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2023

Heterogeneous Reactions on Supported Metal Catalysts Targeting Sustainable Carbon and Energy Production, Bowei Liu

Numerical Methods for Integral Equations, Yuzhen Liu

Volatile Organic Compounds Pollution Loads in Buildings and Their Impacts on Indoor Air Quality, Zhenlei Liu

Black Teen's Experiences of Victimization In Dating Relationships: Assessment of Risk and Protective Factors and Outcomes, Aysha Mabin

Spatial Patterns of Volatility and Return on Investment in Real Estate and Labor Markets, Maeve Maloney

Asymptotics, Geometry, and Soft Matter, Manu Mannattil

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Plastic Pollution from Environmental Sampling to Surveying: Quality Assurance, Freshwater Contamination, and Popular Opinions, Laura Audrey Thomasina Markley

Does Anxiety Mediate the Relationship between Sensory Hyperresponsiveness and Restricted, Repetitive Behaviors during Early Development?, Ellen Masters

Nanopore-based biosensors for probing a nuclear protein hub, Lauren Mayse

My Eyes Are Up Here: Guardian Iconography of the Judean Pillar Figurines, Lauren K. McCormick

The Geopolitics of Refuge and Reproduction: Maternal Health and Healthcare of Congolese Refugees in Flight, Displacement, and Resettlement, Julia McDaniel-Bouley

Integrated High Impact Practices: How Participation in a Living Learning Community Abroad Shapes Students’ College Experience, Marjean McLaughlin

Three Essays on Environmental Justice, Qasim Mehdi

Shifting Identities: An Examination of Teacher Professional Identity Development on an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Team, Christine Morgan

Synthesis of Polyacetylene Through Photopolymerization of Conjugated Diiodopolyenes in Urea Inclusion Complexes, Michael Moskowitz

Marginalization in the Future of Work: The Role of Intersectional Identities and Platforms in the Trajectories of Online Freelancers, Isabel Munoz

Development of a Novel Bistable DNA Sensor for Anti-HIV Drug Discovery and Re-engineering of Recombinant Cyclin T1-Tat Protein with SUMO Fusion in Escherichia Coli, Nan Thuzar Myint

On homogeneous closed gradient Laplacian solitons and the modified conformal Hessian, Nicholas Ng

Framing, Emotions, Salience: The Future Of Ai As Seen By Redditors, Ayse Ocal

Sustainability, Strategy, and Potential: A Framework for Organizations, Brian Ohl

Recent Changes in Mercury Cycling within the Conterminous United States, Connor Ian Olson

Expression, Purification, and Characterization of Enzymes Involved in Ghrelin Signaling, Mariah Pierce

Longitudinal Associations Between Pain and Use of Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, Jessica Powers

Teaching Tragedy: Two Classrooms Locating Impairment in Hamlet and King Lear, Daniel Preston

ESSAYS ON DEVELOPMENT AND LABOR ECONOMICS, Radine Rafols

Design of shape memory polymers for infection surveillance, prevention, and treatment, Maryam Ramezani

DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMERGING ADULT INVENTORY OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER MINORITY STRESS, Jeremy Ramos

MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOCHANNEL WICKS FOR SURFACE WETTABILITY AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT, Durgesh Ranjan

UNSCR 1325 COMPLIANCE AND WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS, Carly Rasiewicz

High Stakes Assessment and Testing Disconnect: Examining Student Performance on Grades 3—6 Common Core ELA and Math Assessments and Performance on English and Algebra Regents Exams in High School, Katherine V. Reichel

MANATEES AND NOISE: INDIVIDUAL EXPOSURE AND BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO DISTURBANCE, Julia Ribeiro Guimaraes Dombroski

A New Strategy for Persister Control, Sweta Roy

Synthetic Studies on Quinoline SHIP Inhibitors and New Methods for C-O and C-C Bond Formations Using Trichloroacetimidates, Christopher Russo

Improving Logic Programming for Program Analysis, Arash Sahebolamri

A Novel Method for Tuning a Transistor-Based non-Foster Matching Circuit for Electrically Small Wideband Antennas, Dojana Salama

Pahoehoe Breakouts and Lava-Substrate Interactions: Insights from Large-Scale Experimental Lava Flows, Christopher Joseph Sant

Mercury Exposure within Songbird Communities in the Adirondack Park of New York State, Amy Sauer

Civility, Epistemic Injustice, and Criticality: Toward a Praxis of Affective Democratic Friction, Sally J. Sayles-Hannon

Kinetics of Hydrogenation Reactions on Supported Platinum and Platinum-Tin Catalysts, Robson Luis Schuarca

American Islam Emerging: Ethnographic Explorations of Bangladeshi Diasporic Communities and Their Identity Politics, Piety Movements, and Meaning-Making in New York City Post 9/11, Moushumi Shabnam

Parental Determinants of Islamophobic Attitudes in Offspring, Sanum Shafi

ENERGY-BASED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF BUCKLING-RESTRAINED BRACED FRAMES FOR DUAL EARTHQUAKE-WIND HAZARDS, Taonian Shan

Designing LMPA-Based Smart Materials for Soft Robotics Applications, Siavash Sharifi

Green Design Studio: A modular-based approach for high-performance building design, Jialei Shen

Building the New American Man: The Role of the United States Navy in Creating Ideas of Manhood, Masculinity, and an American Identity in the Early American Republic, Amber Renae Shoopman-DeVries

Small molecule and peptide redox reactions using rare and earth abundant metal complexes, Alyssa Spear

Thermal and Hydrologic Performance of an Extensive Green Roof in Syracuse, New York, Mallory Squier-Babcock

Adulting While Disabled, J Dalton Stevens

DEPORTATION OF REFUGEES: THE POLITICS OF REFUGEE CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES, Jaisang Sun

Acoustic behavior, poaching risk, and habitat use in African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis): Insights from passive acoustic monitoring, Colin Reed Swider

Overconfident and Gullible? Examining News-Finds-Me, Affective Polarization, Third-Person Bias, and Susceptibility to Online Fake News, Yu Tian

THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN PRIVACY AND FAIRNESS IN LEARNING AND DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS, Cuong Tran

Stream Temperature as a Tracer of Interactions Amongst Hydrological Processes, Atmospheric Exchange, and Human Activity, Jeffrey Wade

On Selecting the t Best of k Binomial Populations, Mingyue Wang

Geometric Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Autonomous Rotorcraft in Complex Atmospheric Environment, Ningshan Wang

Development and Application of Suspect and Nontarget Screening to Characterize Organic Micropollutants in Aquatic Environments of New York State, Shiru Wang

A multi-Technique Approach in Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of The Oxidative Scission of Ketone over Supported Vanadium Oxides, siwen Wang

FINE-GRAINED ACCESS CONTROL ON ANDROID COMPONENT, Yifei Wang

Traumatization Resulting from Interpersonal Disclosure: Developing a Measure of Disclosure-Induced Neo-Trauma, Sarah D. Wolf-Gramzow

Search for Majorana neutrinos in B− → D(∗)+μ−μ− decays, Hangyi Wu

Rescaled Density Processes of Voter Model Perturbations on r-Regular Random Graphs converge to Feller’s Branching Diffusion, Tianyue Wu

Essays on the Gender Wage Gap in China and the Returns to Higher Education in the United States, Rui Xu

Why are VR headsets collecting dust? The exploration of potential factors affecting media consumer’s adoption of VR technologies, Shengjie Yao

Visual-Semantic Learning, Chengxiang Yin

ESSAYS ON LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, Zhanhan Yu

CsPbX3 Nanoparticle Synthesis Via Nonpolar Solvent Choice and Microwave Heating, Growth Mechanism and CsPb(Br/I)3 Stabilization by Halide Exchange, Hediyeh Zamani

Real-time Adaptive Detection and Recovery against Sensor Attacks in Cyber-physical Systems, Lin Zhang

2022

Toward Extended Situational Crisis Communication Theory: Include Visuals, Prior Performance, and Framing Devices, Mohammad Ali

A SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (PPPs) IN HIGHWAY PROJECTS, Dhafer Alqahtani

Digitalizing Religion in the Age of COVID-19: A Uses and Gratifications Perspective, Abdulaziz Altawil

THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL: TOWARD AN ETHICS OF SHORT-TERM MOBILITY, Ugur Altundal

Leveraging System Context to Understand Collaborative Systems in Modern Public Management, Catherine Annis

Investigation of Holographic Lattice Theories, Muhammad Asaduzzaman

ADVANCED LITHIUM METAL BATTERIES: FUNCTIONAL ELECTROLYTE ADDITIVE AND LITHIUM METAL/SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTE INTERFACE ENGINEERING, Abiral Baniya

Leveraging Isocyanate Chemistry for Low Cost and Highly Functional Hydrogels, Henry Beaman

A COHERENCE-COLORED LOOK INSIDE REVERSE MICELLES: ADVANCING MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXOMETRY TO CHARACTERIZE INTERNAL WATER POOL DYNAMICS, Alec Beaton

Gender Norms and Gendered Traits, Rowan Bell

Search for NuMI muDAR Electron Neutrinos in MicroBooNE, Ohana Benevides Rodrigues

Measurements of B → D(∗)−,0D(∗)+,0K+π− Branching Fractions in the K∗0 Mass Window, Harris Bernstein

Mechanologic: Designing Mechanical Devices that Compute, Michelle Berry

How Do the Functions That School Business Officials Perform Affect Teaching and Learning, and Do School Business Officials Take These Effects Into Account in Performing Their Work, Oliver Blaise

Lewis-base Thioacetamide assisted crystallization of lead-free perovskite solar Cells for improved Efficiency, Raja Sekhar Bobba

Dividing the Blue Line: the Cultural Work of Rural Policing in Upstate New York, Michael Branch

Research Data Management Practices And Impacts on Long-term Data Sustainability: An Institutional Exploration, Sarah Elaine Bratt

Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940, Adam D. J. Brett

On The Prudential Power of Beliefs and Fittingness of Attitudes, Teresa Bruno-Niño

Transformational Leadership and the Adoption of Sustainability and Asset Management Practices in Ground Transportation organizations, Mohammad M. Bushahri

Patterns of Dissolved Methane in Groundwater and Its Contribution to Emissions Inventories, Amanda E. Campbell

Public Administrator Aversion to Randomized Controlled Trials, Emily Bryn Cardon

Saving This Honorable Court: Supreme Court Legitimacy and Support for Court Reform, Nathan Thomas Carrington

IMPLEMENTING THE MINDFULNESS-BASED KINDNESS CURRICULUM IN AN INCLUSIVE SETTING: EFFECTS ON PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR, Emily Cary

Synthesis, Characterization and Cellular Uptake of Magnesium Complexes of Pyrones and Amino Acids, Derek Robert Case

If We End, I Lose Part of Me: the Influence of Dissolution Consideration on Perceived Self-contraction, Abigail J. Caselli

Novel Epidemics: Contagion and Metaphor in US Literature, Maxwell Clement Cassity

The Mentoring Relationship as Experienced by Female Counselor Educators, Kellin Murphy Cavanaugh

Switched Kinematic and Force Control for Lower-Limb Motorized Exoskeletons and Functional Electrical Stimulation, Chen-Hao Chang

Three Essays on Urban Property Taxes, Yoon-jung Choi

Three Essays on Education and Childhood Health, Stephanie Grau Coffey

REDUNDANCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION IN MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS: INSIGHTS FROM THE PHENOME, Jessica A. Comstock

Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality, Benjamin Cook