Winter 2022

Winter Quarter Dissertations (March 2022)

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Carryl, Sophia Senika
Evolutionary Biology
The Use of Multiple Biomarkers to Understand the Effects of Urbanization on a Free-Living Passerine, House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
10.6082/uchicago.3648

Craddock, Christopher Anthony Jason
Cell and Molecular Biology
Proofreading and Progression at the Catalytic Stages of Splicing: Novel Insights into the Roles and Regulation of DEAH-box ATPases
10.6082/uchicago.3656

Hasse, Adam
Medical Physics
Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis
10.6082/uchicago.3650

Hernandez, Cody Anthony
Cell and Molecular Biology
Physiological Function and Mechanism of Prp22 in Regulating 3’ Splice Site Selection
10.6082/uchicago.3668

Jiao, Shiyin
Public Health Sciences
Effects of Coverage under Medicaid and Medicare on Continuity, Access, Quality, and Cost of Care
10.6082/uchicago.3670

Lee, Bo Ram
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Visualizing Electric-Field Stimulated Ion Conduction in a Potassium Channel
IR: No | Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13013080

Lee, Jimmy
Cancer Biology
RNA N6-Methyladenosine Modification Maintains Epidermal Stemness through PVT1-MYC Interaction
10.6082/uchicago.3652

Liu, Meizi
Public Health Sciences
Practical and Advanced Dose-Finding Designs
10.6082/uchicago.3654

Liu, Yue
Cancer Biology
Tumor Cell Senescence in Cancer Therapy
10.6082/uchicago.3664

MacNabb, Brendan William
Immunology
Dendritic Cells Prime Anti-Tumor CD8 T Cell Responses through MHC-Dressing
10.6082/uchicago.3681

Meng, Julia L
Cell and Molecular Biology
Development of Motor Circuits: From Neuronal Stem Cells and Neuronal Diversity to Motor Circuit Assembly
10.6082/uchicago.3674

Skeen, Heather Rene
Evolutionary Biology
Geographic Variation and Temporal Dynamics of Migratory Bird Microbial Communities
10.6082/uchicago.3687

Zhang, Manjing
Microbiology
Genetic Adaptation of Two Enteric Bacteria to Shifting Environmental Landscapes
10.6082/uchicago.3675

Division of the Humanities

Cross, Joseph John
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Poetics of Plot in the Egyptian and Judean Novella
10.6082/uchicago.3672

Lee, Jackson Lun
Linguistics
Morphological Paradigms: Computational Structure and Unsupervised Learning
10.6082/uchicago.3686

Zhang, Xi
Art History
The City's Pleasures: Urban and Visual Culture of Garden Spaces in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s
10.6082/uchicago.3673

Division of the Physical Sciences

Avery, Chloe
Mathematics
Stable Torsion Length
10.6082/uchicago.3660

Brown, Sarah
Chemistry
Organic Self-Assembled Monolayers: Chemical and Structural Responses to Temperature, Light, and Reactive Gas Species
10.6082/uchicago.3669

Chang, Chih-Kai
Physics
TT Deformations and Gravity
10.6082/uchicago.3678

Chen, Pinhan
Statistics
Rank, Ranking and Phase Transition
10.6082/uchicago.3666

Chen, Xi
Geophysical Sciences
Uranium Isotope Variations Tracing Oceanic Anoxia and Zirconium and Hafnium Isotope Variations Tracing Planetary Differentiation Processes
10.6082/uchicago.3680

Davis, Anne Hope
Geophysical Sciences
The Chemical and Physical Properties of Carbon-Bearing Phases in the Deep Earth
10.6082/uchicago.3661

Feng, Xuanyu
Chemistry
Design and Development of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Sustainable Catalysis
10.6082/uchicago.3665

Georgakopoulos, Nikolaos
Mathematics
The RO(G) Cohomology of Equivariant Classifying Spaces
10.6082/uchicago.3671

Hempel, Brian
Computer Science
Tangible Values With Text: Explorations of Bimodal Programming
10.6082/uchicago.3685

Keim, Jonathan Harvey
Chemistry
Development of Transition Metal Mediated Cascades and Their Application Towards the Synthesis of Retigeranic Acid A
10.6082/uchicago.3651

Lim, Melody Xuan
Physics
Acoustically Levitated Granular Matter
10.6082/uchicago.3682

McMillan, Alison Ann
Chemistry
Surface Stability, Phonon Band Structure, and Vibrational Dynamics of the Nb(100) Surface Oxide Reconstruction
10.6082/uchicago.3662

Qu, Pei
Chemistry
Total Synthesis of Annotinolides and the Exploration of Their Biosynthetic Relationships
10.6082/uchicago.3657

Schuster, Brooke Elizabeth
Chemistry
Development and Exploration of New Automated Tools to Accelerate Research on Tissue and Tumor Model Systems
10.6082/uchicago.3653

Sircar, Pronoy
Physics
Hydrodynamics of Weyl Semimetals
10.6082/uchicago.3683

Yi, Heng
Chemistry
Palladium Catalyzed Cyclization and C‒O Bond Formation Cascade, and Its Application in Total Synthesis
10.6082/uchicago.3658

Zinn, Sarah Renea
Chemistry
Unraveling Design Principles for Excitonic Control in Macromolecular Organic Systems
IR: No | Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13013065

Division of the Social Sciences

Babcock, Joshua
Anthropology
Image and the Total Utopia: Scaling Raciolinguistic Belonging in Singapore
10.6082/uchicago.3649

Leathem, Hilary Morgan V.
Anthropology
History (Dis)Possessed: Haunting, Theft, and the Making of Monumental Heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico
10.6082/uchicago.3677

Walker, Austin
Social Thought
An Alexandrian Hermeneutic, or Theology in a Political Mode: A Study of John Henry Newman's Political Philosophy
10.6082/uchicago.3684

The Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Williams, Nicole Odina
“Now I Have More Freedom, but More Work”: African American Boys Following the Transition to High School
10.6082/uchicago.3647

The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

Ajit, Jainu
Engineering the Innate Immune Response Using Novel Conjugates and Biomaterials
10.6082/uchicago.3676

Bennington, Peter
Self-Assembly and Ion Transport Behavior of Polymer Electrolyte Thin Films
10.6082/uchicago.3667

Ma, Tengzhou
Functionally Graded Semiconducting Polymers as Organic Thermoelectrics
10.6082/uchicago.3655

Phan, Hoang Van
Simultaneous Quantification of Gene Expression, Protein and Protein Complex in Single Cells
10.6082/uchicago.3663

Raczy, Michal Mateusz
Engineering Actively Targeted Drug Delivery Systems for Biomedical Applications
IR No | Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13013079

Singh, Manish Kumar
Silicon Compatible Oxide Platform for Engineering Rare-Earth Qubits
10.6082/uchicago.3659

Sui Xiaoyu
Nanoscale Engineering of Advanced Nanomaterials for Environmental Sustainability
10.6082/uchicago.3679