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2024

Scrutinizing along with Visual Persuasion of Movie Billboards in Egypt from the 1930s to the 2010s/ Qualitative Content Analysis Study, Sara Ali Almaleki

Bridging the Gap between Detection Algorithms and Real-World Challenges, Fatih Altay

Three Essays on Representation, Participation, and Conflict in Environmental Justice Councils, Graham Ambrose

Enhancing Teacher Training in Rural Ghana Using the Internet Backpack, Jane Appiah-Okyere

MICROBIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLANT FUNCTION AND RESISTANCE UNDER A CHANGING CLIMATE, Sarah Araldi-Brondolo

Critical Evaluation and Recommendations of Methods to Visualize Uncertainty in Static Image Maps of Climate Change Model Outputs, Matthew Arsenault

LEARNING IN RELATION: THE EXPERIENCES OF DISABLED GENDERQUEER YOUTH LEARNING IN NATURE, Emilee Baker

Numerical invariants of Cohen-Macaulay local and graded rings, Richard Francis Bartels

Queering the Nation or Nationalizing Queerness?: How LGB-Identified Soldiers Experience Belonging and Service Post-DADT, Aaron Blasyak

North Pacific Warming and Western US Hydroclimate: Implications from Paleoclimate and Historical Perspectives, Peter Ryan Brennan

The Role Of Acculturation Strategies In Relation To Honor And Sexuality Attitudes, Sexism, Conservatism, And Religiosity Among Turkish Immigrants Living In The U.S., Ayse Duygu Cakirsoy Aslan

MULTIMODE METAMATERIAL RING RESONATOR AS AN ENTANGLING BUS FOR ARTIFICIAL ATOMS, Tianna Carroll

Cuban Migration to Syracuse, NY: "Los Comunicados" and the Evolution of Social Networks and Cuban Identities, Erika Carter Grosso

Exploring the Electrochemical Performance of Calcium-Ion Batteries With Novel Cathodes and Electrolytes, Paul Alexis Chando

Fighting the Gravity: Settler Colonial Interventions in Land Based Memory, Ezekiel Shawn Choffel

“Don’t Rock the Boat:” The Social Reproduction of Inequality in Medical Education, Hannah Connolly

Climate Justice Before the Anthropocene: How Inclement Weather Shaped British and Irish Romanticism, Lauren Cooper

A Research Center at the End of the World A study of local writing practices in a global context, Ana María Cortés Lagos

Valent Experience: On Its Non-sensory Nature, Its Unity, and Its Place in Value Theory, Lorenza D'Angelo

Control and Estimation of Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles in the presence of Constraints and Dynamic Uncertainties, Abhijit Dongare

Multi-functional Phenolic Acid-Based Shape Memory Polymer Foams as Hemostatic Agents, Changling Du

Electric Power Transmission System Performance Monitoring via Traveling Waves, Lawrence George Durante

Words Matter: Ensuring the Inclusion of Neurodivergent Populations in the Digital Surveillance of Depression and Suicidal Ideation, Kathryn Egan

Public Lands and Capitalism: The Case of the Adirondack Park, Weston (Trent) Fenner

Disability and Sibling Identity: An Arts-based Inquiry, Linnea Franits

Broadband and Multiband Designs for Antenna Feeds and Arrays, Jeremy Michael Furgal

Defects and deformation in passive and active structural glasses, Julia Ann Giannini

Morphodynamic Diversity of Alluvial River Systems in the Upper Yellow River Watershed, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Xiwei Guo

“But is it Worth the Maintenance?”: Exploring the Ways Adolescent Preservice Teachers Develop Teaching Identities and Implement Pedagogical Practices, Tiffany Hamm

Behind the Social Media Veil: Exploring the Impact of Real-World Bias on Transition Probability Inference, Ben Harwood

Robust Fault Location in Power Systems Transmission Lines Based on Traveling Waves Using Multiple Wavelet Types in an Ensemble Model, Mirjavad Hashemi Gavgani

Landscapes of Life and Death: Placing the Spring Street Presbyterian Church in Nineteenth Century New York, Katherine Elizabeth Hicks

The Use of Instructional Materials in Elementary Science Classrooms, Mary Jo Hoeft

Representation Matters: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Texts About Eight Black Women College Presidents at 4-Year Institutions, Laura Hazel Jack

Paradise Lost: The Effect of Judicial Review on Congressional Debate, Laura E. Jenkins

The Democratization of Design : A case study Looking at the Do-It-Yourself Designers on Dribbble, Rebecca Davis Kelly

On the Control of a Supersonic Multi-Stream Rectangular Nozzle, Seth Kelly

Turbulent Landscapes: Reading the Borders of Contemporary Latinx and Indigenous Literatures, Florencia Lauria

Maternal Employment Fit for Military Spouses: Implications for Attitudes Toward the Military, Individual Well-Being, and Family Functioning, Rachel Linsner

Urban Scale Vehicle-To-Building-To-Grid Integration Leveraging Human Mobility Modeling, YAPAN LIU

Emotional Perception of Presidential Candidate Debate Statements: An Examination of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Debates, Peta-Ann Cherie Long

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Density Prediction and Multi-Agent Task Allocation, Chen Luo

Novel Renewable Energy Forecasting Methods and their Application on Power Systems, Cheng Lyu

AUDITORY BRAINSTEM NEURAL VARIABILITY, AUTISTIC TRAITS, AND SENSORY SENSITIVITIES IN SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN, Devon Pacheco Major

Homomeric tight junction strand assembly of claudin proteins, Patrick Matthew Marsch

Anti-Chinese Violence in the United States, 1850-1910, Nicholas W. Mason

Supporting Science Identity Development with Course-Based Interventions: Strategies to Improve Undergraduate Student Persistence in STEM, Mariah Maxwell

Past and future predictions of climate change and urbanization effects on the carbon, nitrogen, and water dynamics in Northeastern Forest ecosystems, Linghui meng

The Functoriality of Odd Khovanov Homology up to Sign and Applications, Jacob Migdail-Smith

Flexural Investigation and Retrofit of AASHTO Type III Prestressed Girder-deck System with Strand Bond Damage, Haoran Ni

Pained Subjects: Self-harm, Sexual Health, and US Citizenship, Alex O'Connell

Fabrication and Characterization of 2D and 3D Shape-Memory Actuated Silk Wrinkled Surface Topographies for Biomedical Applications, Elizabeth Oguntade

The Even Harder Cases: how conceptual art as a paradigm affirms the viability of a theory of art, William Galloway Osborne III

A Case Study: Exploring Covid-19 Pandemic Influence on Videoconferencing Groupware Implementation in U.S. Signal Brigades., Jeremiah Strickland Owoh

Synthetic Studies on SHIP Modulators, HIF-2α Antagonists, and New Rhodium Carboxylate Catalysts, Angela Pacherille

Relations between epistemic curiosity and deep learning in asynchronous online discussions, Yuri Pavlov

The effects of perceived support, cultural humility, and self-compassion on psychological well-being mediated by ethnic identity among Asian international students in counseling programs, Yu-Hsun Peng

RECOVERY OF CYBER MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS FROM FALSE DATA INJECTION ATTACKS ON SENSORS BY REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, Romesh Prasad

On Energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Networks in the Presence of Byzantines, chen quan

The interplay of professional identity development, theoretical orientation development, and mentorship: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of classical Adlerian practitioners, Xiaoxuan Qu

Evil We Desire: Akrasia and the Ethics of Conspiracy Rhetoric, Andrew Ridgeway

Thermal history of rocks along the Totschunda and Denali faults with implications for exhumation, fault reactivation, and fault system evolution., Jacob Leo Rosenthal

How Disruptions in Indirect Procurement Impact an Organization’s Adoption of Technology, Rachel Rutkoski

Examining the MTSS framework implementation at the elementary level, Michelle Santiago

The Process Becomes Part of You: A Methodology for Analyzing Institutional Mediation and Programmatic Possibilities in Community Writing, Chad Seader

Bullying Involvement and Depression Among Youth with ADHD: Is Positive Parenting Protective?, Jessica A. Simmons

Exploring the Roles of Food Parenting Practices, Dietary Self-Efficacy, and Food Insecurity on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among College Students, Caitlin S. Smith

Liberalism and Feminist Political Thought In U.S. Women's Suffrage Fiction, 1856-1891, Rachel Snyder

Development of Stochastic and Time-Dependent Quantum Chemical Methods for Accurate Description of Light-Matter Interactions with Applications in Photoionization and Inverse Photoemission in Nanomaterials, Nicole Spanedda

Women's Wings in Rebel Groups, Heidi Marie Stallman

Community Organizing and Complex Social Issues: Wildfire Management in California, Devin Stein

Preference for Online Psychotherapy: A Comparison Study of Stigma, Attitudes, and Intentions, Travis Stewart

Exploring the equilibrium competition binding assay and ligand-induced current noise at the single-molecule level, Jiaxin Sun

Geometric-Templated Cardiac Organoids for Drug Developmental Toxicity Screening, Shiyang Sun

Investigating Holography using Classical and Quantum Simulations, Goksu Can Toga

SCIENCE POLICY IN KAZAKHSTAN: EXPLORING EXPERTS’ PARTICIPATION IN AGENDA SETTING AND POLICY FORMULATION PROCESSES, Zulfiya Torebekova

On Multi-sensor Adaptive Birth Theory for Labeled Random Finite Sets Tracking, Anthony Trezza

Twice as good: A constructivist grounded theory study on the socialization process of black middle-class families and how this shapes the parent-child relationship, Dominique Nicole Walker

Construct Validation of a Learning Resources Rubric [LRR]: A Modified Delphi Study, Lei Wang

Making Sense of Learning in VR, Jason M. Webb

Containment: Logistics, Environmental Conflict, and the Legal Geography of Inland Ports, Jared Charles Whear

Caring for Creation: Catholics, Justice, and Socio-Ecologies in Appalachia, Dominic Wilkins

Sociocultural Behaviors That Affect How Haitian Americans Seek Financial Information, Rebecca Charles Williams

Essays on the Political Economy of Trade Liberalization and Domestic Reforms, Zeyuan Xiong

THREE PAPERS ON ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS, Fan Yang

WHAT MAKES CSR AUTHENTIC TO PEOPLE WITH LOW CAUSE INVOLVEMENT? AN EXPLORATION OF INFLUENCERS’ PERSUASIVE POWER VIA DUAL-PROCESS MODELS, Jeongwon Yang

Optimization and Learning Based Energy Efficient Designs in Edge Computing, Yang Yang

SELF-CARE PRACTICES, PERCEIVED WELLNESS, AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AMONG COUNSELING GRADUATE STUDENTS, Seydem yesilada

Investigating vocal development in humpback whales: Caller identification, acoustic and movement behavior, and comparisons across age, Julia Marie Zeh

A Critical Narrative Analysis of Kosovar Teachers’ Understanding of Literacy Education, Anemonë Zeneli

Representation of People with Disabilities in Legislatures: A Proposed Model of Approval Representation, Yohannes Takele Zewale

ESSAYS ON TRADE SHOCKS AND FIRM’S LOCATION, Dan Zhang

THREE PAPERS ON INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHINA, Wencheng Zhang

Three Essays on Food Insecurity, Cognition, and Food Assistance in the Context of Aging and Family Dynamics, Dongmei Zuo

2023

Three Essays On Academic Entrepreneurial Firms, Hooman Abootorabi

Three Essays on Housing Insecurity, Rhea Acuña

Neutron Star Interiors: From Proto-Neutron Stars To Galactic Pulsars, Chaitanya Afle

British Anti-Slavery, Trade, and Nascent Colonialism on the Sierra Leone Peninsula, c. 1860 – 1960, OLUSEYI AGBELUSI

Do Testing Accommodations have the Potential to Induce Stereotype Threat in Students with ADHD?, Avery Albert

The role of centrosome-based structures during embryonic development, Abrar Adnan Aljiboury