Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Alienation on Campus: Students, Agency, and a 'Praxis of Possibility', Julia R. Allison
A Fijian Barkcloth in the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Delaney M. Bahns
An Examination of Lysine Acetylation in the Context of Bacterial Metabolism, Translation, and Regulation of Gene Expression, Thomas Patrick Bank
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
Interference Colors to Thickness: Measuring Thin-Film Dynamics with a Camera and Arduino, Babel Barm and James Knott
Chinese Dragon Robe, Kate E. Beaver
Construction of A Geiger-Müller Counter, Katie Siobhan Bennett and Benjamin Allen Murdoch
SpectrumNet: Detecting LGBTQ+ Cyberbullying with Dynamic Context-Aware Attention., Arslan Bisharat, Manuel Sandoval, Mujtaba Nazari, Mohammed abuhamad, Deborah Hall, and Yasin Silva
Optimising Time for Schoolwide Improvement: Developing a Time-Use Study Process for MTSS Leadership Teams, Hank Bohanon, Eleanor Charlton, Alejandra Vazquez, and Anna Press
EQUITY-CENTERED FAMILY ENGAGEMENT WITHIN A UNIVERSAL FRAMEWORK: ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY IN STUDENT BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES, Stefanie D. Brown
Migrant Domestic Workers as Disposable Kin in Global Capitalism'S Care Economy, Miguel Ceron Becerra
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
WebTracker: Real Webbrowsing Behaviors -- is Website Fingerprinting now Realistic?, Taryn Chovan, Daisy Reyes, Eno Dynowski, John Mikos, Eric Chan-Tin, Mohammed Abuhamad, and Shelia Kennison
Investigating the Quantity & Composition of “Nurdles” at Micro & Macro Levels, Andrew Conover, Maya Worek, and Olivia Schaul
AI in the ER: Why Emergency Medicine Needs More Than an Algorithm, Aidan Patrick Crawford
Three-dimensional shape cues affect human and artificial recognition systems differently, Mikayla Cutler, Luke D. Baumel, Joseph Tocco, William Friebel, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Nicholas Baker Dr.
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
Exploring Attentional Mechanisms of Speech-Gesture Integration, Lisa Gallo and Elizabeth Wakefield
Ceramics from the Central Valley of Oaxaca?, Brianda Gonzalez
On Message Encryption and Enhanced Security Using Protein Structure Information, Daniel Graham
Effective Wordle Heuristics, Ronald I. Greenberg
Understanding Early Childhood Community Collaborations (Ecccs) in Relation to Systems Change, Rebecca Waterstone Halperin
The Effectiveness of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis, Rana Hong, Jeong Ok Lee, Sanghee Lee, and Shweta Singh
Chemically Installed Organic Metal Nucleation Inducers on Molecular Materials for Ultrathin Metal Electrodes, Diman Hosseini
Comparative Analysis of Skeletal Visualization Techniques in Parazen pacificus, Aaryan Kaushik
Valuation. A Husserlian Account, Richard Andrew Krema
Science Denial and Public Policy, Mary Kae Kuenster
A Qualitative Analysis of Bilingual Children's Subjective Feelings When Language Brokering, Laritza Leyva, Emely B. Bayas, and Jordan S. Perry
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
The Effect of Specific Nurse Manager Attributes on the Clinical Work Environment, Janet Marie McCarthy
Investigating Host Factors in Coronavirus Assembly and Egress, Surovi Binte Sharmin Mohona
Stories on Anti-Racist Performances: Interrupting Recalibrations of Whiteness in Teacher Education, Seungho Moon and Eleanor Charlton
Alpha and Beta Particle Motion Ray Tracing in a Cloud Chamber, Faiza Nadeem, Florence Pan, and Ryan Madera
Vital Environs: Ecologies of Modernism and the Nature Tradition, Danielle Nasenbeny
SecureAI: Toward Experiential Security and Privacy Training for AI Practitioners, Mujtaba Nazari, Eric Chan-Tin, Loretta Stalans, and Mohammed Abuhamad
Revisiting Collective Efficacy: Insights from Cognitive Interviews and Experimental Surveys, Tori Kay Olson
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
Participatory Budgeting and Electoral Outcomes in North American Cities, Gabriela Raluca Pavel
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)
AI-Driven Systems in MTSS: Potential Opportunities and Challenges, Kaitlin Reichart, Adam B. Lockwood, and Hank Bohanon
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
The Impact of Prior Abusive Dating Experiences and Gender on Romance Scam Victimization and Monetary Loss, Trevor Rowe
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
Method Development of Extraction and Measurement of Heavy Metals from Chicago Industrial Corridor Soil Samples, Abigail Stacy and Lizzy Bruening
Selling The Spell: The Commodification of Feminist Witchcraft, NOËL SUBRINA SUCESE
Commuter Student Engagement - Undergraduate Project, Soktear Anita Suon, Annette Parcero, Andrea Perla Olvera, and Marko Kiperovic
New Arrivals Trust in Government in Country of Origin and Chicago, Connor W. Wood, Anna E. Bullock, and Cristian L. Paredes
Scrolling for Meaning: How Social Media Influence Young People’s Spirituality and Trust in Scientific Authority, Archna Yadav
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Epistemic Injustice: A Portraiture of Doctoral Socialization, Alaa Adel Elsayed Abdelghaffar
Cultivating Community-University Partnerships within the Chicago Region Food System, Hanan Abdillahi, Vivian Cossey, Tania Schusler, Kevin Erickson, Karen Schauwecker, Sarah Ku, and Ray Dybzinski
Stealthy Query-Efficient OpaqueAttack Against Interpretable Deep Learning, Eldor Abdukhamidov, Mohammed Abuhamad, Simon S. Woo, Eric Chan-Tin, and Tamer Abuhmed
SHIELD: Thwarting Code Authorship Attribution, Mohammed Abuhamad, Changhun Jung, David Mohaisen, and DaeHun Nyang
The Effects of Targeted Interventions on Student Engagement with Feedback: A Meta-Analysis, Andy A. Accettola
Insights on the Cranial Anatomy and Osteohistology of Cyonosaurus, Alexander Acker
Not-so-Secret Authentication: The SyncBleed Attacks and Defenses for Zero-Involvement Authentication Systems, Isaac Ahlgren, Rushikesh Shirsat, Omar Achkar, George K. Thiruvathukal, Kyu In Lee, and Neil Klingensmith
PARAVIRT: Userland Containers for Mobile Systems, Isaac Ahlgren, Yasin Silva, Eric Chan-Tin, George Thiruvathukal, Kyu In Lee, and Neil Klingensmith
Assessing Functional Changes in the Gut Microbiome in CTCL Patients Pre- and Post Therapy, Merjaan Ahmad and Sophia Rahman
ARLP Pitch, Adnan Y. Aldaas
Parental Autonomy Support and Children’S Affect as Predictors of Children’S Stem Engagement in an informal Educational Context, Bianca Martins Aldrich
Returning to Simplicity in Early Daoist and Ancient Greek Thought, Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Alfailakawi
Investigating the Consequences of Conjugated and Secreted ISG15 on Coronavirus Pathogenesis, Mudassir Syed Ali
The Experience of Transition to Self-Management for Saudi Adolescents with Type I Diabetes, aeshah m. almulhim
The Social Aesthetics of Recognition, Italo Alves
"Und so ist der Mikrokosmos Tennis immer auch ein Makrokosmos des Lebens”: Tennis als Motiv in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, Reinhard Andress
Evolution of Bacteria: The Subsequent Relationships between Different Species and Their Hosts, Helen Appleberry
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
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
Biophysical Effects of Altered Myosin Binding Protein Stoichiometry in Atrial Myofilaments, Kelly N. Araujo
Development of Analytical Methods for Heavy Metal Detection in Soil, Morgan Ashauer and Lizzy Bruening
Selecting for Lysis in a Temperate Phage Population, Haley Atkins
Deciphering the Source of Escherichia Coli in Urinary Tract infections: A Comparative Metagenomic Analysis of the Female Urogenital Microbiome, Alexis Annabel Avalos
Targeting EYA1 Phosphatase Activity in MLL-Rearranged Leukemia, Lola Badmus
Narcissism and Situation Specific Open-Minded Cognition, Brandon Ballard
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
Analysis of Antibody Affinity Maturation and Thermal Stability of Proteins Using Photophysical Approaches, Claire Baxter
The Impact of Race and Gender on Benevolent Sexism Endorsement, Kelsey Berryman
Embodied Freedom: Nietzsche on Agency, Health, and Value, Nathan University Berthiaume
Investigating the Role of Endothelin-1 in Reactive Astrocytosis, Candace Betancourt-Szymanowska
AdvChar: Attacking Interpretable NLP Systems, Arslan Bisharat
ML Model to Better Identify Instances of Bullying Faced by Members of the LGBTQ+ Community, Arslan Bisharat
Pyrazole-Based Inhibitors of the Bacterial Enzyme DapE as Potential Antibiotics, Alayna Bland, Emma H. Kelley, Thomas DiPuma, Teerana Thabthimthong, and Daniel P. Becker
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
How to Run (from) a Meeting: The Art of Structure, Humanity, and Follow-Through, Hank Bohanon
Small Starts and Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports, Hank Bohanon
Buddy the Elf and PBIS: When Good Intentions Are Misunderstood, Hank M. Bohanon
Jewish College Students' Experiences of Belonging, Identity, and Inclusion within Campus DEI Initiatives, Laurence Allen Bolotin
The Impact of Lactobacillus Supplementation on Gut Microbiome Composition and Phage induction in Mice, Kimia Boreiri
Trash Trap: Categorizing Plastic Pollution in Chicago's Montrose Harbor, Thomas Botsford-Rhodes, Aana Shenai, and Andrew Conover
Promoting Wellbeing & Quality of Life Through Behavioral Support: My Internship Journey at Misericordia’s PEP Program, Brionna Brown
Poverty, internationalization, and environmental injustice: A postcolonial theoretical perspective, Garry D. Bruton, Sadek Showkat, and Tianyue Zhan
Electric Stimulation Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa: from Modern Treatments to bench study with Aplysia californica, David Brynski and Hui Ye
Does the Relative Education Model Explain Turnout Across Racial and Ethnic Groups?, Ashley Grace Burkholder, Eric Hansen, and Emily Wager
Investigating the role of out-of-school experiences in racial and ethnic identity formation for Black youth within an ecological model, Maureen Burns
