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2020

The Makings of a Peer: Evidence on Within-Classroom Heterogeneities in Peer Effects, Jonathan L. Presler

Liberalizing Democracy: Property, Citizenship, and the Constrained Promise of Self-Governing Houseless Communities, Stephen Przybylinski

Learning Semantic Information from Multimodal Data using Deep Neural Networks, Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol

Three Essays on Demand-side Health Policies in India, Raghav Puri

“Put a crapaud in a suit and people will vote for the PNM”: A critical examination of patronage, loyalty, and the structuring force of party partisanship in Trinidad, Taapsi Ramchandani

The role of cell division during tissue morphogenesis, Lindsay Rathbun

Digital Native_Code: An Analysis of Adolescent Identity Formation Through Social Media, Jaime Riccio

Security After War: A Theory of Security Assistance and Governance in Post-Conflict States, Elise Marguerite Roberts

Cultivating an Ethos of Refusal: What it Takes to (Un)Teach a Student Like Me, Yanira Rodrguez

Time, Schedules, and the College Student with ADHD, Erik Daniel Rodriguez

Dispositions and Dis/ability in Teacher Education: Teacher Educator Perspectives, Katie Roquemore

A Method of Topology Optimization for Curvature Continuous Designs, Jack Steven Rossetti

¿CAMPO PARA LA/OS JÓVENES? EXPLORING CAMPESINA/O YOUTH SUBJECTIVITIES IN CONTEMPORARY COLOMBIA., Manuela Ruiz Reyes

Fluidization and Segregation in Confluent Models for Biological Tissues, Preeti Sahu

Using a Token System to Increase Compliance and Avoid Satiation during Reinforcer Preference Assessments, Samantha Sallade

Alhamdulilah, We Live in a Muslim Country: Searching for Safety and Constructing Belonging, Shaundel Sanchez

Development and Application of Effective Stochastic Potential Method for Investigating Temperature-dependent Electronic Properties of Nanomaterials, Jeremy Scher

Undergraduate research experiences in biology: Roles of mentors and impacts of early exposure and types of engagement on student outcomes, Kelly Marie Schmid

THREE ESSAYS ON PROPERTY TAX ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY, David John Schwegman

HOW HEATWAVES ARE CHANGING URBAN LIVABILITY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES: A CASE STUDY IN TEN COMMUNITIES, Javad Shafiei Shiva

ANALYSIS AND BEHAVIOR OF SEGMENTED ENERGY ABSORBING STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS (SEA-SPSWs), Nafiseh Shahbazi Majd

Examining Intentions to Seek Counseling amongst African American Male College Students, Jordan P. Shannon

Factors Related to Self-Identification of Candidacy, Device Selection, and Self-Fitting of Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids, Jasleen Singh

Anti-plane Shear of Cylinders and Layered Systems: Cohesive Fracture and Instability, yueming song

DEVELOPING COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT JUDGMENT: USING ONLINE PROGRESSIVE CASES TO INTRODUCE REALISTIC AND UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES, Lina Souid

Investigating the Relationships Between Disorder, Structure, and Dynamics in Amorphous Systems, Ethan Stanifer

A LEARNER INTERACTION STUDY OF DIFFERENT ACHIEVEMENT GROUPS IN MPOCS WITH LEARNING ANALYTICS TECHNIQUES, Di Sun

SOLVING PROCESS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING PROBLEMS USING THE CONCEPT OF MAXIMUM WEIGHTED INDEPENDENT SET, Kai Sun

A Phenomenological Investigation Of The Lived Experiences of Workplace Burnout, Wellness, and Resilience in Independently Licensed Private Practice Counselors Who Operate Their Own Practice While Maintaining a Caseload of Clients, Sara Lynne Thaxton

Exploring undergraduate students’ topic interest, topic knowledge, and attitudes regarding harmful algal blooms, Alia N. Thompson

Three Essays on the Implementation of Food Assistance Programs, Saied Toossi

Laboratory Studies of Structural Changes in Water-Poor and Water-Rich Ices: A Connection to Molecule Formation in Interstellar Ices, Francis Eugene Toriello

Analysis of the flow structure and reattachment over accelerating non-slender delta-wing planforms, Han Tu

Being in Transit: Life, Death, and the Politics of Migrant Journeys from Central America to the United States, Jared Patrick Van Ramshorst

An Investigation of Sixth-grade Students' Conceptualization of Angle and Angle Measure: A Retrospective Analysis of Design Research Study of a Real-world Context, Grace Njeri Visher

Mechanical properties and cyclic behavior of high strength steel after fire exposure, Fang Wang

THE ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE AND EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN NOVEL ENVIRONMENTS, Shengpei Wang

On Sequence Clustering and Supervised Dimensionality Reduction, Tiexing Wang

EDUCATORS’ UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENTIFIC SENSEMAKING AND LITERACY: A CULTURAL-HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY ANALYSIS, Heather Elizabeth Waymouth

Assessing Grit and Conscientiousness to Predict Medical Student Success on the National USMLE Step 2 Clinical Knowledge Exam, Jennifer C. Welch

Examining the Efficacy of Combining Cover, Copy, Compare and Performance Feedback: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Natalie Williams

MINDFUL INQUIRY - A DEWEYAN ASSESSMENT OF MINDFULNESS AND EDUCATION, David John Wolken

A Study of Ethics in Crowd Work-Based Research, Huichuan Xia

Model-based Approach for Product Requirement Representation and Generation in Product Lifecycle Management, Omer Yaman

Evaluating the Hydrologic and Thermal Performance of a Green Roof in Syracuse: Measurements and Modeling of a Full-Scale System, Yige Yang

Privacy For Whom? A Multi-Stakeholder Exploration of Privacy Designs, Yaxing Yao

Observation of new excited Bs0 states using the LHCb Detector, Yuezhe Yao

Artificial Potential Field Based Real-time Obstacle-free Motion Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Hang Yin

DIRECT DETERMINATION OF THE WEAK CHARGE OF THE PROTON VIA PARITY-VIOLATING ELECTRON SCATTERING, Peng Zang

The Use of a Digital Question Board to Facilitate Student Questioning and Engagement in Large Lecture Classes: A Mixed-Methods Study, Lili Zhang

Wrinkling Patterns on Curved Surface with Gradient Curvature under Compression, Xiaoxiao Zhang

Large-Scale Unmanned Aerial Systems Traffic Density Prediction and Management, Ziyi Zhao

The Development and Initial Validation of the Cultural Humility and Enactment Scale in Counseling, Peitao Zhu

Kinetics of Methyl Ketone and Levulinic Acid Oxidative Scission Over Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts, Ran Zhu

2019

Processing and Properties of New Anisotropic and Mechanically Active Polymeric Composites, Matthew M. Ali

Predictors of Elementary-aged Students’ Writing Fluency Growth in Response to a Performance Feedback Writing Intervention, Alisa Viola Alvis

WITHIN THE HEART OF EVERY HUMAN BEING: SARAH FARMER, HER LIFE, HER WORK, AND HER SEARCH FOR UNIVERSAL TRUTH, Seren Gates Amador

Beyond the Rubicon: Command and Control in Regional Nuclear Powers, Giles David Arceneaux

Network Sampling through Crawling, Katchaguy Areekijseree

POPULAR GEOGRAPHY WRITING IN AMERICA, 1783–1888, Shane Patrick Avery

SURFACE WATER – GROUNDWATER INTERACTIONS IN A PROGLACIAL ALPINE CATCHMENT: Applications of Heat Tracing, Modeling, and Remote Sensing Methods, Emily Alyssa Baker

Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations: Running Couplings and Curvature Correlation Functions, Scott David Bassler

State Identities and Foreign Policy Change: the Logic and Political Dynamics of Iran's Nuclear Policy-Making, 2002-2015, Abolghasem Bayyenat

TOWARDS PROBING THE STRONG FIELD GRAVITY USING BINARY BLACK-HOLE RINGDOWNS, Swetha Bhagwat

Battlefront Assemblages: Civic Participation in the Age of Mediatized Warfare, Olga Boichak

Knowing Leaders: Centering Gender and Identity Among Women Leaders in Higher Education, Meredith Harper Bonham

Consumer Attachment and Corporate Social Advocacy: Leveraging Political Behaviors to Bolster Organization-Public Relationships, Jonathan Borden

Southern landscapes: Coastal Arequipa and the Republic of Peru (1821-1879), Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros

Sigmund Freud's Dreams of Jewishness, Emma Brodeur

NOVEL SHAPE MEMORY AND MULTI-SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS FOR BIOMATERIAL APPLICATIONS, Shelby Lois Buffington

Strongly coupled fermions on the lattice, Nouman Tariq Butt

Screening for At-Risk Substance Use and Behavioral Health Concerns in University Primary Care, Clare Elizabeth Campbell

UNEARTHING ENTANGLEMENTS: HUMAN/MACHINE COLLABORATION IN THE WRITING CLASSROOM, Jordan Canzonetta

BOOKS TO FILMS: C. S. LEWIS’S WORLD OF NARNIA IN 21ST CENTURY AMERICA’S DIGITAL AGE, Andrea Marie Catroppa

Early-year undergraduate research experiences: How students are mentored, how valuable they find this experience, and what kinds of costs they associate with it, Gaye D. Ceyhan

SYNTHESIS OF POLYMER STRUCTURES FOR INCREASING ENERGY CONVERSION IN SOLAR CELLS, Fu-Hao Chen

How does a Gamification Design Influence Students’ Interaction in an Online Course?, Jiaming Cheng

Use of Computational Electromagnetics to Enhance the Accuracy and Efficiency of Antenna Pattern Measurements, Heng Chen

Understanding the Role of Anisotropy on the Optoelectronic and Colloidal Properties of Quantum Rods for Programmable Self-Assembly with DNA Origami, Yuetian Chen

The Minzu Debate: Policy Subsystem, Knowledge Community, and Academic Discourse in Post-Mao China’s Ethnic Policy-Making, Sinan Chu

Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action, Miguel A. Contreras

Numerical Investigation of Laser-Induced Ignition Phenomena, Deshawn Coombs

EMOTIONAL BONDS AND FAIRNESS EXPERIENCES BETWEEN TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND THEIR CISGENDER PARTNERS: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION, Jennifer Coppola

Suppressed Anger and Response to Facial Expressions of Emotion, Stephanie Cristiano

Transforming Understandings About Who Can Teach: The Experiences and Approaches of Teachers with Disabilities, Michelle L. Damiani

IMPROVING THE SENSITIVITY OF ADVANCED LIGO THROUGH DETECTOR CHARACTERIZATION, Derek Davis

Vicarious Racial Discrimination, Racial Identity, and Alcohol-Related Outcomes among Black Young Adults: An Experimental Approach, Jessica Mae Desalu

Queering Virtual Groups: Exploring Facebook Groups as a space for identity construction and social justice among the LGBTQ community in India, Sreyoshi Dey

A Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Integrated Co-Teaching on the Growth of English Language Arts and Mathematics Achievement in Elementary School Students Using Student Growth Percentiles, Amy Sue DiVita

Nunavut, A Creation Story. The Inuit Movement in Canada's Newest Territory, Holly Ann Dobbins

Values in Knowledge Organization Standards: A Value Analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA), Brian Dobreski

Design and Application of Transition Metal Complexes for Catalysis, Martin Dolan

Dynamics of water, carbon, and nitrogen in forest and alpine tundra ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. under future climate change, Zheng Dong

Identity Work of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Reddit: Traversals of Deliberation, Moderation, and Decolonization, Bryan Dosono

Synthetic Studies on Small Molecule Modulators of Src Homology 2 (SH2) Domain-Containing Inositol 5’-Phosphatase (SHIP), Otto Milhous Dungan

Composite Right-Left Handed Stripline Structures for Antenna Array Feed Networks, Michael Douglas Enders

Relevant Operators of Particle Physics and Cosmology, Cem Eroncel

Blaschke Decompositions on Weighted Hardy Spaces and the Unwinding Series, Stephen D. Farnham

Viscoelastic Strain, Viscous Rheology, and Behavior of Experimental Lava Flows, James Farrell

Producing the Global Classroom: Exploring the Impact of US Study Abroad on Host Communities in San Jose, Costa Rica and Florence, Italy, Julie Ficarra