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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
Functions of the Minibrain Signaling Network in Brain Development, Melissa Brown
To Fear the Heat of the Sun, David Capone
Meeting the Emotional Needs of Hospice Patients: A Mixed-Methods Study, Katherine Frances Carelli
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
After the Disaster: Environmental Harm and Cultural Change, Timothy Dennis Dacey
Heritage Language Maintenance, Language Socialization, and Family Language Policy: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Trilingual Family, Rosiane Barcelos de Oliveira
Reimagining Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning Implementation in the Urban Setting: A Case Study of a Massachusetts Elementary School, Molly Helene Duffy
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
Repertoires of Resistance: Latino Immigrant Food Service Workers, Covid-19, and the Struggle for Dignity and Justice at Work, Meredith L. Gamble
The Sankofa Study: Preliminary Feasibility and Outcomes of an Afrocentric Racism-Related Stress Intervention, Shannon Marie Hughley
Biophysical Characterization of 3D Pancreatic Tumor Models Using Particle Tracking Microrheology, Dustin P. Jones
Unheard Voices: Lady Health Workers in Lahore's Peripheral Communities, Samiya Khalid
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
Finding the Blind Sports: An Exploration of the Complexity and Diffusion of Police Body Camera Policies, Stephanie Lessing
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
A Small Potato, Leanne Ma
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
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
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
A Patient and More: Exploring How Patients' Identities Affect Their Satisfaction, Tracy Leigh Reed
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
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
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
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