Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Desert Places: Transnational Formations of Race, Region, and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Pampas and Prairies, Colin Allen Young
Novel Approaches for Tumor Targeting via Artificial Antigen Delivery, Annali Yurkevicz
Investigations of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron Population Dynamics, Anna P. Zagieboylo
Insights on the Functional Importance of Molecular Motions in Phosphatases, Erik Zavala
Structural and Biophysical Regulation of the Receptor Tyrosine Kinases dROS1 and ErbB3, Jianan Zhang
Rational design and development of Lewis acid tethered cobalt porphyrin catalysts for stereocontrolled living radical polymerization, Xiaowei Zhang
Developing metabolism-targeting adjuvants to immunotherapy in murine melanoma, Xinyi Zhang
Causal Inference for Infectious Disease Intervention Effects, Yichi Zhang
State and Slavery in the Tang Empire, Zekun Zhang
Developing Electro-Optomechanical Systems for Novel Silicon Photonic Devices, Yishu Zhou
Environmental and Perinatal Risk Factors of Cerebral Palsy: A California Birth Cohort Study, Haoran Zhuo
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Speaking Sovereignty: The Plight of Multilingual Literature in Independent Israel, Morocco, and Algeria, Lital Abazon
The Avant-Garde of Feeling: Queer Love and Modernism, Michael Abraham
Three Essays in Law and Finance, Dhruv Chand Aggarwal
Limits of Asymptotically Fuchsian Surfaces in a Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifold, Fernando Al Assal
Pediatric Cerebral Arachnoid Cysts are Genetically-encoded Harbingers of Neurodevelopmental Pathology, Garrett Allington
Observing the Observers: Procession and Public Religion in Medieval Ashkenaz, Emilie Eve Amar-Zifkin
The Role of Mechanical Forces in Biological Motion and Morphology, SOROSH AMIRI
Messages, Secrets, and Catalysts in Population Protocols with Probabilistic Scheduling, Talley Amir
Contempt: Race, Fatherhood, and Punishment in an American City, Stephane Daniel Andrade
Evaluating Novel Diagnostics in COVID-19 and Malaria, Jillian Armstrong
The Making Of Pasolini's Poetic Cinema, Sarah Atkinson
Developing Capsule Networks for Brain Image Segmentation, Arman Avesta
Discovery and Application of Natural and Synthetic RNA Switches, Aparaajita Balaji
Rethinking Visual Music: The Abstract Moving Image as a Transmedial Art Form, Henry Brian Balme
Pushing the Frontiers of Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Collisionless and Weakly Collisional Self-gravitating Systems, Uddipan Banik
“She Would Cut Canes No Longer”: Slavery and Everyday Struggle in Trinidad, 1769-1834, Patrick Barker
Integrative Analysis of Bulk and Single Cell RNA-seq modalities in the C. elegans Nervous System, Alec Barrett
Helicobacter pylori Catabolism of Host Glutathione: An Emerging Mechanism of Nutritional Virulence, Maia Joi Baskerville
Pig Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Preclinical Model for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering, Luke Daniel Batty
Pathlength-dependent jet quenching in the quark--gluon plasma at ALICE, Caitlin Beattie
Namtar: Deity, Demon, Agent of Fate, Jonathan Beltz
The Limits of Shame: Indigenous Political Critique of U.S. Settler Colonialism, Leila Ben Abdallah
The Infrapolitics of Care: Welfare, Intimacy, and Regulation in the Era of AIDS, Salonee Bhaman
Random Matrix Perturbation: Entry-Wise Analysis, Abhinav Bhardwaj
Investigation of Hydrocarbyl Migration to Dinitrogen, Samuel Marsh Bhutto
Nutrient Acquisition and Plant-Microbe Interactions in Savanna Trees, Arielle Biro
The Dark Side of Iconicity: How Controversial Icons become Lightning Rods for Passionate Audiences, Vanessa Kristin Bittner
Understanding Weather-driven Thermostat Behavior and its Implications for Residential Energy Consumption, Michael Ryan Blair
Methods and Complexity in Phage-Bacteria Ecology and Evolution, Michael Blazanin
“The Hands That Would be Raised Against Us Have to be Broken”: Violent Spectacle and the Law Under Aspiring Autocracy, Julia Alison Bleckner
Novel Uses of Machine Learning for Differential Jet Quenching Measurements at the LHC, Hannah Jean Bossi
New Developments in Sequential, Multicomponent C–H Functionalization, Daniel Solomon Brandes
Fusing Symbolic and Subsymbolic Approaches for Natural and Effective Human-Robot Collaboration, Jake Noah Brawer
Team and Organizational Dynamics in the Healthcare Industry, Alexandra Bray
The Essential Protein Sts1 Facilitates 26S Proteasome Nuclear Import by a Unidirectional Mechanism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Carolyn Allain Breckel
Improved computational strategies to investigate mechanisms of immune response in the tumor and wound healing microenvironments from single-cell data, Kathryn Helen Bridges
Antecedents and Consequences of Racial Group Status Threat Among White Americans, Xanni Brown
Uncovering Novel Biological Regulators of Ribosome Biogenesis, Carson J. Bryant
Robotic Fabrics Enabled by Functional Fibers and Responsive Materials, Trevor Luke Buckner
The Lion's Share: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Lion Landscape Use in a Shared Human-Wildlife System, Mary Burak
The Ecology of Belonging: Cultural Dynamics of Environmental Change in the North American West, Paul Berne Burow
High-Resolution Planetary Forensics, Samuel Cabot
Essays on International Technology Diffusion, Sheng Cai
Understanding the Effect Modifications of 2D Materials Have on Conductivity Using Terahertz Spectroscopy, Matt David Capobianco
LINCing SUN Proteins to Tissue Homeostasis and Fibrotic Disease, Emma Carley
The Individual Environmental Niche: Drivers, Specialization, and Geometric Configuration, Ben S. Carlson
Quantifying Accuracy and Bias in Motive Introspection, Ryan W. Carlson
Mechanisms that Control Lipid Synthesis at the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Nuclear Envelope, Jake Williams Carrasquillo Rodriguez
Autoregulation mechanism of LIM domain kinases, Gabriela Casanova Sepulveda
Sex on Screen in Japanese Cinema 1950s-1990s, Caitlin Casiello
Learning Data-Driven Representations for Biomolecular Analysis, Optimization, and Design, Egbert Castro
Specters of Degradation: Poverty and Uplift in Modern Political Thought, Chris Anthony Chambers
Engineering the Emergent Properties of Complex Communities, Chang-Yu Chang
The Maladaptive and Adaptive Effects of Trust and Distrust on Externalizing Behavior, Shou-An Ariel Chang
Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation on Vertebrate Brain Arteries, Siyuan Cheng
Unraveling the Disparity of Temperature-Mortality Relationship : From Individual to Global Perspectives, Hayon Michelle Choi
Temperature, air pollution, and risk for kidney-related conditions, Lingzhi Chu
The Syriac Christians of the Late Ottoman Empire: Secularism, History, and the Struggle for Millet Recognition, Henry Atticus Clements
Copper Complexes for Water Oxidation Electrocatalysis and Strong Bond Activation, Claire C. Cody
Biopsychosocial Markers of Social Adversity as Risk Factors for Mental Illness, Meghan Alexandra Collins
The Role of Laminin in a Model of Maternal Antiviral Immune Activation During Early Placental Development, Emily Kay Condiff
Seeing "the Veil of the Letter": The Gospel Book in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Chelsea Alice Connelly
Uncovering Molecular Mechanisms of Epigenetic Regulation and Gene Expression, Leah Julie Connor
Unreconciled: American Power and the End of History, 1945–1992, Peter Conroy
Essays on Inequality, Zara Contractor
Essays on the Provision of Transportation, Lucas Conwell
First Measurement of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Triple-Differential Cross Section on Argon, London Cooper-Troendle
Disruption of Trio GEF Function and Regulation in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Ellen Elizabeth Corcoran
Spectroscopic Studies of Photochemical Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions, Laura Fei Cotter
Stealth Dark Matter with Lattice Field Theory, Kimmy Kelly Cushman
Data-Driven Mapping Between Functional Connectomes Using Optimal Transport, Javid Dadashkarimi
Essays on the Economic History of the American South, William Steadson Damron
Essays on Civilian Protection: Risk and Safety During Peace Negotiations, Sophia Dawkins
Development and Validation of an Advanced Mechatronic Perfusion Platform, David Dellal
The Contested Classics: Education in Early North America, 1630-1830, Theodore Richard Delwiche
Essays in Financial Economics, Leandro de Miranda Gomes
Mechanisms for Perceptual Stability in the Visual Cortex, Sachira Denagamage
The Fragmented Gateway to Collective Repentance: Race, Policing, and the Black Church in America, Matthew G. T. Denney
Learning Brain Dynamics with Neural Operators, Antonio Henrique de Oliveira Fonseca
PTEN is a critical genetic determinant of human ventricular size: Implications for hydrocephalus and autism spectrum disorder, Tyrone DeSpenza
Increasing Gene Targeting Efficiency Through T-DNA Amplification in Plants, Lauren Dickinson
Chemical Platforms for Non-Extant Ribosomal Chemistry: Synthetic Efforts Towards Ribosome-Assisted Polyketide-Polypeptide Products, Diondra Dilworth