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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Non-Violent Mobilization in Violent Conflict: Explaining Civilian Assistance to Armed Groups, Taylor Jane Damann
Food Insecurity and Family-based Treatment for Pediatric Obesity, Genevieve Davison
Tank to Bedside: How insights from zebrafish inform our understanding of human melanoma drug resistance, Sophia Noah DeGeorgia
Mutant-Specific Analysis of Tumor Cell Heterogeneity in Glioblastoma, Patrick DeSouza
Understanding Strain-level Dynamics in Gut Commensal-Pathogen-Host Interactions, Anna Louise DeVeaux
APOBEC3A Promotes the Metastatic Progression of High-grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma by Altering Epithelial-mesenchymal Trajectories, Jessica Merritt Devenport
Emergence and Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in the Built Environment, Luke Diorio-Toth
An Intervention to Empower People to Confront Sexism, Rebecca Grace Drake
Microwave Frequency Probes of Graphene, Xinyi Du
Two Case Studies of American Classical Music Patronage in the 1980s and 1990s, Skyler E. Dykes
Sex, Stress and Hormones : The Role of Modifiable Risk Factors in the Kinetics of Alzheimer’s Disease, Hannah Marie Edwards
Little Nights: A Novel, David Iruoma Emeka
The Role of the cGAS-STING Sensing Pathway in HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Jenna Eve Eschbach
On Expertise Change: The Use and Misuse of Cultural Evolutionary Models, Ge Fang
Sitting with Wounds: The Visual Poetics of Grief in Charlotte Salomon’s Graphic Life Narrative Life? or Theater?, Franziska Finkenstein
Hydroclimate Dynamics from the North Atlantic to the Tropical Pacific: Water Isotope Perspectives from 850-2100 CE, Andrew Alan Flaim
Understanding host-pathogen interactions using the Caenorhabditis elegans – Orsay virus experimental model, Chika Fujii
Parametric Control and Amplification in Superconducting Quantum Systems: From Entanglement Probes to PT-Symmetric Architectures, Chandrashekhar Rao Gaikwad
Characterizing PIEZO1 Mechanotransduction in Articular Chondrocytes, Jaquelin Marlen Garcia Castorena
Essays in Macroeconomics, Manu Garcia
Who Has the Creator Named, Zenique Gardner Perry
Brahminical Infrastructures: States, Roads, and Lands in Dolpo, Nepal, Tashi Tsering Ghale
The influence of host genetics and microbial interactions on the gut microbiome composition of a wild baboon population, Libardo enrique gomez gomez
Roles of CpsA and SLAMF1 in the innate immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Steven Grigsby
Improving metabolomics methods to measure redox balance and understand disease mechanisms, Qiuyuan Guo
Embodying Social Collapse: Diet, Health, and Burial in the East African Urban Center of Mtwapa, Kenya (15th – 17th C), Sewasew Haileselassie Assefa
Biophysical insights into emerging virus-host interactions, Paige Danielle Hall
Parsing Heterogeneity in Depression, Kayla Hannon
JARID2-mediated Reprogramming of Human Hematopoietic Progenitors for Stem Cell Transplantation, Wentao Han
Everyday Virtue Expressions as a Function of Virtue Traits and Situational Affordances, Benjamin Hardin
The Republic of Silence: Writing the Resistance Against Fascism, 1936-1945, Michael Henderson
Spectral Communities: Spanish-Language Practices in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis, Sara Lucía Hernández Angulo
Essays in International Macroeconomics and Sovereign Default, Joao Alejandro Hernandez Calderon
DNA-damaging chemotherapy reshapes the immune landscape of the heart, Ruijun He
Navigating Uncertainty: An Ethnography of an Abortion Clinic in Post-Dobbs Ohio, Eva Hoffman
Essays in Matching Markets, Laura Hurtado Moreno
Barriers and Breakthroughs in the Evolution of Aggregative Multicellularity, Israt Jahan
Barriers and Breakthroughs in the Evolution of Aggregative Multicellularity, Israt Jahan
Novel Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease, Nimansha Jain
Notes for Rough Draft: Short Stories and Novel Sample, Adrianna Jereb
Correcting Sampling Bias with Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data: Inference Stability under the DA-MI Framework, Hannah Jiang
American Still Lifes, Laura V. Jimenez Morales
Lysosomes as Gatekeepers: How LIC1-Mediated Trafficking Regulates Angiogenesis and Vascular Morphogenesis, Dymonn Johnson
Multiclass Liquid Biopsy Assessment of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Associated Nerve Sheath Tumors, Paul Andrew Jones
Defining the Roles of cDCs in Antigen Presentation: from Tumor to mRNA Vaccines, Suin Jo
Functional Diversification of Rice AGO1 Proteins, Rachel Elie Jouni
An Integrated Approach to Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Space Use, Kathryn Judson
Essays on Monetary Economics, Joseph Kachovec