University awarded 13 doctorates during Commencement

Salve Regina recently awarded doctorates in humanities to 13 candidates during the graduate Commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 6.

The Ph.D. program offers the humanities as a foundation for understanding a world of accelerating and complex change. Cultivating expertise in traditional humanities fields and building skills as contemporary interdisciplinary scholars, students pursue doctoral research that makes a difference; bridging disciplines and exploring questions of human meaning in a dynamic study of the past, present and future.

The candidates and their dissertation titles were:

• Meaghan Bechard: “Preferred Learning Styles of Retail Health Providers: A Pilot Quality Improvement Project”
• Danielle Crowell: “HCV Birth Cohort Screening Guideline Implementation: A Change of Practice”
• Monique Harrington: “Coming Back to Ourselves: Teacher Identity in a Digital Age”
• Jean Ann Helger: “Do Psychotropic Sexual Side Effects Influence Medication adherence?”
• Orson Kingsley: “Freethought for the Masses: The Philosophy Behind the Writings and Publications of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius”
• Olivia Krampen: “Investigating nursing faculty and student expectations and knowledge regarding concept-based learning and health literacy”
• David Kwami: “Improving Provider Sexual Health Education for Male Post Deployment Veterans”
• Olivia Maxell: “Cervical Cancer Screening in Primary Care: A Provider-Based Intervention with Shared Decision-Making to Promote Guideline Adherence through Education”
• Gina Palmer: “Visual and Literary Representations of Memory and Meaning of the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima-Nagasaki”
• Sandra Perrotta: “Use of a Palliative Performance Scale (PPSv2) Tool in a Skilled Nursing Facility”
• Julia Sylvia: “Self-Administered Psychotherapy for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Depression”
• Jake Thibault: “Transgender: Science, Nature and Virtue”
• Patrick Wong: “Three Perspectives on Happiness, from Ancient to Modern: Aristotle, Adam Smith, Martin E.P. Seligman”