Theses and dissertations produced by graduate students affiliated with Mississippi State University's College of Arts and Sciences.
Learn more about theses and dissertations, including how to submit
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Global attractivity of positive solutions of higher order nonlinear difference equations and its applications, Abdulaziz Almaslokh
The civilization of slavery vs. that of freedom: The Civil War and Reconstruction as an ideological struggle, Heath M. Anderson
Enhancing soybean seed protein content via Arabidopsis QQS gene, and commercial soil influence on plant development, Ethan Brister
Do depressive symptoms moderate the mediating role of executive function between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity symptoms and functional impairment?, Nicole Colón Bosques
Real-time enhanced tornado warning product guidance based on tornado debris signature height and population density, Alexander Cooke
Governance of online civil society organizations: A perspective from public administration by conducting a case study of the Villoux Server System, Tyler B. Daniel
Assessment of water quality and remediation of heavy metals in a coastal system, Christiana Fumnanya Eziashi
Unraveling exoplanetary signatures from stellar activity: A journey beyond the known in RV mass measurements of K dwarf planets, Claire Susanne Geneser
Influence of horizontal grid spacing on numerical weather prediction simulations of clear air turbulence, Kailah Rose Gordon
The Lucky Ones, Lily Grado
Toward social equity in Black maternal health in Mississippi, Brittany L. Gray
The influence of incorrectly labelled AI-generated images on subjective feelings of truth and memory, Tanner McKenzie Grubbs
Atmospheric turbulence education effects on flight anxiety, Megan A. Hanna
Learning race in the faith: An ethnographic study of a white Southern Baptist youth group, Courtney Heath
A cloud of witnesses: Captivity among the Society People of colonial Pennsylvania, Jenifer L. Ishee
Russia in the MENA Region: Why do states draft defense cooperation agreements with non-contiguous states?, Laurel Jayes
Women’s empowerment and health outcomes: A multi-country test of validity and influence on maternal and child well-being, Robert Bugri Kolbila
Apatite entrapment of iodine for nuclear waste disposal applications, William E. Laird
Just do something: Framing a movement to fight fascism, Heather-Ann Layth
From tree rings to streamflow: reconstructing the hydroclimatic history of the Mississippi River Basin over the past millennia, Brandon McDaniel
The role of ENSO diversity in modulating tornadic activity in the United States, Davis Boyd Newton
Irrelevant information in geometry questions: Figuring it out with figures, Phuc Xuan Nhi Nguyen
Toward organizational resilience in the US federal bureaucracy, Michael Akomeah Ofori Ntow
Earth analogue analysis of volcanic/tectonic interactions with applications to venusian stresses, Michael Ortigoza
Enhancing chemical synthesis for sustainability and process monitoring utilizing group ten metal catalysis, Amanda M. Perkins
“Sometimes the world don’t give you what you need”: Black motherhood and kinship as resistance to necropolitics in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage, Hailey N. Reeder
Investigations into fluorescence of fluorene dimers: linker impacts and tuning potential through substituent addition, Abigail R. Ressler
Integrating case studies with meteorologists’ insight: Assessing meteorologists’ perception and utilization of composite indices, Brianna Marie Salazar
Electronic structure and reactivity of pyrazine(diimine) complexes with first-row transition metals: insights into proton reduction and a comparative study with pyridine(diimine) complexes, Daniela Sanchez Arana
Ecology and management of alligatorweed (Alternanthera philoxeroides) and an associated thrips biological control agent (Amynothrips andersoni), Samuel Alec Schmid
The smooth Toeplitz algebra, Jonas Morris Stuart
Shifting Sands: Moving from Reality to Unreality, Aaron Waterson
An investigation into the inclusivity, methodology, and education of severe weather in K-12 schools, Stephen Holden Wooten
Evaluating rainfall sensitivity over land to tropical cyclone parameters using idealized WRF, Madison C. Yawn
Modifiers as floating information: A case against seamless modifier integration, Jaden Zinn
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Synergistic adsorption of Pb (II) from aqueous solution using calcined biochar-bentonite clay hybrid, Azeezat Faderera Abdul-raheem
Analysis of glacier changes in the western United State: assessing area, volume, and albedo changes, Bernard Latif Abubakari
Exploring single particles through optical trapping and advanced laser spectroscopy techniques, Haifa Hassan Alali
Analysis of positive solutions for classes of nonlinear boundary value problems, Bandar Alreshidi
Individual differences in attention processes and creative thinking, Berna Altunisik
Engineering functionalized nanomaterials for targeting and ablating biofilms on surfaces, Dhanush Lakmal Yapa Amarasekara
Survival analysis in the presence of independent or dependent censoring, Sakie Jaladha Arachchige
Solution synthesis of colloidal strontium zirconium sulfide nanomaterials, Naira Arrykova
The effects of work-life balance, teleworking, and DEIA on the U.S. federal employee job satisfaction: Towards developing a contemporary needs theory, Latara Marie Arterberry
The performance of participation in the Medicare Quality Payment Program, Mary Atkinson-Smith
Polyaniline analogs polymers and nanocomposites coating for corrosion protection applications, Raymond Femi Awoyemi
Determining the influence of broadcast visuals and messages on the public’s perceptions and intent to shelter in tornado warnings, Kristina Marie Balentine
Buffering the strained relation between masculinity and social support with self-compassion, Nathan Barclay
Bridging scales integrating satellite derived with airborne and UAS-collected bathymetry for coastal and inland water management, Md Salman Bashit
Creating a chronology of Claiborne (22HA501): Revisiting and revising radiocarbon assays of a Poverty Point site, Olivia Catherine Baumgartel
Here I am, like I am: disability in twentieth-century southern literature, Rachel M. Bell
Applied Behavior Analysis: Perspectives of Mississippi students before they enter the educational behavioral consulting field, Lauren Ashley Besong
Parental internalizing problems and emerging adult emotion regulation: Moderation by gender, Madison Alaina Bibbs
Advances in cluster detection via order statistics, renewal processes and model selection methods with applications to financial forensic statistics, Kwabena Ansong Boateng
Who’s to blame? A website content analysis of victimization prevention messaging at PWIs and HBCUs, Madeline Brock
Sonder, Rheagan Case
Identifying immunogenic pneumococcal proteins with roles in colonization of human epithelium, Abigail Cassibry
Stimulus complexity and feature binding in visual sensory memory, Mary F. Catington
Human behavioral and technological adaptation to the Younger Dryas in the Midsouth: Investigations into the Mississippi projectile point survey, Christopher Dylan Colucci
The conservation of brain folding mechanics, Amber Cook
Insights from the past: Does access to unsuccessful problem attempts facilitate restructuring in insight problems?, Emily Ann Williamson Creel
Biothermodynamics of metal and DNA coordination to the pneumococcal transcription factors AdcR, SczA, and CopR, Alexander James Cutright
Examining the impact of de-escalation training for rural Mississippi LEOS: Using simulation to assess behavioral outcomes, Deepali Manoj Dhruve
Unseeing the Seen: Jugha, Larra Myron Diboyan
The impact of sexual violence, social reactions to disclosure, coping, and intersecting identities on PTSD risk, Sabrina DiCarlo
Collective bodies and individual experiences: The case of Chamber Tomb Four at Nikoleika Aigio, Achaea, Greece, Daniel David Dillon
Ru(II)-catalyzed intramolecular and intermolecular hydroarylation via stereoselective C–H bond activation, Nirosh Udayanga Dissanayake Mudiyanselage
Anomaly detection with extreme value and uncertainty considerations, Shelby Hart Dudgeon
Understanding the impact of tropical sea surface temperature biases on the projection of North American precipitation, William Tyler Edwards
Functional complementation and occidiofungin susceptibility of fungal actin orthologs in S. cerevisiae, Moshood Fagbolade
Steric tuning of hexadentate chelates and their effects on the stability and redox properties of first-row transition metals, Ryan Benjamin Gaynor
Complexities in Datura production and ceramics in the Arkansas River Valley, Jaylyn Ashley Gustafson
Discrimination the roles of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols on tropical cyclone frequency from downscaling CMIP6 models, George Gyabaah
Synthesis and characterization of lithium tris (2-(dimethyl amino)phenyl)tert-butyl gallate [Li(Me2NPh)3GatBu] complex for the catalytic hydroboration of benzophenone, Mohammad Raziul Hasan
Defending Hesi: the construction and earliest occupation levels of the Iron Age fortress, Benjamin Hatfield
Derivations on smooth Hensel-Steinitz algebras, Shelley David Hebert
The role of air-sea interactions in the intensity change of sheared tropical cyclones utilizing a dataset of co-located aircraft expendable bathythermograph and dropsonde soundings, Benjamin J. Henkel
Evaluating the emergent wetland plant Juncus effusus as a tool in phytoremediation of nitrogen and copper, Jacob Aaron Hockensmith
Improving cultural safety: A thematic analysis of older rural African Americans’ experiences with the U.S. healthcare system, Sarah Marie Israel
The determinants of turnover intensions among U.S. federal employees: Investigating the moderating roles of organizational publicness, Justin A. Jackson
Using phylogenomics and environmental metabarcoding to understand the distribution and evolutionary histories of amoebae, Robert E. Jones
Spatiotemporal characteristics of instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Holley Kamba
Transport and variability in concentrations of water quality parameters in response to weather conditions in the Louisiana Continental Shelf: A comparative analysis, ANKITA PANDURANG KATKAR
An examination of depressive symptoms of African Americans as a part of a complex system, Jenna Kilgore
Outbreak intensity ranking indices for primary severe weather modes, Adonte Netreven Knight
Identifying potential antibiotic uptake mechanisms of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Yuri Laguna Terai
Unraveling catalytic mysteries: Insights revealed by density functional theory, Tri Nghia Le
Estimation of cyanobacterial concentrations from uncrewed aircraft systems imagery over the Western Mississippi Sound, Gulf of Mexico, John Preston Liles
Investigating differences in perceived value and opportunities for student professional development in chemistry graduate programs, Contessa L. Maggard
Expanding the emotional cascade model of borderline personality disorder with negative thoughts, thought control strategies, suicide attempts, and non-suicidal self-injury, Courtney K. Mason
Effectiveness of Omeka virtual collections for engaging Dunn-Seiler Museum’s middle school audiences, Amanda Mayo
