Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Past and Progress: Producing History at Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair, Cate Liabraaten
Shared Stem Cells in the Zebrafish Caudal Body and Fin, Andrew Locke, Allison Watts, and Esam Shah
Investigating the Viral Nature of Neuronal Capsid Genes, Michael Manuel Long
Key Stakeholders' Perceptions of Stem Education in Zambia: A Mixed Methods Inquiry, Choobe M. Maambo
Marissa Mahrenholz's Engaged Learning Poster, Marissa K. Mahrenholz
Five Themes of U.S. Home Price Cycles: A Unified Approach, A. G. Malliaris, Mary Malliaris, and Mark S. Rzepczynski
Analysis of the Effects of H328N Mutation on Beta-Glucosidase B Catalytic Efficiency and Thermostability, Camryn Martin and Hamza Husein
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
Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices of Dominican Mothers with Their Young Children: Understanding Practices with a Sociohistorical Context Framework, Sabrina Altagracia Mendez-Escobar
None of Us Are Safe: How Leaders Sustain Culturally Responsive Elementary and Middle School Improvement Planning, Jerry B. Michel
When Plaquing Is Not Possible: Computational Methods for Detecting Induced Phages, Taylor Miller-Ensminger, Genevieve Johnson, Swarnali Banerjee, and Catherine Putonti
An Emerging University-School-Community Partnership: A Story in Two Acts, Seungho Moon, Jon Schmidt, Anna Press, David Ensminger, and Mitchell A. Hendrickson
Physical Activity, Self-Determination, and Self-Conscious Emotions in Adolescents and Young Adults with and Without Autism Symptomatology, Dakota Morales
Camouflaging and Adjusting to College in Females with and without Autism Symptomatology, Aisha Mounir, Emily Cauley, Ellie Forster, and Elizabeth Stotz
Strengthening Student Success: A Knowledge Connecting Corner for Schools and Families, Mashwa Nadeem
Genetic Variation in Fat Depot Weights in Mice, Nafia Naila
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
Engagement with Ethnic Practices: How Ethnic Communities Contribute to Second-Generation Asian American Assimilation, Bảo-Trân T. Nguyễn
Filling in the Gaps: A Multiple Imputation Approach to Estimating Aging Curves in Baseball, Quang Nguyen and Gregory J. Matthews
Here Comes the STRAIN: Analyzing Defensive Pass Rush in American Football with Player Tracking Data, Quang Nguyen, Ronald Yurko, and Gregory J. Matthews
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
Rainbows & Resources, Alexandra Elizabeth Ortega
WOMEN IN ENTREPRENUERSHIP: A SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, Caitlin Asantewaa Osei
How to Build a Cortex: Coordinated Assembly of Cortical Septins and Actomyosin in the Leader Bleb, Asia Marie Paguntalan
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
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
It’s Time to Look at Educator Time!, Anna Press and Hank Bohanon
College Student Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Frances Rafferty, Tania Schusler, and Mariana Valencia Mestre
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
Measuring the Effect of an Intervention on Student Engagement and Reading Comprehension, Kaitlin Reichart
Elucidating the Role of a Staphylococcal Glucosaminidase in Host Innate Immune Responses, Zachary Resko
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
Murine Tbk1 is Required by FLT3+ Leukemia Stem Cells Yet Dispensable in Homeostatic Hematopoiesis, Austin Runde
Murine TBK1 Is Required by Flt3+ Leukemia Stem Cells Yet Dispensable in Homeostatic Hematopoiesis, Austin Patrick Runde
Northrop Grumman Pitch Deck, Kevin M. Sachtleben
The Role of Hedgehog Signaling During Hemipene Development in Anolis sagrei, Adriana Saliceti Galarza and Thomas J. Sanger
Anthropogenic Litter Abundance and Composition in Urban Streams: Influence of Site and Habitat, Olivia Schaul, Thomas Crabtree, and Jess Von Brugger
My Internship Experience with Churches for Middle East Peace, Ethan Schneider
Association of External Interruptions with Increased Medication Administration Duration and Self-Interruptions: A Direct Observational Study, Ginger Schroers, Dina Tell, and Jenny O'Rourke
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
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
Overview of Instruments of Measurement for Perceived Discrimination, Solea A. Smith and Karen Saban
The Role of the Circadian Clock in Fat Body Transcriptomics and Metabolomics, Taylor Stephenson and Charlene Guerrero
Characterization of MroQ-Dependent Regulation of Staphylococcus Aureus Quorum Sensing, Madison Ruth Stock
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
The Effect of Intrafamilial Racism on Biracial Identity Conflict, Lauren Tan
Motif Mining: Finding and Summarizing Remixed Image Content, William Theisen, Daniel Gonzalez Cedre, Zachariah Carmichael, Daniel Moreira, Tim Weninger, and Walter Scheirer
ACM/IEEE CS Curriculum Mapping Project - An Ongoing Study, George K. Thiruvathukal and Konstantin Laufer
A Population Level Examination of the Incredible Fruit Diversity in Astragalus Lentiginosus, Quinn Thomas
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
Teachers’ Perceptions of Ells by Racial Identity: A Pilot Study, Ha Tran
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
Changing Vaccine Hesitant Attitudes of Parents Using Moral Persuasion, Max Vitro
Individual Differences In Gesture Learning in Adults, Sierra Webber and Elizabeth M. Wakefield
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
Climate Education Course Proposal for School of Sustainability, Evelyn Winebrenner, Abbey Y. Haynes, Charlotte Roos, Stephanie Udzielak, and Rachel Maria
Investigating the role of TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) in MLL-AF9+ acute myeloid leukemia., Allan Youmaran
Developing and Optimizing RNA Isolation Methods from Avian Tissues, Isabella Zent and Marcus Piattoni
Characterization of the Full-Length BAG3 Protein and Stress Induced Formation of BAG3-Z, Ahmed Gamal Abdalla Zied
Submissions from 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Investigating the Bactericidal Activity of Lactobacillus Crispatus Cell-Free-Supernatant, Omar Majed Abdul-Rahim
Supporting Latine Children’s Informal Engineering Learning and Spatial Thinking Through Tinkering and Storytelling, Diana Acosta
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
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
The Impact of Democratically Elected Islamist Governments on the Implementation of Foreign Policy: Cases of Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, Taghreed Alsabeh
Project Cannonball, Naomi Alvarado, brandon higashi, Daanyaal Khalid, and Cristian Fear
Detrimental Influences: Chicago and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1933-1940, Matthew Amyx
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
Maternal-Fetal Attachment and Its Relationship to Quality of Life in Pregnant Women with Diabetes, Cheryl Ann Angel
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
Single Mothers and the Covid-19 Pandemic, Jocelyn Arroyo and Tracy DeHart
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
The New Temporary Labor: Regulating the Gig Economy in Austin, Chicago and New York, Ashley Baber
Unveiling Bacterial Hitchhikers in the Urobiome, Genevieve Baddoo
Whale Squad Athleisure Project, Nathaniel Balli, Ethan Magrady, Emmanuel Cano, Filippo Chiaramondia, Isaac Reyes, and Lennert Krueger
The Role of LY49 Receptors in Maintaining Healthy Murine Pregnancy, Michelle Belmont
