Please select "Submit Content" on the left-hand side menu under Contribute, or click this link in order to submit your thesis/dissertation. You will be prompted to create an account.
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Generating a High Erucic Acid Seed Oil Variety of Pennycress ( Thlaspi Arvense ), Brice Jarvis
Applying Conditional Distributions to Individuals: Using Latent Variable Models, Feng Ji
Athletic Identity, Institutional Support Services, and Transition Factors: an Analysis of Student-Athlete Perceptions and Implications, John Nowak Kaczorowski
Identification and Analysis of Jak-Stat Pathway Genes in Drosophila Melanogaster Immunity, Pooja Kadaba Ranganath
The Impact of Informal Social Networks on Employee Productivity in Kenyan Organizations, Mary Kiura
A Place To Stand: Community Media Centers, James Joseph Knightwright
Construction of Reality: Symbolic and Social Practice of Michael Kurzwelly’s Słubfurt and Nowa Amerika, Olga Kostyrko
Teaching Students with Developmental Disabilities To Sequence Academic Content Using Video Modeling and Constant Time Delay via an Ipad Application, Allison Marie Kroesch
Adults with Cystic Fibrosis: Self-Management and Health Outcomes, Amanda Rose Lambie
Conscious Light, Jeremy Y. Langston
The Effect of Concept Mapping on Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Knowledge Acquisition, Pamela S. Laskowski
Walk like a Man: Connecting Masculine Ideologies and Imagery to Young Men’s Sense of Entitlement to Women, Ashley C. Lee
Achieving Development in Destinations: Effects of Tourism on Poverty, Inequality, and Quality of Life, Jessica R. Linder
Translating Le Fresne: Modeling Digital Scholarly Editions, Gabrielle Litwiller
Getting in each Other’s Way: Enlarging the Possibilities of Sustainable Community Development through Communication, Cecelia M. Long
“the Testing Served Its Purpose ”: High-Stakes Testing as a Method of Categorization and Control in Young Adult Dystopian Novels, Rebecca Lorenzo
Communication in Live Sports Broadcasts: Attributions of Task Performance Errors, Benjamin J. Lynn
Determining the Relationship between Aging and Oxidative Stress in a Drosophila Melanogaster P38 kb Framework, Aleksandra J. Majewski
Graston Technique Pressure Changes on Hamstring Range of Motion, Emily Martz
Developing Pennycress ( Thlaspi Arvense ) as a Biodiesel Feedstock Crop and Plant Model System, Michaela McGinn
Student Preparedness upon Entering the College Communication Classroom, Tina Marie McGuire
Illinois Residents' Perception of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act an Analysis of Letters to Editors, Catharyn Ellen Meins
The Association between Parental Beliefs about Sport Specialization and Athlete Sport Specialization Classification, Henry Mercier
Optimization of Ambient Ionization Methodologies for Field Investigations Utilizing Portable Mass Spectrometric Instrumentation, Shahnaz Mukta
Co-Creating Our Lives, Performing Our Multi-cultural Worlds, Aidah Nalubowa
When Does Less Equal More? Assessing the Mechanisms Driving Compensatory Mortality and the Hydra Effect, Joseph T. Neale
Framed Text Messages as a Nutrition Education Intervention, Michael James O'Halloran
The Old versus the New Equestrian Circus: Demonstrating and Promoting Equine Welfare, Veronica Painter
Sound Vessels from Matriarchal Light, Ryan Paluczak
Young Adults with Visual Impairments and Driver's Education: Journeys of Self-Efficacy, Identity, and Transition to Adulthood, Molly Pasley
Time Does Not Heal all Wounds: Temporal Differences in Spinal Pathology among Pre-columbian Sites in West-Central Illinois, Abigail Peeples
An Evaluative Study of a Health Information Management Program Following a Significant Curricular Change, Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Chamaecrista Fasciculata in Tallgrass and Sand Prairies: the Potential for Differential Responses, Robert W. Philips
The Effects of Noncontingent Praise ( Ncp ) on Classroom Behavior, Kelly Poirot
Identifying Concussion in Adolescent Males Using Regions of Interest within Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Sophia Alvena Pollalis
( Re ) Making Insurrection: Genre, Historicity, and the Narrative Legacy of Nat Turner, Chamere Ranyail Poole
Inside the Flip: a Look at Teacher Motivations and Activities in Flipped Classrooms, Philip G. Pulley
A Pokébalancing Act: the Management of Japanese Cultural “Odor ” in Pokémon, Nicholas Raes
The Effects of Technical Language and Individual Differences on Evaluating Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Jillian R. Reiher
Faith Too Big To Fail? the Struggles and Wishes of New Atheism, Joe Rice
Chatting with Middle Schoolers: an Investigation of Student Uptakes of a Pedagogical Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Curriculum in 8 Th-Grade English Language Arts Classes, Deborah Riggert-Kieffer
Using Caenorhabditis Elegans To Model the Muscular and Neurological Impairments of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Anjelica M. Rodriguez
Media Messages and Same-Sex Sexual Consent, Ryann Rooney
Analysis of Short-Term Erosion of the St. Peter Sandstone in Lasalle County, Illinois, Monique M. Rutte
Teaching Writing through Transformation: Linguistically Diverse Writing Teachers’ Enactments of Linguistic Diversity, Cristina Sanchez-Martin
The Tropes We Tutor by: Names and Labels as Tropes in Writing Center Work, Scott R. Sands
Examining the Specificity of Colonization of a Beneficial Bee Gut Community Member, Logan A. Sauers
Supporting the Medial Longitudinal Arch: a Comparison between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Musculature, James D. Schaefer
A Cross-cultural Comparison of Perceptions by Public Relations Practitioners in the United States and Germany, Leila Schmidt
Examining the Relationship between Basic Needs Theory and Mental Toughness Transfer in Mentally Tough Athletes, Chelsi Scott
Using School Leadership Teams as Professional Learning Communities To Improve Professional Capital and Leadership, Matthew R. Seaton
Diffusion of Innovations and Public Communication Campaigns: an Examination of the 4r Nutrient Stewardship Program, Henry Seeger
Analysis of Grade Variances in Multisection Calculus Classes, S. Paul Shaffer
Exercise Is Medicine on Campus Program Comparisons: a Descriptive Study, Jacquelyn Sherman
Big Data and Sensor Network for Construction Material Testing, Yao Shi
Negative Outcomes Associated with Childhood Sexual Abuse, Kristen N. Silbert
Examining the Learning of Students Participating in an Interactive Simulated Patient Experience, Mary Smyers
Here’s Looking at You, Kids: Dystopian Roadmaps to the Present in the Secondary Classroom, Michael Arthur Soares
What's So Bad about Hooking up? : Factors Predictive of More Positive Perceptions Following a Hookup, Jade A. M. Spaulding
Mathieu-Zhao Subspaces of Vertex Algebras, Matthew Speck
Investigating Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Reasoning When Learning Trigonometry Using the Line Segment Approach, Lawrence Ssebaggala
Trauma and the Credibility Economy: an Analysis of Epistemic Violence and Its Traumatic Functions, Gina Stinnett
Supporting Intermediate Teachers' Implementation of the Ngss through a Collaboration Based on Mutuality, Elisha Nichole Swanson
Old: a Personal Essayist’s Reflections of an Aging Adult, Marcia Irene Taylor
Phenotypic Effects of the Mis-expression of Pmt-like Genes in Brachypodium Distachyon, Tyler Telander
Understanding the Experiences and Perceptions of Specialty Mental Health Probation Officers, Brice Terpstra
Regulation of Staphylococcus Aureus Cell Envelope Autolysis and Lipid Composition, Kiran B. Tiwari
The Relationship between State Effectiveness and State Legitimacy: a Quantitative Test, Bich Thi Ngoc Tran
#Digitalactivism: Examining #yesallwomen and Teaching Social Media Activism in Technical Communication, Karishma Verma
Pre -crastination Effects in a Prospective Memory Task: Choosing When To Complete a Difficult Task, Rachel L. VonderHaar
Mortuary Patterns in West-Central Tennessee: Contextualizing Historic Field Data from Nine Mississippian Period Sites, Brooke Adele Wamsley
Primary Care Medicare Wellness Visit Outcomes Research, Susan Marie Watkins
How To Disappear Completely, Gregory Watson
Towards Queer Space: Bisexual Experiences and Imaginative Geographies, Jacklyn Weier
Prompting Procedure Skill Acquisition: the Role of Performance Feedback, Ellen C. Wing
“Still I Rise ”: an Exploration of Mentoring Relationships on Degree Attainment for Black Women in Doctoral Programs, Tuwana T. Wingfield
Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Vanadium ( Iv ) Complexes with the Kläui Ligand, Xiao Wu
Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata in Modeling Biological Pattern Formation, Gizem Yuce
After Faith, Hope, and Love: the Unique Divergence of Asceticism by Gregory the Great and Maximus the Confessor, Caleb N. Zuiderveen
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Understanding the Association between Nutrition and Depression by Assessing Diet Quality, Omega-3, Cholesterol, and Sleep Quality in College Students, Kandice H. Abramson
And They Lived Happily Ever After, or Did They? Representations of and Attitudes toward Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Action Films, Kelly L. Adams
The Efficiency of Dna Repair Processes in Proximity of G 4 Dna Structures, Gloria Alvarado
Alterations in Foot Positioning during Ankle Taping and Its Effects on Range of Motion and Jump Performance in Dancers, Eilish Anderson
Perceived Stress, Self-Compassion, and Emotional Variance in Parents of Children with Communication Disorders: a Family Approach to Service Delivery in Speech-Language Pathology, Olivia Marie Arnos
The Impact of Ethnic Identity on Psychological Well-Being and Perceived Discrimination among Arab Americans, Rawan Atari
Differences in Lower Limb Kinetics in College Age Female Gymnasts to Coaches’ Perceived Efficiency in a Specific Counter Movement Jump Technique, Stephen Christopher Avgerinos
Desert within a City: Exploring the Relationship between Food Security, Diet, and Body Mass Index, Jamey Ann Baietto
Sunday Dinner, George Dominic Barreca
The Influence of Corrective Exercises on Functional Movement Screen and Physical Fitness Performance in Army Rotc Cadets, Marissa Jae Basar
Toward an Interventionary Rhetoric for Technical Communication Studies, Julie Collins Bates
The Therapeutic Effects of Dry Cupping on Iliotibial Band Tightness, Madeline Marie Biehl
Fathers with Multiple Sclerosis: Perceptions of Family Functioning, Laura Jean Bivens
Analysis of Pinterest as a Tool for Dissemination of Nutrition Information for Parents of Teenagers, Holly A. Black
Post-Internet Writing: Social Media and Contemporary Fiction, Andrew Boomhower
Seeking the Invisible, Alexis Bragg
Students’ Expectations and Faculty Approaches to Instructional Activities: Are Faculty Meeting the Needs of this Generation?, Julie Ann Brines
Body Composition: Reading, Writing, and Resisting Weight Loss Autobiography as Biopolitical Pedagogy, Katherine Ann Browne