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The Graduate Center Dissertation Office assists students with depositing a dissertation, thesis, or capstone project in the library. A dissertation or thesis constitutes an original contribution to a field of knowledge, and library deposit ensures that the work will be accessible to researchers. Some degree programs at The Graduate Center also require library deposit for capstone projects. Check with your program office for detailed graduation requirements.

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Library deposit is a degree requirement for all doctoral programs. Some master's programs at the Graduate Center do not require a library deposit in order to complete the degree. See detailed list below; direct questions to your degree program or the Office of the Registrar.

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All Graduate Center dissertations since 2014, and some from before 2014, are posted in CUNY Academic Works . Some are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Embargoed dissertations are available via interlibrary loan. All Graduate Center dissertations from 1965 to 2013 are available to the CUNY community in the Graduate Center’s Legacy (Retrospective) Dissertations database and to non-CUNY researchers via interlibrary loan. For information about a specific dissertation, check CUNY OneSearch .

Many CUNY campuses offer master’s degrees. Some theses are publicly available on CUNY Academic Works , and some are in print only in campus archives. For information about a specific thesis, check CUNY OneSearch .

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NYU Dissertations Online

All dissertations completed at NYU are indexed in the online database  Dissertations and Theses Global. Users who wish to access NYU dissertations, especially dissertations completed since 1997, would be best served by searching this database. Many (but not all) dissertations will be available in full-text.

Dissertation Search Tip:

When searching the database, you can use the Advanced Search functions to limit your results to only dissertations completed at NYU or you can leave the "institution" field blank to search dissertations completed anywhere. 

Why can't I see the full-text? 

When dissertation authors submit their work to Dissertations and Theses Global , they have the option to  embargo the full-text for up to two years from that point. Authors may choose to embargo their dissertations for several reasons, for example, if they are planning to publish the dissertation (or a version of it) as a book. There are currently no options for NYU students to access the full-text of a dissertation if the author has chosen to embargo.  In some cases, the author can extend the embargo beyond 2 years. It is estimated that approximately 50% of dissertation authors at NYU choose to embargo.

Dissertations that have been embargoed will appear with the note, " At the request of the author, this graduate work is not available to view or purchase" in the upper right-hand corner of record.

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NYU Dissertations in Hard Copy

NYU dissertations completed before 2007 are available in both print and microform at Bobst.

Bobst Library does not keep copies of any dissertations from the following programs:

• The Medical School and the Dental School maintain separate collections of their own dissertations
• Master's theses are not kept by Bobst Library. Check with the corresponding department or school to explore whether such theses are held.

Bound copies of dissertations are held offsite and must be requested through the catalog for delivery to the library.

Call number ranges for NYU dissertations (Dissertations from Tisch and Courant are under GSAS):

• LD 3907 .E3 - School of Education
• LD 3907 .G5 - Wagner School of Public Administration
• LD 3907 .G6 - Stern School of Business
• LD 3907 .G7 - Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS)
• LD 3907 .S3 - School of Social Work

Dissertations published before 2008 at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Wagner School of Public Administration, Stern School of Business, Silver School of Social Work, and Steinhardt School of Education are available on microform .

Using the Library Catalog to Find NYU Dissertations

If you already know the author or the title of the dissertation, you can search the Library Catalog with that information to locate our copy and either recall it from offsite storage or find it in the Microforms Center.

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For those wishing to search Library Catalog for dissertations on certain subjects, perform an Advanced Search using the words "Dissertation" AND "[desired subject]."

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Please note: NYU dissertations in the Proquest Dissertations & Global Theses database are indexed in Library Catalog regardless of whether or not they have been embargoed. Just because a dissertation record appears in the Library Catalog does not mean that it is available in full-text. 

Dissertations completed at NYU through 2007 are available on microform. Microform copies are located in the Microforms Center on LL2 of Bobst Library. These are arranged chronologically by school. Some of the older rolls of film contain more than one dissertation. These copies are each given a thesis number in chronological, alphabetical order. The thesis numbers are listed on each roll, corresponding to the cataloged location in the Library Catalog.

What are microforms?

Microforms are pieces of film that contain reproductions of magazines, journals, and other materials. Because newsprint and other types of paper often decay, microforms are used as a method of preserving content.  Microforms come in 2 formats: microfilm (on reels) and microfiche (sheets).

Where are the microforms?

Microforms are located on LL2 in the Microforms Reading Room.

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The Microforms Reading Room is staffed. In addition, notebooks with instructions are available.

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All microform machines have printing capabilities; some machines also allow you to make PDFs.

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Offsite materials usually arrive within 2 business days. You'll be notified once the item has arrived, and you can pick it up at the Circulation Desk.

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• All dissertations from all departments are self-submit to  Academic Works , CUNY’s institutional repository.
• Find the step by step process for submitting to Academic Works on the Submission Instruction page.

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• Find the step by step process for submitting to the Proquest Dissertations Database on the Submission Instruction page.
• Complete the  Grove School Exit Survey .
• Complete the  Survey of Earned Doctorates . Be sure to keep your certificate of completion.

Master’s Theses

• Your department will inform you if a print copy is also required.  The record of your thesis will be entered into the CUNY online library catalog as well as World Cat.
• Please contact your departmental advisor if you have any questions regarding the deposit of your thesis.

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Theses and dissertations

We provide access to University of York PhD/MPhil theses and Masters dissertations for members of the University and visitors to the Library. We can also help you to find theses/dissertations from other institutions.

For all York theses and dissertations, copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise stated. You may copy a modest amount of material from a thesis with full attribution as defined in law. In all other circumstances you should contact the rights-holder for permission.

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Search for a York thesis or dissertation

All available University of York theses can be found on YorSearch , including electronic versions held in the Digital Library and White Rose eTheses. You can search YorSearch for the title, author or department and academic year.

What we hold

We hold the University's PhD and MPhil theses, including physical copies up to 2012.

White Rose eTheses   holds electronic copies from 2013 onwards, as well as a selection of pre-2013 theses.

University of York Masters dissertations for some subjects are available:

• electronically via  YorSearch
• in print via Borthwick Institute for Archives ( Note : booking is necessary)

We also hold a selection of digitised undergraduate dissertations for certain subjects:

• History   (selection from 1967 onwards)
• History of Art   (selection from 1997 onwards)
• Social Policy and Social Work   (selection from 2019 onwards)

Consulting a thesis/dissertation in the Library

Our physical theses and dissertations are kept in a secure store. To consult them you will need to request access via Borthwick Institute for Archives by emailing [email protected] with the details of the thesis and a preferred appointment date.

Note : theses and dissertations can only be consulted in the reading room at the Borthwick Institute and cannot be removed.

If you are an independent researcher and want to consult a York thesis, contact us at [email protected] .

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You can try one of the following services to find theses by students from other institutions.

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• White Rose eTheses Online holds electronic, doctoral level theses from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York
• Index to theses is an index to British and Irish higher degree theses with abstracts (summaries) or brief details of each thesis
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations allows you to search for electronic theses from around the world

If you can't access the full text of a thesis you're interested in, please complete our Request Form and we will try to source it for you. Please note the success of this may depend on the holding library's policies, or obtaining the author's permission, but we will let you know if we're unable to source it.

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Director, GSAS Writing Studio

• Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
• Morningside
• Opening on: Mar 22 2024
• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule: 9 am -5 pm
• Building: IAB - Lehman Library
• Salary Range: $70,700 - $101,000

Position Summary

The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) is hiring a director of the GSAS Writing Studio.  The Studio’s mission is to support masters and doctoral students as they pursue writing projects crucial to their research and careers. The director will maintain the Studio as a vibrant site for intellectual community and growth, offering one-on-one consultations and support, multiple avenues for effective work in groups, the manifold opportunities afforded by current digital platforms, and workshops and other activities targeted to the specific writing needs of graduate students in Arts and Sciences disciplines.  The director will report to the Senior Associate Dean of Diversity and Professional Development, and partner closely with other GSAS units as well as the Columbia University Writing Center.

The Studio’s continued development will involve maintaining strong partnerships with 77-degree programs across 28 Arts and Sciences Departments in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences, as well as collaborating with the Center for Teaching and Learning, the University Libraries, and other campus entities.

Responsibilities

Studio Programming and Services (50%)

• Remain up to date on current requirements and best practices for key writing genres for graduate students, including grants, fellowships, reviews, abstracts, prospectuses, theses, and dissertations; lead initiatives to assist students in completing these projects successfully.
• Create and sustain partnerships with faculty officers and students in all GSAS master’s and doctoral programs; continually assess the specific writing needs of students in each program.  
• Consult with the Center for Teaching and Learning and the digital resources offices in the University Libraries to promote the effective use of digital platforms for writing and for collaboration.
• Conduct consultations with graduate student thesis and dissertation writers both in person and remotely.

Studio Operations (45%)

• Recruit, hire, supervise, and mentor Studio staff, including graduate students who provide consultations and group-writing support to GSAS master’s thesis, prospectus, and dissertation writers.                     
• Lead a professional development program for Studio staff, with topics chosen on concerns related to graduate writing that will supplement the core writing consultant training.
• Oversee Studio facilities, coordinating with CU Libraries staff and Facilities staff to address any issues related to maintenance of and access to space, materials, furnishings, etc.
• Secure and manage space and other resources necessary for Studio programming and activities.
• Produce reports and other materials summarizing Studio activity, including attendance at Studio events and participation in other Studio programming and initiatives.

Other duties as assigned (5%)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 4-6 years relevant experience, including teaching, tutoring, and/or advising students on writing; and administrative experience in a writing center or writing program
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Excellent organizational, event, and project management skills, and ability to manage multiple projects effectively
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Computer proficiency (Google Workspace, MS Office, zoom)
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. or relevant terminal degree such as M.F.A.
• Familiarity with research in writing pedagogy
• Knowledge of digital platforms for writing and collaboration
• Experience in writing across the curriculum or writing in the disciplines
• Expertise in fellowship and grant proposal writing, especially application requirements and evaluation
• Facility with report writing, assessment, hiring, and supervising
• Effective practice in teaching non-native English writers

Other Requirements

• Interested individuals must supply a résumé, cover letter, and writing sample (up to 25 double-spaced pages or 10 printed pages) to be considered. Finalists may be asked to complete a job simulation exercise.

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March Madness Spotlights a Sport Relegated to Pittsburgh’s Shadows: Basketball

A city that pro basketball abandoned in the early 1970s, and whose college teams have only flirted with relevance for decades, has basketball roots that run deep.

By Billy Witz

Billy Witz reported from Pittsburgh

Sports run through Pittsburgh the way its rivers do, dappling the city’s culture with hints of black and gold.

The baseball icon Roberto Clemente’s name graces a downtown bridge. Over a half century after Franco Harris’s heaven-sent touchdown , the “Immaculate Reception” is as likely to be invoked at Sunday mass as the Immaculate Conception. And Mario Lemieux is revered as much for his charity — and for rescuing the Penguins from bankruptcy — as he is for delivering the city its first hockey championships.

This week the sporting spotlight is illuminating a pastime that is regularly relegated to the city’s shadows: basketball.

Duquesne, a small, Catholic school, back in the N.C.A.A. Division I men’s tournament for the first time in 47 years, notched the first shocker on Thursday with an upset of Brigham Young. Meanwhile, a couple blocks from its downtown campus, another shocker played out: Oakland booting Kentucky from the 68-team tournament.

Duquesne’s presence this March is a reminder of a Pittsburgh paradox: A city that pro basketball abandoned in the early 1970s, and whose college teams have only flirted with relevance for decades, has basketball roots that run rich and deep.

It is where some of the first signs of racial integration took hold. And where the influence of shoe companies and high school recruiting showcases can be traced. And where a surprising number of the game’s seminal figures and moments have their origin.

Pete Maravich first dribbled a basketball on the blacktops of Aliquippa, northwest of the city. Sonny Vaccaro sized up basketball talent on Hill District courts years before he wooed Michael Jordan to Nike. And coaches like John Calipari, George Karl, Tim Grgurich, and the Miller brothers, Sean and Archie, first learned the game’s intricacies in the area.

This influence extends to Hollywood. “ The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh ,” a disco-era cult classic with an all-star basketball cast featuring Julius Erving, led a wave of basketball films in the 1980s.

“We’re like a tree in Pittsburgh — we have a lot of branches,” said Dwight Clay, a former Notre Dame guard whose late jumper against U.C.L.A. in January 1974 was one of college basketball’s most consequential shots, ending the Bruins’ 88-game winning streak.

The Bruins’ defeat gave life to the possibility that the defining characteristic of the national tournament, which U.C.L.A. had won nine times in the previous 10 years, might one day be its unpredictability.

Pittsburgh’s topography — the rivers, ravines, hills and escarpments — created ethnic and racial enclaves that the city’s 446 bridges and more than 800 public stairways could not connect as well as the steel mills that drew immigrants and Black people fleeing the South in the late 19th century.

Or as well as sports.

“These different islands had to compete with the ones on the other side of the hill,” said Claude Johnson, whose meticulously researched book, “The Black Fives,” chronicles the rise of basketball in Black America long before the N.B.A. “It created competition and rivalry, and it made everybody better.”

At the center of this emergence was Cumberland Posey Jr., who may have been the first Black basketball player at Penn State, and who later starred under an assumed name at Duquesne — at age 28 — where he is credited as being one of the game’s first long-range shooters.

His competitive juices also surfaced in baseball, where he became the longtime general manager of the Homestead Grays of the Negro leagues. Posey is the only person enshrined in the basketball and baseball Halls of Fame.

His greatest impact, Johnson said, was in organizing all-star teams that would travel to places like Oshkosh, Wis., to play local squads. If the local teams were not competitive — or if the conditions were not up to Posey’s standards — he would find other places to play the next year, depriving the towns of an economic benefit.

A similar dynamic exists now in college basketball, where the advent of so-called name, image and likeness payments and the easing of transfer restrictions have allowed athletes to leverage their talent for better pay and working conditions.

“The echo today is, ‘Do you want to be relevant?’” Johnson said of the decisions towns faced then and basketball programs face now. “It wasn’t just the money, it’s what does this city do to welcome us? If you think the only way you’re going to get the best players now is by providing the most N.I.L., then you’re wrong. You need to have a culture.”

Posey didn’t live long enough to see Chuck Cooper, who grew up in East Liberty, become the first Black player to be drafted by an N.B.A. team. Cooper starred in the late 1940s at Duquesne, which a few years later played in the then-prestigious National Invitation Tournament championship at Madison Square Garden with a starting lineup of three Black and two Jewish players.

“For a small Catholic school, that’s ironic,” said Keith Dambrot, the Duquesne coach, whose father, Sid, was one of the starters. “They’d play certain places and hear the bad words both ways, from the antisemites and the racists.”

Pittsburgh’s peak as a basketball town came about a decade later, in the late 1960s.

The Pittsburgh Pipers won the American Basketball Association’s first championship in the city’s new arena, which would become known as the Igloo and had been built for them and the expansion Penguins.

And the city became the axis of the nascent recruiting scene.

The Dapper Dan Roundball Classic, a high school all-star game organized by Vaccaro, pitted Pennsylvania’s best against the best prospects in the country. It played to sellout crowds and allowed basketball aficionados an early peek at future N.B.A. stars like Moses Malone, Patrick Ewing and Dominique Wilkins.

Vaccaro became one of basketball’s most influential figures. He led Nike’s transformational courting of Jordan, urged the company to pay college coaches and was an early, persistent critic of the N.C.A.A., which he felt unfairly punished predominantly Black athletes. His views were shaped growing up in nearby Trafford, his Italian immigrant father working in a steel mill making guns for World War II troops, who would leave town on the trains that passed near his home.

“I don’t think my life could have happened anywhere else,” Vaccaro said. “If I believed I was right and I could prove it to my parents, they were my police, my priests, my principals. That guided me. We all fought for something.”

Vaccaro wasn’t the only one bringing players to Pittsburgh. So did the Five-Star Camp, a forerunner to today’s summer circuits sponsored by shoe companies that was run by a New Yorker named Howard Garfinkel. The camp included instruction from college coaches who eagerly came because they’d have access to the best talent in the country. College players worked as counselors.

The camp was held on the outdoor courts at Robert Morris University, where players were divided into two teams: shirts and skins.

One year, when a college hot shot didn’t show up, Garfinkel grabbed a neighborhood kid he’d hired as a counselor to run a shooting drill. It was Calipari.

“He said, ‘Kid, you were pretty good,’” Calipari said. “And from then on, he was like my godfather.”

Calipari, the former prom king at Moon Area High, had arrived home in a jovial mood, regaling the news media on Wednesday with tales of his hometown roots, explaining Pittsburghese to yinz (you guys) and talking of his affinity for the Stillers (Steelers).

He also noted that the city, though it has transformed into a tech and medical hub, has never lost its blue-collar roots. His father — and many others — had a creed that still stood: If you didn’t work, you didn’t eat.

That ethic still drives Grgurich, the pater familias of Pittsburgh coaches.

The son of a steelworker, Grgurich, 81, still carries a white-hot intensity while working out players, both preps and pros, near his home in Las Vegas. As a longtime assistant, he is credited with transforming languid N.B.A. pregame routines with vigorous development work and, before that, being the architect of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s amoeba defense in the 1990s.

“A lot of the football coaches then were basketball coaches,” Grgurich said. “There was a mentality of how hard you had to play. It started for me way back in high school and with the coaches I worked for it never really stopped.”

The basketball talent that came out of Pittsburgh did not have similar staying power.

As the steel mills closed, the city’s population dwindled and by the mid-1980s, the flow of college prospects slowed to a trickle. There were fewer places for city kids to play, but also fewer places for suburban players to test themselves — as they had done since Cumberland Posey’s days.

And then there is the lure of the Steelers.

In Ohio, said Dambrot, who was LeBron James’s first high school coach, the best athletes will play basketball first and football second. In western Pennsylvania, it’s football first and often second. He has three players on his team from the Pittsburgh area, none of whom are on scholarship. The University of Pittsburgh has two locals, also walk-ons, on its roster.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Jaydan Brown, 17, had come to the Ammon Community Recreation Center, home to the Hill District’s 56-year-old Ozanam Basketball Program. Upstairs, college students, some in ties and sport coats, mentored elementary school children in math and helped them manufacture model helicopters. Meals were served and balls bounced on the basketball court.

Darelle Porter runs the program now.

A towering figure with an amiable presence, Porter greets everyone by name. He was recruited to Pitt by Calipari, then a young assistant, and was getting ready to check into a game when he missed one of college basketball’s most enduring highlights — Jerome Lane’s backboard-shattering dunk in 1988.

Porter, who later coached at Duquesne, shares aspirational and cautionary tales with the youths, often pointing to the banners that hang above the court. They include those of the local legends Maurice Lucas, Sam Clancy, DeJuan Blair, Kenny Durrett and Clay, and his own.

There is room, he tells them, for a few more.

“Basketball is overlooked here,” said Brown, a junior at Central Catholic High, who believes that won’t stop him from adding another line to the city’s basketball story.

Inside the World of Sports

Dive deeper into the people, issues and trends shaping professional, collegiate and amateur athletics..

Baseball Season: Fans of the sport  in South Korea have embraced Shohei Ohtani , the superstar from Japan, despite a longtime rivalry and history between the two countries.

Unionization Efforts: How is a football team different from a marching band? The National Labor Relations Board is considering this question as it tries to determine whether some college athletes should be deemed employees .

Delayed Gratification: Doping rules, legal challenges and endless appeals have left some Olympic medalists waiting for their golds .

The Worst Job in College Basketball: South Carolina Salkehatchie had no budget, players or running water when Matt Lynch arrived. One season in, the first publicly gay head coach is figuring out how to win , on the court and off.

How the Kelces Made Crying Cool: Tears in men’s sports were once considered a sign of weakness. But Jason and Travis Kelce have regularly put their emotions on full display .

Unearthing Hidden Black Histories in New York City

Alexander Manevitz is an historian, educator, and public scholar on race, freedom, and urbanism in the nineteenth-century United States and New York City. He specializes in African American history, the history of early American capitalism, and how a diverse array of Americans shaped the growth of the cities we live in today. Manevitz completed his Ph.D. in U.S. History from New York University and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY. Previously, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and the New School University, a dissertation fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American History at the University of Pennsylvania, and a history teacher at an independent secondary school. He has collaborated with New York City cultural institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New-York Historical Society, and you can find his work in publications from the  Journal of Urban History  to the  Washington Post.  

Power and the Possibilities of Remembering

Dr. alexander manevitz ’09.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 4:30pm Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall

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Jewish NYC high schoolers warned against applying to Ivy League over antisemitism: not 'safe'

J ewish high schoolers in New York City were warned against applying to Cornell University over the school's reported failure to protect Jewish students from repeated instances of antisemitism, Fox News Digital has learned. 

"As a national network of alumni dedicated to countering antisemitism on campus, we felt an obligation to warn prospective Jewish students and their families about Cornell’s failure to protect our community," Avi Gordon, executive director of Alums for Campus Fairness, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

Alums for Campus Fairness sent brochures to all high schools in the New York City metro area this month, arguing "Cornell refuses to enforce the student code of conduct, fostering a hostile climate that endangers Jewish students."

"Considering Cornell? Cornell is not a safe place for Jewish students," the group’s brochure added. The brochures were styled to look like promotional materials sent by the university to prospective students, according to Alums for Campus Fairness.

Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York, roughly 200 miles from the Big Apple. 

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Last year, the Department of Education opened investigations into a handful of colleges over claims of discrimination on campus, including three Ivy Leagues: Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. The House Ways and Means Committee also announced a probe into four elite universities in January over their handling of campus antisemitism, including: Cornell, Penn, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

On Cornell’s campus, Fox News Digital reported last year that professor of history and self-identified "secular Marxist" Russell Rickford was accused of "justifying terror" after describing the war in Israel as "exhilarating." 

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A Cornell student, 21-year-old Patrick Dai, was also arrested in October after allegedly posting threatening messages on a Greek life message board. 

"Watch out pig jews. jihad is coming. nowhere is safe. your synagogue will become graveyards. your women will be raped and your children will be beheaded. glory to Allah," Dai allegedly wrote Oct. 28, according to a criminal complaint.

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The school has also seen protests against Israel, and graffiti on campus reading "Israel is fascist,"  "F–k Israel" and "Zionism = Racism."

A Jewish activist in New York City , Lizzy Savetsky, told Fox News Digital that Cornell is obligated to protect Jewish students from discrimination under Title XI. 

"As a mother, the safety and well-being of Jewish students on college campuses are of paramount importance. Universities like Cornell have an obligation, not just ethically but under Title XI, to ensure that Jewish students and those who support Israel are protected from discrimination and harassment," she said. 

"If these institutions fail to create a secure environment, they send a clear message to the Jewish community that our children are not welcome. It's imperative for colleges and universities to take decisive action against antisemitism, ensuring that all students can pursue their education without fear for their Jewish and Zionist identities." 

Alums for Campus Fairness calls on Cornell to fire Rockford, enforce the student code of conduct, and define and denounce antisemitism. 

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The group also calls on the Ivy League to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s statement on antisemitism, which outlines: "Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."

Following the outbreak of war in Israel, Penn and Harvard both saw their former presidents resign amid national and campus outrage after they appeared before Congress in December and were grilled about their handling of antisemitism on their respective campuses. 

This year, Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack wrote a letter to the school community following another alleged instance of antisemitism, condemning the student for an alleged social media post calling for the deaths of "Zionists." 

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"This morning we learned of a post on social media allegedly from a Cornell student explicitly stating that ‘Zionists must die.’ Cornell Police and the Office of Student Conduct are investigating and if we determine that it was posted by a member of the Cornell community, they will be held fully accountable and appropriately sanctioned," Pollack wrote in January. "This post is heinous, and I condemn it in the strongest terms."

The letter was soon slammed by prominent Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson as "window dressing" after the school received a letter from the House Ways and Means Committee in January indicating Cornell could lose its tax-exempt status over its handling of antisemitism on campus . 

"Coming a day after a congressional letter putting Cornell's federal funding at risk, the Cornell administration's reaction seems like window dressing, to make it seem they are doing something," William Jacobson, who joined the faculty in 2007, said in a statement to Fox News Digital that month. 

Cornell’s media team told Fox News Digital on Monday morning that the school does not have a comment on the brochures sent to high schoolers. 

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Information, Communication, and Technology in Developing Countries: The Impediment to Nigeria Economic Growth , Fatima Ali Muhammed

Ultra-high Field MRI Methods for Precise Anatomical and Spectroscopic Measurements in the Brain and Application to Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Diseases , Judy Alper

Measurement of Fluid Movement Throughout the Brain via Multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques During High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation , Jack W. Beaty Mr

Fine Characterization of Leafing Phenology in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing , James B. Bell

Sanitary Government: AICP, Public Baths, and the Battle To Clean New York City , Micah Blaichman

Virginia Woolf: The Bookbinder and the Bibliophile , Geoffrey Bridgman

Paradoxical Insomnia, a Chronic Insomnia Subtype in Patients with Temporomandibular Disorder , Christy Chan

The Impact of Perceived Social Support on Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder , Elizabeth Eng

Situating the Corrido in Diego Rivera’s Murals at the Ministry of Public Education , Calla Flood Tardino

Inequality and Violence: The Case of Brazil , Kimberly Forsyth

The Makings of Creativity and Empathy: Maps of Maternal Representations , Anielle M. Fredman

Examining Indigenous Engagement in the Formulation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs): A Comparative Study of Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia , Viviana K. Gonzalez

Understanding Failure Mechanisms using Multi-Scale Analyses to Improve the Performance of Zinc Metal and Lithium-ion Batteries , Brendan E. Hawkins

Pakistan, India and the Indus River Basin , Muquadas Ilyas

Interaction of ADHD severity and neighborhood-level SES on Preschoolers’ Risk for Obesity at School-Age , Ramya V. Jayanthi

A “Neighborhood” Approach for Using Remotely Sensed Data to Post-Process Species Distribution Models for Conservation Assessments , Bethany A. Johnson

How Adults Use Reddit to Cope with Being Children of Divorce , Tamera A. Joseph

Battery Energy Storage Systems Applications and Deployment in Dense Urban Areas , Mohamed K. Kamaludeen

Ukraine’s Quest for Justice: Accountability for Atrocities Committed in the Russia-Ukraine War , Tetiana Karpus

Non-Governmental Organizations and the Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Uzbekistan , Sayyora Khaydarova

To and fro in the archipelago: Repeated inter-island dispersal, eustasy and New Guinea’s orogeny affect diversification of Delias, the world’s largest butterfly genus , Weijun Liang

Understanding the Impacts of Freshwater Fluxes on the Biogeochemistry of the Coastal Arctic: A Case Study of Prudhoe Bay , Francesca Lingo

Advancing the Accuracy of Watershed Analysis Across Diverse Hydrometeorological and Geologic Regimes via Classification and Analysis of GPM-IMERG Products , Jake M. Longenecker

Don't Say Gay: Love Language in Coriolanus , Patrick Lynch

Immigrant Therapists’ Perceptions Of Transference, Countertransference, And Racial Experiences In The United States , Lian Malki-Schubert

The Nexus of Climate Change and Human Rights: An examination of how social, political, and environmental impacts of climate change jeopardize the protection of human rights in the African Sahel , Camden R. Malone

Internalized Gender Role Stereotypes Within Young Women and The Presentation of Somatic Symptomatology of Major Depressive Disorder , Michelle Miselevich

Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) For Frontline Healthcare Workers In Contact With COVID-19 Patients , Michael Perez Sosa

The Dissonant History of Tristan and Isolde , Amanda Persaud

Auditory Processing Deficits in MSH2-KO mice are linked to Aberrant Inhibitory Neuron Function in the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus , Sadia N. Rahman

Mechanisms of Bacterial Charity , Reima S. Ramsamooj

The Moderating Roles Of Racial Discrimination And Covid-19 Stress On The Association Between College Students’ Cannabis Use And Psychosocial Functioning , Shannique Richards

An Exploration of the Relation Between Psychological Functioning and Reactions to Global Climate Change for Late Adolescents in New York City , Emma Routhier

Ultrastructural correlates of axons and synapses belonging to different circuits in ferret primary visual cortex , Anjelique Sawh

Early Adversity, Emotion Regulation, Object Relational Functioning, and the Moderating Effect of Gender Identity: A community sample study , Victoria Schilder

The Incurable Fanny Price: Disabled Perspective and Resistance to the Cure Narrative in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park , Aurora C. Soriano

Effects of the OTX2ECR2 enhancer & PROX1 overexpression in murine retina development , Erick J. Subillaga

Immigrant Risk, Self-Discontinuity, and the Role of Nostalgia , Leila Talhouk

Unity Against Adversity: Examining the Moderating Effect of a Sense of Community Between Discrimination and Discrimination-Related Distress Among Racial and Ethnic Minoritized Adults , Kimberly Velazquez

Third Party Mediation: Comparative Case Study on the Effectiveness of Foreign Intervention in Intra-State Armed Conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Libya, and Myanmar. , Vanessa Vuji

Pillars for Nuclear-Weapon States to Make Material Progress on Nuclear Disarmament , Madina Zhetenova

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Discrimination against Veiled Women in the West: Social Isolation , Amina M. Abdallah

Helium-Air mixing in simulated reactor cavities of Very High Temperature Reactors , Abdullah Abubakar

A Citizen-Science Approach for Urban Flood Risk Analysis Using Data Science and Machine Learning , Candace Agonafir

Being Black & Blue: Sex as a Moderator Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Depressive Symptoms Among Black Emerging Adults , Wynta C. Alexander

The Enduring Role of Conflict in the Perpetuation of Famine: Advancing 'The Right to Adequate Food' for Sustainable Peace , Robert M. Bane

Osseointegration of a Cementless Total Knee Arthroplasty in a Murine Model of Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis , Elexis C. Baral

The Nexus of Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Food Security: A Brazil Case Study , Andrew M. Berger

Flawed Judgment: The Prolonged Failure of Handschu v. Special Services Division, 1971-2022 , Henry A. Burby

21st Century Postmodernism: Time, Capitalism, Multiculturalism and Storytelling in Three Contemporary Novels , Raymond Joseph Calamito

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