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Dissertations from 2025
Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measurement Scale of Summer Camp Counselor Burnout, Monica Arkin
Dissertations from 2024
Autistic Adults' Ableist and Neurodiversity Affirming Experiences in Therapy, Lana Andoni
Pathways to Lethal Violence: Personality, Psychological, and Clinical Risk Features of Male Homicide Offenders, Olivia Aveson
Hit-to-Lead Optimization of Small Molecule Adjuvants for Vaccine Formulation, John Mark Awad
Unraveling Collective Anomalies in Data-Driven Systems: Manifestation, Detection, and Enhancement Implications, Mohammad Bakhsh
The Professional Roles and Functions of School Psychologists in Alternative vs Traditional Education, Staci C. Ballard
Up From Slavery: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Perilous Passage of Black Students in Doctoral Programs, Karl Vaughn Bell
From Fear to Freedom: The Journey of LGBTQ Latine/x Asylum Seekers and Their Access to Legal, Medical, and Mental Health Services in the U.S., Jonathan Briseno
Functions of the Minibrain Signaling Network in Brain Development, Melissa Brown
Conserved Transcription Factors Rewire the Hippo Pathway to Regulate a Binary Cell Fate Decision in Color Photoreceptors, Joseph Ralph Bunker
To Fear the Heat of the Sun, David Capone
Meeting the Emotional Needs of Hospice Patients: A Mixed-Methods Study, Katherine Frances Carelli
Advancing Methods for Studying the Neuroscience of Sex Variability and Diversity, Vic Shao-Chih Chiang
Finding Freedoms in Unfreedoms: Resisting and Disrupting Racism, Racialization, and Dehumanization via an Advisory-Based Participatory Action Research Project, Antonio Matteo Cinelli
Beyond Good Intentions: Black Feminist Praxis on White Saviorism in Social Responsibility Organizations (SROs), Conscious Consumerism, and Transracial Adoption, Chidimma Ozor Commer
Hypertension Awareness, Treatment and Control in Working Aged American Adults: Analysis of Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011-2020, Carol Civello Connolly
Anode Materials for Next-Generation Secondary Batteries: Interfaces and Alloying Mechanisms, Saida S. Cora
After the Disaster: Environmental Harm and Cultural Change, Timothy Dennis Dacey
Remittance Behaviors Among Cuban Migrants in Miami and Madrid: Motivations, Practices and Experiences, Denisse Delgado
Heritage Language Maintenance, Language Socialization, and Family Language Policy: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Trilingual Family, Rosiane Barcelos de Oliveira
Molecular Impacts of Vitamin A Deprivation in the Drosophila Eye, Deepshe Dewett-Tuli
Novel Roles of BRCA2 in Suppressing Replication Stress Induced Genomic Instability, Haohui Duan
Reimagining Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning Implementation in the Urban Setting: A Case Study of a Massachusetts Elementary School, Molly Helene Duffy
Branding the College Presidency: Examining Presidential Aesthetics in U.S. Higher Education, Eric Dusseault
Examining the Potential of Online Community-Based Learning to Foster Global Citizenship Capacities in College Students: A Mixed-Methods Multi-Institutional Study, Caitlin Ferrarini
Web-based Visualization and Machine Learning in Science and Medicine, Loraine Franke
A Case for Health Promotion in Social Media: A Mixed Method Systematic Review of Cardiac Heterotaxy YouTube Videos, Kathryn Franklin
Challenging Aspects of Caregiving: The Unique Perspective of Children 65+ Caring for Parents 90+ with Dementia, Elizabeth A. Gallagher
Repertoires of Resistance: Latino Immigrant Food Service Workers, Covid-19, and the Struggle for Dignity and Justice at Work, Meredith L. Gamble
The Impact of Parental Relationship Instability of Children's Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior: A Conditional Moderated Mediation Analysis, Sharbari Ganguly
Hired for Diversity and Onboarded for Assimilation: A Case Study of Racial Battle Fatigue Among Student Affairs Practitioners of Color, Kristina Hall-Michel
Governing AI: Creation of Norms and Delegation of Authority, Muhammed Mahdi Hasan
The Sankofa Study: Preliminary Feasibility and Outcomes of an Afrocentric Racism-Related Stress Intervention, Shannon Marie Hughley
Digital Wellbeing: Gendered Disinformation and Social Implications, Hyein Jeong
Engaging Survivors in Transnational Justice Governance: Global, National and Local Perspectives from Uganda's Post LRA Insurgency, Dennis Jjuuko
Biophysical Characterization of 3D Pancreatic Tumor Models Using Particle Tracking Microrheology, Dustin P. Jones
Effective Neural Network Architecture for Few-Shot Learning, Tianyu Kang
Unheard Voices: Lady Health Workers in Lahore's Peripheral Communities, Samiya Khalid
Unveiling Factors Impacting Social Media Reshare in Racism Discourse, Yoongi Kim
Unsettling Teacher Education: Cultivating Teaching as Resistance, Epistemic Disobedience, and Counterhegemonic Practices, Nina M. Kunimoto
To Eat or Not To Eat? That is the Question: Nutrient Source Shifts in Carnivorous Plants, Emmi Kurosawa
Unraveling the Opioid Crisis in Urban Centers: Policy Approaches and Community Strategies to Address Overdose Deaths in Boston, MA, Evans F. Kyei
Second Victim Phenomenon Among Obstetric Nurses in the U.S.: An Interpretive Description, Lynne Frances Lambert
Second Victim Phenomenon Among Obstetric Nurses in the U.S.: An Interpretive Description, Lynne Frances Lambert
Finding the Blind Sports: An Exploration of the Complexity and Diffusion of Police Body Camera Policies, Stephanie Lessing
Remembering More or Less: Studies of the Development of Memory in Infants and Young Children, Yibiao Liang
Revelations in the Enzymatic Degradation of Alkanesulfonates: Structural and Biochemical Insights into C-S Bond Cleavage from Two-Component Flavin-Dependent Monooxygenases SsuD and MsuD, Jeremy Jun Ming Liew
Opportunities and Limitations of Nature-Based Strategies for Transformative Adaptation: An Examination of Stakeholder Values and Social Contracts in Boston, Jessica Jeanne Lillquist
Biophysical Determinants of ALA Photosensitization and PDT Efficacy in Oral Cancer, Yiran Liu
Navigating Institutional Dynamics for Sustainable Investment: Analyzing Entrepreneurial Efforts, National Path Dependencies, and Rationalization Processes, Steve Michael Loren
A Small Potato, Leanne Ma
How Teachers Perceive Teacher Leadership in a Massachusetts Urban Turnaround High School: A Concurrent Mixed-Methods Case Study, Matthew Lawrence McCarthy
"I Feel Like We're All in a Dark Cave Together": A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Queer College Student Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Matthew L. McClellan
You Can Do Math: The Development of Black and Latinx Student Math Identity Though Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in Community Colleges, Anu Oluwa Meacham
Playing Offside: An Intersectional Analysis of Sports in Kenya's Informal Sector, Ellen Busolo Milimu
SGM Health Inequity: Exploring Sexual and Gender Minority Curricula in U.S. Medical Schools for Inclusive Medical Education, James March Mistler
A Behavioral and Neural Investigation of Biases in Emotional Perception: The Role of Social Anxiety, State Affect and Face-Sex, Erinda Morina
Fostering LGBTQ Spirituality: A Campus Case Study, Tracy Morin
Understanding Superdiversity in the Global South Through Linguistic Landscape: The Case of Agdal Neighborhood in Rabat, Morocco, Abdelkarim Mouhib
Navigating Narratives: Immigrant and Refugee Lived Experiences, Counternarratives, and Social Connections in an Era of Securitization of Migration, Denise Renee Muro
PH Dependent Product Selectivity of Manganese(I) Polypyridyl-Based Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction, Alana Murphy
Three Essays on the Outcomes of Formalizing Purpose in Organizational Structures and Practices, Aynur Nabiyeva
Skew Lines, Suchita Nayar
Promoting Saudi Learners' Coherence and Cohesion Writing Development Using Dynamic Assessment - An Approach for IELTS Preparation, Ghadah Mohammednoor Noorelahi
Does the Doctrine of "Separation of Church and State" Matter?: Examining the Experiences of Black Christian Families in Massachusetts Public School System, Stephanie Denise Okwudi
Building Tolerance as a Strategy to Mitigate Violent Extremism: The Contribution of UFC to Social Cohesion in Dori, Anatole France Pitroipa
Agreements and Discrepancies in Perceptions of Mentoring Relationship Quality: A Multi-Informant Investigation, Yui Sum Poon
Social Networks and Emotional Wellbeing among LGBT Older Adults, Anyah Prasad
Learning Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing, Hefei Qiu
A Patient and More: Exploring How Patients' Identities Affect Their Satisfaction, Tracy Leigh Reed
A Comprehensive Validation of Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Screening Profiles in a Large Urban District, Patrick Robinson-Link
Multiple Pathways Promote Meiosis II Spindle Disassembly Independently from Cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Brian Seitz
Dismantling Digital Inequalities: Urban High School Students' Perspectives of Smartphones Use in Education, Artis Carneal Street
Communities in Action: The Early Years of the Upward Bound Program, Gail Silvers Stubbs
Autism Identity Development and Mental Health of Autistic Adolescents and Young Adults, Looknoo Patcharapon Thammathorn
Activist Scholars: Faculty of Color Navigating Institutional Rewards and Punishments, Mai H. Vang
Digital Accessibility Knowledge Among TVIS: Proficiencies in Acquiring Accessible Materials, Huyentran Vo
2010-2011 Equity Public Schools' School Closing and Mergers: A Phenomenological Case Study on the Purposeful Racialized Dispossession, Power, and Authority in Decision-Making, Kimberley Williams
Non-traditional Activation Methods for The Synthesis of Biologically Active Compounds and Fine Chemicals, Guoshu Xie
English Learning Among Late-Life Chinese Immigrants to the U.S., Ning Xie
Visual, Hearing, and Dual Sensory Difficulty in Later Life, Shu Xu
Advancing Women's Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, Rebecca Yemo
Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Intersectionality of Minority Status, Migration Fear, and Diversity, Alptug Yunus Yorulmaz
Dissertations from 2023
Exploring the Conformational Space and Classification of Proteins Using Robotics-Based and Machine Learning Methods, Fatemeh Afrasiabi
Essays on the Impacts of Climate Risk on Corporations, Li Ai
What Explains the Behavior of Chinese Companies in Africa? Exploring the Nature of African Agency in FOCAC Platforms and On the Ground, Woldemedhin N. Aklilu
Black Studies: White Students, The Impact of Black Studies in Two Predominately White High Schools in Massachusetts, Bwanda D. Albert
“Si Se Puede”: Latinx/a/o Students Thriving at a Selective Historically White Institution, Melisa Alves
Perspectives of Hispanic/Latina Women Ages 60 and Over on the Impact of Single Motherhood and Their Long-Term Financial Well-Being, Tess Juno Anselm
The American Time Use Survey for Everything, Especially Every Activity Under the Heavens, Ken Arsenault
Multivalent Electrolyte Insights: Bridging Structure and Electrochemistry, Genevieve M. Asselin
Teacher Emphasis and What it Reveals About Chemical Ideas and Practices, Gregory Thomas Banks