Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2022
Symmetry-Inspired Analysis of Biological Networks, Ian Leifer
Climate Change and Corporate Behaviors, Lei Lei
Cùng với nhau chung tay: A Collaborative Project with Vietnamese American Youth, Khanh Le
Poly(β-Gal-Thr): A New Scalable Synthetic Mucin, Manuel A. Lema
Robert Rosen and Relational System Theory: An Overview, James Lennox
Tell Me a Story: Exploring the Use of Narratives to Reduce Backlash to Organizational Diversity Initiatives, Desmond W. Leung
“The Formation of a Personality”: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the Politics of Its Hermeneutic Reception, Ki Ki Leung
Elucidation of Gene Essentiality and Genetic Determinants of Intrinsic p-Aminosalicylic Acid Resistance in Mycobacterium Kansasii, Keith J. Levendosky
Mother Monster, Alexae Levin
The Impact of Pharmacogenetics on Oral Fluid Steady State Drug Testing Results, Aliya D. Lewis
Narrative Side-Stepping: Disability Beyond the Narratology of Normalcy, Christian Lewis
NYFW Can't Handle Texture On The Runway, Treashure Lewis
Nursing and Interprofessional Relationships on a Labor and Delivery Unit: Ethnography, Tricia A. Lewis
"Thus Much for Politicks": American Women, Diplomacy, and the Aftermath of the American Revolution, Miriam Liebman
Conflict and Nature: How War in Cambodia Shaped Its Natural Landscape, Emily Lifs
Practicing Abolition: A Digital Roundtable on Abolitionist Pedagogy, Samantha Lilienfeld
A Qualitative Exploration of Discourses in Fan Community, /r/boyslove, Jessica Lin
Fundamentals of Microgel Flooding and Nanoparticles-Stabilized Foams in Enhanced Oil Recovery, Shuaijun Li
Heating Fire Incidents in New York City, Merissa K. Lissade
AI-driven Automated Medical Imaging Analysis, Jingya Liu
Biomimetic Water-Responsive Structures: From Fundamental Mechanisms to Evaporation Energy Harvesting Applications, Zhi-Lun Liu
Dream/Reality, Mercedes Llanos
Essays on Futures Market and Machine Learning, Jonathan J. Lopez Camara
After Being Ignored, Autistic Adults Find Their Place on the Spectrum, Leonardo A. Lopez Carreno
Engineering Rare-Earth Based Color Centers in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Quantum and Nanoscale Applications, Gabriel I. López-Morales
NEW YORK CITY HOMELESS QUEER YOUTH FACE HARSH REALITIES; ADVOCATES FIGHT FOR CHANGE, Randi R. Love
Streets of Grievance: Everyday Poetics and Postcolonial Politics in Urban Algeria, Stephanie Victoria Love
Engagement Journalism in Action: Supporting New Yorkers with Long COVID, Sarah Luft
Maurice Scève avant la Délie (1535–1544). Une étude des genres mineurs à l’origine d’une nouvelle esthétique poétique, Elizaveta Lyulekina
Dusty Miller Thesis Installation, Peter Dusty Miller Macaulay
Red-Collar Crime: The Field Re-Examined, Kortni MacDonald
Expressivism and its (Dis)Contents: Tracing Theory and Practice from History to Here and Now, Sasha A. Maceira
Inheritance, Katherin Machalek
Problematic Social Media Use, Social Comparison, and Defeat: An Intensive Longitudinal Investigation, Natalia Macrynikola
Children and Technology: Why Technology is Important for our Children, Jill MacTiernan
The Structures of Intra-national Class Divisions in Neoliberalism: The women of “light” and “dark” in The White Tiger, Sneha Madimi
Detritus and the Icon, Brian Madonna
Break Time, Quinlan Maggio
Optical Studies of Wide Bandgap Photonic Materials, Nikesh Maharjan
The Unknown Terror: Credit Card Debt Among The American Middle Class, Eamonn Maher
Shear Thickening In Dense Bidisperse Suspensions By Dynamic Simulation, Nelya Malbranche
NYC vs. Covid-19: The Human and Financial Resources Deployed to Fight the Most Expensive Health Emergency in History in NYC during the Year 2020, Elmer A. Maldonado Ramirez
Voice, Arabness, and the Vocal Talent Competition Arab Idol, Insia Malik
Catalyzed and Uncatalyzed N1 Modifications of Inosine and 2'-Deoxyinosine and N-Directed Remote Aroylation of C6-Aryl Purine Nucleosides, Casina Malinchak
Equitable Assessment for Elementary Dual-Language Learners, Joliette Mandel
Long Live the Queer: Demystifying Noncitizenship in Uncle Frank and Pain and Glory, Andrew D. Manker
New York set high sights on a progressive retail weed industry. But the state now stands to fall short., Trina Mannino
Differences Between Brand Activism and Corporate Social Responsibility in Consumer Perception, Erika Marchiondo
One Man's Pregnancy Story, Yvonne S. Marquez and Paige A. Perez
Driving Under the Influence of Drugs: Status in New York City and Development of New Analytical Tools, Kayla Marschke
Santa Bruta—Home of El Indio Muerto: The Colonial–Carceral City’s Attempt to Eliminate the “Mexican Problem”, Amy A. Martinez
Terror en el Orinoco: Formas del espanto animal y vegetal en la historia natural de José Gumilla, Roberto E. Martinez Bachrich
When the Children Touched the Paintings: The Afterlives of the New German Cinema and the Red Army Faction, Rudy R. Martinez
Indigenous Mexicans in New York City: Immigrant Integration, Language Use, and Identity Formation, Leslie A. Martino-Velez
Anomalous Self-Experiences and Aberrant Salience in Schizotypy, Victoria Martin
Dark Moon, Kate Mathews
Policy Effects on New York City Early Education Centers: Ecological Case Studies, Maria S. Mavrides Calderon
The Politics of Media Freedom, Kyong Mazzaro
Gloria Naylor’s Conversation with The Tempest, Kelly McAvoy-Giarrusso
All Aboard the Abortion Pill Train: Activism, Medicine, and Reproductive Technologies in the Republic of Ireland, Brenna McCaffrey
Discrimination, Psychological Well-Being, and Racial Importance in U.S. Native-Born and Caribbean Black Americans, Jaime E. McCaw
Migration in the Global South: The Case of Venezuelans in Brazil, Yoko-Ono N. McCullock
Actual Causation: Apt Causal Models and Causal Relativism, Jennifer R. McDonald
A Labor of Livingness: Oral Histories of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women, Robin McGinty
The Worst Horror of All: Greene’s Political and Salvific Imagination in Brighton Rock, James C. McGuire
Complicating the Narrative with the Adoption Constellation, Amanda K. McHugh
The Experiences of NYC's Social Equity Cannabis Initiative, Jimmie J. McKinney II
TikTok: A Path to Stardom… Sort of, Giselle G. Medina
Nutrient Dynamics and Ecosystem Development of Urban Forests, Gisselle A. Mejía
Cochlear Implant Evaluations of Spanish-Speaking Adults, Mariana Mejia Turnbull
Wave Engineering in Time Modulated, Nonlinear, and Anisotropic Metamaterials, Ahmed Mekawy
Steve McQueen, the Filmmaker, and Kant’s Sensus Communis, Livia Melamed Margon
Perceptions of Economic Vulnerability and Public Opinion in the United States: A Theoretical, Historical, and Quantitative Approach, Cody R. Melcher
Witness-Authenticated Key Exchange, Kelsey G. Melissaris
Go Off: The Geography and Labor of Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, Sean C. Mellott
The Making of a Bilingual University in the 21st Century, Michael Mena
Transcriptional Mechanisms of Neuroprotection in Excitotoxicity Driven Neurodegeneration in C. elegans, Zelda Z. Mendelowitz
Negative Dialectics in Elliott Carter: Toward an Adornian Aesthetics of Carter's Music, Gregory J. Menillo
Rima, Gregory J. Menillo
A Queens Community Teacher Storytelling Project: A Qualitative Research Study of Five Local Afro-Caribbean and Latina Public School Teachers and Community Teachers in New York City, José Alfredo Menjivar Ortéz
A NOVEL APPROACH TOWARD CONCUSSION TESTING, Jorge K. Mercado, Ari Schacter, and Danielle Euzent
An Exploration of the Contextual Interference Effect on Trained Trick Retention in Companion Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), Madeline Messina
Nonlinear Light - Matter Interactions of Ultrafast High Intensity Laser Pulses, Henry Meyer
Dietary Regulation of Silent Synapses in the Dorsolateral Striatum, Allison M. Meyers
Mapping the COVID-19 Pandemic in Staten Island, Vincenzo Mezzio
Identification of Sexual Grooming Behaviors in Male and Female Perpetrators, Stephanie Mignogna
Scene by Scene, Katita Miller
Screen Time and the Psychological Well-Being of U.S. Teenagers: An Exploratory Re-Analysis of Data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Russell Miller
Unraveling the Double-Bind: An Investigation of Black and Latina Women in STEM, Katlyn L. Milless
The Application of Electron Backscatter Diffraction to the Forensic Analysis of Minerals, Tiffany J. Millett
Historical Sisters: Black Feminist Actions Across History and Literary Studies, Jazz A. Milligan