Commencement

In Memoriam

• Toni LoSchiavo

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• Tyler Andrew Lecours#

• Naijia Liu
• Grace Park
• Charlie Summers

• Sneha Lakshmi Visakha Annavajjala+
• Taylor M. Harmon

• Chenming Du#
• Wenjing Yan

• Sahid Afridi Mondal#
• Sarina Donin Schwartz*
• Iana Seerung+

• Calvin Evenstar Canino-Fluit*
• Hope Lockwood*
• Hannah Muehlberger

• Yu-Tung Cheng

• Eric Francis Miller

• Rachel Julia Benjamin*

• Jessica Brittany Reznik

^ The Legacy Heritage Master’s Scholars gratefully acknowledge the generous grant provided by Legacy Heritage Fund to support the completion of their master’s degrees in Teacher Leadership.

• Samuel Long

• Gauri Devendra Gajeshwar

• Julia Marie Apitz#
• Tara Vijayakumar

• Eleanor Rebecca Palmer Greene*

• Rishika Baral*
  Survival in Adversity: Decoding the General Stress Response and Biofilm Formation
• Andrew William Glaser*
  Unlocking SHP2 Phosphatase: From Natural Activation to Pathogenic Dysregulation
• Christina Katelyn Quasney*
  Determinants of CaMKII Degradation: Autonomous Activation as the Primary Driver and Species-Specific Regulatory Mechanisms Involving the Catalytic and Regulatory Domains
• Alexander Wang Sarkis#
  Mold Habitats Apply Hard Pressures; The Evolution of Drug Resistance and Drug Production in Penicillium Fungi

• Qianfeng Qiu#
  Development of Novel Molecular Photoswitches for Their Applications in Photon Energy Storage and Catalyst Recovery
• Qiwei Sun#
  Theoretical Modeling of Noble Metal Nanoclusters Using Semiempirical Quantum Mechanical Methods
• Weiyi Tan*
  Enzymatic Control of Intermolecular Interactions for Selective Targeting Golgi Apparatus
• Meihui Yi
  Phosphobiphenyl-Based Peptides for Enzymatic Noncovalent Synthesis to Target Immunosuppressive Cancer Cells
• Zhaoxi Zheng#
  Comprehensive and Quantitative Composition Analysis of Complex Organic Materials by Advanced Solid-state NMR

• Ella Bernadette Tuson#
  M.A.P. — Mastery Assessment Pedagogy for Learning Computer Science
• Yifei Wang*
  Human-Knowledge Integrated Methods for Learning with Small-Data Challenges
• Thomas C. Willkens#
  Open-Ended Dynamics of Coevolutionary Games
• Wenxiao Xiao
  Towards Cross-Domain Knowledge Transfer: Bridging the Domain Shift with Semantic Alignment and Human-in-the-Loop
• Han Yue*
  Relationship Learning Among Graphs
• Chi Zhang
  Leveraging Reinforcement Learning to Optimize Query Scheduling

• Jessica Danielle Brewer
  Visions of Social Impact: The Literary Nexus of Abolitionist Imaginaries and Victorian Studies
• Matthew Burkett#
  Beside Sense: Phenomenography and Contemporary Poetry
• Yi He*
  Heavenly Communications: Media and Angels Amongst the New England Puritans
• Ryan Hitchcock
  Conversion, Apostasy, and Modern Literature
• Bailey N. Ludwig#
  Manuscripts, Meat, and Medievalism
• Sarah Perkins
  Full of Days: A Doctoral Portfolio Project
• Reza David Pourmikail*
  Milton’s Great Illusions
• Daniel Aaron Schwartz
  In the Mental Flesh: Unhappy Interiority from Dostoevsky to Faulkner with Continual Reference to Wittgenstein
• Carissa Robin Wilbanks#
  Writing Ante/Bellum True Womanhood: Interpretations of the Ideology at Work in Narratives by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Augusta Jane Evans, and Harriet Ann Jacobs

• Robert B. Cochran#
  The Imperialism of Performative Rationality: Commissions of Inquiry into Britain’s Indentured Labor System, 1836–1918
• Bridget Rose Kelleher#
  Movie-Made Miscegenation: Censorship and the Miscegenation Drama in Pre-Code Hollywood, 1927-34
• Caleb Isiah Smith*
  Pillaging the Vanguard: Chicago and the Neoliberal Shift of Black Politics from 1929 to 1994
• Calvin Powell Snyder#
  A History of the Los Angeles Underworld: From the Spanish Conquest to the Second World War

• Shujian Chen#
  Combinatorics of signed exceptional sequences
• Shizhe Liang#
  The Grand Schnyder Family. Combinatorial Structures and Graph Drawing Applications
• Kamryn P. Spinelli
  New perspectives on period integrals and L-function approximation

• Amanda Michelle Ames#
  Exploring the Molecular Basis of HP1-Mediated Epigenetic Inheritance
• Melda Meral Buyukozturk*
  Early Neuronal Growth in the Sympathetic-Cardiac Circuit and Alterations in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat
• William Benjamin Dahl*
  Structure-Function Relationships in the Mouse Insulin Receptor 5’UTR
• Neha Koundinya*
  Mechanisms of actin network debranching
• Ajay Larkin#
  Mapping the Dynamics of Epigenetic Adaptation
• Melina Perez Torres
  Sexually Dimorphic Transcriptomic Landscape and Neuronal Connectivity of Drosophila Circadian Neurons
• Alexis Lynn Ryan*
  Coordination of cell division by the sporulation factor SpoIIE
• Tatevik Sarkissian#
  Understanding the molecular mechanisms of thermo- and hygro- sensation in Drosophila
• Emily Jane Stadnicki*
  A Dual-Action Mechanism for MAP Kinase Inhibitors
• Ruocong Tang#
  The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Mosquito Hygrosensation
• Mason James Towne
  Mechanisms of Avoidance and Promotion of Quasipalindrome Mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

• Christina Carmen Dioguardi#
  Scraping Beneath the Surface: The San Lorenzo Scribe Looking Backwards and Forwards at the End of the Trecento
• James Christopher Heazlewood-Dale#
  Nintendian Jazz: Centering Jazz in Nintendo’s Approach to Ludic Scoring Practices
• Zen Tadashi Kuriyama#
  Englishness, Jewishness, and the English Sound: Gerald Finzi and the English Musical Renaissance

• Anthony I. Lipscomb*
  Shame Reassessed: A Literary, Lexical, and Embodied Cognition Approach to Shame in the Hebrew Bible
• Maham Khan Theisen#
  Rights, Revolution, and Nationhood: Israeli Supreme Court Cases After the Basic Law of Human Dignity

• Mingxin Ding*
  Coordination of the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex and ventral tegmental area during flexible behavior
• Andrea Ashley Guerrero*
  Role of Autism Spectrum Disorder Associated Shank3 in Regulation of Synaptic Scaling
• Ryan William Kirk*
  A Multiplexed CRISPRi Approach to Studying Transcription Factor Paralogs in the Mammalian Cortex
• Víctor Manuel Suárez Casanova*
  Functional architecture for speed tuning in the primary visual cortex of carnivores

• Zachary A. Curtis
  Morphogenesis in Haloarchaea: Mechanosensation and Novel Cytoskeletal Elements
• Sagnik Ghosh#
  Long Term Epigenetic Memory
• Saptorshi Ghosh*
  Computational methods for controlling active matter
• Daichi Hayakawa#
  Programmable self-assembly of complex 2D manifolds using DNA origami colloids
• Jeremy Laprade*
  Droplet coarsening in biomimetic 3D active fluids
• Olivia Soule Leland
  Methods for Biomechanical Studies in Live Archaeal Cells
• Francis F. Rivera
  Accelerated binding of E. coli RNAP by its flexibly tethered DNA-binding domains
• Douglas Todd Zenger Jr.*
  Observation of Double Parton Scattering Same-Sign W±W± Using the ATLAS Detector at √s = 13 TeV

• Ashley N. Gilliam
  Exploring the Malleability of Culturally-Influenced Cognitive Strategies
• Elizabeth Dina Mahon*
  Physiological and Voice Biomarkers as Predictors of Cognitive Changes in Middle and Later Adulthood
• Ryan O’Leary
  Cognitive effort, perception, and recall of spoken language: effects of impoverished auditory input
• Jourdan Parent#
  The Locus Coeruleus Catecholamine System In Aging: Implications For Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
• Mercedes Barbara Villalonga#
  Dynamic Modulation of Spatial Selection: When, Where, and How?

• Jennifer Carol LaFleur#
  Pandemic Learning Pods: Race, Class, and the Logics of Privileged Parenting

• Sarah J. Halford#
  Mobilizing Distrust: Understanding Institutional Power in the Anti-5G Movement