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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Dissenting Flesh: Racial Feeling In An Age Of Colorblindness, Melanie Abeygunawardana
Constructing Authenticity: Images Of Japan In Photograph Albums, 1862-1901, Naoko Adachi
Dismantling The System: Unpacking Racism's Impact On Inequities In Behavioral Health, Healthcare Utilization, And Access To Care, Nana Akosua Adjeiwaa-Manu
Optimizing The Design And Implementation Of Peer Support Interventions For Adolescents Living With Hiv In Sub-Saharan Africa, Charisse Victoria Ahmed
Improving Molecular Diagnosis Of Suspected Mendelian Disorders With Rna Splicing Analysis, Joseph Krittameth Aicher
The Ebb And Flow Of Revolution: A History Of Emotions In Early Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Juan Pablo Ardila Falla
Machine Learning And Quantitative Neuroimaging In Epilepsy And Low Field Mri, Thomas Campbell Arnold
Greek Epic Parody And The Classical Life Of Heroic Epic Poetry, Adrienne Atkins
Concomitant Suppression Of Both Cox-1 And Cox-2 Is Not Sufficient To Cause Gastroenteropathy Associated With Chronic Nsaid Use, Kayla J. Barekat
The Quantification Of Neural And Behavioral Chromatic Sensitivities, Michael Barnett
The Role Of Long Noncoding Rnas In Innate Antiviral Immunity, Megha Basavappa
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger: The Effects Of An Overcoming Adversity Identity On Performance And Burnout, Arianna Maria Beetz
Machine Learning As Tool And Theory For Computational Neuroscience, Ari S. Benjamin
Caucasus In Motion: Dynamic Wordhood And Morpheme Positioning In Armenian And Beyond, Nikita Bezrukov
Eastern Resentment: Explaining Political Dissatisfaction In Eastern Germany, Evelyne Brie
Culturing Evolution: A History And Anthropology Of A Cognitive Science Of Culture In Illiberal Hungary, Cameron Marcus Brinitzer
Synthesis And Reactivity Of Flexible Dicopper Bis(pyridyldiimine) Macrocyclic Complexes, Sam Brooks
Bringing Down The House: Gambling, Speculation And The Making Of The Small Investor In Colonial India, 1867-1943, Baishakh Chakrabarti
Creating Dynamical Robots Of Different Morphologies And Sizes Through Automatic Origami Design, Wei-Hsi Chen
Sublinear Algorithm And Lower Bound For Combinatorial Problems, Yu Chen
Optical Imaging Of Tissue Physiology With Exogenous Contrast Agents, Sang Hoon Chong
Intrinsically And Extrinsically Modulated Polymer Mechanical Behaviors For Engineered Advantages In Adhesion, Topological Mechanics And Energy Storage, Jason Christopher Jolly
Advancements In Modeling And Simulating Nonadiabatic Dynamics In Electrochemical Systems, Alec Coffman
Enhanced Co-Stimulatory Signaling Improves Car T Cell Effector Responses In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Mckensie Alexis Collins
Saharan Fallout: French Explosions In Algeria And The Politics Of Nuclear Risk During African Decolonization (1960–66), Austin Rory Cooper
Shared Songs, Sonic Memory: Groundwater For Voice, Chamber Ensemble, And Electronics And Essays On 13th-Century Song, Flannery Cunningham
Modeling Of Earth Abundant Oxide Nanoparticles To Guide Materials Design For Energy Applications, Anthony Curto
First-Principles Investigations On Raman Spectroscopy And Bulk Photovoltaic Effect, Zhenbang Dai
Rapid, Scalable, Amplified Rna Detection In Situ With Clampfish 2.0, Ian Dardani
No Such Thing As A Free Lunch? A Three Part Analysis Of Free School Meal Programs Under The Community Eligibility Provision, Rebecca A. Davis
The Role Of The T Cell Repertoire In Response To Cancer Immunotherapy, Erica Dhuey
Graphene Biosensors For The Detection Of Disease Biomarkers, Olivia O. Dickens
The Genetic Basis Of Natural Variation In The Timing Of Vegetative Phase Change In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Erin E. Doody
The Strongly Coupled E8xe8 Heterotic String: Geometry & Phenomenology, Sebastian Florin Dumitru
Brain Metabolic Responses To Alzheimer Pathologies With Molecular Imaging And Machine Learning, Michael Tran Duong
Bidirectional Relationship Between Opioids And Disrupted Sleep, Darrell Millikan Eacret
Bureaucracies Of Removal: The Labor And Logics Of Us Immigration Courts, Dylan Farrell-Bryan
Abyssinia To Ethiopia: Slavery, Race, And The Transition From Empire To Nation, 1855-1957, Lacy Noel Feigh
Anisotropic Carbon Nanomaterials And Liquid Crystals: Interactions, Assembly, And Ordering, Yuchong Gao
Essays In Climate Finance, Mariia Gelrud
Geometry Of Gradient Flows For Analytic Combinatorics, Stephen Gillen
Dynamic Control Of Behavior By Hypothalamic Hunger Neurons, Nitsan Goldstein
Investigating The Thermal And Kinetic Stability Of Thin Films Of Molecular Glasses, Shivajee Govind
The Historic Rise Of The Rules Committee And The Restrictive Special Rule Revolution In The Contemporary U.s. House Of Representatives, Breanna Crystene Gray
Grappling With Hercules: Masculinity And The Male Body In Rubens's Time, Kendra Jo Grimmett
Earnings Extrapolation And Predictable Stock Market Returns, Hongye Guo
Taken By Storm: The Rise And Fall Of Tau From Microtubule-Associated To Aggregated To Degraded, Melina Theoni Gyparaki
Gray Dating: How Age And Gender Impact The Experiences Of Singlehood, Dating, And Partnering For Older Adults, Lauren Harris
E7, Ptpn14, And Yap1: How Papillomaviruses Retain Cells In The Basal Epithelial Layer With Implications For Persistence And Carcinogenesis, Joshua Hatterschide
Integrated Diamond-Based Devices For Quantum Sensing And Communication, Tzu-Yung Huang
Experimental Study Of The Electronic-Phonon Coupling In Low-Dimensional Materials, Sebastian Hurtado Parra
Time Is Many: The Anthropocene, Literary Form, And The New Contemporary, Sherif H. Ismail
The Digital Bahdala: Recoding National Humiliation Across Postrevolutionary Lebanon And Egypt, Heather Jaber
Glass-Boxing Computing With Electronic Textiles: Teaching And Learning With Notional Machines In An Introductory Computing High School Classroom, Gayithri Jayathirtha
Towards The Development Of Intrinsically Fluorescent Unnatural Amino Acids For In Vivo Incorporation Into Proteins, Chloe Mary Jones
The Network Science Of Distributed Representational Systems, Harang Ju
Design And Fabrication Of Passive Cooling Materials For Sustainable Solar Energy And Building Applications, Heesuk Jung
Blimp1 And Nr4a3 Transcription Factors Reciprocally Regulate Antitumor Car T-Cell Stemness And Exhaustion, Inyoung Jung
Unlocking Compacted Heterochromatin Through Modulation Of Associated Proteins, Kelsey Elizabeth Mercado Kaeding
Martial's Materials: Materiality In The Literary Epigram, Johanna Kaiser
How Do Your Genes Smell? Applying Genetic Tools To Understand Olfactory Perception, Marissa Lyn Kamarck
Making Information Modeling And Systems Ecology: A Non-Hylomorphic Toolkit For Building In The Anthropocene, Ayodh Vasant Kamath
A Systematic Analysis Of The Concordance Between Chromatin Accessibility And Gene Expression Changes, Karun Kiani
Trans / Nation: Gender And Democracy In An Age Of Transition, Ava L.j. Kim
The Effects Of Migration On Evolutionary Dynamics In Natural Populations Of Drosophila Melanogaster, Ozan Kiratli
The Decomposing Body: Posthumanist Modernism And The Ecology Of Decay, Cory Austin Knudson
Resource-Constrained Synchrony: Kuramoto Oscillators Competing For Shared Resources, Keith Alexander Kroma-Wiley
From Policy To Practice: The Socioeconomic Context Of Clinicians And Patients In Philadelphia's Public Mental Health System, Briana Shiri Last
Electrolytic Demagnesiation Of Magnesium Alloys Towards Nanoporous Aluminum And Intermediate Ternary Compounds For Hydrogen Generation And Beyond, Timothy Eng Lee
Investigation Of Metabolism And Autism-Relevant Behaviors In Drosophila Lacking Neurexin-1, Kyra Alexandra Levy
Anderson-Bernoulli Localization On 2d And 3d Lattice, Linjun Li
Closing The Institutional Gap: Protecting Technology In Foreign Direct Investment, Siyao Li
Essays On Private Equity And Healthcare, Tong Liu
Mechanized Reasoning About "how" Using Functional Programs And Embeddings, Yao Li
Testing By Dualization, Yishuai Li
Epic Translation: Ranna's Sāhasabhīmavijaya And The Afterlife Of The Mahābhārata In Medieval Karṇāṭa, Timothy Buck Lorndale
Statistical Methods For The Analysis And Development Of Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers, Carolyn Lou
Tissue Responses To Environmental Challenges, Patrick Lundgren
Investigating The Role Of Cohesin In Dynamic Genome Folding And Gene Regulation, Jennifer Mary Luppino
Chasing The Intact Mind: Autism Discourse, Policy And Practice, 1943-Present, Amy S.f. Lutz
Organizational Change, Payment Reform, And The Value Of Hospital Care, Joseph Martinez
Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge For Stem Integration Through Data Literacy: A Case Study Of High School Science Teachers, Katherine M. Miller
Rust And Ferns: Work, Value, And The Politics Of Everyday Security In Kudremukh, South India, Pooja Nayak
Design, Synthesis And Reactivity Of 2,5-Bis(-Pyridyl)pyrrolate-Ligated Platinum And Palladium Complexes, Drew C. Newman
Synthetic Studies Toward The Total Synthesis Of Nahuoic Acids Cii And Dii, Minh Dai Nguyen
Unmasking The Language Of Science Through Textual Analyses On Biomedical Preprints And Published Papers, David Nicholson
Racialized Patterns Of Inequality In United States Birth Outcomes, 1990-2018, Hannah Olson
Disentangling The Reciprocal Causal Relationship Between Political Efficacy And Sharing Traditional And Humorous Political Information, Prateekshit Pandey
Optical And Spin Dynamics Of Quantum Emitters In Hexagonal Boron Nitride At Room Temperature, Raj Nanalal Patel
The Novel Innate Immune-Antagonistic Effects Of The Ectromelia Virus C15 Protein, Elise Marie Peauroi
Archipelagic "potentials": Infrastructures, Education, And Labor In Indonesia, Jessica H. Peng
Cellular And Mechano-Active Material Approaches To Improve Disc Repair After Herniation, Ana Paula Peredo Nery
Regulation Of The Tubulin Code In Cardiac Hypertrophy And Failure, Sai Aung Phyo