Northern Michigan University Master's Theses
This is an electronic repository of the intellectual output of Northern Michigan University Master's graduates and provides an organized way to preserve theses in a digital format .
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For your convenience, the NMU Theses collection has also been organized into departmental collections. You may browse these sub-collections by clicking the links below:
Theses from 2018
I Was Thinking Something In The Car, But Now I Forgot, OllieMae Bartlett
AVIAN FORAGING RESPONSE TO JACK PINE (PINUS BANKSIANA) VOLATILE CHEMICALS, Katie Bjornen
Aesthetic Shapes of Holocaust Literature and Pedagogical Applications, Kate A. Bonacorsi
THE CHARACTERIZATION OF BEHAVIORAL ABNORMALITIES IN BDNF LOXP TRANSGENIC MICE, Ryan Brandt
wait for it to bloom., Deziree Brown
COMPENSATORY HIP AND KNEE MECHANICS IN TRANSTIBIAL AMPUTEES DURING STAIR DESCENT AND DIRECTIONAL TASK, Mindie Clark
ASSESSING THE EMOTIONAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CUTANEOUS-RABBIT EFFECT USING FACES, Bartholomew Endres
Isolating and Identifying Fungal Endophytes from Roots of Rare Orchid Cypripedium arietinum in Grand Sable Dunes, Michigan, Kari Farkas-Lasich
Effects of Norharmane and Nicotine on the Conditioned Place Preference of Mice, Lindsey Galbo
Ecological Drivers of Plant Community Composition in a Patterned Fen at Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Michigan, Alex Graeff
THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON: ESSAYS AND EXPERIMENTS, Willow Grosz
The Wrong Side of Yesterday, Jacob Hall
THREE SPEEDS OF YOGA AND THE EFFECTS ON SALIVARY CORTISOL LEVELS IN FEMALE NURSING STUDENTS, Meagan Hennekens
PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULT ONE DOG CANICROSS RUNNERS, Ashlyn Jendro
HYPOXIA-REGULATED EXPRESSION OF GLUT-1 IN GBM CELL LINES, Marissa Kane
The Immortal Jellyfish and Other Things That Don't Know About Love, Tianli Kilpatrick
Affective Images of Climate Change: Analysis and Database Development, Elizabeth Lehman
CHARACTERIZATION OF THERANOSTIC PEPTIDES FOR GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME, Aaron Mellesmoen
CLIMATE DRIVEN RANGE SHIFTS OF NORTH AMERICAN SMALL MAMMALS: SPECIES’ TRAITS AND PHYLOGENETIC INFLUENCES, Katie Nehiba
Lonely This Side of Nowhere, Anne Okonowski
Investigating Sexual Violence in College-Aged Dating Couples: Does the Medium Affect the Message?, Emily F. Plackowski
CLOSE READING AND CRITICAL THEORY, Kimberly Rosewall
Bramble and Knife, Sara Ryan
STUDENT ATHLETES' PERCEPTION OF SMARTPHONE USE AND ITS EFFECTS ON SLEEP QUALITY, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION, Alexis Schaefer
That Said, Karl Alderic Schroeder
Exploring Empathy in Medical Narratives, Adam Uhrig
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ROLES OF MUSCLE-SYNTHESIZED BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR AND PRESYNAPTIC TYROSINE RECEPTOR KINASE B IN MOTOR NEURON AXONAL TRANSPORT, Luke A. VanOsdol
Discriminative Stimulus Effects of Gabapentin, Michael Zuidema
Theses from 2017
EVALUATING THE USE OF SELF-RELEVANT STIMULI IN ATTENTION BIAS MODIFICATION TRAINING AS A TREATMENT FOR ANXIETY: A NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY STUDY, Jacob Scott Aday
Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century Science Fiction Novels, Kaitlin S. Andersen
36 Yellow Fields to One White Rhino, Sarah Bates
Get Lost Then Turn, Michael Berry
Information Sharing, Transparency, and E-Governance Among County Government Offices in Southeastern Michigan, Lawrence Bosek
Dead in the Crosswalk, Jacqueline H. Boucher
A PLATFORM FOR THE DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTEINS THAT ASSOCIATE WITH PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA RNA POLYMERASE, Danielle N. Brogren
THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT PROCESS BY MICHIGAN EDUCATORS, Victor Bugni
EFFECTS OF WINTER AND SUMMER THERMAL VARIABILITY REGIMES ON GROWTH AND METABOLISM IN BROOK TROUT (Salvelinus fontinalis), Spenser Chicoine
THE ACUTE AND CHRONIC EFFECTS OF HIGHLY CUSHIONED SHOES ON LOADING CHARACTERISTICS IN RECREATIONAL RUNNERS, Jessica Corkin
The Saleing Subculture, Hayli M. Cox
WALKING IN WAVES, Sarah David
COMPARISON OF CLINICAL VERSUS MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS IN DETECTING LOWER LIMB ASYMMETRIES ASSOCIATED WITH A SECOND ACL INJURY, Alicia E. DenHerder
Gaming for Meaning: Video Games and Evolving Reader Response, Reannon Dykehouse
Hollowend, Hayley M. Fitz
BERINGIAN BIOGEOGRAPHY: PATTERNS OF INTERCONTINENTAL DISPERSAL AND THE STRUCTURING OF A HOLARCTIC TAPEWORM GENUS, Genevieve M. Haas
A WALK THROUGH TRAUMA, Amy E. Hinrichs
PROGRAM EVALUATION OF THE LARGE LECTURE RETENTION ENHANCEMENT INITIATIVE PILOT PROGRAM AT NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 2012-2015, Kathryn Johnson
USING PEER-MEDIATED SELF-MONITORING TO INCREASE PROCEDURAL INTEGRITY OF NET IMPLEMENTATION IN A CLINIC SETTING, Miranda Johnson
The Effect of Hyperthermic Whole Body Heat Stimulus (Sauna) on Heat Shock Protein 70 and Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy in Young Males during Weight Training, Brandon C. Jones Mr.
MOLECULAR SUBTYPING OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ISOLATES FROM THE U.P. COMMUNITY FOR THE PRESENCE OF TOXIN-ENCODING GENES, Carol I. Kessel
An Unstable Container, John LaPine
Will you be my mentor? Self-selecting a mentor during student teaching., Linda Ludwig
In Post Memoriam: An Exploration of Family and Grieving, Courtney A. Mauck
Post-Activation Potentiation: Decay or Fatigue Delay, Ryan L. Meidinger
Sub-lethal and lethal effects of a neonicotinoid pesticide on the development of Northern leopard frog tadpoles., Travis A. Moe
BETTER HEALTH THROUGH HORTICULTURE: USING HORTICULTURE TO INFLUENCE BEHAVIOR AND REDUCE STRESS, Rachel Ochylski
The Role of Stereotype Threat in Mental Rotation, Bridget A. Parler
BASIGIN-2 MEDIATED ACTIVATION OF ERK1/2 SIGNALING IN HUMAN GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME CELLS, Erik R. Peterson
A NIRS Study of Violinists and Pianists Employing Motor and Music Imageries to Assess Neural Differences in Music Perception, Sonja Prychitko
An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value, Jennifer K. Quartararo
A Rapid Colorimetric Peptide Nucleic Acid Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for the Detection of the IDH1 Mutation in Glioblastoma, Edward J. Raack
THE WORK ETHIC GAP: COMPARING PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS, EDUCATORS, AND EMPLOYERS, Joseph Routhier
Go for a Walk! Monitoring Walking for Depressed Mood, Michael E. Shrake
Phylogenetic studies of the Madagascan freshwater crabs (Potamoidea, Potamonautidae, Deckeniinae), Rainee Stevens
GROWTH PATTERNS AND SIZE-GROUP INTERACTIONS IN HATCHERY-REARED AGE-0 LAKE STURGEON, Joseph M. Susco
DELAYED EFFECTS OF SUB-LETHAL LAMPRICIDE, 3-TRIFLUOROMETHYL-4-NITROPHENOL (TFM), EXPOSURE ON THE METABOLIC PHYSIOLOGY OF JUVENILE LAKE STURGEON (ACIPENSER FULVESCENS), Matthew J. Symbal
Examining How Novices, Apprenticing Experts, and Disciplinary Experts Approach Reading Academic Texts, Hali A. Tavalsky
Wildlife: Stories, Jason D. Teal
COMPARATIVE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN PIKA PARASITES: UNRAVELING A HISTORY DRIVEN BY CLIMATE CHANGE, Heather M. Toman
CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 35 EXPRESSION: CONSIDERATIONS OF SEX AND OVARIAN HORMONES, Amanda M. Vanderplow
FLEAS OF THE AMERICAN PIKA: DIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN NORTH AMERICA’S INTERMOUNTAIN WEST, Niyomi Wijewardena
A Road out of Naknek Part One: The Tide Turns, Keith Wilson
Theses from 2016
The Trash Birder's Guide, Ashely Adams
EXAMINING THE NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF GROUP COHESION IN RESIDENCE HALL STAFFS, Thaher J. Aiyash
Paper Conferences as Meaningful Feedback to Student Writing, Jessica N. Betz
Paranormal Orgy, Cameron M. Contois
A MARRIAGE SEWN TOGETHER, Marie E. Curran
THE ROLE OF SKELETAL MUSCLE-SYNTHESIZED BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR IN RETROGRADE TRANSPORT ALONG MOTORNEURON AXONS, Rebecca L. Dangremond
Check the Box Marked Other: Exploring Gender in Family Life, Serenity E. Dougherty
"That Hateful Prairie Wind": Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic, Jessica Duncan
7-WEEKS OF YOGA TRAINING AND ITS EFFECTS ON FLEXIBILITY, RATE OF FORCE DEVELOPMENT, AND JUMP HEIGHT IN OLYMPIC WEIGHTLIFTERS, Andrew Ernst
Dredge, Molly M. Fox
Kingdom Come: Stories of Modern Appalachia, A. Paige Frazier
Blind but Seeing: Post-clinical Medicine in Jose Saramago's Blindness, Matthew J. Ftacek
Wolf Predation: Where and How Wolves Kill Beavers, and Confronting the Biases in Scat-Based Diet Studies, Thomas Gable
The Cranberry Club, Michael Giddings
Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Timothy N. Grams
DIET ANALYSIS OF NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE JUVENILE SALMONIDS IN A LAKE SUPERIOR TRIBUTARY, Alexis C. Growe-Raney
The Highlands, Amy Elisabeth Hansen
EFFECTIVE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP PRACTICES IN SCHOOLS WITH POSITIVE CLIMATES IN THE AGE OF HIGH-STAKES TEACHER EVALUATIONS, Kristina M. Hansen
REMAIN, Johanna M. Hardy
Personality and Longevity in the Profession of Athletic Training, Tyler Harris
A Case Study in a Superintendent’s Leadership Under Duress, Anders C. Hill
Evaluation of a Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assay to Simultaneously Detect Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in Nasal Samples, Polly Hockberger
A Novel and Rapid Staphylococcus aureus Bacterial Identification Method Utilizing ImmunoMagnetic Beads and Single Cell Laser-Light Scattering, Kaylagh Hollen
12-DAY ADVENTURE RUN-HIKE TRAINING AT ALTITUDE IMPROVES SEA LEVEL 5KM PERFORMANCE, Andrew M. Jones
THE FEAR OF DROWNING, Christen N. Kauffman
WHALES AND OTHER MAMMALS: ESSAYS, Ryan Wesley Kauffman