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 2017

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A Formal Approach to Combining Prospective and Retrospective Security, Sepehr Amir-Mohammadian, PhD, Computer Science

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Fabrication And Thermoelectric Characterization Of Stretchable Conductive Latex-Based Composites, Cory Michael Arcovitch, MS, Mechanical Engineering

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Using Multiple Methodologies to Understand within Species Variability of Adelges and Pineus (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha), Tav Aronowitz, MS, Natural Resources

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Estimating Landscape Quality And Genetic Structure Of Recovering American Marten Populations In The Northeastern United States, Cody Michael Aylward, MS, Natural Resources

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Enhancing The Content Of Bioactive Fatty Acids In Bovine Milk For Human Health Promotion And Disease Prevention, Melissa Lee Bainbridge, PhD, Animal Nutrition and Food Science

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The Impact of Stigma on the Mental Health of Resettled African and Asian Refugees, Victoria M. Baptiste, PhD, Psychology

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Dutch-Indian Land Transactions, 1630-1664: A Legal Middle Ground of Land Tenures, Daniella Franccesca Bassi, MA, History

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Comparing the Smoking Topography of Usual Brand Cigarettes in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Smokers, Cecilia Louise Bergeria, MA, Psychology

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Imaging Pain And Brain Plasticity: A Longitudinal Structural Imaging Study, James Hart Bishop, PhD, Neuroscience

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Traumatic Brain Injury Screening Tools in Primary Care, Lee John Bizon Jr, MS, Nursing

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Status Monitoring Of Inflatables By Accurate Shape Sensing, Justin Matthew Bond, MS, Mechanical Engineering

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Speciation, Distribution, Prediction, and Mobility of Lead in Urban Soils: A Multiscale Study, Jennifer Bower, MS, Geology

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Hiding In Plain Sight: How Binary Gender Assumptions Complicate Efforts To Meet Transgender Students' Name And Pronoun Needs, Dot Brauer, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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Relational, Indirect, and Social Aggression: Measure Development for Emerging Adults, Nicole Lafko Breslend, PhD, Psychology

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College Students' Development of Civic Commitment: Experiences of Service Learning Across the College Years, Kailee Ann Brickner-McDonald, EdD, Educational Leadership

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An Effect All Together Unexpected: The Grotesque In Edgar Allan Poe's Fiction, Clinton M. Bryant, MA, English

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Interaction Of Stocking Density And The Feeding Environment In Lactating Holstein Dairy Cows, Mackenzie Andrew Campbell, PhD, Animal Nutrition and Food Science

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Rumen Microbial Ecology And Rumen-Derived Fatty Acids: Determinants Of And Relationship To Dairy Cow Production Performance, Laura Marie Cersosimo, PhD, Animal Nutrition and Food Science

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Thermodynamic vs kinetic control of particle assembly and pattern replication, Lizhen Chen, MS, Chemistry

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Protein Kinase Mzeta (PKM-ζ) Regulates Kv1.2 Dependent Cerebellar Eyeblink Classical Conditioning, Kutibh Chihabi, PhD, Neuroscience

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Role Of Community Social Capital For Acute Food Security Following An Extreme Weather Event, Alana N. Chriest, MS, Nutrition and Food Sciences

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The Use Of Bokashi As A Soil Fertility Amendment In Organic Spinach Cultivation, Dana Mae Christel, MS, Plant and Soil Science

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I. Designing Brighter Fluorophores: A Computational And Spectroscopic Approach To Predicting Photophysical Properties Of Hydrazone-Based Dyes Ii. Developing Spectroscopic Methods To Better Understand The Cofactors Of Metalloproteins, Morgan Cousins, PhD, Chemistry

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Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes in Vermont: Media Framing and Public Perception, Benjamin Lloyd Crosby, MS, Community Development and Applied Economics

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The Effects Of Hypothalamic Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor On Catecholaminergic Regulation Of Cardiovascular Function., Nicholas Christopher Cruickshank, MS, Pharmacology

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An Exposition of Selberg's Sieve, Jack Dalton, MS, Mathematics

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Comparing The Effects Of Menthol Status On The Behavioral Pharmacology Of Smoking Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes, Danielle Davis, MA, Psychology

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How Cultural Capital, Habitus, And Social Capital Impacts Pell-Eligible Vermont Students In Navigating The Financial Systems Of Higher Education, Xavier De Freitas, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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On the People and the "Pretended" State: The Concept of Sovereignty in Vermont, 1750-1791, Christopher DeMairo, MA, History

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Detecting Landscape Response to Perturbations by Climate and Base Level in Central Pennsylvania Using In-Situ 10Be and 26Al, Alison R. Denn, MS, Geology

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New Approaches To Heterocycle Synthesis: A Greener Route To Structurally Complex Protonated Azomethine Imines, And Their Use In 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions, Ram Chandra Dhakal, PhD, Chemistry

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The Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genome-Wide Associations of Biomarkers of Innate and Adaptive Immunity: sCD163 and sIL2RA, Jon Peter Durda, PhD, Clinical and Translational Sciences

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Poutine, Mezcal And Hard Cider: The Making Of Culinary Identities In North America, Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet, MS, Food Systems

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Seaweed to Sealant : Multifunctional Polysaccharides for Regenerative Medicine and Drug Delivery Applications, Spencer Lincoln Fenn, PhD, Bioengineering

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Imperial Influence On The Postcolonial Indian Army, 1945-1973, Robin James Fitch-McCullough, MA, History

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Target Identification Strategies for MMV Malaria Box Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii Growth, Jenna Elizabeth Foderaro, PhD, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

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Designing for Economic Success: A 50-State Analysis of the Genuine Progress Indicator, Mairi-Jane Venesky Fox, PhD, Natural Resources

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Uncovering The Lived Experience Of Community-Dwelling Jewish Women Over 80 Who Self-Identify As Aging Successfully: A Phenomenological Study, Rebecca Fredman, MS, Nursing

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Temporal Feature Selection with Symbolic Regression, Christopher Winter Fusting, MS, Mathematics

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Disentangling Discourse: Networks, Entropy, and Social Movements, Ryan Gallagher, MS, Mathematics

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Natural selection and genetic variation in a promising Chagas disease drug target: Trypanosoma cruzi trans-sialidase, Joseph P. Gallant, MS, Pharmacology

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Hilbert Class Fields of Imaginary Quadratic Fields and Reflex Fields of Certain Sextic CM Fields, Garvin Gaston, MS, Mathematics

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Examining The Socialization Of Physical Education Teachers: A Case Study, Thomas Matthew Geisler, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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Crustal Deformation During Arc-Flare Up Magmatism: Field And Microstructural Analysis Of A Mid-Crustal, Melt Enhanced Shear Zone, John Bennett Gilbert, MS, Geology

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Regeneration responses to management for old-growth characteristics in northern hardwood-conifer forests, Aviva Joy Gottesman, MS, Natural Resources

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Provider Attitudes and Practice Patterns of Obesity Management with Pharmacotherapy, Brittany Granara, MS, Nursing

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Microwave Bessel-Beam Propagation through Spatially Inhomogeneous Media, Ryan Francis Grecco, MS, Electrical Engineering

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Changes In Threonyl-Trna Synthetase Expression And Secretion In Response To Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress By Monensin In Ovarian Cancer Cells, Jared Louis Hammer, MS, Biochemistry

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A New Evolutionary Algorithm For Mining Noisy, Epistatic, Geospatial Survey Data Associated With Chagas Disease, John P. Hanley, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Everyone is Anxious: A Narrative for Admissions Professionals, Students, and Parents, on College Admissions and Anxiety, Sarah Hecklau, MEd, Interdisciplinary