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Submit Your ThesisTheses from 2026
BISMUTH-BASED BICYCLIC PEPTIDE INHIBITORS TARGETING MAIN PROTEASE OF SARS-COV-2, Funsho Sarah Afolabi
THE ROLE OF AKIRIN AND ITS CONSERVED SYLS MOTIF IN MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT, Shaila Akter
MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION OF LINGUAL GLANDS IN WILD AMERICAN ALLIGATOR (ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS) POPULATIONS, Benjamin Angalet
Influence of Speech Disfluencies and Prompt Optimization in LLM-Based Alzheimer's Disease Classification, Muhammad Awais Arshad
Synthesis and Characterization of Water Containing Deep Eutectic Solvent and its Application for PFAS Removal, Momena Begum
Molecular Sponge Reveals Ecdysone’s Role in Regulating Salivary Gland Morphology in Drosophila Melanogaster, April Ford
A NOVEL APPROACH TO CREATIVITY ASSESSMENT: FORCED PAIRWISE RANKING WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS, Phillip R. Gregory Jr
Electrochemical Performance and Magnetocaloric Effect in Breathing Spinel Materials, Destyni Herbert
SIMULATION OF A BURIED HYDROGEN PIPELINE IN KANSAS STATE SOIL, Sidney Hines
Probing Representational Emergence in Large Language Models, Shawn Ismail
S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE SYNTHASES DIFFERENTIALLY MODULATE INHERITED HISTONE H3K4 METHYLATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS, Sundas H. Johnson
AQUIRE: Adaptive Quantum Understanding and Interactive Research Environment, Sahil Mangotra
Biochemical and Structural Approaches to Anthelmintic Drug Discovery: From Caenorhabditis elegans to Necator americanus, Walter McReady
CULTURALLY INCLUSIVE USABILITY ENGINEERING (CIUE): A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING CULTURAL INCLUSION IN STUDY ABROAD PLATFORMS, Louis Muhammad
Design and Development of Peptide Inhibitors Targeting Alpha-Synuclein for Parkinson’s Disease, Zainab Noor
COMIC: Reference-Aware Safety Gating for Multimodal Large Language Models, Md Abdullahil Oaphy
EFFECTS OF QUINOLINIMINES ON THE CELL BIOLOGY OF TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI, A MICROBIAL EUKARYOTE, Abu Obyda
PERFORMING THE AMERICAN DREAM: PASSING AND IDENTITY IN THE GREAT GATSBY (1925) AND PASSING (1929), Olivia O'Sullivan
EXPERIMENTAL BRIDGE SCOUR DETECTION USING AMBIENT VIBRATION UNDER CONTROLLED LAB CONDITIONS, Mujeeb B. Owoniyi and Metin Oguzmert
AN INVESTIGATION OF DATA GRANULARITY IN RAG PIPELINES FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE, Paritosh Pandey
FINDING NOVEL ARSENIC-CONTAINING ANTIBIOTICS, Minh Bao Phung
EFFECTIVENESS OF QUIZ-BASED INTERVENTIONS IN VIRTUAL REALITY LECTURES ON LEARNING, Mason T. Prather
Acute Muscular Response to Dynamic Co-contraction Exercise Compared to Traditional Resistance Exercise, Benjamin C. Ryan
Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation with Chitinase and Glucanase genes against Aspergillus flavus in Georgia Peanuts, Saima Shafique
Peptide-Based Strategies to Combat Infectious Diseases: From Arsenic-Containing RiPP as Antibiotics to Anti-Parasitic Inhibitors Targeting PMT, Md Tanjil Islam Shovon
Chemical Pressure Effect in a Distorted Kagome Lattice Magnetic Topological Candidate, Nishat Tasnim
Toward Scalable Quantum Networks: Fidelity-Driven Memory Optimization with Adaptive Scheduling and Decoherence Control, Dheeraj Sai Tukkugudam
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF SALT BRIDGES AND HYDROGEN BONDS IN ACTIVE GPR56, Kimberly Wang
AGENTCITE: TRUSTWORTHY AI AGENTS FOR INFORMATION VERIFICATION ACROSS REFERENCED DOCUMENTS, Eymen Yigit
Theses from 2025
EFFECTS OF BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION AEROBIC EXERCISE ON ACUTE METABOLIC RATE AND CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSES, Hana Abouward
THE EFFECT OF BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION DURING ACUTE AEROBIC EXERCISE ON NON-LOCAL MUSCLE FATIGUE, Anna Acosta
Comprehensive Proteomics, Metabolomics, and Lipidomics Studies of Tenualosa Ilisha Fish, Airin Akhter
Simulation of Ground Penetrating Radar for the Detection of Buried Human Remains, Md Shamsul Alam
ENHANCING AD/ADRD MANAGEMENT THROUGH IHELPCARE: A COMPLIANT AND CULTURALLY SENSITIVE AI-DRIVEN DIGITAL HEALTHCARE PLATFORM, Trisha Bhowmick
LLM-POWERED QUESTION ANSWERING FOR OBJECT STATES IN VIRTUAL REALITY, Shiyi Ding
Comparative Analysis of Phyllosphere Microbiota in American and Chinese Wild Type Chestnuts as well as Their Hybrids, Katherine B. Dobson
Establishment of Six Flags Over the Deconstruction of Sandtown, John Ely
POST-FIRE INSPECTION PROCEDURES FOR STEEL AND CONCRETE BRIDGE STRUCTURES, Dale Goff
Developing Peptide Based Inhibitors Targeting Amyloid Beta for Alzheimer's Disease, Lyric K. Gordon
Unified Evaluation of Real-world IoT-based Federated Learning, Yi Gu
Amino Acid Based Deep Eutectic Solvents: Next Generation Charge Reducing Agents for Native Mass Spectrometry, Abdul Hannan
Regulation, nuclear retention, and organization of long-non-coding RNA hsr-omega into nuclear domains, Sharar Naiarin Haque
Comparison of STEM Student Reflections of their Undergraduate Research Experiences: CUREs vs. Apprentice Model, Chazzidy Harper
TRICOLORED BAT (PERIMYOTIS SUBFLAVUS) POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Laura Henderson
Agreement Between Methods for Describing the Intensity of a High Intensity Functional Training Workout, James W. Henley
Impacts of Halophila stipulacea invasion on organic matter dynamics in Thalassia testudinum dominated seagrass meadows, Puerto Rico, Jonathan D. Herald
AN ANALYSIS OF THE ARMORETTES’ MISSION TO HELP THE ATLANTA LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY, Edwin Hernandez
Chemical and Physical Characterization of Verbenaceae Essential Oils Using Modern Analytical Methods and Chemometrics, Aleksandra N. Hilliard
CHARACTERIZATION OF P38alpha AND NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE 3 BINDING, Gillyan M. Jewett
"It's Not Your Job to Save the World, Young Women": Evangelical Women on Social Media, Ilaria P. Johnson
Reverse Engineering of Binary Programs using Graph Attention Networks, Sai Nikhila Kanigiri
Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Relative Frequencies of Alternative Reproductive Tactics in Blue Ridge Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea cf. wilderae), Cooper A. Kework
The Inappropriate Inheritance of Histone Methylation Disrupts Muscle Morphology and Function in C. elegans, Josh Labus
False Starts & Finish Lines: Youth Sports, Coaching, & the Crisis of the American Dream, John S. Lammert Jr
Landscape and Environmental Characteristics that Shape Bat Assemblage Activity Across Varying Levels of Development in North America, Kerrigan Larkin
Chemical pressure Tuning of Magnetocaloric effect in Frustrated Breathing Pyrochlore System CuAlCr4Se8, Rupali Mangotra
Endocrine Responses to Two Distinct Foraging Contexts in the Bonobo (Pan paniscus), Lauren Mitchell
Effects of urbanization on the population genetics and morphology of the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) across an urban–rural gradient, Sydney A. Morton
Genetic Influences on Individual Variability in Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) Social Behavior, Hadley Mueller-Hill
A Fixed Cell Fungal Catalyst for Production of Melanin in Submerged Fermentation, William James Murphy
SIMULATED HUMAN-AI TEAMING FRAMEWORK FOR ML MODEL DEVELOPMENT, Sai Sanjay Potluri, Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, and Yong Pei
OWLBOT: Designing and Developing an AI-Powered Peer Advisor Chatbot for University Websites, Sai Prakash Reddy Rao
DISASTER VULNERABILITY AND RECOVERY: SOCIOECONOMIC, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND PSYCOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA, Tanjila Rashid Rhythy
Transferring Adversarial Robustness Across Architectures and Datasets, Ravi Kumar Rogannagari
COMBINED EFFECTS OF NANO- AND MICROPLASTICS, PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONIC ACID (PFOS), AND TEMPERATURE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AEDES ALBOPICTUS, Christina M. Roth
Leveraging Data Science for Resilience: Improving Trauma-Informed Care Practice for Adverse Childhood Experience with AI & Data Science Application, Mohmmad Arif Shaik
Computational Study on Protein Docking with Vascular Disease Application, Lohitha Reddy Shanigaram
Pollinator Plant Communities within restored Montane Longleaf Pine Ecosystems, Hanen van Rossem
Cross-Modal Learning for Practical Dual-Task Gait Monitoring, Patrick Wu
Theses from 2024
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATION OF VISIBLE LIGHT-ABSORBING, FLUORESCENT-QUENCHING THIOPHENE-BASED o-NITROBENZYL PHOTOLABILE PROTECTING GROUPS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HYDROXAMIC ACIDS, Ophelia Asantewaa Adjei-Sah
Noncovalent Peptide Stapling and Antiviral-Cell Penetrating Peptide Conjugations Targeting the Main Protease of SARS-CoV-2, Md Ackas Ali
Evaluating the effect of noise on Secure Quantum Networks, Karthick Anbalagan
ADAPTABLE QUANTUM EDUCATION PLATFORM USING LEARNING OBJECTS, Krishna Puja Anumula
Impact of Deep Eutectic Solvents on the Structure and Dynamics of Protein and Enzyme, Anusha Bhattarai
Assessment of Georgia’s Royal Catchfly (Silene regia) Along a Forest-Edge Gradient in a Remnant Prairie Community, Megan Brooks
Spatial and abiotic effects of urbanization on small mammal communities, Bri Casement
Antimicrobials produced by ants: chemical properties and microbe specificity, Katy Chon and Clint A. Penick
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Nutritional Analysis in Diabetic Diet Management: A Multimodal Approach, Afnan Crystal
Modulation of Optoelectronic Properties of Electron Rich Pyrrolopyrroles via Peripheral Alterations, Lillian Daniel
Senegambia and The American South: Where Identity Belongs, Malika David
Investigation of Surface Chemistry from Electron Irradiation of Synthetic Schreibersite, Tyler Davis
Diegetic Sonification for Low Vision Gamers, Jhané Dawes
Primate Social Behavior and Embodied Action, Maria Elbon
Limiting Postharvest Losses of Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushrooms), James M. Flanagan
THE IMPACT OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES ON LATER DESISTANCE AMONG SERIOUS JUVENILE OFFENDERS FROM A BROKEN FAMILY COMPOSITION, Olivia Franklin
Gangs and TikTok: A Content Analysis of Violence Exposures on Social Media, Paige Giddens