Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2023
IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING TO CREATE ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION DURING FALL PREVENTION TRAINING, Michael A. Abosede
TYPES OF QUESTIONS TEACHERS ASK TO ENGAGE STUDENTS IN MAKING SENSE OF A STUDENT CONTRIBUTION, Nishat B. Alam
EFFECT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LAND ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AFRICA, Wasiu Olawale Amobi
Feeding Our Local Communities-The Benefits of Food Assistance Programs at Local Farmers Markets, Courtney A. Archambeau
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MULTIPHYSICS MODELING OF CARBON NANOTUBE THERMOACOUSTIC LOUDSPEAKERS, Mahsa Asgarisabet
TOWARD A LONGITUDINAL PROGRAM OF IN SITU SOCIAL ROBOTICS RESEARCH AND INFORMAL STEAM EDUCATION, Jaclyn A. Barnes
Information use and decision-making for evacuation at Fuego volcano, Guatemala, Beth A. Bartel
SILVICULTURE, SEEDS, AND DEER: ASSESSING GROUND-LAYER DIVERSITY ALONG EXPERIMENTAL DISTURBANCE GRADIENTS IN A MANAGED NORTHERN HARDWOOD FOREST, Claudia I. Bartlick
Chemical Decomposition of Flexible Polyurethane Foam to Generate a Media for Microbial Upcycling, Kaushik Baruah
Dynamic Modeling and Predictive Control of a Multi-Mode Combustion Engine, Sadaf Batool
HIGHER ACCURACY MODELS AND VALIDATION OF LES-C TURBULENCE MODELS, Yasasya Batugedara Mohottalalage
NOVEL APPROACHES TO COMPUTE MANIFOLD OPERATORS WITH THE RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS METHOD, Jacob James Blazejewski
BIOACCUMULATION OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS AND MERCURY IN A MINING IMPACTED AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM, Michelle Bollini
ESTABLISHING DEGRADATION OF THE C. ELEGANS DREAM COMPLEX IN THE GERMLINE, Christina M. Boody
Lifestyle Choices, The Microbiome and Chronic Disease, Jessica Rae Bruning
SEQUENCING ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPTOME OF POPULUS THROUGH ANTISENSE/SENSE TRANSCRIPT PAIR ENRICHMENT, Emma V. Burke
DESALINATION SYSTEM WITH SORPTION-BASED ZERO LIQUID DISCHARGE TECHNOLOGY, Shiying Cai
Statistical methods for gene selection and genetic association studies, Xuewei Cao
Developing a regional scale landslide early warning system in a data-sparse region using remote sensing, geostatistics, and Google Earth Engine, Vishnu Chakrapani Lekha
MICROSCOPIC AND LABORATORY SCALE CHARACTERIZATION METHODS TO EVALUATE BIOMASS DECONSTRUCTION, Meenaa Chandrasekar
STUDYING EFFECT OF DROUGHT ON SWITCHGRASS AND IDENTIFYING ASSOCIATED MICROBIAL INHIBITORS, Sarvada Hemant Chipkar
RAIN-INDUCED HAZARDS IN REMOTE, LOW-RESOURCE COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY OF FLASH FLOODING IN THE USULUTÁN DEPARTMENT, EL SALVADOR, Natalea Cohen
COMPARING THE ECONOMIC COSTS OF LETHAL AND NON-LETHAL CONTROL OF WOLF DEPREDATION ON SHEEP IN SOUTHERN IDAHO, Nathan M. Coleman
Under Ice Photosynthetic Primary Production and Dark Carbon Fixation in a Temperate Freshwater System, Vanessa Cubillos Tellez
COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC SIGNALS FROM PACAYA VOLCANO USING DEEP LEARNING EVENT DETECTION, Jessica L. DeVlieg
UHPLC/FT-MS NON-TARGETED SCREENING APPROACH FOR BIOMASS BURNING ORGANIC AEROSOL AND LIQUID SMOKE AS BIOMASS BURNING ORGANIC AEROSOL SURROGATE, D.M.R. Thusitha Dinusha Kumarihami Divisekara
REMOTE SENSING APPROACH FOR TERRAMECHANICS APPLICATIONS UTILIZING MACHINE AND DEEP LEARNING, Jordan J. Ewing
AN EXPLORATION OF THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE CONTRIBUTORS TO MOVEMENT CORRECTION BEHAVIOR IN YOUNGER AND OLDER ADULTS, Isaac R. Flint
Direct Recycling of Lithium-ion Battery Materials Using Physical Separation Methods., Tinuade Ololade Folayan
Study of nanocomposite materials using molecular dynamics, Prashik Sunil Gaikwad
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DEFORMATION ALONG THE KEWEENAW FAULT SYSTEM FROM LAKE LINDEN TO MOHAWK, MICHIGAN, Nolan G. Gamet
MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR PREDICTION OF HUMAN INFECTIOUS VIRUS AND IMPUTATION OF HLA ALLELES, Xiaoqing Gao
ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR LOW FREQUENCY IMPACT SOUND MEASUREMENT FOR BUILDING FIELD TESTS, Sunit Girdhar
IMPACT OF GRID-CONNECTED IBRs ON AC TRANSMISSION LINE PROTECTION, Subhradeep Gupta
MICROSCOPIC DYNAMICS OF THE BUBBLE MOTION AND THIN LIQUID FILM DURING BUBBLE IMPACT ON HORIZONTAL AND INCLINED SURFACES, Fatemeh Hamidzadeh
OPTIMIZING THE EXTRUDABILITY OF 6082 ALUMINUM BY VARYING THE MAGNESIUM AND SILICON CONCENTRATION, Eli A. Harma
Joint Probability Analysis of Extreme Precipitation and Water Level for Chicago, Illinois, Anna Li Holey
Tracing the Most Powerful Galactic Cosmic-ray Accelerators with the HAWC Observatory, Dezhi Huang
Neuroevolution and Machine Learning Research Applied to Connected Automated Vehicle and Powertrain Control, Frédéric F. Jacquelin
QUANTIFYING THE EVOLUTION OF STRENGTHENING MECHANISMS FOR COMMERCIALLY PRODUCED NIOBIUM AND TITANIUM HSLA STEEL SHEET, Isabella M.W. Jaszczak
EVALUATION OF LIDAR UNCERTAINTY AND APPLICATIONS TOWARDS SLAM IN OFF-ROAD ENVIRONMENTS, Zachary D. Jeffries
DETECTION AND MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF A HUMAN PROTEIN ASSOCIATED WITH CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, Priyanka Dipak Kadav
DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND TESTING OF AN INVERTED PENDULUM THRUST STAND FOR LOW POWER HALL-EFFECT THRUSTERS, Joshua M. Kalkman
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Eye Banking, Ranit Karmakar
ACCEPTING CHANGE: FACETS OF ACCEPTANCE & SUSTAINABLE REDEVELOPMENT, Zoe L. Ketola
ORIGINS OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES IN NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER AND FLUORESCENT ANIMALS, Nastaran Khademimoshgenani
An exploration of cloud droplet growth by condensation and collision-coalescence in a convection-cloud chamber, Jacob T. Kuntzleman
CHARACTERIZATION OF VERNAL POOLS ACROSS NATIONAL PARKS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION, Samantha R. Kurkowski
IMPACTS OF INTRODUCED EARTHWORMS ON SUGAR MAPLE SAP CHEMISTRY AND THE DISCOURSE OF INVASION ECOLOGY, Shelby Nicole Lane-Clark
EUTROPHICATION ON TWIN LAKES: APPLYING A PHOSPHORUS BUDGET AND SHORELINE SURVEYS TO ASSESS CURRENT & HISTORICAL LAKE HEALTH, Tyler K. LeMahieu
EXERCISE IS MEDICINE® ON CAMPUS: A NATIONAL ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY IMPACT, Isaac M. Lennox
CEREMONY AND STORYWORK: DECOLONIZING STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS DOCUMENTARY FILM, April E. Lindala
ADDITIVE P-VALUE COMBINATION TEST, Xing Ling
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND SLIP KINEMATICS OF THE KEWEENAW FAULT SYSTEM BETWEEN BÊTE GRISE BAY AND GRATIOT LAKE, KEWEENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Daniel J. Lizzadro-McPherson
Finer details of language modeling: text segmentation, working within resource limits, and watermarking, Evan Gordon Lucas
QUANTIFICATION OF WOOD-CARBON TRANSFER TO SOIL ORGANIC MATTER POOLS – DISTRIBUTION AND FORMS, Samuel Mensah Opoku
Cancer/Testis Gene Expression Changes in Metastatic Cancer, Clara M. Mosentine
SELECTING OPTIMAL DISTILLATION CONFIGURATIONS THAT MINIMIZE THE OVERALL RATE OF ENTROPY GENERATION, Zachary A. Olson
AN EXPERIMENTALLY VALIDATED COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR THE DEGRADATION AND FRACTURE OF MAGNESIUM-BASED IMPLANTS IN A CHEMICALLY CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT, Mark M. Ousdigian
MIXING, METABOLISM, AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A MODELING CASE STUDY OF A SHALLOW HYPEREUTROPHIC, POLYMICTIC LAKE, Benjamin C. Reuss
EVALUATING GEOMECHANICAL UNCERTAINTY IN OPEN PIT MINE PLANNING, Evan Ricchio-Hitchcock
CLIMATE CHANGES IN EL SALVADOR: IMPACTS OF ‘LA CANÍCULA’ (MIDSUMMER DROUGHT) ON AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AND DECISION-MAKING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES, Paola M. Rivera González
ENRICHED MICROBIAL CONSORTIA FROM NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS PROVIDE NOVEL METHOD FOR UPCYCLING PLASTIC WASTE, Laura G. Schaerer
EFFECT OF SC ON RECRYSTALLIZATION RESISTANCE OF AA7050, Keaton Schmidt
FINE ROOT RESPIRATION IN QUERCUS RUBRA IS INFLUENCED BY MULTIDIMENSIONAL TRADE-OFFS IN ROOT TRAIT SPACE, Emma L. Shedd
Prediction of Sumoylation Sites in Proteins From Language Model Representations, Evgenii Sidorov
VIRUS INACTIVATION BY NOVEL VIRUCIDAL MATERIALS, Sneha Singh
AN ENTROPY-BASED RISK INDEX (ERI) OF MINING HEALTH AND SAFETY USING CLUSTERING AND STATISTICAL METHODS, Dharmasai Eshwar Reddy Sirigiri
STAMP SAND ALONG THE KEWEENAW SHORELINE: SOLID AND DISSOLVED COPPER & EFFECTS ON BIOTA, Gary Swain
EXPLORING PH GRADIENT PHENOMENA IN NON-LINEAR ELECTROKINETIC MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES, Azade Tahmasebi
MOOSE (ALCES ALCES) HERBIVORY IS THE MAIN DRIVER OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN THE NITROGEN AND CARBON CONTENT OF BALSAM FIR FOLIAGE, Jasmine Fairbanks Terry-Shindelman
TROPICAL PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO EXPERIMENTAL WARMING AND HURRICANE DISTURBANCE, Robert Tunison
RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF BATTERY THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS UNDER UNCERTAINTY, Shreyas P. Vaidya
AUTOMATIC OPTICAL INSPECTION-BASED PCB FAULT DETECTION USING IMAGE PROCESSING, Shruti Rajiv Vaidya
The Rhetorical Art of Risk Assessment: Lessons from Risk Management in Rural and Tribal Communities, John L. Velat
IMPLEMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF MULTI-RESONANCE AND PHASE CONTROL OF THE ELECTRICAL POWER TAKE-OFF ON A WEC ARRAY FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE, Madelyn G. Veurink
The Flight Attendants Of Academia: Liminality, Emotional Labor, And Feminization In Graduate Student Writing Program Administrators, Laura Vidal Chiesa
MULTISCALE MOLECULAR MODELING STUDIES OF THE DYNAMICS AND CATALYTIC MECHANISMS OF IRON(II)- AND ZINC(II)-DEPENDENT METALLOENZYMES, Sodiq O. Waheed
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF WOOD: FROM PYROGRAPHY TO TERMITES AND WOOD DECOMPOSITION, Joanna D. Walitalo
STATISTICAL METHODS FOR GWAS AND THE IMPACT OF DIABETIC MEDICATION ADHERENCE ON HEALTHCARE COSTS, Meida Wang
EXPLORING HIGH PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY EFFICIENT GRAPH PROCESSING ON GPU, Robert P. Watling
EVALUATING AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM MEMORY PROCESSES UNDERLYING MOTOR LEARNING, Alexandra T. Watral
Physical Activity and Exercise with Blood Flow Restriction as Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Isaac J. Wedig
QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF WIDE BASE TIRES ON PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE IN MICHIGAN, Lei Yin
EXPLORING DIFFERENT MEDIUMS FOR TEACHING PROGRAMMING AND CYBERSECURITY IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, Andrew R. Youngstrom
ENERGY ANALYSIS OF DROPLET IMPINGEMENT ON AN INCLINED WALL UNDER DIFFERENT TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENTS, Jiachen Zhai
STABILITY OF LiNiCoAl-OXIDE ELECTRODE MATERIAL UNDER HIGH-TEMPERATURE CERAMIC FUEL CELL CONDITIONS, Wei Zhang
STUDY OF DROPLETS INTERACTIONS ON SOLID SURFACE FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS, Menghan Zhao
Neuromorphic Computing Applications in Robotics, Noah Zins
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2022
Intelligent Techniques to Accelerate Everyday Text Communication, Jiban Krishna Adhikary
SORPTION-BASED DEHYDRATION SYSTEMS: THEORY-TO-DEMONSTRATION, Masoud Ahmadi
Examining Cognitive Empathy Elements within AI Chatbots for Healthcare Systems, Lamia Alam
PERMEABILITY, STRUCTURAL CHANGES, FLOW REGIME TRANSITIONS IN FUEL CELL CATALYST LAYERS AND A MODEL FOR PREDICTING TRAPPED SATURATION FOR TWO-PHASE FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA, Karrar Takleef Alofari
TARGETING CYSTEINE METABOLISM TO ERADICATE TRIPLE-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER, Tahiyat Abdulaziz Alothaim