This collection includes EKU theses and dissertations submitted electronically beginning with the Fall 2010 semester.
All theses written prior to Fall 2010 are available at EKU Libraries in the Silent Study Zone located on the 4th floor of the University Building. Browse the list of print theses written prior to Fall 2010.
To browse these theses and dissertations by academic department or program, please go to the Colleges, Departments, or Administrative Unit page.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the Intensive Care Unit, Jonathan Todd Sizemore
Distributions, Assemblage Structure, and Habitat Associations of Fishes in Two Streams of the Red Bird River Watershed, Kentucky, Eric J. Smith
The Occupational Participation of a Family of Children with Disabilities, Kim Steele
Population genetics of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) in a forested ridge-top wetland ecosystem, Jennifer R. Strong
Exploring The Attitudes Of Criminal Justice And Homeland Security Students Regarding Assessment Techniques In Online Courses, Terry Allen Taylor
Rhaptein/Aidein, Kristen Roach Thompson
Social Class and Capital Punishment: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Jennifer L. Tilley
An Examination of the Day of Week and Sampling on Injury Occurrence, Michael D. Turner
Safety During a Disaster: A Comparison of Disaster Events, Lauren Webb
Algorithms for Solving the Discrete Logarithm Problem, Ryan Edward Whaley
Saul Cyriaque & the Siren of Jean Lafitte, Laura E. Wooffitt
The Description of Life Experiences of a Person with Pediatric-Onset Tetraplegia During His Upper Teen and Young Adult Years, Kelsey M. Yarberry
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Nowhere To Go: The Trend To Criminalize The Nation's Homeless, Jessica Anderson
Examining the Role of Race, Gender, and Class in African-American Police Perceptions in Rural Kentucky, Paul Maxwell Blackhurst
Relationship Between Personality And Exercise Motivation In Weight Loss, Leanna Beth Bowles
Factors Influencing College Attendance of Appalachian Kentucky Students Participating in a Federal Educational Talent Search Program, William Bowling
A Case Study of One Service Member With Traumatic Limb Loss and the Decision of Whether or not to Return to Duty, Carly Braun
Effective Methods of Formative Assessment, Chelse Rae Bugg
Increasing Automaticity, Sara Burns
Wintering white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis): home ranges, aggression and corticosterone, Marissa Ann Buschow
Gaussian Amicable Pairs, Ranthony Ashley Clark
Relationships Between Teacher Perceptions Of Principal Leadership And Student Achievement In Kentucky Appalachian High Schools, James I. Dantic
The Impact Of Orientation Programming On Student Success Outcomes At A Rural Community College, James M. Davis
"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Caleb Randall Dempsey-Richardson
Understanding Playground Behaviors And Injury Potential To Elementary Children, Ronald Gene Dotson
An Examination of the Role of Macro- and Micro-Level Processes in John Adams's Phrygian Gates, James Edward Evans
Factors That Contribute To Success In Policing Based On Prior Military Experience, Thomas Salem Fagan
An Examination of Teacher Efficacy on Student Achievement in Regional Juvenile Detention Centers and Youth development Centers in Kentucky, Scott Tyrone Ferguson
A Look at the Deaths of Career and Volunteer Firefighters in America: Who has the Higher Rate of Death?, Matthew Joseph Flanagan
Examining the value of fire prevention inspections in commercial occupancies, Philip Steven Gairson
Choice of College Major: An Exploration of Appalachian Female Choice of an Early Childhood Education Major, Lisa Newton Gannoe
Validation Of Kentucky Wetlands Rapid Assessment Method (ky-Wram) Metrics Using Macroinvertebrate Communities Of Forested Depressional Wetlands, Britney Yvonne Garrison
Exploring the Utilization of Applications as a Form of Augmentative and Alternative Communication by Speech-Language Pathologists, Joselyn Rae Gilbert
Effects Of Thermal Acclimation On The Critical Thermal Maxima Of The Tropical Cockroaches: Blaptica Dubia, Eublaberus Posticus And Blaberus Discoidalis (blaberidae), Lauren Michelle Goode
Facultative adjustment of pre-fledging mass recession by nestling Chimney Swifts (Chaetura pelagica), Sagan Brianne Goodpaster
Suicide Terrorism: Understanding the Mindset and Motives, Joshua Daniel Goss
The Effects of Fatigue on a Dual-Task Postural Control Measure, Allisha R. Guzdial
Implications of Perceived Interactional Injustice: A Meta-Analytic Approach, Joshua James Hager
Backboards and Browsers: A Qualitative Examination of the Experiences of Division I Student-Athletes in Online Courses, Jonathan Patrick Healy
Effects of Variation in Hunger Levels on Begging Behavior of Nestlings and the Provsioning Behavior of Male and Female Eastern Phoebes, Christopher Adam Heist
Safety On A Drilling Rig: Is It Safety Culture?, Jonathan Wade Henson
Rejecting the rejecters: The latent effect of policy on subculture, Ethan Maxwell Higgins
Sexual Victimization Among Sorority Women, Amanda Hinkel
Relationship Between a Proxy of Prenatal Testosterone (2D:4D) and Determinants of Endurance Running Performance, Simon D. Holzapfel
Music Piracy and Its Criminalization: Understanding the Napster Era (1999) to Present Through Donald Black's Theory of Moral Time, Craig Robert Jankowski
Predicting Inmate Economic Conflict In Female Housing Units: Individual Factors Versus Social Climate Factors, Polina Andreyevna Karpova
Positive Solutions, Existence Of Smallest Eigenvalues, And Comparison Of Smallest Eigenvalues Of A Fourth Order Three Point Boundary Value Problem, Sarah Schulz King`
Confessions of a Scaredy Cat, Todd King
A Study of Rural Police Leadership Behaviors in Kentucky: A Full Range Perspective, Frank P. Kubala Jr.
The State Of Health And Safety Program Management As It Pertains To OSHA In The Funeral Industry: A Formative Analysis, Brad William Kuchnicki
A Deconstruction of Dexter: An Analysis of Noble Cause Corruption Within a Crime Drama, Alyssa Lawrence
Impact of Disability on Celebration of Wedding Anniversaries, Emily Lemaster
A Case Study of Two Rural Elementary Schools: What Are The Identified Characteristics That Make School A Outperform School B In Reading?, Emily Taylor Finley Levey
Double Standards In Self-Deception: The Development Of The Self-Other Double Standards Scale, Benjamin T. Lindsay
Children with ASD and their Experience of Friendship and Co-occupation, Joshua Eric Line
Perceptions Of Athletic Training Services Of Japanese Collegiate Student Athletes, Jun Matsuno
Examination of Racial Bias on the MMPI-2 Restructured Form among African Americans and Caucasians, Willie Floyd McBride III
The Effectiveness of an Emergency and Defensive Driving Techniques Course Component: Analyzing Student Response to Searching, Identifying, Predicting, Deciding and Executing Skills, Christopher Bradley Millard
The Sensory Processing Patterns and Activity Choices of a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Case Study, Valerie Miller
A Bridge Program's Effect on Non-College Ready Student Veterans, Brett Eugene Morris
Risk to public safety posed by adjudicated delinquent juvenile sex offenders: Do they really need to register, Donna Susan Mynatt
Police Deception: A Survey of EKU Students, Jason Anthony Nicholson
Breeding Biology Of Chuck-Will's-Widows: Incubation, Brooding, And Provisioning Behavior And Characteristics Of Nest Sites, Ryan Sean O'Connor
The Effects of Trust on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis, Matthew Vincent Petrella
The Relationship Between Teacher Efficacy and Use of Data to Inform Instruction in Two Turnaround Middle Schools, Peggy Conrad Petrilli
Like So Many Purple Boughs, Lisa M. Schmidley
The First Ten Years: a Descriptive Analysis of Presentation Abstracts of the SSO: USA, 2002 to 2011, Amanda Schneider
Applications Of Leggett Williams Type Fixed Point Theorems To A Second Order Difference Equation, Charley Lockhart Seelbach
Assessment of motility and hemolytic activity in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii from University of Kentucky hospital, Lexington, KY, Amber R. Stanton
Expectation vs. Perspective: A personal experience of completing transition from high school to community, Katherine Steinman
Differences In Training Programs And Time Trial Performances Of Teenage Sprint Freestyle Swimmers, John Andrew Stratman
Population Distribution and Abundance of the Blackfin Sucker (Thoburnia atripinnis) in the Upper Barren River System, Kentucky and Tennessee., Cory Daniel Stringfield
The Relationship Between Teacher Leadership and Student Achievement, Sally Ann Sugg
Kentucky SRO Programs: An Examination of Impact on Reported Criminal Violations and Board Violations, William John Sullivan
The Upper Big Branch Mine Explosion: Occupational Hazard or Preventable Tragedy; A Look at State-Corporate Crime, Cassandra Tate
Ability and Skill Retraining with Task-Oriented Intervention to Improve Functional Independence in Persons with Stroke, Trista Thacker
The Relationship Between Kentucky High School Principals' Leadership Behaviors And Student Outcomes, Carolyn Camille Towns
The Implications Of Accountability Models Weighing The Same Student Data Differently, Neely Traylor
Can the Triarchic Model Differentiate between Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder?, Tina Dilem Wall
Winter Behavior and Ecology of Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis): Home Ranges, Habitat Use, and Effect of Weather on Foraging Behavior, Todd J. Weinkam
The Impact Of Personality, Mindfulness, And Symptoms On Response To Brief Meditation, Miranda Westbrook
Assessment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pathogens Responsible for Causing Bovine Mastitis in Kentucky, Erica Denise West
Revulsion and Palatability: The Staying Power of Death Penalty Rituals - Last Meals and Beyond, Angie Wheaton
The Effect of a Student Support Services Program on Academic Success at an Appalachian Comprehensive University, Ryan Martin Wilson
Habitat Associations Of Stream-Dwelling Salamanders At Multiple Spatial Scales In Central Kentucky Headwaters., John Mark Yeiser
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
An Eccentric Intervention of the Flexor-Pronator Mass To Impact Overhead Throwing Distance and Velocity, Ricker Stanton Adkins
Civilian Aviation Screening: A Time-Series Analysis of Confiscated Firearms at Screening Checkpoints, Shon Agard
A Dietary Study of big brown (Eptesicus fuscus) and northern bats (Myotis septentrionalis) in Western Kentucky, Sarah Elizabeth Asher
The Effectiveness Of Homeland Security Training For Rural Communities: A Comparative Analysis Of Web-Based And Instructor-Led Training Delivery, Ryan K. Baggett
Synthesis Of Novel Ionic Liquid Tagged Porphryin Media Designed For The Oxidation Of Lignin, Joseph Hugh Franklin Baker
Perceived Levels of Confidence and Knowledge of Autism Between Paraprofessionals in Kentucky Schools and Parents of Children with Autism, Laura Nichole Baker
Population Distribution and Demographics of Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu) in Silver Creek, Madison County, Kentucky, Justin Daniel Basham
A Comparative Case Study of Factors Distinguishing Between High and Low-Performance on Reading Achievement in Elementary Rural Appalachian Schools, Jennifer Renee Chambers
The vascular flora of Breaks Interstate Park, Pike County, Kentucky, and Dickenson County, Virginia, Julie Bennett Clark
Kentucky Speech-Language Pathologists' Confidence And Education In Providing Services To Spanish-English Bilingual Children In The Public Schools, Leah Katherine Cooley
Subversive Liminality and Ideological Warfare: The Zombie Mash-Up as Resistance to Hypermasculine Revenge Narratives Post-9/11, Veronica L. Cooper
Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry Analysis Pertaining To Biofuel Process Development, Sushma Dendukuri
