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Theses from 2023
Higher Spanier Groups, Johnny Aceti
Theses from 2022
Empowering Silenced Voices: Implementing Critical Pedagogy to Move Toward Decolonizing Music Education, Alexis Adams
Orgasm is Impossible without Go Rams: The Need for Comprehensive, Inclusive, Accessible, & Trauma-Informed Sexual Health Education Among College Students, Jai-La M. Aponte
The Goat: Rescoring a Buster Keaton Classic, Shannon Bradley
Cultivating Community Stewards: Wellbeing, Belonging, and the Campus Garden, Katherine Clay
Nauseated, Anguished and Ashamed: Where Did Sartre Go Wrong?, Douglas Contri
Evaluation of OASL and HERC5’s role in the non-lytic clearance of influenza A virus from club cells, Steve Crisafulli
Culture/Capital A Speculative Consideration of James Joyce's Ulysses, Audrey del Grosso
Grades Do Not Define You: Mindfulness-Based Intervention Effects on College Students' Self-Efficacy, Health, and Wellbeing, Jayla Godfrey
The Status of Women: Female Gender Associations in West Chester University’s School of Music Archive, Katharine Godfrey
Evaluation of Psychiatric Disorders in College Students at West Chester University: Underlying Genetics and the Effect of COVID-19, Madison James
Well, What Are You Going To Do With That?: Combating the Corporatized University Through Transformative, Holistic Career Education, Alexandra Karlesses
The Jacobiad: Extracts from a Queer Fantasy Novel, Donald "Ian" Kertis
Using Survival Analysis Techniques to Examine the Relationship Between Personality Facets and Employee Turnover, Devon Kinsey
PROMOTING EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH PLACE-BASED EDUCATION: A STUDENT LED AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM, Briana LaFratte
Psalm Cycle, Andrew Lenko
Filling in the Gaps: The Hidden Supervision Curriculum, Gianna Machado
Improving Perceptions of On-Campus Activism: Preparing Student Affairs Professionals to Support Student Activists, Kathryn Melvin
Analysis of Pelvic Alignment Patterns Utilizing the Postural Restoration Institution Approach, Marisa Mills
Sweat rate and Sweat Electrolyte Concentrations in Football Players During Exercise in Cool versus Warm Environmental Conditions: A Cross Over Study, Nicholas Mobile
Unique Lifting to a Functor, Mark Myers
The Effect of Ethanol on Cellular Movements and Development in C. elegans, Caitlin N. O'Connor
Investigating the development of alcohol tolerance by the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, Vaughn Perveiler
The Relationship between Mentoring and Leadership, Amanda Pickett
Emerging understory dominants in Eastern deciduous forests: quantifying photosynthetic induction and sunfleck responses, Sarah Polohovich
Utilizing the Arts as a Tool for Re-Humanization within a Neoliberal University: A Call to Student Affairs Practitioners, Catherine Purcell
"Don't Let Your Schooling Interfere with Your Education:" A Comprehensive Look at Co-Curricular Involvement and Advising, MaryClare Rae
An Evaluation of Student Government: Diminishing the Disconnect between Student Government Organizations and their Constituencies, Elizabeth Roberts
Creating Connections to Enhance International Student Sense of Belonging, Emily Quinn Rooney
A GIS Analysis of Potential Wetland Mitigation Opportunities in the Brandywine Creek Watershed, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Shannon Ryan
Effect of Metal-containing Nanoparticles on Bacterial Biofilms and on the Microbiome of Girardia tigrina, Azar Saikali
Development of Hemic Neoplasia in the Soft-Shell Clam (Mya arenaria) Along the East Coast of the United States, Nicole B. Seitz
Comparison of Landing Biomechanics Between Different Competitive Levels of Irish Dance, Jade Shields
The Provis Lotteries, Sara Skipp
Visual Arts Activities Relate to Cortisol and Observed Interest for Preschool Children, Suzanne Varnell
Maternal Drivers of Reproductive Output in the Lizard Family Scincidae: A Phylogenetic Comparative Approach, William Zang
Theses from 2021
Growth Mindset Scholars: A Growth Mindset Community Intervention for a First-Year Experience, Robert Anderson
Where are the New Detectives?: Unraveling Murder Mystery Conventions, Janet Zinser Arey
Inclusive Campus Recreation: Creating a Space Where All Belong, Emelia Bebee
Responding To Campus Bias And Hate: A Proactive Way To Protect Marginalized Students From Race-Based Trauma, Lezlie Blair
Money is Not Enough: Additional Support for Students from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds, Jordan Burick
Reciprocity, Ambiguity, and Conversion: Towards a New Ecofeminism, Elizabeth Cook
About Automorphisms of Some Finite Groups, Sarah Emery
POLARIS: Guiding Students on their Journey to Global Citizenship, Tanna Frank
The Effects of Repeated Sub-Concussive Impacts on Reaction Time Across Football Seasons, Kate Gaglias
Moustradamus, Jeremiah Glass
SOAR: A Holistic Approach to Supporting Survivors, Sabrina Glass
Learning While Black: Creating Access to Graduate School for Black Students, Hassan Gomes
Making Mindful Moments: Encouraging Self-Care Practices with Resident Assistants, Michael Herbison
Playing Pong Using Q-Learning, Akash Kumar
We Belong Together, Selene Lacayo
Exodus, Klaudellsh Larieux
Viewing the Whole Student: Creating Access by Incorporating a Holistic Review Method in Higher Education Admissions, Delaney Logan
Stranger Down the Hall, Annie Lowenthal
A Community of Friends: A Proposal for a Supportive Living Learning Community Centered on Body, Mind, and Soul, Stefan Martyniak
First to Finish: Supporting First-Generation Students of Color, Allena McCloud
Housing 365: A Response Rooted in Supporting Students During Academic Breaks, Abigail McCourt
“But everyone does it!”: A Look into the Psychosexual Outcomes of Pornography Use in College-aged Men and Women, Rose-Sienna Medina
Shared Tensions: High Modernist Poetry as the Precursor of Extreme Metal Artists’ Cultural Engagement and Critique, Jacob Mensinger
Institutional Continuity: The Impact of Crisis Preparedness and Technology on Marginalized Students, Heather Mitchell
Effects of Artificial Enrichment on Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Activity Budgets, Angela Perretti
Interrupting the Urgency of the Undecided Student: An Intentional Advising Approach, Nicole Phillips
The Black Feminist Scholar Collective: Empowering Black Women in Higher Education, Mariama Quist
Restructuring Enrollment Management Policies at HBCUs: The Next 184 Year Initiative, Kathleen Rzucidlo
A Process Conception of Nature: A Comparative Study of Hua-Yen Buddhism and Whiteheadian Thought, Kia Shahideh
Getting Ahead of the Game: Financial Fundamentals for Prospective College Students, Dia Taliaferro
Black Men Can: Change the Narrative of Black Male Students, Levi Tucker II
“Which of the people here would suspect that so much is going on in the mind of a teenage girl?”: Adolescent resilience in the Holocaust diaries of Anne Frank and Renia Spiegel, Jenna Marie Walmer
The Seen and the Known, Jeffrey Wasch
Enneasongs, Colton Whitted
Improving Campus Racial Climate: A Reimagining of Student Organizations, Elissa Wingfield
(Re)defining Writing Instruction: Implementing an Anti-racist Approach to Writing Instruction and Assessment in the Secondary English Classroom, Emily Wisniewski
Her Melanin: Creating Courageous Conversations for Combating Imposter Syndrome for Black Women in Higher Education, Nzingha Wright
Theses from 2020
Finding Truth in Memoir, John Abernethy
Microbial Energy Storage and Antimicrobial Effects of Metal Nanoparticles, Octavia Allen
Heart Closed until further Notice, Mohammad Amer
Providing Educational Hospitality for International Students: A Student Affairs Intervention for Higher Education, Christie Armstrong
The Duality of the Black Student Activist: A Decolonial Approach to Reframing Student Activism as Student Leadership, Kaileik Asbury
P.E.A.R Participation, Education, Action, and Resources: Combating Food Insecurity through Collaboration, Aileen Assumma
Fictive Kin Relationships and Advising: The Roles of Chosen Family as an Advisory Framework for Higher Education, Zachary Burden
Immediate Effects of Yoga on Mindfulness, Self-Criticism, Self-Compassion and Depressed Mood, Blaire Cain
Lady Bits, Christina Calvano
I Don’t Really Work Here: Part-Time Faculty and the Adjunctification of Higher Ed., Maggie Cawley
Conceptualizing the Unspeakable: A Conceptual Metaphor Theory Analysis of Sexual Assault Trauma in Creative Nonfiction, Ariana Ciamaricone
Realizing the Possibilities of Notetaking Software for Academic Support: An Intervention for Academic Coaches, Paul B. Cortopassi
Swansong: Selections from a Novel, Louis Daily
Skin, Maria DiPaolo
Acute Effects of Complex Training Using Three Different Intracomplex Rest Intervals on Power Output in Recreationally Trained College Students, Brianna M. Donnelly
Deschooling Deficit Perspectives: An Exploration of Culture and Place for Educators, Madison Dorschutz
Novel Mechanism for Turning Performance in Bluefin Tuna, Abigail Downs
Student Success and the Impact of Social Media: Integrating and Regulating Boundaries, Brianna Facemire
Aesthetics and Poetics of the Novel in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer and Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son, Frederick Feldman