Theses from 2016
A Comprehensive Study of the Effects of Chemotherapy on Friction Ridge Detail, M Mariel Lowe
Bells of Death: Rachmaninoff’s Use of the Dies Irae in his Choral Symphony, Kolokola, Madeleine Lowrey
Protein Residue-Residue Contact Prediction Using Stacked Denoising Autoencoders, Joseph Bailey Luttrell IV
Mating Behaviors Exhibited by a Captive Male Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens), Jessica M. McCord
Women in Gaming: A Study of Female Players’ Experiences in Online FPS Games, M Allison McDaniel
Compassion Fatigue and Educational Preparation Among Mississippi Child Welfare Workers, Meredith D. McPhail
Perceptions of University Community Members Regarding Alcohol Restriction Policies, Katherine A. Meeker
Momentum Transfer to a Simplified Wind Turbine Blade, Myer D. Milbrath
The Good, the Bad and the Useless: The Perception of Books in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, Morgan Grace Milburn
Vascular Flora of the Possum Walk Trail at the Infinity Science Center, Hancock County, Mississippi, Hanna M. Miller
Form-Blindness and Its Implications: A Verification Study, Meredith G. Moody
The Relation of Adolescent Narcissism and Prosocial Behavior with Cooperative and Competitive Attitudes, Erin V. Moran
The Effect of Increased Exposure of UVC Light on Human Skin Microbiota, T'Kylia S. Moss
The Effect Music has in Speech Therapy, Emily K. Nester
Constructing Reality: The Role of Mass Media in The Hunger Games Series, Jordan E. Nettles
An Analysis of Gender Effects and Career Choices in Public Accounting, Amanda M. Odom
Sedimentology of a Small Estuarine Marsh Along East (Pensacola) Bay, Florida, Jesse Pfadenhauer
Exploring the Experiences of Individuals Incarcerated for the Crime of Arson, Joshua W. Polk
A Historical Analysis of the Early Christian Church Fathers’ Opinions Regarding Abortion, Lauren Taylor Provencher
Investigation of How Hydrogen Bonding Affects the Enantiomeric Excess of Pig Liver Esterase Promoted Hydrolysis of Pro-Chiral Substrates, Jacob E. Pruett
An Exploration of Perseverative Behaviors in Young Children with Autism, Madison M. Ralph
Depictions of the Middle Class in Magnolia Award Nominees, 2013-2015, Anna K. Rawls
An Experience Like No Other: A Case Study on Summer Camp Culture, Sarah E. Rhett
Winning at the Graduate Level of Warfare: Six Core Factors of a Successful Counterinsurgency Campaign and the Example of Sierra Leone, John D. Rimann
The Perceptions of General Education Teachers on the Inclusion of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in the General Education Classroom, Rebecca L. Roppolo
Bridging the Gap: Making Modern Dance Accessible to the General Public Through Elements of Art and Entertainment, Samantha S. Russell
Sustainable Design: Can Eco-Friendly Be Beautiful?, Melanie T. Santiago
The Effect of Balance Training on Disruptive Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Claire A. Scates
Excessive Police Force and Misconduct: A Failing System and How to Improve It, Elise Seale
Financial Literacy in High School Education, Chelsea N. Simmons
Bildungsroman, Mary M. Spooner
Robert Frost’s Ulteriority: Saying One Thing in Terms of Another – The Inexpressible, Nicolette S. Stackhouse
Relationship Between Parental Alcoholism and Family Unpredictability, Kamie L. Stephens
The Manifestation of Blight: Examining the Effects of Inner City Decline on Populations in the Bronx, New York and New Orleans, Louisiana, Bianca R. Stewart
The Economic Impact of the 2015 Conference USA Baseball Tournament in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Kyle A. Stoner
Functional Significance of Branch Points in Mirtrons, Britton A. Strickland
Detection of Acoustic Sources Using Time-Reversal Methods, Grant E. Tingstrom
Emotions Involved in Shopping at the Airport, Alexis D. Tymkiw
The Effect of Cure Rate on Glassy Polymer Networks, Kristen M. Van de Voorde
Synthesis of Acceptors for Use in Donor-Acceptor Copolymers and Characterization of these Polymers, William D. Walker
Socio-Emotional Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Christiana K. Whitley
The Effect of Acrylic Acid on Ring Formation in Polyacrylonitrile, Elisha Cade Willis
The UAS-Gal4 System in D. melanogaster: An Insight into the Influence of microRNAs on the Developmental Pathways of the Wing, Emily R. Wilson
Perceptions of Campus Community Members Regarding Wrongful Convictions in Mississippi, Tera Wilson
Functionalizing β-Cyano Oligo(p-phenylene vinylene) Chromophores for Use in Mechanochromic Materials, Alexander J. Wink
Teacher Perceived Barriers to Inclusive Instructional Delivery Approaches, Casey M. Wright
Preparation of MyoD mRNA for the Differentiation of Stem Cells into Muscle Cells, Stephanie A. Ye
Theses from 2015
Narcissism and Late Adolescent Friendships: Perceived Closeness, Cooperation, Competitiveness, and Friendship Quality, Suzanne Chinyere Amadi
The Importance of Appearances in Literature: What Does It Mean to Be a Redhead in Literature?, Chelsea J. Anderson
The Culture of Sustainability at Southern Miss, Amy J. Ball
Is the Pcd Protein a Carboxysome Protein?, Meredith M. Barefield
The Modern and the Celestial: Re-Imagining Hawthorne’s ‘The Celestial Railroad’, Connor J. Bell
The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the Advertising Industry, Alexandra B. Bosarge
Exploration of the United States’ Cultural Legacy in Panama through Analysis of American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion, Katherine A. Boss
The Acoustics of Introduction: An Analysis of Vocalizations from the Captive Introduction of an Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Cheyenne M. Brady
Sehnsucht in the Heine Lieder of Schubert’s Schwanengesang, Kathleen P. Brandau
Attitudes Toward Refugees Entering the United States of America, Sarah M. Bullard
The Missing Link: The Impact of Nutrition Education and the School Lunch Program, Rachel E. Calhoun
The Evolution of Body Size in the Order Siluriformes, D Cooper Campbell
¿Dónde Están Todas las Mujeres?: The Impact of Female Labor Force Participation on Female Political Representation in Latin America, Murakami A. Carpenter
An Outsider Amongst Outsiders: Psychosocial Impact of The Devil’s Backbone, The Orphanage, and Mama, Abigail M. Cathcart
College Professors’ and Students’ Perceptions Toward College Students Who Stutter, Patricia N. Chastain
Silenced Voices: Sexual Violence During and After World War II, Cassidy L. Chiasson
Species Delimitation and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Wild Yams (Dioscorea) Native to Eastern North America, Tori A. Collins
Gender Politics in Beatnik Literature; Sexually Liberating Straight Women and LGBT Individuals in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Marla D. Cooper
Multiagent Path Finding with Agent Persistence, Caleb E. Davis
The Future of Community Banks and Their Role in the Changing Economy, Alisha R. DeFatta
Terrorized Tourists: A Study of the Impact of Terrorism on Tourism, Caroline M. DePuma
Female Empowerment in Magical Realism: The Marvelous, the Magical, and the Mythic, Jeanette R. deVeer
Factors Affecting Guest Satisfaction in the Restaurant Industry of South Mississippi, Kinsey M. Eiland
A New Species of Euphorbia Subgenus Chamaesyce Section Alectoroctonum (Euphorbiaceae) From Limestone Hills of Wayne County, Mississippi, Andrew C. Fennell
A Comparative Study of Middle Eastern Foreign Policy: How Middle Eastern Intelligence Agencies Shape Current Events, Megan A. Fink
“Forget the Old . . . The New Wonder Woman is Here”: The New Wonder Woman and the Feminist Movement, 1968-1972, Kristi N. Fleetwood
Measuring Financial Literacy: A Comparative Study across Two Collegiate Groups, Emma Floyd
Moving the Plague: the Movement of People and the Spread of Bubonic Plague in Fourteenth Century through Eighteenth Century Europe, Gillian R. Fowler
Exhuming Ophelia: A Feminist, Costume Design Exploration, Shelby M. Gable
Modeling the Diffusion of Heat Energy within Composites of Homogeneous Materials using the Uncertainty Principle, Elyse M. Garon
The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation and Mind-Wandering on Coping-Related Hopefulness in Undergraduate College Students, Shelby N. Green
Bakhtin’s Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics and the Ideological Problem of The Brothers Karamazov, Natalie N. Griner
Selective Targeting of Folate Receptor Expressing Cancer Cells Through the use of siRNA Gold Nanoparticle Complexes, Chandler L. Hamilton
Affect Recognition and ADHD Symptoms in Preschoolers: A Serial Mediation Model of Social Cognition, Annalise M. Hays
“All That is Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is That Good Men Do Nothing”: Anticommunism, Protestant Christianity, and State Sovereignty in the Civil Rights Era South, Taylor O. Herring
“Last Flag Standing”: How Traditional Conservative Values and Symbolic Voting in the State of Mississippi Help Explain the Defense of the Confederate Flag by Voters in the 2001 Referendum, Joshua von Herrmann
A Content Analysis of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Viewed as Public Relations Efforts Using the Social Change Model of Leadership, Hannah J. Hill
An Analysis of the Relationship between Study Styles and Demographics across Multiple Accounting Class Levels, Savannah B. Hooper
The Pandemonium of Change: Endurance of the Carnivalesque Mode, Jeremy K. Horton
Alternative Material Nest Boxes and Impacts on Nestling Physiology and Adult Behavior in the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis), Jamie E. Jackson
How a Hurricane Affected the Residential Interior Design of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, Jamie L. Jelinski
The Implementation of Common Core: Graphic Novels In the Classroom, Chesnie R. Keeler
Into the Willows: The Creation of Properties for the University of Southern Mississippi Production of The Wind in the Willows, Lindsey N. Kelley
The Development of a General and Tunable Method for Ester to Ether Reduction, Sarah Ariel Kelley
Biomimetic Adhesive Thiol-Ene Films For Improved Adhesion, Laken L. Kendrick
A Comparison of Cyfra 21-1, NSE, and CEA For the Serodiagnosis of Lung Cancer, A Alexandra Knopp
Characterization of Embryonic Stem Cell-Differentiated Cells as Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Rachael N. Kuehn
Human Development Index and Gross Domestic Product: A Closer Look at the Founding OPEC Nations, Zachary J. Lankford
A Systematic Literature Review of the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) in Patients Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, Charmaine M. Lapre'