Theses/Dissertations from 2025
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
Evaluation of Bacteriophage Infection of Enterococcus faecalis in a Monolayer, Alexandria Osborn
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
Healthy Lifestyle in the Framework of the Community Education Project Nourish Chicago, Sia Patel and Polina Pine
The Other-Race Effect in Racial Minority Infants, Emily Pawelko
The Role of Social Media in Climate Change Information, Patrick Peralta
The Role of Shot in Spermatogenesis, Maya Petryszak
The Stay SAFE Project: Implementation of an Evidence-Based Interruption Management Strategy with Novice Nurses, Jill Pfieffer and Ginger Schroers
ADDRESSING GENDER DISPROPORTIONALITY WITHIN MICHIGAN SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, Katlyn Ploss
Exploring General Education Teachers' Awareness of Ableism in Elementary School, Hana Elizabeth Polachek
Teaching and Learning with Feeling: A Qualitative Case Study of Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with Socio-Emotional Learning, Anna Melinda Press
NOMA: The "Non-Overlapping" Magisteria, Reese Quival
Capturing Diverse Adolescents’ Social Contexts: The Development of an Ethnic-Racial Microaffirmations Scale for Peer Interactions, Maria Radulescu
Analysis of β-glucosidase Mutant T352V, John Ratz and Sufia Khan
Anxiety Symptoms Are Distinctly Related to Working Memory Deficits in Adults with ADHD, Andrew Asa Rauch
Improving the Reproducibility of Deep Learning Software: An Initial Investigation through a Case Study Analysis, Nikita Ravi, Abhinav Goel, James C. Davis, and George K. Thiruvathukal
The Effects of a Tier 1 Self-Regulation Intervention on Elementary Students’ Engagement and Reading Comprehension, Kaitlin Reichart, Hank Bohanon, and Gina Coffee
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Strengthen MTSS within Catholic Schools, Kaitlin Reichart, Adam B. Lockwood, and Jessica Pizzute
A Kuba Raffia Cut-Pile Textile from the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Stella Riehl
Comparing Human Skeletal Collections at Loyola University Chicago: Impacts on Education and Research, Stella Riehl
CELTS Reflection, Ingrid Rivera
Murine TBK1 regulates MPP3-type HSPCs and circulating leukocytes in normal hematopoiesis and FLT3+ LSCs in MLL-AF9-driven leukemia, Austin P. Runde, Joseph Cannova, Ryan Mack, Kanak Joshi, Mark Sellin, Rohit Thalla, Allan Youmaran, Mattias Lenz, Peter Breslin, Wei Wei, and Jiwang Zhang
Emotional Intelligence Training Correlates With Medical Students’ Apprehension of AI in Healthcare: A Single-Institution, Observational Study, Austin P. Runde, Shambhavi Mishra, Marina Feffer, and Ramzan Shahid
Medical Students Trained in Emotional Intelligence Seem to be More Apprehensive of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Austin P. Runde, Shambhavi Mishra, Marina Feffer, and Ramzan Shahid
Final Report - Portfolio Management, Anthony Rynes, John Wimmer, Samy Uscher, and Evan Markworth
The Effectiveness of a Race-Based Stress Reduction Intervention on Improving Stress-Related Symptoms and Inflammation in African American Women at Risk for Cardiometabolic Disease: Protocol for Recruitment and Intervention for a Randomized Controlled Trial, Karen L. Saban, Cara Joyce, Alexandria Nyembwe, Linda Janusek, Dina Tell, Paula de la Pena, Darnell Motley, Lamise Shawahin, Laura Prescott, Stephanie Potts-Thompson, and Jacquelyn Y. Taylor
Understanding Middle Managers in Community Colleges, Mason Salazar
Development of a Humanized SCFV Antibody: Step Towards Treatment of Neuropathic Pain, Gurpreet Sandhu
Relationship Between Racial Discrimination, Anxiety and Risk for Depression in Pre-Licensure Nursing Students of Color, Kyla Cassandra Santos, Dian D. Squire, and Dina Tell
The Impact of Substrate Structure and Catalyst Identity on the Lewis-Acid Catalyzed Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis Reaction, Cory William Schneider
Preparation for Workplace Realities: Educating Nursing Students on how to Manage Interruptions, Ginger Schroers, Jill Pfieffer, Katie Vanderzwan, Laura Klenke-Borgmann, Sue Kilroy, Dina Tell, and Jenny O'Rourke
Practitioners’ perspectives on preventing environmental gentrification in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Tania Schusler and Amy Krings
Intracellular Persistence of Cytotoxic Strains of P. Aeruginosa Isolates Is Enabled by Bistable Expression of the Type Three Secretion System, Gustavo Serrato
Decoding the Origins of Infection: A Machine Learning Framework, Nirupama G. Shanbhag
Examining the Current Utilization of Conceptual Data Modeling in Database Modeling Practices: Mixed Methods Research, Abhishek Sharma
From Unmotivated to Motivated: Hermeneutic Inquiries of Experience of Community-Based BSW Students in an Innovative Internship Seminar, Hyungjung Shin, Rana Hong, and Philip Young P. Hong
Keep It in Your Pants: How Sexual Regulation Becomes Identity Regulation, Madelyn Shoemaker
Thermostability and catalytic activity analysis of protein mutant 𝛽- glucosidase B (BglB) A88E, Taneesha Sinha and Alana Pereira
Presence With Purpose: Growing Fair Trade Awareness, Tabitha Skyles, Sofia Mir, Natziry Lavanderos, Mason McCreary, and Anoushka Maller
Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor 1: Implications for Precision Medicine and Rett Syndrome Therapeutics, Mackenzie Smith
Development of Novel Force Fields for Metal Ions, Madelyn Smith
The Bacterial Sensing Nuclear-Oligomerization Domain 2 Receptor in the Brain: Location and Potential Function, Julia Smyth
Unique Stress, Cultural Resources, and Psychological Resilience in Young African American Women: Insights for Effective Intervention and CVD Prevention, Sparkle Springfield-Trice, Cara Joyce, Penny Williams-Wolford, Dinishia Wolford, Destiny Onyeise, Natalie Battles, Dionne V. Milton, Chineze Mogbo, Raigine Robinson, Dave Stovall, Lena Hatchett, and Ursula M. Staudinger
Assessment of Relationships Between Quality and Staffing in the Ambulatory Care Environment, Rachel E. Start
Reconceptualizing Christian Nationalism, Robert Stevenson
Teaching Transcription for Social Justice in Linguistic Anthropology, Thea R. Strand and Michael Wroblewski
Shared Responsibility in Medical Aid in Dying (MAID): An Exploration of the Ethical Implications of Patient, Physician, and Familial Roles, Aseel Taha, Bre McCoy, Mariam Sohail, and Sanjitha Boobalan
Ethnicity through Education: An Analysis of the Influence of Formal Education on Ethnicity in Garo Hills, Samirkumar Benedict Talati
The Mechanisms of Heterogenic Necrotic and Apoptotic Cell Death Fates in Human Epidermal Keratinocytes Following UVB Exposure, Madeline Zoe Tara
Mirrors and Windows: Exploring Queer Identity Representation in Graduate Curriculum, Brody C. Tate
Automating Course Scheduling with Linear Programming and the Python PuLP Framework: First Steps, George K. Thiruvathukal
Episodes in Computing History - Salon Talk, George K. Thiruvathukal
Jazz Scale Patterns with Abjad and Lilypond, George K. Thiruvathukal
AI Foundations and Applications: Summary of a Panel Discussion at Loyola University Chicago, George K. Thiruvathukal, Dmitry Dligach, Shilpika, Michael B. Burns, Joseph Vukov, Fraser Turner, and Mary Usher
Can We All Get Along? Assessing Interdisciplinary Collaborations at a School of Health Sciences, Merly Thomas
Instruments for assessing patient-reported experience measures among patients with diabetes mellitus: a scoping review, Soe Sandi Tint, Myo Zin Oo, Nida Buawangpong, Wichuda Jiraporncharoen, Nutchar Wiwatkunupakarn, Kittipan Rerkasem, Kanokwan Kulprachakarn, Hataichanok Chuljerm, Timothy E. O’Brien, Rohini Mathur, and Chaisiri Angkurawaranon
Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide Among Adolescents: Sex Differences and Future Perspectives, Giovana V.R. Toro, Paula Arias, Alejandro de la Torre-Luque, Jonathan B. Singer, and Natalia Lagunas
“Mentors Need Mentors”: The Perspectives of Adolescent Cross-age Mentors of Color about their Instructors’ Supports, Katherine Tyson McCrea, Kevin M. Miller, Amzie Moore, Maryse Richards, William Donnelly, Heather L. Watson, Dreyce Denton, and Tamera Smith
Patterns of Resilience, Patterns of Tragedy: Perspectives from Inside and Outside to Theorize Beneficial Interventions Serving Urban African American Youth Struggling with Community Violence, Katherine Tyson McCrea, Kevin Miller, Amzie Moore, and Heather L. Watson
Critical Philosophy, Crisis, and Joy: A Theory and Praxis, Maria Rebecca Valeriano-Flores
Effectiveness of a Classroom-Based Stress Awareness and Coping Skills Program Among Adolescents from Diverse Backgrounds, Adriane Van Zwoll
The Gay Dating Experience: Partner Selection and Self-Compassion in Short and Long-Term Dating Application Behaviors, Vinchenzo Vassalotti
A Role for The SIFa Receptor in the Regulation of Drosophila Circadian Feeding Rhythms, Anayatzi Velazquez
Effects of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and the Fungicide Azoxystrobin Additions on Larval and Post-Metamorphic Fitness of American Toads (Anaxyrus Americanus), Michael Vosburgh
Polycystin-2 Is Cardioprotective Against Myocardial Infarction by Regulating the Calcium-Mediated Er-Stress Response, Virdjinija Vuchkovska
Cyclical Matters: Black Labor, Temporality, and the Incomplete Reconstructions within African American Literature, Courtney Walton
Predictors of political participation of U.S. social workers: the mediating effect of confidence, Maria Wathen, Rachel A. Young, Amy Krings, and Teresa Kilbane
Intital Characterization of Phosducin-Like Protein 3 in the Malaria Vector Anopheles Stephensi, Samantha Rose Webster
Loss of Neuropeptide F (NPF) Signaling Reduces the Strength of Circadian Rest-Activity Rhythms but not Feeding-Fasting Rhythms, Katelyn Ann Wendt
Women’s Mud Cloth Skirt (Bogolanfini), Abigail Jane Westhead
Plasmodium berghei Subpellicular Microtubule Protein-1 (PbSPM-1) is a Microtubule Stabilizing Protein That Affects Schizont Development, Manuel Joseph Widuch
The Role of Social Support on Discrimination and Planned Retirement, Diane Williams
School Psychologists’ Experiences and Roles in Trauma-Informed Practices, Taylor Williamson
Apocalyptic Masculinity: Messiahs, Monsters, and Men Out of Time, Megan Wines
Redefining Ritual: Navigating the Intersection of Transgender and Jewish Identities, Orly R. Wolf
Voices of Chinese American Emerging Adults: Complex Racial Identities, Family Dynamics, and Mental Health Experiences, Maxwell Lou Xu
Colloidal Hot-Injection Synthesis of CuBSe2 Nanocrystals: Tetragonal Chalcogenide Templates for Superionic Lithiation Pathways, Yunhao Xu, Niket Powar, Kelly Zervos, Isabella Campbell, Simran Choudhary, Layan Al-Khaled, and Progna Banerjee
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase 4 Mediates Sex Specific Outcomes in Sepsis Induced Cardiomyopathy, John Yap
A Study of Psychoactive Cannabis Components via Derivatization and Analysis by GC-EI-MS, Skyler Yates-Johnson and James V. DeFrancesco
Role of Coronavirus Envelope Protein on Infectivity, Garrett E. Zaagman
