Research & Sponsored Programs Report ResearchAnnual201819-electronic | Page 22
Student research projects are an integral part of UWF's academic experience. The following
UWF graduate students successfully completed graduate research experiences in 2018.
Dissertations
Student, Title
Department..................................................................................................................................................... Advisor
Andrea Bishop, Exploring Student Persistence Factors among Undergraduate College
Students: Student Intent and Departure
Department of Research and Advanced Studies............................................Dr. Carla Thompson
Maureen Howard, High Intensity Interval Training in a Natural Setting: A Hope Theory
Application
Department of Movement Sciences and Health........................................................Dr. Debra Vinci
Dianne Harris, Integrating the Theories of Neuman and Rotter in the Preparation of
Nurses
Department of Research and Advanced Studies............................................Dr. Carla Thompson
Nadia Mohandessi, Investigating the Deployment Experience, Cognitive Function, and
Self-Efficacy of Tabletop Exercise Participants
Department of Instructional, Workforce and Applied Technology............... Dr. Byron Havard
Shelby Vaughn, Online Doctoral Student Satisfaction as Influenced by Personality and
Transactional Distance
Department of Research and Advanced Studies....................................... Dr. Katherine Johnson
Melinda Mixon, Exploring Adult Learner Characteristics and Personalities: Integrated
Framework of Knowles and Holland
Department of Research and Advanced Studies............................................Dr. Carla Thompson
Joc Calloway, Female Experiences in Math Courses at a Florida College Using Stereotype
Threat
Department of Research and Advanced Studies................................................Dr. Patricia Wentz
Corey Nagle, A Multiple Case Study: Disciplinary Literacy Instruction in Middle Level
Science Classrooms
School of Education...........................................................................................................Dr. John Pecore
John Woods, Connecting Social Studies and Power: Examining Fayette County’s
Freedom Village
Department of Research and Advanced Studies................................................Dr. Patricia Wentz
Carlos Arango Paternina, Social Support Network for Physical Activity and Sedentary
Behavior in Adolescents
Department of Movement Sciences and Health............................................. Dr. John Todorovich
Stefan Vaughn, An Examination of Ethnocultural Empathy in Campus Policing
Department of Research and Advanced Studies....................................... Dr. Katherine Johnson
Wendy Schamber, Relating Student Perceptions of Parent Attitudes to Student
Motivation for Learning Mathematics
School of Education................................................................................. Dr. Giang-Ngyuyen Ngyuyen
Debra Mitchell, Effects of a Nutritional Education Video Game on High School Students
School of Education........................................................................................................ Dr. Byron Havard
Theses
Student, Title
Department..................................................................................................................................................... Advisor
Stephanie LaGassé Valle, The Impossibility of Coexistence: Constraining Womanhood in
Sense and Sensibility and Hope Leslie
Department of English....................................................................................................Dr. Kelly Bushnell
Terry Griner, “Sailing on the Cloud of Science”: Sensibility and Science in Ann Yearsley’s
Poems on Several Occasions
Department of English..................................................................................................... Dr. David Baulch
Kara Griffith, Music and Punctuation: Blending Formal and Rhetorical Grammar
Department of English............................................................................ Dr. Regina Sakalarios-Rogers
Kent Langham, Baptized by Fire: Appalachian Pentecostalism in Robert Morgan’s Poetry
Department of English....................................................................................................Dr. Kelly Bushnell
Kendra Brooks, Changes in Primary Production, Nutrient Fluxes, and Rates of Succession
Following the Deployment of an Artificial Reef System in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico
Department of Biology......................................................................................................Dr. Jane Caffrey
Rebecca Foglietti, A Comparative Climatology of Tornado Outbreaks and Outbreak
Variability in the U.S.A.
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences..........................................Dr. Jason Ortegren
Patrick Loper, Burcayda
Department of English............................................................................ Dr. Regina Sakalarios-Rogers
John Duany, Training Mindfulness and Concentration to Improve Situation Awareness and
Attention in Older Drivers
Department of Psychology...............................................................................................Dr. Steven Kass
Katelyn Knight, Temporal Analysis of Bacterial Community Structure in the Northeastern
Gulf of Mexico
Department of Biology.................................................................................................... Dr. Wade Jeffrey
Guangyun Liu, Electroencephalographic (EEG) Measurements of Physiological Stress
Reduction: A Comparison between Mindfulness, Meditation, and Relaxing Music
Department of Psychology.....................................................................................Dr. Carolyn Pritchett
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2018-2019 Research Annual Report