Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2019
WANDA AND ME: THE CONTINUOUS RISE OF PUERTO RICO'S GREATEST PYRAMID SCHEMER, Natalia Rodriguez Medina
Development of Multiplex PCR Assay as a basis for Predicting Pigment Related Features, Stephanie A. Rodriguez
Exploring Political Action and Socialization through Group Improvisation within the Music of Frederic Rzewski and Cornelius Cardew, Marcel Rominger
Una enunciación intersticial: la poética del destierro de Carlos de Rokha, Mariana Romo-Carmona
Generative Movements, Cabbage Juice, & Habitats of Selfhood, Jason Michael Rondinelli
Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1928–1933, Lauren Rosati
Woodhouse, Bianca M. Rosembert, Mankaprr Conteh, and Netsanet Negussie
Caring for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Toolkit for Audiologists, Melanie Rosenthal
Link Link Circus, Isabella Rossellini
The Ethics of Perception in Transatlantic Romantic Poetry, Charles W. Rowe
Exploring obesity, ADHD severity, and disordered eating behavior among college students, Carolina Rozario
Modernizing the Arthurian Legend: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographic Illustrations of Idylls of the King, Hannah Rozenblat
Air Ingress and Heat-Driven Flow Relaminarization in a Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR), Apoorva Rudra
Embodied Nostalgia: Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and U.S. Musical Theatre, Phoebe Rumsey
Development and Psychometric Analysis of the Roy Adaptation Modes Scale (RAMS) to Measure Coping and Adaptation, Sandra A. Russo
Lethal Use of Force: Insights into Mental Illness, Robert A. Ryan
The Effect of Public Transportation Quality on Economic Outcomes, John Safy
Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form, Shemon Salam
ICT-Enabled Control and Energy Management of Community Microgrids for Resilient Smart Grid Operation, Mahmoud Saleh
The Publicly Private Joan Didion: Literary Celebrity Combining Literary Persona and Photographic Images, Jessica J. Salfen
Probing the Gelation Phenomena in Molecular and Seed-Based Gels, Malick Samateh
On Different Parametrizations of Feynman Integrals, Ray Daniel Sameshima
Mindfulness in Medicine: Modified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program among Future Doctors, Virtue Sankoh
Towards a Mathematical Model of Motility Using Dictyostelium discoideum: Proteins and Geometric Features that Regulate Bleb-Based Motility, Zully Santiago
Female Leaders: A Re-evaluation of Women During the Viking Age, Sorayda Santos
Locked Out: Thanks to State Policies, Minorities Are Being Left Behind by the Cannabis Industry, Nikitha Sattiraju and Evelina Nedlund
Fashion Merchandising: An Augmented Reality, Naeha A. Sayed
Intention and Interpretation in Law, Cosim J. Sayid
Signals in the Black Stack / GEOMEtyr Design Manual, Jason T. Scaglione
The Importance of Property Rights In The Developing World: A study and comparison of Zimbabwe and Botswana, Luke A. Scarpa
TextFrame: Cosmopolitanism and Non-Exclusively Anglophone Poetries, Michael N. Scharf
Snowmelt Detection on Alpine Glaciers using Synthetic Aperture Radar Time Series, Corey Scher
Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World, Amy B. Schiller
The Practice of Mainland Chinese Students Adopting English Names and Its Motivations, T. Leo Schmitt
Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation, Robert D. Schultz Jr
Loop, Lap, Leap, Hannah Schutzengel
Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn, Peter J. Sclafani
Swedish Migration Politics: Have the Sweden Democrats Taken Over the Political Agenda?, Sofia Sedergren
Resisting Industrial Food Systems on the Web: How Non-Profit Organizations Use Digital Technology for Sustainability Education, Aleksandr Segal
An Exploratory Study of How Millennials Approach and Communicate Mental Health in the Workplace, Johanna I. Seitenbach
Contradictions of Freedom in The Tempest and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Menaka Serres
Living as a Dying Child: A Gadamerian Analysis of the Poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek, Corinne Ann Settecase-Wu
The Unsung History of Prince Hall Freemasonry, Ann Seymour
Democratization of Nepal: Towards Consolidation? Perspectives on Rule of Law & Civil Liberties, Anil J. Shahi
Words Are Found Responsible: Poetry's Jurisdiction and the Transformation of Equal Rights, Talia Shalev
Captives of a New Alcatraz: The New York City Department of Correction from 1954 to 1990, Jarrod Shanahan
Morris High School: A Biography, Naomi Sharlin
Minor Forms, Dismantled Norms: Mediums of Modernism in Pakistan, Gemma Sharpe
The Hydra of Modern Literature, Genevieve Sharp
The Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Brachial Plexus, Brian M. Shearer
“We are all the decline”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Presbyterian Clergywomen’s Talk About Denominational Decline, Miriam Shelton
Rich in Needs: The Forgotten Radical Politics of the Welfare Rights Movement, Wilson Sherwin
Developing and Validating a Fast and Accurate Method to Quantify 18 Antidepressants in Oral Fluid Samples Using SPE and LC-MSMS, Sanghee S. Shin
Constructing Social Identity Through the Past: The Itza Maya Community Identity Through the Late Postclassic Period (1250–1525CE), Yuko Shiratori
The Implementation Fidelity of the Family Finding Intervention through the Lens of Permanency Specialists, Liat L. Shklarski
Essays on the Equity Premium Puzzle, Oren Shmuel
Themes in Global Terrorism from 2010 to 2016, Rafael Sholomov
Analysis of a Group of Automorphisms of a Free Group as a Platform for Conjugacy-Based Group Cryptography, Pavel Shostak
Umberto Boccioni's States of Mind, Sonya Shrier
Effects of Physician-Hospital Integration on Malpractice Claims, Elizabet Shvets
Market Making: Crises and the Global Production of Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Elizabeth A. Sibilia
A Media Distortion Analysis of Mass Shootings, Jason R. Silva
Mechanisms of Microglia Mediated Apolipoprotien E Neurotoxicity, Pardeep Singh
The Role of Eyewitness Confidence and Prosecution/Defense Presentation in How Facial Composites Shape Juror Decision-Making, Rebecca E. Singh
Neuron-Glial (NG) Interactions: A Microfluidic Examination of NG Emergent Responses for Repair, Tanya Singh
Multiple Bodies as One, Valerie Skakun
The Untapped Potential of Ethnic Community Networks: Urban Resiliency and the Chinese Commuter Van System in New York City, Alexandra Diane Smith
Elucidation of the Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane Utilizing the One-of-a-Kind Catalytic Shock Tube Technique, Robyn E. Smith
Naloxone and Ethanol Addiction Reinforcement, Roland T. Smith III
Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1973–1982, Gillian Sneed
Localizing Orientalism: Mariano Fortuny between Morocco and Spain, Susie Sofranko
Chimeras, Centaurs, and Satyrs: Creating Mixed Genre Texts in Antiquity and the Renaissance, Claire Sommers
Design and Application of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9-Responsive Peptide Nanostructures, Jiye Son
An Incurable Malady? Representations of Female Madness in Nineteenth Century-Twenty-first Century Literature, Kimberly Sooklall
Examining Mental Health Stigma Among Police Officers and Intended Behavior Towards People with Mental Illness, Sara Soomro
Using Fundamental Properties of Light to Investigate Photonic Effects in Condensed Matter and Biological Tissues, Laura A. Sordillo
Mold, Allergic Diseases and Asthma: Assessing the Validity and Usefulness of Indoor Air Sampling as a Tool in Providing Health Protective Advice to Occupants, William M. Sothern
Feeding the Future Meat Doesn’t Come Cheap, Lukas C. Southard
Revolutionary Joy: Affect, Expression, and Community in Milton's England, Stephen Spencer
Childhood Neglect and Risk of Revictimization by an Intimate Partner: A Prospective Investigation of Mediational Pathways, Rebecca M. Spizzirri
Sadness in Brooklyn: The American Housing Act of 1949 and the Brooklyn Dodgers Move to Los Angeles, Patrick Spranger
Beyond the Elevators: How the New York City subway system can better serve blind, deaf and cognitively disabled people, Ethan B. Stark-Miller
Dependability of Referees’ Decision Making on Discretionary Penalties in the NFL, Anthony Stefanidis
FLOAT, Frida Sterenberg
Investigating the Feasibility of Advanced Law Enforcement Resilience Training (A.L.E.R.T.): An Innovated and Practical Intervention to Enhance Police Mindfulness and Resilience, Stephanie B. Stern
Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects, LeeAnn S. Stevens
Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paulo, 1930–1955, Danielle J. Stewart
Collective Subjectivity and Utopian Desire, Stewart A. Stout
How New York City Is Failing Students With Special Needs—and Why Minority Kids Have It the Worst, Pamela Subizar
Illuminations, Emerson Sudbury
Weak Social Support as an Indicator for Worse Trauma Related Symptoms, Michael B. Sugarman
The Counseling Advantages of Rechargeable Hearing Aid Batteries, Belinda M. Sun
On the Complexity of Computing Galois Groups of Differential Equations, Mengxiao Sun
Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?, Jeffrey C. Suttles
Internet of Things: Architecture and Services for Healthcare, Ankita Suvagia Ms.