Graduate Student Public Defense Announcements

Hailey Roberts

M.S. - Kinesiology, College of Health Sciences

The Effect of Breakfast on a Resistance Training Session in Female Collegiate Athletes

Larry G. Freeney

Ph.D. - Counselor Education, College of Education

The Lived Experiences of Millennials with Student Loan Debt

Jennifer Lena Ormond

Ed.D. - Higher Education Leadership, College of Education

Soft Skills in Higher Education and Graduate Employability: A Delphi Study

Heather M. McGrew

Ed.D. - Developmental Education Administration, College of Education

The Role of Institutional Mentors in the Lives of First-Year, First-Generation Developmental Students at a Select Four-Year University and Two-Year Community College

Elisa Salem Hermann

Ed.D. - Higher Education Leadership, College of Education

Undocumented and Unafraid: A Multimethod Investigation of Undocumented Student Activists

Montisha Hines-Goosby

Ed.D. - Higher Education Leadership, College of Education

The Influence of Campus Climate on Identity Development of Community College Students with Disabilities 

Nocona A. Park

M.S. - Kinesiology, College of Health Sciences

Brain Training and Athletic Performance in Advanced and Elite Youth Athletes

Paige Browning

M.S., - Kinesiology, College of Health Sciences

Evaluation of Weaning Methods of Calf Growth and Performance and Immune Response to Vaccination in Beef Calves

Warren B. Wright

Ph.D. - Counselor Education, College of Education

The Burdens We Carry: A Transcendental Phenomenological Exploration of Black Professional Counselors Working with Clients who Experienced Racial Trauma

Jennifer Hatchett Stover

Ph.D. - Counselor Education, College of Education

The Students came back Different: Understanding Lived Experiences of School Counselors Working with Culturally Diverse Students Experiencing Trauma Before and After the Pandemic

Kayleigh Romero

Ed.D. - Instructional Systems Design and Technology, College of Education

Exploring the Effects of Self-paced Learning, Inquiry-guided Learning, and Collaborative Learning on Middle School (6-8) Students' Interest in Pursuing STEM/CS

Lucio Avellaneda

Ph.D. - Forensic Science, College of Criminal Justice

DNA Recovery from Challenging Forensic Samples using Alternative Markers and Next Generation Sequencing

Sanjeda Akter

M.S. - Biology, College of Science and Engineering Technology

Analysis of the Functional Role of Non-Muscle Myosin on Drosophila Melanogaster Tumorigenesis

Adheeta S. Dongre

M.S. - Biology, College of Science and Engineering Technology

The Role of Toll: Cancer Innate Immunity in a Drosophila Tumor Model

Ya-Chih (Jessica) Cheng

Ph.D. - Forensic Science, College of Criminal Justice

Differentiation of Hemp from Marijuana: Genetic and Chemical Challenges

Abigail R. Aboulkacem

Ed.D. - Literacy, College of Education

Photovoice 2.0: A Research Framework for the Digital Generation

Dorothy M. Schaettle

M.M. - Music Therapy, College of Arts and Media

Development of Evaluation of a Music-Based Math Readiness Intervention Set (MRIS) for Students with Disabilities

Ahsan UI Islam

M.S. - Computing and Data Science, College of Science and Engineering Technology

Gender and Ethnicity Bias in Deep Learning