This dissertation examines the sustainability efforts of thirty-eight U.S. Army installations. In 2000, Army installations began to develop goals in order to become more environmentally sustainable. This research used ...

This research project develops new knowledge of how U.S. national security and homeland security practitioners and policymakers understand, define, and could yield value from the concept of environmental security to meet ...

By combining the case study approach with in-depth historical and political analyses, this study examined U.S. intervention in multi-ethnic Ethiopia. Most studies of U.S. intervention in Ethiopia and the Horn have exclusively ...

This dissertation examines the role of modern art as a strategic tool of national defense during an unprecedented moment in U.S. history in which the U.S. State and the private sector converged to develop an economic and ...

A novel solid-state microwave annealing technique is developed in this work for post-implantation annealing of SiC and GaN, and for the controlled growth of SiC nanowires. This technique is capable of heating SiC samples ...

We used all-atom molecular dynamics to investigate the unbinding of Alzheimer’s Abeta peptides from amyloid fibrils. The peptide unbinding is driven by temperature-induced structural fluctuations and is thought of as an ...

This case study follows the work of a large state university tasked with designing and completing state-mandated assessment of undergraduate student critical thinking competency. A participant researcher case study ...

Since 1995, enrollments in undergraduate Spanish courses have surpassed those of all other non-English languages combined at institutions of higher education in the United States. At the same time, a heated debate about ...