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Theses/Dissertations from 2026

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SCALABLE MANUFACTURING AND DATA-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT OF METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS AND ENERGY DEVICES, Simon Andrew Agnew

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Understanding behavioral and representational divergences of humans and machines, Thomas Lasman Botch

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Uncovering post-translational regulatory mechanisms in Wnt signaling, Nawat Bunnag

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Electron Microburst Precipitation in Earth's Upper Atmosphere, Kelly Cantwell

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Geometric Structure in High-Dimensional Representations: Theory and Applications to Language, Jiayi Chen

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Advancing Computational Analysis of Fluorescence Imaging for Head and Neck Cancer Surgical Guidance, Yao Chen

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From Trees to Forest: Mapping Population Receptive Field Organization Across the Visual Hierarchy in Individuals with and without Autism, Yeo Bi Choi

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Defining Neutrophil-Mediated Skin-to-Kidney Crosstalk in Lupus Nephritis, Angelique Cortez

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Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cell Residency Across Distinct Human Tissue Compartments, Hanna Negash Degefu

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The Role of PTEN Subcellular Localization in Neuronal Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder, Nicole Desmet

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Modeling Velocity Distributions of Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen in the Heliosphere, Lucas Robert Dyke

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Regulation and Disruption of Microtubule Cytoskeleton Dynamics in Peripheral Sensory Neuropathy, Simone Evans

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THE SEROTONIN 1B RECEPTOR IN PSILOCYBIN’S THERAPEUTIC-LIKE MECHANISMS: FROM BEHAVIOR TO NETWORK REORGANIZATION, Sixtine Fleury

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A Genetic Investigation into Host Pathways Driving Orthobunyavirus Mediated Cell Death, Lisa M. Francomacaro

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Variability on M-dwarf Stars And Its Effect on Exoplanet Detection, Aylin Garcia Soto

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LANGUAGE MODELS FOR ENHANCED PATIENT-PROVIDER COMMUNICATION: METHODS, MEASURES, AND BENCHMARKS, Joseph Gatto

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Climate and Environmental Controls on Forest Soil Organic Matter Cycling, Genevieve Goebel

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The Influence, Dependency, and Targeting of Fatty Acid Uptake in ER+ Breast Cancer, Abigail E. Goen

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INFLUENZA-INDUCED IMMUNE METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING DRIVES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SECONDARY PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS, Madeleine S. Grau

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Co-Designed Public and Societal Operations Research for Decision Analysis in Complex Systems: Applications to Transportation and Coastal Adaptation Planning, Prabhat Hegde

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Dynamic Trust Calibration, Bruno Miranda Henrique

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VARIANT ETHYLENE RECEPTORS PROTECT THE CEREAL EMBRYO AGAINST PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH, Kasey Alan Hernandez

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Mechanisms underlying diversity in bacterial biofilms, Jacob David Holt

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From Spatial Omics to Drug Target Discover, Ruixu Huang

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A Multiomic Investigation of the Cellular and Molecular Landscapes in Early Systemic Sclerosis Skin, Helen C. Jarnagin

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HIGH TEMPERATURE CREEP DEFORMATION MECHANISM OF Fe28.2Ni18.8Mn32.9Al14.1Cr6 HIGH ENTROPY ALLOY AND ITS MODIFIED ALLOYS, Edwin S. Jiang and I. Baker

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MATERNAL IMMUNIZATION AND PROGRAMMING OF THE INFANT IMMUNE SYSTEM, Dhvanir Nikunj Kansara

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Experimental and Computational Investigation of Defect-Tolerant Pnictide Semiconductors, Gideon Belay Kassa

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Understanding the role of ToxS as a bile sensing component of the ToxRS virulence regulatory system in Vibrio spp., Minje Kim

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Investigating the source and function of bystander T cells in glioblastoma, Sierra A. Kleist

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Fluorescence Cryotomography for Preclinical Validation: Applications in Gene Therapy and Fluorescence-Guided Surgery, Caleb Y. J. Kwon

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Convergence and Specificity in Neural and Conceptual Representations of Affect: Investigating Affective Representation across Multiple Levels of Analysis, Mijin Kwon

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Tracing Microbial Methanogenesis and Methane Oxidation with Clumped Isotopologue Compositions of Methane, Jiawen Li

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The Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Achilles Tendon Healing, Afton Kristine Limberg

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Monolithic Integration of Group-IV Quantum and Photonic Materials on Si via Defect and Phase Engineering, Shangda Li

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTRAOPERATIVE ORAL CANCER DETECTION DEVICE AND IMAGING SYSTEM, Sophie Ann Lloyd

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Immune Suppression and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, Hanxu Lu

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The Forest Through the Trees: Applying Lineage Tracing to Unravel Cancer Models, Abigail Catherine Marshall

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In Situ Observations of Thermal Ions in Perturbed Ionospheres: Techniques and Results, Magdalina Louise Moses

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Structural and Magnetic Characterization of a Magnetite Nanoparticle-Based Aggregation Assay and its Application to In Vitro Cytokine Monitoring, Gabrielle Rose Moss

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BEHAVIORAL-CENTRIC TEAM EVALUATION VIA CONSISTENT REWARDS, Clement Kudakwashe Nyanhongo

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Ultralight Electromagnetic Systems on Moving Platforms with Advanced Signal Processing for Subsurface Target Detection, Localization, and Identification, Maximilian Albert Joshua Orman-Kollmar

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Quantitative fluorescence imaging using a paired agent approach for improving surgical decision making, Sanjana Pannem

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Keratinocyte-Intrinsic VISTA Suppresses Basal and UV-induced Type I Interferon in Skin, Zachary Peters

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Mitochondria Dynamics in Microglia during Health, Inflammation, and Aging, Alicia Nicole Pietramale

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Active Galactic Nuclei Across Scales: From Blazar Jets to Dark Matter Halos, Stephanie Ann Podjed

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QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1 AND 3 SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITIES, Galini Poimenidou

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Design and Electrochemical Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks with Intrinsic Electrical Conductivity, Huilin Qing

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Tracing the Milky Way’s Evolution Through its Star-Planet Systems, Rayna Rampalli

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GENOMIC DETERMINANTS OF APPETITE REGULATION AND THEIR ROLE IN OBESITY RISK, Timothy J. Renier

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Evolution of antibiotic responses during chronic P. aeruginosa infections in the human lung, David Frank Ritz

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Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the interpretation and memory of complex experiences, Clara A. Sava-Segal

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Advancement and Characterization of Next-Generation Solid-State Photon-Counting Image Sensors for Astrophysics Applications, Nicholas R. Shade

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A Genetic and Biochemical Examination of Phosphorylation Regulation of Temperature Compensation and Feedback-Loop Closure of the Circadian Clock, Elizabeth-Lauren Stevenson

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Advancing CNS Tumor Management: Novel Modalities in Surgery, Radiation, and Chemotherapy, Armin David Tavakkoli

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Engineering Disorder, Defects, and Electrical Transport for High-Performance Thermoelectric Fe2VAl Heusler Alloys, James Russell Taylor IV

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The Influence of Composition on Porosity and Strength in Planetary Analog Saline Ices, Tara C. Tomlinson

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Bias, Structure, and Inference in Applied Network Analysis, Anna Vasenina

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Multimodal Optical Imaging for Dynamic Surface Dosimetry and Treatment Monitoring in Conventional and Ultra-High Dose Rate Radiotherapy, Roman Vasyltsiv

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Precision Epigenomics in Gynecologic Disease: Cell-Type-Resolved DNA Methylation Analysis from Tumor Tissue to Noninvasive Biospecimens, Irma Vlasac

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Basis Design for Electronic Structure and Beyond, Weishi Wang

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Fluorescent Protein Imaging Approaches Uncover Dynamic Subcellular Distribution of Core Clock Proteins in Neurospora crassa, Ziyan Wang

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Methods for Radiation-Sparing Navigation in Endovascular and Spine Surgery, William Ross Warner

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Biofilm architecture determines proliferation of phages and plasmids, James B. Winans

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Moral Repair, Forgiveness, and Collective Minds, Songzhi Wu

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Ubiquitin Ligase-Mediated Regulation of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling, Kai Yuan

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Singing Not to Sing: The Interplay of the Environment and Behavior on the Reproductive Success of Forest Breeding Migratory Birds, Miranda Bliss Zammarelli

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MODIFIABLE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON APPETITIVE TRAITS AND WELL-BEING: EVIDENCE FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH COLLEGE, Zhuoya Zhang

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Advancing Functional Nanomaterials as Smart Membranes for Toxic Gas Detection and Adsorption, Zhuoran Zhong

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Characterizing interactions between the disordered androgen receptor transactivation domain and small molecule drugs, Jiaqi Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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Incorporating Visual Information into Natural Language Processing, Maxwell Mbabilla Aladago

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First-principles studies of electrical polarization effects in ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics and defects, Louis Alaerts

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APPLICATIONS OF LANGUAGE-THEORETIC SECURITY TOWARDS SYSTEM SECURITY, Sameed Ali

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Beyond Diagnostic Thresholds: Measures of the Maternal Cardiometabolic Health Continuum and their Association with Placental Function, Elizabeth Cook Anderson

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Biochemical and molecular analysis of Anr-dependent microoxic fitness factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stacie E. Balsam

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Mitochondrial Network Expansion and Loss During Oligodendrocyte Life and Death, Xhoela Bame

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Modeling the Cystic Fibrosis Intestinal Environment to Study Microbial Interactions, Kaitlyn Emma Barrack

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Advances Toward Prion Therapeutics Using Genome-Wide Discovery, Kathryn Schneider Beauchemin

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Framework Material-Based Chemiresistive Arrays for the Detection and Differentiation of Toxic Gases, Georganna Christ Benedetto

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Intrasample Os-isotope disequilibrium in young volcanic rocks, Siddhartha Bharadwaj

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THE ROLE OF CHOLINERGIC VENTRAL PALLIDUM CELLS IN EFFORTFUL MOTIVATION, Elizabeth A. Bien

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POTSDAM: Pareto Optimization Targeting Security, Data, and Mediation, J Peter Brady

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Progress towards the asymmetric de novo synthesis of tetracyclic triterpenoids: cucurbitanes, lanostanes, and cardiotonic steroids, Andrea Rachel Bucknam

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Of Mice and Men: The Regulation of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Latency in Mouse and Human Neurons, Paige N. Canova

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DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF CONDUCTIVE METAL–ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS FOR THE DETECTION AND UPTAKE OF TOXIC POLLUTANTS, Priyanshu Chandra

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Phospho-regulation of cytokinetic proteins in fission yeast, Madeline L. Chrupcala

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Optical Methods for Time-Resolved Dosimetry and Oximetry of Ultra-High Dose Rate Radiation Therapy, Megan A. Clark

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Synthesis and Integration of Conductive Framework Materials within Chemiresistive Devices, Evan Louis Cline

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Understanding oncology physician movement and its implications on cancer care teams and patients, Sarah L. Cornelius

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SECURE AND TRUSTWORTHY AI/ML, SAYANTON DIBBO

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Deep Learning for Fine-Grained Digital Histopathology Image Analysis, Joseph DiPalma

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AN ACTIVE ELECTRODE ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY PROBE FOR INTRAOPERATIVE SURGICAL MARGIN ASSESSMENT IN ROBOTIC-ASSISTED RADICAL PROSTATECTOMIES, Allaire Doussan

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A Virus of the Mind: The Neurological Impact of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection, Abigail Jeanne Dutton

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Investigating the mechanisms of microbial interactions using a model cystic fibrosis polymicrobial community, Bassam El Hafi

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Simplicial Decomposition and Realization, Matthew Ellison

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Equilibration of Alluvial River Channel Geometry to Unsteady Boundary Conditions, Christian Erikson

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IMPROVING THE FIGURE OF MERIT IN IRON-VANADIUM-ALUMINIUM THERMOELECTRIC ALLOY SYSTEM GUIDED BY COMPUTATIONAL MODELING, Tao Fang

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C4 grasslands and hominin paleoecology: comparative, functional, and evolutionary perspectives, Luke D. Fannin

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REPRESENTATION, DYNAMICS AND OPTIMIZATION OF PHYSICAL STRUCTURES, Fan Feng

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Computational Modeling and Structural Generation of Piano Music in the Classical Style, Yijing Feng