Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2025
The Great Commission and the Confederacy: Southern Baptist Missions during the Civil War, Aimee H. Hunt-Beasley
Microbial Community Structure and Function in Intensively Managed Landscapes Compared to Restored Prairies, Morgan Alexandria Isaacs
Beyond Traffic Signals: Coordinating Heterogeneous Mixed Traffic at Unsignalized Intersections, Md Iftekharul Islam
Do Environmental NGOs Matter? Correlations Between ENGO Operational Years and CO₂ Emissions in U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Tanjida Islam
ECOHYDRAULIC MODELING: DEVELOPING A PHABSIM MODULE FOR HEC-RAS 2D, Celia Jackson
The Quest for Queer Authenticity: The Roles of Spirituality, Self-Compassion, and Psychological Flexibility, Kriti Jain
MONITORING THROUGH DEEP LEARNING: POULTRY ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION DETECTION AND WATER DEMAND ESTIMATIONS IN TENNESSEE, Savannah Jobkar
Interrogation of the metabolic fate of five-carbon isoprenoids by isomer-specific labeling of DMAPP and IPP, Nicklas Johansen
SHIFTY BEHAVIOR: USING PUPILLOMETRY TO DETECT COVERT SHIFTS OF ATTENTION IN INFANTS, Victoria Jones
Mixed Methods Analysis of User Engagement, Linguistic Indicators, and Psychological Associations in Online Suicidal Behavior, Tara F. Kelly
Communal Joking: Creating New Worlds Through Rhetorical Engagement with The People’s Joker, Ivy Kiernan
Precision Livestock Farming in the Broiler Industry: A Producer Survey on Implementation and Extension Education, Terrilyn Klingberg
The Dynamics of Goal-Directed Visual-Manual Coordination to Multiple Feature Objects: An Embodiment Perspective, Asante Knowles
Proposed Best Practices for the Design and Management for Subsurface Drip Irrigation Fields in Tennessee, Jason A. Koehler
Low-Cost Optical Surface Measurements for Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing, Zachary C. Koller
Advancing the GEOtiled Framework for Scalable High-Resolution Terrain Parameter Computation in Earth Sciences, Gabriel Mateo Laboy
The effects of adolescent stress and minocycline treatment on adult anxiety-related behavior in male and female Sprague Dawley rats, Sierra Rose Lawler
Being Asian American in Southern Appalachia: Counternarratives of Race and Space in Higher Education, Annie Liu
RELATIONSHIP OF EXPECTED PROGENY DIFFERENCES (EPDS) AND BULL REPRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY, Adella B. Lonas
The role of perR on Group B Streptococcus peroxide and iron regulation, Stephen W. Lumsdaine
Reptile Decomposition: An Actualistic Study Using Argentine Tegus (Salvator merianae), Hannah M. Maddox
Environmental fatty acid sources can alter the antibiotic susceptibility of Enterococci and other Gram-positive bacteria, Sudan Maharjan
Adaptive Evolution and Deployment of Neuromorphic Agents, Ethan Hunter Maness
The Costs of Heterosexism to Straight People, Tristan Mattwig
Physics-Guided Neural Network for the Prediction of Mass Change from Water Diffusion, Michael B. May
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization of Spiking Neural Networks, Luke Philip McCombs
MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES AND MODEL SYSTEMS IN THE STUDY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, Jemma McLeish
Validation of 3D Digital Image Correlation Incremental Hole Drilling Residual Stress Measurement, Chloe E. Mehelic
Serial Eviction Filing in Knox County, Tennessee, Anna Victoria Mesa
Material Recovery and Evaluation of Recycled Disassembled Automotive Plastic Components: Enabling the Automotive Circular Economy, Neeki S. Meshkat
“NO LONGER AT EASE”: EXPLORING SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ SENSE OF BELONGING IN A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION., Mariam Mohammed
Surface Modification of Carbonaceous Materials Toward Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide, Narges Mokhtarinori
Untangling the Mystery of the Barrens: Long-Term Fire Records from Tennessee and Missouri, U.S.A., Madison Moore
A Roadmap for the Restoration of the Freshwater Mussel Fauna of Abrams Creek, Caleb E. Moses
An Intelligent Multi-Agent System for Enhanced Dementia Care: Integrating Computer Vision, Adaptive Learning, and Caregiver Guidance, Connor Murphy
AMINO ACID-REGULATED ELECTROLYTES FOR RECHARGEABLE ZINC BATTERIES, Paranjothi Murugan
The Use of Terrestrial Laser Scanning to Assess the Mobilization of Contaminated Creekbank Soils in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Tyler C. Musante
Use of Plant Growing Promoting Bacteria as an alternative fertilizer for Bermudagrass, Felipe Fonseca Nassar
WORK HARDENING EFFECTS ON THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF STAINLESS STEEL FASTENERS, Pierce R. Okken
Field of Forgotten Dreams: The Role of Memorial Myopia in Representing Black Baseball History in Birmingham, Alabama, Micah Ortiz
Campus Social Infrastructure for International Students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), Jennifer Lauren Ott
Physical Victimization of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: The Roles of Maltreatment and Sexual and Gender Minority Statuses, Grace Abigail Parker
Conservation at the Trailing Edge: Hybridization, Population Genomics, and Environmental Change in Quercus bicolor, Jesse Parker
Optimization of in vitro Assays to Study the Efficacy of Anti-Leptospira Antibodies, Avni Patel
Tracking changes in nonprejudiced motivations: Influences of social and political events, Duangporn Pattanakul
The adsorption of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid by gibbsite, Logan D. Pederson
INCREASING COGNITIVE TASK COMPLEXITY IN A RUN TO CUT MANEUVER, Katherine Perille
Response of Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cells to Altered Stress Conditions, Toni Morgan Perkins
Post-Fire Geomorphic Response in the Northeast Cascades, Washington, USA: Insights from the 2021 Methow Valley Fires, Lucas Phillips
The Starrs: An Early History of a Cherokee Family, 1776-1846, Mary B. Pierce
Inactivation of foodborne viruses dried and as bio-aerosolized droplets on food-contact surfaces by ultraviolet light, Breanna Polen
Mechanistic force model calibration for milling in multiple materials, Dylan Michael Pollard
The Food Desert Reduction Roadmap: A Food-Energy-Water Nexus Analysis for the Appalachian Region, Angela Michelle Price
CHEMOTAXIS OF PANTOEA SP. YR343 IN A SYNTHETIC POPULUS DELTOIDES RHIZOSPHERE, Gayle L. Purdy
Effects of social dominance on perineuronal nets in medial prefrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala, Anna F. Radford
Geometry-Agnostic CNN for Porosity Detection in LPBF using Low-Cost NIR and Optical Imaging with XCT Ground Truth, Srikar Rairao
The Summer School of the South: Cultural Foundations of the Southern Education Movement in the Progressive Era, 1902-1912, Charles P. Ramey
Heme Acquisition in Campylobacter jejuni using the Chu Heme Transport System and its Role in Colonization and Pathogenesis., Vincent Randaisi
Achieving Ultraclean Graphene: Characterization and Applications, Milinda Randeniya Kankanam Pathiranage
Factors Affecting the Valuation of Hay: Producer and Consumer Preferences, Price Determinants, and Attribute Importance, Timothy Daniel Ray
"As fierce as the stare was, the hug was just as tight": A Qualitative Examination of Coach Pat Summitt, Madeline G. Reagan
Optimizing Corn Production in Tennessee: Enhancing Yield Potential and Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Sally A. Reed
Using Fatal Crash Data to Analyze Nationwide Trends in Pedestrian Safety at Bus Stops, Allison Rewalt
Association between Sperm Metabolites and Field Fertility in Angus Bulls, Samantha Rene Roberts
LAND USE IMPACTS ON THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY OF CAVE STREAMS WITHIN THE KNOXVILLE METROPOLITAN AREA, Maya Robles
EVALUATION OF NOVEL PROTEIN-BASED INGREDIENTS DERVIED FROM INDUSTRIAL HEMPSEED (Cannabis sativa L.), Adrienne Abigail Rodriguez
Evaluating United States Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Fresh Culinary Herbs, Carlos U. Rosales
Evaluation of the Efficacy of SCSP Vaccine Against Streptococcus uberis Mastitis in Dairy Cows, Hididiya Gammada Safayi
Food Insecurity Amongst Older Adults: Cohort Analysis and Alternative Measurement, Arfanul Ibna Mustafa Sakib
Attachment and detachment kinetics of FtsZ filaments, Amit Bikram Sanyal
Development of an Aluminum Multi-Material via Sequential Additive Friction Stir Deposition and Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, Kamren Sargent
COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR STRUCTURAL CONCRETE MIX OPTIMIZATION: INTEGRATING DIFFERENT AGGREGATE TYPES, GRADATION TECHNIQUES, AND PASTE CONTENT REDUCTION, Sazzadul Shahriar Saykat
THE EFFECT OF NATURALISTIC SCENE PRESENTATION ON WORKING MEMORY REPRESENTATIONS, Nicholas R. Schmitz
Who, what, when, & where? Seasonally varying host traits influence persistence of a fungal pathogen in amphibian communities, Sarah A. Schrock
USING STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING TO MEASURE COMPLEXITY IN CHICK-A-DEE CALLS OF MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES (POECILE GAMBELI), Zaharia Selman
Evaluating Tennessee Fruit and Vegetable Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Alley Cropping, Hasibul Hasan Shanto
Examining Scuba Diving as Recreational Therapy: A Case Study, Kayley Siler
The Distribution of Areolate Mildew in West Tennessee and the Effects of Planting Styles and Row Spacings on Disease and Yield, Allyson E. Sisco
What Does God Have to Do with Sports? Religion and Secularism in Professional Soccer and Football, Griffen Ryan Smith
Harvesting Stories: A Qualitative Analysis of Farmers’ and Labor Contractors’ Experiences with Migrant Labor in the Southeast United States, Makenzie Laine Smith
Contending With Complexity: Crisis Workers' Perspectives on Suicide, Stigma, And Existing Measures, Sarah Anne Stambaugh
Application of Neuromorphic Computing to Real World Scenarios, Julia Anne Steed
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Steel, Aluminum, and Glass Fiber Composite EV Battery Boxes, Bryant Scott Stegman
Preliminary Design of a Propellant Feed System for the µSTAMPS Thruster, Jack Stickley
Graph Attention Neural Network Using Reinforcement Learning for Mixed Traffic Control, Zachary Sublett
Environmental Controls on Microbe-Methane Dynamics in the Terrebonne-Timbalier Estuary, Louisiana, Kayla R. Summerlot
Growth Condition for Leptospira: Assessing Metabolomic Regulation in Variable Media and Temperature, Maliha Tabassum
Thermal conditions in residential tents in Knoxville, Tennessee, during hot and cold nights, Seth Grady Thompson
Propelling Resilience: Airship Innovation and the Transformation of Grid Logistics, Stephanie M. Tomasik
High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Microreactors in Continuous Recycle Nuclear Fuel Cycles for Reducing Nuclear Waste and Environmental Impact, Venkata S. Vallabhaneni
Soapstone Characterization as a Proxy for Trade in the Archaic Southeast, Tom Vallrugo
“NATURE NEVER FORMED SUCH AN ADVANTAGEOUS PLACE:” MOUNTAIN LOGISTICS AND WARFARE IN THE TRANS-APPALACHIAN SOUTH, 1756-1776, Stuart T. Vanderkooi
RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE NOVEL MINI-SYNPLASTOME AND CONVENTIONAL CHLOROPLAST TRANSFORMATION GENETIC TOOLS IN AGRICULTURE, Aaron Vincent
Enhancing Sustainability of Pollution Control with Electrochemical Oxidation Optimized by Alternating Polarity, Chenyang Wang
“Circumstances of such atrocity:” Violence and Federal Authority in the Lower Ohio Valley Borderlands at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, Andrew T. Washburn