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Theses from 2026
Examining the Impact of Bonnet Carré Spillway Opening on Hypoxia Evolution in the Mississippi Sound and Bight: A 2019 Case Study, Hameed Jimoh Ajibade
Assessment of Mississippi Landfill Capacity in Relation to Waste Generation and Land-Use Constraints, Jason C. Anderson
Discerning Patterns of Floral Sugar-Feeding: Dynamics of the Mosquito Culex antillummagnorum in Puerto Rico, Ella J. Branham
Evaluating Modern Neural Network Architectures for Suicide Prediction, Kyle Brown
Mazique (22AD502): Late Woodland Village or Vacant Ceremonial Center?, Lonnie A. Burch Jr
Quantifying Discard Mortality of Undersized and Ovigerous Crabs in the Gulf of Mexico Blue Crab Fishery, Micayla Cochran
Screening Difference: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Autism in Contemporary Film, Abril Escobal Porta
R.M. Renfield: The Missing Link in the Degeneration of Humans into Vampires in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Holly Frey
Modeling the Effects of Low-Pressure Atmospheric Fronts on Sediment Transport through Mississippi Sound Barrier Island Inlets, Nicholas J. Gagliano
LLM-as-Judge for Reliable Crack Segmentation in Edge-Based Structural Inspection, Murad Hasan
Toward Trustworthy Power Line Perception from Aerial Imagery: Segmentation and Reliability Monitoring, Akram Hossain
Psychological and Inflammatory Ties to Diet in Breast Cancer Survivors, Sonal Kaur Johal
The Impact of Place-Based Education Professional Development on Faculty Identity and Perceptions of Nature-Culture Dichotomies, Reyt Middleton
Structural Inequality and Hypervisibility from Childhood to Adulthood in Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man and Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, Helen Brooke Morrison
Diversionary Repression in Electoral Autocracies: Crisis Onset, Loss-Domain Conditions, and State Escalation, Md Obaidullah
The Impact of High-Cadence Cycling on Overground Running Performance in Recreational Runners, Matthew Ott
Spatial Ecology and Movement Patterns of Black Drum (Pogonias cromis) and Sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus) in Mississippi Sound, Alyssa M. Pagel
"Ostracized as we are with God": Mina Loy's Anti-career and the Search for Originality, Peyton L. Phillips
Volunteer Spotlighting: Costly Signaling to Promote Volunteerism, Clyde A. Raible V
Exploring Nature's Role as a Psychological Resource for Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences, Isabel Rice
Kaleidoscope, Maeve C. Rigney
Electrolyte Dependence on the Electrochemical and Optoelectronic Activity of a Conjugated Polymer in Organic Solvents, Perry Skiouris
A Unified Framework for Distributed and Resource-Aware Plant Disease Detection Using Federated and Adaptive Hybrid Deep Learning, Ticauris S. Stokes
Investigating Racial and Ethnic Differences in Help-Seeking Recommendations and Intentions for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Symptom Clusters, Josselyn Yanisbeth Telule
Simulated Battles, Real Lessons: Analyzing The Impact of The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Problems on Battle in The Pacific War, Jackson T. Volkert
Redeveloping Mississippi: A Case Study on Brownfields in Central & Southern Mississippi, Sahrah R. Yeroozedek
Theses from 2025
EMPOWERING NARRATIVES OR MARKETING STRATEGY? NIGERIAN AUDIENCE REACTIONS TO FEMVERTISING IN THE “JOY SOAP ‘MY LIFE, MY SCRIPT’ CAMPAIGN”, Oare Danielle Addeh
Reflecting on Racial Microaggressions: The Impact on Food Consumption in Minority Women, Khadiza Akter
Increasing Reading Comprehension Through Socratic Seminars, Mikaela Anderson
Radical Right Populism: Factors Within European Nations, Brittany L. Barnhardt
Interconnections among self-awareness constructs in schizotypy: The importance of interoceptive sensibility, Kendall Beals
"Our skins sing in complementary keys": Literary Crip Kinship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Geraldine, Fanny Burney, and Audre Lorde, Haley Beasley
Examining the Mediating Effects of Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Perceived Stress on the Association Between Bereavement and Inflammation, Kylee Faith Behringer
Describing and Characterizing Potential Lemon Shark (Negaprion brevirostris) Nursery Habitat in Mississippi Coastal Waters, Lindsay K. Bomgardner
"The Wretched State of My Nerves:" Hysteria and Sympathy in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, Hollie Brock
Intellectual Networks and Royal Legitimacy: Religious Intellectuals and English Kings Between Conversion and the Rise of Wessex, Benjamin E. Brockway
'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, William Browning
Those Magnificent Men in their Fighting Machines: An Investigation into the Lives of WWI Tankmen, Lucas C. Campbell
“Sugar-Baited Words": Diabetic Themes in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market", Kayleigh Capers
The Impact of Scientific Journal Reading in the High School Classroom, Madelyn A. Carney
Movement Ecology and Trophic Dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Fisheries Management, Calvin Chee
Modeling Food Assemblage Dynamics in Western Mississippi Sound Regarding Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Larval Performance, Emma B. Coltman
Studying the Effect of Zinc 3-(Dibutylamino) Propionate (ZDAP) Additive on Fire Retardant, Mechanical, and Physical Characteristics of Epoxy-Amine Networks, Jackie D. E. Davies Jr.
Predominant-Dominant Chains in Japanese Video Game Music, Evan R. Davis
Understanding Family Routines in a Head Start Sample: A Family Stress Model Perspective, Arianna A. Delgadillo
Spatial Behavior and Population Estimation of the Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys Temminckii), Patrick Delisle
Polarized Without the Other Side: Measurements from Congress on Bluesky, Brandon Derr
Using Inquiry Classroom Experiences to Correct Student Misconceptions in Elementary Science: An Action Research Study, Hope A. Ellison
The Unconventional Candidate: Agenda-Setting in Small-Town Politics, Jessica E. Fields
Social Sprouts: A Play-Based Packaged Intervention - Improving Peer Interactions in Early Childhood Classrooms with a Novel Group Contingency, Brittany D. Garza
Does Resilience Moderate the Relation Between Caregiver Behaviors and Post-Traumatic Symptoms in Young Adults?, Akila Uma Gopalkrishnan
Contact Surface Curvature Length Specifies Graspability, McKenzie Gunter
Scalable High-Resolution Simulation of the Prey-Predator Model, with a Non-Local Consumption of Prey, Emmanuel Hackman
Demon Horse: The Functions of Family, Taylor Madison Hankins
Morphology to Thermal-Mechanical Property Relationships of Dispersed Carbon Nanoparticle Epoxy Composites, Hayden A. Hanna
Key-Based Authentication Scheme for eVTOL Drones Using Chebyshev Chaotic Maps, Eduardo A. Hernandez Escobar
Seagrass Carbon Standing Stock in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: The Role of Seagrass Beds in Mississippi as Potential Blue Carbon Sinks, Devan Hildebrand
Osteology, Morphometrics, and Phylogenetic Systematics of the ‘Booneville Dinosaur’ (Ornithopoda: Hadrosauridae) From the Early–Middle Campanian Coffee Formation of Northeastern Mississippi, Derek Alexander Hoffman
Female Preference and Prezygotic Isolation In the Fundulus Notatus Species Complex, Emilee K. Holderness
A Population Genomic Study of Mutton Snapper (Lutjanus analis) Throughout Florida and the Caribbean, Lora G. Holman
A Herpetofaunal Inventory Study of two National Wildlife Refuges in the Mississippi Delta and Associated Evaluation of Trapping Efficacy, Andrew Holzinger
Novel Insigths on Trade and Genetic Lineages of the Amphi-American Guitarfishes Genus Pseudobatos, Bryan L. Huerta Beltran
Using Environmental DNA Surveys to Assess Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Presence in Mississippi and Louisiana, Emma M. Humphreys
Population Status and Trends of the Ringed Sawback (Graptemys oculifera) in The Pearl River Drainage of Mississippi and Louisiana, McAulay Jaunsen
High-Resolution Event Stratigraphy of Ostracods in the Ozan Formation of Texas and Arkansas, Denali L. John
The Shape of Things, Lena Kinder
Jump Strategy Changes in Collegiate Women Soccer Players, Madeline Klubertanz
Inside the Walls of the Asylum: Exploring the Lives of Individuals in the Mississippi State Asylum (1855-1935), Savannah V. Logan
Forgotten Landscapes: Using Original Land Surveys to Understand the Historic Distribution of Cane Brakes in Wayne County, MS, Chad Mackness
A Study on Deepsea Fish Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Poojitha Priyadarshini Madari
Mapping the Underthing: Literary Geography and Geographic Education in The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Colby McClain
Mississippi Dugout Canoes: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Analysis From 1538-1900s, Sean N. McCraw
Connecting For Success: Evaluating the Frequency of Check & Connect Meetings on Student Behavior, Kaylee S. McKinney
A Psychometric Evaluation of the PBSS-20 Among Sexual and Non-sexual Minority College Students, Alex Melville
Life History and Distribution of Two Species of Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera bonasus and Rhinoptera brasiliensis, in Mississippi Coastal Waters, Anna Millender
Trust Across Difference in Radical Social Movement Organizations: The Case of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Kerstin Miller
The Effects of Distraction on Confidence Rating Reactivity During Cued-Recall, Amelia G. Morehead
Dual Narration and Externalizing Interiority in Esther Yi's 'Y/N', Mary Murphy
Impact of Temperature and Microbial Infection on the Honey Bee Hemocytes, Michael E. Oeth
Ghana’s Shift from Non-Alignment to Alignment: A Comparative Case Study of Foreign Policy Under Geopolitical Pressures, Bernice Owusu
Topological Characterization of Amorphous Silicon Structures Using Voronoi-Volume Analysis, Anwaoy Pandit
“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement, Holli Elaine Parker
Evaluating Coordination and Variability Within Collegiate Basketball Players Using Vector Coding, Minali G. Patton
An Analysis of Wall Vault Burials From Cypress Grove Cemetery, New Orleans, Rebecca Plants
Framing the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in Bangladesh and the United States, Mamunor Rashid
Sensitivity of the Estuarine-shelf Exchange in Mississippi Coastal Waters to River Diversions and Linkage Pathway Bathymetry: A Modeling Study, Ardian M. Rizal
Doin' Time: Entertainment and Exploitation at Decommissioned Prison Museums in the United States, Jessi Robbins
“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, Arleigh Rodgers
Group Behavioral Skills Training to Promote Preschool Teachers' Use of PRIDE Skills, Lourdes C. Rodriguez
Unbinding Piratical Themes: Treasure Island, The Unbinding of Mary Reade, and Piratical History, Sarah I. Runnels
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Microbial Communities Colonizing Plastic Tent Fabrics in a Tropical Environment, Ethan P. Rutledge
Filling Conservation Gaps For Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser desotoi) Using Specialized Acoustic Transmitters, Morgan Segrest