This collection features all master's theses produced by students at Central Washington University. For more information, please see the School of Graduate Studies and Research.
Theses from 2023
Using Primates as a Flagship Species in Marketing Campaigns: Effects on Proenvironmental Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions, Taylor Barber
Identifying Paternal Behavior in Captive Sumatran (Pongo abelli) and Hybrid Orangutans (Pongo abelii X Pongo pygmaeus), Lilith Frakes
Risk of Low Energy Availability, Disordered Eating, and Menstrual Dysfunction in Female Recreational Runners, Marissa Miles
Evaluating Mirror-Guided Behaviors in Hylobatids, Desiree Peck
Crosshair Optimizer, Jason Torrence
Theses from 2022
Detecting Impacts of Historic and Undocumented Landslide Tsunamis at High Latitude Sites Using NDVI, Trent Adams
What About Me: Understanding the Relationship Between Gender Identity and Social Anxiety, Jessica Allen
Standards-Based Grading in the Culinary Arts Classroom, Kathryn Bart
Assessing the Effects of Instream Large Wood on Floodplain Aquifer Recharge and Storage at Indian Creek, Kittitas County, Washington, USA, Stephen Bartlett
Proceptivism: Applying Buchler's Theory of Human Judgment to Art, Dance, and Choreographic Methods, Michael Blue
Investigating the Effects of Body Weight Fluctuations on Insulin Resistance in Adults: a NHANES Study, Jessica Claire Burke
Establishing the Relative Composition of Functionalized Thiols in Mixed Ligand Gold Nanoparticles by 1H-NMR Spectroscopy, Matthias Carroll
Parental Status as a Modifying Factor in COVID-19 Vaccination Status: A Mixed Methods Approach, MacKenzie Carter
Activity Levels of Bat Species at Interstate Highway Sites with and without Wildlife Underpasses in the Washington Cascades, Jenna Chapman
Hanford Nuclear Site Cultural Resource GIS Analysis: A Case Study Investigating Pre-Contact Travel Networks and Site and Artifact Locations, Luciana R. Chester
A Contentious Crop: Exploring the Regulatory Debate of Solar Power Production Facilities in Kittitas County, Washington, Daphne Condon
The Blackness: Analyzing and Confronting the Underrepresentation of Black Americans in Primatology, Trevon Covington
Geomorphic History and Preservation of Archaeologically Significant Areas in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River, Washington State, Benjamin Deans
Attachment Style and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity in Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) Infants, Elizabeth DeBruyn
Determining the Effects of Chemical Exposure on Hepatocyte Mitochondrial Networks and Cell Viability, Bethany Eaton
Decadal-Scale Effects of Large Wood Restoration on Channel Morphology and Groundwater Connectivity, Taneum Creek, WA, Samuel Fixler
The Interrelatedness of Attachment Insecurity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Loneliness, Becky Fromm
Examining Enrichment Use by Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Julia L. Greeson
Binding Interactions Between Mixed-Monlayer Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles (AuNPs) And the Serum Protein Albumin, Jennifer Hanigan-Diebel
Assessing the Mechanics of Two Earthquake Clusters in the Basin and Range Province, Jamie Hansen
Breaking Free: Detectives Let the Guilty Walk, Cassandra Holcombe
Corporate Values of Tribally Owned Companies, Halle Hull
Exploring Agricultural Worker Self-Efficacy During a COVID-19 Delta Variant Surge and Adverse Environmental Conditions, Hannah Lascano
Examining the Function of Stone Wrapping Behavioral Pattern in Balinese Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis), Patricia Mitchell
Factors Influencing Intestinal Parasite in Black-and-White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata), Eliette Noromalala
The Effects of Channel Incision and Land Use on Surface-Water/Groundwater Interactions in the Teanaway River Basin, Washington, USA, Joseph Petralia
Education and Awareness of Workplace Hazards: An Educational Intervention for First Responder Trainees, Emily Portune
The Use of Gesture Forms Within Sequence in Free-Living Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) In Gombe National Park, Tanzania, Caroline Ratliff
Interpretable Machine Learning for Self-service High-risk Decision Making, Charles Recaido
Associations Between Atherogenic Markers and Hearing Loss: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: 2011-2012, 2015-2016, Anna Anya Rombakh
Evaluating Variation in Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) Diet Using Feather Stable Isotopes, Jasmine Ruiz
A Comparison of Chimpanzee Wound Rates Before and During COVID-19 Zoo Closures, Robin Elana Salak
Russian Women Emigres After the Revolution, Kaelen Sauriol
Longitudinal Patterns of Microplastic Abundance and Potential for Food Web Uptake in the Yakima River, Janell Shah
Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Do False Information Tags Work?, Jeremy Simmons
Distribution of Capped Langurs (Trachypithecus pileatus) in Bhutan, Kelsie Strong
Spatio-temporal Movement Patterns of Sub-adult Adfluvial Bull Trout, Aimee Taylor
The Use of Macromorphoscopic Analysis to Examine Nonmetric Skull Variation Within a Gorilla Subspecies: Gorilla gorilla gorilla, Chelsea J. Thompson
Characterizing and Predicting Beaver Pond Habitat in Kittitas County, Washington, Kylie Vroman
Higher Education and Food Access: A Case Study of Food Access Initiatives and Their Community Impact, Rebecca Wheaton
Theses from 2021
Raw Material Usage and Stone Tool Manufacture in the Elwha River Valley, Zachary C. Allen
The Human—Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) Interface at Don Chao Poo Forest, Phana, Thailand, Ashton M. Asbury
The Personality of Primates: Opinions of Contemporary Primatologists, Courtney Dawn Aucoin
Development of Environmental Metabarcoding Analysis for Use in Ecological Studies of Aquatic Fungal and Oomycete Communities Using Nanopore Sequencing, Douglas Bennett
The Relationship between Eating Disorders, Weight Control Methods, and Body Satisfaction in Elite Female Runners Competing at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, Sophia Elizabeth Berg
Ecological and Anthropogenic Influences on a Sentinel Species' Gut Microbiome, Carson E. Black
Women and World War One: Perspectives on Women's Role in WWI Literature, Rachel Michelle Brown
Patterning and Quality of Male-Male Interactions in Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas), John Calcitrai
The immigrant in our head: Skin tone, social categorization, and support for policy, Patrizia Chirco
Rock Glacier Hydrological Significance in a Warming World: A Geoecological Transect in the North Cascades, Washington, Jessica Abadie Coffey
Cold-Induced Metabolic Changes in Lean, NAG-1 Transgenic Mice, Rachel J. Davey
Evaluating the Analytical Contribution of 1/8-Inch (0.32 Centimeter) Lithic Debitage at the Sunrise Ridge Borrow Pit Site (45PI408), David R. Davis
Long-term Geomorphic Effects of the Glines Canyon Dam Removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA, Alyssa D. DeMott
Playing with Relatives: Genetic Kinship and Play Behavior in Juvenile Tibetan Macaques, Riley Derby
Geologic Mapping along the Benton Spring Fault, Nevada: Dextrally-offset Tuff-filled Paleovalleys in the Central Walker Lane, Peter Dubyoski
Women and Violence in Revolutionary Russia, 1860-1925, Jenny R. Findsen
Gender and Conservation: A Comparative Study of the Bison and Wild Horse Conservation Movements, Holly Charlotte Fleshman
Comparing Semi-Urban and Forest Populations of the Jalisco Mud Turtle (Kinosternon chimalhuaca), Jose Garrido
A Regional Synthesis of Post-Glacial Fire History in the Eastern Cascades, Washington, Using Macroscopic Charcoal Analysis, Brynn Harrison
Organic-Input Impacts on Soil Carbon Flux, Storage, and Budget in Conservation Agricultural Soils, Central Washington, USA, Jessica Hartman
Water Surfaces Detection from Sentinel-1 SAR Images using Deep Learning, Chao Huang Lin
Sport, Kul’turnost, and Physical Culture in the Khrushchev Era Soviet Union, 1953-1964, James Henry Jennings
Visualization for Solving Non-image Problems and Saliency Mapping, Divya Chandrika Kalla
Critically Evaluating Website Credibility: Factors that Influence Perceptions of Online Mental Health Information, Mikayla Kimery
The Effects of Priming on Framing Bias: An Integrative Study Examining Mortality Salience, Self-Affirmation, and Emotional Intelligence, Kyle Klaassen
Graduate School Psychology Students’ Self Report on Multicultural Competence and Program Satisfaction, Jasmin Moreno Sanchez
Full Interpretable Machine Learning Method with In-line Coordinates, Hoang Phan
Bias and Fairness of Evasion Attacks in Image Perturbation, SiChong Qin
Evaluating compassion satisfaction and the risk of compassion fatigue among those working at non-human primate sanctuaries and wildlife centers, Madalyn Rantala
Tsunami Deposits and Tsunami Modeling of the 900 AD Seattle Fault Event in Northern Puget Sound, Andrew A. Raulerson
Clinical Test Versus Self-Test for Prediabetes: Outcomes in Diabetes Prevention Based on Mode of Diagnosis, Debra J. Rich
Destalinization and its Impact on Gulag Returnees in the Khrushchev Era, 1953-1964, Kendal Ridgeway
The Development of a Survey Instrument to Assess Racial and Cultural Inclusiveness: A Case Study of Staff, Jolene Rios
Quantifying the Impact of Remapping Floodplains on Residential Property Values in Snohomish County, Washington: A Hedonic Approach, Carson Joseph Risner
The Effect of Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics on Indicators of Lactose Intolerance: A Systematic Review, Taylor Roice
Frontal Alpha Wave Asymmetry in regard to Affect, Monica Leigh Sewell
Embodied Performance As Queer Theatre Historiography: Translation, Gender, Identity, and Temporalities in Mikhail Kuzmin's The Dangerous Precaution, Keenan Shionalyn
An Analysis of Tachylyte and Other Volcanic Glasses in Washington Archaeology, Mallory M. Triplett
Evaluating the Spatial Trends and Statistical Determinants of Residential Solar Uptake in Washington State, Caleb Michael Valko
Interactive Visual Self-service Data Classification Approach to Democratize Machine Learning, Sridevi Narayana Wagle
An Ecological Comparison Between Resource Subsidies: Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) and Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), Jocelyn Wensloff
Mental Health Risks & Patterns Among On-Campus Resident Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Brooke Writer
Theses from 2020
Late Holocene Paleoflood Hydrology of the Snake River in the Lower Hells Canyon, Idaho, Kent C. Allen