Theses/Dissertations from 2021
THE FOX IN BETWEEN WOLVES AND DOGS, Katherine Moore
MONAD1: INTERNET ARCHIVAL SOFTWARE, Hunter Mundy
DRAWING THE LINE: AN ANALYSIS OF RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN CHICAGO, Cassidy Myers
MAKING A FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER IN UNITY, Chief Nelson
THE ROLE OF SYMBIODINIACEAE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CASSIOPEA XAMACHANA UNDER A CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIO, Marjorie Netwal
A LABORATORY OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: NATIONALISM AND POVERTY RELIEF IN WORKING-CLASS, IRISH CATHOLIC GRIFFINTOWN, MONTREAL, Caroline Newberg
BETWEEN WORLDS: A DISSECTION OF THE MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL TROPE THROUGH THE LENS OF THE LATE-19TH AND EARLY-20TH CENTURY NEW WOMAN, Claire Newberg
FASHIONING THE NEW WOMAN: ELSA SCHIAPARELLI AND THE ILLUSION AND AGENCY OF FEMININE PERFORMANCE, Megan O'Brian
EXUBERANT VISCERA, Freddie OBrion
PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES AND THEORY OF ASTRONOMICAL ABSOLUTE PHOTOMETRY WITH CCDS, Colin Packard
PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES AND THEORY OF ASTRONOMICAL ABSOLUTE PHOTOMETRY WITH CCDS, Colin Packard
SENIOR PROJECT: A Business Proposal, Edward Parish
RELIGION IN THE ORVILLE : THE DANGERS RELIGION POSES TO MODERN SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN SETH MACFARLANE’S THE ORVILLE, Cassandra Parvaz
Testing Site Suitability for Hard Clam (Mercenaria campechiensis) (Gmelin, 1791) Growth and Survival within Sarasota Bay, Florida, Kera Pasquerilla
The Prophet Q: QAnon’s Utilization of Christian Apocalypticism in the Formation of a New Religious Movement, Jake Pavao
AN AUTOMATED APPROACH TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TEAM CREATION, William Pembleton
ARISE AND ACTUALIZE: AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT A JEWISH SLEEP AWAY CAMP, Sarah Pincus
VARIED INTRASPECIFIC PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF SYMBIODINIUM MICROADRIATICUM SENSU STRICTO TO VARYING THERMAL AND LIGHT STRESSORS, Marcela Prado-Zapata
OFF TO THE MOTHER COUNTRY: COMMUNITY CULTURAL WEALTH AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EMPOWERED MOTHERHOOD BY WINDRUSH JAMAICAN TRANSNATIONAL MOTHERS, Arantxa Prince
FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR ANALYSIS OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES-RELATED SIGNALING AND GENE EXPRESSION IN GRAVISTIMULATED ZEA MAYS (L.) PULVINI, Jasmyne Prophet
ADDICTION: CRITIQUE OF THE BDMA AND DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSDISCIPLINARY, BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL MODEL, Alia Quadir
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: DIRECTING AND REFLECTING IN A PANDEMIC, Sara Recht
An Assessment of the Minnesota DNR 2001 Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) Management Plan, Adam Reinschmidt
LONELINESS AND VIDEO GAME BEHAVIORS OF ADULTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Lucas Rencker-Usui
TIME TO CLOCK IN: WORK-SHARING POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES, Rory Renzy
Breaking Earth: A Musical Adaptation of N.K. Jemisin’s Groundbreaking Novel, The Fifth Season, as a Video Game Soundtrack., Hugh Roberts
FROM ILLICIT CULTS TO SUPERSTITION: REGULATING WOMEN’S SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES SINCE THE LATE QING DYNASTY, Polly Robinson-Valenza
DEVELOPING STEWARDSHIP IN THE HOUSING MARKET, connor rupp
“Librarianship in the Era of Inequality: A Study on the Local Response to the Changing Roles of Public Libraries”, Elan Sandler
Prefrontal and Auditory Cortex Activity During Music Listening in Musicians Compared to Non-Musicians, Emily Schenck
BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES ARE SITE SPECIFIC IN SEDIMENT ACROSS COASTAL RECREATIONAL MARINE SITES IN THE FLORIDA KEYS., Elliot Schenker
PANDEMIC POETRY: AN EXPLORATION OF DISABILITY POETICS, AUDIENCE FEEDBACK, AND DIGITAL RE-PERFORMANCE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, Cole Schmidt
Do Static Types Help Functional Programmers?, Jackie Scholl
GASTON’S CHAIR: AN EXPLORATION OF DISNEY NOSTALGIA AND FALSIFIED MEMORIES THROUGH PROPS, Autumn Schwers
FINDING THE ‘SOCIAL’ IN SOCIAL MEDIA: ANALYZING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA USE, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING, Isabella Smith
MEASURING BRAZILIAN PEPPER’S (SCHINUS TEREBINTHIFOLIA, ANACARDIACEAE) ALLELOPATHIC EFFECTS ON NATIVE & INVASIVE SPECIES, Thomas Smith
FAITH AND CONFIDENCE IN NEW AGE MARKETS: CRYPTOCURRENCIES AND STOCK BUBBLES, Noah Solomon
READING EMERSON TO SAVE THE WORLD: AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM AND THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY AND VIRTUE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE, Kendall Southworth
SPARRA’S DIPLOMAT: CREATING IMITATION-FREE DIPLOMACY A.I. WITH THE CROSS-ENTROPY METHOD AND DEEP-Q NETWORKS, Hunt Sparra
Mask Wearing and the Cultural Divide: A Snapshot from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jacob Spence
A LONG WAY FROM VERONA, ALIVE, Rosemary Stevens
ALTERED NATURAL DYES AS ALTERNATIVES TO EXPENSIVE RUTHENIUM-COMPLEX SENSITIZERS IN DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS, Hunter Sullivan
“DEFENDING THE ‘SERVANT OF SATAN’: RELIGIO-RACIAL AND GENDERED OTHERS IN WITCH TRIALS FICTION”, Emma Sunderman
Seasonal Work, Daisy Talbert
“YOU DO KNOW I’M AWARE THIS IS ALL A GAME, RIGHT?”: AN EXPLORATION OF BRECHTIAN VIDEO GAMES THROUGH DOKI DOKI LITERATURE CLUB!, Scarlett Taraschi
Escalating Depth: Towards the Proper Narrativization of Magic Systems in Shounen Anime Through Toriyama's Dragon Ball, Rolando Tate
From the Kitchen to the Dining Room: Domestic Labor in the Second-Wave Feminist Installations Womanhouse and A Woman’s Place, Katie Thomas
Otherwise Than Phenomenology: Emmanuel Levinas on Performative Language, Time, and Henri Bergson, Evan Thompson
“WE DON’T MAKE MISTAKES, JUST HAPPY LITTLE ACCIDENTS”: THE EFFECTS OF ARTMAKING ON MOOD DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, Mackenzie Timms
REVISITNG SPINOZA’S TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS IN LIGHT OF GADAMER, Sofia Umpierre
LO QUE QUEDÓ DE TI; VIOLENCE AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER. AWARENESS THROUGH ART, Yajaira Urzua-Reyes
LGBTQ+ AND GOING TO CHURCH?: ACCEPTANCE, CLOSENESS, AND LIVED EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ+ INDIVIDUALS IN OPENLY-AFFIRMING CHURCHES, Benjamin Valen
THE POSSIBILITY FOR SELF-DETERMINATION: FOUCAULT’S ENLIGHTENMENT ETHOS AND CARE FOR THE SELF, Peter Visscher
Costuming Welcome to Night Vale as a Demonstration of Skill, Zoe Voelliger
Reflective Experience Working at The Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County with Stata, Abigail Wagner
THE LITTLE GOLDFISH THAT COULD: A STUDY OF CHAINING AND SEQUENTIAL MEMORY IN THE GOLDFISH (CARASSIUS AURATUS), Jillian Weisselberg
DISCRETIZATION OF REGULAR SURFACES PRESERVING CURVATURE, Connor Welch
EMOTIONAL REGULATION AND GENDER: AN EXPLORATION OF HOW GENDER AND EMOTION REGULATION RELATE TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO EMOTIONALLY POWERFUL MUSIC, Jon-Douglas Werstler
EXAMINING AND ASSESSING BIG CAT WELFARE: A REVIEW AND PROPOSED SET OF GUIDELINES FOR BIG CAT ENRICHMENT, Danielle Whiting
The Art of Self Defense: An Exploration of Art as a Spiritual and Political Means for Manifesting Black Power, Ayeola Whitworth
INFORMATION ASYMMETRY IN THE US HEALTHCARE MARKET AND APPLICATIONS OF DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES, Connar Williams
EXPLORING IDENTITY AND CULTURE THROUGH THE OVERLAPS OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND LITERATURE IN THE WORKS OF AMITAV GHOSH AND JOSÉ MARÍA ARGUEDAS, Annabelle Wilson
FROM ELITE ENCLAVES TO COMMON COMPOUNDS: GATED COMMUNITIES IN MIAMI, FLORIDA, Anna Lynn Winfrey
The Role of ADR-2 in Regulating the Insulin/insulin-like Growth Factor-1 Signaling (IIS) Pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans, Sean Wollard
THE PROBLEM OF FALSIFICATION AND ITS SOLUTION IN MARCEL PROUST’S RECHERCHE, Trevor Yeckley
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Analyzing the Performance of the Palestinian Business cycle Under Israeli Monetary and Fiscal Shocks., Dalia Aita
ANTI-GONE: TRAVERSING SOLO PERFORMANCE THROUGH IDENTITY, AGENCY, AND DEEP EMPATHY, Eric Auerbach
“The Fight for Hózhó”: The Survival of Diné Ethnomedical Lifeways Within the Nuclear Landscape, Cabrini Austin
ON THE BIOMECHANICS OF USAIN BOLT’S RECORD-BREAKING PERFORMANCE, Dajé Austrie
"BEATING MY OPPONENT": AN EXAMINATION OF FRANK OCEAN'S STRATEGY TO SUCCESS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY, Andre Ayers
MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF DUAL REGULATION OF YEAST PHEROMONE RESPONSE PATHWAY BY Sst2 PROTEIN, Cassandra Azeredo-Tseng
The Material Production of Human Lack, Joseph Baines
A THEORY OF HOW THE CONSUMERIST MODEL OF GROWTH GENERATED THE BRAZILIAN ECONOMIC RECESSION, Gustavo Barbosa
HOW DOES SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT EFFECT WELLBEING OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES?, Briana Baumgarten
Consciousness, Embodiment, and Artificial Intelligence, Leah Bender
INFORMATION NETWORKS: IMPROVING INFORMATION CONSUMPTION THROUGH HUMAN CURATION, Parankush Bhardwaj
NORMAL POWER GRAPHS OF FINITE GROUPS, Fiona Bogart
Using Sustainable Development to Mitigate and Respond to Climate Change: A Data Analysis of Climate Change in Taiwan using R, Serena Bonci
WHAT IS ENRICHING FOR BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (Tursiops truncatus) ACROSS ENRICHMENT TYPES AND CONTEXTS?, Alyssa Borgschulte
PHOTOLUMINESCENT QUANTUM YIELD OF A EU2+-DOPED SR2+ BORATE SYSTEM, William Bottorff
SIGNALING THROUGH THE USE OF COLOR, Marybeth Boulerice
Carbon Cycling in the Food Forest & Carbon Farm at New College of Florida, Steven Bressan
A STUDY ON THE VIABILITY OF 3D CLINOROTATION AS AN ACCURATE SIMULATOR OF MICROGRAVITY IN TRITICUM AESTIVUM L. CV. USU APOGEE, Matthew Brickhouse
MANIPULATING TEMPORAL PROCESSING THROUGH NEURAL ENTRAINMENT TO ENHANCE INTERTEMPORAL DECISION-MAKING, Haley Bryan
FOOD AID & FARMERS: HOW U.S. POLICY IMPACTS RECIPIENTS, Ellie Bullen
ON TOLSTOY: LITERARY PEDAGOGY AND THE MORALITY OF DEATH, Mackenzie Bynam
APOSTOLIC INDEPENDENCE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF PAPAL INFALLIBILITY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, David Bynum
A GENTLE INTRODUCTION TO PROOF ASSISTANTS, Benjamin Caldwell
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS: RESEARCH AND REGULATION OF TAMPONS AND EYESHADOWS, Katrina Carlin
ANXIOUS BODIES, Miranda Chapman
DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM AS A DECOLONIAL MODEL FOR STATELESS PEOPLE, Michael Clevenger
FOOD FOR THE FUTURE: AN ANALYSIS OF FLORIDA FOREST GARDENS AND THEIR RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, Sydney Clingo
TORSIONAL RIGIDITY AND INFINITE SUMS, Zachary Cole