Theses/Dissertations from 2014
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
Child Abuse Reporting: When Given the Option, Do Youth Choose to Report?, Michelle L. Vos
Neuroscience and Galen: Body, Selfhood and the Materiality of Emotions on the Early Modern Stage, Devon Wallace
Profiles of Neuropsychological Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Spina Bifda, Rachel Wasserman
Who Are You Going to Call? Primary Care Patients’ Disclosure Decisions Regarding Direct–to–Consumer Genetic Testing, Katherine Wasson, Sara Cherny, Tonya Nashay Sanders, Nancy S. Hogan, and Kathy J. Helzlsouer
Local Nonprofit Welfare Provision: The United States and Russia, Maria V. Wathen and Scott W. Allard
Review of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church, Elfriede Wedam
To Create True Sanctuary Cities, We Must End Racist Policing, Reyna Wences and Ruth Gomberg-Munoz
Some of My Best Dolls Are Black: Colorblind Rhetoric in Online Collecting Communities, Rebecca Joan West
Chasing the Writer, Joyce Wexler
Fitting Things Together: A Grounded Theory Study of Clinical Judgment in Nursing, Mary Elizabeth Wilber
Chicago Housing: Understanding How Local Organizations Mobilize to Preserve Public and Affordable Housing, Cameron Williams
Public Islam in the Contemporary World: A View on the American Case, Rhys H. Williams
What is "American" in American Religion?, Rhys H. Williams, Sylvester Johnson, and Kathryn Gin Lum
The Perceived Threat of Secularism and Militancy Among Religious Fundamentalists, Chase Wilson
Teacher Attrition: The Job Choices of Ex-Teachers, Becky Wock
Business Ethics and Ideals, Gregory Wolcott
Public Attitudes and Support for the EU in the Wake of the Financial Crisis, Jennifer R. Wozniak and Chris Hasselmann
Unveiling the Impact of Human Influence on Species Distributions in Vietnam: A Case Study Using Babblers (Aves: Timaliidae), Laurel R. Yohe, Johnathan Flanders, Hoang Minh Duc, Long Vu, and Sushma Reddy
How Do District Level and Building Level Leaders Collaborate to Implement Mandated Change?, Gwendolyn Zimmermann
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A Grounded Theory of How Jewish Experiential Education Impacts the Identity Development of Jewish Emerging Adults, Scott Turberg Aaron
The New Normal: Black Psychic Subjectivity in Antwone Fisher, Badia Sahar Ahad
Conspiratorial Thinking: How Worldview and Mortality Salience Affect Belief, Eric James Anderson
International Education Exposure in Secondary Schooling: Impacting Academic Outcomes Among Urban Girls of Color, Tiffini L. Andorful
Q 10:21-22 and Formative Christology, Olegs Andrejevs
Evidence for Renewal and Reconstitution of Marginal Zone Macrophages in Young and Aged Mice, Erika Bahamon
Remembering the Cultural Trauma Legacies of Slavery: African American Young Adult Perceptions on Racism, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Socialization, Kimya Pearl Barden
