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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 2025
Targeting the Achilles’ Heel of Lung Cancer Induced by Oncogenic P53, Brandon G. Velasco
Rare Variant Analysis of Electronic Health Record-Defined Major Depressive Disorder in the All of Us Research Program, Stephen Emil Vieno
Beyond Homogeneity: Exploring Causal Heterogeneity in Psychopathology, Philip B. Vinh
0-D MODELLING AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS TO OPTIMIZE HIGH-PRANDTL NUMBER FLUID HEAT TRANSFER IMPACTS, James Vulcanoff
Smear Layer Removal by Irrigation Adjuncts: a Scanning Electron Microscopy Study, Triet D. Vuong
From trans health to vaccines: A theoretically driven model exploring factors related to susceptibility to medical misinformation, Catherine Wall
Imagine Being Free: Decolonizing Actor Training In University and Conservatory Programs, Hope r. Ward
Exploring the Role of Transcription Factor Nrf1 in Autophagy and Inhibiting the Nrf1 Bounce-Back Response, Madison A. Ward
Integrative Multi-Omics Dissection of Pathogenic Mechanisms in Chronic Liver Diseases, Grayson Way
Visible Modulation of Epsilon Near Zero Materials, Jonathan M. Weber
Exploring the Neural Consequences of Stress and Inflammation in a Monogamous Rodent: a Path to Understanding Loss, Amy Wegener
Vascular and Autonomic Function in Young Adults with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Effects of Oxidative Stress, Jennifer B. Weggen
Bird's Eye, Allison N. Weissman
“You’re Only as Good as your Resources”: Exploring Virginia Police Chiefs’ and Sheriffs’ Decisions as Public Administrators to Engage in Community Collaborations with Domestic and Sexual Violence Agencies, Christine E. Wengloski
Hyperreality Ain’t Really Real: Postmodernity, Social Media, & Blackness, Micah White
Value-Based Care: The Sentiment of Orthodontists Toward Adopting a Value-Based Care Model, Stephen M. White
Liner Notes on Black Trans Girlhood: Afrofuturist Affect & Black Popular Music as a Praxis of Self-Fashioning, shawn j. williams
Swarming Segregation: Leveraging Swarm Intelligence and Regionalization as Instruments for School District Desegregation, Jeffrey Wooten
Theatre as Sanctuary: Queer Identity, Religious Trauma, and the Path to Healing, Casey Worley
Supporting and Promoting the Well-Being of Sexual Assault Survivors, Lindai Xie
Kernel-based Partial Sufficient Variable Screening and Dimension Reduction with Categorical Controls, Wei Yang
Establishing PROTACs as a Novel Approach to Targeting Cancer Stem Cells in Colorectal Cancer and Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Shadid Uz Zaman
Immune populations leading to IgE production in helminth infection, Matthew P. Zellner
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
A SPECTRE OF SONIC TECHNICITY, Zachary L. Acosta-Lewis
Notes Toward a Personal Afrofuturism, Jalen T. Adams
Politics of Being a Lover: in art, (space) and kink, Rabeeha Adnan
PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE-INDUCED MACROPHAGE EXTRACELLULAR TRAPS AND THEIR ROLE IN LUNG INFLAMMATION, Nadia Tasnim Ahmed
The Incoherence of Orientalists, Sarah Zaid Alafifi
Clinical Outcomes of Primary Anterior Esthetic Crowns in Pediatric Dentistry, Jenan Alahmad
Developing Antiviral Drugs for COVID-19 and Hepatitis C: Targeting Key Viral Proteases, Mohammed A. AlAwadh
A Critical Perspective on Supporting Parents in Facilitating Informal STEAM Learning on Children's Early Literacy Development, Suzanne G. Alexandre
Utilizing Hemoglobin Binding Kinetics and X-ray Crystallography in Sickle Cell Disease Drug Development, Ahmed Alghamdi
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF BENZAMIDE-SUBSTITUTED AROMATIC ALDEHYDES AS POTENTIAL THERAPEUTICS FOR SICKLE CELL DISEASE, Lamya ALghanim
REPURPOSING DRUGS FOR HYPERCOAGULABLE CONDITIONS: A PRECISION MEDICINE APPROACH TO ADVANCE THERAPEUTIC DISCOVERY, Ali Alghubayshi
Dune Dynamics- A Nature-Based Preschool, Aseel Alhaidari
Developing Machine Learning and Time-Series Analysis Methods with Applications in Diverse Fields, Muhammed Aljifri
Developing Novel Antiviral Agents: Targeting the N-Terminal Domain of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein with Small Molecule Inhibitors, Mona A. AlKhairi
Unfolding Remembrance: Folding Islamic Principles into Pondering Machines, Hind Al Saad Al-Kuwari
Who is Responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility? Investigating Employees’ Roles as Agents of CSR, Leah Alley
Zaytouna: Rooted Histories in Uprooted Memories, Naima M. Almajdobah
SYMMETRY ANALYSIS OF THE CANONICAL CONNECTION ON LIE GROUPS:CO-DIMENSION TWO ABELIAN NILRADICAL WITH ABELIAN AND NON ABELIAN COMPLEMENT, nouf alrubea almutiben
Cardiometabolic Genomics and Pharmacogenomics in Filipino Americans: A Cross-Sectional Study, Khalifa Y. Alrajeh
Learning curve: Designing an Inclusive Early Childhood Learning Center, Sarah Alrumayh
Optimizing Lipid Nanoparticles for mRNA Delivery to Tumor-associated Macrophages for Breast Cancer Immunotherapy, Yasir A. Alshehry
Exploring Factors Influencing the Adoption of AI Tools in Auditing: A Mixed-Methods Study, Fahad Alsudairi
Effect of Annealing on Photoluminescence from Defects in GaN, Oleksandr Andrieiev
RNA SEQ & MICROBIOME PROFILING FOLLOWING DISRUPTION OF GASTROINTESTINAL EPITHELIAL BARRIER, Mahshid Arastonejad
T CELL POLARIZATION REGULATES THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE AND TISSUE REGENERATION AT THE PERI-IMPLANT INTERFACE, Derek Avery
Stealthy Control Logic Attacks and Defense in Industrial Control Systems, Adeen Ayub
The Role of Notch1 Signaling in Regulating Neurogenesis in the Olfactory Bulb Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Sarah A. Baig
Preexisting Conditionings: Painting, Gaming and Narrative Play, Pia Bakala
“Black Wom(b)anhood”: An Explorative Analysis of Black Women's Narratives of Healthcare Encounters During and After Pregnancy, Janae A. Baker
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF NOCICEPTIN IN PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, Joseph Baker
The Patient Experience of Language Discordance and Interpreter Services in the Emergency Department, Keri L. Baker
Bridging the Gap in Epsilon-near-zero Nonlinear Materials, Adam R. Ball
Accurate and Efficient Fragmentation Methods for Electronic Structure Theory: Utilizing Set Theory to Construct Density Matrices in Noncovalent Clusters and Covalent-Bound Systems, Francisco Ballesteros
Few-shot Learning for NER using MAML, Nourchene Bargaoui
The Effect of 17β Estradiol on Local Production of Active Vitamin D3 Metabolites in Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Tillat Batool
Effects and Mechanisms of Smartphone-Based Mindfulness Training on Emotional Experience, Polina Beloborodova
Monte-Carlo method for identifying aberrantly expressed genes in cancer, Matthew M. Beltran
Development of an ex vivo assay to investigate streptococcal-platelet interactions, Jasmine Benbei
Memory Impairments Due to Binge Ethanol are Impacted by Age and Sex, Maria Alexis M. Bent
Wayfinding, Wendal E. Berry
PROSTHETIC ATTENTION IN UPPER LIMB LOSS: USER EXPERIENCES, CLINICAL PERCEPTIONS, AND DEVELOPING CANDIDATE ITEMS, Tanu Bhargava
Variability in Perceptions of Complementary Health Approaches Among Graduate Student Trainees, Delaney C. Bilodeau
EFFECT OF A PHARMACIST-PHYSICIAN COLLABORATIVE CARE MODEL IN DIABETES MANAGEMENT IN PRIMARY CARE, Poorva B. Birari
MINDFULNESS, MORAL OUTRAGE, AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS: A NOVEL APPROACH TOWARD MOTIVATING PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS, Erika Blair
CHRONOBIOLOGY OF MEAL TIMING IN EARLY-STAGE HYPERTENSION: EFFECTS ON RENAL AND VASCULAR FUNCTION, Natalie J. Bohmke
Special Educators’ Insights on Essential Mentoring Components: A Mixed-Method Examination, Rachel W. Bowman
In a Similar Way, Paul Brennan
A Precision-Controlled Investigation Into The Fundamentals Which Drive The Incredible Superhydrophobic Properties Of Soot, Ashton Bressler
Take the Jeans to Lublin, Robert J. Brisson
Double Jointed: Gendered Flexibility and the Overextended Self, Grace A. Bromley
The Imaginary Invalid; Designing a Comedy that you don’t find funny, Kasey Brown
THE NEURAL MECHANISMS OF INTER-FRIEND AGGRESSION, Wyatt Brown
Targeting Mast Cell-Mediated Inflammation through Drug Repurposing: Mechanistic Insights into the Effects of Fluoxetine and Simvastatin on IL-33 and IgE-Mediated Pathways, Jason R. Burchett
Exploring the Experiences of Faculty Learning to Teach Online: A Case Study, Peyton P. Burgess Jr
Exploring Drivers of Sex-Based Disparities in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis, Stephanie K. Buxhoeveden
DDI2 SUPPORTS CANCER CELL GROWTH THROUGH REGULATION OF THE NF-κB PATHWAY, Holly A. Byers
Applying X-ray Fluorescence with Monte Carlo Methods for Analysis of Surface Defects on Coated Zr4, James Tyler Cahill
Understanding Identity Based Discrimination: Immigrant Women of African Descent’s Experiences in Social and Human Service Agencies, Nicole Campbell
Mosquito Wings, Nolan W. Capps
Revealing the Elusive Mechanism of Action of the Lipid Chaperone Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4, Abdul J. Castillo Ibanez
Trait Mindfulness and Political Polarization: Investigating Neural Responses and Emotional Orientations, ELIF Z. CELIK
SUPPORTED METAL NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS: PRECURSOR DEPOSITION AND AGGLOMERATION AT SUPPORT SURFACES, Edward H. Chandler Jr.
EFFICIENT CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT AND PATH PLANNING FOR IOT AND UAV NETWORKS, Amirahmad Chapnevis
THE EFFECTS OF PASSIVE HEAT EXPOSURE ON RENAL FUNCTION, VASCULAR FUNCTION, AND EXERCISE CAPACITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE, Domenico A. Chavez
RSF1-H2Aub Interaction: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Ovarian Cancer, Chunxu Chen
Surface Engineering on Functional Materials for Sustainable Environmental Research, Jianping Chen
Investigating the Protein Interactome of Escherichia coli to understand metabolic regulation when proteins bind: a systems biology study., Shomeek Chowdhury