Posted 2:44 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, 2023
Recent student theses and dissertations available online
By Mike Olson
A thesis or dissertation is the culminating achievement of years of rigorous study and collaboration between students and university departments where research findings are presented, adding to and extending the scholarship of a student’s chosen field.
Each year students at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse have their theses and dissertations bound, cataloged and archived in Murphy Library Special Collections where they are available for future generations. Electronic copies are cataloged and uploaded online to MINDS@UW. Recreation management related titles are also uploaded to OregonPDF in Health & Performance. Through these online repositories, UWL student theses and dissertations are discoverable and accessible to a wide audience of researchers and scholars.
Murphy Library would like to congratulate all the UWL students who completed a thesis or dissertation this past year! It is no easy feat, and we are proud of your hard work and dedication. This year’s student scholarship included a wide range of research topics in a variety of academic fields. Several recent additions to MINDS@UW include:
- How first-generation rural student veterans successfully navigate academic environments in higher education: A grounded theory by Monte Stewart
- Self-care, wellbeing, and mentoring related to transitions: Testimonios of womxn of color in student affairs by Ida Balderrama-Trudell
- Hear our voices: Supporting Black women in cultural & affinity-based student organizations at predominantly white institutions of postsecondary education in the midwestern United States by Keyah Levy
- Updated distribution, population genetic structure, and local occurrence patterns of Longnose Sucker (Catostomus catostomus) and Lake Chub (Couesius plumbeus) in the Black Hills of South Dakota by Kristina Morben
- Spatial and temporal variability of aquatic insect emergence in Pool 8 of the Upper Mississippi River by Brad Morris
- Assessment of methods for DNA extraction from formalin-fixed fish specimens and a population genomic analysis of geographical disjunction in Southern Brook Lamprey (Ichthyomyzon gagei) by Erin Brino