Theses from 2015
Black Culture: A Societal Problem, Quamesha Brown
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Ghosts in the Garden: Cultural Critique through the Lens of the Absurd, Andrew T. Catanese
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Investigating the Role of Wolbachia Endosymbionts in the Expansion of the F Element in Drosophila ananassae, Elizabeth J. Chen
Biology, Bachelor of Arts
Investigating the Role of Cholesterol During Murine Norovirus Infection, Emily Condiff, Biology, Bachelor of Arts
Process as Practice : Expressions of the Numinous, Morgan Dowty
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Word Muscles, Jimena O. Gracia
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
The C-terminal Linker of FtsZ Acts as an Intrinsically Disordered Peptide during Cell Division in Bacillus subtilis, Steven Grigsby
Biology, Bachelor of Arts
Landmarks for Sleepwalkers, Isaac S. Howell
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Imagining New Possibilities Through Social Practice, Sarah O. Hull
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
The Role of Gpr126 in Myelin Maintenance and Regeneration in the Peripheral Nervous System, Jessica A. Joseph
Biology, Bachelor of Arts
Cosmological Signatures of Massive Self-Interacting Neutrinos, Christina D. Kreisch, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Olivier P. Doré, Francesc Ferrer, Mike Seiffert, and Kris Sigurdson, Physics, Bachelor of Arts
Pharmacology of Organic Cation Transporters: Focus on Structure-Function Relationships in OCT3 (SLC22A3), Dan C. Li
Biology, Bachelor of Arts
The Role of NADPH-oxidase in Mediating Neurovascular Damage in Alzheimer’s Disease, Emily Lin, Biology, Bachelor of Science
In-Betweeness On Stage, Qiyuan Liu
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
The Girl Who Didn’t Know She Wasn’t Singing, REBECCA M. LOTHAN
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
1. What is the relationship of the finite subject to the infinite ground? 2. How do we use where we segregate the subject from the ground to construct reality? 3. In what ways can we destabilize this constructed reality to highlight its inherent instability?, Calvin M. Miceli-Nelson
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Ritual Embodiment: The Body Remembers Through Ritual, Ayesha Mohyuddin
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Development of Molecular Markers for Non-Invasive Detection of Lung Inflammation, Neveda Murugesan, Biology, Bachelor of Science
The Final Frontier: Navigating from Material to Virtual, Alexandra Neuman
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Unguided Tour, Catalina Ouyang
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Pressing: Where the Objective Meets the Subjective, Mariana Parisca
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Contemporary Family Portrait: The Hidden Uncomfortable Truth of Family Dynamics, Ji Won Park
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
The Representation of Non-Traditional Bodies, Elizabeth J. Perkins
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Untitled (Too real is this feeling of make-believe), Tucker Pierce
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Syncing Umbanda and Science (SUS): Using Umbanda’s Holistic Healing Methods to Increase Access to Healthcare, Alex E. Rosenthal, Bachelor of Arts
The Disinheritance of Power, Jared Stein
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Into the Fold: Deleuze, Desire, and Art, Madeline Wells
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Theses from 2014
MAKING IT HARDER THAN IT HAS TO BE or THIS IS THE SCULPTURE or *SIGH, Todd Barry
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Calculating Bayesian Confidence Intervals with Stokes Parameters for use in Hard X-Ray Polarimetry, Brian A. Clark, Physics
Experiments in Remix and Worldmaking, jesse firestone
Art (Photography), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
NMR Studies of Oil Shale, Erin Gauger, Physics
Countering the Voyage of the Present: Histories Speak Fragmented in 25 Frames Per Second, Vanessa Kelly Gravenor
Art (Photography), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Creatures of Habit, Joyce Hankins
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Roles of longitudinal amyloid deposition and white matter lesions in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, Phillip J. Hsu, Biology
Implicit Prejudice and its Implications for how Communities should Respond to Racial Injustices, Harry Kainen
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Bachelor of Arts
A Proteomics Approach to Elucidate Enhancer-mediated Gene Activation and Chromatin Topology, Grace Kroner, Biology
Simus inter Exempla: Exempla and Innovation in Valerius Maximus, Seneca and Juvenal, Grace Kroner
Classics
Effects of temperature, antibody attachment methods, and antibody affinity on the oxidative signal of an Aβ micro-immunoelectrode, Hyo Lee, Biology, Bachelor of Arts
Observance: A Record of Experiments, Olivia L. Mosley
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Paiting, Lucas Page
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Something Gained: Translation as Process, Amanda V. Rothschild
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Wouldn't It Be Funny If, Taryn Sirias
Art (Painting), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Ergonomically Designing Art Objects, Ambika Subramaniam
Art (Sculpture), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Survey of ‘Low-Z’ Particles from the Interplanetary Dust Collection in Search of IDPs, Harison Wiesman
Physics
The Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector Crater Origins and Hypervelocity Cratering at Oblique Angles in Aluminum Foil, Harison Wiesman
Physics
Theses from 2013
Determination of Average Loss Lifetimes for Near‐Earth Electrons in Solar Storms, John Blears
Physics
From the Museum to the Parking Lot: A Scrutiny of the Everyday, Julie D. Cronan
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Parenting Preschoolers with Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Does Child Gender Matter?, Antonya M. Gonzalez
Psychology
Risking It: An Examination of Risk Perception Amongst Obstetricians and Certified Professional Midwives in Missouri, Allison R. Horan
Anthropology
Humanitarianism and the Anthropology of Hunger, Kate Klein
Anthropology
The Representation of HIV and AIDS in American Film, 1985-2008, Brian N. Kline, Anthropology
Active, Disorienting, and Transitional: The Aesthetic of Boredom(s) in the Multimedia Works of Nam June Paik (1932-2006), Eugene Kwon
Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, <--Please Select One-->
Aliquot Cycles for Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication, Thomas Morrell
Mathematics
Evolutions in Class Visibility, Morality, and Representation in Chilean Teleseries: From Military Regime to Current Moment, Sadie Smeck
International and Area Studies, Bachelor of Arts
Always Be A Wilderness: to cross over and rise, Katharine E. Walker
Art (Printmaking), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Superfluidity in Neutron Stars, Samuel J. Witte
Physics
Theses from 2012
Auditory Intensity Effects on Audiovestibular Integration in Young Adults, Angela M. Chen, Biology
Suppressing Expression of Hepatic Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein Reverses Gallstone Susceptibility in Liver Fatty Acid Binding Protein Knockout Mice by Reducing Canalicular Cholesterol Secretion, Ho Yee Joyce Fung, Biology
Acting Out the Rabbinic Script: The Legal Position of the Androgynos in Rabbinic Literature, Philip Gibbs, Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
Is Your Workforce Legal? E-Verify Laws in the U.S. States, Sarah E. McDonald, Political Science
Building a Conceptual Anthropological Framework of Rural American Medicine: Understanding the culture of rural physicians and factors influencing retention, Scott L. Rempel, Anthropology
From Seed to Mighty Tree: Susan Blow and the Development of the American Kindergarten Movement, Madelyn Silber
History, Bachelor of Arts
High Risk: Michigan's Coastline in Danger, Adira Jenna Weixlmann, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
The Association of Holter-based T-wave Alternans with Depression, Gender and All-Cause Mortality in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients: An ENRICHD Sub-Study., Austin Wilmot, Biology
Delicious-ology: The Science of Delicious Food, Sasha Yan
Communication Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Dissecting the cellular response to DNA damage using an innovative “laser-scissors” system, Lindsey M. Zhang, Biology
Theses from 2011
The Role of Chaperones in P-body Dynamics, Haejun Ahn, Biology
The Genetic Architecture of Secundum Atrial Septal Defects, Ashley Aluko, Biology
Regulation of Amyloid Plaque Deposition by PCSK9 in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Devika Bagchi, Biology
The Effect of Orthographic Neighborhood Size on the Extent of Priming, Adeetee Bhide, Biology
Validity of a Novel Non-Motor Symptom Scale and [C11]-DTBZ Pet-based Measures as Tools for Tracking Disease Severity in MPTP Primates, Christopher Brown, Biology
Integration of Exotic Plant Species into Native Plant-Pollinator Networks and Their Effects on the Pollinator Vistation Rates and Richness of Native Plant Species at the Community Scale, Yan Yi Anny Chung, Biology
The Mechanistic Intersection between Neurodegeneration and Dendrite Pruning in Drosophila melanogaster, Sarah Ebstein, Biology
The Parkinsonian mimetic 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) specifically decreases mitochondrial but not vesicular axonal movement in dopaminergic neurons, Scott Elman, Biology
Relationship between Hippocampal Volume changes and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder following Traumatic Brain Injury in US Military Personnel, Toby Emanuel, Biology
Late-zygotic microRNAs in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Elizabeth Freeman, Biology
Rearrangement of M Element Like Sequences in Tetrahymena thermophila, Kevin Gao, Biology
The Role of PICALM in Amyloid Plaque Pathogenesis in Alzheimer’s Disease, So Chon Gil, Biology
Analysis of CIS-Regulatory Transcription Regions of the DIMM Promoter in Drosophila, Nicole Gong, Biology
A Comprehensive Transposon Screen Reveals Universal Biofilm Effectors in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Alice Gu, Biology
Role of Bone Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Abnormal Bone Matrix in Promoting Increased Osteoclast Formation and Bone Resorption in Brtl Osteogenesis Imperfecta Mice, Matthew Kwong, Biology
Identification of Cullin 4 E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Protein Substrates In HIV-2 Infected Cells, KiHyun Kwon, Biology
The Processing and Function of Vitamin A in CD103+ Intestinal Dendritic Cells, Matthew Leach, Biology
Comparative Analysis of Immune Evasion in Cowpox Virus, Jimmy Ma, Biology
Investigation of Fourth Chromosome Reporter Expression, Perry Morocco, Biology
p38α MAPK Deletion Promotes Colon Tumorigenesis, John Schneider, Biology
Gene Expression Profiling of Archival Tumors from the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study: Association with Clinical Outcomes, Aeron Small, Biology
Spatiotemporal distribution of the VIP receptor, VPAC2R, in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, Connie Tsai, Biology
The Influence of Social Cues on Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster Presented, Eliana Weisz, Biology
“God and Posterity Will Show Me Favor”: A Search for the Historical Lady Jane Dudley in Light of Her Later Portrayals, Rachel Wisdom, Bachelor of Arts
Comparing the Effects of Invader4 with 1360 on Heterochromatin Targeting, Hao Yang, Biology
Testing the Hygiene Hypothesis: The Role of Bacteria in Promoting Atopy in a Mouse Model of Atopic Dermatitis, Laura Yockey, Biology
Theses from 2010
Red Brigades and Barefoot Doctors: Health Care Without Physicians During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Oliver Kayden Jawitz, East Asian Languages and Cultures