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 2022
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
Image Forgery Detection with Machine Learning, Lubna Alzamil
The Development of Social Behavior in the Tibetan Macaque (Macaca thibetana), Rose Amrhein
Tekison Cave: A Case Study in Archaeological Collection Rehabilitation and Accessibility, Jackey Anderson
The Seasonality and Parasite Richness and Prevalence of the Weddelli’s Saddleback Tamarin (Leontocebus Weddelli), Krista Banda
Examining Environmental Use by Captive Lemur catta and Varecia rubra, Rhiannon Belcher
Mapping and Modeling the Seattle Fault Tsunami Inundation in Puget Sound, David Bruce
Effects of Different Housing Configurations on Captive Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Behavior in Holding Area During Construction, Kailyn Campbell
Group Differences in Mother-Infant Macaca fascicularis Behavior, Parasite Load, and Body Condition within an Anthropogenically Altered Forest, Elizabeth M.C. Coggeshall
“They are like Children”: Father Wilbur and Paternalism at Fort Simcoe, 1860-1890, Cassandra Crisman
Documenting the Earthquake History of the Thousand Springs Fault in Summer Lake Basin, Oregon, USA, Elizabeth Curtiss
Optimizing Pollution Routing Problem, Shivika Dewan
Sampling the Local Fare: Fishes at the Sam Israel House Pit (45GR76), Soap Lake, Washington, Adam Fruge
Risk of Low Energy Availability in Elite Male Athletes with Spinal Cord Injury, Savannah Glasgow
Examining how comfortable Students are in Contacting Campus Police at Central Washington University, Luis Gomez
Investigating the Spatial and Statistical Dimensions of Mortuary Choice in the Historical-Period Old City Cemetery in Roslyn, Washington, Sarah Rain Hibdon
Effects of Illness Type and Empathy Induction On Illness-Related Stigma in Undergraduate Students, Karlie Hill
Image Features for Tuberculosis Classification in Digital Chest Radiographs, Brian Hooper
Modeling Cle Elum Reservoir Shoreline Erosion: GIS Analysis to Support Cultural and Environmental Resource Management, Yakima Basin, Washington, Michael H. Horner
Recovering Lost Information From Avocational Projectile Point Collections, Mackenzie Hughes
The Economic Impact of Forest Harvest Practices on Washington State Park Visitation, Tyler Humphries
A Resource Management Analysis of Olympia and Pacific Oysters in Puget Sound, Liliana Kaeding
Me, Myself, and I: The Impact of Metacognitive Strategies on Student Locus of Control and Critical Thinking Skills, Danielle Kuchler
A Functional Analysis of Recorded Pre-Contact Archaeological Sites on Lopez Island, Washington, Julia Kunas
Hand Preference for Holding, Tapping, Probing and Digit-Feeding in Captive Adult Aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis), Robert Shaun Mayo
Early Life History and Stock Discrimination of Kokanee Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in an Alpine Lake Environment, Alexandra McCarrel