Welcome to Florida Atlantic University's Theses and Dissertations. This collection contains Master's theses and Doctoral dissertations created by Florida Atlantic University graduate students.
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Theses/Dissertations/Capstones from 2025
MATERIA NON MEDICA: READING DISABILITY AND MEDICAL NARRATIVES IN THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU, Jessica Elizabeth Young
DOES EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING DURATION AND QUALITY AFFECT MATERNAL SENSITIVITY: FEAR VS. NORMATIVE SITUATIONS, Camila Herrera Zamora
NO NEUTRAL GROUND: SPORTS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN THE 1936 OLYMPIC GAMES, Lea Zeitler
Theses from 2024
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF BOAT-GENERATED WAKE INFLUENCE ON THE ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF A SEAGRASS MEADOW, Noah Alexander Gorman
Theses from 2023
INTERLEUKIN-1 INDUCES cFOS EXPRESSION IN ASTROCYTES IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS OF MICE, Christopher Vargas
Theses from 2022
UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF UNDIAGNOSED DISORDERS WITH DROSOPHILA CRISPR MUTANTS, Rishiraj Bandi
IDENTIFYING THE PROTEIN THAT MEDIATES SR1848'S INHIBITION OF LRH-1 TARGET GENE EXPRESSION, Allen Chan-Pong
FEATURE SELECTIVITY OF HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 NEURONS DURING MEMORY ENCODING, Aden Eagle
AN ANALYSIS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DISTRIBUTION ACROSS NEURON TYPES IN C. ELEGANS, Reggie Joseph
NOVEL CONTEXT EXPOSURE ENHANCES OBJECT RECOGNITION MEMORY: ASSESSING INVOLVEMENT OF NOREPINEPHRINE NEUROTRANSMISSION, Eleonora Lurie
TEDANIA IGNIS CELL FRACTIONS: THEIR SYMBIONTS AND SEROTONIN, Bilal Mutluguler
THE PRESYNAPTIC ROLE OF PHOSPHAGEN SYSTEMS, Carlos David Oliva
INVESTIGATING CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR IN MICE FOLLOWING CHEMOGENETIC ACTIVATION OF STRESS-RESPONSIVE NEURONS, Matthew Pacheco
DEFINING THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ELFN1, Manan Patel
DO SPONGES NIPHATES DIGITALIS AND N. ERECTA SURVIVE A MULTI-YEAR CORAL REEF BLEACHING EVENT?, Alexandra Perez
ULTRASOUND EVIDENCE FOR OUT OF SEASON REPRODUCTION IN THE GOPHER TORTOISE (GOPHERUS POLYPHEMUS) IN SOUTHEASTERN FLORIDA, Alyx Shechtman
AN INVESTIGATION OF NEURONAL CYTOSOLIC PH AND MITOCHONDRIAL ENERGY METABOLISM IN MDH2 DROSOPHILA MUTANTS, Frank Andrew Sigui
SYNAPTIC COMPOSITION OF GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS IN A MOUSE MODEL FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Anthony A. Skylar
ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER SYMPTOMATOLOGY: COMPARING SYMPTOM PROFILES OF ASIAN-AMERICAN, CAUCASIAN-AMERICAN, AND HISPANIC-AMERICAN GROUPS, Tristan Stinchcomb
A REVIEW OF THE CURRENT LITERATURE REGARDING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PSYCHEDELICS IN TREATMENT-RESISTANT PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS, Emmy Weisenberg
Theses from 2021
THE ETHICS BEHIND EUTHANASIA AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, Joëlle Dwek
OPTIMIZATION OF SOLID-PHASE SYNTHESIS OF A BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE CYCLIC DISULFIDE-RICH PEPTIDE, Annika Tiller
Theses/Dissertations/Capstones from 2020
Gender Differences in Coping with Stress among Student-Athletes, Sydney Riggs
Theses/Dissertations/Capstones from 2017
A SPIRITUAL FRAMEWORK OF ORGANIC ONENESS: THE ECO-THEOLOGICAL SHIFT TOWARDS A COLLECTIVE ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, Kjirsten Francisco José Durand