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2024

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

Dynamical Dark Energy from Lattice Quantum Gravity, Mingwei Dai

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

“Rude, Misshapen, Monstrous Rabblement”: Race, Disability, and Gender in Early Modern England, Deyasini Dasgupta

Democratic Transition and Migration and Refugee Policy in Tunisia and in Comparative Perspective, Elizabeth Skye Davis

THE OCCUPATIONAL, PSYCHOSOCIAL, BIOBEHAVIORAL LIFESTYLE, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HYPERTENSION RISK AMONG MILITARY VETERANS, Jacob Paul DeBlois

Examining Dataset FAIR Compliance in the Research Data Management Lifecycle, Denise L. Devine

"When the water stops but the bills never do”: Contentious water politics and collective action in El Salvador, Claudia Isabel Diaz-Combs

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

A Molecular Toolbox to Study Dopamine and Serotonin Receptors for the Development of Improved Therapeutics, Emma Joanna Doukmak

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

ESSAYS ON INTERNAL MIGRATION, EDUCATION, AND TRADE LIBERALIZATION, Jingxuan Du

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

Peptides and Metalloproteins: Evolution, Catalysis and Material Design, Dona Imanga Upamadi Edirisinghe

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

Transnational Druze and Reincarnation: Remembering, Recording, and Reconnecting, Natalie El-Eid

THREE ESSAYS ON ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN AND THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET, William Clay Fannin

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

Sexual Assault History and Alcohol-Aggression Expectancies as Barriers to Sexual Refusal Assertiveness in College Women, Madison Kristine Firkey

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

Development and Progress Towards Functional Photoresponsive Systems, Jasmine Gomez

Extending Uses & Gratifications Through Mediated Outgroup Social Awareness, Kandice Nicholle Green

Technology policy for meeting net-zero carbon goals by 2050: Accelerating innovation in complementary technologies to decarbonize the electrical grid, Myriam Gregoire0Zawilski

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

Las Voces Poderosas: Valuing Latine Undergraduate Perspectives When Re-Assessing Holistic Student Supports at Predominantly white Institutions, Cassaundra Victoria Guzman

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

Evolution on High: A comparison of the physiology and narrative representation of two native high altitude populations, Taylor Shay Harman

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

Application of Two-Directional Carbonyl Ene Reaction to The Synthesis of Complex Tetrahydropyrans, and Studies Toward the Synthesis of C26-C39 Subunit of Spirastrellolide B., Md Abid Abid Hasan

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

Student Understanding of Trigonometric Functions: Exploring Understanding Through the Use of Contextual Tasks, Julia Hatt

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

Three Studies on Chance in Post-Aristotelian Philosophy, Weiting Huang

Three Essays on Socio-spatial Exclusion of Disabled People, Fitore Hyseni

Governing the Paddies: Emotions, Dispossession, and Gendered Struggles for Resource Access in Rice Farming in Tolima, Colombia, Akemi Inamoto

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

Investigation of Hydropathy of Proteins, Lipid-modified Proteins, and Self-defensive Biomaterials, Jingjing Ji

I WANT TO LOVE HOW I DO LEARN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF ADULT LEARNERS WITH GENERAL LEARNING DISABILITIES AND THEIR GOALS FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, Diana Muller Katovitch

An Optimization Framework For Data Enrichment: A First Principles Approach To Designing Optimal Smoothers and Splines, Griffin Michael Kearney

THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF FEMALE UNDERGRADUATES AT A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY REGARDING FOODWAYS AND WELLNESS: AN INTERPRETIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, Kelly Green Kearns

Poly(U) polymerases have complex roles in modulating the small RNAome and transcriptome of C. elegans, Leanne Helen Kelley

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

POPULATION DYNAMICS IN MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS DEVELOPMENTAL BIOFILM, Trosporsha Tasnim Khan

Optogenetic Control of Bacterial Dormancy, Yousr Dhaouadi Khattab

Multiculturalism and the Wellbeing of Older U.S. Immigrants, Jeung hyun Kim

Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Collaborative Governance, Jiho Kim

LOCATION CHOICE OF SAME-SEX COUPLES, Jooyoung Kim

Development and Application of Photoresponsive Small Molecule Probes to Modulate and Characterize Neuroreceptors, Spencer Kim

A New Hobbesian Constructivism, Stacy Lynn Kohls

The Power of Science is Collaboration: Understanding the knowledge sharing practices of rare disease non-profit organizations in regard to repurposing sirolimus, Ania Korsunska

Examining Strategies, Interactions, and Level of Learning in Synchronous Instructional Sessions of Equivalent Course Sections: A Mixed Methods Study of Faculty-of-Record [FoR] vs. Adjunct Faculty [AdjF], Gary E. La Point

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

A MIXED METHODS STUDY OF CHINESE AND KOREAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SATISFACTION AND EXPERIENCE IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION, Sujung Lee

Enhancing Graph Neural Networks by Editing Graphs, Jiayu Li

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

EFFECTS OF NEGATIVE POISSON’S RATIO ON THE MECHANICS OF AUXETIC CARBON FIBER COMPOSITES UNDER TENSILE, BUCKLING AND LOW VELOCITY IMPACT, Wenhua Lin

Synthesis and Design of High-Silica Pd-Containing Zeolites for the Catalytic Combustion of Methane, Jingzhi Liu

THERMODYNAMICS AND SHEAR FLOW DYNAMICS OF BLOCK COPOLYMER MORPHOLOGIES IN SOLUTION, Senyuan Liu

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

Studies on the Synthesis, Reactivity, and Stability of Au Nanoparticles in TS-1 Zeolites for Propylene Epoxidation within H2/O2 Mixtures, Weixin Li

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

ON THE USE OF INTROSPECTION IN THE STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Yaojun Lu

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

Neurophysiological Indicators of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes: Examining Discrimination and Habituation Among Children Born Preterm, Erin Stephanie Misato Matsuba

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

An Examination of School Counselor Leadership Practices Related to Burnout, Training Experience, and Caseload, Alan Miller

ESSAYS ON THE IMPACT OF CONSUMER HETEROGENEITY ON MARKETING MIX MANAGEMENT, Saman Modiri

Development and application of small-molecule probes targeting ghrelin O-acyltransferase, Jacob Moose

Mediating Roles to Develop Literacy Skills: A Formative Research Project Exploring Planning Tools Which Support Co-practice for English Language Learners, Deborah Ann Moriarty

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

EFFECTS OF PEER FEEDBACK AND SELF-FEEDBACK ON STUDENT LEARNING IN ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE DISCUSSIONS, Zhijuan Niu

Synthetic Studies on SHIP Activators and New Oxidative Methods utilizing DDQ and Hypervalent Iodine Catalysts, Christos Nixarlidis

Investigating the cellular localization, trafficking, and biological function of ghrelin O-acyltransferase, Sadie Xiao Hua Novak

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PROCESSES OF TEACHERS' DECISIONS TO CHOOSE AND SEQUENCE EXAMPLES IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS, Emmanuel Nsadha

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

Studies Towards the Synthesis of a Simplified Forskolin Core and Phomactin A, Fortune Ononiwu

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

Prompt Learning for Video Understanding, Chenbin Pan

Between Visits: Hindu Domestic Religiosity, Home Shrines, and Thirdspace in the Diaspora, Aarti Patel

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

Social Determinants of Aging Service Use and Home and Community-Based Service Availability: Do Childhood Disadvantage and Local Characteristics Matter?, Claire Pendergrast

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

PULLING UP THE TANGLED ROOTS OF RURAL NOSTALGIA: A RHETORICAL STUDY OF STORY AND SPACE, NATURE AND NATION, Emily Pifer

THE PHENOMENON OF THE SINGLETON EDUCATOR: EXPLORING ART TEACHERS EXPERIENCES AS SINGLETON TEACHERS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES, Mary Arlene Podsiedlik

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

Fate, Composition and Formation of Unknown N-Nitrosamines in Wastewater and Wastewater-Impacted Waters, Changcheng Pu