Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Undocumented Young Adults Navigating Liminal Space to Carve Their Futures in The U.S., Ismat Abbas
Understanding Multilingual/Multicultural Immigrant High Schoolers’ Multilayered Identities and Imagined Futures, Mehtap Akay
Carrying the Weight : The Racialized Labor of Multicultural Center Directors of Color in Higher Education, Sherlene Iris Ayala
Faculty’s Experiences Teaching English Language Learners in Higher Education, Chedia A. Ayari
Investigating the Roles of Active Site Residues K59, K119 and E168 in M. tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase, Maryum M. Bhatti
Assessment of Phytoplankton Assemblages and Harmful Algal Blooms in New Jersey, Yaritza Acosta Caraballo
A Bioinformatics Approach for Evaluating Evolutionary Convergence of Gene Family Size in Hematophagous Insects, Mbemba Ceesay
Healing That Leads to Action : Restorative Justice, School Leadership, and Institutional Change, Jose B. Celis
Object Detection and Image Categorization by Transferring Commonsense Knowledge with Premises and Quantifiers, Irina Chernyavsky
Conversational Dynamics Between Caregivers and Children : The Role of Elaboration and Autonomy Support on Children’s Memory Reports, Whitney L. Dartnell
The Addiction Treatment Experience of Legally Mandated Opioid Users, Kaitlin E. Deitz
Design of Block Copolymer with Tunable Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic/Fluorophilic Interactions, Tatiane de Fatima Dutra
Exploring LGBTQ Latino/a/x Stories of Chosen Families, Carlos A. Flores
The Influence of Community Trauma and the Behaviors of Gang Members, Leshelle Franklin
An Analysis of the Sophistication–Maturity of Justice and Non-Justice Involved Youth and Young Adults, Lauren Grove
Optimizing CRISPR/Cas9 Transfection Protocol to Generate a Tet-on Inducible Sk-Mel 24 Cell Lines to Better Study ICER, Abdulkader Hallak
On the Way to Maturity, Mikhail Ilyin
Gendered Leadership and Patriarchy : A Healing Feminist Autoethnography, Necole Jadick
A Functioning Code May Not Be a Secure Code : A Preliminary Study on the Students' Complacency with Secure Coding, Jeremiah Niiquaye Kotey
The Fate of Fraxinus spp. in New Jersey : A Physioeconomic Evaluation of the Forest System and Infrastructure Implications, Erik W. Lyttek
The Commercialization and Imposed Voices of Femininity in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Danielle McClelland
A Computational Study of the Copper-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation of Boronic Acids, Kevin Nyhuis
Privacy-Enhanced and Outsourced Power Usage Control in Smart Grids, Hemadri Patel
Social Influence on Risky Decision Making, Kesha Patel
An Ecofeminist Investigation of How Research Experiences for Science Teachers Influence Their Conceptualization of the Nature of Science and Their Construction of Storied Science Identities, Suzanne Poole Patzelt
Secondary Analysis of ChIP-SEQ Dataset and Genomic Interactions of ICER, Karem Rivera
Road Salt-Induced Salinization of the Upper Paulins Kill River in Newton, New Jersey, Kristine Emily Rogers
Future Time Orientation and Criminal Thinking Style, Danielle Squillaro
A Survey of Knowledge and Beliefs on Child Maltreatment, Brooke R. Stettler
Ecocriticism and the Young Adult Audience in Dry and The Islands at the End of the World, Nicole Marie Sysyn
Sylvia Plath as a Confessionalist Writer : The Queen Bee, Alexandra Tangarife
“It Was Like Double Damage” : An Exploration of Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse, Institutional Response, and Posttraumatic Growth, Krystal Lynne Woolston
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Metaphor Detection in Poems in Misurata Arabic Sub-Dialect : An LSTM Model, Azza Abugharsa
An Exploratory Study of Conversational Discourse Produced by Persons with Aphasia Using Speech Function Analysis, Christa M. Akers
The Effects and Costs of Changes in River Flooding in New Jersey, Yousef Alagrabawi
Modeling the Dynamics of Excitable Cells, Asja Alić
Examination of Changes in Gene Family Size in Carnivorous Plants Through Genomic Analysis, Moonia Ammari
A Critical Exploration of Ideology and Agency in Intensive Motherhood Literature, Maya Autret
Strict Prime-Intersective Polynomials for a Fixed Prime Number, Rob Rexler Baello
Embedded Memories & Community Imprints : The Scars that Live Within Us, Marisa F. Ballaro
Determining the Feasibility of a Sponge City Design on Montclair State University Campus, Megan Elizabeth Barron
Using a Novel Experimental Paradigm to Investigate Whether Individuals with Trauma Exposure are at an Increased Risk of Pleading Guilty Falsely, Jennifer M. Bartlett
Effect of Soil Conditions on Invasive Purple Loosestrife Compared to Native Species, Madeline Ruth Baum
The Framing of Black and White Masculinities in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Felesha Beckford
Community-Based Programs as Spaces for Critical Consciousness, Not Containment : Exploring the Perspectives of Black Youth, Carrie Bergeson
The Impact of Social Controls and Vaccination on the Spread of COVID-19 in New Jersey, Ariel J. Bonneau
Mediation of Intergenerational Trauma Transmission by Family Variables in Children of Rwandan Survivors of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, Jessica L. Bonumwezi
Assessment of the Asexual Reproductive Strategies of the Invasive Clinging Jellyfish Gonionemus vertens, Valin Jarred Booker
Role of E168D in M. tuberculosis IGPS Catalysis, Hedda Booter
Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Diet, Alexander Dean Bracken
Testing the Effectiveness of Data- and Narrative-Based Messages in Mitigating Racial Bias in Size and Threat Judgments, Alexandra Brosseau
Good Science Teaching in an Urban Middle School Context : An Examination of the Relationship Between Science Teachers and Their Students, William J. Brown
Layered : A Film that Investigates Dance, Installation and Location, Andrea Burr
Development and Validation of the Muslim Identity Socialization Scale (MISS), Mamona Butt
The Privacy Leakage of IP Camera Systems, Lee R. Castro
Targeting Prosthetic Joint Infections Using Modified EGCG Derivatives with Antibiotics, Kavneet Chahil
Assessing Potential of Dual Use Solar Development in New Jersey Preserved Farmlands, Gary Ryan Chapman
Analyzing the Reported Professional Learning of Ninth-Grade Teachers Participating in an Interdisciplinary Team, Glynnis J. Childress
Investigating the Collaboration of Teachers of Students with Disabilities and Teaching Assistants in the Classroom, Sa-Qwona S. Clark
Gaging Downstream Transport of Cyanobacteria in the Raritan River Basin, Kyle R. Clonan
Development and On-Road Applications of a 1/10-Scale Autonomous Vehicle, Laura Cornejo Paulino
Teacher Activism for Emergent Bilingual Learners : A Qualitative Study, Cyrene A. Crooms
The Relationship Between Racial Microaggressions, Mental Health, and Academic Self- Efficacy in Black College Students : Is a Supportive Mentor Protective?, DeVanté J. Cunningham
Identifying Functional and Non-functional Software Requirements from User App Reviews and Requirements Artifacts, Dev Jayant Dave
Viewpoints on Motherhood, Margot de La Barre
Multiple Risk Factors for Schizotypy in a Non-Clinical Population : Exploring the Continuum of Psychosis Two Years Later, Jill Del Pozzo
New Black Carbon Isotopes from the Eastern Tethys and Earth System Modeling During the PETM, Maurizia De Palma
Adolescent Cognition as a Dynamic System : Examining Complex Cognition, Concepts and Context, Rachael R. Doubledee
Calcium Intake Among Parents and Caregivers of Children with a Milk Allergy or Intolerance : A Comparative Analysis, Ilana Dubrovsky-Razam
Studying Alive : An Application for the Wellness of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Natasia Fernandez
“I’m not like that!” : Reframing Contemporary Ecopoetic Criticism and De-Metaphorizing the Nonhuman Animal, Alexandra Franke
What Do You See When You Look At Me? : An Exploration of Identity, Personal Stories, Perceptions of Others and Looking Beyond the Surface, Lara Friedman-Kats
The Women of Brewster Place : A Dream Deferred and Unactualized, Lauren Fuentes
Telecommuting Antecedents and Outcomes Within a Turbulent Global Context : The Incremental Explanatory Utility of Technostress and Role Strain, Renata Garcia Prieto Palacios Roji
The Lived Experiences of Traditionally Aged College Women in Abusive Relationships, Kelly Gentry
Investigating Elementary School Students’ Reasoning about Dynamic Angles, Erell Germia
Finding the Means : The Bilingual Disparity in Semantic Context Use for Processing, Iyad Ghanim
Preservice Teacher Action Research : Making Meaning and Generating Knowledge Through Inquiry, Rachel Ginsberg
“Don’t Call Me a Crouton” : A Case Study on the Use of Humor in Organizational Relationships on Twitter and Facebook, Hannah Grinberg
Secure Retrieval of Encrypted Similar Documents using Bloom Filters, German Guzman
Muslim Young Adult Graphic Novels : Destabilizing Perceptions, Sidra Habal
Into the Roach’s Mouth: Beyond the Postmodern Discourse on Silence in Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H., Eman Halimeh
Feeding Preference of the Sea Urchin Arbacia punctulata for Algal Turf Over Kelp in a Degraded Kelp Forest Ecosystem, Kenneth J. Hamel
Lift Every Voice : Black High School Students’ Lived Experiences with Racism and Discrimination Through a Critical Race Theory Lens, Lucinda Harris
Ascending from Dust : The Ring Shout, Morgan Hawkins
Breath and Intention : An Exploration of Movement Clarity Within the Ballet Form, Rebecca Herrin
“To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth” : Hauntology and Memory in the Films of Alejandro Gonzalez lnarritu, Elizabeth Denny Hook
Caliban the Savage : Shakespeare’s Critique of Colonialist Misappropriation of Indigenous Identities, Leonard Aquil Hughes
Arsenic : Risk, Exposure, Policy and Management, Nadia Binte Jamil
Cas9 gRNA and Homologous Recombinant Plasmid Integrate Inducible HA-N-ICER in the AAVS1 Locus of SK-MEL-24 Cells, Douglas Job
間 Between Heaven and Earth - An Immersive Installation, Jennifer Leung Johnson
Distributed Energy Resources : An Assessment of New Jersey’s Clean Energy Future, Mary Elizabeth Kenny
Parasite Variability in the Invasive Crayfish, Faxonius rusticus, in Northern New Jersey, Nathan Martin Klunk