Dissertations from 2022
COMBINATORIAL ALGORITHMS FOR GRAPH DISCOVERY AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN, Raghavendra K. Addanki, Computer Science
ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT, QUASIPERIODICITY, AND MEASUREMENT INDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS, Utkarsh Agrawal, Physics
ROLE OF PLASMA MEMBRANE INTRINSIC PROTEINS (PIPS) SUBFAMILY AND SULFUR NANOPARTICLE INTERACTIONS IN METALLOIDS TRANSPORT AND TOLERANCE/SENSITIVITY IN RICE, Ahmed GM Ali, Plant Biology
INVESTIGATION OF BASIL DOWNY MILDEW PATHOGEN SURVIVAL, NEW PATHOTYPE DEVELOPMENT AND SOURCES OF QUANTITATIVE, Kelly S. Allen, Plant Biology
WORK, WORKERS, AND REPRODUCING SOCIAL CONTROL: RACIAL POST-FORDISM AND ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS, Hannah Rebecca Archambault, Economics
Optimizing Transportation Systems with Information Provision, Personalized Incentives and Driver Cooperation, Sayeeda Ayaz, Civil and Environmental Engineering
ELUCIDATING THE INTERACTIONS OF K48-LINKED UBIQUITIN CHAINS WITH UCH37/UCHL5, Sandor Babik, Chemistry
Dimensions of Social Isolation and Adverse Health Outcomes among Older Men and Women in the United States: How Aging, Living Alone, and Obesity Contribute to Mortality, Youngjoon Bae, Sociology
Employer Power: Consequences for Wages, Inequality and Spillovers, Ihsaan Bassier, Economics
THREE ESSAYS ON THE DESTINATION PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND OBJECTIVE QUALITY OF LIFE INDICATORS, Adiyukh Berbekova, Hospitality & Tourism Management
CHARACTERIZING THE MULTIFACETED ROLES OF THE PROTEASOMAL DEUBIQUITINASE UCH37 IN PROTEOSTASIS, Heather A. Bisbee, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Expanding the Polymer Zwitterion Library – Novel Phosphonium-based Polymer Zwitterions and Analogous Structures, Marcel U. Brown, Polymer Science and Engineering
Ultrathin polymer film mechanics: the role of entanglements and morphology, Cynthia Bukowski, Polymer Science and Engineering
Communicative Information Visualizations: How to make data more understandable by the general public, Alyxander Burns, Computer Science
What Did You Expect? An Investigation of Lexical Preactivation in Sentence Processing, Jon Burnsky, Psychology
LATERAL RESPONSE OF COLD-FORMED STEEL DIAPHRAGMS WITH VARIABLE SHEATHING, Hernan Castaneda, Civil Engineering
ESSAYS ON ADVERTISING, SODIUM INTAKE, AND SODA TAXES, Ezgi Cengiz, Resource Economics
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR NON-STATIONARY PROBLEMS, Yash Chandak, Computer Science
Modeling the Multi-mode Distribution in Self-Supervised Language Models, Haw-Shiuan Chang, Computer Science
Physical Activity, Daily Step Counts and Functional Ability in Older Adults: Using NHANES Database, Chunfang(Maggie) Chen, Nursing
ECOLOGY AND PHYTOCHEMISTRY OF THE NON-NATIVE PLANT THLASPI ARVENSE (BRASSICACEAE) IN SUBALPINE MEADOWS OF COLORADO, USA, Elsa Cousins, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
It’s not Black & White: Relationship Quality Within Interracial Couples, Alexandrea Craft, Psychology
Novel Approaches for Preventing Lipid Oxidation in Emulsion-Based Food Systems, Mitchell D. Culler, Food Science
ANALYSIS OF FOOD COLORANTS USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, Haochen Dai, Food Science
Theorizing Black Statecraft, Samantha Davis, Political Science
How Well Does the New York State Higher Education Opportunity Program Work for Black Men? A Mixed Methods Study, MICHAEL A. DEJESUS III, Education
Formation of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals from Doped Molecular Clusters, Jillian E. Denhardt, Chemistry
ENABLING NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES ACROSS MULTIPLE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, Vincent Einck, Polymer Science and Engineering
"Though Some Days the Blues Was Our Parade, Still We Marched Through All the Tears We Made": A Historical Examination of Soul Aesthetics & the Functionality of (Re)Evaluation, Olivia Ekeh, Afro-American Studies
Building Information Modeling (BIM) And Building Energy Modeling (BEM): Assessment of BIM-BEM Workflows And Energy Simulation Tools, Mahsa Farid Mohajer, Environmental Conservation
"The Capstone of My Education": Black Women, Student Power, and the Freedom Struggle in Higher Education, Brittany M. Frederick, History
QUANTIFYING ELASTO-ADHESION AND FLUID-ELASTIC DYNAMICS FOR ULTRA-SOFT HYDROGEL INTERFACES, Hongbo Fu, Polymer Science and Engineering
When Choices Aren't Choices: Academic Literacy Normativities in the Age of Neoliberalism, Robin K. Garabedian, English
RESERVOIR ENGINEERING OF MULTI-PHOTON STATES IN CIRCUIT QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS, Jeffrey M. Gertler, Physics
CONSTRAINTS OF THE IMAGINATION: HOW PHENOTYPES ARE SHAPED THROUGH GENETICS, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT, Michelle Gilbert, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
The Roles of Identity and Beliefs about Social Change in Decision Making Processes for Identity-Laden Social Change Efforts, Joel Ginn, Psychology
Interpersonal Process Differentiating Patient-Therapist Dyads with High Versus Low Convergence in Alliance Ratings, Brien Goodwin, Psychology
Biomedical Applications of Protein Films and Polymeric Nanomaterials, Sanjana Gopalakrishnan, Chemistry
Contributions of asymmetry and instability to transfer and retention following locomotor adaptation, Daniel L. Gregory, Kinesiology
FLEXIBLE PHENOTYPES, ENERGETICS, AND WHOLE-ANIMAL PERFORMANCE OF MIGRATORY SONGBIRDS, Michael Griego, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
THREE ESSAYS ON TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, THE STATE, AND EMPLOYMENT, Baris Guven, Economics
Social Stressors, Emotional Responses, and NSSI Urges and Behaviors in Daily Life, Lauren A. Haliczer, Psychology
STATISTICAL METHODS TO STUDY TRANSPOSON SEQUENCING DATA: NONPARAMETRIC BAYESIAN MODELS WITH SAMPLING ALGORITHMS, Shai He, Mathematics
MANUEL GONZÁLEZ PRADA EN LA INTIMIDAD: UNA MIRADA A SU UNIVERSO PERSONAL A TRAVÉS DE LA CORRESPONDENCIA DE LUIS ALBERTO SÁNCHEZ, ALFREDO GONZÁLEZ PRADA Y ADRIANA DE VERNEUIL, Odalis Patricia Hidalgo, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
WHERE WE AT?!: BLACK WOMEN CULTURAL WORKERS AND ARTS ACTIVISM IN THE ERA OF BLACK POWER, Kiara M. Hill, Afro-American Studies
Use of a Checklist as a Decision Support Aid for Heart Failure Assessment and Management, MaryAnn Hogan, Nursing
HORMONES AND BREAST CANCER: THE INFLUENCE OF ESTROGENIC ACTIVITY, VITAMIN D, AND VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN ON BREAST CANCER RISK AND SURVIVAL, Etienne X. Holder, Public Health
Hyperspectral unmixing: a theoretical aspect and applications to CRISM data processing, Yuki Itoh, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Languages and Compilers for Writing Efficient High-Performance Computing Applications, Abhinav Jangda, Computer Science
Experimental Investigation of Clay Aggregate and Granular Biofilm Behavior, Tao Jiang, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Racial Poetics: Early Modern Race and the Form of Comedy, Yunah Kae, English
CONSTRAINTS AND ACCOMMODATED PREFERENCE: ESSAYS ON GENDER AND SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN PAKISTAN, Sana Khalil, Economics
Restrictive Tier Induction, Seoyoung Kim, Linguistics
re(Sisters) in Captivity: Black Women, Bioexcess, and Technologies of Subversion, Candacé S. King, Afro-American Studies
Higher-Order Evidence and Human Evolution, Justis Koon, Philosophy
MEASUREMENT OF THE OFF-SHELL HIGGS BOSON PRODUCTION WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR, Samyukta Krishnamurthy, Physics
Three Essays on Climate Finance and Machine Learning in Financial Studies, HUAN KUANG, Management
The Role of Data (Deletion) Permission Frames, Data Sensitivity, Audiences, and Defaults on Consumers’ Willingness to Share Personal Information, Smriti Kumar, Management
DIRECTIONAL HARMONIC SERIALISM, Andrew Lamont, Linguistics
Size, Timing, and Landscape Impacts of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in the Channeled Scabland of Eastern Washington, USA, Karin E. Lehnigk, Geosciences
Investigation of kinase conformational dynamics and analytes detection with protein nanopore, FANJUN LI, Chemistry
STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR MULTIVARIATE PATTERN ANALYSIS OF FMRI HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA, Minming Li, Public Health
BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM SUBSP. INFANTIS UTILIZATION OF HUMAN MILK NITROGEN IS LINKED TO CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM, Shuqi Li, Food Science
Controllable Neural Synthesis for Natural Images and Vector Art, Difan Liu, Computer Science
Probabilistic Commonsense Knowledge, Xiang Li, Computer Science
“ETHNICITY IN THE CLOUDS:” HERITAGE GOVERNANCE IN POST-DISASTER QIANG COMMUNITIES IN SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA, Ying Li, Anthropology
Acculturative Parenting Cognitions: Bicultural Socialization Beliefs among Chinese American Parents, Albert Lo, Psychology
Intracellular Delivery of Therapeutic Biomolecules through Versatile Polymer Nanotechnology, David C. Luther, Chemistry
Principles of AAA+ Proteases, Samar Mahmoud, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Frontiers in the Self-Assembly of Charged Macromolecules, Khatcher O. Margossian, Polymer Science and Engineering
Interplay of Environmental Pollutants and Folate in the Etiology of Autistic Traits Analysis Using Multipollutant Approaches, Michael T. Mascari, Public Health
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY APPROACHES FOR TRACKING AND MANIPULATION OF MACROPHAGE PHENOTYPES, Javier A. Mas Rosario, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Essays on Anti-Discrimination Legislation Enforcement and Sex-Based Discrimination in U.S. Labor Markets, Carly McCann, Economics
Familial and Environmental Contributions to Child Theory of Mind Development, Sarah McCormick, Psychology
DESIGN ARTIFACTS AS EXTERNALIZED MENTAL MODELS OF CHILDREN’S SCIENCE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, Christine McGrail, Education
How Do Galaxies Form Their Stars Over Cosmic Time?, Jed H. McKinney, Astronomy
NEGOTIATION AND PEACEMAKING IN CONFLICT NARRATIVES: THE INFLUENCE OF NARRATIVE REMINDERS OF PEACE PROCESSES ON ATTITUDES TOWARD PROTRACTED CONFLICTS VIA ZERO-SUM BELIEFS, Quinnehtukqut McLamore, Psychology
Redressing History: Texts and Textiles in Counternarratives of Slavery, Siobhan M. Mei, Comparative Literature
No There There: New Jersey in Multiethnic Writing and Popular Culture Since 1990, Shannon Mooney, English
The survivors of the train: disability, testimonio, and activism in migrants with disabilities, claudia j. morales, Anthropology
Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and the Effects on Inflammation and Mammary Tumor Progression, Stephanie Morin, Molecular and Cellular Biology
High-Quality Automatic Program Repair, Manish Motwani, Computer Science
The Political Economy of Intimate Partner Violence and Crisis Management: An Institutional Ethnography in Rural Vermont, Anna L. Mullany, Public Health
A Representation for CMC 1 Surfaces in H^3 Using Two Pairs of Spinors, Tetsuya Nakamura, Mathematics
FUNCTIONAL NANOPARTICLES FOR INFLAMMASOME-TARGETED APPLICATIONS: FROM DIAGNOSIS TO THERAPY., Dipika Nandi, Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences
APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS TO ECOLOGY: ISING MODELS AND TWO-CYCLE COUPLED OSCILLATORS, Vahini Reddy Nareddy, Physics
Productive Women: Gender, Sex, and Labor in the Digital Cultural Economy, Kavita Nayar-Jablonka, Communication
The Quotidian Quantifier: Fitness Tracking and the Mundanity of Surveillance, Marianne Neal-Joyce, Sociology
Phonotactic Learning with Distributional Representations, Max A. Nelson, Linguistics
PREDICTING WATER QUALITY VULNERABILITY UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE WITH MACHINE LEARNING, Khanh Thi Nhu Nguyen, Civil and Environmental Engineering
“SUSTAINING PEACE FROM CAMPUS TO COMMUNITY”, THE ROLE OF STUDENTS TO PROMOTE CAMPUS-LEVEL RECONCILIATION: A CASE STUDY OF MALUKU, INDONESIA, Julia Novrita, Education
Estimation of Causal Effects in Complex Clustered Data, Joshua R. Nugent, Public Health
Naturalized Human Epistemology is Social Epistemology, Molly O'Rourke-Friel, Philosophy
Unobtrusive Assessment of Upper-Limb Motor Impairment Using Wearable Inertial Sensors, Brandon R. Oubre, Computer Science
The Moral Frame: Adab and Ottoman Literary Modernity, Mehtap Ozdemir, Comparative Literature
STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF CaMKII ACTIVATION AND OLIGOMERIZATION, Can Özden, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Vapor Deposition Strategies for Tuning Surface and Interface Chemistry for Optoelectronics and Biosensors, Kwang-Won Park, Chemistry
THREE ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CFA FRANC, Francis Perez, Economics
The Unseen Worker? Rethinking Who and What is Invisible in the Blue-Collar Workplace, Brandi L. Perri, Sociology
THREE ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND CREATIVE LABOR, Luke Pretz, Economics