USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations is a collection of completed and approved graduate works. These works are collected through the Office of Graduate Studies submission process and are approved by the Faculty, Student, and University of South Florida. You can search the entire collection below or you may browse by College here.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Nigerian Students’ Experiences with Class Rank and its Implications for Academic and Personal Adjustments: A Narrative Inquiry, Tobiloba Ojomu

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The Politics of Waves: A Transnational and Cultural Surfing History of Popoyo, Nicaragua, Jason R. Old

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The Effects of Divided Attention in Free Recall: Affecting Trace Accumulation by Dividing Attention, Anne Olsen

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Social Media and Women Empowerment in Nigeria: A Study of the #BreakTheBias Campaign on Facebook, Deborah Osaro Omontese

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The Impacts of Disability Policy and its Implementation on Deaf University Students: An Applied Anthropological Approach, Tailyn Marie Osorio

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Human Motion Detection Evaluated Through an Evoked Cortical Potential Frequency Spectrum, Howard E. Painter

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Investigating Risk Factors of the Development of Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorder Symptoms in College Students, Madeline Palermo

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Diet and Salivary Microbiome on Cardiovascular Risk and Glycemic Control in Participants with and without Type 1 Diabetes: The CACTI Study, Tiantian Pang

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A Queered Exhibition: LGBTQIA+ Artists Expressing Identity and Visibility through Art-Based Research, Christy D. Paris

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Human Spacesuit Interaction during EVA of the Legs Using a Force Sensing System, Niraliben D. Patel

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Using Active Student Responding and Competition via Kahoot! to Improve Student Academic Engagement at College Level, Brittany Pearson

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Effects of Downdrag on Pile Performance, Ruthvik Pendyala

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Vascular and Auditory Changes after Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injury, Courtney Lynn Penn

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Reading Rent: Interracial Relationships and Racial Hierarchies, Susanna A. Perez-Field

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Borderlands: (Un)covering the Narratives of Teacher Candidates of Color in a PDS Context, Jennifer I. Perez

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Wastewater Treatment Using Encapsulated Chabazite in Polyvinyl Alcohol-Sodium Alginate Hydrogel Biofilm Carriers, Susieanna Nevada Persaud

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Evaluation of Two Methods to Estimate Wet Bulb Globe Temperature from Heat Index, Stephi Pofanl

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Understanding How Cancer Adapts to Stress and Therapy Using Evolutionary Game Theory, Mariyah Pressley

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The Application of Memes on English Learners' Idiomatics and Motivation, Fatima Azzahraa Raafat

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Anaerobic Digestion of Brewery Waste Including Spent Yeast and Hops, Dhanashree Rawalgaonkar

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Invisible Families, Clear Consequences: Work-Family Integration Among Employees in Same Gender Presenting Romantic Relationships, Joseph Regina

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L2 Writer Identity Construction in Academic Written Discourse: A Multi-case Study, Beibei Ren

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Communicating for Success: The Importance of Fairness in Pre-Merger Communication, Correy Retzloff

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An Evaluation of Staff Management Strategies to Minimize Reactivity in Treatment Integrity of Intervention Implementers, Claudia C. Reyes

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A Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pre-school: Collaborative Approaches to Curriculum in an Underserved Florida Community, Dana R. Roberts

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Gender Differences in Episodic Memory in Later Life: The Mediating Role of Education, Sara Robinson

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Tree Planting as an Adaptive Management Tool for Climate Change in Morocco, Stephanie J. Robinson

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Detection of Subsidence in West-Central Florida using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry and Near-Surface Geophysics, Tonian R. Robinson

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Characteristics and Hydraulic Behavior of Adsorptive Media for Use in Permeable Reactive Barriers, Shelby Rocha

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Threats to School Safety: Examining Levels of Community Violence and Its Relation to School-Related Threats, Dorie Ross

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"Emerging and Submerging": Silence, Commemoration, and Sexual Violence in Minneapolis, Alissa Roy

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Examining paleoshorelines in the eastern Gulf of Mexico: Insights on sea level history and potential areas of interest for habitat management, Catalina Rubiano

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Stable Isotope Analysis on Yellowfin and Blackfin Tuna Eye Lenses Reveals Life History Patterns in the Gulf of Mexico, Kylee M. Rullo

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The Social Anxiety Stigma Scale (SASS): Development, Factor Structure, and Validation, Ruba Rum

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“I’m Still Suffering”: Mental Health Care Among Central African Refugee Populations in the Tampa Bay Area, C. Danee Ruszczyk

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HIV Stalks Bodies Like Mine: An Autoethnography of Self-Disclosure, Stigmatized Identity, and (In)Visibility in Queer Lived Experience, Steven Ryder

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Multiple Access Techniques Enabling Diverse Wireless Services, Mehmet Mert Şahin

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Synthetic Studies of Potential New Ketogenic Molecules, Mohammad Nazmus Sakib

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Deconstructing and Decolonizing Identities of “Gender” and “Sex” When Viewed as Anti-Black: Black Narratives Outside of the Binary, Didier Salgado

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Identifying Contributors to Disproportionality: The Influence of Perception on Student Social, Emotional, and Academic Behavior Ratings, Chelsea Salvatore

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Development and Initial Evaluation of a Mental Health Training for Pre-service Teachers, Alexis M. Sánchez

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“We Need to Figure Out Who We Are”: Reframing Manhood in an Online Discussion Forum, Tomas Sanjuan Jr.

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Examining Treatment Differences in Anxiety Disorders and Body-Focused Repetitive and Related Disorders In a Pediatric Clinic Sample, Katrina Scarimbolo

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Human vs Machine: Hyper-Realistic Avatars and Their Efficacy as a Communication Channel, Jill S. Schiefelbein

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Regulated Intramembrane Proteolysis by M82 Peptidases: The Role of PrsS in the Staphylococcus aureus Stress Response, Baylie M. Schott

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Psychological Distress, Resilience, and the Impact on Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors With Taxane-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy, Lauren Schwab

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Stable Isotope Analysis of Doryteuthis (Amerigo) pealeii Eye Lenses to Determine Migratory Patterns in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Using Statoliths for Age Determination, Hannah M. Schwaiger

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An Analysis of State Sex Education Policies to Explore the Inclusiveness of School Based Sex Education, Amarah Scott

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Exploratory Data-Driven Models for Water Quality: A Case Study for Tampa Bay Water, Sandra Sekyere

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Evaluating a Behavioral Intervention for Performance Blocks in Gymnastics, Cara L. Shapiro