Graduate Dissertations

This dissertation is entitled "Realizing the Relational: Dismantling the Transactional Model of Philanthropy." Emily is a PhD student in the Sociology Department.

Field of Study: Biomedical Sciences Dissertation Title: From spatial architecture to prognostic signatures: Decoding colorectal cancer microenvironment via spatial transcriptomics and computational pathology. This dissertation presents a multimodal framework that integrates spatial transcriptomics and histopathological imaging to identify tumor–stroma niches associated with prognosis in colorectal cancer.

This dissertation examines how genders and sexualities within the globalized Caribbean destabilize static binary systems, reflecting the multiplicity and malleability that are compulsory in the new global political economy at the turn of the twenty-first century, through a selection of texts from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

This dissertation study examined the effects of a class-wide behavior support informed by behavior functions.

This dissertation study examines the effects of a classwide behavior support plan that is informed by teachers' perceptions of classwide behavior function.

Dissertation title: "Building a DAM: Parameters of differential argument marking" Doctoral field of study: Linguistics

Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Milda Stanislauskas Title: "Investigating mechanical signaling in cells through live cell imaging of genetically encoded tension sensors" Major Advisor: Dr. Yi Wu Location: Cell & Genome Sciences Building, Edmund & Arlene Grossman Auditorium, R1210, 400 Farmington Ave. Via Webex: https://uchc.webex.com/uchc/j.php?MTID=m9805b829e2d0616366ac6bee068ad042 (https://uchc.webex.com/uchc/j.php?MTID=m9805b829e2d0616366ac6bee068ad042) Meeting Number: 2870 003 0074 Meeting Password: PublicDefense

Dissertation Title: Multi-compartment proteomic signatures of sex-specific responses to exercise-heat stress and acclimation. Department of Kinesiology, CAHNR.