Theses and dissertations produced by graduate students affiliated with Mississippi State University's College of Arts and Sciences.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Understanding how NWS meteorologists tailor hazardous weather messaging to core partners and identify local vulnerabilities, Allison Camille Harvey
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
Multi-scale assessment of Chlorophyll-a and Net Primary Productivity in coastal waters: Integrating advanced in situ observations, remote sensing imagery, and data driven GeoAI techniques, Mohammad Shakiul Islam
The social in the spiritual: Non-theistic spirituality in 12-step addiction recovery, Steph Jacobs
Russia in the MENA Region: Why do states draft defense cooperation agreements with non-contiguous states?, Laurel Jayes
‘Cog in the machine’ or social being? How digital communications affect social capital development in higher education institution workplaces., Daphne Abigail Knox
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
Mississippi River Pre-loess Terrace Deposits: Distribution of aggregate resources, Jonathan Leard
Older adult men’s well-being: The impact of masculinity and negative perceptions of aging, Darby D. Mackenstadt
Exploring the use of a Random Forest in correcting GFS Tropical Cyclone landfall errors, Victoria Grace Maxwell
From tree rings to streamflow: reconstructing the hydroclimatic history of the Mississippi River Basin over the past millennia, Brandon McDaniel
Netflix and Kill: the role of true crime consumption in the development of acquired capability for suicide, Chandler Jayne McDaniel
Family matters: how caregiver influence and internal locus of control relate to academics, Maia McLin
Gatekeeper training and knowledge acquisition: Comparison of three measures, Jose Israel Menjivar Jr
Inductively heated platinum electrodes, Jayamini madumali Mudugamuwa hewage
Spatial variability of Heat Mortality Rate relationships in Arizona at Primary Care Area level, Ria Mukherjee
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
Advanced monitoring of turbidity in the Mississippi Sound: A machine learning-based approach integrating unmanned aircraft systems, satellite observations, and land use analysis, Abduselam Mohammed Nur
Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques– innovations in lifetime data analysis and missing value imputations, Tobias Omondi Oketch
In good times & bad: measuring ambivalence in custodial grandparents, Marin Gail Olson
Earth analogue analysis of volcanic/tectonic interactions with applications to venusian stresses, Michael Ortigoza
Genomics insights into the biogeography and evolution of Galapagos Iguanas using RADseq and WGSeq techniques, Cecilia Paradiso
Enhancing chemical synthesis for sustainability and process monitoring utilizing group ten metal catalysis, Amanda M. Perkins
A mathematical theory of epitaxial growth, Brock C. Price
“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
Unraveling quantum properties of novel two-dimensional systems using a first-principles approach, Binod Regmi
Investigations into fluorescence of fluorene dimers: linker impacts and tuning potential through substituent addition, Abigail R. Ressler
Elemental incorporation by calcite growing on the substrate in modified seawater solution, Mustafa Rezaei
From Handle With Care to broader school-community partnerships that promote trauma knowledge, safety, and children’s resilience, Jenna E. Russo
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
Synthesis and reactivity of heterobimetallic ruthenium and rhodium complexes incorporating aromatic N-heterocycles and group 13 metals, Gabriela Sanchez Lecuona
Structural determinants of global sustainability outcomes: A multinational, multidisciplinary analysis, Camica N. Sanderson
Ecology and management of alligatorweed (Alternanthera philoxeroides) and an associated thrips biological control agent (Amynothrips andersoni), Samuel Alec Schmid
Anxiety, stress, and depression as a predictor of established vaping among high school students, Autumn Schneider
Site formation processes and lithic analysis of the Swag site (38AL137), John Nathan Shores
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised: Short Form in college-attending emerging adults, Lydia Stanhope
The smooth Toeplitz algebra, Jonas Morris Stuart
“It just builds character”: Building the Bullying Myths Scale, Jessica Weiss Utley
Shifting Sands: Moving from Reality to Unreality, Aaron Waterson
An examination of potential occupational horizons and site integrity through site formation processes at Aklis, St. Croix, Jesse Weaver
The Bioarchaeology of Care in an asylum population: studying health-related caretaking in the Mississippi State Asylum, Hannah D. Willis
An investigation into the inclusivity, methodology, and education of severe weather in K-12 schools, Stephen Holden Wooten
Microvertebrate fossils of the Middle Mississippian Ste. Genevieve Formation, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, USA, Alyssa Wurtz
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
