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Theses from 2016
Trends in Marriage and Women's Earnings: Evidence From Administrative Data, Kristie L. Flaherty
Design of a Tapered Dielectric to Plasmon Optical Mode Convertor, Raju Ghimire
Run Aground: Cultural Transformation in Southeastern Massachusetts' Aquatic Spaces, 1637-1711, Jonathan Dennis Green
Getting Drunk and Kissing Strangers, Andrea Gregory
Path Analysis of Hierarchical Drivers On Water Quality in the Charles River Watershed Tributaries, Massachusetts, Laurissa C. Gulich
The Importance of Action: Understanding Characteristics of Social Action Campaigns and Their Impact on Youth's Motivation and Engagement, Jacqueline G. Hargrove
Measured Resistance: A Black Feminist Perspective on the Domestic Reform Movement, Carolyn Horlacher
A New Class of Integrable Two-Mass Mixtures in One-Dimension, Zaijong Hwang
McClung's Book of Sermon Illustrations for the Itinerant Evangelist, Joshua Jones
In Freedom's Cause: An Exploration of Suffragette and Chartist Militancy in Britain, Ashley Kennedy-MacDougall
Image Processing Techniques for Biomedical Applications, Jeffrey La
Umbra, M. Vanessa Larsen
The Behavioral Endocrinology of Cold-Stunned Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles, Lauren I. Laskey
Cloak Island: A Novella, Gemma Leghorn
Querying Deep Neural Networks with Gradients, Henry Z. Lo
Medicare Nursing Home Compare: Issues and Improvements, Stefano Maffina
Security and Foreign Policy of Landlocked States, Samiullah Mahdi
Countdown to Martial Law: The U.S-Philippine Relationship, 1969-1972, Joven G. Maranan
Financial Markets and the American Working Class: An Empirical Investigation of Financial Stress, Michael J. McCormack
Performing Language and Identities: Adult Immigrant Students and the Creation of a Play, Kathleen R. McGovern
Tracking the Flood – Gaining a New Perspective on Flood Management in Boston Using Socio-Hydrology, Zachary G. Mertz
COPPER STATE, Jennifer Ellen Murphy
He was a Camera: Christopher Isherwood, Weimar Germany, and Transationalism in the American Gay Rights Movement, Kristof R. Nelson
Patterns of Parent-Teacher Disagreement on Behavior Problems of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Juliana Neuspiel
'Improvement the Order of the Age': Historic Advertising, Consumer Choice, and Identity in 19th Century Roxbury, Massachusetts, Janice A. Nosal
Synthesis of Fluorinated Compounds by One-Pot Reactions and Asymmetric Organocatalysis, Kenny Pham
Identification of Regulatory Mechanisms that Contribute to Novel Cell Cycle Outcomes During Host-Microbe Symbiosis, Charles T.S. Puerner
Historical Allopatry and Secondary Contact or Primary Intergradation in the Puerto Rican Crested Anole, Anolis Cristatellus, on Vieques Island, Quynh N. Quach
Somewhere Between Exploitation and Partnership: English and Native Alliances Surrounding the Raids on Deerfield and King William’s War, Caitlyn J. Remmes
The Martha's Vineyard Experience: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Diet and the Local Ecology, Richie Roy
Fabrication of Microwave Resonators in Titanium Nitride Using Photolithography, Caleb Ruvich
Invisible Differences: Identity Formation and Intra-group Conflict Among Somali Migrants, Emily L. Schkeryantz
The Barbadoes Family and the Pursuit of African-American Equality in 19th Century America, Robert J. Shaw
Training, Jason Henry Simon-Bierenbaum
Unruly, Elysia L. Smith
A Comparative Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Case Study for Mutagenic Potency on Aromatic Amines with Mechanistic Implications, Mitchell Joseph Sumner
Genetic Regulation of Germ Cell Development, Emily C. Taylor
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Poly-Silicon PN Junction, Jason D. Tower
Ceramic Consumption in a Boston Immigrant Tenement, Andrew J. Webster
Not Blood, Derek J.G. Williams
Theses from 2015
Design and Simulation of a Hybrid Dielectric Waveguide, Krishna Prasad Aryal
Developmental Exposure to the Pesticide Benomyl and Parkinson's Disease Risk: Is There a Link?, Joseph A. Ayertey
Traitor or Pioneer: John Brown Russwurm and the African Colonization Movement, Brian J. Barker
Native Interactions and Economic Exchange: A Re-Evaluation of Plymouth Colony Collections, Kellie J. Bowers
Evaluating Student Performance and Perceptions in a Flipped Introductory Undergraduate Biology Classroom, Kiley C. Brown
A Queen's Legacy: The Lives of Elizabeth Woodville and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Heather E. Bump
We're Just Like You: Strategies of Gay Activism against the Religious Right, Politics and Conservatism, and the AIDS Crisis, William G. Burton
The Trajectory of the Co-Occurrence of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Treatments for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Amber L. Calloway
BINARY STARS, Kate Carito
Gay Outlaws: The Alpine County Project Reconsidered, Jacob D. Carter
Changes in Water Temperature Patterns Following the Removal of a Low-Head Dam in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Matthew D. Conlon
Discourses and Capital in Court Trials: Representation of Witness Accounts and Identity, Misty Crooks
Replacing Quantum Measurements with Noisy Unitary Gates, Benjamin B. Cruikshank
Environmental Dimensions of Colonial Settlement: A Palynological Investigation of La Cienega, New Mexico, Kyle W. Edwards
'Responsibility to Protect': The Divergent Development of a Norm, Georges T. Fakhry
Latitudes, Lewis George Feuer
George Loney Wallace and the Wrentham State School: 1906-1930, Lindsay Fulton
The Role of YBR063c in the MAP Kinase Sporulation Pathway, Alyssa Funk
Developing Autism Screening Criteria for the Brief Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (BITSEA), Ivy Giserman Kiss
Function of the Ankyrin3 Bipolar Disorder Risk Gene in Brain and Behavior, Klaudio Gjeluci
Militaria, Adam M. Graaf
Being and Becoming an Ally: The Lived Experience of Social Justice Action from Privileged Spaces, Alissa L. Gross
The Tale of Sigh, the Tales of Iran, Nazila Hafezi
The Role of the Ecowas, the United Nations and The United Kingdom in Terminating Sierra Leone Civil War, Muhammed Mahdi Hasan
Automatic Detection and Quantification of Bluff Erosion Events in Single Image Series, Martin D. Hellwig
A Private Game, Lynn E. Holmgren
Bury My Feet, Nathaniel Hunt
Hydrodynamic Analogues of Hamiltonian Systems, Francisco J. Jauffred
Deep Coring, Viking Age Accumulation Rates and Household Wealth in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland, Eric D. Johnson
Exploring Alternative Cobalt Redox Mediators and β-diketonate Non-Innocent Ligands for Applications in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Nicholas Anthony Lee
Respiratory Behavior in Manduca Sexta Pupae, Yue See Lee
Living the History: The Role of Archaeology in the Interpretation of the Wampanoag Homesite at Plimoth Plantation, Meredith P. Luze
Coping With Racism: Emotional Acceptance and Systemic Attribution of Racism as Buffers against Social Anxiety among People of Color, Jennifer H. Martinez
States of Insecurity, Jennifer Lucy Martin
To Fix Stray Things, Alyssa L. Mazzarella
Charles Francis Adams: A Study on the Crucial Role of Adams in Maintaining British Neutrality During the American Civil War, Jonathan S. McIsaac
The Massachusetts Bay Circuit, Corey W. Medeiros
Connecting Networks of History and Heritage at America's Oldest Seaport, Kimberly Montoni
Mall, Matthew A. Morrison
: : poof : :, Caleb Nelson
Age-Related Associations between Physical Activity and Telomere Length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002, Elisa F. Ogawa
É Para Sair de Portugal a Todos os Custos! The Policia Repressiva de Emigração Clandestina (1896-1911) and the Politics of Azorean Emigration to the United States, Sonia Patricia da Silva Pacheco
The Integration of African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Massachusetts, Caitlin E. Pinkham
Regulation of Epithelial Morphogenesis by β-Arrestin Kurtz, Katarzyna Maria Piotrowska
Design of a Plasmonic Bragg Reflector Cavity, Shiva Prasad Pokhrel
Interaction and Spatial Dynamics of the MAP Kinase Smk1 during Sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Joseph M. Roesner
Quantum Mechanics With a Quartic Dispersion Law, Joanna Ruhl
Quantitative Analysis of Amyloid Fibrils using Atomic Force Microscopy, Christine L. Schifone
Activity of Mannanase in Relation to Mixed Micelle Formation of Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulfonate with Linear Ethoxylated Alcohol, Jeannine D. Seyfert
Anti-Catholicism and Gender Norms: Reassessing the Charlestown Convent Riot, 1834, Daniel S. Sousa
Correlates of Awareness and Use of the Hubway Bike Share Program and the Association with Weight Status, Lawrence H. Stahley
Corporate Responses to Rana Plaza - A Comparative Case Study, Bjoern P. Stengel
Ubiquitous and Unfamiliar: Earthenware Pottery Production Techniques and the Bradford Family Pottery of Kingston, MA, Martha L. Sulya
Third World Instincts, Shilpi Suneja
Taxonomy of the Bitentaculate Cirratulidae (Polychaeta), Stacy A. Tewari
The Effect of Labor Unionization on Corporate Investment Efficiency, Yu Zhang