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Theses from 2025
The Impact of COVID-19 on the United States Higher Education System, Phoenix Daniel Van Wormer
What Kinds of Experiences and Activities Contribute to College Students' Sense of Purpose? A Mixed-Methods Study, Katlyn Rochelle Viers
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
Digging Deeper with Deep RAM Networks, Andrew J. Wagner
Modeling Effective Shade for Oregon Streams Using Satellite Derived Vegetation Structure Metrics, Ella Wagner
The Impact of Emotions on Informal Learning Experiences in the Workplace, Jennifer L. Walavalkar
A Postcolonial Re-Telling of the Life and Times of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair, Lucille Marie Walker
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
Renewal of the Mind: Forgiveness Through the Lens of Christian Faith and Neuroscience, Khelen R. Walsh
Once Upon an Early Writing Experience: Connecting Memory with Literacy Instruction in Pre-Service Teacher Education, Jue Wang and Jingru Lu
Comparing Acuity of Patient Care at Student Run Free Medical Clinic Locations, Hana Warmflash, Olivia Krol, and Alex Foster
Beyond the Genome: The Racialized Exposome, Flourishing, and Stress Biology in African Americans, a Non-Exhaustive Review, Enye Washington
Examining Long-Term Care for NCAA Student-Athletes: Improving Concussion Protocols and Healthcare, Sydney Watson
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
We Who Are Not Cared For: Social Death, the Lie of Educational Equity, and a Radical Replanting Praxis, Chantell Wesley
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