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
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
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
Learning to Teach Physics : Exploring Teacher Knowledge, Practice, and Identity, Nellista E. Bess
Is the Trail-Following Behavior of Juvenile Physa acuta Influenced by Kinship and Familiarity?, Tiana Bonventre
Seasonal Switching Affects Bacterial-Fungal Dominance in an Ecological System, Kristin Carfora
The Dispersion Process for Particles on Graphs, Adam Cartisano
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Prediction Intervals for Functional Data, Nicholas Rios
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
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Who Participates? Who Leads? What are the Outcomes for College Students in Co-Curricular Activities?, Nicole Ashley Alonso
The Meaning of Sexual and Gender Identities in Transgender Men, William B. Baker
Fluid Dynamics of Watercolor Painting : Experiments and Modelling, David Edward Baron
Before and After Attending an Environmental Education Program, Alejandra Maria Bozzolasco
Petrogenesis of Pleisto-Holocene Basalts and Basaltic Andesites from Newberry Volcano, Oregon, John Mitchell Clay
Teacher Preparation for Linguistically Rich Classrooms : A Qualitative Study of Take-up in Relation to Linguistically Responsive Teaching, Melissa A. Collucci
Watershed Sub-Basin Scale Forest Fire Impacts on Soil Chemistry : A Case Study in Delaware State Forest, Pennsylvania, USA, Jason Scott Darley
La vitalité actuelle de la langue française au Liban : une langue en péril ou en évolution?, Caesar Anthony Dommar
Understanding the Counselor Experience When Working with End of Life Clients, Connie S. Ducaine
Sleep in Adolescents : Sleep and the Prediction of Academic Investment and Achievement, Justin Farhat
Mineral and Bioclimatic Factors Controlling Soil Black Carbon Sequestration Potential Along an Elevational Gradient, Adam Fernandez
Everyday Criticality : Questioning, Expertise, and the Embodiment of Critical Judgment, Daniel Fisherman
Adult Learners, Learning Disabilities, and Mathematics : A Case Study, Marguerite Sheehan Flood
The Experience of Thirdness for Music Therapists Working with Children on the Autism Spectrum, Jamison Chester Fox
Professional School Counselors and High School Graduation : Does Assigned School Counselor Correlate with Students' Rate of Graduation?, Dawn Marie Horton
An Assessment of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Hope in U.S. Urban Schools, Julia D. Jackson
CRISPR/Cas9 in Leishmania Genome Editing : Towards a Proof of Concept, Zein Kasbo
Analyzing the Quality of Attention of a Client with Williams Syndrome During Improvisational Music Therapy, Hyun Kyoung Kim
Substance Use Among Urban Adolescents of Color : Exploring the Effects of Ethnic Identity, Psychological Empowerment, and Race, David T. Lardier Jr.
Geochemical and Particle Size Analysis of East Antarctic Shelf Sediments Through the Eocene Oligocene Transition, Jennifer Joanne Light
Latino Doctoral Students in Counseling Programs : Navigating Professional Identity within a Predominantly White American Profession, Anna Flores Locke
Orphan Benefactors and Orphan Innocence in Charles Dickens and Helen Hunt Jackson, Monika Mezyk
The Antiviral Effect of Epigallocatechin Gallate-Stearate on Enterovirus-69, Hager Mohamed
"It was Just Ugly and Uncomfortable" : A Phenomenological Study of Intergenerational Transmission Among Adult Children of Divorce, Carly A. Nacer
Antecedents and Consequences of CSR Reporting by Corporations : The Role of Management Strategy and Organization Characteristics, Rosita G. Nuñez
Mitochondrial D-Loop Markers and Size Variation of Sorex Species, Joseph Andrew Osei
Work-Family Dynamics Among Working Mothers in the United States, M. Hassan Raza
"Motiv 8" : An Inspirational Media Interface, Gabriel Rodriguez
Risks Associated with Harvesting and Human Consumption of Two Turtle Species in New Jersey, Natalie R. Sherwood
A Small Molecule EGCG-S, a Modified Green Tea Polyphenol, as a Synergistic Agent to Enhance Antibacterial Activity of Antibiotics on Bacterial Biofilms, Shrameeta Shinde
Teaching Mindful Awareness Skills to Middle School Students and Its Relationship to Student Engagement with School and Student Test Anxiety, Kathy Shoemaker