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 2015
The Impact of the Arts for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities, Rebekah Fuss
Using MODFLOW to Predict Impacts of Groundwater Pumpage to Instream Flow: Upper Kittitas County, Washington, Zoe O. Futornick
Organization of Technology at the Sanders Site (45KT315): Analysis of Formed Tools from the Yakima Uplands, WA, Patrick D. Garrison
Obtaining Cultural Competency Skills: Perceptions from Supervisors in Higher Education, Veronica Gomez Vilchis
Field Observations and Modeling of the 1957 Earthquake and Tsunami on the Islands of the Four Mountains, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Frances R. Griswold
Elk and Deer Hunters in Washington State: Affiliations and Ethical Behavior, Isa O. Harrison
Passage Route Survival and Behavior of Juvenile Salmon at Priest Rapids Dam, Columbia River, WA, Kyle B. Hatch
Broken Promises: Rape, Race, and the Union Army, Kellie J. Hedgers
Community Readiness Assessment: Applications for Community Nutrition Research, Whitney E. Houser
Control of Violence, Control of Fear: The Progression of Gun Control in San Francisco, 1847-1923, Josselyn P. Huerta
Moving Foward?: Problematic Ideologies in Twenty-First Century Fairy Tale Films, Alyson Kilmer
Dystopian Cinderellas: "I Follow Him into the Dark", Courtney Lear
Understanding Vulnerability in Alaska Fishing Communities: A Validation Methodology for Rapid Assessment of Well-Being Indices, Conor M. Maguire
Total Synthesis of Clavatadine A Analogs to Produce a Viable Reversible Inhibitor for Factor XIa, Christopher E. Malmberg
Killin' it on Corporate Ground: The Cultural Politics of Street Performance in a Gentrified Space, Hillary C. Matson
Physiological variation of Garry oak (Quercus garryana) seedlings to drought stress, Matthew A. Merz
Agreement in the Army's Circumference Measurements and Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry, Katherine Mitchell
Creating a Somali Manhood: Navigating Race, Place, and Power in Seattle, WA, Saeed Mohamed
Small Islands, Big Heart: Reproducing the Marquesas Islands Through The Body, Patrick E. Molohon
Rediscovering an Upland Site: The Manastash Pines (45KT346) Kittitas County, Washington, Christopher J. Moose
Renewing Spokane: A study of motivating forces behind downtown revitalization projects, Kara K. Mowery
The Evolution of Sex Determination and the DMRT1 Gene in the Japanese Gecko (Gekko japonicus), Lisa-Marie Mullen
Timing and Source of Alkali Enrichment at Mt. Etna, Sicily: Constraints from Clinopyroxene Geobarometry and In Situ SR Isotope Data, Kaitlyn Nelson
My Family, My Identity: An Ethnohistorical Exploration of a Multiethnic Family, Sarah Oosahwee-Voss
Behavioral Response of Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) to Predator Odors, Laurie L. Porter
The Effects of Feedback Sequence on Cognitive Performance, Travis W. Pyle
Play and Procedural Rhetoric in Composition Coursework: A Rhetorical Analysis of Trivial Pursuit Instructions, Peter Rampa
Chemical and Behavioral Ecology of the Coastal Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus), David Reavill
Electrophysiological and Behavioral Working Memory Differences Between Musicians and Non-Musicians, Benjamin P. Richardson
Anarchist Strategy and Visual Rhetoric in Brazil, 1970: The Living Theatre as “The People in the Street”, Chelsea R. Roberts
Sexual Behavior of Immature Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana), Anne Salow, R. Steven Wagner, Mary Radeke, and Joseph Lorenz
Provisioning and Its Effects on the Social Interactions of Tibetan Macaques (Macaca Thibetana) at Mt. Huangshan, China, Brianna I. Schnepel
Determination of Site Functionality and Subsistence Patterns at the Bray Archaeological Site (45PI1276) in Edgewood, Washington, David J. Sheldon
Rapid Middle to Late Miocene Slip Along the Zanskar Normal Fault, Greater Himalayan Range, NW, India: Constraints from Low-Temperature Thermochronometry, Brett L. Shurtleff
Spectroscopic Studies on the Interaction of Cetylpyridinium Bromide Monohydrate and Bromothymol Blue with Polymerized Silica, James Siegenthaler
Investigation Into School Lunch Quality Following Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act Implementation, Katherine N. Smith
Behavioral Response to UVB Differs in Subalpine Populations of Daphnia Melanica, Amanda Tompkins
Using Time Series Models for Defect Prediction in Software Release Planning, James W. Tunnell
Applying Wetland Rating Systems to Assess Functions of Depressional Wetlands Created by a Mass Wasting Feature, Table Mountain, Washington, Thomas S. Wachholder
Building a History: Evaluation of Central Washington University Campus Buildings to Determine Eligibility for Listing on the National Register of Historic Places, Lauren M. Walton
An Evaluation of Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Assertiveness Skills to College Students, Savannah Warrington
Washington's Fish Consumption Rate and Water Quality Standards: Fostering Allies to Keep Our Seafood Clean, Tiffany J. Waters
Blarney in St. Louie: Performing Irishness at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904, Cassandra L. White
Efficacy of Ultraviolet Radiation to Control Lactic Acid Bacteria in Wine Must, Brian D. Williams
Theses from 2014
Effective Learning Strategies for College Students with Asperger's Syndrome, Jamie Susanne Gilbert
Spatial relationship between GPS slip and seismic tremor during Cascadia slow slip events, Hillary Lynn Goodner
Proxy-based reconstructions of earthquakes and tsunamis at Quidico, South-Central Chile, Isabel J. Hong
Priming the Data: Examining Self-Potentiation in a Word Fragment Completion Task, Michael P. McDonald
Thermobarometry and geochronology in the Dulan region, North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure terrane: resolving spatial variation of ages, temperatures, and pressures, Megan Eileen Regel
The Museum as an Inclusive Community: A Blueprint for Moving Forward, Howard P. Scott
Alpine and Other Abandoned Towns along the Great Northern Railroad near Stevens Pass, Washington, 1890-1930, Stacy Marie Stanley
Controls on fault geometry during early stages of extension in the Larkspur Hills, northwest Basin and Range, Diana Jean Strickley
GIS Modeling of Elk Habitat Suitability in the North Cascades of Washington State, Anna Yost
Sustainability Policy’s Inherent Dilemmas – Exemplified Via Critical Examination of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Sustainability Campaign, Kathryn A. Zimmerman
Theses from 2013
Experiments to Measure the Effects of Timber Harvesting Equipment on Surface Lithic Scatters, Douglas J. Baughman
Paleoseismologic Evidence for Holocene Activity on the Pinto Mountain Fault, Twentynine Palms, California, Ana Maria Cadena
Evaluating the Utility of Beaver Reintroduction Programs for Enhancing Habitat for Rainbow Trout and Steelhead, Jonathan Rodger Hegna
The Elwha River Restoration: Landscape Change, Salmon, and Sense of Place, Kelseyanne Johnson
Feasibility of Seismic Monitoring to Identify Avalanche Activity: Snoqualmie Pass, WA, Kathryn Johnston
Geomorphology of Deposits from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Tamil Nadu, Southeastern India, Patrick Alan Johnston
The Roles of Humans and Climatic Variation on the Fire History of Subalpine Meadows - Mount Rainer National Park (Washington), Michael Louis Lukens
Characterization of Mass Wasting Through the Spectral Analysis of LiDAR Imagery: Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Christopher Earl Markley
LiDAR Assessment of Sediment Transport Related to the Removal of the Marmot Dam, Sandy River, Oregon, Carl Daniel Matzek
Black Carbon Measurements of Snow and Ice Using the Single Particle Soot Photometer: Method Development and an AD 1852-1999 Record of Atmospheric Black Carbon from a Mount Logan Ice Core, James Andrew Menking
Integration of School Psychology and Neuropsychology: An Inquiry, Megan Colleen Moerke
Theses from 2012
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Responses to Visitors using Chimpanzee-Friendly Behaviors, Daniella Bismanovsky
Holocene Arroyo Cut and Fills Cycles, South-Central Washington, Matthew Ian Durkee
The Effects of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3, Docosahexaenoic Acid and 5-Fluorouracil on Human Breast Cancer Cells, Liv Astri Engelsen
A Punishment-free, Toilet-training Protocol for Children with Developmental Disabilities, Chelsea Lynn Pearsall
The Grissom Site (45KT301): A Review and Synthesis of Investigations and Exploration of the Site's Research Potential, Holly Ann Cecilia Shea
Applying GIS Metrics to Determine Degree of Glacial Modification in Mountainous Landscapes, Carl Delbert Swanson II
Petrogenetic Relationship of the Postcaldera Eruptions of Mount Mazama, Crater Lake, Oregon; Evolution of a Sub-volcanic Magma Chamber Following a Large Silicic Eruption, Michelle Leanna Tebbe
The Identification and Historic Context of Mining Archaeology of the Wenatchee Mountains within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Jared Valenta
Geochemical Constraints on Groundwater Recharge in the Royal Slope Area, Grant County, Washington, Zoe Danielle Weis
Theses from 2011
Cooking up a Nation: Food, Culture, and Identity in the Early American Republic, Karen Anne Bailor
Geochemistry, Geothermobarometry and Geochronology of High-Pressure Granulites and Implications for the Exhumation History of Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes: Dulan, Western China, Benjamin David Joseph Christensen
Assessment of Black Carbon in Snow and Ice from the Tibetan Plateau and Pacific Northwest, Matthew Glen Jenkins
Pollination of Basalt Daisy (Erigeron basalticus: asteraceae), Diedra Petrina
Surface Wave Inversion of the Upper Mantle Velocity Structure in the Ross Sea Region, Western Antarctica, James D. Rinke
Theses from 2010
Overwintering of Cascades Frogs (Rana cascadae) in Washington, April B. Barreca
Lacustrine Sediment Record of Multiple Quaternary Lava Dams on the Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Caitlin Anne Orem
Fluid Budget of Metasedimentary Rocks from a Tertiary Accretionary Prism and Connections to Seismicity, Olympic Peninsula, Northwest Washington State, Holly Makena MacFadden Rotman
Theses from 2008
Energy Budget Analysis of Slow-Slip Tremor Events Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone Using Continuous GPS Array Data, James Steven Chapman
Petrogenetic Processes Characterizing the Mount Bachelor, Oregon Magmatic System: Open- versus Closed-System Processes, Sara Elizabeth Johnson
Middle Crustal Ductile Deformation Patterns in Southern Tibet: Insights from Vorticity Studies in Mabja Dome, Jackie Langille
Comparison of Landslides and their Related Outburst Flood Deposits, Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Shannon Marian Othus
The 2004 and 1861 Tsunami Deposits on Simeulue Island, Western Sumatra, Katherine Frances Whitlow
Theses from 2007
Seismic Constraints on Slow Slip Events within the Cascadia Subduction Zone, Ana Cristina Aguiar
Late Holocene Uplift of the Chihshang segment of the Longitudinal Valley Fault at Fuli, Eastern Taiwan, Brian Thomas Gray
Development and Evaluation of a Simulation System Based Upon Standard Pedestrian Thoroughfare Methodologies, Charles O. Pringle
Paleoflood Record Reconstruction at an Archaeological Site on the Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Stephanie Louise Vandal
The Public Perception of Enrichment for Captive Animals, Elizabeth Marie Webb
Theses from 2006
Fluvial Response to Intra-Canyon Lava Flows, Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Cooper Cooke Brossy
Deciphering the Signature of Magma Mixing: Examples from the Castle Creek Eruptive Period, Mount St. Helens, Washington, Seth Taylor Mattos
Theses from 2005
The Role of Geomorphic Features and Hydrologic Processes on Sediment Clusters in Gravel-Bed Rivers, Washington: A Field-Based Approach, Ross Richard Hendrick