Theses/Dissertations from 2021
EXPLORING PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ PRACTICES AND PERSPECTIVES ON WHITENESS: DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL VALIDATION OF THE WHITENESS COMPONENTS SCALE, Falynn Amor Thompson
DOES BULLYING VICTIMIZATION IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD INFLUENCE ADOLESCENT RISK BEHAVIORS: DIFFERENCES ACROSS RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUPS?, Shawndaya Sabrina Thrasher
USE OF MICROSCALE HYDROPHOBIC SURFACE FEATURES FOR INTEGRATION OF 3D CELL CULTURE INTO MULTI-FUNCTIONAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES, Soroosh Torabi
A CASE STUDY TO EXPLORE THE PERCEPTION OF A WOMAN PARTICIPANT IN DRUG COURT OF A COMMUNITY-BASED ARTS PROGRAM ON SUBSTANCE USE RECOVERY OUTCOMES, Catherine L. Troop
A Study of Language and Its Uses In Flute Performance and Pedagogy, Sarah Tuley
Genetic Mouse Models of Liver Disease: Potential Roles of Zhx2 (Afr1) and Afr2 in Damage and Regeneration, Courtney P. Turpin
“I’m Like Their GPS”: How Mathematics Faculty Support Underprepared Community College Students in Corequisite Courses, Bonita B. Tyler
An Explorative Study of Kentucky Teacher Leader Graduate Programs: Response to Policy Change, Bailey M. Ubellacker
RELIANCE ON ALGORITHMIC EVIDENCE: THE JOINT INFLUENCE OF MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY AND ALGORITHM ADAPTABILITY, Jenny Ulla
FIRST-GENERATION DOCTORAL STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES NAVIGATING GRADUATE SCHOOL, Leah K. Vance-Berg
PERIOCULAR MESENCHYME HETEROGENEITY DURING MORPHOGENESIS OF THE VERTEBRATE OCULAR ANTERIOR SEGMENT, Kristyn L. Van Der Meulen
Care Working Conditions: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reproductive Labor from Aristotle to Marxist Feminism, Andrew R. Van't Land
Genomic Selection Strategies to Predict Grain Yield and Disease Resistance Traits in a Wheat Breeding Program, Virginia Laura Verges
Combinatorial Invariants of Rational Polytopes, Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez
International Cooperation Networks and Economic Sanction Effectiveness, Gargi Vyas
An Assessment of Kentucky Birth Records, Focusing on Early-Onset Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy, Environmental Metal Exposures, and Geocoding Precision, 2008-2017, Courtney J. Walker
Three Essays on Grocery Sales Taxes, Lingxiao Wang
DIMENSION REDUCTION TECHNIQUES IN REGRESSION, Pei Wang
TOWARD INTELLIGENT WELDING BY BUILDING ITS DIGITAL TWIN, Qiyue Wang
Enhancing Drug Overdose Mortality Surveillance through Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, Patrick J. Ward
Metabolic and Electrophysiological Effects of Fibroblast Growth Factor 19 in the Dorsal Vagal Complex, Jordan Wean
Characterization of Spontaneous Preeclampsia in the African Green Monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus), Chelsea Christina Weaver
Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Optic Fissure Fusion During Zebrafish Eye Development, Megan Weaver
Innovative Statistical Models in Cancer Immunotherapy Trial Design, Jing Wei
