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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Structural Insights into Host-Pathogen Interactions of Coronaviruses and Alphaviruses, Lucas Adams
Role of Mesencephalic Reticular Formation Perineuronal Nets in Nociception, Migraine and Alcohol Withdrawal-induced Hyperalgesia, Jhoan Aguilar
Finiteness of Torsion Loci and Normal Functions Arising From Cycles on Hadamard Products, Devin Akman
Inside 'n Out: ETV2 Specification of Hemangiogenic Lineages from FLK1+ Mesoderm, Dereck Antonio Shakeel Alleyne
Valuation in Time: Mesolimbic Dopamine tracks Decision Strategy, Commitment and Persistence, Apoorva Arora
Function, Regulation and Plasticity of Reactive Microglial States in Brain Development and Disease, Kia Marie Barclay
Genetic Mechanisms of Urinary Tract Infection Pathogenesis by Escherichia coli, Jesus Bazan Villicana
Tailoring the Properties of Materials for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction and Hydrogen Storage through Control of Nanoscale Structure, Ashlynn Berry
More than one way to keep an ILC in Line: Circadian and Epigenetic regulation of group 3 ILCs homeostasis, Bishan Bhattarai
Quantitative Microstructural Analysis with Applications to Planetary Lithosphere Deformation, Katherine Josephine Billings
Essays on the Economics of Criminal Justice, Luke David Brinkman
Static and Dynamic Properties of Dense Matter, Liam Brodie
Impacts of Anthropogenic Landscape Change on Plant-Associated Microbes, Mahal Bugay
Unraveling the Role of the C-Terminal Intrinsically Disordered Linker in the Bacterial Cell Division Protein FtsZ, Jessica Louise Bullock
Dissecting the Roles of Microglial Proteostasis and Innate Immune Signaling in Neurodegeneration, Zhangying Cai
The Causes and Consequences of Territorial Disputes, Amaan Charaniya
From Natural Barrier to National Symbol: Technologies, State-Building, and the Remaking of the Yangzi River, 1843-1937, Ruochen Chen
Advancing High-Energy Astrophysics through X-ray Spectropolarimetry and Balloon-Borne Instrumentation, Sohee Chun
A Dangerous Feeling: The Poetics and Politics of Women's Reading Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century, Ashni Clayton
Piloting a Scalable Workflow to Identify Drivers of Mammalian Aging Using C. Elegans, Ariella Lucia Coler-Reilly Colasanti
Exactly solving one-dimensional models for the fractional quantum Hall effect, Joseph R. Cruise
Memory Representations in Cortico-Hippocampal Systems, Angelique Ibanez Delarazan
Turning Resistance into Compliance: Strategic Communication Under Public Distrust, Weiye Deng
From Bench to Bedside: Unraveling the Role of SARM1 in Chronic Human Neurodegenerative Disease, Caitlin Dingwall
The Function and Regulation of LAIR1 and LAIR2 in Inflammation and Staphylococcus aureus Infection, Hannah Dorando
Compositional Analysis of Complex Biopolymer Matrices using Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Kathy Duong
Development of Cell-Free DNA and Immune Cell Liquid Biopsies to Stratify Risk of Disease Progression and Treatment Toxicity, Noah Earland
University Experiments: Interdisciplinarity in Contemporary American Campus Forms, Laura Evers
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
Development and Flight of Stratospheric Missions for Hard X-Ray Polarimetry and Hard X-Ray Spectroscopy, Ephraim Gau
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
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
Ribosomal Stress in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Kimberly Bridget Johansson
Three Essays in Political Economy, Thomas Ryan Johnson