Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) make VCU student research and creativity available online as full-text documents and multimedia presentations for use by the university community and others involved in research.
See the VCU Libraries Dissertations Research Guide for information on submitting your ETD, accessing older dissertations from VCU, and finding dissertations from other universities.
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Part of University Archives: This series has been selected for inclusion in the VCU University Archives for its enduring administrative, fiscal, legal, or historical value.Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The Role of Learning Experiences, Supports and Barriers in Career Development for the Doctoral Student, Madeline B. Goldman
Complexities of Chronic Opioid Exposure, Maciej Gonek
A Behavior-Driven Recommendation System for Stack Overflow Posts, Chase D. Greco
I Am an Author: Performing Authorship in Literary Culture, Justin R. Greene
The Effect of Instrumentation Taper on Dentin Conservation, Megan E. Green
FIBRONECTIN MECHANICS AND SIGNALING IN TGF-β1-INDUCED EPITHELIAL TO MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION, Lauren Griggs
River City (A Novel), Sarah R. Groves
IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF EMERGING MEMORY SYSTEMS, Yuhua Guo
Novel Roles of RelB in Neuroinflammation, Angela Gupta
Forest Structural Complexity and Net Primary Production Resilience Across a Gradient of Disturbance in a Great Lakes Ecosystem, Lisa T. Haber
Nam June Paik as a Pioneer of Interactive Art, Byeongwon Ha
You Build Like A Girl, Sara Hackett
Blood River, Rachael Hägglund
Skin-Tone and Academic Achievement Among 5-year-old Mexican Children, Selamawit Hailu
"WE ARE...": CREATING DISCURSIVE SPACES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF COUNTER NARRATIVES THROUGH PHOTOVOICE AS CRITICAL SERVICE LEARNING, Amanda F. Hall
Factors Influencing Perceptual Distance, Calvin J. Hall III
Advances in dual-energy computed tomography imaging of radiological properties, Dong Han
Inpatient Utilization of Computed Tomography: the Influence of Market, Hospital, and Patient Characteristics, Michael Hanshew
Small Town Capital in Community, Christin Hardy
IMPACT OF PHOSPHOINOSITIDES ON REGULATION OF K-ATP BY ATP AND HYDROGEN SULFIDE, Tyler Hendon
Climate Change and Mountaintop Removal Mining: A MaxEnt Assessment of the Potential Dual Threat to West Virginia Fishes, Lindsey R F Hendrick
A PERSONAL APPROACH TO LANDSCAPE: EMPATHY, SENTIMENT, AND THE ENVIRONMENT'S REPRESENTATION IN TUMULTUOUS TIMES, Lauren Hensens
ANXIOUS?: Re-designing Women’s Jewelry to Help Manage Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders, Nourbanu Feras Hijazi
Converging Objects of the Universe, Everett Hoffman
Victims, Victors, or Bystanders? African American College Students' Perceptions of African American Agency During the Civil War, Stephanie L. Hooks
Engineering Surface Properties to Modulate Inflammation and Stem Cell Recruitment through Macrophage Activation, Kelly M. Hotchkiss
Exogenous FNIII 12-14 Regulates TGF-β1-Induced Markers, Hilmi M. Humeid
REGULATION OF HCN CHANNEL FUNCTION BY DIRECT cAMP BINDING AND SINGLET OXYGEN, Vinaykumar Idikuda
Ageism Among Healthcare Professionals: The Influence of Personal Aging Anxiety, Job Role, and Work Setting on Attitudes Toward Older Patients, Jennifer L. K. Inker
In vitro genetic code expansion and selected applications, Emil S. Iqbal
Assessing K12 Online Teachers Knowledge of Online Student Identities and Characteristics, Brianne L. Jackson
Ultrasound—Re:viewing Bodies, Minjee Jeon
Untitled, Daliya Jokondo
The Political Nature of the Paris Commune of 1871 and Manifestations of Marxist Ideology in the Official Publications of the Central Committee, Emily M. Jones
Market Hall: Connecting Community Through Food, Commerce + Culture, Mary M. Jones
Economic Burden of Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) and Treatment Patterns, Overall Survival and Healthcare Costs among Older Metastatic RCC Patients, Hrishikesh P. Kale
An Investigation of Electronic Cigarette Aerosol Mixture on Craniofacial Development in Mouse Embryos, Suraj Kandalam
ESTIMATING THE RESPIRATORY LUNG MOTION MODEL USING TENSOR DECOMPOSITION ON DISPLACEMENT VECTOR FIELD, Kingston Kang
The Role of Ceramide in Neutrophil Elastase Induced Inflammation in the Lungs, Sophia Karandashova
Heparan Sulfate, A New Target for Platinum in Metastatic TNBC, Samantha J. Katner
PROCESSING OF 3′-BLOCKED DNA DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS BY TYROSYL-DNA PHOSPHODIESTERASE 1, ARTEMIS AND POLYNUCLEOTIDE KINASE/ PHOSPHATASE, Ajinkya S. Kawale
Floral symmetry genes elucidate the development and evolution of oil-bee pollinated flowers of Malpighiaceae and Krameriaceae, Farahnoz N. Khojayori
Impact of Sensory Adapted Dental Environment on Children with Developmental Disabilities, Gail Kim
Aerobic Exercise Exposure Targeting Anxiety Sensitivity: Effects on Associated Health Behaviors in Young Adults, Autumn Lanoye
Black Lives Examined: Black Nonfiction and the Praxis of Survival in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Ariel D. Lawrence
After the big wind stops I see gentle waves, Eunji (Jubee) Lee
Effects of Chemotherapy on Motivated Behavior and Opioid Reward in Rats, Luke P. Legakis
Structural and Functional Consequences of HIV-1 Viral Protein Tat and Morphine Co-Exposure at the Blood-Brain Barrier, Crystal R. Leibrand
A Familiar House, William Lenard
DEVISING EMPATHY: WORKING WITH DEVISING, THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES, AND THE SNOW QUEEN, Mary C. Lennon
Learning Together in Highland Park to Build Civic Capacity, Grace Leonard
MOBILE ENCHANTMENT: THE VIRGINIA THEATRE MACHINE LLC, A NEW TWIST ON DRIVE-IN THEATRE, Mark J. Lerman
Evaluation and Adaptation of Live-Cell Interferometry for Applications in Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research, Kevin A. Leslie
Through My Window, Haiyin Liang
Of the Crickets, Kathryn Lien
Metal-Organic Frameworks and Graphene-Based Support Materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis, Andrew Lin
NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC DRIVERS OF TREE EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS, Brandon M. Lind
Lorcaserin as a potential opioid-sparing adjunct, Kumiko M. Lippold
Integral Measurement of Atmospheric Particulate Matter (PM), Di Liu
The Pond, Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik
ATHLETIC AND ACADEMIC IDENTITY, MOTIVATION AND SUCCESS: AN EXAMINATION OF DIII STUDENT-ATHLETES, Savanna M. Love
A comparison of the antimicrobial efficacy of silver diamine fluoride and silver nitrate: an in vitro study, Nicholas L. Luke
She inches glass to break: conversations between friends, Liang Xia Luscombe
Advanced Imaging Analysis for Predicting Tumor Response and Improving Contour Delineation Uncertainty, Rebecca N. Mahon
ABUSE LIABILITY OF AN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE IN TRADITIONAL CIGARETTE SMOKERS, Sarah F. Maloney
Capturing the Ephemeral, Caroline L. J. Matteson
The Trumpery: Another Play About Whatever America is Right Now, Jane Mattingly
3-Maps And Their Generalizations, Kevin J. McCall
Isolation, Hollis B. McCracken
Predictors of Resilient Outcomes among Juvenile Offenders, Kristina A. McGuire
Evaluating the Effects of a Flipped Classroom Compared to a Traditional Classroom on Retention of Information and Course Engagement in a Radiation Safety Course, Stephanie A. McHugh
A Public Reckoning: Interior Design, Comedy, & the Common Good, Caroline McIlraith
MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF PROTON-COUPLED ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS INVOLVING ANTIOXIDANTS, Kejie Meng
PATTERNS OF MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETIC AND PHENOTYPIC VARIATION ASSOCIATED WITH URBANIZATION IN THE WESTERN BLACK WIDOW SPIDER, Lindsay Miles
The Feldenkrais Method in the Voice and Speech Classroom: Intertwining Linklater Voice and the Feldenkrais Method, Janel Miley Knipple
Biochemical Analysis of Putative RNA-Binding Proteins in Porphyromonas gingivalis, Jacob Mirpanah
Gastrointestinal Microbiota Modulate Antinociceptive Tolerance Development in Mice with Chronic Morphine Exposure, Ryan A. Mischel
Modulation of electron transport by Metformin in cardiac protection: role of complex I, Ahmed Abdul Hussein Mohsin
Comparing Online English Language Learning and Face-to-Face English Language Learning at El Bosque University in Colombia, Marta L. Montiel
Role of Sphingosine-1-phosphate Receptors in Cytokine and Chemokine Production by Glia, Jean Moon
NORMATIVE DATA FOR FOUR NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS IN A SAMPLE OF ADULTS WHO ARE ILLITERATE AND FROM LATIN AMERICA, Alejandra Morlett Paredes
Accuracy of a smartphone-based orthodontic treatment monitoring application, Heather Moylan
A Collection of Stories, Siddiqah Mujahid
LESSONS, Kathryn K. Murphy
The role of vegetation-topographic interactions in a barrier island system: island migration in a changing climate, Benjamin Nettleton
GEODESIC STRUCTURE IN SCHWARZSCHILD GEOMETRY WITH EXTENSIONS IN HIGHER DIMENSIONAL SPACETIMES, Ian M. Newsome
Mother Knows Better: The Donna Reed Show, The Feminine Mystique and the Rise of the Modern Maternal Feminist Movement, Anne M. Newton
Big Networks: Analysis and Optimal Control, Hung The Nguyen
The Contribution of SARM1 to axonal degeneration in CNS inflammatory disorders, Daniel C. Njoku
Identification of taxonomic and functional ichthyofaunal zones within the James River Basin, Virginia, Joseph L. Noel
The Relationship Between Central Venous Catheter and Post-Operative Complications in Patients Undergoing Hepatic Resection, David C. O'Connor
Use of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection of Bioactive Lipids, Christopher M. Ohlhaver
Detection of Genetic Abnormalities Using High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy, Anita J. Olsen
Assessment of Pediatric-Focused Brief Motivational Interviewing Training of Dental Students and Pediatric Dental Residents, Victoria M. Onesty