Capstone Projects from 2022
Entry Level Capstone: Strategies for Enhancing Racially Diverse Student Satisfaction in Graduate-Level Occupational Therapy Programs, Kolbí L. Holmes and Christina Kane
Entry Level Capstone: Occupational Therapy Approach in a Children’s Ministry Outreach Program, Leah G. Horst and Leah G. Horst
Thesis: Out of the Body, Onto the Page: Awakening the Role of the Body in Writing and Practical Applications of Embodied Composition, Jasmine Jackson
Dissertation: Reconceptualizing Mathematical Word Problems to Reflect Social Justice Principles and Culturally Relevant Teaching, Michelle Aryam Jackson
Dissertation: The Implementation of Conversation-Help-Activity-Movement-Participation-Success Procedures to Improve Behavior and Academic Performance, Henreta Jarrett
Dissertation: Teachers’ Perceptions of Symbolic Violence in School Curriculum, Nahum Jean-Louis
Dissertation: Benthic Community Dynamics and Stony Coral Demographics in Florida in Relation to Acute Disturbances and Chronic Pressures, Nicholas P. Jones
Entry Level Capstone: Meal Preparation Resources for Picky Eaters and Children with Type 2 Diabetes, Janelle Kangaloo
Thesis: Assessment of Microplastics in Southeastern Florida Forage Fishes, Maria Kappos
Entry Level Capstone: Multifactorial Fall Prevention Program Development and Implementation within an Assisted Living Facility, Makenzie King
Dissertation: Child Abuse Allegations in High Conflict Divorce, Clara Ko
Entry Level Capstone: Clinical Practice Skills in Executive Function within Acute Care, Jasmine Lake
Thesis: Effects of Net Type on the Quantification of Pelagic Shrimp and Krill in the Gulf of Mexico, Eric J. Lee
Entry Level Capstone: Exploring the Knowledge and Perception of the Role of Occupational Therapy in Concussion Management in an Interdisciplinary Sports Medicine Center, Courtney J. Leiter
Thesis: Composition, Computers, and COVID-19: the Roles of Multimodal Composition and Digital Technology in the COVID-19 Pandemic., Michael P. Lynn
Dissertation: Understanding Language Use Patterns of People with Chronic Pain: A Novel Assessment Approach, Jodie Maccarrone
Dissertation: Larval Ecology of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus Thynnus): New Insights from Otolith Microstructure, Biotic, and Abiotic Analyses from the Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean Sea, Estrella Malca
Entry Level Capstone: Easter Seals Pediatric Therapy – Feeding Guide, Corinne B. Marshall
Dissertation: Revisión Sistemática de Competencias de Liderazgo en Formación Inicial Docente [Systematic Review of Leadership Skills in Initial Teacher Training], Maria M. Martinez-Mena
Entry Level Capstone: Occupational Benefits for Young Adults with Disabilities while Participating in Vocational Programs, Erline F. Massillon
Entry Level Capstone: Clinical Skills and a Quick Reference Guide for Critical Care, Kayla McCarty
Entry Level Capstone: Identifying OT's Role with Individuals with Long-Term Neurological Conditions: A Capstone Project, Jencey McLain
Thesis: The Microbiome Characterization and Comparison of Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) and Green (Chelonia Mydas) Sea Turtle Eggs in Broward County, Florida, Colleen McMaken
Thesis: Crustacean Assemblage Structure Over the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Collected During the 2009 Henry B. Bigelow Expedition, Kathryn Medina
Entry Level Capstone: Clinical Practice Skills and the Development of a Visual Perception Screening Tool for Inpatient Settings, Annie J. Mehl
Thesis: Determination of Atlantic Shortfin Mako Shark (Isurus Oxyrinchus) Population Genetic Structure and Comparison of Mitogenomic Markers, Marissa Mehlrose
Thesis: Toxicological Assessment of Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide on Staghorn Coral, Acropora Cervicornis, Katherine E. Meurer
Dissertation: Middle School Literacy Educators' Views About Student Texting and Its Impact on Student Writing, Rehana Lynda Mohamed Hussain
Capstone: Accumulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Marine Mammals: A Case Study on Cetaceans, Pinnipeds, and Sirenians, Alydia Moorhead
Dissertation: The Experiences of the Elderly Transitioning From Home to the Nursing Home Setting, Brent James Munson
Entry Level Capstone: Interprofessional Education – Occupational Therapy and Eating Disord, Alexis Namyak
Dissertation: Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Management Programs to Improve Whole-School Measures of Attendance, Disruptive Classroom Behaviors, and Academic Outcomes, Charles E. Natt, Jr
Entry Level Capstone - NSU Access Only: Occupational Therapy's Role in Home Health, Irving Noche
Dissertation: A Generic Qualitative Study of Primary Grade Reading Teachers' Challenges and Personal Teaching Solutions, Jennifer Lynn Nunes
Dissertation: Connecting the Dots Between American Islamic Converts, Homegrown Violent Extremists, and Members of the Islamic Guerillas of America: Phenomenological Exploration, Joseph Francis O'Brien
Dissertation: Exploring Attitudes of Middle School Stakeholders Towards Teachers Carrying Handguns in Schools, Roger Pacheco
Thesis: Spatial Variability of Greenhouse Gases in Blue Carbon Mangrove Ecosystems, Jordan Page
Entry Level Capstone: Reducing the Fear of Falling through a Novel Fall Prevention Education Group, Eloise K. Palm
Dissertation: Help-Seeking Attitudes among Clinicians in Training: The Influence of Psychological Defensiveness, Alexander Daniel Palmer
Dissertation: An Empirical Investigation of the Evidence Recovery Process in Digital Forensics, Kevin Parviz
Thesis: Caribbean Reef-Building Coral-Symbiodiniaceae Network: Identifying Symbioses Critical for System Stability in a Changing Climate, Shaman Patel
Dissertation: Self-Actualized Leaders’ Relationships With Dynamic Teams, Joseph Walter Pieri
Dissertation: Experimental Study to Assess the Role of Environment and Device Type on the Success of Social Engineering Attacks: The Case of Judgment Errors, Tommy Pollock
Dissertation: Factors Affecting Customers’ Decision to Share Personal Data with Mobile Operators, Ammar Ali Qaffaf
Dissertation: Conflict within Special Education for Mothers of Children with Invisible Disabilities: A Case Study, Nicole R. Quint
Dissertation: Understanding Hispanic Parent Experiences of Participation in Children’s Special Education Programming, Ana Katrina Ramirez
Thesis: Vertical and Diel Behavior Patterns of Adult Lemon Sharks (Negaprion Brevirostris) Around the Southeastern Florida and Western Bahamas Coastal Shelves, Jacquelyne Reuder
Thesis: "You Must Defeat [the Tutorial] To Stand A Chance": Learning To Play Competitive Fighting Video Games, Aidan D. Rivas
Entry Level Capstone: Needs-Assessment Questionnaire Development Through the Interviews of Mothers Post Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Discharge: A Qualitative Study, CIERRA ROBINSON
Thesis: Toxicity and Effectiveness of a New Two-Part Underwater Adhesive for Coral Restoration, Matthew Rojano
Dissertation: Information Systems Security Countermeasures: An Assessment of Older Workers in Indonesian Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Hari Samudra Roosman
Entry Level Capstone: Effectiveness of Support Groups for Stroke Patients, Wendy H. Rosario
Dissertation: Exploring the Existing and Unknown Side Effects of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms, Hima Bindu Sadashiva Reddy
Thesis: Taxonomic Resolution Assessment and Biodiversity Evaluations for Deep-Sea Fish Assemblages in a Pelagic Ecosystem of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Krista N. Scheuerman
Thesis: Assemblage Composition and Vertical Distributions of Deep-Sea Anglerfishes (Suborder: Ceratioidei) of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Kimberly S. Schmutz
Dissertation: The Assessment of Burnout and Resilience in Firefighters, Bailee Schuhmann
Thesis: The Impacts of Egg Chamber Depth and Clutch Size on Hatching and Emergence Success for Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta Caretta) on South Florida Beaches, Curtis J. Slagle
Thesis: An Analysis of Suspended Microplastics in Sewage Outfalls, Inlets, and Coastal Waters of Broward County, Florida, Katrina A. Smith
Dissertation: Female Delinquency and Pathways to Crime, Pamela Lynn Smykal
Dissertation: Examining Motivators That Influenced African American and Latinx Students to Degree Completion of a Doctoral Program, Travis L. Stokes
Entry Level Capstone: Education for Patients and Caregivers to Reduce 30-day Readmissions into Acute Care, Tyler W. Taylor
Entry Level Capstone: Assessing the Comprehensive Academic Needs of Occupational Therapy Assistant Program Students: A Focused Review of Polk State College, Jasmine M. Thomas
Dissertation: The Impact of COVID-19 on Secondary Teachers’ Health and Wellbeing, James Jonathan Ray Thornton
Dissertation: Spiritual Intelligence: The Next Intelligence Tool for Conflict Resolution Practitioners?, Peter Tokar
Thesis: Assessing Broad-Scale Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Intervention Activities in Southeast Florida, USA, Kathryn Toth
Entry Level Capstone: Distinguishing the Role of Occupational Therapy in the Breast Cancer Care Continuum, Hannah S. Townsend
Entry Level Capstone: DIRFloortime: An Innovative Approach to Supporting Development Through Connection and Understanding, Jessica Townsend
Entry Level Capstone: Enhancing Physician Perspectives of Skilled Occupational Therapy Services for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Valerie S. Trinidad
Thesis: Examining the Relationship Between Stomiiform Fish Morphology and Their Ecological Traits, Mikayla L. Twiss
Dissertation: Nigeria-Biafra War and the Politics of Oblivion: Implications of Revealing the Hidden Narratives through Transformative Learning, Basil Ugorji
Entry Level Capstone: Doctoral Capstone Culminating Project: Addressing Language Barriers to Parent Education in Pediatric Outpatient Settings, Agnes M. Valentin
Entry Level Capstone: Occupational Therapy Program for Pace Center for Girls, Natalie Vish
Dissertation: Social Media Analytics and Information Privacy Decisions: Impact of User Intimate Knowledge and Co-ownership Perceptions, Bradley Alukwe Wangia
Dissertation: A Holistic Approach to Hurricane Preparedness, Edwina A. Ward
Dissertation: The Impact of Insight, Psychological Functioning, and Treatment Resistance on Completion of Diversion Programs, Seniz L. Warner
Thesis: Size Structuring of Myctophids in the Northern Gulf of Mexico in the Years Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Adam Warren
Dissertation: Recognizing and Addressing Conflict That Emerges from Sociotechnical Change in Higher Education, Kathleen Ann Watkins-Richardson
Thesis: Quantifying Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes from Sargassum Strandings on Florida Beaches, James O. Westphalen
Thesis: Ship Groundings and Boulder Deployment: A Study on Restoration of Ship Grounding Sites in the Kristin Jacobs Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area, Shane Wever
Thesis: Trophic Ecology of a Dominant Mesopredatory Fish Family (Alepisauridae) in the Western North Atlantic Revealed by Stomach Content and Stable Isotope Analysis, Ellyn Willse
Thesis: Preliminary Trials to Assess Bycatch Reduction Potential for Deep-Set Pelagic Longline Gear in the U.S. Atlantic Fishery, Sean T. Wilms
Dissertation: A Qualitative Case Study of Principal Supervisors’ Perceptions of Equity-Based Instructional Leadership, Dontae Wilson
Dissertation: An Approach for Efficient Robust Adversarial Training in Deep Neural Networks, Cesar Zalzalah
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Dissertation: The Empirical Study of the Factors that Influence Threat Avoidance Behavior in Ransomware Security Incidents, Heriberto Aurelio Acosta Maestre
Dissertation: Social Emotional Learning: A Case for Success, Lindsey M. Agoglia
Dissertation: Karl Tomm’s Internalized Other Interviewing: From Theory to Practice, Robin Akdeniz
Dissertation: Improving Employees’ Compliance with Password Policies, Enas Albataineh
Dissertation: Pushed Out of High School: Narratives of Teaching Under the Testing Regime, Sheila Alexis-Fabius
Dissertation: Roundabout - How the United States Government Creates Cyclical Terrorism as it Responds to Domestic and Foreign Terrorism, Sarah Selch Andrews
Dissertation: Pause for a Cybersecurity Cause: Assessing the Influence of a Waiting Period on User Habituation in Mitigation of Phishing Attacks, Amy Antonucci
Dissertation: Online Communication Wars: A Critical Recursive Frame Analysis of Online Responses to the Article entitled, “This is why Colin Kaepernick Took a Knee”, Rebecca Jean Arklie
Dissertation: Neural Network Variations for Time Series Forecasting, David Ason
Entry Level Capstone: Social Skills Groups for School-Age Children with Autism, Samantha Aybar
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Assessing Learner’s Privacy Behaviors Through the Lens of Gender Egalitarianism Cultural Factor in a Blended-Learning Context: Student’s Perspective at Saudi Electronic University During COVID-19 Pandemic, May Bantan
Thesis: Increasing the Frequency of Periodic Spatial Disturbance Decreases Surface Attachment Protein Expression in Staphylococcus Aureus, Ivana M. Barraza
Capstone: Accessing the Potential Role of Occupational Therapy in the Primary Care Setting, Trudy Bazzy
Entry Level Capstone: Responsive Parenting Promotes Positive Mealtime Dynamics for Children, Nicole Bing
Dissertation: The art of nursing: perceptions, experiences, and interpretation of value among practicing registered nurses and senior bacclaureate nursing students, Anne Bizup
Entry Level Capstone: Culminating Project in Hippotherapy and Program Development, Taylor E. Bobo
Applied Clinical Project (ACP): Clinical Implications and Treatment of Online Infidelity Through a Natural Systems Perspective: A Critical Literature Review, Aleena Sarita Bodoe