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2024

Enhancing Security and Robustness of Contextual Human-Centric Sensing, Jingyu Xin

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

ENGINEERING BIOMATERIAL INTERFACES FOR MICROBIAL CONTROL, Yikang Xu

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

MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE-MECHANICS RELATIONSHIP OF MYCELIUM-BASED BIO-COMPOSITES, Libin Yang

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

Power and Controversy: Controversy surrounding Material Challenges at a Public Library, Jieun Yeon

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

Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, and Export Quality, Yinhan Zhang

MODULATING LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION OF INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS THROUGH LIPIDATION, Zhe 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

The biophysics of bacterial collective motion: Measuring responses to mechanical and genetic cues, Merrill Einar Asp

Computational Analysis of Engine Knock and Its Sensitivity to Chemical Kinetic Models, Ahmet Serhat Bahar

MODELING APPLICATIONS TO UNDERSTAND DOMINANT PROCESSES AND SURFACE WATER QUALITY, Ruta Basijokaite

PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING OF YOUTH IMPACTED BY PARENTAL CANCER, DeAnna Bay-Markins

Amplitude analysis of B0 decays to J/ψπ−K+ and ψ(2S)π−K+, Andy Beiter

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED MOTOR LEARNING FOR SPEECH SOUND DISORDERS IMPACTING /ɹ/: THE PERCEPT PROJECT, Nina R. Benway

NMR-Guided Directed Evolution, Sagar Bhattacharya

Whose Children? Competing Conceptions of Childhood in Colonial Kenya, Thomas Bouril

ON ROBUST MACHINE LEARNING IN THE PRESENCE OF ADVERSARIES, Saikiran Bulusu

HAUDENOSAUNEE MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PERCEPTIONS, REMINDERS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO COMMUNITY, Hugh Burnam

Myxococcus xanthus: an approach to phenotyping complex biofilms, Eduardo Caro

Switching Adaptive Concurrent Learning Control for Powered Rehabilitation Machines with FES, Jonathan Casas Bocanegra

Cytocompatible Functional Polymers: In Situ Synthesis, Novel Triggering, and Multistep Actuation, Junjiang Chen

Design, synthesis, and characterization of monomeric peptide multiagonists for the mitigation of CNS-associated side effects in the treatment of Type II diabetes and Obesity, Kylie Sloane Chichura

Two Essays on Macro Accounting, Kang Ho Cho

MEGA- VS. NANO-INFLUENCER: THE EFFECTS OF CONSTRUAL MATCHING BETWEEN ENDORSERS AND AD MESSAGES ON ADVERTISING PERSUASIVENESS, Ploypin Chuenterawong

#NotYourMammy: Explicating the Experiences of Black Women Graduate Students as Learners and Laborers in American Academia, Kristian Ashley Contreras

Space and Time in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation, Dante Dauksz

Leading for Equity: Understanding the influences, realities, resistance, and beliefs around tracking and acceleration in suburban school districts, Joseph Michael DeBarbieri

Responsibility Internalism and Responsibility for AI, Huzeyfe Demirtas

Geometric confinement of thin films: From crumple formation to curvature-induced propulsion, Raj De

AlGaAs Coating Studies for Present and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors, Nicholas Anthony Didio

Multi-directional waveguide lattices for further enhancement in solar energy capture in silicon solar cell, Nannan Ding

Synthetic Studies on Small Molecule Src Homology 2 Domain Containing Inositol 5’Phosphatase (SHIP) Modulators and Studies towards the Design and Synthesis of a SHIP PROTAC, Shawn Dormann

Social Lives at College: Experiences of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Katie Ducett

Causal effects of green infrastructure on stormwater hydrology and water quality, Caitlin G. Eger

ENHANCING THE OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE OF CYBER- MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (CMS) AGAINST CYBER-ATTACKS, Carlos Omar Espinoza Zelaya

The Stereotype Content of Intersecting Race, Class, and Gender Groups, Mackenzie Ess

Analogical Transfer in Multi-Attribute Decision Making, Jun Fang

Bringing Hedonism Back: Toward a Felt-Quality Account of Well-Being, Nikki Fortier

Data-informed school counseling programming: Investigating the relationship between school counselors' data behaviors and prior training, intrapersonal characteristics, and school factors, Erin Nicole Friedman

ATTITUDES TOWARD INTIMATE BEHAVIORS VARY WITH CONTEXT, BEHAVIOR TYPE, AND ATTACHMENT AVOIDANCE., Julian Domingo Fuentes

Leadership Actions for Equitable Arts Education, Sarah Gentile

Second-Person Surveillance: Politics of User Implication in Digital Documentaries, Elizabeth Gleesing

Physical Insights into Biological Processes: From Viral Uptake to Chromatin Organization to Cell Motility to Tissue Rigidity, Sarthak Gupta

An Investigation of the Impact of Embedding Learning Strategies into Developmental Mathematics Curriculum, Jessica J. Harnly

Advanced Manufacturing of Multilayer Ceramic Composites for Application in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Alexander Ryan Hartwell

Effects of a Brief Group-Based Compassion Intervention on Physiological and Subjective Stress Reactivity, Emily Helminen

ESSAYS ON HETEROGENEOUS TREATMENT EFFECTS, Zhe He

The Effect of Land-Based Repeated Sprint Training in Hypoxia compared to Normoxia on Anaerobic Capacity, Repeated Sprint Ability, and 100-Yard Swimming Performance: A Single-Blind Crossover Study, John Holohan

Development and Initial Validation of the Cannabis Pain Expectancies Scale, Julia Hooker

LEVERAGING THE POST-TRANSLATIONAL LIPIDATIONS TO MODULATE THE ASSEMBLY AND PHASE-BEHAVIOR OF PROTEINS, Md Shahadat Hossain

"We Stand Before the Stars": Reevaluating Catholic Modernism and Liberal Marriage Reform in the United States, 1895-1945, Emily J. Hunter

Downconversion of Phonons to Suppress Correlated Errors in Superconducting Qubit Arrays, Vito Iaia

Estimating Dry Deposition of Atmospheric Aerosols by Rain Washoff from Urban Surfaces, Alexander James Johnson

Decentralization, Development, and Conflict in Central Mali: Examining the Role of Local Governance, Andrew Korn

Hydrodynamics, Stability and Accretion: from planets, to stars, to supermassive black holes, Suman Kumar Kundu

Procedural and Distributive Justice ... For Whom? A Comparative Investigation of Community Benefits Agreements in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, Athena Last

Heterotypic Interactions in the Complex Environments of Living Tissue, Elizabeth Lawson-Keister

Studies of New Tandem Oxidative Methods in Organic Synthesis, Katelyn Ann Leets

DEVELOPMENT AND CROSS-VALIDATION OF A PREDICTION EQUATION FOR ESTIMATING STEP COUNT IN INDIVIDUALS WITH TRANSTIBIAL AMPUTATION, Kyle Leister

Design, synthesis, and bioconjugation of novel peptide-based drugs to mitigate negative hindbrain side effects for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, Amber Liles

Party Competition in Swing Districts and Childcare Policy Development in South Korea, Tae Hyun Lim

Customer concentration, Disclosure Decisions, and Credit Ratings, Chieh Lin

Alkylation of Carboxylic Acids And 1,2,3-Triazoles Using Imidates, Wenhong Lin

Three Essays on Residential Mortgage Payment Behavior, Wenzhen No Middle Name Lin

THREE ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION, Shuyuan Li

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