Theses from 2025
It’s Not a Phase, It’s a…Musical?: The Innate Theatricality of the Emo Movement of the 2000s, Kylie Alyssa Price
The Effect of a Peptide Targeting Ligand on Transfection Efficiency of Polymeric Nanoparticles to Dendritic Cells, Anthony Radka
A Story of Life Through Death: An Osteobiography of Two Individuals from the Late Saxon Period, Isabella Ragazzi
Sliding Window Method for Simulating Action Potentials in Axons, Hayden Reed
Implementing Storytelling into the Elementary School Classroom: A Best Practice Guide with Adaptable Lessons, Cali Reinhart
Addressing the Gap: A Comparative Case Analysis of the First Week of School in Two Second-Grade Classrooms, Madeline Roberts
The Effect of Gender on Career Success in Remote Work Settings in the Accounting Profession, Ashlyn Roche
Those Lost in the Wood, Emily JoAnne Rutland
Determining the Influence of a Low-Head Dam on Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Bouie River, Natalie Santiago
Investigating the Cardiovascular and Autonomic Responses to Energy Drink Consumption: The Role of Energy and Calorie Content, Sophia Schmidt
Tuning the Morphology of Triblock Copolymers via Homopolymer Blending, John F. Searles
Neural RRP6 Depletion Drives circRNA Accumulation and Motor Impairment in Drosophila melanogaster Neurons, Joseph Serio
Cellular Telemetry for Real-Time River Flow Velocity Data from Fluvial Acoustic Tomography Loggers, Joshua Lee Seymour
Cache-Augmented Generation in RAG Pipelines: Fast and Memory-Efficient Approach to Multi-Agent Knowledge Query Systems, Yaju Gopal Shrestha
The Numerical Method for Finding All the Zeros of a Function f (x) on an Interval [a,b], Franissa Simon
The Sexual Assault Survivor Experience of Medical Forensic Examinations, Brielle Simonsen
Synthetic Efforts Towards An Analog of LY426965, Macy Sproles
Bases of Influence: Military Installations and Partisan Realignment in the American South, Regan Steen
Beyond the Classroom: The Role of Cultural Capital in College-to-Career Transitions, Keynijah Sullivan
Technical Difficulties: An Investigation of Problematic Social Media Usage and Well-Being of Emerging Adults, Sarah Swan
Transcriptional Analysis of Inflammatory Responses of Mouse Trophoblast Stem Cells to Interferon Gamma, Arnaz Maryam Tariq
Paralympic Athletes’ Perspectives on Necessary Factors to Improve the Health and Performance Among Team USA, Heather Thornhill
Comparing Urban and Rural Mississippi Residents’ Health Literacy of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Leah Tucker
Relationships Between the Social Deprivation Index and Mental Health Outcomes in Sexual and Gender Minority Adults, Bea Twilbeck
Quasipseudometric Value Functions with Dense Rewards, Khadichabonu Valieva
Globally Adaptive Exponential Integrators for Stiff Systems of ODEs, Anzhelika Vasilyeva
The Effect of an English Mother Tongue on Spanish Language Acquisition, Erin Wallace
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story: A Comparative Analysis of the Representations of American Serial Killers in News and True Crime Media, Jenelle Walters
The Impact of Hazardous Noise Levels on the Hearing Mechanism of Marching Band Students, Margaret Westbrook
Public Building Accessibility: An Expanded Access Analysis Metric, Carolyn Wilkinson
Knighted Pawn's Tour, Morgan Wilson
Discovery and Description of a Novel Mode of Oviposition in the Mosquito Genus Culex, Liz Wynne
Theses from 2024
Speech-Language Pathologists' Experiences Diagnosing Swallowing Disorders, Katelyn Baxter
The Effects of Prescribed Fire on Microbial Biomass Abundance in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems, Sarah K. Borne
REAPing What We Sow: The Implications and Outcomes of Mississippi House Bill 1125, The “Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures (REAP)” Act, Kerigan Brewer
Establishing a Model for Sustainable and Meaningful Philanthropy Partnerships: A Case Study of Kappa Delta Beta Sigma and Kids Hub Child Advocacy Center, Kenning Bridges
Religious Extremism and Female Autonomy: How Dystopian Literature Reflects Contemporary Issues, Jessica Briscoe
Reviving the Past: Enhancing Language Models with Historical Text Optimization, Heather D. Broome
The Effect of Remote Work on Career Success in the Accounting Profession, Erin Bynum
The Offering, William Campbell
Dynamic Key-Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones, Zain Chaudhary
Social Patterns in Physical Infrastructure: Associations between Socioeconomic Status and Walkability, Kaylee Coursey
Player Exposition: Education and Immersion in JRPGs, Callan Danenhower
Algorithmic Playgrounds: Investigating the Play Element in Social Media, Ashlyn Daniels
Mate Choice Between Two Species of Topminnows from Dissimilar Hybrid Zones, Chloe Davis
Influence of Head Sway on the Availability of Visual Information in an Affordance Task, Ron Dickson Jr.
A World Between: The Macro and Micro-relationships that Shape the Borderlands, Teresa DiGerolamo
Pottery: From The Source, Alexis Ducksworth
The Implementation of Music Within Communication Intervention and Its Effect on Communication Development, Rebecca Dunn
Groomer Discourse: A Transgender-sensitive Critical Discourse Analysis of Queerphobic Hate Speech on Twitter, William Evans
Genetic Analysis of Global Sawfish Populations, Kylie Faulkner
“UFO Reports Swamp Mississippi”: Media Coverage of the 1973 Pascagoula Alien Abduction, Jane Fort
Black, White, and Red All Over: Tougaloo College and the Southern Red Scare, Simeon Gates
Learning Scene Semantics for 3D Scene Retrieval, Natalie Gleason
Gender, Body Shame, and Sexual Anxiety: A Mediational Model Among College Students, Allison Hanby
Exploring the Collegiate Choir Participant's Values within Ensemble Performances, Kaelyn Hunter
Full-Body Movements in Speech Treatment Sessions: Speech-Language Pathologists’ Perspectives, Natalie Hurdle
How Bitcoin Price Reacts to United States Government Public Legislation Releases, Walter Johnson
A Linguistic Analysis of the Language Surrounding Witchcraft in France from the 16th to 20th Centuries, Kaleigh Landers
Sands of Change in the Mississippi Delta: How Local Newspapers Prevent News Deserts from Silencing Their Communities, Sophia H. LaPalme
Musselwhite: A Case Study in the Development of Modern Legend in the American South, Ella J. Lauderdale
Effects of Dissolved Oxygen and pH on Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Growth, Karina D. Ledezma
“The Wonderful Improvement”: Landscape and Morals in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Montanah Middleton
Stronger together: The intersection between Sandra Harding and informal science education, Reyt Middleton
The Effects that Dietary Intake and Cardiorespiratory Fitness has on Insulin Resistance in Adults, Trinady Moore
Inclusive Policy, Diverse Perspectives: Affirmative Action and the Model Minority Among University Students, Jannie Nguyen
Inclusive Policy, Diverse Perspectives: Affirmative Action and the Model Minority Among University Students, Jannie Nguyen
Tense Indifference: An Examination of Integration in Two Cities in Marengo County, Alabama, Benjamin Ogden
Understanding the Clinician's View of Pragmatics in Pediatric Therapy, Shelby Oliver
The Azalea Trail Maids: White Women’s Contributions to the Lost Cause in Mobile, Alabama, Emma Rawls
Downtown Hattiesburg: In History and Memory, Joseph Reosti
Disconnectivity Graphs of Spin Glasses on the Kagome Lattice, Richard Richardson
NCAA DI Student-Athletes’ Understanding of and Attitudes Toward Mental Performance Services, Allison Rudisill
Neurodivergent Gaming: Critical Game Design and Scholarly Practice, Mary Samblis
How to Explain Allen-Manandhar’s Method to Beginner Mathematicians : A Convergence Analysis of a Hybrid Method for Variable-Coefficient Boundary Value Problems, Rebecca Scariano
Violence as the Imposition of Difference: A Case Study of the 2020 Riots in Minneapolis, Jude Sims-Barber
A Rose by Any Other Name: Impressionism as Definition and Aesthetic in the Music of Claude Debussy, Erin Smith
The Impact of Differing Instability Devices on Postural Sway Parameters, Kacey Wallace
Suppressing Reactive Oxygen Species via Application of Antioxidant Supramolecular Polymers, Zacchaeus Wallace
Effects of Cogongrass Invasion on Soil Biota and Nutrient Loads in a Longleaf Pine Savanna, Jordan Werneth
Theses from 2023
Nurses’ and Nursing Students' Knowledge of Pregnancy-Related Complications Among African Americans, Tamija Alexander
Troubled Past, Golden Opportunity: Public Memory and Memorialization at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hannah E. Arnold
Exercise and Mental Health Within a National Population, Robert A. Bourne
An Analysis of Public Library Services to the Military Community, Rachel Brown
Separating the R vs. S Enantiomers of a Quinoline Aimed at Inhibiting the Allosteric Binding Pocket of HIV-1 Integrase, Madison Canfield
Separating the R vs. S Enantiomers of a Quinoline Aimed at Inhibiting the Allosteric Binding Pocket of HIV-1 Integrase, Madison Canfield
Emerging to Elsewhere: The Giver and The Concept of “Elsewhere” in Secondary Curricula, Kayleigh Capers
¿Cómo Se Dice...? The Spanish Use of Hispanic College Students, Christopher Castaneda
Orientalism in Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha, Britany Castilaw
Perceptions of Prenatal Care from Mississippi Mothers: The Role of Race and Insurance Coverage, Brittney Clayborn
The Effectiveness of the University of Southern Mississippi's Marketing and Branding Efforts among Prospective Students, Amy Clevenger
Formulation and Optimization of Algae-Filled Polylactic Acid Thermoplastic Compounds for Improved Biodegradation, Sydney A. Cole
Post-COVID-19 Employee Satisfaction: An Examination of Flexible Work Arrangements, Joshua Cooper
Diver Perceived Value and Satisfaction on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Ka'Lon Duncanson
piRNA expression in regenerative tissue of Octopus bimaculoides, Bailey Ervin