Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2023
Justice, Pandemics, and Museums in Cyberspace: Archaeology Museums’ Decolonization Projects During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Samuel Besse
Works from 2022
Investigating the COVID-19 Pandemic in Your Community, Tanzina Ahmed
Botanicals as Prospective Agents Against SARS-CoV-2 Virus, Vyacheslav Dushenkov and Anna Dushenkov
Addressing Gender-Based Violence Using Evidence-Based Practices During COVID-19: The Case of Puerto Rico, Ayorkor Gaba, Roseanne Flores, María Rebecca Ward, and Bailey Pridgen
Hematologic Involvement as a Predictor of Mortality in COVID-19 Patients in a Safety Net Hospital, Luis F. Gonzalez-Mosquera, Sandra Gomez-Paz, Eric Lam, Diana Cardenas-Maldonado, Joshua Fogel, Vishnu Adi, and Sofia Rubinstein
Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater during New York City's Second Wave of COVID-19: Sewershed-Level Trends and relationships to Publicly Available Clinical Testing Data, Catherine Hoar, Francoise Chauvin, Alexander Clare, Hope McGibbon, Esmeraldo Castro, Samantha Patinella, Dimitrios Katehis, John J. Dennehy, Monica Trujillo, Davida S. Smyth, and Andrea I. Silverman
Medical avoidance among marginalized groups: the impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic, Amani R. Holder‑Dixon, Olivia R. Adams, Tianna L. Cobb, Alison J. Goldberg, Rachel A. Fikslin, Mora A. Reinka, Amanda N. Gesselman, and Devon M. Price
Faculty’s Perception on Student Performance using vSim for Nursing® as a Teaching Strategy, Leighsa Sharoff
COMPARING GEOSCIENCES-RELATED ENGAGEMENT GENERATED DURING AND AFTER THE USE OF MULTIPLE PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES: ANIMATED VIDEOS, YOUTUBE, INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL GAMES, GROUP DISCUSSION AND POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS, Andrew M. Singh, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Ality Aghedo, Jasmin Budhan, Belal A. Sayeed, B'jorn K. Forde, and Krishna Mahabir
Community Resilience: Stories About Chinatowns in NYC during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Wendy W. Tan
Asian hate speech detection on Twitter during COVID-19, Amir Toliyat, Sarah Ita Levitan, Zeng Peng, and Ronak Etemadpour
The Relationship Between Discrimination and Alcohol Use Among Latinx College Students in The Context of COVID-19, Mahtab Tuba
Works from 2021
Innovative Virtual Role Play Simulations for Managing Substance Use Conversations: Pilot Study Results and Relevance During and After COVID-19, Glenn Albright, Nikita Khalid, Kristen Shockley, Kelsey Robinson, Kevin Hughes, and Bethany Pace-Danley
Griffithsin and Carrageenan Combination Results in Antiviral Synergy against SARS-CoV-1 and 2 in a Pseudoviral Model, Sahar Alsaidi, Nadjet Cornejal, Oneil Mahoney, Claudia Melo, Neeharika Verma, Thierry Bonnaire, Theresa Chang, Barry R. O'Keefe, James Sailer, Thomas M. Zydowsky, Natalia Teleshova, and José A. Fernández Romero
Modeling COVID-19 spread in small colleges, Riti Bahl, Nicole Eikmeier, Alexandra Fraser, Matthew Junge, Felicia Keesing, Kukai Nakahata, and Lily Reeves
The Rise of Prepping in New York City: Community Resilience and COVID-19, Anna Bounds
Working Remotely, Working Effectively: Improving Collection Access During a Global Pandemic, Colleen Bradley-Sanders
Covid-19 and Racial Justice in Urban Education: NYC Parents Speak Out, Kelly Brady, Mieasia Edwards, Whitney Hollins, José Luis Jiménez, Wendy Luttrell, William Orellana, David Rosas, and Nga Than
Exploration of Dark Chemical Genomics Space via Portal Learning: Applied to Targeting the Undruggable Genome and COVID-19 Anti-Infective Polypharmacology, Tian Cai, Li Xie, Muge Chen, Yang Liu, Di He, Shuo Zhang, Cameron Mura, Philip Boume, and Lei Xie
Impact of the 2020 Pandemic of COVID-19 on Families with School-Aged Children in the United States: Roles of Income Level and Race, Cliff (Yung-Chi) Chen, Elena Byrne, and Tanya Vélez
Making Room for TBD: Adapting Library Websites During a Pandemic, Sarah B. Cohn and Rebecca Hyams
ENDURING COVID-19 AS NYC SUBWAY RIDERS, Ruben Cuevas
The temperature-dependent conformational ensemble of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro), Ali Ebrahim, Blake T. Riley, Desigan Kumaran, Babak Andi, Martin R. Fuchs, Sean McSweeney, and Daniel A. Keedy
ORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF COVID-19, Ibeth Erazo
Changes in Utilization of Birth Control and PrEP During COVID‑19 in the USA: A Mixed‑Method Analysis, Rachel A. Fikslin, Alison J. Goldberg, Amanda N. Gesselman, Mora A. Reinka, Omaima Pervez, Elissia T. Franklin, Olivia Ahn, and Devon M. Price
Virtual reference amid COVID-19 campus closure: a case study and assessment, Maureen Garvey
Admissions of COVID-positive patients to US nursing homes with personal protective equipment or staffing shortages, Diane M. Gibson and Jessica Greene
Symptoms and Testing for COVID-19, Daniel Gurvich, Laura E. Fasulo, and Micah Goltsman
Factors Influencing Academic Self-efficacy among Nursing Students during COVID-19: A Path Analysis, ShinHi Han, Koun Eum, Hee Sun Kang, and Kathleen Karsten
A Trauma-Informed Inquiry of COVID-19’s Initial Impact on Students in Adult Education Programs in the United States, David A. Housel
Disinfection Station for Face Masks, Jennifer Islam, Lubna Sharmin, and Farrukh Zia
An Examination of Coping Strategies and Intent to Leave Child Welfare During the COVID 19 Pandemic, Francie J. Julien‑Chinn, Colleen C. Katz, and Eden Wall
Urgent need for integrated pandemic policies on pathogen spillover, Pallavi A. Kache, Sonila Cook, Nigel Sizer, Lee Hannah, and Neil M. Vora
COVID‑19, Race/Ethnicity, and Age: the Role of Telemedicine to Close the Gaps on Health Disparities, Andreas Kakolyris, Juan J. DelaCruz, and Christos I. Giannikos
Slowing the spread of COVID-19: Review of “Social distancing” interventions deployed by public transit in the United States and Canada, Camille Kamga and Penny Eickemeyer
CUNY York College–hosted NASA STEM OUTREACH PROGRAM GRADUATES Over 30,000 Students – the legacy continues amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nazrul I. Khandaker
ADDRESSING THE LEARNING LOSS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC THROUGH THE ADAPTATION OF VIRTUAL PLATFORMS, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Anika Nawar Mayeesha, Violeta Escandon Correa, Toralv Munro, Andrew Singh, Matthew Khargie, Ality Aghedo, Jasmin Budhan, Krishna Mahabir, and Belal A. Sayeed
MULTI-FACETED GEOSCIENCE RESEARCH USING OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES: THE SUCCESSFUL PARTICIPATION OF K9-16 STUDENTS, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Noshin Sharmili, Omadevi Singh, Gurwinder Sahota, Sol De Leon, Matthew Khargie, Ali Zarine, Krishna Mahabir, Adacia Teemal, and Mildred M. Selby
COVID-19 Multi-Targeted Drug Repurposing Using Few-Shot Learning, Yang Liu, You Wu, Xiaoke Shen, and Lei Xie
From Stigma to Dignity? Transforming Workfare with Universal Basic Income and a Federal Job Guarantee, Lynn D. Lu
COVID-19 Impact On Radiologic Imaging Students Learning, Rohini Mattan, Navdeep Kaur, Safraz Harun, Ralph Ocampo, and Zoya Vinokur
All Rise: Suiting Up when Showing Up for the Practice of Law in the COVID-19 Virtual Legal Environment, Marissa Moran
Feminist Abolitionist Nursing, Martha Paynter, Keisha Jefferies, Leah Carrier, and Lorie Goshin
How Can I Get COVID?: Understanding Diferences in American Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Men’s Risk Perception, Devon M. Price, Amanda N. Gesselman, Rachel A. Fikslin, Alison J. Goldberg, Omaima Pervez, Mora A. Reinka, and Elissia Franklin
Should COVID-19 patients >75 years be Ventilated? An Outcome Study, H. Raheja, N. Chukwuka, C. Agarwal, D. Sharma, A. Munoz-Martinez, Joshua Fogel, M. Khalid, A. T. Hashmi, S. Ehrlich, M. A. Waheed, S. Siddiqui, B. A. de Brito Gomes, A. Aslam, C. J. Merino Gualan, I. Aftab, A. Tiwari, S. Singh, K. Pouching, N. Somal, J Shani, and G Rojas-Marte
Outcomes in Patients With COVID-19 Disease and High Oxygen Requirements, Geurys Rojas-Marte, Arsalan Talib Hashmi, Mazin Khalid, Nnamdi Chukwuka, Joshua Fogel, Alejandro Munoz-Martinez, Samantha Ehrlich, Maham Akbar Waheed, Dikshya Sharma, Shaurya Sharma, Awais Aslam, Sabah Siddiqui, Chirag Agarwal, Yuri Malyshev, Carlos Henriquez-Felipe, and Jacob Shani
Supply chain viability: conceptualization, measurement, and nomological validation, Salomée Ruel, Jamal El Baz, Dmitry Ivanov, and Ajay Das
Decoding Clinical Biomarker Space of COVID-19: Exploring Matrix Factorization-based Feature Selection Methods, Farshad Saberi-Movahed, Mahyar Mohammadifard, Adel Mehrpooya, Mohammad Rezaei-Ravari, Kamal Berahmand, Mehrdad Rostami, Saeed Karami, Mohammad Najafzadeh, Davood Hajinezhad, Mina Jamshidi, Farshid Abedi, Mahtab Mohammadifard, Elnaz Farbod, Farinaz Safavi, Mohammadreza Dorvash, Shahrzad Vahedi, Mahdi Eftekhari, Farid Saberi-Movahed, and Iman Tavassoly
Influence of COVID-19 on changes in dressing behaviours of U.S. adults., Diana Saiki, Jay Kandiah, Alyssa Dana Adomaitis, and James A. Jones
AN EXTENSIVE VIRTUAL OUTREACH APPROACH BY SPE DHAKA UNIVERSITY CHAPTER FOR GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Noshin Sharmili, Anika Nawar Mayeesha, Syed Humayun Akhter, and Nazrul I. Khandaker
LEVERAGING THE POPULARITY OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCING DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC TO CREATE NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR STEM EDUCATION, Andrew Singh, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Violeta Escandon Correa, Omadevi Singh, Ariel Skobelsky, Farhan Tanvir, Brian Sukhnandan, Matthew Khargie, Elton Selby, and Masud Ahmed
Detection of Mutations Associated with Variants of Concern Via High Throughput 2 Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Isolated from NYC Wastewater, Davida S. Smyth, Monica Trujillo, Kristen Cheung, Anna Gao, Irene Hoxie, Sherin Kannoly, Nanami Kubota, Michelle Markman, Kaung Myat San, Geena Sompanya, and John J. Dennehy
Protocol for Safe, Affordable, and Reproducible 1 Isolation and Quantitation 2 of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from Wastewater, Monica Trujillo, Kristen Cheung, Anna Gao, Irene Hoxie, Sherin Kannoly, Nanami Kubota, Kaung Myat San, Davida S. Smyth, and John J. Dennehy
Association of right ventricular dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension with adverse 30-day outcomes in COVID-19 patients, Karen Wats, Daniel Rodriguez, Kurt W. Prins, Adnan Sadiq, Joshua Fogel, Mark Goldberger, Manfred Moskovits, Mahsa Pourabdollah Tootkaboni, Jacob Shani, and Jessen Jacob
Human ACE2‑Functionalized Gold “Virus‑Trap” Nanostructures for Accurate Capture of SARS‑CoV‑2 and Single‑Virus SERS Detection, Yong Yang, Yusi Peng, Chenglong Lin, Li Long, Jingying Hu, Jun He, Hui Zeng, Zhengren Huang, Zhi-Yuan Li, Masaki Tanemura, Jianlin Shi, John R. Lombardi, and Xiaoying Luo
Tech Companies and Public Health Care in the Ruins of COVID, ShinJoung Yeo
Works from 2020
Reopening America's Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Protecting Asian Students From Stigma and Discrimination, Daisuke Akiba
CoV Genome Tracker: tracing genomic footprints of Covid-19 pandemic, Saymon Akther, Edgaras Bezrucenkovas, Brian Sulkow, Christopher Panlasigui, Li Li, Wei-Gang Qiu, and Lia Di
The Bar Exam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Immediate Action, Claudia Angelos, Sara J. Berman, Mary Lu Bilek, Carol L. Chomsky, Andrea A. Curcio, Marsha Griggs, Joan W. Howarth, Eileen Kaufman, Deborah Jones Merritt, Patricia E. Salkin, and Judith Welch Wegner
Racism and the Political Economy of COVID-19: Will We Continue to Resurrect the Past?, Zinzi D. Bailey and J. Robin Moon
INTEGRATING DIGITAL TOOLS IN REMOTE LEARNING TO ENHANCE THE DELIVERY METHODS OF TECHNICAL CONTENT IN UNDERGRADUATE GEOSCIENCES, Ruslana Baker, Malek Shami, Nazrul I. Khandaker, and Stanley Schleifer
Taking a Closer Look on the Coronavirus, Alisha Barday, Janina Duran, and Lisa Agranov
Understanding of Aerosol Transmission of COVID 19 in Indoor Environments, Adama Barro, Cathal O'Toole, Jacob S. Lopez, Matthew Quinones, and Sherene Moore
The Distributional Short-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Wages in the United States, Yonatan Berman
Exercise Behavior and Mood during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan: Lessons for the Future, Yu-Kai Chang, Chiao-Ling Hung, Sinika Timme, Sanaz Nosrat, and Chien-Heng Chu
Applied Strategies for Remote Student Teaching due to COVID-19, Natalie G. Chertoff and Ashleigh B. Thompson
COVID-19’s Effects on New York City’s Food System: Lessons for Public Health Responses, Nevin Cohen and Nicholas Freudenberg
It's Time to Go Back to the Basics, Susan H. Davide
Coronavirus Transmission In the Dental Setting, Susan H. Davide, Anty Lam, and Christine Macarelli
Managing the Threat of Covid-19, Susan H. Davide, Anty Lam, and Christine Macarelli
Food frights: COVID-19 and the specter of hunger, Maggie Dickinson
Resuming On-site Services: Final Report and Recommendations of the CUNY Libraries COVID-19 Task Force, Kathleen Dreyer, Jeffrey Delgado, Karen Okamoto, Steven Ovadia, Roxanne Shirazi, Michael Waldman, Haruko Yamauchi, and Simone Yearwood
Applications of Non-invasive Neuromodulation for the Management of Disorders Related to COVID-19, Abrahão Fontes Baptista, Adriana Baltar, Alexandre Hideki Okano, Alexandre Moreira, Ana Carolina Pinheiro Campos, Ana Mércia Fernandes, André Russowsky Brunoni, Bashar W. Badran, Clarice Tanaka, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, Daniel Gomes da Silva Machado, Edgard Morya, Eduardo Trujillo, Jaiti K. Swami, Joan A. Camprodon, Katia Monte-Silva, Katia Nunes Sá, Isadora Nunes, Juliana Barbosa Goulardins, Marom Bikson, Pedro Sudbrack-Oliveira, Priscila de Carvalho, Rafael Jardim Duarte-Moreira, Rosana Lima Pagano, Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo, and Yossi Zana
Neurological symptoms due to Coronavirus disease 2019, Farage Ftiha, Moshe Shalom, and Henry Jradeh
State Actions and Shortages of Personal Protective Equipment and Staff in U.S. Nursing Homes, Diane M. Gibson and Jessica Greene
Free-To-Play? An Examination of Intrinsic Motivation and Gaming Behaviors in U.S. Female Mobile Gamers, Margot Goldblum
Workers at long-term care facilities and their risk for severe COVID-19 illness, Jessica Greene and Diane Gibson
COVID-19 in Prisons and Jails in the United States, Laura Hawks, Steffie Woolhander, and Danny McCormick
Efficacy of glutathione therapy in relieving dyspnea associated with COVID-19 pneumonia: A report of 2 cases, Richard I. Horowtiz, Phyllis R. Freeeman, and James Bruzzese
Combating SARS-CoV-2: Leveraging microbicidal experiences with other emerging/re-emerging viruses, M. Khalid Ijaz, Syed A. Sattar, Joseph R. Rubino, Raymond W. Nims, and Charles P. Gerba
Unprotected on the Job: How Exclusion from Safety and Health Laws Harms California Domestic Workers, Isaac Jabola-Carolus
When Knowledge Breaks, Elizabeth Jardine
Twenty-Seven questions for Writers & Journalists to Consider When Writing About COVID-19 & HIV/AIDS, Alexandra Juhasz, Pato Hebert, Theodore Kerr, and Diana Cage
What Would A COVID 19 Doula Do Zine, Alexandra Juhasz, theodore kerr, pato hebert, and jih-fei cheng
Feminist Pedagogy in a Time of Coronavirus Pandemic, Alexandra Juhasz, Laura Wexler, Liz Losh, and Sharon Irish
More Austerity Coming? Lessons From New York City's 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Marc Kagan
Discrimination Against Employees without Covid-19 Antibodies, Debbie N. Kaminer
THE NASA MUREP AEROSPACE ACADEMY PROGRAM (MAA): PLAYING A PIVOTAL ROLE IN BRIDGING THE KNOWLEDGE-GAP DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Omadevi Singh, Sol De Leon, Violeta Escandon, Tajriyan Chowdhury, Anthony Ramnarain, Sahaj Khan, Najina Tojiboeva, Raj Datta, Brian Sukhnandan, Farshad Hosseinie, and Fiorella Guevara
Covid-19 Impact on Radiology Students’ Distance Learning, Mary Lee, Fahameda Hassan, and Zoya Vinokur
COVID-19 Impact on Radiology Students’ Distance Learning (Fall 2020), Mary Lee, Zoya Vinokur, Jason Chan, Renzo Marmolejo, and Cherylann Jackson-Holmes
Estimating population immunity without serological testing, Andrew Lesniewski
Open Data, Collaborative Working Platforms, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Building an Early Career Scientist Community of Practice to Leverage Ocean Observatories Initiative Data to Address Critical Questions in Marine Science, Robert M. Levine, Kristen E. Fogaren, Johna E. Rudzin, Christopher J. Russoniello, Dax C. Soule, and Justine M. Whitaker
How should we understand the digital economy in Asia? Critical assessment and research agenda, Kai Li, Dan J. Kim, Karl R. Lang, Robert J. Kauffman, and Maurizio Naldi
Impact of meteorological factors on the COVID-19 transmission: A multicity study in China, Jiangtao Liu, Ji Zhou, Jinxi Yao, Xiuxia Zhang, Lanyu Li, Xiaocheng Xu, Xiaotao He, Bo Wang, Shihua Fu, Tingting Niu, Jun Yan, Yanjun Shi, Xiaowei Ren, Jingping Niu, Weihao Zhu, Sheng Li, Bin Luo, and Kai Zhang
Covid-19 and Inequity: A comparative spatial analysis of New York City and Chicago hot spots, Andrew Maroko, Denis Nash, and Brian Pavilonis
COVID-19: Health as a Common Good, Alfredo Morabia
The Public Health We Need, Alfredo Morabia
Automatic COVID-19 lung infected region segmentation and measurement using CT-scans images, Adel Oulefki, Sos Agaian, Thaweesak Trongtirakul, and Azzeddine Kassah Laouar
Reproducibility and Sensitivity of Thirty-Six Methods to Quantify the SARS-CoV-2 Genetic Signal in Raw Wastewater: Findings from an Interlaboratory Methods Evaluation in the U.S., Brian M. Pecson, Emily Darby, Charles N. Haas, Yamrot M. Amha, Mitchel Bartolo, Richard Danielson, Yeggie Dearborn, George Di Giovanni, Christobel Ferguson, Stephanie Fevig, Erica Gaddis, Donald Gray, George Lukasik, Bonnie Mull, Liana Olivas, Adam Olivieri, Yan Qu, SARS-CoV-2 Interlaboratory Consortium, and John J. Dennehy