A collection of Sciences Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Invisible Stress, Visible Patterns: How the Superwoman Schema Shapes Diet and Feeding Practices in Black Mothers and Their Youth during the Summer versus School Months, Jillian Weathington
Site Use and Demographic Changes in a Northwest Atlantic Sea Turtle Foraging Ground, Ryan C. Welsh
Switching Things Up: Investigating The Costs of Switching Between Tasks of Varying Interdependence and Factors That Influence These Transitions, Taylor A. Wilhelmy
Careless Responding: Testing the Theory of Vigilance, Rusty Wilson
Resources and Coping Strategies in Adverse Work Situations: A Person-centered Approach, Chad Yagey
Bowtie Antenna-Coupled Bi₂Te₃–Sb₂Te₃ Thermoelectric Detector for Millimeter-Wave Radiation, Rumana Zahir
Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Environmental Change in Two Large North American Mammals, George Zaragoza
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Optomechanical Interactions and Dynamics in Nanoparticle Systems, Sohila Abdelhafiz
Queer and Thriving: Community as Resilience in an Anti-LGBTQ State, Lauren Aitken
Supervised Topic Modeling for Scientific Texts: Bayesian Shrinkage Methods and Domain-Specific Applications in Forensics and Online Aggression Sciences, Amir Alipour Yengejeh
Exploring the Genetic Structure and Evolutionary History of Marine Fish Populations across Micronesia, Pavithiran Amirthalingam
The burden of blame: Self-blame after sexual victimization and its relation to identity, Cassandra Andrion
Examination Of Driving Experience, Hazard Perception & Distracted Driving: Going Beyond Individual Factors By Using A Social-Ecological Framework, Alejandro A. Arca
Predicting Past and Future Anthropogenic Global Harvest and Land Use, Michelle Bardales Cruz
Motor Unit Control of Maximal Grip Force Among Older Adults: Reliability, Weakness, and Interventions, Jonathan P. Beausejour
Hetero-cisgender rituals: the oppression of sexual- and gender-minoritized people, Bertha A. Ben Khallouq
The Development Of An Extraction Protocol For The Preservation Of Sexual Lubricant In Sexual Assault Samples, Safiya Best
Development of a Stable Matrix-Matched Standard for Molecular and Elemental Analysis of Hair in Forensic Toxicology, Kaitlyn A. Bonilla
Clustering and Classification Methods for Forensic Science Applications, Slun Booppasiri
Neural Network Accelerated Retrieval of Clear Brown Dwarf Atmospheres, Peter T. Braunschweig
Enhancing Social Participation: The role of communication accommodations on young children with CCN, Carli C. Brent
Robust Low-Rank Tensor Discriminant Analysis With Optimal Scoring, Kyle Brinker
STANDBY TO STANDBY: How Time Weaponization and Social Currency Impact Identity Within the Veteran Community upon Discharge., Nichole Ann Carminati
Positivity and Invariance: From Radial Basis Functions to Graph Signal Spaces, Seok-Young Chung
“Rights Not Rescue”: How Stigma Influences Harmful Legislation Toward Sex Workers in the Deep South, Abigail McKenzie Conover
The Role Of Substance Use And Objectification On Bisexual Women’s Sexual Violence Experiences, Rachel Cooper
The Benefit of Benefits: The role of fringe job benefits on the recruitment of deskless workers, Hannah A. Crandell
Development of a Rapid and Efficient Molecular Triage Workflow for Non-Semen Containing Digital Penetration Evidence, Lauren J. Crawford
Parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Young Children’s Behavior Problems: Examining Protective Moderating and Mediating Factors, Kaitlyn M. Daleandro
Morphology, Evolution and Host-Driven Convergence in Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea), Davide Dal Pos
Interpretation and Control of AI Model Behavior Through Direct Adjustment of Latent Representations, Austin Davis
Men’s Aggressive Responses To Sexual Rejection: The Roles Of Rejection Sensitivity, Alcohol Use, And Perceived Injustice, Cameron A. Davis
Bridging Physiology, Data Science, And Genomics To Illuminate Photosynthetic Variation In Sunflower, Rebekah E. Davis
Evaluating Health and Immune Proxies Within and Across Sea Turtle Life Stages, Tiffany M. Dawson
The Nested Dirichlet Process And Applications To Nonparametric Bayesian Inference, Evan C. Donald
The Influence of Regolith Properties and Environmental Conditions on Plume Surface Interactions, Brandon Dotson
The Role Individual Differences and Environmental Factors in Automated Driving Performance, John M. Duany
Spectral Properties of Disjoint Unions of Open Intervals via Unitary Groups of Local Translations, Bryan Ducasse
Flywheel Technology: The Reliability of Functional and Systemic Perturbations in a Crossover Design, Trevor J. Dufner
Food Insecurity Among University Students and the Barriers to Utilizing Food Assistance Programs During and After Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, Carvis C. Durr
Robust Evaluation Framework On Adversarial Purification, Yuan Du
Contagion Chronicles: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Armed Conflict and Infectious Disease, Devyn Escalanti
How to Join Teams: Individual factors that influence an incoming team member’s understanding of the team’s shared mental models, Madeline Filippi
Digital Biomarkers of Usability, Steven Ford
Terahertz Spin Pumping In Antiferromagnetic Crystals And Films, Gregory Fritjofson
A New Dawn of Joy: How Joy is Cultivated among Black Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults in Florida, Courtney Marciá Gardner
Genomic consequences of habitat fragmentation in the Florida Scrub-Jay: diversity, adaptation, and disease susceptibility, Maryam Ghoojaei
Fast Differentiable Projection Layers onto High-Dimensional Polytopes for Large-Scale Predictive Modeling, Camilo Gomez
Large Language Models and Networks: Edge Proposal, Synthetic Corpora, and Adaptive Node Generation, Nathan Gonzalez
Preparing for the Habitable Worlds Observatory: Spectropolarimetric Radiative Transfer Models of Terrestrial (Exo)planets, Kenneth E. Goodis Gordon
Development and Utility of Single Sperm Genetic Analysis Methods to Aid in Sexual Assault Investigations, Morgan S. Grim
Breaking the Karen Curse: A Look at Anti-Mistreatment Signage's Impact on Customer Mistreatment through Customer Empathy and Entitlement, Amanda Grinley
The Impact of Virtual Backgrounds in Video-Mediated Selection and the Role of Candidate Qualifications, Mira Gruber
Pride or Prejudice: An Examination of Queer Content in Florida High Schools, Niamh L. Harrop
Better Models for Mosquito Control: Impacts on Nontarget Insects and Joint Species Distributions of Mosquitoes, Jacob D. Hart
The Association between the Social determinants of health and Shared decision making: An Investigation of the National Survey of Children's Health, Vernon T. Headley
The Global Thermophysical Properties Of (433) Eros, Mary L. Hinkle
Leading the Newsroom: Exploring the Development of Management and Leadership Skills in College Journalism Students, Guilherme Hiray Leal
Survivors Speak: Social Media's Influence on the Troubled Teen Industry, Jessica Hoffman
An Involuntary Motive of Voluntary Behavior: An Investigation of the Causes and the Consequences of Citizenship Pressure, Junyoung Hong
Confirming the Factor Structure of the Police Officer Stigma Scale, Daniel R. Horning
Sparse Low-rank Tensor Logistic Regression with Applications in Neuroimaging, Michael Hurtado
Marine Ecosystem Services Disruption and Social Violence, Rafael Hurtado-Valdivieso
Hallucinogen Usage, Experiencing Mystical Phenomena, and Transformational Identity Change, Cameron Hyder
Exploring The Experience Of Heart Disease Among Burmese Immigrants In The United States, Khup S. It
Down by the Tracks, Ova ‘Cross the Trussle: Exploring Systemic and Structural Barriers to Perinatal Healthcare Access for Black Women in Rural Alabama, Trinity C. Johnson
Assessing the accuracy of emotion classification of whisper v3: comparing performance on speech emotion datasets for both English and Arabic, Oumaima khalfi
Sub-cycle nonlinear optics in solids, Dipendra Khatri
Paleoethnobotany and Starch Grain Residue Analysis Collected from Ceramics at the White Marl Site, Jamaica, Lydia E. Kiernicki
Youth Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors: The Role of Affect, Interpersonal Stress, and Parenting, Samantha J. Klaver
The Effects of Resistance Training Volume on Muscle Quality Among Older Adults, Kevan Knowles
Self Advection of a Thin Vortex Filament in Incompressible Fluid, Gayathri Krishnan
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations of the Estimation of Osteological Sex in Forensic Anthropology Utilizing Fuzzy Logic Principles, Katherine M. Lane
A substitutional solid solution approach to exploring dipoles and chirality in MOFs., Kyle R. Langlois
Field-Resolved Metrology for Attosecond Timing, Christopher A. Lantigua
"Identity (Change) is Not a Joke, Jim!": The Role of Change in Responsible Drinking Identity on Behavioral Change in College Alcohol Interventions, Angelina V. Leary
An Ailment I Will Fight With: Differential diagnosis and methodology evaluation of possible treponemal infection at Dayr al-Barsha, Egypt, Lindsey D. Lefebvre
The Persistence of an Idiot: A Film Student's Journey Through the Feature Film Format, Austin R. LeMaster
Insurance With Investments, Jingxi Liao
Advanced Subspace Estimation Techniques for Statistical Analysis and Machine Learning, Kang Li
Phase Retrieval and Fidelity Preserving Quantum Channels, Kai Liu
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Bone: Applications and Innovations for Chemical Analysis of Skeletal Remains, Kristen M. Livingston
Examining Educational Inequalities and Driving Science’s Next Generation Forward: GeoBus Program Theory Evaluation, Elise M. Lorenzo
Increasing Access Through Graduate Teaching Assistant Training: A UDL-Informed, Video-Based Professional Development Approach for Inclusive Chemistry Instruction, Kathleen Lugo Charriez
Sex Estimation Using Linear and Geometric Morphometric Analyses of the Adult Human Talus, Melissa N. Marks
Least Squares Support Vector Data Description with Adaptive Optimizers, Daniel Markwei
Investigations and Simulations: A Data-Driven Approach to Exoplanet Characterization, Kathleen J. McIntyre
Change Point Monitoring in High-Dimensional Factor Models, Mahdi Mirhosseini
American Muslim Women’s Experiences with Pregnancy And Childbirth In The United States Healthcare System, Salema Mohamed