Graduate Studies, UNL
Dissertations and Doctoral Documents from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–
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2025
Resilience of Interdependent Transportation and Healthcare Systems: A Simulation-driven Framework Incorporating Social Equity and Facility Optimization, S. Yasaman Ahmadi
The Career Resilience of Women of Color Amidst Intersectional Racism-Sexism in the US: A Consensual Qualitative Study, Hannah Ahmad Ridzuan
Harnessing the Affordances of WhatsApp for Online Learning, Ogbonnaya B. Akpa
Public Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness in Ethiopia over the Last Decade, Fikadu Reta Alemayehu
Transitive Pedagogy in Creative Teaching: The Lived Experiences of K–6 Teachers Who Intentionally Adapt for Creativity, Rebekah Marie Andersen
A Study of the History, Repertory and Instrumentation of the Band of the Corfu Philharmonic Society from 1840 until 1920, Foteini Angeli
Detection of Activity Cliffs Produced by Anti-cancer Drugs and an Algorithm for Reliable Predictions in Affected Areas, Sarah Josephine Aurit
Proso Millet in US High Plains Dryland Agriculture: Systems Resilience, Phenology, and Consumer Preferences for Alternative Grains, Pratiksha Baishya
Detecting Prescribed Fire, Haying and Grazing Events Via Remote Sensing to Create Grassland Disturbance Landcovers for the Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), Megan Amy Baldissara
Amplifying Mother Leaders’ Voices: A Feminist Inquiry into Gender Inequity in Higher Education Leadership, Katherine Bard
A Zariski-Nagata Theorem for Smooth Toric Surfaces, Jordan Vincent Barrett
The Effect of Individual Variation on Epidemiological Dynamics: From Super-spreaders to Landscapes of Risk, Alexis Shannon Beagle
Soil Characterization with Proximal Geophysics, Sophia M. Becker
A Study of Ultrafast, Intense-field Photodynamics in Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Disulfide, and Select Substituted Benzenes, Joshua Edwin Beck
Choleramusik: A Conductor's Guide to Fanny Hensel’s Oratorium Nach Bildern der Bibel, Casey John Behm
Two Essays on Index-based Risk Management in U.S. Rangeland and Livestock Production, Wajdi Belgacem
Fire History, Ecological History, and Historical Human-Environment Interactions in the Northern Great Plains, James Victor Benes
From Classroom to Content Creator: Leadership Practices and Identities of Female Science Teachers on TikTok, Rachel M. Benzoni
Group and State-specific Estimation in Animal Movement Models Using a Bayesian Approach, Anita Bhandari Sharma
Study of AI Applications in Biomedical Data Acquisition, Communication, and Analysis: CEST MRI Acceleration and ECG Transmissions, Adarsha Bhattarai
The Global Classroom: A Phenomenological Study of International Student Experiences in a Reimagined Intercultural Communication Course, Crystal Bock Thiessen
The Overturning of Roe v. Wade and People Capable of Pregnancy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Carrie Bohmer
Exploring the Landscape of Collective Leadership Practice in Rural Nebraska: A Qualitative Sequential Multimethod Study, Haden Myles Botkin
Beyond Being Famous for Being Famous: A Phenomenological Approach to Understand the Leadership of Kim Kardashian, Kelli Britten
Ethical Decision-making Processes in Authentic Environmental Engineering Contexts Through Systems Thinking and Team Collaboration Lenses: An Embedded Single Case Study, Toluwalase Eniola Brower
Applications of Archaeal Antioxidant Coenzyme M as an Agricultural Biostimulant, Jeremy Hunter Brown
Assessing Reproductive Health in Zoo-managed African Elephant Bulls (Loxodonta africana), Kaitlyn Marie Campbell
Resources for the Beginning and Intermediate Jazz Educator: Reviews of Modern Resources and Implementation in the Classroom, Bryan Canonigo
The Tree That Would Not Fall: An Educator’s Autoethnographic Journey of Healing Through Words, Raeanna Marie Carlson
Understanding the Context of Bullying: Examination of the Healthy Context Paradox and Peer Acceptance for Students with Disabilities, Catherine Mae Carney
Evaluation of Performance Characteristics and Groundwater Contamination Risks Associated with On-farm Swine Carcass Disposal Via Composting and Shallow Burial with Carbon, Gustavo Castro Garcia
Sociological Understandings of Entrepreneurial Action and Intention, Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Online Prediction of Streaming Data, Aleena Chanda
Understanding the Dynamics of Formal Mentoring in Professional Identity Development of Early Career Extension Professionals: A Phenomenological Approach, Anuradha Choudhary
Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth Navigating Relationships and Sexuality: Recommendations for Affirming Clinical Practice, Hannah Marie Coffey
Investigating Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Stem Teaching Self-efficacy and Goal Orientation, Derek Scott Cox
Ediacaran Paleocommunity Structure, Body Size Evolution, and the Rise of Complex Animals, Matthew Philip Craffey
Culture and Context: How Frames of Teaching and of Learning Mathematics Form and Change for Graduate Student Instructors, Johan Benedict Arroyo Cristobal
Applications of Preclinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury and Understanding Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis, Evan Timothy Curtis
The Partsongs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Alan Davis
Advancing Precision Agriculture Through the Application of Remote Sensing Technologies in Plant Health Assessment, Thomas Wilbur Davis
Coaching Strategies for Instructional Improvement: Social Emotional Learning in the Preschool Classrooms, Maria Eleanor Yniguez Del Rosario
Synthesis and Study of Stable Organic Radicals for MRI Contrast Agents and New Materials, Sabina Dhakal
In-field Tractor Operational Load Profile Generation in Support of Advanced Tractor Testing in Mixedmode Power, Andrew Donesky
Exploring Factors Influencing Student Growth in Mathematics: Elementary Teacher Instructional Practices, Beliefs, and Professional Development Experiences, Marni E. Driessen
Host Genetics Role in Viral Disease Susceptibility, Christian Willis Eaton
Impact of Diet Quality and Functional Food (Honey) on Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Health in Obesity, Sarah M. Eaton
Considerations and Techniques for Producing Urban Tree Canopy Maps Using Freely Available and Accessible Methods, Hugh Reed Ellerman
Understanding Pre-harvest Hedging Behavior and Basis Forecasting: The Role of Information in Grain Marketing, Iyore Eronmwon
How Developers Use Type-System Related Programming Language Features, Samuel W. Flint
African American Women and Blogs: The Allure of Culture-specific Beauty Blogs, Kalari Flotree
Musical Self-efficacy Through Active Music Listening: A Phenomenological Approach, Amy Marie Fraser
Physics Embedded Neural Network: A Novel Data-free Numerical Method for Solving Computational Physics Problems, Pawan Gaire
Dreaming, Building, and Enduring Black Voices: Black Media in Omaha in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Elodie C. Galeazzi-Kelly
Blood-red and Flaming and True, Kate Gaskin
Framework for Integrating Industry Knowledge into a Large Language Model to Assist Construction Cost Estimation, Prashnna Ghimire
Integrating Genomic and Phenomic Breeding Tools for Wheat Stem Sawfly Resistance in Hard Winter Wheat, Sydney E. Graham
Changepoint Detection as Model Selection: A General Framework, Michael A. Grantham
Educational Leadership in a Vuca World: The Crisis Management Experiences of Rural School Superintendents, Lucas J. Grossnicklaus
A Study of Ice and Fire: Environmental Change Impacts on Lakes of the Nebraska Sandhills, Daniel Gschwentner
Investigating Programming Behaviors to Understand Student Engagement and Experience in Introductory Programming Courses, Marcus Eugene Gubanyi
Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 in Interferon Gamma Receptor Signaling and Cancer Immunology, Zachary P. Guinn
Reinforcement Learning Based Security Schemes for Distributed AI Systems, Ashan Chamath Gunawardena
The Effect of Voir Dire Variations on Juror Disclosures, Joshua A. Haby
An Integrated Modeling Framework to Evaluate Circularity of the Corn–Water–Ethanol–Beef Nexus, Heydi Han
Multivariate Mixture Regression Models with Known Group Membership and Informative Priors, Pahalapathirage Dona Kalani Hasanthika
Simulations of Differential Reflectivity Columns in Quasi-linear Convective Systems, Devon Jacob Healey
On Kernels and Antiderivatives of Nonlocal Derivatives, Alex John Heitzman
Rainfall-runoff Modelling in an Indonesian Humid Tropical Area Using Satellite-based Precipitation Products, Noordiah Helda
A Modular Paradigm for the Directly Efficient Representation of Kinetic Laser-driven Plasmas, Roland D. Hesse
Realism, Truth, and Commitment: An Exposition and Critique of Michael Devitt's Constitutive Account of Realism, Samuel Elias Hobbs
The Reality of Transformation: A Case Study of an American Community College Implementing Holistic Student Supports, Calie Marie Holden
Intelligent Multi-layer Optical Network Design and Network Softwarization, Boyang Hu
Experiences of Disclosure among Transgender and Gender Diverse Sexual Assault Survivors, Merle E. Huff II
Gene Editing Approaches to Improving Grain Amino Acid Profiles in Maize and Sorghum, Joseph Preston Hurst
Development and Evaluation of Supported Ionic Liquid Membrane and Porphyrin Frameworks for Carbon Capture Separation, Sarang Ismail
Echo Chambers on the Left, Echo Chambers on the Right: How Socioideological Identity Emotion Shape Social Interaction Behavior on Social Media, Dean Carl Jackson
Balance of Psychological Needs among University Aural Skills Students, Elizabeth Ann Johnson
From Ghorer Golpo to Global Voices: Digital Storytelling as a Decolonial Pedagogy for English Language Learning in Bangladesh, Tamanna Sharmin Kabir
AI-enabled Robotic Nitrogen Management, Ankita Kalra
Next-generation Biomedical Implants and Stimuli Responsive Soft Optical Arrays via Surface Functionalized Elastomeric Materials, John M. Kapitan
Developing a Metabolic Engineering Chassis from a Metabolically Versatile Organism, Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009, Mark William Kathol
Modules of Finite Projective Dimension and Singularities, Nawaj KC
Written & Directed By: The Limits of the Auteur and the Post-auteur Moment, Tom Knoblauch
The Ballad of the Wheel, John Kosch
Where Intangibles Travel: Essays on the Tax-motivated Geography of Innovation and Capital, Xuerui Kou
Men’s Fertility Beliefs, Intentions, and Contraceptive Use, Meagan Kunitzer
Screening for Chloroplast Inner Envelope-thylakoid Membrane Contact Site Proteins, Evan W. LaBrant
Chasqui, Nicole Lachat
Non-blackbox Robust Design of Machine Learning in Networks, Venkat Sai Suman Lamba Karanam
Thematic Analyses of Session Data with Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults Obtained During a Clinical Trial, Brenna Rose Lash
Adorning Harmony: Comparing Three of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Transcriptions with the Original Works, Micah Robert Leary
Evaluation of Distractor Model Specifications on Assessment Quality Within the Framework of Assessment Engineering, Sunhyoung Lee
A Study of Rachel Galinne’s Dybbuk for Solo Clarinet: A Classical Work with Klezmer Influences, Rachel S. Levison
Ferroelectricity and Multiferroicity in Ultrathin Films of Unconventional Transition Metal Oxide, Xin Li