A Sample of recent theses

• LeBlanc, Benjamin P. (2020) A State Estimation Framework for Fatigue Monitoring and Prognosis of Minimally Instrumented Structural and Biomechanical Systems [Ph. D.] Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Keel, Jesse Marie (2020) Autobiography She Wrote : Agatha Christie and the Problem of Female Authorship [M.A.] English
• Block, Benjamin David (2020) The Energetic Consequences of Winter Foraging for Northern Temperate Fish Species [M.S.] Biology
• Komabu-Pomeyie, Sefakor Grateful-Miranda Ama (2020) The Challenges of Inclusive Education Policy Implementation in Ghana: Stakeholders' Perspectives [Ph. D.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• Diambri, Michael J. (2020) Queer Anxieties in Washington State History [M.A.] History
• Eiriksson, Loftur Páll (2020) The Fear of Failure as an Athlete and an International Student : The Search for Meaning Making Outside My Comfort Zone [M. Ed.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• Ledson, Annalisa (2020) The Performing Arts : An Equalizer in Education for All Students, a Teaching Artist's Perspective [M. Ed.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• O'Day, Meghan (2020) The Intersection of Motherhood and Manipulation: How Slavery Informs the Maternal Identity [M.A.] English
• Yao, Xiangxiao (2020) Using Dielectric Characterization to Study Transport and Thermal Properties of Gas/Supercritical Fluid Embedded Polymer Solution [Ph. D.] Mechanical Engineering
• Felag, Jack Michael (2020) Co-Optimization of a Robot's Body and Brain via Evolution and Reinforcement Learning [M.S.] Complex Systems and Data Science
• Rahill, Cathy Osmers (2020) College Coaches' Experiences, Knowledge and Attitudes to Support Student-Athlete Mental Health [Ed. D.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• Frodeman, Annie (2020) Aridity in the Literature of the American West : Water in Stegner's Angle of Repose and Abbey's the Monkey Wrench Gang [M.A.] English
• Adams, Jeffrey Garfield (2020) Apocalypse Out of Time: William Apess's Political Theology [M.A.] English
• Ackley, Brandon James (2020) Investigations of Pnictogen and Boron-Group Compounds Towards the Synthesis of Group Iii/v Pre-Ceramic Molecules [Ph. D.] Chemistry
• Daigle, Kerry (2020) Social Networking and Social Media as Resilience Strategies Among US Women Farmers [M.S.] Community Development and Applied Economics
• Mullins, Patrick (2020) The Circuit and Cocircuit Lattices of a Regular Matroid [M.S.] Mathematics and Statistics
• Wu, Yuhao (2020) Model Parameter Calibration in Power Systems [M.S.] Computer Science
• Shore, Emily Ann (2020) Consumption of Microplastics Impacts the Growth and Fecal Properties of the Marine Copepod, Acartia Tonsa [M.S.] Biology
• Fawcett, Susan E (2020) A Generic Classification of the Thelypteridaceae [Ph. D.] Plant Biology
• Theoret, Claire (2020) Waking the Dragon : Routes to Female Empowerment in Fantasy [M.A.] English
• Gray, Kelly (2020) "Saved? What Is Saved?" : The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise [M.A.] English
• Popiel, Caroline Rose (2020) The Incidence of Inverter Incidents : Understanding and Quantifying Contributions to Risk in Systems With Large Amounts of Inverter-Based Resources [M.S.] Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
• Marques, Edward (2020) Increasing the Agronomic and Economic Value of Chickpea and Pea [Ph. D.] Plant and Soil Science
• Pond, Tyson Charles (2020) Measuring and Modeling Information Flow on Social Networks [M.S.] Mathematics and Statistics
• Royce, Amelia (2020) The Axes of Fantasy : A Lacanian Exploration of Time and Space [M.A.] English
• Martin, Jo Ryder (2020) Extremal/Saturation Numbers for Guessing Numbers of Undirected Graphs [M.S.] Mathematics and Statistics
• O'Neil, Grace Claire (2020) Guide to Urban Gardening in Winooski Valley, Vermont [M.S.] Plant and Soil Science
• Hurd, Molly C. (2020) Assessing the Effectiveness of a Luminally Restricted 5-ht4 Agonist for the Treatment of Colitis and Constipation [M.S.] Pharmacology
• Green, Maxfield E. (2020) Some Results on a Set of Data Driven Stochastic Wildfire Models [M.S.] Complex Systems and Data Science
• Adler, Nicholas (2020) The Vicissitudes of Lack : Situating Asexuality Within Psychoanalysis [M.A.] English
• Ligon, Samuel Braggins (2020) Optimization of Mixing Efficiency in Low Reynolds Unlike Doublet Injectors by Incorporating Swirl [M.S.] Mechanical Engineering
• Conroy, Ryan Anthony James (2020) What Is Wardian? : Formulating Jesmyn Ward's Literary Style and Technique Through Textual Analysis, Comparison, and Differentiation [M.A.] English
• Pomykaj, Edward (2020) "Do You Want to Live?": Law, Freedom, and Psychosis in the Modernist Novel [M.A.] English
• Wilder, Allen M. (2020) The Agronomics of Organically Managed Legume-Grass Mixtures for Ensiled Forage Production [M.S.] Plant and Soil Science
• Jagun, Precious T. (2020) Characterization of the University of Vermont Plasma Torch and Simulation of Pyrolysis Gas and Plasma Interactions [M.S.] Mechanical Engineering
• Parlato, Richard (2020) Becoming Giants Themselves : Advocating for Greater Inclusion of Students' Scholarly Ideas and Experiences in Academia [M. Ed.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• Bocanegra, Jessica Leigh (2020) Using Chirality-Assisted Synthesis to Construct Light-Responsive, Freeform Helical Foldamers and Shape-Defined Polymers [Ph. D.] Chemistry
• LeValley, Andrew M. (2020) Recalibrating Our Moral Compass : How America's Narrowing Value System Is Erasing LGBTQ+ People in Schools [M. Ed.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• Watanabe, Teruki (2020) Investigation of the Intramolecular 1,3-Diaza-Claisen Rearrangement in the Ring Expansion Reactions of Vinyl Pyrrolidines and Vinyl Piperidines [Ph. D.] Chemistry
• Colby, Gerard (2020) William S. Culbertson and the Search for the Geopolitical Imperium [M.A.] History
• Chia, Shi Biao (2020) Glutathionylation/Glutaredoxin Axis and the Regulation of Epithelial Cell Plasticity and Fibroblast Activation in Airway Fibrosis [Ph. D.] Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
• Seksinsky, Drue (2020) Modeling Volcanic Ash Particle Impingement in the Hot Sections of a Gas Turbine Engine [M.S.] Mechanical Engineering
• Workman, Kirsten Cynthia (2020) Does Adding Forage Radish Enhance Winter Rye Cover Crops in Northeastern Corn Silage Systems? [M.S.] Plant and Soil Science
• Howe, Alison K. (2020) Exploring Intersectional Typologies of (Dis)advantage in United States Medical School Applicants [Ph. D.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• Miller, Michael Devin (2020) Effects of Forage Quality and Management Decisions on Feed Intake of Lactating Dairy Cows [Ph. D.] Animal and Veterinary Sciences
• Martin, Caroline (2021) The Developmental Course of ADHD in the Preschool Classroom : Toward a Prevention Treatment Framework [Ph. D.] Psychology
• Scharnetzki, Elizabeth (2020) The Negative Consequences of Positive Stereotypes : Positive Gender Stereotypes Elicit Negative Stereotype Beliefs but Not Stereotype Threat for Women in Stem. [Ph. D.] Psychology
• Lowe, Randi Beth (2020) The Intersection of Organizational Form and Employee Relationships : A Social Network Analysis of Rural School Educators [Ed. D.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• Schnalzer, Kristin (2020) Evidence for Polyphase Deformation in the Shear Zones Bounding the Chester and Athens Domes, Southeastern Vermont, FROM 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology /Kristin Schnalzer.[M.S.] Geology
• Schmoker, Anna (2020) Investigations Into Signaling Mechanisms of the Dcbld Receptor Family [Ph. D.] Biology
• Lindquist, Peter Carl (2020) The Architecture of a Lower-Crustal Shear Zone and Evidence for Along-Strike Variations in Strain Localization and Partitioning, Fiordland, New Zealand [M.S.] Geology
• Bowley Dow, Loren (2020) More Than a Scholarship: College and Career Outcomes of Mitchell Institute Promise Scholars [Ed. D.] Leadership and Developmental Sciences
• Laracy, Aidan Ridner (2020) The Iteration Domain Reference Governor, a Constraint Management Scheme for Batch Processes [M.S.] Mechanical Engineering
• Brevik, Kristian (2020) Rapid Evolution in Agroecosystems: Transposable Elements and Epigenetics in the Colorado Potato Beetle [Ph. D.] Plant and Soil Science
• Scalia, Stephanie (2020) Tsrna Involvement in Promoting Breast Cancer Phenotypes [M.S.] Pharmacology
• Burton, Jonathan Robert (2020) Subsurface Sensing With Shakers and Inspection Vehicles [M.S.] Mechanical Engineering
• Kur, Andi (2020) The Potential of Refugee Seed Systems to Promote Contemporary Adaptation in Traditional Crops : A Case Study of African Maize in New England [M.S.] Plant and Soil Science
• Lepeak, Lauren (2020) Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Peptide Projections to the Central Nervous System Regions [M.S.] Pharmacology
• Ezequelle, Wilson (2020) Active Magnetic Sensing for Urban Target Discrimination [M.S.] Mechanical Engineering
• Whitmore, Samuel (2020) Numerical Simulations of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Torch [M.S.] Mechanical Engineering
• Molokandov, Roberta Sofia (2020) Who Performs Pro-Environmental Behaviors (PEBs) and Why? : Examining the Impacts of Motivation, Environmental Attitudes, Identity, and Climate Change Concerns on Intended and Actual PEBs [M.S.] Community Development and Applied Economics
• Sarazen, Jillian (2020) Evaluation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal in Alternative Management Practices for Dairy Farm Production Area Runoff : Bioretention Cells and a Woodchip Bioreactor Treatment System [M.S.] Plant and Soil Science
• Adler, Thomas (2020) Drivers of Dissolved Organic Carbon Mobilization From Forested Headwater Catchments : A Multi-Scaled Approach [M.S.] Geology
• Perez, Jessica (2020) Cognitive Predictors of Depressive Symptoms : Cognitive Reactivity, Mood Reactivity, and Dysfunctional Attitudes [M.A.] Psychology
• Hasan, Md Mahmudul (2020) A Chemical Genetics Approach to Understand the Regulation of Cryptosporidium Sexual Differentiation [Ph. D.] Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
• Captein, Wilson Alexander (2020) Shame, Pride, and Disclosure: Exploring Paths to Distress in Individuals With Paraphilic Fantasies [M.A.] Psychology
• Melbostad, Heidi S. (2020) Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Two Contraceptive Services Interventions for Women Receiving Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and at Risk of Unintended Pregnancy [Ph. D.] Psychology
• Hulce, Zoe Irene (2020) Finding Brain Predictors of Psychostimulant Medication Use in Adhd Using Machine Learning [M.S.] Pharmacology
• Maucieri, Abigail Marie (2022) Characterization and Manipulation of O-GlcNAcylation in Granulosa Cells of Bovine Ovarian Antral Follicles [M.S.] Animal and Veterinary Sciences
• Guo, Junru (2020) Seed Systems of Bhutanese-Nepali Refugee Gardeners : Making Place in Chittenden County, Vermont [M.S.] Community Development and Applied Economics
• Moskovitz, Eliana (2020) Investigating the RUNX1-CBF[beta] Transcription Factor Complex as a Mitotic Gene Bookmark to Maintain the Normal Mammary Epithelial Phenotype [M.S.] Pharmacology
• Valdez, Eduardo Enrique (2020) Knee Articular Cartilage Material Properties Estimation Through FEA [M.S.] Mechanical Engineering
• O'Neill, Erin (2020) Effects of Ericoid Mycorrhizal Fungi on Reproductive Traits in Vaccinium Corymbosum [M.S.] Biology
• Day, Kiara Brynne (2020) "A Mighty Woman With a Torch" : Dorothy Thompson's Call for American Action Against Nazism and Jewish Persecution, 1931-1945 [M.A.] History
• McCracken, Aidan Conor (2020) From Tap to Table : Consumer Values, Producer Attitudes, and Vermont Maple Syrup in a Dynamic Landscape [M.S.] Community Development and Applied Economics
• Aktar, Mahafuza (2020) Effects of Chronic Stress on the Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide (PACAP) in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis (BNST) [M.S.] Neuroscience Graduate Program
• Osorio, Joycer (2020) Reference Governors : From Theory to Practice [Ph. D.] Electrical and Biomedical Engineering