup In Myanmar, Phyu Pannu Khin, PhD, Psychology
A Comparative Analysis of Sural Nerve Morphometry Using Gold Standard Light Microscopy Analysis Versus Transmission Electron Microscopy, Margaret Emma King, MS, Pathology
Modeling To Evaluate The Contribution Of The Built Environment On Heat Microenvironments And Analysis Of The Efficiency And Efficacy Of Electric Vehicle Purchase Incentives, Parker King, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
“to Be On The Move Again At Least Is Something”: Ann Quin, Gilles Deleuze, And The Spectacular Nomadism Of Capital, Mara Sophia Knoecklein, MA, English
Associations Between Preschool ADHD Symptom Levels and Social Functioning: Indirect Effects Through Executive Functioning, Allison Krasner, PhD, Psychology
Special Educator Burnout: A Mixed-Methods Analysis Of Role Stressors, Relationship Quality With Students, And Burnout, Katherine Lee, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
High-Plex Imaging Of Rnas And Proteins For Spatial Profiling Of The Breast Cancer Tumor Microenvironment, Kyra Lee, MS, Pathology
The Bidirectional Associations Between Children’s Cognitive and Emotional Self-Regulation and Parents’ Depressive Symptoms, Maria C. Lent, PhD, Psychology
The Impact Of Minority Stress On The Developing Brains And Well-Being Of Gender Diverse Youth, Hannah Marie Loso, PhD, Psychology
Structural Characteristics and Recruitment Dynamics of Old-Growth Red Spruce-Northern Hardwoods Mixedwood Forests: Baselines for Restoration and Maintenance of an Historically Important Community, Jordan Luff, MS, Natural Resources
An Agroecological Approach To Improving Soil Health Practices On Vermont Vegetable Farms, Rebecca Reed Maden, PhD, Plant and Soil Science
Understanding How Families With Refugee Backgrounds Promote Their Community Cultural Wealth In The Transition To A U.s. College Education: Case Study Of A Congolese Family, ABIJAH L. MANGA, PhD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Effects of Crystallization on Micromechanical Behavior of Polyethylene Nanocomposites, Mason Cole Martell, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Enhancing grid reliability with coordination and control of distributed energy resources, Hani Mavalizadeh, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Anxiety And Kinesiophobia In Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: Characterization Of The Population And Symptom Trajectories, William A. Middleton, PhD, Psychology
Spectroscopic Investigation into the Metal Binding Function and Affinity of the Ancestral Class II Chelatases CfbA and CbiXS, Jacob Alden Morris, PhD, Chemistry
Community Science And Coyote Stories: Capturing And Communicating Nature's Non-Material Values For Use In Decision-Making, Joshua Wright Morse, PhD, Natural Resources
Effects of Neurological and Morphological Diversity on Robot Swarm Robustness, Kevin Motia, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Continuity And Change For U.s. Women Workers: The Preservation Of Gender Roles In World War Ii U.s. Economic Transitions, Wade Mullin, MA, History
Unraveling Public Evacuation Likelihood: Structural Equation Models and the Extended Parallel Process Model in Focus, Molly Margaret Myers, MS, Community Development and Applied Economics
Fast-scan Cyclic Voltammetry as a Method for the Detection and Quantification of Gut Metabolites, Terdha Narla, MS, Pharmacology
Fine-grained Permeable Surfaces Mapping through Parallel U-Net, Nathaniel Ogilvie, MS, Computer Science
Analysis Of Environmentally Acquired Toxoplasma Gondii With Samples Collected From The Low-Income Community Of Pau Da Lima, Brazil, Meghan J. Owens, MS, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
The Disproportionate Affects European Standards of Beauty Have on Black Women, Marina Palladinetti, MA, English
Harmonizing Matter and Function: Automatic Design and Analysis of Computational Granular Crystals, Atoosa Parsa, PhD, Computer Science
Loss Of Non-Coding Rna, Snord116, Attenuates Chronic Pathological Cardiac Remodeling And Protects Cardiomyocyte Contraction And Relaxation Kinetics During Ischemia., Lucy Pilcher, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
The “grammar Of Schooling” Is Changing!?!: Ecological Transition And Teacher Development In The Implementation Of Personal Learning Plans, Flexible Pathways, And Proficiency-Based Learning In Vermont, Stephanie Ratmeyer, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
The Anti-Censorship Censor: John Trevelyan And Permissive Society, 1958-1971, Jocelyn Rockhold, MA, History
"A Narrative is a Living Body”: Trans-relations in Contemporary Transmasculine Fiction, Madison Rougier, MA, English
Quantitative MRI Measures of Tibiofemoral Articular Cartilage Mechanics and Composition to Inform Joint Degeneration Countermeasures in Microgravity, Marit Erika Scott, MS, Biomedical Engineering
Probing The Photochemistry Of Group Iv Phosphidos Towards Efficient Hydrophosphination, Dennis Michael Seth, PhD, Chemistry
The role of the transient receptor potential ion channel TRPV1 in repeated variate stress-induced micturition reflex dysfunction in adult female mice, Amanda Sidwell, PhD, Neuroscience
Role of Relative Humidity in New Particle Formation from Ozonlysis of Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compounds, Christopher Snyder, PhD, Chemistry
The Population Genetics Of Four Ant Species In A Fragmented Urban Environment, Jacob Anthony Sorrentino, MS, Biology
Microevolutionary dynamics of ecological niche shift in the Adiantum pedatum complex, Morgan W. Southgate, PhD, Plant Biology
Left- vs Right-Sided Headache in Migraine, Adam Sprouse Blum, PhD, Clinical and Translational Science
Sugars To Medium Chain Carboxylic Acids: Shedding Light On The Microbial Black Box Of Chain Elongation, Panagiota Stamatopoulou, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Compensatory Mechanisms in Eye Development: Critical overlapping roles of Crk and Nck adaptor proteins in the zebrafish retina, Helaina Renee Stergas, PhD, Biology
Leader Resilience And Leadership Styles Of Director-Level Leaders Of Sponsored Program Offices: A Mixed Methods Study, Sonya Stern, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Elevated Plasma Aldosterone Decreases Inward Rectifying K+ (Kir2.1) Channel Currents in Capillary Endothelial Cells of the Brain via Mineralocorticoid Receptors, Nathan Cooper Stine, MS, Pharmacology
Promethean Romanticism: A Study of the Shelleys' Prometheus Figures, Madison Storm, MA, English
Advancing Equitable Approaches to Climate Adaptation for Forest Stewardship: Exploring Barriers, Opportunities and Cross-Cultural Collaborations across Tribal Nations and State Agencies in Maine, USA, Rachel Swanwick, MS, Natural Resources
Seaweed to Steak: Muscle Cell Expansion in Alginate-Based Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering of Cultivated Meat, Irfan Tahir, PhD, Mechanical Engineering