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Dissertations/Theses

The culmination of the PhD program of study is a doctoral dissertation, prepared with the guidance of a thesis advisor. The dissertation must demonstrate originality and ability for an independent investigation, and the results of the research must constitute a noteworthy contribution to knowledge in the field. The dissertation must exhibit mastery of the literature on the subject and familiarity with the sources, and must be well written.

A PhD candidate files a dissertation proposal form with the University of Minnesota Graduate School shortly after passing the preliminary oral examination.

Students defend their PhD thesis to an oral examination committee consisting of four members, including their advisor and two other members of the Linguistics Graduate Faculty, plus one member external to the Linguistics program. Three members of the final oral examination committee will serve as reviewers of the dissertation, including their thesis advisor, one other member of the linguistics graduate faculty, and one member from the field of the minor or the supporting program. More details on examination committees can be found on Onestop's site. Students must follow all Graduate School requirements for formatting their thesis.

PhD Dissertations

• 2021. Borui Zhang.  Clausal Complementation in Nepal Bhasa
• 2021. Maria Heath.  Tweeting Out Loud: Prosodic Orthography on Social Media
• 2019. Paul Tilleson.  On Bipartite Negation
• 2016. Michael Sullivan. Relativization in Ojibwe
• 2014. Muhammad Abdurrahman. Sociophonetic Perception of African-American English in Minnesota
• 2014. Suzanne van Duym. Informativeness, Category Membership, and the Distribution of Adjectival Past Participles
• 2014. Mahmoud Sadrai. Cognitive Status and ra-Marked Referents of Nominal Expressions in Persian
• 2014. James Stevens. Control and Disposal of Demonstratives, with Electrophysiological Evidence from English and Japanese
• 2013. Hiroki Nomoto. Number in Classifier Languages
• 2012. Mamadou Bassene. Morphophonology of Jóola Eegimaa
• 2012. Kaitlin Johnson. Development of Scalar Implicatures and the Indefinite Article
• 2012. Kateryna Kent. Morphosyntactic Analysis of Surzhyk, a Russian-Ukranian mixed lect
• 2012. Dingcheng Li. Entity Relation Detection with Factorial Hidden Markov Models and Maximum Entropy Discriminant Latent Dirichlet Allocations
• 2012. Ellen Lucast. The Interaction of Structural and Inferential Elements in Characterizing Human Linguistic Communication
• 2012. Mark Wicklund. Use of Referring Expressions by Autistic Children in Spontaneous Conversations: Does Impaired Metarepresentational Ability Affect Reference Production?
• 2011. Paula Chesley. Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Constraints on Lexical Entrenchment
• 2011. Eden Kaiser. Sociophonetics of Hmong American English in Minnesota
• 2011. Sarah Loss. Iron Range English Long-Distance Reflexives
• 2010. Sharon Gerlach. The Acquisition of Consonant Sequences: Harmony, Metathesis, and Deletion Patterns in Phonological Development
• 2010. Oksana Laleko. The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Language Loss: Covert Restructuring of Aspect in Heritage Russian
• 2009. Khalfaoui Amel. A Cognitive Approach to Analyzing Demonstratives in Tunisian Arabic
• 2009. Michiko Buchanan. Ellipsis Involving Verbs in Japanese
• 2009. Linda Humnick. Pronouns in Kumyck Discourse: A Cognitive Perspective
• 2009. Brendan Fairbanks. Ojibwe Discourse Markers
• 2022. Ruyuan Wan. Riddikulus: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Memes
• 2022. Aandeg Muldrew.  Understanding the e- prefix in NW Ojibwe in terms of veridicality
• 2021.  Chen Yang.  Results, negation and 'understand' verbs in Mandarin Chinese: An aspectual analysis
• 2021.   Zachary Lorang.   Multiple Partitive as a Distinct Phenomenon: Evidence from Russian
• 2021.  Vipasha Bansal. Condition C in White Hmong
• 2021.  Brandon Kieffer.  Glide Clusters in Kinyarwanda: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis
• 2021.  Zoe Brown.  Wh-imperatives in Southwestern Ojibwe
• 2020. Mskwaankwad Rice. The Preterit Mode and Counterfactuality in Ojibwe
• 2020. Ian White. The Argument Structure of Deverbal Nouns
• 2020. Mitchell Klein. Tag, You’re It! An Examination of Pre-Velar Raising in Minnesota English
• 2020.  Nora Livesay.  Ojibwe Passives and VoiceP
• 2019. Alexander Jarnow. Making Questions with Tone: Polar Question Formation in Kinyarwanda
• 2019. Samantha Hamilton.  Prosodically-Driven Reduplication in Maori: An Analysis
• 2018. Mary Christensen. I Always Understood the Past to Exclude Speech Time: Event structure in past tense politeness
• 2018. Hye-Min Kang.  Upper Sorbian Genitive Pronoun within Possessive Adjective Construction
• 2017. Anthoni Fortier. Split Ergativity in Newari
• 2017. Maria Heath. Interpretation of Non-standard Capitalization on Twitter
• 2017. Jesse Scheumann. Hebrew Voicing Assimilation
• 2016. Jonathon Coltz. Expressing dislike in focus groups on food
• 2016. Mark McKay. The MorphoSyntax of Bipartite Negation in Paraguayan Guaraní
• 2016. Yolanda Pushetonequa. Phonological Change in Meskwaki and Effects on Orthography
• 2016. Borui Zhang. Predictions of Entropy Reduction Theory on Chinese Relative Clauses
• 2015. Martha Abramson. Contrast Preservation and Enhancement in Mandarin Chinese
• 2015. Anna Farrell. Official Language Policy and the Linguistic Landscape of an Internationalizing University
• 2015. Wei Song. The Sentence-final de and the Post-verbal de in the shi...de construction in Mandarin
• 2015. Joshua St. George. Features of Language: A Study of Informative Features for Use in a Supervised Non-deterministic Transition-based Dependency Parser over the Latin Dependency Treebank
• 2014. Geoffrey Fischer. Local Constraint Implication in Phonological Opacity
• 2014. Emily Hanson. ‘We’ll take that as a compliment’ Changes in the use of bitch as gender-role enforcement  
• 2014. Jeremy Orosz. Prosody, Semantics and Narrative Structure: Revis(it)ing Labov
• 2013. Paul Tilleson. Bipartite negation in Sgaw Karen
• 2013. Guillermo Carlos Alvarez. Creole Derivational Morphology
• 2013. Alexa Landazuri. Female Swearing Behavior and Usage of the F-word: A Study of Californian and Midwestern Young Adults
• 2013. Hannah Sande. Nouchi as a Distinct Language: The Morphological Evidence
• 2012. Michael Sullivan. Documentation and description of narrative styles between Minnesota and Wisconsin Ojibwe

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Dissertations and theses in the University Digital Conservancy comprise the official, approved version of these works. The dissertations and theses in the Digital Conservancy are submitted through the Graduate School in accordance with University standards . Works contributed to the Conservancy serve as a permanent University of Minnesota record of graduate student scholarship. Electronic submission of dissertations to the Digital Conservancy date from 2007. Master's Plan A theses date from 2009.

Online availability of earlier dissertations and theses include a majority of works completed prior to 1923 as well as works made available by individual alumni. Earlier dissertations and theses may be accessed onsite in paper form, or through interlibrary loan, or through the online Digital Dissertations database. Check the University Libraries catalog for holdings information or contact the University of Minnesota Archives for these earlier works. For more information, please see the FAQ on Master's Theses and Dissertations .

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After passing the final oral examination, you will use the feedback from your committee to make final revisions to your thesis or dissertation manuscript and complete any remaining formatting requirements.

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To meet the final requirements for the degree, you must deposit your dissertation with ProQuest and fill out and submit the Thesis/Dissertation Approval and Deposit Agreement. You may also opt to delay the release of a thesis or dissertation to the public.

These processes are maintained by GSSP in its Thesis or Dissertation Submission instructions . Refer to this page to initiate all forms, and direct any questions to [email protected] .

Remember: Your manuscript and all related forms must be submitted and accepted by the last business day of your graduation month. Late submission will delay your graduation until the end of the next month. 

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An honors thesis is required of all students graduating with any level of Latin honors. It is an excellent opportunity for undergraduates to define and investigate a topic in depth, and to complete an extended written reflection of their results & understanding. The work leading to the thesis is excellent preparation for graduate & professional school or the workplace.

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Final dissertation and thesis defense

Once a computer science doctoral student has completed their thesis, they may proceed to step #8 on the  graduation checklist  and assign their doctoral examination committee. Members should be updated to reflect who will serve as  committee  chair and who will serve in a reviewing capacity. Students should remember that an advisor cannot be the chair of the Final Defense Committee. 

The final oral examination committees must consist of at least four qualified individuals to include:

• At least three members (including the advisor) must be from your major field; in almost all cases, this will be someone whose home department is Computer Science & Engineering.
• At least one member must represent a field outside the major.

Things to consider:

• You must select a committee chair, the faculty advisor can not serve as chair.
• If you have declared a minor, at least one member must represent the minor field. This counts for the outside the major representative.
• Members cannot satisfy the requirement with respect to more than one field.

All members of the committees and the candidate must participate live either in-person or remotely, the presentation can not be recorded and viewed later by one or more committee members. The final oral examination committee is not required to include the same members who served on the prelim oral committee.

Thesis reviewers for final oral examination

• A minimum of three major field reviewers and one minor/outside reviewer are required. In the case of multiple minors, there must be a reviewer for each minor.  
• Advisor(s) must serve as reviewers.
• Every designated reviewer on the doctoral dissertation reviewer’s report must certify that the dissertation is ready for defense before the doctoral final oral examination may take place.
• Must represent the major on the final oral committees.
• The chair of the doctoral final oral examination committee may not be the candidate’s advisor.

Co-advisor (if any)

• May represent the major or the minor/outside field on the preliminary oral and final oral committees.
• May serve as chair for the preliminary oral examination.
• The chair of the doctoral final oral examination committee may not be the candidate’s co-advisor.

Copies of a student's thesis should be given to all members of the committee. It is important to note that all members of a student's committee read his or her thesis; although only those designated as thesis reviewers sign the form indicating that the thesis is ready for defense. Student's must notify their advisor and the other members of the committee at least two weeks in advance that the thesis will be delivered on a particular date. All members of the examining committee must then have at least two weeks to read the thesis after it has been delivered. The reviewers must decide unanimously that the thesis is ready for defense.  Upon completion of the review, designated committee members complete the Reviewer's Report form to certify that a student is ready for defense. All Reviewer's Report forms should be submitted to the Graduate Student Services and Progress Office at minimum one week before the date of a student's Final Oral Examination. 

Once a student's thesis is complete with all requested changes made, the thesis along with a cover page signed by the student and advisor must be submitted to  GSSP . In signing the cover page, the advisor is certifying that all requested changes have been made. Students will then be requested to submit a thesis online. The Computer Science and Engineering department also requests that students submit one bound copy of the final thesis to the department. Directions for thesis submission along with thesis formatting instructions can be found  here.

Final Oral Examination Procedure

Students are responsible for scheduling their thesis defense with the Graduate Student Services and Progress office via the  Final Oral Examination Scheduling  system at least one week prior to their defense. The student's thesis must be reviewed by his or her committee and the Thesis Reviewer Report form must be turned in prior to the student's defense.  The Graduate Student Services and Progress office will send a "Final Oral Examination Report Doctoral Degree" form to the chair of the Final Examination Committee, please note that this will not be a student's advisor. Students should verify that this form had been received by the Committee Chair.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering requires all Ph.D. students to hold their final thesis defense within ninety days of obtaining all committee member signatures on the " Reviewers Report on the Ph.D. Thesis" form which states that the thesis is ready for defense. This form is available in the  Graduation Packet  available for download at the Graduate School webpage.   Those who fail to take their thesis defense due to scheduling conflicts must resubmit this form to restart the 90-day clock.

To be awarded the degree students must receive no more than one dissenting vote from the total examining committee. Students must make all the necessary changes in the text of the thesis before it is bound. Students must observe all requirements, including submitting one unbound copy of the thesis with the signature of an advisor to the Graduate Student Services and Progress Office, before a degree can be awarded.

Graduate Education policy requires that all thesis defense presentations for doctoral candidates be made open to the public. To ensure transparency, the Computer Science Department requires doctoral candidates to make their full dissertation available to the public prior to the final oral defense. The availability of this copy, along with the time and place of your thesis defense must be communicated to  [email protected]  for dissemination through electronic mail to current graduate faculty and students, at least one week prior to your defense date. This announcement must contain a one-page descriptive abstract of the thesis to be defended, the name of the thesis advisor, the names of any co-advisors, and the URL of your thesis. To schedule the Final Oral Examination, the student must notify the Graduate school through the online system. The Computer Science front desk staff can assist with reserving a room if needed. to notify the faculty, peers and the general public of the Thesis Defense.    

After passing the final oral exam, students must turn in the signed  Thesis Defense Report Form to the GSSP office within 24 hours. Upon your departure, please remember to submit to the department a change of address, the name of your first employer (after graduation) and return keys you have for your office and/or the labs.

For questions about the final dissertation and thesis defense, contact the Graduate Program Coordinator: Current students:  [email protected] Prospective students:  [email protected]

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Music Citation Guide (Chicago Style)

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As you scroll, you'll find footnote and bibliography entry templates and examples of citations for real sources for the following types of dissertations and theses:

• Digital dissertations and theses
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Digital dissertation or thesis

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8. Author First Name Last Name, “Dissertation or Thesis Title” (DMA diss./PhD diss./master’s thesis, Institution Name, Year), Page Number, Database Name.  

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8. Christine Jobson, “Florence Price: An Analysis of Select Art Songs With Text by Female Poets” (DMA diss., University of Miami, 2019), 56, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

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Print dissertation or thesis

19. Author First Name Last Name, “Dissertation or Thesis Title’” (DMA diss./PhD diss./master’s thesis, Institution Name, Year), Page Number.  

19. Gregory Alden Magie, “Conducting William Schuman's ‘New England Triptych’’” (DMA diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1996), 12.

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Mom delivers baby in car hours before defending her Rutgers doctoral thesis

• Updated: May. 08, 2024, 3:05 p.m. |
• Published: May. 08, 2024, 11:30 a.m.

Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez delivered her son, Enzo, hours before defending her dissertation at the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education. Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University

• Tina Kelley | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Giving birth and defending a doctoral dissertation could easily be considered among the most stressful items on a bucket list. For Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez, it was all in a day’s work. One day’s work.

She even grabbed a shower in between.

On March 24, Brevard-Rodriguez, director of Aresty Research Center at Rutgers University, was finishing up preparations for her doctoral defense the next day. Eight months pregnant with her second child, she didn’t feel terrific, but she persisted.

She was trying to hone down to 20 minutes her remarks on “The Beauty Performances of Black College Women: A Narrative Inquiry Study Exploring the Realities of Race, Respectability, and Beauty Standards on a Historically White Campus.” The Zoom link had gone out to family, friends, and colleagues for the defense, scheduled for 1 p.m. the next day.

“Operation Dissertation before Baby,” as she called it, was a go.

But at 2:15 a.m. on March 25 her water broke, a month and a day early.

As the contractions came closer and closer, her wife drove her down the Garden State Parkway, trying to get to Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair before Baby Enzo showed up.

But the baby was faster than a speeding Maserati and arrived in the front seat at 5:55 a.m., after just three pushes. He weighed in at 5-pounds 12-ounces, 19 inches long, and in perfect health for a baby four weeks early.

“I did have to detail her car afterward,” the new mom said of her wife.

Brevard-Rodriguez was feeling so good after the birth that she decided against asking to reschedule her thesis defense.

“I had more than enough time to regroup, shower, eat and proceed with the dissertation,” she said. She had a quick nap, too. The doctors and nurses supported her decision and made sure she had access to reliable wifi at the hospital.

She gave her defense with a Rutgers background screen. When she learned she had passed, she dropped the fake background, and people could see Brevard-Rodriguez in her maternity bed, and Enzo in her wife’s arms.

“I said, ‘You guys missed the big news,’ and they just fell out,” said Brevard-Rodriguez, who waited for the reveal because she didn’t want extra sympathy from her dissertation committee.

Melina Mangin, chair of the Educational Theory, Policy & Administration Department at the Graduate School of Education, was astounded.

“Tamiah had delivered a flawless defense with zero indication that she had just given birth,” she said. “She really took the idea of productivity to the next level!”

Finishing her doctorate in education and having her last child were fitting 40th birthday presents to herself, Brevard-Rodriguez said. She turned 40 in November and returns to work in late August.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Association between antiretroviral therapy and severe COVID-19 outcomes among hospitalized HIV positive people with SARS-Cov-2 in NYS , Aizhan Kyzayeva

Institutionalized normative heterosexuality : the case of sexual fluidity , Nicole Lamarre

Executive functioning in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes : associations with HbA1c, glycemic variability, and household income , Victoria Louise Ledsham

Economic policy and equality : neoliberalism and gender equity in Latin America since the 1970s , Donnett Annmarie Lee

Three essays in health economics , Jun Soo Lee

Visions and seeds of change : pathways to defining and seeking liberation , Ramon Kentrell Lee

Dynamics in public finance and disaster management : financial impacts of natural disasters, intergovernmental aid, and community-level social effects , Sungyoon Lee

A synoptic-dynamic analysis of the structure and evolution of persistent north Pacific wintertime ridge regimes , Tyler Christopher Leicht

Stubbornly merging discrete vector fields , Douglas W. Lenseth

A role perspective of workplace procrastination , Boran Li

Multiple imputation in high-dimensional data with variable selection , Qiushuang Li

Spatial diffusion of immigrants and children's academic performance in the United States , Yuanfei Li

Development and applications of touch chemistry biometrics analysis of latent fingermarks by Maldi-Ms , Cameron M. Longo

Educational materials and image induction increase treatment credibility , Zi Ling Fiona Low

Government, citizen, and social media : understanding police-citizen interaction on Weibo in China , Yumeng Luo

The influence of loneliness : mental health's impact on workaholism among graduate students , Bhindai Mahabir

Three essays in health economics , Mir Nahid Mahmud

First homoleptic rare rarth metal complexes with doubly-reduced dibenzocyclooctatetraene , James C. Mahoney

Genres, communities, and practices , Evan Malone

Trace elements in nails and anemia in children living along the Interoceanic Highway, Madre De Dios, Peru / narrative competence and cognitive mapping as a culturally sustaining pedagogy in the education of emergent bilinguals , Tia Marks

Translation control tunes drosophila oogenesis , Elliot T. Martin

Evaluating the relationship between orthorexia nervosa, eating disorder symptomatology, and related psychological constructs in an undergraduate mixed-gender sample , Kimberly Marie Martinez

Probability distributions of the scalar potential , Candace Mathews

Describing participation in veteran peer support : a secondary analysis of women veterans' experiences , Amanda L. Matteson

Space weather and criminal violence : a longitudinal analysis of major US urban areas , Richard Mcmillan

Maker programs in preK-12 school libraries : identifying the drivers and consequences , Shannon Mersand

Savoring as a protective behavioral strategy for cannabis use , Maha Noor Mian

Parenting profiles in families of children with autism spectrum disorder : a cluster analytic approach , Anna Milgramm

Essays on technology and the labor market with search models , Soonhong Min

Large-scale flow patterns conducive to Central American extreme precipitation events during autumn , Alexander Kyle Mitchell

Interpersonal forgiveness is the recognition that justice is attained , Raphael Faith Moser

Salivary gland stromal heterogeneity and epithelial controls , Nicholas L. Moskwa

Megacity : a reservoir of toxic environmental contaminants and health disease burden , Omosehin Daniel Moyebi

Turning density functional theory calculations into molecular mechanics simulations : establishing the fluctuating density model for RNA nucleobases , Christopher A. Myers

A patchwork community : exploring belonging, gender roles, and God's gifts among progressive American Mennonites , Christa D. Mylin

Food environment, food acquisition behavior, and fruit and vegetable consumption among Burmese immigrants and refugees : a socio-ecological study , Hnin Wai Lwin Myo

Prairie ashes : a novel , Benjamin Nadler

Inhibition of lysine acetyltransferases KAT 3A/3B and its effect on poliovirus proliferation , Eduards Norkvests

Essays on career progression among the underrepresented in academic biomedicine , Allison Nunez

Essentialism predicts attitudes toward gender non-binary people , Tianny Stephanie Ocasio

Neural correlates and neuroanatomy of juvenile and adult contextual fear memory retention , Natalie Odynocki

Soil from footwear is a newly rediscovered type of forensic evidence due to the application of modern analytical techniques : a review , Rhilynn Haley Ogilvie

The role of White guilt and White shame in awareness of privilege and anti-racism , Lynsay Paiko

Maternal antifungal use during pregnancy : a study of prevalence of use and the risk of birth defects , Eleni A. Papadopoulos

Decision-making accuracy at the classwide level , Alexandra Payne

Video chatting and eating disorder psychopathology , Taylor Rae Perry

Regulation of a shared focus in open-ended collaborative inquiry , Simona Pesaresi

An entropic approach to dynamics , Pedro Henrique Moreira Pessoa

Does mattering matter? : an analysis of mattering and persistence rates of EOP and non-EOP students , Glenn David Pichardo

Comparison of 2018-2021 tropical cyclone track forecasts before and after NOAA G-IV missions , Melissa Piper

The communicative capacities of the medical discourse in authoritarian societies : the case of AIDS in Iran , Elham Pourtaher

A GIS approach to landscape scale archaeoacoustics , Kristy Elizabeth Primeau

Phase and dark field radiography and CT with mesh-based structured illumination and polycapillary optics , Uttam Pyakurel

An exploration of the relationship between social-emotional well-being and health behaviors of urban youth , Nelia Mayreilys Quezada

Amyloid fibril formation and polymorphism : a critical role of sulfur-containing amino acid residues , Tatiana Quiñones-Ruiz

ACT5 EIT system : a multiple-source electrical impedance tomography system , Omid Rajabi Shishvan

PRESTO : fast and effective group closeness maximization , Baibhav L. Rajbhandari

Three essays in health economics , Savita Ramaprasad

Two case studies examining how international graduate teaching assistants built mathematical literacy knowledge within the affordances and constraints of a calculus instructional system , Patricia A. Rand

Poetry and thought's revealing , Evan Reardon

Examining the potential of epigenetic age to mediate the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and locus of control using the ALSPAC cohort , Christopher Reddy

Signal yields and detector modeling in xenon time projection chambers, and results of an effective field theory dark matter search using LUX data , Gregory Ransford Carl Rischbieter

Black-white interracial contact and anti-racist activism : what promotes action in white Americans? , Katheryn Lucille Roberson

Fluorescent biosensors : engineering and applications , Monica Rodriguez

Cis-acting super-enhancer lncRNAs as biomarkers to early-stage breast cancer , Ali Salman Ropri

The spirit of Cancun : basic needs and development during the Cold War , Christian Ruth

Environmental factors and human health interactions : ultrafine particles, temperature variability, and proximity to power stations , Ian Ryan

The Albany Answers Plant Incinerator : environmental justice and slow violence at the New York State Capital , Matthew D. Saddlemire

U.S. health professionals' perspectives on orthorexia nervosa : clinical utility, measurement and diagnosis, and perceived influence of sociocultural factors , Christina Sanzari

Exploring the response to arsenic using tRNA modification detection, writer mediated protection and codon usage analytics , Anwesha Sarkar

Effects of metal and polychlorinated biphenyls exposures and fish consumption on cognitive function in adults , Nozomi Sasaki

Intolerance of uncertainty specific to compulsive exercise : development and preliminary validation of the exercise-specific intolerance of uncertainty scale , Christina Scharmer

Therapist facilitative interpersonal skills in simulated text-based telepsychotherapy with cultural minority clients , Carly Max Schwartzman

Literacy and COVID-19 : elementary students' reading performance through a global pandemic , Emmett Mcgregor Schweiger

The differential influence of maltreatment subtype and age of exposure on empathy , Kate L. Senich

Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on birth outcomes in Onondaga County, New York / narrative competence and cognitive mapping as a culturally sustaining pedagogy in the education of emergent bilinguals , Simone A. Seward

Three essays on creative industries , Yue Sheng

UiO-type metal-organic framework derivatives as sorbents for the detection of gas-phase explosives , Matthew Ryan Sherrill

Role of H3K4 methylation in myogenesis, regeneration, and muscle disease / narrative competence and cognitive mapping as a culturally sustaining pedagogy in the education of emergent bilinguals , Hannah Emily Shippas

Explaining the NRAs radical transformation : the role of identity and strategy in discursive boundary work and the emergence of sub-group dominance , William A. Sisk

Development of nucleic acid diagnostics for targeted and non-targeted biosensing , Christopher William Smith

Preference for harmony : a link between aesthetic responses to combinations of colors and musical tones , Sijia Song

Cheating detection in a privacy preserving driving style recognition protocol , Ethan Sprissler

Constructing and constraining mobility at the new university , Rachel Sullivan

Essays on firm productivity and innovation , Won Sung

Does coworker support buffer the impact of work interruptions on well-being? , Ruyue Sun

The urban heat island of Bengaluru, India : characteristics, trends, and mechanisms , Heather Samantha Sussman

Photopolymers : environmentally benign technology for a variety of industries , Tatyana Tarasevich

An evaluation of demographic and clinical characteristics of youths enrolled in two residential treatment programs , Monelle Shemique Thomas

The racial and partisan underpinnings of attitudes toward police in a time of protest , Andrew Thompson

Applying the strategic self-regulation model to tone acquisition in Mandarin : a case study , Adele Laurie Touhey

Child protection policy dimensions across Catholic archdioceses and civil statutes : a comparative content analysis , Jeffrey Trant

System measurements for x-ray phase and diffraction imaging , Erik Wolfgang Tripi

Genomic epidemiology of clinical salmonella enterica in New Hampshire, 2017-2020 , Madison R. Turcotte

A mixed methods exploration of fairness issues in algorithmic policing systems , Emmanuel Sebastian Udoh

X ray phase and coherent scatter imaging measurements , Mahboob Ur Rehman

Hal : a romance , Janna Urschel

Calculational methods in conformal field theory , Thomas Andrew Vandermeulen

Female superheroes, rhetorical reading, and feminist imagination : a study of college-aged readers and comic book reading practices using eye tracking and cued retrospective interviews , Aimee Vincent

Generation Z : who are they and what do they expect from student affairs on campus? , Mary Elizabeth Wake

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