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Academic Internship - Deborah's Place, Olivia Redmond

Adolescent Social Media Use and Complete Mental Health: Examining the Intersections of Identity, Social-Emotional Skills, and Social Support, Reese Hyzer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aspire Scholarship 2025 Learning Portfolio, Isabella Paluzzi Steele

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Pleotropic Effects on Interbacterial Competition, Bacteriophage Antagonism, and Host Virulence, Abigail Nicole Banas

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philosophical Purification as Liberation and Transformation, LaChanda C. Davis

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

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

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

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

Selecting for Lysis in a Temperate Phage Population, Haley Atkins

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

Should We Trust the NOMA Model?, Sarah Allen

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

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

Social Media and Health Disinformation, Ammar Haroon and Emily Sarmiento

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

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

Strategies of Science Denial in Contemporary Politics, Yumi Li

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

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

The Bacterial Sensing Nuclear-Oligomerization Domain 2 Receptor in the Brain: Location and Potential Function, Julia Smyth

The Beloved Disciple in Performance, Eric Christian Zito

The Dangers of Science Denial: Creationism and Cult Organization, Elizabeth Sherman

The Development and Validation of the Measure of Critical Reflection, Yea Jin Chang

The Effect of Specific Nurse Manager Attributes on the Clinical Work Environment, Janet Marie McCarthy

The Effects of Targeted Interventions on Student Engagement with Feedback: A Meta-Analysis, Andy A. Accettola

The Forced Sterilization of Quechua-Speaking Women in Peru: The Role of Epistemic injustice in The Perpetration of Genocide, geraldine diaz

The Impact of Lactobacillus Supplementation on Gut Microbiome Composition and Phage induction in Mice, Kimia Boreiri

The inaccessibility of scientific writing and science denial, Emma Eisen

The Influence of Defects: Oxidation of Non-Planar Transition Metal Model Catalysts, Maxwell Gillum

The Ingroup-Outgroup Effect: Effects on Open and Closed-Minded Cognitive Style, Ava Jackson Dempsey

The Monastic Economy, James Swenson

The Role of Identity within Flat-Earth Believers, Samantha N. Gebusion

The Role of Social Support on Discrimination and Planned Retirement, Diane Williams

The Role of Thioredoxin Reductase Paralogs in Prostate Cancer, Carleen Danielle Deegan

The Separation of Science and Religion Domains in Education, Tuba Haroon

The Social Aesthetics of Recognition, Italo Alves

“The Wonderful Swiftness of the Soul”: Mental Movement and Religious Ethics in Medieval English Literature, Abigail Palmisano

Thienopyrimidine-Based Estrogen Receptor Degraders Adopt Unique Ligand Binding Poses to Elicit Anti-Proliferative Activities in Estrogen Receptor Positive Breast Cancer Cells, Sofia Lucia Mateus

“This Is the Job Now”: A Phenomenological Study of Meaning Making in University Faculty Regarding Role Expectations in Response to Student Crises, Leslie Watland

Tu Casa No es Mi Casa: Decolonizing Educational Practices by Accounting for the Experience of Latinx Non-Citizen Permanent Resident College Students, Daniel Francisco Matamoros Viquez

Ultramodern Racism: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Impact of Anti-Crt Legislation on Us History Curriculums, Amelia Gernand

Uncovering the Mechanisms of the Anti-Cancer Activity of New Non-Covalent Thioredoxin Reductase inhibitors in Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Abigail Rullo

Understanding Early Childhood Community Collaborations (Ecccs) in Relation to Systems Change, Rebecca Waterstone Halperin

Understanding Middle Managers in Community Colleges, Mason Salazar

University Resilience: Examining the Relationship of Acute, Externally-Driven Crisis Events to University Enrollment and Financial Stability, Amy Kyhos

Using Light to Dissect Mechanisms of Septin Recruitment, Shreya Chandrasekar

Valuation. A Husserlian Account, Richard Andrew Krema

Viral Cell-to-Cell Spread: A Promising Antiviral Target, Manuel German Flores

Vital Environs: Ecologies of Modernism and the Nature Tradition, Danielle Nasenbeny

Voices of Chinese American Emerging Adults: Complex Racial Identities, Family Dynamics, and Mental Health Experiences, Maxwell Lou Xu

What Makes a Teacher a Teacher: A Philosophical Approach Aligned with Plato, Sojung Kim Hinterkopf

“What’S Happening in the Gulf of Maine?”: Middle School Students’ Engagement in Climate Science Through Data Visual Representation and Reflections, Grace Ocular

Youth and Parent Knowledge and Perceptions of Spina Bifida: Associations with Neurocognitive Factors, Self-Management, and Quality of Life, Olivia Emery Clark