This collection includes 12288 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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Bottomless blue and other stories, Mary Stewart Sale
If You Wanted Nice You Could Have Said Something, Skylar R. Salvatore
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
Statehood in Selves, Maren Schiffer
The Grow, Kelly Schirmann
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
Essays from In-Between, Jennifer Alyn Sheets
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
What This Body Needs, Mark Aaron Spero
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
Into the heart of the beast| A case for environmental advertising, Tracy Stone-Manning
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
Put Eyes On Me Not Like a Curse, Alyssandra Tobin
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
Unlikely Choices, Kathryn Lackey Werts
El Camino: Essays, Richard Harrison White
Birds that linger, Penelope Whitney
Object oriented solution for the geospatial metadata standard, Mahima G. Wijayasundara
The Determination of Longitude at Sea, Amanda Wilgus
The Analysis of Differential Burn Patterns in a Hanging Specimen Compared to a Specimen Positioned on the Floor, Amanda Williams
A STUDY INTO THE PREDICTION OF STOCK MARKET PRICES, John Denis Williams
Explorations, Marcia E. Williams
No Quantum of Eden: The Apocalyptic Frontier and Endtime Ecology in Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars, Anna Wilson
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
The Anaerobic Lives of Oysters, Benjamin Yeager