Graduate theses were first published at Florida Technological University (later UCF) in 1972. The first thesis was defended in March of that year, titled Computer Method for Airport Noise Exposure Forecast, and was written by John M. Bateman.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Preclinical Assessment of Psychoplastogens for Treatment of Psychiatric Symptoms and Neuroplasticity Deficits in Huntington Disease, Nicholas Skiados
Development of Regolith Simulants of Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions and Jupiter Trojan Asteroids, Karlis Slumba
Theatrical Intimacy: Navigating a New Normal, Elizabeth Smith-Cortelyou
Long Range Propagation of Single Laser Pulses and Bursts of Pulses Through Varying Atmospheric Conditions, LaShae Smith
Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: How Levels of Sexual Violence in Peacetime Affect Levels of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Sydney Snowden
TV News Networks vs Online News Sources: Contrasting Effects on Attitudes Towards Police Reform, Halley Spencer
A Study of the Performance of Wind Turbines Fitted with Sprayed Liquid Flaps, Alexander Spitzer
Creating Living Characters Through Stanislavski's System and Michael Chekhov's Psychological Gesture, Robert Stark
Play as a Means of Connection, Charles Street
Understanding Evacuation Traffic Safety Issues during Hurricane Evacuation using Machine Learning and Connected Vehicle Data, Zaheen E Muktadi Syed
The Bishop and the Poet: Theodulf of Orléans and the Carolingian World, Cole Taylor
Mean Pressure Gradient Effects on the Performance of Ramjet Cavity Stabilized Flames, Mason Thornton
Examining Childhood Lived Experience and Kinship in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia: Stress and Health of Juveniles at Karatas-Semayuk, Christina Trent
A Puerto Rican Diasporic Study in Central Florida, Chelsea Vélez
The Micro World of Zombie Ants: Micro-Computed Tomography and Microbiome Analysis of Camponotus floridanus, Sophia Vermeulen
Impact of R300 and C343 in the B' Domain of Protein Disulfide Isomerase on its Disaggregase Activity Against Cholera Toxin, Evie Vincent
Model Calibration for Microscopic Traffic Simulation Using Drone-Based Vehicle Trajectory Data, Zijin Wang
Florida's Vanishing Heritage: Climate Risk and Adaptation at Florida Heritage Sites, Levi Watson
The Narratives of Sexulization: The Perspectives of Young Entertainers Around Their Own Public Sexulizaiton, Alexis Williams
And They Saved My Sorry Ass: A Documentary Discovering Self in Contemporary Fan Culture, Chunxiao Yang
Rotorcraft Lander Fixed to a Descending Capsule Backshell, Corey Zucker
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Delineating the Cytotoxic Mechanism of Purine Metabolite AICAR in Lung Cancer Cells, Fareesa Aftab
Synergistic Impacts of Climate Change and Human Induced Stressors on the Apalachicola Bay Food Web, Kira Allen
History of the Cuban Diaspora and Responses to July 2021 Protests in Cuba: An In-depth Examination of Emerging Social Movement, Carolina Alonso Domech
The Impact of Covid-19 Precautions on Teachers' Preparation Programs in Kuwait, Nour Alshammari
Aerodynamic Characterization of An Elliptical Fairing In the Wake of a Bluff Body, Luis Amaya
Reverse Engineering of Adversarial Samples by Leveraging Patterns left by the Attacker, Rahul Ambati
Automated Vehicle to Vehicle Conflict Analysis at Signalized Intersections by Camera and LiDAR Sensor Fusion, Alabi Mehzabin Anisha
Autoignition Delay Time Measurements and Chemical Kinetic Modeling of Hydrogen/Ammonia/Natural Gas Mixtures, Jessica Baker
They Are Not Like Us: Polarization and Justification of Violence in the Contemporary United States, Grayson Bakich
White Rage, Black Agency: Violence and its Impact on Reconstruction Era Florida, Zachary Barnes
Hitting a Little Too Close to Home: Reflexivity, Liminality, and Identification in Horror across Film, Theatre, and Games, Alyssa Barrack
Mathematical Model for Giraffe Population Dynamics, Huntir Bass
Extracellular Vesicle-associated Biomolecules as Potential Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis, Lina Bedoya Martinez
The Test-Retest Reliability of Single Leg Jump Performance Using the Drift Protocol in Division I Baseball Pitchers, Amy Bergquist
Numerical Study and Optimization of Post-Tensioning Energy Dissipating Connections with Inerters, Hector Blanco Gavillan
The Concept of the Populus Romanus in the Late Republic and Augustan Period, Nicklaus Bobertz
Characterizing Nearby States of the Stokes Wave Solution of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation, Teresa Bosch
Peat And Patty: Providing a Voice For Nature Through Animation, Clinnie Brinson
Design and Fabrication of a Compact, Rugged, and Thermally Stabilized Fiber Based Mode Locked Oscillator with Amplification., Joshua Bryan
#RedFlag: Social Media and Dating Violence Among Young Adults, Davina Caldwell
Sacrificing Sisters: Nurses' Psychological Trauma from the First World War, 1914-1918, Kayla Campana
Simulation of a Comprehensive Heat Recovery Steam Generator, Jose Chalarca Castro
2D Animation of the 21st Century: The Digital Age, James Chambless
Objectively Measured Physical Activity Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Renoa Choudhury
The Universal Story: Coming-of-Age In Contemporary Animation, Christina Christie
Choreographing Closeness: The Effects of Intimacy Choreography Best Practices in Educational Theatre, Morgan Cobb
Compulsory Conformity in Modern Japanese Culture: An Exploration of Asexuality in the works of Murata Sayaka, Kawakami Mieko, and Kamatani Yuki, Nicholas Colecio
Exploring the Response to COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, Richard Colon
Analysis of Shear Failure in Ultra-High Performance Concrete Beams, Kevin Conway
Budgetary Unoccupied Aerial Systems for Environmental Surveying: A Social Perspective, Tyler Copeland
Uncovering Ophelia: The Reclamation of Women's Madness Through Feminist Disability Studies, Amy Crawford
Aliens from Outer Space Don't Know How to Smile, Ollie Damm
Covid, Inequalities and Health: A Sociological Analysis About the Resilience Found in Unique Student Life Experiences, Sarah Da Silva
Invisible Strings: The Impacts of Race on Attitudes Toward Abortion Among the Highly Religious, Marin Deevers
The Loyalty of the Lords of Albret: An Investigation of the Gascon Rolls at the Outset of the Hundred Years War, Jason Delaney
Goodbye Letter to the Living, Lauren Denney
An Exploratory Assessment Of Small Group Performance Leveraging Motion Dynamics With Optical Flow, Joshua DeSantiago
Quantitative Metallurgy of Anisotropic Nickel-Base Superalloys Under Tensile and Fatigue Loading, Dominic DeVito
Non-invasive Detection of Elevated Intracranial Pressure Using Spontaneous Tympanic Membrane Pulsation, Rajkumar Dhar
Turn-On Fluorescence of H-Aggregate Nanoparticles for Selective Protein Detection, Arianna Dicce
Circulating Suburbia: Locating a Transnational Suburban Imagination in Post-War Periodicals, 1945-1970, Tyler Dick
The Effect of Heat Transfer on Microstructural Development For Inconel718 Nickel-Based Superalloy in Laser Powder Bed Fusion, Erica Drobner
The Breakup of RP-2 Liquid Fuel Droplets in a Detonation Field, Daniel Dyson
Twitter and Online Fandom Affordances: Connecting Disability Within the Marvel Fandom Via Social Media, Olivia Ebersole
Assessing the Effectiveness of Russian Disinformation on Americans, Michael Ebert
Distracted Driving and Pedestrians' Effects on Headway at Signalized Intersections, Bassel Elgamal
Fabrication of Copper Nanoparticle/Graphene Oxide Composites and Reduction of Copper Oxide Nanowires, Maged Elshatoury
Spectrally-Based Color Calibration of Microscopes for Birefringence Analysis, Olivia Feild
D&D&U&G: Uses and Gratifications Theory and Dungeons & Dragons, Ariana Ferrante
Avatar Identification Methods in Skyrim and Dragon Age: Origins, Andrew Futcher
Characterizing the Effects of Porosity and Particle Size on TIR Emissivity Spectral Features of Olivine, Ryan Galinkin
Reading and Writing for High School Students' Writing Identity Construction, Marie Gentile
Function Approximation Guarantees for a Shallow Neural Network Trained by Gradient Flow, Russell Gentile
Development of Curcumin-loaded Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Optimization in the Treatment of Peripheral Nerve Injury, Giuliana Giannelli
¿Dónde están? Latin American Representation in Theatre for Young Audiences, Ximena Gonzalez Toledo
A Measurement System for Detection of Intestinal Motility in Neonates by Monitoring Slow Wave Activity, Garett Goodale
Broadband Investigation of the Pyrolysis of Propane using a MIR Optical Parametric Oscillator, Robert Greene
Design and Mechanical Characterization of Functionally Graded Sandwich Beams Fabricated via Additive Manufacturing, Timothy Grondin
Evaluating Fatal Overdose Deaths in Orange County Florida from 2019-2021, Brian Hall
For the Very First Time: A Process of Rehearsal and Performance in the Beginnings of COVID-19., Andrew Hansen
Corpora, Samantha Harden
Utilizing Geographic Information Systems to Explore the Mortuary Landscape at Kuelap, Peru, Hannah Haynes
Shock Tube and Gas Dynamic Design Considerations and Implementation for Extended Test Times, Jacklyn Higgs
Evaluation of Magnesium Hydroxide Particles Coated with Betaine and Citrate as a Magnesium Delivery System for Migraine Treatment, Ashton Holderness
Deep Learning Anomaly Detection Using Edge AI, William Holdren
If Found: Exploring Death Through Animated Media, Hannah Huffman
Air Force Pilot's Recognition about the Effectiveness of Active Noise Cancellation on Hearing Health, Performance, and Aviation Safety, Kyungtaek Hwang
Flame-Generated Turbulence for Flame Acceleration and Detonation Transition, Rachel Hytovick
Effects of PCSK9i on Doxorubicin Induced Necroptosis, Omonzejie Imaralu
Computational Modeling of Respiratory Airflow in Human Distal Airways Using Hybrid Lung Model, Adnan Islam