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School is your Job: Promoting the Importance of Higher Education in the Hispanic Population
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#leadingmamas: A Visual Ethnography
(2016-11-23)This study begins to fill the void of the challenges women who are mothers face while being an educational leader. Using an emergent feminist post-structural method, this study explores how women who identify as educational ... -
Mechanisms of Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae fitness when grown in co-culture
(2016-11-22)Vibrio cholerae is a gram negative bacillus that possesses a single flagellum and is commonly known to have two toxigenic strains: serogroups O1 and O139; both are causes of epidemics. V. cholerae normally lives in brackish ... -
Elucidation of Critical Residues Within the Extracellular Loop of the Epithelial Sodium Channel
(2016-12-01)The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) is a membrane protein complex located in the distal tubule of the nephron in the kidney which is responsible for the reabsorption of the final 3-5% of sodium from the urine back into ... -
School Daze: Depictions of Black High School Students in Film
(2018-11-14)Education and media are essential elements in our socialization. Each serves as an influential resource that has the ability to portray experiences from different perspectives. Particularly, films involving educational ... -
Using Knot Theory to Model and Analyze DNA Replication and Recombination
(2018-11-13)Due to DNA supercoiling inside the nucleus of a cell, DNA can be modeled as a mathematical knot. We will analyze and examine the knots and links that arise after single or multiple rounds of DNA recombi- nation using the ... -
Illuminating the Faculty and Staff of Color Voice through their Lived Experiences: Contextualizing Mentoring and Resilience
(2018-10-10)This phenomenological qualitative research study sought to examine the lived experiences of eight full-time faculty and staff of color at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). The study’s design illuminated the voice of ... -
I Have a Voice So Listen: Principal Perception of the Texas Accountability Intervention System (TAIS)
(2018-11-13)Across the United States, individual states have taken the mandates from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which originated in 2001 as part of the Reformation Era (Foley & Nelson, 2011), and created improvement structures to ... -
The Assistive Research and Ideation Engine: The Application of Effective Communication Design to Enhance the Process of Online Research
This Thesis focuses on the conception and wireframing of an Assistive Research and Ideation Engine (ARIE). The ARIE is an online platform that will facilitate a more effective research process by enhancing the ability of ... -
An Analysis of the Alignment between National and State Geography Standards
(2018-11-14)The standards-based reform movement in K-12 American education began in the 1990s after a number of polls and surveys publicized the poor performance of American students in geographical knowledge. The federal government ... -
BRFSS 2015-2017: Exploring the Burden of Caring For Others
(2018-11-13)Recognizing the growing public health need for informal care, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) commissioned an expert panel to develop a “caregiver module” for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance ... -
The Professional Development of Successful School Leaders: Adults Learning and Leading
(2018-10-10)This qualitative study explores the reasons why principals from all levels, elementary, middle, and high school, seek out new learning and professional growth. This study sought to gain a better understanding of why school ... -
Factors Influencing Academic Success in First Generation College Students
(2018-11-07)Previous studies suggest that the college experience may be uniquely challenging for first generation college students (FGs); that is, students for whom neither parent has completed a college degree. While previous work ... -
Career Change: A phenomenological study of former military members and their transition into teaching
(2018-11-05)This study explored the experiences of former active duty personnel who transitioned to the civilian workforce as school-teachers after a career in the military. The qualitative methodology employed was a phenomenological ... -
Financing Public Education via Crowdfunding: K-12 Teachers as Social Entrepreneurs
(2018-10-10)This study explored the practice of crowdfunding by certified teachers in public schools and the methods they employed to finance learning materials and resources on behalf of their respective classrooms and schools. While ... -
Detectability Affects The Performance of Survey Methods - A Comparison of Sampling Methods of Freshwater Mussels in Central Texas
(2018-11-08)Designing effective surveys for freshwater mussels (Unionidae) is a challenge, because they are spatially clustered and often found in low densities. The objective of this study was to examine how the effectiveness of three ... -
The Framing of Occupy Wall Street by The New York Times And New York Post
(2018-11-09)The purpose of this study was to compare how a liberal paper, The New York Times, and a conservative paper, The New York Post, framed Occupy Wall Street (OWS) during its nearly two-month occupation of Zuccotti Park in 2011. ... -
Interspecific Spacing between Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) and Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) Colonies along the Invasion Gradient in Texas
(2018-09-27)Invasive species can be devastating to ecosystems and their impacts on native species are innumerable. The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) invasion is a threat to many native species and is one hypothesized ...
