Theses/Dissertations from 2025
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
Towards Robust Federated Learning: Investigating Poisoning Attacks Under Clients Data Heterogeneity, Abdenour Soubih, Seyyid Ahmed Lahmer, Mohammed Abuhamad, and Tamer Abuhmed
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
Evaluating LLMs Capabilities Towards Understanding Social Dynamics, Anique Tahir, Lu Cheng, Manuel Sandoval, Yasin Silva, Deborah Hall, and Huan Liu
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
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
"Conversae: The Sorbonne Cartulary and Jewish Converts of 13th Century Paris, Andrew MS Zero
The Beloved Disciple in Performance, Eric Christian Zito
Events from 2024
Growing Community Relations as a Community Day Services Intern at Misericordia, Rylee Abaya
SingleADV: Single-Class Target-Specific Attack Against Interpretable Deep Learning Systems, Eldor Abdukhamidov, Mohammed Abuhamad, George K. Thiruvathukal, Hyoungshick Kim, and Tamer Abuhmed
Hardening Interpretable Deep Learning Systems: Investigating Adversarial Threats and Defenses, Eldor Abdukhamidov, Mohammed Abuhamad, Simon S. Woo, Eric Chan-Tin, and Tamer Abuhmed
Mitigation of AI adoption bias through an improved autonomous AI system for diabetic retinal disease, Michael D. Abramoff, Philip T. Lavin, Julie R. Jakubowski, Barbara A. Blodi, Mia Keeys, Cara Joyce, and James C. Folk
Development of Dyes for Photocatalysis and Biological Sensing, Sara Abuhadba
Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Using Ten Years of Data Collected With IceTop, Gunwati Agrawal and Savannah Lehrman
A Signal Injection Attack Against Zero Involvement Pairing and Authentication for the Internet of Things, Isaac Ahlgren, Jack West, Kyuin Lee, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Neil Klingensmith
A Signal Injection Attack Against Zero Involvement Pairing and Authentication for the Internet of Things, Isaac Ahlgren, Jack West, Kyu In Lee, George Thiruvathukal, and Neil Klingensmith
Absolute Quantification of Human Myosin and Titin Isoforms in Disease by a Mass Spectrometry Approach, Nitha Aima Muntu
MotionID: Towards Practical Behavioral Biometrics-Based Implicit User Authentication on Smartphones, Mohsen Ali Alawami, Tamer Abuhmed, Mohammed Abuhamad, and Hyoungshick Kim
Identifying the Interactors of OTUD6B-2 That Are Important for Its Function on C-Myc, Farah Albatsh
Optimizing Uncertainty Estimation on Scientific Visualizations Using Learning Models, Clara Almeida, David Guerrero-Pantoja, Erik Pautsch, Silvio Rizzi, George Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja
Draft genomes of one Staphylococcus haemolyticus and five Staphylococcus lugdunensis strains isolated from catheterized urine samples of females, Helen Appleberry, Haaris Anjum, Taleah Cage, Kayla Jarm, Haashir Khan, Lizzie Proctor, Junelle Saroca, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula
Draft genome sequences of an Enterobacter hormaechei and Providencia rettgeri isolated from the urine of a male experiencing a catheter-associated urinary tract infection, Helen Appleberry, Michaela Brady, Samantha Webster, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula
Draft genomes of two Enterobacter hormaechei strains isolated from catheterized urine samples from females experiencing overactive bladder symptoms, Helen Appleberry, Richa Patel, Kanishka Singh, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula
Draft genome assemblies of three Klebsiella grimontii strains isolated from catheterized urine samples from the same male participant over the course of 6 months, Helen Appleberry, Warwick Price, Lorenzo Roque, Evelyn Umana, Alan J. Wolfe, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula
Evidence of Lactobacillus strains shared between the female urinary and vaginal microbiota, Haley Atkins, Baani Sabharwal, Leah Boger, Natalie Stegman, Alexander Kula, Alan J. Wolfe, Swarnali Banerjee, and Catherine Putonti
Social identity, social media use, and mental health in adults: Investigating the mediating role of cyberbullying experiences and the moderating effects of gender and age., Natali Barragan, Amanda Batista, Deborah Hall, and Yasin Silva
Understanding Teachers’ Responses to Parental Demands in the Midst of Competing Responsibilities, Kathryn Battafarano
Joint advertising: The Impact of Domestic, Foreign, and Global Partners on Cognitive Fit, Brittney C. Bauer and Clark D. Johnson
Can Neural Networks Reach Human Vision Levels on Object Recognition Tasks?, Luke D. Baumel, Mikayla Cutler, Matt Hyatt, Joseph Tocco, William Friebel, Nicholas Baker Dr., and George K. Thiruvathukal Dr.
ReTexture 2D, Luke D. Baumel, Mikayla Cutler, Joseph Tocco, William Friebel, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Nicholas Baker Dr.
North Sinai Bedouin Veil from the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection, Jupiter Beck
Daring Dames and Dirty Deeds: Chicago Burlesque, Drag, and Censorship Politics, 1850-1980, Lucas Andrew Bensley
A Fisher Information Theory of Aesthetic Preference for Complexity, Sébastien Berquet, Hassan Aleem, and Norberto M. Grzywacz
Five Themes of U.S. Home Price Cycles: A Dynamic Modelling Approach, Ramaprasad Bhar, A. G. Malliaris, Mary Malliaris, and Mark S. Rzepczynski
Detecting LGBTQ+ Instances of Cyberbullying, Arslan Bisharat, Manuel Madrigal, Mohammed Abuhamad, Deborah Hall, and Yasin Silva
Inhibitors of the Bacterial Enzyme ArgE as Potential Novel Antibiotics, Alayna Bland
Investigating CAR T Cell Persistence, Functional Phenotype, and the Associations with Clinical Response in CD19 CAR T Cell Treated Patients, Oliwia Bochnacka
Balancing Act: Cultivating Teacher Wellness in the Classroom, Hank Bohanon
Use of Online Hybrid Supplemental Teaching in Field-Based Teacher Education Programs, Hank Bohanon, Wenjin Guo, and Christopher Dickman
Testing Strategies To Develop a Mucosal T Cell Inducing Vaccine for HIV-1, Reynolds Boone
Jesus, the Temple, and Early Christian Memory, Scott K. Brevard
UV Radiation Device: Measuring UV Index Across the Solar Eclipse, Kathleen Broun, Calista MacLellan, and Elizabeth Joseph
Associations Between Neighborhood Factors and Adherence in Youth with Spina Bifida: The Mediating Role of Parental Stress and Youth Internalizing Symptoms, Breana Lyn Bryant
The Impact of Risk and Trust on Confrontations of Sexism: The Role of Goals, Emily H. Budde
Investigating the Oncogenic Role of NKX3.1 in Prostate Cancer, Audris Budreika
Diagnosing Silent Forgiveness at the Dialogical Limit in Endō Shūsaku’s Novel Silence, Catherine Buescher
Implementing a decision-support tool to prevent community acquired pressure injuries in spinal cord injury (SCI) in the SCI clinic: A pilot study, Lisa Burkhart, Chad Ostseen, Autumn Smith, Brian Bartle, and Frances Weaver
The Effects of Conditional Loss of Myosin Binding Protein H-Like on Cardiac Function, Hope Victoria Burnham
Racialization’s Influence on African American Male University Attrition: Is it Culture Shock or Is There More to the Story, Joseph M. Butler
Racializing Digital Campus Spaces: A Critical Phenomenological Approach to Understanding (Re)Production Of Whiteness in Digital Campus Ecology, Victoria Elizabeth Callais
One Tiger, Many Lions: Uneven Adoption of China's Political and Economic Investment Among Democracies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Tommy Callan
Explainable Artifacts for Synthetic Western Blot Source Attribution, João Phillipe Cardenuto, Sara Mandelli, Daniel Moreira, Paolo Bestagini, Edward J. Delp, and Anderson Rocha
Unveiling Scientic Articles from Paper Mills with Provenance Analysis, João Phillipe Cardenuto, Daniel Moreira, and Anderson Rocha
Unveiling scientific articles from paper mills with provenance analysis, João Phillipe Cardenuto, Daniel Moreira, and Anderson Rocha
In Pursuit of Racial Equity: The Role of Women Presidents and Senior Leadership Teams in Higher Education, Lisa Castillo Richmond
The Undocu-Competence of College and University Websites: A Lonestar State Analysis, Karina Castro-Pavon
Clinical Social Workers, Telemental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Juli Chaffee
A DACA Initiative: Transformative Organizational Change at the School of Medicine, Cynthia Chaidez
Exploring the Relationship of Social Dominance Orientation, Symbolic Ableism, and Support for Mitigation Implementation with Exposure to a Health Threat, Samantha Chambers
Factors Impacting the Empirical Identification of the Bifactor IRT Model of Rating Data, Wenya Chen
Instructional Design and Delivery During the Pandemic: Taiwan, I-Ting Chiu, Hui-Ting Wang, and Hank Bohanon
Disambiguation of Aerococcus Urinae Species Diversity, Brian Ian Choi
