Dissertations from 2024
Developing Expertise and Multiculturally Informed Supervision Practices, Mary Martha Abernathy
An Examination of the Impediments to Implementing Student-Centered Teaching Methods in Public Schools, Nicole R H Adewale, Robert L. Bloch, and Garry D. Gibbs
A Qualitative Case Study of an Ultra-Brief Trait Emotional Intelligence Intervention for University Student Leaders, Britne K. Bacca-Haupt, Melinda R. Dilley, Fletcher J. Ferguson, Lisa C. Gillis-Davis, and Jacqueline M. Schneller
Confronting Whiteness: When Critical Whites Studies and Racial Trauma Collide: An Autoethnography, Tracy Barron
Is it More State than Trait? Within-person Variability and Inter-rater Agreement of Feedback Orientation, Timothy J. Bartkoski
Implementation of the Process Improvement Toolkit for Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries, Christina Bearden
Autoethnographies Exploring the Cultural Spirit Murdering and Nurturing of Three Minority Educators in K-12, Sara Z. Beg, Maritza Caldera, and Denise Ross
Factors Influencing Purpose in Life in Middle-Aged and Older Adults, Kelly Bergstrom
Implementation of Intentional Hourly Rounding at Pediatric Hospital, Margaret Bernard
The Impact of Social-Emotional Competence on Academic Achievement and Career Success within Urban School Systems, LaShanda R. Boone, Keesha Byrd, Susan Grimes, Jamesha Purdiman, and Cierra Wourman
Steminism: Analyzing Factors That Improve Retention of Women in STEM, Kira Carter, Jane Kelley, Jason Vasser-Elong, and RC Patterson
The Pivot to Online Learning: A Case Study of EFL Student Teachers’ Learning Experiences and Perceptions in China, Jingxin Cheng
Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia and Phototherapy: The Implementation of Seminal Clinical Practice Guidelines, Christina Coleman
Implementation of Skin-to-Skin Contact Immediately Post Cesarean Birth: A Quality Improvement Project, Sophia Cooke
Evaluation of the Grief of Mothers Affected by Perinatal and Traumatic Loss, Landry Crabtree (Available for download on Sunday, August 03, 2025)
The Postsecondary Success of Historically Marginalized Black and Latino Male Students: Examining Factors that Impact College Readiness Preparation and Persistence, Molly Croghan, Ebonie Davis, Janci Finkley, Zehra Khan, Yvette Levy, Evans Mudanya, and Lizbeth Roman
The Impact of Hourly Safety Rounding on Pediatric Fall Rates, Natalie Doskal-Poe
Some Wounds Don’t Heal: Spirit Assassination Attempts: Tools of White Supremacy, Karen Louise Douglas
Evaluation of a Smoking Cessation Program in Primary Care, Yolanda Duncan-Watt
Improving Mental Health Outcomes for Amputees, Zachary Elmore
Bridging the Gap: Psychopharmacologic Education and Side Effect Screening for Non-Prescribing Mental Health Professionals, Elaine Fitzgerald
Implementation of the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Screening Tool for Postpartum Depression in a Midwest Primary Care Clinic, Makenzie Garrison
Implementing a Brief Intervention for Smoking Cessation in an Inpatient Psychiatric Facility, Erika Gotway
Dream-Seekers (Ladson-Billings, 2009): An Analysis of Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Development Through the Perspective of Black Novice Teachers, Christina Grove, Nana Becoat, Michelle Cooley, and Pablo Ramos Jr
The Spirit-Murdering of Black Students from White Educators, Brian C. Guilfoyle, Casetta D. Brown, Sarah J. Guilfoyle, and Courtney D. Jude
Implementation of Postnatal Depression Screening: A Pilot Study, Mollie Gulino
Implementation of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring, Sarah Gutzke
Improving Identification of Complicated Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Using the Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale, Kristin Hagopian
Perspectives of College Students with Disabilities Regarding Their High School Transition Experience: Notes for High School Transition Planning, Lindsay Hartzler, Kitty Dong, Andrew Johnson Kliethermes, Kaitlyn Sandheinrich, and Mark Wheatley
Enhancing the First-year Experience Program for Community College Students: Creating a Cohort Model to Encourage Success, Engagement, and Sense of Belonging, Vicky Herbel, Christina Cox, Amy M. Koehler, Kim Mercurio, and Barbara Stratman
Wiping Out Central Line Associated-Bloodstream Infections: Cleaning High Touch Surfaces in the PICU, Emily Heth
Presentation Format and Disclosure Overload: Evidence from the Public Sector, Melissa Hicks (Available for download on Tuesday, May 13, 2025)
Shattering the Mask: Unveiling the Destructive Force of Misogynoir, LeDominique Hubbard
A Quasi-experimental Study on the Effectiveness of Neurofeedback on Anxiety, Supervisory Working Alliance, and Supervisory Nondisclosure of Counselors in Training, Elizabeth Irwin (Available for download on Sunday, August 01, 2027)
Depression Screening and Education for Immigrants to Increase Access to Care, Viktoriya Ivantsova
Nursing Interventions for Psychosis and Other Mental Health Crises: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study of Nurses’ Experiences, Christopher Jasensky
Restraint Reduction Using the Brøset Violence Checklist, DeAnna Kappelmann
A Guideline-Based Approach to Increase Early Mobilization in the Pediatric Patient Following Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kayla Keeven
Implementation of a Standardized Nursing Handoff in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Tori Keeven (Available for download on Friday, July 24, 2026)
Relations Between Prior Racial Microaggressions, Expat Motivation, and Life Satisfaction Among African American Expat Women in Mexico, Patricia Keller
Organizational Control and Technological Capabilities: The Moderating Role of Family Influence on the Firm, Sean Leahy
Convening the Counter-Conversation: Critical Participatory Action Research Against Real-Time Repression, Connor Maguire, Leo Jalipa, and Anne Grass
Participation Mandatory, Learning Not Required: A Phenomenological Study of Diversity Training in Education and Law Enforcement, Jamie Martin, Tabari Asim Coleman, Toni J. Fall, Crystal L. Isom, and Jennifer L. Niebrzydoski
Social Work in Pediatric Primary Care, Courtney Maxey
Why We Stay - Considering the Past, Contemplating the Present, and Suggestions for the Future, Joelle McIntosh and Erika S. Johnson
A Multi-Site Qualitative Analysis of the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems: Implications for Dual System Youth, Lauren Morgan
Improving Nurse Response to Seizure Events in a Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit with Use of a Standardized Process, Stacey Obst Paule
For Black Women - When the Rainbow Was Not Enough (Shange, 1976, New York City): An Autoethnographic Collection About Spirit Assassination, Teresa Quarles, Tamika Galvin, and Sherrie McClellan
The Cultivation and Integration of Cultural Humility and Cultural Competence in LGBTIQ+ Client Work: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach, Gon Ratanashevorn
Interdisciplinary Medication Reconciliation Approach for Arabic-Speaking Patients, Rebecca Rodman
Student–Faculty Engagement Solutions for Retention of Racially Minoritized Students, Rayza Rolon Nieves, Kevin M. Wathen, Jordan M. Watson, and Shanee E. Haynes
Diverse Gamers: Resistance Through Video Gameplay, Breon Rose
360 Degree Clinical Competence Evaluation for Pediatric Hospitalist Advance Practice Provders, Elizabeth A. Schickler
Implementation of Quantitative Blood Loss Following Cesarean Section Birth, Layna Victoria Schultz
Exploring Strategies for Placement Stability Among Foster Care Children, Gabrielle Sewester
Increasing Rates of Advance Directives in Primary Care, Lindsay Shahi
Immigration, Moral Panics, and Punishment: The Impact of Media Coverage and Public Interest on Jail Incarceration, Faraneh Shamserad (Available for download on Sunday, April 20, 2025)
Unraveling Biases and Customer Heterogeneity in E-commerce Recommendation Systems, Sachin Sharma
The Impacts of Authentic Learning on Student Outcomes, Evan Sheppard and Cameron Conner
Implementation of Quantitative Blood Loss in Cesarean Section Births, Madeline Skelton
Finding Combinatorial Patterns in Real Valued Omics Data, Kenneth Smith (Available for download on Thursday, May 01, 2025)
Ethnic Studies and White Identity, Aimee Snelling and Kara Cisco
Enhancing Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis: A Dual-Head Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning Neural Networks, Qing Snyder (Available for download on Saturday, May 10, 2025)
Who Cares?! Fostering Inclusive and Empowering Environments for Black Students in Predominantly White Institutions: Strategies for Retention and Cultural Engagement, Joel Mandell Stancer, Danielle Allen, Angela Haywood-Gaskin, Kelly Atkins, Rhonda Lingard, and Kuriston White-Dunlap
Black Female Educator: Underappreciated, Overworked, and the Indelible Quest for Agency Within the Educational System, Sharena Stevenson
Implementation of Skin-to-Skin Immediately Post C-Section: A Pilot Study, Miah Vernor
Management of Post-Extubation Dysphagia using the Yale Swallow Protocol, Nicole West
Counseling and Mental Health Awareness in Higher Education Institutions: A Phenomenological Exploration of Mental Health and How It Affects Degree Completion among Black Undergraduate College Women, ShaQuina D. White and Desirae N. Williams
Ethical Leadership and Moral Foundations Congruence, Sarah Willey
My Story is in the Structure: An Autoethnographic Study by an Instructional Designer Working in a Centralized Academic Reporting Line, Pamela Williams
Self-Harm in Female Youth with Undiagnosed ADHD: Implementing American Academy of Pediatrics Screening Guidelines, Roselie M. Woodard
Dissertations from 2023
The Effect of Student Perception of Parent Involvement and Socioeconomic Status on Academic Intrinsic Motivation, Pallavi Aggarwal and Taylor Lawson Smith
Investigating Relationships Between Muslim High School Students’ School Belonging and Career Decision-Making, Nour Alhiyari
Loss Scaling and Step Size in Deep Learning Optimizatio, Nora Alosily
With a Little Help at Home: The Impact of Romantic Partner Support on Daily Burnout and Workplace Incivility, Matthew Aplin-Houtz
High Resolution Intracavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy of Transition Metal-containing Diatomic Molecules, Kristin Bales
U.S. Military Veterans Transition to Two Midwest Universities: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Moral Injury, and Academic Outcomes, Malychanh T. Bartlett
Cumulative Advantage and Student Performance in General Chemistry: An Empirical Study at a Midwest Tier 1 University (2016-2019), Nicole Barvian
Restricted Powers, Special-Purpose Districts, and Path Dependence: Economic Graveyards in Downstate Illinois, Bethany Behrhorst
Implementing Obesity Management Guidelines in Rural Primary Care, Taylor Bell
Gottman Processes and Couple Outcomes While Navigating Infertility, Clayton Brigance
Implementing Trauma-Informed Care Curriculum in a Doctoral Nursing Program, Mary D. Brown
The Motherhood Crusade: Rural Low-Income Mothers, Support, and Empowerment, Christina Castellano
Implementation of a Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (SBAR) Patient Handoff Tool in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Kristen L. Chandler
Evaluation of Simulation on Medication Errors in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Carrie Clark
Improving Postpartum Depression Screening Practices in the Postpartum Setting, Courtney Lynn Cole
The Impact of Firm Size, Job Embeddedness, and Job Engagement on Turnover in Public Accounting Firms, Amy Cooper
Topological Data Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks Using Depthwise Separable Convolutions, Eliot Courtois
Standardized Reporting for Hospice Admissions, Courtney Davenport
The Public Muse in Congress: The Punctuation of American Federal Arts Policy, Elizabeth Deichmann
Missed and Prior Diagnoses in Children Later Diagnosed with Autism, Maire Diemer
The Aftermath of the First Children of Brown: Stories of Housing and Education Racial Disparities in St. Louis, Missouri 1950-1970, Benard Diggs (Available for download on Wednesday, December 11, 2024)
Improving Pediatric Asthma Outcomes Through Pictorial Asthma Action Plans, Julia Donovan
Social Spaces, Places, and Substance Use in Shaping Queer Identities, Alessandra Milagros Early