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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
PILRα Sustains Microglial Capacity to Process Myelin in a Mouse Model of Demyelination, Kent Lin
High-Quality Factor Phase Gradient Metasurfaces with Dynamic Reconfigurability, Lin Lin
Molecular Mechanisms of Enzymes Driving Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence, Ruihao Li
Understanding the Effects of Genetic Variation on Maize and Pennycress Root System Architectures and Their Interaction with Nitrogen, Alexander Euway Liu
Essays on Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory, Shih-Wen Liu
Essays on International and Development Economics, Yu-Chen Liu
Chaperone-Usher Pathway Pili Adhesin Conformations and Inhibitors in Urinary Tract Infections, Edward Lopatto
Essays on Financial Economics and Macroeconomics, Leifei Lyu
Mechanisms of Antibody-Mediated Protection in Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection, Samantha Mackin
Black Scare, Red Scare: The FBI’s Covert War on Black Radical Activism, Christian E. Maddox
Teaching Motherhood: Corporate Strategies to Prevent Chronic Malnutrition in Guatemala, Luisa Gabriela Madrigal Marroquin
Understanding Pancreatic Islet Stress Responses and Developing Strategies to Improve Transplantation Grafts, Marlie Maria Maestas
When Engagement Meets Distraction: The Effects of Multitasking Types on Learning from Video Lectures, Zubeiru Mahama
Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide and Its Receptor as Novel Therapeutic Targets for Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia, Elizaveta Mangutov
Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide and Its Receptor as Novel Therapeutic Targets for Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia, Elizaveta Mangutov
Landscapes of Translation: Centering Nâzım Hikmet’s Translators in World Literature, Derick Mattern
The Effect of Talker Intelligibility on Adaptation and Generalization to an Unfamiliar Accent, Kaitlyn L. Matthews
Studies of Seismicity in the Alaska Subduction Zone and Antarctica, Patrick Matulka
From the Amazon to the Andes: Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Changes Recorded by Sedimentary Biomarkers Since the Late Pleistocene, Alessandro Antúnez de Mayolo Mauceri
Run Fast, Jump High, Cameron Maynard
Elucidating Pathways in Lung Monocytes, Macrophages, and Dendritic Cells that Impact Mtb Pathogenesis, Michael Eric McNehlan
Oriented Matroid Circuit Polytopes, Jodi McWhirter
Expanding the druggable proteome by integrating deep learning with molecular simulations to predict cryptic pockets, Artur Meller
Mechanisms of MLL-rearranged Infant Leukemogenesis, Jonny Mendoza-Castrejon
Telling Melodies: Musical Agency in Narrative Film, Eric Meyer
The Arowana, Ariel Miller
Selective Binding of Amino Acids by Clay Minerals and Altered Rocks in Prebiotic Systems, Emily Millman
Industry Structure and the Macroeconomy, Filip Milosavljevic
On Appreciating Evidence, Auke Alesander Montesano Montessori
Poets Against History: American Lyric and Historiography after 1945, Alex William Mouw
Witch Aesthetics in Film Music & Sound, 1927-2024: A Queer Feminist Analysis, Lisa Pollock Mumme
Engineering Dendritic Cells with a Chimeric Antigen Receptor for Enhanced Antitumor Function, Shelby Namen
Investigating the Roles of SOX10 and ETV4 in Melanocyte and Melanoma Development, Catherine Marie Newsom-Stewart
Single-cell and spatial immunogenomics to dissect immune mechanisms in inflammatory bowel diseases and the central nervous system, Khai Mac Nguyen
Effects of Surprisal and Prediction Uncertainty on Detailed and Gist Aspects of Memory, Thanh Tan Nguyen
Afflicted Epistemology: Knowledge, Illness, and New Media After “Truth”, Annika Nilsson
Echoes of the Dead: The Ancestral Motif in Pindar's Victory Odes, Bryan Norton
Incentives Influence Congruency Pre-Cue Utilization in the Stroop Task, Christopher O. Nuno
Unveiling Mysteries of the Universe: Axions, Sterile neutrinos, and Curvatons, Takuya Okawa
Predicting, culturing, and characterizing beneficial and detrimental strains associated with plant phenotypes., Anastasiia Onyshchenko
Mechanism of unconventional IL-33 release in airway disease, Omar Osorio
Elucidating the Role of PBAF Chromatin Remodeling Subunit Arid2 in B Cell Development, Rachel Paolini
Understanding Outer Membrane Vesicle Biogenesis in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Evan J. Pardue
Understanding Loss of Beta-cell Identity and Progression of Diabetes in Polygenic Mouse Models of T2DM, Sumitkumar Patel
The Effects of Electoral Outcomes and Cross-party Relationships on Affective Polarization, Jenna Pedersen
Reliability of Longitudinal Sleep Monitoring in Amyloid-Negative and Amyloid-Positive Older Adults., Taylor Pedersen
Passage, Amy Peltz