The University of Maine Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) project is a joint effort of Fogler Library and the Graduate School. Our goals are "to improve graduate education, increase sharing of knowledge, help universities build their information infrastructure, and extend the value of digital libraries," in keeping with those of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, a national initiative of which the University of Maine is a member.
This online collection features the final theses and dissertations approved by the Graduate School of the University of Maine.
For more information about finding additional theses and dissertations or obtaining copies of those not available electronically, see Fogler Library's Subject Guide on Theses & Dissertations.
Questions can also be directed to Fogler Library's Special Collections Department by phone at (207) 581-1686 or email at um.library.spc@maine.edu.
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Deformation Studies of Tungsten-Gold Contacts at the Nanometer Scale., Steven A. Smallwood
Semiotics, Textuality, and the Puritan Collective: "Speaking to Yourselves in Psalms", Derek Thoms Smith
Photostabilization of High-Yield Pulps Reaction of Thiols and Quinones with Pulp, Jonathan Spender
Variables Influencing Nest Success of Eastern Wild Turkeys in Connecticut: Nesting Habitat, Home Range-Scale Fragmentation, and Nest Attentiveness, Shelley M. Spohr
Grading the General Chemistry Laboratory: A Constructivist Approach., Barbara Stewart
Assessing Forest Damage and Tree Response to Ice Storm Injury in Thinned and Unthinned Hardwood Stands in Maine, Julie Lee Swisher
Lithic Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts Recovered From Quebrada Jaguay, Peru, Benjamin R. Tanner
Asynchronous Validity Resolution in Sequentially Consistent Shared Virtual Memory, Jonathan Thomas
The Development of a New Anemometer for Measuring High Speed Winds on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, Mark W. Thoren
An Angel's Promise, Gerald Hilaire Touchette
Words and music in communion: an analysis of Guillaume de Machaut's "Le Lay de la Fonteinne" in cultural context, Patricia A. Turcic
Visitor Behaviors and Resource Impacts at Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Rex Turner
Optimization of a Multi-Aixs Electro-Mechanical Scanning System., Raul Urbina
Without Flutes or Flowers., Jason A. Vafiades
Access to Geographic Scientific and Technical Data in an Academic Setting, Bastiaan Van Loenen
The Production of Emotional Prosdy in Varying Severities of Apraxia of Speech, Steffany M. Van Putten
The Emergence of the Capacity for Guilt in Preschoolers: The Role of Personal Responsibility in Differentiating Shame from Guilt, Jamie L. Walter
Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Flexible Pavements, Jia Wang
Chemical Characterization of Wild Maine Cranberries, Dolly Jean Watson
The fall of the Wilderness King, part II John Sassamon, Christopher H. White
Coherence and Historical understanding in children's Biography and Historical Nonfiction Literature: A Content Analysis of Selected Orbis Pictus Books, Sandip LeeAnne Wilson
Strategies for Handling Spatial Uncertainty due to Discretization, Thomas Windholz
Cold-Temperature Adaptation of Muscle Creatine Kinase from an Antartic Teleost (Chaenocephalus Aceratus), Paul Winnard Jr.
Development of FRP-Glulam Panel for Bridge Deck Replacement, Han Xu
Bonding of Wood Fiber Composites Simulating Natural Wood Cell Adhesion Using Lignin Activation Systems, Daniel Joseph Yelle
Emotional Expression Management and Social Acceptance in Childhood: Ability, Strategy, and Gender., Gregory S. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Evaluating the durability of wood/FRP bonds through chemical kinetics using a range of mechanical test methods, Jonathan Philip Alexander
Towards A Spatial Model of Rurality, Gillian AvRuskin
Whole-school elementary literacy programs: variation in implementation and the relationship to student literacy achievement, Lucie C. Boucher
Distribution and Impact of the Oyster Parasite Bonamia Ostreae in Maine, and its Detection Using DNA Probes, Ryan Carnegie
Using Raster Sketches for Digital Image Retrieval, James Carswell
Factors Influencing Net Primary Production in Red Spruce, Michael Day
Effects of Neonatal Clomipramine Treatment on Photic and Non-Photic Circadian Phase Shifting in Rats, Suzanne M. Dwyer
Leaf Area, Stemwood Volume Growth, and Stand Structure in a Mixed-Species, Multi-Aged Northern Conifer Forest, Laura Kenefic
Seeing the Past: Jesse James and American History in Motion Pictures, Clinton S. Loftin
Collective Efficacy and Collaborative Climate in Maine High Schools, Sarah Mackenzie
The Good Girl Bad Girl Dilemma: Exploring Rural Maine Girls' Sexual Desires, Behaviors, and Relationships, Mary Madden
Redox studies on the anti-rheumatoid arthritis gold drugs: auranofin and solganol, Ahmed A. Mohamed
Image-Based Change Detection Using An Integrated Spatiotemporal Gazetteer, Georgios Mountrakis
Concurrency Issues in Programmable Brick Languages, Gilliad E. Munden
The Viscoelastic Behavior of Pigmented Latex Coating Films, Katharina Prall
Non-Euclidean Geometry, Skyler W. Ross
Presentation of the Sun King: The Performance of Power in 17th Century French Ballets des Entrees, David Shuhy
Weed Population Dynamics in Potato Cropping Systems as Affected by Rotation Crop, Cultivation, and Primary Tillage, Silke Ullrich
Creating Virtual Wood Particulate Composites, Huaijun Wang
Development of Realistic Simulations of the Interactions Between Stars and the Interstellar Medium in Disk Galaxies, Thomas M. Zeltwanger
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
The Content And Process Of Women’s Decision-Making Viewed Through The Lenses of Feminine/Feminist Ethics And Roman Catholicism, Nancy Parent Bancroft
Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia: The Identity Crisis, Gary Brown
Greysmoke, Diane C. Genthner
A Dynamic Parameter Tuning Algorithm For Rbf Neural Networks, Junxu Li
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Teen Pregnancy: What Brings Teens To Family Planning Clinics For Pregnancy Tests, Norma Reynolds Allen
An implementation of the El Gamal elliptic curve cryptosystem over a finite field of characteristic P, Samuel Thomas Arslanian
Changing Their Guardians: The Penobscot Indians and Maine Statehood, 1820-1849, Jason M. Dorr
Unidentified Human Remains And The True Nature Of Love: An Exploration on the Art of Directing, Claude A. Giroux
Unidentified Human Remains And The True Nature Of Love: An Exploration on the Art of Directing, Claude A. Giroux
Wetpreg Reinforcement of Glulam Beams, Andrew R. Jordan
Topological Equivalence and Similarity in Multi-Representation Geographic Databases, Joao Argemiro de Carvalho Paiva
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Making Sense of Direction: Proximity and Order in Asymmetric Paired Comparison Data, Jonathan M. Borkum
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
The rise of the Marburg phoenix: Karl Vorlaender's Kantian/Marxian synthesis as key in the debate over capitalism vs. economic democracy, Kevin M. McCarron
Integrated Spatial Reasoning in Geographic Information Systems: Combining Topology and Direction, Jayant Sharma
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Beaver Recolonization in South-central Maine, Laurence Lisle II
Freedom of Commerce: The History and Archaeology of Trade at St. Castin’s Habitation 1670-1701, Brooke Ann Manross
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Walk a Little Faster: Escape from Burma with General Stilwell in 1942, Henrietta Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Pattern and Variation in Prehistoric Lithic Resource Exploitation in the Passamaquoddy Bay Region, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Anita L. Crotts
Us and Them: An Oral History of Life on the Summer Estates in Coastal Hancock County, Maine, Pamela E. Dean
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Our Friends the Enemies: Commercial Relations of Acadis with Massachusetts, 1670-1711, Jean Daigle
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
British-American Rivalry for the Support of the Indians of Maine and Nova Scotia, 1775-1783, Richard I. Hunt Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Maritime Enterprises of a Kennebunk Shipowner: WIlliam Lord, 1820-1860, Bonita A. Coro
Osgood Bradbury: A Biobibliographical Study, Francesca J. Ruggieri
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Sebastien Rale vs. New England: A Case Study of Frontier Conflict, Kenneth M. Morrison
King Philip's War in Maine, John O. Noble Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Separation of Maine from Massachusetts 1785-1820, Ronald Fillmore Banks
American Negro Autobiographies, George E. F. Hall
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Nineteenth Century Constitutional Amendment in Maine, Peter Neil Berry
A Study of Maine Central Railroad Passenger Service Since 1900, Henry G. Stenberg
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
The S. P. G. in New England, 1760-1784: A Social Aspect of the American Revolution, Irving Henry King
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
The Senatorial Career of William P. Frye, Ronald F. Banks
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
An Investigation of the Origin of Place Names of Towns in Penobscot County, Maine, William F. Fox
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
A History of the Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project, Theodore C. Holmes
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
A Critical Study of World War II Novels in American Literature, Wallace L. Woodcock
Theses/Dissertations from 1952
Woody Plants on the University of Maine Campus, Lyle Littlefield
Theses/Dissertations from 1951
The Executive Council of Maine, William Adams Newdick
Theses/Dissertations from 1950
The Greenback Party in Maine, 1876-1884, Everett L. Meader
The History of the Ku Klux Klan in Maine, 1922-1931, Lawrence Wayne Moores Jr.
Growth and Spawning Characteristics of the Sea Scallop, Placopecten magellanicus (gmelin), Walter R. Welch
Theses/Dissertations from 1948
The Problem of Conscription in Maine During the Civil War, Murray Bowden
Theses/Dissertations from 1947
A Study of the Causes of Racial Friction as Represented in the Detroit, Beaumont, and Harlem Outbreaks, Evelyn B. Knight
Life and Writings of Mary Hayden Green Pike (1824-1908), Rachel Reed Griffin
Theses/Dissertations from 1946
Negro Training in an Industrialized Democracy, Willard Potter
The Origin and Development of the Open Air School, Marion Frances Quinn
Theses/Dissertations from 1940
The Development of a Course of Study in Homemaking for Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grade Girls, Viola Iydelle Munyan
A Reorganization in the Continuity of Subject Matter in Mathematics, Beryl E. Warner
History of the Public Land Policy of Maine, 1620-1820, Margaret Fowles Wilde
Theses/Dissertations from 1939
The History of Education in Windsor, Connecticut, Ervin Sylvester Farrington
An Investigation of the Mill Development of Aroostook County, Maple Ismay Percival
Theses/Dissertations from 1935
A Study in Comparison of Foot and Hand Reaction Time of Women Athletes and Non-Athletes, Helen Anna Lengyel
History of Tanning in the State of Maine, George Archibald Riley