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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 2025

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

Advancing rangeland vegetation mapping through integrated UAV and satellite imagery: a comparative machine learning framework for fractional cover classification, Nishat Shermin

Site formation processes and lithic analysis of the Swag site (38AL137), John Nathan Shores

Unraveling the enigma of missing people in Mississippi: Utilizing perspectives of structural violence and necropolitics to illuminate the “silent epidemic”, Sarajane Smith

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

“Here for everyone” (?): how intimate partner violence service organizations address community needs and transgender inclusion in the Deep South, Brian Tesch

“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

Assessing the mediating effect of trust in the relationship between servant leadership and organizational performance in public organizations, Vincent Young

Modifiers as floating information: A case against seamless modifier integration, Jaden Zinn

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 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

Time after time: Deciphering structural violence and vulnerability using postmortem recovery time data and demographics throughout the Southeast region of the United States, Elise J. Adams

Constraints and challenges for ensuring food security in the northern and south-western region of Bangladesh: A policy, hazards, and climate change perspective, Zia Ahmed

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

A study of charge symmetry violation in fragmentation functions extracted from semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions from protons and deuterons, Hem Datt Bhatt

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

Mass spectrometry of analytes related to sports anti-doping: Mapping gas-phase dissociation pathways, differentiating isomers using in-source collisional activation, and evaluating ion mobility spectrometry for enantiomer separation, Matthew James Carlo

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

Sexual attitudes and knowledge of southern United States college students on risky sexual behavior: Moderation by conservative religiosity, sex, and sexual double standards, Andreana Durham

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

Synthesis, isolation, and characterization of imidazole-based abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene (aNHC) pincer complexes of group 10 metals (Ni, Pd, Pt): catalysts towards dinitrogen reduction, and materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), Evans Fosu

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

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and medicolegal institutions: Developing best practice guidelines and practical resources to support repatriation, Mary Elaine Hill

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

Reconceptualizing the relations between impulsivity, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism using variable- and person-centered approaches, Karen Kelley

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

Windows into changing landscapes: bioarchaeological and geophysical analysis of the Grenada Yellow Fever Cemetery, M. Kathryn McKenna

Towards carbon dioxide reduction: synthesis and characterization of CCC-NHC pincer iron complexes., Joshua Mensah

Characterization of Rtg2p protein interactions: The retrograde signaling complex of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Abby Caroline Miles

Variational quantum algorithms for two-particle systems, Cameron Moffat

Evolution of functional diversity in defensive bacterial toxins and parasite infection strategy, Logan D. Moore

Synthesis of hexafluoroisopropylidene (6F) polyarylenes via interfacial polymerization of aromatic monomers with hexafluoroacetone trihydrate, Gustavo Adolfo Muñoz Ruiz

Effects of cascading optical processes on quantification of sample scattering extinction, intensity, and depolarization, Samadhi Nisansala Nawalage