Dissertations from 2016
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
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
The Story In The Standards: Creating Counter-Narratives in the Common Core State Standards, JARRET ALEXANDER SMITH
Improving Teacher Education in Missouri: Expanding Clinical Experiences to Broader Contextual Experiences, Julie Elizabeth Smith Sodey
Best Practices in Student Persistence and Completion: A Program Evaluation of Three Student Services Units In a Rural Community College, Antionette Sterling and Felicita A. Myers
Identifying the Complexity of Bipolar Disorder, Brandie Marie Stiles
Intentional and Unintentional Misreporting on Self-Report Measures of Sexually Aggressive Behavior, Emily Strang
The Experiences of International and Foreign-Born Students in an Accelerated Nursing Program, Myrna L. true
Body Image and Anthropometric Measurements in Bariatric Surgery Patients, Julie Ann Varns
Binding Properties of Large Antiviral Polyamides (PA1 and PA25) and Natural Product Derivatives as Inhibitors of Serine Hydrolases, Elena Vasilieva
School Based Mental Health as it relates to Student Outcomes, Kathleen Kelly Vierod
Empowerment of the Teen Parent: Policies and Practices of an Urban School Based Teenage Parent Program, Selena Elizabeth Washington
Your Words or Mine: Discourse Conflicts for Speakers of African American English, Tamara D. Wells
Improving Veteran access to heart failure specialty care: a change model project, Mark Bird Whelchel
The Development and Implementation of an Autonomy-Supportive Professional Development Model: Does it Affect Teachers' Intentions and Motivations to Provide Autonomy-Supportive Education?, Natalie Sue Wiemann
The Use of Therapeutic Theater in Supporting Clients in Eating Disorder Recovery After Intensive Treatment: A Qualitative Study, Laura L. Wood
Templated Oligosaccharide Synthesis, Jia Guang Xiao
Optimizing Inventory for Profitability and Order Fulfillment Improvement, Liu Yang
NANO-STRUCTURED MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS, Dongxue Zhao
Dissertations from 2015
Nontraditional Community College Students in Nursing: Perceptions Personified
COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORIES OF WEST INDIAN BIRDS, Maria Wilhelmina Barbosa de Oliveira Pil
An Application of Data Analytics to Outcomes of Missouri Motor Vehicle Crashes, Jill Marie Bernard
CREATING SHARED VISION AND FACILITATING TRANSFORMATION IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES, Dedria Adel Blakely
Women, Sex, and God: Women's Sexuality and the Internalization of Religious Messages, Petra Sterling Blum
The St. Louis Desegregation Transfer Program: Do African American Students Perform Better In an Integrated Setting, Marquita Lanee' Bowers-Brown
Practitioner Inquiry: Teaching literacy with English language learners, Rosemarie Brefeld
Teaching at the Top of the Class: Black Female Educators' Perspective on Teaching High Achieving Black Children, Sheandra P. Brown
Affectivity, Brain Structure and Function, and Treatment Outcomes in Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Wilson James Brown
Neural Correlates of Rumination in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Before and After Cognitive Processing Therapy, Katherine Ruth Buchholz
The Impact of Two TESOL Courses on Four Preservice Teachers' Emerging Teaching Identities: A Case Study, Cynthia C. Chasteen
A Nation Divided: Assessing the Regional Effects of Institutions, Social Capital, and Civic Culture on Tax Morale in Italy, John William D'Attoma
Sexual Orientation Microaggressions and Psychological Well-Being: A Mediational Model, Cori E. Deitz
Talk and Deterrence in Drug Markets, Timothy Dickinson
RELATIONSHIPS OF HAEMOSPORIDIAN PARASITES TO POPULATIONS OF THEIR AVIAN HOSTS IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, Vincenzo Alexander Ellis
Coping with Racial Discrimination: The Impact of Substance Use, Emotional Eating, and Emotional Support on Mental and Physical Health, Maurice Endsley, Jr.
Spatial Ecology, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Armenian Vipers, Montivipera raddei, in Two Different Landscapes, Jeffery Alan Ettling
“Alone in our Grief:” Exploring How Surviving Siblings Make Meaning After the Death of a Brother or Sister, Jodi M. Flesner
How Teacher Beliefs Impact Teacher Behaviors: Teaching Children with Moderate Intellectual Disability to Read, Cheri Lynn Fortney
The Relatioship Between Adult Basic and Adult Secondary Educational Instructional Styles and Learner Outcomes When Measured as Educaional Gain on the National Reporting System, Kenneth Mattei Foushee
A Narrative of a Teacher’s Awakening of Consciousness: Learning to Become an Effective Witness, Wendy Lynn Freebersyser
Medication Non-Adherence in Community Dwelling Older Adults with Dementia: An Educational Intervention for Family Caregivers, Nika Renee George
Fast and Sensitive Genome-Hashing Software and its Application in Using NGS as a Detection Agent for Bacterial Presence in Oral Metagenomic Samples, Paul Michael Gontarz
Cognitive Coaching as Form of Professional Development in a Linguistically Diverse School, Alla Gonzalez Del Castillo
The Effect of HIV Knowledge and HIV Attitudes on African American Women’s Decision to HIV Test, Lisa Ann Green
ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES AND VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT, John Robert Griffith
Loss, Hope, and Redemption: The Consequences of Methamphetamine use in a Sample of Incarcerated Women, Mikhial Vincent Gunderman
TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP: BUILDING SOCIAL EQUITY THROUGH INDIVIDUALIZED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Curtis David Gunn
ARTHUR L. WASHINGTON, TWENTIETH CENTURY EDUCATOR AND CHANGE AGENT AT SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL, Herman Leo Harris
IN SEARCH OF SPIRIT: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF GAY SPIRITUALITY, David Willilam Hart
Climate-driven change in Himalayan Rhododendron phenology, Robert Evan Hart
Educational Entrepreneurship As Reform Strategy for St. Louis Public Schools from 2003 to 2009, Nathalie Henderson
The Digital Divide Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory: The Digitally Denied, Stacy Gee Hollins
Investigating the Utility of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention with Men on Probation or Parole, Reginald Wynn Holt
Cultural Conceptualizations of the Trauma Response: The Role of Locus of Control, Religiosity, and Religious Coping, Yu-Feng Emily Hu
Capacity Planning and Resource Acquisition Decisions Using Robust Optimization, Aldis Jakubovskis
Integrating Emotion Regulation Strategies and Religiosity/Spirituality in Counseling Sessions: Perceptions of Counselors in Christian School Settings, Kathleen Karigan
SOLUBLE AMYLOID-BETA 42 AGGREGATES STIMULATE CELLULAR INFLAMMATION INDEPENDENT OF CD47, Sanjib Karki
Evolutionary Dynamics of Speciation and Extinction, Dawn Michelle King
Reading Achievement and Family Literacy Behaviors of Black Boys, Paula Denise Knight
Correlational Evidence between the Processing Speed Index, Coherent Motion Threshold, and Achievement Scores of Children With and Without Learning Disabilities, Thomas John LaRosa
Illuminating the Experiences of African-American Nursing Faculty Seeking Employment in Higher Education in Nursing, Vanessa Loyd