Dissertations from 2026
THE EFFECT OF ANTIOXIDANTS ON THE OXIDATION PROPERTIES OF VEGETABLE OILS DURING DEEP FRYING, Tamany M. Alanezi
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES FOR MONETARY POLICY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY, Amri Anjas Asmara
Theoretical Foundations and Immigrant Partisan Development in The United States, Atinuke Elizabeth Ayowole-Muili
AN EXPERTISE-BASED APPROACH TO TRAINING DECISION-MAKING AND SITUATIONAL AWARENESS FOR BASKETBALL REFEREES, Scott Warner Boatright
PREDICTING ADHERENCE TO COVID-APPROPRIATE BEHAVIORS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN INDIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: APPLYING THE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL MODEL, Ruchi Brahmachari
Performing (for the) Guru: A Performance Studies Approach to the Study of Cults, Todd M. Brown
Evaluating the Needs and Preferences of Post-Secondary ESL Writing Students and Teachers for the Development of Mobile Peer Review Applications, Anne-Marie Calton
A DESIGN-BASED EXPERIMENT INTEGRATING READING AND WRITING IN A FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE COMPOSITION CLASS, Marina Paula Carreira Rolim
EFFECTS OF DIETARY MODULATION ON BIOMARKERS OF DOG HEALTH, Cierra Nicole Crowell
Targeted Gene Editing Approaches to Study Target Genes, Seth Brian Eddington
MECHANISMS OF SPECIATION AND REINFORCEMENT IN THE AMEEREGA BASSLERI SPECIES GROUP, BreAnn Geralds
REIMAGINING BELONGING: THE RHETORIC OF NATURE AND BODIES IN OUTSIDE MAGAZINE AND UNLIKELY HIKERS, India Hagen-Gates
PERSONALIZED POLITICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: HOW MEDIA EXPOSURE AND SOCIAL MEDIA MICRO TARGETING IMPACT PUBLIC AGENDA DIVERSITY AND WIDEN PARTISAN POLARIZATION IN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (2012-24), Kazi Mehedi Mehedi Hasan
WHY PEOPLE COOPERATE WITH THE POLICE IN NIGERIA: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW, Rasheed Babatunde Ibrahim
THREE EMPIRICAL ESSAYS ON COVID-19 GOVERNMENT POLICY RESPONSES AND GLOBAL BILATERAL TRADE, Anusha Illukkumbura
THE CRONE’S RETURN: CONJURING MYTH IN THE GOLDEN GIRLS AND MIYAZAKI, Scott Jarmon
GENOMIC AND BIOCONTROL INSIGHTS INTO BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS AS A SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TOOL AGAINST SOYBEAN CHARCOAL ROT, KAVEH JAVANSHIRJAVID
INTELLIGENT SURVEILLANCE FOR WEAPON THREAT DETECTION: TRANSFORMER-BASED DETECTION AND SEGMENTATION USING THERMAL AND RGB IMAGERY, Akhila Kambhatla
CASE HISTORY-BASED LIQUEFACTION EVALUATION OF MULTI-LAYERED SITES WITH FINES-DOMINATED MATERIALS, Pourya Kargar
EXPLORING EMPLOYEES' EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR FOUR-DAY WORKWEEKS IN PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS, RADIA LAKHSSASSI
Til Death Do Us Part: Adapting Drama Therapy Techniques for Solo Performers, Sean Thomas Earl Maulding
PREVALENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF ZOONOTIC PATHOGENS AND PARASITES IN RACCOONS (PROCYON LOTOR) OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS, Ashley McDonald
FROM STRUCTURE TO SUPPORT: AN INTEGRATIVE MODEL OF LEADERSHIP, EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION, ROLE CLARITY, AND DAOIST MODERATION, Aradhna Mohan
THE COST OF ACCESS: EXPLORING STRUCTURAL BARRIERS AND BEHAVIORAL DEMAND FOR MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH CARE AMONG RURAL AND VETERAN WOMEN, Jacqueline Kaye Nash
MECHANICALLY FLEXIBLE GAS PLASMA LOGIC GATES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS, Naga Sidhartha Pandari
College Student Coping and Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Trinka Peer Pape
Lyapunov-Krasovskii Based Approach To Time-Delay Systems: Computational Efficiency And Feedback Control, Huan Phan Phan
EVALUATION OF TRICHODERMA SPP. AS BIOCONTROL AGENTS AGAINST FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT OF WHEAT, Halil POLAT
BEHIND THE BEAM: UNDERSTANDING CERTIFIED MEDICAL DOSIMETRISTS’ VIEWS AND ROLES IN PSA SCREENING AND PATIENT ADVOCACY, Courtney Renae Raisor
MORAL INJURY AND RESILIENCE FACTORS AMONG WOMEN VETERANS: MEASUREMENT, CORRELATES, AND LIVED EXPERIENCES, Dawn A. Roberts
CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL HYPERPOLARIZED MRI CONTRAST AGENTS FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER AND OTHER DISEASES, Ishani Maheshika Senanayake
Evaluating Interaction in Asynchronous Online Courses using a Fast and Focused Formative Evaluation Framework, Leslie B. Short
TARGETING TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4 WITH COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY METHODS AND RATIONALLY DESIGNED GLYCOCONJUGATES, Olivia Slater
Pulmonary Embolisms in Rural Healthcare: Exploring Outcomes, Evaluating Rural PERTs and Assessing Innovative Hospital Interventions, Katilyn E. Sullivan
WILDLIFE USE OF GIANT CANE HABITAT IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, Thanchira Suriyamongkol
POWER ON NORMS OF CLIMATE CONTROL COST DISTRIBUTION, Rongling Tang
A STUDY OF POWER AND DIASSOCIATIVE GRAPHS OF FINITE LOOPS, Ronald Edsel White
The Phylogenetic and Biogeographic History of Cranes (Gruidae), Phillip Conrad Williams
PFAS Degradation in the Cathode Chamber of a Bioelectrochemical System Utilizing the West Branch Consortium (WBC-2), Haoran Yang
Dissertations from 2025
SOME SIMPLE HIGH DIMENSIONAL ONE AND TWO SAMPLE TESTS, Ahlam Mustafa Abid
EXISTENCE, DIFFERENCE, AND THE NIGERIAN WOMAN: A FEMINIST PRAXIS BEYOND PATRIARCHY, Hannah Yemisi Ajewole
Electrochemical Charge Storage of Biochar-Based Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitors (EDLCs), Aliaa Alrashidi
UNRAVELING NEURODEGENERATIVE PATHWAYS AND AUDITORY DEFICITS IN 5XFAD MICE: INSIGHTS INTO AD SENSORY ALTERATIONS, Dheyaa Al-Sallami
REALIZATION OF SIMPLE SMALE FLOWS IN S^3 USING 3-BAND TEMPLATES, Mohammed Alshamrani
Some explicit descriptions of characters stabilizing smooth complex representations of GL(r, D) with a p-adic division algebra D, Maryam Saeed Alzahrani
Communicating Ourselves: Erasure and Counter Discourse of Queer Christians of Color, Janine Armstrong
Tell It Slant: Leaning Into the Aesthetic Possibilities of Performative Writing, A.B. Art
FISCAL DOMINANCE AND BANK FRAGILITY IN FRONTIER ECONOMIES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, Kofi Ampoma Asuako
EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING TECHNIQUES TO ANALYZE STUDENT BEHAVIOR IN A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, Mohamad Ali bin Baba
The Surge of the Populist Radical Right: How Transnationalism and Party Systems Influence Populist Radical Right Success and Decline, Liucija Balciunaite
Trainee Experiences in Multicultural Neuropsychology Supervision: A Qualitative Study, Lauren Bandel
ON A STUDY OF THE MODULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF SLn(Fq) IN DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC p, Devjani Basu
REDUCING TRANSISTOR COUNT IN CMOS LOGIC DESIGN THROUGH CLUSTERING, SUPERCLUSTERING, AND SOP SPLITTING, Anup Kumar Biswas
ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN BANGLADESH, Gautam Kumar Biswas
ILLINOIS ABANDONED MINE LANDS: POSSIBILITIES FOR SOURCING CRITICAL MINERALS IN COAL MINING WASTE, Ryan Bowman
The Role of Sex and Genetic Background in Early Life Stress Effects on Locus Coeruleus Physiology and Related Cognitive and Affective Behaviors, Savannah Grace Brannan
Come As You Are, Hoods Not Required: The 1942 Lynching of James Edward Person in Vigo County, Indiana, and Edgar County, Illinois, Renatto Vontez Carr
EXAMINING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN INTERNALIZED RACISM, PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY, AND WELL-BEING AMONG BIPOC, Cerella Chandra
THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL NEEDS ON DISTINCT ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVES, Megan B. Cook
Mapping Cardiac Adipose Tissue Using Spectral Analysis of Ultrasound Radiofrequency Data and Machine Learning, Julian Rene Cuellar Buritica
ADSORPTION-BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL ASSAY FOR NUCLEIC ACID DETECTION ON 2D NANOMATERIALS, Prabhangshu Kumer Das
EXPLORING MORAL INJURY AND EMPOWERMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN VETERANS AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION AND HISTORICAL BLACK COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY, Eddie J. Davenport
TOWARDS AUTOMATED QUALITY ASSURANCE IN INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY: INSTANCE SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF IMAGE QUALITY INDICATORS AND POROSITY, Merrill Edward August Dennison
A Blockchain Integrated Enterprise Resource Planning Framework for Improving Supply Chain Management Operations, Patrick Dudczyk
THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RADAR DATA PROCESSING, Daniel Durbin
FROM INTRODUCTION TO SPREAD: UNDERSTANDING THE SPATIAL AND RESOURCE ECOLOGY OF SILVER CARP, Tanya Elizabeth Fendler
Population Dynamics of Feral Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Across Illinois, Bryan Scott Foster
Accelerating Spatial Query Operations, Roger Frye
DOMENICO LOSURDO AND THE MARXIST-LENINIST CRITIQUE OF WESTERN MARXISM, Carlos L. L. Garrido
PREDICTORS OF CYBERBULLYING AND HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIORS IN RURAL MIDWESTERN SCHOOLS: A MULTILEVEL MODELING ANALYSIS, Ashley M. Harrison-Pavlik
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL MALDI MATRIX, DTB CHCA, AND AN AUTOMATED QUANTITATIVE DATA COLLECTION PROCESS FOR MALDI-MS, Jared Michael Harzan
THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACEs) AND BENEVOLENT CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (BCEs) ON THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN VETERANS, Lenorris Edward Hughes
THE EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF A REMNANT BOTTOMLAND CYPRESS-TUPELO WETLAND AMPHIBIAN COMMUNITY, Jacob M. Hutton
UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF FACULTY SUPPORTING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES, Jenna Ranee Parbati Jamieson
OLS TESTING WITH PREDICTORS SCALED TO HAVE UNIT SAMPLE VARIANCE, Sanjuka Madhura Kumara Johana Lemonge
Exploring the Spatial-Reasoning Skills of Middle School Students in Design-Based Integrated-STEM Activities, Sandra Richy John
Characterization of Novel Site 3 Modulators to Explore Inactivation of the VGSC Isoform Nav1.7, John William Johnson
MACHINE LEARNING-AIDED DESIGN OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE ALUMINUM ROTORS FOR ENHANCED REGENERATIVE BRAKING EFFICIENCY IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES, Sai Krishna Kancharla
ORCHESTRATING MULTI-OBJECTIVE NEURAL NETWORK DEPLOYMENT IN HETEROGENEOUS EDGE SYSTEMS, Andreas Karatzas
ASPECTS OF APPROXIMATE INDUCTIVE INFERENCE FOR BC LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION, Sunil Kumar Lal Karn
PATHOLOGIZING BLACK MOTHERHOOD: WELFARE POLICY AS A VESTIGE OF SLAVERY, JIM CROW AND JANE CROW, Lakendria M. Kenner
THE ROLE OF SHANK3 IN CEREBELLAR GLUTAMATERGIC SIGNALING: IMPLICATIONS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Rajaram Kshetri
SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND OCCUPANCY DYNAMICS OF CARNIVORES IN A CENTRAL HARDWOOD FOREST, Maximillian Larreur
A MIXED METHODS STUDY: PROCEDURAL AND CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE IN BASIC STATISTICS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, Jie Shi Liew
COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR MARTIAN LASER INDUCED SPECTROSCOPY AND SOLAR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY, Christopher Mandrell
The Impact of Treatment Modality, Security, and Risk Level Matching on Socioecological Treatment Change among Youth Adjudicated for a Sexual Offense, Jessica Mattera
BEYOND SLAVESHIPS AND THE MOTHERSHIP: BLACK PERFORMANCE AESTHETICS THAT HAVE LED TO AFROFUTURISM AND BEYOND., Caleb Royal McKinley-Portee
E-LEARNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: UNVEILING FACULTY DIGITAL REALITIES, Dauran McNeil
DEEP LEARNING POWERED IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF EARLY DIFFERENTIATED GERM LAYERS FROM PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS, Sakib Mohammad
Current gender-affirming neuropsychological assessment practices of pediatric neuropsychologists, Genni Newsham
UKRAINIAN WOMEN IN THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR: BETWEEN SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE, Jelena Nikolic Khatatbeh
ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR) BEYOND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING: ITS ROLE AS AN INFLAMMATORY REGULATOR IN ASTROCYTE CELLS, Emmanuel Ojo
TIME-SERIES NETWORK ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY MODEL USING WEEKLY PROGRESS MONITORING IN A CLINICAL SAMPLE, Steven Forrest Parker
ENHANCED DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND FORECASTING PROBLEMS IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, Vasileios Pentsos