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Theses from 2026

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From Propaganda to Dystopia: Language, Disinformation, and Intellectual Control in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Pariwish Feroz Abbasi

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Children's Direction Giving in Virtual vs. Real-Life Environments, Noor A. Alalwan

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The Architecture of Emergence: Glimmers in the Void: Movement as a Pathway to Healing in Choreographic Film, Nicolette Alberti

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Transcriptomic Responses of Teleost Fishes to Thermal and Environmental Stress: A Synthesis of RNA-seq Studies, Aleen Ammar

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Belowground Consequences of Herbivory in Tomatoes and Cucumbers and its Lasting Effects, Anthony Ignacio Barrera

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TOL-1 Receptor Signaling Mediates C. elegans Response to Volatile and Non-volatile Bacterial Cues, Camelia Yasmine Bechia

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Benthic Faunal Recruitment to HESCO Units in Barnegat Bay, NJ, Luke C. Blanchard

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Inferring Genes and Biological Systems Under Selective Pressure in the Secondarily Temperate Cryonotothenioids, Esteban Cabrera

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Again, But Different: Everyday Action and Gesture as Choreographic Material for Performance, Jason Edward Cameron

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Modeling the Vibration of the Steel Tongue Drum, RJ Chandler

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Phenological Shifts in Reproductive Timing of Bay Scallops (Argopecten irradians) in New Jersey Following Subspecies Replacement, Ross John Choate Jr.

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Differential Salinity Tolerance and Compositional Shift in Zooplankton Communities from Coastal and Inland Wetlands, Marisa Contreras

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"Some women make it look so easy": An Analysis of Jenny Offill's Fragmentary Novels and Their Critique of Postfeminist Sensibility, Kimberly Crooks

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The Tones and Frequencies of a Glockenspiel, Edward Czudak

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Assessing Decadal Changes in Eelgrass Communities from Barnegat Bay, NJ, Janelle Marie DelCastillo

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Adult Age and the Evaluation of Moral Judgment, Gianna DeRosa-Norena

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Investigating the Impact of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms on Freshwater Bivalves, Destiny Devlin

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Historic Patterns of Growth and Destruction in NJ Seagrass Meadows, Masen Eck

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Prosocial Behavior, and Control, Jennifer Fin

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Individual Recognition: Do Horned Passalus, Odontotaenius disjunctus, Display Individual Discrimination of Familiar and Unfamiliar Conspecifics Through Changes in Their Behavior?, Sabrina Galloza

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The Effect of Waveform Conventions on Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation, Michael Giarratana

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Echoes of the Drum: African Origins in Latin Dance Traditions and Modern Commercialization, Mario Gonzalez

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A Body (Un)Becoming: An Exploration of Materiality through Biomaterials, the Body, and Choreographic Inquiry, Beth Graczyk

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Soil Respiration Drivers and Challenges in a Changing Environment, Olivia Rae Haas

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Human-Centric Task Learning and Optimization in Human-Robot Collaboration, Emilio M. Herrera

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Interview Format and Job Pursuit Intention, Pallavi Nimbappa Honkanadavar

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Whose Line was it Anyway?: A Study of First-Time Candidate Experiences Following Ballot Reform in New Jersey, Ian Horn

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Nutrient Intake and its Relationship with Symptom Assessment in Patients with TANGO2 Deficiency Disorder, Zhi-Yi Hsu

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Echoes of Tranquility: The Fusion of Eastern and Western Aesthetics in Contemporary Dance, Yuki Ishiguro

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Conversation Made 'Easy' In the Classroom: The Problem With Women's Education in Nineteenth Century New Jersey, Rebecca Bienskie Jackson

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Secrets: A Reclamation of Personal Identity through Dance, Colin Jacob

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Urban Forest Resilience & Decomposition Function: the Role of Biodiversity and Canopy Structure in Maintaining Litter Decomposition Along an Urbanization Gradient, Rutvi Jani

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Patient Characteristics, Growth Indices, and Treatment Outcomes Among Children with Feeding Difficulties, Amelia Kearney

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Using Next Generation Sequencing to Examine Soil Microbial Communities Under Various Stressors and Amendments, Sarah E. Krisak

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Structural Characterization, Kinetic Parameters and Inhibition of Wuchereria bancrofti Dihydrofolate Reductase for the treatment of Lymphatic Filariasis, Salma Kwarteng

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Recruitment of Chrysaora chesapeakei on Floating Docks versus Bulkhead Surfaces: Which Axis is Foulset?, Alyssa Lamberto

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Ordered Mini-batch Training for Differentially Private and Encrypted Logistic Regression, Ryan Leone

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Everyday Jazz, Terk Lewis

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The Shape of Practice, Marlayna Locklear

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The Acquisition of English Vowel Contrasts by Brazilian Portuguese Speakers: A Study of Brazilian Au Pairs in the U.S., Fernanda Lourenco da Silva

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An Invasion of the Intimate Sphere: The Manipulation of Libido Under Totalitarian Regimes, Elyssa Lucero

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"I Exist in Triple": Parisian Influence, and the Three-Way Split in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (1956), Paloma Lupino

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Reward-based Prioritization and Perceptual Feature Effects on Attentional Flexibility in Working Memory, Allison Nicole Marino

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The Economic Contribution of Kelp Forests to Commercial Fisheries in the Northeastern United States, Isaiah Xavier Martinez-Cruz

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"Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone": Inescapable Domesticity in Shirley Jackson's Gothic, Nicole Mautone

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Embodied: Horton and Graham through a Contemporary Lens in Live-Media Performance, Malcolm McMichael

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A Trajectory of Zostera Marina (Eelgrass) Ecosystem Recovery: Pre- and Post-Hurricane Sandy Degradation in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, Edgar A. Medina

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Characterization and Evaluation of Human Factors in Human-Robot Collaborative Contexts, Garrett Modery

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Impostor Thoughts at Work: Examining the Relationship Between Impostor Thoughts, Employee Well-being, and Coworker Support, Nikitha Sara Mohan

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The Actual Layers of Actual Play: Determining Actual Play's Structural Intrigues through "The Peachyville Horror", Faith Monesteri

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Investigating the rate-limiting step in M. tuberculosis indole-3-glycerol phosphate synthase, a potential Tuberculosis drug target, Crystal Montero

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The Weight of Grace: Labor, Care, Desire, and the Female Body in Ballet, Brittany Moss

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Emotion-based Robotic Behavior Planning for Friendly Human-Robot Collaboration, Jordan Murphy

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Quantifying Evidence for Kelp Forest Ecosystem Services in the Northeastern United States, Joanna Napoleone

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Shape Variation in the Mandible of the Borophagine Canids and Implications for Predatory Behavior, Benjamin Neavear

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An Exploration of the Autorotating Pendulum Model, Vlad Nita

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Synthetic Lipid Membrane Systems Elucidate Protein Interactions in HIV Envelope-Mediated Coreceptor Fusion, and Polyubiquitin Cargo Clustering Relevant to Disease Patholoty, Kamsy K. Okafor

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At the Intersection of Science and Sustainability: A Qualitative Study of Food Scientists' Personal and Professional Perspectives, Srushti Parikh

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CRISPR Transgenic Clytia Hemisphaerica as a Vector for Toxin Delivery in a Zebrafish Melanoma Model, Theodore G. Paz

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Roots of Memory, Branches of Spirit, Ryan Podzikowski

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Hierarchy and Ideology Antagonism: Artificial Intelligence in Ridley Scott's Alien, Grace Anastasia Pula

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Breastfeeding Initiation Disparities and Paid Maternity Leave Policies: A Comparative Analysis of WIC Participants and the General U.S. Population Using PRAMS Data, Demi Ramos-Polanco

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Urban Heat Mitigation In Newark, New Jersey Using Remote Sensing And Spatial Analysis, Ama Akowa Rhule

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Beyond Duality: The Doppelganger and the Multiplicity of Identity in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alyssa Roberts

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In Praise of Antony's Folly: The Triumph of Foolishness in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Michael Anthony Rombola

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Computational and Molecular Modeling of Asphaltene Aggregation and the Effect of Radicals and Nonradicals, Lyla Salyani

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Investigation of Curing and Degradation Mechanisms in Lead White Oil Paint Systems: Impact of Methyl Linoleate on Paint Matrix Formation and Solvent Extractability, Andrea Serrano Trujillo

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From Learners to Leaders: Informal Learning and Leadership Emergence in the Workplace, Ami Rupesh Shah

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The Challenge of Responsible Sovereignty and the Dilemma of Responsibility to Protect: A Case Study in the Middle East, Mona Shujaieh

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Investigating the Binding Interactions of the Ser220Thr Mutation in M. Tuberculosis IGPS, Kerima Soobzokov

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Decomposition in Urban Forest Patches Across a New York-New Jersey Urbanization Gradient, Cailee Sprouse

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Toni Morrison's Beloved and Subversion of the Gothic Heroine, Briana Tolbert-Fitzgerald

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Mineralogy, Geology, and Geochemistry of the McAfee Quarries and Greater McAfee Area, Sussex County, New Jersey, Cristian J. van Rossen

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Comfort Food: Telling Our Story Through Dance, Voice, and Memory, Shaylin D. Watson

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Inhibition and Kinetic Characterization of Wuchereria bancrofti Dihydrofolate Reductase, A Potential Lymphatic Filariasis Drug Target, Jacquelyn J. Wilhelm

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The Spot: First Staging, Page Yang

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Inertial Dynamics of Non-Spherical Particles in Fluid Flows, Takashi Yashiro

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Words and Phrases That Matter: A Corpus Analysis of Vocabulary And Phraseological Coverage In Myanmar's High School English Textbooks, Kaung Hla Zan

Theses from 2025

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Social Hierarchy in Willa Cather's "Prairie Trilogy", Kameron Blake Ackerman

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No detected signal of the 2022 epizootic from multiannual Diadema antillarum settlement data in the Florida Keys, Jason Albrecht

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Ann Petry's The Street: The Tragedy Within American Patriarchy, Noah Zakaria Aljaludi

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Comparative Expression of cGMP-Dependent Protein Kinase G (PKG) From Plasmodium and Toxoplasma, Tsopmo Asaah

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Involvement of the mPFC in Narcissism and Celebrity: A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study, Sydney Ash

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Customs, Courts, and Conflict: Strengthening the Legal System in South Sudan, Anusha Sheila Aubeelack

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A Multimodal AI Framework for Energy Analysis: Integrating GIS, CNNs, ViTs, and LLMs, Blessing Austin-Gabriel

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The Marginality of Women in Narratives: Reflections on Iranian Women's Struggles Through Saeed Roustayi's Films, Narges Azami

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Quantitative Preventive Approaches to Diabetes: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, Rushi P. Bhatt

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Predicting Lung Cancer Severity Using Machine Learning Algorithms: Enhanced by Statistical Analysis, Esin Bilgin

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The Mechanisms of Paid Memberships: Customer Entitlement, Power, and Status, Skye Burlew

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Irish Identity Politics in James Joyce, Cailin Carragher

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A Tale of Two Asters: Resolving the Plant and Microbial Community Structure of an Invasive and Native Forb, William Cartelli

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Analysis and Mathematical Recomposition of The Art of the Fugue, Joshua Cellar

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Who Falls for Online Misinformation: Examining the Cognitive Correlates of Vulnerability to Misinformation, Sanjay Kumar Chhetri

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Advancing Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction Using Multi-Modal Feature Integration with Graph Neural Networks, Ernest C. Chianumba

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Women Disrupting the "Roundness" in "No Name Woman" and Sula: How Maxine Hong Kingston's and Toni Morrison's Titular Characters Combat Restrictive Communal Norms Surrounding Sex, Michelle Victoria D'Alessio

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Parent-Child Concordance on Anxiety and Executive Functioning: Influences of Autistic Traits and Socioeconomic Status, Willow Ann DeFilippo

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Exploring the Association Between Frequency of Social Media Use and Weight Perceptions, Weight Behaviors, and Dietary Behaviors, Paige Dellosso

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The Impact of On-Campus and Off-Campus Employment on College Students' Leadership Development, Juliet Eckert

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Optimizing Urban Energy Landscapes: Integrating Micro Polygeneration Systems with Geographic Information Systems & Artificial Intelligence, Rolihlahla S. Ferdinand

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Differential Regulation of the PRKACAA Promoter in Zebrafish Melanoma Cell Lines, Maria Fiuk