Welcome to the Masters Theses section of Digital Commons at Buffalo State!
The Graduate School and E.H. Butler Library post electronic copies of master’s theses written by students at Buffalo State. Theses submitted before fall 2011 are generally available only in print unless digitized by departments.
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Theses from 2014
Application of Microcredit to Haiti’s Economy: A Step Towards Poverty Reduction, Jimy Rosemberg
Artist Practice in the Elementary Classroom: Redefining Art Teaching Through Artist-Teacher Philosophy, Ashley Smith
The Power of Corrupt Political Environments and its Effects on Museums: A look at Egypt’s Modern-Day ‘Indiana Jones’: Dr. Zahi Hawass, Christine Smith
Urban Undertaking: Changes in the Land and the Decline of Spatial Quality in Buffalo, NY, 1951-2011, Timothy Tielman
Theses from 2013
Victorian Women and Their Working Roles, Kara L. Barrett
The War of 1812: The End of an Uncommon Alliance, Ryan Barrett
Conservative Revolutionary Intellectuals in the Weimar Republic and National Socialist Germany: Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, and Ernst Jϋnger, Vincent S. Betts
The Incidence of Antibiotic Resistance in Mesophilic Aeromonas Isolated from the Buffalo River and from a Non-Urban Site Upstream, Amy L. Chapman
The Lovecraft Look: An Examination of Lovecraftian Themes in Film, Michael A. Church
The Telling Line: The Relationship between Cognitive Style and Fashion Design Sketching, Mary K. Culpepper
The Effects of Calcium Concentration and Food Levels on Daphnia, Fawn Goodberry
Indira Gandhi: India’s Destined Leader, Josclyn C. Green
Conservation Genetics of New York’s Giant Salamander: The Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), Meghan K. Jensen
Industrial Machine Analysis: Economic Quality Control, Vandyke Kotoroka-Yiadom
Homing Behavior in Response to Displacement and Orientation of the Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin terrapin) in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, Nicole M. Lainhart
Exploring Cross Culture Validity of FourSight with Taiwanese Population, Yu-Mei Lien Ding
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzer - Theory, Utility, and QA/QC for Environmental and Commercial Product Samples in Cambodia, Sereyrath Lim
(Re)Visions of Gender: Reading the Uncanny in Virginia Woolf, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Hilda Doolittle, Joelle Mann
From Mutation to Disarticulation: Terror and the Body in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, Sarah A. McMichael
Influence of Corruption, Foreign Direct Investment and Net Domestic Credit on Economic Growth, Meng Mi
Fraunces Tavern Museum: Revolutionizing Collections Care in a Small Museum Environment, Suzanne Prabucki
Capital Infusion, Dedication to Current Infrastructure and Workforce Development: The Three-Pronged Approach to Strategic Industrial Growth in Western New York, Clinton J. Ronan and Gina Pizziconi-Cupples
Changes in Tissue-Specific Fatty Acid Composition of the Freshwater Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in Response to Temperature, William D. Schregel
Impact of Oil Prices Fluctuations on Economies in the Age of Globalization, Ancel Raynaud Soh feussi
Preserving Imperial Sovereignty in the Changing Political Order of Prewar Japan, Shane Vrabel
Now, in the Time of Salpiglossis: A Study of Sound and Image in the Poetry of Stevens, Moore, and Bishop, Heidi E. Wallace
Robert Nathaniel Dett and the Music of the Harlem Renaissance, Daniel Weaver
The Road Opens: From Escape to New Truth on the Road in American Literature, Peter J. Wiesen
Wartime Art: A Study of Political Propaganda and Individual Expression in American Commercial and Combat Art during World War II, Jennifer M. Wilcott
Comparative Metabolism of Phenanthro[3,4-b]Thiophene and Benzo[c]Phenanthrene, Jaquan M. Williams
The Impact of US Subprime Mortgage Crisis on the Chinese Real-estate Market, Yiwen Zhou
Forecasting Foreign Exchange Rates, Timothy M. Znaczko
Theses from 2012
Effect of Government Spending on Economic Growth: A Case Study of Saudi Arabia, Fayez Saeed Alshahrani
The Effects of the 2007-2009 Economic Crisis on Global Automobile Industry, Xue Bai
Analysis of a Stormwater Pond for Stormwater Management on the Buffalo State College Campus – Year 1 Operation Conditions, Jessica Bakert
Master of Your Domain: Descriptions of Interior Space in the Works of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell as Social Justice Commentary, Ryan P. Bowers
Perceptions Measurement of Professional Certifications to Augment Buffalo State College Baccalaureate Technology Programs, as a Representative American Postsecondary Educational Institution, Christopher N. Brown
Why Are There So Many Diverse Holocaust Museums?: A Journey through the Holocaust Museums of Five Nations, Marjorie E. Carignan
Macrocyclic Complexes of Boron: Subphthalocyanines, Laura A. Crandall
Is Classroom Management Possible for Disabled Teachers, with or Without Accommodation?, Martha A. Hazen
The Professionalization of the American Army through the War of 1812, Robert L. Heiss
Motivations of Civil War Soldiers from Western New York, Justin T. Howell
The Bionic Self: Unveiling the Phantom of the East, Christopher J. Jarmark
Buffalo, New York’s Citizen Soldiers: Personal Histories of Combat, Trauma, and Returning Home after the Second World War, Drew H. Lewandowski
Survival of the Fictiveness: The Novel’s Anxieties Over Existence, Purpose, and Believability, Jesse Mank
Structural Analysis of the Drosophila Innexin ShakB: Role of the N-Terminus in Rectifying Electrical Synapses, William Marks
The Sacred Role of Animal Beings in Iroquois Lore, Melissa J. Martinelli
House of Leaves: The End of Postmodernism, Joseph B. Noah
Construction of Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Hal01 Locus Allelic Ladder, Manali Patel
BMP Efficiency in an Institutional Area: Minimizing the Impacts of Water Pollution Using a Stormceptor for Water Quality Improvement, Jameieka Price
Robert Browning: Separating Author from Narrator, Brian C. Rich
By My Side: Charles E. Burchfield's Letters to Bertha K. Burchfield from 1923 to 1963, Alana Ryder
Paris: Reflections of a Modern City, Brian J. Schultz
Influence of Nitrogen and Phosphorus on Ecosystem CO2 Exchange in a Restored Temperate Grassland, Lynn M. Socha
Ralph Raico: Champion of Authentic Liberalism, Daniel P. Stanford
He Honored Death, Too: The Subterranean Life of Jack Kerouac, Christopher Wayne
Proteins Associated with Hsp110 in Drosophila, Rujing Wen
An Unabridged Approach to Lean Implementation: Understanding the Impact Systemically and Supporting the Operational Changes, Joseph D. Wolkiewicz
Theses from 2011
Feeding Ecology of the Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus- Pallas, 1814) in Two Contrasting Environments: Eastern Lake Erie and a Fourth Order Stream, Beryl A. Ankrah
Harry Potter: A Hero of Mythic Proportions, Katie L. Baker
The Decline of Buffalo, New York in the Postwar Era: Causes, Effects, and Proposed Solutions, Carmen J. Bartolotta
A Preliminary Exploration of Breakthrough Thinking Preferences of Ice Hockey Players, Bonnie A. Doliszny
Method Development and Validation of the Quantitation of 19 Antipsychotics Using Deuterated Internal Standards, Anthony S. Epps
Who Should Own Egypt's Antiquities?: A Nation vs. The World's Museums, Sabine C. Fisher
High Resolution FTIR Spectroscopy Detects Multiple Conformers of Metastable States in Sodium Nitroprusside, Michael Kawa
Econometric Analysis of Erie County, NY Schools: The Effects of Poverty on Our Schools and Evaluating Possible Solutions, Ryan B. Keem
The Significance of Human Remains in Museum Collections: Implications for Collections Management, Kacey M. Page
An Exploration of the Potential of Martial Arts Instruction to Improve the Abilities of Struggling Adolescent Readers and Writers, Meredith A. Schichtel
The North Pole Controversy of 1909 and the Treatment of the Greenland Inuit People: An Historical Perspective, Kayla J. Shypski
Fighting for Recognition: The Role African Americans played in World Fairs, Andrew R. Valint
Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks: The History, the Mystery, and the Museums' Considerations of the Two Paintings, Nicole Wagner
Theses from 2010
A Work to Inspire and Assist Women in Mid-Life Re-enter the Workforce, Barbara Gruppos
Enacting an Assets Pedagogy to Develop Youth Assets: Teaching K-12 Urban Youth in an After-School Visual Arts Program Using Participatory Action Research, Maureen McCarthy
Building a Bridge to a New Career, Lydia Rose Pettis
Theses from 2009
Gaining Understanding through Creativity: Comparison of the Understanding by Design Model and General Creativity Concepts, Michael James Thomas Joseph Bridge
Theses from 2007
An Arrogant Eternity: An Examination of Class and Society in the Works of Philip Larkin, John J. Gangemi
A Study To Ascertain the Effects of the Connected Mathematics Project on Student Achievement in the Buffalo Public Schools, Darryl A. King
Theses from 2005
Cross-Cultural Studies of Implicit Theories of Creativity: A Comparative Analysis Between the United States and the Main Ethnic Groups in Singapore, Suzanna J. Ramos
Theses from 2001
Improving the Understanding of the Impact of Creative Problem Solving Training through an Examination of Individual Differences, Russell A. Wheeler
Theses from 1998
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as a Modern Version of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", Jennifer A. Campbell
Theses from 1996
Examining the Reliability and Factor Structure of the Climate for Innovation Quetionnaire, John F. Cabra
Theses from 1991
Variation in Ovary Size of Osmerus mordax (Mitchell), the Rainbow Smelt, in Lakes Erie and Ontario, Stephen E. Bresee
Theses from 1980
Zen and Creativity, John J.M Legate
Theses from 1978
A Descriptive / Historical Study of Enviromental Factors that Effected Inventive and Innovative Creativity in American Shaker Communities., Suzanne B. Toomey
Theses from 1977
The Degree of Relatedness of Four Creative Personality Factors with Ideational Fluency of Intermediate Grade Children., Scott G. Isaksen
The Use of Simulation and Gaming for Enhancing Creative Behavior, Craig T. Kosinski
Theses from 1976
An Analysis of Current Creativity Measures Against Creative Problem Solving Processess Within the Osborn-Parnes, Angelo M. Biondi
Integration of Problem -Solving and Values Clarification Strategies, Toward the Self-Actualizing Individual, Lynn C. Coleman
Theses from 1975
Perceptions of the Persistence of Effects or Training in Creative Problem - Solving, Delores E. Young
Theses from 1973
Creative Problem Solving as a Proposed Curriculum Addition for Primary Grades: A Stimulus Toward Development of Positive Self Concept, Joette T. Field
