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Student Publications [Scholarly]
This series contains a wide range of published scholarship and writing by students at Clark University. Many co-authored collaborations with Clark faculty are featured.
Submissions from 2027
A Survey of Vulnerabilities and Emerging Defenses in GANs, VAEs, and Transformers, Jothsna Praveena Pendyala and Aman Goyal
Submissions from 2026
Pre-monsoon precipitation dominates the tree radial growth of Picea smithiana in the western Nepal Himalayas, Sarala Adhikari, Udhab Raj Khadka, Shalik Ram Sigdel, Arjun Regmi, Mahesh Prasad Awasthi, Mahendra Prasad Uprety, and Narayan Prasad Gaire
Attention-Based Geo–Textual Fusion Network for Disaster Risk Prediction, Mohammad Shafat Ahsan, Mst Sanjida Alam, Syed Sajjad Ahmed, MD Tanzimul Islam, Hashibul Ahsan Shoaib, M.F. Mridha, and Md. Jakir Hossen
Geospatial analysis of urban heat Islands and heat vulnerability in Chattogram, Bangladesh: implications for public health risks, Mst Sanjida Alam
Evaluating Spatiotemporal Changes and Predicting Land-Use Dynamics Using an Artificial Neural Network in Worcester City, Massachusetts, Mst Sanjida Alam, Mijanur Rahman, Nusrut Sharmin, Md Naim Molla, Hossain Al Mahbub, Mohammad Muniruzzaman, Md Nadim Rahman, and Edris Alam
Cultivating Resilience in Family Caregivers of Patients With Severe Acute Brain Injury: Maurice’s Journey Through COMA-F, Nicolás Alvarez-Frank, Elizabeth A. Rochon, Jessica Daily, Emma Silverman, Jafar Bakhshaie, Melissa Motta, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, David Y. Hwang, and Alexander M. Presciutti
Physics-informed self-supervised diagnosis of rotating machinery using latent ODEs and transformer encoders, Md Al Amin, Mohammad Shafat Ahsan, Jannatul Maua, Mumtahina Ahmed, and Kamruddin Nur
Look-Ahead Cyber-Threat Forecasting for Connected and Automated Transport: A Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning Approach, Md Al Amin, Mohammad Shafat Ahsan, Jannatul Maua, Arifa Akter Eva, M.F. Mridha, and Md. Jakir Hossen
Local Institutions Mediate Effects of Land Scarcity in Indigenous Territories in Amazonia, Ana Lucía Araujo Raurau and Oliver T. Coomes
Experiences of opioid-related stigma among sexual assault survivors who use opioids in the community, Prachi H. Bhuptani, Elizabeth D. Mayer, Ananya Sharma, Aradhana Srinagesh, Alexis Adams-Clark, Lindsay M. Orchowski, and Nicole H. Weiss
Evaluating Long-term seasonal variability of aerosol optical properties in Colorado, Erin K. Boedicker, Andre Bergeron, Gerardo Carrillo-Cardenas, Dominik Kulakowski, John Rogan, Elizabeth Andrews, and Gannet A. Hallar
Characterization of a Core Fungal Community and Captivity-Induced Gut “Mycobiome” Change in Fowler's Toad (Anaxyrus fowleri), Alexander J. Bradshaw, Sinlan Poo, Tracey E. Malter, Rylie M. Strasbaugh, Brianna Bodner, Madison R. Hincher, Anne Devan-Song, and Javier F. Tabima
Altimetry Data from ICESat-2 Brings Value to the Private Sector, Molly E. Brown, Aimee Neeley, Abigail Phillips, and Denis Felikson
Unraveling the genomic and phylogenetic complexity of the under-studied microfungus Basidiobolus: Insights from 19 newly sequenced genomes, Jasper P. Carleton, Alexander J. Bradshaw, Liam P. Cleary, Madison R. Hincher, Kathryn Bushley, and Javier F. Tabima
MST's Arvoredo app: Family farmers and grassroots environmental data-driven governance in Brazil, Estevan Coca and Ricardo Barbosa
From Multimodal Data to Clinical Insight: An Explainable Model for Preoperative Salivary Gland Lesion Diagnosis, Jing Feng, Yugi Yan, Jia Li, Sai Liang Liu, Ang Ang Ding, Chang He, and Ping Xiong
Fresh Phytoplankton Bloom Growth in the Fall and Its Control on Ocean Heating in the Pacific Arctic Region, Clare B. Gaffey, K E. Frey, Bonnie Light, Lee W. Cooper, and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
Toward safer gold: Policy pathways for reducing mercury related health risks in artisanal small-scale gold mining in Ghana, Cyril M. Gbeli and Francis Xavier D. Tuokuu
Considerations for a Mind-Body Program for Latine Adults with Chronic Pain and Cognitive Impairment: A Qualitative Study with Healthcare Providers, Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, Marlene E. Cardoza, Esther EE Estey, Yoojee Kim, Nicolás A. Alvarez-Frank, Tony V. Pham, Zev Schuman-Olivier, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, and Jonathan Greenberg
Invasion biology: The golden oyster mushroom in North America, David Hibbett, Prasanth Prabhu, and Javier F. Tabima
Dynamical boundary following and corner trapping of undulating worms, Sohum Kapadia and Arshad Kudrolli
Assessing the Robustness of Prithvi Geospatial Foundation Model for Coastal Habitat Mapping Under Data Availability and Domain Shift Scenarios, Sam Khallaghi, Rishi Singh, Rahebeh Abedi, Ronald J. Eastman, Lyndon Estes, Sujit Roy, Rahul Ramachandran, and Hamed Alemohammad
Energy Transitions by Wire? The Spatial Politics of Transmission Development in New England, Maddy Kroot
Revisiting State Machine Replication in Practice: Lessons from Building an etcd-inspired System, Lucas Lebow, Mason Dunkle, Christopher Siems, Jonathan Zarnstorff, and Lewis Tseng
College students’ perceptual biases towards generative AI (GAI) and human mentors: A comparative study, Jimin Lee and Alena G. Esposito
Negotiating Digital Identities with AI Companions: Motivations, Strategies, and Emotional Outcomes, Renkai Ma, Shuo Niu, Lingyao Li, Alexander Hirth, Ava Brehm, and Rowajana Behterin Barbie
Ant relationships with floral and extrafloral nectar microbes, Joseph A. Nelsen, Stacy M. Philpott, and Kaitlyn A. Mathis
Creating Disability Story Videos with Generative AI: Motivation, Expression, and Sharing, Shuo Niu, Dylan Clements, and Hyungsin Kim
StoryComposerAI: Supporting Human-AI Story Co-Creation Through Decomposition and Linking, Shuo Niu, Dylan Clements, Marina Margalit Nemanov, and Hyungsin Kim
Watch Me Watch: Reaction Videos as a Social Form of Online Video Engagement, Rodney Okyere, Carlos Augusto Bautista Isaza, Jaehoon Pyon, Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, Shuo Niu, and Sang Wong Lee
Cu(II) coordination complexes of n-chloro-2-pyridones, Cassidy Palus, Meghan C. Monk, Veli Selmani, Louise N. Dawe, Diane A. Dickie, Jan L. Wikaira, and Mark M. Turnbull
Time-varying, frequency-domain, and quantile spillovers across energy and financial markets under climate policy uncertainty: evidence from TVP-VAR-SV, BK, and QVAR models, Md Qamruzzaman, Abdulrahman Alomair, Mohammed Alomair, and Sylvia Kor
Languages of Marginalization: Educational Inequality and Identity Formation Among Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, Md Khalid Rahman
Examining the Effectiveness of Nature Metaphor Patterns for Cultivating Intimacy, Acceptance, Relationship Satisfaction, Self-Compassion, and Positive Communication in Couples, Jenna Rice, Sarah Fraher, Elizabeth Engelkamp, Melissa McTernan, Hannah Grigorian, and James Cordova
Trans Adults and Family Relationships: Tensions and Coping Following Trump’s 2024 Campaign and Election, Sophie Shuster, Laura Siracusa, Lea Silvert, and Abbie E. Goldberg
Assessing barriers to participation in urban tree planting initiatives in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ksenia Smart, Deborah Martin, John Rogan, and Nicholas Geron
Dyadic Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Outcomes for Mothers and Their Children: Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Brief Parenting Interventions, Abigail Sullivan, Sophia Eisenberg Garcia, Maria Kinsey, Komal Brown, Rong Bai, Melissa McTernan, Seth J. Scholer, Ron Prinz, Julia Fleckman, Stacy Drury, and Catherine A. Taylor
Parsing apart the effects of anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty on the acquisition of fear during category fear conditioning, Abigail J. Sullivan, Meghan Whalen, Samuel E. Cooper, and Alexandra M. Kredlow
NC-DHT: Designing DHT for Blockchain systems: Robustness and Anonymity, Lewis Tseng, Kritee Neupane, Lokesh Ambarapu, and Moayad Aloqaily
Timing is the New Attack: Blockchain Cannot Prevent Market Manipulation at the Boundary, Lewis Tseng, Christopher Siems, Kritee Neupane, and Moayad Alogaily
Flooding adaptation strategies in coastal informal settlements: a case study of Culvert Community, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Abdulai Turay, Eman Lasheen, and Morgan Ruelle
A framework for food reliability in Zambia, Junren Wang, Megan Konar, and Sitian Xiong
Dynamics and long-run evolution of FDI in prefectural Chinese cities vis-à-vis industrial structure, GDP per capita, and population factors, Michal Wojewodzki, Yujie Zeng, Tsun Se Cheong, and Xing Shi
The spatiotemporal evolution of talent policies and their impact on new quality productive forces in Chinese prefecture - level cities: Based on quantitative analysis of 3308 policy texts from 2002 to 2021, Yang Ye, Jie Xu, Zhang-Long Huang, and Ze-Yi Qian
A novel edge-based accuracy assessment framework for target detection from remotely sensed images, Yingfan Zhang, Weiyi Hou, Lyndon Estes, Rui Lu, Shijie Zhu, Aiyin Zhang, Zhou Shi, and Su Ye
Submissions from 2025
Refugee stigma and its toll on mental health: Development and validation of the refugee stigma scale (RSS), Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Khaled Elazab, Ibrahim Yigit, Fatema Almeamari, Ceren Acartürk, Gülşah Kurt, Janet Turan, Andrea Norcini Pala, and Bulent Turan
Predicting Heart Disease with Machine Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Multiple Models, Sonia Afroz, Md Munjurul Islam, Nikunj Sharma, Kanika Rawat, Tuhalika Saha, Rana Das, Sheikh Urvana Akter Mim, Mst Sanjida Alam, and Md. Akkas Ali
MoraleTrack: A Dual-Phase Transformer-Based Framework for Sentiment-Aware Team Morale Forecasting in Agile Project Environments, Mohammad Shafat Ahsan, Md Al Amin, Ishtiak Al Mamoon, Mst. Moushumi Khatun, Sheikh Razia Sultana, and Kamruddin Nur
A Lightweight and Cross-Platform Framework for Real-Time Energy Profiling of Mobile and VR Games, Sreeja Akuthota
Enhanced Breast Cancer Classification Using Attention-Augmented CNN and Multi-View Learning on the Inbreast Dataset, Sreeja Akuthota
“Es por ellos que estoy aquí”: Exploring Cultural Stress Coping in Latina Immigrant Mothers, Nicolás A. Alvarez-Frank, Daniela Sarmiento Hernández, Alejandra Martínez-Villalba, and Esteban V. Cardemil
Dual-Encoder Adversarial Learning for Cloud-Based Cyber Intrusion Detection, Md Al Amin, Mohammad Shafat Ahsan, Rahomotul Islam, Mumtahina Ahmed, M.F. Mridha, and Md. Jakir Hossen
Explainable Deep Malware Detection in IoT Devices Using CNN-BiLSTM, Md. Al Amin, Mohammad Shafat Ahsan, Hashibul Ahsan Shoaib, Arifa Akter Eva, Anika Sayeema, and Sabiha Firdaus
Making AI-Enhanced Videos: Analyzing Generative AI Use Cases in YouTube Content Creation, Torin Anderson and Shuo Niu
A GIS Method to Analyze Trajectories of Gross Changes Through Multiple Temporal Resolutions With an Application to Brazilian Soybean Cultivation, Thomas Mumuni Bilintoh, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Gustavo Oliveira, and Julia Shimbo
Evaluating Rice Yield Vulnerability To Climate Variability in Bangladesh: An Integrated Framework Leveraging Remote Sensing and Machine Learning, Avrodip Biswas and Tanmoy Chakaborty
“I can't fit into these boxes, it doesn't work”: Multiracial men's experiences and expressions of masculinity., Athena C. Charles and Michael Addis
Investigation of Sleep Disorders and Related Influencing Factors Among the Elderly in Southeast Coastal Regions of China: A Cross-Sectional Survey Analysis, Yaopian Chen, Fu Su, Haixia Xiang, and Jinhong Xia
LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Simulating and Analyzing Marketing and Consumer Behavior, Man-Lin Chu, Lucian Terhorst, Kadin Reed, Tom Niu, Weiwei Chen, and Rongyu Lin
Rethinking Collective Resilience Under Oppression Through Kurdish Understandings of Power and Resistance, Canan Coşkan and Helin Ünal
Bundling architecture in elastic filaments with applied twist, Amit Dawadi, Animesh Biswas, Julien Chopin, and Arshad Kudrolli
DV Emotion Net: A Sub-Study on Emotion Detection Model Performance Across P100, T4, and TPU VM V3-8, Dhiren Dommeti, Siva Ramakrishna Nallapati, and Rand Alfaris
Two coacting shadow enhancers regulate twin of eyeless expression during early Drosophila development, Jacqueline Dresch, Luke L. Nourie, Regan D. Conrad, Lindsay T. Carlson, Elizabeth I. Tchantouridze, Biruck Tesfaye, Eleanor Verhagen, Mahima Gupta, Diego Borges-Rivera, and Rob Drewell
Market Analysis and Trends of Ready–to–Eat Foods Poised for Continued Growth, K.S Ganesha and Harshini Nagaraju
Dissecting the function of the DNMT2-homolog (DNMA) in Dictyostelium discoideum, Zaza Gelashvili, Denis Larochelle, Jacqueline Dresch, Maddison A. Hincher, Javier F. Tabima, and Robert A. Drewell
“There may be a genetic tendency …”: How adoptive parents understand and communicate about substance use and risk behaviors with their adolescent children, Abbie E. Goldberg, Laura Siracusa, Sophie Shuster, and David Brodzinsky
A dynamic Jahn-Teller effect and destructive phase transition of [hexakis(3-bromo-2-pyridone)copper(II)] perchlorate polymorphs, Mathew R. Graci, Mae Palus, Diane A. Dickie, and Mark M. Turnbull
Understanding Bosnian Komšiluk: A Study of Neighbourhood Dynamics and Violence, Sandra Grudić
Grinding temporalities: Racial capitalism and social reproduction in tourism labor, María Guillén-Araya
Ubiquity and diversity of Basidiobolus across amphibian species inhabiting an urbanization gradient, Madison R. Hincher, Jasper P. Carleton, Sara J. Wheeler, Manning DelCogliano, Kaitlyn A. Mathis, and Javier F. Tabima
The Fog of Classism: Where Middle-Class White Parents of Young White Children May Get Lost in Their Antiracist Parenting Aspirations, Noah Hoch and Amy Heberle
Best Practices for Applying and Interpreting the Total Operating Characteristic, Tanner Honnef and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Interconnected forms of violence of CAFOs and indigenous peoples' rights in Yucatán, Karen Hudlet Vázquez
Beyond Vulnerability: Collective Victimization Beliefs that are Linked to Collective Resilience, Hu Young Jeong, Michelle S. Twali, and Johanna Vollhardt
Power and resistance: Black Americans' multifaceted perceptions of ingroup strengths and their effects on collective efficacy and resistance, Hu Young Jeong, Johanna Vollhardt, and Michelle S. Twali
Differential Effects of Aβ Peptides on the Plasmin-Dependent Degradation of ApoE3 and ApoE4, Merc M. Kemeh, Anthony J. Furnelli, and Noel Lazo
Generalization Enhancement Strategies to Enable Cross-Year Cropland Mapping with Convolutional Neural Networks Trained Using Historical Samples, Sam Khallaghi, Rahebeh Abedi, Hanan Ali Abou, Hamed Alemohammad, Mary Dziedzorm Asipunu, Ismail Alatise, Nguyen Ha, Boka Luo, Cat Mai, Lei Song, Amos Olertey Wussah, and Sitian Xiong
A miniature tunnel diode oscillator for condensed matter physics experiments, Ahad Ali Khan, Kevin Feeny, Brett Laramee, Charles Agosta, and W.A Coniglio
Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Human Activity Recognition Using Inertial Sensor Data, Mst. Moushumi Khatun, Mohammad Shafat Ahsan, Md. Al Amin, Arifa Akter Eva, Anika Sayeema, and Sabiha Firdaus
Men's victimization from women partners and their help seeking: An example from Uganda, Emma N. Kironde and Michael Addis
Using the Voodoo Doll Task to Explore Predictors of Female-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: An Experimental Design, Nora K. Kline and Kathleen M. Palm Reed
Freedom, finance, and complexity: an exploration of renewable energy transitions in QUAD economies, Sylvia Kor, Md Qamruzzaman, and Sharmin Rahman Swarna
Building a Geospatial Archive of Species Loss as Response to Local Caribou Extinction, Jack Kredell, Chris Lamb, and Devin Becker
ChatGPT or Human Mentors? Student Perceptions of Technology Acceptance and Use and the Future of Mentorship in Higher Education, Jimin Lee and Alena G. Esposito
Modulating Brain Activity to Improve Goal-directed Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, On-Yee Lo, Levi Ask, Melike Kahya, Thomas Travison, Lewis A. Lipsitz, and Brad Manor
Decomposition Analysis of Racial Income Inequality in the United States, Rabia Manzoor and Wayne B. Gray
Collective Resilience and Resistance, Carmen Marazzi, Aritra Mukherjee, and Johanna Vollhardt
Seasonal activity and sexual selection in an urban dung beetle, Erin L. McCullough, Beatrice M. Altopp, Madelyn S. McInnis, and Luna J. Pagan
“Shouldn’t I Know If I Want to Have Kids or Not?”: Established Adult Women’s Reproductive Decision Making, Clare M. Mehta, Gianna E. Davis, and Kelly Smith
Experimental approaches to investigate biophysical interactions between homeodomain transcription factors and DNA, Fadwa Mekkaoui, Robert A. Drewell, Jacqueline M. Dresch, and Donald E. Spratt
A Critical-Cultural-Relational Exploration of Latinx Emerging Adults’ Experiences of Rupture, Daniel Mesa-Buitrago, Esteban V. Cardemil, and Amy Heberle
A comprehensive framework for evaluating ecosystem quality changes and human activity contributions in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, China, Faisal Mumtaz, Jing Li, Qinhuo Liu, Yadong Dong, Chang Liu, Chenpeng Gu, Hu Zhang, Jing Zhao, Mobeen Akhtar, Barjeece Bashir, Wang Xiaohan, Agil Tariq, Hammad Ul Hussan, and Guan Li
Identification of Factors Correlating to Patient Appointment No-Shows Using Deep & Machine Learning, Nazrinbanu Nagori, Kunal Malhan, Emre Tokgoz, Khald Aboalayon, Hassan Musafer, and Corey Kiasset
Chat with the ’For You’ Algorithm: An LLM-Enhanced Chatbot for Controlling Video Recommendation Flow, Shuo Niu, Dikshith Vishnuvardhan, and Venkata Sai Reddy Punnam
Beneath the surface, injustice boils: Environmental justice struggles against geothermal energy in Turkey, Deniz Mine Öztürk and Cem İskender Aydin
Fight fire with food forests: Assessing flammability of tropical crop plant species to design fire-smart agroforestry systems, Ashley Pacheco, Hannah D. Goodman, Lexi Hankenson, Alejandro Ortiz, Henry M. Marinace, Joseph J. Fisk, Emily A. Bischoff, Victoria F. Holman, Sophia M. Love, Deborah M.G. Apgaua, and David Y.P. Tng
A GIS Method to Summarize Changes Among Classes During a Time Series With an Application to Land Cover in Western Bahia, Brazil, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Antonio Victor Galvão da Fonseca
