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Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This collection includes 12627 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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The Tower of Hanoi in Dynamic Creative Problem Solving, Lia Harrington

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

Uncovering Animal Minds, Jocelyn Doty Harris

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

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

Positive allosteric modulation of GluN1/GluN3 NMDA receptors, Mia Ruth 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

Indigenous Placemaking, Colonial Placetaking, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Implications of environmental data collection on Tribal lands, Paige Nizhonii Kya'iyo Johnson

Continental Violence and the "Oregon Question": George Frederick Ruxton and the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest, Rory Orion 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

CLIMATE GOODBYES: REPORTING ON LOSS, CHANGE AND THE HUMAN RESPONSE IN MONTANA, Madeline Jorden

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

Integrating Western Science and Indigenous Knowledge for Just Practices in Conservation, Cierra Lea Keith

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

THE BLACKFEET NATION’S BISON CONSERVATION HERD MANAGEMENT PLAN, Brandon Kittson

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

ACL PREVENTION PROGRAMMING FOR FEMALE ATHLETES, Julia Korklewski

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

Transparent Bridges; The Bird and the Alligator, Lori L. Laffrado

Status of industrial arts teaching in Montana high schools with enrollments of from forty to one hundred fifty students in 1950, Gordon Gerhard Lallum

Unexpected Zeus, Adam Lambert

The Effect of Photocycle on Self-Control in Betta splendens, Kathryn Gwen Lamp

A CASE FOR THEATRE-BASED PROGRAMMING IN EARLY-CHILDHOOD AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, Tina M. La Plant

The New Monumental Era: Daniel Webster and the Commemoration of Compromise in the Age of Disunion, 1853-1865, Michael James Larmann

LEADERSHIP: SUPPORTING STUDENTS WITH ASD AND THE SCHOOL WIDE COMMUNITY, CHELSAE JOY LARSON

Out of sight, out of mind: An exploration of wastewater issues and possible solutions in and out of Montana, Keely I. Larson

Wildfire Science, Neil LaRubbio

A shift in power, Breeana Clare Laughlin

IS GROWING FOOD WASTING WATER? STORIES FROM A SURGE OF GROUNDWATER REGULATIONS IN CALIFORNIA, Abigail Jean Lauten-Scrivner

A COMPREHENSIVE CASE REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA CASE 37, Cody M. Lawson

The Effects of Grazing on Deer Mice Movements Into Peridomestic Settings with Implications to Human Exposure to Sin Nombre Virus, Abigail Jean Leary

Farm-to-School in Montana: An Assessment of Program Participation, Autumn Lee

A Policy Analysis of Lead Paint Disclosure Implementation in Residential Homes in Missoula Montana, Marissa Lein Lehner

Bridging the Gap: Where Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science Come Together to Shape Environmental Stewardship, Bowman Leigh

Electric Momentum: Dynamics of Transportation Electrification and Stories from the Road, Amelia Liberatore and Amelia R G Liberatore

Effectiveness of Stand-Scale Forest Restoration, Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, Jay C. Lininger

College Students' Social Media Uses and Affective Correlates, Jennifer L. Lippold

Airport Rings: Stone Circle Archaeology In Yellowstone National Park, Michael Livers

CHALLENGED: A PRACTICE-BASED ANALYSIS OF SIMULATING THE REALITIES OF TEACHING THROUGH PLAY, Shanel Lara Locke

Conservation of leopards in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan, Asad Lodhi

The practices of teaching first grade reading in fifteen schools of Western Montana, Myron Jewell Loe

Prevalence and Correlates of Smoking Status Among Depressed Individuals in Veterans Affairs Primary Care, Anayansi Lombardero

Relationship of Self-Concept, Depression, Academic Estimation, and Online Social Networking in Adolescents, Jaime Rebekah Long

The effect of random and spatially explicit lightning and human-caused ignitions on simulated burn probabilities at small scales, James Lowery