Approved theses and dissertations from Rowan University graduate programs have been made available to the public on Rowan Digital Works since 2015. Theses and dissertations submitted in digital format between 2010 and 2015, or submitted in paper format between 1996 and 2010 and later scanned, are also available in Rowan Digital Works.
Theses approved between 1996 and 2010 are stored as bound volumes in Campbell Library and may also be online in Rowan Digital Works .Theses produced prior to 1996 are stored as bound volumes in Campbell Library only.
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If you are the author of a thesis or dissertation produced for Rowan University or Glassboro State College before 2010, or the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences before September 2023, and you do not want your document to be publicly available in Rowan Digital Works, you must complete and submit this take-down form to request its removal from the repository. For more information, please also see Rowan University Libraries Thesis & Dissertation Guidance for Embargoes and Withdrawals
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Blogging in response to literature: reading, writing, and thinking through the digital medium, Patrice Steller
Genome Engineering to Create Dominant Alleles in Caenorhabditis elegans Using CRISPR-CAS9 Technology, Abrar Sulaimani
Vocational curriculums and best practices for emotionally disturbed students, Daniel Tarantula
Undocumented Hispanic students and the postsecondary transition: a narrative perspective, Alfred Trafford
The impact of using mentor texts and the writing workshop with first grade writers, Kelly Turner
Exploring the impact of group work on communication apprehension for business students, Cynthia Vieth
School psychologists' knowledge of and attitudes towards transgender students, Arielle Walzer
Framing in crime news, Gabriele Ward
Active learning: strategies that help first graders transition and build literacy skills, Kacey Weber
Evolution of Sperm Activation in Nematodes, Qing Wei
The effects of family responsibilities and gender on seeking substance-abuse treatment, Holly Weiss
The impact of blogging on the facilitation of critical literacy in adolescent students, Kelsey Wiemer
Accountability and transformative literacy, Kristin Williams
An examination of the relationships between rumination, social problem-solving, mindfulness and depressive symptomology, Taylor Wiltsee
Effects of point-of-view modeling to teach life skills to students with cognitive impairments, Madeline Zacharkow
The sophomore slope: understanding the impact of the pre-college institute on academic self-efficacy in sophomore students, Patricia Zio
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A case study: the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards in a secondary school setting, Adam Angelozzi
Optimization algorithms for inference and classification of genetic profiles from undersampled measurements, Belhassen Bayar
Reading pedagogy in today's classroom, Maria Beeman-Rygalski
Using self-monitoring strategy instruction to improve reading comprehension in high school students with learning disabilities, Melinda Brokenshire
An exploratory investigation of the relationship between PTSD symptoms and substance abuse in undergraduate college students, Melissa Buscemi
Development of an integrated network visualization and graph analysis tool for biological networks, David Carbonetta
Assessing risk factors and levels of functioning across the continuum of psychosis, James Castorina
A new software tool to environmentally and economically evaluate solvent recovery in the pharmaceutical industry, Eduardo Cavanagh
