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Dissertations from 2024
The Professional Roles and Functions of School Psychologists in Alternative vs Traditional Education, Staci C. Ballard
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
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
Unsettling Teacher Education: Cultivating Teaching as Resistance, Epistemic Disobedience, and Counterhegemonic Practices, Nina M. Kunimoto
Finding the Blind Sports: An Exploration of the Complexity and Diffusion of Police Body Camera Policies, Stephanie Lessing
Agreements and Discrepancies in Perceptions of Mentoring Relationship Quality: A Multi-Informant Investigation, Yui Sum Poon
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
Three Essays on Board-Level Sustainability Committees, Fadimbe O. Baro
Hypertension and Heart Disease in Later Life: The Role of Depression, Subjective Age, and Preventative Health Behaviors, Celeste C. Beaulieu
Molecular Mechanisms Governing Symbiosis and Cell Cycle Progression: Analysis of DIVL/CCKA Suppressor Alleles in Sinorhizobium Meliloti, Hayden A. Bender
The Role and Regulation of EHMT-Family Proteins in Prostate Cancer Progression, Anna Besschetnova
"I'm Triggered": How Complexly Traumatized Adolescent Girls Construct the Experience Within a Residential Program, Sara M. Bonilla
Teaching Social Determinants of Health: The Effect of Simulation Based-Education, Semiha Asli Bozkurt
Developing Specialized Master's Programs in Business Schools: The Convergence of Mission and Markets, Elizabeth Johansson Bristol
Security, Gender, and Power: NATO’s Advising Program in Afghanistan, Polly A. Cegielski
Decomposing Relational Mechanisms of Parent Engagement in Early Intervention: An Examination of Working Alliance and Family-Centered Practices, Alison E. Chavez
Public Transit Funding Through Real Estate: Opportunities for Agency Reform, George Chichirau
Sexual Racism and Mental Health Among Asian/Asian American Sexual Minority Men, Christopher Chiu
Challenging Perceptions of Voice, Agency, and Empowerment Through the Lens of Current and Former High School Students, Dana Marie Brown Cincis
Governing Global and National Migration Nexuses: The Case of the Niger 'Transit' Region, Balkissa Daouda Diallo
Examining the Interplay of Online Health Information-Seeking Behaviors, Health Literacy, Self-Efficacy and Health Behaviors Among Marginalized Women, Grace Derboghossian
E-Quality: An Analysis of Digital Equity Discourse and Co-Production in the Era of COVID-19, Kelsey E. Edmond
Qualitative Analysis of International Division I Rower Acculturative Experiences, Allison Elber-White
Sexual Development in the Blue Mussel, Mytilus Edulis: An Emphasis on Feminization and Other Disruptions, Kenneth Garrett Samuels Evensen
The Practice of Climate Change Adaptation Governance in Arctic Cities: Understanding Local Policymaking Interactions in Norway and Russia, Nadezhda N. Filimonova
A Novel Approach: Engaging People Experiencing Homelessness in Climate Vulnerability and Coastal Resilience in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Johnna L. Flahive
Looking at the STEM Environment through an Intersectional Lens: Experiences of Queer and Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color, Abigail M. Francis
Racial Justice Inc.: Deconstructing the Enactment of Racial Justice in DEI/Social Justice-Focused Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) Graduate Programs, Lorena Fuentes López
Defective Replication Stress Suppression in Fallopian Tube Epithelial Cells is an Early Driver for High Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma (HGSOC), Pamoda Mahishi Galhenage
Toward Modular Enzyme Systems for Modifying DNA and Peptides: First Structures of Phage DNA Hypermodification Enzymes and Computational Analysis of NRPS Heterocyclization Domains, Andrew D. Gnann II
Investigating the Sexual Consent Process for Plurisexual Individuals, Kaitlyn R. Gorman
Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Counterstories of Multilingual Asian Immigrant Students' Transition to First Year of College, Juan David Gutiérrez Hincapié
The Resolution of Proactive Interference in Young Children, Mollie Dalton Hamilton
Lost in Translation: Training Experiences and Burnout Among Bilingual Trainees in Doctoral Psychology Programs, Ingrid Hastedt
Hearing, Seeing, and Reading is Believing: A Study of Undergraduate Women and Messages About Careers, Sarah Elizabeth Isham
Genetic Regulation of Meiosis and Germ Cell Maintenance in Zebrafish, Kazi Nazrul Islam
Implementation of Tuning in to Kids Social-Emotional Learning Program in the Kyrgyz Republic, Anasatsiia Iun
Town-Level Risk Factors Associated with 65+ Lung Cancer in New England, Taylor Jansen
Application of Business Analytics Approaches to Address Climate-Change-Related Challenges, Donald J. Jenkins
Consciousness and Context for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP): A Case Study of White Faculty Working to Learn About and Implement CRP in Their Teaching Practice, Isabelle A. Jenkins
The Black Box of Enrollment Management: The Influence of Academic Capitalism and Values of the Public Good, Kamala C. Kiem
The Impact of Campus Culture on Undergraduate Civic Engagement Outcomes, Kevin M. Kraft
Reprogramming of Androgen Receptor Signaling in Prostate Cancer Progression, Maryam Labaf
(Re)Engaging Higher Education: The future of International Partnerships in a One-Third/Two-Thirds World, Ravi Lakshmikanthan
A History of the Boston Teachers Union, Michael James Lally
Clifford Group and Beyond: Theory and Applications in Quantum Information, Lorenzo Leone
Targeting Novel Oncogenic Activities of LSD1 in Prostate Cancer, Muqing Li
Part-Time Students/Full Time Lives: Underserving Part-Time Community College Students, Cathleen A. McCarron
Simulation Modeling for Robust and Just Public Policy Decision-Making, Jack Mitcham
Contemporary Empirical Asset Pricing: Alternative Big Data and Machine Learning Models, Faraz Moghimi
With Some Responsibility Comes Great Power: Exploring the Decision-Making Process of Higher Education Administrators Through The Implementation of Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy, Jesus D. Montoya Jr.
Exploring the Roles of Parent Emotional Styles and Children’s Coping Skills in the Emotional and Behavioral Sequelae of Community Violence Exposure, Juliana M. Neuspiel
Exploring the Asian American Autism Family Relationship Processes Among Non-Autistic Adult Siblings from Immigrant and Confucian-Ethnic Family Background, Thanh Phuong Nguyen
Diagnosing Psychosis Among Black Americans: The Impact of White Clinicians' Colorblind Racial Attitudes and Multicultural Responsiveness, Keira E. O'Donovan
Information Theoretic Approach to Quantum Chaos, Salvatore F. E. Oliviero
For Us by Us About Us: Constructing Latinx-Centered Higher Education Institutions, Cynthia K. Orellana
Examining Pilipina/x/o American Liminality: A Case Study of Asian American Panethnicity, Aaron James Parayno
What Did Your Mama Think About That?: An Asset-Focused Approach to the Socialization Experiences of Black Doctoral Students, Imari K. Paris Jeffries
Breathe In, Write Out: Examining the Impact of a Virtually Delivered Mindful Breathing Intervention on Elementary-Aged Students' Written Expression and Academic Engagement, Brittany A. Pereira
Quantum Complexity Annealing: Protocols for Disentangling and Stabilizing, Stefano Piemontese
The Role of Public Preschool Services in Addressing and Mitigating the Trauma Among Young Children of Syrian Refugees in Turkey, Ozden Hatice Pinar Irmak
Mental Health and Nature: An Urban Perspective of Mental Health Ecosystem Services, Konstantina Ploumi
The Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Positional Plasticity During Axolotl Limb Regeneration, Michael James Raymond Jr.
Understanding the Relationship Between Teacher Depression and Children's Challenging Behavior Scores Among Female Hispanic Head Start Teachers, Arazeliz Reyes Mateo
Analytical Approaches for Identification of Transcriptional Regulatory Programs Driving Toxoplasma Gondii Cell Division and Virulence, Yasaman Rezvani
Implications of Environmental Stress on Drug Vulnerability in Adolescent Male Rats and New Fathers, Brooke Alexi Rich-Plotkin
The Relationship Between Religiosity and Nursing Home Service Utilization, Corina R. Ronneberg
Floating Forests: A Citizen-Science Approach to Giant Kelp Research and Education, Isaac Spencer Rosenthal
Educational Language Policy for Multilingual Learners: Leveraging Policy’s Multiple Dimensions and Discourses, Jesse W. Rubio
The Impact of Historical Trauma, Self-Compassion, and Resistance Against Racism among African Americans, Darrick Scott
The Impact of Older Adult Health Status on Loneliness and Social Engagement: What Role Does Physical Activity Play?, Natalie Victoria Shellito
Complexity at the Science-Policy Interface in Ethiopia’s Policy Spaces, Wondemagegnehu W. Sintayehu
A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Wicked Problem of Urban Mobility System Design, Tristan J. D. Stull
Three Essays on Corporate Bond Offerings, Hurong Sun
An Actionable Step: Evaluating the Impact of a Text-Based Vocabulary Intervention to Support Middle School Emergent Bilinguals’ Vocabulary Growth, Annisha R. H. Susilo
Influence of Cognitive Performance on Pain Management Among Older Adults with Chronic Pain, Pornthip Suyasith
Negotiating Acculturation: A Qualitative Study of Muslim American Women, Noor N. Tahirkheli
“You’re On Your Own”: Examining the Wellbeing of Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Who Have Transitioned into Adulthood in the United States, Hannah E. Taverna
Resolution of Diagnosis Among Parents of Children Diagnosed with Autism, Deanna C. Toner
Enhancing Security and Privacy for Voice Assistant Systems, Bang Quanghai Tran
Addressing Health Crises through Courts? Climate Litigation in Latin America, the Right to Health and Vulnerable Populations, Thalia Viveros Uehara
Experiences of Mothers Forming Relationships with Their Infants and Toddlers While Living in Shelter: A Qualitative Exploration, Katherine T. Volk
LSD1-Mediated Epigenetic Reprogramming Driving Prostate Cancer Progression, Zifeng Wang
Investigating Gender and Racial Bias of a Universal Social-Emotional and Behavioral Screening Tool, Anna M. Whitehouse