Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Role of Tetraspanins in SARS-CoV-2 Fusion and Entry, Marcos Saul Santiago Figueroa
The Role of Identification in Black Individuals' Goals to Challenge Racism Through Confrontation and Collective Action, Efrata Sasahulih
Phylogenetic Relationships Among Fishes in the Order Zeiformes Based on Molecular Data from Three Mitochondrial Loci, Lindsay Scarpitta
“And There The Pagans Reigned”: Epideictic, Shared Appreciation, Social History, Stephen Schloesser
Protein prediction for trait mapping in diverse populations, Ryan Schubert, Elyse Geoffroy, Isabelle Gregga, Ashley J. Mulford, Francois Aguet, Kristin Ardlie, Robert Gerszten, Clary Clish, David van Den Berg, Kent D. Taylor, Peter Durda, W. Craig Johnson, Elaine Cornell, Xiuqing Guo, Yongmei Liu, Russell Tracy, Matthew Conomos, Tom Blackwell, George Papanicolaou, Tuuli Lappalainen, Anna V. Mikhaylova, Timothy A. Thornton, Michael H. Cho, Christopher R. Gignoux, Leslie Lange, Ethan Lange, and Stephen S. Rich
Things of Beauty: Aesthetics for Environmental Education, Annie Schultz
Things of Beauty: Aesthetics for Environmental Education, Annie Schultz
Reclaiming the Food System: Learning from Community Responses to the Impacts of COVID-19, Tania Schusler
Recuperar el sistema alimentario: aprendiendo de las respuestas comunitarias a los impactos del COVID-19, Tania Schusler
Calcium-Mediated Induction of Vibrio Fischeri ES114 Biofilms, Katia Elizabeth Semenchuk
Facilitators and Barriers to Mentor-Mentee Relationships in a Mental Health-App Intervention, Mattheus Shack, Sarah E. Broner, and Colleen S. Conley
Medical Schools: The Ultimate Gatekeepers, Naomi Shah
School Leaders’ Assessment of Teachers’ Preparedness for Culturally Responsive Teaching, Victoria Maria Siliunas
DBSnap 2: New Features to Construct Database Queries by Snapping Blocks, Yasin N. Silva, Alexis Loza, and Humberto Razente
DBSnap-Eval: Identifying Database Query Construction Patterns, Yasin N. Silva, Alexis Loza, and Humberto Razente
Introduction of Advocacy, Mia Silvestros
Determination of The Ecological Water Quality in The Orienco Stream Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates in The Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, Federico Sinche, Manuel Cabrera, Lenin Vaca, Edin Segura, and Pablo Carrera
Changes in Teacher Pedagogy and Student Engagement in Elementary 1:1 Classrooms, Adam Douglas Smeets
Taking It Too Far? Examining Derogation in Sexism Confrontations, Bayleigh Smith
Chicago's Highway System: A Route to Poor Health Outcomes?, Solea A. Smith
Association of Depression, Anxiety, Loneliness, and Inflammatory Markers in Women Veterans, Solea A. Smith and Karen Saban
Integrating Current Analyses of the Breast Cancer Microbiome, Sidra Sohail
Acculturative Stress Trajectories and Mental Health Among Mexican Immigrant Families, Susana Sarai Sosa
The Role of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 Β (GSK-3β) at the Cardiac Myofilament, Marisa Jean Stachowski
The U.S. Government's Program of Welfare for the Wealthy, Stanley F. Stasch
Healing Earth in a Time of Crisis: Curriculum for Integral Ecology, Caleb Steindam
Cook County Community Survey: Online Food Delivery Services, Ben Stringer
Identifying Opportunities to Improve Path to Diagnosis of de novo Metastatic Breast Cancer in Young Women, Sarah Strom and Tamara Hamlish
The Political Economy of Capitalism in the Digital Age, Economic Democracy, and the Case for the Digital Commons, Alec Stubbs
Predicting Asian American College Women’s Leadership Intention Using Social Cognitive Career Theory, Jeong-Eun Suh
Attempting Genetic Inference from Directional Asymmetry during Convergent Hindlimb Reduction in Squamates, Samantha Swank, Ethan Elazegui, Sophia Janidlo, Thomas J. Sanger, Michael A. Bell, and Yoel E. Stuart
Youth Culture, Organizational Values, and Participatory Politics in the Digital Spaces of Youth-Led Anti-Gun Violence Movements, Julie M. Szamocki
Water Insecurity, Self-reported Physical Health, and Objective Measures of Biological Health in the Peruvian Amazon, Paula S. Tallman, Shalean M. Collins, M. Pia Chaparro, and Gabriela Salmon-Mulanovich
Water Insecurity and Gender-based Violence: A Global Review of the Evidence, Paula S. Tallman, Shalean Collins, Gabriela Salmon-Mulanovich, Binahayati Rusyidi, Aman Kothadia, and Stroma Cole
Physical Fitness Profile of Air Force ROTC Cadets, Caitlin Tarpey and Aly Rahmatullah
Project Cannonball - Team Creaboration, Melina Testin, Callie L. Hunter, John R. Jeannotte, Morgan T. Beemer, and Alexandra S. Neary
Comparison of Feeding Functional Morphology Development in North American Esocids, Cheryl Theile
Low-Power Computer Vision: Improve the Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence, George K. Thiruvathukal, Yung-Hisang Lu, Jaeyoun Kim, Yiran Chen, and Bo Chen
Efficient Computer Vision for Embedded Systems, George K. Thiruvathukal and Yung-Hsiang Lu
Connecting School Climate and Trust: A Content Analysis of Elements of Trust in Student and Staff School Climate Surveys, Katherine Thyen
Conserving the American Man: Gender, Eugenics and Education in the Civilian Conservation Corps, Charles Tocci and Ann Marie Ryan
Generation Z: Social Media and News Consumption, Christian S. To, Vince D. Arden, Hyeon Park, Yaritci V. Moncisvais, Anastasiia Koval, Sam J. Uhlarik, and Callie Lauren Hunter
Turn Not Thine Eyes: Holy Faces, Saving Gazes, and the Theology of Attention, Jacob W. Torbeck
An Analysis of COVID-19 and Poverty in the United States, Trevor Haakon Tormoen, Anthony F. Campana, Matthew R. Driscoll, and Patrick J. Monnin
Systems of Oppression: The Impact of Discrimination on Latinx Immigrant Adolescents’ Well-Being and Development, Stephanie A. Torres, Susana Sosa PhD, Roxanna Flores Tousaint PhD, Sarah Alicia Jolie PhD, and Yvita Bustos PhD
Implementation of Technology in Nursing Homes to Combat Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19, Sarah E. Totta, Regina M. Antonetti, Kaylie N. Burck, and Priyali Patel
Differences in Health Literacy and Healthcare Utilization for Uninsured Patients With Type II Diabetes, Whitney Key Towey
Accessing Gap Detection & Frequency Discrimination in Mice Utilizing the Acoustic Startle Reflex, Lynn Tran and Aniruth Senthilkumar
Roosevelt Fountain Wind-Driven VFD Pump Control, Lorenzo Trentini, Ryan Gippner, Brooke Lepore, Jackson Bradshaw, and David Grimm
Gestalt Principles in Data Visualization, Natalie Tse and Dinko Bačić Dr.
Irrelevant Pixels are Everywhere: Find and Exclude Them for More Efficient Computer Vision, Caleb Tung, Abhinav Goel, Xiao Hu, Nick Eliopoulos, Emmanuel Amobi, George K. Thiruvathukal, Vipin Chaudhary, and Yung-Hisang Lu
Project Cannonball: Team Creativiteam, Sam J. Uhlarik, Stephen Loyola, Ethan T. Judge, Moises Pavon, and Jose Jasso Sanchez
A qualitative analysis of ethnic/racial congruence in schools and the challenges and supports newcomer families experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, Paloma Unda Charvel, Susana S. Sosa, and Catherine DeCarlo Santiago
Project Cannonball, Vaishnavi Vembar, Maria Marcus, Jon Winters, Renata Flores Amezcua, Ashlyn Giardano, Yarizet Cordero, and Malessa McKillip
Establishing Trust in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Coordination: A Sensor Fusion Approach, Jakob Veselsky, Jack West, Isaac Ahlgren, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith, Abhinav Goel, Wenxin Jiang, James C. Davis, Kyuin Lee, and Younghyun Kim
Establishing Trust in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Coordination: A Sensor Fusion Approach, Jakob Veselsky, Jack West, Isaac Ahlgren, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith, Abhinav Goel, Wenxin Jiang, James C. Davis, Kyuin Lee, and Younghyun Kim
Migration Across Institutions of Race: How Immigrant Women from Latin America Construct Ethnoracial Self-Identities in Sending and Receiving Societies, Juanita Vivas Bastidas
Evolution of Static Allometry and Constraint on Evolutionary Allometry in a Fossil Stickleback, Kjetil L. Voje, Michael A. Bell, and Yoel E. Stuart
Delayed Testosterone Treatment in a Rodent Model of Repeat Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Attenuates Mechanisms of Cellular Death in the Vestibular Nucleus, Michael Volyanyuk
Comparing Online Surveys for Cybersecurity: SONA and Mturk, Anne Wagner, Anna Bakas, Shelia Kennison, and Eric Chan-Tin
The Personalities of Social Media Posts and Photos, Anne Wagner, Anna Bakas, Daisy Reyes, Shelia Kennison, and Eric Chan-Tin
“The Saloon Is Their Palace”: Race, Immigration, and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874–1933, Ella Wagner
An NGO Input for the Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Migrants to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on Human Rights Violations at International Borders: Trends, Prevention, and Accountability, Katherine Kaufka Walts, Sarah J. Diaz, and Abigail Mitchell
An NGO Input for the Special Rapporteur's Report on the Impact of Climate Change and the Protection of the Human Rights of Migrants, Katherine Kaufka Walts, Sarah Diaz, and Kellie Tomin
Runoff and discharge pathways of microplastics into freshwater ecosystems: A systematic review and meta-analysis, J. Wang, K. Bucci, P. A. Helm, T. Hoellein, M. J. Hoffman, R. Rooney, and C. M. Rochman
Queer Church Construction: Dialoguing Ecclesiology and Queer Theory, Daniel Ryne Warwick
Strategies to Mitigate the Effects of Negative Political Rhetoric on Service Providers: A Study in Two Refugee-Serving Organizations, Maria V. Wathen, Charity N. Weishar, and Patrick L.F. Decker
Forensic anthropology casework at the Cook County Illinois Medical Examiner's Office, Chicago, IL, 2012–2022, Erin B. Waxenbaum and Anne L. Grauer
“Satan’s Minions” and “True Believers”: How Criminal Defense Attorneys Employ Quasi-Religious Rhetoric and What It Suggests about Lawyering Culture, Elizabeth H. Webster, Kathleen Powell, Sarah E. Lageson, and Valerio Baćak
Media Consumption in the Age of COVID-19, Mary Weiermiller, Hannah Howard, Caro Bush, Margaret Cronin, Caleb Frank, and Elise Giles
Biocatalytic Intramolecular C−H aminations via Engineered Heme Proteins: Full Reaction Pathways and Axial Ligand Effects, Yang Wei, Melissa Conklin, and Yong Zhang
Randomness Distillation to Improve Key Quality for Context-Based Authentication Schemes, Jackson West
The Effects of Partisan Framing on COVID-19 Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Early and Late Pandemic, Amber Wichowsky and Meghan Condon
An Overview of Lead Water Consumption in Chicago, Zachary H. Wilder
A Feminist Political Theological Ethics of Formation: Being and Becoming Christian in the Face of American Christian Nationalism, Sara Wilhelm Garbers
Does Co-Speech Gesture Support Children’s Analogical Reasoning? An Investigation Into the Differential Effects of Gesture on Learning, Amy Michelle Wilkinson
It Doesn’t Get Better with Time: The Effect of Housing Insecurity on Rearrest in Polk and Palm Beach County, Quintin Williams
Parents' School-related Concerns and Perceived Strengths in Youth with Spina Bifida, Adrien Winning, Monique M. Ridosh, Elicia Wartman, Tessa Kritikos, Catherine Friedman, Meridith Starnes., Autumn N. Crowe, and Grayson Holmbeck
Determining the Genetic Component of Protein Levels with TWAS, Henry Wittich and Heather Wheeler
Abolition Is Not Abstract: Zines and the Transmission of Revolutionary Cultural Capital, Austin Wonder
Let's Start Talking: A Reflective Essay on Minority Students' Experiences in Academic Spaces, Publishing, and Journal Involvement, Ryan S.C. Wong and Kayla M. Martensen
Preexisting Psychological Illness and Its Association with Mortality in Lung Cancer Patients with Access to Support Resources, Allison E. Wright, Elycee Sheehan, Fares Qeadan, Lily Stalter, and Ali Imran Saeed
Response Rates of Online Surveys in Published Research: A Meta-analysis, Meng-Jia Wu, Kelly Zhao, and Francisca Fils-Aime
Interrogating Antagonistic Differences Among Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Cdia Alleles, Haotian Yang
Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps, Yucheng Yang, Jack West, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith, and Kassem Fawaz
Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps, Yucheng Yang, Jack West, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith, and Kassem Fawaz
Cellular Mechanisms Underlying State-Dependent Neural Inhibition with Magnetic Stimulation, Hui Ye, Vincent Chiun-Fan Chen, and Jenna Hendee
Accelerating Peripheral Nerve Regeneration Using Electrical Stimulation of Selected Power Spectral Densities, Wei-Ming Yu, Madelyn McCullen, and Vincent Chiun-Fan Chen
Accelerating Peripheral Nerve Regeneration Using Electrical Stimulation of Selected Power Spectral Densities, Wei-Ming Yu, Madelyn McCullen, and Vincent Chiun-Fan Chen
Elucidating the Mechanisms Underlying How VMP1 Regulates Inflammatory Responses, Stephanie Zack
Elucidating the Mechanisms of Immune Regulation by Bacillus Subtilis, Jesus Zamora-Pineda
Beauty In Biology - Wonders of the Wood Wide Web, Jessica Zarosl
Ripk3 signaling regulates HSCs during stress and represses radiation-induced leukemia in mice, Lei Zhang, Huacheng Luo, Hong Min Ni, Shanhui Liu, Hongyun Xing, Jun Zhang, Mark Sellin, Peter S.J. Breslin, Wei Wei, Mitchell F. Denning, William Small, Wen Xing Ding, Suming Huang, and Jiwang Zhang
Development of a Balance Evaluation System Using Accelerometers and Machine Learning Algorithms, Evelyn Zurawski and Sharf Abutaleb
Submissions from 2021
Measurements of the time-dependent cosmic-ray Sun shadow with seven years of IceCube data: Comparison with the Solar cycle and magnetic field models, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, J. Auffenberg, S. Axani, H. Bagherpour, X. Bai, A. V. Balagopal, A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, V. Baum, and S. Baur
IceCube high-energy starting event sample: Description and flux characterization with 7.5 years of data ICECUBE HIGH-ENERGY STARTING EVENT SAMPLE: ... ABBASI R. et al., R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, V. Baum, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty
Measurement of the high-energy all-flavor neutrino-nucleon cross section with IceCube, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, V. Baum, S. Baur, R. Bay, and J. J. Beatty
Follow-up of Astrophysical Transients in Real Time with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, R. An, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, V. Baum, S. Baur, and R. Bay
Search for GeV neutrino emission during intense gamma-ray solar flares with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. A. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, C. Alispach, A. A. Alves, N. M. Amin, R. An, K. Andeen, T. Anderson, I. Ansseau, G. Anton, C. Argüelles, S. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., A. Barbano, S. W. Barwick, B. Bastian, V. Basu, V. Baum, S. Baur, and R. Bay