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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Structural Insights into Host-Pathogen Interactions of Coronaviruses and Alphaviruses, Lucas Adams
Application and Development of Continuum Treatments in Photodetachment of Anions, Pratichhya Adhikari
Role of Mesencephalic Reticular Formation Perineuronal Nets in Nociception, Migraine and Alcohol Withdrawal-induced Hyperalgesia, Jhoan Aguilar
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution, Biogeography, Systematics, and Taxonomy of Weinmannia (Cunoniacea) in the Neotropics, Eduardo Aguirre Mazzi
Unfolding Dynamics of Distractor Suppression Through Reaching Movement Trajectories, Shinhae Ahn
Finiteness of Torsion Loci and Normal Functions Arising From Cycles on Hadamard Products, Devin Akman
Essays on Macroeconomic Development, Gaspar Alarcon Szmulai
Inside 'n Out: ETV2 Specification of Hemangiogenic Lineages from FLK1+ Mesoderm, Dereck Antonio Shakeel Alleyne
Using single cell multi omics and spatial transcriptomics to characterize the inflammatory- fibroblast axis in cardiovascular disease, Junedh Mahesh Amrute
Valuation in Time: Mesolimbic Dopamine tracks Decision Strategy, Commitment and Persistence, Apoorva Arora
Function, Regulation and Plasticity of Reactive Microglial States in Brain Development and Disease, Kia Marie Barclay
Genetic Mechanisms of Urinary Tract Infection Pathogenesis by Escherichia coli, Jesus Bazan Villicana
Rethinking Goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) Domestication in Eastern North America: Integrating Archaeological, Ecological, and Experimental Evidence, Megan Elizabeth Belcher
Fast Radio Bursts from the Nonlinear Evolution of Low Frequency Plasma Waves in the Magnetosphere of Magnetars, Dominic Bernardi
Tailoring the Properties of Materials for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction and Hydrogen Storage through Control of Nanoscale Structure, Ashlynn Berry
More than one way to keep an ILC in Line: Circadian and Epigenetic regulation of group 3 ILCs homeostasis, Bishan Bhattarai
Quantitative Microstructural Analysis with Applications to Planetary Lithosphere Deformation, Katherine Josephine Billings
Aberrant Activity of the Calcium Sensor STIM1 Drives Thrombocytopenia and Bone Marrow Fibrosis in Stormorken Syndrome, Molly Brakhane
Health, Disease, and the Methods of the Philosophy of Medicine, Derek W. Braverman
The Invisible Crop: Harnessing Root System Architecture in Heirloom Collards for Climate-Resilient Urban Agriculture, Vincent Antonio Brazelton
Essays on the Economics of Criminal Justice, Luke David Brinkman
Static and Dynamic Properties of Dense Matter, Liam Brodie
Impacts of Anthropogenic Landscape Change on Plant-Associated Microbes, Mahal Bugay
Unraveling the Role of the C-Terminal Intrinsically Disordered Linker in the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ, Jessica Louise Bullock
Dissecting the Roles of Microglial Proteostasis and Innate Immune Signaling in Neurodegeneration, Zhangying Cai
Traces of France: Reinterpreting Transborder Literature Through the Remains of “Frenchness” in the works of Takahashi Takako, Ogino Anna, and Kanehara Hitomi, Elsa Claire Camille Chanez
Interplay Between Patterning and Morphogenesis During Zebrafish Embryonic Development, Chia-Teng Chang
The Causes and Consequences of Territorial Disputes, Amaan Charaniya
Machine Learning Applications to Physical Processes, William Charles
Understanding Whole-Brain Dynamics Through Generative Modeling, Ruiqi Chen
From Natural Barrier to National Symbol: Technologies, State-Building, and the Remaking of the Yangzi River, 1843-1937, Ruochen Chen
Advancing High-Energy Astrophysics through X-ray Spectropolarimetry and Balloon-Borne Instrumentation, Sohee Chun
A Dangerous Feeling: The Poetics and Politics of Women's Reading Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century, Ashni Clayton
Piloting a Scalable Workflow to Identify Drivers of Mammalian Aging Using C. Elegans, Ariella Lucia Coler-Reilly Colasanti
Incorporating Pectic Glycans into Microbiome-Directed Therapeutic Foods for Childhood Undernutrition, Marie Crane
Exactly solving one-dimensional models for the fractional quantum Hall effect, Joseph R. Cruise
Dissecting MS4A4A Function in Microglia and its Role in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis, Emma Pascal Danhash
Investigation of Mineral Formation and Alteration in Hydrous Systems, Henry Dawson
Memory Representations in Cortico-Hippocampal Systems, Angelique Ibanez Delarazan
Turning Resistance into Compliance: Strategic Communication Under Public Distrust, Weiye Deng
Investigating Tumor-stromal Interactions that Drive Breast Cancer Angiogenesis and Metastasis, Alessandra DiMauro
From Bench to Bedside: Unraveling the Role of SARM1 in Chronic Human Neurodegenerative Disease, Caitlin Dingwall
The Function and Regulation of LAIR1 and LAIR2 in Inflammation and Staphylococcus aureus Infection, Hannah Dorando
Compositional Analysis of Complex Biopolymer Matrices using Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Kathy Duong
Development of Cell-Free DNA and Immune Cell Liquid Biopsies to Stratify Risk of Disease Progression and Treatment Toxicity, Noah Earland
Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Reprogramming During Breast Cancer Progression Promotes Myeloid-Biased Hematopoiesis, Emily Maria Eul
University Experiments: Interdisciplinarity in Contemporary American Campus Forms, Laura Evers
Creativity Recoded: Computer Technologies and Chinese Literary Writing in the Digital Age (1980s-2010s), Zihan Feng