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Implementing A Buddy System To Enhance Float Pool Nurses’ Experience And Unit Integration, Nancy Kairia May 2026

Implementing A Buddy System To Enhance Float Pool Nurses’ Experience And Unit Integration, Nancy Kairia

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Float pool nurses play a vital role in maintaining hospital operations; however, they often experience role ambiguity, inconsistent integration, and reduced psychosocial empowerment, which may negatively influence engagement and retention. This Doctor of Nursing Practice project implemented and evaluated a structured buddy program designed to enhance psychological empowerment among float pool nurses in a large academic medical center. Guided by Gretchen Spreitzer’s Psychological Empowerment Framework, the project examined changes across four domains: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. A pre-post design was used to assess outcomes before and after implementation. Five nurses completed the preintervention survey; of these, four completed the …

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Belonging, Identity, And Agency: A Qualitative Study Of Muslim Students In U.S. Higher Education, Amir Duric May 2026

Belonging, Identity, And Agency: A Qualitative Study Of Muslim Students In U.S. Higher Education, Amir Duric

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This dissertation examines the lived experiences of Muslim students in U.S. higher education, focusing on how they navigate identity formation, search for belonging, and exercise agency within two predominantly white institutions (PWIs) in the Northeast. Drawing on 40 semi-structured interviews and four months of fieldwork, the study demonstrates how Muslim students navigate not only their religious identity and practices in secular contexts but also how the racialization of their Muslim identity is shaped by U.S. foreign policy and the Global War on Terror. Three central findings emerged from the data. First, Muslim students demonstrated sustained and deepening religious commitment through …

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Hands On: An Exploration Of Techne Via Everyday Embodied Practices, Molly Mcconnell May 2026

Hands On: An Exploration Of Techne Via Everyday Embodied Practices, Molly Mcconnell

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In the field of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS), techne has been a longstanding focus of the field, notably as it pertains to our understanding and practice of rhetoric and how we teach writing and rhetorical practices. Some scholars have focused on techne as it is taught in the writing classroom; others have focused on how rhetoric is understood and applied in the classics. My research builds on previous work by considering techne in connection to embodied practices. I argue that discussions of techne have thus far focused on individual learning, especially in relation to composition and rhetoric. In …

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The Association Between Proximal Sexual And Gender Minority Stressors And Alcohol-Related Outcomes: The Moderating Role Of Experiential Avoidance, Nicolas Cardenas May 2026

The Association Between Proximal Sexual And Gender Minority Stressors And Alcohol-Related Outcomes: The Moderating Role Of Experiential Avoidance, Nicolas Cardenas

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Unhealthy alcohol use is prevalent in college environments, and disproportionately higher among sexual and gender minority (SGM) undergraduate college students. Minority stress theory posits that SGM stressors, particularly proximal forms of stressors (e.g., internalized stigma), negatively impact psychological processes, which are then associated with an increased prevalence of alcohol use. Experiential avoidance, or the avoidance of uncomfortable internal experiences, is one such psychological process that may influence the association between internal SGM stress and alcohol-related outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine if experiential avoidance significantly moderates the association between SGM internal stressors (i.e., internalized stigma and rejection …

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Co-Designing Sweettexts: An Intake-Driven Sms Intervention To Reduce Free-Sugar Consumption In Preschoolers, Bervelyn Asantewaah Addo May 2026

Co-Designing Sweettexts: An Intake-Driven Sms Intervention To Reduce Free-Sugar Consumption In Preschoolers, Bervelyn Asantewaah Addo

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Abstract Introduction: As early childhood represents a crucial window for establishing lifelong dietary patterns, excessive intake of sugary foods and beverages during this period may result in long-term adverse health outcomes. Intake levels continue to exceed recommended guidelines, and disparities within and across race and low-income population groups persist. Given these disparities, targeted interventions developed to consider the unique needs, preferences, and cultural differences in diverse population groups are essential to enhance health and well-being. The purpose of this research was to develop the content of the "SweetTexts", a text-message-based intervention to reduce the intake of free sugar among preschool-aged …

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Everything Waits In The Dark: The Silence Had A Pulse And It Was Mine, Sophia Hashemi May 2026

Everything Waits In The Dark: The Silence Had A Pulse And It Was Mine, Sophia Hashemi

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Sophia Hashemi’s work examines collage and screenprinting as methods for navigating uncertainty, memory, and the shifting architecture of the self. Her practice engages making as a negotiation between control and surrender, where meaning emerges through attention to instability rather than resolution. Drawing from Dada photomontage, German Expressionism, and film noir, alongside frameworks such as Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism and Michel Foucault’s Power/Knowledge, she explores disruption as a psychological and structural strategy in works that move between visibility and concealment, past and present, intuition and construction. Hashemi positions art-making as a cyclical practice where fragmentation reconstructs memory and multiplies the self …

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Human Rights Deferred: The Carter Administration And Continuity Of U.S. Policy Regarding Western Sahara, Adrienne Kinne May 2026

Human Rights Deferred: The Carter Administration And Continuity Of U.S. Policy Regarding Western Sahara, Adrienne Kinne

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“Human Rights Deferred: The Carter Administration and Continuity of U.S. Policy Regarding Western Sahara” examines Western Sahara as one of the most enduring cases of unfinished decolonization in the postwar international order, focusing on U.S. policy during the Jimmy Carter administration. Despite clear legal affirmation of Sahrawi self-determination through the United Nations and the 1975 International Court of Justice advisory opinion, its implementation was persistently deferred. Drawing on declassified documents and congressional hearings, I argue that this outcome reflects a broader pattern of institutionalized deferral, in which normative commitments are formally recognized while their enforcement is postponed through procedural and …

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Apparatus Of Relief: On Sustained Exhaustion, Jiayue Yu May 2026

Apparatus Of Relief: On Sustained Exhaustion, Jiayue Yu

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This thesis examines how contemporary capitalism manages a shared condition of exhaustion—the accumulation of stress, alienation, and mental fatigue—by offering calibrated forms of relief that leave its underlying causes intact. Approaching exhaustion as a collective and structurally produced condition, I make photographs that trace how it is softened and normalized within the spaces we inhabit and move through in our daily lives. Central to the project are what I describe as “apparatuses of relief”: infrastructural features embedded in public and semi-public spaces that are designed to regulate affect and soothe nerves. Operating beneath the surface, these elements promise momentary relief …

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Agency At The End Of History: Time, Terrorism, And Technologies Of Innocence In Engaging The Far Right, Gabriel Gr Herring May 2026

Agency At The End Of History: Time, Terrorism, And Technologies Of Innocence In Engaging The Far Right, Gabriel Gr Herring

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This thesis explores the way political rhetorics of time, morality, and political violence play out in visual representations of the far right in the United States via maps. In Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time, Nomi Claire Lazar argues that governments and political movements use temporal-rhetorical frameworks to generate political legitimacy by associating their movement with time, which is generally understood as natural. I argue that every temporal-rhetorical frame also implies a set of moral codes which are understood to be materially true, despite the fact that our experiences of time are only ever aim-dependent and …

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The Role Of Creatine Supplementation On Neuromuscular Function, Mark Petry May 2026

The Role Of Creatine Supplementation On Neuromuscular Function, Mark Petry

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This study examined the effects of short-term high-dose creatine monohydrate (CrM) supplementation on neuromuscular and corticospinal function in healthy adults. Creatine is widely recognized for its role in enhancing muscular performance and energy availability, yet its short-term effects on neural and neuromuscular outcomes remain unclear. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether three days of CrM loading would influence maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) peak torque, corticospinal excitability (CSE) measured via transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-induced motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitude, muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) and muscle quality via echo intensity (EI). Nine healthy creatine-naive adults completed a repeated-measures design …

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Systems Thinking And Satire, David Kossack May 2026

Systems Thinking And Satire, David Kossack

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In this thesis, I explore the relationship between satire and systems thinking, drawing on the DSRP (Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, Perspectives) theory of Systems Thinking developed by Dr. Derek Cabrera as a lens through which to examine satire as both a creative and cognitive phenomenon. In my view, satire functions not merely as a tonal mode of storytelling but as a deliberate cognitive engagement that operates on the audience's preexisting mental models, subverting and reorganizing them to generate new meaning. Referencing well-known satirical works of cinema, including Dr. Strangelove and Brazil, I aim to articulate how satire uses humor and absurdity …

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Remembering Return: Diasporic Identity And The Tabom Community In Accra, Elizabeth Akosua Adobea Danso May 2026

Remembering Return: Diasporic Identity And The Tabom Community In Accra, Elizabeth Akosua Adobea Danso

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This thesis examines the historical and cultural significance of the Tabom community in Accra, Ghana, as a case study in diasporic identity, collective memory, and return migration. As descendants of Afro-Brazilian returnees who arrived in the Gold Coast in the early nineteenth century, the Tabom occupy a distinctive position within Ghana's social and historical landscape, navigating multiple cultural affiliations across Brazilian, Yoruba, Hausa, Ga, and Ghanaian identities over generations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Jamestown, Accra, including semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and oral history collection, this thesis argues that Tabom identity is neither static nor reducible to a singular …

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Nitrogen And Phosphorus Fertilization Shifts Fungal And Bacterial Community Composition And Functional Groups In Temperate Forest Soils, Caroline Frances Plecki May 2026

Nitrogen And Phosphorus Fertilization Shifts Fungal And Bacterial Community Composition And Functional Groups In Temperate Forest Soils, Caroline Frances Plecki

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Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition is known to alter nutrient limitation in temperate forests, yet belowground microbial responses under shifting phosphorus (P) and N+P availability remain unclear. Using a long-term N × P fertilization experiment (MELNHE), we quantified fungal and bacterial community responses across organic and mineral soil. Nutrient additions restructured community composition without changing alpha diversity, indicating taxonomic turnover rather than richness loss. Nitrogen reduced ectomycorrhizal (EM) dominance and increased the relative abundance of saprotrophic fungi in the organic soil layer, including declines in nitrophobic taxa such as Cortinarius. Phosphorus structured fungal guild ratio non-linearly, with EM fungal dominance maximized …

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Quasiparticle Poisoning Of Superconducting Fluxonium Qubits, Kesavan Manivannan May 2026

Quasiparticle Poisoning Of Superconducting Fluxonium Qubits, Kesavan Manivannan

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Superconducting qubits based on Josephson junctions have emerged as a leading hardware platform in the quest to realize large-scale quantum computers. However, qubit decoherence remains a major hurdle on the path toward fault-tolerant quantum computing. In particular, excess quasiparticle (QP) excitations constitute a significant source of dissipation in superconducting quantum devices. The empirically observed QP density in these systems is orders of magnitude larger than that predicted by Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory. Moreover, QP poisoning due to high-energy particle impacts can cause correlated errors that simultaneously affect multiple qubits, thereby impeding quantum error correction. Although QP-induced decoherence has been extensively studied …

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Help-Seeking Behaviors In Artificial Intelligence - Mediated Programming: Impacts On Performance And Computational Literacy, Michael A. Fudge May 2026

Help-Seeking Behaviors In Artificial Intelligence - Mediated Programming: Impacts On Performance And Computational Literacy, Michael A. Fudge

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Large language models (LLMs) represent a disruptive innovation in programming education, acting as both a supportive tutor and a mechanism for cognitive offloading. This multi-method study investigated how specific student engagement patterns with a custom, course-provided LLM chatbot influenced learning performance and computational literacy among novice programmers (N = 87). Through categorical content analysis of 1,024 chatbot interaction sessions, student behaviors were classified into adaptive (learning-oriented) and maladaptive (task-completion) help-seeking strategies. Quantitative analysis revealed a mutual suppression effect, demonstrating that while aggregate usage volume was an unreliable predictor of success, the type of engagement was highly significant. Findings indicated that …

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Breaking Ground: Educational Identity Formation Among First-Generation Students During The Transition To College, Carrie Sue Ingersoll-Wood May 2026

Breaking Ground: Educational Identity Formation Among First-Generation Students During The Transition To College, Carrie Sue Ingersoll-Wood

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This mixed-methods research study examined the educational identity formation of first-generation college students during the transition into higher education through participation in a six-week summer bridge program. Drawing on Community Cultural Wealth and Self-Determination Theory, the study situated identity development at the intersection of institutional entrance, cultural capital, and motivation. Survey data from 135 participants were analyzed descriptively to examine patterns of identity signaling and motivational orientation. Qualitative interviews with a purposive subsample of participants were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory methods to examine meaning-making related to transition, autonomy, belonging, and academic self-concept. Autoethnographic excerpts and brief reflexive statements clarified …

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'Realizing' Information Literacy: A Philosophical Argument, Jeongbae Choi May 2026

'Realizing' Information Literacy: A Philosophical Argument, Jeongbae Choi

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Despite more than half a century of scholarship, the information literacy (IL) field continues to face unresolved tensions over its definition, theoretical foundations, disciplinary boundaries, and relationship to power and social structure. This dissertation argues that these tensions are not isolated problems but interconnected aporias that reveal constitutive features of the field, and that resolving them requires a philosophically grounded reconceptualization. The dissertation proceeds across three phases. Study A conducts a comprehensive critical review of over 600 publications in the IL literature, adopting an aporetic lens to identify six constitutive aporias: truth, knowledge and data, information behavior, genericism versus contextuality, …

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“It Makes Me Wonder: How Can We Build Truly Inclusive, Co-Taught Environments That Support Every Student, Not Just Those With More Easily Accommodated Needs?”: Preservice Teachers’ Self-Perceptions Of Preparedness For Working With Diverse Learners, Sara H. Petit-Mcclure May 2026

“It Makes Me Wonder: How Can We Build Truly Inclusive, Co-Taught Environments That Support Every Student, Not Just Those With More Easily Accommodated Needs?”: Preservice Teachers’ Self-Perceptions Of Preparedness For Working With Diverse Learners, Sara H. Petit-Mcclure

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The student population in the United States is increasingly diverse, yet students from marginalized groups — particularly those with intersecting identities including disability — continue to experience poorer outcomes and limited opportunities. In response, some universities have developed programs to prepare teachers to create inclusive, culturally sustaining opportunities for students from marginalized groups. This qualitative study analyzed self-perceptions of preparedness among nine preservice teachers recruited from two elementary dual-certification programs in the Northeastern United States. The study asks: What are the self-perceptions of preparedness to work with diverse learners among preservice teachers enrolled in dual certification programs? Drawing on Disability …

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Cooperating Music Teachers And The Edtpa: Negotiating The Demands Of Mentoring Student Teachers In The Face Of A State Mandated Performance-Based Assessment, Deborah Alane Cunningham May 2026

Cooperating Music Teachers And The Edtpa: Negotiating The Demands Of Mentoring Student Teachers In The Face Of A State Mandated Performance-Based Assessment, Deborah Alane Cunningham

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This qualitative case study examined how cooperating music teachers navigated mentoring student teachers during implementation of the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA), a state-mandated performance-based assessment required for initial teacher certification in New York State from 2014–2022. Initial data analysis suggested utilizing Roegman and Kolman’s (2019) cascading, colliding, and mediating framework to better understand the experiences of the participants, fifteen cooperating music teachers who hosted student teachers from a large private university in the Northeastern United States. Participants represented diverse contexts (elementary through secondary, instrumental, vocal, and general music) with an average of twenty years of experience. Data were collected …

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Metaphors In Agile Discourse: A Corpus-Based Analysis Of The Agile Manifesto And The Scrum Guide, Kadidra Mccloud Hurst May 2026

Metaphors In Agile Discourse: A Corpus-Based Analysis Of The Agile Manifesto And The Scrum Guide, Kadidra Mccloud Hurst

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The focus of this thesis is examining how the Agile method of software development, and the Scrum-based approach in particular, are conceptually framed through metaphor. The basis of the analysis are the core texts for this method and approach: Beck et al.’s (2001) Manifesto for Agile Software Development, commonly called the Agile Manifesto; and the Scrum Alliance’s (2010) Scrum Guide and Schwaber and Sutherland’s (2020) The Scrum Guide: The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game, two editions of a document commonly called the Scrum Guide. Foundational Agile texts play a key role in shaping how Agile and …

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Identity-Based Philanthropy In Higher Education: Investigating The Information Contexts Of Black Greek Letter Organization Collective Giving, Rachel Elizabeth Vassel May 2026

Identity-Based Philanthropy In Higher Education: Investigating The Information Contexts Of Black Greek Letter Organization Collective Giving, Rachel Elizabeth Vassel

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There is a need to increase philanthropic donations at Predominately White Institutions (PWIs) to remain competitive and meet increasing operational costs. Diverse and underrepresented alumni of these institutions are a growing constituency of potential donors who are not always cultivated through the traditional fundraising pipeline and efforts. To address the need to increase institutional donations, it is incumbent upon advancement operations in higher education to consider incorporating identity and culturally based strategies as part of their cultivation efforts. Building upon identity-based philanthropy theories, particularly Drezner’s Philanthropic Mirroring Framework, I extend prior work in this space by examining the information contexts …

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“The Fluid Archive” Innovating The Past, Protecting The Future (Virtual Reality And Cultural Preservation), Umar Bashir May 2026

“The Fluid Archive” Innovating The Past, Protecting The Future (Virtual Reality And Cultural Preservation), Umar Bashir

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ABSTRACT This thesis repositions cultural preservation as an experiential and interpretive practice rather than a purely documentary one. Centered on selected Mughal-era monuments of the Walled City of Lahore—structures increasingly affected by environmental decay and urban transformation—it investigates how the sensory and atmospheric dimensions of heritage can persist beyond material deterioration. Rather than reconstructing these sites through strict architectural fidelity, the project proposes The Fluid Archive, an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) environment that prioritizes embodied experience, spatial perception, and memory-driven reconstruction. Acknowledging that history is a constructed narration of the past, the project engages digital technologies as active agents in …

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Rewriting The Script: Representations Of Virginity In Teen Dramedies (2019-2025), Sophia Elizabeth Condemi May 2026

Rewriting The Script: Representations Of Virginity In Teen Dramedies (2019-2025), Sophia Elizabeth Condemi

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Over the past three decades, youth sexual activity has steadily declined, with members of Generation Z (those born between 1997 to 2012) reporting lower rates of sexual activity than previous generations, and in many cases, delaying their first sexual experiences. This shift raises the question of whether contemporary teen television reflects these changes in sexual behavior. This thesis examines ten popular teen dramedies that aired between 2019 and 2025 on streaming video services to see whether new scripts surrounding virginity emerge or if traditional narratives persist. Using qualitative textual analysis guided by sexual script theory and relational dialectics theory, the …

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The Impact Of Stress On Selective Attention Among College Student Athletes, Jayla K. Mcgaffin May 2026

The Impact Of Stress On Selective Attention Among College Student Athletes, Jayla K. Mcgaffin

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Student athletes face unique stressors from balancing academic and athletic demands (Lopes Dos Santos et al., 2020), which may deplete cognitive resources and impair focus. The present study examined the relationship between perceived stress and selective attention among college student athletes. Stress was conceptualized as the interaction between external pressures and individual coping responses (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Twenty undergraduate student athletes from the University of New Haven completed the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14) and a computerized Flanker task measuring selective attention, but only eighteen were used in the final correlation analysis. It was hypothesized that higher levels of perceived …

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Subversive Order: Gendered Institutions, Gang Networks, And Survival In American Women’S Prisons., Amber Morris May 2026

Subversive Order: Gendered Institutions, Gang Networks, And Survival In American Women’S Prisons., Amber Morris

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Popular culture often depicts prison subcultures and gangs, yet these portrayals obscure the complexity of survival behind bars. Existing scholarship on prison life overwhelmingly focuses on men, emphasizing masculinity, race, safety, and community as the primary drivers of behavior. Women, however, represent the fastest-growing prison population in the United States, and their experiences remain under-theorized. This dissertation asks a different question: What if pseudo-families, mentorship networks, and subcultural norms aren't just coping mechanisms‚ what if they're governance institutions? Further, what if women build these systems in prisons not because they're emotional or naturally relational, but because formal institutions don't provide …

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Characterizing The Spatiotemporal Evolution Of Midlatitude Seasonal Snowpacks Using Various Ground-Based Observations, Madison June Gunn May 2026

Characterizing The Spatiotemporal Evolution Of Midlatitude Seasonal Snowpacks Using Various Ground-Based Observations, Madison June Gunn

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Recent warming in the last few decades has caused widespread changes in the global climate, especially in areas that experience snow events or contain permafrost environments. In the northern United States, our winter seasons are decreasing in length, the overall snowpack depth is decreasing, and the availability of springtime snowmelt is less. This is leading to a shift of a more rain dominated climate especially in the northeastern United States, impacting forest health, water resource availability, and winter tourism. Thus, studying how these seasonal snowpacks are changing soon is extremely important for climate and human health. This dissertation examines a …

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Examining How Disability Resource Professionals In Higher Education Enact Whiteness In Maintaining Power And Privileged Structures, Paula Possenti-Perez May 2026

Examining How Disability Resource Professionals In Higher Education Enact Whiteness In Maintaining Power And Privileged Structures, Paula Possenti-Perez

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This dissertation examines how Whiteness operates with the delivery of disability-related accommodations on US college campuses. The research in this study focused on three questions: (a) How do disability resource professionals individually begin to make sense of their Whiteness personally? (b) How do disability resource professionals recognize and account for their White racialized frame and Whiteness in their individual professional judgment and decision-making? (c) How do disability resource professionals describe the ways Whiteness as ideology manifests in the field of disability resources, through its professional norms and systemic practices across disability resources in higher education? Twelve White disability resource professionals, …

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Mapping The Rigid Landscapes Of Disordered Networks And Active Solids, Tyler Hain May 2026

Mapping The Rigid Landscapes Of Disordered Networks And Active Solids, Tyler Hain

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Biological systems are able to exhibit remarkable and exotic mechanical properties by tuning their microscopic internal degrees of freedom in order to accomplish global functions. One of the most interesting mechanical behaviors of some such materials is the ability to transition between stiff solid-like states and soft fluid-like states in order to initiate specific flow patterns or tune their mechanical response. Not only this, but they are able to selectively cross this transition while also being optimized for other functions. In this dissertation I explore numerical and analytical methods for mapping the landscapes of states on the edge of rigidity …

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The Predictive Validity Of Casual Dating Advice For Early-Stage Romantic Relationship Outcomes, Jayda Patrice Felder May 2026

The Predictive Validity Of Casual Dating Advice For Early-Stage Romantic Relationship Outcomes, Jayda Patrice Felder

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For years, relationship scientists have advocated for more research on casual dating, which can refer to the period of time between a first date and coupling among a romantic dyad, as well as the general period of time an individual is on the dating market evaluating potential partners. Though much is known about established romantic relationships, casual dating and early relationship development remain understudied. To that end, there are many ongoing debates among laypeople about casual dating advice that should be followed (or abandoned) in order to make the best partner choice and experience the best relationship outcomes, yet empirical …

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Three Essays On Trust In American Society, Devin Caramma May 2026

Three Essays On Trust In American Society, Devin Caramma

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Social and political trust are paramount for healthy, democratic functioning, with social trust mattering for cooperative behavior or political action and political trust weighing more heavily for policy compliance, democratic satisfaction, and political participation. Across the last half century, trusting attitudes between citizens and towards government declined precipitously, but this decline has been less dramatic among partisans. What drives the relationship between partisan identification and social trust? Does perceived value congruence with a group cause social trust to increase? Do objective signals of ambient air pollution affect trust in state government? These questions are interrogated and tested across three papers …

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