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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Black American Students with and without Disabilities: Stress and Coping Strategies, Gabriel Asare Sarpong
International Marriages: Culture, Identity Formation, Social and Historical Context, Alec Bryan Schaer
Being Black while Leading: a Mixed Methods Study of Black Administrators' Experiences in U.s. Public Schools, Latasha Marie Schraeder
The Optimal Treatment Time of Dry Cupping Therapy To Induce Changes in Local Blood Flow at the Upper Trapezius, Emily Schultz
Social Support, Mental Health Problems, and Rule Infractions: a Study of Female Inmates, Suraiya H. Shammi
The Development of a New Entry Point into Enantiomerically Enriched Sulfinyl Derivatives, Jessica Shaw
Bull and Vine, Hunter Houk Sheaffer
A Study of Covid-19 Mortality under Varying Patient Frailty, Alison N. Sifuentes
Black while Leading: Unmasking the Anti-black Lived Experiences of Senior-Level Black Men Administrators at Historically White Institutions, DuJuan Eugene Smith
The Role of Floating Gardens To Alter the Water Quality of the Chicago River: Chicago, Il, Emmett Andrew Spooner
The Beast and the Revival of Rome: Mussolini and Rome in the Premillennial Imagination, Jon Stamm
Development and Characterization of Robust Methods for Field Investigations with Portable Mass Spectrometry, Ashley Rose Stelmack
How Negative Information and Trust in Government Shape Protest Voting, Rhiannon Lu Stringer
Increased Usage of Cash Rent: Factors Influencing Illinois Farmland Leases over the Past Two Decades, Jacob Styan
The Reading Eye, Ruminating Body, and Regulated Gaze: ( Re ) Constructing Gender in the Old English Lives of Saints, Thelma Trujillo
( Re ) Mapping Bisexuality through Space and Place in Young Adult Literature, Jennifer Tullos
Barriers and Drivers Influencing the Growth of E-commerce in Uzbekistan, Madinakhon Tursunboeva
Developing and Comparing Sensor for Movement Analysis and Biofeedback, Umaiyaal Vasudevaraja
Special Education Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Cooperating Teachers’ Co-teaching Relationships: a Qualitative Study, Christianna N. Vehlow
The Impact of Colorblind Racial Attitudes and Implicit Bias in Evaluations of Student Behavior, Khyati Verma
The School Leader Paradigm: Field Testing for the Development of Principals along a Continuum of Improvement, Todd John Vilardo
Voice, Choice, and ( Material ) Agency: the Sexualized Feminine Body in Young Adult Literature, Tharini Viswanath
Sprint Speed and Musculoskeletal Fitness Test Performance in Youth, Brittany Nicole Walleck
Reconsidering Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology Curriculum, Eric Michael Walsh
Elucidating the Role of the High Aliphatic Glucosinolate ( Hag ) Genes in Pennycress ( Thlaspi Arvense L. ) Glucosinolate Production, Dalton Williams
Mediation among Maladaptive Perfectionism, Maladaptive Emotion Regulation, and Distress, Jennifer L. Woodrum
A Resistance in Red: Ideographs in the Handmaid's Tale, Jessica Marie Wozniak
Human Social Services in Central Illinois: Making Sense of State Divestment and the State Budget Impasse, Erik William Zdansky
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Interface of Glass and Topology, Travis Adams
The Relationship between College Health Professionals' Communicative Behaviors, Students' Satisfaction, and Students' Perceived Quality of Healthcare, Prince Adu Gyamfi
Examining the Effect of Boundary Strength at Home on Work-Family Conflict-Outcome Relationship, Mahbuba Akter
Teachers' Perceptions of English Learners: a Multidimensional Scaling Approach, Cyndy Alvarez
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Lake Water Quality Indicators on Small Lakes, Lake Bloomington and Evergreen Lake in Central Illinois, Using Satellite Remote Sensing, Gare Ambrose-Igho
Kwame Nkrumah, His Afro-american Network and the Pursuit of an African Personality, Emmanuella Amoh
Exploring Microaggressions among Trans Populations: Effects on Feelings of Social Exclusion, Stephanie M. AuBuchon
Explorations into Socialization and the Positioning of “Self ” in Relation to an Academic Identity in High School, John Ryan Bierbaum
Women in Fantasy: Healing Worlds from Trauma via Ethics of Care, Ann J. Borow
Do College Students’ Perceptions of the Police Differ by Education Level and Major?, Lashanti Wilson Brown
Beyond the Sentimental Cliche: How Local Communities Impact Residents and Shape Public Opinion, Kate Brunk
Potential for on-Site, Prosecutorial Evidence from Drug Residues Collected on Plasmonic Paper: a Pilot Study for Sers-Psi-ms, Daniel S. Burr
Decoded: the Influence of Hip Hop Culture on an African-American Male's Culturally Responsive Leadership, Brandon L. Caffey
Resist and Rebel: Life Narrative Subjects That Use Gender Performance To Subvert Patriarchal Ideals, Elizabeth Calero
Parent and Teacher Perceptions of the Importance of Social-Emotional Learning in the Schools, Heather Mae Calkins
Deciphering the Consequences of Yolk Testosterone Metabolism in Birds, Nicole A. Campbell
A Critical Walk down Illinois Career Pathways, Michael Cermak
Understanding Community: Microwear Analysis of Blades at the Mound House Site, Silas Levi Chapman
The Québecois Connection: the French-Canadian Diaspora in Jack Kerouac’s on the Road, Justin Charron
Examination of Student-Athletes' Developmental Transition from Youth Sport to College Sport, Coleman Childers
Gender and Persistence in Stem Careers: Predictors and Barriers, Margaret Rose Christie
Labeling Intimacy: Examining Attitude Differences about Romantic and Sexual Intimacy in Sexual and Asexual People, Alyssa N. Clark
Turning the Inside out: Understanding Cultural Formation within National Panhellenic Conference Sorority Collegiate Chapters, Suzette Walden Cole
When Affect Meets the Relational: a Dialogical, Life Writing Approach to English Studies, D. Shane Combs
Navigating for the Adult Student: Ways To Help Adult Students Transfer Successfully from Community Colleges to Universities, Bethany M. Craig
Preservice Teachers Making Sense of Fraction Concepts and Operations in a Mathematics Education Content Course, Deksiyos Demissie Desta
The Tragedy of Theresa Sturla: Murder, Insanity, and Womanhood on Trial in Nineteenth-Century Chicago, Jake Engelman
Influence of Authority and Message Framing on Compliance with Mental Health Treatment Recommendations, Morgan A. Ess
Overcompensation in Aedes Mosquitoes Populations: Field Tests on Likelihood and an Agent-Based Model To Investigate the Influence of Cohort Structure, Katherine G. Evans
In Situ Encapsulation of Gold Nanoparticles into Stimuli-responsive Polymer Particles for Catalytic Applications, Pascal Nnaemeka Eyimegwu
The Integration of Simulation with Gap Analysis, Ashley Farrow
Modified Ambient Mass Spectrometric Methods for Field Screening and Confirmation of Forensic Evidence, William Lee Fatigante
Yerba Mate: National Project to Emerging Superfood, Ana Fochesatto
Regulation of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton and Cell Wall Development in Arabidopsis Thaliana, Christy J. Fornero
Refuge-Mediated Apparent Competition in a Tallgrass Prairie?, Jessica R. Fowler
The Effect of Thinking about Being Excluded by God on Well-Being: a Replication and Extension, Anna R. George
An Intersectional Feminist Rhetorical Reframing of Rhetorics of Efficiency within Public Policy: Embodied Knowledge and Usability, Oriana A. Gilson
Vitrales, Aaron Gomez
The Effects of Highlighting Healthy Options on Consumer Food Choices in a Food Bank Setting, Kaitlin Nicole Grabow
Epic Stories: Sequence Fiction, Young Readers, and the Aesthetics of World Building, Jordana Estelle Hall
The Association between Attachment and Conflict Resolution during Friendship Conflict among College Students, Alison Hamlet
A Male-Female Genotype-by-Genotype Interaction Mediates the Effect of Mating on Female Immunity in Decorated Crickets, Kylie J. Hampton
Childhood Sexual Abuse, Personality, and Risk Recognition, Emily M. Harms
"They Are Supposed To Be There for Me": Using Thematic Analysis To Understand Sexual Assault Disclosures in Hispanic Families, Alyssa M. Hernandez
High School Students Activities and Learning Experiences: Students’ Views of an Ipad Initiative, Susan E. Hess
Emotional Reverberations, Kirsten Heteji
Characterizing Individual Muscle Force Contributions at Different Running Speeds, Sean E. Higinbotham
An Investigation of Bacteremia in Drosophila and Human Sepsis Progression, Joshua Hill
Symphony No. 1: for a Handsome Kid, Brian J. Hinkley
Connecting the Dots: Exploring the Relationship between Avian Eggshell Pigmentation and Paternal Provisioning Effort, Kara E. Hodges
Illinois Corn Farmers’ Concerns about Nutrient Loss and the Adoption of Best Management Practices, George SW Hoselton
Hip Abductor to Hip Adductor Strength Ratio Measurements in Patients with Non-specific Low Back Pain, Matthew Hugg
Micromanagement Scale: Development and Validation, Haley Hume
Suicide Literacy and Laypersons’ Ability To Accurately Recognize Suicide Warning Signs and Risk Factors, Salman Ibrahim
Food Insecurity among Midwestern University Students Living off Campus, Amy Illovsky
Ice Cream Substitute for Patients with End Stage Renal Disease, Abby Iocca
Why Did the Eisenhower Administration Decide To Deploy Jupiter Missiles in Turkey: a Case Study in Nuclearization of Nato Strategy, Murat Iplikci
Relationships between Hospitals' Music Therapy Services and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ( Hcahps ) Scores, Kimberly S. Iverson
The Role of Religious Reformist Discourse in Regime Resilience in Iran, Fatemeh Jamali
When Inexpressible Becomes Expressible: the Duality of Narrative in Graphic Memoirs of Growing up and Trauma, Nina Hanee Jang
Women in Pk-12 Educational Leadership: Identity and Insight, Amanda K. Jarvis
Impact of Selected Financial Measures on the Term Debt Repayment Ability of Illinois Grain Farms, Samuel Awortwe Johnson
Effects of Video Technology on Cooking Self-Efficacy, Zakary Kaesberg
Exploring Transformational Change Processes with Elementary Principals, Kristopher S. Kahler
Redline Erased: U.s. Foreign Policy in Syria and the Criteria for Humanitarian Intervention, Caroline A. Kernan
Examining the Relationship between Media Consumption and Kenya's Political Culture, Gilbert Kipkoech
Toward a Theory of Procedural Rhetorical Systems: Demonstrations of Player Agency in Uptake of Rules in Video Games, Sydney A. Klem
Inoculations against Dominant Masculinity: Form as Representation for Women, Charley Koenig