• Volunteer Traditions: Neoclassical Architecture and Its Racial Impact on Fraternity and Sorority Houses at the University of Tennessee 

  Mosley, Keneisha Diane (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Architecture is used often to iterate to the public specific ideas, usually tied to perceived societal norms of a particular culture, group of people, or to represent an idea that is meant to convey ideas that tie to ...
• Use and Perceptions of Equestrian Safety Equipment 

  Vande Kamp, Kailey (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Modernization of equestrian sport has focused on advancements of safety equipment. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing the use of safety equipment in equestrian sports. It was hypothesized that ...
• The Queer Eye for Nashville: How LGBTQ People form Community, and Make Spaces, and Places…Like Everyone Else 

  Staffelli, Philip Matthew (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  In the past thirty years the LGBTQ community has become increasingly studied within academia. However, it is only in the past decade that their spaces and places have begun to be examined. When one narrows this down even ...
• Effect of Race and Education on Plea Outcomes for Public Defender Clients 

  Ector, Al'leta (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Plea bargains are a negotiated process between a prosecutor, judge, defense attorney/public defender, and defendant where an individual facing criminal charges pleads guilty in exchange for a lesser charge, lesser sentence, ...
• Framing, Spiral of Silence, and Coverage of the #MeToo Movement 

  Harmon, Barbara (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The 2017 #MeToo movement was the collective response of hashtags with the words “MeToo” to the social media accounts of people who had been sexually assaulted. This study analyzed feature articles that covered the #MeToo ...
• CYBERBULLYING EXPERIENCES AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS 

  Carr, Lisa Wooldridge (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The current study examined prevalence of seven forms of cyberbullying attacks among college students through different types of medium. Support was found for hypothesis 1; with exclusion/ignoring being the most frequently ...
• Attitudes Towards Developmentally Appropriate Classroom Practices Among Kindergarten Teachers in Tennessee 

  Johnson, Elizabeth p (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate the opinions of kindergarten teachers about developmentally appropriate practices and their effects on students externalizing behaviors. It was expected that these teachers would ...
• Bioluminescent Reporter Development and Testing for Cre-recombinase and CRISPR/Cas9 Activity for Selectable Marker Recovery in Scheffersomyces stipitis 

  Smith, Serenah E (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Scheffersomyces stipitis is the most efficient xylose fermenting yeast known, though it is not as well-studied as other yeast species. The ability of S. stipitis to ferment xylose makes it a potentially useful yeast in the ...
• "Girls Gone Wilde": Cultivation, Socialization, and the Quagmire of Consent 

  McMichael, Jovi-Cherise (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  In a content analysis of 50 films, Bufkin and Eschholz (2000) noted, “The media have been implicated in the propagation of rape myths in American society.” The research for this thesis sets out to explore this issue through ...
• Outside the Classroom: An Evaluation of Equine Internships 

  Layton, Kaylee (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Internships provide opportunities to gain experience. They have been shown to be beneficial in nursing and business, but equine internships have been lightly researched. This study explored student perceptions of equine ...
• Religious Liberty in John Milton's Polemical Prose 

  Pugh, John Milton (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  In a twenty-year prose career championing liberty, John Milton wrote works about the most important issues of his day, including religious liberty, freedom of publication, and freedom from tyranny. In addition, he wrote ...
• The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Perceived Social Support in College Students 

  Abbott, Evelyn Grace (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  There is a current lack of studies that investigate how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict difficulties with social competency skills. To address this, the current study analyzed how self-reported ACEs predicted ...
• The Impact of Age and Internet Use on Depression 

  Hamilton, Boman (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Internet use is a prominent part of most adults’ lives. It is used for purposes of entertainment, staying informed, shopping, and staying socially engaged. Researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the impact internet ...
• REPORTED STRESS AND INJURY OCCURRENCE IN DIVISION I COLLEGIATE STUDENT ATHLETES 

  Potvin, Molly (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Experiencing stress is a normal part of life for college students. Injuries is a regular part of life for collegiate student athletes. The goal of this study was to determine if there is an association between reported ...
• Conversion of a Short Lipopeptoid into Longer Non-lipidated Repeat Peptoids with Improved Activity 

  Tran, Mary Ngoc (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The need for new antibiotics to treat antibiotic resistant bacteria has been a growing problem worldwide over the past several years. Bacteria are quickly developing modifications to render antibiotics useless due to overuse ...
• VULNERABILTY DURING COVID-19: AN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT 

  O'Dell, Joey Lena (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This thesis project was based on thirty-five focused interviews with narrators between March and June 2020 about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated shutdowns. Analysis of these interviews revealed that ...
• PREGNANCY-RELATED NUTRITIONAL BELIEFS, KNOWLEDGE, AND CULTURAL PRACTICES AMONG KENYAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN LIVING IN TENNESSEE 

  CHEBET, SARAH JEPTOO (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  With the rise of immigrants in the United States, maternal health has remained a major concern to the public health sector. As these immigrant patterns continue, it is worth understanding the nutritional beliefs and cultural ...
• Existence of solutions to the infinite dimensional Kuramoto model 

  Krueger, Anthony Raymond (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The Kuramoto model is a kinetic model of phase-coupled oscillators. This model has a long legacy, starting from Kuramoto's text, \textit{Oscillations, Waves, and Turbulence}, which provided the foundation and initial ...
• Pillaged Skulls and Looted Gear: The Racialization of the Japanese and its effect on United States Trophy Hunting during the Second World War 

  Dahl, Lawrence (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  My research is on the racialization of the Japanese and how it affected looting during the Second World War. Though it focuses on the looting of Japanese teeth, ears, and skulls during the war, it begins with the years ...
• SEIR model combined with LSTM and GRU for the trend analysis of COVID-19 

  Feng, Lin (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus, which has become a worldwide pandemic greatly impacting our daily life and work. A large number of mathematical models, ...

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