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
Potential Ignition Sources from Residential Electric Cooktops, Corey Ray Hanks
This Is How You Live, James Andrew Hartman
Sleeper Cell, Jennifer Jordan Hartman
A Comparative Study between Army Civilian Workforce and Private Industry Workforce Workers' Compensation Claims Management, Melanie Claire Hart
A National System of Reciprocity in the Fire Service, Bill Hicks
Building Advocacy in Healthcare: The Impact of Intergroup Dialogue on the Cultural Sensibility Outcomes of Health Profession Students Using an Individual Diversity Development Framework, Chassity LeeShell Holliman Douglas
How Not Being Able to Drive Can Affect Routines and Occupations Related to Transportation, Stedmon Deon Hopkins
The Relationship Between Teachers' Perceptions Of Student Management With Out-Of-School Suspensions And High School Graduation Rates, Caryn Letcher Huber
Ellipses of Gravel, Brandyn Christian Johnson
Local Color's Finest Hour: Kentucky Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Brian Clay Johnson
The Effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB) on Work and Health Related Outcomes, Dorothy Abigail Blaine Johnson
Interactions between Eastern Newts and Wood Frogs in an anthropogenically altered wetland system in eastern Kentucky, Chelsea S. Kross
Visitor Perceptions of Black Bear Management Options in Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Robert Maxwell Lakes
Exploring the Responsibilities of Wildlife Law Enforcement Officers: An Examination of Citations Issued by Kentucky Conservation Officers, Conrad Morgan Lanham
Experience Of Occupational Therapists Practicing In Rural Kenya, Picoty Cherotich Leitich
Fragments of Joshua, Bruce Chandler Lewis
Deuterium Tracer Study Of The Mechanism Of Iron Catalyzed Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis, Yunxin Liao
Judgment, Joseph M. Mau
Green and Grey: Water Justice, Privatization, and Resistance, William McClanahan
An Examination of Toccata Line Movements in Prokofiev's Piano Music, Jeremie Michael
A Retrospective Analysis of Paramedic Student Performance Under Simulated Stress, Nicholas Franklin Miller
Using GIS To Evaluate The Kentucky Wetland Rapid Assessment Method, Douglas Robert Mott
Benefits of a Multi-Generational Workforce: Perceptions of Age-Friendly Work Environments, Aneeta Alysha Noorani
The Vascular Flora of Garrard County, Kentucky, William Overbeck
Comparing Orgasm Descriptions between the Sexes, Christopher Frederick Palmer
We Bare All, Wesley Shane Parsons
The Effects of Active Recovery during High Intensity Resistance Training on Lactate Clearance in Collegiate Athletes, Christopher Alexander Perry
The Heroin Problem: Learning From Past Experiments In Narcotic Maintenance, Ashley Marie Phillips
The Effectiveness of Risk Assessment Training on Self-Reported Safe Behaviors of Employees of a Manufacturing Organization, Jeffrey Tate Preston
Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to a Headwater Valley Restoration at Slabcamp Creek, Rowan Co., Kentucky, Nicholas Primo Revetta
Predicting Staff Sexual Misconduct In Female Housing Units: Individual Versus Social Climate Factors, Hannah Mae Robbins-Johnson
Compliance of SCBA Training in the Lexington Fire Department, Jordan Peter Saas
Physical, Emotional, and Competitive Aggression Tendencies in Contact and Non-Contact Collegiate Athletes, Samyra Rose Safraoui
Culture and the Sweet 16 Boys Basketball Tournament, James Corey Sayre
The Effect of University Campus Recreation Programs on Student Retention, Caelin Scott
The Effect Of Academic Coaches On Teachers' Effective Use Of Data For Instructional Decisions, Barbara Quillen Shoemaker
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
