Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Multi-Dimensional Strategies Impacting Beginning Readers’ Word Solving and Engagement, Brooke Clayton
The Moderating Effects of Religious Support and Family Support Between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Health Outcomes Among Black Adolescents, Tiera Cleveland
Understanding Verbal Irony: A Contrastive Analysis of Personal and Informational Common Ground, Ruhan Çoban
Action Research to Explore the Use of Augmented Reality to Support High School Students in Understanding and Creating Art Work in a Drawing Course, Alicia Joanne Cobler
Revitalizing Passenger Rail: A Sustainable Solution to Environmental and Public Health Challenges in South Carolina, Benjamin Cochran
Approaches to Teaching Music Reading to Students with Dyslexia: A Guide for Piano Teachers, Olivia Grace Bradstreet Colomaio
Examining Coping, Individual Resilience, and Family Resilience as Strengths-Based Factors for LGBTQ+ Individuals, Elizabeth Moriarty Combs
The Benefits of Authentic Learning in English Language Arts Classes, Karissa Marie Connors
Hardware Accelerated Simulation of Buck Converters Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks, James Clayton Crews
Queer Inclusion in Libba Bray'S Beauty Queens: the Case for LGBTQ Ya Literature, Kayla Michelle Crumbley
Satellite-Based Identification of Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddies and Fronts in the Gulf of Mexico, Ethan Cruz
Autoregressive Modeling of DNA Molecule Shapes Accompanied by an Empirical Assessment of the Ljung-Box Test, David William Custer
The Role of G3BP1 Modifications in Modulating Axonal RNA Translation, Irene Dalla Costa
Contemporary Anaylsis of Black Male Experience Through Photovoice: A Second-Year Exploration, Ashley Dillahunt Dantzler
Transparency and Trust in Crisis Communications: A Case Study of Two Pandemic Era HBCUs in North Carolina, Jason C. Darby
Engineering Configurational Mimetic Osteogenic Peptides Through Mesoscale Simulation and Machine Learning, Ricky Anshuman Dash
Who’s on First, What’s on Second an Analysis of Major League Baseball Fans and Multiple Points of Attachment, Ryan W. Dastrup
Athlete Decision-Making Process in the Liminality After Career-Ending Injuries, Grace Davie
Data Modeling and Analytics to Advance the Secondary Use of Real-World Data in Healthcare Research, Denise Sgroi Davis
Deprivation and Threat as Predictors of Executive Functioning and Emotion Regulation in Early Adolescence: The Protective Role of School Support, Abigail Best de Arellano
Synthesis of Inorganic Actinide Compounds with Neptunium, Plutonium, and Americium, Travis Kelly Deason
In the Shadow of Geopolitical Tensions: Three Essays, Gianni Francois Godelieva De Bruyn
Investigating the Use of Socio-Scientific Issues as Phenomena Through a Storyline Framework in a High School Biology Course, Dana Marie Delpha
Characteristics of Individuals Who Desired a Mentor but Did Not Have One: A Nationally Representative Study, Kenzie Delposen
Assessing the Feasibility of Transportable Nuclear Reactors: A Radiological Risk Case Study, Robert John Demuth
The Impact of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Lessons on Students’ Mental Health Surrounding Standardized Testing, Margaret Denning
Understanding the Factors Influencing Movement Behaviors Among Dog Owners, Katherine Eileen DeVivo
Investigation of the HDL Molecular Architecture Before and After Exercise Training., Prasun Kumar Dev
Building a Framework for Analyzing Non-Linear and Multidimensional Kinetics, Mainak Dhar
Apathy or Agency: Exploring Civic Engagement with AP Psychology Students, Regina Dilley
Thermodynamic Assessment of Reciprocal Salt Systems Involving Cesium, Rubidium and Iodine for Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) Safety Analysis, Clara M. Dixon
The Dialogic Self: Persius Satires 4 and Oikeiosis in Stoic Philosophy, William Michael Dodd
Investigating the Role of RPS3 in the Homologous Recombination Dna Repair Pathway, Jerome Robert Dorsey
Unveiling Injustices in Theodore Dreiser's “An American Tragedy” and Susan Glaspell's “A Jury of Her Peers”, Athena Maria Dotsikas
Navigating Survival: Trans Adults’ Information Practice in South Carolina, Rhys R. Dreeszen Bowman
Counterspace of Nostalgia: British and Hong Kong Literature in the 1980s and 90s, Caroline Driscol
Design of Supercritical Reactors to Understand Supercritical Water Oxidation Process and Hydrothermal Flames, Victor Dubceac
Investigating the Role of Metallothioneins in Fungal Iron Homeostasis, David Eap
Limit Tests: Sociodemographic Representation in Public Organizations, Christopher Dee Eddy
Dust and Metals in Distant Galaxies, Fatima Elkhatib
I Belong Here and Am Thriving: Understanding Full-Time Graduate Student Well-Being and Belonging in an MSW Program, Lana Hart Elkins
Integrative Stem Approach Impact on Mathematical Acquisition and Mathematical Conceptual Understanding, Kayla Grace Eller
Strain and Redox Engineering for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Transition Metal Oxide Thin Films, Mohammad Jamal El Loubani
The Design and Optimization of Optical Systems for the Detection and Characterization of Phytoplankton, Caitlyn M. English
The Effects of Nonlinear Pedagogy on Student Learning and Performance in Middle School Physical Education, Michael Ertel
The Impact of Equity Literacy in Understanding, Creating, and Sustaining an Equitable School Climate, Kristen M. Ewing
“Digital Shame Shift”: From Telling the Pain to Recording the Truth — Black Maternal Health and Digital Counter-Narrative Storytelling on Tiktok, Odera Covenant Ezenna
Associations Between Cardiovascular Disease and Utilization of Dental Preventive and Periodontic Services, Amirhossein Fakhre Yaseri
Association Between the Energy-Adjusted Dietary Inflammatory Index (E-DII) and Risk of Falls and Related Injuries in Older Adults in the United States, Afsaneh Fallahi
Virus-Inspired Nanomaterials for Mechanobiology and Stem Cell Fateregulation, Jingyu Fan
Assessing Relationships Between Water Quality, Precipitation, Land Cover and Stormwater Conveyance Type Across a Range of Sub-Watersheds in the Southeastern Coastal Zone, Kevencia Sabine Gabriel Faton
Enhancing Teacher Self-Efficacy in Ngss Storyline Implementation: a Mixed Methods Action Research Study on Professional Development in Middle School Science Education, Dena Spickard Fender
The Double Bar-Line: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Career Readiness for Historically Black College and University Voice Performance Majors, Brian L. Fenderson
Utilizing Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices in the Classroom, Lindsey Nicole Finley
Between Florida and the World: Young People and the Politics of Citizenship, Jessica Flach
Cultivating Smiles on the Frontier: The Making of Brazil’s Soybean Capital and Community Building in Sorriso, 1980-2020, Nathalia Francio Cocenza
Exploring the Sense of Community and Perceived Professional Learning of Multigrade Teachers in Cohort-Based Online Community of Practice Sessions: An Action Research, Paola Franco-Oudri
Increasing Diversity in the Genetic Counseling Profession: Determining Effective Career Education Strategies for Underrepresented Youth, Bryel Marie Frasch
Essays in Real Estate and Household Finance, Paul Freed
Physics Oriented Deep Learning for Material Prediction and Generation, Nihang Fu
Supporting School Administrators’ Knowledge of the Idea: What Do They Know and What Do They Think, Rachel Renae Garrison
Unaccompanied Double Bass Literature: History, Pedagogy, and Performance Practice, Joseph Lee Gaskins
Improving District Targeted Support for Schools with Low Student Achievement by Implementing Assistance Relationships with School Leaders, Mary Ashley Gaskins
From "Proletariat" to President:The Educational History of Dr. Cleveland L. Sellers, Jr., Franklin J. Gause
Early-Stage System Change Detection Using B-Spline Signature Responses, Brennan Lawrence Gedney
Cerebellar Contributions to Speech and Clinical Outcomes in Stroke: A Multimodal Investigation of Structural Integrity Across Chronic and Acute Cohorts, Makayla Joy Gibson
A Conductor’s Rehearsal and Performance Guide to Christopher Tin’s the Drop That Contained the Sea, Augusto Gil
Gut Microbiome Dynamics in Heart Failure and the Therapeutic Potential Of NMEG-CGRP, Kamryn Michael Gleason
Getting Poked (Lovingly) with a Stick: A Study of Parental Involvement During First-Year Students’ College Transitions, Mary Ellis Glymph
Designing a Genetics-Based Bibliotherapy Model for Children with Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Kaitlyn Abagail Gmitro
Gateways to Reading: Action Research with At-Risk Students at an Alternative School, David Sean Goff
I See Him in Me: Implementing Culturally Responsive Small Group Reading for Multilingual Learners, Briana Gomez
The Impact of Pediatric Antibiotics and the Western Diet on the Risk of Early Onset Colorectal Cancer, Varsha Gowda
An Economic Evaluation of Cook at All Costs, Abigail Green
The Penn Center’s Impact on Rural Health Through Midwife Programming in 20Th Century South Carolina, Kathryn Addison Greenberg
Addressing Self-Efficacy and Off-Task Cellphone Use in Art 1 with Differentiated Instruction to Increase Student Achievement, Natasia Gregory
Systems Check: A Qualitative Case Study of Educators and Parent-Educators Supporting Adolescent Readers from an Ecological Systems Perspective, Kristi Nicole Grooms
Generalized Sierpiński Numbers and New Irreducibility Criteria on Legendre Polynomials, Robert Scottfield Groth
Stem Integration in the Classroom: an Exploratory Case-Study on Teachers Defining Their Stem Identity and Role as a Stem Educator, Tawana Guillaume
Educational Technology in Peer-Led Academic Support in Higher Education: the Impact of Technology-Focused Training on Peer Educators’ Session Plans, Christopher Gulino
Characterising the Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Lung Cancer Using Causal Inference Methods, Rajat Das Gupta
Incorporating Temporality and Place in Actionable Resilience Metrics, Margot Habets
The Potential Importance of Microenvironment on Polymer Bound Chemical Reagents, Nathan Joseph Halsteter
Assessing Health and Academic Disparities in the Deep South: The Enduring Impact of Segregation and Redlining in Georgia, Bridget Hamilton
Improving Operational Effectiveness in Non-Profit Organizations and Social Enterprises, Yingru Han
Young Children’s Reading Experiences in an Online Family Book Club Centered on Multimodal Responses, Ling Hao
Improving Professional Learning Communities (PLCS) for Singletons, Stephanie Harbulak-Barron
Heuristics and Cultural Competition: How the Status of Cultural Objects Are Formed and Status Influences Competition, Nicolas LeRoy Harder
Margery's Visions: Sight, Emulation, and Medieval Wall Paintings in the Book of Margery Kempe, Kristin L. Harrell
Healing Histories: Implementing Trauma-Informed Care Practices in Libraries to Support Resilience and Recovery, Cearra Harris
Integrated Coastal Science and Dune Management: A South Carolina Perspective, Michelle Harris
Structure-Activity Relationships of Isothiourea and Silicon Phthalocyanine Catalysts, Christian J. Harrison
Unveiling Narrative in Liszt’s Dante Sonata Through Topical Analysis, Jasmine Olivia Harry
"Some of Them Went to Yale": Ambition, Legal Careers, and Nominations to the Federal Bench, Abigail Violet Hassett