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Dissertations from 2020
The Political Economy of Migration Governance: How Political Actors, Networks, Institutions and Policies Impact the Migration-Development Nexus in the Global South, Christopher C. Graham
Community College Non-Completion: Students' Voices and Embodiments of Stress and Healing, Tara Gully-Hightower
The Experience of Misgendering Among Trans and Gender Diverse People, Hamish A. Gunn
Exploiting the Surface Chemistry of EGaIn to Develop Liquid Metal Nanoparticles as Cancer Therapeutic Agents, Sabrina Syeda Hafiz
Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction of Long Term Care Workers: The Impact of the Social Working Environment, Frances Hawes
Cross-Ecosystem Predators Control Species Interactions, Multifunctionality and Resilience in Coastal Marshes, Marc J.S. Hensel
Assessing Mental Health Provider Bias Toward Clients with Understudied Marginalized Sexual Identities and Practices, Cara Herbitter
Educator Perspectives on English Learner Identification: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study, Rachel E. Hoffman
AI-driven Computational Design Tools For Synthesizing Human-centric Design, Haikun Huang
The Role of Attention in Perceiving Seen and Heard Emotional Information, Sarah C. Izen
Paleoclimate Reconstruction of the Gulf of Maine During the Recent Holocene (Past 5000 Years) Using Archaeological Mollusk Shells, Amy Elizabeth Johnston
How Universal are Democratic Values? A Study of the Urban Middle Class’s Valuation of Core Democratic Ideals in a Hybrid Regime, Priyanka Kabir
High School Teachers' Perceptions of Social Studies in the Context of Accountability, Kristina M. Kelleher-Bianchi
Sense of Control and Frailty Among Older Adults, Bon Kim
Family Ties and Subjective Aging in Later Life, Yijung K. Kim
Novel Tools and Techniques to Investigate and Reduce the Impacts of Capture-and-Handling, Ryan J. Knotek
Educators Bailan with Policy et le Pouvoir in the Educação of Multicultural and Multilingual Learners (WIDA ELD Standards and the Education of English Learners), Fernanda Marinho Kray
Painting the World Crimson: The Global Spread of Graduate Management Education as Facilitated by Harvard Business School, Keshav Krishnamurty
How Does Grading Schools Impact Florida’s Teachers and Students? The Need for a New Approach to School Accountability, Luke Aubry Kupscznk
Adapting Social Emotional Learning to Impact Internalizing Problems in an Urban School, Kathryn D. Kurtz
Three Essays on Social Media Analytics and Big Data: An Empirical Investigation of Communities and Organizations, Carol A. Lee
The Role of Clinical Research Nurses in Minority Recruitment to Cancer Clinical Trials, Kristen A. Legor
What does Social Agency have to do with it? Positive Pathways to Adulthood for Groups of Opportunity Youth and College Students in Rhode Island, Perri S. Leviss
Exploring the Efficacy of an Online Intervention in Processing Experiences of Heterosexism Among Autistic-LGBTQ Individuals, Meredith R. Maroney
The Effectiveness of a Mindfulness, Acceptance, Valued Action, and Flexible Coping Intervention for Race-Based Stress on Momentary Coping and Distress Symptoms, Jennifer Honculada Martinez
Impact of Disturbance Regimes on Community and Landscape Biodiversity in Atlantic Coastal Pine Barren Ecoregion Streams, Sean T. McCanty
The Environmental, Social and Market Drivers of Shellfish Aquaculture in Massachusetts, Sean Patrick McNally
Convergence of Senior Administrators and Professional Employees: Case Studies of Institutional Transformation via Convergent Hybrid Planned and Emergent Change, Michael C. Metzger
Innovation Through Popular Diffusion: Seeking Social Equity Through Cannabis Legalization in Massachusetts, Jeffrey Moyer
Exploring Physiological, Behavioral, and Situational Indices of Infant Regulatory Capacity to Stress in the First Year of Life, Isabelle Mueller
Participate for Peace: The Impacts of Participatory Deliberative Democracy on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Central America, Marcia D. Mundt
The Experiences of Women on Their Career Pathways to the College Presidency: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Audrey M. Nahabedian
Identifying Critical Components and Key Communities in Complex Networks, Farzaneh Nasirian
Holistic Cross-Layer Improvements for Big Data Processing in New Computing Environments, Nam S. Nguyen
The Impact of Social Support on the Relationship between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Family Functioning among Women Veterans, Chizoba C. Nwosu
Women’s Pathways to Political Leadership in Kenya: Institutional and Cultural Factors Impacting Women’s Political Leadership in County Level Government, Rose A. Nyaondo
The A/Effects of Implicit Bias on the Academic Success of Black Students Attending Urban Public Schools in the Northeastern Region of the United States, Nadine R. O'Garro
Feasibility of a Multi-Domain Online Health Intervention for Latinas with Chronic Pain, Marta E. Pagan-Ortiz
Using Lenses to Understand Policy Failures: The Case of the 2012 Census in Chile, M. Angélica Pavez
Employed Mothers’ Satisfaction with the Breastfeeding Provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Rebecca A. Penders
Managing Methadone Mile: Dynamics of Neighborhood Change and Social Control in Boston's South End, Adam W. Pittman
Spokespeople or Gatekeepers? A Case Study of Teacher Engagement with the Data Privacy Policy Environment in U.S. Public Schools, Amanda Potasznik
Critical Caste Theory in Education, Savitha Rajamani
Nanoparticle-Biological Interfaces: Study and Applications in Therapy and Biosensing, Cristina Rodriguez-Quijada
An Examination of English Learner Leadership in the Massachusetts English Only Context, Teresa De Jesus Schwarz
Experiences of Self-Reported Bullying in Minority Nurses within Acute Care Hospital Workplace Settings, Ekta Srinivasa
More Seats at the Table: An Examination of the Role of Natural Supports in Promoting Postsecondary Transition for Students with Disabilities in Rural Maine, Elizabeth Stone-Sterling
Lost in Translation: Understanding Education Policy Implementation in Nepal, Sushmita Subedi
Socio-Economic Well-Being of International F-1 Students Living and Working in the United States, Elena K. Taborda
Gonadal Steroid-Independent Sexual Behavior in Female and Male B6D2F1 Gonadectomized Mice, Jay Scott Templin
Mosquito Microbiomes: Understanding the Interface Between Microbiome, Environment, and Human Pathogens, Amanda G. Tokash-Peters
Parents Pushing Back Against School Push Out, Erin Lindsey VandeVeer
Psychiatrists’ Accounts of Helping Patients Discontinue Antidepressant Medication: A Discourse Analysis, Akansha Vaswani Bye
Severe Airway Epithelium Injury Regenerates from Distinct Stem Cell Pools, Jorge Villoria Crespo
Aging with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Analysis of Physical Activity Engagement, Danielle A. Waldron
Intergenerational Relationships and Sleep in Aging Families, Haowei Wang
The Influence of Leadership Development Programs on First-Generation College Student Success, Sherrod Williams
The Medicare Home Health Program: An Analysis of the Community Admissions Cost Containment Policy, Alan G. Wright
Role of Health Information Technology in the Engagement Process of Older Adults' Cancer Treatment Decision Making, Maryum Zaidi
Oral Self-Care, Periodontal Health, and Glycemic Control Among Adults with Diabetes in the United States, Yuqing Zhang
Dissertations from 2019
Identifying Relevant Genes in Arabidopsis Thaliana the Modulate the Rhizosphere Microbiome, Daniel Acuña Hurtado
Therapists' Experiences Discussing Sexuality in College Counseling Centers: Implications for Professional Development, Bonnie K. Andrews
Black Family Engagement Through Communication Technology: A Phenomenological Study from the Perspective Of Urban Public High Schools Parents In The Greater Boston Area, Mariette Bien-Aime Ayala
Welfare Reform and the Health of Low-Income Single Mothers: The Impact of Policies Under the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunities and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), Allyson L. Baughman
Dreams of College: In Pursuit of Higher Education While Undocumented, Alessandra Maria Bazo Vienrich
To Adopt or Not to Adopt: Factors Impacting States’ Pursuit and Implementation of ACA’s Home and Community-Based Programs, Lisa Kalimon Beauregard
Place, Preferences, and Policy: An Analysis of Funding Education Along the Urban-Rural Divide, Kattalina Berriochoa
The Effects of a Hand Gesture Instruction Game on Social Skills of Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Samantha R. Broadhead
The Impact of Stigmatization on College Students Returning from Mental Health Leave, Don A. Camelio
Making Sense of HIV in the Shadow of the AIDS Crisis: Understanding the Lived Experience of Recently Diagnosed Gay and Bisexual Men 50 and Over, Timothy Carreiro
How Faculty Beliefs Shape Teaching Practice: A Critical Race Collaborative Action Research Approach Toward Achieving Equity Outcomes in Community College Remedial English, Lori A. Catallozzi
Developmental Roles of Beta-Arrestin Kurtz Revealed by Structure-Function Analysis, Fei Chai
The Early Development of Visual Working Memory, Chen Cheng
Factors the Motivate Community College Faculty to Teach Online with Implications for Access and Equity, Jenene M. Cook
Teaching for Transformation: Enabling the Exploration of Disorienting Dilemma in the Classroom, Lisa DeAngelis
Parallel Computation of Bivariate Point Data Depths and Display of Intrinsic Depth Segments, Jane Holly DeBlois
Sexually Dimorphic Serotonin System Development Mediates Sex-Specific Neuronal Excitability, Kimbra A. Edwards
Using Currere as a Form of Self-Writing among Urban Teens, Kimberly J. Frazier-Booth
Addressing Diversity with Abnorms: Implications For Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease, Samuel C. Gable
The Role of the Environmental Context in Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults, Brittany E. Gaines
Associations of Measures of Body Composition and Physical Activity with Markers of Bone Health, Meghan E. Garvey
Responsibility Development in Young Men in Postsecondary Settings: Construct Structure and Contextual Influences, Gabriel M. Garza Sada
Fingerprint-Based Localization with Limited Training Data, Siyuan Gong
Evaluating the Impact of a Combined Word Problem-Solving Intervention on Elementary Students’ Mathematics and Social Emotional Skills, Kaitlin M. Gould
Enhancing User-Oriented Security and Privacy in Emerging Data Sharing and Sensing Services, Mohammad Hadian
Health Consequences of Retirement Among Married Couples, Sae Hwang Han
A Process for Change: A Grounded Theory Investigation of Participatory Action Research as a Means for Countering Mental Illness Stigma Experienced by Transition-Aged Black Youth, Jacqueline G. Hargrove
Dismantling an Intervention Aimed at Increasing White People's Knowledge and Understanding of Racial Justice Issues, Alissa L. Hochman
Ocean Acidification Impacts on Teleostean Otolith Development, Robert J. Holmberg
Influence of Global Change Drivers on a Tropical Lake and Watershed, Étang Saumâtre, Haiti, Helenmary M. Hotz
Do Race and Ethnicity Influence Turnover Intention in Newly Licensed Registered Nurses?, Mary Susan L. Howlett
Clusterability, Model Selection and Evaluation, Kaixun Hua
Real-Time Eye Movement Analysis for Biometrics and Driving Safety, Shaohua Jia