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Dissertations from 2021
SEARCH FOR RESONANT PAIR PRODUCTION OF HIGGS BOSONS IN THE FOUR B-QUARK FINAL STATE WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR, Dale Abbott, Physics
Manipulating the Aliovalent Magnetic Dopants in Ti(IV)-based Oxide Nanocrystals, Muhammad Abdullah, Chemistry
Substrate selection in endoplasmic reticulum protein quality control, Ben Adams, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Three Essays on Learning and Conflict Applied to Developing Countries, Amal Ahmad, Economics
Cover crop effects on reducing manure volatilization, improving forage rape production and weed suppression in the northeast U.S.A, Parisa Akbari, Environmental Conservation
AGENTIAL SCHOOLING: POSTHUMANISM, YPAR, AND SPOOKY ENTANGLEMENTS, Thomas Albright, Education (also CAGS)
SYRIAN ONLINE SPACES OF POSSIBILITIES: ALTERNATIVE AND ACTIVIST MEDIA FOR DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION, Katty Alhayek, Communication
LA ADQUISICIÓN DE LOS VERBOS POSICIONALES EN NIÑOS BILINGÜES DE ZAPOTECO-ESPAÑOL EN UN CONTEXTO DE PÉRDIDA LINGÜÍSTICA, Ana D. Alonso Ortiz, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
COST-EFFICIENT RESOURCE PROVISIONING FOR CLOUD-ENABLED SCHEDULERS, Lurdh Pradeep Reddy Ambati, Electrical and Computer Engineering
POPULATION ANNEALING: ANALYSIS, OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATION TO GLASSY SYSTEMS, Christopher A. Amey, Physics
Shifting the Perspectival Landscape: Methods for Encoding, Identifying, and Selecting Perspectives, Carolyn Jane Anderson, Linguistics
HYDROGEN BOND ASSISTED ASSEMBLY IN BLOCK COPOLYMER BLENDS AND THE INFLUENCE OF NITRILE ADDITIVES ON SOLID AND GEL POLYMER ELECTROLYTES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, eric r. anderson, Polymer Science and Engineering
There and Gone Again: Syntactic Structure In Memory, Caroline Andrews, Linguistics
School Connectedness Though Eyes of Hispanic/Latinx Students and Their Teachers, Katsiaryna Aniskovich, School Psychology
INVESTIGATIVE MECHANISMS TO EXPLOIT CASPASE-INDUCED APOPTOSIS USING POLYMERIC NANOGELS, Francesca Edith Anson, Chemistry
Amyloidogenesis of β-2-microglobulin Studied by Mass Spectrometry and Covalent Labeling, Blaise G. Arden, Chemistry
FINANCING PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFGHANISTAN: ALTERNATIVE SOURCES AND OPTIONS, Hassan Aslami, Education (also CAGS)
MECHANISMS OF MITOTIC CHECKPOINT SILENCING BY THE DISORDERED KINETOCHORE PROTEIN SPC105, Margaux Audett, Molecular and Cellular Biology
DISCOVERING MECHANISMS DRIVING ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION IN THE CROSS-KINGDOM FUNGAL PATHOGEN FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM, Dilay Hazal Ayhan, Molecular and Cellular Biology
LIPID-DNA CONJUGATE AS A NOVEL TOOL FOR CELL MEMBRANE MODIFICATION AND ANALYSIS, Yousef Bagheri Zarringhabaei, Chemistry
Using Generalizability and Rasch Measurement Theory to Ensure Rigorous Measurement in an International Development Education Evaluation, Louise Bahry, Education (also CAGS)
NEW HORIZONS IN TRANSLATION THEORY: CHINESE CLASSICS AND THE DAO OVER TIME, Xuefei Bai, Comparative Literature
SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY (SERS) AS AN APPROACH FOR THE EMERGING LIQUID BIOPSY DIAGNOSTICS, Nariman Banaei, Mechanical Engineering
AN EMG OPTIMIZATION MODEL OF THE KINETIC DEMANDS ON THE LOWER BACK DURING ASYMMETRICAL GAIT AND LOAD CARRIAGE, Jacob J. Banks, Kinesiology
Advances in Assessing Flood Hazard and Sediment Dynamics at the Coast, Hannah Baranes, Geosciences
TRANSNATIONAL FANDOM AND NEW FORMS OF CULTURAL FLOWS: DIGITAL MEDIA PRACTICES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF GLOBAL TV DRAMA, Maria F. Baruch Blanco, Communication
THE CHARACTERIZATION OF TRAITS ASSOCIATED WITH FREEZING TOLERANCE IN PERENNIAL RYEGRASS, Rachael Preston Bernstein, Plant Biology
Diversity and Evolution of Human Eccrine Sweat Gland Density, Andrew W. Best, Anthropology
Neural Approaches to Feedback in Information Retrieval, Keping Bi, Computer Science
Sociolinguistically Driven Approaches for Just Natural Language Processing, Su Lin Blodgett, Computer Science
Interactions between Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles (NPs) and mucin, . Boimin, Food Science
Reconstructing the Present/Past: Antimodernism and Early Film Reenactments, Alex W. Bordino, Communication
Defining Inclusion: Surveying Educator Perceptions and Practices in Chile, Christina A. Bosch, Education (also CAGS)
Critical Language Awareness in the Multilingual Writing Classroom: A Self-Study of Teacher Feedback Practices, Emma R. Britton, Education (also CAGS)
Early Development of ADHD and ODD Symptoms from the Toddler to Preschool Years, Hallie Brown, Psychology
Enabling Declarative and Scalable Prescriptive Analytics in Relational Data, Matteo Brucato, Computer Science
The Western Interior Seaway During Late Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2: Paleoceanographic Interpretations Of Foraminiferal Assemblages, Raquel Bryant, Geosciences
A Search for Exotic Higgs Decays or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Long-lived Particles, Jackson Burzynski, Physics
BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF FABRY DISEASE AND FUCOSIDOSIS, Cameron Butova, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Reward Seeking Behaviors, Jessica Caballero-Feliciano and Jessica P. Caballero, Neuroscience and Behavior
ADVANCED MATERIALS DESIGN USING APPLICATION-BASED PROCESSING TECHNIQUES, Daniel S. Camarda, Polymer Science and Engineering
MINDFULNESS EDUCATION AS A TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE: TOWARD AN EMBODIED LIBERATORY PEDAGOGY, Jennifer Cannon, Education (also CAGS)
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LIPID-MEMBRANE BASED STRUCTURE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A RESPONSIVE SYSTEM, Rui Cao, Physics
Liberation and Gravy: An Engaged Ethnography of Queer and Trans Power in Georgia, Elias Capello, Anthropology
Policing and Health: Police Encounters as a Fundamental Cause Of Racial Health Disparities, Richard S. Carbonaro, Sociology
AFRO-ABORIGINAL ENCOUNTERS: BLACK ARTS AND THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF BLACK POWER, Alex M. Carter, Afro-American Studies
Measurement Invariance Across Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Populations on PISA Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Scales, Maritza Casas, Education (also CAGS)
Administrators of General and Special Education Perceptions of Leadership Practices for Supporting Inclusive Learning Environments for Students with Disabilities, Kimberly B. Cass, Education (also CAGS)
Computational approaches for the multimodal imaging of nanomaterials and their biochemical effects, Laura J. Castellanos, Chemistry
Clítico de Acusativo como Introductor de Construcciones Aplicadas en Español, Esther Castro, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
NOVEL APPROACHES TOWARDS IMPROVED PURITY IN HIGH YIELD TRANSCRIPTION REACTIONS, Elvan Cavac, Chemistry
MODELING STRUCTURES AND DYNAMICS OF POLYELECTROLYTES, Sadhana Chalise, Polymer Science and Engineering
Surface Modification of Cellulose Nanocrystals: Imparting Non-native Properties on Sustainable Substrates, Allen C. Chang, Polymer Science and Engineering
THE SCHOOL AND MY HEALTH: (RE)CENTERING YOUNG WOMEN’S VOICES IN PEER-LED SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) EDUCATION IN MACHAKOS, KENYA, Nyaradzai Changamire, Education (also CAGS)
Experience with difficult target discrimination makes search less efficient: an analysis using eye movements, Junha Chang, Psychology
THE PROMISE OF EMPOWERMENT: REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, DECOLONIAL FEMINISMS, AND THE CASES OF FORCED STERILZIATION IN PERU, Julie Chaparro, Anthropology
REPRESENTATION OF REWARD AND RISK IN THE BRAIN’S MOTOR SYSTEM: STUDIES IN ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS, Xingjie Chen, Psychology
PHARMACOLOGICAL CHAPERONING OF HUMAN LYSOSOMAL NEURAMINIDASE 1, Di Chu, Molecular and Cellular Biology
NURSE-DELIVERED SHOE-LACING INTERVENTION: EFFECT ON COMFORT AND TOE PRESSURES FOR ACTIVE COMMUNITY-DWELLING ADULTS (AGE 65+), Mary C. Clayton-Jones, Nursing
Neural Methods for Answer Passage Retrieval over Sparse Collections, Daniel Cohen, Computer Science
"On Neptunes Watry Realmes": Maritime Law and English Renaissance Literature, Hayley Cotter, English
Therapist-Level Moderation of Within- and Between-Therapist Process-Outcome Associations, Alice E. Coyne, Psychology
The Modeling and Control of Highly Flexible Continuous Structures Interacting with Fluids, Todd Currier, Mechanical Engineering
Why do Policy Frames Change? Rhetorical Construction and Contestation of Gay Rights in a Contested Regime, Shih-chan Dai, Political Science
On the universal ordinary deformation ring for ordinary modular deformation problems, Victoria L. Day, Mathematics
DENSITY STATE AND SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF GRANULAR SOILS WITH INFLUENCE OF PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION, Yibing Deng, Civil and Environmental Engineering
PREFIGURATIVE POLITICS AND REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICES WITHIN INTERNATIONAL SERVICE-LEARNING: A CASE STUDY OF THE CIEE THAILAND PROGRAM ON DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION, Koni Denham, Education (also CAGS)
Stereotypes in Interactions: The Interpersonal Consequences of Threatened Belonging, Tara C. Dennehy, Psychology
Utilizing Graph Structure for Machine Learning, Stefan Dernbach, Computer Science
Harnessing the Mechanics of Thin-Walled Metallic Structures: from Plate-Lattice Materials to Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls, Fani Derveni, Civil and Environmental Engineering
MONITORING MAMMALS AT MULTIPLE SCALES: CASE STUDIES FROM CARNIVORE COMMUNITIES, Kadambari Devarajan, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Defending Philosophical Knowledge, Jonathan Dixon, Philosophy
"Take it with You": Humanizing and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies as Racial Literacy in Undergraduate Education, Robert Jamaal Downey, Education (also CAGS)
ON SPATIOTEMPORAL CONNECTIVITY DYNAMICS: PERSPECTIVES FROM A NATURALLY FRAGMENTED METAPOPULATION, Joseph Drake, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Elucidating the Molecular Mechanism of the Proteasome-Associated Deubiquitinase UCH37/UCHL5, Jiale Du, Chemistry
The Political Economy of the Cost of Foreign Exchange Intervention, Devika Dutt, Economics
RADICAL POLYMERIZATION: CHEMISTRIES, APPLICATIONS, DEVELOPMENTS, AND PERSPECTIVES, Yifeng Du, Polymer Science and Engineering
Analytics-Based Optimization for the Integration of Drones into Last-Mile Logistics, Amro M. El-Adle, Management
Rethinking Collective Action from the Standpoint of the Marginalized: Changing Repertoires of Revolutionary Activism in Urban Turkey, Ilgin Erdem, Sociology
THREE ESSAYS ON INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS, Manuel Enrique Estay Montecinos, Resource Economics
Tai Chi and Mindfulness Training to Improve Balance in People with Multiple Sclerosis: A Community-Based Intervention Study, Julianna Eve, Kinesiology
Data access, distribution models, and stable isotopes: Merging approaches to improve bear distribution estimates and bear carnivory for conservation, Nereyda Falconi, Environmental Conservation
Enhancing Usability and Explainability of Data Systems, Anna Fariha, Computer Science
Behavioral Modulation of Supramolecular Assemblies via Covalent and Non-Covalent Interfacial Transformations, Ann Fernandez, Chemistry
Mental Health and Adiposity: The Effects of Racial Discrimination and Social Relationships, Nicole D. Fields, Public Health
Algorithms to Exploit Data Sparsity, Larkin H. Flodin, Computer Science
Colonialism by Another Name: Regionalization and the Origins of the Flint Water Crisis, Aaron C. Foote, Sociology
Theater of Exchange: The Cosmopolitan Stage of Jacobean London, Liz Fox, English
Sleep, Reproduction, and Pregnancy, Joshua R. Freeman, Public Health
“The Badge of All Our Tribe”: Contradictions of Jewish Representation on the English Renaissance Stage, Becky S. Friedman, English
3D Shape Understanding and Generation, Matheus Gadelha, Computer Science
Robust Algorithms for Clustering with Applications to Data Integration, Sainyam Galhotra, Computer Science
INFLUENCE OF MOLECULAR EXCHANGE PROCESSES ON THE FATE OF EMULSIFIED LIPID NANOPARTICLES IN OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS, Songran Gao, Food Science
CARE WORK IN CHILE’S SEGREGATED CITIES, Manuel Garcia, Economics
RAPID CELL PHENOTYPING USING ARRAY-BASED SENSORS: APPLICATIONS IN CANCER STEM CELL THERAPY AND HIGH-CONTENT SCREENING, Yingying Geng, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Improving Evaluation Methods for Causal Modeling, Amanda Gentzel, Computer Science
BETWEEN THE VISUAL AND THE VERBAL: AN AESTHETIC OF OPEN WOUNDS IN POST-TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE OF THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR (1980-1988), Maryam Ghodrati, Comparative Literature
APPLIED INFECTIOUS DISEASE FORECASTING FOR PUBLIC HEALTH, Graham Gibson, Public Health
SAFE AND PRACTICAL MACHINE LEARNING, Stephen J. Giguere, Computer Science
On Being Dispersed: The Poetics of Dehiscence from "We the People" to Abolition, Sean A. Gordon, English