Content Posted in 2026

Advancing Meaningful Inclusion Through Neurodiversity-Affirming Early Childhood MTSS, Leslie A. Walsh

AdvChar: Attacking Interpretable NLP Systems, Arslan Bisharat

A Fijian Barkcloth in the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Delaney M. Bahns

A Fisher Information Theory of Aesthetic Preference for Complexity, Sébastien Berquet, Hassan Aleem, and Norberto M. Grzywacz

A glyoxal-specific aldehyde signaling axis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that influences quorum sensing and infection, Christopher J. Corcoran, Bonnie J. Cuthbert, David G. Glanville, Mailyn Terrado, Diana Valverde Mendez, Benjamin P. Bratton, Daniel E. Schemenauer, Valerie L. Tokars, Thomas G. Martin, Lawrence W. Rasmussen, Matthew C. Madison, Andrew F. Maule, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Boo Shan Tseng, Julian P. Whitelegge, Catherine Putonti, Amit Gaggar, Jordan R. Beach, Jonathan A. Kirk, Alfonso Mondragón, Abby R. Kroken, Jonathan P. Allen, Celia W. Goulding, and Andrew T. Ulijasz

A Hybrid Language Framework for Ontology-Based Clinical Concept Extraction, Behnaz Eslami, Dmitriy Dligach, Nazanin Azarvash, Paula de la Pena, Benjamin Strickland, and Samie Tootooni

AI in the ER: Why Emergency Medicine Needs More Than an Algorithm, Aidan Patrick Crawford

Alienation on Campus: Students, Agency, and a 'Praxis of Possibility', Julia R. Allison

Allelopathy in Small-Scale Cropping Systems, William Quinn

All Walks of Life: Exploring Different Paths to Independence, Naina Kapur

Alpha and Beta Particle Motion Ray Tracing in a Cloud Chamber, Faiza Nadeem, Florence Pan, and Ryan Madera

Analysis of Antibody Affinity Maturation and Thermal Stability of Proteins Using Photophysical Approaches, Claire Baxter

Analyzing Adversarial Strategies and Countermeasures for Cyberbullying Detection, Maddie Juarez, Eldor Abdukhamidov, Manuel Sandoval, Deborah Hall, Mujtaba Nazari, George Thiruvathukal, Tamer Abuhmed, Yasin Silva, and Mohammed Abuhamad

Analyzing the Population Structure of the Rhizobia Associated with Astragalus Lentiginosus, Joshua Adam Melnick

An Analysis of Soil Moisture Under Different Atmospheric Conditions, Justin Peabody

An Examination of Lysine Acetylation in the Context of Bacterial Metabolism, Translation, and Regulation of Gene Expression, Thomas Patrick Bank

An Intervention to Increase Belonging and Support Retention for Faculty of Color and Women Faculty, Robyn K. Mallett, Zahra Naqi-Hasnain, Dana Garbarski, Christine Li-Grining, David Ensminger, Walter Tangarife, and Badia Ahad

An LDS Case Study: How Science Denial Fuels Racism in the Mormon Church, Ana Lyon

Anti-Inflamatory Mechansim of Bacillus Subtilis Derirved Exopolysaccharide, ADRIAN TAYLOR IBARRA

Apocalyptic Masculinity: Messiahs, Monsters, and Men Out of Time, Megan Wines

A Qualitative Analysis of Bilingual Children's Subjective Feelings When Language Brokering, Laritza Leyva, Emely B. Bayas, and Jordan S. Perry

A randomized Controlled Trial of Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) Program in South Korea, Sangmi Choi, Philip Young P. Hong, and Rana Hong

Are Descriptive Representatives More Successful Passing Group-Relevant Legislation? The Case of Native American State Legislators, Elise Blasingame, Eric R. Hansen, and Richard C. Witmer

Artificial Intelligence & Science Denial: How Technological Advancement Perpetuates Misinformation, Lizbeth Zamora-torrijos

A Signal Injection Attack Against Zero Involvement Pairing and Authentication for the Internet of Things, Isaac Ahlgren, Jack West, Kyu In Lee, George Thiruvathukal, and Neil Klingensmith

Aspire Scholarship 2025 Learning Portfolio, Isabella Paluzzi Steele

Being a Neurobiologically Informed Play Therapist, Rana Hong and Christie M. Mason

Beyond the Usual Suspects: Emerging Uropathogens in the Microbiome Age, Robert B. Moreland, Brian I. Choi, Wilson Geaman, Caroline Gonzalez, Baylie R. Hochstedler-Kramer, Jerrin John, Jacob Kaindl, Nikita Kesav, Jyoti Lamichhane, Luke Lucio, Malika Saxena, Aditi Sharma, Lana Tinawi, Michael E. Vanek, Catherine Putonti, Linda Brubaker, and Alan J. Wolfe

Bilingual Latinx Adolescents Experiences in a Predominantly White Institution: A Mixed Method Study, Danieli Marie Mercado Ramos

Biophysical Characterization of Protein-Lipid Interactions Using SUV Model Membranes, Nick Pufall

Biophysical Effects of Altered Myosin Binding Protein Stoichiometry in Atrial Myofilaments, Kelly N. Araujo

Breaking the Silence - Involving Juveniles on Probation in Music Production, Emma Harrison

BRIDGING THE GAP: A TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH TO SUPPORTING CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE FAMILIES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, Delilies Rodriguez

Built on Dignity, Backed by Love: A Mixed Methods Study and Curriculum Grounded in Black Caregivers’ Racial Socialization to Cultivate Youth Agency, Heather Watson

Burmese Marionette Puppet in the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Haley Dozier

“Buying Time or Doing Harm?”: Tracing Contestation and Consensus in Debates on Puberty Blockers for Trans Youth, Dana R. LaVergne

Calculating the Abundance of Primordial Black Holes, Babel Barm and Cole Owen Bucholtz

Calculating the Abundance of Primordial Black Holes, Babel Barm and Cole Owen Bucholtz

Can We All Get Along? Assessing Interdisciplinary Collaborations at a School of Health Sciences, Merly Thomas

Capturing Diverse Adolescents’ Social Contexts: The Development of an Ethnic-Racial Microaffirmations Scale for Peer Interactions, Maria Radulescu

Cataloging the phylogenetic diversity of human bladder bacterial isolates, Jingjie Du, Mark Khemmani, Thomas Halverson, Adriana Ene, Roberto Limeira, Lana Tinawi, Baylie R. Hochstedler-Kramer, Melline Fontes Noronha, Catherine Putonti, and Alan J. Wolfe

Ceramics from the Central Valley of Oaxaca?, Brianda Gonzalez

Changing Lanes, Crossing Industry Lines from Higher Education to Business Leaders: A Narrative Inquiry to Understanding the Challenges Faced by Residence Life Professionals Who Had to Change Career Paths Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Tatianna Geneva Ingram

Characterizing Niche Specialization in Staphylococcus Epidermidis, Sandra Jablonsk

Characterizing the Red Line Noise Curve, Bennett Korotko, Jilian Paulson, Cole Owen Bucholtz, and Daniel O'Shea

ChatTLA+ - Can LLMs Write Correct TLA+ Specifications?, Eric Spencer

Chemically Installed Organic Metal Nucleation Inducers on Molecular Materials for Ultrathin Metal Electrodes, Diman Hosseini

Chinese Dragon Robe, Kate E. Beaver

Commuter Student Engagement - Undergraduate Project, Soktear Anita Suon, Annette Parcero, Andrea Perla Olvera, and Marko Kiperovic

Comparative Analysis of Skeletal Visualization Techniques in Parazen pacificus, Aaryan Kaushik

Comparative Genomic Analysis of Clinical Enterococcus Faecalis Distinguishes Strains Isolated from the Bladder, Baylie R. Hochstedler-Kramer, Adriana Ene, Catherine Putonti, and Alan J. Wolfe

Competency Alignment and Competency-Based Education in Higher Education: institutional Perspectives from Illinois’ Early Childhood Workforce initiatives, Erika Gustafson Dietz

Complete genome sequence of Staphylococcus haemolyticus UMB6531B, isolated from a perineal swab, Alex Kula, Olive Kolar, Karolina Gilewicz, Zainab Qureshi, Anmol Singh, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti

Complete genome sequence of vaginal swab isolate Enterococcus faecalis UMB6935B, including two complete plasmids, Olive Kolar, Helen Appleberry, Alan J. Wolfe, Alex Kula, and Catherine Putonti

Comprehending Students' Experiences with a Language Learning Resource Center: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study of College Life and Belonging, Paulina Dzieza

Computational Analysis and Characterization of the Inducible 1-Cysteine Peroxiredoxin Promoter in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium, Lara Ladney

Construction and Validation of pIRES-EGFP Vector for Co-expression of MDM2 and Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein, Lauren Kohlsaat

Construction of A Geiger-Müller Counter, Katie Siobhan Bennett and Benjamin Allen Murdoch

Contributions of the Local Queer Archive: Conserving and Creating Community, Grace Kubek

Core Curriculum Report, Jessica Nguyen, Tatyana Camacho, Shania Camacho, and Abigail Lewis

Critical Philosophy, Crisis, and Joy: A Theory and Praxis, Maria Rebecca Valeriano-Flores

Culture Trap: Male Educators of Color and the Academic Role Deficit, Javin Cotton

Cyclical Matters: Black Labor, Temporality, and the Incomplete Reconstructions within African American Literature, Courtney Walton

Deciphering the Source of Escherichia Coli in Urinary Tract infections: A Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of the Female Urogenital Microbiome, Alexis Annabel Avalos

Decoding the Origins of Infection: A Machine Learning Framework, Nirupama G. Shanbhag

Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide Among Adolescents: Sex Differences and Future Perspectives, Giovana V.R. Toro, Paula Arias, Alejandro de la Torre-Luque, Jonathan B. Singer, and Natalia Lagunas

Detecting LGBTQ+ Instances of Cyberbullying, Arslan Bisharat, Manuel Madrigal, Mohammed Abuhamad, Deborah Hall, and Yasin Silva

Detecting Stigmatizing Language in Clinical Notes with Large Language Models for Addiction Care, Rohan Sethi, John Caskey, Yanjun Gao, Matthew M. Churpek, Timothy A. Miller, Anoop Mayampurath, Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, Majid Afshar, and Dmitriy Dligach

Developing and Validating the Perceived Youth Barriers Scale (PYBS): A Bottom-Up Approach to Assessing Barriers Faced by Underprivileged Young Adults, Rana Hong, Philip Young P. Hong, and Ja-Young Cho

Developing Chemically Defined Serum-Free Medium for Leukemic Blast and Stem Cell Expansion, Carmen Eva Finley

Development of Chemical Modifications to the Electron Transport Layer of Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Kevin DePope

Discovery of a New Class of Polymorphic Rhs Toxins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Pleiotropic Effects on Interbacterial Competition, Bacteriophage Antagonism, and Host Virulence, Abigail Nicole Banas

Does the Relative Education Model Explain Turnout Across Racial and Ethnic Groups?, Ashley Grace Burkholder, Eric Hansen, and Emily Wager

Do Women Legislators Legislate Differently Than Men on Gun-related Policy? A Suggestive Yes, Brady Mudge

Draft genome assemblies of one Lactobacillus gasseri strain and two Lactobacillus jensenii strains isolated from voided urine samples, Alex Kula, Natalie Stegman, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome assemblies of three Klebsiella grimontii strains isolated from catheterized urine samples from the same male participant over the course of 6 months, Helen Appleberry, Warwick Price, Lorenzo Roque, Evelyn Umana, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula

Draft genome assembly of Lactobacillus johnsonii UMB3423 from a voided urine sample, Natalie Stegman, Maria Steiling, Briana Jackson, Cerena Sedano, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome of Corynebacterium glycinophilum S209 isolated from healthy human skin, Sandra Jablonska, Lila Nelson, Grace Finger, Alex Kula, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome of Staphylococcus capitis O112, isolated from the cheek swab of a healthy female, Sandra Jablonska, Alex Kula, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome sequence of Staphylococcus aureus N208 isolated from a nasal swab of a healthy female, Sandra Jablonska, Lila Nelson, Grace Finger, Alex Kula, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome sequences for a Staphylococcus aureus and a Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolate from nasal swab samples from healthy females, Sandra Jablonska, Hannah Brown, Helen Appleberry, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula

Draft genome sequences of an Enterobacter hormaechei and Providencia rettgeri isolated from the urine of a male experiencing a catheter-associated urinary tract infection, Helen Appleberry, Michaela Brady, Samantha Webster, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula

Draft genome sequences of five Lactobacillus gasseri strains isolated from voided urine samples, Natalie Stegman, Maria Steiling, Cerena Sedano, Briana Jackson, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome sequences of four Corynebacterium amycolatum strains isolated from female urine samples, Alex Kula, Grace Chilton, James Damaso, Yusef Golzar, Fatima Rushnaiwala, Helen Appleberry, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome sequences of Lactobacillus mulieris strains isolated from the female urinary tract, Natalie Stegman, Maria Steiling, Cerena Sedano, Briana Jackson, and Catherine Putonti

Draft Genome Sequences of Lactobacillus Paragasseri Strains Isolated from the Female Urinary Tract, Briana Jackson, Natalie Stegman, Cerena Sedano, Maria Steiling, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome sequences of Staphylococcus hominis strains O226 and O218 and Micrococcus luteus O220 isolated from the buccal swabs of healthy individuals, Sandra Jablonska, Lila Nelson, Grace Finger, Alex Kula, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome sequences of Staphylococcus species isolated from urine samples from asymptomatic females, Sandra Jablonska, Lila Nelson, Grace Finger, Alex Kula, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genome sequences of three Lactobacillus crispatus strains, isolated from the female urinary tract, Cerena Sedano, Natalie Stegman, Maria Steiling, Briana Jackson, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genomes of Klebsiella aerogenes, Klebsiella huaxiensis, and Klebsiella michiganensis isolates from the urinary tract, Alex Kula, Muna Arman, Helen Appleberry, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genomes of Lactobacillus jensenii UMB0908, UMB1545, and UMB5777 from the urinary tract, Maria Steiling, Briana Jackson, Natalie Stegman, Cerena Sedano, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genomes of Neisseria perflava UMB0578, Proteus mirabilis UMB8339, and Enterococcus faecalis UMB7967 isolated from urine samples, Alex Kula, Ali Khan, Megan Martinez, Jevan Terry, Helen Appleberry, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti

Draft genomes of one Staphylococcus haemolyticus and five Staphylococcus lugdunensis strains isolated from catheterized urine samples of females, Helen Appleberry, Haaris Anjum, Taleah Cage, Kayla Jarm, Haashir Khan, Lizzie Proctor, Junelle Saroca, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula

Draft genomes of two Enterobacter hormaechei strains isolated from catheterized urine samples from females experiencing overactive bladder symptoms, Helen Appleberry, Richa Patel, Kanishka Singh, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula

Drawing the Curtain: A Grounded theory Analysis of the Conceptualizations of Culture, Ethnicity and Race in Professional Training Materials for Child Life Certification, Kia Lee Ferrer

Effectiveness of a Classroom-Based Stress Awareness and Coping Skills Program Among Adolescents from Diverse Backgrounds, Adriane Van Zwoll

Effects of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and the Fungicide Azoxystrobin Additions on Larval and Post-Metamorphic Fitness of American Toads (Anaxyrus Americanus), Michael Vosburgh

Elucidating the Function of an Evolutionarily Conserved Embryonic Splice Variant of Type II Collagen During Vertebrate Development, Taylor Woolman

Elucidating the Genetic Regulation of Zebrafish Type Ii Collagen Alpha 1 B, Angelina Renee Carcione

Encrypted Network Traffic Analysis: To Website Fingerprinting and Beyond, Madeline Moran, Joshua Honig, Nathan Ferrell, Shreena Soni, Sophia Homan, Eric Chan-Tin, and Mohammed Abuhamad

End of Dino Dominance - Ecological Trends in Late Cretaceous Communities, Matthieu Weinberg, Liam Lucas, and Katya Borkovskaya

Enhancing Elementary School Projects Aimed Towards Education on Perennial Vining Plant Green Walls that Lower Surface Temperatures in Urban Cities, Conor J. McGuire

EQUITY-CENTERED FAMILY ENGAGEMENT WITHIN A UNIVERSAL FRAMEWORK: ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY IN STUDENT BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES, Stefanie D. Brown

Ethnic Minority Children’s Perceptions of Violence Exposure in Communities, Caleb Kim and Rana Hong

Evaluating LLMs Capabilities Towards Understanding Social Dynamics, Anique Tahir, Lu Cheng, Manuel Sandoval, Yasin Silva, Deborah Hall, and Huan Liu

Evaluating the Active Learning Experience of Prelicensure Nursing Students by Role and Level in Simulation, DeLisa Flynn

Evaluation of Bacteriophage Infection of Enterococcus faecalis in a Monolayer, Alexandria Osborn

Evidence of Lactobacillus strains shared between the female urinary and vaginal microbiota, Haley Atkins, Baani Sabharwal, Leah Boger, Natalie Stegman, Alexander Kula, Alan J. Wolfe, Swarnali Banerjee, and Catherine Putonti

Evolution of Bacteria: The Subsequent Relationships between Different Species and Their Hosts, Helen Appleberry

Examining Behavioral Variations in Disadvantaged Adolescents: A Cross-Racial Study of African, Latinx, and Asian American Adolescents, Caleb Kim and Rana Hong

Examining psychological self-sufficiency among African American low-income jobseekers in a health profession career pathway program, Philip Young P. Hong, Caleb Kim, Rana Hong, Jang H. Park, and Dara Lewis

Examining Psychological Self-Sufficiency among Low-Income Jobseekers with Mental Health Barriers, Philip Young P. Hong, Rana Hong, Sangmi Choi, and David R. Hodge

Examining Pyroptosis in Neutrophil-Like Differentiated Hl-60 Cells, Jared Long

Examining Secretory Pathways in Inflammasome Activated innate Immune Cells, Alejandra Castellanos Urquidez

Examining the Efficacy of the Allosteric site in ADP Glucose Pyrophosphorylase from A. tumefaciens, Shanna Kaldani and Isabella Tyma

Examining the Impact of Technology-Enhanced Peer Mentorship on First-Year University Students’ Mental Health and Academic Success, Maya Hareli

Experiences and Perceptions of Gaslighting in the Workplace, Lauren Flanagan

Explainable Multimodal Deep Learning Models for Variable-Length Sequences in Critically Ill Patients, Jennifer Martin, Majid Afshar, Askar Safipour Afshar, John Caskey, Dmitriy Dligach, Yanjun Gao, Jifan Gao, Guanhua Chen, Anoop Mayampurath, and Matthew M. Churpek

Exploring Attentional Mechanisms of Speech-Gesture Integration, Lisa Gallo and Elizabeth Wakefield

Exploring General Education Teachers' Awareness of Ableism in Elementary School, Hana Elizabeth Polachek

EXPLORING KIMCHI AND POLYSACCHARIDE CHARACTERISTICS VIA FERMENTATION OF NAPA CABBAGE, Patrick Mallari and Christopher Tran

Exploring the Ecological Relevance of Biotic and Abiotic Stressors in Structuring Legume Microbial Communities, Cian Dotson

Faith and Evidence: Can Religious Belief and Science Coexist? An Investigation of Galileo’s Discoveries and the Heliocentric Model, Amelia Atia

Faith Over Fossils: How Creationist Deny the Authenticity of Carbon Dating, Mason Black

Fear of Victimization, Trust, Security, and Public Spaces in Guatemala, Keyla Navarrete

Flex Lab Noise Minimization, Zyanne Fulcher, Nathan Carandang, and Maddux Chan

Forgive as We are Forgiven: Reframing a Trinitarian Model of Forgiveness in a Post-Genocide Rwanda, Deogratias Mbonyumugenzi

From Cellphone Surface to Microbial Identity: Characterization of an Unknown Bacterium, Raayan Haseeb Jafri

From Unmotivated to Motivated: Hermeneutic Inquiries of Experience of Community-Based BSW Students in an Innovative Internship Seminar, Hyungjung Shin, Rana Hong, and Philip Young P. Hong

Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits in African Ancestries Across Diverse Environments, Isadore Gregga

Genome sequences for nine Streptococcus anginosus strains isolated from female urogenital samples, Helen Appleberry, Olive Kolar, Saad Ahmed, Omar Al Khalili, Inga Astrauskas, Adel Choubkha, Abraham Dulli, Anna Gamal, Elina Greljo, Samiah Iqbal, Neelesh Kanduri, Adam Kawamleh, Emma Kress, Walter McCain, Sophia Meza, Madison Mikolaitis, Amal Naqvi, Emily Ngo, Jackie Ostiguin, Vedant Patel, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula

Give People Money: The Effect of Perceived inequality in Everyday Life and Previous Cash-Transfer Programs on Support for Universal Basic income, David Thomas Igliozzi

Global Prevalence Patterns of Anti-Asian Prejudice on Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic., Brittany Wheeler, Monika Purohit, Patrick Furman, Seong Jung, Deborah Hall, Maria Camila N. Barioni, and Yasin Silva

Growing Through Service: My Internship Experience at Riveredge Hospital, Madelinne Luna

Guna Nuchukana Figurines in the Father Grollig Legacy Collection, Haley Dozier

Heavy Dark Matter in Rapidly Evolving Massive Stars, Sandra Robles, Walter Tangarife, and Giogio Busoni

“Hope is Greater than Barriers”: Creating a Pathway of Hope for Low-Income Families in Moving Out of Poverty, Philip Young P. Hong, Rana Hong, Dara Lewis, Maribeth V. Swanson, and Michael A. Smith

How individual differences affect children’s learning from gesture, Esha Thakker

How School Psychologists Narrow the Socioeconomic Opportunity Gap: the Practices and Beliefs of School Psychologists in High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools, Nora Durgin

Identification of an Unknown Bacterial Species from a Sink Handle, Angelo Ricarte and Ahman Dye

Identifying Cyberbullying Roles in Social Media, Manuel Sandoval, Mohammed Abuhamad, Patrick Furman, Mujtaba Nazari, Deborah Hall, and Yasin N. Silva

Identifying the Limit of Detection of an Environmental DNA Assay Designed for Starry Stonewort Detection, Natalie Arnold

"I'm Not Having Fun Anymore": A Qualitative Analysis of Gender and Harassment in Bars and Clubs, Phoebe Marie Jackson

Improving the Measurement of Gender in Surveys: Effects of Categorical Versus Open-Ended Response Formats on Measurement and Data Quality Among College Students, Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, James A. Yonker, Rosie Eungyuhl Bae, and Rachel A. Rosenfeld

Inferring Cinematic Aesthetic Biases from the Statistics of Early Movies, Daniel M. Grzywacz and Norberto M. Grzywacz

Insights into Female Urinary Microbiota through Long-Read 16S rRNA Sequencing, Jerrin John

Insights on the Cranial Anatomy and Osteohistology of Cyonosaurus, Alexander Acker

Institutional Belonging and College Success in a Neoliberal Environment, Alicia C. Figueroa

Integrating Mental Health Supports into MTSS for Students with Learning Disabilities, Paul Black

Integrative Theraplay for Children on Autism Spectrum: Practical Guidelines for Professionals, Rand Coleman and Rana Hong

Interactions between Microplastics, Biofilms, and Antimicrobials in Freshwater Streams, Ryan Thomas Krantz

Interference Colors to Thickness: Measuring Thin-Film Dynamics with a Camera and Arduino, Babel Barm and James Knott

Intital Characterization of Phosducin-Like Protein 3 in the Malaria Vector Anopheles Stephensi, Samantha Rose Webster

Intracellular Persistence of Cytotoxic Strains of P. Aeruginosa Isolates Is Enabled by Bistable Expression of the Type Three Secretion System, Gustavo Serrato

Introduction To Vaccine Misinformation, Samah Fayaz

Investigating Host Factors in Coronavirus Assembly and Egress, Surovi Binte Sharmin Mohona

Investigating Queer Asians' Accultrative Resilience and Wellbeing, Yiyu Cheng

Investigating the Impact of Individual Differences in Inattentiveness on Learning from Gesture, Alexander Hurka

Investigating the Mechanism of Resistance to IDO1 Enzyme Inhibitor Treatment in Human Glioblastoma, Kyla Shivakumar Hatton

Investigating the Quantity & Composition of “Nurdles” at Micro & Macro Levels, Andrew Conover, Maya Worek, and Olivia Schaul

Investigating Whether Txnrd2 Is a Therapeutic Target Against Triple Negative Breast Cancer Using African American-Derived Models, Keacha Chang

Italian Colonization of Ethiopia and Il Duce’s Rhetoric , Isabella Paluzzi Steele

Job Talk: Candidate Gender and Presentation of Prior Experience in Television Ads in the US, Eric R. Hansen and Connor Mautner

Keep It in Your Pants: How Sexual Regulation Becomes Identity Regulation, Madelyn Shoemaker

Korean Wedding Hanbok in the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Odette Collins

Language Style Matching (LSM) and Group Cohesion: Exploring Mechanisms Behind Psychological Wellbeing in Interpersonal Psychotherapy for College Students (IPT-CS), Bradley Orzada, Kirby Knapp, Ellie Malone, and Colleen Conley

Legal Internship Experience, Abigail Jalso

Let-7I Mirna Antagomir as a Novel Adjuvant Intervention for the Treatment of Ischemic Stroke, Vignesh Raghu Krishnamoorthy

Let's Talk About Age, Baby!, Kathryn Ravasio and Hector Mendoza

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Strengthen MTSS Within Catholic Schools, Kaitlin D. Reichart, Adam B. Lockwood, and Jessica Pizzute (Kukura)

Low Attendance in Early Childhood Education and the Educational Impact in Elementary School Years, Maria Limon Barrera

Maa': An Analysis from the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Claire T. Chilla

Maa’: An Analysis from the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Claire T. Chilla

Macroplastic Litter in a Rural Lake: Biomass Characteristics Relative to Natural Surfaces, Alyssa Younus

Manufacturing Doubt: How the Conservative Movement Shaped American Climate Denial, Bjorn Anderson

Marsh Bird Passive Acoustic Monitoring Detections Affected by Plant Communities, Mikaila Cadavona

Mass higher education and voter turnout in the U.S, Eric R. Hansen

Method Development of Extraction and Measurement of Heavy Metals from Chicago Industrial Corridor Soil Samples, Abigail Stacy and Lizzy Bruening

Methylglyoxal Glycation Competes with Ubiquitination, Disrupting Sarcomere Funciton, Christine Elizabeth Delligatti

Microbial Responses to Pharmaceutical Pollution in Streams, Darian Bolden

Migrant Domestic Workers as Disposable Kin in Global Capitalism'S Care Economy, Miguel Ceron Becerra

Migration, Culture, and Healthcare in Chicago’s Pakistani Community, Sultan Cheema

Misinformation in the Digital Age: How Social Media Fuels Science Denial and Ways to Stop It, Jocelyn Morales

Mistaken Selections: Predicting Eyewitness Identification Tendencies, Olivia Eldred

Modeling the Influence of Environmental Factors on Invasive P. clarkii Catch Per Unit Effort in an Urban River System, Penelope Reynolds, Reuben Keller, and Rachel Anelise Rogers

More than trauma: The story of intergenerational survival, Tiffany Fang

MotionID: Towards Practical Behavioral Biometrics-Based Implicit User Authentication on Smartphones, Mohsen Ali Alawami, Tamer Abuhmed, Mohammed Abuhamad, and Hyoungshick Kim

MTSS AND INSTITUTIONAL DECISION-MAKING IN RACIALLY DISPROPORTIONATE SPECIAL EDUCATION REFERRAL AND IDENTIFICATION: TOWARD AN EQUITY-CENTERED MTSS FRAMEWORK, Patricia Ebel

Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor 1: Implications for Precision Medicine and Rett Syndrome Therapeutics, Mackenzie Smith

My Visit to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Demiana Kahoush

Neurobiological Core Content in the Research-Supported Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) Program Model, Rana Hong and Philip Young P. Hong

New Arrivals Trust in Government in Country of Origin and Chicago, Connor W. Wood, Anna E. Bullock, and Cristian L. Paredes

Nitrogen Limitation Impacts the Evolution of Tobramycin Resistance in E.coli, Anja Hofmeier

On Message Encryption and Enhanced Security Using Protein Structure Information, Daniel Graham

Optimising Time for Schoolwide Improvement: Developing a Time-Use Study Process for MTSS Leadership Teams, Hank Bohanon, Eleanor Charlton, Alejandra Vazquez, and Anna Press

Optimizing Uncertainty Estimation on Scientific Visualizations Using Learning Models, Clara Almeida, David Guerrero-Pantoja, Erik Pautsch, Silvio Rizzi, George Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja

PARAVIRT: Userland Containers for Mobile Systems, Isaac Ahlgren, Yasin Silva, Eric Chan-Tin, George Thiruvathukal, Kyu In Lee, and Neil Klingensmith

Parental Autonomy Support and Children’S Affect as Predictors of Children’S Stem Engagement in an informal Educational Context, Bianca Martins Aldrich

Participatory Budgeting and Electoral Outcomes in North American Cities, Gabriela Raluca Pavel

Partnering with Purpose: A Family-Led Approach to Navigating the IEP Process for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families, Veronica Guzman

Pathway of Employment From Uncovering Barriers to Discovering Hope: Nontraditional, Student-Centered, Relationship-Based Approach, Philip Young P. Hong, Rana Hong, Dara Lewis, and Diane Williams

Pathways to Compassion: Mapping Gender-Affirming Healthcare Experiences, Ashley Gotlib

PEER MEDIATION IN A LATINX HIGH SCHOOL, James Loerzel

Perceptual Complexity as Normalized Shannon Entropy, Norberto M. Grzywacz

Perverse Convergences: Aelred of Rievaulx and the Queerness of Waiting, Zaccary A. Haney

Phage Therapy for Urinary Tract Infections: Progress and Challenges Ahead, Chase J. Morgan, Haley Atkins, Alan J. Wolfe, Linda Brubaker, Saima Aslam, Catherine Putonti, Michael B. Doud, and Lindsey A. Burnett

Phenomenological Study on the Meaning of Play in Theraplay®, Rana Hong and Hyunjung Shin

Philosophical Purification as Liberation and Transformation, LaChanda C. Davis

Phosphorylation and Isomerization of the Synaptic Scaffold Protein PSD-95, Sai Kanuru

Podcasting as an Innovative Pedagogical Tool in Social Work Education, Mim Fox and Jonathan B. Singer

Polycystin-2 Is Cardioprotective Against Myocardial Infarction by Regulating the Calcium-Mediated Er-Stress Response, Virdjinija Vuchkovska

Potential Interactions Between Pharmaceuticals and Microbial Biofilms on Microplastic Surfaces, Brooklyn Sims

Predictors of political participation of U.S. social workers: the mediating effect of confidence, Maria Wathen, Rachel A. Young, Amy Krings, and Teresa Kilbane

Pre-Migration Victimization and Fear of Violent Crime among New Arrivals in Chicago / Victimización y miedo al crimen violento en el país de origen de los migrantes recién llegados a Chicago, Cristian L. Paredes, Keyla Navarrete, Anna E. Bullock, Brianna Hernandez, and Raymond A. Akumbilim

Preparing the Next Generation: Improving Mental and Behavioral Health Training in School Psychology, Macey Kohls

Prior Experience and State Legislative Effectiveness, Eric R. Hansen and Sarah A. Treul

Protein-Lipid Interactions Using Model Membrane and Native Membrane Vesicles, Nick Pufall

Recommendation Report: Campus Transportation, Sujaan Vhora, Prachi Patel, Liliana Drobny, Camilla Gorokhova, and Matthew Zimmerman

Reconceptualizing Christian Nationalism, Robert Stevenson

Refining cross-population polygenic risk scores across diverse populations, Mansi Patel

Relationships In-the-making in Virtual Learning Communities: Theorizing Relationships in Critical Multicultural Education, Jenna Nelson and Seungho Moon

Releasing the Imagination in Judiciary Education: Object-Based Inquiry in Civic Wellness., Seungho Moon

Religions in Chicago, Pranav Konakondla

Religious Beliefs and Organ Donation: Investigating Religious Beliefs and Their Positions on Donation, Alejandra Penaranda

Religious Miracles in the NOMA Model, Alexander Piero

Response of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Structure and Aquatic insect Secondary Production to Coarse Woody Debris Addition in Peri-Urban to Urban Golf Course Ponds, Ryan Johnson

Revisiting Collective Efficacy: Insights from Cognitive Interviews and Experimental Surveys, Tori Kay Olson

Role of Coronavirus Envelope Protein on Infectivity, Garrett E. Zaagman

Sakai Recommendation Report, Gena Coronel, Ellie Meyer, Michael Johnson, Naz Wahdi, and Shivh Patel

Science and Environmentalism in Indigenous Traditions and Christianity, Kaitlyn Vale

Science Denial and Public Policy, Mary Kae Kuenster

Science Denial and Social Media, Chloe Norinsky

Science Denial of COVID-19 Vaccines, Jace Bang

Science Denial Through the Lens of Social Media, Savannah Walczak

Scrolling for Meaning: How Social Media Influence Young People’s Spirituality and Trust in Scientific Authority, Archna Yadav

SecureAI: Toward Experiential Security and Privacy Training for AI Practitioners, Mujtaba Nazari, Eric Chan-Tin, Loretta Stalans, and Mohammed Abuhamad

Selecting for Lysis in a Temperate Phage Population, Haley Atkins

Selling The Spell: The Commodification of Feminist Witchcraft, NOËL SUBRINA SUCESE

Sexual Differentiation in a Unique Vertebrate Lineage: Mapping the Development of Genitalia in the Lizard Anolis Sagrei, Alina Mathew

SHIELD: Thwarting Code Authorship Attribution, Mohammed Abuhamad, Changhun Jung, David Mohaisen, and DaeHun Nyang

Should We Trust the NOMA Model?, Sarah Allen

Site-Directed Mutagenesis of BlgB (W185R) and Its Impact on Recombinant Expression and Enzymatic Function, Angelique Holmes, Hannah Faulkner, and Emily De Marcos-Hernandez

Situational safety: exploring the relationship of environmental change & sense of belonging for GSM students in academic-required internships, Nancy Goldberger

Sliding a convex set under a convex function, Julia Williamson

Social Identities and Space: Children of Muslim Bangladeshi Immigrants' Navigations of Romantic Relationships in Chicago, Usa, and Toronto, Canada, Fatema Zohara

Social identity, social media use, and mental health in adults: Investigating the mediating role of cyberbullying experiences and the moderating effects of gender and age., Natali Barragan, Amanda Batista, Deborah Hall, and Yasin Silva

Social Justice Internship 2025-26: ONE Northside, Johanna Rodriguez Osegueda

Social Justice Internship Experience: Restoration and Community First at FORA, Amara Grajewski

Social Justice Internship- GirlForward: How a non-profit is supporting the refugee community in Chicago., Liz-Anne Debeauville-Jones

Social Media and Health Disinformation, Ammar Haroon and Emily Sarmiento

Special Education Disproportionality in Illinois: What Are We Doing?, Kaelyn Chanel Green

SpectrumNet: Detecting LGBTQ+ Cyberbullying with Dynamic Context-Aware Attention., Arslan Bisharat, Manuel Sandoval, Mujtaba Nazari, Mohammed abuhamad, Deborah Hall, and Yasin Silva

Statistical Approaches in Evolutionary Biology: Using Threespine Stickleback Fish to Test Fisher's Geometric Model and Evaluate Methods for Handling Missing Data, Aaron Mathew Myrold

Stealthy Query-Efficient OpaqueAttack Against Interpretable Deep Learning, Eldor Abdukhamidov, Mohammed Abuhamad, Simon S. Woo, Eric Chan-Tin, and Tamer Abuhmed

Stories on Anti-Racist Performances: Interrupting Recalibrations of Whiteness in Teacher Education, Seungho Moon and Eleanor Charlton

Strategies of Science Denial in Contemporary Politics, Yumi Li

Streptococcus anginosus of the urogenital tract: evidence of the same strain across anatomical sites of the same females, Helen Appleberry, Jennifer Garcia-Israel, Leah Boger, Swarnali Banerjee, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti

Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Potential of PLP-Dependent Macromolecules: Case Studies on Bacillus subtilis GabR and Human GABA Aminotransferase, Nicholas Eugene Kaley

Student Teaching Internship, Kayla Tanada

Student Voices on Trauma and Resilience: A Critical Phenomenological Study of Gun Violence and College Student Experiences, Lucia Helena Garcia

Suicide among youth and young adults in Canada: bereaved parents’ perspectives on the systems of care, Toula Kourgiantakis, Deborah Cooper, David Cooper, Shelley Craig, Eunjung Lee, Jori Jones, Carrie K.Y. Lau, Romy Naïma Tousignant, Jonathan B. Singer, Marjorie Johnstone, and Juveria Zaheer

Systematic Review Examining How Black Youth in the United States Cope with Stressful and Traumatic Experiences, Marcus Aaron Flax

Systemic Barriers to Parental Involvement in Immigrant Families: Impact on Children’s Academic Outcomes, Ama Jane Baffoe

Taxonomic Considerations on Aerococcus urinae with Proposal of Subdivision into Aerococcus urinae, Aerococcus tenax sp. nov., Aerococcus mictus sp. nov., and Aerococcus loyolae sp. nov, Brian I. Choi, Adriana Ene, Jingjie Du, Genevieve Johnson, Catherine Putonti, Christian H. Schouw, Rimtas Dargis, Erik Senneby, Jens J. Christensen, and Alan J. Wolfe

Teaching and Learning with Feeling: A Qualitative Case Study of Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with Socio-Emotional Learning, Anna Melinda Press

Teaching Transcription for Social Justice in Linguistic Anthropology, Thea R. Strand and Michael Wroblewski