This thesis explores the constellation of race, gender, and sexuality in two novel series by African American feminist author Octavia E. Butler, published from the 1970s through the 1980s. The central pursuit of this project ...

Professional development allows teachers to be life-long learners and grow as educators. Every educator has the potential to grown and refine their teaching skill. In the world of education, there is always more to learn ...

Fashion in early Tennessee has previously been over-simplified by historians as being, dominated by homespun and hunting shirts and virtually detached from the fashionable trends and selections of the East Coast. However, ...

Protein homeostasis is crucial for optimal cellular life and affects thousands of proteins that have to reach their final folded active state to be functional. Protein folding is not trivial in the crowded cellular environment ...

Protein folding plays a crucial role in human biochemistry. Proteins are the building blocks for most of our tissues, help to transfer signals through the bloodstream and other fluids, and help to cure diseases. On the ...

Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives supports individual and collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, and public outreach from any discipline on campus. The Digital Seed Grant is an annual ...

Video games are fairly new media that advertisers have attempted to take advantage of. But how effective are these in-game advertisements? This thesis seeks to see how effective current in-game advertisements are by ...

This thesis aims to introduce the key themes present in C.S. Lewis’s fiction. Throughout his works, he sought to teach his readers, whether that be through his non-fiction, his fiction, his poetry, his letters, or his ...

This thesis explores college students’ awareness, attitudes, and buying behaviors involving sustainable clothing due to the increasing concern with climate change and resource depletion. For this project, we surveyed ...

This research project is an investigation of the central causes that led to the condition of the city of Flint, Michigan, as of 2019. Based on the central causes, it is imperative to stress the need for an improved ...