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 2018
The Antimicrobial Activity of Lipophilic Green Tea Polyphenols on S. mutans and the ESKAPE Pathogens, Mathew Milad Abtahi
Music Therapists’ Experience with Resistance in an Inpatient Psychiatric Setting, Mark E. Ackerman
Analysis of Daily Precipitation Data from Selected Sites in the United States, Sahar Ahmed
An Assessment of Daily Plain Water Intake Level and Its Association with Total Energy Intake Among College Students, Maria Alanazi
Dynamics of Coupled Particles in a Time-Dependent, Double-Gyre Flow, Manuel Albrizzio
Lessons from Isadora : Re-Examining a Century Old Creative Process to Create New Movement and Expression, Rebecca Allen
Interlace Polynomials of Cycles with One Additional Chord, Jhonny Almeida
An Enthalpy Model for the Dynamics of a Deltaic System Under Base-Level Change, William Anderson
“An Eye Opener” : The Meaning of Latin@ College Students’ Experiences in a Bilingual Latin@ Family Class, Gloria A. Andrade
The Effect of Dark Personality Traits and Cultural Logics on Counter-Productive Work Behaviors, Anastasia I. Angelbeck
Green Tea Polyphenol EGCG-S as an Antimicrobial Agent, Theresa Renee Aponte
Inertial Particle Transport by Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Geophysical Flows, Alexa Aucoin
Resolving the Populist Paradox : Politics, Perception, and Identity in the United States, Pierre Avalos
The Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Urban Brownfield Soils, Jennifer Rosalia Balacco
The Culture of Nondisclosure of Sexual Abuse, Veronica R. Barrios
State of Mind : A Poststructural Analysis of Governmentality and Teacher Education Professionalism Using Policy Texts, Todd A. Bates
Establishing a Method to Detect Fragile X CGG Repeats within the FMR1 Gene of Embryo Trophectoderm Biopsies, Jenna Bedard
Evaluating the Success and Monitoring the Usage of Wildlife Crossing Structures in Bedminster, NJ, Nicole Heather Bergen
How is Fanfiction Framed for Literacy Education Practitioner Journal Audiences : Media Frame Analysis (2003 - 2013), Drew Emanuel Berkowitz
Learning to Teach Physics : Exploring Teacher Knowledge, Practice, and Identity, Nellista E. Bess
Collaborative Teacher-Driven Professional Development : The Documented Journey of a Practitioner Action Research Teacher Study Group, Brenna D. Bohny
Is the Trail-Following Behavior of Juvenile Physa acuta Influenced by Kinship and Familiarity?, Tiana Bonventre
Economic and Environmental Assessment of Advanced Biofuels : Adoption Under Uncertainty, Farmer Willingness, and Land Use Implications, Pralhad Burli
Seasonal Switching Affects Bacterial-Fungal Dominance in an Ecological System, Kristin Carfora
The Dispersion Process for Particles on Graphs, Adam Cartisano
Developing and Validating the Teacher Self-Efficacy for Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Inclusive Classrooms (TSE-ASDI) Scale, Corinne Gaffney Catalano
Benefits of a Nutrition Education Program on a Community of Developmentally Disabled Adults, Rory Kathleen Coleman
Shakespeare and the "Two Masters" In and Around Joyce, Robert Conklin
An Eye-Tracking Investigation of Facial Affect Recognition in Traumatic Brain Injury and Healthy Individuals, Joseph Walter DeAngelis
Candy Sharing and Chip Firing Games on Graphs, Joseph DeGaetani
A Phylogenetic Analysis of Extinct and Extant Pan-Alcidae (Charadriiformes: Aves), Alexandria A. DiGiacomo
Community Music Therapy and El Sistema : Addressing the Empowerment Needs of Marginalized Individuals and Their Communities, Virginia Carolina Eulacio-Guevara
Presence of Cofactor NADPH Slows Down the Dissociation of Methotrexate from Dihydrofolate Reductase from Bacillus stearothermophilus, Ryan Seamus Foley
Life Cycle Analysis of Sugarcane Bagasse and Switchgrass under Dilute Phosphoric Acid Pretreatment and Simultaneous Saccharification and CoFermentation, Michael C. Fowler
Mercury Contamination in Benthic Biota and Sediments within the New York Bight Wind Energy Area, Jordan Francis Gilruth
Garden Path Sentence Processing as a Measure of Belief Updating, Alexis Diana Grant
Portraits of Adolescents As They Navigate the Competitive, College-Going, and Affluent Culture, Kathleen L. Grant
The Study and Analysis of Historic Allegheny Woodrat (Neotoma magister) Sites, Elizabeth Grietzer
Crawling Through Life : The Counseling Experiences of Women Who Have Placed a Child for Adoption, Elliotte Sue Harrington
The Stability of Tea Polyphenols as a Food Additive and Its Effect on Streptococcus mutans, Chia-Liang Huang
Bridging Gaps Between Conservation Action and Policy on Small Island Developing States – Case Analog of The Republic of Mauritius, Pricila Iranah
Understanding the Flow Structure of Low Reynolds Number Flows, Albert Jarvis
The Use of Philosophy With Children as a Pedagogical Practice, Igor Jasinski
Behavioral Response of Adult and Larval Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) to a Common Road De-Icer, NaCl, Dylan Jones
Classifying Controversiality in Article Data, Kateryna Kaplun
Gravitational-Wave Memory from Black Hole and Neutron Star Mergers, Matthew Karlson
Leadership Developmental Readiness : Furthering Our Understanding of This Multi-Dimensional Construct, Quinn E. Knudsen
La liberté et les deux visages de la France : de la délégitimation de la démocratie franc̦aise, Michael Kolodziejski
Elucidation of Substrate Binding to Photolyase from Sulfolobus solfataricus Using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Amanda Rose Kuerzi
Novel Bryophyte Auxin Conjugate Amidohydrolases from Physcomitrella patens and Marchantia polymorpha and Their Role in the Evolution of Auxin Metabolism, Stephanie Lyn Kurdach
Rethinking Teaching in STEM Education in a Community College : Role of Instructional Consultation and Digital Technologies, Shelley Chih-Hsian Kurland
Magic Squares of Squares of Order Three Over Finite Fields, Giancarlo Labruna
Cultivating Success : How Two General Education Teachers Created Inclusion Classrooms for Their Students, Natalie A. Lacatena
Measuring Early Emergence of Self-Awareness in Infants Using Eye Tracking, Melanie Lawrie
Geochemical and Sedimentological Analysis of Marine Sediments from ODP Site 696 and Implications for the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation, Allison Paige Lepp
Impacts of Drainage Basin Characteristics on Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Upper Passaic River, Michael J. Levinson
The Effect of Thematic Improvisation and Lyric Analysis on Classroom Performance in an Adolescent with a Behavioral/Emotional Disorder, Brandon K. Madsen
The Non-additive Effect of Food and Wine in the Spanish Diet on Total Antioxidant Capacity of the Spanish Mediterranean Diet, Carol Majkrzak
“The Unwelcome Truth” : Arthur Miller’s The Crucible as Satirical Political Allegory, Deanna Marie Mattia
The Reported Experiences of Adult to Adult Bullying in K-12 New Jersey Public Schools, Julia R. Mazzarella
Evidence of POGO Transposable Elements in the Atlantic Bay Nettle (Chrysaora chesapeakei) Genome, Jonathan C. Medina
Using Eye-Tracking to Explore Preference for High Value Visual Stimuli, Joseph C. Melon
A Population Characterization of Allegheny Woodrats (Neotoma magister) In the Hudson River Palisades of New Jersey, Amanda Menasion
Flawed to Start : The Inconsequence of Action in the Novels of Brian O’Nolan, Christopher M. Mitchell
Biological Factors in the STEM Gender Gap, Yamina Nater-Otero
Outbreak and Extinction Dynamics in Stochastic Populations, Garrett T. Nieddu
African American Christians’ Decision Making to Pursue or Not Pursue Professional Psychological Help : A Qualitative Study, Dawn Y. Norman
“‘Bold Words Vouched with a Deed so Bold’ : Latent Orientalism and Narrative in John Milton’s Paradise Lost”, Carolyn Noury
Do Density and Food Availability Influence Survivorship and Reproduction in the Freshwater Bivalve, Sphaerium simile?, Lauren O’Neil
A Promising Novel Method Targeting Prosthetic Joint Infections, Shanice Otieno
Guided-Inquiry in Biochemistry Laboratory Course Improves Lab Math Skills, Grishma Deven Patel
Using Signage to Direct attention May Increase Motivation, Sharon Lynn Smith Pidgeon
Negotiating an Identity : Portraits of the Sexual Identity Self-Labeling Process for Non-Heterosexual Women in Early Adulthood, Stacy A. Pinto
Pre-Service Teachers’ Engagement in a Discourse about Integers from a Sfardian Perspective, Douglas M. Platt
Online Connectivity : A Social Study of Educators’ Affinity for Teaching and Learning Using Social Media, Beverly R. Plein
Adjunct Instructors’ Opportunities for Learning Through Engagement with a Research-Based Mathematics Curriculum, Zareen Gul Rahman
Meaningfulness of Work and Family in Working Parents as a Predictor of Work Family Balance, Enrichment, and Conflict, Sydney Reeves
The Expression of ICER Under the Control of the Ovarian CYP19A1 Promoter in Zebrafish Ovaries Danio rerio, James Reilly
Molecular Ecology and Management of Nuisance and Invasive Marine Species : Chrysaora chesapeakei, Moerisia sp., and Gonionemus vertens, Dena J. Restaino
Prediction Intervals for Functional Data, Nicholas Rios
In Their Own Words: Teachers Make Meaning of Participation in a Community of Practice, Laura Lee Ripley
The Library in the Mountains and the Writing on the Wall : Fragmented Memories and Cultural Amnesia in Ursula K. Le Guin, Erin Michelle Roll
How Big is Too Big? : The Potentially Coercive Effects of Plea Discount on Innocent Defendants, Ryan Schneider
Immigration Experiences : Maintenance and Promotion of Cultural Values Among Asian Indian Women and Their Children, Harshi Shah
Green Tea Polyphenols as Potential Food Additives, Danxia Shi
Magic Squares of Cubes Modulo a Prime Number, Yevgeniy Sokolovskiy
Water Treatment Residual Coated Wood Mulch for Mitigation of Toxic Metals and Phosphate from Polluted Urban Stormwater Runoff, Hanieh Soleimanifar
The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Amyloid Beta Protein Aggregation in Competing Pathways, Edward Steen
Queens of Failing Nations in Classical Tragedy, Katie L. Toledano
The Mitigation of Stereotype Threat Through Embodied Cogition, Darla van Govan
Young Seasonal Employees : How Work Conditions and Burnout Contribute to Turnover Intentions, Marlee Wanamaker
Making Narrative Theory Teachable : Experiments and Overlaps in Lost, Arrested Development, and A Visit From The Goon Squad, Kristen Lynn Zosche