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Master's Theses

The Master's Theses Collection contains manuscripts written by Fort Hays graduate students dating from 1930 through the present. Theses submitted after 2009 are Open Access. Works prior to 2010 may be limited to on-campus access due to copyright restrictions. Please contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu for questions regarding access to individual works.

Theses from 2023 2023

Habitat associations and fine-scale movements of the Red-Spotted Toad (Anaxyrus punctatus) in Kansas and the efficacy of remote telemetry for monitoring small-scale movements, Elisabeth Russell

Bat Activity and Insect Biomass on McConnell Airforce Base Compared to Surrounding Wichita Parks, Michaela Sielaff

Methylation Patterns Across Tissue Type and Time in Peromyscus leucopus: A Targeted Museum Study, Loryn Smith

Everything Changes, Nothing Dies., Olivia S. Stinson

Want to Be a Cowboy? The Struggle for Identity in Rodeo, Colton Wagner

Developing the Housing Attribute and Spatial Index (HASI) Tool to Identify Characteristic Neighborhoods Using Variable Importance Factors Calculated Utilizing Random Forest Regression Modeling in ArcGIS Pro, William A. Wallace

Theses from 2022 2022

Not Ready To Make Nice: A Study Of The Intimate Relationship Of The Chicks' Music And Politics, Danielle Bishop

Inhumane, Jordan Brown

The Limits of Healthy Habits: Exploring the Relationship between Disordered Eating, Body Image, Mindfulness, Social Media, and Dysfunctional Exercise, Taylor A. Dinkel

Healing Sanctuary, Kammy Downs

Using Geochemical Composition to Determine Paleo Environmental Conditions and Source Inputs In Paleozoic Rocks Within The Central Kansas Uplift USA, Christiana Fumnanya Eziashi

Dye Tracing and the Effects of Infrastructure in Hidden River Cave, Horse Cave, KY, Alexa G. Franks

Influences of grazing on habitat characteristics, avian community composition and nesting bird abundance within Cheyenne Bottoms, KS, Kirsten Granstrom-Arndt

Increasing Detection Sensitivity for Rare and Endangered Species in Kansas through Development of an Aquatic Environmental DNA Sampling Protocol, Sarah Hallyburton

Mother Water, Crystal J. Hammerschmidt

"You Wanna Play Rough?": The Unlikely Partnership of the Italian Mafia and Butch Lesbians in Greenwich Village, 1945-1968, Alison Jean Helget

Three Method Tsunami Vulnerability Analysis of the United States East Coast, Joshua Knolla

Efficacy of Non-Lethal Molecular Methods in Elucidating Distribution of Gray Treefrog Complex (Hyla chrysoscelis/versicolor) in Kansas, Nora K. Lazerus

Stable Isotope Analysis of a Platecarpus tympaniticus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) with Actinocamax sternbergi (Mollsuca, Belemnoidea) reveals possible endothermic thermoregulation, Mitchell Lukens

The Demiurge and the Primeval Serpent Motif within Classical Thought and its Culmination within Gnosticism and Early Christianity, Jim McPeters

The Effects of Social Media on Anxiety, Reward Sensitivity, and Risk-Taking on Emerging Adults, Victoria Medrano

A 16S & ITS Soil Microbiome Analysis of Native & Old-World Bluestem Invaded Soils of Kansas Grasslands, Zachary Nelson

Effects of Aggressive Reed (Phragmites australis) on Aquatic Communities in a Kansas Reservoir, Allison Pardis

Most White People Just Don't Trust a Black Business Very Much: How the Walker Family Overcame Economic and Racial Discrimination to Become Successful Professional Business Owners in Memphis in the Twentieth Century, Leslie Pleasants

Human Nature, Mary Robb