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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 2023
Access to HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Services in the US: The Role of Primary Care, Jessica S. Kiernan
Development of Tangible Code Blocks for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Hyun Woo Kim
INVESTIGATION OF THE OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN, BBK19, AS A POTENTIAL COMPONENT OF A CHIMERIC ANTIGEN FOR DIAGNOSIS OF HUMAN LYME DISEASE, Caellaigh N. Kimpston
Psychiatric Diagnostic Decision-Making: Investigating the Theory of the Dual-Process Model, Christopher S. Kleva
Romantic Nostalgia: Examining the Motivational and Relational Outcomes, Margaret Kneuer
Seeing Themselves: White Preservice Teachers as Raced Individuals and as Members of Their Future School Communities, Laurie Koth
Characterizing the role of SPTLC3 and CerS5 in cardiac disease, Anna P. Kovilakath
Selected Problems in Graph Coloring, Hudson LaFayette
ACTIVITY LEVELS OF DIFFERENT CELL TYPES IN AN EPILEPTOGENIC MODEL OF CORTICAL MICROGYRIA: A cFOS INVESTIGATION, Peter F. Lamothe
Trans* Streamers on Twitch.tv: The Intersections of Gender and Digital Labor, R. Lawson
Using Unnatural Base Pairs to Expand the Genetic Code, Anthony Le
Interiorization and Localization: An Analysis of Immigration Enforcement in Local Contexts, Manuel N. Leiva
Model Based Systems Engineering Approaches to Chemicals and Materials Manufacturing, Quang Le
Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the United States, Sarah Lineberry
The Type IV Pilus Secretin BfpB: Structural Analysis and Binding Interactions, Janay I. Little
Investigating the Effect of Monetary Incentives and Cultural Factors on Whistleblowing, Yelin Li
half of two hungers, Aida A. Lizalde Rios
Transcriptional coregulation among diabetes-associated pathways by genome organization, Musaddiq K. Lodi
M-TRAP(Multi-tagged translating affinity purification) A toolkit to profile cell-cells interactions, neha Lohar
Examining the Home Interventionist Model of Care in Pediatric Asthma, Katherine D. Lohr
Investigating the Dynamics and Fragmentation of Nitroaromatic Radical Cations Through Femtosecond Time-Resolved Mass Spectrometry and Computational Chemistry, Hugo Andres Lopez Pena
Treatment Access and Outcomes for Craniofacial Care: Patient and Parent Perspectives, Benjamin F. Lowe III
The Effect of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on Perineuronal Nets Surrounding Neocortical Parvalbumin Interneurons, Olivia Lowman
Code Beats - Teaching Computer Programming Coding via Hip Hop Beats, Douglas Lusa Krug
The Lived Experience of Postpartum Sleep for Black and White Women, Ashley R. MacPherson
Advancing Library-Based Drug Discovery via Sense Codon Reassignment and Bicyclization of Cell-Penetrating Peptides, Chelsea A. Makovsky
Evaluating the Acute Effect of Vaping on Food Intake, Gabrielle Maldonado
Statistical Analysis and Socio-Epidemiological Research of Organ Donor Transplants and End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States., supraja malladi
WHO AM I TO BE: EXPLORATIONS OF STUDENTS’ ARTISTIC IDENTITY THROUGH AN MFA PROGRAM, Catherine P. Malone
Exploring Polyamorous Relationship Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Pansexual Individuals, Jiale Man
Evaluating the influence of concurrently available non-drug reinforcers on drug reinforcement using sophisticated preclinical models of substance use disorder, Madison M. Marcus
Patterns, Mechanisms, and Characterization of Carbon Cycling Stability Following Partial Forest Disturbance, Kayla C. Mathes
Food Deserts and Pediatric Oral Health Status in an Under-Resourced Urban Community, Jessica T. McAuliffe
With a Kiss, Christina M. McBride
Investigations in the semi-strong product of graphs and bootstrap percolation, Kevin J. McCall
Investigation of Sneathia vaginalis and the Host Antibody Response to S. vaginalis Pore-Forming Toxin, CptA, in Vivo, Zion T. McCoy
You will remember what your father forgot: Networks of Time and Trauma in Stephen King’s "The Shining", Caetlin McFadden
"Always A Rocky and Rippling Stream": The Penobscot River and War, 1604-1869, Mary Moody McLean
Improving the use of Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy as a Multiphase Process Analytical Technology, Robert Emerson McMillin III
Utilization of Occupational Therapy Services for Patients with Cancer in Acute Care Settings, Christine McNichols
Developing Novel Femtosecond Time-Resolved Mass Spectrometry Techniques for Analysis of Energetic Materials, Shane L. McPherson
Crafting Community: A Ceramics Center, Nadia Mechboukh
Random Acts of STEM: A systematic review of local k-12 school division STEM experiences in Virginia, Caro H. Medawar
A Tenth of a Second, Natalia Andrea Mejía Murillo
The Cultural Diplomacy of U.S. Peace Corps: Understanding the role of Peace Corps volunteers as strategic geopolitical assets, Corey B. Miles
Agonist Modulation of TRPML3 Channel Gating, George D. Miller
District-Level Supervisors: Leaders and Advocates for School Counseling, Thomas M. Mitchell
Exploring the Effect of Early Motor Delay and Physical Therapy Interventions on the Parent-Child Relationship, Rebecca Molinini
Aerogel-Phase Change Material Composites as Thermal Barriers to Li-Ion Runaway Events, Tristan Moon
How Religious Belief and Behavior Influence Americans' Attitudes toward the Legalization of Pornography, Kathryn Morris
A Theory of General Relativity, Madeleine Mae Morris
Cooperative Driving Automation for Self-Interested Agents, Adam Morrissett
Investigating the Metabolic Alterations in Response to IL-1 Antagonism via Anakinra among Patients with HFrEF, Joshua M. Morriss
Salinization Impacts on Heterotrophic Respiration, Ecosystem Respiration, and Plant Productivity in Tidal Freshwater Marshes, Kelsie J. Moses
Totem Impulse, Tendai T. Mupita
Exploring Adolescent School Mental Health Service Utilization, Jennifer Lauren Murphy
Predictive Modeling of Thermophysical Properties of Shocked Solid Diamond, Peter Muto
The Five Senses: Fundamentals in Acting Training, Landon A. Nagel
The PROMIS Women Education Program: Promoting Cervical Cancer Prevention Methods Among Muslim Women in Virginia, Asmaa M. Namoos
The Mechanism and Therapeutic Targeting of Interleukin-1β in Heart Failure, Pratyush Narayan
Emergent Trends of Contemporary Dramatic Recontextualization: An Exploration Utilizing Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Cameron M. Nickel
Mechanisms of Emulsion Destabilization: An Investigation of Surfactant, Stabilizer, and Detergent Based Formulations Using Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy, JORDAN N. NOWACZYK
Optimization of a Chimeric Vaccine for Human Lyme Disease, Nathaniel O'Bier
Treponema denticola synthesizes c-di-AMP and encodes the CdaA-type diadenylate cyclase CdaA, Claire R. O'Brien
Waiting to Exhale, Abigail H. Ogle
Mechanistic Studies on Glycosaminoglycan Mimetics Binding to Cancer Related Proteins, Connor P. O'Hara
Association of Interpersonal Trauma and Polygenic Risk Scores with Depressive Symptoms in College Students, Rowan K. O'Hara
Examining Psychosocial Factors of Chronic Disease Control to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions, Kristen O'Loughlin
Age-associated Collagen Crosslinking and its Role in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration, Lucas C. Olson
Step 1, Acknowledgement: Understanding Breast Cancer-related Experiences among Chickahominy Tribal Women in Rural Virginia, Bianca D. Owens
In vitro and in vivo Pharmacokinetic Characterization of (R)-3-hydroxybutyl (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate (Ketone monoester)., Nimishraj R. Panse
Barriers to ending the HIV epidemic: The case of physician reimbursement and intimate partner violence, Zhongzhe Pan
Role of Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) in Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) in a Human Cholangiocyte Model of Ischemic Cholangiopathy, Priyanshi Pragnesh Parikh
Resident Assistants and Title IX: Perceptions, beliefs, and experiences impacting RA help-seeking behavior, Beth Paris
"We’re not all the same”: Black caregiver perspectives of treatment engagement in integrated primary care, Amanda Parks
Sense of Belonging as Behaviorist Construct: “Doing Belonging” and its Application for College Students with Disabilities, Chris Parthemos PhD
Examining allostatic load as a biological mechanism linking childhood adversity and pediatric pain, Angela Pascale
Formal and Full of Feeling, Kaitlyn Paston
Contribution of Metabolic Cell Swelling on Microcirculatory Perfusion in Septic Shock, Charles E. Payne
DISCOVERY: A Visual Arts Elementary School, Cindy J. Perdomo
Functional and Structural Characterizations of Porphyromonas gingivalis Sialidase, Christopher Pham
Motivations of Adult Patients Seeking Orthodontic Retreatment, Scott V. Philips
Mecklenburg is thoroughly aroused:” An Examination of Confederate Nationalism and Nationhood in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Zachary Pittard
Witnessing Community Violence and its Consequences: Changes Across Middle School, Sarah Pittman
Wrestling with the One Drop Rule: Exploring Multiraciality in Social Work Education, Britney Pitts
Dental Treatment Planning: Decisions with Interdisciplinary Cases, William W. Porzio