• don't look, don't look 

  Voos, Amelia (2020-01-01)

  don’t look, don’t look enacts and embodies the entwining communal, generational, and familial remnants and echoes of my family’s rural farming community in Glen Gardner, NJ. I am crafting new iterations of land-based rituals ...

• Nanostructures Encapsulating Antimalarial Drugs for Improved Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Treatment 

  Allen, Marilyn (2020-01-01)

  Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) causes damaging inflammation in multiple organs via the accumulation of immune complexes. These complexes activate plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) via TLR7 and TLR9, contributing to disease ...

• the eye sees in a million ways unable to comprehend what fervent destructions are wrought by its reach, or: the embattlement of personhood and privacy 

  Davis, Kelsey (2020-01-01)

  Drones and other autonomous technologies may appear, at first glance, as elements in a science fiction plot. However, drones are not innocuous gadgets, but are instead tools for surveillance coupled with the capacity to ...

• American Boy: Immigration, Tutorials, a Loop of Play 

  Prykhodko, Maksym (2020-01-01)

  American Boy is a three-piece installation about forging an American identity through play, technology, and Internet tutorials. Through interaction and touch, participants unearth the protagonist’s sometimes comedic ...

• The Sky is Coming 

  Damico, Danielle (2020-01-01)

  The Sky is Coming is a multisensory two-channel projection installation that depictsan ecosexual encounter between a developing thunderstorm and its human lover. This work ponders the technological mediation of our natural ...

• From Counter-Memory to Counter-Culture: Black Islam in the U.S. Through a Mundane Afrofuturist Lens 

  Cheatam, Safiyah (2020-01-01)

  From Counter-Memory to Counter-Culture: Black Islam in the U.S. Through a Mundane Afrofuturist Lens is a multi-generational look at moments of Mundane Afrofuturism within the lives of Black Muslims in the U.S., emphasizing ...

• Common Medical Objects for Ephemeral Bodies 

  D'Andelet, Lindsay (2020-01-01)

  Common Medical Objects for Ephemeral Bodies mimics the medical spaces and objects used to diagnose the human body. As an artist, I subvert the function of these spaces and objects in my installation in order to play with ...

• BURY OR BURN THEN BURY- THE CURRENT STATE OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT USING THE 2019 BALTIMORE CLEAN AIR ACT AS A CASE STUDY 

  Kruger III, James Paul (2020-01-01)

  Why did Baltimore, Maryland choose to bury their Municipal Solid Waste instead of burning it? In this dissertation, I review the current state of solid waste management choices being made nationally and locally using the ...

• Sick Transit 

  Alexander, Rahne Xanthe (2020-01-01)

  Sick Transit is a tripartite intermedia piece about medicine, mobility, and art-making within a mother/daughter relationship defined by multiple sclerosis and transsexuality. The titular video performance is featured in ...

• Are Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Effective? An Analysis of the Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) Operational Variation on Prescription Opioid Misuse and Abuse 

  Guggino, Kathy Michele (2020-01-01)

  ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: Are Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) Effective? An Analysis of the Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) Operational Variation on Prescription Opioid Misuse ...

• Phosphorus recovery from wastewater and solid waste by Donnan dialysis 

  Shashvatt, Utsav (2020-01-01)

  Phosphorus is a non-renewable resource that is essential for sustaining large-scale food production. At the current rate of phosphorus production, "peak phosphorus" is predicted to occur within 100 years. Concurrently, ...

• Enabling the Prevention and Reporting of Sexual Assault at Maryland Colleges and Universities 

  Koch, Amanda (2020-01-01)

  In this dissertation, I work to expand social understanding of sexual assault occurrence and reporting challenges on college and university campuses. In an ideal world, sexual assault would be extremely rare, and reporting ...

• RETURN LABOR MIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A CASE STUDY OF NEPAL 

  Lohani, Jeevan Raj (2020-01-01)

  Every year one in four international labor migrants return home (Azose & Raftery, 2019). The New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) identifies return migration as a strategic move not only by an individual migrant but ...

• Parental Stress and Chinese Immigrant Preschoolers’ Adjustment Problems: The Mediating Roles of Parenting Practices 

  Wang, Suqing (2020-01-01)

  The present study examined two types of stress perceived by Chinese American mothers, general/contextual stress and parenting stress, and their unique associations with children’s socio-emotional and behavioral adjustment ...

• Student Perceptions of Title IX Reporting and Response 

  Webermann, Aliya Rachel (2020-01-01)

  Gender-based violence and misconduct (GBVM), including sexual harassment/violence and interpersonal abuse, are common occurrences among female and non-binary/gender-diverse college students. The most salient policy aimed ...

• Characterizing the Educational Involvement of Families During Fifth Grade: Predictors and Academic Outcomes Associated with Latent Class Membership 

  Gay, Brittany (2020-01-01)

  Higher amounts of family involvement are often positively associated with children’s academic skills. There are, however, myriad ways families could be involved in their children’s education, which warrant exploration to ...

• Women's Use of Intimate Partner Aggression: Associations with Everyday Sexism 

  Miles-McLean, Haley A (2020-01-01)

  Research has indicated that women engage in intimate partner aggression (IPA) at similar rates relative to men and that women’s IPA negatively impacts their survivor partners. However, studies also document important ...

• A Multimethod Examination of the Associations between Parenting Styles and Self-Regulation among Ethnically Diverse Emerging Adults 

  Shen, Jia (2020-01-01)

  Self-regulation refers to individuals’ capacity for managing and regulating their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in response to contextual demands to enable goal-oriented actions. Parents play a significant role in ...

• Interactive Relations of Religious Coping, Race, and Sex on Telomere Length in African Americans and Whites 

  Ashe, Jason (2020-01-01)

  In the United States (U.S.), religion is a salient source of comfort and strength, particularly among African Americans and women. Studies have examined how religious coping may be protective of early health deterioration, ...

• The Contributions of Instructional Practices, Teacher Beliefs, and Classroom Quality on Head Start Children's Vocabulary 

  Dowling, Rebecca (2020-01-01)

  The National Reading Panel (2000) identified vocabulary as one of the five skills with the most robust influence on reading ability. Early differences in vocabulary drive enduring individual differences in reading performance. ...

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