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 2019
Faunal Analysis of the Mesa 12 Archaeological Site (45GR144): Grant County, Washington, Justin Fitzpatrick
Effects of a Voluntourism Experience on Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Environmental Sustainability and Science, Mireille Gonzalez
How Researchers Address Ethical Concerns Regarding Habituating Nonhuman Primates: Results of a Survey and Suggestions for Future Practice, Victoria M. Green
Exploring Early Childhood Teachers' Beliefs and Perceptions About the Use of Technology in the Classroom, Sharron Hallanger
The Chemical Analysis and Biological Activities of the Secondary Metabolites from Dalea mollis and Dalea albiflora, Nicholas Peter Hansen
Music, Video and Perception: An investigation into shaping attitudes toward fish and their natural habitat, Kayla-Ann Hemmings
Measuring Trace Element Concentrations in Artiodactyl Cannonbones using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence, Joshua L. Henderson
Impacts of Self-Efficacy on School Psychologists' Provisions of Mental Health Services, Ashley Jantzer
Increased Utility of pH Sensitive Indicators as High Concentration CO2 Detectors Through the Use of Polyelectrolyte Complexes as Stabilizing Media, Camden James Johnson
Estimating the Economic Value of Rock Climbing in Smith Rock: An individual travel cost approach, Cassandra Koefod
The Activity Budgets of Captive Javan Gibbons (Hylobates moloch) and their Response to Visitor Presence or Absence, Kalli Kohnen
Modelling Stream Metabolism and Fish Biomass in Headwater Streams of the Eastern Cascades Mountains, Zach Lessig
Exploring Locus of Control in Offender Cognition and Recidivism Paradigms, Anistasha Lightning and Danielle Polage
Suction Dredge Mining Impacts on Pacific Lamprey Populations and Habitat in Washington State: A Case Study of the Entiat River, Jaime Liljegren
A Novel SNP Genotyping Technique to Determine Orangutan Relatedness and Genetic Diversity at Camp Leakey in Tanjung Puting, Central Kalimantan, Ruth Ella Linsky
Incorporating User Data in Cross Boundary Trail Mangement: A case study of the foothills trail systemnear Wenatchee, WA, Beth Macinko
Mapping and Reconstructing the Paleotsunami Record in Queule, South-Central Chile, Pedro I. Matos Llavona
Characterizing the deformation history of the southern Mina Deflection: field and structural studies in the Huntoon Mountains, California-Nevada, Joseph Bodie McCosby
Are Highways Stressful for Pikas?: Analysis of Stress Hormones of the American Pika (Ochotona princeps) Living Adjacent to Interstate 90 in the Cascade Range of Washington State, Thomas J. McIntyre III
Quantifying magma recharge at Parinacota volcano, northern Chile (52 ka - recent): Insight from the Magma Chamber Simulator, Jennifer McLeod
Terminal Illness: The Political Ecology and Political Economy of the Millennium Bulk Coal Export Terminal, Longview, WA, Paige McNorvell
Modular Synthesis and Hydroalkylation of Vicinally Functionalized Ketopiperazines: A solution to the Piperazine Problem, Antonio Moreno
The Effects of Reversing SAFMEDS Presentation on Learning and Generalization, Emily Nordlund
A Book and its Cover: The effects of dynamic and static facial expressions on the perction of personality traits, Jonathan Ojeda
Bondmania: Spy Films, American Foreign Policy, and the New Frontier of the 1960s, Luke Pearsons
Effect of Carbonaceous Nanoparticles on Naturally Occurring Iron Reduction by Carboxylates, Ashleen Reddy
Evaluation of Wildland Firefighter Leadership, Rebecca Rose
A Cognitive Task as Enrichment for Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in Sanctuary, Federico Rubio
Holocene Fire History Reconstruction of a Mid-Evaluation Mixed-Conifer Forest in the Eastern Cascades, Washington, Zoe Rushton
Evaluations of Health in Sympatric Free-Ranging Saguinus imperator and Leontocebus weddelli Using Neopterin, Urinalysis, and Blood Chemistry Analyses, Alexandra J. Sacco
Identifying Key Factors Affecting Translational Landslides in Part of the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt, Washington State, Joseph Schilter
Who is Paying for God: A thematic analysis of Henry Arthur Jones's religious plays in relation to the modernist trend, Jay Tyler Sharma
Effects of 5��-Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) on Mouse Gut Microbiome– A Study of Sex Differences and Hormonal Effects on Gut Microbiome Composition, Bikesh Shrestha
Effect of Group Size on the Activity Budget of Two Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Kaeley Sullins
Effectiveness of Nutrition Education and Fitness Tracking in a Large Corporate Healthcare Wellness Program, Jess Tyrrell
Effects of Initial Thermal Structure on the Evolution of Continental Rifting, Alexandra Wernle
Water and Life. A Cross-Sectional Study on Determinants of Beverage Consumption and Water Access in One Tribal Community, Christina White
Enlightened Agricultural Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Amanda M. Widney
Sea Star Wasting Disease in Pisaster Ochraceus on the Washington Coast and in Puget Sound, Caitlin Wilkes
Holocene Periods of Aggradation and Incision, Hanson Creek, Washington, Levi Earl Windingstad
The Effects of Self-Esteem and Mood on the Perception of Others, Sydney Wirkkala
Theses from 2018
Spike-Based Classification of UCI Datasets with Multi-Layer Resume-Like Tempotron, Sami Abdul-Wahid
The Effects of Autonomous Motivation and Implementation Planning on Dietary Goal Adherence Among Personal Training Clients, Hannah Allen
Improving the Phylogenetic Understanding of the Genus Juniperus, Therese Balkenbush
Use of a Two-Action Paradigm Apparatus with Captive Lemurs: Insights into Social Learning, Carly Batist
Assessing the Use of Tsunami Simulations as a Tool to Predict Source Magnitudes and Locations of Paleoearthquakes in Chile, Rebeca Isabel Becerra
Gender Differences in Task Switching: An Event-Related Potential Study, Briana M. Bratcher
Coloration, Camouflage, and Sexual Dichromatism in the Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus), Jefferson Brooks
Life in the Dirt: Factors Influencing the Behavior and Distribution of Spea Intermontana in Eastern Washington State, Corey Brumbaugh
The Effects of Moral Message Framing on Political Ideology, Matthew Christiansen
Development of the Clark and Becker Scale of Symptomatology (CBS): Symptom-Level Item Performance, Michael Clark
Characterizing Low Nutrient Stress Resistance in Crop Sunflowers (Helianthus annus), Casey Croshaw
The Discourse of Written and Audio Feedback, Zachary Dalton
Sign modulation by chimpanzees to produce interrogatives, Kailie Dombrausky
Data Visualization and Classification of Artificially Created Images, Dmytro Dovhalets
Variability in the Debitage of the Early Holocene Lithic Assemblages of the Sanders (45KT315) Site, Alexis Dyson
Cascade Annulation and Ring-Opening Reactions of Castagnoli-Cushman-Derived Allylic and Benzylic Thiomorpholinonates, Abdikani Omar Farah
Sex differences in glycosylated hemoglobin in Mauritian origin long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), Ricardo A. Fernandes
Re-Evaluating Captive Chimpanzee “Dominance”: Dominance Hierarchy and Chimpanzee-Caregiver Relationships at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, Jake Funkhouser
Decreasing Occlusion and Increasing Explanation in Interactive Visual Knowledge Discovery, Abdulrahman Ahmed Gharawi
Occupancy of Stream-Associated Amphibians within the Interstate 90 Snoqualmie Pass Corridor, Anne Gustafson
Embodying The Hyphen: An Ethnography On Korean Adoptees, Barbara Hammersberg
Postglacial Fire, Vegetation, and Environmental Change in the Sinlahekin Wildlife Area, Okanogan County, Washington (USA), Kevin Haydon
Single and Pair Housed Chacma Baboons’ (Papio ursinus) Response to Caregivers’ Use of Species-Specific Behavior, Josefine Holm
Rock Features of the Upper Klamath Basin: An Integrated Approach to Identification, Roman Jakien
Tsunami Excitation Estimation from Real-time GNSS, Catherine Jeffries
Talking About How: Variation in the Use of HOW and Its Definition, Maili Jonas
Comparisons of Captive Gibbons’ (Hylobatidae) Intrapair Behaviors Indicative of the Pair Bond, Samantha Jones
Characterization of Coacervate Systems Using Redox Sensitive Dyes, Caleb Kaiser
Derived Textual Control in Recreational Activity Schedules with Children with Autism, Holly Kolb
Emergence of Stimulus Equivalence and Topography-Based Responding Following Lecture Instruction, Justin Dale Krzmarzick
Abandoned Mine Land Impacts on Tributaries in the Upper Yakima River Watershed, Eastern Cascades, Washington, Scott Kugel
An Examination of the In-Group Hypothesis in Facial Expression Inferences Using American and Indian Samples, Scott Lehrman
Your Thoughts Projected: Television Comedies, Economic Content, and American Economic Attitudes, 1949-1990, Cody J. Lolos
Antibody Dependent Enhancement of Visceral Leishmaniasis, Alan K. McNolty
Evaluation of Anthelmintic Properties and Toxicity of Pure Compounds Isolated from Dalea Spp (Plantae, Fabaceae), Victoria LH McPherson
Small mammal microhabitat use and species composition at a wildlife crossing structure compared with nearby forest, Lindsay Millward and Kristina Ernest
Effects of Pre-Exercise Ice Slurry Ingestion on Physiological and Perceptual Measures in Athletes with Spinal Cord Injuries, Alexis Moore, Kelly Pritchett, Robert Pritchett, and Elizabeth Broad
Criminological Self-Efficacy: Increased or Hindered From Crime TV Shows, Dorothy Moore
Evaluating Floodplain Hydrologic Connectivity, Yakima River, WA, Cristopher Morton
The Impact of Mindfulness on Student Success, Casey D. Nightingale
Behavioral Skills Training To Train Teachers To Conduct A Brief Functional Analysis, Rachel O'Connor and Rachel E. O'Connor
Geomorphic Consequences of Hydroelectricity and Transportation Development near Celilo Falls, Lower Mid-Columbia River, Washington, Noah I. Oliver
Geographic Classification of Wines Using Their Elemental and Water Isotopic Composition; Special Emphasis on Washington State, USA, Shirley Orellana
Enrichment Assessment for Geriatric African Old World Monkeys under Human Care, Amanda E. Osborne
Farmers Market Education with Supplemental Voucher Improves Farmers Market Awareness in Elementary Children, Ali Papendick
Modeling the Psychiatric Aspects of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Induced Stress, Danielle Peecher
Residential solar in Washington State, Sam Pfeifer