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Optimizing variables for contingency management among infant caregivers using a simulated purchase task
No full textBehavioral economics offers a framework for understanding choice making around public health concerns such as drug use and distracted driving. Such a framework could be beneficial to understanding caregiver choices related to arranging an infant sleep environment. Nonadherence to infant sleep safety guidelines provided by the American Academy of Pediatrics increases the risk of sleep-related infant deaths. The present study adopted a willingness-to-accept purchase task procedure, used in previous research to evaluate variables that predict abstaining from consuming alcohol, to evaluate intention to adhere to recommendations for arranging a safe infant sleep environment. This analysis would inform contingency management incentive scales used to measure caregiver adherence following training caregivers to arrange an infant sleep environment and identify variables that might predict treatment engagement. The results identified incentive sizes, condition duration, and participant variables that predict caregiver adherence. The results can be applied to future investigations that train caregivers to arrange an infant sleep environment.AMSUNY DownstateApplied Behavior AnalysisN/
Reproductive Output by Garlic Mustard Populations
Full text linkGarlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is an invasive species originating in Europe and Asia that was introduced to the United States in the 19th century. Since then, it has been found around the east coast and up to Canada. This study aims to determine the reproductive output of garlic mustard by measuring total plant mass, seed mass, percent seed mass per plant, and estimated seed output from four sites in New York. Two were located on Purchase College Campus in Westchester (Westchester 1, Westchester 2), the other two were located upstate near Woodstock, New York (Catskills 1, Catskills 2). Twenty five plants from each location were collected, weighed, and had their seeds extracted and weighed. Five random seed samples from each site were selected with fifty seeds weighed from each to get average seed mass per site. Research demonstrated the Catskills sites being favored for greater plant mass, seed mass, and seed count, however, site Westchester 2 demonstrated most efficient seed output for its plant mass, despite being the lowest in plant mass and total seed mass. This indicates a trade off between total seed output and resource use efficiency, possibly due to environmental factors. More studies are needed to determine causes for garlic mustard favoring the Catskills sites and resource usage.Purchase College SUNYEnvironmental StudiesBachelor of ArtsKraemer, George P
building a house unbuilt
Full text linkWhat else is there to know? I'm forever building a house from the ruins of another. And another. It's a spectral testimony of subjects and memories denied speech. I seek to build a counter-memory for the buried. Regard the shock of words; regard their absence. Listen for the flicker of promising hope. It is the doomed project we must tarry and dance in, to reject categorization, to re-present queer lives lost to an archive that registers them at their moment of disappearance.
Maybe the best we can hope for is to see them at last on the page.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsBachelor of ScienceThackray, Amanda J
Taking Metal on the Road
Full text linkThis paper explores the evolving landscape of the metal music industry, with a specific focus on the realities facing modern metal musicians. Drawing from both academic research and personal experience as a longtime member of the death metal band Death Island, the study examines how traditional revenue streams, such as touring, merchandise, and record sales have shifted in response to broader changes in the music business. While platforms like Bandcamp and independent labels continue to provide alternative pathways for income and exposure, the decline in touring profitability and low streaming payouts present major challenges, especially for emerging and niche artists in genres like metal and hardcore. This paper aims to document the current state of the metal music ecosystem, highlight the role touring still plays despite its financial strain, and offer insights for musicians seeking sustainable careers in an increasingly unstable industry.Purchase College SUNYArts ManagementBachelor of ArtsGuralnik, Mari
Open
Full text linkIdentity, Queerness, Transformation, Performance, and the Body.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsBachelor of Fine ArtsMurray, Kati
Every Now and Then
Full text linkThis project explores generational identity and technological transformation through a triptych structure; Then, Now, and The Twins. Interweaving personal narrative, critical theory, and digital media, it examines how nostalgia, social media, and algorithmic culture have shaped a sense of self over time. Beginning with childhood attachments to the Nintendo DS and early internet culture, it traces the shift from analog play to digitally mediated adulthood marked by disillusionment, performance, and surveillance. Drawing on thinkers such as Nam June Paik and Hito Steyerl, the text critiques the emotional and epistemological consequences of living through screens. The final section, centered on the sculpture The Twins, embodies the binary between low-fidelity memory and hyper-detailed digital presence, suggesting that identity today exists in the unresolved space between nostalgia and data. This work is both a reflection and a reckoning – a coming-of-age story shaped by pixels, platforms, and the ghosts of technology past.Purchase College SUNYSculptureBachelor of Fine ArtsOwens, Rache
Master(piece)
Full text linkFor the early portion of the medieval period, monks were the primary artists and workers behind illuminated manuscripts, often laboring for months or years to complete one book, which they did not get to keep for themselves. I imagine that putting so much effort and time into one project, only to see it disappear into someone else's hands forever, would be somewhat heartbreaking for an artist who loved their craft.
This project, via a visual narrative styled after manuscripts typical of sixth-century Ireland, tells the story of a monk working in the scriptorium of a monastery. He labors long and hard on a manuscript that is very dear to him. It becomes his masterpiece. When it's complete, he can no longer bear the idea of parting with it, and he flees the monastery, taking the book with him.
This project will take a thorough look at the connections between art and servitude, focusing on themes of labor, process, and creative control. As a graphic designer and an illustrator, I chose this topic because of worries I have about entering the workforce and losing creative control over my life's work.Purchase College SUNYGraphic DesignBachelor of Fine ArtsWilson, Davi
Acting While Black: The Effects of Misogynoir on Black actresses in Hollywood
Full text linkA senior project that dives into the effects of misogynoir on Black actresses in Hollywood. This retrospective focuses on four black actresses across different genres and decades as they provide insight into the experience of racism both on and off set. The project also opens up the larger question of how the current political climate will shape the new generation of Black actresses and their experiences.Purchase College SUNYTheatre and PerformanceBachelor of ArtsBarall, Mich
The Next Dog
Full text linkA guarded pre-vet student seeks compensation against an unidentified driver who harmed a puppy she reluctantly took in.Purchase College SUNYPlaywriting and ScreenwritingBachelor of ArtsSanko, Alan
SELF-ASSEMBLING MULTIDOMAIN PROTEIN MICELLES FOR MOLECULAR IMAGING AND DRUG DELIVERY
No full textProteins are versatile biomacromolecules with strong self-assembly properties
that play a vital role in virtually all forms of life. By taking advantage of these properties,
it is possible to design biocompatible, biologically active materials that can be used for a
range of biomedical purposes, such as molecular imaging as well as targeted drug
delivery. Unlike many other material systems, proteins can be recombinantly expressed
and purified with multiple functional domains encoded in a single gene, often eliminating
the need for additional chemical conjugation steps.
Here we describe the design and engineering of multidomain proteins containing
at least one coiled-coil domain and one disordered elastin-like polypeptide domain per
chain. These proteins spontaneously assemble into micelles in aqueous solution. By
incorporating targeting peptides into the genetic sequence, we can additionally alter the
pharmacokinetics and organ tropism of the resulting micelles. Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the field of protein biomaterials, while
Chapters 2-4 delve in the design and characterization of protein micelles with multiple
functional domains. First, in Chapter 2, we devise a collagen-binding molecular imaging
probe for the monitoring of metabolic associated steatohepatitis (MASH) disease
progression. This probe, collagen type I-binding thermoresponsive assembled protein
(Col1-TRAP), was first characterized in vitro before being used to study a mouse model
of MASH. It was found to preferentially accumulate in the livers of mice with MASH
compared to normal mice. Next, in Chapter 3, we investigate the effect of increasing the multiplicity of the
coiled-coil domain on improving hydrophobic drug loading capacity and delivery
efficiency. Increasing the number of repeats of the coiled-coil domain from 1 to 2 was
found to increase the drug loading capacity by 1.7-fold while reducing micelle packing
by 25%. This construct, targeted multidomain protein assembly (TMPA), was found to
preferentially accumulate in tumor sites in mice implanted with glioblastoma xenografts.
Finally, Chapter 4 focuses on the targeting of TMPA for specific drug delivery to
HER2+ breast cancer by using the peptide P51. Targeted micelles loaded with
doxorubicin displayed improved uptake into and cytotoxicity against breast cancer cells
overexpressing the HER2 receptor, while showing no selectivity in triple-negative breast
cancer cells. All micelle-drug formulations were found to be more effective than free drug alone, showing the utility of these protein materials.VoRSUNY DownstateProgram in Biomedical EngineeringPhDMontclare, Jin Ki