Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Identity Conflict in Student-athletes: Athletic and Academic Identity Salience as Predictors of Stress, Alaina Abel
Evaluation of a Sleep Health Composite: Changes in Sleep Over the Menarcheal Transition Among Girls, Julianna Adornetti
Alienation on Campus: Students, Agency, and a 'Praxis of Possibility', Julia R. Allison
Elucidating the Mechanisms of Complex Flavoprotein Dehydrogenases, Tyler Alt
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
Navigating Loss: Policy & Practice Within Student Affairs Support of Bereaved Students, Jessica Renee Brown
EQUITY-CENTERED FAMILY ENGAGEMENT WITHIN A UNIVERSAL FRAMEWORK: ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY IN STUDENT BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES, Stefanie D. Brown
The Role of Glutamate Receptors, RNA Editing, and Prenatal Stress in Cognition, Sociability, and Stress Resilience, Tristram Buck
Lay Presidents in Jesuit Higher Education: How AJCU Lay Presidents Learn About, Articulate, and Express Jesuit Mission and Identity, Carl Joseph Caceres
Teachers’ Use of Evidence-based Research to Inform Best Practices, Brianna Cairns
(Fill in the Blank) as Resistance: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study of Black Men’s Resistance Knowledge in Higher Education Environments, Johnnie L. Campbell
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
Defining Contractile and Age-specific Remodeling in Atrial Fibrillation, Hannah Cizauskas
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.
An Untapped Resource: Exploring the Role of Spirituality in the Psychological Healing of African Asylum-seekers from a Counselor’s Perspective, Brittany A. Duncan
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
The Year of Birth Age Grouping Policy: Its Impact on Participation in US Youth Soccer, Murray James Findlay
Exploring Attentional Mechanisms of Speech-Gesture Integration, Lisa Gallo and Elizabeth Wakefield
Ceramics from the Central Valley of Oaxaca?, Brianda Gonzalez
Heat Shock Factor 1 Signaling: A Novel Pathway Implicated in Rett Syndrome Pathophysiology, Sonia Gonzalez
On Message Encryption and Enhanced Security Using Protein Structure Information, Daniel Graham
Growing Through Systemic Adversity: Evaluation of Developmental Trauma Assessment Among Black and/or Latiné Adolescents with ADHD, Victoria Grant O'Daniel
Effective Wordle Heuristics, Ronald I. Greenberg
Understanding Early Childhood Community Collaborations (Ecccs) in Relation to Systems Change, Rebecca Waterstone Halperin
The Intersection of Gender and Disability in Media Coverage of Athletes, Aaron Jacob Holzmueller
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
Justice-oriented Pedagogy: Personal and Programmatic Commitments in Teacher Education, Cheetara A. Hudson
Don't Force Me to Explain: Rethinking Access Outside of Compulsory Transparency, Rhea Ienni
Coming to the Table: How Black Mamas Resist and Reorganize the Racialized Educational Terrain in Community, Moriah Lynn Johnson
Being Desi at School: Exploring the Racialized School Experiences of South Asian American Youth, Prabha Kaundinya
Comparative Analysis of Skeletal Visualization Techniques in Parazen pacificus, Aaryan Kaushik
Responsive Rigor and Strategic Care: Faculty Praxis for Holistic Student Success in the Community College, Jennifer Elizabeth Kelley
America the Monstrous: The Birth of American Horror Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century, Rachel Kietzman
Pubertal Timing, Physical Activity, and Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescent Girls, Kirby Knapp
A Community College Entry Apparatus, Ann Knezetic
Valuation. A Husserlian Account, Richard Andrew Krema
Science Denial and Public Policy, Mary Kae Kuenster
Elementary Students' Science Attitudes and Teachers' Implementation of the NGSS Science Practices: A Mixed Methods Study, Michelle LaBorn
A Qualitative Analysis of Bilingual Children's Subjective Feelings When Language Brokering, Laritza Leyva, Emely B. Bayas, and Jordan S. Perry
Gamma-glutamyl Cyclotransferase (GGCT) Supports Mitochondrial Metabolism in Pancreatic Cancer, Kailey Elizabeth Lindaur
Defining the Metabolic Requirements of RNA Virus Replication: Polyamines, Mitochondrial Energetics, and Lipids, Natalie J. LoMascolo
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
Satisfaction with Caseworker Services and Child Outcomes for Youth in the Foster Care System, Taira Masuda
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
Dissecting the Discourse: Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem Protest and Conservative Media as Competing Racial Projects, Travis Moody
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
Counting Your Chickens Before they Hatch: Understanding Anticipatory Savoring and How and Why People Approach Or Avoid the Anticipation of Future Positive Events, Asura Louise Osborne
Participatory Budgeting and Electoral Outcomes in North American Cities, Gabriela Raluca Pavel
Eternal City, Earthly City: The Reach of Rome in Early Modern English Literature, Emily L. Piersma Sharrett
Subjectivation, Gender, Resistance: Tracing the Theoretical Lineage between Althusser, Foucault, and Butler, Daphne Pons
MLLT1 is Required to Maintain B-lymphopoiesis, Janani Prakash
Strategies to Improve T Cell Receptor Transduced T Cell Function and Longevity for Immunotherapy, Suzanne Quinn
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
The Skin Microbiome as a Modulator of Inflammation and Infection in Dermatological Disorders, Elise Stagaman
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
Mechanisms of Ethanol Exacerbation of Colitis, Madison Tschann
From Mechanism-based Inactivation to Biosensor Development: Functional Versatility of Pyridoxal 5′-phosphate-dependent Enzymes and Proteins for Therapeutic Applications, Abigail Lynn Vargas
Making Sense of the Barrio: Place-based Appraisal and Coping Among Latine Residents in Chicago, Juanita Vivas Bastidas
Investigating the Role of Cellular Senescence on Vestibular Dysfunction in Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Michael Volyanyuk
A Trinity of Forces: A Critical Investigation of the Intersection of Lived Experience, Jesuit Secondary Education, and Corporate Curricula, Bernhard Bruno Walke
Intital Characterization of Phosducin-like Protein 3 in the Malaria Vector Anopheles stephensi, Samantha Rose Webster
New Arrivals Trust in Government in Country of Origin and Chicago, Connor W. Wood, Anna E. Bullock, and Cristian L. Paredes
Extracellular Vesicle-mediated Transfer of GSDME-NT Pores as a Mechanism of Inflammation Propagation, Bifeng Xiao
Scrolling for Meaning: How Social Media Influence Young People’s Spirituality and Trust in Scientific Authority, Archna Yadav
Articulating the Future: How the Techno-optimist Manifesto Constructs AI Hegemony, Christian Noel Yeomans
