Dissertations from 2025
Planning Responses to Drinking Water System Emergencies, Jingyan Huang
Responding to range expansion: Assessing insect communities, tree decline symptoms, and tree mortality risk as the southern pine beetle moves north, Caroline Rachel Kanaskie
ADVANCING GLACIAL LAKE MAPPING AND MONITORING IN THE UPPER INDUS BASIN USING SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR, Imran Khan
Assessing the roles of corticosterone and familiarity in prosocial helping tasks, Taylor Anne Kimball-Sabatella
Multi-level characterization and testing of fatigue, fracture and creep of the ultra-high strength low-alloy steel fabricated via laser powder bed fusion, Nemanja Kljestan
Dynamic and Solution-Phase Control of Ligand Induced Chirality in Colloidal Quantum Dots, Yu Ri Kwon
Using perceptual learning modules to study learning of molecular polarity and visual representations in college chemistry students, Cheryl Lavoie
TEACHERS' EVALUATION AND REPORTING ORIENTATIONS AND THEIR IMPACT ON ELEMENTARY STUDENTS' MOTIVATION: A SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF ECLS-K: 2011 DATA, Melissa L. Lefebvre
ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS OF PHYTOESTROGENS IN FORAGE LEGUMES, Palash Mandal
Investigation of Cross-Flow Turbines with Varying Structural and Surface Properties, Nicole Marone
Resolving the Role of Wave-Induced Pressure Gradients on the Movement of Sediments in Nearshore Environments, Melissa Marry
Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers: Numerical Relativity Studies of Remnant Matter, Gravitational Waveforms, and Automated Simulation Workflows, Tia Kathleen Martineau
TOWARDS DIGITAL TWINNING OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH OUTPUT-ONLY STOCHASTIC SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION, Martin Masanes Didyk
Simulations of Perpendicular Electron Holes, James Patrick McClung
Verifying Interchange Reconnection Models for Magnetic Switchbacks Using the Parker Solar Probe and MMS, Emily Owen McDougall
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF SOUNDSCAPE PROPERTIES AND GENETIC MATERIAL AS SENTINEL INDICATORS OF THE ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT IN GULF OF MAINE COASTAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, Grant Alexander Milne
The Cloud in the Paper: Toward a Rhetoric of Thich Nhat Hanh, Matthew Alfred Morrison
The Baroclinic Route to Acoustic Streaming: Mechanisms of Mean-Flow Generation and Heat Transport in Acoustically-Forced Stratified Fluids, Remil Mushthaq
MOLECULAR SIMULATION STUDIES OF PEPTIDE TRANSPORT ACROSS THE MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE, Son Nguyen
Essays on Economic Evaluations of Environmental Conservation, Justine Nwanakwere
An Integrated Study of Instrument Performance and Scientific Yield: Evaluation of the GRAPE Design, Karla Georgina Onate Melecio
Development and characterization of bulk dsDNA-based materials using biologically derived plasmid DNA, Wynter Amythyst Paiva
The Impacts of Social Media on Teacher Environment Perceptions, Victoria Puglia
STAT3 and Mesothelial Clearance in Ovarian Cancer, Brendan Michael Reilly
Recognizing Rhetorical Agency: How Students with Disabilities Navigate University Accommodations, Rachel Roy
Probing Neutron Star Interiors: Insights into Asymmetric Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Cold Dense Matter Equation of State, Nathan Rutherford
The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Opioid Use Disorder, Izabella Jannae Sall
Uncovering the Plant-Microbe-Permafrost Paradigm as it Relates to Soil Priming and Arctic Carbon Cycles, Sean Robert Schaefer
Robust Edge Machine-Learning For The Real-Time Processing And Prediction of Geomagnetic Anomalies and Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs), Talha Siddique
Evaluating the role of seaweeds in dairy production: Impacts on in vitro ruminal fermentation, and in vivo mineral utilization and metabolic status, William Mitchell Sims
ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: OUTDOOR RECREATION IMPACTS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, VISITOR COPING BEHAVIORS, & PROVIDER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, Madeleine Smith
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF SINGLE ATOM CATALYSTS FOR SOLAR FUEL GENERATION, Allison Harper St. John
Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica, Genomics in a Well-Mixed Estuarine System: Examining Population Structure, Viability, and Response to Stressors, Alyssa Strickland
Missing Child Incidents Resulting in Death: Distinguishing Features Between False Allegations, Wander-Offs, and True Child Abductions, Madison N. Sundberg-Alley
DYNAMIC DEFENSE STRATEGIES FOR FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA) SECURITY, Sandeep Sunkavilli
Age Distribution of Minors Portrayed in Image-Based Sexual Abuse and Child Sexual Abuse Material, Samantha Jean Sutton
Efficient Algorithms for Mitigating Uncertainty and Risk in Reinforcement Learning, Xihong Su
Addressing Economic Valuation Issues of Outdoor Recreation: Case studies of Lake Michigan Invasive Carp and Plum Island Visits, Iris Tryfoni
Counting Kelp: Development and Assessment of Modelling Approaches to Improve Understanding of Kelp Bed Abundance and Resilience in the Gulf of Maine, Constance N. Tyler
The Last Snail in the Coffin: Climate Change Facilitates the Rise of a Native Slipper Limpet to the Detriment of Gulf of Maine Ecosystems, Kaitlin Van Volkom
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-COVALENT HYBRID PHOTOCATALYTIC SYSTEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SOLAR FUELS, Charles Edward Wilson
Essays on International Trade, Aochen Xiao
Virtual Machine, Real Threats: Demystifying Virtualization Obfuscation for Resilient Software Security, Naiqian Zhang
Dissertations from 2024
Reducible Operators, Irreducible Operators, and Generators in von Neumann Algebras, Sukitha Adappa
GLOBAL IMAGING OF THE MAGNETOSHPERE: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF THE MAGNETOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE COUPLING, Mayowa Adewuyi
MOLECULAR RE(I) CATALYSTS ON SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES FOR SOLAR CO2 REDUCTION, Esraa Ahmad
Generation of Interfacial Coherent Structures by Internal Waves in Stratified Fluids, abdulaziz Saleh Alsamil
Flexibility and Accountability: Lessons on Accessibility from Pandemic Learning, Ashley Barry
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES IN ARID ENVIRONMENTS: EXPLORING DESERT ADAPTATIONS IN PEROMYSCUS EREMICUS, Danielle Blumstein
THE GENOMIC BASIS OF ADAPTATION IN SALT-MARSH-BREEDING SPARROWS, Jonathan David Clark
Connecting Conservation: Modeling and Socializing Climate Connectivity for Land Conservation, Melissa M. Clark
Essays on Labor, Immigrants, and Inputs, Andrew Clina
Essays on Macroeconomics and Market Failures, Bayarmaa Dalkhjav
Algebraically Doubly Stochastic Matrices Over Principal Ideal Domains, Eric Davis
WHAT “DOING THE WORK” IS TAKEN TO MEAN: HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY’S CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF DEIJ WORK, Denise Susanne Desrosiers
OSCILLATORY BOUNDARY LAYER AND SEDIMENT DYNAMICS OVER AND WITHIN MOBILE RIPPLED BEDS, Savannah DeVoe
Development of a Layered Unsupervised Classifier of Plasma Regions and a Bootstrap-Ensemble Neural Network Bow Shock Mode, James Andrew Edmond
Who is "Women's Health" For? LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care, Evan Thomas England
The Splintered Man: Masculine Responses to Feminism in 20th Century Fiction, Jess Flarity
Functional Characterization of Copper Tolerance in the Atypical Microsymbiont Pseudofrankia inefficax, Megan Paige Garcia
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION IN GRID CONNECTED AND OFF-GRID COMMUNITIES, Roozbeh Ghasemi
ON ENTROPIC VAN DER CORPUT’S DIFFERENCE THEOREM, Weichen Gu
Can Gel Content in Emulsion Polymerization be Optimized? Contributions of Both Chemistry and Process on the Crosslinking of Polymer Colloids., Zachary Hollins
A Pathway to Light-Induced Assembly of Polymer Nanoparticles, Anna Huebner
The Nature of Students' Justifications in Geometry: The Impact of Using Dynamic Geometry Software, Anek Janjaroon
Unlocking the Permafrost Nutrient Bomb: Determining Plant and Microbial Transformations in Response to Manipulative Arctic Experiments, Natalie Kashi
THREE ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE CONSUMER CHOICES, Muhammad Jawad Khan
Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Magnetohydrodynamics and Neutrino Physics of General Relativistic Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers, Alexander Lee Knight
Streamer Dynamics in Thunderstorm and Near-Ionospheric Environments, Jacob Koile
NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITIES OF TIME: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR ACCURATE AND RESILIENT TIME SERIES MODELING, Sepideh Koohfar
“Why You Understand the Why”: A Qualitative Characterization of the Metacognitive Competence of Introductory STEM Peer Coaches, Jonathan Kustina
Aspects of Mirror Symmetry for Non-Fano Toric Varieties, Michael John Samuel Lathwood
The Dynamic Measure of Health Goals, Goal Achievement, and who Succeeds at their Goals, Hannah Lightcap
MATHEMATICAL EXPLORATIONS INTO THE INNER WORKINGS OF NEURAL NETWORKS, Xiang Li
PRISTINE OR PERILOUS? EVALUATING THE RISKS OF CYANOTOXIN PRODUCTION, EXPOSURE, AND ACCUMULATION IN GYE LAKES, Katherine Low
Voiculescu's Theorem in Properly Infinite Factors, Minghui Ma
Eco-Resonance at the Arctic's Edge: Unraveling Microbial Methane Mysteries and Quantifying Collaborative Research Challenges, Tamara Sade Marcus
Evaluation of Rockfall Trajectories using Smart Rocks and Measurement While Drilling, Bruma Morganna Mendonca de Souza
Differential Roles of Replication Protein A Large Subunit Paralogs in DNA Damage Repair, Ian Mills
Rational Design of Polymers for Specific Interactions with Liquid and Solid-State Water, Nick Mitchell
OBSERVING AND ESTIMATING SOIL FREEZE THAW PROCESSES: FROM REMOTE SENSING TO LAND SURFACE MODELING, Mahsa MoradiKhaneghahi
Climate Change in New England: The Influence of Soil Warming and Nitrogen Enrichment on Forest Carbon Cycling, Thomas Joseph Muratore
On the Kernel Elements of Unimodular Vectors, Thomas Nocera
NEURAL RETRIEVAL THROUGH ENTITIES AND TEXT UNDERSTANDING, Pooja Himanshu Oza