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Theses/Dissertations from 2026 2026

Cultus: Eco-phenomenology in the Work of John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London, Carter D. Johnson

EQUID MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX (MHC) EVOLUTION & GENOME ORGANIZATION, Lauren C. Johnson

Does technological peer pressure distort the informativeness of corporate AI investment disclosure?, Zeyang Jackie Ju

DEVELOPING AN INTERSECTIONAL MULTIVARIATE CROSS-CLASSIFIED FRAMEWORK OF MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL HETEROGENEITY AND DISCRIMINATORY ACCURACY (MAIHDA) TO QUANTIFY STRUCTURAL INEQUITIES IN INPATIENT OUTCOMES, Hirotaka Kato

EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF ABBREVIATED AND FULL-LENGTH TRAINING FORMATS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF EMBEDDED INSTRUCTION PRACTICES, Hannah Elizabeth Keene

SHAKESPEARE’S MARTYRS AND THE POETICS OF TRANSFORMATION, Robert Keim

Understanding Möbius Inversion as Composite of Dual Pairs, Isaac B. Kochmaan

Engineering PLGA Nanoparticle Size to Modulate Immune Responses After Spinal Cord Injury, Daniel J. Kolpek

Economic Inequality and Family Formation in the United States, Elizabeth S. Krause

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

ESSAYS ON THE DYNAMICS OF STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC FINANCE, Ikhwan Kweon

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

STACKED RISKS, UNEQUAL RETURNS: STRATIFIED RISK ALLOCATION IN HOUSING AND HIGHER EDUCATION, Regina M. Lewis

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

Adaptations to Extreme Environments in Antarctic Midges, Cleverson S. Lima

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

REGULATION OF HAIR BUNDLE ARCHITECTURE THROUGH MYO15A-DEPENDENT STEREOCILIA REMODELING AND TIP LINK PLASTICITY, Ana I. Lopez-Porras

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

COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION IN GLIOBLASTOMA: ROLE OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AND EVALUATION OF A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY, Sara Macias Palacio

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

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND METABOLIC CONSEQUENCES OF GLUCOCORTICOID RESISTANCE, Genesee J. Martinez

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