• Subalternity and Subversion in Senegalese Literature and Film 

  Corpman, Kailey (2020-05-14)

  A closer look at critical works out of post-colonial Senegal.

• Effects of Scaffolding in Note-Taking on Students’ Learning Outcomes in an Online Environment 

  Chen, Xi; 0000-0002-0902-5015 (2020-04-17)

  In a traditional classroom, lecture is the most popular teaching method in higher education, and note-taking is a commonly used strategy by students to assist learning. Accompanied by the development of technology, ...

• Enabling in vivo Signaling Analyses via Chemical Genetics and Nanoparticle-mediated Probe Delivery 

  Chen, Fengqian (2020-03-17)

  Cell signaling transduction is a critical cellular process for various diseases. Mechanistic understanding of functional proteins will improve our fundamental understanding of the versatile signaling modules and is also ...

• An Assessment: City Finance Director Characteristics and Monitoring Mechanisms in Relation to Fiscal Performance and Audit Timeliness for Small- and Medium-Sized Cities 

  Camors, Casey A. (2020-04-27)

  Although the public sector represents a substantial portion of the U.S. economy, little is known about its managers. I investigate city finance director characteristics and monitoring mechanisms to determine whether they ...

• Music Theory Fundamentals: A Workbook for Clarinetists in the Private Lesson Setting 

  Bruening, Raquel Faye (2020-05-07)

  The main purpose of this workbook is to provide a supplemental teaching resource for teaching music theory to clarinet students. Teachers will be able to incorporate this material within their own pedagogical approaches ...

• Kill the Cowboy 

  Brousseau, Emma (2020-05-12)

  A short story collection focused on women and the apocalypse as well as disrupting male fantasies, including the male gaze and toxic masculinity.

• VOLTTRON based implementation in controlling Battery Energy Storage System of Microgrids 

  Bhatta, Rabindra (2020-05-18)

  This thesis uses VOLTTRON, an open-source operating system recently developed by Pacific Northwest Laboratory, to implement advanced digital sensing and information technology and to address difficulties with energy ...

• Community College Faculty Perceptions of Professional Development Opportunities to Enhance the Experiences of Online Adult Degree Completing Students 

  Baur, Samuel A; 0000-0001-5048-112X (2020-05-11)

  Online education is derivative of distance education and is a relatively new form of educational practice. Online education is growing in popularity and usage within higher education institutions and is able to cater to a ...

• Who is the wine enthusiast? A modeling approach 

  Bauman, Matthew J Joseph; 0000-0001-5602-9484 (2020-04-27)

  This research sought to develop a more comprehensive measurement for wine involvement, referred to as the wine enthusiasm scale (WES). The enthusiasm construct consisted of six dimensions: 1) knowledge seeking and interest, ...

• All The New Things We Learned to Love: A Novel 

  Alake, Timilehin (2020-05-15)

  All the New Things We Learned to Love is a bildungsroman centered on an eight-year-old boy and his family: a quiet, educated father; a mischievous, smart-talking sister, and his uneducated, “Western-centric” driven mother. ...

• DMA Recitals 

  Hyde, Alex Joseph; 0000-0002-1207-7297 (2020-05-13)

  DMA Project 1 Telemann, G. P. Douglas, Bill Verroust, Stanislas Jacob, Gordon DMA Project 2 Telemann, G. P. Dutilleux, Henri Schumann, Robert Blauth, Brenno DMA Project 3 Krommer, Franz Martinu, ...

• Eastern Exoticism in Western Music: An Examination of Uyghur Folk Songs’ Influence in Brahms’ Zigeunerlieder Op. 103 

  Zhao, Yue; 0000-0001-8259-0566 (2020-05-11)

  Zigeunerlieder op.103, a song cycle, based on Hugo Conrat’s German adaptation of Hungarian folk songs, was written by German composer Johannes Brahms. Brahms was an accompanist of Hungarian-born violinist Eduard Hoffmann ...

• A Guideline For Students To Be Better Prepared When Pursuing A Career As A Clarinet College Professor, Clarinet Orchestral Player, Or Soloist 

  Montoya, Elisa (2020-05-07)

  This doctoral project will present a list of steps and different methodologies of preparation that students could follow in order to be better prepared when seeking a job in music. Although music offers many different ...

• Thoughts on Fear (and Joy) in The Piano Studio and Implications for Teachers 

  Peng, Lingxu (2020-05-13)

  This paper will explore the phenomena of fear and joy in piano studios – the causes, effects, and the implications for teaching. In this paper, I will explain why we, as teachers and pianists, need to understand that fear ...

• A Performance Guide to Three Representative Electroacoustic Piano Works by Mario Davidovsky, Dan VanHassel and Peter Van Zandt Lane 

  Ramos, Jorge Arnulfo; 0000-0002-5919-5725 (2020-05-06)

  This document offers a guide to pianists that are interested in exploring the following electroacoustic works: Synchronisms No. 6, Lush Intrinsic and Studies in Momentum. It offers a historical overview at the integration ...

• Jazz Pedagogy for the Classical Piano Teacher: Introducing Jazz to Beginning- and Intermediate-Level Students 

  Trapp, Brooke E (2020-05-06)

  The main goal of the traditional private piano lesson setting is to build skills that will lead to fluency in important classical repertoire. Jazz music is considered to be native to American culture, but music education ...

• Considerations in Analyzing and Creating an Edition of Two Late Twentieth-century Pieces for Solo Cello: Claudio Santoro's "Fantasia Sul América (1983)" and Ernst Widmer's "Cosmofonia 2 (1987)" 

  Santos, Neemias Silva (2020-05-13)

  Composers Cláudio Santoro and Ernst Widmer were very active in the Brazilian music scene of most of the twentieth-century, and were responsible for taking the Brazilian contemporary music to foreign stages. Each composed ...

• Musicianship from Day One: A Sequence for Teaching Music Theory to Suzuki Violin Students of All Ages 

  Ledgerwood, Philip (2020-05-07)

  The purpose of this project is to develop a sequence of goals to help the Suzuki violin student understand and use music theory. Goals include music theory concepts that should be taught by the teacher that the student ...

• Elements of Romanian Folkloric Musical Traditions and Narrativity in George Enescu’s “Romanian Rhapsody Op. 11, No. 1” and Béla Bartók’s “Romanian Folk Dances SZ. 56” 

  Iacob, Catalin Petrica (2020-04-23)

  The purpose of this paper is to investigate Romanian folkloric music from several points of view, historical and analytical. Analyzing music in terms of harmonic progressions, form and structure, melodic contour, etc., ...

• MM Recitals 

  Bruening, Noah M; 0000-0001-5342-5246 (2020-05-08)

  1.) Karel Husa - Elegie et Rondeau 2.) Jacques Ibert - Concertino da Camera 3.) Joan Tower - Wings 4.) Gyorgy Ligeti - Six Bagatelles 1.) Edison Denisov - Sonate 2.) Alfred Desenclos - Prelude, Cadence et Finale 3.) Leonard ...

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