Theses/Dissertations from 2023
HABITAT EFFECTS ON SCORPION DENSITIES AND MICROHABITAT USE BY CENTRUROIDES VITTATUS AND VAEJOVIS WAUERI IN SOUTH TEXAS, Jonathan Beltran
Investigating How Generation 1.5 Students Notice and Understand Direct Written Corrective Feedback (WCF), Melissa Bustamante
LOBBYING – A FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE, Sean Byrne
On the Duty of Uncivil Disobedience: Thoreau's Action From Principle, Alan F. Garcia
UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO PREDICT CREDIT CARD PAYMENT DEFAULTS, Madison Guerra
Finding the Why: Trauma's Origins and Effects in Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Hope Lopez
"When the Spring Flowers Bloom": Dorothy Fuldheim, The Kent State Killings, and Vietnam War Foreign Policy, Pablo Rangel Jr.
The Revolting Monster - A Consideration of Existentialist Themes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Through a Comparison to Albert Camus' The Stranger, Felipe Rodriguez II
THREE ESSAYS ON NEW ISSUES IN CORPORATE FINANCE, Abdullah Shoeb
"I AM NOT AN ANGEL": CONTESTED IDENTITY IN CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S JANE EYRE, Cynthia Urteaga
Political Rhetoric and Latino Public Opinion: A Study of Abortion in the U.S., Fernanda Valdez
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Saving the Boys: Anticipating Moral Engagement in Lord of the Flies, Tanya Alfaro
CORRELATES OF INTIMATE PARTNER CYBER-HARASSMENT AMONG MEXICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS, Erica M. Benavides-Moore
El nuevo cuento latinoamericano: el ‘terror aparente y externo’ versus el ‘terror real e interno’ en Pelea de gallos y Grita de María Fernanda Ampuero, y Las voladoras de Mónica Ojeda, Alejandra Anahi Gaeta
Women in Politics: An Examination of Hispanic Undergraduate Students' Perspectives and Attitudes, Saliha Garcia
HAWTHORNE’S HUMAN NATURE AND SIN: CRITICISMS OF PURITANISM AND PROGRESSIVISM, Oscar Martinez
THE SECOND WATCHER AT THE GATE: LOCAL NEWSPAPER FRAMING OF REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, IMMIGRANTS, AND MIGRANTS AT THE BORDER IN THE AGE OF COVID-19, Gabriel Rodriguez
SIMEON HART, THE "MILMO AFFAIR," AND THE CONFEDERATE COTTON TRADE ON THE RIO GRANDE, 1861-65, Leonel Rodriguez
CAPTIVITY IN MELVILLE, Oscar Sacriste
Between Rock and a Hard Place: Rock on the Border between Nations and Cultures, Jose Sanchez
DOMESTICACIÓN Y EXTRANJERIZACIÓN EN LA TRADUCCIÓN LITERARIA DE UPROOT, A MEMOIR DE JOSEFINA BEATRIZ LONGORIA, Dania Saucedo
Maternidades disidentes en La hija única (2020) de Guadalupe Nettel y La perra (2018) de Pilar Quintana: una mirada crítica hacia la maternidad como constructo social, Leocadia Villarreal
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Patterns of Female Mating Preferences for Sarotherodon caroli, from Barombi Mbo, Ileana Ruby Alvarado
Total Flavonoid Content, Total Phenolic Content, Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activities of Acacia Rigidula Leaf Extracts, Pablo Arenaz
Exposing Necrocapitalism, Slow Violence, and Precarity: Necropolitics in The Grapes of Wrath, Dinorah Arista
An Auther's Depth Discovered Through a Freudian Lens: An Analysis of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaum's, Raquel Victoria Buitron
Aesthetics and Religion: Nietzche and Freud on the Value of Illusions, Carlos Calderon
Machiavelli, Lincoln, and the Art of Princely Procrastination, Andrew L. Carranco
Thomas Dixon and Southern Identity in The Leopard's Spots, Christopher Richard Castillo
The Tragedy of Conscience in Edgar Allan Poe's Tales: A Nietzschean/Freudian Dialectical Approach, Melissa Christina Castro
Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity & Phytochemical Analysis of Two South Texas Species of the Fabaceae Family, Peter Cavazos
Aproximaciones a la Poetica Oficinesca de José Cardona Lopez, Ricardo Cueva
Three Essays on Credit Default Swap Market, Zagdbazar Davaadorj
Generation of Antibiotic Resistant Mutants in the Minimal Pathogen Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, Bryant De Jesus
Minimal Genomes Simplify the Analysis of Biological Relationships in Medicine, Taxonomy, Ecology, and Astrobiology, Rafael Deliz Aguirre
An Eye-Movement Examination of Gender Stereotype Processing, Elva Adriana Garcia
Small Mammal Community Ecology and Ectoparasite Dynamics in a Tamaulipan Thornscrub Habitat, Brandi Giles
George Washington Gomez: The Twenty First Century American Tejano, Jesus Gonzalez
The Mythology of Grotesque Women in the Short Stories of Rosario Ferré and Elena Garro: "It's Not Me, It's You, Yomira Jatzin Varela Guadiana
Do Patrol Beat and Police Officer Attributes Predict Citizen Complaint?, Eduardo Guajardo
Early & Late ERP Responses to L1 & L2 Emotion Words, Brenda Lizeth Guerrero
Can Employees Motivate Themselves? The Link Between Peer Motivating Language and Employee Outcomes, Doreen Hanke
The Impact of Social Networks on Juvenile Delinquency, Lesly Elizabeth Hernandez
Power Delivered Through Dance: Choreographer Intent in Creating American National Identity 1935-1965, Patricia Yvonna Hernandez
Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Activity of Vangueria Volkensii Bark, Fruit, Leaf, and Stem Extracts, Douglas Parnell Holland
Three Essays on Syndicated Loan, Zhenyu Hu
Minor Literature and Chicano Liberation in Heriberto G. Terán’s Espejo de Alma y Corazón, Enrique Alberto Ibarra
The Wonders of Water: How the Sea and Water Awaken Kate Chopin's Edna Pontellier's Sense of Self in The Awakening, Rosario Jarrell
Investigation of the Antimicrobial Activity and Secondary Metabolites of Leaf Extracts from Vachellia Rigidula, Vachellia Farnesiana, Senegalia Berlandiery, and Senegalia Gregii, Hector Benjamin Lozano
Shrew or Sure? Rethinking Power in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Devenny Denise Lupear
A Comparative Study of the Microhabitat Selection of the Scorpion Centruroides vittatus in the Tamaulipan Biotic Region of South Texas, Fatima Malanastas
Que Pedo, Where Are the Latinas?: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Latina Representation in Two American Female Magazines and Conceptions of Latina Self-Perception, Victoria De Jesus Mancha
Darkest Before Dawn: The Social, Economic, and Political Change in Crystal City, Texas After the Rise and Fall of the Raza Unida Party, Javier A. Martinez
Gaussian Quadrature Rules Over Triangular Domains, Joshua James Martinez
Democracy in China Since Tiananmen: Elite Choice in Historical Context, Agustin Clayton Miranda
La Figura de la Bruja en las Novelas de Fernanda Melchor y Brenda Lozano: Un Estudio Hacia el Ecofeminismo, el Folclor Mexicano y la Violencia Hacia la Mujer, Clarissa I. Moreno
Generation and Characterization of Transgenic Chlamydomonas ReinhardtII Overexpressing the Novel Gene CIA7, Juan Carlos Onofre Renteria
What Factors Contribute to a Murder Case Being Designated as a Cold Case?, Claudia Yvette Ortiz
Gender Diversity On Boards Of Directors And Human Resource Policies, Prity Patel
Disparities In Status In Intimate Partner Violence, Juan Perez
Eugene O'Neill and Overcoming the Problem of Nihilism: Reading "The Iceman Cometh" as Nietzschean Comedy, Keaton Powers
“A balancing act”: The role of gender and cultural identities on Latina counselors-in-training, Amanda Sivoney Rodriguez
Stamping out stigma: Does mental health literacy on eating disorders and ADHD lower stigma?, Liabette Ailene Rodriguez
Brain Drain: A Study on the Life and Career Choices of Texas A&M International University Students Post-Graduation, Martha Rodriguez
Elucidating Metabolic and Drug Resistance Adaptations of Morganella morganii with Possible Links to Virulence, Yuridia Rodriguez
The Woman: Irene Adler in Literature, Media, and "A Scandal In Bohemia, Adriana Victoria Romero
Influence of Carbon Sources on the Pathogenicity of Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, Travis Anthony Salinas
Laredo Veterans And Their Recollections of the Early Years of the War in Vietnam, 1960-1965, Enrique Javier Sauceda
The Expression of Gender Equality in Three American Narratives The Slum, Sab and Beloved, Yasmin L. Shariff
El testimonio literario traducido: Retos y Desafíos., Jocelyn Madelein Silva
American in Principle: Frederick Douglass' Navigation of American Identity, Daniel Eric Solis
A Study of Social Modernization and Gender Roles in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” and “The Great Gatsby”, Rebecca Renne Soto
The Editor's Influence on the Author's Writing Style: Gordon Lish's Impact on the Works of Raymond Carver, Sandra Webb
"As Vigilant as Argus": A Military History of the Irish and Tejano Tories of the Texas Revolution, Jonathan Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Del texto al lienzo: El Quijote Ilustrado en el arte de Carnicero, Doré y Dalí, Paulina Aragon
Three Essays on Syndicated Loan Partnerships, Bolortuya Enkhtaivan
Numerical simulation to the FitzHugh-Nagumo model with strong reaction, Hongsong Feng
Effect of Triclosan-Tolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria on Triclosan Degradation in Soils, Ashley Marie Garcia
Numerical Simulation of the Nagumo Equation by Finite Difference Method, Gabriel Garcia
The Characterization of the Novel Gene CIA7 Using Pb Exposed Wild-Type and Mutant Strains of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii, Jose Angel Gutierrez
FAULKNERIAN ECHOES AND THE GROTESQUE IN MCCARTHY’S THE ORCHARD KEEPER, William Haynes
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae: Analysis of Metabolic Pathways in a Minimal Genome, Maria Guadalupe Hinojosa
The Representation of English Language Learners In Special Education: A Campus-Level Study, Ruby Lopez
The Relationship Between Work-life Balance Programs and Employee Success, Efrain Medina
“His Soul in the Land of the Greaser Band:” John L. Haynes and the Tejano Antebellum Era, 1846-1861, Hugo David Meza
El Partido de la Garra: Opposition to the Independent Club in Laredo, Texas, During the Great Depression, Lilia R. Mora
Representaciones Eróticas Bataillianas en Farabeuf (1965) de Salvador Elizondo y Salón de Belleza de Mario Bellatin (1994), Omar Steven Ramirez
Anti-bacterial Activity of Rifamycin Derivatives Against Clinical Strains of Mycobacterium Abscessus, Andrea Ramirez Ramos
Approximate Solutions to the Allen-Cahn Equation Using the Finite Difference Method, Jamil Malik Villarreal
Digital Native Tongue: Bringing Multilingual, Multimodal Curriculum to College Composition for Beginning Latinx Writers, Francisco Enrique Zamora
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Synthesis of Bipyridine Carbohydrate Receptors, Maxwell Addo
American Patriotism in the Marvel Avengers Film Series (2008-2018): An Analysis of Captain America and Iron Man, Jackelyne K. Briseno
The Thing to Do: Motivational Factors for Enlistment in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, Marco Antonio Buentello
"The Most Forgotten Unit in the Most Forgotten Theatre of That War:" A History of the Mars Task Force in the Burma Theatre of World War II, August 1944-October 1945, Matthew James Camina
Exploring the Possible Relationships between Terrestrial Arthropod and Plant Community Structures in the South Texas Plains, Chad Campbell
THE MODERATING EFFECT OF MEDIA NATURALNESS ON MOTIVATING LANGUAGE, James Cox
