Honors Theses and Capstones
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Perinatal Patient Education on Substance Use Risk Factors in the Age of the Opioid Crisis, Rebecca Ane Leary and Alyssa O'Brien
Variables That Affect Parental Goals for Visiting a Children’s Museum, Isabella M. Livingston
Review of Gender Related Trends Among People Hospitalized for Infections with Concurrent Substance Use, Meghan Lotti
The Effects of the Trump Tariffs and the Coronavirus Pandemic on the U.S. Bicycle Industry, Thurston Randolph Mann
Reinforcement Learning Applied to the Shoals Marine Laboratory Smart Grid, Daniel C. Mattson
The Health Effects of Anthropogenic PM2.5 Emissions, Andrew Charles Meyer
Examining the Brand Image of Paul College, Rebecca E. Milbury
Exploring Educators’ Perceptions of Legislation about Discrimination, Archer Brooke Miller
The Technical Skills Valued by Public Accounting Firms, Nicholas P. Mokas
Predicting COVID-19 Vaccination Status and Rule Following and Violating: Psychosocial Measures, Coping Styles, and Vaccine Myth Beliefs, Paxton Morley
The Impact of Wild Bees on Commercial Pollinator and Pesticide Use, Liam Morrissey
Distributed Partial Differential Equation Solving with Julia Fast Fourier Transform Library, Christopher E. Mottola
Personal Intelligence and Student Employees, Miah Munro
Measuring the Ne/O Ratio for IMAP-Lo, Ryan J. Murphy
Prevalence of Vaping and the Association with Cardiometabolic Risk in College Students, Brittney Rose Nalesnik
Development of a Fluxgate Magnetometer Model, Eleonora Olsmats
Targeting the BCL6 Transcription Factor in Ovarian Cancer, Harrison H. Parent
Investigating the Main Protease (MPro) of SARS-CoV-2 as a Potential Drug Target, Valerie Giovina Pascetta
Creating an Integration Framework for the European Union? Comparing the Role of Language in Integration Policy Regarding Education and Labor Participation Rates in Germany and Sweden, Kate Elizabeth Persson
Crime And The Effects It Has On Business Development, Alexis Pimental
Modeling the Impact of Adding Cryptocurrency in a Portfolio, Ashley Pineault
Characterization of L-malic acid-capped CdS Quantum Dots and Examination of the Nanoncrystal's Biosensor Ability, Andrei A. Potapenko
Combating Climate Change: Saving American Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure, Seamus Quinn
Robot Guided Exercise Training: The Role of the Human Model, Selena R. Richards
Generally Covariant Theory of Multipole Moment Conserving Quasiparticles, Gavin Eric Riley
Tinkering With Tinker: Why the Supreme Court Must Protect Student Speech Through Social Media, Alexis Roach
The State of Our Community Social Capital in Kensington, New Hampshire, Sawyer B. Rogers
Barbarians & Heretics: Anti-Greek and Anti-Latin Sentiments in Crusade-Era Chronicles, 1096-1204, Ryan Saputo
An Examination of Effective Length in Moment Frames, Connor Stephen Schott
A Review of Monte Carlo Methods and Their Application in Medical Physics for Simulating Radiation Transport, Joe Shields
Gelatin/GelMA Composite Bioink for Improved Biocompatibility and Mechanical Stability of 3D Printed Tissue-like Structures, Maria Christine Skidmore, Patrick Daniel Earley, and Kyung Jae Jeong
Quality of Life and Symptom Sharing Among Women with Athletic Urinary Incontinence, Hailey Stevens
The Liberatory Potential of Fashion, David Billie Suoth
How the Media Frames Mental Health and Social Media: A Case Study of the Facebook Whistleblower, Megan Switzgable
Stock Market Returns Around Midterm Elections, Cameron Taatjes
The Newsworthiness of Increasingly Expected Murder: Foreign Press Coverage of the Parkland Shooting, Jasmine Skye Taudvin
Uncovering the Interest of Private Landowners in Learning More About Landscaping with Native Plants, Catherine A. Taylor
Enhancing Peripheral Intravenous Line Maintenance Practices Among Nurses in a Critical Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Project, Jaylene Velasquez
Privacy Paradox: The Impact A Health Crisis Has on Individual Views Regarding Privacy and Data Collection, Jessica B. Walsh
Removing Physical Presence Requirements for a Remote and Automated World - API Controlled Patch Panel for Conformance Testing, Hunter George Wells
Investigating Signs of Orbital Decay in the TrES-1 Exoplanetary System, Amanda F. Wester
Mindfulness and Pain Regulation: The Role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Individuals with Chronic Pain, Ariana C. White
Controls on Carbon Gas Fluxes From a Temperate Forest Soil, Natalie A. White, Ruth K. Varner, and Clarice R. Perryman
Sensory Scouting: An Analysis of Supports for Sensory Needs of Children in Local Businesses, Alison Whitman
Literary Fiction and Sympathy: How Reading Makes You a Better Person, Emma Rose Wick
Sustainability and Performance Analysis in University Endowments, Sarah Wilkinson
Screening Ocean Samples from Georgia for the Presence of MSX and Dermo Using PCR and qPCR Methods, Olivia Michelle Williams
Experiential Learning versus Microcredentials: Educational Needs of Undergraduate Students and Working Professionals, Hannah Wirth
“The Real Cost of Mining: How Digging for Rare Earth Metals Could Pose a Greater Cost than EVs Can Save”, Brahim Khalil Yatim
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Multimedia of the Mind: Digital Rhetoric and Interdisciplinary Acquisition, Parker C. Ayotte
Mimicking the effect of prolactin on STAT3/STAT5 activity in breast cancer, Jennifer N. Barbuto and Sarah R. Walker
Impact of an Educational Module on Female Collegiate Athlete Knowledge Regarding the Female Athlete Triad, Cayla Marie Barretto
Can Nurses Predict Transitions of Care in Assisted Living?, Emma M. Blair
Injectable Gelatin-Silk Fibroin Composite Hydrogels for In Situ Cell Encapsulation, Ryann D. Boudreau
Occurrence of Pulmonary Arteritis with Lungworm Infections in Gray Seals from New England, 2013-2020, Jillian R. Broadhurst and Inga Sidor DVM, MS, DACVP
Reconstructing the Black Family: How the Freedmen’s Bureau Sought to Shape Black Family Structures After Emancipation, Megan R. Busby
“We Do Not Believe Him to be Sick… but Completely Worthless:” Victorian Character, Self-Mastery, and Pension Outcomes for Disabled Union Veterans, Matthew L. Castagna
Weather Effects on Stock Market Returns in the United States, Maria Virginia Chandra
Ethical Use of Beauty in Advertising, Koca Chan
Public Monuments in Changing Societies and Political Orders, Jake M. Connolly
Before and After the #MeToo Movement: Investigating how the Media Discusses Male Perpetrated Sexual Harassment, Maya Rose Coykendall
Thermally Driven Topology and the Topological Hall Effect in Chiral Magnets, Tan Dao
Evaluating the Relationship Between Confidence and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Althea M. Devereux
COVID-19’s Impact on Human Trafficking: The Invisible Industry in New Hampshire, Brittany Dunkle
Scottish Marine Renewable Energy: U.S. Approaches for Development of Wave and Tidal Technologies, Stella Kathryn Fairall
Healthcare and Substance Use Service Accessibility and Barriers for Syringe Service Program (SSP) Participants in Manchester, NH, Faith Mackenzie Farnham
An Analysis of River Channel Change Over Time in the Lamprey River, Trevor R. Fenoff
Cross-Model Parameter Estimation in Epidemiology, Julia R. Fitzgibbons
Care Ethics, Disability, and Public Policy, Piper Gibson
A Comparison of Health Habits Between Nursing and Non Nursing Majors, Reilly K. Gilmour
Are there Differences in Music Preferences Following Major Events?, Ian A. Grant
Predicting College Enrollment During A Global Crisis, Jake Colin Hewins
The Future of Auditing: An Analysis of AI Implementation in the Big Four Accounting Firms, Alexander Michael Heye
Shakespeare’s Deviation from His Predecessors: Aligning "Romeo and Juliet" with Italian Renaissance Marriage Culture, Tara Lynn Hohn
Understanding the Factors that Influence Tweet Popularity, Kyle A. Jalbert
Business Risk and Attest Service Fees: Understanding the Effect of Low Fed Interest Rates on Bank Audit Fees, Lucas Erik Jones
Engineering thermostable regulators for inducible gene expression in thermophiles, Connor M. Joyce
Nurses’ Perceptions of Caring for Patients in the Prone Position, Brianna Jean Judkins
How Can an Economic Analysis Affect the Understanding of a Court’s Decision?, Yanni N. Kakouris
Corticostriatal Pathway Inactivation and Connections to Associative Learning with Nicotine Stimulus In Rats, Anna Kalinowski
Stressful Life Events and Postpartum Depression, Madison E. Laurent
Impromptune: Symbolic Music Generation with Relative Attention Mechanisms, Connor J. Lennox
Increment and Decrement Effects in Motion Induced Blindness, Sofia C. Lombardo
Consumer Preferences of Solar Systems in Boston and Atlanta: A Choice Experiment, Sam Mabile
The Role of Caregiving Sensitivity and Play Behavior in a Children's Museum Context, Jennika M. Mannesto
Uses Unaddressed: How Social Technologies Tacitly Allow Gender-Based Violence, Brooke J. Marston
Does the emigration of skilled labor from Hungary merit being called a brain drain?, Alexa Marie Mayo
The Role of Tax Incentives on Business Location and Economic Growth, Sadie Xi Rose Mazzola
Examining the Relationship Between Confusion and Learning: A Descriptive Meta-Analysis, Dara L. McWeeney, Aaron Y. Wong, and Caitlin Mills
Roles of Non-Frankia Bacteria in Root Nodule Formation and Function in Alnus sp., Kelsey Christine Mercurio
COVID-19 and The Effects on World's Most Admired Companies, Justin P. Mooney
What is the Effect of the CAREs Act on Public Companies’ Pension Plan Contributions?, Kyle Joseph Norman
Pediatric Emergency Department Nurse’s Knowledge and Attitudes of Pediatric Fluid Resuscitation, Tannah Kimberly O'Brien; Kerry Nolte PhD, FNP-C; Denise Downey MSN, RN-BC, CPEN; Debra Lajoie JD, PhD, MSN, RN, Esq.; Allison Ivers MSN, RN, CNL; and Kathleen Sultan BSN, RN, CPEN
COVID-19’s Impact on the United States Labor Market, Sean Patrick Orr
The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Issuance of Going Concern Opinions and Financial Restatements, Jessica Oswald
Expanding on the involvement of primary cilia in neurological function through observing EEG/EMG changes in different genotypic mice, Gabriella M. Palermo
Developing a Forward-Looking Strategy for the Music Industry, Matthew G. Paolucci