Theses from 2024
Using Modern Motivational Theories as a Design Framework for VR Gamification, Christopher Thomas Boardman
Beyond Coming Out and Queer Tragedy : How Julie Ann Peters, Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera, and Aiden Thomas Navigate Through the Spectrum of Queer Representation, Jacqueline Carey
Circadian Rhythmicity of Mood : An Exploratory Study, Mara Ashley Cohen
Feature Matching Methods Comparison with Limited Computing Power, Xu Du
Trace and rare earth elements analysis of Oligocene and Miocene diamictites in the Cape Roberts Project, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Celina Flores Garza
Playing With Every Sense of the Word : Lolita Through the Lens of Jacques Derrida, Noelle Marie Florio
Exploring Instability in Dream-Based Narratives : A Comparative Analysis of “Vanilla Sky” and "Inception", Sara Glemaud
Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamics of Marine Food Webs, Julian A. Hernandez S.
Infusing Commonsense via Knowledge Bases in Multipurpose Robotic Task Organization, Rafael Omar Hidalgo
Discovery of DNA Aptamers as Probes for Detecting Ranavirus MCP, Corbin Hudson
Dynamic Genomic Evolution via Active LTR Transposable Elements in Maize, Taylor Isles
Assessing the Feasibility of Seaweed Farm-Offshore Wind Co-Location in New Jersey, Brianna Delaney Reynolds
Beyond Print : The Web of Egan’s Narrative Universe, Cassandra Sardo
The Independence Polynomial of a Graph at −1, Phoebe Rose Zielonka
Theses from 2023
The Full Degree Spanning Tree Problem, Sarah Acquaviva
Studies of the Reaction of Rongalite with Epoxides, Anuj Aryal
Dynamics of Inertial and Non-Inertial Particles in Geophysical Flows, Nishanta Baral
Investigating the Roles of Active Site Residues K59, K119 and E168 in M. tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase, Maryum M. Bhatti
A Bioinformatics Approach for Evaluating Evolutionary Convergence of Gene Family Size in Hematophagous Insects, Mbemba Ceesay
Professional, Personal, Societal : The Detrimental Effects of Identity Revolving around Career in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day, Salvatore Cerchio
Object Detection and Image Categorization by Transferring Commonsense Knowledge with Premises and Quantifiers, Irina Chernyavsky
The Role of Presentation Media and Perspective on Direction Giving, Rebeca Costa do Nascimento
Curriculum Connectivity in Montclair State University’s Undergraduate Mathematics Program, Ana G. Da Silva Jesus
The Interconnected Roles of Residues N189, E168, And S220 in M. tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase Catalysis, Erik Domlija
Design of Block Copolymer with Tunable Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic/Fluorophilic Interactions, Tatiane de Fatima Dutra
Exoskeleton Gait Training to Improve Walking Adaptability in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis, Alfonse Gaite
Effects of Time, Temperature, and Cooking Vessel on Antioxidant Potential, PH, and Degrees Brix in the Processing of Black Garlic, Victoria Gargano
Optimizing CRISPR/Cas9 Transfection Protocol to Generate a Tet-on Inducible Sk-Mel 24 Cell Lines to Better Study ICER, Abdulkader Hallak
The Language of Mechanical Support in Children: Is It ‘Sticking’, ‘Hanging’, or Simply ‘On’?, Julia Marie Hauss
Effects of Guest Interactions on Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) Behavior in a Zoo Touch Tank, Lauren Hope
Black Garlic Extract as an Antiviral for Herpes Simplex Virus-2 in Lung Cells, Jenna Rose Horowitz
On the Way to Maturity, Mikhail Ilyin
Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet Dynamics in the Pliocene from Sedimentological Interpretation of Ocean Drilling Program Site 1097, Ridley Joseph
Adult Age, Moral Foundations, and Moral Stereotyping, Peter Khalatian
A Functioning Code May Not Be a Secure Code : A Preliminary Study on the Students' Complacency with Secure Coding, Jeremiah Niiquaye Kotey
The Antioxidant Content of Wong Lo Kat Tea, Valerie Kwong
Neural Correlates of Sub-Clinical Grandiose Cluster B Personality Disorders, Adriana LaVarco
Environmental Drivers of Stress in Red Pandas (Ailurus fulgens) : Behavior and Space Use Changes in Response to Redesigned Naturalistic Enclosures, Alexis Michelle Lawson
Language Switch Costs in Urdu-English Bilinguals : A Behavioral Study, Ranjeeta Mahraj
Barriers to Treatment for Socially Anxious Black American Students in Urban Public Schools, Grace Martin
Racial Capitalism in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, Daniel Paul Marx
Adult Women in the Wizarding World : Rowling’s Ideal Female in the Harry Potter Novels, Grace Ann McCarthy
The Commercialization and Imposed Voices of Femininity in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Danielle McClelland
The Identification of Rogue Access Points Using Channel State Information, Irene McGinniss
Social Exclusion : How Inhibition and Excitation of the Dorsal Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) Influences Feelings of Social Exclusion, Anthony Minervini
Heat Stress Effects on Culex pipiens Mosquitoes, Valeria Montoya
Investigating the Effects of E219 Mutations in M. tuberculosis Indole-3-Glycerol Phosphate Synthase, Cinthya Moran
The characterization of miniCoopR cell line clones for the expression of wild type form of ICER, Samantha Moscoso
Investigating Spinal Cord Injury at Different Locations on the Spinal Cord Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Haley Nauman
Quantifying Local and Regional Effects of Human Development on Centennial Barrier Island Evolution : Insights from Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey, Shane Nichols-O’Neill
A Computational Study of the Copper-Catalyzed Trifluoromethylation of Boronic Acids, Kevin Nyhuis
Trends in Nestling Body Size in a Declining Population of American Kestrels, Kristina M. Ollo
Parameter Optimization for Excitable Cell Models, Amrit Parmar
Privacy-Enhanced and Outsourced Power Usage Control in Smart Grids, Hemadri Patel
Social Influence on Risky Decision Making, Kesha Patel
The Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury on Empathy and Quality of Life, Nicholas James Pek
Investigation of Microplastics in River Bottom Sediment along the Musconetcong River, Nicole Perkins
Secondary Analysis of ChIP-SEQ Dataset and Genomic Interactions of ICER, Karem Rivera
Wild Sea Cucumber Trade in Rural Madagascar : Consequences for Conservation and Human Welfare, Emily L. Rothamel
The Role of Attentional Control and Social Influence in Risky Decision Making, Samantha Salernitano
Potential of Increased Thermal Tolerance as a Response to Acute Heat Stress in a Disease-Transmitting Mosquito Species, Nicole Ashley Scanlon
A Quantitative Analysis of Inner Speech Between Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers, Thomas Sears
Trophic Assessment of the Invasive Hydrozoan Gonionemus vertens Using Stable Isotope Analysis : You are What You Eat, Diana Sisk-Gritz
Future Time Orientation and Criminal Thinking Style, Danielle Squillaro
Ecocriticism and the Young Adult Audience in Dry and The Islands at the End of the World, Nicole Marie Sysyn
Sylvia Plath as a Confessionalist Writer : The Queen Bee, Alexandra Tangarife
The Ghost of the Neo-Slave Narrative : Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing and the Evolution of the Black Gothic, Kabria Wimbush
How Race and Gender Moderate the Effect of Facial Trait Inferences on Leadership Perception, Calista Wong
Accent Discrimination Across Different Language Families, Jee Mei Yeoh
The Construction of a Static Source Code Scanner Focused on SQL Injection Vulnerabilties in Java, Carla Zurita Rubin de Celis
Theses from 2022
The Effects and Costs of Changes in River Flooding in New Jersey, Yousef Alagrabawi
Modeling the Dynamics of Excitable Cells, Asja Alić
Examination of Changes in Gene Family Size in Carnivorous Plants Through Genomic Analysis, Moonia Ammari
Strict Prime-Intersective Polynomials for a Fixed Prime Number, Rob Rexler Baello
Embedded Memories & Community Imprints : The Scars that Live Within Us, Marisa F. Ballaro
Determining the Feasibility of a Sponge City Design on Montclair State University Campus, Megan Elizabeth Barron
Effect of Soil Conditions on Invasive Purple Loosestrife Compared to Native Species, Madeline Ruth Baum
The Framing of Black and White Masculinities in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Felesha Beckford
The Impact of Social Controls and Vaccination on the Spread of COVID-19 in New Jersey, Ariel J. Bonneau
Assessment of the Asexual Reproductive Strategies of the Invasive Clinging Jellyfish Gonionemus vertens, Valin Jarred Booker
Role of E168D in M. tuberculosis IGPS Catalysis, Hedda Booter
Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Diet, Alexander Dean Bracken
Testing the Effectiveness of Data- and Narrative-Based Messages in Mitigating Racial Bias in Size and Threat Judgments, Alexandra Brosseau
Layered : A Film that Investigates Dance, Installation and Location, Andrea Burr
Development and Validation of the Muslim Identity Socialization Scale (MISS), Mamona Butt
The Privacy Leakage of IP Camera Systems, Lee R. Castro
Targeting Prosthetic Joint Infections Using Modified EGCG Derivatives with Antibiotics, Kavneet Chahil
Assessing Potential of Dual Use Solar Development in New Jersey Preserved Farmlands, Gary Ryan Chapman
Gaging Downstream Transport of Cyanobacteria in the Raritan River Basin, Kyle R. Clonan
Development and On-Road Applications of a 1/10-Scale Autonomous Vehicle, Laura Cornejo Paulino
Identifying Functional and Non-functional Software Requirements from User App Reviews and Requirements Artifacts, Dev Jayant Dave
Viewpoints on Motherhood, Margot de La Barre
New Black Carbon Isotopes from the Eastern Tethys and Earth System Modeling During the PETM, Maurizia De Palma
Calcium Intake Among Parents and Caregivers of Children with a Milk Allergy or Intolerance : A Comparative Analysis, Ilana Dubrovsky-Razam
“I’m not like that!” : Reframing Contemporary Ecopoetic Criticism and De-Metaphorizing the Nonhuman Animal, Alexandra Franke
What Do You See When You Look At Me? : An Exploration of Identity, Personal Stories, Perceptions of Others and Looking Beyond the Surface, Lara Friedman-Kats
The Women of Brewster Place : A Dream Deferred and Unactualized, Lauren Fuentes
“Don’t Call Me a Crouton” : A Case Study on the Use of Humor in Organizational Relationships on Twitter and Facebook, Hannah Grinberg