This collection includes 11197 University of Montana graduate student theses, dissertations, and professional papers (ETDs) from 1899-present. Use the following links to search discipline-specific ETDs:
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Things That Fly, Melissa Anne Peterson
Eltopia, Brian Pillion
Watercolor painting and exhibition, Fontella Carleen Popham
Introduction to Web programming with SAS AppDev Studio TM, Frederick E. Pratter
Study of the influence of an internal linguistic model and rote imitation on performance on the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory, Jutta W. Prem
Negative Proof, Kathryn Margherita Puerini
BIOISOSTERES OF AMPA: CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP, TRIDEEP RAJALE
Rescuing the tree-sitter| An environmental novel for young adults, Brianna Carolie Randall
Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks, Cassidy J. Randall
A spatiotemporal analysis of Army base distributions in the contiguous United States from 1800 to 1900, Ben Ravitz
A WORKING RELATIONSHIP: AN ACCOUNT CONCERNING WENDELL BERRY'S CONVERSATIONAL APPROACH TO FARMING, Nicholas Brian Redig
An assessment of factors influencing territory size and the use of hunter surveys for monitoring wolves in Montana, Lindsey Noel Rich
Community, Family and Peer Influences on Alcohol, Marijuana, and Illicit Drug Use of Native American Youth: An Analysis of Protective Factors, Aislinn R. Rioux
Journey of personal transformation| Poetry and prose and reflections and assessment of the project, Ruby Rochetto
PLACE-BASED EDUCATION, FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE AND STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF WATER SYSTEMS, Meghan Rorick
Lost innocence in the poetry of Garci¸a Lorca, William G. Rose
CRANIOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF ANCESTRY IN PEOPLES OF INDIA, Cynthia K Coe Ross
You Thrive Now and Other Stories, Jordan Rossen
Adeno-Associated Mediated Transduction of Sensory Epithelia Within the Guinea Pig Cochlea, Cherokee Rose Lee Rova
"WE THOUGHT WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING OURSELVES:" CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, SOUTHWEST DENVER AND THE MODEL CITIES PROGRAM, 1964-1994, Elizabeth Mary Ryan
Freedom, fear, and the American periphery| The Chippewa and Cree in Montana, 1885-1923, Luke C. Ryan
Flying lessons, Lynn Sainsbury
Bottomless blue and other stories, Mary Stewart Sale
Stand Up Straight, Candie S. Sanderson
Formation of Identity from an Outsider Perspective: National and Personal Identities in Films of Fatih Akin and Anna Melikian, Ellina Sattarova
Flood duration and chute cutoff formation in a wandering gravel-bed river, April M. Sawyer
DESART, Lisa Schumaier
Comparing responses to a mindful-breathing practice across traumatized and non-traumatized populations, Sarah Lynn Schwarz
Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art, Thomas Seiler
TOWARD A REGIONAL MODIS EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (MOD16) PRODUCT: RE-EVALUATING MOD16 LOGIC TO INCLUDE PRECIPITATION, Jami J. Seirer
Delay of Spring Snowmelt due to Storm-Induced Changes in Snowpack, Columbia River Headwaters, Western Montana, USA, Zachary M. Seligman
Wearing it on: A Map of Work and Land, Thomas Sentner
DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ISOXAZOLE CONTAINING GLUTAMATE ANALOGS, SHIKHA SHARMA
Duality and Reconciliation: Kleist, Hoffmann and German Romanticism, Melissa Ann Sheedy
The Importance of Multiple Study Areas in Landscape Genetics: The American Black Bear in the Rocky Mountains, Ruth Short Bull
Growth and development in Montana's Bitterroot Valley| The valley is booming---but is it a bust for the locals?, Daniel Charles Short
Varieties of Disappearance: The Beginnings of a Novel, Aaron Michael Shulman
CRACKING OUR WEARINESS AND CONTRITION: CONFRONTING THE LAST STATE OF THE HEART IN JORGE LUIS BORGES’S “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” AND JORGE VOLPI’S IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR, Agatha Kathleen Shwayder
Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084, Clare Marie Sigrist-Sutton
COUPLED ECOHYDROLOGY AND PLANT HYDRAULICS MODEL PREDICTS PONDEROSA SEEDLING MORTALITY AND LOWER TREELINE IN THE U.S. NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, Caelan Simeone
Just one, Robin Rose Simon
ODBMS capabilities report, Nathan Anthony Singer
Flowers for Mrs. Crumpet, Sara A. Smith
the silent choir, Jessie Spring Sobey
Love knows the way home| Research and production of a video memorial to my grandmother, Debbie L. Solander
Behavior Regulation of Wildland Firefighters According to Environmental Conditions, Joseph Alan Sol
Thousand-yard stare, James Soular
Relationships Among Socio-Economic Status, Self-Esteem, and College Aspirations of High School Seniors in One Small City, Lisa Ann Speegle
Inversion, Anne Marie Spidahl
We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age, Hudson Douglas Spivey
FACTORS AFFECTING MERCURY BIOMAGNIFICATION IN RIVERINE FOOD WEBS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: CLARK FORK RIVER BASIN, MONTANA, U.S.A., Molly Frances Staats
Motel, John Starkey
Peer Attitudes Toward Giftedness, Ian Stephens
American Indian college students' ratings for therapist-client racial homogeneity and therapy technique, Jera L. Stewart
The Mermaid of Champion Mill, Jane Elizabeth St. John
Garnet Ghost Town| A journey through time, Lorraine Stock
Developing a GIS-Based Weights of Evidence Predictive Model to Locate the Probability of Prehistoric Sites in Southwest Montana, Jason Daniel Strahl
Diplomacy in a time of war| The 1991 Persian Gulf War and the interplay between war and diplomacy, Rachel A. Swartz
The Effect of Religious Similarity on the Use of Relational Maintenance Strategies in Marriages, Jamie Karen Taylor
Lake Unloosed, Julie Ellen Taylor
Understanding Transgender Violence, Alicia Telena
Another Extremely Lucky Thing, Lise Victoria Thompson
Immune Suppression By The Herbicide Atrazine Involves Inhibition Of CD4+ T Cells And Expansion Of Foxp3+ Regulatory T cells, Lindsay Elizabeth Thueson
Birdsong in a time of war, Bette Tomlinson
Immaculate and other stories, Emma Torzs
Hal Mathers| An autobiography, Elizabeth D. Troy
The Need for a new employee orientation program on Capitol Hill., Eraine Jay. Tschida
Characterizing fuelbed structure, depth, and mass in a grassland using terrestrial laser scanning, Tara Amber Umphries
Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture, Dana Whitney Underwood
BELLY WRITING: READING THE ALIMENTARY IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN LITERATURE, Michele D. Van Haecke
Fences, Russell James Van Paepeghem
Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead", Christina Marie Van Roekel
Gypsum Bonnet, Maren Vespia
Dwelling in Ecological Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Nature Poems and Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Veronica Ellen Vold
Bridgehead Dreams, Claire Bogue Voris
A Portfolio Exemplifying Development of the Personal Intelligences Using Art, Kate Wagner
Miss Floretta: The Creation of a Character and a Curriculum, Laura Lynne Wagner
Collected Stories, Marsha Walker
Impact of copper smelter emissions on subalpine vegetation in the Anaconda-Pintler Range, Natalie Walsh
FIV-FCA and FIV-PCO Reverse Transcriptases: Expression, Purification and Activity Comparison, Jingjing Wang
Outside Valentine| [Short stories], Liza Ward
An Interlinear Analysis of Four Kalispel Texts by Hans Vogt, Meredith Leigh Ward
Montana Zion: American Communalism in a Mormon Fundamentalist Community, Lesley June Weidow
Birds that linger, Penelope Whitney
Object oriented solution for the geospatial metadata standard, Mahima G. Wijayasundara
The Analysis of Differential Burn Patterns in a Hanging Specimen Compared to a Specimen Positioned on the Floor, Amanda Williams
Space, Time, and Dominance in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Women's Gothic Short Stories, Katherine Wise
FRACTURE, Emily Withnall
Cultural Politics and Mining Development in Alaska's Bristol Bay Fishery, Amanda Rose Wlaysewski
The Crow Tribe's Knowledge of Local Plants, Jesse Wolff
Genetic comparison and susceptibility of Tubifex tubifex to Myxobolus cerebralis from enzootic and non-enzootic tributaries of Rock Creek Montana USA, Elizabeth JoMay Wyatt
Rock Creek killer : a view into crime scenes, Elizabeth JoMay Wyatt
Testing the effect of varying environments on the speed of evolution, Zhongmiao Xiao
The Effects of Heat and Sports Massage on Resting Muscle and Connective Tissue Stiffness, Adrian A. Yahvah
CONSIDERING CONNECTIONS: RACE, IDENTITY AND LEADERSHIP IN PAUL BEATTY’S THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE, Emily Monique Yaksitch