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This collection contains graduate student theses and dissertations from the UNLV College of Sciences. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations across all programs, visit the UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Transboundary Groundwater Flow Between Niger and Nigeria in the Iullemeden Aquifer System, Gare Ambrose-Igho
From Dust to Planets: Dust–Gas Dynamics and Radiation Transport in Protoplanetary Disks, Stanley Antedio Baronett
Junctional Actin as a Mechanical Hub for Supracellular Actomyosin Force Transmission During Apical Constriction, Jasneet Brar
Relativistic Transients from Compact Objects: Radiation Processes and Geometric Effects, Connery Chen
The YORP Effect in REBOUNDx, Kaelyn Clement
Culture-Independent Investigations of Microbial Communities Associated With Air- and Water-Filled Voids in the Subsurface, Molly G. Devlin
A Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimation Algorithm for Modeling Threshold Exceedances with the Generalized Pareto Distribution, Jeffrey Harkness
Theory of Travel Time in Microscopic, Mesoscopic, and Macroscopic Scales, Pushkin Kachroo
A Tale of Two Mammals: Tenrec ecaudatus and Homo sapiens, Debra Renee Kerr
Harnessing Backcasting to Identify Drivers of Critical Warming at Hoover Dam Using Hydrodynamic and Machine Learning Models, Eunice Ledres
Constructing a Laser Stabilization System for Frequency Metrology, Stephanie Letourneau
From Flight to Hatching: Adult Sexual Dimorphism, Life History, and Egg-Stage Ecology of Pseudocotalpa giulianii, Mandylene Mountain
Genetic Context and NAP Interactions: Non-Canonical Mechanisms of Gene Regulation, Landon Netherton
Exact Solution of Steady Seepage in an Asymmetrical Domain Underneath a Cofferdam, Tan Nguyen
Skin of Frog and Scale of Dragon: Nutritional Cues, Life Cycle Kinetics, and Secretome Dynamics in Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Naomi C. Okada
Thermal Physiological Ecology of the Relict Leopard Frog at Hot and Cold Springs, Robert P. Pelletier Iii
The Origins of Chondrite Families, Isabelle M. Perron
Fast Radio Bursts and Long Period Radio Transients: Radiation Mechanisms and Propagation Effects, Yuanhong Qu
Methylation-Dependent Regulatory Pathway That Governs the Stability of the Sox Family Proteins and Related Developmental Regulators, Keshari Gayathri Rajawasam
2D and 3D Insights into the Formation and Emplacement of Martian Meteorites, Sierra Rhaye Ramsey
Extraction of Tetra-and Hexavalent Actinides From Nitric Acid by HEH[EHP] and T2EHDGA With Applications, Logan A. Smith
Molecular Engineering: A Systematic Approach Towards Bright Red Solid-State Emitters, Marco S. Valverde Paredes
The Application of Halides to Nuclear Materials and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Dissolution, Synthesis, and Separation, Jason Nolan Victor
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Functional and Microbial Consequences of Experimental Evolution Under Starvation in Drosophila Melanogaster, Kristal Marie Aguilar-Conger
The Role of Two Group I WRKY Transcription Factors and Their Interaction Protein in Plant Development and Responses to Environmental Cues, Victoria Amato
RNA’s Symphony: Harmonizing Splice Junctions and Exon Counts for a Novel Approach to Differential Splicing Analysis, Jelard Aquino
Morphological and Transcriptional Responses of Mammalian Cells to Glucose Stress, Cassandra Burke
Understanding Ore Deposit Scale Controls On AU Enrichment in Carlin-Type AU Mineralization: A High-Resolution Study of The Rita K Deposit, Conner T. Callaway
The Roles of OprF in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms, Erin K. Cassin
The Biological Ligand, CTP, and Its Role in VirB-Dependent Anti-Silencing in Shigella Flexneri, Taylor Marie Gerson
Empowering Science with the World's First High Accuracy and High Throughput Functional Assay, Christopher Giacoletto
A Comprehensive Study on The Use of Sub-Coherent Self Heterodyne Linewidth Estimations, Genevieve Gutierrez
Towards Spatial Inversion of Aerial Gamma-Ray Survey Data for Measurement of Naturally Occurring Radioactivity, Daniel A. Haber
Identifying Alternatively Spliced Events and Exons Between Blood Cell Types, Jessica Holder
Climate Change and Hydropower Development Impacts in the Lower Mekong Basin, Nudthawud Homtong
Geometric and Proximity Based Substrate Targeting by Cullin-Ring Ligases, Jerry Li
Reconstructing Central American Hydroclimate Changes Across Time from Isotopic Signatures in Modern and Paleo-Rainfall Records, Giuseppe Lucia
Quantifying Biocrust Evaporation in Arid Lands by Combining Thermal Imaging and Lysimeter Measurements, Rebekah C. Magness
An Analysis of The Influence of Human Disease Pathogens on Core Behaviors of The Black-Legged Tick, Emily F. Marinko
Sleep and Dormancy: Strategies of Ectothermic Arthropods to Optimize Energy Usage in Dynamic Environments, Jack Marshall
Mechanisms Of Gold Enrichment in Seafloor Massive Sulfide Deposits: A Study on the HIGASHI-AOGASHIMA Hydrothermal Field, Claudia Martinez
Cross-Correlation Studies of the Cosmological 21 cm Signal And High-Redshift Galaxy Distributions, Simon Matin
Characterization of the Electronic Structure of Metal–Organic Framework MIL-125 and Its Derivatives Using Soft X-ray Spectroscopies, Jennifer Alexia Napoles
PYLRO: A Python Calculator for Analyzing Long-Range Structural Order, Kevin Parrish
Deciphering the CRL Code: Novel Mechanisms of Canonical and Non-Canonical Ubiquitylation, Nicholas Wayne Purser
On the Special Cases of Carmichael’s Totient Conjecture, Christopher Saito
First-Principles Insights Into Binary Oxide Systems Under Extreme Pressure, Daniel Schacher
Investigating The Influence of Environmental Stressors to Exopolysaccharide Production in Soil Cyanobacteria: Genomic and Physiological Perspectives, Benjy Sedano-Herrera
The Compositional and Dynamical Properties of Exoplanets, Cody James Shakespeare
On Efficient Position Dependent Computation of Radiation Near Accretion Disks, Kara Jeanette Smith
Ultrafast Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems, Randy Michael Sterbentz
Enviromental DNA (eDNA) Tools for Invasive Mosquitofish (Gambusia Affinis) Surveillance at the Shoshone Pupfish (Cyprinidon Nevadensis Shoshone) Refugium, Yusuf Olamilekan Umar
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Integrated Transcriptomics and Proteomics Study of Starvation Selected Drosophila Melanogaster, Aavash Adhikari
Electrical Contact to MoS2 for Sensitive Capacitance Measurements, Justin Michael Alvarez
Phosphorous Heteroatom Bond Formation Strategies and the Development of Green Synthetic Methods, Jeffrey Ash II
An Examination of the Teaching and Learning of Resonance in General Chemistry I and Organic Chemistry I Using Variation Theory, Sabrina Barakat
Assessing the Potential for Magmatic Sulfides within Southwestern Laurentia Large Igneous Province, Thomas J. Boes
Seasonal Climate and Environmental Conditions Associated with Physiological Variations of Southwestern United States Pines, Taylor Brewer
Analyzing Fe/Mg-Silicate Chemical Gardens as Analogs to Silicate-Rich Hydrothermal Chimneys on Early Earth and Mars, Nancy Alejandra Carman
Global Structure and Asymptotic Profiles of the Endemic Equilibria of a Diffusive Epidemic Model with Mass-Action, Keoni Castellano
Uranium(VI) & Thorium(IV) Speciation In Organic Media Containing Organophosphorus & Diglycolamide Extractants, Joel Castillo
From Resistance to Host Response: An Integrative Study of C. difficile Infections, Amber Consul
Investigating Controls on Temporal and Spatial Variation of Dissolved Uranium at Springs in Horn Creek Drainage, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA, Collin Davidson
Characterizing GSK3β Interaction and Kinetics via Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, W A Bhagya De Silva
New Insights into the Diverse Intraplate Volcanism Present within the Howland and Baker Island United States Exclusive Economic Zone, Nicholas Foresta
Regulation of Embryonic Eye Regrowth in Xenopus Laevis, Dylan Guerin
Standard and Non-Standard Log-Linear Models For 2 × 2 Contingency Tables, G M Toufiqul Hoque
Algorithms for Certain Computational Mathematics Problems, Shen Chan Huang
Development of Uranium Fluoride Microstructures, Harry Jang
α-QUARTZ Plastic Strength Investigation Via Diffraction Experiments on Novaculite Using a D-Dia and Elastic Plastic Self-Consistent Interpretation, Denali Jivanjee Medina
An Analysis of The Propagation of Gravitational Radiation Under a Graviton of Nonzero Mass and its Implications for Cosmological Measurements, Margaret Johnston
Evaluation of Electrochemical Corrosion, Electrodeposition, and Other Electroanalytical Methods as Investigative Forensic Techniques for Advancing Metal Substrate Analysis, Crystal C. Kitanovski
Physiology and Genomics at the Bottom of the World: Genome to Phenome, Amy Christine Klink
Laramide Shortening in the Clark Mountain Thrust Complex: Reinterpretation of the Timing of the Winters Pass Thrust, Mojave Desert, SE California, Hayden M. Kombrink
Probing the Ecological Functions of Thermophiles Using Cultivation-Dependent and Cultivation-Independent Techniques, Dengxun Lai
Statistical Classification using Selection and Ranking Methodologies with Statistical Learning, Jeong Jun Lee
Photoelectic Driven Decomposition of Uracil via Hard X-Ray Irradiation, Trimaan Malik
Using Neighborhood Information to Improve Fiber Direction Estimation from Neuroimaging Data, Anjan Mandal
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Chemistry: A Density Functional Study, Eduardo Montoya
Application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Healthcare, Dwaipayan Mukhopadhyay
Tilt Instability of Retrograde Disk Around One Component of a Binary, Madeline Overton
Boron-Doped Diamond as a Resilient Electrode Material in Molten Salts, Hannah Katherine Patenaude
Dynamical Studies of Misaligned Circumbinary Disks, Ian C. Rabago
Plant-Plant Interaction in Early- Vs. Late-Successional Varieties of the Hawaiian Landscape-Dominant Tree, Metrosideros polymorpha, Tomoko Sakishima
Identifying Disease-Related Gene-Environment Interactions Based on Method of Moments, Linchuan Shen
UVC and Planetary Habitability: Insights from Desert Lichens and Cyanobacteria, Tejinder Singh
Quaternary Ammonium Compound Resistance of Klebsiella Pneumoniae and Klebsiella Quasipneumoniae Strains Isolated from the International Space Station, Natasha Svetlana Sushenko
Simulation and Design of Ion Traps using the Method of Fundamental Solutions, Trevor Taylor
Effects of Climate Change on (Semi)-Arid Ecosystems in the Southwestern United States, Charlotte Van Der Nagel
Density-Driven Investigations of Ruthenium Binary Compounds RuX2 (X = O, S, N), Melanie White
Understanding Disk Substructures with 3D Self-Consistent Thermodynamics, Shangjia Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Sequestered Sequences: A Bioinformatic Approach to the Forgotten Genome, Dylan Barth
The Role of a WRKY Transcription Factor in Mediating Hormone Response During Rice Seed Germination, Santiago Bataller
Investigation of the Chemical and Electronic Structure of a 2H Phase MoS2 Single Crystal, Mary Blankenship
The Genetic Relationship Between Peripheral Inflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease, Davis Cammann
The Response of Atomic-to-Molecular Hydrogen Transition Points in Photodissociation Regions Due to a Hard X-Ray Spectrum, Gregory Joseph Colarch
Biochemical Characterization of Fsa1572 from Fervidibacter Sacchari, the First Hyperthermophilic GH50 with Β-1, 4-Glucanase Activity, Jonathan Covington