Theses from 2021
A Whole New (Eastern) World: Ramy Youssef’s Role in the Undoing of Orientalism in Modern-Day Media, Mary Hanna
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
Computational Analysis to Study the Efficiency of Shear Activated Nano-Therapeutics in the Treatment of Atherosclerosis, Nicholas Jefopoulos
Wound and Weight : “Cumbrous Flesh” and Pain in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d, John Robert Jenkins
Towards Machine Learning-Based Demand Response Forecasting Using Smart Grid Data, Matthew S. Johnson
Freudian Melancholy and Bodily Mutilation in “Little Snow White” and “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, Valmira Kaba
Coastal Onlap/Offlap Amplification due to Organic Sediment Accumulation and Degradation : Implications for Sea Level Reconstruction, Norjmaa Khosbaatar
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
The Effects of Ketamine Administration on Novel Object Placement and Hippocampal AMPA Receptor Expression in the Male Long Evan Rats, Ruchael McNair
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
A Comparison of Metagenomic Sequencing Using Targeted 16S and Whole Genome Shotgun NGS on Microbial DNA Samples, Adam Daniel Parker
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
Characterizing Bacterial Communities Across a Nutrient Gradient Over Winter Months, Emily Jin Searles Stone
Towards Secure and Verifiable Computation of KNN Queries in Outsourced Environments, Gowri Pandian Sundarapandi
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
Servant Leadership Relationship to Emotional Demands, Stress, and Well-Being of the Leader, Laura Yang
Cyclic Sulfones from Double Conjugate Addition of Rongalite, Hao Zong
Theses 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
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
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
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
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
Preparation and Crystal Structures of Racemic and Quasiracemic Imidazole or N-Methyl Imidazole Copper Complexes Containing Substituted N-Benzoylalanines, Emily Catherine Chong
“Life Swarms with Innocent Monsters” : the Monstrosity of Gender Inversion in Bram stoker’s Dracula, Natalie Diane Cottrill
Bullying, Resilience, and Victimization : An Investigation Among Special Needs High School Students, Sandy Dawoud
Simulation Based Inference in Epidemic Models, Tejitha Dharmagadda
The Effect of Metabotropic Glutamate 5 Receptors Stimulation on Delayed Non-Match to Odor Performance in Long-Evans Male Rats, Stacy Jesus Duarte
Beloved : An Immersive Theater Experience, Caitlin Dutton-Reaver
The Antiviral Effects of Embelin on HSV-1 in Cultured Vero Cells, Tony Elias
The Expression of Circadian Rhythms in the Non-Diapausing Mosquito Culex pipiens f. molestus, Natalie Rachel Epstein
Lineage and Legacy : Horton Through the Ailey Lens, Then and Now, Lakey Evans-Peña
Control of Secondary Extinctions in Stochastic Food Webs, Dunia M. Fernandez
Identification and Quantification of Black Carbon Particulates in Urban River Sediments Involving a Multi-tiered Analytical Approach, Anastasia Figueroa
The Spaces Between : Reimagining and Rebuilding Sokolow’s Slaughter of the Innocents, Samantha Géracht
Stellar Transfigurations of Disabled Bodies : Wangechi Mutu and Afrofuturism, Addys Lorenzo Gonzalez
A Comparison of Antioxidant Potential, Total Phenolic Content, and Cannabidiol (CBD) Content of Cannabis Infused Hemp, MCT, and Olive Oils, Alexa Gruschow
"Gazing on Vacancy" : Charlotte Bronte's Critical Portrayal of Church Life in Shirley, Emily Pataki Hamburger
Sanctuary : Shaping Frames and Shifting Perspectives, Lindsey Anne Hanson
A Choreographic Exploration of Bullying Through Contemporary Dance, Mark A. Harootian
Characterizing Functions of Two Regulatory Proteins in the Parasitic Nematode Brugia malayi and Their Potential as Drug Targets in Treating Lymphatic Filariasis, Brittany Amber Hart
Estimating Parasitoid Wasp Assemblages on Fragmented Land : Do Habitat and Trap Type Matter?, Matthew Charles Christopher Havers
Trace Element Accumulation and Distribution in Two Turtle Species, Malaclemys terrapin and Chelydra serpentine in New Jersey, USA, Molly Hillenbrand
Analysis of the Spatial Distribution, and Recruitment of Native and Non-Native Tunicate Species on Zostera marina in New Jersey, Sarah Hoffman
Identity Stories : Cultural Imprints on the Body, Alexis Kamitses
A Preliminary Investigation of World Trade Center (WTC) Dust Effects on MRC-5 Lung Fibroblasts and the Cellular Inflammatory Response, Katelyn Anna Kerod
Home Range Size and Habitat Use : Analysis on the State Endangered Bobcat (Lynx rufus) in Northwestern New Jersey, Rita Isabel Matos
The Effects of Handedness on Personal Preferences, Ryan McAllen
Servant Leaders as Facilitators of Couple’s Meaningfulness at Work and Home, Kristine Milorava
A Phylogenetic Assembly and Positive Selection Analysis of the DMP1 Gene in Aves, Testudines and Crocodilia, Nicholas Michael Morelli
Contrasting Seasonal Presence of West Nile Virus in Mosquitos Between Coastal and Inland Communities of New Jersey, Domenica Mousa
Womens’ Bodies, Womens’ Stories : A Multi-Media Reflection on Fertility and Childbearing, Rebekka Nodhturft
Stochastic Modeling of Zoonotic Disease, Sausan Odatalla
A Study and Synthesis : Bronze Compounds, Patricia Rose Olsen
Cloning and Expression of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GvFP) from the Clinging Jellyfish (Gonionemus vertens) Using RNA-Seq, Vasilios A. Orologas
“There is Power in a Woman’s Wit and Will” : Womanly, Wit, Will, and Wiles in Gothic Works of Louisa May Alcott, Alexandra Ortea
Anti-Semitism in American Realist Literature: Edith Wharton’s Sim Rosedale - a Thorn in American Identity, Elizabeth Pantirer
Do Chemical Cues Influence Giant Waterbug Belostoma flumineum Say (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) Turning Behavior?, Olivia Paradis
The Role of Presentation Type and Spatial Perspective on Wayfinding, Sejeong Park
A Network Thermodynamic Game-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Amyloid-beta Aggregation Along Competing Pathways, Joseph Pateras
Impacts of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station on the Zooplankton Community Structure of Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, Alyssa M. Petitdemange
When Kumbhakar Swallowed a Dead Dog : A Diasporic Rendering of the Reamker, Emmanuele Phuon
Factors Affecting Clutch Size in a Population of Red-Backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus) in Northwestern New Jersey, Veronica Lynn Puza
Studies Toward the Synthesis of a Novel Diamine Scaffold, Joseph Edward Quinlan III
Environmental and Trophic Factors that Influence the Prevalence of Gonionemus vertens in the Northeastern United States, Matthew Rigby
Lateralization of Pitch Processing, Daniel Rynerson
The Behavior of the Baltic Sea Ice Stream during the Deglaciation of the Baltic Ice Lake, Recorded in the Particle Size and Geochemistry within Bornholm Basin, IODP Site M0065, Mathew Lucas Sandefur
Tap Dance : The Heartbeat of American Dance Culture, John Scacchetti