Theses from 2021
The Self Outside: A Nearly Concealed Shared Heart, Lori Brook Johnson
An Experimental and Computational Study of 3-Dimensional Compact Windborne Debris Flight, Ta'Jon Jordan
Learning Multi-Agent Navigation from Human Crowd Data, Foram Joshi
Jerry Fireman: Modeling Characters for a 1930s Cartoon, Matthew Ray Joyner
Development and Application of a Digital Twin for Chiller Plant Performance Assessment, Mihir Kale
Acceleration Skinning: Kinematics-Driven Cartoon Effects for Articulated Characters, Niranjan Kalyanasundaram
Design of a Channel-Access Protocol for a Wireless Ad Hoc Network with MIMO and Adaptive Transmission, Yifan Kang
Contemporary Women's Poetry and Leaning Into the Senses, Samantha Keebler
Encounters in Placelessness, Carolyn Grace Kerecman
Initial Investigation of Connection Behavior for Buckling-Restrained Braces (BRBs) in Precast Concrete Frames, Hannah Dillingham Kessler
Does Naturalness Influence Positive Learning Outcomes During Environmental Education Field Trips?, Lydia Kiewra
On Moving Beyond and Looking Behind: An Analysis of Contemporary Queer of Color Digital Art and Performance, Caroline Kinderthain
Shining Light on Retroreflectivity: Perceived Brightness of Surfaces with Varying Reflective Properties, Savana King
"I / believe in ruin": Trance, Affect, and Disorientation, Zachary Melton Kinsella
Bovine Intervertebral Disc Organ Culture for Assessing Regenerative Therapeutics for Herniation Repair, Mario Josef Krussig
Methods for the Electrical Impedance Tomography Inverse Problem: Deep Learning and Regularization with Wavelets, Shyla Rae Kupis
Privacy-Preserving Image Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks, David Karl Langbehn
An Analysis of Environmental Conditions Impacting Cyanobacterial Algal Blooms in Drinking Water Sources in Upstate South Carolina, Gregory Langlois
Noise Types Adaptation for Speech Enhancement with Recurrent Neural Network, Xiang Lan
A Tightly Integrated Generic Instruction RISC-V Accelerator (TIGRA) for the Rocket Core, Theresa Thao Le
A Manufacturing-To-Response Pathway for Formed Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Structures, Madhura Limaye
"Enthusiastic Jew and Lover of Humanity": August Bondi and the Roots of Transnational Freedom During the Long Nineteenth Century, Matthew Christopher Long
"Enthusiastic Jew and Lover of Humanity": August Bondi and the Roots of Transnational Freedom during the Long Nineteenth Century, Matthew Christopher Long
Examining the Types of Capital Benefits Afforded to Low-Income Individuals by Adult Financial Literacy Programs, Dustin Tyler Love
Framing Ludens: Pawn Swapping and Game Mode Alteration in an Unreal Engine Game Level, Jeffrey Paul Martell
Simulation of and Experimental Progress Towards Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions, Richard Harnden Mattish
Automating the Design Optimization of Vehicle Structures, William Bruce McCormack
Evaluation of Physical Parameters and Building Adaptation and Demolition Outcomes, Delaney McFarland
Evaluation of Long-Term Boron Leaching Rates in Industrial Grade and Laboratory Created Coal Ash, Allison McLane
Gender Identity and Mental Health Among Undergraduate Students in the United States, McKenzie McNamara
Comfort, Acceptance, and Preferences: The Designing of a Human-Robot Workstation that Puts the Human First, Jassmyn Quionna Aleshia McQuillen
Practical Target-Based Synchronization Strategies for Immutable Time-Series Data Tables, Bennett Andrew Meares
Moving Beyond Scientific Fact-Only Environmental Education in the United States, Erica Meier
Thermal Modeling of Fused Deposition Modeling Process Using Discrete Elements, Chelsea Charles Menezes
Monsters & Machines: An Assessment of Dehumanization in High School Football Broadcasts, Adam P. Middleton
Athletes as Health Advocates: An Elaboration Likelihood Model Approach to Identify Their Influence on Public Health Measures, Sai Datta Mikkilineni
Perceptions of Multilingual Employees in the Workplace, Sydney Marie Milian
The Relationship Between Food Environments and Obesity Rates in the United States; Measured by the Modified Retail Food Environment Index, Mary Katherine Miller
Development of Guidelines for Support Structure Design and Placement in Metal Additive Manufacturing, Lucas M. Morand
damned ol' dirt, Molly Morningglory
Comparison of Flexural Cracking in Reinforced Concrete Beams with Different Rebar Coatings, Aaron J. Murphy
Longleaf Pine Restoration in the South Carolina Sandhills Wiregrass Gap, Jacob W. Murray
Crossroads of Development: Considering Gullah Geechee Communities as Traditional Cultural Properties, Darcy Elizabeth Neufeld
Root System Architecture that Improves Biomass Production and Yield of Soybean, Enoch Noh
Development of Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for Applications in Superresolution Imaging and Sensors, Muskendol Novoa Delgado
Re-evaluating Significance Through Embodied Energy: Quantifying Significance in Load Bearing Brick Masonry Buildings, Bernard J. O'Brien
COVID Response: Iterative Model Development in the Deployment of Hand Sanitation Stations at a Large Public University, Tyler OBrien
Development and Validation of an Analytical Modeling Tool for Solar Borehole Heat Exchangers, Adam Ornelles
Applications of Set-Theoretic Topology in the Construction and Analysis of Engineering Design Spaces, Joshua Bronson Ortiz
Exploring the Relationship Between Broadband and Socioeconomic Health: A Case Study in Appalachia, Kyra Marie Palange
Application of Image Processing and Convolutional Neural Networks for Flood Image Classification and Semantic Segmentation, Jaku Rabinder Rakshit Pally
Operational and Environmental Impacts of Whole Tree Harvesting in the Southern United States, Manisha Parajuli
An Experimental Study Exploring the Influence of Different Representation of Requirements on Idea Generation, Akash Patel
Referees Seeing Red: Uniform Color and Aggression in Team Sports, Zac Patterson
Detecting Eating Episodes from Daily Patterns of Wrist Motion Using Recurrent Neural Networks, Adam Patyk
Developing a Computational Model for a Novel, Peristaltic-Style Ventricular Assist Device, Colin Pender
Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Mayenite, Vincent Nicholas Phaneuf
Optimizing the Restoration of Fire Dependent Forests of the Southern Blue Ridge Escarpment with GIS Modeling Approaches, Keith Phelps
Dynamical and Spectral Inverse Problem for the Wave Equation, Antonio Marcello Pierrottet
Autonomous Power and Profound Agency: Women and Magic in the Icelandic Legendary Sagas, Amanda Platz
A Novel Technique for Distributed Measuring of Strain in the Vadose Zone, Grant A. Plunkett
Product Lifecycle Management - Application of Patterning Methods to Gas Turbine Blades and Creation of Learning Materials, David Procopio
Theory of Ion Transport and Ion Current Rectification in Nanofluidic Diodes, Julia Ellen Proctor
Cloud Based Collaborative Road Surface Monitoring Using Deep Learning and Smartphones, Akshatha Ramesh
A Computational Evaluation of Turbulence Generators in Co-Axial Ground Heat Exchangers, Rohit Ashok Rao
Water Recovery from Bioreactor Mixed Liquors Using Forward Osmosis with Polyelectrolyte Draw Solutions, Calen Raulerson
Affordance Judgment for Collision or Bypass of Objects by Rotating Panels, Balagopal Raveendranath
Lossy Compression and Its Application on Large Scale Scientific Datasets, Tasmia Reza
Toward a Common Understanding of Video Commercials and Narrative Advertisements, Raine Templeton Riley
Design and Fabrication of a Polymer FDM Printer Capable of Build Parameter Monitoring and In-Sit Geometric Monitoring Via Photogrammetry, Travis Roberts
Impact of Non Torque Loading on Wind Turbine High Speed Shaft Bearing Failure Modes During a Grid Interruption Event, Joseph Scott Roulier
Thermoplastic-Thermoset Bonding via Reactive Interfaces, Eric Charles Rozelsky
Design and Studies of CVD Graphene-Based Membranes on Modified Support for Water Treatment Applications, Mansour Saberi
Reinforcement Learning Policy Gradient Methods for Reservoir Operation Management and Control, Sadegh Sadeghi Tabas
Theoretical Development and Numerical Validation of an Asymmetric Linear Bilateral Control Model For an Automated Truck Platoon, M Sabbir Salek
Sources of Peanut Digging Losses and Strategies to Reduce Losses During Inversion, Loren Samenko
Velocity Optimization in Connected Autonomous Vehicles and its Impact on Surrounding Traffic, Sumedh Sathe
A System for Programming Anisotropic Physical Behaviour in Cloth Fabric, Abhinit Sati
Re-Creating Judith Beheading Holofernes, Originally Painted by Artemisia Gentileschi, in a Real-Time Rendering System, Elizabeth A. Schlesener
“You're In a Cult, Call Your Dad.” An Investigation into the True Crime Podcast My Favorite Murder and Its Online Fan Communities, Kelsea Sierra Schulenberg
Image Segmentation Applied to Electrical Impedance Tomography, Scott Randall Scruggs
Genome-Wide Association Studies of Antimicrobial Activity in Global Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench], Lindsay Kaye Shields
Demystifying Structure-Property Correlations for Perovskite Oxides Using Machine Learning to Discover Lead-Free Alternatives Solar Cells, Afrid Mazhar Shirsekar
Development of Lambda Factors for Masonry Design with Lightweight Grout, Rumi Shrestha
Mesopredator Detection and Eastern Spotted Skunk Den Site Selection in North Carolina, Anna Siegfried
Utility of Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation for Weed and Disease Management in Solanaceous Vegetable Crops, Gursewak Singh
Protecting Our Healthcare Heroes: Using Latent JD-R Profiles to Predict Burnout in Emergency Medicine Clinicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jordan Gail Smith
Application of Precision Technologies Used in Row Crop Production in South Carolina, Tyler Scott Soignier
The Danger Within: Implications of Firewood Transport in Invasive Forest Insect and Disease Spread, Angelica Solano
Promoting a Safe Hospital Environment Through Autonomy, Christopher Lee Sousa
Effect of Long and Short Chain Fatty Acids on Methane Yield and Microbial Community Composition in Anaerobic Co-digestion, Emmaline Spier Camposano
Tradespace Exploration of a UAV Conceptual Design Using Model-Based Systems Engineering, Ayan Srivastava
Conspicuity of Walkway Height Changes, Rachel Staats
Celebrating and Practicing Aspects from Eastern- and Western-Centric Animation Styles, Alissa Annette Standerwick
Chasing Target Zero: Contributing Factors of Fatal Crashes in South Carolina, Matthew Stanley
The Affordable Care Act and Abortion: An Update, Phoebe Steiner