Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Investigating the Biochemical and Catalytic Properties of Nitrile Hydratases, Salette Martinez
Functional Importance of Oxidative Post-Translational Modifications of Ryanodine Receptor in Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ Handling During Oxidative Stress, Stefan R. Mazurek
Master's Students' Experiences in a Graduate Preparation Program: Multicultural Competency and Social Justice Curriculum, Kristin I. Mccann
The Impact of Insulin Management on Quality of Life in Type 2 Diabetes, Sandra Ellen Mccormick
“Iʼm a leader of all of them to tell the truth”: Participatory Action Principles for Uplifting Social Work Research Partnersʼ Identities, Katherine McCrea
The Promise of Healthcare Reform in Transforming Services for Jail Detainees, Maureen McDonnell, Laura Brookes, and Arthur J. Lurigio
Adenovirus Vectors as Potent Adjuvants in Vaccine Development, Kathleen Ann Mcguire
Bandera, Cesareo, A Refuge of Lies: Reflections on Faith and Fiction. East Lansing, MI: MSU Press, 2013, Andrew J. McKenna
Voltaire's Victims and Us, Andrew J. McKenna
Commitment Problems: Understanding Variation in the Frequency of International Conflict Management Efforts, Molly M. Melin
Multifunctional Coronavirus Papain-Like Proteases as Targets for Antiviral Therapeutics and Vaccines, Anna Maria Mielech
Influence of Catchment Land Cover on Stoichiometry and Stable Isotope Compositions of Basal Resources and Macroinvertebrate Consumers in Headwater Streams, Joseph Milanovich, Adam Berland, and Matthew Hopton
Teaching Equity Through “Gatsby” in the Age of CCSS, Allisyn Mills and Seungho Moon
The Molecular Components of Estrogen Receptor Beta (ERβ) Signaling in Neuronal Sytems, Natasha Mott
Internalization of Race Messages Among Mixed Race Individuals, Jennifer Moulton
Moderating Variables in the Treatment Effects of Second Step, Gregory Eugene Moy
Session C: Parish History and Mexican/Latin-American Vocation Stories, Fr. Octavio Muñoz-Capetillo; Edin Barrera, S.J.; Carmen Nanko-Fernández; Fr. Pablo Perez; Ms. María R. Godinez; and Fr. Kevin Flaherty, S.J.
Reflections on the Feminine Mystique, Bren Ortega Murphy
Suspicious Minds: The Spirituality of the Postmodern Nones, Michael Murphy
The Backgrounds and Outcomes of Allopathic Medical School Applicants: Exploring Stratification and Inequality, Sunshine Nakae
Teacher Candidates and Latina/o English Learners at Fenton Elementary School: The Role of Early Clinical Experiences in Urban Teacher Education, Ambareen Nasir and Amy J. Heineke
Social Media and Reflective Thinking: A Case Study of Generation Y Business Students, Stacy Neier
Spirituality and Older Women: The Journey Home to Self, Holly Nelson-Becker and M. Carlean Gilbert
The Dimerization Domain in DapE Enzymes Is Required for Catalysis, Boguslaw Nocek, Anna Starus, Magdalena Makowska-Grzyska, Blanca Gutierrez, Stephen Sanchez, Robert Jedrzejczak, Jamey C. Mack, Kenneth W. Olsen, Andrzej Joachimiak, and Richard C. Holz
The Fashionable Life: Fashion Imagery and the Construction of Masculinity in America, 1960-2000, Kelly Ann O'connor
Producing a Past: Cyrus Mccormick's Reaper from Heritage to History, Daniel Peter Ott
Putting "community" in Community Schools: Organizational and Cultural Contention in a Public-Private Partnership, Kathleen D. Pacyna
DEAD-Box Helicase Proteins Disrupt RNA Tertiary Structure Through Helix Capture, Cynthia Pan, Jeffrey P. Potratz, Brian Cannon, Zachary B. Simpson, Jessica L. Ziehr, Pilar Tijerina, and Rick Russell
Guest Editors Introduction: Extreme Data, Manish Parashar and George K. Thiruvathukal
The Effect of Dietary Fat Intake on Hepatic Gene Expression in LG/J and SM/J Mice, Charlyn G. Partridge, Gloria L. Fawcett, Bing Wang, Clay F. Semenkovich, and James M. Cheverud
Our Commitment To Excellence: Key Accomplishments on the 2009‐2014 Strategic Plan, John Pelissero
Session A: Popular Religiosity, Matriarchy, and the Virgen de Guadalupe, Dr. Elaine A. Peña, Mr. Raymundo Salazar, Dr. Susana Cavallo, Rev. Marco Mercado, and Dr. Suzanne Bost
Culture Wars: A Quest for Justice in Arizona, Crystal Lynne Pfeiffer
On the Fault Line: A Qualitative Exploration of High School Teachers’ Involvement with Student Mental Health Issues, Kate L. Phillippo and Michael S. Kelly
De-centering Carl Schmitt: The Colonial State of Exception and the Criminalization of the Political in British India, 1905-1920, John Pincince
Perceptions of Value and Perceived Strengths of Arts Education During an Age of Accountability: Conditions and Qualities That Shape a Citizenry - Implications for Leadership, Stephen Tyler Plank
Low-Cost Student Experiments in Optics, Robert Polak, Austin J. Cua, Daniel J. Perez, Mallory Q. Robertson, Justin A. Stuck, and Jordan M. Thomas
Effects of Cultural Awareness Training in Conjunction with an Established Bullying Prevention Program, Megan Kallie Polanin
Six Instructional Best Practices for Online Engagement and Retention, Kathleen Poll, Jeanne Widen, and Sherri Weller
College Admissions Debates, OiYan Poon
Expertise, Democratic Values, and Tolerance, Erika D. Price
Peripubertal Binge Ethanol, Age and Sex Modulate Microrna Expression in the Ventral and Dorsal Hippocampus of the Adolescent Rat, Sarah Arianne Prins
Moving Social Spaces: Public Transportation, Material Differences, and the Power of Mobile Communities in Chicago, Gwendolyn Purifoye
Justice Not Benevolence: Catholic Social Thought, Migration Theory, and the Rights of Migrants, Tisha Rajendra
The Rational Agent or the Relational Agent: Moving from Freedom to Justice in Migration Systems Ethics, Tisha Rajendra
The Physics of Music Course as an Introduction to Science, Gordon Ramsey
Identifying Novel Factors Involved in Biofilm Formation by Vibrio Fischeri, Valerie Ray
'We're Not Little Babies Anymore': A Cultural History of Small Girls in America, 1920-1945, Stella A. Ress
The Ethics of Vision and Black Theology and Experience, Angelo Sylvester Riley
Session D: Chicago Mexican Catholicism for the 21st Century: Perspectives from Loyola Students, Carlos Robles; Adriana Robles; Laura Bedolla; Flavio Bravo; Lorena I. Pedroza; Adriana Robles; Daniela Cuevas; Jesse Meza; Gabriela Coronado; and Pablo Vega, S.J.
I Do Activist Things Even Though I'm Nothing: A Critical Ethnography of Immigrant Youth Identity Formation in an Urban Community-School, Sophia Rodriguez
Sorority Women & Eating Pathology: Communities of Unhealthy Body Standards?, Ashley Marie Rolnik
To Speak of God in a Feminine Way in the Churches and Theologies of the Americas, Susan Ross
Superintendent Leadership and Collective Bargaining Processes, Procedures, and Outcomes, Kevin David Rubenstein
Seeing the State: Women, Incarceration, and Social Marginality, Cesraea Rumpf
Life Course Narratives from U.s. Expatriates: Continuity Work, Victoria L. Russo
Teaching, Learning, and Leading with Schools and Communities: One Urban University Re-Envisions Teacher Preparation for the Next Generation, Ann Marie Ryan, David C. Ensminger, Amy J. Heineke, Adam S. Kennedy, David P. Prasse, and Lara K. Smetana
Teaching, Learning, and Leading with Schools and Communities: One Urban University Re-Envisions Teacher Preparation for the Next Generation, Ann Marie Ryan, David Ensminger, Amy J. Heineke, Adam Kennedy, David P. Prasse, and Lara K. Smetana
Preparing Globally Minded Teachers Through the Incorporation of the International Baccalaureate, Ann Marie Ryan, Amy J. Heineke, and Caleb Steindam
Epigenetics and Social Context: Implications for Disparity in Cardiovascular Disease, Karen L. Saban, Herbert L. Matthews, Holli A. DeVon, and Linda W. Janusek
The Affective Consequences of Expressing Moral Convictions, Lisa Diana Sandberg
Collective Social Capital Within a Performance-Based Management System, Melissa E. Sandoval
Electrophysiological evidence of the time course of Attentional Bias in Nonpatients Reporting Symptoms of Depression With and Without Co-Occurring Anxiety, Sarah M. Sass, Wendy Heller, Joscelyn Fisher, and Rebecca L. Silton
Heavy Metal Analysis in Lens and Aqueous Humor of Cataract Patients by Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, Martina Schmeling, Bruce I. Gaines, and Susanne Tidow-Kebritchi
Analysis of Genesis Sample 60234 by Laboratory Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry and Synchrotron Grazing Incidence X-ray Fluorescence, Martina Schmeling, E. Hwang, Y. Choi, P.J. Eng, J.E. Stubbs, and I.V. Veryovkin
Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom, Devorah Schoenfeld
The Challenge of Received Tradition: Dilemmas in Radak's Biblical Commentaries, Devorah Schoenfeld
Characterizing the Evolutionary Path(s) to Early Homo, Lauren Schroeder, Charles C. Roseman, James M. Cheverud, and Rebecca R. Ackermann
Marx's Democratic Critique of Capitalism and Its Implications for a Viable Socialism, C. David Schweickart
Assessing Rewards Effectiveness: A SUrvey of Rewards, HR, and Line Executives, K. Dow Scott and Thomas McMullen
Library Spaces in the 21st Century—Meeting the Challenges of User Needs for Information, Technology, and Expertise, Robert A. Seal
Loose Coupling Within Special Education, Christina Sedrel
Afghan University Women Graduates Are Not Well-Represented in the Job Market in Afghanistan, Mohammad Kazem Shakib
The Restorative Justice Talking Circle Process with Probation Officers: A Phenomenological Approach, Constance Marie Sheehan
New Teacher Induction Programs: A Case Study of an Exemplary School District and How It Prepares Its New Teachers for the Use of Instructional Technology in the Classroom, David Brian Sherman
Break, Lake Shore Campus
The Chicago Teachers Strike and Its Public, Amy B. Shuffelton
Revisiting Marketing as Constructive Engagement: Linking Policies and Managerial Practices, Clifford J. Shultz
Learning Communities: Through the Lens of a Groupworker, Shirley Simon and Sarah Hessenauer
Consequences and Peer Influence as Proximal and Contextual Factors in Alcohol Consumption, Shweta Singh, Susan Grossman, and Diane C. Asaro
A Summer Reading Enrichment Experience: One District's Effort to Prevent Summer Reading Loss, Angela R. Sopko
Human Asset Accounting and Measurement: Moving Forward, Brian Stanko, Thomas Zeller, and Matthew F. Melina
Closing the "Revolving Door": Identifying Predictors of Time to Rehospitalization in a Sample of Psychiatric Inpatient Youth, Alison Merri Stoner
Impact of First Disclosure Experience and Internalized Stigma on Disclosure Patterns in the HIV+ Community, Mary Elizabeth Talbot
Youth Gangs: An Overview of Key Findings and Directions for the Future, Terrance J. Taylor and J. Michael Vecchio
Yoga for the Pelvic Floor, Sandi Tenfelde, Rich Logan, and Melinda Abernethy
Factors associated with microalbuminuria in type 2 diabetes patients in Nan Hospital, Thailand, Chuanchom Tepsukon and Timothy O'Brien
What We Publish in CiSE, George K. Thiruvathukal
An Investigation of the Role of Vibrio Vulnificus rbdA and Vibrio Parahaemolyticus sypA in Biofilm Formation, Cecilia Thompson
The Hidden Costs of Success: A Mixed Methods Approach to Examining Achievement Pressures in Affluent Youth, Lea Ventura Travers
Plenary Session: Luis Alberto Urrea, Mr. Luis Alberto Urrea and Dr. Hector García
When Subcultures Become Careers: Working in Indie Rock, Annmarie Schneider-Edman Van Altena
The Role of Violence within and across Self-identified Gang Youth, J. Michael Vecchio
