Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2020
Trans Artists Group 2020, Zinhle Ngema
Shelter Dogs: The effects of Training on Proximity, Samantha K. Nigbur
Density Functional Theory Study of Two-Dimensional Boron Nitride Films, Pradip R. Niraula
Using statistical learning approaches to understand trends and variability of tornadoes across the continental United States, Niloufar Nouri
Unpaid Care Work and Civic Engagement: A Review of Literature Suggesting Unpaid Care Work as Civic Engagement, William Novello
Habituation and the Aesthetics of Disenchantment in Proust’s Search of Lost Time vols. I-II, Hayley C. Nusbaum
Examining the Impact of Competency to Stand Trial and Judicial Instructions on NGRI Verdicts, Erin K. O'Donnell
We All Feel Feelings, Ben Ohene
Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Psilocybin from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 2019, Dax Oliver
Pirate radio proves invaluable to immigrant communities during the pandemic — but the FCC isn’t having it, May Olvera
#Fired: Survivor Reactions to Facebook Firing in Organizations, Rachel Omansky
Economics of Higher Education Productivity, Uchenna K. Oparah
Precarious Empowerments: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Santiago, Chile, Pilar Ortiz
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Eric Osborne-Christenson
On the Distribution of Genetic Variation in Ecological Communities, Isaac Overcast
Acquisition Orders and Instructional Sequences: A Case Study of Russian Textbooks, Olga Ozhiganova
Baseball Has a Race Problem: The Decline of African-Americans in Baseball, Ariel Pacheco
Advanced Computational Methodologies to Study Binding Free Energies of Biomolecular Complexes, Rajat Kumar Pal
Therapist Mentalization and Patient Outcomes in the First Year of Psychotherapy, Michael Palumbo
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors Predicting Distress and End-of-Life Planning among Individuals with Advanced Cancers, Aliza A. Panjwani
The Objectives of Public Higher Education in New York City Through the Lens of Language, John-Nicholas Parker
Age-Related Effects on Gait Parameters in Healthy Normal Aging Adults, Jamie C. Park
Bilingual Reading Fluency and Prediction: Heritage Language versus Second Language, Olga Parshina
Reporting of Sexual Assault and Abuse of Males in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community, Yevgeniy Pastukhov Semchenkov
Desexualizing Queer Identities: Methods to Validating Non-Sexual Romantic Attraction and Relationships, Unnati Patel
Gene Regulation and Cell Fate Choice in the Developing Vertebrate Retina, Sruti Patoori
The Language Abilities of Justice-Involved Adults, Talaya Patton
Penetrating Dissonance, Miguel A. Payano Jr
Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden, Jacob E. Pearce
Many Forms of Black Death: Coal Extraction, Transnational Activism and the Value of Life in Colombia, Oscar H. Pedraza Vargas
Locke’s Rebellious Progeny: Phenomenology and Ethics of Leopardi’s A-Dialectical Materialism, Paolo Pellecchia
Emotion in Mind, Kathryn E. Pendoley
360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien'kéha (Mohawk), Joseph Pentangelo
Una isla, dos literaturas: Contrapunteo de la literatura de la isla y la diáspora dominicanas (1965–2018), Jose L. Peralta
A Study of CUSUM Statistics on Bitcoin Transactions, Ivan Perez
The Effect of Hurricane Sandy on Mental Health Outcomes of New Yorkers, Kacper Perkowski
A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements, Trace Peterson
Gun Country, John Philp
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in ADHD and Alcohol Use among College Students, Laurie Pierre-Paul
Los cuerpos en conflicto del chavismo: cuatro obras venezolanas en la era de la Revolución Bolivariana, Rebeca Pineda Burgos
Temporal Discounting and Sustainable Behaviors, Natalia Piskorski
The Effect of the 2014-17 Refugee Crisis on the Sicilian Labor Market, Tamara Planer
Identification and Quantification of Classic, Prescription, and Synthetic Opioids in Hair by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS), Natalia A. Platosz
“The Little Seed and the Wind”: Digital Intervention Tool for Geography and Empathy, Maritha Pocorni-Humphries
On the Energy Sustainability of Active and Passive Building Integrated Technologies in the Context of a Changing Climate for Tropical Coastal Cities, Rabindra Pokhrel
Americans Collecting Natural History, Herbert A. Pollard IV
Essays in Retirement Economics, Gunnar Poppe Yanez
Narrating Intensity: History and Emotions in Elsa Morante, Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante, Stefania Porcelli
After NYPD: Scores of New York City Police Officers With Substantiated Complaints Move To New Public Safety Jobs., Luca Powell
Overcoming Adversity in The STEM Classroom: Examining Learned Helplessness in First-Year Community College Students Using Salivary Cortisol, Surveys and Interviews, Diane M. Price Banks
Zoning – Neighborhood Character and Historic Overlays in Lexington, KY, Taylor S. Price
DH in Prison, Sabina Pringle
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Middle-Late Miocene Apes: Implications for Early Human Evolution, Kelsey D. Pugh
Exploring Behavioral Flexibility, Problem-Solving, and Innovation in Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus), Amanda Puitiza
Hips that harm: when medical devices fail women, Sophie N. Putka
Ascriptive Nationalism, Demagoguery, and the Modern Presidency: A Case Study in Constitutional Decay, Christopher J. Putney
Resistimos, Diana Quiñones Rivera
Beyond Exposure: Markers of English Proficiency in School-Aged French–English Bilinguals, Erin Quirk
Como Olvidarte, Emilce Quiroz
How a Culture of Silence Is Threatening to Burn Down an Entire Community, Hafsa N. Quraishi
Projected impacts of climate change on risk of spring frost and fire blight for Malus domestica, Paul J. Racco
Spectacle, Spectatorship, and a New Reading of The Nine Heroes Tapestries, Katherine L. Rachlin
Primary Care Physician Perceptions of Hearing Loss and Amplification: A Survey, Sophie Racine
The Paganist Totem Birds in Slavic Folklore: The Black and The White, Anastasia Radzievska
The Piety Movement in an American Suburb: The Experiences of Women of the Islamic Circle of North America on Staten Island, Aisha Raheel
Female Labor Force Participation and Economic Growth: Granger Causality Test, Zulakha Rahman
Censorship and Book-Burning in Imperial Rome and Egypt, Susan Rahyab
...A Placebo, An Embryo, A Mosquito, My Libido, Andy Ralph
The Relationship Between Traumatic Brain Injuries, Impulsivity, and Crime, Brian Ramanauskas
Reflections on the Eating of Bologna Sandwiches: A Memoir, Benjamin M. Raphael
The U.S. Approach to Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: A Comparative Analysis of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump Administration Policies in Afghanistan, Mohammad Rasouli
Snow-Albedo Feedback in Northern Alaska: How Vegetation Influences Snowmelt, Lucas C. Reckhaus
Aesthetic Redemption: Psychedelia, Film, and Walter Benjamin’s Sensory Revolution, Alexander C. Redlins
Visual Perspective Taking in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Erin L. Reilly
Benevolent Women and an Orphan Asylum: The Case of Rochester, New York, Joseph Resch
Exploring Vicarious Resilience among Practitioners Working with Clients Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events, Adam Reynolds
Kinetics of Nesquehonite Nucleation, Halla Rezgui
Exploring Influences on Autistic Identity Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood, Ariana Riccio
Daphne Odjig: Indigenous Art and Contemporary Curatorial Practices, Lucy Kay Riley
Exploring the Relationship Between Anger, Aggression, and Perpetrator Substance Use in the Commission of Sexual Offenses, Dominique Rivera
Discrimination of Monozygotic Twins using DNA methylation levels of one CpG site at Chromosome 3, Dino O. Robinson
Evidence of Incipient Song Divergence in a Hawaiian Population of Warbling White-eyes, Jesse D. Robinson
Stealin' the Meetin': Black Education History & the Black Panthers' Oakland Community School, Robert P. Robinson
George Hill’s Fight for Freedom, Maria Robins-Somerville
Cinegrafia: literatura, espectadores y cinefilia contemporanea en latinoamerica, Rojo Robles Mejias
Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide, Manuel Rodeiro
Connecticut’s Liberal Image Hides a History of Systematic Housing Inequality, It’s Time For A Change, Ashley Rodriguez
Exploration of the Complex Relationship among Multilevel Predictors of PrEP Use among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States, Kristina M. Rodriguez
Inspirations for Awake: Expressions of Trauma Through Fiction and Autoethnographic Literature, Sophia Rodriguez
Failures of Grace: Limits of Tragedy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel, Anick S. Rolland
What I Wish I Had Known - A guide by and for entry level Latinx Journalists, Michaela Roman
The Sounds of Sikles Gurung: A Phonetic and Phonological Description of a Tibeto-Burman Language of Nepal, Danielle Ronkos
Unique Image Representation as a Tensor, Bharat Rosanlall
Profits for Spotify, Pennies for Artists, Joshua R. Rosenberg
