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This collection contains graduate student theses and dissertations from the UNLV College of Sciences. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations across all programs, visit the UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Integrated Transcriptomics and Proteomics Study of Starvation Selected Drosophila Melanogaster, Aavash Adhikari
Electrical Contact to MoS2 for Sensitive Capacitance Measurements, Justin Michael Alvarez
Phosphorous Heteroatom Bond Formation Strategies and the Development of Green Synthetic Methods, Jeffrey Ash II
An Examination of the Teaching and Learning of Resonance in General Chemistry I and Organic Chemistry I Using Variation Theory, Sabrina Barakat
Assessing the Potential for Magmatic Sulfides within Southwestern Laurentia Large Igneous Province, Thomas J. Boes
Seasonal Climate and Environmental Conditions Associated with Physiological Variations of Southwestern United States Pines, Taylor Brewer
Analyzing Fe/Mg-Silicate Chemical Gardens as Analogs to Silicate-Rich Hydrothermal Chimneys on Early Earth and Mars, Nancy Alejandra Carman
Global Structure and Asymptotic Profiles of the Endemic Equilibria of a Diffusive Epidemic Model with Mass-Action, Keoni Castellano
Uranium(VI) & Thorium(IV) Speciation In Organic Media Containing Organophosphorus & Diglycolamide Extractants, Joel Castillo
From Resistance to Host Response: An Integrative Study of C. difficile Infections, Amber Consul
Investigating Controls on Temporal and Spatial Variation of Dissolved Uranium at Springs in Horn Creek Drainage, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA, Collin Davidson
Characterizing GSK3β Interaction and Kinetics via Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, W A Bhagya De Silva
New Insights into the Diverse Intraplate Volcanism Present within the Howland and Baker Island United States Exclusive Economic Zone, Nicholas Foresta
Regulation of Embryonic Eye Regrowth in Xenopus Laevis, Dylan Guerin
Standard and Non-Standard Log-Linear Models For 2 × 2 Contingency Tables, G M Toufiqul Hoque
Algorithms for Certain Computational Mathematics Problems, Shen Chan Huang
Development of Uranium Fluoride Microstructures, Harry Jang
α-QUARTZ Plastic Strength Investigation Via Diffraction Experiments on Novaculite Using a D-Dia and Elastic Plastic Self-Consistent Interpretation, Denali Jivanjee Medina
An Analysis of The Propagation of Gravitational Radiation Under a Graviton of Nonzero Mass and its Implications for Cosmological Measurements, Margaret Johnston
Evaluation of Electrochemical Corrosion, Electrodeposition, and Other Electroanalytical Methods as Investigative Forensic Techniques for Advancing Metal Substrate Analysis, Crystal C. Kitanovski
Physiology and Genomics at the Bottom of the World: Genome to Phenome, Amy Christine Klink
Laramide Shortening in the Clark Mountain Thrust Complex: Reinterpretation of the Timing of the Winters Pass Thrust, Mojave Desert, SE California, Hayden M. Kombrink
Probing the Ecological Functions of Thermophiles Using Cultivation-Dependent and Cultivation-Independent Techniques, Dengxun Lai
Statistical Classification using Selection and Ranking Methodologies with Statistical Learning, Jeong Jun Lee
Photoelectic Driven Decomposition of Uracil via Hard X-Ray Irradiation, Trimaan Malik
Using Neighborhood Information to Improve Fiber Direction Estimation from Neuroimaging Data, Anjan Mandal
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Chemistry: A Density Functional Study, Eduardo Montoya
Application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Healthcare, Dwaipayan Mukhopadhyay
Tilt Instability of Retrograde Disk Around One Component of a Binary, Madeline Overton
Boron-Doped Diamond as a Resilient Electrode Material in Molten Salts, Hannah Katherine Patenaude
Dynamical Studies of Misaligned Circumbinary Disks, Ian C. Rabago
Plant-Plant Interaction in Early- Vs. Late-Successional Varieties of the Hawaiian Landscape-Dominant Tree, Metrosideros polymorpha, Tomoko Sakishima
Identifying Disease-Related Gene-Environment Interactions Based on Method of Moments, Linchuan Shen
UVC and Planetary Habitability: Insights from Desert Lichens and Cyanobacteria, Tejinder Singh
Quaternary Ammonium Compound Resistance of Klebsiella Pneumoniae and Klebsiella Quasipneumoniae Strains Isolated from the International Space Station, Natasha Svetlana Sushenko
Simulation and Design of Ion Traps using the Method of Fundamental Solutions, Trevor Taylor
Effects of Climate Change on (Semi)-Arid Ecosystems in the Southwestern United States, Charlotte Van Der Nagel
Density-Driven Investigations of Ruthenium Binary Compounds RuX2 (X = O, S, N), Melanie White
Understanding Disk Substructures with 3D Self-Consistent Thermodynamics, Shangjia Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Sequestered Sequences: A Bioinformatic Approach to the Forgotten Genome, Dylan Barth
The Role of a WRKY Transcription Factor in Mediating Hormone Response During Rice Seed Germination, Santiago Bataller
Investigation of the Chemical and Electronic Structure of a 2H Phase MoS2 Single Crystal, Mary Blankenship
The Genetic Relationship Between Peripheral Inflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease, Davis Cammann
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
Climatic Influences on Incipient Alteration in Mars-Relevant Ultramafic Soils, Anthony Feldman
Desert Spring Prokaryotes and Benthic Macroinvertebrates: Geological and Ecological Controls, Ariel D. Friel
Interaction of Technetium (IV) with Dibutyl Phosphate in n-Dodecane, Jonathan George
Exploration of H2O Ice at Extreme Conditions, Zachary M. Grande
Investigating van der Waals Josephson Junctions with 2H-NbSe2 and 1T’-Wte2, Kristine Lorraine Haley
The Room Temperature Electrolysis of F-Elements in Aqueous and Ionic Liquid Media: Synthesis, Dissolution, and Reduction, Phillip George Hammer
Synergy and Antagonism in Log-Linear Models, Md Nahid Hasan
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
Evolution and Natural Selection of Olfactory Receptor Genes in Hawaiian Drosophila, Ngoc H. Ly
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
Cellular Heat Responses of Desert Mammals Promote Survival in Extreme Conditions, Janessa Montenegro
Magmatic Processes Leading to Compositional Diversity in the Mars Crust, Amanda Marie Ostwald
Examining the Spatial Periodicity of Force Chains and Strain Localization in Polycrystal Models, Richard D. Panduro-Allanson
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
Regulation of Toxicity in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Envelope Stress Response, Melissa C. Schofield Londono
New Observations on the Age and Origin of the Geologist Seamounts, South Hawaiian Seamount Province, Brandon Chester Scott
Actinide Behavior in Soft Ligand Environments and Higher Oxidation States of Neptunium in Aqueous Media with Solid-State Synthesis of Np(VII) Compounds, Kelly Floyd Seeley
Stoichiometric Determination of Hydride Materials at Extreme Conditions, Gregory Alexander Smith
On the Synthesis of Heavy Rare Earth Solid Solutions and Their Hydrides, Joshua R. Van Cleave
Mob Family Proteins and Tricornered Kinase Are Required to Form Dorsal Appendages of the Drosophila Eggshell, Keala H. D. Watson
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