Award-winning Theses and Dissertations
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Every year, the Virginia Tech Graduate School honors several outstanding theses and dissertations, and some theses and dissertations have won external awards. Browse these works here.
- 2016: "Virginia Tech Graduate School honors top scholars of the 2015-16 academic year"
- 2013: "Laura Gambrel, Justin Lemkul receive 2013 Outstanding Dissertation Award"
- 2012: "Robert Neal and Catherine Larochelle receive 2012 Outstanding Dissertation Awards from Graduate School"
- 2011: "Nikkhah wins best dissertation for identification of cell biomechanical signatures"
- 2011: "Graduate students receive William Preston Society Thesis awards"
- 2010: "Graduate School selects outstanding master's research from Class of 2010"
Recent Submissions
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Multi-scale Transmission Ecology: How Individual Host Characteristics, Host Population Density, and Community Structure Influence Transmission in a Multi-host Snail Symbiont System
(Virginia Tech, 2017-05-04)We live in an era of global change, where emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola, Zika, bird flu, and white nose syndrome are affecting humans, wildlife, and domesticated species at an increasing rate. To understand ... -
Supporting Open Source Investigative Journalism with Crowdsourced Image Geolocation
(Virginia Tech, 2017-08-10)Journalists rely on image and video verification to support their investigations and often utilize open source tools to verify user generated content, but current practice requires experts be involved in every step of the ... -
"The Pattern is Movement": Images of Timelessness and Patterns of Response in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
(Virginia Tech, 2017-06-30)T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is full of beautiful and resounding imagery, yet the art of unfolding these images, discovering the movement and drama taking place in and between them, often remains elusive. In this thesis, I ... -
Weird Old Figures and a New Twist: Cultural Functions of Halloween at the Turn of the 20th Century
(Virginia Tech, 2017-06-09)Halloween arrived in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century with the surge in immigration from the British Isles — especially Ireland. However, the folk holiday did not gain widespread attention until the late ... -
Three essays on productivity and risk, marketing decisions, and changes in well-being over time
(Virginia Tech, 2011-11-18)This dissertation is composed of three essays; the first two examine the decision-making of potato producing households in Bolivia and the third examines well-being changes among Zimbabwe households. The first essay ... -
MEMS-Based Micro Gas Chromatography: Design, Fabrication and Characterization
(Virginia Tech, 2009-05-22)This work is focused on the design, fabrication and characterization of high performance MEMS-based micro gas chromatography columns having wide range of applications in the pharmaceutical industry, environmental monitoring, ... -
The Problem of Evil as the Problem of Pain
(Virginia Tech, 2010-05-06)The problem of evil arises from the argument that the existence of suffering is incompatible with (or else renders improbable) the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God (and that, since the former ... -
The AFM Study of Ovarian Cell Structural Mechanics in the Progression of Cancer
(Virginia Tech, 2011-05-06)According to the American Cancer Society, Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States, only exceeded by heart disease. Over the past decade, deciphering the complex structure of individual cells ... -
Incorporating Motives into the Theory of Planned Behavior: Implications for Reducing Alcohol Abuse among College Students
(Virginia Tech, 2011-04-18)College alcohol abuse continues as a major public-health concern. Theory-driven research is necessary to address the severe negative consequences of this college drinking. One theory that offers particular promise is the ...
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