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Theses/Dissertations from 2026 2026

INTEGRATED PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION: SEX-, EXERCISE-, AND RESTRICTION-DEPENDENT EFFECTS, Minyoung Kwak

INVESTIGATION OF SUCCINYLATED ZWITTERIONIC POLYETHYLENIMINE/DNA COMPLEXES: PERFORMANCE IN SERUM, INTERNALIZATION, AND INTRACELLULAR FATE, Levi Lampe

ADVANCING VIRAL VECTOR MANUFACTURING USED IN GENE THERAPY THROUGH MECHANISTIC AND APPLICATION-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION OF PARTICLE DYNAMICS IN FILTRATION PLATFORMS, Mara Leach

ESSAYS ON THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC FINANCE, Kitae Lee

Technical Progression in Mammalian Genome Assembly: From Reference Refinement to Haplotype-Resolved Telomere-to-Telomere Reconstruction, Kai Li

From the Ivory Tower to the Town Square: Defining the Public Scholar, Mary K. Littlepage

A HISTORICAL CASE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF THE COORDINATE INTERAGENCY PARTNERSHIP REGULATING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS (CIPRIS) SYSTEM AND THE STUDENT EXCHANGE VISITOR INFORMATION SYSTEM (SEVIS) ON FOREIGN STUDENTS COMING TO THE UNITED STATES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION FROM 1990 TO 2008, M. Ann Livingstone

BIOMECHANICAL EFFECTS OF EXERCISE-BASED INTERVENTIONS IN CHRONIC NONSPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS, Lara De Vecchi Machado

Federated Data Engineering and Learning for Edge Intelligence Systems, Afsaneh Mahanipour

Seasonal population dynamics and interspecific interactions of Drosophila suzukii, Eleanor McCabe

EXPLORING THE LIMITATIONS OF SUBSTRATE SCOPE IN DIMETHYLALLYLTRYPTOPHAN SYNTHASES, Evan T. Miller

Data driven closure framework for hypersonics, Vijay B. Mohan Ramu

A TECHNICAL AND PERFORMANCE RE-EXAMINATION OF MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO’S ESCARRAMÁN, OP. 177: BEYOND THE ANGELO GILARDINO PUBLICATION. A NEW PERFORMANCE EDITION OF GALLARDA, Daniel Monroy Reyes

A Conductor's Guide to All-State Orchestra: An Overview of Repertoire and Best Practices, Nicoletta Moss

Extensions between modules defined by lattice paths in the preprojective algebra, Chloe Napier

THE RHESUS MACAQUE MODEL OF MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM INFECTION REVEALS THAT AGE-RELATED DISEASE IS DUE IN PART TO CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND LUNG MICROBIAL DYSBIOSIS, Ethan G. Napier

RECIPROCITY-BASED TRANSFER FUNCTION TECHNIQUES FOR ACOUSTIC SOURCE RECONSTRUCTION, SPRING ISOLATOR CHARACTERIZATION AND STRUCTURAL DAMPING ASSESSMENT, David Pum Thian Lal Paite Neihguk

Microglial APOE Across Alzheimer’s Disease-Relevant Pathologies, Georgia Nolt

Investigation of Composition-Structural Complexity as a Design Tool for Oxidation Resistant and Soft Magnetic High-Entropy Alloy Thin Films, Md Imran Noor

REEP2-DRIVEN PRO-METASTATIC SECRETION PROMOTES LUNG CANCER PROGRESSION, Oluwafunminiyi E. Obaleye

Other Eyes: The Dilemma of Authorship and Autobiography in Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery, and Cristina García, Kevin J.B. O'Connor

Embracing Versatility: A Guide to Preparing Undergraduate Saxophonists for the Modern Job Market, James B. O'Donnell

Development and Application of Constant Final State Yield Spectroscopy (CFSYS) Derived from Variable Energy UPS for Probing Defect States in Conjugated Molecules and Halide Perovskites, Kevin Russell Pedersen

WORKING MEMORY IN THE PIGEON: AN ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM, Daniel Peng

On Stripping and Antipodes in Motivic Steenrod Algebras, Joshua A. Peterson