Art, Art History, and Visual Studies

Felipe Álvarez de Toledo López-Herrer

“The Market for Paintings in Early Modern Seville: A Quantitative Art History.” (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies) Hans Van Miegroet, Adviser. May 2022.

Katherine McCuskerPIC

“Visualizing Vulci: Reimagining an Etruscan-Roman City.” (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies) Maurizio Forte, Adviser. September 2021.

Kelly Chin TangPIC

“The Fantastic Theater of Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century.” (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies) Stanley Abe, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Biochemistry

Megan Leigh Kelly

“Stepwise Reconstitution of RNA Cellular Activity.” (Biochemistry) Hashim Al-Hashimi, Adviser. May 2022.

Bei Liu

“M⁶A Reshapes the Folding and Recognition Landscape of RNAs.” (Biochemistry) Hashim Al-Hashimi, Adviser. September 2021.

Nicole Iris Orlovsky

“Developing a Predictive and Quantitative Understanding of RNA Ligand Recognition.” (Biochemistry) Hashim M. Al-Hashimi and Terrence G. Oas, Advisers. December 2021.

Haoran Pang

“Mechanistic Study of a Radical SAM GTP 3’,8-cyclase MoaA in the Molybdenum Cofactor Biosynthetic Pathway.” (Biochemistry) Pei Zhou, Adviser. May 2022.

Atul Kaushik Rangadurai

“Measurements of Conformational Penalties in Nucleic Acids.” (Biochemistry) Hashim Al-Hashimi, Adviser. September 2021.

Blanca Victoria RodriguezPIC

“Secretion and Delivery of Bacteria-Derived Immunomodulatory RNA and DNA via Extracellular Membrane Vesicles.” (Biochemistry) Margarethe J. Kuehn, Adviser. December 2021.

Brady Andrew Travis

“Transcriptional Control of Virulence in Francisella tularensis.” (Biochemistry) Maria Schumacher, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Biology

Raymond Lance AllenPIC

“Investigating the Immune System and Colonialism in Sea Urchins.” (Biology) David McClay Jr., Adviser. December 2021.

Phillip Luke DavidsonPIC

“Genomic Basis for a Developmental Life History Switch in the Sea Urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma.” (Biology) Gregory Wray, Adviser. September 2021.

Alexander Lee Davis

“The Physical Basis of Extreme Animal Coloration.” (Biology) Sonke Johnsen, Adviser. May 2022.

James Matthew Jordan

“Consequences of Extended Early-Life Starvation in Adult Caenorhabditis elegans.” (Biology) L. Ryan Baugh, Adviser. September 2021.

Emily J Levy

“How the Outside Gets in: Linking Social and Physical Environments with Physiology and Body Size in Wild Baboons.” (Biology) Susan Alberts, Adviser. May 2022.

Alexander Kale Loomis

“Balancing the Good and the Bad: Assessing the Positive and Negative Effects of Alien Species on Native Plant Demography.” (Biology) William Morris, Adviser. May 2022.

Abdull Jesus Massri

“Developmental Single-Cell RNA Sequencing in the Sea Urchin Species Lytechinus variegatus and Heliocidaris erythrogramma.” (Biology) Gregory Wray, Adviser. May 2022.

Karla Sosa

“Mistakes and Small Steps Can Take You Far: Exploring Fern Variation and Biogeography in Cheilanthes (Pteridaceae), with a Focus on Spore Diversity and Range Expansion in Cheilanthes distans.” (Biology) Mark Rausher, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Biomedical Engineering

Aman Aberra

“Multi-Scale Modeling for Analysis and Design of Transcranial Electric and Magnetic Brain Stimulation.” (Biomedical Engineering) Warren M. Grill, Adviser. September 2021.

Nadia Osama AbutalebPIC

“Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels to Study Endothelial Dysfunction in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome.” (Biomedical Engineering) George Truskey, Adviser. May 2022.

Anandita AnanthakumarPIC

“Developing a Fibrotic Phenotype in a 3D Human Skeletal Muscle Microphysiological System.” (Biomedical Engineering) George Truskey, Adviser. May 2022.

Elianna Ada BierPIC

“Dynamic ¹²⁹Xe Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Development and Application in Diverse Cardiopulmonary Diseases.” (Biomedical Engineering) Bastiaan Driehuys, Adviser. December 2021.

Yoon Woo Byun

“Simultaneous Multiplexing of Movement Execution, Observation, and Reward in Cortical Motor Neurons.” (Biomedical Engineering) Miguel Nicolelis, Adviser. December 2021.

Isaac Russell Cassar

“Cortical Evoked Potential as a Biomarker for Deep Brain Stimulation.” (Biomedical Engineering) Warren M. Grill, Adviser. September 2021.

Rachel Chapla

“Advanced Hydrogel Design for Soft Tissue Culture and Regeneration.” (Biomedical Engineering) Jennifer West, Adviser. December 2021.

Lauren Christina Corbin Goodman

“FtsZ Assembly Dynamics: Treadmilling, Nucleation and Membrane Constriction.” (Biomedical Engineering) Harold Erickson and Brenton Hoffman, Advisers. May 2022.

Derek Mitchell Eidum

“On the Significance of Stimulus Waveform in the Modulation of Oscillatory Activity in Excitable Tissues.” (Biomedical Engineering) Craig Henriquez, Adviser. December 2021.

Katelyn Maureen Flint

“Spatial Coherence-Based Adaptive Acoustic Output Selection for Diagnostic Ultrasound.” (Biomedical Engineering) Gregg Trahey, Adviser. May 2022.

Chelsea N Fries

“Supramolecular Strategies for Generating Therapeutic Immune Reponses to HIV-1.” (Biomedical Engineering) Joel Collier, Adviser. December 2021.

Aliesha Danielle GarrettPIC

“A Toolbox for Observing and Modulating the Gut-Brain Axis.” (Biomedical Engineering) Michael Tadross, Adviser. May 2022.

John E. GilbertPIC

“Spatiotemporal Approaches to Increase the Efficacy of Spinal Cord Stimulation.” (Biomedical Engineering) Warren M. Grill, Adviser. May 2022.

Lauren Nicole HeckelmanPIC

“Multimodal Musculoskeletal Imaging Techniques to Non-Invasively Assess In vivo Soft and Hard Tissue Biomechanics.” (Biomedical Engineering) Louis E. DeFrate, Adviser. May 2022.

Matthew David Holbrook

“System Development and Preclinical Applications of Photon Counting Micro-CT.” (Biomedical Engineering) Cristian T. Badea, Adviser. September 2021.

Evan Thomas JellyPIC

“Development of Deep-Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Technologies for Novel Intraoperative Applications.” (Biomedical Engineering) Adam Wax, Adviser. May 2022.

Garrett Michael Kelly

“The Immunoengineering Toolbox: Thermoresponsive Biopolymers for the Sustained Delivery of Cancer Immunotherapies.” (Biomedical Engineering) Ashutosh Chilkoti, Adviser. May 2022.

Sophia Yoona Kim-Wang

“In vivo Knee Kinematics and Cartilage Recovery of Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries.” (Biomedical Engineering) Louis DeFrate, Adviser. September 2021.

Anna Elizabeth Knight

“Characterizing Shear and Tensile Anisotropy in Skeletal Muscle using Ultrasonic Rotational 3D Shear Wave Elastography.” (Biomedical Engineering) Kathryn Nightingale, Adviser. May 2022.

Mucong Li

“Deep Photoacoustic Imaging and Acoustic Cavitation Mapping in Shockwave Lithotripsy.” (Biomedical Engineering) Junjie Yao, Adviser. May 2022.

James Long

“Adaptive Ultrasonic Frequency Selection Using Principles of Spatial Coherence.” (Biomedical Engineering) Gregg Trahey, Adviser. May 2022.

Junseon Min

“Developing Modular Protein Therapeutics as Alternatives to Monoclonal Antibodies for Cancer Immunotherapy.” (Biomedical Engineering) Ashutosh Chilkoti, Adviser. December 2021.

Robert Carl Mines

“Stochastic and Agent-Based Modeling of Gene Expression and Cell Fate Decisions.” (Biomedical Engineering) Xiling Shen, Adviser. December 2021.

Eirik Adim Moreb

“Elucidation of Context Dependent Factors Influencing CRISPR-Cas Activity.” (Biomedical Engineering) Michael D. Lynch, Adviser. December 2021.

Daniel Cody Morris

“Improving Prostate Cancer Detection using Multiparametric Ultrasound.” (Biomedical Engineering) Kathryn Nightingale, Adviser. September 2021.

Catherine Elizabeth Oliver

“Tissue-Engineered Human Skeletal Muscle Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis for Disease Modeling and Drug Testing.” (Biomedical Engineering) George Truskey, Adviser. May 2022.

Maria Andreina Ortiz PaparoniPIC

“Lumbar Spinal Injury Under Dynamic Compression.” (Biomedical Engineering) Cameron Bass, Adviser. May 2022.

Imran Ozer

“Stealth Polymer Conjugates of Biologics.” (Biomedical Engineering) Ashutosh Chilkoti , Adviser. September 2021.

Lindsay Anne Riley

“LOcal Void Analysis of MAP scaffolds (LOVAMAP).” (Biomedical Engineering) Tatiana Segura, Adviser. May 2022.

Tejank Pragnesh Shah

“Micro-Viscoelastic Properties of the Human Conventional Outflow Pathway and Their Evolution in an Early Ocular-Hypertension Model.” (Biomedical Engineering) Stefan Zauscher, Adviser. September 2021.

Lucas Scott ShoresPIC

“Designing Multi-Epitope Supramolecular Nanofiber Vaccines for Autoimmunity and Infectious Disease.” (Biomedical Engineering) Joel Collier, Adviser. December 2021.

Ge Song

“Development of Low-Cost Imaging Tools for Screening of Retinal Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease.” (Biomedical Engineering) Adam Wax, Adviser. December 2021.

Paul Michael Thompson

“Connecting Morphology to Physiology in the Mouse Tactile Sensory System.” (Biomedical Engineering) Fan Wang, Adviser. September 2021.

Madhurima Vardhan

“Improving Coronary Artery Disease Diagnostics with Massively Parallel, Personalized Flow Models and Immersive Treatment Planning.” (Biomedical Engineering) Amanda Randles, Adviser. December 2021.

Nicole Lee Votaw

“Polysequence Nanomaterials for Immunomodulation.” (Biomedical Engineering) Joel Collier, Adviser. December 2021.

Rui Xi Xi

“Cellular Reprogramming in Response to Viral Infection and Oncogenic Transformation.” (Biomedical Engineering) Xiling Shen, Adviser. September 2021.

Bofeng Zhang

“Safety Considerations and Clinical Benefit Analysis for the Use of Elevated Acoustic Output in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging.” (Biomedical Engineering) Kathryn Nightingale, Adviser. December 2021.

Kevin Cong Zhou

“Computational 3D Optical Imaging Using Wavevector Diversity.” (Biomedical Engineering) Joseph Izatt and Warren, Warren, Advisers. September 2021.

 

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Xuechan Li

“Multiple Testing for Data with Ancillary Information.” (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) Jichun Xie, Adviser. May 2022.

Xueqi Wang

“Marginal Methods for the Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomized Trials and Related Studies.” (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) Elizabeth Turner, Adviser. May 2022.

Zidi XiuPIC

“Improving Clinical Prediction Models with Statistical Representation Learning.” (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) Benjamin Goldstein, Adviser. September 2021.

Siyun YangPIC

“Propensity Score Methods for Causal Subgroup Analysis.” (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics) Laine Thomas and Fan Li, Advisers. May 2022.

 

Business Administration

Danbee ChonPIC

“Understanding Ourselves and Organizational Leadership: Theory, Instrument Development, and Empirical Investigations of Self-Awareness.” (Business Administration) Sim Sitkin and Hemant Kakkar, Advisers. May 2022.

Morad Elsaify

“Institutional Investors and Asset Prices.” (Business Administration) Campbell Harvey, Adviser. December 2021.

Todd Ashton HallPIC

“The Virtual Hand: How Digitization Changes Organizations, Management, and Entry.” (Business Administration) Sharique Hasan, Adviser. May 2022.

Yuan-Mao KaoPIC

“Designing Subscription Services with Imperfect Information and Dynamic Learning.” (Business Administration) Nuri Bora Keskin and Kevin Shang, Advisers. September 2021.

Nah Youn LeePIC

“Essays on Online Reviews in Service Industry.” (Business Administration) Richard Staelin, Adviser. May 2022.

Rebecca Marian Ponce de LeonPIC

“ ‘Invisible’ Discrimination: The Effects of Intersecting Subordinated Identities on Discrimination Outcomes.” (Business Administration) Ashleigh Rosette and Aaron Kay, Advisers. May 2022.

Jungkyu Suh

“Essays on Science and Innovation.” (Business Administration) Ashish Arora and Sharon Belenzon, Advisers. May 2022.

Yenan Wang

“Essays on and Beyond Market Microstructure.” (Business Administration) S. Viswanathan and Ming Yang, Advisers. September 2021.

Sara Clark Wingrove

“Denying the Value of Goals to the Disadvantaged.” (Business Administration) Grainne Fitzsimons, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies

Martin Dawson

“Transports of Imagination: Poetry and the Rehabilitation of Experience, 1830-1860.” (Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies) Gabriel Trop, Adviser. September 2021.

John Andrew Jolly

“A Transcendent View of Things: The Persistence of Metaphysics in the Modern German Lyric, 1771-1908.” (Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies) Thomas Pfau, Adviser. May 2022.

Amy Louise JonesPIC

“Metamorphoses of the Muse: Rethinking Gender and Creativity in German Poetry from 1800-1850.” (Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies) Gabriel Trop, Adviser. May 2022.

Ian Alexander McLean

“Storm, Stress, and Sexual Revolution: Economies of Desire in the German Literary Avantgarde of the 1770s.” (Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies) Stefani Engelstein, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Cell Biology

Corey Michael Bunce

“Reinterpreting the Organizing Principles of Sex Determination and Gonadogenesis in the Mouse.” (Cell Biology) Blanche Capel, Adviser. September 2021.

Jessica Rae Child

“mRNA Partitioning to the Endoplasmic Reticulum.” (Cell Biology) Christopher Nicchitta, Adviser. September 2021.

Delisa Ellen Clay

“Mitotic DNA Damage Responses in Drosophila Polyploid Rectal Papillar Cells.” (Cell Biology) Donald Fox, Adviser. December 2021.

Eda Erata

“Understanding the role of Cnksr2 in Epilepsy-Aphasia Syndrome.” (Cell Biology) Scott Soderling, Adviser. December 2021.

Patrick Landon Ferree

“Temporal Regulation of Cell Divisions in the Embryo of Drosophila melanogaster.” (Cell Biology) Stefano Di Talia, Adviser. May 2022.

Luke Daniel Hayden

“Long-range Coordination of Biochemical Signals in Drosophila Embryogenesis and Zebrafish Scale Regeneration.” (Cell Biology) Stefano Di Talia, Adviser. May 2022.

Jason Terry Long

“Growth Plate Hypertrophic Chondrocytes Dedifferentiate into Skeletal Stem and Progenitor Cells that Give Rise to Osteoblasts and Adipocytes During Skeletal Development.” (Cell Biology) Matthew Hilton, Adviser. May 2022.

Mary Rebecca Stockdale Moreci

“Spindle Orientation Coordinates Cell Fate Decisions During Epidermal Morphogenesis.” (Cell Biology) Eda Yildirim, Adviser. September 2021.

Sara Grace Payne

“Basement Membranes Mediate Interactions between Tissues.” (Cell Biology) David Sherwood, Adviser. May 2022.

Fei SunPIC

“Organ-Level Communication During Heart Regeneration in Zebrafish.” (Cell Biology) Kenneth Poss, Adviser. May 2022.

Hongyuan ZhangPIC

“Regulation of Cartilage Tumors by Mutations in Isocitrate Dehydrogenases.” (Cell Biology) Benjamin Alman, Adviser. September 2021.

 

Chemistry

Brandon Harrison Bowser

“Covalent Mechanochemistry of Four-Membered Carbocycles.” (Chemistry) Stephen Craig, Adviser. September 2021.

Aurora Cabrera Menjivar

“Development and Application of Mass Spectrometry-based Strategies for Proteomic Evaluations of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Protein Folding.” (Chemistry) Michael Fitzgerald, Adviser. December 2021.

Nancy Jane CorsiPIC

“Large-Scale Analysis of Protein-Gas and Protein-Metal Interactions using Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomic Methods.” (Chemistry) Michael Fitzgerald, Adviser. May 2022.

Matthew Michael DraelosPIC

“Cryptic Phosphorylation in Nucleoside Natural Product Biosynthesis.” (Chemistry) Kenichi Yokoyama, Adviser. May 2022.

Brianne Marie Dudiak

“Exploring the Enzymology of Chlamydial Pathogenesis: An Investigation of Virulence and Energy Metabolism-Associated Enzymes.” (Chemistry) Dewey McCafferty, Adviser. December 2021.

Shi He

“Surface and Interface Structure Design of Nanomaterials for Efficient Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis in Liquid Solution.” (Chemistry) Jie Liu, Adviser. December 2021.

Yi Hu

“Caging and Transport in Simple Disordered Systems.” (Chemistry) Patrick Charbonneau, Adviser. September 2021.

Courtney Christina JohnsonPIC

“Virion Dynamics in the Extracellular Space Explored by 3D Tracking and Imaging Microscopy.” (Chemistry) Kevin Welsher, Adviser. May 2022.

Chihhung Ko

“Porphyrin Arrays and Perylene Diimide as Molecular Spintronic Components.” (Chemistry) Michael Therien, Adviser. September 2021.

Shuai LiPIC

“Dynamic Metabolic Control Improves the Biosynthesis of Chemical Molecules in Engineered E. coli.” (Chemistry) Michael Lynch, Adviser. May 2022.

Won Young Lim

“Development of Small Molecule Therapeutics Against Anti-infectious and Anti-cancer Drug Resistance via Structure-based Drug Design.” (Chemistry) Jiyong Hong, Adviser. May 2022.

Jacob Ryan Lindale

“Understanding and Optimizing Dynamics in Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance.” (Chemistry) Warren Warren, Adviser. December 2021.

Yuncai Mei

“Development and Application of Scaling Correction Methods in Density Functional Theory.” (Chemistry) Weitao Yang, Adviser. September 2021.

Chibueze Innocent OnyeagusiPIC

“The Development of Palladium and Cobalt-Catalyzed Methods for the Syntheses of α-Trifluoromethyl and Alkyl Amines.” (Chemistry) Steven Malcolmson, Adviser. May 2022.

Hyejin Park

“Highly Adaptable ¹⁵N-Molecular Tags for Development of Novel Hyperpolarized Molecular Imaging Probes.” (Chemistry) Qiu Wang, Adviser. May 2022.

Erin Jessica Peterson

“Design and Interrogation of Photophysics in (Porphinato)zinc(II)-based Chromophores.” (Chemistry) Michael Therien, Adviser. May 2022.

Honglue Shi

“Resolving Atomic-resolution Nucleic Acid Ensembles Using Solution State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.” (Chemistry) Hashim Al-Hashimi, Adviser. September 2021.

Lydia M Stariha

“Biosynthetic and Chemical Investigation of Lipid II-Binding Antimicrobials.” (Chemistry) Dewey McCafferty, Adviser. December 2021.

Huayu Tong

“Orienting Structure to Serve Medical Functions.” (Chemistry) Benjamin Wiley, Adviser. May 2022.

Maria Toro Moreno

“Molecular Interactions between Apicomplexan Parasites and their Host Cells.” (Chemistry) Emily Derbyshire, Adviser. September 2021.

Aline Umuhire Juru

“RNA-Targeted Small Molecule Ligand Discovery via Imine-Based Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry.” (Chemistry) Amanda Hargrove, Adviser. September 2021.

Jesús del Carmen Valdiviezo MoraPIC

“Theory and Simulations of Charge Transfer in Engineered Chemical Systems.” (Chemistry) David N. Beratan, Adviser. September 2021.

Liqi Wang

“Mechanochemical Reaction Development for Addition, Elimination, and Isomerization.” (Chemistry) Stephen Craig and Ross Widenhoefer, Advisers. May 2022.

Zi WangPIC

“Engineering Mechanics of Polymers and Gels through Molecular Design.” (Chemistry) Stephen Craig, Adviser. September 2021.

Sarah Louise WicksPIC

“Deciphering and Leveraging Prominent Features of RNA-Targeting Small Molecules.” (Chemistry) Amanda Hargrove, Adviser. September 2021.

Martina ZafferaniPIC

“Small Molecule Targeting of Disease Relevant RNA Secondary and Tertiary Structures.” (Chemistry) Amanda Hargrove, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Nadratun Naeem Chowdhury

“Nanoparticles and Extracellular Antibiotic Resistance Genes: Understanding the Role Naturally Occurring Nanoscale Materials May Play in Regulating the Environmental Rise of Antibiotic Resistance.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Mark Wiesner, Adviser. December 2021.

Alexandre Guével

“Geometry-Based Thermodynamic Homogenization for Porous Media, with Application to Resilience Prediction and Gyroscopic Sustainability.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Manolis Veveakis, Adviser. December 2021.

Kangan Li

“The Shifted Interface/Boundary Method for Embedded Domain Computations.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Guglielmo Scovazzi, Adviser. December 2021.

Alexander Wesley McCumber

“Environmental Influences on the Lung and Gut Microbiomes.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Claudia Gunsch, Adviser. September 2021.

Mohammadreza Momenifar

“Statistical Learning of Particle Dispersion in Turbulence and Modeling Turbulence via Deep Learning Techniques.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Andrew D. Bragg, Adviser. September 2021.

Natalia Belle Neal-WalthallPIC

“Methylmercury Production and Bioaccumulation in Freshwater Wetlands: Mesoscale Insights into Broader Environmental Dynamics.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Heileen Hsu-Kim, Adviser. May 2022.

Joana Marie SipePIC

“Micro and Nanoplastic Generation: An Investigation of the Role of Mechanical Properties, Nano Fillers and Weathering.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Mark Wiesner, Adviser. May 2022.

Josin TomPIC

“An Investigation into the Multiscale Nature of Turbulence and its Effect on Particle Transport.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Andrew Bragg, Adviser. May 2022.

Imari Iyana Walker KaregaPIC

“Release, Transformation, and Effects of Polymer-Associated Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Lee Ferguson, Adviser. December 2021.

 

Classical Studies

Clinton Douglas Kinkade

“Sophocles’ Ancient Readers: The Role of Scholarship in the Reception of Greek Tragedy.” (Classical Studies) Joshua Sosin, Adviser. December 2021.

Tori Frances Lee

“Violent by Nature: Danger and Darkness in the Pastoral World.” (Classical Studies) Micaela Janan and N. Gregson Davis, Advisers. May 2022.

 

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Youngsook Kim

“Developing Quantitative Models in Analyzing High-Throughput Sequencing Data.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Timothy Reddy, Adviser. December 2021.

Shiyu Liu

“Methodologies and Analysis of Metabolic Flux in Mammalian Systems.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Jason Locasale, Adviser. December 2021.

Kyle Donovan Moran

“Mechanisms for Controlling Cell Polarity in Yeast.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Daniel Lew, Adviser. May 2022.

Jungkyun Seo

“Glucocorticoid-Mediated Transcriptional Regulation in the Human Genome.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Timothy Reddy, Adviser. September 2021.

Jacqueline Vahey

“Genetic Analysis of Gulf War Illness: Phenotype Development, GWAS, and Gene-Environment Interaction.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Elizabeth Hauser, Adviser. May 2022.

Siyu Wang

“Computational Protein Design with Non-proteinogenic Amino Acids and Small Molecule Ligands, with Applications to Protein-protein Interaction Inhibitors, Anti-microbial Enzyme Inhibitors, and Antibody Design.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Bruce R. Donald, Adviser. September 2021.

Yuning Zhang

“Transcription Factors as Competitors in Gene Regulation and DNA Damage Repair.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Raluca Gordan, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Computer Science

Waqar Ahmed AqeelPIC

“The Latency Budget: How to Save and What to Buy.” (Computer Science) Bruce Maggs, Adviser. December 2021.

Rachel Lea Ballantyne DraelosPIC

“Towards Fully Automated Interpretation of Volumetric Medical Images with Deep Learning.” (Computer Science) Lawrence Carin, Adviser. May 2022.

Abraham Jacob Frandsen

“Learning Representations With Linear-Algebraic Structure.” (Computer Science) Rong Ge, Adviser. May 2022.

Yuhao Li

“Machine Learning for Efficient and Robust Datacenter Performance Management.” (Computer Science) Benjamin Lee, Adviser. May 2022.

Tiancheng Liu

“On Graph Clustering or Community Detection: A Characteristic Analysis and Its Implications.” (Computer Science) Xiaobai Sun, Adviser. September 2021.

Aaron Sanford Lowe

“Flood Risk Analysis on Terrains.” (Computer Science) Pankaj K. Agarwal, Adviser. September 2021.

Vincentius MartinPIC

“Deciphering the Quantitative Effects of Cooperativity and Mutations on Transcription Factor Binding.” (Computer Science) Raluca Gordan, Adviser. May 2022.

Sneha MitraPIC

“Deciphering Genome-Wide Chromatin Occupancy, Dynamics, and Their Connections to Gene Regulation.” (Computer Science) Alexander Hartemink, Adviser. May 2022.

John Martin Snyder

“Improving Congestion Control Convergence in RDMA Networks.” (Computer Science) Alvin Lebeck, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Cultural Anthropology

Christopher James DaleyPIC

“Playing the State: Imagining Youth in Cuban Baseball.” (Cultural Anthropology) Orin Starn, Adviser. September 2021.

Ana HuangPIC

“Queer Women's Activism in China: Trauma, Sociality, and Confrontational Politics.” (Cultural Anthropology) Anne Allison, Adviser. September 2021.

Zachary Evan Levine

“The Carceral Ethic and the Spirit of Ayahuasca.” (Cultural Anthropology) Diane Nelson, Adviser. May 2022.

Jake Silver

“The Sky, Upended: An Ethnography of Palestine, the Planetary, and their Politics.” (Cultural Anthropology) Rebecca Stein, Adviser. May 2022.

Jason Lee Woerner

“The Mourning of Rama IX.” (Cultural Anthropology) Diane Nelson, Adviser. December 2021.

 

Earth and Ocean Sciences

Erin Kay Benson

“Using Large Layered Intrusions as Analogues for Understanding Subduction Zone Hydrothermal Systems.” (Earth and Climate Sciences) Emily Klein, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Ecology

Nicholas Emerson BrunsPIC

“Growth-in-motion Creates Phytoplankton Biomass Patterns in a Great Plains River.” (Ecology) Martin Doyle, Adviser. May 2022.

Joseph Emerson FaderPIC

“Patterns of Odontocete Depredation and Bycatch in Pelagic Longline Fisheries.” (Ecology) Andrew Read, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Economics

Scott David Abrahams

“Essays in Labor Economics.” (Economics) V. Joseph Hotz, Adviser. May 2022.

Muhammad Usaid Awan

“Essays on the Economics of Pharmaceutical Regulation.” (Economics) David Ridley, Adviser. May 2022.

Yuxuan He

“Essays of Business Taxation Policies in Developing Countries.” (Economics) Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Adviser. May 2022.

Ranae Jabri

“Essays on Criminal Justice and Inequality.” (Economics) Patrick Bayer, Adviser. May 2022.

Xian Jiang

“Essays on Technology, Fiscal Policy, and Firm Behavior.” (Economics) Yi (Daniel) Xu and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Advisers. May 2022.

Ilia Kozis

“Essays in Political Economy.” (Economics) Bahar Leventoglu and Christopher Timmins, Advisers. May 2022.

Jeremy Aaron LebowPIC

“Essays on the Economics of Immigration in Columbia.” (Economics) Duncan Thomas, Adviser. May 2022.

Erica Meixiazi Liu

“Essays in Microeconomic Theory.” (Economics) Philipp Sadowski and Curtis Taylor, Advisers. May 2022.

Tyler Moran

“Essays in Policing and Recidivism.” (Economics) Patrick Bayer, Adviser. May 2022.

Gabor Palinko

“Essays in Industrial Organization and Environmental Economics.” (Economics) James Roberts, Adviser. September 2021.

Leonardo Salim Saker ChavesPIC

“Macro Announcement Disagreement with Jump Regressions.” (Economics) Tim Bollerslev and Jia Li, Advisers. September 2021.

Mirjam Szillery

“Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes in Hungary.” (Economics) Peter Arcidiacono, Adviser. May 2022.

Feifan ZhangPIC

“Essays on Dynamic Incentives.” (Economics) Curtis Taylor, Adviser. May 2022.

Xirui Zhang

“Household Migration and Housing Markets.” (Economics) Yi (Daniel) Xu, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hattan Hassan AbuzaidPIC

“On the Impact of Materials and Processes on Edge-contacted 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Transistors.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Aaron Franklin, Adviser. May 2022.

Martin Andres Bertran Lopez

“Robustness and Generalization Under Distribution Shifts.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Guillermo Sapiro, Adviser. May 2022.

Xiaoyu CaoPIC

“Secure Federated Learning: Attacks and Defenses.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Zhenqiang Gong, Adviser. May 2022.

Andrew Ernest Cardin

“Dynamic Metasurfaces for Advanced Applications.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Willlie Padilla, Adviser. December 2021.

Hsin-Pai ChengPIC

“Efficient and Generalizable Neural Architecture Search for Visual Recognition.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Yiran Chen, Adviser. September 2021.

Kevin Michael Chu

“Using Phoneme Groups to Train Deep Learning Models to Remove Reverberation in Cochlear Implant Stimulus Patterns.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Leslie Collins, Adviser. May 2022.

Shuyang Dai

“Exploring Deep Representation Learning on Vision and Language Intelligence.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Adviser. September 2021.

Xander Mitchell Deputy

“Lasing From Single Film-Coupled Nanoparticles.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) David Smith, Adviser. May 2022.

Shane T Di Dona

“Charged Particle Optics Simulations and Optimizations for Miniature Mass and Energy Spectrometers.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Michael Gehm, Adviser. September 2021.

Wanyi Fu

“Patient-Specific Organ-Based Dosimetry and Image Quality Estimation in Clinical Computed Tomography.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Ehsan Samei, Adviser. December 2021.

Anil Ganti

“Calibrating and Beamforming Distributed Arrays in Passive Sonar Environments.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Jeffrey Krolik, Adviser. May 2022.

Weituo Hao

“On the Knowledge Transfer via Pretraining, Distillation and Federated Learning.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Adviser. May 2022.

Rui HouPIC

“Machine Learning Approaches to Improve Diagnosis and Management of Mammographic Calcifications.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Joseph Lo, Adviser. December 2021.

Nathan Albert Inkawhich

“Advancing the Design and Utility of Adversarial Machine Learning Methods.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Yiran Chen, Adviser. December 2021.

Ghassen JerfelPIC

“Multimodal Probabilistic Inference for Robust Uncertainty Quantification.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Katherine Heller, Adviser. September 2021.

Yuan Li

“Learning Both Expert and Universal Knowledge Using Transformers.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Adviser. May 2022.

Zhongxi Li

“Flexible Modular Power Electronics for High-Power Medical and Energy Applications.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Stefan Goetz and Angel Peterchev, Advisers. September 2021.

Tung-Che LiangPIC

“Security and Synthesis Solutions for Digital Microfluidic Biochips.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Adviser. September 2021.

Michael Alan Martinez

“Radar Signal Estimation and Classification in Complex Environments.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Jeffrey Krolik, Adviser. May 2022.

Natalia Lucienne Martínez GilPIC

“Minimax Fairness in Machine Learning.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Guillermo Sapiro, Adviser. May 2022.

Atefeh MehrabiPIC

“Design and Management Strategies for Hardware Accelerators.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Daniel Sorin and Benjamin Lee, Advisers. May 2022.

Renjian PanPIC

“Applying Machine Learning to Testing and Diagnosis of Integrated Systems.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Xin Li, Adviser. December 2021.

Lidea Katherine Shahidi

“Mitigating Cochlear Implant Stimulus Pulses Dominated by Reverberant Distortions.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Leslie Collins, Adviser. May 2022.

Xin SongPIC

“Novel Techniques and Applications in Molecular Computing, Data Storage, Diagnostics, and Fabrication.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) John Reif, Adviser. December 2021.

Evan Alexander Stump

“Data Driven Style Transfer for Remote Sensing Applications.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Leslie Collins, Adviser. May 2022.

Chengyu Wang

“Sampling in Computational Cameras.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) David Brady, Adviser. May 2022.

Zhiyao XiePIC

“Intelligent Circuit Design and Implementation with Machine Learning.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Yiran Chen, Adviser. May 2022.

Huanrui YangPIC

“Towards Efficient and Robust Deep Neural Network Models.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Hai Li, Adviser. May 2022.

Handi Yu

“Synthetic Imagery Data Generation for Training and Testing Deep Learning Models of Object Recognition.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Leslie Collins, Adviser. May 2022.

Siyang Yuan

“Exploring Knowledge Transfer with Deep Learning.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Adviser. May 2022.

Bichen Zhang

“Improving Circuit Performance in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Kenneth Brown, Adviser. December 2021.

Haibei ZhuPIC

“Development and Comparison of Operator Strategy Models.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Mary Cummings, Adviser. September 2021.

 

English

Kathleen Megan BurnsPIC

“Vegetal Forms: How Plants Cultivate Life in Literature and Science.” (English) Priscilla Wald, Adviser. May 2022.

Louis John Cooper

“Guided by Voices: Poetry, the Paranormal, and Mythmaking.” (English) Priscilla Wald, Adviser. December 2021.

Jessica Covil-MansetPIC

“Toward a Different Way of Knowing/Being/Speaking: Poetic Openings and Feminist Praxis in Contemporary Works.” (English) Tsitsi Jaji, Adviser. May 2022.

Emma Davenport

“Fictions of Consent: Contract and the Victorian Novel.” (English) Kathy Psomiades, Adviser. May 2022.

Kevin Thomas Gallin

“Living in Other Places: Genre and Globalization in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel.” (English) Corina Stan, Adviser. May 2022.

Caoimhe Aisling Harlock

“TRANS/SUPER/NATURAL: Fear, Trembling, and Transsexuality in American Fiction.” (English) Taylor Black and Priscilla Wald, Advisers. May 2022.

Margaret Rose McDowell

“Against Compulsory Sexuality: Asexual Figures of Resistance.” (English) Priscilla Wald and Taylor Black, Advisers. May 2022.

Patrick Gerald Timmis

“Performing the Protestant State: Preaching and Playing from Marprelate to Milton.” (English) Sarah Beckwith, Adviser. September 2021.

 

Environment

Axel Joseph BerkyPIC

“Effects of Toxic Metal Exposures and Their Mixtures on Adverse Health Outcomes in the Peruvian Amazon.” (Environment) William Pan, Adviser. May 2022.

Christine Elizabeth CrutePIC

“The Effects of Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances during Pregnancy on Maternal and Fetal Health.” (Environment) Susan Murphy, Adviser. May 2022.

Justin Thomas Lana

“A One-Health Approach to Understanding the Epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.” (Environment) William K. Pan, Adviser. September 2021.

Tess Catherine Leuthner

“Effects of Chemical Exposures on Mitochondrial Mutagenesis across Species.” (Environment) Joel Meyer, Adviser. May 2022.

Kirsten Elise OverdahlPIC

“Characterizing Exposure and In Vitro Effects of Azobenzene Disperse Dyes in the Indoor Environment.” (Environment) Lee Ferguson and Heather Stapleton, Advisers. December 2021.

Ruben Dario Palacio Arce

“Strengthening the Conservation of Biodiversity at Local and Regional Scales.” (Environment) James Clark, Adviser. May 2022.

Edgar Andres VirgüezPIC

“An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Alternatives for the Decarbonization of the Electric Power Sector: Integrating Operations Research and Geospatial Analysis to Identify Cost-Efficient Strategies for the Energy Transition.” (Environment) Dalia Patino-Echeverri, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Environmental Policy

Robert Isaac HarrisPIC

“Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics.” (Environmental Policy) Steven Sexton and William Pizer, Advisers. May 2022.

Seth Henry MorganPIC

“3 Essays in Environmental and Land Economics.” (Environmental Policy) Alexander Pfaff and Marc Jeuland, Advisers. May 2022.

 

Evolutionary Anthropology

Jordan Alexander Anderson

“Socioecological Predictors of Gene Regulation in a Wild Primate Population.” (Evolutionary Anthropology) Jenny Tung, Adviser. May 2022.

Sarah Lyons Bornbusch

“Investigating Lemur Microbiomes Across Scales and in Relation to Natural and Anthropogenic Variation.” (Evolutionary Anthropology) Christine Drea, Adviser. September 2021.

Wen Zhou

“Does Our Perception of Animals Shape When We See All Humans as Being Created Equally?.” (Evolutionary Anthropology) Brian Hare, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Genetics and Genomics

Jeffrey Steven Bourgeois, Jr.

“Utilizing Cellular GWAS as a Springboard to Understand Complex Host-Pathogen Interactions.” (Genetics and Genomics) Dennis Ko, Adviser. May 2022.

Iman Hamid

“Ancestry-based Methods for Characterizing the Evolutionary History of Admixed Populations.” (Genetics and Genomics) Amy Goldberg, Adviser. May 2022.

Rachel Anne Hoffman

“Chromatin Dynamics and Regulation of the Helicase During Replication Initiation.” (Genetics and Genomics) David MacAlpine, Adviser. December 2021.

Katherine Charlotte Jacobs

“Pheromone Gradients Guide and Stabilize Polarity Sites for Mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” (Genetics and Genomics) Daniel Lew, Adviser. May 2022.

Rachel Leanne Newcomb

“Exploring the Functional Consequences of Whole-Genome Duplication in Tumor Progression.” (Genetics and Genomics) James V. Alvarez, Adviser. December 2021.

Saaz Sakrikar

“Investigating the Biological Role and Binding Modes of Histone-Like Proteins of Halophilic Archaea.” (Genetics and Genomics) Amy Schmid, Adviser. May 2022.

Lauren Michelle SmithPIC

“Comparing Properties of Oscillating Gene Networks in Diverged Species.” (Genetics and Genomics) Steve Haase, Adviser. May 2022.

 

History

Daanish Faruqi

“Politicized Muslim Sainthood in Diaspora: Sufi Networks from Colonial North Africa to the 2011 Syrian Uprising.” (History) Engseng Ho and William Reddy, Advisers. December 2021.

Nathan Kenneth FinneyPIC

“ ‘All War Arrangements are but Schools in Patience’: The North Carolina Council of Defense and the Associational State, 1917-1919.” (History) Dirk Bönker, Adviser. May 2022.

Anderson Maxwell Hagler

“Curtailing Excess: The Excision of Idolatry, Magic, and Non-reproductive Sex in Colonial Mexico.” (History) Pete Sigal, Adviser. May 2022.

Travis Kenneth KnollPIC

“Liberate, Inculturate, Educate! Brazilian Black Catholics, Racial Justice, and Affirmative Action from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.” (History) John French, Adviser. May 2022.

James Allen Nealy, Jr.

“Making Socialism Work: The Shchekino Method and the Drive to Modernize Soviet Industry.” (History) Anna Krylova, Adviser. May 2022.

Kristina Ann WilliamsPIC

“Anticipating Freedom: Slave Rebellion, Amelioration, and Emancipation in Barbados, 1816-1838.” (History) David Barry Gaspar, Adviser. May 2022.

Meghan Heather WoolleyPIC

“The Heart of the Court: The Role of Emotions in Shaping English Law, 1114-1288.” (History) Jehangir Malegam, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Immunology

William Elliot Barclay

“The AIM2 Inflammasome is Activated in Astrocytes During EAE.” (Immunology) Mari Shinohara, Adviser. December 2021.

Danielle Jean Dauphars

“Regulation of the Alpha and Delta T Cell Receptor Repertoires.” (Immunology) Michael Krangel, Adviser. December 2021.

Marion Elizabeth Deerhake

“Dectin-1 Signaling in Central Nervous System Autoimmunity.” (Immunology) Mari L. Shinohara, Adviser. May 2022.

Jacob Savage Dockterman

“Murine Immunity-Related GTPase M Proteins Regulate Immunity to Intracellular Infections.” (Immunology) Jörn Coers, Adviser. December 2021.

Hsin-I Huang

“The Interplay of Antigen Presenting Cells, Microbiota, and IL-17 Producing T Cells in Intestinal Health and Colorectal Cancer.” (Immunology) Gianna Hammer and Qi-Jing Li, Advisers. May 2022.

Morgan Elizabeth Parker

“The Regulation of Type 3 ILC and γδ T Cell Plasticity.” (Immunology) Maria Ciofani, Adviser. May 2022.

Jessica Lynne ShannonPIC

“Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Controls Hair Growth.” (Immunology) Jennifer Yunyan Zhang, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Literature

Jaime Acosta GonzalezPIC

“Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition, 1973-Present.” (Literature) Michael Hardt, Adviser. September 2021.

Anastasia Kārkliņa

“Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World.” (Literature) Robyn Wiegman, Adviser. September 2021.

Mitchell Damian Murtagh

“A Meta-Physics of Sexual Difference: The Quantum Gravity Matrix and Embryogenesis of Our Universe.” (Literature) Elizabeth Grosz, Adviser. September 2021.

Lucas Power

“Society Must Be Defragmented: Data Shadows and Computational Life.” (Literature) Robyn Wiegman and Markos Hadjioannou, Advisers. May 2022.

Shahrazad Aliyah Shareef

“From Crisis to Restoration: Technical Analysis and the Politics of Italy's Post-War Development.” (Literature) Michael Hardt, Adviser. September 2021.

Casey Andrew Williams

“Climate Impasse, Fossil Hegemony, and the Modern Crisis of Imagination.” (Literature) Michael Hardt, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Marine Science and Conservation

Austin Stone Allen

“Estimating the Cost of Locomotion in Common Bottlenose Dolphins: Calibration, Validation, and Application to Study the Impacts of Disturbance.” (Marine Science and Conservation) Andrew Read, Adviser. December 2021.

Dana Mellett Baker

“Relational Seascapes: Human Wellbeing and Marine Protected Areas in Tanzania.” (Marine Science and Conservation) Grant Murray, Adviser. May 2022.

David Karl HaasPIC

“Investigating Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Cardiac Frequency and Cardiac Contractility Using a Novel Physio-Logging Tag.” (Marine Science and Conservation) Douglas Nowacek, Adviser. December 2021.

Joseph Philip Morton

“The Effects of Parasites on Coastal Marsh Ecosystem Structure and Functioning.” (Marine Science and Conservation) Brian R. Silliman, Adviser. September 2021.

Sarah Michelle RobertsPIC

“Species Distributions in a Changing Ocean: from Individuals to Communities.” (Marine Science and Conservation) Patrick Halpin, Adviser. December 2021.

Walter Inglis Torres

“The Dynamics of Wave-Driven Reef Pass Jets and Coral Population Recovery on an Island.” (Marine Science and Conservation) James Hench, Adviser. December 2021.

 

Mathematics

Chen An

“Zero Density Estimates for Families of L-Functions, with Applications to Effective Chebotarev Density Theorems and ℓ-Torsion in Class Groups.” (Mathematics) Lillian Pierce, Adviser. December 2021.

Ziyu ChenPIC

“Two New Methods to Improve Adaptive Time-Frequency Localization.” (Mathematics) Ingrid Daubechies, Adviser. September 2021.

Yishu Gong

“Transport in Biology, from Theory to Application.” (Mathematics) Alexander Kiselev, Adviser. May 2022.

Mingxue Zhu Ho

“Realizing Hecke Actions on Modular Forms Via Cohomology of Dessins d’Enfants.” (Mathematics) Leslie Saper, Adviser. September 2021.

Ruby Kim

“Modeling the Interactions between the Circadian Clock, Dopamine, and Metabolism.” (Mathematics) Michael Reed, Adviser. May 2022.

Chung-Ru LeePIC

“Relative Endoscopy and Orbital Integrals on U₃.” (Mathematics) Jayce Getz, Adviser. May 2022.

Stephen Henry McKeanPIC

“Local Contributions in A¹-Enumerative Geometry.” (Mathematics) Kirsten Wickelgren, Adviser. May 2022.

Panchali Nag

“Differential Geometry Tools for Data Analysis.” (Mathematics) Ingrid Daubechies and Colleen M. Robles, Advisers. September 2021.

Seppo Matthew Niemi-ColvinPIC

“Invariance of Knot Lattice Homology and Homotopy.” (Mathematics) Adam Levine, Adviser. May 2022.

Dong Yao

“Epidemics on Evolving Graphs.” (Mathematics) Richard Durrett, Adviser. September 2021.

 

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Miles Clinton Aubert

“Novel Computational Approaches for the Objective Analysis of Surgical Activities.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Brian Mann, Adviser. September 2021.

Emilio Omar Bachtiar

“Evaluation of 3D-Printed Biostable and Bioresorbable Elastomeric Thermoplastics for Medical Implant Applications.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Kenneth Gall, Adviser. May 2022.

Zekun Cao

“Granulated Rest Frames as a Technique to Mitigate Visually-induced Motion Sickness and Their Application.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Regis Kopper, Adviser. May 2022.

Jingxuan Ding

“Phonon Anharmonicity and Ionic Diffusion in Emergent Energy Materials.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Olivier Delaire, Adviser. May 2022.

Daniel Lee French

“Development of Mucin Analogues to Inhibit the Growth of Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stones.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Stefan Zauscher, Adviser. December 2021.

Shreyas HegdePIC

“Multi-Row Aeromechanical and Aeroelastic Aspects of Embedded Gas Turbine Compressor Rotors.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Robert E. Kielb, Adviser. December 2021.

Ian Thomas Hill

“Intra-Operative Surgical Instrument Tracking with Radio-Frequency Identification.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Patrick Codd and Brian Mann, Advisers. December 2021.

Katherine Ann Hitchcock

“Investigation of the Chemical Evolution of InAs Native Oxide and Its Impact on the Surface Electronic Properties.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) April Brown and Volker Blum, Advisers. May 2022.

Richard Lee Hollenbach IIIPIC

“Aeroelasticity and Enforced Motion Frequency Lock-in Associated with Non-Synchronous Vibrations in Turbomachinery.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Robert Kielb, Adviser. May 2022.

Tianchen Hu

“A Variational Framework for Phase-Field Fracture Modeling with Applications to Fragmentation, Desiccation, Ductile Failure, and Spallation.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) John Dolbow, Adviser. September 2021.

William Joseph KoshutPIC

“Tensile Fatigue Characterization of High Strength Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Applications.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Kenneth Gall, Adviser. September 2021.

Tyson Lanigan-Atkins

“The Effects of Lattice Anharmonicity on Phase Transitions and Thermal Conductivity Through Phonon Measurements in Energy Materials.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Olivier Delaire, Adviser. September 2021.

Levi Hodge Manring

“Using Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimization on Problems in Vehicle Dynamics and Random Vibration Environmental Testing.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Brian Mann, Adviser. May 2022.

Garrett Charles McKeown WesslerPIC

“Discovery & Design of Complex Chalcogenide Semiconductors for Optical & Energy Conversion Applications.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) David Mitzi, Adviser. December 2021.

Joshua Pajak

“Atomic Basis of Coordination, Force Generation, and Translocation in Ring ATPases.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Gaurav Arya, Adviser. September 2021.

Joseph Michael Rufo

“Acoustofluidic Technologies for the Manipulation of Biological Nanoparticles.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Tony Jun Huang, Adviser. May 2022.

Betul TeymurPIC

“Solution-Processed Thin Film Deposition and Characterization of Multinary Chalcogenides: Towards Highly Efficient Cu₂BaSn(S,Se)₄ Solar Devices.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) David B. Mitzi, Adviser. May 2022.

James David Turner

“Data-Driven Parameter Estimation of Time Delay Dynamical Systems for Stability Prediction.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Brian Mann, Adviser. December 2021.

Zeyu Wang

“Acoustofluidic Manipulation for Diagnosis and Drug Loading.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Tony Jun Huang, Adviser. September 2021.

Shan Yang

“Lattice Dynamics in Temperature-driven and Photo-induced Phase Transitions.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Olivier Delaire, Adviser. May 2022.

Shujie Yang

“Harmonic Acoustics for Single Cell Manipulation.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Tony Jun Huang, Adviser. December 2021.

Alexander Wesley ZajdaPIC

“Novel Finite Element Method for Solving One-Dimensional Phase Change Problems.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Josiah Knight, Adviser. December 2021.

Yan Zhang

“A New Zeroth-Order Oracle for Distributed and Non-Stationary Learning.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Michael Zavlanos, Adviser. September 2021.

 

Medical Physics

Jonathan David Cuthbertson

“The iPRES-W Coil: Advancements in Wireless Technology for Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” (Medical Physics) Trong-Kha Truong and Dean Darnell, Advisers. May 2022.

Justin Mark RaudabaughPIC

“Development and Characterization of Low Cost Nanoscintillator-Based Radiation Detection Systems Using 3D Printing Technology.” (Medical Physics) Terry Yoshizumi, Adviser. December 2021.

Ashlyn Grace Rickard

“Tissue-Oxygen Quantification in Preclinical Oncological Models.” (Medical Physics) Gregory Palmer, Adviser. May 2022.

Stefan Matthias Stryker

“Development of X-ray Fan Beam Coded Aperture Diffraction Imaging for Improving Breast Cancer Diagnostics.” (Medical Physics) Joel Greenberg and Anuj Kapadia, Advisers. December 2021.

Devin Anna WilleyPIC

“Strategies for Artifact Correction and Motion Monitoring in MRI Through Innovations in Radio-frequency Coil Design.” (Medical Physics) Dean Darnell and Trong-Kha Truong, Advisers. May 2022.

 

Molecular Cancer Biology

Robert Warren FloydPIC

“Dissecting the Role of ATRX in Soft Tissue Sarcoma Development and Therapeutic Response.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Kris Wood, Adviser. May 2022.

Hsuan-Cheng Kuo

“Interrogating the Function of p53 Transactivation Domains in Radiation Injury to the Heart and the Intestine.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) David Kirsch and Xiao-Fan Wang, Advisers. May 2022.

 

Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Alyson Brianna BarnesPIC

“Human Genetic Variation Influences Cellular Response to Chlamydia trachomatis Infection.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Dennis Ko, Adviser. May 2022.

Jonathan Henry Bethke

“The Cost and Benefit of Horizontal Gene Transfer.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Lingchong You, Adviser. May 2022.

Jui-Lin ChenPIC

“Humoral Responses Induced by Self-assembling Supramolecular HIV Vaccines.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Genevieve Fouda, Adviser. May 2022.

Tianyi Chen

“Single-cell Transcriptome Profiling Reveals Hedgehog Critically Regulates Hepatocyte Resiliency.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Anna Mae Diehl, Adviser. May 2022.

Robert Zachary C Holmes

“Dietary Manipulation of Metabolic Function in the Human Gut Microbiome.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Lawrence Anthony David, Adviser. September 2021.

Jason Ansen Iskarpatyoti

“Metabolic Regulation of Mast Cell Regranulation.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Soman Abraham, Adviser. December 2021.

Jennifer Anne Jenks

“Rational Vaccine Design Against Cytomegalovirus.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Sallie Permar and Micah Luftig, Advisers. May 2022.

Hannah Mary McMillan

“Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles and the Plant Immune Response.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Margarethe J. Kuehn, Adviser. December 2021.

Shelby Jordan PriestPIC

“Roles of RNA Interference and DNA Mismatch Repair in Maintaining Genomic Integrity in Cryptococcus Pathogens.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Joseph Heitman, Adviser. May 2022.

Tulika Singh

“Maternal B Cell and Antibody Responses to Zika Virus for Design of Immune Interventions in Pregnancy.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Sallie Robey Permar, Adviser. September 2021.

Daniel Aaron Snellings

“Somatic Mutations Drive Vascular Malformation Initiation, Progression, and Predisposition.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Douglas Marchuk, Adviser. May 2022.

Daltry LeDean Snider

“Regulation of the Antiviral Innate Immune Response by Ufmylation.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Stacy Horner, Adviser. May 2022.

Tianai Sun

“MESH1 Knockdown Triggers Proliferation Arrest Through TAZ Repression.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Jen-Tsan Chi, Adviser. May 2022.

Kayla Renee Sylvester

“Interrogating Host-Parasite Dynamics During Plasmodium Liver Stage Infection.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Emily Derbyshire, Adviser. December 2021.

Calla Lee Telzrow

“Cellular Coordinators: Mechanisms by Which Non-Enzymatic Proteins Contribute to Growth and Cell Surface Remodeling in the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) J. Andrew Alspaugh, Adviser. May 2022.

Kevin William ZhuPIC

“Decoding the Olfactory Map: Targeted Transcriptomics Link Olfactory Receptors to Glomeruli.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Hiroaki Matsunami, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Music

Maximiliano Amici

“The Pit and the Pendulum, Dramatic Cantata for Baritone, Chamber Ensemble, Male Choir and Electronics; Formal Plan and Constructive Principles of the Heterophonic Textures in Berio’s Coro.” (Music) Stephen Jaffe, Adviser. September 2021.

Ka Man Misty Choi

“In Pursuit of Utopia between Sound and Sense: Luciano Berio’s “Linguistic Projects” of Meta-Music.” (Music) Jacqueline Waeber, Adviser. May 2022.

Jonathan Churchill

“Form, Continuity, and Disjunction in Vaughan Williams's Symphonies.” (Music) Philip Rupprecht, Adviser. May 2022.

Jonathan J. Henderson

“Mande Music in the Black Atlantic: Migration and the Affordances of World Music Record Production.” (Music) Louise Meintjes, Adviser. December 2021.

Dayton Louise KinneyPIC

“Of My Own for Woodwind Quintet and String Quartet; Constructing a Compositional Language through Musical Borrowing: Joan Tower’s Homage to Beethoven, Steps, and Made in America.” (Music) John Supko, Adviser. December 2021.

 

Neurobiology

Samuel Navickas Brudner

“Data-Driven Analysis of Zebra Finch Song Copying and Learning.” (Neurobiology) Richard Mooney, Adviser. December 2021.

Urann ChanPIC

“Developmental Regulation of H3K27me3 Drives Excitatory Synapse Maturation and Social Behavior.” (Neurobiology) Anne West, Adviser. May 2022.

Jamie Lynn Courtland

“Uncovering the Role of the WASH Complex in Neurological Disorders.” (Neurobiology) Scott Soderling, Adviser. May 2022.

Elizabeth Ann Fleming

“Roles of Inhibition in Shaping Sensory Representations in the Cerebellar Input Layer.” (Neurobiology) Court Hull, Adviser. December 2021.

Neil Michael Gallagher

“Interpretable Factor Models of Latent Brain Networks Associated with Stress and Depression.” (Neurobiology) Kafui Dzirasa, Adviser. September 2021.

Jinghao Lu

“Somatosensory Cortical Representation of Facial Nociception and Vibrotactile Touch Induced Analgesia.” (Neurobiology) Fan Wang, Adviser. September 2021.

Valerie Cornier Michael

“Neural Mechanisms of Vocal Control.” (Neurobiology) Richard Mooney, Adviser. December 2021.

Shivathmihai Nagappan Chettiar

“Odor Coding by Distinct Classes of Principal Neurons in Piriform Cortex.” (Neurobiology) Kevin Franks, Adviser. May 2022.

Shataakshi Dube O'Neil

“Cytoskeletal Networks Driving Presynaptic Plasticity.” (Neurobiology) Scott Soderling, Adviser. September 2021.

Divya SubramanianPIC

“Contributions of Bayesian and Discriminative Models to Active Visual Perception across Saccades.” (Neurobiology) Marc Sommer, Adviser. May 2022.

Alex Patrick Vaz

“An Electrophysiological Basis for Human Memory.” (Neurobiology) Nicolas Brunel, Adviser. May 2022.

Aashutosh Vihani

“Deconstructing Olfaction Using Models, Molecules, and Mammals.” (Neurobiology) Hiroaki Matsunami and Anne West, Advisers. May 2022.

 

Nursing

Jiepin CaoPIC

“Intimate Partner Violence within the Global Context: Risk and Experiences Among Chinese Women and Latinx Immigrants.” (Nursing) Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, Adviser. May 2022.

Heeyeon Son

“Family Communication between Parents and AYAs in the Childhood Cancer Context.” (Nursing) Sharron Docherty, Adviser. December 2021.

Roy Anthony ThompsonPIC

“Nurse Migration to the United States and Staffing of Foreign Educated Nurses in Long Term Care: Employment Outcomes and Professional Experiences.” (Nursing) Eleanor McConnell, Adviser. May 2022.

Hideyo TsumuraPIC

“Identification of Postoperative Pulmonary Complication Risk By Phenotyping Adult Surgical Patients Who Underwent General Anesthesia with Mechanical Ventilation.” (Nursing) Wei Pan and Debra Brandon, Advisers. May 2022.

Sijia Wei

“A Novel Use of Social Network Analysis and Routinely Collected Data to Uncover Care Coordination Processes for Patient with Heart Failure.” (Nursing) Bradi Granger and Eleanor McConnell, Advisers. December 2021.

 

Pathology

Benjamin David Andress

“The Meniscus Cell Phenotype: Effects of Physical, Mechanical, and Inflammatory Environments.” (Pathology) Amy McNulty, Adviser. May 2022.

Larisa Martina Gearhart-SernaPIC

“Investigation of the Role of Environmental Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Breast Cancer.” (Pathology) Gayathri R. Devi and Richard Di Giulio, Advisers. September 2021.

 

Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

Xiaohui Ang

“Defining Determinants of Primary Drug Resistance in Precision Cancer Therapies.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Kris Wood, Adviser. September 2021.

Alyssa Gail Bernanke

“Interrogation of the Neural Mechanisms by which Male and Female Rats Assess Aversive and Mixed Valence Stimuli in Learning and Performing a Task.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Cynthia Kuhn, Adviser. May 2022.

Emmanuela Nehwuh Bonglack

“Role and Regulation of Host Metabolism during Epstein-Barr Virus-Driven Immortalization.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Micah Luftig, Adviser. May 2022.

Charlene Vongai Chabata

“Modulation of Heparin Therapy by RNA Aptamers and Andexanet Alfa.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Bruce A. Sullenger, Adviser. May 2022.

Armando Loyola Corona

“βIGH3 in the Breast Cancer Tumor Microenvironment Increases TGF-β Signaling to Promote Cancer Progression.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Gerard Blobe, Adviser. September 2021.

Rui DaiPIC

“The Role of Gammadelta T Cells and CD8⁺ Memory T Cells in Vaccinia Viral Infection.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Yiping Yang, Adviser. May 2022.

Ashley Victoria DiMarco

“APOBEC Mutagenesis as a Driver of Tumor Evolution through Genetic Heterogeneity and Immunogenicity.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) James Alvarez, Adviser. September 2021.

Elias Oluwatobi Utseoritselaju Eteshola

“Using Nucleic Acid Scavengers to Limit Innate Immune Activation on Cancer Cells and Thereby Inhibit Metastasis.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Bruce A. Sullenger, Adviser. September 2021.

Wendi GuoPIC

“A Central Role for Hypoxia-inducible Transcription Factor Signaling in the Regulation of Skeletal Lineage Cells.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Colleen Wu, Adviser. May 2022.

Jillian Hattaway LuttmanPIC

“Exploiting Metabolic Vulnerabilities In Solid Tumors Treated With ABL Kinase Allosteric Inhibitors.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Ann Marie Pendergast, Adviser. September 2021.

Courtney Michelle McKernan

“Interrogating Transcriptional and Translational Networks that Promote Metastatic Colonization of the Brain.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Ann Pendergast, Adviser. December 2021.

Lyra Beatriz Olson

“Characterizing and Combatting Thromboinflammation in Infection and Autoimmune Disease.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Bruce A. Sullenger, Adviser. September 2021.

Kristianne Michelle Oristian

“The Role of Non-Canonical Hippo Signaling in PAX3-FOXO1 Fusion-Positive Rhabdomyosarcoma.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Corinne M. Linardic, Adviser. September 2021.

Wenxin TongPIC

“Investigation of Gut-Derived Circulating Succinate in Metabolism and Liver Signaling.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Mark Herman, Adviser. May 2022.

Alec Gibson TrubPIC

“Non-Lysine Acyl Modifications and Their Effects on Cellular Function.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Matthew Hirschey, Adviser. September 2021.

Tianqi Yang

“Determining the Role of Xist Long Noncoding RNA in Hematopoiesis and Hematologic Malignancies.” (Pharmacology and Cancer Biology) Eda Yildirim, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Philosophy

Angela Tess Bischof

“Animals as Moral Agents.” (Philosophy) Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adviser. May 2022.

Hannah Catherine Read

“Empathy for Opponents: A Cognitive, Emotional, and Institutional Approach to Moral Conflict.” (Philosophy) David Wong, Adviser. September 2021.

Songyao Ren

“Dispassion and the Good Life: A Study of Stoicism and Zhuangism.” (Philosophy) David Wong, Adviser. September 2021.

Valerie-Jean Yenn Soon

“The Problem of Sorting: A Dilemma Between Freedom of Association and Social Justice.” (Philosophy) Gopal Sreenivasan, Adviser. September 2021.

 

Physics

Ethan Gregg Arnault

“Out of Equilibrium Superconducting States in Graphene Multiterminal Josephson Junctions.” (Physics) Gleb Finkelstein, Adviser. May 2022.

Connor Matson Awe

“Novel Technologies for Neutrino and Dark Matter Detection.” (Physics) Phillip Barbeau, Adviser. May 2022.

Sarah Anne Brandsen

“Locally Adaptive Protocols for Quantum State Discrimination.” (Physics) Henry Pfister, Adviser. September 2021.

Michael Glenn Eggleston

“Searches for Vector Like Quarks Decaying to Ht, Zt, or Wt in the Single Lepton Channel with the ATLAS Detector.” (Physics) Ayana Arce, Adviser. December 2021.

Benjamin Isaac Hamm

“Scalar Field Wave Dark Matter and Galactic Halos.” (Physics) Hubert Bray, Adviser. September 2021.

Samuel Carter Hedges

“Low Energy Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions at the Spallation Neutron Source.” (Physics) Phillip Barbeau, Adviser. December 2021.

Ryan Henry KozlowskiPIC

“Mesoscale Forces and Grain Motion in Granular Media Exhibiting Stick-Slip Dynamics: Effects of Friction and Grain Shape.” (Physics) Joshua Socolar, Adviser. September 2021.

Trevyn Fergus Larson

“AC Measurements of Graphene-Superconductor Devices.” (Physics) Gleb Finkelstein, Adviser. May 2022.

Long Li

“A Measurement of the Response of a High Purity Germanium Detector to Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils.” (Physics) Phillip Barbeau, Adviser. May 2022.

Yuheng Liao

“Understanding Photoexcited Charge Carrier Dynamics in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Thin Films by Pump Probe Microscopy.” (Physics) Warren Warren, Adviser. December 2021.

Peifan Liu

“Experimental Study of Structured Light Using a Free-electron Laser Oscillator.” (Physics) Ying Wu, Adviser. September 2021.

Aaron Mahler

“Wannier Functions and Their Role in Improving Density Functional Approximations.” (Physics) Weitao Yang, Adviser. December 2021.

Shobhit Sharma

“Development and Application of Simulation Tools for Virtual Imaging Trials in Computed Tomography.” (Physics) Ehsan Samei, Adviser. May 2022.

William Maxwell Steinhardt

“Investigating the Ground States of Triangular Antiferromagnet Quantum Spin Liquid Candidates.” (Physics) Sara Haravifard, Adviser. September 2021.

Jonathon Luke Yuly

“Energy Transduction by Electron Bifurcation.” (Physics) David N. Beratan, Adviser. September 2021.

Pingchuan Zhao

“Search for New Phenomena Using Three-Photon Final States in Data Collected with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider.” (Physics) Mark Kruse, Adviser. December 2021.

 

Political Science

So Jin Lee

“Carrots or Sticks? Positive Inducements and Sanctions in International Relations.” (Political Science) Peter D. Feaver and David A. Siegel, Advisers. December 2021.

Zeren Li

“Institutionalized Rent Seeking: The Political-Business Revolving Door in China.” (Political Science) Edmund Malesky and Melanie Manion, Advisers. September 2021.

Jesse Lopez

“Challenges to Measuring Public Opinion: The Insincere, the Social, and the Measurement Approach.” (Political Science) D. Sunshine Hillygus, Adviser. May 2022.

Timothy Raymond McDade

“Economic Channels for Influence over Governments.” (Political Science) Erik Wibbels, Adviser. May 2022.

Katelyn Mehling IcePIC

“Social Movements and Elections: An Examination of Select 21st Century Movements.” (Political Science) John Aldrich, Adviser. May 2022.

Ana María Montoya

“ ‘It is So Ordered’? The Judicial Enforcement of Land Restitution Rulings and the Politics of Compliance in Colombia (2011-2021).” (Political Science) Erik Wibbels, Adviser. May 2022.

Marco Morucci

“Methods for Robust and Interpretable Causal Inference and Analysis of Image Data for Political Science.” (Political Science) David Siegel, Adviser. September 2021.

Diego José Romero

“Connections and Privileged Access: Essays on The Political Economy of Corruption.” (Political Science) Erik Wibbels, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Population Health Sciences

Ethan Daniel BorrePIC

“Economic Evaluation and Research Prioritization of Adult Hearing Screening in the United States.” (Population Health Sciences) Gillian Sanders Schmidler, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Psychology and Neuroscience

Matthew David BachmanPIC

“The Dynamic Interplay Between Attention and Reward.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Scott Huettel and Marty Woldorff, Advisers. May 2022.

Daisy Alma Burr

“Integrating Channels of Emotion: Individual Differences in Subjective Experience, Psychophysiology and Neural Activity.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Adviser. December 2021.

Jaime Jorge Fernando Castrellon

“Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Individual Differences in the Discounting and Subjective Value of Rewards.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Adviser. May 2022.

Emily Mellissa Cherenack

“Stress, Coping, Mental Health, and Reproductive Health among Adolescent Girls Transitioning through Puberty in Tanzania.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Kathleen J. Sikkema, Adviser. September 2021.

Shannon Dailey

“Examining Early Word Learning and Language Input through a Longitudinal, Experimental, and Observational Lens.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Elika Bergelson, Adviser. May 2022.

Emmaline Drew EliseevPIC

“Searching for Information in the Digital Age: Implications for Metacognition and Learning.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Elizabeth Marsh, Adviser. May 2022.

Adrianne Arntsen Harris

“A Window Into Autonomic Nervous System Functioning in Autism: Pupillometry in Adults on the Autism Spectrum.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Nancy L. Zucker, Adviser. September 2021.

Eric Joseph JuarezPIC

“Features of Imagination that Contribute to Value-based Decision Making.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Gregory Samanez-Larkin and Roberto Cabeza, Advisers. May 2022.

Jee Young Kim

“The Effects of Affiliation Motivation on Feedback Seeking and Self-regulation.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) James Shah, Adviser. May 2022.

Leon Yang Li

“The Development of Language and Morality as Forms of Social Action.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Michael Tomasello, Adviser. May 2022.

Katherine (Kibby) Li McMahonPIC

“Evaluating the Impact of a Brief, Emotion Regulation Intervention on Emotion Perception.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) M. Zachary Rosenthal, Adviser. September 2021.

Charlotte Emma Moore

“Variable Wordforms, Adaptable Learners: Evidence from Real-time Word Comprehension and Naturalistic Corpora.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Elika Bergelson, Adviser. September 2021.

 

Public Policy

Marwa Khalid Ali AlFakhriPIC

“Three Essays in Population Economics.” (Public Policy) Marcos Rangel, Adviser. May 2022.

Ajenai Shareece ClemmonsPIC

“Protecting and Serving: What Actually Matters to Young, Black Men in Durham, North Carolina.” (Public Policy) Deondra Rose, Adviser. September 2021.

Travis Earl DauwalterPIC

“Three Essays on U.S. Electricity Policy.” (Public Policy) Steven Sexton and Christopher Timmins, Advisers. December 2021.

David J. TierPIC

“American Civil-Military Relations and the Political Economy of National Security.” (Public Policy) Bruce W. Jentleson, Adviser. December 2021.

 

Religion

Grazina BielousovaPIC

“The Making of Savage Europe: Religious Difference and The Idea of Eastern Europe.” (Religion) Joseph Winters and J. Kameron Carter, Advisers. May 2022.

Cody Nathan David

“The Economics of Redemption and Retribution in Isaiah 40-66.” (Religion) Marc Brettler, Adviser. May 2022.

Krishni Luciana Metivier

“Can a Hindu be Black?: A Study of Black Americans and Hinduism.” (Religion) Richard Jaffe, Adviser. September 2021.

Ian Nelson Mills

“Rewriting the Gospel: The Synoptics among Pluriform Literary Traditions.” (Religion) Mark Goodacre, Adviser. December 2021.

Andrew Remington Rillera

“Paul’s Philonic Opponent: Unveiling the One Who Calls Himself a Jew in Romans 2:17.” (Religion) Douglas A. Campbell, Adviser. September 2021.

Zexi Sun

“War, Revolution, and Chinese Protestant Intellectuals: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey.” (Religion) Xi Lian, Adviser. May 2022.

Nicholas Eugene Wagner

“The Grammarian's Bible: Scholarship in the Margins of the Septuagint.” (Religion) Laura S. Lieber, Adviser. September 2021.

 

Romance Studies

Caroline Joy EnloePIC

“Molding ‘Economic Woman’: Conflicting Portrayals of Women’s Economic Roles in Magazines Published During the Franco Dictatorship.” (Romance Studies) Stephnie Sieburth, Adviser. May 2022.

Joseph William Mulligan

“Poetics of Revelation: Communities of the Literary Oracular in Transatlantic Modernism.” (Romance Studies) José María Rodríguez García, Adviser. May 2022.

Ninel Hipatia Valderrama NegronPIC

“Governing Infrastructures: Crafting Loyalty While Engendering Dissent in the Spanish Transpacific Empire.” (Romance Studies) Esther Gabara, Adviser. May 2022.

 

Sociology

Colin Michael Birkhead

“Shareholder Value Minimization? How Some US Corporations Avoid Institutional Pressures.” (Sociology) Martin Ruef, Adviser. May 2022.

Taylor Whitten Brown

“Qualities or Inequalities?: How Gender Shapes Value in the Market for Contemporary Art.” (Sociology) Christopher A. Bail, Adviser. September 2021.

Anna Lawrence HollemanPIC

“Inequality within Congregations and Congregations’ Response to Inequality: Studies of Gender and Mental Health, Race and Mental Health, and Participation in the Sanctuary Movement.” (Sociology) Mark Chaves, Adviser. December 2021.

Susan Weller JacobsPIC

“Cultural Meaning, Stigma, and Polarization.” (Sociology) Stephen Vaisey, Adviser. May 2022.

Christina Kamis

“Childhood Adversities and Adult Mental Health: Conceptualizing and Measuring Heterogeneity in Adversity Experience.” (Sociology) Scott Lynch, Adviser. May 2022.

Crystal Elaine Peoples

“The Significance of Racialized Networks in Contemporary American Sociology.” (Sociology) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Craig Rawlings, Advisers. May 2022.

Joseph Michael QuinnPIC

“Network Contexts and Social Identities Interact to Shape Beliefs and Behaviors.” (Sociology) James Moody and Lynn Smith-Lovin, Advisers. May 2022.

Liann Haruka Yamashita

“Quiet Neglect: Southeast Asian Refugees Amidst U.S. Denial.” (Sociology) Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Adviser. September 2021.

 

Statistical Science

Fan BuPIC

“Stochastic Process Models on Dynamic Networks.” (Statistical Science) Alexander Volfovsky, Adviser. September 2021.

Michele Caprio

“Advances in Choquet Theories.” (Statistical Science) Sayan Mukherjee, Adviser. May 2022.

Xu Chen

“Statistical Analysis of Response Distribution for Dependent Data via Joint Quantile Regression.” (Statistical Science) Surya T. Tokdar, Adviser. September 2021.

Yuhan Chen

“Nonparametric Bayes Methods for Mixture Models and Variable Selection.” (Statistical Science) David Dunson, Adviser. September 2021.

Yi Guo

“Problems in Computational Advertising.” (Statistical Science) David Banks, Adviser. December 2021.

Sheng Jiang

“Consistency and Adaptation of Gaussian Process Regression, Bayesian Stochastic Block Model and Tail Index.” (Statistical Science) Surya T. Tokdar, Adviser. September 2021.

Henry Mikael Kirveslahti

“Euler Integration with Applications to Statistical Shape Analysis and Imaging.” (Statistical Science) Sayan Mukherjee, Adviser. May 2022.

Heather Michelle MathewsPIC

“Communities in Social Networks: Detection, Heterogeneity and Experimentation.” (Statistical Science) Alexander Volfovsky, Adviser. May 2022.

Jiurui Tang

“Bayesian Models for Combining Information from Multiple Sources.” (Statistical Science) Jerome Reiter, Adviser. May 2022.

Meng Xie

“Multivariate Dynamic Modeling and Bayesian Decision Analysis for Macroeconomic Policy.” (Statistical Science) Mike West, Adviser. December 2021.

Anna Katherine YanchenkoPIC

“Hierarchical Time Series Modeling with Business and Audio Applications.” (Statistical Science) Mike West and Sayan Mukherjee, Advisers. December 2021.