This collection includes EWU master's theses. The bulk of the collection is from 2011 through the present. However, some theses for previous years are being digitized when the Library acquires a copy that can be disbound and scanned. If you are the author of a thesis identified as "EWU-only" and you would like your thesis to be available to the public, please contact the Library to request an access change.
To locate pre-2011 print theses in the Library's collection, search the Library's catalog.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Just like leaving, Joseph Karwas Slocum
Gabrielle's requiem: songs for the Gela, Jennifer M. Smith
Texting, self, and society, Timothy S. Smith
Thieves of thankfulness: inhibitors of gratitude, Rebecca C. Solom
Predation, turbidity, and other factors influencing juvenile Salmonid survival in the lower Snake River, Devin M. Sontag
Ray traced rendering using GPGPU devices, Coby Soss
Bat activity over wetlands: temporal and spatial variation, Sarah Stankavich
Non-cognitive factors in second language acquisition and language variety: a single case study of a Saudi male English for academic purposes student in the United States, Nicholas Stephens
DNA barcoding of Jatropha curcas, Terence L. Stephens
Coping skills, Katrina Stubson
Teaching English in the Philippines: a diary study of a novice ESL teacher, Jeffrey Lee Svoboda
Everything I got away with, Andrew Vanden Bossche
Arabic rhetoric: Main idea, development, parallelism, and word repetition, Melissa Van De Wege
Reality and imagination: the authorial decisions of May Welland Archer and Emma Woodhouse, Melinda R. Vetter
Elliptic curves and their cryptographic applications, Samuel L. Wenberg
Who would you want in your life?: Discrimination against morning and evening people, Jamie Yotz
No strings attached: adult attachment styles in friends with benefits relationship, Kristen R. Zangar
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Video games and interactive technology in the ESL classroom, Melody Anderson
Physiological response to three environmental stressors predicts fitness and genome quality but not base substitution rate in caenorhabditis elegans, Jacob R. Andrew
Implementation of a communication skills module at the University of Washington School of Dentistry: pilot study, Alisha K. Anyan
English as a second language learners and spelling performance in university multilingual writers, Nada Yousef Asiri
Optimization of conditions for vitrification of aqueous solutions of relevance to cryobiology, Michael J. Baker
The five stages of grief, Rosie Bartel
Gaming communities and piracy: an exploratory study on meanings and attitudes within the gaming culture, Ashley J. Baxter
Habit of saying, Michael Bell
Ingenium and the navigation metaphor: an examination of the power of metaphor as a manifestation of ingenium, Daniel M. Brasher
An investigation of the relationship between symmetry index in isometric strength and vertical ground reaction forces in drop-landings, Lemuel A. Brown
Sacred versus secular: Celtic watery depositions of Iron Age human crania in the British Isles, Katherine R. Carlson
Twenty-three years of stairs, Aimee R. Cervenka
Riparian understory dynamics and relationship to dams on the Elwha River, Washington, Aaron J. Clausen
Beneath the surface, Chris Cullen
An introduction to the theory of quantum groups, Ryan W. Downie
Thebes by Tacoma West, Kyle Jay Dunn
Elk hunting on Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge: impacts on elk movement and aspen regeneration, Christopher E. Dwight
The bus: a novel excerpt, Gabe Ehrnwald
Teaching strategies to improve student perceptions of academic success: an approach toward immediacy, Andra L. Ely
The places we keep our dead, Tyler Evans
Climate change at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in the Pacific Northwest: a comparison of proxy datasets and the archaeologicial record, Tiffany J. Fulkerson
Release the fish, Matt Furst
Improvisation: narrative and character techniques in jazz pedagogy, Nathan Geyer
Stutters of light: poems, Tim Grassley
Windows security sandbox framework, Kyle P. Gwinnup
Effect of game activities on manual dexterity in older adults, Jael J. Hagerott
The shore is breaking, Rebecca Sutton Halonen
Mental toughness, servant leadership, and the collegiate distance runner, Christopher S. Hammer
My bare feet on the dirt: inter-connected essays about the discovery of place, Rachel Hartley-Smith
An assessment of antibiotic resistant bacteria in biosolid used as garden fertilizer, Gwendolyn Lenore Hartman
The dreams I have of never going home, Summer Nicole Hess
Comparison of RPE between ATM and SWW at 50%, 60%, and 70% HRR, Natalie J. Hughs
Red dress and bone, Ann Elizabeth Huston
Driven to look good: the role of narcissism in concerns about body perception and motivations to act on those concerns, Matt Johansen
99:40, Catherine A. Johnson
Effects of childhood family dynamics on body dissatisfaction in adulthood, Adrienne F. Kerbs
I'm just fine, but you appear to be sinking, Leyna M. Krow
The hyperboloid model of hyperbolic geometry, Zachery S. Lane Solheim
The communal diary, "... " (Naljeogi), transformative education, and writing through migrations: a Korean novice ESL teacher's diary and autoethnography, S. (Sangho) Lee
Resident fish community impacts on stocked rainbow trout ecology in 15 eastern Washington lakes, Kevin Mahoney
The effects of diethylstilbestrol on myometrial contractility in mice, Gayle N. May
The benefits of intercultural interactions: a position paper on the effects of study abroad and intercultural competence on pre-service and active teachers of ESL, Bergen Lorraine McCurdy
Slow dancing in a snake pit, Kristina McDonald
The development and analysis of the Global Citizen Award as a component of Asia University America Program at Eastern Washington University, Matthew Ged Miner
On top of everything else, Elizabeth A. Moore
Development and evaluation of novel antimicrobial solutions against biofilms and planktonic microbial growth, Lucy Morgan
Eastern Washington University and the Ice Age flood debate: processing the papers of EWU Professor Dale F. Stradling, John C. Moudy
The benefits of art analysis in English 101: multilingual and American writers respond to artwork of their choice, Jennifer M. Ochs
Examining the relationships between childhood sexual abuse, sexual identity development, and sexual satisfaction, Christina Patterson
Lighting up the dust, Kristina Joy Pfleegor
Perfectly pure and good, Jennifer E.L. Pullen
Student affairs turned inside--out: evaluating communication satisfaction, identity, and values from within an organization, Stacey L. Reece
Plant community restoration on mima mounds at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, WA, Brandy K. Reynecke
Getting over a mountain, Kimberly Ribbens
Quadratic and cubic reciprocity, Suzanne Rousseau
The genesis of the Soviet prelude set for piano: Shostakovich, Zaderatsky, Zhelobinsky, and Goltz, Matthew J. Roy
A novice ESL teacher's experience of language learning in France: an autoethnographic study of anomie and the "Vulnerable Self", Christopher Ryan
Phenomenal aperture: poems, Dara Deann Schwyhart
Recreational specialization: motives and constraints to engage in fishing in Spokane County, Roy W. Scott
Micro unmanned aerial vehicle video surveillance platform quadrocopter aircraft, Michael John Skadan
Movement toward improvement: the process and research that made the game, Katharine A. Smith
The hyperboloid model of hyperbolic geometry, Zachery S. Lane Solheim
Effects of acute fatigue on bilateral symmetry of muscle activation onset during a landing task, Jessica Stimmel
Beyond postcolonial: expression of self and exploration of the infinite in the writing of Jorge Luis Borges, Denise G. Stripes
An introduction to modern cryptology within an algebraic framework, John Szwast
Variations on a theme, Ericka D. Taylor
Assessing mental health as a measure of work potential, James V. Taylor
The land between us, Monet Patrice Thomas
While climbing the lighthouse: poems, Jeremy Toungate
Rhetorical memory: investigating the changing means from commonplaces to databases, Maggie Ulmer
Effects of predator urine on deterring ungulate browsing of aspen on the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Savanah Walker
Analysis of verbal fluency in amnestic and non-amnestic mild cognitive impairment, Alyssa Weakley
Magic, rhetoric, and interpretive control, Ryan L. Weldon
WiFiPoz -- an accurate indoor positioning system, Xiaoyi Ye
SSVEP-based brain computer interface using the Emotiv EPOC, Brian J. Zier
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Invasive fish effects on the invertebrate constituents of wetland communities, Levi Bridges
Godel's incompleteness theorems, Jessica Dickson
Woodwords, Carol Harrington
Diet, growth and bioenergetics of Northern Pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758) in Box Canyon Reservoir, Pend Oreille River, Washington, Shane Joseph Harvey
Assessing Cow Creek following a riparian restoration, Danielle Klinzing
