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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Recognizing Shame: Autosocial Ambivalence in Contemporary Life Writing, Christian Schuetz
Development of a Quantitative Top-Down Proteomics Platform for Arginylated Proteoform Analysis, Richard Myer Searfoss
Multiplex Functional Assessment of Variant Effect in the Retinal Transcription Factor CRX, James Lewis Shepherdson
Elucidating the Distinct Roles of EZH2 Gain-of-Function Events in Germinal Center B cells, Sofia R. Smith
MTHFD2 is a selective metabolic vulnerability in AML, Judith Obiageli Sokei
Threads of the Frightening: The Uncanny, Alienation, and Horror in Otsuichi's Fiction, Kathryn Lawhon Stephens
BAP1 Loss Links MYC Activation, Stress Response Vulnerability, and Disease Progression in Kidney Cancer, Ilya Strunilin
BPTF-Dependent Regulation of Vaccine-Induced B Cell Responses, Alexandria Sturtz
PERfect Timing: Metabolic Regulation by Hepatocyte Circadian Gene Period 1, Jiameng Sun
Update Mechanisms in Event Models: Boundary Effects and Dimensional Influences, Xing Su
How Species Evolve Through Space and Time: Designing and Disseminating Phylogenetic Methods for Historical Biogeography, Sarah Kathryn Swiston
Negotiating the Steppe: The Interplay of Hunting and Pastoralism through Central Asian Prehistory (ca. 12000-1000 BCE), Zhuldyz Tashmanbetova
Beyond Attachment: Endolysosomal Determinants of New World Arenavirus Entry and Fusion, Cassandra E. Thompson
Mineral Fictions: Archives, Bodies of Extraction, Soundscapes, and Possible Futurities in Contemporary Mexican Literature, Francisco Tijerina
Bacterial Colonization of Medical Devices in the Urogenital Tract, Morgan Rose Wilt Timm
Sympathetic Depictions: Eastern European Jews during the Interwar Period in Works by German Jewish Authors, Juana Maria Torralbo Higuera
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
Epigenetic Regulators MLL3 and MLL4 Sustain Hematopoietic Stem Cell Multipotency, Helen Chenwei Wang
GABAergic ventral pallidum neurons drive hedonic feeding and are required for obesity, Justin Guang Wang
Chitinase variants establish environmental inflammatory lung conditioning, Yilin 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
Transient activation of potent progenitor cells is required for spinal cord regeneration, Chase Alexander Weinholtz
The Physiological and Behavioural Responses of Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) to Social and Anthropogenic Stressors, Lauren Marilyn Wiseman-Jones
Investigating the Global Volatile Cycle with Heavy Noble Gases, Kelsey Woody
Astrocytic α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Signaling and its Contribution to Behavior, Yifan Wu
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
Progenitor Response during Zebrafish Spinal Cord Regeneration, Yuxiao Xu
Dissecting Tumor Evolution and Immune Composition in PRC2 Loss (H3K27me3 Loss) vs Retained MPNST, Kuangying Yang
Towards Understanding Robust Neural Coding Through Representational Geometry, Zeyuan Ye
Genetic and Mechanistic Dissection of Missing-Self Killing by Natural Killer Cells, Jeesang Yoon
Graph-AI Frameworks for Integrative Multi-Omics Data Analysis, Heming Zhang
Characterization of Ebola Virus VP24-Host Protein Interactions, Junjie Zhao
On the Origin of Coherent Gigahertz Two-Level States in Electron-on-Neon Systems, Kaiwen Zheng
Dietary Manipulations of the Undernourished Infant Microbiome, Cyrus Zhou
Efficient Estimation of Volatility in the Presence of Infinite Variation Jumps, Tianwei Zhou
Circuit and Cytokine Regulation of Effort Allocation in Acute and Chronic Sickness States, Xiaoyue Zhu
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