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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Retinal Circuits for Pupil Control: Neural Mechanisms, Visual Functions, and Capacity for Plasticity, Michael John Fitzpatrick
Rereading Religion in Mexican American Literature (1872–1972), Sara Flores
Aspartic Protease Inhibition as an Anti-Malarial Strategy, Katherine Lillie Floyd
Apoptotic cells as a physiological source of β-alanine to modulate MrgprD-expressing sensory neurons, Sofia L. Gasperino
Development and Flight of Stratospheric Missions for Hard X-Ray Polarimetry and Hard X-Ray Spectroscopy, Ephraim Gau
Characterizing Negative Academic Experiences, Danae M. Gaytan
Becoming International: Aesthetics, Development, and the Croissant Index, Zoe Dearborn Geyman
The Translator-Function: Transmedial Agency in the Circulation of Francophone Graphic Literature, Ryan Christopher Gomez
Quantum Sensing with Solid-State Spin Defects: From the Atomically Thin Platform to Correlated Matter Under Extreme Conditions, Ruotian Gong
Three Essays on Demand and Distribution, Alejandro Gonzalez
Elucidating the Coordinated Role of Histone Modifications on the Establishment and Regulation of a Neuronal-specific Methylome, Nicole Hamagami
Neighborhood Opportunity and the Futures of Children: Evidence from a Fragmented Region, Christopher Hamilton
The Last Generalists, Rebecca Hanssens-Reed
Diversity and Regulation of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters for Polycyclic Tetramate Macrolactams, CHRISTOPHER PATRICK HARPER
Oil, Onions, and Education: A Social History of Development in Oman from the 1950s to the 1980s, Richard Frederick Harrod
Quantum Simulation and Nanoscale Sensing of Many-Body Phenomena with Solid-State Spin Defects, Guanghui He
Investigating the Intra-host Relationships of the Microbiota at Multiple Sites, Ariel Jose Hernandez-Leyva
Development of New Technical Approaches to Speed the Search for Axion Dark Matter with Haloscopes, Jonah Harper Hoffman
Investigating the Regulatory Functions of Long Noncoding RNAs in Retinal Development, Jade Hostetler
Protest Afterlives: Movement Trauma in the Literature and Media of Taiwan and Hong Kong, Gang Huang
Essays on Empirical Research of Education, Criminal and Decision, Hsuan-Hua Huang
A “More Lasting Educational Good”: British Collectors of Contemporary French Art, 1850–1910, Christopher James Hunt
Essays on Representation and Accountability in Latin America, Raduan Eugenio Hussak van Velthem Meira
Learning and Transferring Value in Conflict Tasks: The Architecture of Reward-Based Attentional Priorities, Merve Ileri Tayar
Breaking the Glass Screen: Gendered Hostility Online and Women's Political Ambition, Annie Jarman
The Role of lncRNA, RAMS11, in KEAP1-Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Gejae George Jeffers
India Translated: Analyzing the database of Hindi Novels in English Translation (1947-2024), Sushil Kumar Jha
Ribosomal Stress in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Kimberly Bridget Johansson
Three Essays in Political Economy, Thomas Ryan Johnson
On the Low-Rank Householder Expansion of Neural Networks and Its Application to Tsunami Early Warning, Tiana Chanel Johnson
The Role of Autophagy in Intestinal Infection in Mice and C. elegans, Gowri Kalugotla
Mass Spectrometry Profiling and High-Throughput Sequencing of HDACi-Induced Histone Modification Changes, Rashmi Karki
A ‘Don’t Eat Too Much’ Signal in Phagocytes via the SIRP⍺-SHP2 Axis Tunes Efferocytosis of Apoptotic Cells, Shannon Kelley
Harlem on Probation: The Uprising of 1943, Black Self-Determination, and the Rise of Probationary Citizenship, Bridget Laramie Kelly
Reprogramming of Myeloid Cells for Anti-Tumor Immunity, Darya Khantakova
Essays in Macroeconomics, Sihyun Kim
An In Vivo Framework for Decoding the Regulatory Logic of RNA Localization and Local Translation in Astrocytes: From Cis-Regulatory Sequences to Trans-Acting Factors, Sarah Kathleen Koester
Atypical Genetic Mechanisms: Uniparental Disomy, Somatic Mosaicism, and Mitochondrial Variation, Na Hyun Kong
Process from Noise: Erosion Threshold Variability and the Morphology of Gravel-Bed Rivers, Robert Paul Kostynick
Characterizing the Brain's Functional Architecture in Early Infancy, Alyssa Kimberly Labonte
Koreitsy: Ethnic Koreans in the Former Soviet Republics, 1863–Present, Kim Lacey
Essays in Labor and Macroeconomics, Dain Lee
Molecular mechanisms and factors regulating plant DNA methylation, Huy Le
3ω Thermal Transport in Atomically Thin Materials, Yiwei Le
Essays on Empirical Search and Matching, Jiangheng Lin