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Dissertations from 2024
Dissertations from 2023
DESIGN OF BIOINSPIRED PEPTIDES AND GLYCOPOLYMERS FOR CONTROLLED DRUG LOADING AND RELEASE, Hannah Abernathy
A Computational Kinetics Model To Quantify Radiation Induced Chemical Products Of Atmospheric Gas Mixtures, Patrick Ables
WATERBORNE POLYURETHANE DISPERSION COMPOSITES: CONNECTING NEAT FILM MORPHOLOGY TO FILLER LOCALIZATION BEHAVIOR, Garrett Abrahamsen
PERUVIAN MUSICAL ELEMENTS IN SELECTED PERUVIAN PIANO COMPOSITIONS BY DUNCKER LAVALLE, AYARZA DE MORALES, AND E. VALCÁRCEL ARZE, gonzalo aguilar
Chaos is Not Rational: Nursing Leadership and Intuition in Disaster Preparedness and Response, Sarah Banks
A STUDY ON VIVIAN FINE’S CHAMBER CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND SIX INSTRUMENTS, Andrea Beltran Landers
Harbingers: Stories, Jamie Benner
SENSING THE RHIZOSPHERE: MICROBIAL TRANSCRIPTOME RESPONSES TO ROOT EXUDATES AND REDOX-ACTIVE METABOLITES, Ankita Bhattacharyya
RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE STRONG BLACK WOMAN SCHEMA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND PERSEVERANCE, Raegan Bishop
Meta-Analysis of Effective Instruction Delivery, Halley Blanchard
HARAMED AND DANGEROUS: A THEMATIC EXAMINATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN WE ARE LADY PARTS, Reham Bohamad
HUMAN CAPITAL FLIGHT: DETERMINANTS OF OUT-MIGRATION DECISIONS AMONG MISSISSIPPI’S COLLEGE GRADUATES, Felicia M. Bowens
Soft Goodbyes Through Broken Veils, Clayton Bradshaw
Toughest Men in the South, Greatest Athletes in the World: Gender, Race, and Modernity in Southern Wrestling, Sean Buckelew
EXPLORING EMPLOYEES’ PERCEIVED FAIRNESS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL PROCESS AND THE INFLUENCE ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION, Cherica Buckner
The Influence of Childhood Familial Dysfunction on Emotional Well-Being and Substance Use Behaviors in Young Adults, Margaret Bullerjahn
K-12 Principals and Special Education: A Study of Mississippi Principals’ Knowledge of Special Education Policies and Procedures, Jodi Cameron-Polk
Understanding the Structure and Dynamics of Conjugated Polymers by Deuteration and Neutron Scattering, Zhiqiang Cao
Motherlines, Mary Christensen
A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FDI INFLOWS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL, Jeff Cohu
Origin and Structure of the First Sharp Diffraction Peak of Amorphous Solids, Devilal Dahal
Good Grief, Corinne Dekkers
The Effects of Viewpoint, Motion, and Affordance Priming on Perceptual Learning of Feelies, Catherine Dowell
Perceived Gender Norm Adherence in Women as Function of Sex-Typical Facial Features and Surname Decisions, Kelsey Drea
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SINGLE-CHAIN NANOPARTICLES, VITRIMERS, BOTTLEBRUSH AND COMB POLYMERS, Logan Dugas
The Effects of Stepped Care on Burnout for University Counseling Center Clinicians, Madison Estrada
An Examination of Organizational Influences on Coach Decision Making, Arien Elizabeth Faucett
The "Othering" of America: How the Strategic use of Crisis and Ressentiment Succeeded in the Trump era, Laura J. Franklin
REACTIVE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF POLYURETHANES: SIMULTANEOUS POLYMERIZATION AND 3D PRINTING, Aynslie Fritz
Longitudinal follow-up of Yezidis displaced by ISIS genocide to a host village in Iraq, Jordan Greaser
THE EFFECTS OF LECTURE CAPTURE DESIGN ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN AN ONLINE, ASYNCHRONOUS NONMAJORS BIOLOGY COURSE, Melissa Ann Gutierrez
The Helicopter War: Unraveling the Myth and Memory of a Vietnam War Icon, Hayley Hasik
AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS’, INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT STAFF, AND ADMINISTRATORS’ ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS CONCERNING DATA, DATA-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT., LaShandra Antionette Hodge-McClure
Gold(I)-Hydroarylation in Polymer Modification – Alkynes and Alkenes with Unexpected Reactivity, Samuel B. Hunt
AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT, MENTORING, AND ANTICIPATED TURNOVER AMONG MILLENNIALS, Keiasha Hypolite
The K-5 Teacher Experience of Distance Instruction during School Closures due to COVID-19, Rose Jenkins
Does Convenience Come with a Price? The Impact of Remote Testimony on Expert Credibility and Decision-Making, Ashley Jones
Post-racism as Ideology: Character Construction and Placement, & Narrative Structure in Dear White People, Mphatso Kaufulu
Mating Burrows in the Fiddler Crab Leptuca pugilator: How a Key Resource is Contested, Constructed, and Shared, Zachary Michael Lane
THE SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND UTILIZATION OF FUNCTIONALLY DIVERSE ROMP-BASED BOTTLEBRUSHES, Cheyenne Liu
Flourishing in a Non-Traditional Workplace Using Technology-Assisted Imagery, Wendi Lord
COMPARING THE EFFICACY OF TWO INCLUSIVITY INTERVENTIONS ON WILLINGNESS TO INVEST IN FEMALE- VERSUS MALE-LED STEM AND NON-STEM COMPANIES, Alicia Macchione
FRIEDRICH WARNECKE: TOWARD A NEW EDITION OF AD INFINITUM, Elton Machado
Connecting Social and Ecological Systems in Small-Scale Fisheries in the Philippines, Sara Eisler Marriott
THE SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST & EMOTIONAL LABOR, STRESS, AND COMPASSION FATIGUE, Patricia Martin
Two Mothers and a Tara, Apoorva Mittal
Time's Violence, Matthew Moniz
Where have all the surgical nurses gone? Staffing Shortages in Surgical Departments Post COVID-19 Shutdowns, Phoenix Neal
Empowerment Agents: How Student Affairs Professionals Facilitate the Persistence of Undocumented Students, Tiffany Paige
Deciphering Description: A Study of the Works of Joseph Conrad, Autumn Pearson
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL AND MEDIA DISCOURSE ON IMMIGRATION DURING THE TRUMP ERA, Daleana Phillips
Predictors of Relational Aggression in Women Across Adulthood, Alison Poor
TRANSPORTATION MANAGERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION WITHIN LOGISTICS CLUSTERS, Stephen McDonald Puryear
THE MOBILITY OF LONG-LIVED RADIOISOTOPES AND THEIR BURIAL IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, Neil Redmond
Spectral Multistep Methods for the Scalable Simulation of Time-Dependent Phenomena, Bailey Rester
The Influence of Diamine Curing Additives on the Network Architecture of Phthalonitrile Thermosetting Polymers, Tyler J. Richardson
The Effect of Sulfonamides Structural and Reactive Properties Examined through Difunctionalization of Alkenes, Gavin Rustin
EFFECTS OF MEMBRANE COMPONENTS ON THE OLIGOMERIZATION OF AMYLOID-β (Aβ) IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE, Jhinuk Saha
USING IMAGERY PRACTICE TO IMPROVE AIRLINE PILOT SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, Brian Christopher Sajdak
Novel Corrosion Detection Methods for Understanding Polymer Model Coatings During Immersion, Christopher Scanlon
Predicting Attrition Among Human Anatomy and Physiology I Students in Community Colleges, Benjimen Sessums
CHARACTERIZATION OF TICK AND HOST-ASSOCIATED FACTORS LINKED TO INDUCTION OF ALPHA-GAL SYNDROME., Surendra Raj Sharma and Surendra Raj Sharma
MISSING VALUE IMPUTATION FOR SINGLE OMICS AND MULTI-OMICS DATA, meng song
A Multiscale Linkage Between Riverscape and Fish Community Coevolution, Loren W. Stearman
Magnetic Interactions in Open-Shell Conjugated Polymers, Michael Steelman
All My Gods Are Dead, John Constantine Tobin
There are Five of Us, Elizabeth Trueblood
"If These Walls Could Speak": Judson College and the Formation of the New Baptist Woman, 1838-1930, E.Gabrielle Walker
Research Disposition, Research Support, and Research Self-Efficacy (RSE) in the Field of Education, Leadon D. Williams
Please Don’t Stop the Music: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Black Protest Music Released Between 2013-2022 as a Response to #BlackLivesMatter, Melissa Williams
ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS, SELF EFFICACY, JOB SATISFACTION, AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF SCIENCE AND MATH TEACHERS IN ALABAMA, Andrew N. Wood
INTERESTS AND DECENT WORK’S ACCOUNT OF WELL-BEING AND JOB PERFORMANCE IN A LOWER SOCIAL CLASS SAMPLE, Benjamin J. Wright
A TALE OF TWO DIAGONALIZATIONS: METHODS TO DIAGONALIZE A 1-D PIECEWISE CONSTANT INDEFINITE SCHRÖDINGER OPERATOR, Sarah Wright
Dissertations from 2022
Meta-Analysis of Daily Behavior Report Cards, Meleah Ackley
DELINEATING THE EXOCYTIC FUSION MACHINERY REQUIRED FOR MAST CELL EXOCYTOSIS, Pratikshya Adhikari
Examining Workplace eLearning Programs Using Persuasive Learning Design: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, David Akanbi
Hydrolytically Degradable Thermosets with Tunable Degradation Profiles via Ketal-Based Crosslinks, Benjamin Alameda
A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF COMPLETION AT MISSISSIPPI’S COMMUNITY COLLEGES, Richard Baker
How System Efficacy Affects Risk Perception: Comparison of the United States, Iran, and China throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nazanin Bani Amerian
Importance of Alkyl Substitution on the Molecular Architecture and Thermomechanical Performance of Glassy Polybenzoxazine Networks, Bernardo L. Barea-López
USING NUDGES TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT WITH SUICIDE PREVENTION RESOURCES IN AN ONLINE SAMPLE OF UNITED STATE MILITARY VETERANS, Brian W. Bauer
FACTORS IMPACTING MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM COMMUNICATION AND PATIENT-CENTERED COMMUNICATION ALONG THE CANCER CARE CONTINUUM, Jessica Beckham
RECEPTOR-DOPED ORGANIC TRANSISTORS: TRANSDUCING ANION BINDING FROM MIXED IONIC-ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT, Anthony Benasco
GUN CONTROL LAWS AND POLICIES REPORTED INFLUENCE ON THE ATTITUDES OF FACULTY AT MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITIES, David Besancon
Brenno Blauth’s Compositional Style Elements: A Study on the Sonata for Flute and Piano, T.5., Thiago Bohm Bottega
POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF MANAGING BIODIVERSITY AND NATURAL RESOURCES ACROSS INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES, Dillon Brown
Seeing Children’s Futures Through Rose Colored Glasses: Does Optimism Bias toward Reproduction Discourage Anti-Natalism?, Faith L. Brown