Theses/Dissertations from 2023
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
Urinary Plasmids Reduce Permissivity to Coliphage Infection, Cesar Montelongo Hernandez, Catherine Putonti, and Alan J. Wolfe
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
Applying Customer Discovery Method to a Chronic Disease Self-Management Mobile App: Qualitative Study, Nallely Mora, Zoe Arvanitakis, Merly Thomas, Holly Kramer, Elaine H. Morrato, and Talar W. Markossian
2023 Chairs’ Welcome, Daniel Moreira, Aparna Bharati, Cecilia Pasquini, and Yassine Yousfi
God as Über-King of Moral Leading: Veiled and Unveiled, Paul K. Moser
Camouflaging and Adjusting to College in Females with and without Autism Symptomatology, Aisha Mounir, Emily Cauley, Ellie Forster, and Elizabeth Stotz
American, Mary Clare Muehlemann
Strengthening Student Success: A Knowledge Connecting Corner for Schools and Families, Mashwa Nadeem
Genetic Variation in Fat Depot Weights in Mice, Nafia Naila
Migration Integration Policies as Social Determinants of Health for Highly Educated Immigrants in the United States, Mitra Naseh, Yingying Zeng, Abha Rai, Ian Sutherland, and Hyunwoo Yoon
Lung Resident Memory B Cells Maintain Allergic IgE Responses in the Respiratory Tract, Alexander James Nelson
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
A Woman, Cynthia Nguyen
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
Making Lemonade Out of Lemons: How Millennial Black Women Teachers Navigate K-12 Educational Spaces, Janese L. Nolan
Investigating the Role of the Metabolite Je as an Inflammatory Modulator, Rim Ahmed Noufal
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
The Value of Engagement: Examining the Relationship between LGBTQ+ Student Involvement & Alumni Engagement, Jonathan J. Okstad
Rainbows & Resources, Alexandra Elizabeth Ortega
WOMEN IN ENTREPRENUERSHIP: A SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, Caitlin Asantewaa Osei
Barriers and Facilitators to Library Social Work Practice in the United States: A Mixed-Methods Study, Margaret Ann Paauw
How to Build a Cortex: Coordinated Assembly of Cortical Septins and Actomyosin in the Leader Bleb, Asia Marie Paguntalan
Feigning Goodness: Considering the Presence and Absence of Aristotelian Ideas in Character Education Through Thematic Analysis, Mylo Apollo Parker-Emerson
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
Habits of Life, Tessa Patton
Using MPI For Distributed Hyper-Parameter Optimization andUncertainty Evaluation, Erik Pautsch, John Li, Silvio Rizzi, Maria Pantoja, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Evaluation of Novel AI Architectures for Uncertainty Estimation, Erik Pautsch, John Li, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja
Optimized Uncertainty Estimation for Vision Transformers: Enhancing Adversarial Robustness and Performance Using Selective Classification, Erik Pautsch, John Li, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja
Optimizing Uncertainty Quantification of Vision Transformers in Deep Learning on Novel AI Architectures, Erik Pautsch, John Li, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja
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
Comparative Genomic Study of Streptococcus anginosus Reveals Distinct Group of Urinary Strains, Ananya Prasad, Adriana Ene, Sandra Jablonska, Jingjie Du, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
Migrant Flows: Humanitarian Operational Aspects of People in Transit, Sameer Prasad, Harish Borra, Jason Woldt, Nezih Altay, and Jasmine Tata
It’s Time to Look at Educator Time!, Anna Press and Hank Bohanon
Psychostimulant Misuse Among American Indian, Alaskan Native, or Native Hawaiian College Students in the U.S. From 2015 to 2019, Fares Qeadan, Sydney Ross, William A. Barbeau, Erin F. Madden, Kamilla L. Venner, and Kevin English
Quantifying Non-Muscle Myosin 2 Filament Dynamics, Melissa Ann Quintanilla
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
WebTracker: Real Webbrowsing Behaviors, Daisy Reyes, Eno Dynowski, Taryn Chovan, John Mikos, Eric Chan-Tin, Mohammed Abuhamad, and Shelia Kennison
The Ethics of Advance Care Planning, Ciaran Folliard Rhys
Guilty as Charged: The Role of Judge Instructions on Metaphor Produced Biases in Jury Decision Making, Gina N. Rita
“But You Don't Look Sick…:” Shedding Light on the Socially Constructed Problems of Invisible Chronic Illness and the Benefits of Shifting to a Dynamic Illness Framework, Samantha Susan Ropski
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
TAK1 and TBK1 are Differentially Required by GMP- and LMPP-like Leukemia Stem Cells, Austin P. Runde, Joseph Michael Cannova, Ryan Mack, Kanak Joshi, Mark Sellin, Allan Youmaran, Mattias Lenz, Rohit Thalla, Wei Wei, Peter Breslin S.J., and Jiwang Zhang
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
Institutional Experiences of Justice-Involved Adolescents: Profiles, Predictors, and Post-Release Associations, Elizabeth Sargent
Anthropogenic Litter Abundance and Composition in Urban Streams: Influence of Site and Habitat, Olivia Schaul, Thomas Crabtree, and Jess Von Brugger
Dental Health in Roman Dogs: A Pilot Study Using Standardized Examination Methods, Monika Schernig-Mráz, Anne L. Grauer, and Gottfried Morgenegg
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
Experiences with Environmental Gentrification: Evidence from Chicago, Tania Schusler, Amy Krings, and Richard T. Melstrom
Higher Education, Neoliberalism, and Conflict: A Case of the University of Balochistan in Pakistan, Syed Amir Shah
Lightweight and Effective Website Fingerprinting over Encrypted DNS, Yong Shao, Kenneth Hernandez, Kia Yang, Eric Chan-Tin, and Mohammed Abuhamad
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
Academic Motivation Decreases Across Adolescence for Youth With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Effects of Motivation on Academic Success, Zoe Smith, Marcus Flax, Stephen P. Becker, and Joshua Langberg
Integrating current analyses of the breast cancer microbiome, Sidra Sohail and Michael B. Burns
Predicting Phishing Victimization: Comparing Prior Victimization, Cognitive, and Emotional Styles, and Vulnerable or Protective E-mail Strategies, Loretta Stalans, Eric Chan-Tin, Anna Hart, Madeline Moran, and Shelia Kennison
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
Life, uh, “Adapts” a Way, Lauren Tatum
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
The Correlation between Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Stock Performance, Harley Thursby, Abby Layton, Catie Plank, and Ariel Nudman
Developing Horizontal Expertise with Professional Learning Communities in Social Studies Teacher Preparation, Charles Tocci and Ann Marie Ryan
Statement on the Effects of Law Enforcement in School Settings, Charles Tocci; Sara T. Stacy; Rachel Siegal; Jennifer Renick; Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc.; Davielle Lakind; Jennifer Gruber; and Benjamin W. Fisher
Interactions of Lewis Acids and Carbonyls in the Presence of Ligands Or Additives: How Solution Behavior Differs and the Implication on Catalytic Systems, Sophi Rose Todtz
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
Primary Barriers to Working Class Representation, Sarah A. Treul and Eric Hansen
A Descriptive Exploration of Quality and Opportunities in Outdoor Urban Play Spaces: The Case of Chicago Public Schools, Katherine Anne Varey
Mapping Roles of Active Site Residues in the Acceptor Site of the PA3944 Gcn5-Related N-Acetyltransferase Enzyme, Cillian Variot, Daniel Capule, Xhulio Arolli, Jackson Baumgartner, Cory T. Reidl, Charles Houseman, Miguel Ballicora, Daniel P. Becker Ph.D., and Misty L. Kuhn
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
Out of sight, Out of mind, Christina Wallis
The Effectiveness of a Camp-Based Intervention to Promote Health-Related and Social Functioning in First Time Campers with Spina Bifida, Elicia C. Wartman
Individual Differences In Gesture Learning in Adults, Sierra Webber and Elizabeth M. Wakefield
Climate Education Course Proposal for School of Sustainability, Evelyn Winebrenner, Abbey Y. Haynes, Charlotte Roos, Stephanie Udzielak, and Rachel Maria
Parenting and Psychosocial Functioning in Youth with Spina Bifida: Making Connections with Other CNS-Related Chronic Health Conditions, Adrien M. Winning
Improving Focality and Consistency in Micromagnetic Stimulation, Hui Ye, Vincent Hall, and Jenna Hendee