Theses/Dissertations from 2026
LEGAL PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL PROCESSES BY WHICH LAW STUDENTS TRANSITION FROM NOVICES TO PROFESSIONALS, David Hall Abney II
Mitigating and Contributing Factors Associated with Oxidative Stress in Patients with Cardiometabolic Diseases, Islam Alhusban
Design of Energy-Efficient, Scalable, and Flexible Tensor Processing Architectures with Electro-Photonic Integrated Circuits, Oluwaseun Alo
“YOU DON’T HAVE TO CARRY THIS ALONE”: A MULTI-PHASE, THEORY-DRIVEN MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTION FOR INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT‑PARENTS, Anne A. Amissah
NUTRIENT-DRIVEN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-DNA INTERACTIONS AND THEIR SIGNALING MECHANISMS IN METABOLIC DISEASE, Evelyn A. Bates
Centering VITAL Faculty Leadership Using a Three-Article Style Dissertation, Tonya C. Bates
Living A Self-Directed Life? How Formal and Informal Networks Shape Opioid Use Disorder Recovery, Marisa Booty
THE ESSENCE OF THE HEART: LAYERED HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN EVA JESSYE’S MY SPIRITUALS, Jessica Brunet
CANTATE FRATRES: FORMING AND SUSTAINING TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC MUSIC, LITURGY AND CULTURE IN THE INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING SOVEREIGN PRIEST, Reyers P. Brusoe
DISRUPTED CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS AFFECT HALLMARK PATHOLOGIES IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE-RELATED MOUSE MODELS, Valeria Buzinova
NAVIGATING MERCY: ETHICAL AND EMOTIONAL TERRAINS IN CAROLINGIAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS, Wei-Ting Chen
METABOLISM AS A REGULATOR OF SLEEP AND CORTICAL ACTIVITY IN HEALTH AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Nicholas J. Constantino
SPATIAL MARGINALIZATION OF EMOTIONAL SUPPORT: UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL-HUMAN DYNAMICS OF CARE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES, Aleksandra Craine
UNEVEN WATER: THE POLLUTION AND SOLUTIONS OF WATER IN APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY, 1919-1962, Riccardo Paolo D'Amato
EXPLORING PATHWAYS TO PERSISTENCE AND SELF-EFFICACY AMONG HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS: A MIXED METHODS ACTION RESEARCH STUDY, Sharmy Rene Davis
A FRAMEWORK FOR CHARACTERIZING THE PERIPHERAL IMMUNE ISONOME USING LONG-READ SINGLE-CELL RNA SEQUENCING AND ITS RELEVANCE TO NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE, Patricia Hayes Doyle
STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS AND OCD TREATMENT: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF PATIENT PERSPECTIVES, Emily E. Fenlon
WE NEED TO CARE ABOUT CARE: (UN)CARING RELATIONS IN VICTORIAN FICTION, Roslyn Fleming
FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION, FOREIGN CAPITAL, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, KWADWO D. FREMPONG
UNCOVERING THE MECHANISM OF REEP2-MEDIATED EMT-DRIVEN MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING IN LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA, Kevin Fulp
The Ache of Modernism: Death, Affect, and Intersubjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature, Alex Gergely
DAILY RHYTHMS IN PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS, SLEEP, AND MOOD: A MULTIMETHOD APPROACH TO TRANSDIAGNOSTIC PSYCHOPATHOLOGY RISK AND INTERVENTION, Gabriel Gilmore
