Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Qunatum Transport Phenomena and Non-Trivial Spin Structures, Domenico Andreoli
Robust Stabilization of Dynamic Systems with Uncertain Equilibrium States, Khalid Mohammed Arthur
An Improv-able Legacy: Shining The Composition Spotlight on Viola Spolin’s Improvisational Pedagogy, Cory Richard Chamberlain
Nickel – Iron Catalysts for Low Temperature Dry Reforming of Methane, Gagandeep Dhillon
UN-DAM THE RIVER? PUBLIC OPINION AND ENGAGEMENT WITH ISSUES OF DAM REMOVAL IN NEW ENGLAND, Natallia Leuchanka Diessner
Toward a Feminist Rhetorical Strategy of Sass: Sheila Hibben as America’s Early 20th Century Culinary Influencer, Meaghan Elliott Dittrich
Composition as Bodily Rhetoric: A Multimodal Understanding of Student-Athlete Literacy Practices, Samantha Ellyn Donnelly
Ecological interactions of the trematode parasite Zoogonus rubellus and its first and second intermediate hosts, Sara Edquist
Mathematical Analysis of a Model of Blood Flow Through a Channel with Flexible Walls, Madeline Mayes Edwards
SPEEDING-UP A RANDOM SEARCH FOR THE GLOBAL MINIMUM OF A NON-CONVEX, NON-SMOOTH OBJECTIVE FUNCTION, Arnold C. Englander
Path Components and Elementary Orbits of Um(2,R), Timothy A. Fill
The Influence of Third Parties, Perfectionism, and Familial Socioeconomic Status on College Student Mental Health and Perceptions of Social Support, Amanda Fontaine
Altered Alpha Oscillatory Power Dynamics Underlie Difficulties with Cognitive Flexibility, Nicole Forner
Experimental characterization and crystal plasticity modeling of mechanical properties and microstructure evolution of additively manufactured Inconel 718 superalloy, Saeede Ghorbanpour
Becoming Scientists: Undergraduate Students' Literacy Activities in Laboratory Education, Allison Giannotti
DEVELOPMENT OF A SUNKEN OIL TRANSPORT TOOL USING MESOSCALE EXPERIMENTS, Melissa Denise Gloekler
On the Images of Braid Group Representations Coming from Braided Fusion Categories, Jason Allen Green
MECHANISTIC MODELLING FRAMEWORK AND LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT APPROACH FOR PAVEMENT REHABILITATION USING ASPHALT CONCRETE OVERLAYS, Katie Eileen Haslett
Wind, Wave, and Engineering Effects on Tidal Inlet Morphodynamics, Joshua Lincoln Humberston
Alkalinity and Buffering in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Waters, Christopher Hunt
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF POLICE OFFICER ACQUITTALS: JURORS' EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT RACISM, Donovan Corson Kelley
NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES FOR SENSITIVE DETECTION OF BIOMARKERS IN HEALTHCARE MONITORING, MD NIAZUL ISLAM KHAN
“We Feminine Foresters”: Women, Conservation, and the USDA Forest Service, 1850-1970, Rachel D. Kline
THREE ESSAYS IN APPLIED MICROECONOMICS: SPILLOVER EFFECTS OF ANTI DISCRIMINATION AND ANTI VIOLENCE POLICIES, Gokhan Kumpas
Merging Ecology and Earth System Modeling: Biotic and Abiotic Controls Drive Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Microbial-Explicit Soil Biogeochemistry Models, Emily Kyker-Snowman
Why Are We Doing This: How Students Find Meaning in Research Writing Across Contexts, Scott Lasley
Molecular Simulation Studies of Dynamics and Interactions in Nucleic Acids, Lev Levintov
Cover crop-based no-till for small farms: tradeoffs of termination time, method, and ecosystem services, Natalie Lounsbury
Dissertation Defense for Implementing Socially Just Climate Adaptation: A Case Study of Boston, Massachusetts, Jeffrey T. Malloy
Presentation Slides for Implementing Socially Just Climate Adaptation: A Case Study of Boston, Massachusetts, Jeffrey T. Malloy
Implementing Socially Just Climate Adaptation: A Case Study of Boston, Massachusetts, Jeffrey Thomas Malloy
BROADLY-BASED GRADUATE SCHOOL SPONSORED COMMUNICATION SKILLS PROGRAMS: A STUDY IN THREE ESSAYS OF PROGRAMS AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE DIVERSIFICATION OF CAREER PATHWAYS, Jovana Milosavljevic Ardeljan
Balancing fracture and fatigue performance in asphalt pavements: A hybrid mechanistic and statistical modelling approach, Danial Mirzaiyanrajeh
PROGRESS ON THE USE OF SURFACE-IMMOBILIZED ELASTIN-LIKE POLYMERS AS A STIMULI-RESPONSIVE BIOSENSOR FOR INTERLEUKIN-6 DETECTION, Marissa Morales
Structural and Binding Studies of the Polar Organizing Protein Z (PopZ) Using NMR Spectroscopy, Christopher Taylor Nordyke
Utilization of exotic germplasm in a Cucrubita breeding program, Andrew Burkeland Ogden
DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN LACTAM AND CAPTOPRIL ANALOGUES FOR THE COVALENT INHIBITION OF METALLO-β-LACTAMASES, Marie-Josiane Ohoueu
Existence of Mutual Stabilization in Chaotic Neural Models, John Parker
Laboratory and computational mechanics-based framework for the analysis and design of cold recycled pavement layers, Francesco Preti
The Ideal International Student: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Accent in International Multilingual Student Identity, Kristin Raymond
Preventing violence among adolescents: The many roles of school personnel, Andrew Rizzo
Ecce Photo: The Rhetorical Functions of Photography in Graphic Narrative, Stephen Roxburgh
LEARNING TO ACT WITH ROBUSTNESS, Reazul Hasan Russel
Justice System Outcomes of Children Referred for Sexual Offenses, Kei Saito
THE PROPAGATION AND EVOLUTION OF CORONAL MASS EJECTION DRIVEN SHEATH REGIONS: INSIGHT FROM MULTI-SPACECRAFT MEASUREMENTS AND STATISTICAL APPROACHES, Tarik Mohammad Salman
Self Defense and Sea Power: The Provincial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1689-1763, Benjamin Cameron Schaffer
ESSAYS ON THE UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF TOBACCO CONTROL POLICIES ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH BEHAVIORS, Rebecca Sen Choudhury
COSMIC DIFFUSE GAMMA-RAY BACKGROUND MEASUREMENT WITH THE ADVANCED SCINTILLATOR COMPTON TELESCOPE (ASCOT), Tejaswita Sharma
Pews, Proprietors, and Plutocracy: The Business Model of Unitarian and Congregational Religious Societies in Northern New England, 1790-1850, Amy Beth Smith
Genome evolution and population dynamics of Staphylococcus bacteria, Joshua Smith
Investigating the Evolutionary Dynamics of Traits in Metazoa, Jennifer L. Spillane
Seneca, The Humors, and Revenge Tragedy, ANDREW STESIENKO
An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Cues for 3D Flow Field Perception, Andrew Harlan Stevens
Study of primary cilia in early development, pharmacology, and brainwave activity., Matthew Roderick Strobel
Micromechanical Modeling and Evaluation of Process-Induced Residual Stresses in 3D Woven Composites, Kostiantyn Vasylevskyi
GDF1 AS A REGULATOR OF CERAMIDE METABOLISM AND HEMATOPOIESIS IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA, Weiyuan Wang
RepeatFS: A File System Providing Reproducibility Through Provenance and Automation, Anthony Stephen Westbrook
From an insect to the classroom: Evolutionary insights into the ecological and behavioral impacts of experience, Brooke Kathleen Woelber-Kastner
INVESTIGATION OF PARAMETER EFFECTS ON IMPACT WELDING AND MODELLING OF PROCESS, Shunyi Zhang
A Comprehensive Study of the Hardware Trojan and Side-Channel Attacks in Three-Dimensional (3D) Integrated Circuits (ICs), Zhiming Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
PEER VICTIMIZATION AND DELINQUENCY: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS, Nicholas Alexander Adams
FROM BELIEVING TO DOING: TEACHER OWNERSHIP OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PRACTICES A GROUNDED THEORY CASE STUDY, Maria Agorastou
EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING OF PLASTIC ANISOTROPY AND DUCTILE FRACTURE UNDER MULTIAXIAL LOADING, Madhav Baral
Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems Under Detectability and Communication Constraints, Himadri Basu
“Speaking of Dignity”: Interviews with Non-unionized Adjunct Faculty Teaching in an English Department at a Catholic Church-affiliated University, Jacob Aaron Bennett
White Discipline, Black Rebellion: A History of American Race Riots from Emancipation to the War on Drugs, Jordan C. Burke
White Discipline, Black Rebellion: A History of American Race Riots from Emancipation to the War on Drugs, Jordan C. Burke
Investigating the Spatial and Temporal Scale Variability of Ebullitive Flux from a Subarctic Thaw Pond System, Sophia Burke
TUNING SURFACE PROPERTIES OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE FOR CARBON MONOXIDE OXIDATION OVER COPPER-TITANIUM DIOXIDE, Guoqiang Cao
MANIPULATING SINGLE POLYMER MOLECULES FOR APPLICATIONS IN NANOMATERIALS, Ruiwen Chen
HUMAN AND CLIMATE IMPACTS ON FLOODING VIA REMOTE SENSING, BIG DATA ANALYTICS, AND MODELING, Eunsang Cho
“MAYBE WE CAN DO THIS TOO”: MULTILINGUAL WRITERS, ANTI-DEFICIT IDEOLOGIES, IDENTITY FORMATION AND STUDENT AGENCY DEVELOPMENT, Marino Ivo Lopes Fernandes
Indefinable Forces: How Teachers Negotiate Narratives of Ability and Inclusivity While Applying Universal Design for Learning, Beth S. Fornauf
The Intersection of History and Trade: Essays in Trade and Trade Policy, David Travis Freidman
Fear and Loathing in Post 9/11 America: Public Perceptions of Terrorism as Shaped by News Media and the Politics of Fear, Reinmar Cristobal Freis-Beattie
Preservation and Utilization of Wet Brewer's Grains in Diets of Dairy Heifers, Eric Hatungimana
RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE PRICE EFFICIENCY IN STOCK MARKETS: COULD BEHAVIORAL FINANCE AND EFFICIENT MARKETS BOTH BE CORRECT?, James Ryan Hickey
NOVEL TOPOLOGIES IN POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS: A STUDY OF TRIANGULENES AND OTHER MOLECULAR SHAPES, Carter James Holt
FUTURE HYDROLOGICAL FAILURE PROBABILITY OF DAMS IN NEW ENGLAND UNDER LAND USE AND CLIMATE CHANGE, Iman Hosseini-Shakib
FUTURE HYDROLOGICAL FAILURE PROBABILITY OF DAMS IN NEW ENGLAND UNDER LAND USE AND CLIMATE CHANGE, Iman Hosseini-Shakib
DEMOGRAPHY OF A RECOVERY: TRACKING THE REBOUND OF LITTLE BROWN BAT (MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS) POPULATIONS, Katherine Ineson
Housework and Perceptions of Fairness: How Do They Affect Older Married Women's and Men's Sexual Frequency and Sexual Satisfaction?, Kirsten Elizabeth Kemmerer