All Montclair State University theses starting with May 2017 can be found below. Theses and dissertations from before that date can be found by searching the Library catalog.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Fingerprint Classification Using Transfer Learning Technique, Aseel H. Aloweiwi
Deep Learning for Electricity Forecasting Using Time Series Data, Hanan Abdullah Alshehri
Code Ownership : Plagiarism and Use, Alexis Nicole Amore
Having Her Dinner and Eating It Too : Edna’s Last Dinner Party, Brielle Babiar
Latino/a Adults with Down Syndrome Make Sense of Family While Growing Up in a Bilingual Home, Linda M. Baron Cortes
Effects of Microcystis aeruginosa on New Jersey Aquatic Benthic Macroinvertebrates, Stephanie Beck
A Secure and Verifiable Computation for k-Nearest Neighbor Queries in Cloud, Salma Yahya Bokhary
Facial Recognition and Face Mask Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques, Mira M. Boulos
Gender Differences in Communication : A Task-Oriented Corpus Analysis, Bimash Budha
Extinction of Species Due to Deterministic and Stochastic Interactions in Food Webs, Claire M. Burke
Effects of Inducible cAMP Early Repressor (ICER) on Herpes Simplex Virus -1 (HSV-1) Replication, Rosalina Caba
Time of Flight and Fingerprinting Based Methods for Wireless Rogue Device Detection, Daniel Chege
On-Focus : A Web-Based Platform for Planning, Organizing, and Managing Focus Groups, Nnamdi Chuka-Maduji
The Influence of Student Disciplinary Participation in Post-Secondary Education on Career Decision Self-Efficacy, Jerry S. Collins
Human-Robot Collaboration Using Commonsense Knowledge in Smart Manufacturing Contexts, Christopher Joseph Conti
New Teacher Induction : Locating New Teacher Needs to Co-Construct Induction Programs, Thomas M. D’Elia
Attribute Framing Effect as a Function of Selective Auditory Frequency Amplification, Nicole Marie DeSimone
Mastery Behavior and Brain Injury in Infancy, Kiyana S. Dunston
Small Business Owner App to Showcase COVID Prevention Policies and Reopening Guidelines, Christopher Duran
Mining Social Media and Structured Data in Urban Environmental Management to Develop Smart Cities, Xu Du
Vertical Metal Distributions in Brownfield Soils Drive Enzyme Activities and Plant Success, Eshariah N. Dyson
Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn and “Bloodchild” : From Human to Posthuman, Nicole Fields
College Transition : Voices of First-Generation Minority STEM Students, Grazia Gangitano
Detecting Bots Using a Hybrid Approach, Edmund Kofi Genfi
Leaders of the New School: Exploring the Origins of Leadership Qualities in First Generation Black Male College Students, Rahjaun J. Gordon
Marital and Maternal Mourning : Gravesite Domesticity in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “Epitaphs”, Alexis Grainger
When Leaders and Followers Do Not Hold Similar Constructions of Leadership : How Followers are Impacted by Conflicting Leadership Expectations, Christine Griffith
Effect of Abiotic Factors on Enzyme Activity in Brownfield Soils, Diane Hagmann
Assisting Humans in Human-Robot Co-Carry Tasks Using Robot-Trusting-Human Model, Corey Hannum
Identification of Ice-rafted Debris in the Weddell Sea to Characterize Glaciation at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, Josie Horowitz
Fast and Secure Friend Recommendation in Online Social Networks, Raiyan Hossain
A Film of Many Colors : Neoliberalism, Capitalism, and Climate Change in Rango, Sierra Javras
Wound and Weight : “Cumbrous Flesh” and Pain in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d, John Robert Jenkins
Freudian Melancholy and Bodily Mutilation in “Little Snow White” and “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, Valmira Kaba
Upstream Propagation of Sea-Level Signals in Fluvio-Deltaic Environments : Time-Lags, and the Dynamics of the Fluvial Surface, Madeline Pianta Kollegger
Does Racial Bias in Size Perception Extend to Women?, Eliana Legelen
Teaching the New Majority : Addressing Race and Racism through Culturally Responsive Teaching, Graziela Lobato-Creekmur
Queering Feminist Facilitation : A Culture Circle Discusses Gender & Sexuality, Kelly E. Lormand
Recommender App Development for Essential Health Products : Covid and Beyond, Jessica Lourenco
Sibling Relationship Quality and Its Link to Flourishing Among Emerging Adults, Shannon P. Lummer-Aikey
Race Matters : When Middle/High School Teachers Engage in Participatory Activist Research on the Power of Stories to Disrupt Racism, Janice M. Marsili
Fostering Mathematical Creativity Among Middle School Mathematics Teachers, Ceire H. Monahan
Effects of Differing Environmental Conditions on Bacteriophage Jenika, Gerard Nasser
Effect of Tropical Cyclones on Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Xenia Neal
I’m the Leader! How Shared Leadership Leads to Territoriality, Catrina MaryJane Notari
Transitioning Secondary Mathematics Pedagogy Towards Reform-Oriented Practice Through Coteaching, Jessica Tybursky Nuzzi
A Web Application to Disseminate Repatriation and Travel Information About African Countries, Daniel Otuo-Acheampong
Impact of COVID-19 on Residential Waste Streams of Montclair Township, Jeanne Huguette Perrine
Interlace Polynomials of Certain Graphs, Cheyenne Petzold
Reflections of a Broken Mirror : An Analysis of the Mirror Motif in The Famished Road, Mama Day, and Us, Samira Pigford
The Island Remembers : Land Memory, Collective Memory & Trauma in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, Justine Prusiensky
Salvaging the Utopia : Posthumanism, Feminism, and Anti-Patriarchal Language in Kathy Acker’s In Memoriam to Identity, Fe Lorraine Agustin Reyes
Bipartite, Size, and Online Ramsey Numbers of Some Cycles and Paths, Eliyahu Schudrich
“True Darkness and True Womanness” : A Study of Sisterhood in Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women, Jessica Schwartz
The Impact of the Translation of the Quran on Shakespeare’s Plays, Rania Shair
“I Shall Watch Their Progress”: The Observer Effect and Information Theory in Literary Systems, Michael L. Shohet
Sustainability of Hard Apple Cider : An Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment, Meghann N. Smith
Culturally Responsive Instructional Coaching : Accessing Student Voice during a Co-Generated Lesson Plan, Jacqueline Stone
The Cases They Carry : A Narrative Analysis of Crisis Counselors Working in Behavioral Health Emergency Settings, Rachel E. Sugerman
Towards Secure and Verifiable Computation of KNN Queries in Outsourced Environments, Gowri Pandian Sundarapandi
Professional Capital Across the Careers of Four Veteran Teachers, Stephanie Brown Tarnowski
Exploring Educators’ Decisions During the Era of New Professionalism : Teachers and Administrators Dialoguing Together in a Performance-Based Pay School District, Nicholas V. Vancheri
The Comparison of Utilizing Functional Electrical Stimulation Device Versus Ankle Foot Orthosis Brace and the Effect on Participants’ Activities of Daily Living After a Cerebrovascular Accident, Cynthia Victoria Vlad
Effect of Natural Environment Training and Discrete Trial Training on Adaptive Behaviors, Amelia Yanchik
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Tension Within Immigrant Identity in South Asian and Asian Characters in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Everything I Never Told You, and Disgraced, Dania Abdelsalam
Synthesis of Amide and Sulfonamides as PDE11 Inhibitors, Noor Abouchakra
Joint Use of Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) and Advanced Reduction Process (ARP) for Alleviation of Leachate Organic Matter (LOM), Ali Albalgane
Euripides : Suppliant to the Divine Feminine, Liz Amato
Antisemitism Today and Its Relationship to Jewish Identity and Religious Denomination, Michaela Ambrosius
Discovery of Single-Stranded DNA Aptamers for the Detection of Ranavirus, Allyssa Angel
Bounds for the Number of Independent and Dominating Sets in Trees, Daniel K. Arabia
DFL-Opt : A Daily Fantasy Lineup Optimizer, Francis Aurori
Re-envisioning Sections of Anything Goes to Address Gender Identity, Laurena Barros
Question-Asking in Conversational Tasks : A Gender Comparison, Courtney Bell
Design of Strips with Geometry Shapes and Mathematical Analysis, Somia Benali
Manuel Puig y los espacios queer : Una tercera lectura de la realidad, Matthew Berg
Size Does Matter : Exposure and Effects of Microplastics on the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica), Erika Bernal
The Spatial Economics of Clean Energy in New Jersey, Anthony J. Bevacqua
The Influence of Heteronormativity on Sexual Health Disparities in Queer and Heterosexual Women, Jacqueline Bible
Transcriptomic Identification of Venom Candidates in the Clinging Jellyfish Gonionemus vertens, Alorah D. Bliese
Testing Multiple Climate Stressors at the Cold Range Limit of a Marine Calcifier, Christian R. Bojorquez
Video Case Materials and the Development of Collective Professional Knowledge, Victoria D. Bonaccorso
Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder : Child Symptom Behaviors, Stigma, and Parental Stress among Minorities and Non-Minorities, Kayla Renee Breeden
Beliefs and Perceptions of Millennials Pertaining to Climate Change and Sustainability, Rae Cade
Impacts of Forest Fire on Stream Sediment : A Chemical Analysis of the 16 Mile Fire in Delaware State Forest, Pennsylvania, USA, Bernadette Rosario Calderon
Paleoenvironment Reconstruction of the Eocene Southeastern Tethys Using Geochemistry of Sedimentary Rocks, Liliana Calderón Convers
"A" is for Ambivalence : Hester Prynne's Conflicted Response to Motherhood in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Stephanie Morecraft Carlson
“Mutually Exclusive” : Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Caitlin Moran Casey
Response to Phototaxic Stimulation in Relation to Sex and Reproductive State in the Urban Adapted Mosquito, Culex pipiens f. molestus, Karen M. Catalina
The Evolution of Latin Jazz Music and Dance : Under the Skin, Teresa Perez Ceccon
From Social Exclusion to Social Inclusion : A Feminist Action Research Intervention for Low Income Latina Mothers, Diana Cedeño