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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
“To Save My Own Life:” The Revisionary and Sustaining Practice of Autotheory, Margaret Zee
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A History of Freed Slaves' Homes in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1926, Ajibola A. Abdulrahman
"Agitate, Agitate, Agitate": Stories from Mississippi Valley, Parchman, and the Largest Mass Arrest of Students in U.S. History, Katherine Aberle
No Peace in the Valley: A Documentary Film on the 1970 Protests at Mississippi Valley State College and the Largest Mass Arrest of Students in U.S. History, Katherine Aberle
Teaching in a Remediation Nation: Exploring Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty Perceptions of their Professional Practice, Andrew Mark Abernathy
The Few Among the Many: Women's labour in British Guiana Prisons, 1838-1917, Estherine Gwendoline Adams
Biopolymer Unfolding as a Process of Biased Activated Barrier Crossing, Sudeep Adhikari
INCLUSIVE MUSIC TEACHER PREPARATION IN THE PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AT AKROPONG-AKUAPEM, GHANA, Samuel Agbenyo
The N-Terminal Domains of Voltage Dependent Anion Channels as Novel Members of the BCL-2 Family: Their Roles and Interactions with the BH3 Domain of the BCL-2 Family Members, Clement Nana Agyemang
Cosmology of Wanderers, Hussain Ahmed
Continuance Intention of Using Online Food Delivery Applications: Customers with Food Allergies, Jeongyeon Ahn
Genomic Analysis and Metabolic Potential of Myxobacteria, Hanan Albataineh
Chasing the Light, Nadia Alexis
An Exploration of Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Training: Currently Available Information, Perspectives, and Beliefs, David D. Allen III
Synthesis and Charecterisation of Methylene Blue Derivatives, Rohit Alluri
LATE-STAGE DIVERSIFICATION OF SELECT NATURAL PRODUCTS – NEW CHEMICAL ENTITIES WITH IMPROVED BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES, Moneerah J. Alqahtani
Synthetic Studies on Valuable Fluorinated Building Blocks, Maali Alshammari
FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT OF FAMOTIDINE FLOATING TABLETS USING HOT-MELT EXTRUSION COUPLED WITH 3D PRINTING TECHNIQUE., Esraa Al Shawakri
Development and Characterization of Different Dosage Forms Utilizing Hot-Melt Extrusion Technique, Abdulmajeed Althobaiti
Preparation and Characterization of 3D Printed Bioadhesive Delivery Systems, Mohammed Yahya Alyahya
An Investigation into the Feasibility of Coupling Hot-Melt Extrusion Technology with Fused Deposition Modeling 3D Printing in Different Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms, Abdullah Ahmed Alzahrani
Perceived Value of a VR (Virtual Reality) Tourism Experience: A Scale Development, Fernando Arroyo Lopez
The Ties that Bind: Creole Networks and Reform in New Granada during the Age of Revolution, 1780-1811, Philip John Baltuskonis
A Comparison of Student Academic Policies across University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), Farrah Banks
Measuring Impact of New Teacher Mentoring Programs Through Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale, Ezzard Beane
DOES THE CONTRACTION HISTORY OF THE MUSCLE DICTATE CHANGES IN STRENGTH FOLLOWING RESISTANCE TRAINING?, Zachary William Bell
Transforming Place: The Socio-Environmental Afterlives of Tellico, Cheyenne Bennett
Visitation, Ellie Black
Domestic Lives of the Worthless and Insignificant: Land and Labor in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Mellissa Black
The Effects of a Blended Learning Environment on Students' Discourse in a Secondary Mathematics Classroom, Brandi Blake
PROGRAM EVALUATION OF MUSIC TEACHER EDUCATION IN GHANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE, POLICY, AND RESEARCH, George Blankson
IMPLICATIONS OF GENDER DYSPHORIA ON GENDER SCHEMA AND SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORIES OF GENDER DEVELOPMENT, Beau Bourgeois
Linguistic Expressions of Pidgin in Nigerian Stand-up Comedy, Jimoh Junior Braimoh
Evaluating the Effects of Thermal Cycling on Bone (Cold-Blooded vs Warm-Blooded), Parker Reed Brewster
GOOD LOVE IS BLACK: STORIES ON BLACK QUEER LIVING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, Danielle Buckingham
She Owns It: A Study of White Women Landowners, Hannah Bullock
Experiences of Black professionals at Predominantly White Institutions: Toward a shared understanding, Nequel Renee' Burwell
New Applications of Hot Melt Extrusion Techniques for Advancing Oral Drug Delivery, ARUN BUTREDDY
Down the Stream: The Evolution of Queer Stream-of-Consciousness Novels Through the Works of Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith, Turner Nat Byrd
Exploration of New Physics in B to Dstar muon neutrino Using a New Monte Carlo Tool, Quinn Campagna
Seeing Queer Joy in Mississippi: Pride Parades in Tupelo, Starkville, and Oxford, Ellie Campbell
Bridging the Oppurtunity Gap Through Exploring the Perceptions of Disadvantaged African American Students, Anesha Lashal Carter
Expressions of Femininity, Black Feminism, and Pan-Africanist Rhetoric in Black Popular Music, Alonya Lei Castillo
The Self Compassionate Side of Awe: The Relationship between Awe and Self-Compassion via Self-Diminishment and Connectedness, Rachael Marie Cavallaro
Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprints using FTIR Microspectroscopy, Reba E.A. Chamblee
Development of Hydroxyl Radical Protein Footprinting for Challenging Systems, Zhi Cheng
Low-Velocity Impact, Vibration and Shock Response of Unstitched/Stitched E- And S- Glass/Vinyl Ester Composites, Shahriar Chowdhury
Using Quantum Fluctuations to Regularize an Analytic Continuation Problem from Many-Body Physics, Lucretius Coleman
Social Distance, Stigma, and Help-Seeking: A Comparison of Lay and Professional Conceptualizations of Autism in the Southern US, Christian Shannon Courson
The Role of Technology: Graduate Students' Experiences in an Ed.D. Program, Veronica C. Crawford
Critical Thinking Teaching Practices in Community College, Andrea Jordan Crowley
The truth value of sentences with legal empty terms., jose cubillo
Repetition and Retracing in Aphasia Across Discourse Types, Emily Anna Culbertson
Controlling Rate of Interfacial Electron Transfers via Synthetic Modulation of Organic Chromophores, Christine Curiac
Teacher Perceptions of Practices Which Impact Job Satisfaction and Retention, Chiqueta Daniels
Dynamic Characterization of Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) Wood-Based Bio-Composites, MAHARSHI DAVE
Extra-Legal Factors In Juvenile Court Outcomes: What Is The Role Of Youth’s Race/Ethnicity And Family Structure In Disposition Decisions?, Vitoria De Francisco Lopes
The Taxidermist, Abigail R. DelBianco
Clay Beds Preserved in High-Energy Gravel Deposits on Crowley’s Ridge, Northeastern Arkansas, U.S.A.--Origin and Significance from a Lithofacies and Mineralogical Perspective, Trevor John Dempsey
Investigating the Acoustic Properties of Polymer Microspheres Suspended in Gelatin, Alexander Orlin Denette
ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE NUMBER OF PRIME FACTORS OF AN INTEGER, Jacob Mitchell Derrick
Molecular Design of Transition Metal Complexes for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction and Redox Mediation in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Anthony Devdass
The Colbert-Walker Site (22Le1048): History and Archaeology of a Chickasaw Home, Council House, and Travelers’ Stand, Raymond Doherty
The Colbert-Walker Site (22Le1048): History and Archaeology of a Chickasaw Home, Council House, and Travelers’ Stand, Raymond Taylor Doherty
SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF NEWLY DEVELOPED MATERIALS FOR LIGHT HARVESTING, ENERGY CONVERSION, AND BIOIMAGING, Austin L. Dorris
Going Green – The Relationship Between Medical Marijuana Policy Implementation and Opioid Prescribing Patterns, Tyler James Dunn
APPLICATIONS OF CORRELATED GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS TO FEW-BODY IONS, William Earwood
Tectonic Origin of the Mississippi River Using Evidence from Detrital Zircons from the Cretaceous McNairy Sand, Manuel Dela Eli
Core Size Conversion and Ligand Effects on Gold Nanomolecules Structure and Properties., Senthilkumar Eswaramoorthy
The Daughters of Remington Taylor, LaToya Faulk
Development and Evaluation of Performance Models for Asphalt, Concrete, and Composite Pavements using Machine Learning, Rulian Ferreira de Almeida Barros
"How It Was Made", Bethany Fitts
GEORGE WHITEFIELD CHADWICK AND ROBERT AYRES BARNET’S TABASCO, John-Peter Springer Ford
Abaqus Implementation of a Hyperelastic Damage Model for Glass-Reinforced Polymers under Shock and Impact Loading, James Stuart Fraser
Excavating Ethnohistory: Archaeological Signatures of Ceremony in the Southeast, Riley Alice Freeman
Linguistic Landscape-Economics, Marta Galindo Parra
Sales Technology: A Three-Part Multi-Method Approach to Examining Sales-Stacks, John Galvan
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHNICITY, IMMIGRANT GENERATION, & DELINQUENCY: EXAMINING YOUTH IN CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES., Erin Leigh Geist
Willingness to Use HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (Prep) and Preferences for a Pharmacy-Based Prep Program Among Men Who Have Sex with Men, Swarnali Goswami
Naloxone Accessibility Across Mississippi, Emily Gravlee
CASTING THE BALLOT: AN ANALYSIS OF VOTING METHOD PREFERNCES FROM 2012 – 2020, Bailey Rose Griffin
Measurement of Inclusive Upsilon(4S) to Upsilon(1S) Decays at Belle II, Justin Wade Guilliams
Rule Learning and Swarm Intelligence Techniques for Feature Selection Optimization, Tina Gui
Serially Concatenated Continuous Phase Modulation with SOVA Turbo Decoding, Zhijie Guo
Electrochemistry, Spectroscopy, And Mass Transport Of Lanthanide Solutes In Bis(Trifluoromethylsulfonyl)Amide-Based Ionic Liquids, Heather Danielle Hamilton
The Shades of Immigration: How Skin Tone Shapes Attitudes Towards Venezuelan Immigrants in Latin America, Madison Hamilton
James S. Allen and Communist Organization of the Depression South in the 1930s, Jonathan Dale Harwood
Cellular Mechanisms of IGF-1 Neuroprotection after Ischemic Stroke, Cellas A. Hayes
IMPROVING THREE-DIMENSIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES VIA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Alethea Henry
THE PERCEPTION AND STRATEGIES OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS IN RAPPORT BUILDING WITH PEOPLE WITH APHASIA VIA TELE-PRACTICE: QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE MIXED DESIGN, Emily Hershberger
SOCIALIZATION TO RESEARCH AND SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION THROUGH TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF FACULTY PERCEPTIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, Melissa Hodge-Penn
The Effect of Hydration Status on Jump Height in Track and Field Athletes, Joshua Hogg
Perceptions of Sexual Refusals: Not so Black and White, Lavina Ying Ho