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Theses from 2026
Rarely Asked: The Systemic Failure to Support the Mental Health of Caregivers of Medically Complex Children, Morgan Motsinger
Elucidating the Function of YedK in Response to DNA Damage, Hank Munro
Distortions, Margaret Muthee
Feather River: Returning to Hope, Allen Myers
Digital (In)Justice? Evaluating Procedural Justice in Online Crime Reporting, Nazmy Natia
Demonizing Sexuality: Dangerous Women in Folklore, Lily E. Nelson
Little Africa in Global China: Transnational Nigerians in Guangzhou and the Making of Xiaobei, Tess L. Nestel
Unspent Donations in Donor Advised Funds - Policy Recommendation, Oriel Nolan-Smith
Homelessness and Business: Perception, Affect and Opportunity, Asatur Nor-Ashkarian
JALZAP: An Agile Hybrid for AI-Accelerated Software Development, Pouya Nouri
A 2030 Energy Transition Pathway for Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Kasiet Nurlanbekova
More Than "Programs for Women": Centering Incarcerated Women's Voices in the Evaluation of Prison Programming, Winter Ohara-Frantz
Balancing Fairness and Quality in Automatic Text Summarization, Olubusayo Olabisi
Extending w-event Differential Privacy to the Publish-Subscribe Framework, Jacob Jerome Olinger
Drag’s Impact On Drag Lives, José L. Oropeza III
Collusion-Resistant Quantum Key Leasing, Nikhil Pappu
Heat Pump Water Heater CTA-2045 Implementation Guidance for Maximizing Demand Response Impact, Dana Kahiwahiwa Paresa
Characteristics of Social Capital in Informal Housing Settlements, Lena Parsons
Navigating Homelessness and Housing Accessibility: An Ethnography of Guests at Operation Nightwatch, Chase Kawika Patton
Soil-Groundwater Controls on the Hydrological Fate of Recycled-Water in a Restored Wetland, Punyotoya Paul, Jennifer L. Morse, and John Richard Goetz III
Improving the FPGA Radio Design Cycle: Implementing DVB-S2 Modulation Using Verilator and GNU Radio, Seth Pellegrino
Reinvesting in a Lived Experience Workforce: An Exploration of Why Peer Support Specialists Leave the Field, Morgan Rae Pelot