The University Archives at Butler University houses all physical copies of the University’s student theses, including both graduate and undergraduate works. Select digital copies—which include most contemporary, copyright-cleared, and public-domain theses—are available below.

For more information on how to search this digital collection, check out this guide: A Quick Guide To Accessing + Searching Butler University Thesis Collections.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) FSHR-1 and the SPHK-1 lipid kinase regulate C. elegans life- and healthspans via a common pathway, Ryan Dennis Adkins

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The Effect of the Color Green on Environmentally Friendly Consumer Behavior, Katelyn Elizabeth Anderson

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Comparing the Visuospatial Abilities of Alzheimer's Patients and Huntington's Patients, Alysa Anna Aralis

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Utilizing EdTPA as a Student Teaching tool to ensure future teaching success, Matthew Aspinwall

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It Takes Two: A Crisis of Identity and Turkey's Rejection of the European Union, Amelia Claire Ball

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Profiles in Volunteerism: A Study on Contributing Factors to Time Spent in Service, Leah M. Bechtold

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What We Have to Offer: Making a Case for Gender Non-Conforming Space in the Church through an Analysis of Its History, Delaney Marie Beh

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Infiltrating the Boys’ Club: The Portrayal of Women in Popular Crime Dramas, Emma Doreen Bergquist

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The Impact of a Not-for-Profit Organization: Examining How Kids Dance Outreach is Guided by its Mission Statement, Anna Sutton Brandner

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For Whom Does the Cue Transfer? Exploring the efficacy of congruent and incongruent identity-safety cues among sexual and gender minority women, Avery Cathryn Buck

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The Athlete Advantage: The impact of sport participation on auditory and visual reaction times, Alexandra Lynn Carmichael

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Pre-Health Professional and Graduate Students in Patient Care Support Roles: A Measure of Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Rates in a COVID-19 World, Jacey Lynn Cornett

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Signaling Allyship via Antiracism, Quinn Elise Davis

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Building Community Resiliency Against Disasters, Zachary L. Doering

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Feminism's Forgotten Frontier: Why Menstrual Liberation is Necessary for Addressing Western Society’s Somatophobia, Madeline Eileen Eary

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Memorialization and nation-building: Shifts in historical framing in monuments constructed in Kyiv, Ukraine between Soviet control and independence, Anna Elizabeth Faulkner

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Cannabis consumption on a college campus: mental and behavioral health, Joseph Benjamin Gareis

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Transnational, Queer Feminist: Remembering Harriet Noble, Indiana's Prominent Suffragette, 1851-1919, Emma Katherine Gifford

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Technological Change in a Pandemic Educational Landscape, Colin Michael Harts

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Applying various industry best practices to prevent occupational exposure to hazardous drugs in healthcare, Joseph Darby Kirkpatrick

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Double-stranded RNA binding motifs and recognition of RNA-editing substrates, Amol Singh Kular

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Check It Out: Analyzing the Checkout Experience of Small Business E-commerce Websites, Janet Lovera

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Special Cases in Estimating Multiple Missing Values in Linear Models, Aaron Christopher Marshall

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Reshoring the Semiconductor Industry Supply Chain: Analysis of Risks and Capabilities, Makayla Ann Masse

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A Comparative Look at How Professionals Perceive Social Communication Intervention for School-aged Children, Samantha McDonald

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#AidToo: Analysis of Sexual Violence and Power Structures in the Global Aid Sector, Caitlin N. McEvoy

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Being Mindfully Pluralistic: The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Student Perceptions of Religious Pluralism, Meet A. Patel

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Educative Teacher Performance Assessment: Perceptions of Similarities and Differences in a Teacher Education Program, Madison Hailey Pines

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The Effect of COVID-19 and the Media on Trust in the Healthcare System, Analise Noelle Richcreek

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A descriptive study of the implications of sleep hygiene and mental health in the Butler University student athlete, Abigail Grace Roberts

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Effects of facemasks and virtual lecture environments on speech recall, Hannah Ann Schafer

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Aphasia-friendly reading comprehension training to enhance nutritional literacy, Alexandra Elliott Schell

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Self-Reflections Through a Screen: Self-Identity, Social Media, and Psychological Well-Being, Jeremy J. Serio

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Dilemmas of Difference and Nonhuman Animals: Applying Insights from Feminist Philosophy to Animal Rights Law, Ethan Charles Shopmeyer

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The 1945 Purchase of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: How World War II Changed Racing History and Culture, Samantha Louise Slentz

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The African-American Experience in United States Emergency Departments, Grace Elizabeth Sloan

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Total Years Played in Sport versus Years Played Competitively as a Predictor of Sports, Cassidy Faith Spencer

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Humanitarian Zionism: The Vaad Hatzalah and Abraham Joshua Heschel, Andrew James Steele

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The Influence of Specific Diagnosis and Trait Self-Relevance on Positive and Negative Perceptions of Individuals with a Mental Illness, Sabrina Lauren Stock

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Hermione, Karrington Tabor

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Seasonal plasticity and correlations among butterfly wing color patterns: Insights into modularity, Rachel Lynn Urban

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A role model for whom? Black scientists as role models for White woman students., Camille Simone Weiss

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Investigation of Microgravity Grown Organic Crystals by Diffusion Techniques over the Course of Thirty-one Years, Ashley Wilkinson

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An Examination into Statistical Evaluations of Major League Baseball Coaches and Managers, Jacob Hamilton Zimmerman

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Art, Race, and the Carceral System: Perceptions of Criminality in Artful Expression, Abiodun Akinseye

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The Climate Crisis: How Communication and Norms Interact with Attitudes and Actions, Kathryn Aldstadt

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Targeted: How Relevant Parties Position the Ethics of Online Demographic-Based Targeted Advertising, Gabrielle Marie Allen

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Racial implicit bias in healthcare: Physicians’ expectations of Black vs. white patients’ health insurance, Brianna M. Avery

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Look to Your Own: Human Limits and the Danger of Overambition in Herodotus’ Histories, Alex Christopher Brinkman

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The Impact of Study Abroad as it Relates to Business Students' Career Paths, Madison M. Burgett

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What We Need: A Poetic Study in Struggle and Self-Healing, Grace Anne Calabria

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Federal Funding for the Arts & Developmental Success in Western Nations, Sophia Ciokajlo

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Investigating Instagram Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Donor Engagement During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Annabella Cobos

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The Effect Of COVID-19 On Substance Use And Mental Health On A College Campus, Georgia Coffman

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Agricultural Practices and Nitrogen Cycling Microbes: The Impact of Sustainable Farming Practices on Nutrient Movement in Indianapolis Urban Farms, Margaret Davis

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The influence of improv experience on uncertainty tolerance, social anxiety, and communication in adolescents on the autism spectrum, Kathryn K. DesBiens

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Functional Movement Screen and its Link to Sports Injury in Butler University Division I Student Athletes, Sarah Dickinson

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Investigation of the Analytical Utility of the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) for the Quantification of Proteins via Lanthanide Labeling, Caitlin Elizabeth Dunlap

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A Narrative-based Comparative Analysis of College Experiences Among Racial and Ethnic Minority and Majority Students, Camryn Ellison

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Effects of Intermittent Alcohol and Nicotine Cc-consumption in C57BL/6J Mice, Presley Elizabeth Fletcher

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Fact or Fiction?: (Mis)Representations of Crime, Race, and Gender in Popular True Crime Podcasts, Lauren E. Frederick

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Through My Eyes: Lessons and Stories from the Fairways, Catherine Therese Fulton

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A Moody Memory: The Impact of Affective State on Source Memory and Reality Monitoring, Rebecca Lynn Greenberg

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Stress Effects on Hydrogen Peroxide Defense Response of Physcomitrella patens and Mnium cuspidatum, Caden Karl Groves

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The Heart of the Problem: An Art Gallery Installation to Foster Dialogue on Heart Disease and the Privilege of Prevention, Olivia Eileen Heinecke

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The Impact of Dance on Physical, Intellectual, and Social Aspects of College Life, Jenna Jean Hensen

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Size Regulation within the Germline of the Developing Egg Chamber, Zoe Gladd Herdman

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Planning for Debt: An Analysis of Drivers of Financial Knowledge on Individual Debt Strategy, Nicholas A. Hughes

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Using the edTPA as a Model for Teacher Research and Reflective Practice: An Honors Thesis, Eva Jaeger

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Psychosocial Student Adaptions to COVID-19 in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Approach to COVID-19 through the Theoretical Framework of Anomie, Grace Erika Johnson

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From Madness to Medicine: How Nazi Medical Experimentation Morphed into Today’s Medical Field, Alexandria Daughn Kerby

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Inducing Alternative Forms of Cell Death in Multidrug Resistant Ovarian Cancer, Chloe Reese Kotrba

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Biking in Indianapolis: An Ethnographic Analysis of Obstacles and Solutions, Emory Lietz

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Is The Ivory Tower Made of Glass?: Examining Work Experiences of Women Faculty at Butler University, Erin Elizabeth Mahan

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Patient Harm Associated with Illegal Online Sellers of COVID- 19 Drug Products: A Year in Review, Kyla Rae Maloney

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Russetid: The Norwegian Ritual Transition to Adulthood, Kynnedy Masheck

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Reshoring the Semiconductor Industry Supply Chain: Analysis of Risks and Capabilities, Makayla Ann Masse

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Nucleic Acid Editing by Adenosine Deaminase Enzymes, Josey Rae McKinley

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Comparison of Injuries to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament in Male Soccer and Football Athletes and the Effect of Varying Rehabilitation on Recovery Time, Matthew Moraw

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Investigation Into the Responses of Physcomitrella patens to Herbivory and the Influence of Light on the Production of Defense Compounds, Matthew Morris

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Studying Extended Sets from Young Tableaux, Eric S. Nofziger

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From Serbia to Xinjiang; A Comparative Analysis of Genocidal Regimes, Drake Mitchell Olson

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Redpilling Normies: An Ethnography of Alt-Right 4chan Discourse, Emily Marie Paff

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Consumer Perceptions of Cause-Related Marketing: A Comparison of India and the United States, Kyle Palmer

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Economic Implications of State-Wide COVID-19 Response Aggressiveness, Michael Edward Parker

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Using NASA's TESS Mission to Search for Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf Stars, Corinna Peña

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Synthesis of Cyclopropyl Fluorescein Esters for Biochemical Assay, Gabriella Pilar Ruiz

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Hispanic Hoosiers: Ethnonym use among the Hispanic population in the Midwest, Ericela Yetlanezi Sahagun

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Bird's Eye View: The Construction of Identity and Community on Social Media among Cirque du Soleil Performers, Katrina L. Sandefer

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A Survey to Determine the Relationship between Health Literacy and Vaccine Hesitancy in College Students at Butler University, Lindsey Schreiber

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Parents and the Evolving Math Curriculum: Supporting One's Student in Elementary Mathematics, Kailyn Heather Scobie

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#NotAllMen and #MeToo: Investigating Perceptions of Masculine Victimhood and Constructions of Masculinity in the #MeToo Era, Caitlin Segraves

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Identifying how Home Advantage Manifests in Butler Basketball Using SFA, Emily M. Shoemaker

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The Effects of COVID-19 Induced Stress, Anxiety and Depression on the Eating Behavior of College Women, Natalie Simpson

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An Examination of the Statistics and Risk Management Concepts Behind the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010, Scott Sinclair

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A Limited Look at the Educational Experiences of Black STEM Professionals from the Butler Community and Beyond, Victoria Ann Templin

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Analysis of Indianapolis waterways for evidence of eutrophication and contamination induced by urban pollution, Kiley Grace Wardwell

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Religious and Cultural Considerations in Nigeria regarding the low vaccination rates for the Oral Polio Vaccine, Allison LuAnn Welz

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Proposing an Educational Framework for Healthcare Professionals on the Topic of Substandard or Falsified Medications and Illegal Online Pharmacies, Margo Elaine Whitehead