Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas College of Sciences.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Petrogenesis of Enriched and Intermediate Poikilitic Shergottites: From Magmatic Source to Emplacement, Rachel Rahib
A Novel Approach to Analyzing Strain Heterogeneity in Polycrystalline Quartz Specimens Deformed at High Pressure and Temperature, Nolan Ambrose Regis
Primordial Black Holes in the Cosmological Context and Transient Electromagnetic Signatures from Merging Black Hole Binaries, Jared Robert Rice
Use of Sodium Bismuthate Chromatography for Separation of Americium from Curium and Other Elements in Spent Nuclear Fuel, Jason Michael Richards
Solvent Extraction and Extraction Chromatography of Homologs and Pseudohomologs of Rutherfordium Using TEHA and TEHP, Jeffrey Rolfes
Prokaryotic Diversity and Aqueous Geochemistry of Subsurface Environments of the Death Valley Regional Flow System, Joshua David Sackett
Studies of Inner-Shell Chemistry of Mercury Based Compounds at Extreme Conditions, Sarah Schyck
Applications of Nanoporous Materials in Gas Separation and Storage, Amit Sharma
Identifying the Molecular Functions of the C-Terminal Region of the Human Proteins, Surbhi Sharma
Estimation of the Parameters in a Spatial Regressive-Autoregressive Model Using Ord's Eigenvalue Method, Sajib Mahmud Mahmud Tonmoy
The Caspase Cascade during Hibernation in the Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus lateralis, Michael David Treat
Notes on Linear Divisible Sequences and Their Construction: A Computational Approach, Sean Trendell
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Phosphate Release: The Effect of Prebiotic Organic Compounds on Dissolution of Merrillite, Whitlockite, Chlorapatite, and Fluorapatite, Courtney Lea Bartlett
Numerical Methods for Option Pricing under the Two-Factor Models, Jiacheng Cai
Gene Expression Profiling in the Larval Fat Body of Desiccation Selected Drosophila melanogaster, Adriana Michelle Charles
Exterior Giant Planet Effects on Terrestrial Architecture, Anna Corinne Childs
Volatile Technetium Oxides: Implications for Nuclear Waste Vitrification, Bradley Covington Childs
Synthesis of Actinide Materials for the Study of Basic Actinide Science and Rapid Separation of Fission Products, Jacquelyn M. Dorhout
Controlled Electrochemical Reduction of Gold and Palladium Metal Precursors in Polyaniline, Nicole Goodwin
Factors Influencing Induction of Desiccation Tolerance in Bryophytes: Redefining Fundamental Aspects of the Organism’s Relationship with the Environment in Xeric Habitats, Joshua Lee Greenwood
Living on the Edge: Assessing the Effects of Catastrophic Fire on Plants Utilized by Two Endemic Subspecies of Spring Mountains Butterflies, Charles Ryan Herrmann
Investigation of Determinacy for Games of Variable Length, Emi Ikeda
Behavioral Paleoecology of Lower Cambrian Deposit Foragers: Reinterpreting Looping and Meandering Traces using Optimal Foraging Theory and Quantitative Analysis, Zachary Andrew Jensen
Thermal and Developmental Ecology of Pupfish, Cyprinodon, Alexander Jones
Eye Repair in Xenopus Laevis, Cindy Xuan-Mai Kha
Surface and Interface Characterization of Solution-Processed Metal Oxides and PEDOT:PSS Using Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Lynette M. Kogler
Understanding Progenitors of Gamma Ray Bursts with Multi-Wavelength Properties, Ye Li
Environmental Changes across the Early Mississippian Carbon Isotope Excursion, Dev Krishna Maharjan
The Electrochemical Deposition of Samarium and Europium Dissolved in Ionic Liquid Solvent, Bea Martinez
Software for Sequence Analysis of Variants in Functional Screening Libraries and Personalized Genome Files, Jacklyn Michelle Newsome
Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of PANI/Ni and PANI/Au/Ni Composites, Morgan Emily Pacini
A Potential Solution to a Poopy Problem: Bile Salt Analogs as Prophylactics Against Clostridium Difficile Infection, Jacqueline Renee Phan
Miocene-Pliocene(?) Folds, Normal Faults and the Left-Lateral Buckhorn Fault with Regional Implications, Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, Thomas Godfrey Price
Phase equilibria, compressibility, and thermal analysis of bastnaesite-(La), Richard Lee Rowland
Synthesis, Characterization and Biological Studies of Technetium-99m and Rhenium-188 Peptides, Vanessa Anne Sanders
Novel Methods for the Time-Dependent Maxwell’s Equations and their Applications, Sidney Shields
Secular Resonances during Main-Sequence and Post-Main-Sequence Planetary System Dynamics, Jeremy L. Smallwood
Average Cayley Genus for Groups with Two Generators of Order Greater Than Two, Dawn Sturgeon
Characterization of Dust on Solar Devices in Southern Nevada, Jason Sylva
An Elemental Highway: Investigation of a High Nickel Anomaly in Olivine from the Island of Niihau, Hawaii, Alexander James Valentine
Emerging Infectious Disease and the Imperiled Relict Leopard Frog, Anthony Wayne Waddle
The Formation and Dynamics of Clouds in the Environment of Active Galactic Nuclei, Timothy Waters
Probing Broad Line Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei, Champika Sandamali Weerasooriya
Improved Partial Charge Models in Siliceous Zeolites for the Simulation of Adsorption and Identification of Catalytic Sites, Jarod J. Wolffis
Spectroscopic Signatures of Uranium Speciation for Forensics, Nicholas Wozniak
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
High-Pressure Properties of Several Narrow Bandgap Semiconductors from First-Principles Calculations, Andrew Michael Alvarado
Characterizing the Earliest Stages of Partial Melting: A Study of the Pyrometamorphic Aureole of Miocene Mt. Perkins Pluton, Northwest Arizona, Mathew Beshears
On the Scattering of an Acoustic Plane Wave by a Soft Prolate Spheroid, Joseph Michael Borromeo
A Case for Chiral Contributions to Nondipole Effects in Photoionization Using Linearly Polarized Soft X-rays, Kyle Patrick Bowen
Direct Dissolution and Electrochemical Investigation of Cerium and Uranium in Ionic Liquid, Janelle Droessler
(U-Th)/He Studies of the Southern Snake Range Metamorphic Core Complex, NV and Gypsum Valley Salt Wall, Paradox Basin, CO, USA, Sarah Lynn Evans
Estimation and Comparison of Thermoelectric and PV Solar Water Usage in the Colorado River Basin States, Yuzhen Feng
Patterns of Synorogenic Sedimentation Associated with the Unroofing of the Willard-Paris-Meade Thrust Sheets, Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt, Amanda Gentry
Physiology and Genetics of Starvation-Selected Drosophila melanogaster, Christopher Michael Hardy
Ab Initio Structure Determination and Property Characterization of High-Pressure Ca-O Compounds and Li2(OH)Br Crystals, Christopher Higgins
The San1 Ubiquitin Ligase Functions Preferentially with Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme Ubc1 During Protein Quality Control, Rebeca Lea Ibarra
Effects of Hydraulic Connections on Unsaturated Flow in Dual-Permeability Media, Jeevan Jayakody
Characterizing Crystal Populations for the Petrogenesis of the Post-Collapse Rhyolites in The Long Valley Caldera, California, William Joseph
Development of the K-state (Competence) and Mutagenesis in Stressed Bacillus subtillis Cells, Amanda Kidman
Water Balance and Moisture Dynamics of an Arid and Semi-Arid Soil: A Weighing Lysimeter and Field Study, Jeremy E. Koonce
Interference Effects of Urban Rubble on the Radioanalytical Analysis of Strontium, Derek Roger Mclain
Incomplete Denitrification in Thermus Species, Chrisabelle Mefferd
Structural Behavior of NbSexTe2-x Superconductors Under High Pressure, Vahe Mkrtchyan
Structural Evolution of the Maynard Lake Fault Within the Left-Lateral Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, USA, Mahmud Mustafa Muhammad
Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators Based on Nafion Blends with Functional Polymers, Jungsoo Nam
Assessing a Potential Paleothermal Anomaly near a Salt Wall Using (U-TH)/HE Thermochronology and Silica Cementation Analysis, Onion Creek, Utah, Richard Gregory Ness
Canovas Canyon Rhyolites, Jemez Volcanic Field, New Mexico: Discrete Source Magmas, or a Potential Caldera Forming Magma System?, Penelope Marie Padmore
The Role of Mfd in Stationary-Phase Oxidative Damage Repair in Bacillus subtilis, Katelyn E. Porter
Impedance Spectroscopy Studies of Yttria Stabilized Zirconia Under Extreme Conditions, Quinlan Blaine Smith
Forcing Cesium into Higher Oxidation States via Useful Hard X-ray Induced Chemistry at Extreme Conditions, Daniel Thomas Sneed
Water Source Partitioning for Shrubland Transpiration in a Mixed Phreatophytic Plant Community, Amanda Jean Wagner
The Hopf Fibration and Encoding Torus Knots in Light Fields, John Vincent Waite
A Bioinformatics Approach to Addressing the Responses of Rice Aleurone Cells to Hormones Abscisic Acid and Gibberellic Acid, Kenneth Arthur Watanabe
Biogeochemistry of a Saline, Alkaline, Terminal Lake Ecosystem in Transition; Walker Lake, Nevada, Katherine Lynn Willever
Strategic Molecular Design to Engineer the Electron Affinity of Self-Assembling Organic Semiconductors, Kelly Nicole Zaugg
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Kinematics and timing of the Miocene-Quaternary deformation in Nellis Dunes Recreational Area, Nevada, Shaimaa Abdelhaleem
Inverse Problem for Non-viscous Mean Field Control: Example From Traffic, Shaurya Agarwal
Paenibacillus larvae spore germination and American Foulbrood disease development in honey bee larvae, Israel Alvarado
High Pressure X-~Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Heavy-~Fermion Cerium and Uranium Compounds, Daniel Antonio
Rewetting of Artificially Desiccated Soils: Effect of Gravity on Vapor-Phase Diffusion, Taylor Arland Ball
Generalized Catalan Numbers and Some Divisibility Properties, Jacob Bobrowski
Laser Ablation ICP-MS of Actinide Oxides as Simulated Used Nuclear Fuels, Keri Campbell
Assessing the importance of nurse plant associations to the growth of pre-~reproductive Yucca brevifolia, Eric James Chameroy
Glass shards at Pinnacle Point rock shelter 5-~6, South Africa: Are they from the last super-~eruption of Toba?, Amber Elizabeth Ciravolo
Trace Element Variations in a Stalagmite from Southwest Mexico: Implications for Paleoclimate, Chad Michael Crotty
Study the Mechanism of the Prompt Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts, Wei Deng
Studies of Flerovium and Element 115 Homologs with Macrocyclic Extractants, John Dustin Despotopulos
Chemical and Electronic Structure of Surfaces and Interfaces in Cadmium Telluride Based Photovoltaic Devices, Douglas Arthur Duncan
An Investigation into Transitions in Clay Mineral Chemistry on Mars, Seth Gainey
Predictive Modeling of Terrestrial Radiation Exposure from Geologic Materials, Daniel A. Haber
Stable Isotope Analysis of Bison latifrons and Paleoecological Inferences, Fabian Ceron Hardy