FORTY-NINTH DOCTORAL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES

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1 FORTY-NINTH DOCTORAL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MAY 23, 2013 AVERY FISHER HALL AT LINCOLN CENTER 10 LINCOLN CENTER PLAZA (Columbus Avenue and 65th Street) NEW YORK, NEW YORK

2 THE GRADUATE CENTER The Graduate Center is the primary doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York, the largest urban university in the United States. The only consortium of its kind in the nation, the Graduate Center draws its faculty of approximately 2,000 mainly from the CUNY senior colleges and cultural and scientific institutions throughout New York City. Approximately 4,500 students are enrolled in forty doctoral and master s programs, sustained by a wide range of financial support. Recognized for its scholarly leadership across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, the Graduate Center s mission is to prepare the next generation of scholars for careers in the academy, cultural institutions, and public service, to ready them for carrying out advanced research, and to provide a forum for discussion and debate. The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) extends the Graduate Center s global reach and prominence as an international hub of advanced study. Specifically, ARC promotes interdisciplinary research; partners with the Graduate Center s forty research centers, institutes, interdisciplinary committees, and other academic initiatives; connects the research activities of faculty across the CUNY colleges to Graduate Center research programs and seminars; facilitates collaboration between noted visiting scholars and faculty and students; and offers support to Graduate Center doctoral students pursuing research as well as to postdoctoral students who have completed their initial projects. The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue in the former B. Altman building, a landmark structure between 34th and 35th Streets, which has been redesigned to meet the specific needs of a 21st-century institution of advanced learning and to provide public spaces for cultural and conference purposes. The Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium, the Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, the James Gallery, and the Martin E. Segal Theatre are all housed within its walls. THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Bernard M. Baruch College Borough of Manhattan Community College Bronx Community College Brooklyn College The City College CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies CUNY Graduate School of Journalism CUNY School of Law CUNY School of Professional Studies CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education The Graduate Center Stella and Charles Guttman Community College Eugenio María de Hostos Community College Hunter College John Jay College of Criminal Justice Kingsborough Community College Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College Herbert H. Lehman College Macaulay Honors College Medgar Evers College New York City College of Technology Queens College Queensborough Community College College of Staten Island York College 3

3 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., B.A., J.D., Chairperson Philip Alfonso Berry, A.A., B.A., M.S.W., M.B.A., Vice Chairperson Valerie Lancaster Beal, B.A., M.B.A. Wellington Z. Chen, B.S. Rita DiMartino, A.A., B.A., M.P.A. Freida D. Foster, B.A., M.S. Judah Gribetz, A.B., LL.B., LL.M. Joseph J. Lhota, B.S.B.A., M.B.A. Hugo M. Morales, M.D., DPN-P, F.A.P.A. Brian D. Obergfell, B.S., J.D. Peter S. Pantaleo, B.A., J.D. Kathleen M. Pesile, A.A.S., B.B.A., M.P.A. Carol A. Robles-Román, B.A., J.D. Charles A. Shorter, B.A., M.A. Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld, B.A. Kafui Kouakou, B.B.A., B.S. (ex officio) Chairperson, University Student Senate Terrence F. Martell, B.A., Ph.D. (ex officio) Chairperson, University Faculty Senate Frederick P. Schaffer, B.A., J.D. General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs Jay Hershenson, B.A., M.A. Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations and Secretary of the Board of Trustees 5

4 ORDER OF EXERCISES MASTER OF CEREMONIES Chase F. Robinson Provost and Senior Vice President, The Graduate Center PRELUDE The Queens College Brass Ensemble Directed by Professor David Jolley, The Queens College Brass Ensemble PROCESSIONAL Trumpet Tune, Henry Purcell ACADEMIC PROCESSION CO-GRAND MARSHALS Distinguished Professor Morris Dickstein and Professor Rose-Carol Washton Long MARSHALS FOR FACULTY Professor Herman Bennett and Professor Gita Martohardjono MARSHALS FOR STUDENTS Professor Herman Bennett and Professor Gita Martohardjono THE NATIONAL ANTHEM H. Roz Woll Student, Doctor of Musical Arts GREETINGS The Honorable Philip Alfonso Berry Board of Trustees, The City University of New York Senior Vice Chancellor Marc Shaw The City University of New York ON BEHALF OF THE GRADUATES Gregory T. Donovan Ph.D. Program in Psychology, The Graduate Center 6

5 PRESENTATION OF HONORARY DEGREE CANDIDATES William P. Kelly President, The Graduate Center Honorary Degrees Awarded to Mr. Lawrence Weiner, Doctor of Humane Letters Reading of Citation and Hooding by Professor Kevin Murphy Mr. Robert Wilson, Doctor of Humane Letters Reading of Citation and Hooding by Dr. Frank Hentschker ADDRESS David Nasaw Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Distinguished Professor of History PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES Provost and Senior Vice President Chase F. Robinson CONFERRING OF DEGREES President William P. Kelly HOODING OF THE CANDIDATES Professor Herman L. Bennett CLOSING REMARKS President William P. Kelly RECESSIONAL Trumpet Voluntary, Jeremiah Clarke 7

6 CANDIDATES FOR THE MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE CLASSICS NATHANIEL RALSTON DAVID STARR SCOTT WEISS COMPARATIVE LITERATURE KAJA CIUPINSKA LIBERAL STUDIES STACEY BALKAN MALLORY CRUISE HADASSAH M. DAMIEN JOHN M. D ANTONIO FRANK DAX JENNIFER ELLEN DEAN DOMINIQUE DITOMMASO TIAN ETTINGER MATTHEW FLAHERTY HANNAH FONS ANTONIO A. FONTANA ELISABETH GIBBONS JACQUELINE B. GLASTHAL ELKA B. GOULD HENRY GUTIERREZ HEATHER B. JAMES MEGHANN M. LUCY MARIELA MOREL AUSTIN BLAKE MULLINS NATALIA S. NAVAS DEREK PARSONS KRISTIAN J. PORTELLA CHARLES W. ROWE JAMES F.W. ROWE KRISTIN RUSSO NOAH SHUSTER MELISSA SIROLA STEPHANIE SKIBA CLAIRE STEWART BREA TREMBLAY NATHALIE VIRGINTINO ERIN M. WALSH DALIYA YASSIEN BICHI YEH LINGUISTICS BIEN DOBUI WENDY C. DORSETT PETER GRAIF 8

7 CANDIDATES FOR THE MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE JUSTINE NAPODANO RACHEL RAKOV MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES CHERNOR A. BARRIE EMANUEL M. BIERMAN AVISHAN BODJNOUD NAJIB I. CHOWDHURY BRET NELSON JENNIFER NINA A. J. PARENT PHILOSOPHY CLAUDE LOUIS GIAMPIETRO INNA GOLDBERG YU-CHUN HSIAO POLITICAL SCIENCE DAVID C. CRAIG ADAM FRANKLIN HUTTON SERGIO DANIEL LUNA KEITH POWERS MONI WOWERIES CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF AUDIOLOGY DEGREE MEGHAN BRADY THE EFFECTS OF DECREASED AUDIBILITY PRODUCED BY HIGH-PASS NOISE MASKING OF SPEECH STIMULI ON THE ACOUSTIC CHANGE COMPLEX (ACC) ELAINE DEVORA BINAURAL INTERFERENCE IN CHILDREN WITH BILATERAL AMPLIFICATION JENNA HOLKE MELODY PERCEPTION AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN YOUND ADULTS WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS AARON KRASNICK EVALUATION OF UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM ACOUSTICS IN TERMS OF THE ANSI S STANDARD RENA LEVY ACCEPTABLE NOISE LEVEL, GENDER, AND TRAIT ANXIETY IN YOUNG ADULTS WITH NORMAL HEARING RACHEL MARCUS AN INVESTIGATION OF UTILITY OF SOCIAL STORIES TM AND THEIR EFFECT ON CHILDREN S BEHAVIOR: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW BESS NAGLER PITCH AND TIMBRE PERCEPTION AND MUSIC LISTENING HABITS IN YOUNG ADULTS WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS ANNA PALTERMAN THE EFFECTS OF DECREASED ADUIBILITY PRODUCED BY LOW-PASS NOISE MASKING OF SPEECH STIMULI ON THE ACOUSTIC CHANGE COMPLEX (ACC) CHANA ADENA PINKERSON TEACHERS KNOWLEDGE OF STRATEGIES RELATED TO HEARING-IMPAIRED STUDENTS: A SURVEY TOOL LAUREN ROUSE BINAURAL INTERFERENCE IN CHILDREN WITH BILATERAL AMPLIFICATION FRANCES ADELE WEAVER STATE ANXIETY AND ITS AFFECT ON THE ACCEPTABLE NOISE LEVEL IN YOUNG ADULTS WITH NORMAL HEARING 9

8 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS DEGREE AMELIA CHRISTIAN SEVCIK S ANALYTICS OF WORKS BY MENDELSSOHN AND BAZZINI: A PEDAGOGICAL ANALYSIS EUNJOO CHUNG ORIGINALITY AND COMPLEXITY: AN ANALYSIS OF ROBERT SCHUMANN S GESANGE DER FRUHE, OPUS 133 HUI-PIN (VERA) HSU FORM IN FRANK BRIDGE S THREE PHANTASIES LISA A. KOZENKO THE NEW YORK CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, : A CONTRIBUTION TO WIND CHAMBER MUSIC AND A REFLECTION OF CONCERT LIFE IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY BARBARA MARCELLA PODGURSKI POLYMETRIC LAYERING AND TONAL LANGUAGE IN THE PIANO ETUDES OF GYORGY LIGETI CANDIDATE FOR THE DOCTOR OF NURSING SCIENCE DEGREE KATHLEEN FALK APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY TO TRANSFORM NURSING PRACTICE FOR MENTORING CHILDREN OF PROMISE CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY DEGREE JONILA AGOLLI EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTINUOUS PASSIVE MOTION USE IN AN IN-PATIENT REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOLLOWING TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL ROLAND ALLEY THE EFFECT OF LEVEL AND ELEVATED SURFACE WALKING WITH A WEIGHTED VEST ON THE PREFERRED RATE OF AMBULATION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL COST INDEX CHRISTINA ANTONVICH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY (LLLT) COMBINED WITH COMPLEX DECONGESTIVE THERAPY (CDT) IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER-RELATED LYMPHEDEMA: A DOUBLE-BLIND RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONROLLED STUDY DANIEL ARMSTRONG TREATMENT OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS WITH SPINAL STENOSIS: A ONE TO TWO-YEAR FOLLOW UP STUDY MARK AUERBACH EFFECTS OF UPPER TRUNK LOADING ON GAIT PARAMETERS IN PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT LOW BACK PAIN MICHAEL AVOLIO THE EFFECTS ON THE VOLUME OF WORK ACHIEVED WITH INTERMITTENT VS. CONTINUOUS EXERCISE IN PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PHILIP CAGLIOSTRO MOTOR IMAGERY IMPROVES BALANCE IN ELDERLY KAREN CINQUEMANI COSTA A COMPARISON OF ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF NINTENDO WII AND XBOX KINECT IN NORMAL WEIGHT AND OVERWEIGHT FEMALE CHILDREN TRACEY COLANTINO DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF AN ADJUSTABLE STEP ON FITNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE IN CHILDREN WITH OBESITY THOMAS DALY THE EFFECT OF LEVEL AND ELEVATED SURFACE WALKING WITH A WEIGHTED VEST ON THE PREFERRED RATE OF AMBULATION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL COST INDEX 10

9 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY DEGREE PAIGE DARBY THE EFFECT OF LEVEL AND ELEVATED SURFACE WALKING WITH A WEIGHTED VEST ON THE PREFERRED RATE OF AMBULATION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL COST INDEX JASON DEGENARO MOTOR IMAGERY IMPROVES BALANCE IN ELDERLY CHRISTOPHER DESIDERIO EFFECTS OF UPPER TRUNK LOADING ON GAIT PARAMETERS IN PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT LOW BACK PAIN VANESSA DIAMOND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY (LLLT) COMBINED WITH COMPLEX DECONGESTIVE THERAPY (CDT) IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER-RELATED LYMPHEDEMA: A DOUBLE-BLIND, RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY JONATHAN EINHORN THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCUTANEOUS CERVICO-THORACIC STIMULATION ON ARM MULTISEGMENTAL RESPONSES IN HUMANS DANIEL T. M. EVANS THE EFFECTS ON THE VOLUME OF WORK ACHIEVED WITH INTERMITTENT VS. CONTINUOUS EXERCISE IN PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IAN FALCHIERE EFFECT OF COOLING DURING EXERCISE ON BALANCE PERFORMANCE IN PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AMANDA LYNN GAAL A COMPARISON OF ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF NINTENDO WII AND XBOX KINECT IN NORMAL WEIGHT AND OVERWEIGHT FEMALE CHILDREN ENRIQUE GARCIA EFFECTS OF UPPER TRUNK LOADING ON GAIT PARAMETERS IN PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT LOW BACK PAIN SHAWN GASTON EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTINUOUS PASSIVE MOTION USE IN AN IN-PATIENT REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOLLOWING TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL CORY GIANNINA MOTOR IMAGERY IMPROVES BALANCE IN ELDERLY LYUDMILA GRINBERG DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF AN ADJUSTABLE STEP ON FITNESS AND CARDIOVASULAR PERFOMANCE IN CHILDREN WITH OBESITY CHANA GROSS EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTINUOUS PASSIVE MOTION USE IN AN IN-PATIENT REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOLLOWING TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL ROYI HAZAN THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCUTANEOUS CERVICO-THORACIC STIMULATION ON ARM MULTISEGMENTAL RESPONSES IN HUMANS LAURIE HEINER THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY (LLLT) COMBINED WITH COMPLEX DECONGESTIVE THERAPY (CDT) IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER-RELATED LYMPHEDEMA: A DOUBLE-BLIND, RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY BETH JAPHET THE EFFECT OF LEVEL AND ELEVATED SURFACE WALKING WITH A WEIGHTED VEST ON THE PREFERRED RATE OF AMBULATION AND PHYSIOLOGIICAL COST INDEX ALEKSANDRA KUTA EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTINUOUS PASSIVE MOTION USE IN AN IN-PATIENT REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOLLOWING TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL EDITH LANG THE EFFECTS ON THE VOLUME OF WORK ACHIEVED WITH INTERMITTENT VS. CONTINUOUS EXERCISE IN PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ALAN LI THE EFFECTS OF TRANSCUTANEOUS CERVICO-THORACIC STIMULATION ON ARM MULTISEGMENTAL RESPONSES IN HUMANS TIMOTHY McGUIRE EFFECTS OF UPPER TRUNK LOADING ON GAIT PARAMETERS IN PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT LOW BACK PAIN HEATHER MIMS EFFECT OF COOLING DURING EXERCISE ON BALANCE PERFORMANCE IN PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TYLER MOSER TREATMENT OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS WITH SPINAL STENOSIS: A ONE TO TWO-YEAR FOLLOW UP STUDY SOO-KYUNG OCK THE EFFECTS ON THE VOLUME OF WORK ACHIEVED WITH INTERMITTENT VS. CONTINUOUS EXERCISE IN PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS 11

10 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY DEGREE ELIZABETH OPOKA EFFECT OF COOLING DURING EXERCISE ON BALANCE PERFORMANCE IN PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS KRISTIN M. PETOSA A COMPARISON OF ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF NINTENDO WII AND XBOX KINECT IN NORMAL WEIGHT AND OVERWEIGHT FEMALE CHILDREN YEVGENY RABINOVICH MOTOR IMAGERY IMPROVES BALANCE IN ELDERLY ALFRED RACCUIA REVIEW OF ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC-INDUCED CURRENT STIMULATION AS METHOD TO TREAT SPINAL CORD INJURED PEOPLE GREGORY REARDON DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF AN ADJUSTABLE STEP ON FITNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE IN CHILDREN WITH OBESITY ANNA MARIA SAAD A COMPARISON OF ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF NINTENDO WII AND XBOX KINECT IN NORMAL WEIGHT AND OVERWEIGHT FEMALE CHILDREN NICOLE SANTOS EFFECT OF COOLING DURING EXERCISE ON BALANCE PERFORMANCE IN PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS JENNIFER SIEGEL THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY (LLLT) COMBINED WITH COMPLEX DECONGESTIVE THERAPY (CDT) IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER-RELATED LYMPHEDEMA: A DOUBLE-BLIND, RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY BRIANA STETCH DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF AN ADJUSTABLE STEP ON FITNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE IN CHILDREN WITH OBESITY KRISTA L. SUPINO REVIEW OF ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC-INDUCED CURRENT STIMULATION AS METHOD TO TREAT SPINAL CORD INJURED PEOPLE ELIZABETH TREADAWAY REVIEW OF ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC-INDUCED CURRENT STIMULATION AS METHOD TO TREAT SPINAL CORD INJURED PEOPLE DANIELLE TROSA TREATMENT OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS WITH SPINAL STENOSIS: A ONE TO TWO-YEAR FOLLOW UP STUDY SHENGLI VU ACTIVE VIDEO GAMES CONTRIBUTE TO ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND INCREASE HEART RATES IN OVERWEIGHT AND NON-OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH DEGREE LAUREN MELISSA DINOUR THE ROLE OF ADVOCATES IN STATE-LEVEL COMPETITIVE FOOD LEGISLATION FORMATION: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY PHYLLIS HAYLEY FIGUEROA FOOD PURCHASING DECISIONS IN A GROCERY STORE SETTING LUCRETIA E. JONES MALARIA IN NYC RESIDENTS: EXAMINING THE DETERMINANTS OF CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS USE AND ADHERENCE AMONG IMMIGRANTS WHO TRAVEL ABROAD TO VISIT FRIENDS AND RELATIVES (VFR) 12

11 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE ANTHROPOLOGY RAJA ABILLAMA THE MARITAL STATE: PERSONAL STATUS LAWS, DISCOURSES OF REFORM, AND SECULARISM IN LEBANON UJVIL AGGARWAL PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES: THE PRODUCTION OF A NORMATIVE CULTURAL LOGIC OF INEQUALITY THROUGH CHOICE REBECCA L. DE GUZMAN YOU OWE IT TO EACH OTHER : RACE & THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN AIDS CLINICAL TRIALS (ACTs) RECRUITMENT ESIN EGIT THE MODERN AND INDEPENDENT WOMEN OF GENERATION 1980: SELF AND SUBJECTIVITY AMONG SECULAR, MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN IN ISTANBUL, TURKEY M. PATRICIA LEE ANALYSIS OF THE CARL LUMHOLTZ COLLECTION OF CASAS GRANDES CERAMIC ARTIFACTS AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY MARTHA LOUISE LINCOLN THE CAUSES OF CHOLERA: PUBLIC HEALTH IN POST-TRANSITION VIETNAM SHEA McMANUS THE POLITICS OF TRANSITION: TIME, HISTORY, AND JUSTICE IN POSTWAR LEBANON NADA MOUMTAZ MODERNIZING CHARITY, REMAKING ISLAMIC LAW EDWARD SAMMONS MUCH TOO MUCH SELFISHNESS: NEOLIBERALISM AND THE PRACTICE OF FREEDOM IN A JAMAICAN FARMTOWN SARAH WENDOLYN WILLIAMS THE DIGITAL DIASPORA IN SUNSET PARK: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BROOKLYN S CHINATOWN Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy ART HISTORY ANASTASIA RENEE AUKEMAN THE RAT BASTARD PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: BRUCE CONNER AND HIS SAN FRANCISCO COHORT, THOMAS RICHARD BEACHDEL LANDSCAPE AESTHETICS AND THE SUBLIME IN FRANCE, CHELSEA BRUNER THE SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY COMMISSION AND DESIGN: ELITE IDENTITY, AESTHETIC PATRONAGE AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN GILDED AGE NEW YORK SARAH DILLON TRECENTO VISUALITY AND THE VISUAL ARTS: THE ROLE OF GLASS AND THE INFLUENCE OF OPTICS ON ITALIAN ART OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY ROBERTO C. FERRARI BEYOND POLYCHROMY: JOHN GIBSON, THE ROMAN SCHOOL OF SCULPTURE, AND THE MODERN CLASSICAL BODY JEREMY JAMES GEORGE FOUR PARTS TOGETHER, OR SHAPING SHAPELESSNESS: THE CULTURAL POETICS OF INKA SPATIAL PRACTICE CHRISTIAN HUEMER PARIS-VIENNA: MODERN ART MARKETS AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE, STEPHANIE CHRISTELLE JEANJEAN SPECTATORSHIP AND THE SCREEN AS INTERFACE: FRENCH ART USING TELEVISION, VIDEO, AND THE PROJECTED IMAGE FROM THE LATE 1960S TO THE PRESENT DARA KATRIN KIESE ENTFESSEL TES BAUEN (BUILDING UNLEASHED): HOLISTIC EDUCATION IN HANNES MEYER S BAUHAUS: MARGARET RACHEL LASTER CATHARINE LORILLARD WOLFE: COLLECTING AND PATRONAGE IN THE GILDED AGE MARISA LERER 30,000 REASONS TO REMEMBER: ARTISTIC STRATEGIES FOR MEMORIALIZING ARGENTINA S DISAPPEARED ANNA MECUGNI I AM ELSEWHERE : LUIGI ONTANI AND THE TABLEAU VIVANT IN ITALIAN ART, DOUGLAS SINGSEN AN ALTERNATIVE BY ANY OTHER NAME: ALTERNATIVE COMICS BETWEEN THE MAINSTREAM AND THE AVANT-GARDE, 1976 TO THE PRESENT Certificate in American Studies 13

12 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE ANNE ELIZABETH VUAGNIAUX LUXURY AND LOYALTY: ANNE DE MONTMORENCY AS PATRON OF THE ARTS HYEWON YI PHOTOGRAPHER AS PARTICIPANT OBSERVER: LARRY CLARK, NAN GOLDIN, RICHARD BILLINGHAM, AND NOBUYOSHI ARAKI BIOCHEMISTRY RODNEY ENRIQUE VERSACE BABILONIA A COARSE-GRAINED VIEW OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN RECOGNITION KATRINA ELIZABETH CAROCCIA EXPRESSION, PURIFICATION, CIRCULAR DICHROISM, AND NMR ANALYSIS OF TRIPLE TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN CONTAINING FRAGMENTS OF A GPCR SANDY GAMSS JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE p53 AND BECLIN 1 IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS ARE INVOLVED IN CELL DEATH AND DNA DAMAGE REPAIR JIE GAO JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE PROTEASOME FUNCTION DURING AGING IN DROSOPHILA TIANFENG HAO JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE VEGF SIGNALING MEDIATES NEUROPROTECTION AGAINST OXIDATIVE STRESS IN HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS IN VIVO AND IN VITRO YI HE MODELING MEMBRANE ACTIVE PEPTIDES WITH IMPLICIT MEMBRANE MODELS QIAN HUANG JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE PROTEASOME IMPAIRMENT, MITOCHONDRIA DYSFUNCTION, AND TAU PATHOLOGY IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE PRERNA KAUR JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE PEPTIDE DIRECTED 3D ASSEMBLY OF NANOPARTICLES THROUGH BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTION JASON CHARLES KOLOWSKI CHARACTERIZATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA HETEROPLASMY AT FIVE HOTSPOTS WITHIN THE HVI REGION OF POST-MORTEM, FORMALIN FIXED PARAFFINIZED HUMAN LIVER CELLS SUQING LIU GENE EXPRESSION IN HUMAN KERATINOCYTES CONTAINING INTEGRATED COPIES OF SV40 EARLY REGION SUSAN YI LIU CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS OF GUANINE RESIDUES WITHIN THE HUMAN TELOMERIC G-QUADRUPLEX ZHEN REN DYNAMICS ON MULTIPLE TIMESCALES IN THE CYSTOVIRAL RNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE MST. RASHEDA SULTANA ROLE OF MAMMALIAN UBIQUITIN LIGASES UBR1 AND UBR2 IN CYTOSOLIC PROTEIN QUALITY CONTROL CHONG SUN GREEN DRUGS: ANTICANCER PROPERTIES OF CLERODENDRUM VISCOSUM AND CURCUMIN CONJUGATES ANNA TAKAOKA JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE IDENTIFICATION AND MECHANISTIC STUDY OF IMMUNOSTIMULATORY LIPIDS IN JUZEN-TAIHO-TO BIOLOGY IVAN ANASTASSOV JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE NEUROMODULATORY AND CYTOPROTECTIVE ROLES OF ZINC IN THE VERTEBRATE RETINA MARIO FERNANDO BENAVIDES JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE MICROSPHERULE PROTEIN MSP58 AND UBIQUITIN LIGASE EDD FORM A STABLE COMPLEX THAT REGULATES CELL PROLIFERATION SUSAN ANN BRIFFA-MIRABELLA THE EFFECTS OF THYROID HORMONE INSUFFICIENCY DURING DEVELOPMENT ON CORTICAL MORPHOLOGY AND THE BEHAVIOURAL MANIFESTATIONS DMITRY Y. BROGUN A MINUS-GAMETE-SPECIFIC GENE IN FUSION-DEFECTIVE CHLAMYDOMONAS MUTANTS AND ANALYSIS OF BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS UPREGULATED DURING GAMETOGENESIS QIN CAO JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE VASCULAR ENDOTHELIA GROWTH FACTOR AND ITS RECEPTOR VEGFR2 REGULATE SYNAPTIC PROTEINLEVELS IN RAT HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS 14

13 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE KARYN COLLIE SIBLING EGG CANNIBALISM BY NEONATES OF THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLE, LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA CHRISTOPHER CORBO EFFECT OF TAU HYPERPHOSPHORYLATION ON CELLULAR PATHOLOGY SAMUEL NATHAN CRANE UNDERSTANDING A PEST-PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AND SYSEMATICS OF THE PLUM CURCULIO (CONOTRACHELUS NENUPHAR) JILLIAN M. DE GEZELLE Q EQCHI MAYA REPRODUCTIVE ETHNOMEDICINE, ESTROGENIC PLANT USE, AND WOMEN S HEALING TRADITIONS IN BELIZE VINSON P. DOYLE COLLETOTRICHUM GLOEOSPORIOIDES S.L. IN NORTH AMERICA: SEX, HOST, AND HABITAT-MEDIATED DIVERSITY IN A PLANT-ASSOCIATED ASACOMYCETE JOYCE LYNN FASSBENDER DIVERSITY, RESOURCE PARTITIONING, AND SPECIES TURNOVER IN NEOTROPICAL SAPROXYLIC BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYCIDAE, CURCULIONIDAE) ASSOCIATED WITH TREES IN THE BRAZIL NUT FAMILY (LECYTHIDACEAE) EDMUNDO GONZALEZ SYSTEMATICS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SCORPION SUBFAMILY SYNTROPINAE (SCORPIONES: VAEJOVIDAE) JAMES HERMAN ADAPTIVE PLASTICITY IN THE HUMAN SACCADE SYSTEM KRISTIN KANE EFFECTS OF ENDOPHYTE INFECTION, ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND COMPETITION ON LOLIUM PERENNE POPULATIONS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION LINDA ANNE LALICATA DIET AND FEEDING STRATEGIES OF REDBREAST SUNFISH (LEPOMIS AURTITUS) AND BLUEGILL SUNFISH (LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS) IN TWO SUBURBAN LAKES MARIE CAROLINE MARTIN HABITAT ASSOCIATION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF PROCELLARIIFORM SEABIRDS ALONG THE CONTINENTAL SHELF OF THE NORTHEAST OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOUTHEASTERN CANADA: RELATIONSHIPS TO PREY AND OTHER TOP PREDATORS DONALD McCLELLAND SYSTEMATICS AND TAXONOMY OF SOLANUM SECTIONS DUNALIANA AND IRENOSOLANUM (SOLANACEAE) RACHEL S. MEYER CHEMICAL, GENETIC, AND ETHNOBOTANICAL DIVERSITY IN ASIAN EGGPLANT LISA OFFRINGA MEDICINAL PLANTS OF NORTHERN THAILAND FOR THE TREATMENT OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN THE ELDERLY DANIELLE OKORO JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE THE NON-CANONICAL GROWTH ACTIVATING FUNCTIONS OF HIGHLY EXPRESSED MDM2-C SARA RUANE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, PHYLOGENETICS, HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY, AND MORPHOLOGY OF MILKSNAKES (GENUS LAMPROPELTIS) TOMASZ RUSIELEWICZ JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE ENHANCEMENT OF OLIGODENDROCYTE REMYELINATION THROUGH THE ABLATION OF NON-MUSCLE MYOSIN II B SNORRI SIGURDSSON THE SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF THE NIGHTJARS AND THEIR ALLIES (AVES: CAPRIMULGIFORMES) ANDRES WOOD STUCKY PRENATAL COCAINE DYSREGULATES BDNF-TrkB AND P75 SIGNALING IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS AND PREFRONTAL CORTEX OF ADOLESCENT RATS ATHENA TIWARI ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ROAD DE-ICING SALT ON ADIRONDACK FORESTS AND HEADWATER STREAMS MARC TOLLIS LIZARDS AND LINES: PHYLOGEOGRAPHY AND GENOME EVOLUTION OF THE GREEN ANOLE (ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS) JAREK WEGIEL DEVELOPMENTAL ALTERATIONS OF RAPHE NUCLEI IN AUTISTIC SUBJECTS 5 15 YEARS OF AGE METHODS AND TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS TIMOTHY PAUL WHITE SPATIAL ECOLOGY OF LONG-TAILED DUCKS AND WHITE -WINGED SCOTERS WINTERING ON NANTUCKET SHOALS, MASSACHUSETTS 15

14 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE PAIGE BLANCHE YELLEN JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE CYTOTOXIC AND CYTOSTATIC PROPERTIES OF RAPAMYCIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANTITUMOR EFFICACY XIN YAN ROLE OF VOLTAGE SENSITIVE CALCIUM CHANNELS (VSCCs) IN THE MATURATION OF THE GABAERGIC SYSTEM IN THE FRAGILE X SYNDROME BUSINESS DIOGO F. HILDEBRAND TO IMAGINE IS TO FEEL: THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN DONATION BEHAVIOR HUAJING HU ESSAYS ON SEASONED EQUITY OFFERINGS JIANFENG HU ON THE INFORMATIONAL ROLE OF US EQUITY OPTIONS GUIDO LANG THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU POST: THE IMPACT OF ONLINE SELF-PRESENTATION ON THE SELF-CONCEPT HAKYIN LEE MEASURING MANAGERIAL OPTIMISM AND OPPORTUNISM USING NON-GAAP EARNINGS DISCLOSURE YILI LIAN ESSAYS ON CORPORATE BORROWING ADRIANA V. MADZHAROV THE COOL SCENT OF POWER: EFFECTS OF AMBIENT SCENT ON CONSUMER PREFERENCES AND CHOICE BEHAVIOR TAMILLA MAVLANOVA SIGNALING THEORY AND INFORMATION ASYMMETRY IN ONLINE COMMERCE FROM THE SELLER AND BUYER PERSPECTIVES LAUREN TRABOLD BETTER TOGETHER? SOCIAL INFLUENCES IN CONSUMER GOAL PURSUIT JUNQIANG XIE ESSAYS ON INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS BO ZHANG TWO ESSAYS ON PERFORMANCE MEASURE CHOICE AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS WENCANG ZHOU MODERATING AND MEDIATING EFFECTS OF SHARED LEADERSHIP ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAM DIVERSITY AND PERFORMANCE CHEMISTRY YASMINE DANIELS JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE MODIFICATION OF HYDROXYAPATITE (HAP) WITH 1-HYDROXYETHANE-1, 1-DIPHOSPHONIC ACID (HEDP) FOR THE SELECTIVE SORPTION OF METAL IONS FROM WATER MINFENG FANG HETEROLYTIC ACTIVATION OF HYDROGEN PROMOTED BY RUTHENIUM NANOPARTICLES IMMOBILIZED ON BASIC SUPPORTS AND HYDROGENATION OF AROMATIC COMPOUNDS YIGANG FANG PROBING REACTION DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX GAS-PHASE SYSTEMS USING GUIDED-ION-BEAM SCATTERING AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS ELENA FERLONI GROUND- AND EXCITED-STATE CHEMISTRY OF [BIS(2,2'-BIPYRIDINE)(2-(2-PYRIDYL)PYRAZINE) RUTHENIUM(II)]: PROTONATION AND COORDINATION PARBATEE JAGASSAR SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND CHEMISTRY OF PLATINUM AND IRIDIUM NANOPARTICLES IN SOLUTION AND NANOPOROUS SILICAS MATTHEW JUROW JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE NEW MATERIALS FOR SUPRAMOLECULAR NANOSCALE DEVICES ABDELAHAD KHAJO RADICAL FORMATION AND FUNCTIONS IN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS CATALASE-PEROXIDASE (KatG) AND IN CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS MELANIN MARTA KOWALCZYK BIMOLECULAR ENCOUNTERS: ACID-BASE AND/OR ELECTRON TRANSFER IN RUTHENIUM (II) COMPLEXES: EXPERIMENT AND THEORY RAKESH KUMAR STRATEGIES TOWARDS MODULAR SYNTHESES OF FLUOROCARBONS VIVEK KUMAR SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CARBON NANOFILMS FOR CHEMICAL SENSING 16

15 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE JIALIANG LI JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE SYNTHETIC STUDIES OF BIOACTIVE NATURE PRODUCTS: AZASPIRACID-1 AND ANGELMICINS YADI LI PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES OF OCTANAL RECOGNITION BY MAMMALIAN ODORANT RECEPTORS YEVGENIY LUSHTAK ENERGY OF THE QUASI-FREE ELECTRON IN REPULSIVE ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR FLUIDS MATEUSZ R. MARIANSKI JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE AQUEOUS SOLVATION OF PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURES: DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDY GHEEVARGHESE RAJU DE NOVO DESIGNED SAFRANINE ENZYMES ARIJIT SENGUPTA SYNTHESIS OF HETEROATOM CONTAINING AROMATIC CONJUGATED POLYMERS USING ACYCLIC DIENE METATHESIS (ADMET) WEI SU JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE NANO-DEVICE FABRICATION FROM QUANTUM DOT ASSEMBLY RUNKUN SUN SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF UNSYMMETRICAL PERYLENE DERIVATIVES AND PDI OLIGOMERS PAUL FERNANDO THOMSON PALLADIUM-CATALYZED ARYL AMINATIONS OF HALO NUCLEOSIDES, PLATINUM-CATALYZED SYNTHESIS OF NEW BENZO[c]PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVES AND SYNTHESIS OF A CIS RING-OPENED AMINO TRIOL FROM BENZO[a]PYRENE SERIES 1 DIOL EPOXIDE JEYAVEL VELMURUGAN ELECTROCHEMISTRY WITH NANOELECTRODES YOUCHUN WU JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE SYNTHESIS AND INVESTIGATION OF BIPHENYLENE PLANARIZED AROMATIC AND ANTI-AROMATIC SYSTEMS HUAN ZHAN ENHANCEMENT TO IMPLICIT SOLVENT MODELING OF PEPTIDES IN WATER AND IN LIPID BILAYERS HENAN ZHANG SYNTHESIS OF SILICA NANOSTRUCTURES BY USING WET-CHEMISTRY METHODS YU ZHAO PREPARATION OF MESOPOROUS SILICA AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN HYDROGEN STORAGE MATERIALS TING ZHOU DEVELOPMENT OF RESPONSIVE NANO/MICROGELS FOR MATERIALS APPLICATION CLASSICS ALISSA ANN VAILLANCOURT LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM: A WANDERING POET IN THE TRADITION OF GREEK LITERATURE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ELIZABETH ALSOP MAKING CONVERSATION: THE POETICS OF VOICE IN MODERNIST FICTION Certificate in Film Studies NATHALIE FOUYER SURREALIST NONSENSE AS A GENRE TREVOR LAURENCE JOCKIMS THE MAGIC LANTERN: MODERN POETRY AND THE VISUAL ARTS LISSI ATHANASIOU KRIKELIS POSTMODERN METAFICTION REVISITED EVELINA MENDELEVICH SENTENCED TO LIFE: WRITING THE SELF IN DOSTOEVSKY AND JAMES JOHN D. PILSNER THE SAGE AND THE FOOL: ANTITHESIS, PARADOXY, AND RECONCILIATION IN A DIALECTICAL POETICS OF MORIASOPHIA Certificate in Renaissance Studies LISA SARTI FROM THEATER TO CINEMATOGRAPHY: THE DISQUIET OF MODERNITY IN PIRANDELLO AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES 17

16 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE PATRICIA SOKOLSKI THE DISCOURSE OF MARRIAGE IN THE FRENCH FABLIAUX AND CHAUCER S SHIPMAN S TALE Certificate in Medieval Studies ZOLTAN VARGA WRITING THE ACOUSTIC SELF IN ENGLISH MODERNISM LORI YAMATO THE TEMPTATION OF SYMMETRY: HAMANN, HERDER, KIERKEGAARD, AND HENRY JAMES COMPUTER SCIENCE MATTHEW CHAN PASSIVE INDOOR LEVELED RFID LOCALIZATION ALGORITHMS ZHENG CHEN COLLABORATIVE RANKING AND COLLABORATIVE CLUSTERING MINHUA HUANG DEVELOPING PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS FOR IDENTIFYING TEXT PATTERNS AND SEMANTICS ERDAL KOSE COMPARING AI SEARCH ALGORITHMS AND THEIR EFFICIENCY WHEN APPLIED TO PATH FINDING PROBLEMS MATTHEW K. MEYER EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF VERY LARGE XML DOCUMENTS IN SMALL SPACE HAO TANG 3D SCENE MODELING AND UNDERSTANDING FROM IMAGE SEQUENCES TAO WANG AN ADAPTIVE AND INTEGRATED MULTIMODAL SENSING AND PROCESSING FRAMEWORK FOR LONG RANGE MOVING OBJECT DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION CRIMINAL JUSTICE KEVIN BARNES-CEENEY NEGOTIATING LABYRINTHS OF RISK: THE IMPACT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A STRUCTURED VIOLENCE RISK ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT IN JUVENILE PAROLE LANINA NICOLE COOKE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS, PUBLIC HOUSING, AND LIQUOR STORES: THEIR PREDICTION OF JUVENILE SYSTEM BEHAVIOR GIPSY A. ESCOBAR SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION AND THE PUBLIC LEVEL OF CRIME CONTROL: A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL PREDICTORS OF HOMICIDE RATES IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA MATASHA LEE HARRIS REENTRY: AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN S AND WOMEN S EXPERIENCES OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE LAUREN LEIGHTON SNITCH OR GOOD SAMARITAN: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS INFLUENCING AN INDIVIDUAL S WILLINGNESS TO SHARE INFORMATION WITH SECURITY SERVICES SUZANNE REBECCA NEUSTETER EXPLORING CHANGE IN LOCAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE JUSTICE REINVESTMENT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL MODEL IN THREE U.S. COUNTIES WILLIAM PARKIN DEVELOPING THEORETICAL PROPOSITIONS OF FAR-RIGHT IDEOLOGICAL VICTIMIZATION DALE KEVIN PURCELL UV-VISIBLE MICROSCOPE SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC POLARIZATION AND DICHROISM WITH INCREASED DISCRIMINATION POWER IN FORENSIC ANALYSIS AMY MELISSA SHLOSBERG POST EXONERATION OFFENDING NAHID (JULIE) AHMAD SIDDIQUE SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE U.S.: AN ANALYSIS OF RISK AND TRENDS ODESSA ANN SIMMS CIRCUMSTANCES OF ABUSE: EXAMINING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE SEX OFFENDERS EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CHRISTIAN ANDERSON WEST SIDE STORIES: EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE SOCIAL SPACE OF WEST FORTY-SIXTH STREET ANNE BABETTE AUDANT PUBLIC MARKET TO LA MARQUETA: SHAPING SPACES AND SUBJECTS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN NEW YORK CITY, RYAN EHRHART SCALING FOOD SECURITY: A POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN BUKIDNON, PHILIPPINES 18

17 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE DAVID FRIEDMAN POLICY CHANGE, SUSTAINABILITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: APPLICATIONS OF THE LONG ISLAND MARKAL MODEL BRADLEY S. GARDENER AND THEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGED: JEWISH INTRA-URBAN MIGRATION AND RACIAL IDENTITY IN THE BRONX, NY AMANDA MAUDE HURON THE WORK OF THE URBAN COMMONS: LIMITED-EQUITY COOPERATIVES IN WASHINGTON, D.C. ELANA KLEIN LATE PLEISTOCENE TO HOLOCENE EVOLUTION, SEDIMENTATION PROCESSES, AND ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT OF A COASTAL SYSTEM: RARITAN AND SANDY HOOK BAYS, NEW JERSEY ENRIQUE LANZ OCA THE ELWHA DAM REMOVAL PROJECT AND THE DEMATERIALIZATION OF NATURE GEORGE JOSE MUSA DOES GEOGRAPHY MATTER? NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS ON POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER OF NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN AFTER 9/11 CAITLYN PATRICIA NICHOLS TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF METAL DISTRIBUTIONS IN STATEN ISLAND MARSH-CREEK SYSTEMS: DOES CONNECTIVITY TO THE ARTHUR KILL IMPACT ANTHROPOGENIC ENRICHMENT, SEDIMENT QUALITY AND TOXICITY POTENTIAL IN NY/NJ HE MARSH HABITATS? RAHUL SAHAJPAL DEVELOPING GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES FOR A HIGH RESOLUTION HYDROCLIMATE RECORD IN MONO LAKE BASIN NICHOLAS CARL STEINER THE REMOTE SENSING AND MEASUREMENT OF MELTING PROCESSES ON GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA ECONOMICS SU HUANG ESSAYS ON THE MUNICIPAL BOND MARKET ILIR HYSA AN ANALYSIS OF THE LABOR MARKET, INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES DURING TRANSITION: THE CASE OF ALBANIA JUN JIANG ESSAYS ON FIRM FINANCIALS AND STOCK RETURNS EVIDENCE FROM MONETARY AND ASSET PRICING PERSPECTIVES YAN JIANG ESSAYS ON LABOR MARKET MATCHING, LABOR MOBILITY AND EDUCATIONAL MISMATCH SULEYMAN H. KAL GLOBAL CAPITAL FLOWS, TIME-VARYING FUNDAMENTALS AND TRANSITIONAL EXCHANGE RATE DYNAMICS ZHEN MA A SUMMARY OF SOME ESTIMATORS OF DYNAMIC PANEL DATA MODELS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS PRIYA NAGARAJ ESSAYS ON FIRM BEHAVIOR RUODING TAN THREE ESSAYS ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH POLICIES AND THE ECONOMICS OF FERTILITY AND MARRIAGE Certificate in Demography NAZLI TORAGANLI EXCHANGE RATES: PRICES AND PROFITABILITY: THE TURKISH EVIDENCE JIN WANG ESSAYS ON THE DETERMINANTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY XU WANG THREE ESSAYS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS YAO YAO MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON BUSINESS BORROWINGS, AGGREGATE OUTPUT, AND PRICES EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY RICHARD J. BECK EFFECTS OF GROUP PARENT-TRAINING WITH ONLINE PARENT-TEACHER COMMUNICATION ON THE HOMEWORK PERFORMANCE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS GEETAL BENSON THE EFFECTS OF COVER, COPY AND COMPARE, PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK AND REWARDS ON THE MATHEMATICAL CALCULATION SKILLS OF STUDENTS IDENTIFIED WITH MATH DIFFICULTY 19

18 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE MICHELLE D. LIVIDINI HEALTH HABITS, WELLNESS, AND BEHAVIOR OF MALE STUDENT ATHLETES PARTICIPATING IN HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS KATARZYNA E. WYKA THE APPLICATION OF LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS AND LATENT TRANSITION ANALYSIS TO LARGE SCALE DISASTER DATA: MODELING PTSD IN A POPULATION OF DISASTER WORKERS ENGINEERING SAMEH ABDELAZIM ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SIGNAL PROCESSING STRATEGIES FOR A 3-D DOPPLER LIDAR WIND PROFILER HUSEYIN DOGUS AKAYDIN PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING FROM FLUID FLOW JING CHEN THERMAL REGULATION OF HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION TOWARD BONE AND CARTILAGE LINEAGES YUZHE HE REMOTE SENSING OF AEROSOL AND CLOUD PROPERTIES FROM GROUND BASED AND SATELLITE REMOTE SENSORS TO EXPLORE AEROSOL-CLOUD INTERACTION SHRIPAD JOSHI A THEORY FOR HOW AQUAPORIN-1 AND TRANSMURAL PRESSURE INFLUENCE THE MECHANICS OF AND THE TRANSPORT THROUGH THE ARTERY WALL MOISE YAO KOFFI FLOW FIELD AND THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS INDUCED BY A ROTATIONALLY OSCILLATING HEATED PLATE ZEYNEP DERELI KORKUT DEVELOPMENT OF 3D MICROFLUIDIC LIVING CELL ARRAYS FOR ANTI-CANCER DRUG SCREENING IN MIMICKED TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT RISHI MATHURA HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY OF ARTERIAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL AND SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL COCULTURES SONIA SUSAN MATHEW THE EFFECT OF NETWORK GEOMETRY ON ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN A TIO2 PHOTOANODE OF A DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL EHSSAN NAZOCKDAST SMOLUCHOWSKI THEORY FOR CONCENTRATED COLLOIDAL DISPERSONS FAR FROM EQUILIBRIUM MUATH OBAIDAT AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR QoS SUPPORT IN MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS CHIRAG RAVAL INCREASING AORTIC ENDOTHELIAL CELL AQUAPORIN-1 EXPRESSION UPREGULATES ENDOTHELIAL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY IN MONOLAYERS AND IN WHOLE VESSELS EX VIVO DAVID SANTORO DEVELOPMENT OF AN EYE SAFE COHERENT DOPPLER WIND LIDAR SYSTEM IHSAN MOHAMED SHAHWAN A FRAMEWORK FOR CROSS-LAYER QoS-AWARE RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MOBILE WIMAX SYSTEMS DIVYA SHARMA EFFECTS OF ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY ON THE OSTEOCYTE LACUNAR-CANALICULAR NETWORK JOSEPH SORYAL IEEE DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK DETECTION AND MITIGATION TECHNIQUES REX H. WONG DATA ASSOCIATION FOR SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS USING MULTIPLE MODEL APPROACH DANIELLE WU FOCAL ACTIVATION AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING IN OSTEOCYTE NETWORKS INITIATED BY A NOVEL STOKESIAN FLUID STIMULUS PROBE (SFSP) ALI SEYED YAGHOUBI BALLISTIC AND DROP-WEIGHT IMPACT STUDIES OF GLARE 5 FIBER-METAL LAMINATES ENGLISH OLGA AKSAKALOVA CRISIS, FORMULATION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTIMACY IN 1950S AMERICA Certificate in Film Studies JAMES J. ARNETT ELIOT S SPINOZA: REALISM, AFFECT, AND ETHICS BALAKA BASU NEVERENDING STORIES: UNAUTHORIZED CONTINUATIONS, FICTIONAL REALITIES, AND THE LONG-FORM NARRATIVE FROM Certificate in Renaissance Studies 20

19 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE JILL BELLI PEDAGOGIES OF HAPPINESS: WHAT AND HOW SELF-HELP, POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY, AND POSITIVE EDUCATION TEACH ABOUT WELL-BEING Certificate in American Studies Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy JOHANNES HENDRIKUS BURGERS CONSPIRATORIAL MODERNISM: MODERNISM AND CONSPIRACY THEORY IN PROUST, JOYCE, FAULKNER, AND MUSIL Certificate in American Studies ALEXANDER JOHN ENGEBRETSON THE DEAR ORDINARY : THE NOVELS OF MARILYNNE ROBINSON LESLEY C. GRAYDON THE SWITCH: FREEDOMS IN SEXUALITY, DESIRE, GENDER, AND IDENTITY HEATHER BERNADETTE HEIM THE WILD CHILD: CHILDREN ARE FREAKS IN ANTEBELLUM NOVELS JAMES HOFF ENDLESS ASSENTS: JOHN DEWEY, AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN POETRY JENNIFER HOLL STARS INDEED: THE CELEBRITY CULTURE OF SHAKESPEARE S LONDON JOHN IRBY IRBY MARK TWAIN S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: WHICH WAS THE TRUTH? DEMETRIOS VASILIOS KAPETANAKOS KEYWORDS FOR POST-IMPERIAL BRITAIN: (AFRICAN-)AMERICAN ROUTES TO BLACK BRITISH CULTURAL STUDIES Certificate in Film Studies ROWENA KENNEDY-EPSTEIN HYBRID AESTHETICS AND THE POLITICS OF THE ARCHIVE: MURIEL RUKEYSER S SPANISH CIVIL WAR TIMOTHY KRAUSE TWENTIETH-CENTURY CATALOGS: THE POETICS OF LISTING, ENUMERATION, AND COPIOUSNESS IN JOYCE, SCHUYLER, McCOURT, PYNCHON, AND PEREC ROBERT MACHADO METACHROMATICS: APPLIED COLOR ACROSS MEDIA IN THE AGE OF COMPOSITE PICTURES ( ) GRANT MAXWELL HOW DOES IT FEEL? RATIONALITY AND AFFECTIVITY IN THE BIRTH AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ROCK AND ROLL EMILY ELIZABETH MOORE EMBEDDED FORMS AND THE PROGRESSIVE WONDERS OF THE WINTER S TALE TAHNEER OKSMAN HOW COME BOYS GET TO KEEP THEIR NOSES? : WOMEN AND JEWISH AMERICAN IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY GRAPHIC MEMOIRS MOLLY PULDA SYMPATHETIC INK: MEMOIRS OF FAMILY SECRETS AUDREY CLAIRE RADEN AS LONG AS SHE CRACKS SHE HOLDS : THOREAU S ANTICIPATION OF DYING Certificate in American Studies MARGARET ROBERTSON SKIN GAME: THE CONFIDENCE MAN AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE REBEKAH ANNE RUTKOFF AMERICAN MAGIC: THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEING SHAPES ZACHARY SAMALIN THE MASSES ARE REVOLTING: VICTORIAN CULTURE AND THE AESTHETICS OF DISGUST MARK SCHIEBE THE SPECTER OF ART IN THE AMERICAN BUSINESS NOVEL: Certificate in American Studies JASON ALEXANDER SCHNEIDERMAN VIOLATION AND VOLITION: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MOLESTED BOY IN THE POST-WAR GAY NOVEL JESSE W. SCHWARTZ GENETIC REVOLUTIONARIES: AMERICAN SOCIALISM, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE RADICAL IMMIGRANT, Certificate in American Studies NICHOLE STANFORD GOOD GOD BUT YOU SMART! A STUDY OF LANGUAGE LEGITIMACY IN CAJUN LOUISIANA RICHARD TAYSON GHOSTLY LANGUAGE AND LIMINAL EXPERIENCE: WILLIAM BLAKE, ROMANTIC DISCOURSE ON THE SUBLIME, AND AMERICAN PUNK SOUND YEVGENIYA TRAPS STIMULATING TEXTS: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF AROUSAL IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE 21

20 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE KAREN WEISER SELF-BEGOT, SELF-RAIS D : ELECTIVE ORPHANHOOD IN AMERICAN NOVELS, FRENCH CHADIA CHAMBERS-SAMADI EMERGENCES DU 17 OCTOBRE 1961 DANS LE TEXTE CONTEMPORAIN REBECCA MICHELLE LINZ MATERNITES ET IDENTITES: REPRESENTATIONS OF MOTHERHOOD AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN LITERARY TEXTS OF QUEBEC Certificate in Women s Studies STEVE PUIG INSCRIPTION DU PASSE COLONIAL DANS LA LITTERATURE URBAINE CONTEMPORAINE SOPHIE FRANCOISE SAINT-JUST SA NOU YE: FILMMAKING PRACTICES AS FORMULATIONS OF IDENTITY IN HAITI, GUADELOUPE, AND MARTINIQUE FROM 1976 TO 2011 Certificate in Film Studies JOHN F. SORRENTINO GIDE IN THE FIRST PERSON: THE I OF RELIGION AND SAME-SEX SEXUAL DESIRE HISPANIC & LUSO-BRAZILIAN LITERATURES & LANGUAGES LUZ MARIA BETANCOURT ADUEN LA POETICA DEL CUERPO EN LA OBRA DE CARMEN CECILIA SUAREZ GRACIELA BAZET-BROITMAN LAS HISTORIAS DE VIDAS EN EL SIGLO XVII: JUAN PABLO MARTIR RIZO KEVIN M. BOOKHAMER THE VARIABLE GRAMMAR OF THE SPANISH SUBJUNCTIVE IN SECOND-GENERATION BILINGUALS IN NEW YORK CITY JOHN JAIME ESTRADA DE LA IGLESIA CARISMATICA A LA IGLESIA INSTITUCIONAL: EL MUNDO CULTURAL DEL LIBRO DE BUEN AMOR HYON KWON KIM ANTONIO MACHADO AND HIS SOCIO-HUMAN EPISTEMOLOGY IN JUAN DE MAIRENA SUSANA MAIZTEGUI EUROPA, AFRICA Y NORTEAMERICA: SARMIENTO Y EL VIAJE INTELECTUAL PABLO SERGIO MORAGA EL GENERO DE LA GUIA EN MARIA ZAMBRANO OSCAR WILSON OSORIO NOVELA Y VIOLENCIA EN COLOMBIA: EL NARCOTRAFICO Y EL SICARIATO MARTA ISABEL PEREZ REVISION Y TRANSGRESION DEL CANON LITERARIO PUERTORRIQUENO: LA OBRA DE MANUEL RAMOS OTERO LUIS VILLAMIA VIDAL LA GAUCHE DIVINE: POLITICAS DE LA CULTURA EN EL TARDOFRANQUISMO MARCOS WASEM FREE LOVE IN MONTEVIDEO: ROBERTO DE LAS CARRERAS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EROTIC ANARCHISM IN 1900 HISTORY CARA C. CADDOO ENVISIONED COMMUNITIES: AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND THE MOVING PICTURES, CARLA J. DUBOSE-SIMONS THE SILENT ARRIVAL : THE SECOND WAVE OF THE GREAT MIGRATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON BLACK NEW YORK, JOHN BRIAN FREEMAN TRANSNATIONAL MECHANICS: AUTOMOBILITY IN MEXICO, DAVID J. GARY RUFUS KING AND THE HISTORY OF READING: THE USE OF PRINT IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC JOHN ANTHONY GUTIERREZ DISEASE, EMPIRE AND MODERNITY IN THE CARIBBEAN: TUBERCULOSIS IN CUBA, JESSICA HAMMERMAN THE HEART OF THE DIASPORA: JEWS AND THE ALGERIAN WAR CARL LINDSKOOG REFUGEES AND RESISTANCE: INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISM FOR GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN NEW YORK, MIAMI, AND HAITI, 1957 TO

21 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE GWYNNETH CORCORAN MALIN HOW WATER BECAME PUBLIC IN PROGRESSIVE-ERA NEW YORK, KATE MAZZA THE BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERS: HEALTH CREATION AND PROMOTION IN THE UNITED STATES, DAVID L. PARSONS DANGEROUS GROUNDS: THE AMERICAN GI COFFEEHOUSE MOVEMENT, Certificate in Film Studies PAUL J. POLGAR STANDARD BEARERS OF LIBERTY AND EQUALITY: REINTERPRETING THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM RAYMOND LEWIS SCHILLER REVOLUTIONARY DEBT: ATTITUDES OF FRENCH POLITICAL ELITES TOWARD THE DOMESTIC CREDITORS OF THE STATE, NOAH RAPHAEL SIMMONS INTERNATIONALISTS! THE RADICAL PARTY CHALLENGES THE ITALIAN LEFT, ALEXANDER STAVROPOULOS IMPERIAL DIPLOMATS: EXPLOITATION, REFORM, AND THE ROLE OF THE FRENCH DIPLOMATIC CORPS IN MANAGING THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE, CHERYL M. WAHL THE BUSINESS OF SETTLEMENT: LAND COMPANIES AND COLONIZATION IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CA ELLEN MARY ZITANI LOVE S ETHICS: SIBILLA ALERAMO AND QUEER FEMINISM IN FIN DE SIECLE ITALY RAN ZWIGENBERG THE BRIGHT FLASH OF PEACE: HIROSHIMA IN THE WORLD, LINGUISTICS TIMOTHY BONNER SYSTEMATIC ASYMMETRIES IN PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF L2 INFLECTIONS IN MANDARIN L2 LEARNERS OF ENGLISH: THE EFFECTS OF PHONOTACTICS, SALIENCE, AND PROCESSING PRESSURE ON INFLECTIONAL VARIABILITY ALEXANDRA IOANNIDOU THE SYNTAX OF NON-VERBAL CAUSATION: THE CAUSATIVE APOMORPHY OF FROM IN GREEK AND GERMANIC LANGUAGES JIAN LI THE RISE OF DISYLLABLES IN OLD CHINESE: THE ROLE OF LIANMIAN WORDS DEIRDRE MARY QUINN EFFECTS OF L1 SPANISH AND L2 ENGLISH SUBLEXICAL AND LEXICAL PROCESSING ON ENGLISH L2 WORD READING SPEED AND ACCURACY, AND READING COMPREHENSION ROCIO RANA-RISSO A CORPUS-BASED SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF SUBJECT PRONOUN PLACEMENT IN SPANISH IN NEW YORK JI YOUNG SHIM DERIVING WORD ORDER IN CODE-SWITCHING: FEATURE INHERITANCE AND LIGHT VERBS MEGUMI YOSHIDA UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETING JAPANESE NP1 WA NP2 DA SENTENCES: MECHANISM AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS MATHEMATICS EVANGELIA ANTONAKOS FORMS OF GENERIC COMMON KNOWLEDGE YIMAO CHEN UNIQUENESS THEOREMS FOR SOME NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS SUBIR SINGH DHAMOON THE DIFFERENTIABILITY OF RENORMALIZED TRIPLE INTERSECTION LOCAL TIMES VIVEKA ERLANDSSON THE MARGULIS REGION IN HYPERBOLIC 4-SPACE OZGUR EVREN THE LENGTH SPECTRUM METRIC ON THE TEICHMULLER SPACE OF A FLUTE SURFACE JEANNE FUNK THE WITT RING OF A SMOOTH CURVE WITH GOOD REDUCTION OVER A LOCAL FIELD JOSEPH HIRSH DERIVED NONCOMMUTATIVE DEFORMATION THEORY FRANCISCO GERARDO JIMENEZ LOPEZ LENGTH SPECTRUM METRIC AND MODIFIED LENGTH SPECTRUM METRIC ON TEICHMULLER SPACES 23

22 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE KWANG HYUN KIM ON THE RANK OF 2-PRIMARY PART OF SELMER GROUP OF CERTAIN ELLIPTIC CURVES CHARALAMBOS MICHAEL KOUPPARIS NON-COMMUTATIVE CRYPTOGRAPHY: DIFFIE-HELLMAN AND CCA SECURE CRYPTOSYSTEMS USING MATRICES OVER GROUP RINGS AND DIGITAL SIGNATURES SAJJAD LAKZIAN SMOOTH CONVERGENCE AWAY FROM SINGULAR SETS AND INTRINSIC FLAT CONTINUITY OF RICCI FLOW WHANKI LEE RESPLENDENT MODELS GENERATED BY INDISCERNIBLES NORMAN LEWIS PERLMUTTER INVERSE LIMITS OF MODELS OF SET THEORY AND THE LARGE CARDINAL HIERARCHY NEAR A HIGH-JUMP CARDINAL BRIAN STOUT DYNAMICAL SHAFAREVICH RESULTS FOR RATIONAL MAPS MUSIC LISA SHARON BEHRENS CYCLIC PITCH ORGANIZATION IN THE TWELVE-TONE WORKS OF AARON COPLAND DANIEL BLAKE PERFORMED IDENTITIES: THEORIZING IN NEW YORK S IMPROVISED MUSIC SCENE AND REFRACTIONS NATHAN SCOTT BOWEN MOBILE PHONES, GROUP IMPROVISATION, AND MUSIC: TRENDS IN DIGITAL SOCIALIZED MUSIC-MAKING DESAMPARADOS FABRA CRESPO BETSY JOLAS S MUSICAL LANGUAGE AND CUSTODES HOMINUM FOR STRING QUARTET DAVID N. JOHNSON WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE GOLD MINE: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE MUSIC OF THE DOORS EDWARD KLORMAN MULTIPLE AGENCY IN MOZART S CHAMBER MUSIC RACHEL LUMSDEN BEYOND MODERNISM S EDGE: JOHANNA BEYER S STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (1936) AND VIVIAN FINE S THE RACE OF LIFE (1937) Certificate in Women s Studies DANIEL PARTRIDGE HARMONY, FORM, AND VOICE LEADING IN THE MATURE WORKS OF ANTONIN DVORAK THOMAS ALBERT ZLABINGER FREE FROM JAZZ: THE JAZZ AND IMPROVISED MUSIC SCENE IN VIENNA AFTER OSSIACH ( ) NURSING JUDITH JAMES BORGA SEPTEMBER 2013 THE MEANING OF THE EXPERIENCE OF LIVING WITH HIV DISEASE: A STUDY OF OLDER BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN SUSAN J. BRILLHART HYPERTONIC LOWER EXTREMITIES IN INFANTS: CORRELATION TO MOTOR FUNCTION SCORES AT THIRTEEN MONTHS OF AGE ELLEN CARROLL SEPTEMBER 2013 THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF IMMINENT TRANSITION TO ADULT HEALTH CARE IN ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY BARBARA COHEN SEPTEMBER 2013 TORAH TRUE: THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF ORTHODOX JEWISH REGISTERED NURSES HEATHER GIBSON SEPTEMBER 2013 AFRO-CARIBBEAN PARENTS CULTURAL PERCEPTION OF THEIR WEIGHT AND FOOD PRACTICES IN LONDON AND NEW YORK ANDREA MARIA GRANT HYPERTENSION KNOWLEDGE, EXPECTATION OF CARE, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND ADHERENCE TO PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH HYPERTENSION FRAMED BY ROY ADAPTATION MODEL KATHLEEN KARSTEN SEPTEMBER 2013 RECONCILING LIFE BALANCE: A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY OF OVERCOMING FAILURE EMMA KONTZAMANIS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSING FACULTY ATTITUDES TOWARD CULTURALLY DIVERSE PATIENTS AND TRANSCULTURAL SELF-EFFICACY PAUL QUINN SEPTEMBER 2013 BECOMING SOMEONE DIFFERENT: A GROUNDED THEORY OF HOW NURSES INTEGRATE PREGNANCY AND FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT ANNE MARIE SIMMONS SEPTEMBER 2013 THE RELATIONSHIP OF WORK STRESSORS AND PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT ON FRONT LINE NURSE MANAGER WORK ENGAGEMENT 24

23 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE VALERIE TAYLOR-HASLIP THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF CARING PRESENCE FOR NURSING STUDENTS AND NURSING FACULTY PHILOSOPHY JON WESLEY BUCKWALTER KNOWLEDGE ASCRIPTION AND TRADITIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY MATIAS BULNES INTENTIONALITY WITHOUT INTENSIONALITY TOBYN C. DEMARCO THE METAPHYSICS OF IMPROVISATION LAURA TERESA DI SUMMA-KNOOP THE ART OF TELLING ABOUT THE SELF: MEMOIRS IN LITERATURE AND FILM MORGAN SETH HOROWITZ MARX S DEMOCRATIC IDEA: COMMUNISM S RELATION TO LIBERAL THEORY MICHAL WALERIAN KLINCEWICZ TIME, UNITY, AND CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE HIDENORI KUROKAWA TABLEAUX AND HYPERSEQUENTS FOR MODAL AND JUSTIFICATION LOGICS ROBERT MERKER PHILANTHROPY, CHARTING THE MORAL TERRAIN ONYOUNG OH DEFLATIONISM ABOUT TRUTH AND MEANING GRAHAM PARSONS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR LIFE: WAR, INDIVIDUALISM, AND JUSTICE JORDAN DEXTER PASCOE COSMOPOLITANISM AND COLONIALISM: KANT ON MARRIAGE, RACE, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FAMILY Certificate in Women s Studies GEORGE ANTHONY SELI THE CAUSAL ROLE OF STATE CONSCIOUSNESS ROSEMARY TWOMEY ARISTOTLE ON THE COMMON SENSE AND THE UNITY OF PERCEPTION JOHN WIGGLESWORTH METAPHYSICAL DEPENDENCE AND SET THEORY PHYSICS YAUHENI DZEDZITS AVERAGED DYNAMICS OF THE ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION AND APPLICATIONS TO OCEAN FLOWS XIN GAO MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF PRICING MODELS FOR STRUCTURED FINANCIAL SECURITIES DAVID GOLDBERG RESONANT PHOTONIC STRUCTURES FOR CONTROL OF LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION IN SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES YASEMIN GURCAN THEORY OF BCS-BEC CROSSOVER IN ULTRACOLD ATOMIC GASES YULIANG JIN STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF JAMMED PACKINGS OF SPHERES ELI LANSEY APERTURE ARRAY PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS: THEORETICAL APPROACHES, NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES AND A NOVEL APPLICATION YANG LI SYSTEMATIC CONTROL OF SCHOTTKY BARRIER HEIGHT BY PARTISAN INTERLAYERS WEI LONG SYSTEMATIC TUNING OF SILICON SCHOTTKY BARRIER HEIGHT BY ATOMIC INTERLAYERS WITH LOW ELECTRONEGATIVITIES MICHAEL O KEEFFE QUANTUM ROTATIONAL EFFECTS IN NANOMAGNETIC SYSTEMS RAFAEL VAZQUEZ REINA JOINT DEGREE WITH HUNTER COLLEGE MAGNETIC RESONANCE STUDIES OF ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS JOEL TAVE RUBIN OPTOMECHANICS OF CAVITY DRIVEN NANOPARTICLES 25

24 CANDIDATES FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE JURAJ TEKEL FUZZY FIELD THEORY AS A RANDOM MATRIX MODEL BO WEN DIPOLAR INTERACTIONS, LONG RANGE ORDER AND RANDOM FIELDS IN A SINGLE MOLECULE MAGNET, Mn 12-ACETATE LEI ZHANG ENGINEERING COFACTOR AND LIGAND BINDING IN AN ARTIFICIAL NEUROGLOBIN POLITICAL SCIENCE LISETH ANCIDEY THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE ZONES TO THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT REGIME AND TO REGIONAL SECURITY JAMIE RAY AROOSI THE DIALECTICAL SELF: SØREN KIERKEGAARD, KARL MARX, AND THE BIRTH OF RADICAL FREEDOM ARTO ARTINIAN SOVIET MARXISM RECONSIDERED: DIALECTICAL METHOD IN THE THOUGHT OF LEV VYGOTSKY SHAWNA MARY BRANDLE THE VIOLATIONS WILL NOT BE TELEVISED: TELEVISION NEWS COVERAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE US AND UK LINDSAY GREEN-BARBER SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: THE CASE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN ECUADOR, BILLIE JO HERNANDEZ EROSION OF GERMAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS? EVIDENCE FROM THE METALWORKING, CHEMICALS AND CONSTRUCTION SECTORS SHERMAN ERNEST LEE JR. BOOTSTRAPS OR HELPING HAND : AN EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMIC STRATIFICATION AMONG BLACK AMERICANS AND THEIR RACIAL ATTITUDES TOWARD MERIT-BASED OPPORTUNITIES AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Certificate in Africana Studies YEKATERINA OZIASHVILI REGIONAL PARTY SYSTEMS IN ETHNOFEDERAL STATES DIANA POLSON THE CARING PRECARIAT: HOME HEALTH CARE WORK IN NEW YORK CITY RACHEL H. RADZYNER MEDICARE PAYMENT POLICY AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: THE ELUSIVE GOAL OF HEALTHCARE COST CONTROL KARIN RIEDL COOPERATING FOR FAIRNESS: THE ROLE OF ELECTORAL INSTITUTIONS IN GENERATING MORE EGALITARIAN LEGISLATION IN THE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN REGION PATRICIA STAPLETON BIOTECHNOLOGY REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND FRANCE: UN DIALOGUE DES SOURDS BANN SENG TAN SWORD VERSUS SHIELD: THE IMPACT OF DEMOCRACY ON RIVALRY SOPHIE M. THEVEN DE GUELERAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE URBAN WATER SECTOR REFORM IN DAKAR, SENEGAL: THE POLITICS OF NEOLIBERALISM IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY DANIELLE ZACH DIASPORA MOVEMENTS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND CIVIL WARS: THE IRISH-AMERICAN (DIS)CONNECTION AND THE NORTHERN IRELAND TROUBLES PSYCHOLOGY NAOMI JANE ALDRICH JEALOUSY COMPREHENSION DURING MIDDLE CHILDHOOD: THE ROLES OF PERSPECTIVE TAKING, GENDER, AND MATERNAL REMINISCING WITHIN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION KARIN ALTERESCU FACIAL EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION FOLLOWING VOICE TREATMENTS IN INDIVIDUALS WITH PARKINSON S DISEASE JUDY A. BARRY COMPONENTS OF EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND REACTION TIME: A STUDY OF NORMAL AGING AND PARKINSON S DISEASE MAE BASOW THE ROLE OF SEXUAL SATISFACTION IN COUPLE RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION, INDIVIDUAL STRESS, AND QUALITY OF LIFE 26