Theses/Capstones from 2026
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY APPROACHES FOR IRON CHELATORS, Ariel Adams
Addressing the Functional Anonymity of the Post Thaw Microbiome: How Redox and Temperature Conditions Dictate Microbial Community Composition After Permafrost Thaw, Nathan Patrick Alexander
Fortune’s Fool, Malek Allari
How Presentation Shapes Multisensory Category Learning, Hooman Main Amiri
How I Remember It, Hayley Balter
Enhancing Safety and Efficiency in Cardiac Admission Handoffs Through Implementation of an I-PASS Checklist: A Quality Improvement Project, Soraia D. Barros
GLI2-Mediated Regulation of Immunoglobulin Class Switching and Heavy Chain Locus Activity, Casey Paige Baumann
Enhancing Patient Safety and Team Communication via Standardized Unit Handoff Tools in Inpatient Rehabilitation, Julia Rae Before
Improving Telemetry Alarm Fatigue by Reducing Perception of Noise Through Education: A Quality Improvement Project, Emma Bergeron
Characterizing Effects of Basal Ganglia Dysfunction on Implicit-Statistical Learning: Evidence from Parkinson's Disease, Alyson Rose Brown
Beyond the Switch: Identifying GLI2-Associated Secretory Targets for IgM Regulation in Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia, Trevor Charles Chapman
'Smoke Alarm' & Other Stories, Samhita Chitturi
Reunion Tour, Frances Cooke
Improving Operating Room First-Case On-Time Starts and Reducing Turnover Times: A Quality Improvement Project, Ashley Cote
Improving Staff Knowledge and Consistency in SAT and SBT Practices in the Critical Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Morgan Crapo
A Patient-Centered Approach to Improving Patient and Family Education on Perioperative Processes to Reduce Anxiety: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Ashley Lauren Doherty
Implementing a Nurse Re-Education Program to Promote Timely Use of the Jada® System in the Postpartum Hemorrhage Cascade: A Quality Improvement Project, Maegan E. Doody
A Comprehensive Sustainability Assessment of the UNH Wildcat Transit System: Integrating Environmental, Economic, and Social Dimensions, Nicholas Andrew-Jin Eagan
Designing innovative science learning activities: the Virtual Reality “Charge Playground” and interdisciplinary curriculum for lightning instrumentation design, Gus Otto Eberlein
Mapping the Human Dimension: Spatially Informed Soundscape Management in Saguaro National Park, Anna S. Frisbie
Reducing Readmissions for COPD through Improved Education: A Gap Analysis, Raphael Gaughan
The Underlife, Stephanie George
Climate Vulnerability in Context: Interpretations of Risk and Reality in Maine and New Hampshire, Sophie Hope Goodwin
Improving Timely Pain Reassessments and Documentation using Nurse Education and Visual Reminders: A Quality Improvement Project, Madison Grace
Regulation of the PDE6 deactivation mechanism by the RGS9-1/Gβ5L/R9AP inactivation complex, Hannah Elizabeth Hagearty
Improving Nurse Well-Being and Patient Safety Through a Structured Break Buddy System: A Quality Improvement Project, Elizabeth Harrington
Have you seen this? Impact of concussion and memory on narrative retells of silent animated films, Lauren Kate Harrington
Rooms I Still Walk Through, Katayoun Hashemin
Conserved Spatial Proximity and Immune-Linked Evolution of lncRNAs from Protein-Coding Genes in Vertebrates, Sahar Jamialahmadi
A Data-Driven Assessment of Coastal Roadway Vulnerability Using Observed Storm Damage Locations, Jack Kearing
DECENT WINGS, Andrew Kelly
Improving Efficiency in the Intensive Care Unit Through Reduction of Nurse Burnout: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Johanna Grace Koroma
Improving Staff Perceptions of Effective Communication Through Frequent Micro-Team Huddles: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Sara Krslovic
A PALEOGEOMORPHIC RECONSTRUCTION OF A PRESERVED LANDSCAPE ON THE CONTINENTAL SHELF EAST OF FRYING PAN SHOALS, ONSLOW BAY, NORTH CAROLINA, Alexandra Dawson Lawrence
Flower Field: Poems, Kevin Le
Strengthening Workforce Stability and Operational Efficiency in the Transition to Practice: A Quality Improvement Project, Alana L. Lemoine
Incorporating Structured Safety Huddles to Improve Nursing Communication and Reduce Medical-Surgical Inpatient Fall Rates: A Quality Improvement Project, Alexia K. Leonard
Improving Nurse Confidence and Patient Safety Through Timely Nonpharmacologic Delirium Prevention Interventions: A Quality Improvement Project, Claire E. McCabe
Optimal Robust Maximum Entropy Behavioral Cloning, Francesco Alessandro Stefano Mikulis-Borsoi
Economic Feasibility of Aquaponics in the Cold-Climate Eastern United States: A Multi-Facility Monte Carlo Analysis, Ryan Nickerson
STORM CLOUDS, DISHEVELED STORKS, AND DANGEROUS ANIMALS: THE IMPACT OF CONCUSSION ON NARRATIVE PRODUCTION OF A SILENT ANIMATED VIDEO, Aislyn Grace O'Connell
Identifying Landscape and Behavioral Drivers of Human-Black Bear Conflict in New Hampshire, Shea O'Connor
Home-Level Flood Damage Assessment with Physics-Constrained Deep Learning, James Ojoawo
Wilderness Character Qualities and Visitor Typologies: Advancing Adaptive Visitor Use Management in Parks and Protected Areas, Ethan James O'Leary
EVALUATING THE LONG-TERM FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF ASPHALT ADDITIVES, Kelsey Page
Increasing Patient Feedback Survey Completions through Patient-Centered Nursing Communication: A Quality Improvement Project, Lindsey E. Pawlowski
Vegetation Mediates Methane Ebullition Across Temporal Scales in a Temperate Peatland: A 10-Year Dataset, Apryl L. Perry
Where the River Touches, Gavin James Pritchard
Magma Dynamics Beneath the Askja Volcanic System Across the 1875 Eruption, Serafina rose Rivera
Shared and Unique Neural Correlates of Sign and Spoken Language Production: An ALE Meta-Analysis, Grace Robertson
Use of Portable Free Fall Penetrometers as a Metric to Evaluate Salt Marsh Resilience, Brian CHRISTOPHER Scholten
Improving Early Ambulation After Cardiac Surgery Using Nurse Education and Workflow Cues: A Quality Improvement Project, Nathan Seeley
SCALING OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY IN THE ELIOT FORMATION, Ryan Todd Siegel
ALL THIS RAGE WAS ONCE HOPE, Tabitha Marie Soper
Promoting Equitable Access to Postpartum Hemorrhage Education: A Quality Improvement Project Using Educational Interventions for Night Shift Nurses, Michelle Stella
Increasing Nursing Perceptions on Advanced Directives Through Education to Promote Patient Centered Care, Michelle Strong
Cortical Activation in Spoken and AAC-Based Verb Production: An fNIRS Pilot Study, Hannah P. Tockman
Improved Daily Communication to Reduce On-Time First Case Start (FCOTS) Delays in the Operating Room: A Quality Improvement Project, Autumn Tourangeau
A Quality Improvement Project: Enhancing Nursing Knowledge and Patient Safety in the Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPIs) in a Medical-Surgical Unit, Kristen Vartabedian
Targeting STAT3 in breast and ovarian cancer, Katherine Elaine Veronneau
Advancing Bathymetric Lidar Nearshore Mapping with Self-Supervised Learning, Joseph Wilder
Theses/Capstones from 2025
Design and Development of Systems for Wave-Soil-Structure Interaction Modelling in a Geotechnical Centrifuge, Mark Justin Adler
Food Security Status, Sociodemographic Characteristics, And Dietary Outcomes Among Perinatal Women Living In New Hampshire, Selina Awinbisa Agandaa
FUNCTIONS OF DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE PROTEINS EYA2 AND CHECKPOINT KINASES 1&2 DURING LENS REGENERATION IN PLEURODELES WALTL, Kelsey Elise Ahearn
The Role of STAT3 in Migration and Invasion, Emily Caroline Armlin
EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF BET INHIBITORS ON THE BONE MARROW MICROENVIRONMENT, Victoria Aumann dos Reis
Fire Bird: A Short Story Collection, Sophia Baran
Fire Bird: A Short Story Collection, Sophia Baran
Improving Perinatal Outcomes with the Mood Disorder Questionnaire: A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Identification and Referral, Elizabeth R. Bargardo
Electrical Potential Gradient Signals Associated with California Earthquakes, TERRY Emil BATTALINO
Underwater Remote Sensing of Oil: Validation Testing of a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Acoustic Sensor for Emergency Response, Sara Jessica Berg
After Another, Bianca Bourgault
After Another, Bianca Bourgault
LINKING NUTRIENT CYCLING AND ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS: A CASE STUDY OF INTERNAL PHOSPHORUS LOADING IN THE LAKE KANASATKA WATERSHED, Georgia Bunnell
Shoreline Signals: Predicting Distribution Patterns in Nearshore Fish and Invertebrate Communities, Melanie Marie Carolan
Shoreline Signals: Predicting Distribution Patterns in Nearshore Fish and Invertebrate Communities, Melanie Marie Carolan
A Quality Improvement Project: Increasing Pre-Term Infant Safety by Enhancing Skin-to-Skin Time in the NICU, Maureen A. Cassidy
A Mixed-Methods Approach to Describe Typologies and Fiber Consumption Patterns of Hispanic/Latino Adults Grouped Using Cluster Analysis, Nicholas Clarke
LOW-TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ADDITIVE MODIFIED ASPHALT MIXTURES, Adeniran Oluwatobiloba Coker
A Quality Improvement Initiative to Enhance the Effectiveness of Pre-Anesthesia Documentation and Nurse Satisfaction in the PACU, Stephanie Colon
Enhancing Patient-Centered Suicide Prevention: A Quality Improvement Project Addressing Educational Gaps in Staff Caring for Veterans, Shayla Craigue
Cowboys and Nerds, Joseph Alexander Cyrulik
Toxin-Producing Cyanobacteria in Green Manure Microbiomes, Alyssa Nicole Daigle
Directing Patient Hand Hygiene Before Meals in the ICU: a Quality Improvement Project to Enhance Patient Safety, Nicholas Davini
Wildlife connectivity and its relationship with vehicle collision hotspots across New Hampshire, Clara Dawson
GEOTECHNICAL SITE CHARACTERIZATION OF OFFSHORE SOILS FROM FREE FALL PENETROMETER TESTING FOR THE APPLICATION OF OFFSHORE SYSTEMS, Emma J. Dennis
Effects of Foil Thickness and Trailing Edge Thickness on the Performance of Cross-Flow Turbines, Katie Dold
A Quality Improvement Initiative: Enhancing Knowledge and Confidence in Effective Eclamptic Seizure Management Among Maternity Nurses, Emma C. Donigian
“Lead”ing Industrial Science: Studying Occupational Lead Poisoning in the Early 20th Century, Rebekah E. Dreyer-Rowe
Birdhouses, Autumn L. Duke