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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Non-Gaussian Thermostatting and Heavy-Tailed Velocity Statistics in Supercooled Lennard–Jones Liquids, Giorgi Tsereteli
Musically Rendering (Dis)ability in Hollywood Cinema: Experiencing the Sonically Disabled Film Body, Andrew Tubbs
Genetic and Observational Insights into Metabolic Alterations in Alzheimer’s Disease, Ciyang Wang
Unraveling Metabolic Determinants of Isoniazid Susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Erin Rilu Wang
Energetic Heterogeneity in Retinal Ganglion Cells: Role of Neuronal Activity and Implications for Resilience, Zelun Wang
Understanding the Biological Functions of Dual-Localized Mitochondrial Phosphatase PPTC7, Lianjie Wei
The Physiological and Behavioural Responses of Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) to Social and Anthropogenic Stressors, Lauren Marilyn Wiseman-Jones
Dynamic Individualized Latent Trait (DILT) Model: Bridging Nomothetic and Idiographic Psychometrics, Muchen Xi
Children of the State: Coming-of-Age Narratives in the Third Reich and the Cultural Revolution, Shinan Xu
Towards Understanding Robust Neural Coding Through Representational Geometry, Zeyuan Ye
Characterization of Ebola Virus VP24-Host Protein Interactions, Junjie Zhao
Dietary Manipulations of the Undernourished Infant Microbiome, Cyrus Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Montane β-diversity: Biodiversity through Space and Time in Earth’s Most Biodiverse Regions, Ethan Ray Abercrombie
Studies in Algebraic Cycles: Hodge Theory of Degenerations, Regulators, and Cluster Varieties, Ricardo Jaime Acuna
Top-down Control and Bottom-up Salience Guide Attention During Visual Search, Christopher Ahn
Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Regulates ITAM-Dependent Platelet Activation, Jehiel Abigail Ajanel Gomez
Exploring DDR2’s role in CAF extracellular matrix production and tumor progression, Favour Ayomide Akinjiyan
Defining B cell responses to emerging viral pathogens, Wafaa Al Soussi
Defining B cell responses to emerging viral pathogens, Wafaa Al Soussi
In the Field of Nothingness, Ameen Animashaun
Staging Suffering: Depictions of the Family Space in German Naturalist Drama, Kimberly Annas
Essays in Monetary Economics and Financial Frictions, Martin Arazi
Multimodal Characterization of Systems-Level Robustness in the Cellular Organelle Network, Aline Arra
Trust and Learning in Early Childhood, Anjuii Barrett
Bias Regulation Strategy Selection in Daily Life: Using Daily Diary Methodology to Study Personal Bias Regulation Strategies, Jennifer Frances Beatty
A Subset of Senescent Myofibroblasts Orchestrates Immunosuppression in Pancreatic Cancer., Jad Belle
Exploring the Structure, Dynamics, and Pharmacology of Opioid Receptors, Sarah Maria Bernhard
Coming of Age in the Ancient Andes: A Bioarchaeological Evaluation of Adolescence, Puberty, and Gender in Late Pre-Hispanic Andean Society (800-1400 CE), Bridget Coredlia Bey
Single-Cell Analysis of Clonal and Transcriptional Dynamics During Direct Reprogramming, Brent Biddy
Structure and function of type 1 pilus assembly machinery in uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Ryan Bitter
Emotions and narrative in Sophocles' fragmentary tragedies "Tyro" (A’ and B’) and "Tereus", Maria Eugenia Bonaparte Gimenez
Investigating the Differential Effects of Narrativization and Causal Structure of Stories on Memory, Savannah J. Born
Baubles, Claire S. Boyer
Biomarker and age at onset endophenotypes offer new insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease, Joseph Bradley
Targeting Cyst(e)ine Dependence and Redox Metabolism in Genetically Distinct Sarcomas, Caitlyn Brook Brashears
Do all Components of Psychological Wellbeing Predict Cognitive Function?, Karysa Britton
Parapinopsin: a Photoswitchable Inhibitory GPCR for Two-photon Optogenetics, Bobbie J. Brown
The Search for Correlated Topology in Quantum Materials, Christopher Patrick Broyles
Faith’s Midwest Modern Forms: Midcentury Catholic Churches in St. Louis by Murphy and Mackey, Architects, Mary Reid Brunstrom
Circuit-specific vulnerability in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease, Samuel Brunwasser
Bayesian Uncertainties: A Post-Modern Development in Nuclear Interactions, Jason Michael Bub
Effects of ANGPTL3 Deficiency on the Regulation of Hepatic Lipoprotein Production and Lipid Metabolism, Kendall Helene Burks
Targeting Nonsense-Mediated RNA Decay in Splicing Factor Mutant Myeloid Malignancies, Claudia Cabrera
Discovery and Functional Characterization of Biomarkers in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, Wagma Caravan
Vivisection: Essays, Monmita Chakrabarti
Developing Microelectrode Arrays as Multiplex Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Yu-Chia Chang
Dissecting Macrophage Metabolism in Metabolic Liver Disease, Mandy Mei-Ying Chan
Disrupting NRF2-Driven Cancer Biology through One-Carbon Metabolism Inhibition, Julius Chembo