Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Design and Synthesis of N-Succinyl-L,L-2.6-Diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase Inhibitors as Potential Novel Antibiotics, Thomas Dipuma
Tetrazole-Based Inhibitors of the Bacterial Enzyme N-Succinyl-l,l-2,6-Diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase as Potential Antibiotics, Thomas DiPuma, Teerana Thabthimthong, Emma H. Kelley, Katherine Konczak, Megan Beulke, Claire A. Herbert, Thahani Shifna Habeeb Mohammad, Anna Starus, Boguslaw P. Nocek, Kenneth W. Olsen, Rick C. Holz Prof., and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
Who is Interested in Participating in Participatory Budgeting?, David Doherty, Raluca G. Pavel, Madeline Jackson, and Dana Garbarski
Analysis of Poverty In Chicago, Gabriel Dominguez, Jack Mcdonnell, and Brett Johnson
Curating a Consumption Ideology: Platformization and Gun Influencers on Instagram, Jenna M. Drenten Ph.D., Lauren Gurrieri, Aimee Dinnín Huff, and Michelle Barnhart
Characterizing the Utility of a Near Infrared Click Beetle Luciferase for BLI Applications, Giovanni Duca
The Challenges of “Moving at the Speed of Trust”: How Women Navigate New Public Management Dynamics in Power-based Community Organizations, Mary L. Dungy and Amy Krings
Between Script and Scripture: Performance Criticism and Mark's Character(ization) of the Disciples, Zechariah Eberhart
Intersectionality of Demographic Characteristics in Self-reported Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa, and Probable Eating Disorders among College Students, Jamie Egbert, Amy Luke, and Fares Qeadan
The World Of Sikhism, Mohamed Ziad Eljerary and Arub Abdullah Sumayli
Patient Guide to: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN), Djoni Elkady and Eden Lake MD
Exploring the genotypic and phenotypic differences distinguishing Lactobacillus jensenii and Lactobacillus mulieris, Adriana Ene, Swarnali Banerjee, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
Exploring the Genotypic and Phenotypic Differences Distinguishing Lactobacillus jensenii and Lactobacillus mulieris, Adriana Ene, Swarnali Banerjee, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
House Bubbles, Global Imbalances and Monetary Policy in the US, Anastasios Evgenidis and A. (Tassos) G. Malliaris
Targeting the Subacute Progression of Hippocampal Cellular Senescence Following Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Jacob Edward Exline
Investigating the Impact of Nonenzymatic Lysine Acetylation on the Function of the Bacterial Ribosome, Sarah Caldwell Feid
Investigating the Impact of Nonenzymatic Lysine Acetylation on the Function of the Bacterial Ribosome, Sarah Caldwell Feid
Design and Synthesis of Novel Antibiotics and Anticancer Agents Targeting Pharmaceutically Relevant Enzymes, Sebastian Flieger
Carborane-Containing Hydroxamate MMP Ligands for the Treatment of Tumors Using Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT): Efficacy without Tumor Cell Entry, Sebastian Flieger, Mao Takagaki, Natsuko Kondo, Marlon Lutz Jr., Yash Gupta, Hiroki Ueda, Yoshinori Sakurai, Graham Moran, Prakasha Kempaiah, Narayan Hosmane, Minoru Suzuki, and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
Effect of Selenof Loss in Combination with a Western Diet on Tumorigenesis, Brenna Joy Flowers
Mammalian Dihydropyrimidine Dehydrogenase: Employing Transient State Kinetic Methods to Determine Catalytic and Inhibitory Mechanisms, Dariush Forouzesh
Exploration of Player Nationality in European Football, Caleb Frank, Danny Umar, Chris Burns, and Joey Raad
Gardening and Watering 21st Century Soil: Culturally Responsive and Technology Enhanced Instructional Design in K12 Schools, Elissa W. Frazier
Applying Organizational Learning Theories to Continuous Improvement Practices Through Self-Study Methodology to Better Reflect upon and Understand Factors that Influence School Improvement Efforts, Morgan Daniel Gallagher
Tube-Based Pumping of a Viscous Liquid, Gabriel X. Gallegos, Deja M. Scott, and Nuala B. Kalensky
The Measurement of Gender Expression in Survey Research, Dana Garbarski
Questioning Identity: How a Diverse Set of Respondents Answer Standard Questions About Ethnicity and Race, Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, Cameron P. Jones, Tiffany S. Neman, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Dorothy Farrar Edwards
Multimodal models of animal sex in scientific literature: breaking binaries leads to a better understanding of ecology and evolution, Isabella Gates, Anisha Pethkar, Marcus Piattoni, Alexis Rossi, and Sara E. Lipshutz
Fermion Pair Radiation from Accelerating Classical Systems, Margarita Gavrilova, Mitrajyoti Ghosh, Yuval Grossman, Walter Tangarife, and Tien-Hsueh Tsai
Method Development for the Quantification of Heavy Metals in Biological Matrices and Its Application to Clinical and Environmental Samples, Michelle Catherine Gende
Neutrino Forces in Neutrino Backgrounds, Mitrajyoti Ghosh, Yuval Grossman, Walter Tangarife, Xun-Jie Xu, and Bingrong Yu
Abortion, Medieval Christianity, and the Christian Far-Right: The Harms of Rhetoric and Misconstruing the Past, Madison Givens
Regulatory Mechanisms Controlling Pneumococcal Capsule Synthesis, David George Glanville
Tree-based Unidirectional Neural Networks for Low-Power Computer Vision, Abhinav Goel, Caleb Tung, Nick Eliopoulos, Amy Wang, Jamie C. Davis, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Yung-Hisang Lu
"To This You Were Called": Discipleship, Suffering, and Social Identity in First Peter, Shane Patrick Gormley
Ecclesiological Sovereignty: Toward an Understanding of the Sovereignty of the Pope in the Context of Luther's Responses, Erik Lee Grayvold
Belonging in the Borderlands: Questioning Catholic Ethics, Molly Greening
External Affairs And Trusted Family Businesses: A Research Agenda, Jennifer Griffin and Yoo Na Youm
Reconstructing the Kantian Ends of Reason: Holiness Analytically Entailing Beatitude in an Eternal Highest Good, Anthony Gudwien
In Silico Binding of 2-Aminocyclobutanones to SARS-CoV-2 Nsp13 Helicase and Demonstration of Antiviral Activity, Thahani S. Habeeb Mohammad, Yash Gupta, Cory T. Reidl, Vlad Nicolaescu, Haley Gula, Ravi Durvasula, Prakasha Kempaiah, and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
Characterizing the Dynamic Localization of CMI in Early Drosophila Development, Asra Habibullah
Vulnerability in Times of War: The Necessity of the Moral Third, Hille Haker
Centering Transgender Consumers in Conceptualizations of Marketplace Marginalization and Digital Spaces, Beck Hansman and Jenna Drenten Ph.D.
Strategies to Achieving National Standards of Healthcare Access: A Qualitative Analysis of Cook County Health System, Shoaib Haq, Julia Borowska, Sofia Mateus, and Jaash Patel
Artapanus and Greek Colonial Poetics, Scott Harris
Instructional Design With a Language Lens: Preparing Educators for Multilingual Classrooms, Amy J. Heineke, Wenjin Guo, Luke Carman, and McTighe & Associates
Considering the Social-Emotional Well-Being of Multilingual Learners: A Comparative Case Study Across Program Models, Amy J. Heineke, Elizabeth M. Vera, Wenjin Guo, Joseph Kaye, and Joseph Elliott
Building a Culture of Privacy through Collaborative Policy Development, Margaret Heller
Assessing the Impact of a CSforALL Research-Practice Partnership Using the PROSPER Framework: A Case Study of the Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science (CAFÉCS), Erin Henrick, Steven McGee, Ronald I. Greenberg, Dale Reed, Don Yanek, Lucia Dettori, and Haley Williamson
Role of Micrornas in Intestinal Inflammation and Barrier Homeostasis after Alcohol and Burn Injury, Caroline J. Herrnreiter
Characterizing the T352V Mutation of Beta-Glucosidase B, Olivia Hodge and Renee Stanec
Promoting Healthy Behaviors in a South-side Chicago African-American church, Demetris D. Hogan DNP,MBA,RN
Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) for Financial Capability: Application of Practice-Based Program Theory and Measures in Intervention Design, Philip Young P. Hong, Alanna Shin, Maria V. Wathen, and Theresa Gibbons
Recognizing And Responding To Implicit Bias And Microaggressions To Decrease District-Wide Discipline Rates of Black Students: A Coaching Model for BPS Educators, Niekema Hudson and Niekema Q. Hudson
The association between cognitive disengagement syndrome and symptoms of dissociation in college students, Catherine Humberston, Laurel Miskovic, and Logan Phengsomphone
Evolution of Winning Solutions in the 2021 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge, Xiao Hu, Ziteng Jiao, Ayden Kocher, Zhenyu Wu, Junjie Liu, James C. Davis, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Yung-Hsiang Lu
Investigating Putative Toxin-Immunity Pairs from a New Class of Rhs Proteins in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Syed Faieq Imam
Investigating Putative Toxin-Immunity Pairs from a New Class of RHS Proteins in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Syed Faieq Imam
Critical Theory and Poverty, David Ingram
Poverty and Critical Theory, David Ingram
The Unintended Influence and Impact: Funder-Mandated Performance Metrics, Service Delivery, and Social Justice, Melissa Iverson; Michael P. Dentato PhD, MSW; Nathan H. Perkins; and Maria Wathen
Exploring the genomic diversity of Staphylococcus epidermidis from different isolation sources, Sandra M. Jablonska
Peer Culture of Block Play in an Early Childhood Classroom, Missi Jacobson
Exploring the Effect of Artificial Sweeteners on Streptococcus mutans Growth and pH level, Hannah Jaghab and Thomas Osika
Exploring Naming Conventions (and Defects) of Pre-trained Deep Learning Models in Hugging Face and Other Model Hubs, Wenxin Jiang, Chingwo Cheung, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
PeaTMOSS: Mining Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software, Wenxin Jiang, Jason Jones, Jerin Yasmin, Nicholas Synovic, Rajiv Sashti, Sophie Chen, George K. Thiruvathukal, Yuan Tian, and James C. Davis
An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Model Reuse in the Hugging Face Deep Learning Model Registry, Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic, Matt Hyattt, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Rohan Sethi, Yung-Hisang Lu, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
PTMTorrent: A Dataset for Mining Open-source Pre-trained Model Packages, Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic, Purvish Jajal, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Arav Tewari, Bhavesh Pareek, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
Using Natural Language Processing to Evaluate Electronic Health Records of Patients with Ovarian Cancer for Documentation of Goals of Care, Hillarie Elizabeth Joehl
Cancer Survivor Empowerment Through Patient-Reported Outcomes, Mary Patricia Johnston
Building Strength Versus Getting Lean: An Analysis of the Gendered Nature of Fitness in Crossfit, Barre, and Personal Training, Margaret M. Jones
Role of Ripk3 in the Pathogenesis of TET2 Mutant Hematopoietic Malignancies, Kanak Joshi
When females compete and males care: Phenotypic differences in the spotted sandpiper, Alexandra Juarez, Tessa Patton, Quinn Thomas, Jessica Schaefer, and Sara E. Lipshutz
Dating During the Time of COVID-19: Risk Perceptions and Political Ideology, Danielle L. Kellogg, Tracy DeHart, Julie Longua Peterson, and Hannah R. Hamilton
Molecular Components of a Putative Membrane Androgen Receptor: Implications for Treating Glioma, Saira Khurana
Quality Fintech in the Context of the Japanese Main Bank System, Kanji Kitamura
Does the peer-led Honest, Open, Proud program reduce stigma’s impact for everyone? An individual participant data meta-regression analysis, Thomas Klein, Markus Kösters, Patrick W. Corrigan, Winnie W.S. Mak, Lindsay Sheehan, Colleen Conley, Nathalie Oexle, and Nicolas Rüsch
The Ephrin-B2 Signal Regulates Auditory Nerve Fiber Responses and Auditory Functions During Tonotopy Development, Jakub Krasewicz, Shayma Smaoui, and Julia K. Mansour
Building or Burning: Critical Reflections on Social and Political Change, Amy Krings, Karen D'Angelo, Jan Ivery, and Amy B. Murphy-Nguyen
How COVID-19 and Racial Justice Protests Influenced Social Workers’ Perceptions of Policy and Political Participation, Amy Krings, Maria V. Wathen, and Teresa Kilbane
A global overview of missed nursing care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review of quantitative studies, Leodoro Labrague
Lactobacillus Metabolite NC as an Inflammation Inhibitor, Drew Hahnnah Landrowski
Mapping the Indigenous Postcolonial Possibilities of Teacher Preparation, Anna Lees, Ann Marie Ryan, Marissa Muñoz, and Charles Tocci
Suite en Re Menor, Gustavo Leone
Determining the enzymatic efficiency and thermodynamic stability of BgIB-H223A, Thy Anh Le and Nicole Dowd
Past and Progress: Producing History at Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair, Cate Liabraaten
Synthesis and Characterization of the N-succinyl-l,l-diaminopimelic Acid Desuccinylase (DapE) Alternate Substrate Analog N,N-dimethyl-l,l-SDAP, Zachary J. Liveris, Emma H. Kelley, Emma Simmons, Katherine Konczak, Marlon Lutz Jr., Miguel Ballicora, Ken W. Olsen, and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
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
The Importance of Caregivers, Family, and Context for Child Welfare Involved Youth and a National Child Sample: A Structural Equation Modeling Perspective, Nathan Michael Lutz
Key Stakeholders' Perceptions of Stem Education in Zambia: A Mixed Methods Inquiry, Choobe M. Maambo
Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War Ii, Katherine L. Macica
Marissa Mahrenholz's Engaged Learning Poster, Marissa K. Mahrenholz
