Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Alternative Splicing of a Polyamine Metabolism Gene in Response to Cell Stress, Andrea K. W. Chu
Feeling a little uneasy: A comparative discourse analysis of White and BIPOC college students’ reflective writing about systemic racism, Brett Russell Coleman and Caitlyn Yantis
SEL for Well-Being and Equity in Higher Education, Colleen Conley and Deborah Donahue-Keegan
Exploring the Incumbent Early Childhood Workforce as Teachers Who Student and Students Who Teach: A Phenomenological Study, Kate Maxine Connor
Characterization of the Glyoxal Response in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Christopher James Corcoran
Associations between fears related to safety during sleep and self-reported sleep in men and women living in a low-socioeconomic status setting, Arron T. L. Correia, Philippa E. Forshaw, Laura C. Roden, Gosia Lipinska, H. G. Laurie Rauch, Estelle V. Lambert, Brian T. Layden, Sirimon Reutrakul, Stephanie J. Crowley, Amy Luke, Lara R. Dugas, and Dale E. Rae
Controlling the Skies: Leveraging Airspace as a Foreign Policy Tool, Samantha Costas
ReTexture 3D, Mikayla Cutler, Luke D. Baumel, Joseph Tocco, William Friebel, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Nicholas Baker Dr.
Characterization of CD11c-Expressing Gut-Associated T Cells, Ana Cvetkovic
The Religious Practices of Hinduism in the Greater Chicago Area, Justyna Czopek and Iza Flores
The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Urban Migration and Methodological Innovations, Elisa D'Amico
Reusing Deep Learning Models: Challenges and Directions in Software Engineering, James C. Davis, Purvish Jajal, Wenxin Jiang, Taylor R. Schorlemmer, Nicholas Synovic, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Enrichment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolizing Microorganisms on the Oral Mucosa of Tobacco Users, James V. DeFrancesco, Lin Tao, M Paul Chiarelli, Sylvia Pavlova, Antonia Kolokythas, Joel Schwartz, Benjamin Salameh, Stefan J. Green, and Guy Adami
Crowdsourcing: A Roundtable Discussion, Joanna F. DeFranco, Nir Kshetri, George K. Thiruvathukal, and George F. Hurlburt
Containerization on a Self-Supervised Active Foveated Approach to Computer Vision, Dario Dematties, Silvio Rizzi, and George K. Thiruvathukal
Adjudicating discretion in youth cases: Research, law, and policy for consideration in immigration proceedings, Sarah J. Diaz JD, LLM; Carolyn Frazier; and Lisa Jacobs
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment Within the Illinois Prison System and Its Effect on Recidivism, Maria DiMeglio
Multiracial Congregations: Transformative or Status Quo?, Michelle Dodson
Hinduism in Chicago: A Religion of Asia Study, David Duenas, Melat Ross, Dominic Dao, and Katie Kim
Cataloging the phylogenetic diversity of human bladder bacterial isolates, Jingjie Du, Mark Khemmani, Thomas Halverson, Adriana Ene, Roberto Limeira, Lana Tinawi, Baylie R. Hochstedler-Kramer, Melline Fontes Noronha, Catherine Putonti, and Alan J. Wolfe
The Patient's Story Matters: Integrating Social Determinants of Health in Graduate Nursing Simulation, Joanne O. Dunderdale DNP, RN; Anne Cahill MSN, RN; Jo-Anne Tierney MSN, CPNP, RN; and Carol T. Kostovich PhD, RN, CHSE
Responsibilization and Retraditionalization: How Neoliberal Logics Reproduce Gender Inequities Among Women Community Organizers in Chicago, Mary L. Dungy and Amy Krings
Looking for Love: Motivations of Dating App Usage in Millennials, Mel Ekins
Beyond the Clinic: Characterizing the Long-Term Individual and Familial Implications of ART-Linked Birth Defects, Grace Ellerbeck and Delano Gonzalez
Understanding Dual Language Teachers' Language Ideologies Using Translanguaging Theory and Pedagogy: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Joseph P. Elliott
The Skin Microbiome and Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma, Gail Hillary Lantaca Enriquez
Understanding the Trafficking of Children for the Purposes of Labor in the United States, Amy Farrell, Meredith Dank, Katherine Kaufka Walts, Callie Hansson, Andrea Hughes, and Chlece Neal
Elucidating the Underlying Mechanisms Polyamines Play on Coxsackievirus B3 Infection, Mason Richard Firpo
Artificial Intelligence Employment Interviews: Examining Limitations, Biases, and Perceptions, Theresa Fister and George K. Thiruvathukal
Exploring Perceptions of Algorithmic Bias in Video Interviewing Software: The Importance of AI Hiring Education, Theresa Fister and George K. Thiruvathukal
Sadomasochistic Sensations: A Phenomenological Analysis Of Black Ontology, Embodiment, And Transcendence, Sam Forrey
The Devil in the Machine: The Doctor Travels through Time in Chris Bush’s Faustus: That Damned Woman, Verna Foster
Protein Purification and Expression of β-Glucosidase Mutant Y118F, Abigail Fruzyna and Miranda Chaidez
The Effect of Environmental Pollutants on the Spotted Turtle Gut Microbiota, Roza Gawin
CT-to-MRI Synthesis for High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Treatment Planning, Rachel Nicole Gordon
The Role of Familism in Raising Bilingual Children, Sophia M. Grippo
Accelerating Uncertainty Methods for Distributed Deep Learning on Novel Architectures, Daniel Guerrero-Pantoja, Erik Pautsch, Clara Almeida, Silvio Rizzi, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Maria Pantoja
The Role of MicroRNAs in Lung Inflammation After Alcohol and Burn Injury, Connor O'Neal Guzior
Cyclobutanone Inhibitors of Diaminopimelate Desuccinylase (DapE) as Potential New Antibiotics, Thahani Shifna Habeeb Mohammad, Emma H. Kelley, Cory T. Reidl Dr., Katherine Konczak, Megan Beulke, Janielle Javier, Ken W. Olsen, and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
Identifying and Characterizing Cognitive Profiles in Midlife Females: A Latent Profile Analysis, Hannah Hagy
Regulation of Spermatogenesis by the BTB Transcription Factor Ribbon, Madeline Kyung Hee Hakala
Job Talk: Candidate Gender and Presentation of Prior Experience in Television Ads in the US, Eric R. Hansen and Connor Mautner
Can Large-Language Models Help us Better Understand and Teach the Development of Energy-Efficient Software?, Ryan Hasler, Konstantin Laufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, Huiyun Peng, Kyle Robinson, Kirsten Davis, Yung-Hisang Lu, and James C. Davis
Warm Bodies, Strong Attachments, and the Search for Better Bonds: The Politics of Human-Animal Entanglements In U.S. Fiction and Media, John Charles Hawkins
Development of Environmental Education Materials for Columbus Park, Abbey Y. Haynes
Kids in Care: Unaccompanied Children in Federal Government Custody, Lauren Heidbrink MA/MS, PhD and Sarah Diaz JD, LLM
Assessing the Impact of an RPP on a Large Urban School District: The Case of CAFÉCS, Erin Henrick, Danny Schmidt, Steven McGee, Andrew M. Rasmussen, Lucia Dettori, Ronald I. Greenberg, Dale Reed, and Don Yanek
5BF- Financial Payments Fund, Ryan Hensley, Noah Streefland Erdem, Ioan Cardos, Santiago I. Yepez, and Kabir Farishta
Well-being in the context of Indigenous heritage management: A Hach Winik perspective from Metzabok, Chiapas, Mexico, Christopher Hernandez and Armando Valenzuela Gomez
Elucidating Enterococcal Mechanisms Underlying Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections, Baylie Hochstedler-Kramer
Establishing Metrics to Encourage Broader Use of Atomic Requirements – A Call for Exchange and Experimentation, William L. Honig
Investigating the Roles of Sirtuins During CVB3 Infection and Innate Immunity, Bridget M. Hulsebosch
Lindsey Hunsinger's Spring of 2024 Internship Presentation, Lindsey C. Hunsinger
Resiliency and Positive Childhood Experiences: Implications for Black Youths' Mental and Behavioral Health and School Engagement, Sharnequa Nashay Hunter
Robust Source Attribution of Synthetically Generated Western Blot Images, Matt Hyattt, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Daniel Moreira
A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain, David Igliozzi, Yael Granot Ph.D., and Victor C. Ottati
Can Human Rights Be Reconciled with Citizenship: Reconsidering Marx's Zur Judenfrage Today, David Ingram
Revisiting Marcuse on Repressive Tolerance: A Twenty-First Century Retrospective, David Ingram
Molecular Mechanisms and Targeted Therapies for Ocular Surface Disease, Sana Iqbal
Draft genome sequences for a Staphylococcus aureus and a Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolate from nasal swab samples from healthy females, Sandra Jablonska, Hannah Brown, Helen Appleberry, Catherine Putonti, and Alex Kula
Draft genome of Staphylococcus capitis O112, isolated from the cheek swab of a healthy female, Sandra Jablonska, Alex Kula, and Catherine Putonti
You're covered... in Staphylococcus epidermidis, Sandra M. Jablonska
Interoperability in Deep Learning: A User Survey and Failure Analysis of ONNX Model Converters, Purvish Jajal, Wenxin Jiang, Arav Tewari, Erik Kocinare, Joseph Woo, Anusha Sarraf, Yung-Hsiang Lu, George Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
Ou Pa Moun Bò Isit: Haitian Imaginaries of Non-Governmental Organizations, Stephanie Jean-Baptiste
“Get Out of the House Before it Kills You”: Haunted Housewives and the Feminist Gothic in Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, Sarah Jeffries
Challenges and Practices of Deep Learning Model Reengineering: A Case Study on Computer Vision, Wenxin Jiang, Vishnu Banna, Naveen Vivek, Abhinav Goel, Nicholas Synovic, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
PeaTMOSS: A Dataset and Initial Analysis of Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software, Wenxin Jiang, Jerin Yasmin, Jason Jones, Nicholas Synovic, Jiashen Kuo, Nathaniel Bielanski, Yuan Tian, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
Understanding Stress, Strengths, and Strategies to Support Immigrant Youth: A Bundled Dissertation, Sarah Jolie
What Do We Know About Hugging Face? A Systematic Literature Review and Quantitative Validation of Qualitative Claims, Jason Jones, Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic, George K. Thiruvathukal, and James C. Davis
ActionPoint: An App to Combat Cyberbullying by Strengthening Parent-Teen Relationships, Maddie Juarez, Natali Barragan, Deborah Hall, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Yasin Silva
ActionPoint: An App to Combat Cyberbullying via the Strengthening of Parent-Teen Relationships, Maddie Juarez, Natali Barragan, Deborah Hall, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Yasin N. Silva
ActionPoint: An App to Combat Cyberbullying by Strengthening Parent-Teen Relationships, Madison Juarez, Natali Barragan, Deborah Hall, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Yasin Silva
Development of Targeted, Statin Loaded Nanoparticle Delivery Systems, Stephanie Judkins
Unmasking the Vulnerabilities of Deep Learning Models: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Adversarial Attacks and Defenses, Firuz Juraev, Mohammed Abuhamad, Eric S. Chan-Tin, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Tamer Abuhmed
From Attack to Defense: Insights into Deep Learning Security Measures in Black-Box Settings, Firuz Juraev, Mohammed Abuhamad, Eric Chan-Tin, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Tamer Abuhmed
The Impact of Model Variations on the Robustness of Deep Learning Models in Adversarial Settings, Firuz Juraev, Mohammed Abuhamad, Simon S. Woo, George K. Thiruvathukal, and Tamer Abuhmed
Ford Madox Ford’s Unusual War: Ongoing Worry and Modernity, Nur Karatas
Drivers of Microparticles Abundance in Freshwater Fish and Macroinvertibrates, Elizabeth Kazmierczak
Biochemical and Structural Analysis of the Bacterial Enzyme Succinyl-Diaminopimelate Desuccinylase (DapE) from Acinetobacter baumannii, Emma H. Kelley, George Minasov, Katherine Konczak, Ludmilla Shuvalova, Joseph S. Brunzelle, Shantanu Shukla, Megan Beulke, Teerana Thabthimthong, Ken W. Olsen, Nicole L. Inniss, Karla JF Satchell, and Daniel P. Becker Ph.D.
Development of a Urothelial Cell Line Expressing a Caspase-1 Biosensor to Measure Cellular Inflammatory Responses to Potential Uropathogens, Nikita Riya Kesav
Role of Ca2+ Signaling in Mechanical Strain-Induced Reactive Astrocytosis in Primary Optic Nerve Head Astrocytes, Cassidy Kessinger
Victim-Offender Overlap: Risky Spaces, Deviant Subculture, and Revenge Motives in Committing Fraud in Cyberspace, Alexander Kierna and Loretta Stalans
An Aviation Curriculum for an Urban Diverse School District: The Need and Possibility, Stephanie Kiley
Examining Behavioral Variations in Disadvantaged Adolescents: A Cross-Racial Study of African, Latinx, and Asian American Adolescents, Caleb Kim and Rana Hong
Jewish Laws for Gentiles: Purity in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies, Joshua T. King
Nursing burnout after the COVID-19 pandemic: A small descriptive study of hospital-based nurses from two countries, Colleen Kordish and Awatef Ibraheem
Being Present: Connecting with Diverse Populations, Carol T. Kostovich, Lee A. Schmidt, and Matthew Gallagher
Fluorescence Spectroscopy Analysis of Phospholipids Bound to Bovine Serum Albumin, Daria Kozuch and Jennifer Feussi Kamwo
Genetic, In Vitro Phenotypic, and Clinical Characterization of Atypical Enteropathogenic E. coli Infection and Pathogenesis, Sarah E. Kralicek
Exploring Saliency Bias in Manipulation Detection, Joshua Krinsky, Alan Bettis, Qiuyu Tang, Daniel Moreira, and Aparna Bharati
Draft genomes of Klebsiella aerogenes, Klebsiella huaxiensis, and Klebsiella michiganensis isolates from the urinary tract, Alex Kula, Muna Arman, Helen Appleberry, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
Draft genome sequences of four Corynebacterium amycolatum strains isolated from female urine samples, Alex Kula, Grace Chilton, James Damaso, Yusef Golzar, Fatima Rushnaiwala, Helen Appleberry, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
Two draft genome assemblies of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from a cheek swab of a healthy female participant, Alex Kula, Sandra Jablonska, Lexi Avalos, Tyler Jensen, Helen Appleberry, and Catherine Putonti
Draft genomes of Neisseria perflava UMB0578, Proteus mirabilis UMB8339, and Enterococcus faecalis UMB7967 isolated from urine samples, Alex Kula, Ali Khan, Megan Martinez, Jevan Terry, Helen Appleberry, Alan J. Wolfe, and Catherine Putonti
Draft genome assemblies of one Lactobacillus gasseri strain and two Lactobacillus jensenii strains isolated from voided urine samples, Alex Kula, Natalie Stegman, and Catherine Putonti
Exploring the Relationship between Teachers' Religious Identity and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Candace M. Kyles
Development and Benchmark of Polarizable Models for Ions, Luke Landry
