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 2019
K-Tuple Sampling From Partially Rank-Ordered Sets, Marvin Javier
An Introduction to the Exposition on Soundness, Completeness, and Decidability in Quantum Logic and Quantum Computation, Pushkin Kachroo
Petrogenesis of the El Rechuelos Rhyolite, Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field, New Mexico, USA, Kelsy Jo Konkright
Generalized and Higher Dimensional Apollonian Packings, Daniel Lautzenheiser
Specific Heat, Magnetic Susceptibility, and the Effect of Pressure on Structural Properties and Valence Of EuMn2Si2, EuCo2Si2, and Eu5In2Sb6, Brian Edward Light
Moisture Dynamics of a Near-Surface Desert Soil, Yuan Luo
Utility of Bench Scale Sand Tank Experiments at Assessing Permeable Reactive Barrier Design, Brandon Meier
Delineation of Events in Centripetal Migration During Drosophila Oogenesis, Travis Tait Parsons
Long-Term Monitoring of Rare Gypsum Communities in the Eastern Mojave Desert: A Study in Science and Art, Tiffany Jane-Marie Pereira
Assessing Minimal-Input Restoration Strategies for Desert Soil and Vegetation Restoration, Audrey Jean Rader
Numerical Study in the Conservative Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) Method for an Unsteady Stokes/Parabolic Interface Problem with Jump Coefficients and a Moving Interface, Michael Joseph Ramirez
Examination of Maskelynite through Static Recompression and Dynamic Compression, Justin James Reppart
An Application of Conformal Mapping to the Boundary Element Method for Unconfined Steady Seepage with a Phreatic Surface, Jorge Eduardo Reyes
The Timing of Dynamical Interactions between Planets in Exoplanetary Systems, David Robert Rice
Pressure Driven Electronic Band Gap Engineering in Tin(IV)-O,N Compounds, Daniel Thomas Sneed
Preparation and Evaluation of Uranium Alloys Based on Burnup, Andrew Jonathan Swift
Assessing Simulated Transmissivity in Numerical Flow Models of Complex Hydrogeology, Afan Tarar
Beyond Genetics: Addressing Activity in Microbial Ecology, Scott Christopher Thomas
Effects of Disturbance and Restoration Treatment on Fertile Islands in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Camille Traylor
Tree to Grass Water Use Ratios; Assessing Turfgrass’ High Water Use in the Urban Landscape, Tamara Wynne
The Perplexing Paradox of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile Infection (CDI) - Analysis of Anti-Germinants As Part of CDI Prophylaxis, Christopher Yip
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Holocene Climate Evolution of Continental Western Eurasia Constrained By Stable-Isotope and Cation Geochemistry of U-Th-Dated Speleothems and Meteogenic Travertine, Jonathan Lloyd Baker
Separation of Neighboring Trivalent Lanthanides for Neutron Capture Cross Section Measurements, Balazs Jozsef Bene
Bi-Directional Testing for Change Point Detection in Poisson Processes, Moinak Bhaduri
Bayesian Model Comparisons in Planetary Science, John Henry Boisvert
Development of Chemical Separation Methods Using Transition Metals for Nuclear Forensic and Medicinal Applications, Lucas Peter Boron-Brenner
Meshless Methods for Numerically Solving Boundary Value Problems of Elliptic Type Partial Differential Equations, Minhwa Choi
Petrology and Geochemistry of the Enriched Poikilitic Shergottite Northwest Africa 10169: Insight into the Martian Interior, Logan Matthew Combs
A Comparison of the Product Topology on Two Trees with the Tree Topology on the Concatenation of Two Trees, Katlyn Kathleen Cox
Force Multiplier Calculations for X-ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei, Randall Cody Dannen
Determination of Anthropogenic Radionuclides in Ocean Water Using Extraction Chromatography, Jaimie Daum
Hexavalent Chromium Removal from Residual Ion-Exchange Brine Using Ferrous Sulfate, Ana Luiza De Araujo Silva
MOB-NDR Kinase Signaling Components are Required for Epithelial Tube Formation in the Drosophila Follicular Epithelium, Juan Carlos Duhart
Structural Evolution and Regional Implications of the Arrowhead Mine Fault within the Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, USA, Michael Dennis Evans
Mechanisms for the Incorporation and Distribution of Radionuclides in Near-Surface Fallout, Marc Alan Fitzgerald
Optimization of Useful Hard X-ray Photochemistry, David Lewis Goldberger
Expression Of Line-1 In Human Somatic Tissues And The Factors Correlated With Line- 1 Expression, G. M. Jonaid
Breaking the Language Barrier: Equitable Assessment in General Chemistry, Eshani Lee
Crystallographic Exploration of Fundamental Technetium Species at Nonambient Conditions, Daniel S. Mast
Rapid Methods for Actinide and Strontium-89,90 Determination in Urban Matrices, Sherrod Maxwell
Larval-Ant Interactions in the Mojave Desert: Communication Brings Us Together, Alicia Mellor
Digging Biomechanics in Geomyoid Rodents, Alexis Moore Crisp
Science Identity and Underrepresented Minority STEM Organizations, Schetema Nealy
Miocene-Quaternary Deformation along the Central Maynard Lake Fault, Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, Alexander Peck
Transcriptional Silencing and Anti-Silencing of Virulence Genes in the Bacterial Pathogen Shigella Flexneri: VIRB, DNA Supercoiling, and the Histone-Like Nucleoid Structuring Protein, Michael Adam Picker
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