Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
Paper Memories: A Visual Memoir, Stephanie Trinidad
Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission, George F. Trivino
When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning, Cristina A. Trowbridge
Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator, Eric J. Tsai
The Cult of Names, Shaydanay A. Urbani
Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro, Lorena Uribe Bracho
Mechanisms for Survival and Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells, Matthew B. Utter
La melancolía de Juan Ramón Jiménez: un estudio emotivo, Carmen Valenzuela Cervantes
An Analysis of Innovate Training with Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Raymond John Van Steyn
Revival, Anya van Wagtendonk
Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in Post-Fascist Italy, 1943–1978, Francesca Vassalle
The Prediction of Personal Narrative on Features of Recovery Among People with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders, Beth Vayshenker
I AM A MAN: How legacy and inheritance bear a heavy burden on black masculinity in A Raisin in the Sun, Barbershop, and Creed, Aliyah D. Veal
Mechanism and Development of Peptide-Based Inhibitors to Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP) Self-Assembly, Jayson Vedad
A New Estimate for Neanderthal Energy Expenditure, Stephen J. Venner
El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo, Edgar Augusto Verastegui
Aurality as Methexis and the Rise of Castilian Literature: The Case of the Siete Partidas, Maristela Verastegui
Convergent Evolution of Biochemical Innovations in Polychaetes: Characterizing the Molecular Basis of Bioluminescence and Venom Production, Aida E. Verdes Gorín
Cross-Race Effect of African-Americans and Caucasians, Bianca Vidal
Detecting Cognitive, Functional and Behavioral Response to Donepezil in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Role of Attention Tasks, Clara Vila-Castelar
Kinder Carnage, Talib Visram
Lost and Found in Translation: A Study of the Bilingual Work of Samuel Beckett, Julien Green, and Nancy Huston, Genevieve Waite
Hearing Loss and Third Party Disability: A Systematic Review, Kathleen H. Wallace
A Critical Assessment of the Internship at the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, Ching-Kang Wang
Essays on Institutional Ownership and Corporate Finance, Qijian Wang
Politics as Loot: Reflections on Theories of Decline in Political Thought, Milo Ward
Women and Work: African American Women in Depression Era America, Sarah Ward
Essays on the Transmission of Risk and Volatility Across International Financial Markets, Evan Warshaw
The Upright Battle: Morphological Trends of the Bipedal Pelvis, Nicole M. Webb
A New Keynesian Approach to Estimating Welfare Losses Under Strict and Flexible-Targeting Regimes, Shawn Weber
Perceived Corruption in Ukraine: A National Analysis Using Individual Level Data from 2012-2014, Cody X. Weglinski
The Art of Fortune-Taking, Allison Weintraub
The Redemption of Goethe’s Eternal Feminine: Discovering the Reality and Significance of an Archetypal Phenomenon, Mariana Weisler
Infodynamics: A Naturalistic Psychosemantics, Daniel E. Weissglass
Scanlon's Contractualism and Its Critics, Kenneth R. Weisshaar
Impacts of Climate Extremes on Terrestrial Productivity, Suhua Wei
Investigating the Effects of Trans-Spinal Direct Current Stimulation on The Expression of NKCC1 In Mice, Pasindu Weliwaththage
How Immigrants are Redefining Hudson Valley Dining, Kevin Wheeler
Cultural Relativism in the Age of Modernity: Are Human Rights Still up for Debate?, Devani N. Whitehead
An Exploration and Analysis of the Unaccompanied Viola Sonatas of Günter Raphael, Gregory K. Williams
The Structure of Models of Second-order Set Theories, Kameryn J. Williams
The Affective Domain and the Intersection of Learning in Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic Education, Meghan Williams
Race and Gun Violence in the United States: A Case Study of Policy Reform in Missouri, Morgan C. Williams Jr
The Son Jarocho Revival: Reinvention and Community Building in a Mexican Music Scene in New York City, Emily J. Williamson
Towards an Atomic Level Model of the Structure and Calmodulin Mediated Activation of eEF-2K, Nathan E. Will
Pipeline to Failure: Social Inequality and the False Promises of American Public Schooling, Adia Wilson
Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases, E. Cameron Wilson
Examining the Impact of Study Abroad for Community College Students: Five Case Studies, Kathryn B. Wilson
The Impact of Defendant Gender and Attractiveness on Juror Decision-Making in a Sexual Offense Case, Georgia M. Winters
The Trajectory from School to Work: A Study of Life Chances of School Leavers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, Dirk Witteveen
Speaking Sober: Program Language as a Mechanism for Community Creation in Alcoholics Anonymous, Talya Wolf
“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961, Ky N. Woltering
Private-Key Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Private Classification of Medical Data, Alexander N. Wood
Using Cogenerative Dialogue To Catalyse Change, Carol A. Woodburn-McDonald
Attitudes Towards Racism in KKK Forums: Denouncement, Avoidance, and Neutralization, Natasha R. Wood
Jack Goldstein in Los Angeles, Kirby Michelle Woo
“The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons, Heather Wright
Teachers Have Emotions Too: An Intra | Interpersonal Approach to Exploring Emotions in Teacher Preparation Courses, Shequana Wright
Well-Being And Academic Performance In Immigrant Students: The Role Of Inequality Of Country Of Origin And Resilience, Yumiko Yamaguchi
Staying Afloat in a Dying Industry, Naomi Yane
Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance, Alev Isil Yildirim
Neural Hypervigilance in Trauma-exposed Women, Seungyeon A. Yoon
Parent Childhood Abuse and Neglect and Offspring Mental Health: An Examination of Potential Mediators, Joanna Young
“Are They Supposed to Be Heugin?": Negotiating Race, Nation, and Representation in Korean Musical Theatre, Ji Hyon Yuh
The tragic notion of painting, Yang Yu
The Early History of Photography of Georgia: Tbilisi, 1860–1900, Lia E. Zaaloff
Media Framing of Wrongful Convictions, Eza B. Zakirova
The Market, Claudia Zamora Valencia
Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900, Nicole Zeftel
Object Localization, Segmentation, and Classification in 3D Images, Allan Zelener
Direct Experimental Evidence of Toroidal Symmetry in a Lanthanide-Based Molecular Magnet, Qing Zhang
Collective Chemotaxis of Retinal Neural Cells from Drosophila Melanogaster in Controlled Microenvironments, Stephanie Zhang
Domain-Specific Knowledge Exploration with Ontology Hierarchical Re-Ranking and Adaptive Learning and Extension, Grace G. Zhao
Observational Representation of A Rural Chinese Family's Life: The Return, Lingyun Zheng
Theories of Perception and Recent Empirical Work, Philip Zigman
The Bronx Was Brewing: A Digital Resource of a Lost Industry, Michelle Zimmer
Can Mindfulness Training Reduce Stress Reactivity in First-Year College Students?, Liat Zitron
Individual’s Self Awareness of Mental Illness: The Effects on Implicit Bias, Microaggressions, and Racial Discrimination, Sarah Zoubaa
How and Where to Make a Fortune: Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility through Work in British Literature, 1719–1809, Heather Zuber
Capstones from 2017
Lost Wisdom of the Elders, Miamichelle Abad
Europe’s Refugee Crisis: Right-Wing Populism and Mainstream Cooption in Germany and France, Jihan Abdalla
Interstructure Lattices and Types of Peano Arithmetic, Athar Abdul-Quader
Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jinu R. Abraham
Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission from Nearby Molecular Clouds as a Probe of Cosmic Ray Density Variations, Ryan Abrahams
Mi Familia, Pnina Abramovich
Inmate Death in Private and Public Prisons, Alexis Acevedo
The Association of Feline Behavior to Acoustical Features of Kitten Directed Speech, Daniela Acevedo
Running Out of Options: The Threat of Declining Competition, Tanvi P. Acharya
Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning, Julie Ackerman
Green card veterans - deported and forgotten, Vicki Adame
HOW THE WILLOWBROOK CONSENT DECREE HAS INFLUENCED CONTEMPORARY ADVOCACY OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES, Kristen S. Addessi
I LIKE AMERICA: Painting in the Expanded Field, Isaac Aden
Making a Case for Social Innovation as a Structural Counterpart to Public Participation in Regional Planning, Manju A. Adikesavan
