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Master's Theses

A collection of theses submitted and approved for a Master's degree at Loyola University Chicago.

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Treading Identities: Second-Generation Christian Indian Americans Negotiating Race, Ethnicity and Religion in America, Soulit Chacko

The Effect of Vitamin D on Human T Regulatory Cell Differentiation, Stephanie Anne Chapman

Snail Induces Mesenchymal Transition and Promotes EGFR TKI Resistance in NSCLC Cells Harboring EFGR Kinase Domain Mutations, Rutu Gandhi

Unpacking the Study of Instructional Improvement: Issues, Outcomes, and Implications of Three Comprehensive School Reform Efforts, Gabriella Silva Gorsky

Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Response to Invasion and Subsequent Removal of Typha × glauca From Great Lakes Coastal Marshes, Kimberly Anne Greene

The Comparative Morphology of the Pectoral Free Rays in Scorpaenoid Fishes (perciformes: Scorpaenoidea)), Jeremy Peter Harris

Legislating the Risk of Light Teachers in 1950s and 1970s America, Kevin Vincent Heffernan

Learning Freedom: Education, Elevation, and New York's African American Middle Class, 1827-1829, Michael Hines

I Am Relieved to Discover My Symptoms Are Normal for My Condition: An Analysis of Two Irritable Bowel Syndrome Support Communities, Erin Hvizdak

Characterization of Inducible Regulatory T Cells: An Umbilical Cord Blood Model, Rebecca Anne Krier

The Role of Self-Esteem, Perceived Social Support, and Coping Strategy in the Escalation of Depressive Symptomatology During the First Year of College, Catherine Lee

Seeking Modernity, Brain Gain, And Brain Drain: The Historical Evolution of Chinese Students' Overseas Education in the United States Since Modern China, Di Luo

Analysis of the Minimal Promoter from the Hatching Enzyme a Gene, Anna Matejczyk

The Independent Influences of Relational and Physical Victimization on Subsequent Physical Aggression in Middle School Children, Michelle D. Mioduszewski

Identifying Student Perspectives: Addressing the Financial Barriers Facing Low-Income Students in Study Abroad, Lauren Miranda

Activity Patterns and Spatial Resource Selection of the Eastern Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis), Matthew Gregory Most

Social-Environmental Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life in Youth with Spina Bifida, Caitlin Beth Murray

Identifying and Characterizing the Degradative Pathway of the Retroviral Restriction Factor RhTRIM5α, Rachel Nelson

Sustainable Diverse Communities: A Comparison of Hammond, Indiana and Chicago's Uptown Neighborhood, Teresa Neumann

The Hook Up Hangover: The Decline in Traditional Dating Beyond the College Campus - Before Formal Commitment, Reginald Nievera

Exosomes: Antiviral Agents in the Human Lung, Jennifer Alexandra Novak

Selective Expansion of B Cells by Intestinal Microbiota, Karina Ochoa

The Role of at Epistemic Community in Haitian Education Reform Post Earthquake 2010, Joy Okeefe

The Safer Foundation: An in-Depth Program Evaluation and Recidivism Study, Richard Allen Olson

Naturalism, Murder, and Identity in Three Short Stories of Ramon Ferreira, Haley Lee Osborn