Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2017
Utah's Black Hole of Tax Incentives, William Mathis, Claire Molloy, and Kevin Breuninger
Stereospecific Electrophilic Fluorination of Alkylcarbastannatrane Reagents, Xinghua Ma
The Effects of Tilted Magnetic Fields on Quantum Transport in 2D Electron Systems, William A. Mayer
Dominance & Survivance: Urban Latino Communities and Education in Racial Neoliberal Urbanism, Edwin Mayorga
Creating an Unbroken Line of Becoming in Live Music Performance, Bonnie B. McAlvin
The Posers: Instinctual Simulation Across Time, Kathryn McCarthy
Exhibitions of Outsider Art Since 1947, Christina McCollum
Are DHS technology grants for local police departments an effective tool against terrorism?, Erika McGinty
Mythology and the Black Female Body, Zatara McIntyre
Mónica Mayer: Translocality and the Development of Feminist Art in Contemporary Mexico, Alberto McKelligan Hernandez
Post-transcriptional Regulation of the Drosophila Anterior Determinant, Bicoid, John McLaughlin
Beyond the Biological: William Beebe, the Bronx Zoo, and U.S. Biological Field Stations in British Guiana, Katherine F. McLeod
Masquerade, Developing Artworks through Party Culture, and Disdain for the White Cube, Laura M. McMillian
A Survey of Athenian Block Grants of Citizenship, Mary Jean E. McNamara
Tertiary Degrees and the Market: Cross-Country Statistical Evidence, Boontharika Meesuwan
Potential Modifications to Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Anderson-Fabry Disease, Mariam Meghdari
Inside the Aviary, Nikki Mehle
Modulation of Spasticity by Trans-Spinal Direct Current Stimulation in Animals with Spinal Cord Injury, Wagdy Mekhael
Methods and Professionals Involved in Evaluating Postural Control in the Autism Spectrum Disorder Population: A Systematic Review, Christina Melora
Temporal variability of fluorescent dissolved organic matter at a brackish, tidal marsh-estuary interface, Alana B. Menendez
Decomposing Time Effect on Valuation and Choice, Yan Meng
Lipid Sensing by Mammalian Target of Rapamycin, Deepak Menon
The Effects of Parametrically Manipulating the Ratio of Complimentary to Constructive Feedback Statements on Performance, Amanda Mentzer
Cyber Counterproductive Work Behaviors: Measurement, Prediction, and Means for Reduction, Brittany K. Mercado
The New York City Childcare Influenza Vaccine Mandate: A Case Study, Amy E. Metroka
Do flashbulb memories transmit across generations? 9/11 as a case study, Shanique Meyler
Data Driven Approach for Increasing Power Grid Situational Awareness and Mitigating Cascaded Failures, Yassine Mhandi
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE FORMATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DOCTRINE IN EL SALVADOR, Edward Mikus III
The Under-Explored Role of Tiredness in Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk-Taking Among Gay and Bisexual Men, Brett M. Millar
A Political Ecology of Information: Media and The Dilemma of State Power in China, Michael L. Miller
Hatred Simmering in the Melting Pot: Hate Crime in New York City, 1995-2010, Colleen E. Mills
On Subcomplete Forcing, Kaethe B. Minden
Post-9/11 Media Coverage of Terrorism, Zachary S. Mitnik
When Stigma Kills: Why Abortion in India is Lethal Even Though It’s Legal, Mallory Moench
Harriet Jacobs and Toni Morrison: A Tradition of Narrative Resistance, Allyson L. Molloy
"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole, Marie-Michelle Monéreau-Merry
What Does Silence = Now? An Analysis of Past and Present Discourse Surrounding HIV/AIDS, Emily A. Moner
Motivating Morphological Constituents: A Learning-Based Analysis of Hebrew, Navajo, and Spanish, Ignacio Lorenzo Montoya
Optical Forces Generated by Plasmonic Nanostructures, Matthew A. Moocarme
A Guatemalan Trans Woman Navigates New York City in Hopes of a Better Future, Manolo Morales
Desisting in Prison: Myth and the Council for Unity Model, Kevin Moran
Hearing Related Concerns Among Parkinson’s Patients and Their Care Partners, Samantha Morgan
Dark Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920, Kristin L. Moriah
Are Weevils Picky Eaters? Community Structure and Host Specificity of Neotropical Saproxylic Beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Jhunior A. Morillo
Purism and the Object-type: Tradition and Modernity, Art and Society, Jamie Morra
The Relationship Between Clinical Teaching Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence in Clinical Nurse Faculty in Pre-licensure Baccalaureate Programs in New York State, Caroline K. Mosca
Horizon of Possibilities: Artists and the City in Postwar Beirut, Tatiana Mouarbes
Credit Risk and Corporate Governance, Olivier Mugisho Mudekereza
The Short Story and the Photographic: Twentieth-Century Imagetexts In and Of the Americas, Lucienne Muller
Invisible Forces, Sarah E. Mullin
Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century, Lisa Murray
Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency, Matthew Murray
Genealogy of the Concept of "Hate Crime": The Cultural Implications of Legal Innovation and Social Change, Roslyn Myers
Theatre Translation as Historiography: Projections of Greek Self-Identity Through English Translations During the European Crisis, Maria Mytilinaki
Denial: A Sociological Theory, Christina Nadler
Pharmacological Antagonism and the Olfactory Code, Mihwa Na
A Process of No Return: Mediation in Civil Conflict, Carol Naranjo
Max Kowalski's Japanischer Frühling: A Song Collection from the Period of the Jewish Cultural Alliance in Nazi Germany, Nils Neubert
Bergson’s Élan Vital as Reflected in Florine Stettheimer’s Orphée of the Quat-z-arts, Michael Neumeister
Black Models Matter: Challenging the Racism of Aesthetics and the Facade of Inclusion in the Fashion Industry, Scarlett L. Newman
Detection of Cathinone and Mephedrone in Plasma by LC-MS/MS Using Standard Addition Quantification Technique, Theron W. Ng-A-Qui
Social Work Students' Endorsement of Recovery-Oriented Principles and Practices When Working with Consumers Diagnosed with Severe Mental Illness, Jennifer M. Nikou
The New Threat to Journalists: Robots, Annie Nova
A Closer Look at Water Quality, Illegal Dumping and Community Engagement in the Coney Island Creek, Molly Nugent
Exploring the Relationship between Sequence Learning, Motor Coordination, and Language Development, Rita Obeid
Too Little Too Late For City Spending On Workers Cooperatives, Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech
The Reproduction of Male Violence Through Female Secret-Keeping, Sarah C. O'Hare
The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind, Tyler Okney
Do Spellings of Words and Phonemic Awareness Training Facilitate Vocabulary Learning in Preschoolers?, Robin O'Leary
An Examination of the Needham Question: Why Didn't China Have a Scientific Revolution Considering Its Early Scientific Accomplishments?, Rebecca L. Olerich
Things We Dare Not See: Media Revisions of Incestuous Relationships, Mattheus M. Oliveira
Structural and Biochemical Studies of the DNA Replication Initiation Mechanism of the Second Chromosome of Vibrio cholerae, Natalia Orlova
Toward a Reoriented Radicalism: Black Marxism and Orientalism, Alexandros Orphanides
Rupture, Dionis Ortiz
Ecology, Evolution, and Sexual Selection in the Invasive, Globally Distributed Small Indian Mongoose (Urva auropunctata), M. Aaron Owen
Between Speech & Song: Clarifying the Sprechstimme of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Sara M. Paar
The Recycling GTPase, RAB-10, Regulates Autophagy Flux in Caenorhabditis elegans, Nicholas J. Palmisano
Naturally-Derived Molecular Ensembles in Medicine, Materials Science and Evolutionary Biology: An Interdisciplinary Study, Silvio Panettieri
Direct Effects of Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative: A County-Level Approach, Konstantinos Panitsas Mr
Trypanosome Lytic Factor Mediated Immunity Against Leishmania sp., Jyoti Pant
Desire, Curiosity, and the Search for Truth in Proust, Moreno, and Bechdel, Santiago Parga Linares
Three Essays on Inequality in the United States, Gowun Park
Enzymatically active microspheres for self-propelled colloidal engines, Jungeun Park
Therapeutic Exploitation of Metabolic Checkpoints In Cancer Cells, Deven S. Patel
Constructing Music of Rebellion in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States, David Pearson
Ionic Liquids Tethered to Activated Carbon for Capture of Airborne Toxins, Devin Peck
"A Vigorous Propaganda": The Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Peace Palace, and Internationalism through Design at The Hague, 1899–1920, Daniel Pecoraro
An Examination of Therapeutic Alliance During Prolonged Exposure in the Treatment of a Comorbid PTSD and SUD Population, Annelisa Pedersen
Does Distance Equal Length? : The Effect of Relational Closeness on Length of Sentencing in Child Sexual Abuse, Brittney Peiffer
Procedural Justice for Youth: Discrepancies in the Provision of Defense Counsel for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Emily K. Pelletier
Identification and Quantification of Cyanide and its Metabolites in Lemur Urine, Jeremy Peralta
Mortality and Artifact, Alexander Perrelli
Critical Play: Agency, Interdependency, and Intersectionality in an Early Childhood Classroom, Maria Persons
Thresholds of Atrocity: Liberal Violence and the Politics of Moral Vision, Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
Individual Levels of Bias and Immigration Policies in the United States: A Test and Extension of the Dual Processing Model of Bias, Lorraine Phillips
Redefining Virtue in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Melissa Rose Piccinonno
The Force of Seduction: the Use of Rape Narratives in the Plays of Aphra Behn, Caitlyn Piccirillo