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Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This collection includes 12145 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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Organization and administration of the Edison Park Elementary School library in Miami Florida, Mable Williams Gee

Sacred Waters: A tribe’s fight to save their seas, Courtney Gerard

Study on pay for performance with focus on utilities, Larry D. Geske

Rooted: A new generation of farmers and ranchers in Montana, Beth Jeannette Gibson

Missoula riverfront corridor| Plans, progress, and recommendations, John J. Gilliam

Walking Two Landscapes| Poems, Greg Glazner

Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Health Care context, Charlotte M. Glidden

Weary Stone; The Benwee Head; Tell My Wife to Remarry, John Jeb Goins

Pryor Mountain mustangs: on the range or on the bring?, Monica Gokey

Wildlife Decomposition in West Central Montana: A Preliminary Study Conducted to Provide Field Investigation Material and Training for Wildlife Officers, F. Carleen Gonder

A Comprehensive Forensic Case Report for the University of Montana Forensic Collection Case #141, Nohely Gonzalez

Change is the Only Constant: A Snowpack Retention Analysis and Climate Vulnerability Road Map for the Skalkaho Creek Sub-Basin, Zachary Freeman Goodwin

“The Season of Famine” as a Challenge to Food Security in Northern Rural Togo: Addressing Seasonal Hunger through Household Coping Strategies, Jennifer Gorsegner

40 Trees: The Quest to Save Whitebark Pine on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Andrew S. Graham

High water | [poems], Neile Graham

Ranches with Wolves: How straight talk is the salvation of open range in the Northern Rockies, James Wilson Grant

Scrapbook: Poems, Austin M. Gray

Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement, Rachel Gregg

An intensive study in remedial reading, Helen Elaine Grilley

Spirit Laughing, James Gurley

Responses of western toads (Bufo boreas) to changes in terrestrial habitat resulting from wildfire, C. Gregory Guscio

Lay participation in the elementary schools of Billings Montana, Arthur Byron Guthrie

A description of the administration of a planned reading program in the public schools of Culbertson Montana, James Robert Guthrie

Analysis of The University of Montana Forensic Case 29, Daniel James Haak

"Real Bucks" and other stories, Fred Haefele

Developing and Communicating Better Sexual Harassment Policies Through Ethics and Human Rights, Thain Yates Hagan

The Relationship of Reading Self-Efficacy and Reading Achievement in Second Grade Students, Jennifer L. Hager

Work attitudes and job satisfaction of petroleum and minerals geologists, Leslie S. Hahn

Municipal Musk Oxen, Gentry Hale

FROM RECREATION TO OCCUPATION: EXPLORING ACCESS TO THE OUTDOORS, Eleanor R. Hall

Investigation of the effects of recreationist horse grazing on a subalpine meadow community in the North Cascades, James F. Hammett

High school district reorganization in western Hill County, Howard Woodrow Hammond

First-year growth and survival of habitat revegetation trials on the lower Colorado River, Mexico, Stephen Dwight Handler

The Tower of Hanoi in Dynamic Creative Problem Solving, Lia Harrington

Conserving and Sharing Freshwater in the West, Kelsea Harris-Capuano

Speech obturators| A viable approach to the treatment of velopharnygeal insufficiency, Karen Hart

Achieving Environmental Justice for the Community of Opportunity, Montana: An Assessment of Superfund Concerns, Kathleen A. Hasenbank

FOSTERING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION: EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FOUNDATIONS TRAINING, Shanay L. Healy

Developing a Decision-Making Framework for Assisted Migration: Applying this to the American Pika and Whitebark Pine, Mia Kimya Hedayat-Zedah

OFF RISKING: OFFENDER RISK ASSESSMENT AND THE CORRECTIONAL ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION SYSTEM, Eden Heeder

Mules, Jack Heflin

A Spark that Starts the Fire: Climate Change in the American West, Nathaniel Hegyi

Home on the Range: A consideration of the role ranching plays in bison conservation, Kristina Lyn Heitkamp

Evaluation of the business curriculum in the Park City High School, Park City, Montana, Basil L. Helgeson

What They Consider, How They Decide: Best Practices of Technical Experts in Environmental Decision-Making, Cassandra J. Hemphill

Taekwondo Principles: Guidelines for a Balanced Life, Deborah Ann Hendricks

An analysis of community resources available to counselors in Montana secondary schools, Evelyn Davis Herbert

Developing carcass beef for the Japanese premium market: A Montana enterprise, Scott G. Hibbard

UMFC #12: A COMPREHENSIVE FORENSIC ANALYSIS CASE REPORT, Kaylee M. Hinds

A Venture in Native American Shield Making, Mary Margaret Hinojosa

Fear, Power, & Teeth (2007), Olivia Hockenbroch

Green Roofs in the Garden City: Exploring the Opportunities for Green Roof Policies in Missoula, Montana, Matthew Ryan Hodges

Interleukin-6 and exercise; early evidence of a novel myokine, Brendan Hogg Mr.

A follow-up study of the graduates of Libby Montana High School for the years 1946-1950, Raymond Hokanson

Organizing Rural Communities for Effective Citizen Science Programs, Anna Dean Holden

A Land Link for Western Montana: Keeping Land in Agriculture from One Generation to the Next, Paul Fuller Hubbard

Our Town and Other Ghosts, Donnell W. Hunter

Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana, Megan Huth

Conveyance of sentence-types by alaryngeal speakers, Elizabeth J. Jackson

A Large Flock of Small Birds: Essays, Rebecca Hanna Jacobson

Aptamer Selection for Oxidative DNA Lesions, Brandon Lloyd James

Keeping What You Sow: Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Breeders and Seed Growers, Paulina B. Jenney

Collaborating in Cattle Country: Developing a Collaborative Process to Protect the Ecological, Economic, and Cultural Integrity of Ranching in the Northern Rockies, Emily Jochem

POLYTROPOS: POEMS FOR THE FALL, Miles Jochem

Buffalo Renaissance: The Northern Plains Tribes' Path to Self-Determination, Elizabeth Louise Johns

Training the Professoraite of Tomorrow: Implementing the Needs Centered Training Model to Instruct Graduate Teaching Assistants in the use of Teacher Immediacy, Leah R. Johnson

Quality of care received by type I diabetic patients : An assessment protocol developed from the American Diabetes Association's standards, Shelly Lyn Johnson

Creation of the Big Sky African Ensemble, Philip Michael Johns

Real Live Girls and Other Stories, Emily Karen Jones

Equipment needs for a biology course in the small Montana high school, Layton Francis Jones

Striking a Balance: The New Generation of Tiger Tourism in India, Apoorva Prasanna Joshi

A Comprehensive Literature Review of American Sexual Assault Culture and the Status of Women's Self-Defense, Jennifer Ann Just

Hellbent on Heaven, Sarah Kahn

The Sun House, Max Kaisler

Who Never Had a Brother| Stories and poetry, Thomas Michael Kalaris

Prescribing the American Dream: Psychoanalysts, Mass Media, and the Construction of Social and Political Norms in the 1950's, Daniel P. Kamienski

Entry strategies into the Japanese market through the use of human resource management, Takeshi Kanamori

Unearthing the Inner Compass, Kimberly Ann Kapalka

Exercise Program to Modify Risk Factors For Shoulder Injury in Collegiate and Professional Pitchers, Rina Kasuga

RE-MODELING THE INTERIOR: SPATIAL METHODS AND POLICY REVISIONS TO IMPROVE INVENTORY AND DESIGNATION OF BLM’S AREAS OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN, Amy H. Katz

Walking While Asking:Lessons from Agroecology Education in Chiapas, Mexico, Katherine E. Keller

JP's Thesis, JP Kemmick

Teaching of tennis| a curriculum guide for physical education teachers, Owen Vincent Kennedy

Reviewing the Use of Injury Screening Assessments and Identifying Risk of Injury, Riley A. Kenney

Collaborative Zoning in the Rural Rocky Mountains: A Process Analysis of Two Counties, Kassidy Renee Kern

Descriptive guide for the enrichment of literature through architecture, painting, sculpture, and music, Lilly Gwendolyn Kestle

High Dimensional Outlier Detection, Omid Khormali

A Thinking Person's Guide to Immigration and Environmental Racism at the US - Mexico Border, Emma H. Kiefer

Cochlear implants| The audiologist's role, Jill E. King

The Relationship Between Level of Empathy and Stress Contagion, Heather Lynn Kirby

Softly and Tenderly, Barry Kitterman

Convincing the home builder to build solar homes| An evaluation of the passive solar workshops for builders, Susan L. Klein

NARROWING THE PERFORMANCE GAP BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE SOLDIERS, Jessica Nicole Knoll

Organization administration and evaluation of a driver education and training course in Sidney Public High School, Rudolph Paul Koch

Living to Ride: A Sociological Study of Freeriders in Missoula, Montana, Marlana Michelle Kosky

Assessment of Avalanche Mitigation Planning for Developed Areas in the Rocky Mountain’s of Colorado, Daniel Kozel

Far Toward the Bottom, Megan Nicole Kruse

Tracking the Trackers, Does Citizen Science Help or Hinder Rare Carnivore Research, Thomas Charles Kuglin

Synthesis of DNA-base selective labels for efficient labeling of DNA for TEM Imaging, Rakesh Kumar

‘Planting the Seeds of Educational Change’ Indigenous Voices, Multicultural Education, and the US Democratic Ideal, Miranda Crystal Laber