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Dissertation Showcase

Doctoral dissertations published by Graduate School of Arts & Sciences students are evidence of the breadth of academic exploration being conducted across our departments and interdisciplinary programs. For insight into graduate research interests, you need only take a look at a sample of the wide range of recently published dissertations.

GRS PhD Dissertation Titles 2008

Katherine Palmer Albers, B.A., M.A., “Archive/Atlas/Album: The Photographic Constructions of Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, and Dinh Q. Lê”

Rodrigo A. Alfaro, M.A., “Three Essays on Instrumental Variables Estimators”

Laura Beth Allen, B.A., M.A., “Effects of Emotion Regulation Skills on Clinically Relevant and Irrelevant Emotional Cues in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”

Jason James Amsden, B.S., “A Study of the Proteorhodopsin Primary Photoreaction by Low-Temperature FTIR Difference and Ultrafast Transient Infrared Spectroscopy”

Terri Landon Bacow, A.B., M.A., “Metacognitive Processes in Anxious Children: Associations with Diagnostic Status”

Nathaniel Frost Barrett, B.S., M.T.S., “The Spontaneity of Nature and Human Experience”

Britton Paige Bass, B.S., “Genetic Analysis of Programmed Cell Death During Drosophila Oogenesis”

Madeline J. Becker, B.A., M.A., “Personality and Social Network Variables as Predictors of Adjustment: The Transition from High School to College”

Arjun Bhutkar, S.M., M.S., “Multi-Species Comparative Genomics: Synteny and Genome Rearrangements”

Belete Bizuneh, “An Agrarian Polity and Its Pastoral Periphery: State and Pastoralism in the Borana Borderlands (Southern Ethiopia), 1897–1991”

Yelena Bogdanova, M.A., Ph.D., “Number Processing, Visuospatial and Emotional Cognition in Asymptomatic Individuals with HIV”

Antonia M. Bookbinder, A.B., J.D., M.A., “The Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Adult Attachment to Parenting Behavior and Stress Among Mothers of Preschool Children”

Zbysek Brezina, M.A., “The Czechoslovak Democrat: The Life, Writing, and Politics of Hubert Ripka from 1918 to 1945”

Rebekah Elizabeth M. Burgess, A.B., “Collecting Agency: Reversing the Camera’s Gaze in Early Twentieth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts”

Alexander M. Burroughs, B.S., “Application of Computational Approaches to Decipher Function and Evolution of Selected Protein Folds”

Cecilia Busuioc, B.A., M.A., “Eisenstein Cohomology, Milnor K-Theory and Special Values of L-Functions”

Colleen Butler-Sweet, B.A., “Family and Race Matters: Identity Development in Monoracial, Biracial, and Transracial Families”

Roxanne Gergis Cacioppo, B.S., “Protein Phosphatase 2A Regulates Phosphorylation of the Transcription Factor LSF in a Cell Growth-Dependent Manner”

Meredith Eden Charney, B.A., M.A., “Understanding the Psychological, Psychosocial, and Physical Health Status of HIV-Positive Refugees”

Chih-nan Chen, “Mental Health, Service Use and Estimation Methods in Health Economics”

Lina Chen, “Exploration, Justification, and Improvement of Linearized Path Integral Methods for Non-Adiabatic Quantum Time Correlation Functions”

Carlos Chiapa Labastida, M.A., “Insurance and Health Effects of PROGRESA in Rural Mexico”

Kelly Cho Kim, B.S., M.P.H., “Handling Linkage Disequilibrium in Linkage Analysis with Dense Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms”

Brian C. Clark, B.A., M.T.S., “The Contentious Birth of Wesleyan Methodism, 1738–1741: Gender, Charism, and Sectarian Division”

Uraina Simone Clark, B.S., “Facial Emotion Recognition in Parkinson’s Disease”

Jason J. Cournoyer, B.S., “Mechanism of Electron Capture Dissociation and the Application to the Differentiation of Isoaspartic and Aspartic Acid Residues”

Eric Darvish Crandall, B.A., “Isolation and Gene Flow in Indo-Pacific Species with Pelagic Larvae”

Michelle Audrey Cronin, B.A., “Light-Dependent Subcellular Translocation of Signaling Components in Drosophila Photoreceptors”

Jennifer Blythe Culbertson, B.S., M.A., “Long-Term Ecological Impacts of the Wild Harbor Oil Spill on Salt Marsh Fiddler Crabs, Uca Pugnax, Salt Marsh Grasses, Spartina Alterniflora, and Ribbed Mussels, Geukensia Demissa”

Kristina Dahlen, B.A., M.S., “Aptitude, Rehearsal, and Skin Conductance Response in Foreign Vocabulary Learning”

Gul Safak Dalgin, “New Approaches to Finding Biomarkers: Application to Renal Clear-Cell Carcinoma and Breast Cancer”

Brandon Carl Daniel-Hughes, B.A., M.Div., “The Future of Inquiry: Charles Peirce, Naturalism, and the Symbols of the Christian Eschaton”

Amitabha Das, “Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in Dilepton and Diphoton Final States with 1 fb-1 of Data”

Lissa Lowry Davis, Sc.B., M.A., “The Effect of Treatment for Principal Anxiety Disorders on Comorbid Axis I Disorders”

Christopher L. Dayton, B.A., “Late Prehistoric and Modern Irrigation Agriculture in Torata, Peru”

William J. Devlin, B.A., M.A., “Defending the Enterprise: A Theory of Truth for Thomas Kuhn”

Jianing Di, M.A., “On the Construction and Estimation of Asymmetric GARCH Models, and the Minimum Volume Sets for Time Series”

Elizabeth Anna Donovan, B.A., “Unfairness in Children and Adults: Even Accidentally Unequal Outcomes Are Judged to Be Intentional”

Mark Robert Dranias, B.A., M.S., “A Neural Network Model of Conditioning and Outcome-Specific Revaluation: Interactions of the Cortex, Amygdala, Hypothalamus, and Basal Ganglia”

Joshua Adam Drew, B.A., M.S., “Biogeography, Evolution and Conservation of Melanesian Coral Reef Fishes”

Michael Edmund Driscoll, A.B., M.S., “Inference of a Genome-Wide Regulatory Network for the Metal-Reducing Microbe Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 Via a Compendium of Microarrays”

Lissa Marie Dutra, B.A., Ed.M., “Quality of Early Care and Childhood Trauma: Developmental Pathways to Dissociation”

Kamryn Theresa Eddy, A.B., M.A., “Eating Disorder Pathology Among Overweight Youth”

Gabriel Steingarten Eichler, B.S., M.S., “Bioinformatic Interpretation of High-Dimensional Molecular Profiling Data”

Daulins Rêni Emilio, “Interactions Between Public and Private Sectors: Three Essays with Brazilian Data”

Kelly Bonner Engel, B.S., M.A., “The Regulation and Toxicology of Spermatogenesis”

Uğur Murat Erdem, “Optimal Placement and Event Prediction in a Hybrid Camera Network with Minimum Knowledge”

Guillermo Espinosa Estrada, “Intellectuals and Mexican Satirical Literature of the Twentieth Century”

Jeremiah J. Faith, B.S., M.S., “Determination of Prokaryotic Transcriptional Regulatory Networks”

Therese Christine Fitzgerald, B.S., M.S.W., “HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction Health Service Utilization Among Injection Drug Using Women”

Sophia E. Fox, B.A., M.A., “Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Loading to Temperate Estuaries: Macrophyte and Consumer Community Structure and Food Web Relationships”

Sarah Elaine Fredericks, “Environmental Ethics Across Worldviews: An Assessment of Sustainable Energy Development Indexes”

Dongfeng Fu, M.A., “Statistical Physics Approaches to Understanding the Firm Growth Problem”

Mandy Gagel, B.S., M.A., “Selected Letters of Vernon Lee (1856–1935)”

Jeffrey Robert Gagne, B.A., Ed.M., M.A., “ ‘Wait for It!’: The Etiology of Inhibitory Control in Early Childhood”

Sangram Ganguly, “Earth System Data Records of Vegetation Leaf Area Index from Multiple Satellite-Borne Sensors”

Yang Gao, “Optical Studies of Oligonucleotide Interactions and Gold Nanoparticles Toward Improved DNA Detection at Surfaces”

Desirée Jensen Garcia, B.A., “There’s No Place Like Home: Race Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood Musical, 1900–1950”

Brenda S. Gardenour, B.A., M.A., “Medicine and Miracle: The Reception of Theory-Rich Medicine in the Hagiography of the Latin West, 13th–14th Centuries”

Baudouin Gerard, “Biomimetic Synthesis of Rocaglamide and Related Natural Products”

Kristopher Stephen Gerardi, B.A., “The Impact of Market Dynamics on Markups and Mortgages”

Lisa Marie Giocomo, B.A., M.A., “Biophysical Properties of Entorhinal Cortex Neurons and Their Representation of Space”

William P. Gnadt, B.S., M.A., “Sovereign: An Autonomous Neural System for Incrementally Learning to Navigate Towards a Rewarded Goal”

Jamelle Gardine Greene, A.B., M.A., “Contributions of Peer, Romantic Partner, and Nonparental Adult Relationships to Adolescent Adaptive Functioning”

Luz Victoria Guerrero Peirano, “Espectáculos de Muerte: Narrativas y Políticas del Cuerpo y la Mirada Durante los Años de la ‘Guerra Sucia’ en el Perú (1980–2000)”

Seungwan Ha, “Ellipsis, Right Node Raising, and Across-the-Board Constructions”

Mark Anthony Halko, B.A., “Illusory Contour and Surface Completion Mechanisms in Human Visual Cortex”

Joseph J. Hallett III, A.B., “Hidden Type Variables and Conditional Extension for More Expressive Generic Programs”

Chong Han, “Synthesis of N-Acyl Vinylogous Urea-Containing Natural Products and Development and Applications of Zirconium (IV)-Catalyzed Ester-Amide Exchange”

Jonathan M. Hanen, B.S., M.A., “Self-Knowledge and the Art of Politics in Plato’s Alcibiades Major”

Cicilia Anggadewi Harun, M.A., “Essays on the Indonesian Banking Crisis and Restructuring”

Moira Ruth Hennessey, B.A., M.A., “Body Dissatisfaction, Eating Disorders and a Media Literacy Intervention Among Tanzanian Females”

Alexandra Hennessy, “Economic Interests, Domestic Constraints, and the Creation of a European Single Pension Market”

Benjamin Joe Hescott, B.A., “Non-Uniform and Nondeterministic Reductions in Structural Complexity”

Stephanie Mayer Heydt, A.B., M.A., “The Art of The Gift: Edward L. Carey, William Sidney Mount, Daniel Huntington and the Antebellum Gift Book”

Oliver Pilgrim Hinds, B.S., “The Intrinsic Geometric Structure of Human Primary Visual Cortex”

Lisa Ann Hinrichsen, B.A., M.A., “Moving Forward, Looking Past: Trauma, Fantasy and Misrecognition in Southern Literature 1930–2001”

Alicia Marie Hitchcock, B.S., M.A., “Characterization of Glycosaminoglycans by Liquid Chromatography—Tandem Mass Spectrometry”

Stephen B. Hodin, B.A., M.A., “Jefferson’s Ghost: Slavery, Machinery, and the Haunting of the Literary Imagination in Antebellum America”

Gabrielle Tomasky Holmes, B.A., M.A., “Nutrient Supply, Water Residence Time, Temperature, and Grazing as Controls of Size-Fractionated Phytoplankton Biomass in Shallow Temperate Estuarine Ecosystems”

Xiaoshuo Hou, “Capitalist Collectivism: Contradiction or Synthesis?”

Alexandra Emmanuelle Marie Hours, “[4+2+2] Homo Diels-Alder Cycloaddition and PtCl2-Catalyzed Cyclopropane Opening Strategy Toward the Synthesis of Dolabellane and Dolastane Core Structures”

Chia-Lin Huang, M.A., “Structure and Dynamics of the Inner Magnetosphere and Their Effects on Radiation Belt Electrons”

Xiaobo Huang, M.A.,“CPT and Lorentz Violation Test in the BNL Muon g-2 Data”

Yolanda Iglesias, “La Parodia de la Novela Sentimental en La Celestina”

Ramon Cristian Iovin, B.S., “Visual Discrimination During Controlled Retinal Image Motion”

Timothy Francis Jackson, B.A., M.A. “Selected Lyrics and Dramatic Verse of Edna St. Vincent Millay: A Critical Edition”

Keith Leslie Johnson, B.A., M.A., “The Ethics of Form and the Form of Ethics: Experiments in Literature and Philosophy”

Michael Kincaid Johnston, B.S., M.A., “Real and Nominal Frictions Within the Firm: How Lumpy Investment Matters for Price Adjustment”

Besim Karakadilar, “Hilbert’s Metamathematical Problems and Their Solutions”

Ulaş Karaöz, M.S., “Integrative Approaches for Identifying Transcriptional Regulatory Elements in 1% of the Human Genome”

Elinor Kathryn Karlsson, B.A., B.A., B.F.A., “Mapping Trait Loci in the Genome of the Domesticated Dog”

Guila Clara Kessous, “Theatre et Sacre: Analyse d’Une Interculturalite Dramatique dans les Œuvres Théâtrales de P. Claudel et d’ E. Wiesel”

Giselle Edward Khoury, M.A, “Vocabulary Acquisition in Arabic as a Foreign Language: The Root and Pattern Strategy”

Dylan M. Kollman, B.A., M.A., “The Construct Validity of Acceptance: A Multitrait-Multimethod Investigation”

Ketil Koop-Jakobsen, “Gaseous Loss of Nitrogen in Tidal Marsh Sediments: Factors Controlling Dentrification and Anammox”

Christine Hoff Kraemer, B.A., “The Erotic Fringe: Sexual Minorities and Religion in Contemporary American Literature and Film”

Nandini Krishnan, “Essays on Caste, Discrimination and Affirmative Action”

Neha Kumar, “Three Essays in Institutional Reforms and Indian Economic Development”

Pradeep Kumar, “Anomalies of Bulk, Nanoconfined and Protein-Hydration Water”

Alfonso Ramon Lam Ng,  M.A.,“In Silco Study of Amyloid ß-Protein Folding Relevant to Alzheimer’s Disease”

Melissa Rae Landon, B.S., B.S., “Development and Application of Computational Methods for Structure-Based Drug Design”

Jason Matthew Laramie, B.S., M.S., “Genetic Studies of Obesity in the NHLBI Family Heart Study”

Timothy Gray Learmonth, B.A., “Soft X-Ray Spectroscopic Studies of Quasi-Low Dimensional and Strongly Correlated Materials”

Jie Ha Lee, M.S.W., “Sexual Health Disparities Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Females:  STDs and Sexual Risk Behaviors”

Ming-Hsuan Lee, “Three Essays on Economic Reform and Household Behavior in Contemporary China”

Sophia S. Lee, M.S., “Analysis of Correlated Binary Data in Non-Inferiority Trials”

Dan Li, “Three Essays on the Economic History of Modern China”

Feifei Li, “Query and Data Security in the Data Outsourcing Model”

Minghai Li, “Phase Behavior and Kinetics of Cylinder to Sphere Transition in Block Copolymers in Selective Solvents”

Haizhen Lin, “Three Essays on Competition, Quality and Public Policies”

Ting Liu, “New Product Launch, Learning, and Credence Goods”

Yongsheng Liu, M.A., “Phase Behavior of Block Copolymers in Selective Solvents”

Gabrielle Itta Liverant, B.A., M.A., “Emotion Regulation in Unipolar Depression: The Effects of Acceptance and Suppression of Subjective Emotional Experience on the Intensity and Duration of Sadness and Negative Affect”

Sha Lou, “Catalytic Asymmetric Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions and Synthesis”

Zhonghua Ma, “Simulation of Quantum Decoherence in Condensed Phases”

Helen Zelia MacDonald, B.A., “Attention, Memory, and Executive Functioning in Children with Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology”

Alice C. MacLachlan, “The Nature and Limits of Forgiveness”

Ricardo de Abreu Madeira, “Education Policy and Politics: Empirical Essays with Brazilian Data”

Sebastian M. Marotta, M.A., “The Complex Dynamics of Singularly Perturbed Rational Maps”

David Kratz Mathies, B.A., M.A.T.S, “Common Grounds Without Foundations: A Pragmatic Approach to Ethical Disagreements Across Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Traditions”

Ryota Matsuura, S.B., M.A.T., “Twisted Root Numbers of Elliptic Curves Semistable at Primes Above 2 and 3”

Ronald Michael McCullough, B.S., “Studies in Ribonucleic Acid Modification, Regulation, and Quantification by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry”

Nolan Taylor McDougal, B.S., “Asymmetric Phosphine-Mediated Condensation Reactions”

Rogério de Souza Medeiros, “Between Conflict and Cooperation: Dilemmas in the Relations Between Non-Governmental Organizations and the State in Brazil”

Aditi Mehta, B.A., “Three Essays in Industrial Organization”

Rebecca Jean Melrose, B.A., M.A., “Executive Functioning and Fronto-Striatal Circuitry in HIV”

Oleg Alekseyevich Mikitchenko, “Applications of the Resolution of Singularities to Asymptotic Analysis of Differential Equations”

Belisa Fatima Monteiro, A.B., M.A., “The Pleasures of Comic Mischief in Jane Austen’s Novels”

Pooja Gupta Mookim, “Desired vs. Undesired Infertility and Estimation Methods in Health Economics”

Luke Edward Moore, B.S., M.A., “Saturn’s Ionosphere and Plasmasphere”

Susan Denise Moore, A.B., M.A., “Mindfulness, Experiential Avoidance, and the Narrative Disclosure Task”

Carola Moreno Valenzuela, M.A., “Essays on Growth, Labor Markets and Democracy”

Yuichi Moroi, B.A., “Ethics of Conviction and Civic Responsibility: Conscientious War Resisters in America During the World Wars”

Emily Axford Murphy, B.A., M.A., “‘To Keep Our Trading for Our Livelihood’: The Derby Family of Salem, Massachusetts, and Their Rise to Power in the British Atlantic World”

Kevin Francis Murphy, B.S., “Promoter-Specific Factors Influencing Gene Expression Noise in a Synthetic Gene Switch in Yeast”

Keisuke Nakao, M.A., “Essays on Social Cooperation, Conflict, and Diversity”

David Paul Nichols, B.A., M.A., “Heidegger and the Tragedy of Being”

Masayo Nishida, “Migrants of Choice: Contemporary German and Japanese Professionals Living in the United States”

Shawn David Normandin, B.A., M.A., “The Opacity of Renunciation in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”

Elisa Jaimee Oh, A.B., M.A., “Defining Absence: Reading Female Silence in Early Modern English Literature 1580–1640”

Ylva Susanna Olsen,“Experimental and Stable Isotopic Approaches to Investigate Controls of Temperate and Tropical Seagrass Food Webs”

Matthew Panizzon, B.S., M.A., “Applications of Stage Models to the Study of Substance Use and Other Psychopathology in Male Twins”

Eric Alan Parks, B.A., M.A., “The Portrayal of Women in the Annales of Tacitus”

Mónica Lylián Parra Torrado, “Impact of Migration and Political Reservations on Living Standards”

Ernesto Salvador Pastén Herrera, “Policy and Expectations in Macroeconomics”

Jason Houghton Pearl, B.A., M.A., “New Words and New Worlds in the Age of Crusoe and Gulliver”

Sara Leanne Pearson, M.A., “Religion, Gender and Authority in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë”

Joshua Thomas Pederson, B.A., “American Gnosis: The Literary Afterlife of a Heresy”

Jian Peng, “Ultrafast Dynamics in Transparent Fluids Investigated via Time-Resolved Third-Order Spectroscopy”

Justin Cory Pettijohn, B.S., “Soil, Vegetative and Atmospheric Feedbacks on the Relationship Between Actual and Potential Evaporation”

Brian Gregory Pierce, B.S., M.S., “Development of Structure-Based Computational Methods for Prediction and Design of Protein-Protein Interactions”

Silvia Prina, M.A., “Essays on Inequality: Trade Liberalization and Human Capital”

Robert Nolan Puckett, A.B., M.A., “Ye Shall Be Free from Slavery: The Concept of Freedom in Contemporary Wicca”

Maria Emília de Oliveira Montez Rath, “Models for Non-Additive Interaction Effects”

Timothy E. Reddy, B.S., “Advances in the Prediction and Understanding of Transcriptional Regulation in Yeast”

Adam M. Reitzel, B.A., M.S., “Population Genetics and Life History Evolution in the Sea Anemone Family Edwardsiidae”

Joseph Grattin Reynolds, B.S., M.A., “Myospryn Functions as a Muscle-Specific Protein Kinase A Anchoring Protein and Its Expression Is Dysregulated in Muscular Dystrophy”

James Bradford Rice, B.A., M.A., “Labor Market Effects of Long-Term Contracts, Imports and Offshoring”

Mindy Lou Richlen, B.S., M.S., “The Ecology and Phylogeography of Ciguatera on Coral Reefs”

Ruben Rivera, B.A., M.A., “Alberto Rembao (1895–1962): Mexican American Protestant for Internationalism and Christian Holism”

R. Jonathan Robitsek, B.A., “The Hippocampus and Episodic Memory: Insights from Studies on Aging and Place Cells”

Vikki Lynne Rodgers, B.S., “Impacts of Alliaria Petiolata (Garlic Mustard) Invasion on Plant Diversity and Soil Nutrient Cycling in Northern Hardwood-Conifer Forests”

Tuhin Subhra Roy, “Supersymmetry Theory and Model Building”

Doriana Ruffino, M.A., “New Frontiers of Real Options: Rational Life-Cycle Decisions Under Uncertainty”

Scott W. Russell, B.A., M.S., “Communication and Query Privacy: Intrusion-Resilient Secure Channels and Private Database Queries”

Amy Elizabeth Scaramucci, B.S., M.P.H., “A Modified Log Rank Test to Account for Left Truncated Survival Data: A Comparison with the Usual Log Rank Test”

Elizabeth Grace Scoggin, B.A., M.M., “Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie: Text, Subtext, and Context”

Rebecca Anne Senf, B.A., M.A., “Ansel Adams’s ‘Practical Modernism’: The Development of a Commercial Photographer, 1916–1936”

Carlos Eduardo Sepulveda-Rico, “Three Essays on Poverty and Discrimination”

Adam Hale Shapiro, A.B., M.A., “Three Essays on Pricing Dynamics”

Madhusudana Shashanka, “Latent Variable Framework for Modeling and Separating Single-Channel Acoustic Sources”

Archana Sheth, B.A., M.A., “The Amygdala Modulates Neuronal Activation in the Hippocampus in Response to Spatial Novelty: A Rodent Model of Information Processing Deficits in Schizophrenia”

Rui Shi, M.A., “Types for Safe Resource Sharing in Sequential and Concurrent Programming”

Jaewoong Sim, “Real and Financial Frictions and the Dynamic Properties of Physical Investment”

James R. Sitar, A.B., M.A., “Selected Lectures of Robert Frost”

Kam Wing Siu, “Public Interest and Policy in Energy and Banking Industries”

Krishna Srihasam, “A Neural Model of Eye Movement Control: Linking Saccadic and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements”

Stuart Y. Steck, A.B., M.A., “Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism”

James Crowley Sullivan, B.A., “Bioinformatic and Molecular Analyses of the Nematostella Genome Reveal a Mixture of Ancient Conservation and Rapid Recent Evolution”

Jiayin Sun, M.A., “Strategic Information Disclosure in the Marketplace”

Ka Ming Tam, “Renormalization Group Studies of Strongly Correlated Systems”

Kannan Tharakaraman, M.S., “Computational Methods for Finding Regulatory DNA Motifs Using Sequence Characteristics and Positional Preferences”

Elena Torreguitar, “National Liberation Movements in Office: Forging Democracy with African Adjectives in Namibia”

Ingvild Torsen, “After Aesthetics: Martin Heidegger and the End of Art”

Jason A. Tourville, B.A., “Neural Mechanisms Underlying Auditory Feedback Control of Speech”

Kristy L. Townsend, B.A., M.A., “Mechanisms of High Fat-Induced Obesity in Mice and Premigration/Prehibernation Fattening in Bats”

Susan Anne Tracey, B.A., M.A., “The Immediate Effects of Control on Subjective Anxiety in Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders”

Jonathan Treussard, B.A., M.A., “Essays in Life-Cycle Planning and Risk Management in the Presence of Risky Human Capital”

Franco V. Trivigno, A.B., M.A., “The Philosophical Muse: On Comedy in the Platonic Dialogues”

Jaymin Upadhyay, B.S., “Functional and Structural Properties in the Human Language Processing Stream”

Kaori Urayama, B.A., B.A., M.A., “Missile Defense, U.S.–Japan Alliance and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1983–2007”

Maria del Carmen Vera-Diaz, “Modeling Soybean Expansion in the Amazon Basin”

Jesús Viejo González, M.P.P., “Essays on the Economic History of Mexico: Institutions, Labor Markets Integration and Migration in Historical Perspective”

Jennifer Anne Wade, B.S., M.S., “Constraints on the Central American Slab Fluid Composition from Arc Melt Inclusions and Phenocrysts”

Eric M. Wahl, B.S., “Geodesics on Isopotential Surfaces and Solutions to Newton’s n-body Problem”

Elizabeth Raven Walters, B.S., Ed.M., M.A., “Everyday Islam in New England”

Jingyun Wang, M.S., “Studies of Potentially-Predictable Anomalies in Summertime Precipitation over the Southwestern United States”

Ling Wang, M.A., “Bayesian Model-Based Clustering of Short Time Series”

Markus Wiegel, A.B., B.S., M.A., “Adult Women Who Sexually Abuse Minors: Description and Assessment Instrument Validation”

Kevin J. Wiehe, B.S., “Analysis and Prediction of Side-Chain Flexibility in Protein-Protein Recognition”

Zhenhua Wu, “Physics of Flow in Weighted Complex Networks”

Limei Xu, “Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in a Two-Scale Model of Anomalous Liquids”

Jasmine J. Yang, B.A., M.A., “Mating-Induced Neuroendocrine Changes of Pseudopregnancy in the Female Rat and Mouse: An Examination of the Role of Progestin Receptors”

Tao Ye, “Electrochemical Investigation of Bacterial Redox Proteins”

Karen Amanda Yeats, “Growth Estimated for Dysen-Schwinger Equations”

Hui Zhang, M.A., “Structure and Dynamics of High Latitude Magnetospheric Boundaries”

Xian Zhang, “Analysis of Natural Yellow Dyes Using HPLC with Diode Array and Mass Spectrometric Detection”

Yufeng Zhang, “Soft X-Ray Spectroscopic Studies of the Electronic Structure of Organic Semiconductors”

Jing Zhou, M.A., “Theoretical and Empirical Essays in Econometrics and Finance Related to Structural Changes, Volatility and Pension Fund Management”

Ya Zhou, M.A., “Preparation of 5,6,7,8-Tetrahydro-1,6-Naphthyridines and Other Heterocyclic Scaffolds and Their Application in Library Synthesis”

Eric Andrew Zilli, B.A., “Modeling the Role of Episodic Memory in Goal-Directed Behavior”

Guiti Zolfagharkhani, “Nanomechanical Detection of Electron Spin Flip”

Elizabeth Ann Zollinger, B.A., M.A., “A Family of Comets in the Three-Body Problem”

Elizabeth Ellen Zwanziger, B.A., M.A., “Variability in L1 and L2 French Wh-Interrogatives: The Roles of Communicative Function, Wh-Word and Metalinguistic Awareness”


Bioinformatics students (GRS and College of Engineering):

Arjun Bhutkar, S.M., M.S., “Multi-Species Comparative Genomics: Synteny and Genome Rearrangements”

Alexander M. Burroughs, B.S., “Application of Computational Approaches to Decipher Function and Evolution of Selected Protein Folds”

Michael Edmund Driscoll, A.B., M.S., “Inference of a Genome-Wide Regulatory Network for the Metal-Reducing Microbe Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 Via a Compendium of Microarrays”

Gabriel Steingarten Eichler, B.S., M.S., “Bioinformatic Interpretation of High-Dimensional Molecular Profiling Data”

Jeremiah J. Faith, B.S., M.S., “Determination of Prokaryotic Transcriptional Regulatory Networks”

Yutao Fu, M.S., “Studies of Transcriptional Regulation in the Human Genome”

Ulas Karaöz, M.S., “Integrative Approaches for Identifying Transcriptional Regulatory Elements in 1% of the Human Genome”

Elinor Kathryn Karlsson, B.A., B.A., B.F.A., “Mapping Trait Loci in the Genome of the Domesticated Dog”

Melissa Rae Landon, B.S., B.S., “Development and Application of Computational Methods for Structure-Based Drug Design”

Jason Matthew Laramie, B.S., M.S., “Genetic Studies of Obesity in the NHLBI Family Heart Study”

Brian Gregory Pierce, B.S., M.S., “Development of Structure-Based Computational Methods for Prediction and Design of Protein-Protein Interactions”

Timothy E. Reddy, B.S., “Advances in the Prediction and Understanding of Transcriptional Regulation in Yeast”

Kannan Tharakaraman, M.S., “Computational Methods for Finding Regulatory DNA Motifs Using Sequence Characteristics and Positional Preferences”

Kevin J. Wiehe, B.S., “Analysis and Prediction of Side-Chain Flexibility in Protein-Protein Recognition”