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Theses from 2021
Building Trust Through Dialogue in Divided Societies Role of Encounter Programs in Georgian-Abkhazian Peacebuilding Processes, Mariam Davlashelidze
A Comparison of Phagocytosis in Three Caribbean Sea Urchins: Investigating the Role of Compromised Immunity in a Marine Invertebrate Mass Mortality, John P. DeFilippo
Don't Be a Stranger, Scott M. Delisle
Spaces of Time: An Archaeological Perspective on the Deborah Newman Homesite, Gary L. Ellis
Fundamental Concepts of the Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition of Uniaxial Calamitic Thermotropic Mesogens, Julian A. Fekety
Viability and Other Stories, Jim Flanagan
Study of Nonlinear Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles Dispersed in Nematic Liquid Crystals, Changshuo Fu
Excess Stress and Natural Mentors in the Lives of Sexual Minority Youth, Cherrelle Gipson
Image Registration With and Without Labeled Mask, Neha Goyal
In Vivo Analysis of Drosophila Cell Signaling Using Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC), Claire S. Jackan
More Than Just a School: Medicinal Practices at the Abiel Smith School, Dania D. Jordan
America Haunts the Heart: Stories, Nicole-Anne Bales Keyton
Visualization and Quantification of the Laser-Induced Art of TiO2 by Photoexcitation of Adsorbed Dyes, Daniela (Labadini) Graf Stillfried Barreto
Exploring Student Engagement with a Nanotechnology Module for Middle School Developed Using the Model of Educational Reconstruction, Martyna Laszcz
Celebrating Chinese American Veterans: Commemoration and America's Collective Memory Of War, Kevin Lee
Study of Disentangle Latent Representation from The Geometry Perspective, Donghao Li
Community in a Time of Crisis: How the People of Provincetown, Massachusetts Worked to Combat the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Danielle Maria Lisbon
Open Wave Height Logger: An Open-Source Pressure Sensor Data Logger for Wave Measurement, Theodore P. Lyman
Design and Characterization of a Single Sided Field Free Line Scanner for Magnetic Particle Imaging, Christopher McDonough
Racial Differences in Aortic Hemodynamics Following Repeated Bouts of Anaerobic Exercise in Women: Wave Separation Analysis, Marnie Kelly McLean
Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Quantum Sensing Applied to Mapping Magnetic Fields of Bacteria, Benjamin Rocco Moss
Creating Community: Examining Black Identity and Space in New Guinea, Nantucket, Jared Muehlbauer
Directing the Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles within Engineered Smectic Defects at Double Undulated Surfaces, Mackenzie O'Keefe
Characterizing the Relationship Between Species Richness and the Seasonal Phenomenon of Tropical Fish Dispersal in New England Waters, Michael E. O'Neill
Deep Face Recognition and Rejection of Unknown Faces, Aseem Pandita
Addressing the White Problem Critically: An Exploratory Latent Profile Analysis of Racial Attitudes, Ryan Parigoris
The Decline of the Massachusetts Know-Nothing Party: The Impact of Slavery and Temperance in 1855, Alexander Rodrigues
The Characterization of Antimicrobial Activity from Ctenophores and Cnidaria, Suzanne S. Rossov
COVID-19 and Health Misinformation: A Topology and Classification Model, Archana Shinde
The Boston Black United Front and Community-Centered Alternatives to the Carceral State, Joseph W. Sikowitz
Augmenting Benthic Habitat Mapping with Low-Cost Imagery: An Application of the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS), Sean V. Terrill
Sex Differences in Symbolic Play of Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Looknoo Patcharapon Thammathorn
Developmental Profiles of 57,966 Children in Early Intervention: A Confirmatory Latent Profile Analysis, Mary E. Troxel
A Good Woman Should, Megan Waring
“A Permanent Blemish…in the Centre of the Village": Archaeology and Heritage Tourism on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Justin A. Warrenfeltz
The Effects of Type II Diabetes on Postural Adaptation During a Visual Search Task in Older Adults, Alexander L. Wolfe
Girls Like Us, Sarah M. Young
EFS: An Efficient, Fast and Scalable Semantic Segmentation Pipeline Using Tensorflow 2, Alexander Zhurkevich
Theses from 2020
The Role of Civil Society in Interethnic Peacebuilding in Afghanistan (2001 to the Present), Ashraf Amiri
Racial Differences in Blood Pressure and Autonomic Recovery Following Acute Maximal Anaerobic Exercise in Women, Nicole Paula Bajdek Emmons
Useful Materials: PXRF Analysis of 17th-Century Flat Glass from Plymouth Colony, Grace E. Bello
Operation Nickel Grass: Richard Nixon and the Yom Kippur War, Luke George Bergquist
Essential Labor: Marginalized People in the American Whaling Industry, Southeastern Massachusetts, Brielle E. Berical
STORM(S), Drew Bevis
Toxicokinetics of Cyanide and its Metabolites, and Related Gene Expression in Marine Fish: Implications Towards Combating Cyanide Fishing Through Detection, John Alexander Bonanno
Modeling the Obscuring Features in Active Galactic Nuclei: an X-Ray Analysis of NGC 1052, Samantha E. Cabral
Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of Co2 To CO with Iron Nheterocyclic Carbene Complexes and Near-Infrared Absorbance of Ruthenium(II) Photosensitizers Containing a Merocyanine π-Acceptor, Peter Andrew Catsoulis
Unique Syndemic-Related Clusters in a Sample of Sexual Minority Men, Christopher Chiu
Teller and Ben, A Novel, Daniel Elfanbaum
A Dogged Resolve: The Doctrine and Decline of Mormon Plural Marriage, 1841-1890, Jaclyn Thornock Gadd
The Hyde Park Thought Club: Pioneers in the Women’s Club Movement -- A Case Study 1868 – 1902, Patrice A. Gattozzi
Flotsam, Caitlin N. Ghegan
We Are Not Lemons, Chelsey A. Grasso
Looking into Going Back: A Revision of Strangers, Caitlyn M. Griffin
Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Language Abilities and Social Communication, Ingrid Hastedt
The Ghosts of Empires Past: The Red Army Faction’s Violent Relationship with Cold War Neo-Imperialism, 1969-1974, Renee Danielle Jean
All This Is Temporary & Other Stories, Hope A. Jordan
Otolith Age Validation and Microchemical Investigation of the Northern Stock f Atlantic Black Sea Bass (Centropristis Striata), Elise R. Koob
Exploring Different Textures of Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells for Quantitative Fourier Phase Contrast Microscopy, Charlotte Kyeremah
Each Sweet, Julia R. Lattimer
Small Towns and Mining Camps: An Analysis of Chinese Diasporic Communities in 19th-Century Oregon, Jocelyn Lee
Reassessing the Factors that Led to the Evacuation of Japanese in World War Two, Mark S. Lewis
Form, Function, and Context: Lithic Analysis of Flaked Stone Artifacts at a 17th-Century Rural Spanish Estancia (LA 20,000), Santa Fe County, New Mexico, Clint S. Lindsay
Same Stone, Different Outcomes: Marine Communities on Engineered vs. Natural Rock Shores, Lucy Anne Dando Lockwood
Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Phenobarbital on Verbal Abilities in School-Aged Children, Jocelyn M. Lutes
Black Masters; The Ownership of Slaves by Free People of Color in the Antebellum South 1780-1861, Michael O. Magbagbeola
Polystyrene Beads as a Vector from Contamination of Gemfibrozil in the Bay Scallop (Argopecten Irradians), Charles R. Major
Examining the Interrelations Among Trajectories of Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Valued Actions in Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Stephanie Marando-Blanck
Urban Parks Reimagined: Utilizing City Parks for Stormwater Drainage During Flash Flood Events, Stephan A. Maranian
"To Have and Enjoy": Seating in Boston's Early Anglican Churches, 1686-1732, Erica Jill McAvoy
Racial Differences in Arterial Stiffness During Recovery Following Repeated Bouts of Maximal Anaerobic Cycling Exercise in Young Women, Noelle Merchant
Scholars, Spinners and Economies of Scale: Public Education on Exhibit in the Textile Era in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Arthur P. Motta Jr.
Dominant Narratives in the Migratory Discourse of Colombia; An Analysis of the Content of Speech in Local Television News and the Opinions of Colombian Citizens, Jennifer Andrea Moya Castano
Beyond the Big Top: The Legacy of John Ringling and the American Circus, Casey L. Nemec
“Even if it Means Our Battles to Date are Meaningless” The Anime Gundam Wing and Postwar History, Memory, and Identity in Japan, Genevieve R. Peterson
Studying the Effect of a Preformed Protein Corona Around Gold Nanoparticles Used for Immunoassays, Alyssa Jean Pimentel
Assembling Smectic Defects on Curved Geometries, Ryan Preusse
Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Grammar in Second Language Development, Tina S. Randall
Kneeling for Social Justice: Epistemologies of Ignorance, Schemas, and Frames on Twitter, Robert J. Rice
"Full of Light and Fire": John Brown in Springfield, Louis J. Rocco Jr.
Does the Quality of a Reporting Regime Affect the Level of Earnings Management? – An Empirical Study Based on Indian Companies Act, 2013, Hem Vijay Shah
Comfort Food, Sarah A. Shapiro
Limited Viewpoints: The Implementation of Multimodal Constructs in an ELL Model Curriculum Unit, Deborah A. Smith
How Much Does a Memory Weigh, Nicholas Snow
Development of Methods to Examine Electron Glass Models, Eric J. Steele
Accounting for Equity in Climate Adaptation Planning: A Quantitative Assessment of Co-Benefits for Green Infrastructure, Hannah M. Stroud
The Psychogram, Nathaniel M. Sullivan
“We May Have Profitable Commerce And Trade Together”: An Analysis of 17th-Century Ceramics in Plymouth Colony, Elizabeth G. Tarulis
Washed Away: Native American Representation in Oklahoma Museums and High Schools, 2000 – 2020, Catherine E. Thompson
The Effects of High Intensity Interval Training on Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Dynamics in Diet-Induced Obese Mice, James B. Tincknell
Keeper, Christina C. Towers
Unprotected Hex, Nicholas B. Trefonides
Listening to Greater Boston's Climate Change Concerns, Anna I. Valdez
The Thing of It Is, Andria J. Warren