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Dissertations from 2027
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Brief App-based Mindfulness Intervention for Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals, Lindsey Ostermiller
Dissertations from 2026
Praise That Empowers: Training Preschool Teachers to Linguistically Adapt Behavior-Specific Praise for Hispanic Students, Claudia Abril Ochoa
Structure-Property Relationships in Epoxy/Amine-Derived Polyester Thermosets, Jeffrey Aguinaga
“Drop the sports stuff and get a real job”: Women Athletes’ Recollections of Memorable Microaggression Messages, Salha Alghamdi
The Impact of YouTube Influencers on Consumer Purchase Intention and Engagement in Saudi Arabia, Abdullah N. Alqahtani
Enhancing Traffic Safety Through AI-Driven, Privacy-Preserving, And Secure Impaired Driving Detection Systems, Razan Alsulieman
Daughters of the Dreamline, Abiodun Muyideen Bello
Generations at Work: Examining Differences in the Nonprofit Sector, Cory J. Bergeron
Development of Electrochemical Sensor Platforms for Targeted Analytical Detection of Illicit Drugs, High Explosives and Chemical Warfare Agent Simulants, Arati Biswakarma
The Perceived Cultural Intelligence of Leadership and Its Impact on Employee Organizational Commitment and Workplace Well-Being, Melinda Bowens
A Soldier's Things: Bộ đội of the People's Army of Vietnam and the Things They Carried During the American War, Oscar J. Coles
Neural Correlates of Anger Rumination to a Personal Event and Subsequent Changes in Working Memory, Mairin Claire Madison Cotter
“We Have Not Failed Our Country in The Past; We Shall Not Fail Her In The Future.”: The Army National Guard in Peace and War during the Interwar Period and World War II, Bearington C. Curtis
Plant Awareness in Mississippi and Connections to Ethnobotany, Thomas Michael Dodson
Teaching Science Beyond the Classroom: The Role of Docent Programs in Pre-Service Teacher Self-Efficacy, Edith Flores
Mental Health & Alcohol Outcomes for Student-Athletes: Exploring the Mediating Role of Drinking Motives, Lauren Alexis Greenspoon
Exploring the Effects of Polymer-Graphene Interactions on Bulk Composite Properties Using Finite Element Analysis, Bryant Grove
Vaya con Dios: An Exploration of the Relationships between Religious/Spiritual Struggles, Nature Engagement, and Psychological Distress for Latine Emerging Adults, Lauren Sidney Hales
B-I-N-G-O and Behavior was Its Name-O: An Interdependent Group Contingency Among Alternative Elementary-Aged Students, Faith Hamilton
Multifunctional Nanocomposites Prepared via Continuous High Shear Reactor, Matthew C. Hartline
Pro Rege Chr. Brass Band: A Century of Sound, Jonathan T.J. Henneveld
Government Policy, Financial Deepening and Economic Growth in Central and Eastern Europe, Timothy Holloway
Land of the Living, Jacqueline Howard
Energy Landscape of Spin Glass Systems on Lattices, Anil Kumar Katwal
Structured Learning for Future Dietitians: Frequency of Deliberate Practice and Alternative Supervised Practice Experiences and Associations with Credentialing Exam Scores, Program Satisfaction, and Workforce Readiness, Judith Roxanne Kingston
Rural Woman, Emilee N. Kinney
Impact of Aggregation and Electrical Bias on the Doping and Deposition Behavior of P3HT, Nicholas Kreis
Workload as a Tipping Point: A Serial Mediation Model Examining the Roles of Job Crafting and Workload on Work Engagement, Affective Commitment, and Turnover Intentions, Jessica E. Langston
Rendered Capable: Expansivising Science Teacher Identities And Practices In Informal Science Environments, Abigail Launius
AI in Education: Targeted Professional Development and Teacher Self-Efficacy, Andria D. Layton
Exploring the Effects of ASMR on Attentional Control, Episodic Memory, and Working Memory Tasks, Monika Mazela
Daughters, Kathryn McKenzie
Boosting Reading Fluency Using Systematic Error Correction and Repeated Reading With Diverse Upper Elementary Learners, Kayla Sharee McVay
Popular Protest and Corporate Reputation: Exploring the Impact on Recruitment and Retention, Heather Miller
Branding Black Beauty: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Black-Owned Beauty Brands on Instagram to Understand Advertising Appeals, Engagement, and the Identity of Black Women, Sherin Farhan Moni
The Relationship Between Empathy and Scientific Experience on Agreement with Nonscientific Uses of Scientific Retraction, August Namuth
The Impact of Framing Effects and Moral Values on Prosocial Engagement, Olajuwon Olagbegi
A Comparison of Headteachers’, Teachers’, and Parents’ Attributions of Their Relative Influence on Students’ Academic Performance in Ghana, Samuel B. Owusu
In Between Without Words: Identity Negotiation Under Discursive Absence, Colbey Penton
Scalable Explicit Methods for High-Order Time Stepping on Chebyshev Grids, Rachel Prather
Attitudes Toward Embryo Disposition: Role of Personhood, Religious and Political Conservatism, Saba Shahid
The Osteophage, Gideon Simons
Aqueous Photoiniferter Polymerization of Acrylonitrile-Based Polymers: Enabling the Production of High-Quality Carbon Fiber Precursors, Evan K. Stacy
Exploring Onboarding Strategies And Their Impact On Organizational Commitment, Belongingness, and Employee Retention Within A Community College, Ariel Renell Ferchaud Triggs
The Influences of Acetylene and Nitrile Functionalities on The Pyrolysis Behavior of Bismaleimide Matrices, David C. Walker
Ant Ecology in the Luquillo Forest, Puerto Rico, Clayton Ziemke
Dissertations from 2025
The Effect of Implementing a Development Program Using Mental Imagery on the Time to Master Psychomotor Skills, Randal Agee
Portrayals and Perspectives: The Representation of Gulf States in American Political Cartoons from Early Relations to 2020, Meshari Alotaibi
The Desegregation of Mississippi's Community and Junior Colleges, Precious N. Alridge
Solution of Preconditioned Nonsymmetric Saddle Point Systems through Modified Conjugate Gradient Iteration, Samson Ayo
Supporting Victory: The Revolution in US Army Logistics, 1898–1918, James M. Berry
Investigation of Dynamic Transesterification in Epoxy-Amine Vitrimers, Pritha Bhunia
Fungal Biodiversity, Microbial Communities, and Ecosystem Function in Non-perennial Streams, Charles T. Bond
Factors Shaping Data-Based Decision-Making: The Role of Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, and School Culture in Mississippi’s State Tested Subjects, Cymone E. Bradford
Unlocking Potential: How Disengagement and Reengagement Shape Performance and Well-Being, Asha Bradley
A Mixed Methods Study of the Process of Commissioning New Music for Choirs, Kyle Justin Brazell
Examining Nonprofit Social Service Sector Burnout and Turnover: Trait Mindfulness as a Moderator of Work-Life Balance and Compassion Fatigue, Melissa L. Brown
Exploring Factors Influencing Noncredit Workforce Training Program Selection, Rebecca Brown
The Influence of Online Dating Pool Size Variability on Mate Selection Satisfaction and Investment, Zach Buckner
The Examination of Teacher Mentorship Design for Mentees, Cagla Cobek
Exploring Faculty Perspectives of Roadblocks to Accommodating Students with Disabilities in Community Colleges, Shalither S. Cushenberry
Enhanced Point Cloud Generation from A Novel 360° Underwater LiDAR, Olagoke E. Daramola
Network Formation and Thermal Degradation of Aryl Ether Diamine Polybenzoxazines, Charles M. Davis
Perceptions of Choral Diction Curricula, Caitlyn Dixon
How Do You Ask Questions? A Thematic and Discursive Analysis of Question-Asking in Stranger Conversations, Nicholas Elliott
Processing-Driven Crystallization, Morphology, and Mechanics in PEKK Composites, Nicholas Ryan Enos
Synthesis of Flavin Analogs for Isolation of FAD-capped RNAs, Jarrett W. Faulkner
Population Genetic Analyses of Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis) Over the 20th Century, Ann M. Fearing
Examining Affective and Biological Responses to Minority Stress Among Sexual Minoritized Young Adults, Ava K. Fergerson
Exploring Internship’s Role in Non-Virtual Social Capital Development: A Gen Z Student Perspective, Christina M. Galli
Abel Inversion Comparison of Geant4 Simulation and Ozone Production Using Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy in Nitrogen/Oxygen Mixtures in the Presence of Alpha Radiation, Sidney John Gautrau
The Bass Clarinet Works of Jonathan Russell and Pedagogical Guide of Extended Techniques Used in His Compositions, Heather Chelsea Gering
Revnan / Rakontèr, Emily Jean McCollister Goldsmith
Upcycling Commodity Polymers to Advanced Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Anthony Griffin-Espinoza
Sight-Singing Requirements of Choral Festivals: A Fifty-State Comparison of the Methods Used to Adjudicate Ensemble Literacy, William Griswold Jr
General Education Teachers' Perspectives and Practices for Supporting English Language Learners in Memphis Charter Schools, Ijiah Hargrove
Close Enough, Brooke Harries
The Late Victorian Nursery: A Legacy Space, Karlie Herndon
Investigating Job Embeddedness, Organizational Commitment, and Work Stress Through a Stress-Reducing Mobile App in the Professional Sports Industry, Rachael E. Holman
From Invisibility to Extraordinary: Tracing the Evolution of Portrayals and Stereotypes in Films, Whitney Howard
An Alternative Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics in Curved Space, Robert A. Hulsey
Adolescent Students’ Adaptability During the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacting Their Academic Preparedness in College: A Qualitative Exploration of Resilience in Secondary School Disruptions, Nicole Tyanne Jameson
Self-Assembling Supramolecular Polymers as Tissue Scaffolds to Promote Tissue Regeneration Following Injury, Penelope E. Jankoski
Establishment of Neonatal Sepsis Predictors Utilizing Non-Invasive Monitoring Techniques, Dalton Janssen
The Clinton Massacre of 1875: Competing Narratives & Reconstruction Memory in a Deep South Town, Melissa Janczewksi Jones
Exploring Contributions of Partnerships Between Employers and Disability Organizations on Recruitment, Hiring, Training, Retention, and Accommodation of Individuals with Disabilities in Mississippi, Peter Oluwadare Kalejaiye
Beyond Borders: Branding and Self-Presentation Strategies of US-based Indian Influencers, Srividya Karuturi
Examining Relationships Between Agile Workplace Practices, Productivity, and Agility in Organizations, Melba Kennedy