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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 2024
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
SYMMETRY ANALYSIS OF THE CANONICAL CONNECTION ON LIE GROUPS:CO-DIMENSION TWO ABELIAN NILRADICAL WITH ABELIAN AND NON ABELIAN COMPLEMENT, nouf alrubea almutiben
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
The Patient Experience of Language Discordance and Interpreter Services in the Emergency Department, Keri L. Baker
Development of an ex vivo assay to investigate streptococcal-platelet interactions, Jasmine Benbei
Variability in Perceptions of Complementary Health Approaches Among Graduate Student Trainees, Delaney C. Bilodeau
CHRONOBIOLOGY OF MEAL TIMING IN EARLY-STAGE HYPERTENSION: EFFECTS ON RENAL AND VASCULAR FUNCTION, Natalie J. Bohmke
A Precision-Controlled Investigation Into The Fundamentals Which Drive The Incredible Superhydrophobic Properties Of Soot, Ashton Bressler
Exploring Drivers of Sex-Based Disparities in Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis, Stephanie K. Buxhoeveden
THE EFFECTS OF PASSIVE HEAT EXPOSURE ON RENAL FUNCTION, VASCULAR FUNCTION, AND EXERCISE CAPACITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE, Domenico A. Chavez
Surface Engineering on Functional Materials for Sustainable Environmental Research, Jianping Chen
They Tried to Kill Your Favorite Bad Bitch: A Look into Digital Misogynoir and How the Girlies Clap Back and Bring Wreck on Twitter, KaLyn T. Coghill
Implications of Extremity: the Digital Nexus between Black Metal Subculture and Right-Wing Extremism, Samuel G. Crawford
Developing and Testing a Model of Discrimination, Internalized Oppression, Mental Health, and Suicidality in Disabled Transgender and Gender Non-binary (TGNB) Individuals, Stephanie L. Cull
A Study of the Effectiveness of the National Inclusive Curriculum for Health Education in Undergraduate Medical Education, Kayla Diggs Brody
“I KNOW WHAT NOTHING MEANS”: NOSTALGIA, HOPE, AND THE POSTMODERN SEARCH FOR THE SUBLIME, Kathryn L. Donati
Functional Monitoring for Run-Time Assurance of a Real-Time Cyber Physical System, Matthew W. Gelber
Frozen by worry and fatigue? A mixed methods approach to understanding the lived experiences of freezing of gait, Sarah M. Ghose
Online Racism and Mental Health Symptomatology Among Black Adolescents: A Longitudinal Examination, Stephen M. Gibson
Biodistribution Comparison of Fentanyl and Morphine Following Acute and Repeated Expsoure, Rosamond M. Goodson
Unraveling the Multiscale Role of Advanced Glycation End-Products in Aging Menisci, Austin Gouldin
Penalized Interpolating B-splines and Their Applications, Kylee L. Hartman-Caballero
Outcomes of Anterior Crossbite Correction on Alveolar Bone Morphology in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate, Katherine J. Hayes
A Retrospective Chart Review of Avulsion Injuries Treated at Virginia Commonwealth University., Ryan Hediger
Identifying mechanistic pathways to rigidity associated with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder traits using a novel decision-making paradigm, Hannah L. Heintz
The Sexually Dimorphic Role of Connexin 43 in Bone Remodeling and Disuse-Induced Bone Loss, Gabriel A. Hoppock
Development and cross-validation of equations to accurately predict resting metabolic rate in adult, pre-menopausal African-American women, Daishan P. Johnson
Housing for Transgender and Gender Expansive People in the U.S. South, Aaron M. Kemmerer
Validation of a Screening Tool for Sleep Apnea in Children, Brandon Khor
Neighborhood, Home- and Community-Based Services, and Older Adult's Health in Virginia, Seon Kim
The Effect of Local Anesthesia When Used in Dental Restorative Cases Under General Anesthesia on Control of Postoperative Comfort, Elizabeth S. Kleefisch DDS
I am Who I am, Yifei Kong
Characteristics of Permanent Teeth Diagnosed with Pulpal Necrosis: A Retrospective Study, William Lee
A Man of Double Deed, Gilad Leiba
Shinners, Alexis E. Mabry
Graph Coloring Reconfiguration, Reem Mahmoud
Mechanistic Analysis of Four-Way DNA Junctions and Cytokine-Binding Aptamers for Therapeutic Interventions, Roaa S. Mahmoud
Essays on the Impacts of MACRA 2015 and Market Dynamics on Quality, Billing, and Fraud in the U.S. Healthcare System, Mahmoud Manouchehri Amoli
Family Rejection and Affirmation Experiences Among Racially and Ethnically Marginalized Youth who Identify as Transgender and/or Gender Diverse, Angela Matijczak
The Impact of COVID-19 on Perceptions of Traditional and Online Degrees: Implications for Hiring Decisions and Higher Education, Heather E. Millar
Humans Are Dust, Chelsea Nanfelt Rowe
Representation Matters! Media’s Impact on BIPOC Participation in Outdoor Recreation, Latryce Noel
An Examination of Hiring Practices and Employee Retention Today Compared with Pre-Pandemic Characteristics in Orthodontics, Logan Passey
Factors Important to Underrepresented Minority Applicants in Ranking Orthodontic Programs, Alyssa Patterson
Optimizing Deep Inspiration Breath Hold Technique for Personalized Breast Cancer Radiotherapy, Srinidhi Rajagopalan
Notes on a Centrifugal Chiller: Listening and Breathing the Boundaries of Circulatory Architecture, Chrystine Rayburn
“Grabbing for Life”: Rhetorical Space and Agency in Women’s Prison Zines, Becca Ringle
Nurse-Led Home Visitation and Parental Reasoning About Child Discipline: A Realist Evaluation of Perceived Influential Mechanisms, Jeniece S. Roane
Adaptive Multi-label Classification on Drifting Data Streams, Martha Roseberry
The Collection: A Third-Place Community Library Design, Camille Rovani
SG1002: A Potential Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy, Taylor I. Roy
A Radiographic Analysis of Teeth with Carrier-Based Obturation Requiring Retreatment, Robert W. Rudnicki
USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO UNDERSTAND THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE IDENTIFYING WITH ADHD: WHAT THEMES EMERGE IN SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS?, Gabby C. Scalzo
Advanced Manufacturing Methods to Produce Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients via Parametric Control of Crystallization, Michael Scott
The Relationship between Material Circumstances and Primary Care Utilization after Enrollment in Virginia’s Medicaid Expansion, Hannah Shadowen
Extrusion-based Additive Manufacturing of Magnetic Heat Exchange Structures for Caloric Applications, Vaibhav Sharma
The Role of Sleep and Social-Ecological Supports in the Association between Racial Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Risk in Black Youth, Jelaina R. Shipman-Lacewell
Investigating The Ultrafast Dissociation Dynamics of Energetic Materials Using Femtosecond Time-Resolved Mass Spectrometry, Jacob M. Shusterman
REDESIGN, EVALUATION, AND VALIDATION OF A COMMERCIALLY VIABLE HIGH-RESOLUTION MELT BASED MIXTURE SCREENING TOOL, Chastyn Smith
Fitbit Engagement in an Health Physical Activity Intervention for Young Adult Cancer Survivors: A Secondary Analysis of the IMPACT Randomized Controlled Trial, Jessica Gomez Smith
Investigating the Regulation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition through Fibronectin-Mediated TGF-β1 Mechanotransduction using in vitro models of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Michael M. Sofroniou
From Suicidal Ideation to Suicide Attempt: Clarifying the Role of Painful and Provocative Events, Mallory Stephenson
Exploring the Experiences of Refugee Youth in Public Schools: An Ethical Phenomenological Inquiry, Hilary T. Stim
Exploring the relationship of intact limb knee joint loading with step lengths and step length symmetry in individuals with lower limb amputation, Edward D. Syrett
Living the American DREAM? College Experiences of Undocumented Students in an Era of Rising Xenophobia and Political Turmoil, Sandra Y. Ting Ph.D.
Satellite Glial Cells Facilitate Mechanical Hypersensitivity Involving Piezo2 Upregulation in DRG Neurons, Namrata Tiwari
Continuous flow as a process intensification tool for the preparation of pharmaceutically relevant N-heterocycles, John W. Tomlin Jr
Points of Contact, Giancarlo Venturini
Efficiently Enhancing Numerical Hessian Accuracy through Grassmann Interpolation, Arthur Y. Wang
THE INFLUENCE OF FLAVOR ON THE ABUSE LIABILITY OF A HEATED TOBACCO PRODUCT AND ITS FEASIBILITY AS A MENTHOL CIGARETTE SUBSTITUTE, Augustus White
Doctors and Saints: Preparing Albert Camus’s The Plague to Address the Dangers of Christian Nationalism, Christopher J. Williams
Investigating Black Emerging Adult Health and Model of Care Choices, Alexandra Wynn
Decalcomania, CHUNGHEE YUN
On the Rebound: Resilience and Subjective Cognitive Symptoms in Cancer, Giuliana V. Zarrella
Effects of Mindfulness Training on Prosocial Responses in Intergroup Relations: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, Denise Yiran Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
ASSESSING DRUG DEVELOPMENT PROPORTIES OF ANTITHROMBOTIC AND ANTI - CANCER AGENTS, Elsamani I. Abdelfadiel
The Aging Epigenome and the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor in the Regulation of Drug Metabolism, Sara Abudahab
NOVEL STRATEGIES IN HEAD AND NECK TUMOR THERAPY; CONTRIBUTION OF SENESCENCE IN THERAPY RESPONSE, AND RESISTANCE DEVELOPMENT AFTER CISPLATIN TREATMENT, Fereshteh Ahmadinejad
Exploring the discriminative stimulus effects of e-cigarette aerosols in rodents, Yasmin Alkhlaif
OVERCOMING CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN KIDNEY DISEASE TREATMENT THROUGH METABOLOMIC AND DATA SCIENCE APPROACHES, Monther Alsultan
Saudi Mediated Public Diplomacy: Exploring the Agenda Building of Government-Sponsored News Before and After the Vision 2030 Announcement, Yahya Alzahrany
Low efficacy mu-opioid receptor agonist as a candidate opioid use disorder medication, Michelle Arriaga
Irene Cox, Lindsey Arturo
Fascism in Sci-Fi: "Mobilizing Passions" in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Alton C. Ayers
A standardized pipeline for isolation and assembly of genomes from symbiotic bacteria in whole louse genomic sequence data., Mohammad Mikail I. Bala