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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Pesticides as Multiple Stressors to Bivalves and Echinoderms, Alexandra Gabrielle Tissot
Mourning Doves: Father's Daughter, Julia Trujillo
The Great Eighty: A Selection of Chapters, Loie VanDenBergh
The Impact of COVID-19 on the United States Higher Education System, Phoenix Daniel Van Wormer
Trauma in the Middle Ages: The Viking Experience of Trauma through Saga, Kagan L. Vogt
When You Know: Essays, Kayla Jewel Vokolek
Investigating Hedgehog Signaling and TH17-Mediated Inflammation in Blau Syndrome: Insights into Chronic Inflammation, Benjamin Volinski
The Impact of Emotions on Informal Learning Experiences in the Workplace, Jennifer L. Walavalkar
From Prison Cells to Parliament: How the H-Block Hunger Strikes Transformed Sinn Féin to Enable Peace in Northern Ireland, Madeleine E. Wallenberg
Examining the Anxiolytic Effects of Flavonoids in Passionflower: A Gut-Brain Axis Perspective, Khelen R. Walsh
Comparing Acuity of Patient Care at Student Run Free Medical Clinic Locations, Hana Warmflash, Olivia Krol, and Alex Foster
Evaluating The Elder Justice Act: Challenges In Funding, Implementation, And Coalition Dynamics, Annabelle Weberg
Working Paper No. 89, Towards a Veblenian View of the Digital Realm, Tanner Weber
Identity, Bodies, and Time: Analysis of Transgender Education Curricula in K Through 12 Grades, Dean Weiler-Zilberman
Investigating Key Structures in Protective Scenes for LLMs, Eben M. Weisman
Retention Intervention Program Success: An Inquiry Into Learning Organization Structural and Cultural Elements in California Community Colleges, Paul Vernon Wickline
Alloparenting and Male Infant Care Behaviors in Varecia rubra (red-ruffed lemur), Noelle Wilcox
The McDaniels Center for the Digitally Disrupted: A Novel, Tyler Wildeck
Displaced: An Ethnography of Language and Identity Loss, Ariel Caroline Wilsey-Gopp
Activity Levels Among Older Adults in a Life Plan Community, Emily D. Winters
Exploring the Pathway from Customer Sexual Harassment to Instigated Incivility in Service Employees, Fernanda Wolburg Martinez
Working Paper No. 103, Russia and the Myriad of Challenges Associatedwith ‘Relative Backwardness’, Jacob Wood
Working Paper No. 100, Social Realism and Socialist Realism, Amanda F. Worman
Working Paper No. 94, Franklin Roosevelt, His New Deal Policies, and The Ending of Laissez-faire, Amanda F. Worman