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.
2023
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
Value Mapping and the Community Wildfire Protection Planning Process in Entiat, WA, Katharine Kiendl
The impact of mentorship on attracting and sustaining female superintendents in the State of Washington, Michelle Kuss-Cybula
Impact of Riverbank Lupine (Lupinus rivularis) on Grand Fir (Abies grandis) Ectomycorrhizal Symbioses, Andrew Labay
U-Pb Zircon Geochronology and Structure of regional blueschist units in the Easton metamorphic suite, Northwest Cascades, WA, Katherine Lang
Paleomagnetic Determination of Vertical Axis Block Rotation near the Doty Fault in southwestern Washington, Charles Linneman
"Eden is on Puget Sound": Folk Music Stories in the Northwest, Rosie Lockie Everson
The Toxicity of Dopamine on Salish Sea Phytoplankton, Allyson Lombardo
Does sediment supply impact the threshold for initial sediment motion in natural, gravel bedded streams?, Emily Loucks
Investigate effects of different step lengths at a preferred walking speed on forefoot and hindfoot motion, Emily Lovekin
aahkóinnimaan kii makoyiisaaminaa: indigenous success in La Conner public schools, William Makoyiisaaminaa
Culturally Modified Trees in Western Washington: Impact and Perspective from the Stillaguamish Cultural Resources Department, Kelsey Maloy
Ibn Taymiyya on the Frontier: Renewal, Resistance and Rebellion, kenneth meyer
The Impact of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on the Development of Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Megan Moma
A metagenomic analysis of the microbial communities associated with different hydrothermal vent chimneys, Laura Murray
To flee or not to flee: how range dynamic of alpine species are changing through time, LiAn Noonan
Distribution and Mixotrophy of Cryptophyte Phytoplankton in the Northern Gulf of Alaska, Megan O'Hara
Quantifying Channel Change Following Post-Fire Debris Flows in a Steep, Coastal Stream, Big Sur, California, Telemak Olsen
Contours, Max Owens
How Etiology and Diagnostic Label are Stigmatized: The Impacts of Childhood Trauma and “Sluggish Cognitive Tempo” on Recovery Optimism and Blame, Aubrie Patterson
FACTORS AFFECTING INDIGENOUS STUDENT MOTIVATION IN K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, Duane Penner
Motivations for and Barriers to Forest Certification of Washington State Trust Lands, Tracy Petroske
Body By Colonialism: The Importance of Including Sexual Minorities in Forensic and Medical Lexicons., Mia Price
A Qualitative Case Study of Two School Districts’ Onboarding and Retention Mentorship Programs for New Teachers during the COVID‐19 Pandemic, Angelina Quiles
The effects of diatom-specific polyunsaturated aldehydes on larval zebrafish (Danio rerio), Rachel Raymer
Cosmopolitan Culture Talk After 9/11, Chris Reid
The Effect of Long-Haul COVID-19 on Balance Confidence in Older Adults, Mariel Relyea
Cannabidiol Administered via Vapor Inhalation Restores Social Interaction Deficits in a Mouse Model of Social Anxiety, Brennen Risch
Connections between eruption style and magmatic reservoir evolution: Insights from Augustine Volcano, Alaska, USA, Mahinaokalani G. Robbins
A Mixed-Methods Study of Geoscience Identity, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender in Senior Undergraduate Geoscience Majors, Willa Rowan
Was the Grass Always Greener? Mapping the Historical Extent of Grassland Ecosystems in the San Juan Islands, Kailey Marie Schillinger-Brokaw
Regio- and Diastereoselective Samarium-Mediated Allylic Sulfone Reductions, Cody Schwans
Impact of Carbonaceous and Inorganic Nanomaterial Chemistry on Polymer Additive Release from Weathered Epoxy Composites, Haley Sefi-Cyr
Social Justice Through Beach Access and Community-Based Placemaking in Puna, Hawai'i, Yumi-Shika Shridhar
Biomarker study of Bellingham Bay : identifying how urbanization has affected carbon storage and eelgrass, Jess Shulman
Generations of Stewards: Re-Indigenizing Youth Leadership, Learning, and Conservation Education, Drew Slaney
Complex Microbial Mat Communities Used to Assess Primer Selection for Targeted Amplicon Surveys, Lindsey Smith
Strengthening Mindfulness and Social Support as Psychosocial Skills; Improving First-Year Student’s Adjustment into College, Raumilya Smith
Selectivity and structure of chimeric loop swaps in SH2 domains, Sarah N. Smith
Embodied Narratives: An Exploration of Dance Through Identity, Community, and Wellbeing, Elizabeth Smyth
Words Might've Misshapened Me, Taylor Stafford
Exploring the Evolution of Jazz Drumming Through Recordings: A Jazz Lineage, Gary Stivers
“Make the Big Time Where You Are” Applying the Coaching Principles of Frosty Westering to Build a Culture of Success, Steven Stoker
Adoption of Agroforestry Practices in Northwest Washington State: An Ex-ante Case-Study, Ava Stone
The Race Toward Carbon Neutral Ecotourism: Leveraging Life Cycle Analysis and Natural Climate Solutions for a Community Adventure Event, Ted Tarricone
Reconstructing wildfire regime during the warm Paleocene-Eocene climate using molecular biomarkers from the Chuckanut Formation in northwest Washington, U.S.A., Alexandra Elise Thompson
Love Pedagogy: Justice, Mattering, and Care in and Out of the Classroom, Gabby Triana
Questioned Identity: Morisca Women and the Spanish Inquisition, Nathan Van Aken
Structural and Thermodynamic Studies of Antibody Binding to Blood Coagulation Factor VIII, Jordan Vaughan
Class A Sortases: Structures and Alternative Substrate Binding and Cleavage, Brandon Vogel