Dissertations from 2017
Gender Inequality, Intersectionality, and Violence Against Women: A National- and State-level Analysis of Violence Against Women Trends, CheyOnna Sewell
Homicide and the World Religions, Allen Shamow
The Effectiveness of Combined Appointments and Influenza Immunization Rates in a Rural WIC Population, Lisa L. Sitler
ULEAD: The Effects of a Civics-Based Educational Program on Urban Youth, Rodney W. Smith, Aaron H. Willis, and Mario Pascal Charles
White and African American Elementary Aged Student Perspectives of School Climate and the Relationship to Academic Achievement, Jeremy Spoor and Rachel Turney
A Functional Algorithm for Weight Loss and Obesity Practice: Guide for Clinical Decision-Making for Treating Women, Jennifer A. Tice Williams
Trolling Twitter, Eric Vorst
DFT INVESTIGATIONS OF HYGROGEN STORAGE MATERIALS, Gang Wang
A Video Intervention for Professionals Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults, Allison R. Warren
Beauty is Beneficial: An Examination of Candidate Facial Attractiveness, Gender, Qualification, and Customer Visibility on Online Recruitment Intentions, Breanna R. Wexler
ULEAD: The Effects of a Civics-Based Educational Program on Urban Youth, Aaron H. Willis
A Study of Early Literacy Interventions on the College and Career Readiness of High School Students Identified as Struggling Readers in First Grade, Ann Michele Willott
School Connectedness as a Moderator between Racial Microaggressions and Academic Performance for African American High School Students, Courtney Wilson
Teachers’ Perceptions of Educational Games that Keep Score of Cooperative Performances, Theodore Alden Wohlfarth
Dissertations from 2016
Afrocentric Curriculum: A Paradigm for Healing and Education, Ameer Akinwale Ali
Applications of nanoporous gold monoliths as substrates for the capture and release of lectins and glycoproteins, Allan Jonson Alla
TEACHER PERSPECTIVE AND THE IMPACT OF USING FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS ON CLIMATE AND ACHIEVEMENT IN MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, Yolanda Alovor
The Paradox of Impoverished Missouri Schools: The School Districts in Missouri that Need More Often Get Less, William John Armon
Sexual Orientation Microaggressions in High Schools, Marti Lee Baricevic
Decision-making in the Foster Care System, Julie E. Bertram
The Impact of a Supportive Feedback Environment on Attitudinal and Performance Outcomes, Amanda Lee Blinebry
An Effort Toward Collaborative Problem Solving in Teacher Candidates’ Practicum: Reflection in Action, Jerome Christopher Bollato
Impact of a Growth Mindset Intervention on Academic Performance of Students at Two Urban High Schools, Lisa Brougham
Spectroscopic and Spectro-Astrometric Analysis of T Tauri Stars, Logan Ryan Brown
Perception of consultation among Professional School counselors, Teachers and Mental Health Professional Counselors, Brenda Lorraine Bryant
LET’S GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT: SUPPORTING PRIMARY AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE THROUGH DIALOGIC READING, Jessyca Denise Bryant
Caffeine Combined with Sedative/Anesthetic Drugs Used in Neonatal Medicine and Apoptotic Neurotoxicity in Developing Mouse Brain, Omar Hosea Cabrera
Investigations of Storage Root Development in Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), Yeetoh Chaweewan
Effects of blood pressure on brain microstructure and cognition in healthy older adults, Sarah Ann Cooley
INTRODUCING CLASSROOM LABELING AS AN INNOVATIVE METHOD TO INFORM EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE, Roberta Lynn Crawford
In Vivo And In Vitro Studies Of Polyamides That Are Active Antiviral Agents Against HPV16, Edith Csiki-Fejer
Expanding Coercive Mobility Theory: Women's Forms of Capital and Neighborhood Social Control, Jaclyn Marie Cwick
Historical Biogeography, Spatial Distribution, and Within-Host Interactions of Avian Haemosporidian Parasites (Apicomplexa, Haemosporida), Leticia De Souza Soares
Supporting Students with Disabilities Entering the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Field Disciplines, Karen Marie Dishauzi
Federal Involvement in Education Policy: An Analysis of Race To The Top, Angela L. Early
The Relationship between Intercollegiate Coaches’ Servant Leadership and their Athletes’ Ethically-Related Sport Orientations and Behaviors, Lyman (Lee) Estel Ellis III
Learning language with technology in a hybrid university EAP course, Jerol Brent Enoch
Fidelity to the Cognitive Processing Therapy Protocol: Further Evaluation of Critical Elements, Courtney Chappuis Farmer
Examining the Barriers and Facilitators of Breastfeeding Duration Among Active-Duty Military Mothers, Andrea Lynn Farwell
What Happens In the Classroom?: How School Culture Influences and Impacts Professional Development and Teacher Practice, Dawn Kasal Finley
High Ability Visual Artists: A National Mixed Methods Study of Secondary Art Teacher Training and Practice, Jennifer Christine Fisher
I AM My Sister's Keeper: Considering the Experiences of African American Women Educators Working in Predominantly White Public School Systems, Lelia L. Flagg
The Illumination of Racial Understandings as Revealed in Teacher Education Students' Interpretation of Written Text, Carolyn Marie Fuller
Race, Neighborhood Context, and Drug Enforcement: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests, Shytierra Gaston
The Role of Client Avoidance on PTSD Recovery throughout the Course of Trauma Therapy, Chelsea Alyssa Gloth
Study of Vaporization Enthalpies and Vapor Pressures of Potential Environmental Pollutants by Correlation-Gas Chromatography, Chase Patrick Gobble
The Role of Money and Endorsements in Same-Sex Marriage Ballot Initiatives, Jessica Lorraine Loyet Gracey
Characteristics of Early Non-persisting Developmental Education Students in the Community College: A Nested Analysis, Joseph George Grailer
Anthropogenic disturbance modulates mammal community diversity, assembly, & abundance: Emerging infectious disease risk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Leticia Andrea Gutiérrez Jiménez (Available for download on Tuesday, November 30, 2021)
The Synthesis and Characterization of Photoluminescent Conjugated Frameworks Containing Silicon and Germanium, Douglas William Hammerstroem
Missouri's Missing Education Policy: Support Systems for Districts with High Student Mobility Rates, Mary Lee Hardy
Endogenous Small Interfering RNA: Insights into esiRNA biogenesis and their precursors, Andrew White Harrington (Available for download on Sunday, December 12, 2021)
WHAT ABOUT THE WIZARD?: STRESS EFFECTS OF BEING A MENTOR, Daniel Ryland Hawthorne
Integrating digital literacy and traditional print text: A focus on struggling readers during guided reading, Andrea Heckman-Hughes
Questioning the Questioner: The Effect of Applicant Questions on Interview Outcomes, Heather Grace Heimbaugh
Children Who are Deaf Deserve Researched Based Education, Cheryl Ann Hermann
Predicting Purpose: An Examination of Early Predictors of Progression and Career Choice among First-Year Nursing Students, Iris Hinderliter
Invisibly Visible: A Study of African-American Females and their Ascent to the Superintendency, Tracy M. Hinds
Retention and Persistence in Higher Education: An Exploratory Study of Risk Factors and Milestones Impacting Second Semester Retention of Freshmen Students, Tyson Ray Holder, Sean Jeremy Chism, Theresa Keuss, and Natissia Shonte Small
The Impact of Globalization on Global Civil Society Expansion, Barbara Jean Hosto-Marti
The Public Consequences of a Personal Choice: The Impact of the Decision to be Childfree in Family-Friendly America, Emily Ingalls
Implementation of Sleep Assessment Questionnaire in College Health and Counseling Visits: A Quality Improvement Pilot, Sarah Ruth Jackson
TAKING THE “SQUEEZE” OFF OF SOCIAL STUDIES: A Phenomenological Study of Teacher “Curricular” Autonomy and its Effects on Social Studies Instructional Time, Jerri Antoinette Johnson
The Psychological Flexibility Model and PTSD Intrusion Symptoms, Kaylin Jones
Doctrinal Dialogues: Factors Influencing Client Willingness to Discuss Religious Beliefs, Katherine A. Judd
“MIND THE GAP”: THE STANDARDIZATION OF MASTER-LEVEL EDUCATION COMPETENCIES AMONG HUMANITARIAN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS, Polina Kadatska
Police Contracting in St. Louis County: Focusing Events and Changes in Image and Venue in Five Case Studies, Alan W. Karr
The Writing Development of Multilingual Youth in a Spanish Immersion School, Angela Billur Layton
Conceptualizing and Validating the Character Virtues Index (CVI), Mark Allen Liston
Substance Use Behaviors of College Students: Differences by Living Arrangement, Marcus B. Long
The Lived Experience of Urban Plus-Sized Black Women in a Midwestern City, Jolene Johnson Lynn
Addressing the Tension Between Open Access Admission and Improving Retention Rates at Crowder College, Earl Ray Macam and Brittany Lynn Neunuebel
Color-mediated foraging by pollinators: A comparative study of two passionflower butterflies at Lantana camara, Gyanpriya Maharaj
Health-Risk Behaviors and BMI percentiles, Timothy Mikando Makubuya
Synthesis of Cyclic Enolphosphonates and Enolphosphates as Inhibitors of Serine Hydrolases, Benjamin Patrick Martin
Elevating Teacher Quality: Teacher Tenure Reform Applying Lessons from Other Fields, Kevin M. Martin
Black Spaces in White Places: Toward Black Educational Imagination, Shenita Nicole Mayes
Factors that Affect Reattempting the Emergency Medical Technician Cognitive Certification Examination, Kim Darlene McKenna
Below the Surface of Special Education Administrator Turnover, Amy Meeks
Synthesis and Characterization of Amphiphiles for Mammalian Cell Transfection and Antimicrobial Activity, Joseph William Meisel
Classroom Communities of Practice, Angela Marie Muse
Leading Character: An Investigation Into the Characteristics and Effective Practices of Character Education Leaders, Kevin C. Navarro, Amy Ellizabeth Johnston, Julie A. Frugo, and Brian J. McCauley
The Relationship Between Mobile Device Usage and Couple Satisfaction, Emily Kathryn Oliveira
Synthetic Ion Channels: A New Class of Membrane Disruptor and Efflux Pump Inhibitor for the Recovery of Antibiotic Potency, Mohit Bharatkumar Patel (Available for download on Sunday, December 12, 2021)
Classroom Comics: A Five-part Narrative Recounting a Teacher Action Research Study Using Comics to Teach Academic Vocabulary in the Middle Grades, Charles Michael Phoenix
To Shoot or Not to Shoot: An Analysis of Police Officers' Deadly Force Decision-Making Processes, Jordan Clare Pickering
Development of an HPLC-based oligosaccharide synthesizer, Salvatore Pistorio
The Impact of Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) on Equitable Title I Services for Nonpublic School Students, Joycelyn Patrise Pugh-Walker
UP IN SMOKE: USING IN-SCHOOL TOBACCO EDUCATION AND MEDIA LITERACY TO REDUCE SMOKING INITATION AMONG 7TH GRADE STUDENTS IN A SUBURBAN SETTING, Cynthia Ford Pulley
Character Education and Adolescents' Moral Identity Development (Actual and Ideal), Amani Faisal Qashmer
Another 40 Years of Inequity: Two-Tier Schooling as the Lasting Legacy of Desegregation Policy in St. Louis, Missouri, Renee L. Racette
SUSTAINABILITY OF A LONG TERM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, Christine E. Ries
Amalgamating Critical Thinking and Online Communication, Brian Eric Rockette
Genetic risk for increased oxidative stress in the aging brain:Implications for white matter integrity and cognition, Lauren Salminen
Exploring the Interactions Between Writing Pedagogy and Technological Knowledge in Online Writing Consultation, Christopher Ryan Schott
Trends In Mathematics Enrollment And Achievement Gap In St. Louis Area Public High Schools, 2000 - 2014., Victoria V. Shearing
Multi-Period Stochastic Resource Planning: Models, Algorithms and Applications, Stanislaus Simon Solomon