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Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

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. The Doctor of Nursing Practice is located in the Master's Theses Collection under "Nursing Master's Theses & Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects". 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/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Understanding the Value of Friendships: Exploring the Different Characteristics of Virtual World Friendships Compared to Real World Friendships, Samantha Baires

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

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

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

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

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

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

Epiphanies, Metaphors, and Liminality: Religion and Mountains in the Seventeenth Century English Mind, Ethan Smith

Healing Sanctuary, Kammy Downs

Human Nature, Mary Robb

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

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

Inhumane, Jordan Brown

Investigation of a Misophonia and Fluid Intelligence Relationship: Sound Spectrum Variation Impact on Fluid Intelligence Task Responses, Leslie Watson

MFA Thesis Exhibition - Enormous, Wendy (Suat Huay) Tan

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

Mother Water, Crystal J. Hammerschmidt

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

Novus Ordo: The Rise of Progressive Catholicism and the Fall of Traditional Catholic Worship, Daniel P. Sute

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

The Impact of Planting Season and Crop Residue on Germination, Reproductive Success, and Mass of Native Forbs, Michaela VonLintel

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

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

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