Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Family Mass Murder: An Exploratory Study of the Role of Arson, Rachel Rori Rodriguez Spradley
Becoming a Man: Concepts of Writing Witness and Masculinity for Black Adolescent Males in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Chelsea Danielle Rogers
Reactive End Capped Polybenzimidazole Oligomers for High Temperature Thermosets and Improved Membranes for Electrochemical Devices, Caroline Marie Rohlfing
B-Cell-Specific MHCII Promotes Host-Microbiome Symbiosis, Mary Melissa Roland
Decentering the White Gaze: The Effects of Involving African-American Students in Curricular Decision-Making in an Independent School Library, Michelle Efird Rosen
Groundwater Flow and Salt Marsh Migration: The Forest/Marsh Boundary, Camille Rossiello
Parent Facilitation of Child Emotion Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Aimee K. Rovane
Critical Literacy and Self Efficacy Among Secondary Students Repeatedly Engaged in Literacy Intervention, Haley Rowles
Truth and Knowledge in a Literary Text and Beyond: Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna at the Intersections Between Selves, Culture, and Paratext, Angelina Rubina
Heterogeneous Catalyst Design For Biomass Conversion, Dia Sahsah
No More Loosies: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Implementation and Enforcement of the Loose Cigarette and Bidi Sale Ban in India, Mayank Sakhuja
An Autonomous Aerial Drone System for Water Fluorescence Mapping and Targeted Sampling, Kazi Ragib Ishraq Sanim
Transforming Lessons and Those Who Write Them: Professional Development for Educational Content Writers to Integrate Technology Into Lessons Using the Tpack Framework, Rachael Patricia Santopietro
UAV-Deployable Sensing Network for Rapid Structural Health Monitoring, Joud Satme
“Everything Old Is New Again”: The Rise of Interpolation in Popular Music, Grayson M. Saylor
Rhetorical New Materialism, Queers, and Cringe, Katherine Anne Schell
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Determinants of Health in Relation to Cigarette Smoking and E-cigarette Use Among Adults, Kankana Sengupta
The Hero Within: Developing the Psychological Capital of First-Generation Students, Mary Elizabeth Sewell
Application Of Computational Tools To Identify Variations Associated With Peromyscus Dominant Spot, Zhenhua Shang
Tragic Relief!, Katherine Shanks
Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) And Opioid Use Among Adults With Chronic Noncancer Pain in the US, Yi-Wen Shih
An Examination of Semester-Long Review of Behavior Referral Data at a High School in a Southeastern State, Shalanda L. Shuler
Correlates of Immunization Timeliness in Three South Asian Countries: Secondary Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys, Tanzir Ahmed Shuvo
Yield Extraction for the γd → Λ X Reaction, K H P Nishadi Hasarangi Silva
Instructional Hub: Bridging the Gap in Teacher Preparation for Online Instruction, Charity Beth Simmons
Understanding the Role of the Jet Streams and Gulf Stream Eddies on the Northwest Atlantic Marine Heatwaves, Lydia Rose Duncan Sims
Strengthening Teacher Efficacy: An Improvement Science Journey to Support Teachers Post COVID-19 School Closures, Ada Odet Sindab
Digital Health Design for Improving Treatment Decisions, Akanksha Singh
Sustainable Approaches to Photo-, Thermo-, and Electro-Chemical Reactions of Amines, James David Sitter
The Impact of the Flipped Classroom Model on Elementary Students’ Achievement and Motivation for Learning Geometry, Kimberly M. Smalls
Mouth Stuff, Jacob Connor Smith
Timing Deterministic Structural Model Updating Considering Impact and Fatigue Damage, Jason Michael Smith Jr.
The Effects of Feedback and Prior Knowledge on the Processing of L2 French, Lesley Erin Smith
Real-Time Facial Expression Recognition Using Edge AI Accelerators, Mark Heath Smith
Unlocking Population-Specific Treatments to Render Equitable Approaches and Management in Cardiovascular Disease (UPSTREAM CVD): African American Emerging Adults, Shannon Bright Smith
How Do They Do It: A Narrative of Disabled Public School Instrumental Ensemble Conductors and Their Positive Working Relationships With Their Administrators, Lia Alexandria Patterson Snead
Predicting Material Structures and Properties Using Deep Learning And Machine Learning Algorithms, Yuqi Song
If Not Me, Then Who? A Study of Racial and Cultural Competence in a High School English Department, DiAnna Sox
“So, the World Isn’t Just Old White Guys?”: Student and Teacher Experiences in a Culturally Relevant Advanced Placement Chemistry Class, Jason Thomas Sox
1, 2, 3: Counting on Problem Based Learning to Improve Mathematical Achievement in African American Students, Kelley P. Spahr
The Use of Project-Based Learning to Scaffold Student Social and Emotional Learning Skill Development, Science Identity, and Science Self-Efficacy, Michelle Sutton Spigner
How Do the Students Feel? Long-Term English Learners and Their Experience Under the ESL Label, Molly M. Staeheli
My Journey Toward a Culturally Relevant Music Pedagogy, Adam Michael Steele
Cardiac Imaging in Mice With Micro-Computed Tomography: An Assessment, Kyle Porter Stegmann
Piratical Transportation: Highlighting Silences in Carolina’s Enslavement and Exportation of Native Americans, Jordan Stenger
A Study of Single Molecule Detection With Graphene Hall Bars, Kenneth Stephen Stephenson
The Unsung Heroes for Intercollegiate Athletics: Examining the Dialogic Principles of Communication in Community College Athletic Departments, Matthew Alan Stilwell
The Impact of Incorporating Self-Myofascial Release Into Voice Lessons: A Six-Week Study, Benjamin Patrick Stogner
Ciento Ochenta Grados: South Carolina Promotores de Salud and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Richard Lyle Strater
Lunatics, Liberals and Bloodthirsty Haters: The South in the 1972 Presidential Election, Thomas Clayton Strebeck
Dust Production and Transport in a Long-Lived Fluvial-Eolian System in the Pampas of South America, Blake Marcus Stubbins
Prosecutorial Discretion: District Attorneys, Public Opinion,and the Localized Rule of Law, Yu-Hsien Sung
In Her Possession and Keeping Revolutionary War Widows and the Politics of Family Archives, 1820–1850, Riley Kathryn Sutherland
The Effects of Variations in Light and Nutrient Availability on Phytoplankton and Zooplankton, Jake Anthony Swanson
Automated Fiber Placement Through Thickness Defect Stacking Optimization, Noah Christopher Swingle
First Principles Doping Analysis of Perovskite- And Ruddlesden-Popper-Based Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Nicholas Alexander Szaro
Liquid Cooling System for a High Power, Medium Frequency, and Medium Voltage Isolated Power Converter, Hooman Taghavi
Examination and Application of Body Condition Methods in Cetaceans, Kira Anne Telford
Deep Learning Methods for Some Problems in Scientific Computing, Yuankai Teng
Governance of Drug Development Alliances, Devashish Chandrashekhar Thakar
Learning to Let Go: Becoming a More Collaborative and Compassionate Director, Catherine Joy Thomas
Family Therapy, K-12 Public Education, and Discipline Risk: A Scoping Review and Relationship Analysis Multiple Manuscript Dissertation, Cara Melinda Thompson
An Exploration of Racial Trauma and Protective Factors in Black Youth, Daria Chantal Thompson
From Roland to Gawain, or the Origin of Personified Knights, Clyde Tilson
The Post-Tonal Evolution of David Diamond: A Theoretic-Analytical Perspective, William John Ton
Impact of Steroid Receptor and Hormone Manipulation in Skeletal Muscle: Implications for Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity in Male Mice, Christian Aaron Unger
The Impact of Extended Professional Development in Project-Based Learning on Middle School Science Teachers, Margrett Caroline Upchurch-Ford
An Examination of Inter-Limb Functional Asymmetry After a Fatiguing Bout of Exercise in High Level Soccer Players, Nestor Urrea
Characterization of the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Floodplain Surface-Water Circulation, Shailesh Cyriel van der Steeg
The Correlation Between Bilingual Children’s Self-Reported Language Proficiency and Their Scores on Dual-Language Standardized Assessments, Andrea Elise Vargas
Customer Discovery and Applied Research and Development for an Environmental Nanotechnology, Paul Michael Vecchiarelli
A Bayesian Spatial Scan Statistic for Normal Data, Laasya Velamakanni
The Impact of Institutional Merit Aid on Student Enrollment and Persistence, Richard Scott Verzyl
Phoneme Stability in Speech Production of Cognate and Non-Cognate Nouns in a Bilingual with Aphasia, Katherine Vlach
Causes and Consequences of the Risk of Generalizability Biases in Health Behavioral Interventions, Lauren von Klinggraeff
A Qualitative Study on Mental Health Resource Utilization of Enlisted Airmen During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Hassahn Khali Wade
Where Race Has No Place: English Teachers’ Efforts to Maintain Space for Diversity in the ELA Classroom, Muzical D. Waite
An Examination of the Prevalence and Predictors of Drugging Victimization and Drugging Perpetration in a National Sample, Amber Nicole Wallace
Navigating Age of Majority-Related Issues in Special Education: The Current Needs and a Potential Means for Aligning Professional Values With Policy and Practice, Charles Blayne Walters
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Among African American Men Living in the Rural South of the United States, Serge Raoul Wandji
Utilizing Deep Learning Methods in the Identification and Synthesis of Gene Regulations, Jiandong Wang
Magnetic Softness Tuned Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Cancer Theranostics, Jie Wang
PD-L1 Nano-Eraser: A Novel Intracellular PD-L1 Degradation Approach and Its Application in Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy, Mingming Wang
Material Development and Optimization of Solid Oxide Cells for Energy Conversion and Storage, Wanhua Wang
Probabilistic Cable Aging Diagnosis And Prognosis With Reflectometry And Capacitance Methods, Xuan Wang
Detecting Physiological Concentrations of Alzheimer’s Associated Amyloid-β Protein Utilizing a Cell-Based Response, Brittany Elizabeth Watson
Leveraging Inflammatory Responses Toward Advancing Alzheimer’s Disease Treatments and Biomaterial Implantation, Mihyun Lim Waugh
Investigation of Discrepancies in South Carolina Traffic Collision Forms, Jackson Wegmet
Cultivating Community in a Sixth-Grade Classroom: An Action Research Study, Jennifer Weller Wells
Computational Studies of Bond Dissociation Energies and Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Shehani Thishakkya Wetthasinghe
The Impact of Opendyslexic Font on the Reading Comprehension of Tier II and Tier III Reading Intervention Students, William David Whitmire