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2024

Global Justice Through Poor People's Perspectives, Aatif Abbas

The Sociological Determinants of Entrepreneurial Performance: A Study of Structural Barriers, Creative Strategies, and Heterogeneity Amongst REMI Entrepreneurs in the United States, El-Java Abdul-Qadir

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

ACCELERATED WASTEWATER PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION, Mohammed Almalki

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

MAKING HYBRIDITY HAPPEN: HYBRID ENTREPRENEURSHIP MOTIVATIONS AND PRACTICES AMONG DOCPRENEURS IN GHANA, Charis Asante-Agyei

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

INVESTIGATING UNDERGRADUATES’ LEARNING OF READING STRATEGIES TO COMPREHEND MATHEMATICAL PROOFS, Hillary Bermudez

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

A RIGHT TO INDEPENDENCE: A KANTIAN ACCOUNT OF FREE EXPRESSION AND ITS LIMITS, Christopher Raleigh Bousquet

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

Initiated Reading: Occult Hermeneutics in Helena Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, Diana Brown

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

Explaining Authoritarian Populist Behavior During Episodes of Democratic Backsliding, Samantha Call

Overcoming Controls and Noise Challenges for High Power Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors, Elenna Capote

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

Writing the Self with Immigrant Girls in Rhode Island, R. Tina Catania

Generating and Detecting Adversarial Examples for Increased Security and Privacy, Weiheng Chai

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

Curing Bodies with Bodies: Renyao (Human-derived Drugs) in Late Imperial China, Erqi Cheng

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

Three Essays on Teacher Retention and Minority Health in the U.S., Kyuhan Choi

Directional Dopant Migration by ‘Atomic Trapping’ in Core/multi-shell Quantum Dots, Chun Chu

Effects of Immune-checkpoint Inhibitors on Atherosclerosis During Lipid Lowering, Burak Talip Cilhoroz

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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