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Theses from 2016
Femicide in Buenos Aries: Social Change Through Interpersonal Education, Mckinley Bleskachek , '16
Cultivating Trust in GMO Science: Moving past the deficit model to productive and participatory science education, Kate Crowley , '16
Sleep plasticity due to sexual experience in Drosophila melanogaster, Abigail E. Dove , '16
Studies on the transcriptional repressor LsrR and its potential interaction with DHAP, Emily Gale , '16
Art & Experiential Education: How a Deweyian Perspective on Art as the Key to Holistic Learning and Growth Can Inform Contemporary Art Education, Jena Gilbert-Merrill , '16
Socializing a "New Man": The Role of Youth in the Cuban Revolution, Juliana Gutierrez , '16
In Search of Modernity: Implementing Vietnam Escuela Nueva, Hang M. Le , '16
Embodying Tibet: Negotiating Tibetan-American Youth Identities at the Tibetan Children's Village Summer School Program, Lekey S. Leidecker , '16
Hormonal and molecular effects of restraint stress on formalin-induced pain-like behavior in male and female mice, Caela C. Long , '16
Genome-wide search for regulators of a Vibrio parahaemolyticus type III secretion system, Shaina Lu , '16
What Dragons and Hobbits (and teachers) have in common; Or the evils of hoarding: How Tolkien's The Hobbit informs classroom practice, Joy Claire de Aguilar Martinez , '16
The Gold Standard and Education Intervention Research: A Consideration of Middle School Mathematics Interventions as a Particular Case, Sarah Nielsen , '16
Native Survival and Success in Higher Education, Daniel Orr , '16
Devil's Advocate? Using Argumentation as a Curriculum Organizer for an Evolution Unit in a 10th Grade Biology Course, Ariel Pearson , '16
Enantiomerically Pure Planar Chiral N-Oxazolidinoyl Diene Tricarbonyl Iron(O) Complexes: Their Synthesis and Functionalization, Raundi E. Quevedo , '16
After-School "Funds-of-Knowledge": Biliteracy in a Latinx Tutoring Program, Quetzal A. Ramirez , '16
The Impact of Community Building on Student Achievement, Kathy Sun , '16
From No Child Left Behind to the Every Student Succeeds Act: Teacher Preparation and its Re-Envisioned Role in Federal Policy, Julia Thomas , '16
We Are (Not) Here to Teach You: Talking Race and Racism on Tumblr, Tania Uruchima , '16
Chester: A Portrait of an Evolving River City, 1919, Brionna Verse , '17
Methods for in-vivo imaging and analyzing Caveolin movement in Ciona heart, Jonathan A. White , '16
Earth Systems Science as Civic Participation: An approach to Youth Action Research for Social Change, Ciara Williams , '16
Understanding Geometry to Teach Geometry, Frank Wu , '16
Theses from 2015
A Diastereoselective Approach to Bis-spiroketal Synthesis Using Sulfinyl Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Diene Complexes, Peter A. Amadeo , '15
'FREE CUNY!': City College and the Five Demands of 1969, Alis Anasal , '15
"Unapologetic, Undocumented, and Unafraid": Framing/Meaning Making and the Evolution of the DREAMer Movement, Alejandra Barajas , '15
Characterization, identification, and enrichment of soil bacteria to promote degradation of the triazole fungicide, myclobutanil, Randall C. Burson II, '15
What is possible in out-of-school spaces? Literary practices in three writing workshops for youth, Julia Carleton , '15
Autonomy of the Student: Maintaining Ballet's Relevance as an Art Form Through Pedagogy, Daniel Cho , '15
"Breaking Out of the Bubble": Becoming self-reflexive in community-based learning classes at Swarthmore College, Natalia Choi , '15
El otro: Cuba in the World of Education, Tierra Fowler , '15
Assessing patterns of prey abundance and patchiness at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Sofia M. Gabriel , '15
Things Go Wrong. Life Goes On. How Do We Stay Strong? The Path of Resilience: Processing Trauma through Learning, Social Emotional Support, and Empowerment, Sarah Gonzales , '15
Studies on two putative AI-2 receptors and the transcriptional repressor LsrR, Jason Hua , '15
"Very different from most other people": Identity Exploration and Development in Queer and Ally Youths in Out of School Programs and on Social Media, Joan Huang , '15
"A Door to a Good and Happy Life": Building Social and Cultural Capital in a College Success Program, Zachary Kronstat , '15
Learning Shakespeare Shouldn't Hurt: An Engaging 4-Week Othello Curriculum for 9th Graders, Amelia Kucic , '16
Development of Extraction Methods for the Determination of Epoxiconazole and Myclobutanil in Agar Media by HPLC, Martin T. Mathay , '15
Analysis of Achiral and Chiral Degradation of Myclobutanil by Soil Bacteria Grown on Various Mediums, Roxanne K. Morris , '15
Using Planar Chiral Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Diene Complexes: A Focus on Azaspirocycles and the Use of an Oxazolidinone Chiral Auxiliary, Julia S. Murphy , '15
Civic Goods and the Machine in Westchester: An Unauthorized Minority Report: The Case of New Rochelle and Mount Vernon New York, Roxanne Neilson , '15
Angular Scale Expansion of Adults and Children, Jaehyun Oh , '15
Population genetic effects and signals of a recent population collapse in the forked fungus beetle Bolitotherus cornutus, Jonas J. Oppenheimer , '15
Investigating the effect of an actin-stabilizing agent on rodent spatial memory following sleep deprivation, Olivia D. Perez , '15; R. Havekes; and T. Abel
Neural glucocorticoid receptor expression predicts corticosterone dynamics in a population of wild-caught great tits (Parus major), Rebecca A. Senft , '15
Is Two Better Than One?: Analogical Reasoning in Bilingual and Monolingual Children, So Yeon Shin , '15
Arts-Based Education for Social Justice, Samantha Stevens , '15
Graphic Novels in the English Language Arts: Teacher Use of Multiple Texts and Literacies in the Classroom, Emmy Talian , '15
Theses from 2014
Characterizing the Interactions Between Influenza A M2 Protein and Cholesterol in Membranes, Matthew R. Elkins , '14
Revolution in Education: Learning Resistance in Cuban Schools, Amanda Epstein , '15
Synthesis of Novel N-Substituted Polyamide Porphyrins and Characterization of Ruthenium Complexes and Hemiporphyrazines as Potential G-quadruplex Stabilizers, Michelle N. Ferreira , '14
Extracellular matrix and associated proteins in Aiptasia pallida: Immunofluorescence detection and attempts to alter matrix assembly, Valentina E. Garcia , '14
Envisioning Ideal Teaching Selves: Teachers' Experiences of Constraint and Support in Negotiating Critical Pedagogies in Everyday Practice, Rachel Giovanniello , '14
Identification of critical residues in the periplasmic domain of MgrB in the PhoQ/PhoP signaling system of Escherichia coli, Ted Goh , '14
A role for boxer (extl3) and dackel (ext2) in motoneuron outgrowth and guidance during zebrafish development, Hannah A. Grunwald , '14
"They Don't Need to Ask Why. They Just Need to Do It:" The Tension of Adult Control and Student Agency In School and Home Disciplinary Practices, Christina Keller , '14
The Rationalized Yet Unnecessary Policy: The Consequences of Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies in U.S. Public Schools, Catherine Kelley , '14
Probing and Characterizing Different Conformations of the Influenza A M2 Protein Using SDSL-EPR Spectroscopy, Sangwoo Shawn Kim , '14
Viscoelasticity and slow locomotion allow Leptosynapta clarki, an infaunal, soft-bodied vermiform sea cucumber to burrow into stiff sediment, Hyee Ryun Lee , '14
The intertidal front lines: A comparison of the aggressive response between high and low intertidal clones of the aggregating anemone A. elegantissima, Mark P. Levine-Weinberg , '14
Thermodynamic and Kinetic Characteristics of Assembly in the Chromonic Liquid Crystal IR-806, Benjamin R. Mercado , '14
Teachers Talk Back: Philadelphia Teacher Voices During a Policy Shutout, Paloma Perez , '14
The World Bank's Influence on Chinese Urban Transport Development, Emma V. Saarel , '14
Investigation of Porphyrins as Potential G-Quadruplex Stabilizing Ligands and Fluorescent Probes, Navin C. Sabharwal , '14
"Hacerlos sentir a ellos como seres humanos importantes": Teaching for Social Justice in Rural Dominican Republic, Isabel M. Sacks , '15
Green Power and Great Powers: The Origins and Implications of Techno-Nationalism in China's Renewable Energy Industry, Collin B. Smith , '14
Female sexual behavior in Drosophila melanogaster: the role of precopulatory behaviors in communicating sexual receptivity and modulating male behavior, Cristian C. Taborda , '14
Investigations of the Putative Active Site of the Quorum Quenching Protein LsrG from Escherichia Coli and Purification of LsrE from Salmonella Typhimurium, Samuel E. Tanner , '14
SDSL-EPR Structural Studies of the Cytoplasmic Helix in Novel Full-Length Constructs of the Influenza A M2 Protein, Megan E. Thompson , '14
Communities of Change in an Institution of Exclusion: Race, Activism, and Identity of Student Organizers of Color at Swarthmore College, Shelly Wen , '14
Promoter hypermethylation of expanded C90RF72 may play a protective role in ALS and FTD patients, Kathryn M. Wu , '14
Theses from 2013
A Mathematical Model of Early-Stage Non-EBV Classical Hodgkin's Lymphoma (cHL), Julienne Abad , '13
Jet-Cooled Spectroscopic Characterization of Anethole (methoxy-4-(prop-1-enyl)benzene), a Natual Styrene Derivative, Victoria P. Barber , '13
Investigating G-quadruplex Formation and its Structural Perturbation by and Interactions with N-methyl mesoporphyrin IX, Steven P. Barrett , '13
The role of prolyl-4-hydroxylase in the trafficking of symbionts in Aiptasia pallida, Curran K. Bice , '13
Overexpression, Purification, Spin-Labeling, and Characterization of Full-Length M2, an Integral Membrane Protein of Influenza A, in Detergent Micelles and in Mixed Lipid Vesicles, Richard Chen , '13
Training for Change: Moving from Theory to Practice in Adult Education for Empowerment, Elowyn Corby , '13
Towards a unified model of Fallopia japonica (Japanese knotweed) growth and control by mechanical techniques, Emily L. Dolson , '13
Communication-centered mathematics: The interplay of context, beliefs, and mathematical social practice in an abstract algebra classroom, Allison Gantt , '13
Disaggregation of HIV transmission-enhancing amyloid fibrils formed by SEM1 and SEM2, Rebecca M. Hammond , '13
Envisioning Community: The Promise of Teacher Leadership for Career Sustainability, Spencer L. Jones , '13
Isolation, characterization, and enrichment of soil bacteria capable of metabolizing the triazole fungicide epoxiconazole, Nina N. Kogekar , '13
Hard Force, Soft Power: China's Rise and the "Grammar" of Normative Construction, Lorand C. Laskai , '13
Expanding Identities: Identity Transformations in In-prison Higher Education, Hannah Lehmann , '13
The impact of content relevance and inquiry-based learning on student interest and retention in chemistry: An examination of a Romanian professional development program for high school chemistry teachers, Diane K. Marpozan , '14
Chemical ecology of the defensive secretions of a ground beetle, Travis M. Mattingly , '13
A Computational Investigation of SN2 and E2 Reactivity and Transition State Geometries, Brett D. McLarney , '12
Evaluation of the immunogenicity of candidate antigens and a syngeneic immunocompetent mouse model for the testing of immunotherapies for ovarian cancer, Erin Murphy Curtis , '13
Observation of Cytoskeletal Proteins in Symbiotic and Aposymbiotic Aiptasia pallida, Renu A. Nadkarni , '13
Between Drama and Danger: The Effects of Latino Second Graders' Identities on Gendered Patterns in School Success, Sam Panepinto , '13
A model and typology of reduplication in Sora, Jacob B. Phillips , '13
Characterization of a homozygous nonsense mutation in SLITRK6 associated with sensorineural hearing loss, Eric A. Sherman , '13
The Effect of Universal Stress Protein A Phosphorylation on Heat Shock Response in Escherichia coli, Emma S. Spady , '13
Studies on the Diastereoselctive Synthesis of Spiroketals and Bis-spiroketals Utilizing a Planar Chiral Sulfinyl Diene Iron(0) Tricarbonyl Scaffold, Jacob S. Tracy , '13
Interaction of Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes With Human Telometric DNA, Vienna Tran , '13
Analysis of Beetle Cuticular Hydrocarbons, Elizabeth A. Williams , '13
Utilizing Enantiopure Planar Chiral Sulfinyl and N-Oxazolidinyl Iron(O) Tricarbonyl Diene Complexes for the Installation of Adjacent Stereocenters, Alice R. Wong , '13
Theses from 2012
Maximizing feeding in minimal flow: behavioral and morphological plasticity of Balanus glandula, Katherine C. Cushman , '12