The mission of the Graduate School is to advance, promote, and serve graduate faculty, students, and programs through advocacy, leadership, and oversight. The Graduate School supports all graduate programs and students at Western, expanding graduate and undergraduate student access to engaging education, promoting life-long learning, enhancing scholarly activity, and developing graduates qualified to address the diverse critical needs of the state and nation.
2024
Belonging for all Identities: Investigating Responsive Strategies for Inclusion, Voice, and Equity in Secondary Schools, Gregory W. Allison
Biophysical and Structural Characterization of Blood Coagulation Factor VIII Lipid Binding with Lipid Nanodiscs, Nathan G. Avery
Biodiversity of Snow Algae in the North Cascades: Comparing Distinct Microhabitats at Mount Watson., Chloe Beck
Examining the Impact of Universal School Nutrition Programs on Student Access Levels and Associated Stigma: A Phenomenological Study, Christine Bell
Coast Salish foods gathered on clam gardens and rocky intertidal beaches, Amy Rose Cline
Revealing Binding and Unbinding Pathways of Small Molecules and Peptides to Enzymes with Enhanced Sampling Methods, Kayla Ariana Croney
Transition State Kinetics Through Kramers’ Rate for Variationally Enhanced Sampling., David Cummins
Timing of subduction initiation and deformation history of amphibolite and blueschist in the Easton metamorphic suite, Northwest Cascades, Washington, Nick S. Cunetta
Iron mixed with clay, partly strong, partly brittle, Patrick Q. Czichas
Difference in Parental Reactions When Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Gender-Diverse Individuals Come Out, Hannah Dahlke
Life cycle assessment of a hemp-based thermal insulation panel, Kara Davis
The Lived Experiences of Transgender Women Engaged in Virtual Sex Work, Patricia Fernandez
“Two Years in the Making and Ten Minutes in the Destroying.” British Communal Army Formation during the First World War, Brian Fleming Bleed
Velocity structure of the Queen Charlotte Fault across the 2013 Mw 7.5 Craig earthquake region, Lazaro Valentin Garza
A Spatial Representation of Wilderness Character Degradation in the Stephen Mather Wilderness of North Cascades National Park Service Complex, Andrew Giacomelli
Amity and Commerce: The Jay Treaty and Free Trade in the Atlantic World, Aaron Gibbs
Half a House: an excerpt from a novel, Jamie Good
Restoring Forest Habitat Using Assisted Migration as a Climate Change Adaption, Chelsea Harris
No Place for You, Kaija Holland
Investigating the Role of ER-Associated Degradation in an Olfactory Neuron in the Nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, Heino Hulsey-Vincent
Improving Riparian Restoration Planning Efforts in San Juan County Using a Site-Specific Planting Tool, Julia Jaquery
Identifying Genome Protective RNA Interference Factors in Tetrahymena thermophila, Lena Kay Johnson
Post polymerization Modification and Preparation of Dynamic Polymer Networks via Guanylation of Aryl Carbodiimides, Conner J. Klingler
High Resolution Seafloor Structure of the Gofar Oceanic Transform Fault, Paige Koenig
The Biophysical Resilience Capacity of the Salish Sea’s Tidal Wetlands to Sea Level Rise, Kenna Kuhn
Hiring Practices and Retention Strategies for Teachers of Color: A Qualitative Study, Scott M. Leick
An Assessment of Historical and Future Bluff Recession in Puget Sound, WA, Callie Little
Affordable Infill, Virginia MacDonald
The Evolutionary History of Primate Litter Size, Jack Hansen McBride
Beyond Dystopia: The effect of reading hopeful climate fiction on climate anxiety and environmental self-efficacy, Brandon McWilliams
Deglacial and Holocene environmental change recorded in lake sediments from the Snowy Mountains, Kosciuszko National Park, southeastern Australia, Emma J. Mickelson
The Defense of Dialectic and Ethics in Murray Bookchin’s Philosophy of Social Ecology, Peter Munsterman
Constructing Community: Heresy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Alexis Nunn
An Ethnographic Study of Grace Services: Understanding Resilience at an Organizational Level, Jessica Paredes Strong
Epistemology of Ignorance and the Invisibility of Indigenous Peoples, Kimberly R. Peterson
My Werewolf Boyfriend, Alex Phengsavath
Distributed Leadership Practices of Elementary and Secondary School Administrators in the State of Washington, Kelly A. Raymond
A Well-Trained Heart: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Kodály-Inspired Secondary Choirs, Kyra Rengstorf
The Fish Bites Back: A Developmental Analysis of Feeding Biomechanics in Danionin Minnows, Collin Shinkle
Effects of Wearing Face Masks During Continuous Exercise in Runners, Amanda E. Short-Mataya
My Deepest, Most Tender Wound: Stories, Katie K. Strubel
Deoxygenating Nitrogen Oxides Using Coordination Complexes and Anionic Activity, Allison Teigen
Modeling the impact of agricultural management practices on riverine N export in the transboundary Nooksack River watershed, Washington, Astoria Tershy
Enculturation in the Lullaby Environment, Benjamin Wade
Way Back Machine, Allison Wehrle
Orientalism in Ancient Literature and its Transmission into Modern Popular Culture, Alan Wheeler
An Ecocentric Turn: Emerging Narratives in the Growing U.S. Rights of Nature Movement, Raechel E. Youngberg
2023
The Perfectionist, Katherine Abdallah
An Examination of the Mental Health Symptoms of Former Adolescent Athletes Who Experienced Either Forced or Expected Athletic Retirement, Lindsay Ahmann
Kinetic analysis of the grafting thermal ring-opening polymerization reaction of benzoxazine with sulfonyl-ester functionalized polymers, Tawakalt Adetoun Akinjobi
The Well-Coordinated Pianist, Avery Alexander
The Black Cauldron, a Curtain of Fire, and the Sword of the War God: Connections Between Nomadic Populations on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe, Shawn R. Armistead
Development of nickel phosphide-indium oxide photothermal catalysts for the reverse water gas shift reaction, Michael S. Baldwin
Boundaries to Belonging: An Ethnography of Refugee Resettlement in Washington State, Elizabeth Baseman
Weaving Fragmented Lands Together: Perspectives on a National Framework for Landscape Conservation, Jaimie Baxter
Jazz Choir Arranging: Tips and Best Practices, Connor Bennion
Development of Silk Microparticles Capable of Bioluminescence, Monique Berg
Coupling Unoccupied Aerial System Surveys and Elevation Measurements to Predict Native and Nonnative Eelgrass Cover in Padilla Bay, Jacqui Bergner
The Effects of an Imagery Intervention on Self-Efficacy during Athletic Injury Rehabilitation, Peyton Ann Bilo
Trophic transfer of metals from seaweed to shellfish in an aquaculture system, Sophia Boyd
Rhetorical Vulnerability, Sophia Brauner
Slope of the Torque-Velocity Relationship Between Males and Females, Robert Bromen
Cultivating Change: Case Study Analysis of Agricultural Resistance in Whatcom and Skagit Counties, Washington, Dana Bronstein
New Synthetic Methods Based on Silicon-Tethered Nucleophilic Addition Reactions, Alexie W. Clover
Investigating Kīlauea’s 2018 Offshore Lava Emplacement Through Hydroacoustic Data, Olana Costa
All of This Will End, Sean Dolan
Who’s Nature? Ontological Narrative Dissonance Among Skagit River Fishery Coalitions, Jann Eberharter
I'm Sorry, I Love You, Jemma Everyhope-Roser
Glacial loss and threatened fish: The future of Mount Rainier’s cold-water Bull Trout habitats, Kathleen C. Ewen
Moral Injury in Survivors of Domestic Violence, Camille A. Fogel
Against the Grain: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Effects of Climatic and Cultural Changes on Grain Agriculture in Northwest Washington, Natalie Furness
Learning from Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Butter Clams, Jackelyn Garcia
Modeling the Effects of Projected Climate Warming on Stream Temperatures in the Stillaguamish River Basin, Emily Esther Gebheim Smoot
Tuned gold layer growth onto plasmonic sensing silver nanocubes via synthetic control of reduction potentials., Nicolas Hall
Can Larvae of a Deep-Sea Gastropod, Thalassonerita naticoidea, Swim to the Surface to Find Food in the Gulf of Mexico?, Mitchell Hebner
An Exploration of How Peer Servant Leadership and Basic Psychological Needs Relate to the Intrinsic Motivation and Athletic Coping Skills of Intercollegiate Athletes, Claire Grace Marie Henninger
Structural, Mutational, and Kinetic Characterization of URA4, an Isocytosine Deaminase, Ashlee Hoffman
Stereoselective Synthesis of (+)- and (-)-Cananodine, Haley Holliday
Activity and Selectivity of Class B Sortase Enzymes, Sophie Jackson
A Characterization of Hyporheic Temperatures with Applications for Salmon Habitat Restoration in a Thermally Impaired River, Sydney Jantsch
Simple Gifts in Wind Band Repertoire: A comparative analysis of three wind band pieces featuring the Shaker melody "Simple Gifts", Jared Johnson
Polyunsaturated Aldehyde Production in the Salish Sea: A Survey of Benthic Diatom Producers and the Influence of Coastal Upwelling, Jeremy Johnson
Using Chemical Zoning in Minerals to Understand Magmatic Processes at Augustine Volcano, Alaska, Sloane Kennedy