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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
The Impact of Media Specialists' Credibility on Interaction and Trust of the Saudi Public: A Study on Saudi Users of the 𝕏 Platform, Maha A. Alshareef
Targeting Epigenetic Regulators as a Novel Means to Prevent Triple Negative Breast Cancer Recurrence, Christiana O. Appiah
DICKKOPF1(DKK1): A NOVEL ENDOGENOUS LIGAND TO PRIME NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME VIA TLR4, Theingi Aung
Witnessing Intellectual Humility: How a Peer’s Humble Introduction Affects Feedback Receptivity and Social Perception, Stephanie A. Barrientos
Exploring Prenatal Cannabis Use Among Young Pregnant Bisexual Individuals: A Mixed Methods Study, Nicole Boss
The General Movement Optimality Score-Revised (GMOS-R): An Early Biomarker for Developmental Delays, Shaaron E. Brown
Acute Effects Of Electronic Nicotine Delivery System Liquid Nicotine Form and Sweetener Among People Who Use Inhaled Tobacco Products, Mary A. Carrico
Molecular mechanisms of kynurenine-mediated lifespan regulation in yeast, Ryan E. Counterman Jobb
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF LIMITING ORAL INTAKE OF THIN LIQUIDS AFTER ACUTE STROKE, Megan Crawford
Establishing a Conventional LINAC-Based Electron FLASH Beam, Justin DeFrancisco
How to Touch Your Bile, Aleckxi Dorhofer
Improving telehealth education and training: A needs assessment of healthcare providers and trainees, Conor Duffy
THE EFFECT OF SPERM-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-17 GENE (SPAG17) ON FUNCTION AND SIGNALING IN THE CERVIX, Valerie T. Ericsson
Patient satisfaction and compliance with clear aligner therapy during treatment, Luke Fischer
Mechanisms of Ethanol Anxiolysis: Role of Ninein Deletion and Splicing on Ethanol and Anxiety-related Behaviors, Emma R. Gnatowski
Social anxiety: What role do orthodontists and pediatric dentists play in this nation-wide epidemic?, Kurtis Hauck
Profiles of First-Year First-Generation Students’ Library Perceptions and Use: An Intersectional, Mixed Methods Study, Megan Hodge
Motor behaviors using continuous temporally guided active and passive vibrotactile prompts, Matthew E. Holman
Lived Experiences of School Counselors’ Facilitation of Small Group Counseling in Public High Schools, Joshua D. Hurley
James_Emily_MFA, Emily James
Learning from non-stationary data streams, Gabriel Jonas Aguiar
The Rhetorics of Tradwives: Subversion and Disruption in Online Spaces, Marissa Jones
Just Give Me a Reason: Developing a Scale to Explore the Drive for Seeking Provocation, Sydney R. Kavanaugh
Associations between Community Violence Exposure and Internalizing Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Racial Identity, Kimberly S. Lazarus
Using A Dimension Reduction Approach to Parse Heterogeneity in Dietary Restriction, Amanda Makara
Learning and Identity in Cross Functional Teams: A Communities of Practice Perspective, Penelope K. McFarline
Characteristics of Permanent Teeth Undergoing Surgical Endodontic Evaluation: A Retrospective Study, Yasamin Mojarad
Examining multiple stakeholder perspectives on the acceptability of pain-mitigation as a tool to manage needle fear, Sarah C M Morton
Psychometric Evaluation: Extending the Reliability and Validity of the Teacher Attribution Measure for Early Elementary (TAM-EE), Kerensa R. Nagle
“SOME VAGUE UTOPIA”: SEARCHING FOR URANIA, Moira L. Neve
Show Them, Teach Them, Let Them: Empowering Undergraduate Voices through Student-Centered Theatre, Abigail G. Norris
ASSESSING ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEM ABUSE LIABILITY AMONG PEOPLE WHO SMOKE CIGARETTES: IMPACT OF DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS, NICOTINE FLUX, AND FLAVOR, Elizabeth Oluwapelumi Ogunleye
Glossed Over, Rebecca Oh
The Role of Entrepreneurship and Productivity in SME Closures: A Cross-Country Study of Small Business Exit During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Rajendra Pandit
Beliefs Related to Diagnosing BPD and Complex PTSD, Bailey Pascuzzi
Sex-Specific Regulation of MASH and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Role of SphK2 in Females, Bria Pierre
The Role of BMP-2 in the Inflammatory Response to Biomaterials, McKenzie E. Piper
Social Support, Tobacco Attitudes/Perceptions of Harm, and Asthma Status as Moderators in the Association Between Tobacco Exposure and Cotinine Levels, Rachel L. Pitts
Exploring the Development of Students' Calling to the Work of an HOD Practitioner in an Undergraduate HOD Degree Program, Neil Dana Rahbar-Daniels
‘Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go’: Investigating the Roles of Religiosity and Spirituality in Racial Socialization for Black Families, Alexis D. Stokes
Doves and symbiotic bacteria: whole-genome assembly and phylogenomic inference, Mariam Topchyan
Development and Application of Xerogel Insulated Glazing for Enhanced Building Insulation, Dylan S. Van Laeken
From trans health to vaccines: A theoretically driven model exploring factors related to susceptibility to medical misinformation, Catherine Wall
Vascular and Autonomic Function in Young Adults with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Effects of Oxidative Stress, Jennifer B. Weggen
“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
Liner Notes on Black Trans Girlhood: Afrofuturist Affect & Black Popular Music as a Praxis of Self-Fashioning, shawn j. williams
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