Dissertations from 2022
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
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN NONTRIVIAL BACKGROUNDS AND PARTICLE PRODUCTION, Yue Qiu, Physics
Neural Approaches for Language-Agnostic Search and Recommendation, Hamed Rezanejad Asl Bonab, Computer Science
Low Resource Language Understanding in Voice Assistants, Subendhu Rongali, Computer Science
Enabling Daily Tracking of Individual’s Cognitive State With Eyewear, Soha Rostaminia, Computer Science
EMBODIMENT AND GENDERED SUBJECTIVITY IN UKRAINIAN WOMEN’S FILM, POETRY, AND PROSE DURING PERESTROIKA (1985-1991), Sandra J. Russell, Comparative Literature
LABELED MODULES IN PROGRAMS THAT EVOLVE, Anil K. Saini, Computer Science
Data Scarcity in Event Analysis and Abusive Language Detection, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Computer Science
What is the Relative Timing Between Myosin’s Powerstroke and Pi-release?, Brent Scott, Kinesiology
THE EFFECT OF LINGUISTIC CONTEXT AND EXPLICIT CONTRAST ON THE FAST MAPPING OF VERBS, Samantha L. Scripture, Communication Disorders
Representation Learning for Shape Decomposition, By Shape Decomposition, Gopal Sharma, Computer Science
Elucidating the Function of Ions in Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics, Emily C. Smith, Chemistry
THAI NOVICE NURSES’ LIVED EXPERIENCES AND PERSPECTIVES OF BREASTFEEDING AND HUMAN MILK IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (NICU), Tippawan Srichalerm, Nursing
FOUR ESSAYS ON PEACE CONSOLIDATION AND ETHNIC RECONCILIATION IN POSTWAR SRI LANKA, Narayani Sritharan, Economics
The Gendered, Racialized, & Dis/Abled Experiences of Neurodivergent Black Women Graduate Students Across Higher Education, Kat Stephens, Education
THE POLITICIZATION OF THE DEAD AND INVISIBILE VIOLENCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TURKEY AND MEXICO, Bilgesu Sumer, Political Science
Bayesian Hierarchical Temporal Modeling and Targeted Learning with Application to Reproductive Health, Herbert P. Susmann, Public Health
Avatars & Choice: Fostering Student Agency, Engagement, and Equity in Assessment, Sandra M. Sweeney, Education
ENACTING A CRITICAL MEDIA PRODUCTION PEDAGOGY, James D. Swerzenski, Communication
Examining variability in Spanish monolingual and bilingual phonotactics: A look at sC-clusters, Katerina A. Tetzloff, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
The Paternal Role Before, During and After Fertilization, Darya Tourzani, Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences
Debris of Progress: A Political Ethnography of Critical Infrastructure, Ethan Tupelo, Political Science
Approximate Bayesian Deep Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments, Meet Prakash Vadera, Computer Science
Learning by Doing: Preparing Student Activists for Democratic Engagement, Marjorie G. Valdivia, Education
THE SOS RESPONSE IN ESCHERICHIA COLI K12: AN EXPLORATION OF MUTATIONS IN LEXA AND RECA USING FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY, Steven Van Alstine, Microbiology
ANSWER SIMILARITY GROUPING AND DIVERSIFICATION IN QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS, Lakshmi Nair Vikraman, Computer Science
UNDERSTANDING EMPLOYEES' PERCEPTIONS AND COLLABORATION BEHAVIOR INTENTIONS TOWARD SERVICE ROBOTS IN THE HOSPITALITY CONTEXT, Danni Wang, Management
Symmetry Breaking Effects in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems, Ke Wang, Physics
BEYOND THE SOUTH: THE TELFAIR FAMILY, SLAVERY, AND THE ANTEBELLUM ONE PERCENT, Charles A. Weisenberger III, History
SYNTHESIS AND ASSEMBLY OF POLYMER MATERIALS AT INTERFACES, Xiaoshuang Wei, Polymer Science and Engineering
Parents as School Supplies: How Support from Mothers and Fathers Contributes to Inequality in College, Tanya J. Whitworth, Sociology
Controlling Myosin’s Function via Interactions between the Substrate and the Active Site, Mike K. Woodward, Kinesiology
MIXTURE MODELS FOR INTERVAL CENSORED OUTCOMES, Yibai Zhao, Public Health
Root Growth Dynamics in Response to Moderate Temperatures, Maura J. Zimmermann, Plant Biology
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
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
School Connectedness Though Eyes of Hispanic/Latinx Students and Their Teachers, Katsiaryna Aniskovich, School Psychology
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
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
NEW HORIZONS IN TRANSLATION THEORY: CHINESE CLASSICS AND THE DAO OVER TIME, Xuefei Bai, Comparative Literature
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
Critical Language Awareness in the Multilingual Writing Classroom: A Self-Study of Teacher Feedback Practices, Emma R. Britton, Education
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
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, Neuroscience and Behavior
ADVANCED MATERIALS DESIGN USING APPLICATION-BASED PROCESSING TECHNIQUES, Daniel S. Camarda, Polymer Science and Engineering