Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Investigating the Role of the NSP15 Amino-Terminal Domain in NSP15 Function, Viral Replication, and Pathogenesis, Monika Evdokimova
More than trauma: The story of intergenerational survival, Tiffany Fang
Developing Chemically Defined Serum-Free Medium for Leukemic Blast and Stem Cell Expansion, Carmen Eva Finley
Teaching Since 2020: Inhabiting Professionalization, Autonomy, and Classroom Teaching, Melissa Fisher
Experiences and Perceptions of Gaslighting in the Workplace, Lauren Flanagan
Systematic Review Examining How Black Youth in the United States Cope with Stressful and Traumatic Experiences, Marcus Aaron Flax
Viral Cell-to-Cell Spread: A Promising Antiviral Target, Manuel German Flores
Evaluating the Active Learning Experience of Prelicensure Nursing Students by Role and Level in Simulation, DeLisa Flynn
In Vitro Modulation of IgE Response, Veronica Cecilia Fuentes Rodriguez
Genetic and Biochemical Analyses Reveal LitR's Role in Vibrio fischeri Biofilm Formation, Brittany Loi Fung
Exploring Attentional Mechanisms of Speech-Gesture Integration across Development, Lisa Gallo and Elizabeth Wakefield
Ecosystem Stability in the Late Cretaceous Preceding the Chicxulub Impact, Anna Gamal and Anthony Uriarte
Ultramodern Racism: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Impact of Anti-Crt Legislation on Us History Curriculums, Amelia Gernand
The Influence of Defects: Oxidation of Non-Planar Transition Metal Model Catalysts, Maxwell Gillum
The Meaning of Mission at a Catholic, Liberal Arts College, Ashley Nora Gisiger
Situational safety: exploring the relationship of environmental change & sense of belonging for GSM students in academic-required internships, Nancy Goldberger
Nahua Wrap-skirt from Acatlán, Guerrero, Mexico, Brianda Gonzalez
Paleopathology in the JAS: Peering Back and Looking Forward, Anne L. Grauer and Rebecca L. Gowland
Special Education Disproportionality in Illinois: What Are We Doing?, Kaelyn Chanel Green
Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits in African Ancestries Across Diverse Environments, Isadore Gregga
Early Social Experience and Biased Attention to Threat-Related Emotion in Infancy, Cidnee Hall
Perverse Convergences: Aelred of Rievaulx and the Queerness of Waiting, Zaccary A. Haney
The Century Magazine/The Saturday Review of Literature, Quinn Hasselgren, Tess Shirley, Austin Cutter, Nani Hammad, and Chistopher Cardenas
The Association of Interoception, Emotion, and Reasoning in Social Conflict and Moral Decision Making, Jackson Thomas Hassler
Investigating the Mechanism of Resistance to IDO1 Enzyme Inhibitor Treatment in Human Glioblastoma, Kyla Shivakumar Hatton
Investigating the Proviral and Immunogenic Effects of Sars-Cov-2 Accessory Protein 7A, Grant Michael Hawkins
Unlocking the Potential of Refugee Students, Aisling Heaphy
Transcleral Chemotherapeutic Delivery by Fibrin Sealant in the Treatment of Retinoblastoma, Christopher Himes
What Makes a Teacher a Teacher: A Philosophical Approach Aligned with Plato, Sojung Kim Hinterkopf
The Hitching Post: American Poetry and Chinese Mythology, Xiamara Elena Hohman
Family Matters: Experiences of Family Stigma, Addiction Recovery & The Role of Self-Compassion, Kennedy Hoying
Low Code/No Code Meets the Metaverse, George F. Hurlburt, George K. Thiruvathukal, Nir Kshetri, and Norita Ahmad
Anti-Inflamatory Mechansim of Bacillus Subtilis Derirved Exopolysaccharide, ADRIAN TAYLOR IBARRA
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
Characterizing Niche Specialization in Staphylococcus Epidermidis, Sandra Jablonsk
"I'm Not Having Fun Anymore": A Qualitative Analysis of Gender and Harassment in Bars and Clubs, Phoebe Marie Jackson
Token Turing Machines are Efficient Vision Models, Purvish Jajal, Nick Eliopoulos, Benjamin Shiue-Hal Chou, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis, and Yung-Hsiang Lu
Insights into Female Urinary Microbiota through Long-Read 16S rRNA Sequencing, Jerrin John
Anthropogenic Litter in Freshwater Ecosystems: Effect on Ecosystem Processes and Spatial Distribution, Emily Johnson
Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Potential of PLP-Dependent Macromolecules: Case Studies on Bacillus subtilis GabR and Human GABA Aminotransferase, Nicholas Eugene Kaley
Characterizing the Role of the FAK-HIF1a-CTGF Axis in Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Claudia Rose Keating
Enzymatic Characterization of Bacterial Enzymes and Inhibitors as Potential Antibiotics with New Mechanisms of Action, Emma Helene Kelley
A “Scary Time” to be a Man? Comparing Men’s Engagement with Anti-Sexual Violence Discourses in the Private and Public Sphere, Melissa A. Kinsella
Artificial Intelligence in the Management of Leukemia, Stephanie Koo, Austin P. Runde, and Melvin Speisman
Let-7I Mirna Antagomir as a Novel Adjuvant Intervention for the Treatment of Ischemic Stroke, Vignesh Raghu Krishnamoorthy
In Living Memory: Curatorial Perspectives of Jewish Heritage in Holocaust Public Histories, Hannah M. Lahti
Encouraging Exploration: How Facilitation Supports Children's STEM Talk in Museums, Neva Lang, Milla Metlicka BS, and Catherine Haden PhD
HOTLangBench, a Tiny Benchmark Suite for Higher-Order Statically Typed Languages, Konstantin Laufer
TLA+ for All: Model Checking in a Python Notebook, Konstantin Laufer and George K. Thiruvathukal
“Buying Time or Doing Harm?”: Tracing Contestation and Consensus in Debates on Puberty Blockers for Trans Youth, Dana R. LaVergne
Understanding Intraminority Collective Action: The Role of Salient Discrimination and Outgroup Identification, Tatum Leclair
Toward a Theory of Resistance for an Emancipatory Social Work, Sungsim Lee, Katherine Tyson McCrea, Brianna L. Sorensen, Nora Wynn, and Kevin M. Miller
Like Teacher, Like Student: An Exploration of Racial Matching on Black Student Identity Development in Secondary Education, Crystal Gloria Lennix
Does the Value Last? Exploring the Longitudinal Value of a Research Experience for Preservice Science Teachers, Elizabeth A. Leong
Modernism’s Mythic Mothers: Queering Motherhood Through Classical Matrilineage, Samantha Marie Lepak
Discerning the Role of Microtubule Acetylation During HIV-1 Infection, Drew Michael Lichon
Behavioral Ecology and Physiology of Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata) in a Fragmented and Polluted Landscape, Jessica Rojas Lindberg
Five-Year Outcomes of Water Vapor Therapy versus Doxazosin, Finasteride, and Combination Therapy for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Secondary to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Cohort Data from the Medical Therapy of Prostatic Symptoms (MTOPS) Trial, Bronwyn Long, Amandip Cheema, Olivia Copelan, Cara Joyce, Marina Feffer, and Kevin T. McVary
Examining Pyroptosis in Neutrophil-Like Differentiated Hl-60 Cells, Jared Long
"The Divine Light Illuminates The Intellect:" The Role of Divine Illumination in The Theology of Meister Eckhart, John Marshall Loving
Refinement of Megakaryocyte Lineage Commitment in Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells During Postnatal and Adult Hematopoiesis, Ryan Michael Mack
Tensions Within Digital Whisper Networks: The Role of Social Media in Framing Narratives of Sexual Misconduct on University Campuses, Sophie Rose Maday
M/other Your Politics, a Praxis for the Next Iterations of Humanity, Shelley Maddox
Rethinking the Relationship between Capitalism and Environmental Sustainability: Locating Nigeria within the Globe, Chukwuebuka Emmanuel Madu
Creating a Positive Social-Emotional Learning Environment for Transgender Students: A Post-Pandemic Participatory Action Research, Mark Christopher Maranto
Open-Minded Cognition and Transmission of Norms, Mia Jasmine Martinez
Plastic Mediated Photolysis of Emerging Contaminants in Aqueous Solutions, Xiolmara Martinez
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
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
Forgive as We are Forgiven: Reframing a Trinitarian Model of Forgiveness in a Post-Genocide Rwanda, Deogratias Mbonyumugenzi
Skin microbiota differs between Black and White patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, Mylee S. McCool, Dania Achmar, and Saima S. Rahman
How Science Denial and Christian Perceptions Shape Policy, Isabella Mednis and Caroline Byrne
Implementing an Evidence-based Bundle Consisting of Tai Chi and Education to Reduce Fall Rates in Older Adults and Improve Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes of Staff in an Assisted Living Memory Care Facility: A Quality Improvement Project, Dhara Mehta, Audrey Klopp, and Jeanne Heid-Grubbman
A Novel Approach to Treat Trastuzumab Resistant HER2+ Breast Cancer: Activation PKCδ, Maria Grazia Mejia Monroy
Analyzing the Population Structure of the Rhizobia Associated with Astragalus Lentiginosus, Joshua Adam Melnick
Exploring Latinx Students' Experience With School Connectedness: A Hybrid Thematic Approach to Deductive and Inductive Analysis, Maria Olivia Mendez
Bilingual Latinx Adolescents Experiences in a Predominantly White Institution: A Mixed Method Study, Danieli Marie Mercado Ramos
“A bond as strong as a lock and chain”: Youth of color in low-income communities use photovoice to theorize developmentally nurturing processes of their cross-age mentoring programs, Kevin M. Miller, Katherine Tyson McCrea, Victor Sarna, William Donnelly, Grace Ann Fitzgibbons, Jamie Kessler, Cynthia Onyeka, Chana Matthews, Maryse Richards, Elijah Daniels, and Dreyce Denton
Investigating the Reinforcing Effects of Optogenetic Stimulation of Lateral Hypothalamus Projections to the Laterodorsal Tegmental Nucleus and Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus in Mice, Jacqueline Moghadam
Immigration Law Insights: My Internship at Borjas Law Group LLC, Keila Moncada
Self-efficacy is not just about the Self: African American cross-age youth mentors, Amzie Moore, Maria Wathen, Katherine Tyson McCrea, and Maryse Richards
Encrypted Network Traffic Analysis: To Website Fingerprinting and Beyond, Madeline Moran, Joshua Honig, Nathan Ferrell, Shreena Soni, Sophia Homan, Eric Chan-Tin, and Mohammed Abuhamad
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
Fear of Victimization, Trust, Security, and Public Spaces in Guatemala, Keyla Navarrete
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACTS OF XBP1S OVEREXPRESSION IN OLIGODENDROCYTE PROGENTIOR CELLS IN A REMYLINATING MOUSE MODEL OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, Grace E. Newell and Kody ellen Bruce
Science Communication and Religious Tensions in Healthcare, Emily Ngo
Regulation of Spermatogenesis by the Notch Signaling Pathway, Emma O'Flaherty
How Language at Post-Intervention Predicts Psychological Outcomes: An Exploratory Analysis of Language Trends Using LIWC-22, Bradley W. Orzada, Kirby Knapp, Zuzu Trottier, and Colleen Conley
Examining the Response of River Discharge to Accelerated Hydrologic Cycle in High Latitude Eurasia, Eve Owens and Debjani Ghatak
“The Wonderful Swiftness of the Soul”: Mental Movement and Religious Ethics in Medieval English Literature, Abigail Palmisano
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
Maternal Access for Depression in Rural Environments, Simone Parlier
Refining cross-population polygenic risk scores across diverse populations, Mansi Patel
A Bishnoi Woman’s Odhani: Gendered Labor, Environmental Ethics, and Textile Traditions in Rajasthan, Nidhi Patel
