Winter 2020

Winter Quarter Dissertations (March 2020)

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Blake Lauren
Human Genetics
Using Functional Genomics Approaches to Investigate Human Complex Traits and Diseases
10.6082/uchicago.2174

Buerkle Nathan
Neurobiology
Evolution of Neural Computation in Color Vision Circuits
10.6082/uchicago.2173

de Wet Larischa
Cancer Biology
The Role of SOX2 in Regulating Metabolism and Enzalutamide Resistance in Prostate Cancer
10.6082/uchicago.2190

Krause Matthew Daniel
Pathology
Genetically Encoded Mechanotransduction Response in Endothelial Cells Mediates Human Cardiovascular Traits
10.6082/uchicago.2187

Rauch Simone
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Synthetic Biology Approaches to Study and Control the Transcriptome
10.6082/uchicago.2179

Division of the Humanities

Blass Ethan Chesney
Germanic Studies
Reading with Belief: Literary Romance in Goethe, Shakespeare, and Hitchcock
10.6082/uchicago.2188

Sabbatini Tommaso
Music
Music, the Market, and the Marvelous: Parisian Féerie and the Emergence of Mass Culture, 1864–1900
10.6082/uchicago.2195

Trento Margherita
South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Writing Christianity in Eighteenth-century Tamiḻakam
IR: No

Division of the Physical Sciences

Barati Saeid
Computer Science
Cross-Layer Approximate Computing: From Circuits to Algorithms
10.6082/uchicago.2197

Chen Yuxi
Computer Science
Performance-friendly Concurrency Bug Failure Recovery and Fixing
IR: No

Eskreis-Winkler Jonathan Mark
Statistics
Multiresolution Analysis on Discrete Spaces
10.6082/uchicago.2172

LaVine Rhiannon June
Geophysical Sciences
The Role of Developmental Constraints in Shaping Macroevolutionary Patterns of Disparity in Agnostine Arthropods
10.6082/uchicago.2178

Liao Zhenghan
Chemistry
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Anomalous Transport in Chiral Active Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2184

Nair Vishnu
Chemistry
Design of Semiconductor Biointerfaces for Modulation of Cellular Signalling and Neuronal Networks
10.6082/uchicago.2198

O'Connor Benjamin Garrett
Mathematics
Cohomology of Configuration Spaces of Noncollinear Points in the Projective Plane
10.6082/uchicago.2186

Popovic Predrag
Geophysical Sciences
Idealized Models of Arctic Sea Ice Melt Ponds
10.6082/uchicago.2180

Sohail Sara Hess
Chemistry
Photosynthetic Design Principles for Ultrafast Energy Transfer Processes
10.6082/uchicago.2182

Sun Lei
Statistics
Topics on Empirical Bayes Normal Means
10.6082/uchicago.2192

Thompson Rebecca
Chemistry
Adsorption, Diffusion, and Reaction in Condensed Films: Nerve Agent Simulants, Extraterrestrial Ices, and Olefin Oxidation
10.6082/uchicago.2177

Yang Ge
Physics
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Electrons on Helium
10.6082/uchicago.2199

Zhang Yuan
Chemistry
Common Intermediate-Based Total Synthesis: Application to Laurencia Ethers and the Manginoid Family
10.6082/uchicago.2193

Zinkus-Boltz Julia Rose
Chemistry
Development of RNA Polymerase Biosensors and Their Applications in Synthetic Biology
10.6082/uchicago.2170

Zou Rui
Physics
Using Higgs Boson to Search for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector
10.6082/uchicago.2176

Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Shaiber Alon
Biophysical Sciences
High-Resolution Microbial 'Omics at Scale to Illuminate Enigmatic and Rather Picky Microbial Residents of the Human Oral Cavity
10.6082/uchicago.2189

Division of the Social Sciences

Abed-Rabbo Jamal
History
Islamic Law and the Problem of Christian Hegemony in Late Nasrid Granada
10.6082/uchicago.2183

Kreiner Jared
History
Win, Lose, or Draw: Roman Provincial Administration and Resistance in the Early Principate
10.6082/uchicago.2181

Lee Naeyun
Sociology
Who Belongs to the Nation?
10.6082/uchicago.2169

Pagel Kristina
Comparative Human Development
Biological Aspects of Health: Validating, Analyzing, and Profiling Cytokines in Older U.S. Adults
10.6082/uchicago.2175

Pfeil Gretchen Elisabeth
Anthropology
Sarax and Sutura: Alms and the Value of Discretion in Dakar, Senegal
10.6082/uchicago.2194

Rhone Karen Ellis
Political Science
Architectures of Power and Resistance: The Significance of Financial Alliances in the Struggle for Global Economic Power
IR: No

Division of the Social Sciences and the Division of the Humanities

Comay del Junco Elena
Social Thought and Philosophy
Aristotle's Cosmological Ethics
10.6082/uchicago.2171

Pocius Skomantas
Social Thought and Philosophy
Truthfulness: An Examination of Bernard Williams' Virtues of Truth
10.6082/uchicago.2191

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Yu Ming
Estimation and Statistical Inference for High Dimensional Model with Constrained Parameter Space
10.6082/uchicago.2196

The Divinity School

Wyche Daniel L
The Politics of Self-Overcoming: Spiritual Exercises and Political Liberation from Michel Foucault to Martin Luther King Jr.
10.6082/uchicago.2185

The Law School

Park Sangchul
The Application of Machine Learning to Legal Studies
IR: No

The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Li Jiyuan
Electrostatics and Hydrodynamics in Continuum-Scale Simulations: Numerical Approaches and Applications
10.6082/uchicago.2205

The School of Social Service Administration

Hereth Jane
Disrupting Criminal Legal System Involvement among Young Transgender Women: A Mixed-methods Study Examining the Roles of Gender-based Violence, Discrimination, and Social Support
IR: No