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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Past and Progress: Producing History at Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair, Cate Liabraaten

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Shared Stem Cells in the Zebrafish Caudal Body and Fin, Andrew Locke, Allison Watts, and Esam Shah

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Investigating the Viral Nature of Neuronal Capsid Genes, Michael Manuel Long

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Key Stakeholders' Perceptions of Stem Education in Zambia: A Mixed Methods Inquiry, Choobe M. Maambo

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Marissa Mahrenholz's Engaged Learning Poster, Marissa K. Mahrenholz

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Five Themes of U.S. Home Price Cycles: A Unified Approach, A. G. Malliaris, Mary Malliaris, and Mark S. Rzepczynski

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Analysis of the Effects of H328N Mutation on Beta-Glucosidase B Catalytic Efficiency and Thermostability, Camryn Martin and Hamza Husein

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Which Environmental Social Work? Environmentalisms, Social Justice, and the Dilemmas Ahead, John Mathias, Amy Krings, and Samantha Teixeira

Women on their Way (WOW) Community Health Clinical, Leah Mc Clellan, Octavio Campos, and Mary McNamara

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Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices of Dominican Mothers with Their Young Children: Understanding Practices with a Sociohistorical Context Framework, Sabrina Altagracia Mendez-Escobar

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None of Us Are Safe: How Leaders Sustain Culturally Responsive Elementary and Middle School Improvement Planning, Jerry B. Michel

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When Plaquing Is Not Possible: Computational Methods for Detecting Induced Phages, Taylor Miller-Ensminger, Genevieve Johnson, Swarnali Banerjee, and Catherine Putonti

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The Forgotten Minority—the Experiences of Somali-Jareer Bantu Students in Higher Education: “I Don’t Even Exist at This Institution. I’m Barely Recognized as a Human Being”., Arli Mohamed

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An Emerging University-School-Community Partnership: A Story in Two Acts, Seungho Moon, Jon Schmidt, Anna Press, David Ensminger, and Mitchell A. Hendrickson

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Physical Activity, Self-Determination, and Self-Conscious Emotions in Adolescents and Young Adults with and Without Autism Symptomatology, Dakota Morales

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Camouflaging and Adjusting to College in Females with and without Autism Symptomatology, Aisha Mounir, Emily Cauley, Ellie Forster, and Elizabeth Stotz

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Strengthening Student Success: A Knowledge Connecting Corner for Schools and Families, Mashwa Nadeem

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Genetic Variation in Fat Depot Weights in Mice, Nafia Naila

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Adventure and Spiritual Restoration: Older Adult Motivations for Undertaking a Pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago, Holly Nelson-Becker, Joseph G. Pickard, and Florian Sichling

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Engagement with Ethnic Practices: How Ethnic Communities Contribute to Second-Generation Asian American Assimilation, Bảo-Trân T. Nguyễn

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Filling in the Gaps: A Multiple Imputation Approach to Estimating Aging Curves in Baseball, Quang Nguyen and Gregory J. Matthews

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Here Comes the STRAIN: Analyzing Defensive Pass Rush in American Football with Player Tracking Data, Quang Nguyen, Ronald Yurko, and Gregory J. Matthews

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Connectivity and Racial Equity in Responding to COVID-19 Impacts in the Chicago Regional Food System, Rowan Obach, Tania Schusler, Paulina Vaca, Sydney Durkin, and Ma'raj Sheikh

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Rainbows & Resources, Alexandra Elizabeth Ortega

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WOMEN IN ENTREPRENUERSHIP: A SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, Caitlin Asantewaa Osei

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How to Build a Cortex: Coordinated Assembly of Cortical Septins and Actomyosin in the Leader Bleb, Asia Marie Paguntalan

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A Critical Inter-Subunit Interaction for the Transmission of the Allosteric Signal in the Agrobacterium Tumefaciens ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase, Hiral Patel, Gabriela Martinez-Ramirez Ms., Emily Dobrzynski, Alberto A. Iglesias, Dali Liu, and Miguel Ballicora

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Development of Inattention and Executive Dysfunction in Youth with Spina Bifida: Condition Severity Variables as Predictors, Allison D. Payne

Effect of Isolation Guidelines on Patient Care, Morgan Pifer, Sergio Garcia, Bre Maney, and Jane Kim

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It’s Time to Look at Educator Time!, Anna Press and Hank Bohanon

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College Student Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Frances Rafferty, Tania Schusler, and Mariana Valencia Mestre

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Establishing a Health-Based Social Hierarchy, Akila Salaam Raoul

Implementing the Prebriefing Best Practice Standard During Mental Health Simulations with Prelicensure Nursing Students, Nancy L. Raschke Deichstetter MS, RN, CEN, CHSE

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Measuring the Effect of an Intervention on Student Engagement and Reading Comprehension, Kaitlin Reichart

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Elucidating the Role of a Staphylococcal Glucosaminidase in Host Innate Immune Responses, Zachary Resko

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Correlation of the WELL Diet Score and NutritionQuest Fruit, Vegetable, and Fiber Screener, Sara Ruiz, Joaquin Guzman, Ellen Beach, Tatiana Pasewark, Elizabeth DeLoreto, Sparkle Springfield, and Justin Harbison

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Murine Tbk1 is Required by FLT3+ Leukemia Stem Cells Yet Dispensable in Homeostatic Hematopoiesis, Austin Runde

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Murine TBK1 Is Required by Flt3+ Leukemia Stem Cells Yet Dispensable in Homeostatic Hematopoiesis, Austin Patrick Runde

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Northrop Grumman Pitch Deck, Kevin M. Sachtleben

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The Role of Hedgehog Signaling During Hemipene Development in Anolis sagrei, Adriana Saliceti Galarza and Thomas J. Sanger

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Comparison of Taxonomy Assignment and Strain Detection in Urobiome Communities Using 16S rRNA Sequencing and Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing, Delaney Sauer

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Anthropogenic Litter Abundance and Composition in Urban Streams: Influence of Site and Habitat, Olivia Schaul, Thomas Crabtree, and Jess Von Brugger

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My Internship Experience with Churches for Middle East Peace, Ethan Schneider

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Determining the relative fitness of E. coli populations evolved in carbon-limited or nitrogen-limited media in the presence of ampicillin, Alexa Schnell

Association of External Interruptions with Increased Medication Administration Duration and Self-Interruptions: A Direct Observational Study, Ginger Schroers, Dina Tell, and Jenny O'Rourke

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Climate Change, Human Health, and Resilience in the Holocene, Gwen Robbins Schug, Jane E. Buikstra, Sharon N. DeWitte, Brenda J. Baker, Elizabeth Berger, Michele R. Buzon, Anna M. Davies-Barrett, Lynne Goldstein, Anne L. Grauer, Lesley A. Gregoricka, Siân E. Halcrow, Kelly J. Knudson, Clark Spencer Larsen, Debra L. Martin, Kenneth C. Nystrom, Megan A. Perry, Charlotte A. Roberts, Ana Luisa Santos, Christopher M. Stojanowski, Jorge A. Suby, Daniel H. Temple, Tiffany A. Tung, Melandri Vlok, Tatyana Watson-Glen, and Sonia R. Zakrzewski

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Higher Education, Neoliberalism, and Conflict: A Case of the University of Balochistan in Pakistan, Syed Amir Shah

Climate Change and Human Health: A Novel Elective Curriculum for Medical Students, Amanda Sifferlen, Emma Stewart, Sara Alattar, Aaron J. Michelfelder MD, Amy R. Blair MD, and Jennifer Rogers

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Overview of Instruments of Measurement for Perceived Discrimination, Solea A. Smith and Karen Saban

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The Role of the Circadian Clock in Fat Body Transcriptomics and Metabolomics, Taylor Stephenson and Charlene Guerrero

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Characterization of MroQ-Dependent Regulation of Staphylococcus Aureus Quorum Sensing, Madison Ruth Stock

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Snapshot Metrics Are Not Enough: Analyzing Software Repositories with Longitudinal Metrics, Nicholas Synovic, Matt Hyattt, Rohan Sethi, Sohini Thota, Shilpika, Allan J. Miller, Wenxin Jiang, Emmanuel S. Amobi, Austin Pinderski, Konstantin Läufer, Nicholas J. Hayward, Neil Klingensmith, James C. Davis, and George K. Thiruvathukal

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The Effect of Intrafamilial Racism on Biracial Identity Conflict, Lauren Tan

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Motif Mining: Finding and Summarizing Remixed Image Content, William Theisen, Daniel Gonzalez Cedre, Zachariah Carmichael, Daniel Moreira, Tim Weninger, and Walter Scheirer

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ACM/IEEE CS Curriculum Mapping Project - An Ongoing Study, George K. Thiruvathukal and Konstantin Laufer

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A Population Level Examination of the Incredible Fruit Diversity in Astragalus Lentiginosus, Quinn Thomas

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Identification of New Substrates from Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Exos, Adam V. Thota

Implementing Evidence-based Fall Prevention Bundle to Reduce Preventable Falls in a Long-term Memory Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Project, Lei Toquero and Audrey Klopp

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Teachers’ Perceptions of Ells by Racial Identity: A Pilot Study, Ha Tran

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On the Effectiveness of Image Manipulation Detection in the Age of Social Media, Rosaura VidalMata, Priscila Saboia, Daniel Moreira, Grant Jensen, Jason Schlessman, and Walter Scheirer

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Changing Vaccine Hesitant Attitudes of Parents Using Moral Persuasion, Max Vitro

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Individual Differences In Gesture Learning in Adults, Sierra Webber and Elizabeth M. Wakefield

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

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Climate Education Course Proposal for School of Sustainability, Evelyn Winebrenner, Abbey Y. Haynes, Charlotte Roos, Stephanie Udzielak, and Rachel Maria

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Investigating the role of TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) in MLL-AF9+ acute myeloid leukemia., Allan Youmaran

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Developing and Optimizing RNA Isolation Methods from Avian Tissues, Isabella Zent and Marcus Piattoni

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Characterization of the Full-Length BAG3 Protein and Stress Induced Formation of BAG3-Z, Ahmed Gamal Abdalla Zied

Submissions from 2022

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Search for GeV-scale dark matter annihilation in the Sun with IceCube DeepCore, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty

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Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale νμ Disappearance at IceCube, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty

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Search for neutrino emission from cores of active galactic nuclei, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Arguelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty

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Improved Characterization of the Astrophysical Muon-neutrino Flux with 9.5 Years of IceCube Data, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty

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Searching for High-energy Neutrino Emission from Galaxy Clusters with IceCube, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Athanasiadou, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. V. Balagopal, M. Baricevic, S. W. Barwick, V. Basu, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K. H. Becker, and J. Becker Tjus

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Search for Astrophysical Neutrinos from 1FLE Blazars with IceCube, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Athanasiadou, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. V. Balagopal, M. Baricevic, S. W. Barwick, V. Basu, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K. H. Becker, and J. Becker Tjus

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Searches for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Athanasiadou, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. V. Balagopal, S. W. Barwick, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K. H. Becker, and J. Becker Tjus

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Density of GeV muons in air showers measured with IceTop, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K. H. Becker, and J. Becker Tjus

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Search for Unstable Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K. H. Becker, and J. Becker Tjus

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Low energy event reconstruction in IceCube DeepCore, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, V. A. Balagopal, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K. H. Becker, and J. Becker Tjus

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Search for High-energy Neutrino Emission from Galactic X-Ray Binaries with IceCube, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, J. M. Alameddine, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Arguëlles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, J. J. Beatty, K. H. Becker, and J. Becker Tjus

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Detection of astrophysical tau neutrino candidates in IceCube, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. V. Balagopal, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, V. Baum, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty

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Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with Eight Years of IceCube Data, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, R. An, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Arguelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. V. Balagopal, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty

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Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies with IceCube, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, R. An, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, Y. Ashida, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty

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Observation of variations in cosmic ray single count rates during thunderstorms and implications for large-scale electric field changes, R. U. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Allen, Y. Arai, R. Arimura, E. Barcikowski, J. W. Belz, D. R. Bergman, S. A. Blake, I. Buckland, R. Cady, B. G. Cheon, J. Chiba, M. Chikawa, T. Fujii, K. Fujisue, K. Fujita, R. Fujiwara, M. Fukushima, R. Fukushima, G. Furlich, N. Globus, R. Gonzalez, W. Hanlon, and M. Hayashi

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Investigating the Bactericidal Activity of Lactobacillus Crispatus Cell-Free-Supernatant, Omar Majed Abdul-Rahim

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Supporting Latine Children’s Informal Engineering Learning and Spatial Thinking Through Tinkering and Storytelling, Diana Acosta

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Broaching the Topics of Religion and Spirituality in Therapy: Considering the Influence of Therapist Competence and Organizational Competence, Papa N. Adams

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Experiences of COVID-19 pandemic-related stress among sexual and gender minority emerging adult migrants in the United States, Edward J. Alessi, Michael P. Dentato, Vincent Sarna, Andrew Eaton, Shelley L. Craig, and Shannon P. Cheung

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Site-directed Mutagenesis of Serine-72 Reveals the Location of the Fructose 6-phosphate Regulatory Site of the Agrobacterium tumefaciensADP-glucose Pyrophosphorylase, Mashael Alghamdi Dr., Rania Ali Z Hussien, Yuanzhang Zheng, Hiral Patel, Matias D. Asencion Diez, Alberto A. Iglesias, Dali Liu, and Miguel A. Ballicora

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The Impact of Democratically Elected Islamist Governments on the Implementation of Foreign Policy: Cases of Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, Taghreed Alsabeh

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Project Cannonball, Naomi Alvarado, brandon higashi, Daanyaal Khalid, and Cristian Fear

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Detrimental Influences: Chicago and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1933-1940, Matthew Amyx

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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Care Homes for Older People in Europe - Deaths, Damage and Violations of Human Rights, Janet Carter Anand, Sarah Donnelly, Aliisoun Milne, Holly Nelson-Becker, Emme-Li Vingare, Blanca Deusdad, Giovanni Cellini, Riita-Liisa Kinni, and Cristiana Pregno

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Turning Points in the Expansion of Christianity: From Pentecost to the Present, Alice T. Ott, Baker Academic, 2021 (ISBN 978-0-8010-9996-0), Xxii + 298 Pp., Pb $29.99.”, Olegs Andrejevs

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Maternal-Fetal Attachment and Its Relationship to Quality of Life in Pregnant Women with Diabetes, Cheryl Ann Angel

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Motivational interviewing as a technique to reduce non-suicidal self injury in college students, Danielle R. Arntson, Sarah E. Broner, and Colleen S. Conley Ph.D

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Single Mothers and the Covid-19 Pandemic, Jocelyn Arroyo and Tracy DeHart

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Facing the Mass Exodus: Reconsidering the Moral Responsibilities for and Obligations Toward Large Numbers of Refugees in an Age of Global Crises, Muhammet Ali Asil

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The New Temporary Labor: Regulating the Gig Economy in Austin, Chicago and New York, Ashley Baber

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Unveiling Bacterial Hitchhikers in the Urobiome, Genevieve Baddoo

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Whale Squad Athleisure Project, Nathaniel Balli, Ethan Magrady, Emmanuel Cano, Filippo Chiaramondia, Isaac Reyes, and Lennert Krueger

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The Role of LY49 Receptors in Maintaining Healthy Murine Pregnancy, Michelle Belmont