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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Design and Realization of a Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvester for Cost Effective Additive Manufacturing, Rodrigo Barriuso de Juan
Reading Vice: The Christian Text in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Brittaniae, Nancy S. Bell
Health Care Fraud Across Time and Delivery Systems: Assessing the Legal Impact of the Affordable Care Act, Dana K. Bonnell
In This Together: Secondary Language Arts Teachers’ Responses to Learning Labs, Lisa A. Britten
“Such night till this I never passed” : How the Dreams of Adam and Eve Lead to the Decision to Fall in Paradise Lost, Robert B. Chapman
The Effects of Three Seating Arrangements on Players’ Preference of Sound in a String Orchestra, Tammy J. Clark
Does Phosphorus from Agricultural Tile Drains Fuel Algal Blooms?, Delilah R. Clement
Scalable Parallelization of a Markov Coalescent Genealogy Sampler, Philip E. Davis
The Effect of Seasonal Fish Migration on Energy Budgets in Two Coastal Michigan Streams, Emily M. Dean
From Land to Lake: Contrasting Microbial Processes Across a Great Lakes Gradient of Organic Carbon and Inorganic Nutrient Inventories, Deborah K. Dila
A Transcutaneous Data and Power Transfer System for Osteogenesis Monitoring Sensors, Deepak Dileepkumar
Aerodynamics of Race Car Wings: A CFD Study, Simon Durrer
Chance, Chaos, and Chloral: Lily Bart Gambles It All in The House of Mirth, Stacey L. Fitzpatrick
Racial Identity Development of African American Students in Relation to Black Studies Courses, Ja'Kia M. Fuller
Macroinvertebrate Community Composition, Food Web Structure, and Emergence Rate in Neotropical Cloud-Forest Streams in Mindo, Ecuador, Anna M. Harris
Assessment of a New Healthy Food Policy at Two Food Pantries in Grand Rapids, MI, Katherine D. Hekstra
Evaluation of the Nutritional Options for Wellness (NOW) Program: Mitigating Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Food Pantries, Sarah L. Henning
Trophic Transfer of a Naturally Occurring Algal Toxin from a Freshwater Lake to Little Brown Bats, Devin Jones
Re-optimization of Radiation Therapy Dose to the Prostate Using CBCT: Reducing Dose to Organs at Risk, R. Charles Keider Jr.
Perception of Roles of General Education Teachers & Special Education Teachers in Regard to the Inclusion of Students with a Cognitive Impairment in the General Education Classroom, Justine B. Keuning-LaFrence
Becoming Self: A Jungian Approach to Paradise Lost, Geoffrey Kishbaugh
Madness, Death, and Civilization: Non-European Women under Patriarchy and Imperialism, Mengying Li
Building Principals’ Self-Efficacy Regarding Their Ability to Supervise Special Education Programing and Staff, Candida J. Marek
“The Mirror of Desire”: Britomart and Spenserian Perception in The Faerie Queene, Brandon J. Muri
Coming Home: How Identity Plays a Role in Students who Study Abroad in an Area That is Representative of Their Heritage, Mariana I. Naddaf
American Marten Denning Behavior in Michigan, Melissa J. Nichols
Experimental and Numerical Study of Dysphagia, Yash G. Potdar
Registration and Segmentation of Multimodality Images for Post Processing of Skeleton in Preclinical Oncology Studies, Vineeth Radhakrishnan
Examining the Effect of Climate Change on the Upper Mesophotic Coral Montastrea cavernosa (Linnaeus 1767), John Skutnik
Retaining Staff Members of Color at a Midwestern Predominantly White Institution, Tiffany L. Steele
Categorization of Food Value via Crayfish Aggression, Justin Thanh-Tuan Tran
Inquiry-Based Biotechnology Education For Kent Intermediate School District Early College Program, Meāgan N. Treadway
State Estimation – New Models on Power Distribution Networks Based on Weighted Least Squares Method in Line Current Measurements, Hugo Vicente Barrera
Investigating pH Banding Kinetics of Chara corallina in Alternating Light Conditions with Rectangular Pulse Voltammetry, Matthew C. Zandee
Evaluating Foraging Habits, and Estimating Prey Consumption, and Growth of Brook Trout in a Coolwater Michigan Stream, Graeme R. Zaparzynski
Changes in the EEG Spectrum of a Child with Severe Disabilities in Response to Power Mobility Training, Nadina Zweifel
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Students’ Motivations and Barriers to Online Education, Vladimir Abramenka
Reading Intervention Strategies for General Education Middle School Students: Providing a Space for Teachers to Share Effective Methods, Amy Michelle Baas
Documenting Annual Differences in Vegetation Cover, Height and Diversity near Barrow, Alaska, Timothy Frederick Botting
Think Again: The Decision Making Process in King Lear and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, Elizabeth Burgess
Assessment of Northern Bobwhite Survival and Fitness at Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, Jacob W. Doggett
Families, General Strain, Social Control and Adolescent Pain Killer Use, Melinda S. Furtaw
Nerds: A Reclamation of an Identity, Angiola L. Gabriel
Subcutaneous Tissue Depth Over Intraosseous Infusion Sites in a Cadaveric Model, Megan Marie Glazier
Evaluation of Teachers of Students With Low-Incidence Disabilities, MartyAnn Guiney
“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear, Kate Downey Hickey
Functional Movement Screen Score by Somatotype Category, Amanda Kelch
Metafiction, Fairy Tale, and Female Desire in A.S. Byatt‘s Possession: A Romance, Susan Marie Kieda
Adult Rainbow Trout Habitat Selection in the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, Idaho, Zachary Kuzniar
Computational Modeling of β5-β6 Carbapenemase Loop in Wild Type and Selected Mutants of OXA-24 Class D β-Lactamase, James Roland LaFleur
Undocumented Latino College Students and Identity Development: A Qualitative Analysis of Undocumented Latino College Students’ Movement Towards Developing Purpose, Theresa Danielle Lyon
Measuring the Adult Literacy Rate in English: The Case of the Grand Rapids West Hope Zone, Lindsay M. McHolme
Evaluating Accuracy and Bias in Genetic Monitoring Under Scenarios of Population Decline, Susan K. Munster
An Exploration of Negative Family Factors and Substance Use amongst Adolescents: The Lasting Effects of Family Substance Use, Parental Criminality, and Parental Corporal Punishment, Melissa Ann Murray
The Impact of Study Abroad on Multicultural Competency Among Student Affairs Graduate Students, Matthew N. Musser
Comparison of Sutures and Devices Used in Closure Following Partial Nephrectomy Suturing, Bikal Paka
Divergent responses of cryptic invasive watermilfoil to treatment with auxinic herbicides in a large Michigan Lake, Syndell R. Parks
Sociodemographic Characteristics of Heart Failure Associated Hospital Readmissions in Michigan Medicare Patients, Kelsey A. Peterson
A Cost-Effective Haptic Device for Assistive and Rehabilitation Purposes, Archana Pradeep
Optical Tracking System to Monitor Laparoscopic Training, William D. Rytlewski
Evolution of Invasive Species in Response to Management: Potential for Herbicide Resistance in Watermilfoil, Lindsey-Ann Louise Schulte
Photophysiological Studies of Cyanobacterial Mats in Submerged Sinkholes of Lake Huron, Michael Snider
Microcystin Accumulation in Fish Muscle Tissue: Exploring the Safety of Fish Consumption in Several Michigan Water Bodies, Heather Snyder
Toxin Production and Population Dynamics of Gloeotrichia echinulata with Considerations of Global Climate Change, Sarah Stamann
Children Birth to Age Three with Feeding Difficulties: Systems Level Perspectives of Supports, Needs, and Interagency Collaboration, Sondra M. Stegenga
The Depiction of the Holocaust within the Theme of Escape in Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Deirdre Toeller-Novak
Salvation and Community in the Works of Charles Williams, Donald Clayton Vander Kolk Jr.
Harry Potter and the American Response: Persecution and Popularity of the Boy Who Lived, Ashley N. Zirkle
High Level Synthesis, a Use Case Comparison with Hardware Description Language, Michael D. Zwagerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Evaluation of Natural Steelhead Recruitment in the Muskegon River, Michigan, Nicholas C. Albrecht
Effects of Summer School on Academic Achievement: Reducing Summer Learning Loss in Middle School, Angela Joy Aumaugher
Automated Classification of EEG Signals Using Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines, Priya Balasubramanian
In Their Own Words: Healing from Traumatic Childbirth, Jennifer L. Brammer
Outcomes Assessment of an Outdoor Orientation Program Through Means-end Theory, Kristofer James Cortez
Unreconciled Contradictions: Autonomy, Ideology, and the Possibility of Progress in Tillie Olsen's "Tell Me a Riddle", Rachel Leigh Curtis
The Relationship Between Maternal Child Feeding Practices and Child’s BMI and Child’s Dietary Restraint in Mexican-American Families of Grand Rapids, MI., Larissa E. Fluegel
Design of a Portable Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry System for Measuring Neurotransmitter Levels, Jayson Foster
Spatial and Temporal Variation of Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Muskegon River and Bigelow Creek, Michigan, Travis Hauri Foster
The Impact of Race and Offender Status on Small Business Hiring Decisions, Elle Gray Teshima
Structural Comparison of Arctic Plant Communities Across the Landscape and with Experimental Warming in Northern Alaska, Jessica L. Gregory
A Quantitative Tool for Identifying the Epileptogenic Zone using Network Connectivity Analysis, James Michael Gurisko
Exploration of the Validity of the Two-Dimensional Sagittal Plane Standing Long Jump Model, Lauren Hickox
Development of a Control System for a Power Wheelchair Trainer, Stewart James Hildebrand
Genetic Health and Population Viability of Reintroduced American Marten in Michigan, Tamara L. Hillman
Contextualizing Subjectivity: Speaking (Back to) Colonialism in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John, Lucy, and A Small Place, Sierra Holmes
Student Success and Service-Learning: Exploring the Relationship at a Two-Year Public Institution, Leah Renee Kicinski
Investigating Teachers’ Self-Reported Efficacy in Instructing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners in Alternative Settings, Liane Kay Lancaster
Historical Demography and Dispersal Patterns in the Eastern Pipistrelle Bat (Perimyotis subflavus), Alynn M. Martin
Predictive Modeling of Floral Species Richness in Michigan Prairie Fen Communities, Nichole R. Mason
Professional Experiences of Women Administrators in Student Services, Christy M. Mayo
