Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas College of Sciences.
For the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations, visit UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Role of a WRKY Transcription Factor in Mediating Hormone Response During Rice Seed Germination, Santiago Bataller
The Response of Atomic-to-Molecular Hydrogen Transition Points in Photodissociation Regions Due to a Hard X-Ray Spectrum, Gregory Joseph Colarch
Biochemical Characterization of Fsa1572 from Fervidibacter Sacchari, the First Hyperthermophilic GH50 with Β-1, 4-Glucanase Activity, Jonathan Covington
Long-Range Regulation by the Shigella Virulence Gene Regulator, VirB, Cody Cris
On Outflows Due to Radiation, Randall Cody Dannen
Desert Spring Prokaryotes and Benthic Macroinvertebrates: Geological and Ecological Controls, Ariel D. Friel
Exploration of H2O Ice at Extreme Conditions, Zachary M. Grande
Effects of Cations and Dipicolinic Acid on B. anthracis Spore Physiology and Cytotoxicity, Chandler P. Hassan
Response of the Isothermal Mode Grüneisen Tensor Across Phase Boundaries, Jasmine K. Hinton
Spectroscopic Studies On Silicon and Chalcopyrite Materials for Solar Energy Applications, Amandee Hua
Solving Boundary Value and Initial Boundary Value Problems of Partial Differential Equations Using Meshless Methods, Adam Johnson
Joint Constraints on Kepler-36 from Kepler and New KECK-HIRES Data, Nicholas Juliano
Study of Trace Elements in Southern Nevada Spring Waters and Lakes, Hyejeong Lee
Critical Metals: From Granitic Pegmatites to the Anthropogenic Cycle, Dalton Mccaffrey
Simulating Radial Ring Structure with an Ambipolar Elsasser (Am) Bump in Non-Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics of Protoplanetary Disks, Aleksey S. Mohov
Poop! There it is! Anti-Germinants and Biological Variables as Modulators of Clostridioides Difficile Infection (CDI), Jacqueline Renee Phan
Characterization of Hematite Coated Bedrock Fault Scarps in the Northern Colorado River Extensional Corridor Near Lake Mead, Nevada, Molly E. Pickerel
Morphologic Comparisons of Recrystallized and Neocrystallized Fibrous Amphibole Asbestos: Implications for Corresponding Health Risk Potential, Natalie G. Renkes
Mathematical Modeling: Finite Element Analysis and Computations Arising in Fluid Dynamics and Biological Applications, Jorge Reyes
Inferring the Compositions and Interior Structures of Small Planets, David R. Rice
Stoichiometric Determination of Hydride Materials at Extreme Conditions, Gregory Alexander Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Fault Development and Interaction by Compaction, Tectonism, and Linkage: Examples from Quaternary Fault Development in Southern Nevada, Shaimaa Mohamed Ali Abdelhaleem
Polar Alignment of Massive Retrograde Circumbinary Discs, Charles Abod
Physics of Electromagnetic Counterparts of Binary-Neutron-Star Mergers, Shunke Ai
What Can General Chemistry Students Learn from External Representations of Acid- Base Titrations?, Nicole Baldwin
Dust-Gas Dynamics Driven By the Streaming Instability with Various Pressure Gradients, Stanley Antedio Baronett
Age and Genesis of W-Mo-Cu Mineralization, Gold Hill, Utah, Nathan J. Carey
Towards Highly Sensitive Capacitance Measurements of a Quantum Anomalous Hall Phase in Van Der Waal Heterostructures, Kayla Cerminara
Terrestrial Planet Formation in M-dwarf and Binary Star Systems, Anna C. Childs
Design and Fabrication of an Apparatus for Tao High-Resolution Laser Spectroscopy, Timothy Chung
Some Graph Laplacians and Variational Methods Applied to Partial Differential Equations on Graphs, Daniel Anthony Corral
Antler Foreland Basin Evolution Recorded in Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology, James Duncan
Towards the Electronic Response of Carbon-Based Van Der Waals Heterostructures in a Diamond Anvil Cell, George Thomas Foskaris
The Effects of Winds on Accretion Disks and Spectra Of X-Ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei, Shalini Ganguly
The Dissolution and Recovery of Critical Materials (Li2CO3 and UF6) from Ionic Liquid, Cassara Higgins
Estimation of the Parameters in a Mixture of Two Normal Distributions and the Generalized Pivotal Quantity Method, Md Faruk Hossain
Redox Change Across the Late Cambrian Steptoean Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE) in the Southern Great Basin, USA, Chin Chai Huan
A Survey of the Br´Ezis-Nirenberg Problem and Related Theorems, Edward Huynh
Positive Solutions to Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Logistic-Type Nonlinearities and Harvesting in Exterior Domains, Eric Jameson
Calcite Spherulite Formations and Their Controls in Halophilic Bacterial Cultures, Zakaria Jibrin
Miocene Ichnofaunas and Mammalian Communities in the Great Basin Region, Nevada and California, AnnMarie R. Jones
Investigating Conserved Mechanisms for Embryonic Eye Regrowth in Xenopus laevis, Cindy Kha
Composition Operators on Holomorphic Function Spaces, Eric Koch
Characterization of the Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Single Injection Method Using T4 Polynucleotide Kinase as a Model System for Kinases, Rebecca Chaehee Lim
Revisiting the Chemistry of Uranium and Rhenium Fluorides: Implication to Fuel Cycle and Nuclear Forensics Science, James Amos-Aimé Louis-Jean
Dissolution and Electrochemical Recovery of UO2, UO3, and U3O8 in Ionic Liquids, Katherine Iolani Thornock Luebke
Transient Sources and How to Study Them: Selected Topics in Multi-Messenger Astronomy, Jiawei Luo
Taxonomic and Physiological Insights into Novel Bacterial Class Fervidibacteria, Nancy Nou
Source and Parental Melts of Poikilitic Shergottites: Implications for Martian Magmatism, Evan W. O'neal
Along Strike Tectonic Evolution of the Neogene Bermejo Foreland Basin and Eastern Precordillera Thrust Front, Argentina (30-32ºs), Zoey Catherine Plonka
Day ‘N’ Nite: Habitability of Tidally Locked Planets with Sporadic Rotation, Cody James Shakespeare
Bayesian Nonparametric Regression Models for Insurance Claims Frequency and Severity, Mostafa Shams Esfand Abadi
Tenrec ecaudatus: Hypoxic and Hypercapnic Effects on Aerobic Metabolism, Claudia Silva Rubio
Describing Bacterial Mutagenic Hotspots and Signatures Along with the Factors that Drive Them, Carmen Vallin
Global Transcriptional Profile of the Tubby Mouse Retina, Richard Van
Exploring WRKY Transcription Factors to Study the Molecular Mechanism Underlying Rice Response to Drought and Find Solutions to Food Insecurity, Anne Jinky Villacastin
Paleoenvironmental Changes Across the Devonian-Carboniferous Transition, Audrey M. Warren
Quantifying the Effect of Disturbance on Native Mojave Desert Shrubs, Tamara J. Wynne
Retrospective Varying Coefficient Association Analysis of Longitudinal Binary Traits, Gang Xu
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Elucidating the Role of Tubby in Retinal Degeneration and Obesity, Adrienne Marrie S. Bugayong
Orbital Dynamics and Stability of Circumbinary Planetary Systems and Small Bodies in The Solar System, Cheng Chen
The Role of Nutrition and Hormone Signaling in Extended Larval Development and Obesity in Starvation-Selected Drosophila melanogaster, Jennifer M. Clark
Petrogenesis of Hawaiian Lavas: Investigations Using Radiogenic and Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes, Christopher Defelice
A 155-year tree-ring based record of warm and dry snow droughts for the Cascade Range, USA, Laura A. Dye
Hyperpolarizability Dispersion Measured for Carbon Disulfide Vapor, Rodrigo N. Fernandez
Extreme Event Reconstructions for the Upper Fraser River Basin, British Columbia, Canada, Inga K. Homfeld
Climate and Soil Moisture Dynamics Inform Potential Climate Change Impacts on Available Moisture and Juvenile Tree Survival in Semiarid Forests, Carolyn R. Koehn
Functional π-Organogelators: From Nanoribbons to Organic Phosphors, Sae Hui Lee
Exploring the Choiceless Cardinal Hierarchy, David Linkletter
Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Requirement in Centripetal Migration in Drosophila melanogaster Oogenesis, Sheila Mosallaei
Chronicling Magma Transit Beneath Hawaiian Volcanoes: Every Isotope a Word, Every Crystal a Story, Jonathan Pinko
Juvenile Conifer Growth and Regeneration Across Diverse Climatic and Environmental Conditions in the Southwestern United States, Nikki L. Pirtel
Tail-Measurable Functions and Their Corresponding Induced Classes, and Some Determinacy Conditions Involving 3-Player Games, Joshua K. Reagan
Development of a Novel Alzheimer’s Therapy, Lorena P. Samentar
Differential Gene Expression in Starvation Selected Drosophila Melanogaster, Katherine Schultz
Accretion and Debris Disc Dynamics Around Single and Higher-Order Star Systems, Jeremy L. Smallwood
Implications of the Evolutionary Past on the Activities of VirB: A Key Transcriptional Regulator of Virulence Genes in Shigella flexneri, Jillian Nicole Socea
Genomic Analysis of Paenibacillus Larvae Bacteriophages, Casey Stamereilers
On-Chip Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy, Randy Sterbentz
Distributions and Habitat Associations of Blue Point Pyrgulopsis and Blue Point Tryonia, Chenoa Janine Wilcox
Ab-Initio and Empirical Simulations of Aluminum and Copper Metal, William Wolfs
Degradation of Antibiotics in Aqueous Phase Using PMS Catalytic Decomposition with Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles Immobilized in SBA-15, Ahdee Bluma Zeidman
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Rapid Detection of Toxin-Producing Cyanobacteria, Timothy Alba
Tectonic Evolution of the Tucki Mountain Metamorphic Core Complex, Southeastern California: Evidence for Late Cretaceous Extension within the Sevier-Laramide Orogen, William Killey Barba
Chemical and Electronic Surface Structure of Chalcopyrite-Based Thin Films for Solar Water Splitting, James C. Carter
Development of CO2 Laser-Heating for the Study of Wide Band Gap Oxide Materials, Christian Matthew Childs