Theses/Dissertations from 2023
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
Analysis of the Effects of H328N Mutation on Beta-Glucosidase B Catalytic Efficiency and Thermostability, Camryn Martin and Hamza Husein
There is no present without the past, Victoria Martinez-Mercado
What’s Medical School Got to Do with It?: Health Professionals and Medical Education in Maternal Health Disparities, Skky Martin
Which Environmental Social Work? Environmentalisms, Social Justice, and the Dilemmas Ahead, John Mathias, Amy Krings, and Samantha Teixeira
Creative Disobedience: Dorothee Sölle's Political Theology and Ethics for U.S. Christian Contexts, Dannis Matteson
Women on their Way (WOW) Community Health Clinical, Leah Mc Clellan, Octavio Campos, and Mary McNamara
Finite Charges from the Bulk Action, Robert McNees and Céline Zwikel
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
Eliminating Exclusionary Discipline: A Plan to Design and Implement Restorative Practices in a Combined Middle/High School, Amanda Nieves
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
Diversity Similarity Join for Big Data, Yasin N. Silva, Juan Martinez, Pedro Castro Cea, Humberto Razente, and Maria Camila N. Barioni
Impact of Supervisor's Interactional Justice and Interpersonal Affect on Subordinates' Performance Rating: A Signalling Perspective, Sanjay Singh, Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar, and Prakriti Soral
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
