Theses/Dissertations from 2022
To Be Fair: Colorism and Online Dating Among Young South Asians, Kajal S. Patel
Medical Futility: The Ethical Dilemma, Love Patel, Leonardo Hernandez, Hemali Patel, and Cassie Sala
White Enigma: Opacity, Perspective, and the Theological Formation of White Subjectivity, Nathan David Pederson
Catholic Theological and Equity Framework to Champion Hispanic Representation in Catholic Schools, Jorge Pena, John Reyes, and Michael T. O'Connor
Vitamin D Supplementation for the Treatment of Depressive Symptoms in Women with Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Sue Penckofer PhD; Monique Ridosh; William Howard Adams; Meghan Grzesiak; Jennifer Woo; Mary Byrn; Joanne Kouba PhD, RDN, LDN; Patricia M. Sheean; Colleen Kordish; Ramon Durazo-Arvizu; Diane Wallis; Mary Ann Emanuele; and Angelos Halaris
Influences of Latino Caregivers’ Input and Acculturation on Children’s Bilingual Development: A Speech Sample Analysis, Jordan Sierra Perry
Rapid Radiation of Zeiformes Revealed Through Comparison of Jaw Morphologies, Jeffrey Peters
Investigating the Role of Nagc Reveals it to Be a Global Regulator, Natasha Peterson
Shared Stem Cells in the Zebrafish Caudal Body and Fin, Fred Pickett, Max McDonnell, Maya Roytman, Grace Manske, Shepherd Yancey, Sydni Hall, Nicholas Tomaras, Victoria Teregulova, Shireen Baig, Zil Barot, Kyle Boedeker, Andrew Locke, Robin Pelia, Emma Loftesnes, Allison Watts, Olivia Larson, Ilia Tomov, and Paula Martin
Institutionalism, Peer Culture, and Cultural Reproduction in Active Shooter Drills, Lillian Wynne Platten
Identification of shared and disease-specific host gene–microbiome associations across human diseases using multi-omic integration, Sambhawa Priya, Michael B. Burns, Tonya Ward, Ruben A.T. Mars, Beth Adamowicz, Eric F. Lock, Purna C. Kashyap, Dan Knights, and Ran Blekhman
Teaching Presence in Online Discussions: Relationship-Based Learning by Design, Mary Quest
Measuring What They Value: Exploring the Meaning of Student Success for Community College Students of Mexican Origin, Destiny M. Quintero
Constructing Planetary Citizens Through Ecopedagogy in U.S. Social Studies Standards, Madeline Anne Rainey
Sarah Rankins E-Portfolio: GiGi's Playhouse, Sarah Rankins
Positive Affect Facilitates Reduction in Depression Symptoms During a Mobile Mindfulness-Based Intervention, Andrew Rauch
Leveraging Moral Foundations to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination, Cara Elizabeth Ray
Storing Data Once in M-trees and PM-trees: Revisiting the Building Principles of Metric Access Methods, Humberto Razente, Maria Camila N. Barioni, and Yasin N. Silva
How Black Are You?: The Influence of Racial Centrality on Stereotype Threat in the Courtroom, Kendall Cathleen Redwood
Using Magic to Teach Computer Programming, Dale F. Reed and Ronald I. Greenberg
Ethical Perspective for the Debate of Human Cadaver Use vs. Simulations for Anatomy Training, Vanessa Portugal Reis, Andre Herrera, Maria del Mar Villanueva Guzman, and Kit Ziemba
Dirac Dark Matter, Neutrino Masses, and Dark Baryogenesis, Diego Restrepo, Andrès Rivera, and Walter Tangarife
The Impact of Perceived Discrimination and Stigma Consciousness on Connectedness, Trust, and Satisfaction in Healthcare Domains During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Devon Richardson
Trajectories of Self-management and Independence in Youth with Spina Bifida: Demographic Predictors of Growth, Monique M. Ridosh, William Adams, Fabiola Magana, Kathleen J. Sawin, and Grayson N. Holmbeck
Discordant Population Structure Among Rhizobium Divided Genomes and Their Legume Hosts, Alex B. Riley, Michael A. Grillo, Brendan Epstein, Peter Tiffin, and Katy D. Heath
Effectiveness of a Virtual Learning Environment on Pediatric Students’ Knowledge, Self-Confidence and Satisfaction with Learning Growth and Development Concepts, Laura Marie Robbins-Frank
‘Chismes de la ciudad letrada’: nostalgia, exilio y la construcción del canon cubano en la ensayística de Cabrera Infante, Ana B. Rodriguez Navas
Effects of brew time and temperature on the aerobic conversion of organic waste from aquaponics systems into fertilizer, Justin Ross, Caroline Bursler, Saheba Cuccia, Sophia Alvarado, Marilla Smith, and Ben Wilson
The Interplay Between ASD Symptomatology and Camouflaging on the Adjustment to College in Female Students with and without ASD, Lauren Ruesink, Gabriella Stec, Maddie Fitzpatrick, and Cameron Boone
Reading A Mind, Sydney Samoska
Examining the implementation of Teacher–Child Interaction Training-Universal in public schools, Catherine DeCarlo Santiago, Yvita Bustos, Susana Sosa, Roxanna Flores Toussaint, Sarah Gebhardt, and David Stern
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
Can the Unfree Be Held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency, Abraham Singer
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
Social and Emotional Needs of Emergent Bilingual High School Students: Perspectives of Teachers, School Counselors, and School Social Workers, Elizabeth Vera, Amy J. Heineke, Anna Schultes, and Plamena Daskalova
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