Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Understanding the Impact of Adolescent Attachment on Academic Success, Cristina Cortesi
Rethinking Teacher Quality: Narrow Versus Broad Conceptions of Capability, Anthony Costa
International Trade: A Justice Approach, Aaron Crowe
Complementing Traditional Leadership, Jane P. Currie and Marianne Ryan
Elucidating the Transcriptional Regulation of col2a1a in Zebrafish, Sonja Dabizljevic
Understanding the Mechanism Behind Social Tuning of Automatic Prejudice: Attitudinal Alignment Or Social Norms?, Amanda Renee Daniel
A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Emotion Processing in Children, Denise Davidson, Sandra Beatriz Vanegas, and Elizabeth Ann Hilvert
Culture War: How the Nazi Party Recast Nietzsche, David B. Dennis
"Does Beethoven Have to Roll Over? Not If We Flip Him!” paper for session: “Who’s Afraid of High Culture?”, David B. Dennis
A Third Way: The Catholic University as an Empowering Force for Global Justice, Marian Diaz
Are the Only True Atheists Actually Theologians?, Colby Dickinson
Book review: René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, written by Scott Cowdell, Colby Dickinson
Citing ‘Whatever’ Authority: The Ethics of Quotation in the Work of Giorgio Agamben, Colby Dickinson
Searching for a Self-Reflexive Theology: Ways Forward for Systematic Theology in Relation to (Non) Religious Thought in Contemporary Western Culture, Colby Dickinson
The Problem of Having both a Body and a Name in the Work of Jean-Luc Marion: Names, Fathers and the Hopeful Possibilities of a Queer Phenomenology, Colby Dickinson
The Profanation of Revelation: On Language and Immanence in the Work of Giorgio Agamben, Colby Dickinson
The Profanation of Revelation: On Language and Immanence in the Work of Giorgio Agamben, Colby Dickinson
Transatlantic Discourses of Freedom and Slavery in the English Revolution, John Donoghue
An Introduction to Computer Networks, Peter Dordal
Juvenile Crisis Intervention Teams (CITs): A Qualitative Description of Current Programs, Annabelle V. Douglas and Arthur J. Lurigio
The Role of Market-Mediated Milestones in Negotiating Adolescent Identity Tensions, Jenna M. Drenten
Effects of Urbanization on Sediment Microbial Communities in Lotic Ecosystems, Bradley Drury
The Role of Social Perspective-Taking in Developing Students' Leadership Capacities, John P. Dugan, Christopher W. Bohle, Lindsey R. Woelker, and Matthew A. Cooney
Role of the Intestinal Microbiota in Gut Barrier Dysfunction Following Burn Injury, Zachary Earley
The Effect of Semantic Clustering on Idea Quality in Individual and Group Ideation, Amanda Christine Egan
Domestic Violence and the Legal System: A Case Study of 10 Mexican Women and the Process of Seeking Legal Recourse, Martha Cecilia Espinosa
Reporting Methods and Analyses in Higher Education Research: Hierarchical Linear and OLS Regression Models, Kimberly Quandt Fath
Regulation and Targeting of Fyn in Human Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Sarah Fenton
Investigating the Effects of Facilitating a Participatory Action Research Study at a High School with Small Learning Communities, Elizabeth Willingham Ferrell
Big Pharma and Big Medicine in the Global Environment, Anne E. Figert and Susan E. Bell
Neural Correlates of Suspiciousness and Interactions with Anxiety During Emotional and Neutral Word Processing, Joscelyn E. Fisher, George A. Miller, Sarah M. Sass, and Rebecca L. Silton
Sacred Liturgy in Celebration of Mexican-American Heritage, Kevin Flaherty, S.J.
"The New Censorship": Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom, Connie Fletcher
Relating Preschool Class Size to Classroom Life and Student Achievement, Jessica Francis
The Role of Spirituality/Religion as a Coping Mechanism During Treatment for Disordered Eating, David Franczyk
Andragogy in One Community College: A Study of Students' Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Reading and Writing Following the Completion of a Concurrent Acquisition One-Semester Developmental English Course, Michele Murphy Froehlich
Sexual Behavior Problems in Child Welfare: Predictors of Reliable Change, Anne Kathleen Fuller
Life Histories, Diets, and Secondary Production of Odonata Along a Temperature Gradient on the Copper River Delta, Alaska, Nicole Emilie Furlan
The Electric Field at the Chargeless Interface Between Two Regions of Space, Asim Gangopadhyaya and Robert McNees
Investigation of Pharmaceutical Mass Transfer Phenomena Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Yi Gao
The Interplay Between Child and Maternal Health: Reciprocal Relationships and Cumulative Disadvantage During Childhood and Adolescence, Dana Garbarski
“Review of R. Stroud, Corinth Volume XVIII. 6. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Inscriptions.”, Laura Gawlinski
Serving Chicago: Interviews with Mary Dempsey and Bernie Wong, Timothy Gilfoyle
Sporting Heroes: Interviews with Mike Krzyzewski and Jerry Reinsdorf, Timothy Gilfoyle
Christian Indians at War: Evangelism and Military Communication in the Anglo-French-Native Borderlands, Jeffrey Glover
Espacios Femeninos en Posesas de la Habana: un Caso de Llaves Desaparecidas, Olympia Gonzalez
Mother Jones: Ireland to North America to Ireland, Elliot Gorn
ECS Evaluation Survey Instruments, Ronald I. Greenberg and Steven McGee
Moral Philosophy and the Art of Silence, Kristina Grob
Conformal Gravity Holography in Four Dimensions, Daniel Grumiller; Maria Irakleidou; Iva Lovrekovic,; and Robert McNees
Cosmological Constant as Confining U(1) Charge in Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity, Daniel Grumiller, Robert A. McNees IV, and Jakob Salzer
Catalytic Mechanism and Maturation of the Metalloenzyme Nitrile Hydratase, Natalie I. Gumataotao
Clients’ Hope Arises from Social Workers’ Compassion: Young Clients’ Perspectives on Surmounting the Obstacles of Disadvantage, Deanna D’Amico Guthrie, Victoria Smith Ellison, King Sami, and Katherine Tyson McCrea
Developing the Value Proposition for Registered Nurse Care Coordination and Transition Management Role in Ambulatory Care Settings, Sheila A. Haas and Beth Ann Swan
Soziale Roboter für ältere Menschen? Ethische Überlegungen zur sozialen Interaktion mit Robotern im Gesundheitswesen, Hille Haker
Characterization of a Human Powered Nebulizer Compressor for Resource Poor Settings, Christopher J. Hallberg, M Therese Lysaught, Christopher E. Zmudka, William K. Kopesky, and Lars E. Olson
The Influence of Ideal Similarity on the Relation between Self-Discrepancy and Attraction, Natalie Jamila Hall
Drinking to Belong: The Effects of Friendship Interactions on College Student Drinking, Hannah R. Hamilton
Recipe for Resilience: Factors Contributing to Urban African American Males' Post-Secondary Academic Achievement, Melvin Thomas Hargrett
Anxiety in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Current Research and Implications for Practice, Rebecca Harkema and Gina Coffee
Remember the Good Times: Does Savoring a Previous Intergroup Interaction Increase Whites' Positive Intergroup Emotions and Willingness to Develop Future Intergroup Friendships?, Patrick R. Harrison
Vascular Risk, Functional Connectivity, and Episodic Memory in Older Adults, Elizabeth Regina Tuminello Hartman
Just Water: A Feminist Catholic Response to the Commodification of Water, Rachel Noelle Hart Winter
Host Entry Factors for Human Coronaviruses, Taylor Heald-Sargent
Dialoging About English Learners: Preparing Teachers Through Culturally Relevant Literature Circles., Amy J. Heineke
Negotiating Language Policy and Practice: Teachers of English Learners in an Arizona Study Group, Amy J. Heineke
Situating Practice in Schools and Communities: Case Studies of Teacher Candidates in Diverse Clinical Experiences with English Language Learners, Amy J. Heineke and Kristin Davin
Re-envisioning the Role of Universities in Early Childhood Teacher Education: Community Partnerships for 21st-Century Learning, Amy J. Heineke and Adam S. Kennedy
What Does Your Repository Do? Measuring and Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding and Calculating Impact, Margaret Heller
Characterization of the Female Urinary Microbiota and Their Association with the Female Bladder Uroepithelium, Evann Elizabeth Hilt
Neighborhood Effects and Mobility Patterns Among Residents of Chicago's Residential Homeless System, Julie Frances Hilvers
Plenary Session: Faith, Hope and Democracy: Lessons Learned from Chicago Latino Immigration Activists, María Hinojosa, Dr. Hector Garcia, and Jacqueline Long
Women Majoring in Physics: An Exploratory Case Study of Factors That Influenced Women Persisting in an Undergraduate Physics Program at a Large Private University in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, Nelda Patricia Hislop
Effects of Contaminated St. Lucie River Saltwater Sediments on an Amphipod (Ampelisca abdita) and a Hard-Shell Clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), Tham C. Hoang and Gary M. Rand
Anthropogenic Litter in Urban Freshwater Ecosystems: Distribution and Microbial Interactions, Timothy Hoellein, Miguel Rojas, Adam Pink, Joseph Gasior, and John J. Kelly
Urban Agriculture and Sustainability in Chicago, Matthew Hoffmann
Learning to Tell Coherent Personal Narratives: Linkages to Mother-Child Reminiscing Over Time, Philip C. Hoffman
The Symptom Experience of Patients Receiving Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors, Josephine Ann Howard-Ruben
Identification and Analysis of Omentum Derived Suppressor Cells in Regards to Th17 Inhibition, Nick Huang
Psychometric Evaluation of the Neonatal Pain, Agitation, and Sedation Scale (n-Pass) Tool in Infants and Children Age One to Thirty-Six Months in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, Patricia A. Hummel
Poverty Knowledge, Coercion, and Social Rights: A Discourse Ethical Contribution to Social Epistemology, David Ingram
The Public Sphere as Site of Emancipation and Enlightenment: A Discourse Theoretic Critique of Digital Communication, David Ingram and Asaf Bar-Tura
How Secular Should Democracy Be? A Cross-Disciplinary Study of Catholicism and Islam in Promoting Public Reason, David Ingram and David Ingram
Magnet Traveling through a Conducting Pipe: A Variation on the Analytical Approach, Benjamin Irvine, Matthew Kemnetz, Asim Gangopadhyaya, and Thomas Ruubel
There's a Place for Us: How Ethnic Identities Are Revealed in Ethnic-Specific Organizations, Crystal Jackson
History of Freshwater Invasions in Illinois: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future, Abigail Jacobs
Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern Humanities, Paul Jay
How Not to Defend the Liberal Arts, Paul Jay
State of the Discipline: Comparative Literature and Transdisciplinarity, Paul Jay
Reconsidering the Model of Trim5α Assembly: The Role of the Linker2 (l2) Region in Trim5α Assembly, Laura Johnsen
Negotiating North America’s New National Borders, Benjamin Heber Johnson
Catalytic Kinetic Resolution of a Dynamic Racemate: Highly Stereoselective β-Lactone Formation by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis, Ryne C. Johnston, Daniel T. Cohen, Chad C. Eichman, Karl A. Scheidt, and Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong