Theses from 2021
Unraveling the Mummy: The Effects of Natural Mummification on the Recovery and Degradation of DNA, Marissa Gandolfo-Muller
Bears Ears National Monument: An Integration of Social and Environmental Justice, Helen Greene
Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on the Perinatal Experience in Mississippi, Baylee Grimsley
Season Pass: Southern Miss Sports Report, Mackenzie Hamilton
Techniques for the Enantioselective Asymmetric Synthesis of Benzyl Substituted Malonic Acid Esters, Madison Hansen
Exploring How Popular Media Affects the Motivations and Hesitations of Women Who Go Through Sorority Recruitment at the University of Southern Mississippi, Whitley W. Howell
Environmental DNA (eDNA) Surveys for the Smalltooth Sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, Emma M. Humphreys
Framing Race: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the Racially Motivated Murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin, Chloe Jackson
How Participation in Team v. Individual Sports Affects the Physical Activity Levels of College Students, Kellie Jackson
Differences in Erosion Rates and Elevation Among Natural, Living and Hardened Shorelines in Mississippi, and Alabama, Brittany Juneau
The diversity and evolution of phenazine biosynthesis pathways in Enterobacterales, Christian Leise
The Impact of Graduate School Ranking on an Economics Professor’s Annual Earnings, Shailee Manandhar
Vertebrates at the University of Southern Mississippi: A Wildlife Survey of the Bear Point Bayou and Surrounding Gulf Park Campus, Hannah McDuffie
Echoes of the Past: A New Play, Cayson Miles
Study of the Role of the msaABCR operon in Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Activity and persister cell formation in Staphylococcus aureus, Karsen Motter
Testing for Character Displacement between Two Abundant Stream Fishes, Amber Nations
World War I and its Lasting Political, Emotional, and Educational Effects on Women, Maggie Neupert
How to Defend Those Who Defend: An Examination of the Underfunding of the Public Defender System, Selma M. Newbill
2-adic Valuations of Square Spiral Sequences, Minh Nguyen
The Relationship Between Status Motives and Social Activism, Olajuwon Olagbegi
A Systematic Review of Factors that Impact College Student Stress, Cailyn Papp
Effects of Prescribed Fire on Soil Respiration in a Longleaf Pine Forest., Caroline E. Paxton
The Role of Parenting Practices in Adolescent Aggression and Impulsivity, Elizabeth G. Payne
Effects of Patient’s Race on Pain Perception and Treatment in Nursing Students, Christian J. Phillips
Assessing the Occurrence of Trichechus manatus latirostris in Mobile Bay, Alabama Using eDNA, Elora Pierce
College Students’ Use of Social Media and its Effects on Well-being During COVID-19, Virginia Pressly
Beyond the Lineup: An Exploration of Consumer Loyalty at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Anna Richardson
Communication Resources for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children in Mississippi: Parents’ Perspectives, Julia Rossano
Rationalizing Academic Dishonesty and Its Effect on Nursing, Leah Salisbury
Qualified Immunity: How Mississippi’s District Courts Have Shown Why The Doctrine Should Be Done Away With, Hannah E. Sawyer
Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Knowledge of Endometriosis: A Pilot Study, Stephanie Schlorke
Investigating piRNA expression and function in regenerating tissue of segmented annelid Capitella teleta, Beatriz Schueng Zancanela
Emotional Intelligence as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Psychopathic Personality Traits and Relational Aggression, Aria T. Smith
Energy Therapies in Nursing Practice: Effects, Barriers, and Limitations, Sydney J. Stone
How Workplace Attire Affects Employee Perceptions and Organizational Culture, Ethan Surrett
Biochemical and Computational Characterization of Small Regulatory RNAs in the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, Isabelle Townsend
Presence and Characteristics of Axial Skeleton Fractures Experienced by Cheerleaders and Gymnasts from 2010-2019, Jordan Trimm
The Role of Gac/Rsm Signal Transduction Pathway in the Biology of Antagonistic Marine Bacterium Gynuella sunshinyii 449, Anhthu Truong
When I Grow Up: Intimacy Work and Collegiate Theatre, Anna-Carson Tyner
The Impact of Oxygen Availability and Oxidative Stress on Regulation of Cyclic-dimeric-GMP in Listeria monocytogenes strain F2365, Anna G. Welch
Phenotypic Characterizations of msaABCR operon deletion in Staphylococcus Epidermidis RP62A, Raelyn Williams
Theses from 2020
Whole Word vs Phoneme Error Scoring for Audiological Word Recognition Testing, Jennifer C. Arnoult
Generating Zika Vaccine Candidates Using Nhumirim Virus as a Backbone, Mariam A. Atobiloye
Examining School Safety and Security: A Situational Crime Perspective, Jessica A. Barnett
‘I want it, I got it’: Cultural appropriation, white privilege, and power in Ariana Grande’s “7, Alyssa T. Bass
Assessing the Effect of Bile and Oxygen Availability on the Redox Status of Listeria monocytogenes Strain F2365, Sukriti Bhattarai
Characterization of an Inner Filter Effect-based Sensor for Detection of Azo Dyes, Rimsha Bhatta
Perturbation of Lagrange Points in Effective Potential Simulations, Swapnil Bhatta
Twisted Central Configurations of the Eight-Body problem, Gokul Bhusal
Molecular Characterization of Wolbachia and its Impact on the Microbiome of Exotic and United States Ticks, Cailyn G. Bobo
The Pain in Beauty, Kededra C. Brown
Suspicious Minds: A Study of the Attitudes that African Americans held regarding the Japanese During World War II, Timothy E. Buchanan
Anxiety Moderates the Relationship Between Peer Exclusivity and Peer Relational Aggression Among College Students, Hailee Buras
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Crime in Louisiana, Eleanor A. Casey
Impact of SALT Deduction Cap on Individual Tax Liability, Mahum Chaudhry
College Students’ Perceptions of Instructors Whose Primary Language Is not English, Takiyah A. Clay
The effect of truncated complement constructs on biofilm formation, protease production, and pigmentation, Cara L. Cothern
Discriminating Azo Dyes: Conjugated Polymers, the Inner Filter Effect, and Array Sensors, Erin Crater
Coordinated Autonomy of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Paribartan Dhakal
Racial Threat, Economic Resources, and Politics: How Local Structural Conditions Influence the Adoption of Restrictionist Immigration Policy, Mario Marset Ehrle
PTSD Symptoms and Alcohol-Related Outcomes in College Students: The Mediating Role of Positive and Negative Coping Styles, Tatum Freeman
The Role of Action in Affordance Perception Using Virtual Reality, Ashley J. Funkhouser
Investigating the Effect of Hydrophilic Block Length on the Co-Assembly Behavior of Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers, Alexandra M. Garrett
Co-assembly behavior of neutral and zwitterionic amphiphilic block copolymers in the fabrication of glassy polymer vesicles, Elina Ghimire
Amplification and Potential Transformation of Human Syntaxin-17 into Model E. coli, Taylor H. Gore
Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Are Sensitive to the Cytotoxicity of Nitric Oxide: Biological Implications for Early Embryogenesis, McKenzie C. Hargis
Perspectives Relating to Multicultural Training with Speech-Language Pathologists, Evy Jewell Hayes
The Typewriter and the Literary Sphere: An Analysis of Turn-of-the-Century Literature, Emma K. Holdbrooks
Tectonic, Rebecca E. Holifield
Evaluating biogenesis of 5’-tailed mirtrons, Jonathan D. Hoover
A comparison of egg desiccation tolerance and development under different temperatures for three common Aedes mosquitoes, Shelby A. Hosch
A Look into the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Health, Hunter L. Howell
Analysis of True Risk Lab’s Price Prediction Algorithm in Relation to Market Results, Chris F. Hua
An External Expression of the Inner Spirit: Dance, Religion, and Taboos in Christianity, Erin E. Ingram
Diversification Using International Exchange-Traded Funds, Alese K. Jones
“More Beautiful Than God!”: Hair and Makeup Design for Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness, Jackson L. Jones
IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING, AND AUTOMATION IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF HEALTHCARE, MANUFACTURING, AND RETAIL SECTORS, Jasmine N. Kelley
Automatic Numerical Methods for Enhancement of Blurred Text-Images via Optimization and Nonlinear Diffusion, Aaditya Kharel
Investigating roles for RNA turnover processes in cell signaling through Drosophila melanogaster genetic mosaics, Sudiksha Rathan Kumar
Learning to Love Bats, Bethany J. Lawson
The Long Time Behavior of the Predator-Prey Model with Holling Type III, Regen S. McGee
“Part of That (Man’s) World”: Analyzing “Cinderella” and “The Little Mermaid” Fairy Tale Variants Through a Feminist Lens, K. Morgan Mitchell
Alpha-Gal Syndrome: Molecular Characterization of Amblyomma americanum α-D-galactosidase in α-gal Metabolism and Onset of Red Meat Allergy, Ahmed A. Mohamed
Using Buy and Rent Discrepancies to Predict Real Estate Bubbles, Jonathan K. Niehaus
Test-Driving Interventions for Teachers to Improve Treatment Integrity, Viktoria Papp
Selfsame Epoxide-Amine Microparticle Systems: Investigation of Crosslink Density, John J. Peyrefitte
Regulation of weak acid-dependent cell death by the msaABCR operon during biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus, Sarah-Elizabeth M. Polley
Effects of Sexualized Images in Media on Attitudes Toward Public Breastfeeding, Hannah J. Powell-Yost
Cultivating Spaces for American Citizenship in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces, Jonathan Puckett
Patterns of Genomic Introgression in Topminnow Hybrid Zones, Amanda F. Ray
A Machine Learning Method for Predicting Liver Transplant Survival Outcomes, Brandon C. Revels
The Incorporation and Effect of Movement in the Elementary Classroom, Caroline L. Rhett
Utilizing manganese and rhenium sediment concentrations to reconstruct past interglacial Southern Ocean circulation changes, Evan E. Rohde
The Effects of Disease Contamination on Memory for Touched Objects in Older Adults, Jessica M. Runnels
Cloning and Expression of Human Synaptosome Associated Protein 29 in E. coli, Logan M. Ryals
Tailoring Photodegradation Rates of Acetal-containing Polymer Networks, Michael Sandoz
Probabilistic Analysis of Revenues in Online Games, Nishchal Sapkota
Crime Television Viewership and Perceived Vulnerability to Crime among College Students, Madison S. Seymour