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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Cumulative Lifespan Stress and Inflammation are Associated with Black-White Racial Disparities in Mortality Among Americans, Isaiah Spears
Depalmitoylation regulates metabolism and mitochondrial function, Sarah Lilly Speck
Needle in the Z-stack: Mapping the 3D Transition to Malignancy, Erik Storrs
Parental Guidance Suggested: Genetic, Epigenetic, and Environmental Factors Shape Allele-Specific Gene Regulation in Metabolic Traits, Celine Louise St. Pierre
Functional Equivariance and Backward Error Analysis, Sanah Suri
Red Nothing, Tola Sylvan
Essays on Macroeconomics, Masaki Tanaka
Plant-Microbe Interactions Across Scales: Diversity, Disease, and Stress in Herbaceous Plant Communities, Philippa Tanford
Validation of the National Institutes of Health Toolbox for Use in Phenylketonuria Clinical Trials: A Pilot Study, Clarissa Thin Tardiff
Oxycodone Self-Administration Modulates Ventral Pallidal Neuron Activity and Plasticity, Jessica Tooley
The Role of IL-33 in Itch, Anna M. Trier
Cortical Functional Organization in Early Childhood, Jiaxin Tu
A Dissertation on Belonging in Occupational Therapy Education with Students from Historically Minoritized Identities, Quinn P. Tyminski
Computational Dissection of Innate Immune Cell States: Tissue-Driven Heterogeneity Across Human Development, Alina Ulezko Antonova
Direct and Indirect Factors Render LPS Essential to Gram-negative Bacterial Physiology, Ryan Adam Valdez
ADVICE FROM THE PURPLEMAKERS, Marc-Anthony Valle
The State Made Desire: Eroticism and Fetish Racecraft in Argentine LGBT Tourism, Zeles Vargas
Mitochondria Transfer-based Therapy for the Mitochondrial Disease Leigh Syndrome, Stella Varnum
Investigating the effects of maternal separation on the locus coeruleus and negative affective behaviors in adulthood, Chayla Rene Vazquez
Investigating the interplay of genetic factors and viral infections in type 1 diabetes pathogenesis, Daniel Andre Veronese-Paniagua
Efficient packaging of HIV-1 genomes via recognition of its adenosine-rich content by a heterologous RNA-binding domain, Hung Ryan Vuong
Acquisition Algorithms for Protein Mass Spectrometry and Their Application to Clinical Proteomics, Nathan Wamsley
Topological and Optical Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials, Haonan Wang
Advancing Precision Treatment of Multiple Myeloma with Single-Cell and Spatial Immune Profiling, Julia Wang
Dominant tree species as a driver of forest herb community assembly: The peculiar case of pawpaw (Asimina triloba), Anna Wassel
Relational Linked Fate and the Racial Position of Asian Americans, Zhongze Wei
Proteogenomic Analysis to Inform Causal Gene Prioritization for Human Disease, Daniel Western
Time-Resolved Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopic Interrogation of Intramolecular Reaction Coordinates, Valerie Winkler
The Constellation of American Voters: Understanding Americans Who Live In and Out of American Municipalities, Jordan Duffin Wong
Landscape For The Lost, Qiushi Xiang
Untimely Epics: The Tradition of Changqing-style Poetry in Late Qing and Republican China (1870s–1920s), Huanyu Yue
Analyzing Sleep Staging and Cognitive Transitions Using fMRl Time Series Analysis, Qingwen Zeng
Leveraging arginine catabolism to treat metabolic complications, Yiming Zhang
Investigating the Genetics and Genomics of Vein of Galen Malformations, Shujuan Zhao
The Witten Deformation and Proper Cocompact Lie Group Actions, Hao Zhuang
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
The Instrument of Ecstasy, Temperance Aghamohammadi
Agencia económica, valorización y pedagogía material en la espiritualidad afrocaribeña de Cuba, Puerto Rico y República Dominicana, Karla Patricia Aguilar Velasquez
The Balancing Act of Justice: Juggling Affects in the Pursuit of Fairness, Andrea Allen
Listen Up: Children’s and Adults’ Listening Effort for Intelligible L1 and L2 Speech, Ruth Altmiller
Cellular and Molecular Basis of CD4+ T Cell Help at the Effector Phase During Immunotherapy of MHC-II Negative Tumors, Samuel Oche Ameh