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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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An Ethnic Studies Introduction to Conscientizaçao: Latinx Studies and Its Impact on Latino College Students' Ethnic Identity, Carlos Octavio Ballinas

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A Social Ontological Account of Alienation and Its Place in the History of Alienation Theory, Philip William Bauchan

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Investigating Smooth Muscle Myosin Dynamics and Assembly in Physiology and Pathology, Maggie Bennett

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Play On; Give Me Excess of It: Intercorporeality and Musical Definitions, Abram Basil Soucy Capone

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An Examination of Various Dimensions Associated with Nonprofit Board Member Diversity: The Significance of Organizational Factors, Sean Robert Cleary

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Queer(ly) Lingering in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Emily Datskou

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An Examination of Various Dimensions Associated with Nonprofit Board Member Diversity: The Significance of Organizational Factors, Patrick Luke Decker-Tonnesen

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Identification of Conditions That Promote Biofilm Formation by Vibrio Fischeri and Elucidation of The Underlying Signal Transduction Pathway, Courtney Noelle Dial

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Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Character(ization) of the Disciples, Zechariah Eberhart

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Simulation Psychological Safety Ecosystem: A Grounded Theory Study of Nurses’ Experience with Psychological Safety in Prelicensure Simulation, Susan Eller

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Investigating the Impact of Nonenzymatic Lysine Acetylation on the Function of the Bacterial Ribosome, Sarah Caldwell Feid

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Design and Synthesis of Novel Antibiotics and Anticancer Agents Targeting Pharmaceutically Relevant Enzymes, Sebastian Flieger

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Gardening and Watering 21st Century Soil: Culturally Responsive and Technology Enhanced Instructional Design in K12 Schools, Elissa W. Frazier

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Perceptions of the Grant Decision-Making Process: A Study of Foundation Grantmakers and Grant Seekers Who Focus on Youth Violence in Chicago, Illinois, Patiya Freely

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Applying Organizational Learning Theories to Continuous Improvement Practices Through Self-Study Methodology to Better Reflect upon and Understand Factors that Influence School Improvement Efforts, Morgan Daniel Gallagher

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Method Development for the Quantification of Heavy Metals in Biological Matrices and Its Application to Clinical and Environmental Samples, Michelle Catherine Gende

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Regulatory Mechanisms Controlling Pneumococcal Capsule Synthesis, David George Glanville

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Belonging in the Borderlands: Questioning Catholic Ethics, Molly Greening

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Dungeons & Dragons & Dewey: Toward a Ludic Pedagogy of Democratic Civic Life Through the Philosophy of John Dewey and Tabletop Role-Playing Games, Susan Haarman

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Artapanus and Greek Colonial Poetics, Scott Harris

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Role of Micrornas in Intestinal Inflammation and Barrier Homeostasis after Alcohol and Burn Injury, Caroline J. Herrnreiter

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Role of RIPK3 in the Pathogenesis of TET2 Mutant Hematopoietic Malignancies, Kanak Joshi

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Comparative Analysis of Classification Performance for U.S. College Enrollment Predictive Modeling Using Four Machine Learning Algorithms (Artificial Neural Network, Decision Tree, Support Vector Machine, Logistic Regression), Anna Kye

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Past and Progress: Producing History at Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair, Cate Liabraaten

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Key Stakeholders' Perceptions of Stem Education in Zambia: A Mixed Methods Inquiry, Choobe M. Maambo

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Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices of Dominican Mothers with Their Young Children: Understanding Practices with a Sociohistorical Context Framework, Sabrina Altagracia Mendez-Escobar

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None of Us Are Safe: How Leaders Sustain Culturally Responsive Elementary and Middle School Improvement Planning, Jerry B. Michel

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The Forgotten Minority—the Experiences of Somali-Jareer Bantu Students in Higher Education: “I Don’t Even Exist at This Institution. I’m Barely Recognized as a Human Being”., Arli Mohamed

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Establishing a Health-Based Social Hierarchy, Akila Salaam Raoul

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Measuring the Effect of an Intervention on Student Engagement and Reading Comprehension, Kaitlin Reichart

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Elucidating the Role of a Staphylococcal Glucosaminidase in Host Innate Immune Responses, Zachary Resko

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Higher Education, Neoliberalism, and Conflict: A Case of the University of Balochistan in Pakistan, Syed Amir Shah

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Characterization of MroQ-Dependent Regulation of Staphylococcus Aureus Quorum Sensing, Madison Ruth Stock

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Investigating the Bactericidal Activity of Lactobacillus Crispatus Cell-Free-Supernatant, Omar Majed Abdul-Rahim

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Supporting Latine Children’s Informal Engineering Learning and Spatial Thinking Through Tinkering and Storytelling, Diana Acosta

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Broaching the Topics of Religion and Spirituality in Therapy: Considering the Influence of Therapist Competence and Organizational Competence, Papa N. Adams

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The Impact of Democratically Elected Islamist Governments on the Implementation of Foreign Policy: Cases of Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, Taghreed Alsabeh

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Detrimental Influences: Chicago and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1933-1940, Matthew Amyx

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Maternal-Fetal Attachment and Its Relationship to Quality of Life in Pregnant Women with Diabetes, Cheryl Ann Angel

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Facing the Mass Exodus: Reconsidering the Moral Responsibilities for and Obligations Toward Large Numbers of Refugees in an Age of Global Crises, Muhammet Ali Asil

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The New Temporary Labor: Regulating the Gig Economy in Austin, Chicago and New York, Ashley Baber

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Communicating Student Outcomes: A Mixed Methods Study of Communication Effectiveness, Nicholas Branson

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B Cells in the Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue (GALT), Ameera Bukhari

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Structural and Transient Kinetic Analysis on Mechanism-Based Inactivators of Human Ornithine Aminotransferase, Arseniy Butrin

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An Ethics of Doctrinal Emergence: Reading Newman with Augustine and Contemporary Information Theory, Jeffrey John Campbell

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Toward an Eco-Cosmopolitanism: Wendell Berry and Ecowomanism in Conversation, Wade Casey

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Schooled to the Streets? Exploring the Relationship between K-12 Educational Experiences and Early Careers in Activism, David Abraham Castro

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Distinct Roles for Free Fatty Acid Receptor 3 (FFAR3) in Vagal and Spinal Afferents Regulating Energy Balance and Glucose Homeostasis, Tyler M. Cook

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International Student Mobility and Migration: Policy Pervasion and the Student Experience, Max Crumley-Effinger

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The Role of Lived Experiences in Culturally Responsive School Leaders’ Administrations: A Phenomenological Case Study, Angela Dolezal

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An Interpretive Phenomenological Study of Women’s Struggles, Hopes and Reasons for Participation in Professional Power-Based Community Organizing in Chicago, Mary Dungy-Akenji

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Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1936-1966, Nathan Ellstrand

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Influences of Child and Caregiver-Directed Home Visitor Behaviors on Caregiver Engagement and Caregiver-Child Interactions, Mary Kienstra Frese

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Knowledge and Political Interest: Politico-Epistemic Injustice in the United States Under Capitalist Democracy, Philipa Friedman

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Therapist Broaching Behavior in Cross-Racial Therapy: Exploring Affective Responses to Racism and Cultural Humility as Predictors, Sarah C. Galvin

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Understanding Teacher Reported Experiences of Trauma Professional Development/Training, Mayra Alejandra Gaona

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Molecular Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress-Induced Corneal Damage and the Use of Antioxidants and Therapeutics, Anita Kirti Ghosh

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The Impact of Peer Supportive Accountability on Use of a Mindfulness App in Depressed College Students: A Mixed Methods Study, Carol Hundert Gonzales

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Does Co-Speech Gesture Support Children’s Analogical Reasoning? An Investigation Into the Differential Effects of Gesture on Learning, Katharine F. Guarino

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A Transformative Framework to Investigate the Influences of Chineseness on Chinese International Students’ Learning Experiences on U.S. College Campuses, Wenjin Guo

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The Role of Gut Microbiome and SCFA Butyrate in the Development of Obesity Associated Pre-HFpEF, Jomana Hatahet

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Impact of Parent Presence on Stress in Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Susan M. Horner

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A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, and Indian Removal Mission Sites in the Great Lakes and the South, Sean Thomas Jacobson

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Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Oxidation Reaction Pathways on Rh(111) Via Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy (rairs), Elizabeth A. Jamka

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Understanding the Process of Health Goal Achievement among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Chicago: An Exploratory Qualitative Study, Anthony Johnson

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Individual Differences and Neural Correlates of Emotion Reactivity and Regulation: Potential Intervention Targets in Depression, Ian James Kahrilas

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A Phenomenological Study of Catholic Priests Working and Headteachers in Government - Funded Catholic Secondary Schools, Joseph Kaye

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Burnout, Collective Efficacy, and the Social Network of a Unit, Amy Kiefer

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Rhodium-Catalyzed Decarbonylation of Aroyl Chlorides, Wiktoria M. Koza

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Imagining Otherwise: Designing and Implementing a High School Writing Center, Sheldon Cale Krieger

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The Emotional Side of Dynamic Assessment: L2 Writing from Vygotsky's Perezhivanie Lens, Ali Kushki

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On the Uses and Misuses of Interpretive Charity in Philosophy, Claire Abbott Lockard

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Elucidating the Role of KMT2D in HER2+ Breast Cancer, Emily Ma

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ABL2 Promotes Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease via PPAR Gamma Regulation, Gregory Malnassy

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Soul as Paraphrase: The Formalism and Minority of Prayer, Kimberly Matheson

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Deep Deification: Soteriology for a World in Ecological Crisis, Kathleen Mcnutt

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Las Chingonas: An Ecological Approach to Latina Student Mothers’ Journey Through College, Emely Elizabeth Medina-Rodriguez

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A Comparison of Education in Post-Revolutionary Mexico and Post-Independence India, Yver Alonso Melchor-Hernandez

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Resisting a Political Ontology of Threat by Embracing Stories of Survivance Through Storytelling, Conversation, and Joy: An Intimate Insight Into the Lives of Undocumented Students, Julia F. Mendes

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Defending Gender: Transprejudice as Gender System Maintenance, Linas Mitchell

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The Souls of Black Folks in the Twenty-First Century: Self-Efficacy, Grit, and Their Development in Low-Income Urban Black Youth, Amzie Moore

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Cultivating Teacher Expertise in the Landscape of Green Chemistry: The Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Beyond Benign’s Lead Teacher Program, Philip Charles Nahlik

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Unlocking Desistance: The Role of Executive Functioning in the Rehabilitation of Correctional Populations, Danielle Nesi

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The Roles of a Probiotic Exopolysaccharide in Breast Cancer, Mai Rachel Nguyen

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Consistency of Sleep Across Development and Relations to Executive Functions; Applications to Emerging Adults Transitioning to College and Adolescents with Spina Bifida, Laura Nicholson

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A Longitudinal Study of Pain in Youth and Young Adults with Spina Bifida: Three Studies Based on the Bio-Neuropsychosocial Model, Diana Margaret Ohanian

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Pupils of the Pipeline: Exploring the Role of School Discipline and Disciplinary Actors on Adolescent Psychosocial Functioning, Ogechi Onyeka

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Assessing Nursing Student Engagement in Clinical and Simulation Experiences, Karrie Osborne

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Constructing Engineering Knowledge Through Tinkering, Reflection, and Digital Storytelling, Lauren C. Pagano

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White Enigma: Opacity, Perspective, and the Theological Formation of White Subjectivity, Nathan David Pederson

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Teaching Presence in Online Discussions: Relationship-Based Learning by Design, Mary Quest

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Measuring What They Value: Exploring the Meaning of Student Success for Community College Students of Mexican Origin, Destiny M. Quintero

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Leveraging Moral Foundations to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination, Cara Elizabeth Ray

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Effectiveness of a Virtual Learning Environment on Pediatric Students’ Knowledge, Self-Confidence and Satisfaction with Learning Growth and Development Concepts, Laura Marie Robbins-Frank

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Things of Beauty: Aesthetics for Environmental Education, Annie Schultz

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Things of Beauty: Aesthetics for Environmental Education, Annie Schultz

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School Leaders’ Assessment of Teachers’ Preparedness for Culturally Responsive Teaching, Victoria Maria Siliunas

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Changes in Teacher Pedagogy and Student Engagement in Elementary 1:1 Classrooms, Adam Douglas Smeets

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The Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 Β (GSK-3β) at the Cardiac Myofilament, Marisa Jean Stachowski

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Healing Earth in a Time of Crisis: Curriculum for Integral Ecology, Caleb Steindam