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 2022
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
Can Desert Mosses Hide from Climate Change? The Ecophysiological Importance of Habitat Buffering & Water Relations to a Keystone Biocrust Moss in the Mojave Desert, Theresa Ann Clark
Light Conditions during Desiccation and Rehydration Impact the Recovery of Cultured Timmiella Crassinervis, Sotodeh Ebrahimi
Vibration Overtone Hyperpolarizability Measured for H2 Using Electric Field Induced Second Harmonic Generation, Rachel Ellis
The Influence of G4 DNA Structures on Stationary Phase Mutagenesis in Bacillus subtilis, Tatiana Ermi
Uncertainty Quantification for Maxwell's Equations, Zhiwei Fang
Partitioning the Mechanical Cost of Human Walking: Unveiling Cost Asymmetries for Bionic Technologies, Michael Richard Isaacs
Three-Dimensional (3D) Characterization of the Middle Ordoovician (Darriwilian) Strata in the Southern Great Basin, Western United States, Uday Mohamed Baheej Kara Ali
Experimental Polycrystal Stress Mapping Using Raman Spectroscopy, Genevieve C. Kidman
Synthesis and Characterization of Synthetic Urban Melt Glass, Rebecca Kristien Lowe
The Significance of MFD and Oxidative Damage in Stationary-Phase Mutagenesis in Bacillus subtilis, Holly Anne Martin
Rapid Evolution of Starvation Resistance in Drosophila: Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms, Austin Joseph McKenna
Transcriptional Control of Virulence Genes in the Bacterial Pathogen Shigella Flexneri, Joy Asami Mckenna
Synthesis, X-Ray Absorption, and X-Ray Diffraction Spectroscopy Studies of Uranium Based Heavy Fermion Systems, Vahe Mkrtchyan
A Nevanlinna-Type Counting Function and Pullback Measure, John Nguyen
Paleoecology of Columbian and Pygmy Mammoths in Southern Nevada and California: How Terminal Pleistocene Ecosystems Shaped Mammoths at the Individual, Population, and Community Level, Lauren Elizabeth Parry
Constraining Viscous Protoplanetary Disk Models Using ALMA Kinematic Observations, Ian Rabago
Characterization of Beryllium Ion Complexation in the Presence of Biological Buffers Using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Guillermo Alexander Ramirez
Bayesian Variable Selection Methods for Genome-Wide Association Studies with Categorical Phenotypes, Benazir Rowe
Effects of Wildfire on Plant and Insect Pollinator Communities in the Mojave Desert, Nha Trang Vivian Sam
Transposable Element Expression in Human Embryo Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data, Corinne Sexton
Infiltration into Water-Repellent Sand: The Role of Sorptivity, Rose Marie Shillito
Investigations of Technetium Metal and the Synthesis of Binary Technetium Nitrides under Extreme Conditions, Emily Siska
Microbe-Mineral Interactions During Exceptional Fossil Preservation, Stromatolite Formation, and Desert Varnish Growth, Michael Strange
Initial Measurements on the Effect of Stress on P- and S-wave Velocities in Olivine, Taryn Traylor
Investigating the Mechanisms Responsible for Cephalosporin Resistance in Clostridioides difficile Strain 630, Lara Anna Turello
High Pressure Synchrotron XRD, NFS, and NRIXS studies of FeSb2, Melanie Alden White
Developments of Machine Learning Potentials for Atomistic Simulations, Howard Yanxon
Equivalences of Determinacy Between Levels of the Borel Hierarchy and Long Games, and Some Generalizations, Katherine Aimee Yost
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Petrogenesis of Unusual Occurrence of Amphibole Asbestos in Mohave County, Arizona and Clark County, Nevada, Tomoyo Austin
Mojave Desert Ecosystem Recovery: Potency of Biotic and Abiotic Restoration Methods in Low Elevation Plant Communities, Mary Amanda Balogh
Application of Semi-Hydrophobic Layers to Decrease Bare Soil Evaporation, Jesse Lee Barnes
Trade-Offs Between Survival and Reproduction in Starvation-Selected Drosophila Melanogaster, Tammara Beeghly
Zirconium Tetrachloride, Fundamental Chemistry and Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Rosendo Borjas Nevarez
On Improving Performance of the Binary Logistic Regression Classifier, Michael Chang
Contributions to MCMC Methods in Constrained Domains with Applications to Neuroimaging, Sharang Chaudhry
Early Contractional History of the Funeral Mountains and its Influence on the Formation of the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, CA, Taylor Douglas Craig
Landscape Scale: Inter- and Intraspecific Variation in Plant Interactions along a Stress Gradient in the Sheep Range of Nevada, Jordan Dowell
Characterizing Compact Game Trees, Andrew Dubose
Applied Symmetry for Crystal Structure Prediction, Scott William Fredericks
Super Rapid Crystal Growth and Quench of Monoclinic Bi-II* During Dynamic Compression, Zachary Allen Fussell
The Retrospective Analysis of Radionuclides in Banded Coral from the Bikini Atoll, Athena Marie Gallardo
Mojave Desert Plant Community Long-Term Response to Disturbance, Dominic M. Gentilcore
Equation of State of H2O Ice Using Melt-Recrystallization, Zachary Michael Grande
Uncovering New Mechanisms of Cdc34 and Cullin-Ring Activity, Spencer Hill
Numerical Analysis and Fluid Flow Modeling of Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations, Tahj Hill
High-Pressure High-Temperature Exploration of Phase Boundaries Using Raman Spectroscopy, Jasmine Kashmir Hinton
Weighted Composition Operators on a Bergman-type Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space, Ming Huo
Effects of Ecological Restoration Techniques in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Simone Ka-Voka Jackson