Theses/Dissertations from 2025
The IRA, The Catholic Church, and the Politics of Martyrdom in the Context of the Northern Irish Troubles, Abigail Sterner, MA, History
The co-evolution of individuals and institutions: a group-based approach, Jonathan St-Onge, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Probabilistic Measures To Support Performance-Based Decision-Making In Transportation: Networks And Asset Management, James L. Sullivan, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Effect Of Predator Armor Evolution On Predator-Prey Ecosystems, Mioto Takahashi, MS, Complex Systems and Data Science
Augmented Reality Visualization and Registration for Ground Penetrating Radar, Scott Angus Tanch, MS, Mechanical Engineering
Exploring the effects of dairy fat on cardiometabolic health in a short-term controlled-feeding trial comparing full-fat yogurt with non-fat yogurt, Victoria Marie Taormina, PhD, Animal Nutrition and Food Science
Ultra-Brief CBT for Primary Care Visits: Pilot Training and Implementation, Julia M. Terman, PhD, Psychology
Miro1-Mediated Mitochondrial Positioning In The Development And Metastasis Of Breast Cancer, Randi Termos, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
The Relationship Between Estradiol, Inflammation, And Brain Connectivity In Females During Midlife, Abigail Ardis Testo, PhD, Neuroscience
Tungsten Oxide Nanoparticles as Visible Light Photocatalysts in the Oxidation of Small Molecules: Fine Tuning Electronic Properties with Metallic Gold and Platinum, Robert B. Tracy Jr., PhD, Chemistry
Internal Carbon Pricing and Decentralized Budgeting in Higher Education: Building Climate Action through Responsibility Centered Management, Eric Urbaniak, MS, Natural Resources
Growing Alternatives: An Exploration Of Veganic Agriculture In The United States And Opportunities For Future Synergies, Alisha Utter, PhD, Plant and Soil Science
The Effects of Hypothalamic Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor on Fear and Anxiety Behaviors, Sarah Hope Van Horn, MS, Pharmacology
Functional And Epigenomic Consequences Of Somatic Mutation In Non-Coding Receptor Tyrosine Kinases In Epilepsy, Marcus Weinman, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
Early Life Seizure Impact On Corticohippocampal Maturation, Caleb Reid Weinstein, MS, Pharmacology
Nonstructural Carbohydrates As A Proxy For Adaptive Capacity And A Mechanism For Resilience In Northern Hardwood And Mixedwood Forests, Douglas Whiting, MS, Natural Resources
Concurrent Associations Between Sweet And Cooling E-Cigarette Use And Combustible Cigarette Use And Quit Attempts Among Adult Dual Users, Rhiannon Chou Wiley, PhD, Psychology
Integrating terrestrial, snowpack, and meteorological drivers of runoff generation during winter thaws in a montane catchment of the Northeastern U.S., Garnet Williams, MS, Geology
An Evaluation of the Effect of Sexual Schemas on Attentional Biases and Sexual Stimuli Interpretations for Men With Varying Degrees of Sexual Dysfunction: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach, Robert Brandon Wyatt, PhD, Psychology
From Methane To Milk: The Potential Of Milk Biomarkers For Methane Assessment, Emily Caitlin Youngmark, MS, Animal Biosciences
Task-Based Functional Connectivity with Machine Learning Approaches to Detect Individual Differences in Brain Phenotype, Dekang Yuan, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Mounded Growth of Organic Semiconductor Thin Films: Desorption and Next-Layer Nucleation, Xiaozhi Zhang, PhD, Materials Science
Locality, Relation, and Meaning Construction in Language, as Implemented in Humans and Large Language Models (LLMs), Julia Witte Zimmerman, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Nesting Habitat Selection and Management of Three Freshwater Turtle Species Along the Shorelines of Lake Champlain, Destini Acosta, MS, Natural Resources
Diversity, change, and resilience of non-material values: Transdisciplinary studies in a time of ecological crisis, Alison Adams, PhD, Natural Resources
Analysis of Ultra-wideband Voltage Pulse Propagation on Dispersive Absorptive Transmission Lines, Katherine Aho, PhD, Electrical Engineering
A Strategic and Efficient Approach to First Principles Crystal Structures Prediction, Saheed Akanji Ajibade, PhD, Materials Science
Employing Genetic Algorithms for Energy-Efficient Data Routing in Internet of Things Networks, Farzana Akhter, MS, Computer Science
The Role Of Pac1 Receptors In The Bed Nucleus Of The Stria Terminalis (bnst) In Anxiety, Mahafuza Aktar, PhD, Psychology
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
Biodiversity, global change, and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes, Natalia Aristizábal Uribe, PhD, Natural Resources
Online Collective Attention: Standardizing the Measurement of Sociotechnical Systems, Michael Vincent Arnold, PhD, Complex Systems and Data Science
Analysis Of Shear Rate Dependent Flow Liquefaction Behavior Through Experiments And Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling, Soham Banerjee, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Styles And History Of Deformation In The San Gabriel Block, Southern California, Since The Late Cretaceous, Jillyan Baskin, MS, Geology
Investigating Sensitivity and Resistance of Tumor Cells to KIF18A Inhibition, Anna Belongia, MS, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences
Looking north and thinking ahead: Understanding the range expansion of vector-borne cervid pathogens, Lauren Berkley, MS, Biology
Non-Market Food Practices Do Things Markets Cannot: Why Vermonters Produce and Distribute Food That's Not For Sale, Sam Bliss, PhD, Natural Resources
Radical Resistance: Grounded Normativity In Three Speculative Works, Katherine Lauren Booth, MA, English
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
Estimating coyote density and occupancy in Cape Cod National Seashore, Koryna Boudinot, MS, Natural Resources
Probabilistic modeling of disease: Addressing uncertainties in within-host and population-level dynamics, Mariah Boudreau, PhD, Mathematical Sciences
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
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
Evaluating The Resource Recovery Potential Of Dairy Processing Waste Through Anaerobic Digestion With Enhanced Microbial Retention, Kennedy Paige Brown, MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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
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
Culturally Acceptable Food: Exploring Its Status In The Literature And Growers’ Capacities To Embed It In Seed Value Chains, Sally Burke, MS, Community Development and Applied Economics
A Minority Stress Approach to Kink: Predicting Suicidality via Stigma, Shame, and Community in a Kink-Identified Sample, Wilson Captein, PhD, Psychology
Evaluating the Role of Tetraspanins in Syncytin-Mediated Syncytiotrophoblast Formation, Madeline Carr, MS, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Sudden gains in cognitive-behavioral therapy for seasonal affective disorder, Raquel Esther Castillo Cruz, MA, Psychology