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Theses from 2025 2025

Effects Of Staphylococcal Superantigen-Like Protein 11 (SSL11) On The Host Immune Response During Lung Infection, Sajani Ghaju

ATRAPADO EN LIMBO: FRONTERAS, ANTHROPOLOGISTS, AND TRANSLATION IN CONTEXTS OF THE MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED AT THE MÉXICO-US BORDER, Aliya M. Godoy

Target identification of Aphid symbiosis-related miRNAs and their effects on host fitness, Andie Alexander Gonzales Diaz

Enhancing Soybean Resilience to Abiotic and Biotic Stresses Through Bacterial Seed Treatment and Microbiome Analysis, Sandeep Gouli

THE EFFECTS OF DISCLOSURE OF GENAI USE IN THE PRODUCTION OF ADVERTISING IN HIGH AND LOW INVOLVEMENT SETTINGS, Shawn Griffin

Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Hemp-Blend Fabric Items, Gerardo Guevara

Versatile Nitration of BODIPY Dyes Using NO₂BF₄: Effects of Nitro Substituents on Spectroscopic and Self-Assembly Properties, Caroline Sarange Gwaro

Evaluation of the Effects of Various Types of Inert and Active Fillers on Asphalt Mixture Performance, Mohammad Hadizadeh Pirbasti

Evaluation of Tetflupyrolimet in Louisiana Rice Production, Maranda A. Hains

SOCIAL STORIES TO SHAPE IMPULSIVE BEHAVIORS TO INCREASE SELF-REGULATION IN PRESCHOOLERS, Caroline Claire Hargrave

Fishing for Solutions: Compensation for Bycatch Reduction in the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishery, Daniel W. Harris

Ground Level, Amber Hart

Bayesian Network-Based Framework to Uncover Social Inequities in Flood Risk: Application to East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Fuad Hasan

Lithological Modeling and Aquifer Characterization of the Coastal Lowlands Aquifer System in Texas, Emmanuel Egyin Hayford

Defragmentation of MP3 Files, George H. Hendrick

Effects of Cryoprotective and Mitochondrial Stabilizing Agents on Vitrified Bovine Oocytes, Allison Hoang

“An Enemy in War, Still a Brother”: The Commemoration of John Elliot Hart’s Burial Truce, James L. Hogg

Intraspecific Variation in Morphological and Biochemical Responses to Salinity and Flooding in Phragmites australis, Olivia Hurley

Simulating Future Mean and Extreme Temperature and Precipitation Climatology across Louisiana-Mississippi using the WRF Regional Climate Model, Zuhayr Shahid Ishmam

Feelings That Drive, Kayla M. Jackson

Enduring Words: Resistance Through Sculptural Libraries, Alex C. Jacobs

ENHANCING CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR T CELL FUNCTION WITH MULTI-DOMAIN INHIBITORS OF INTERLEUKIN-2-INDUCIBLE T-CELL KINASE, Melina JalaliFarahani

Impact of physiological and environmental variation on the behavioral response of the two biological control agents of the emerald ash borer to host-associated odors, Vanshika Jindal

Effects of Incorporating Pictures in Vocabulary Instruction on Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension in Elementary Students, Abigail Johnson

ANCESTRAL TIES: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS IN PERU AND THE UNITED STATES, Julia Johnston

Faith and Freedom: The Role of Religion in the Bishops' Wars, Christopher S. Jordan

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Phragmites australis in the Mississippi River Delta Through Deep Learning Techniques and Empirical Orthogonal Function Based on Time-Series Sentinel-2 Imagery, Manisha K C

Animal-Assisted Therapy With Children In Hospitals and Schools: A Systematized Review, Tantine Kendig

LLM-DRIVEN PRIVACY ANALYSIS THROUGH BYTECODE SUMMARIZATION AND DYNAMIC DATAFLOW CALL GRAPH GENERATION, Mst Eshita Khatun

MATE CHOICE AND MOVEMENT ECOLOGY OF PLEGADIS IBIS IN LOUISIANA, Ryan T. Klutts

Increasing the Economic and Social Viability of Carbon Capture using Biomass Slurry Fracture Injection, Zachary G. Laird

Optimizing LLM x86 Assembly Code Comprehension through Fine-Tuning, Darrin Michael Lea

In The Thick Of It, Mark T. Leavens

Passive Vibration Isolation Systems for Mitigating Rotational Forces in Football Helmet Impacts, Julian Lee

Evaluation of the Effects of Raw Poultry and Cattle Manure Application in the Production of Bell Pepper and Radish Crops with Two Different Land Application Methods (Top Dressed or Incorporated in the Soil) on Productive, Soil Health, Fertility, and Food Safety Indicators, Daniel Leiva Murcia

Hemp Cultivation Under Off-Season High Tunnel Growth Chamber Environments in South Louisiana, Gabriel LoCoco

REVOLTING DRAG: FILTH, HORROR, AND THE QUEER ART OF MONSTROSITY, Claire-Scott A. Lynch

Dose Characterization of Galactic Cosmic Rays In The Human Brain: A PHITS-Based Study With a Segmented Anatomical Phantom, Shanice N. Manning

Establishing a Framework of Best Management Practices for Sustainable Water Quality: Integration of Technology and Remote Sensing, Mason L. Marcantel

Host Plant Resistance to Stink Bugs in Commercial Soybean Varieties, Cristofer Martinez

Explainable AI-Enabled Forecasting of Dissolved Oxygen for Sustainable Aeration in a Rural Wastewater Treatment System, Jeimy L. Martinez De La Hoz

Uncertainty Introduced by Use of Synthetic CTs in Dose Calculations for Prostate MR-guided Adaptive Radiation Therapy, Carson D. Matthews

Identity And Arranged Marriage: Perspectives Of Potential Bengali Muslim Brides In Higher Education, Tasmia Mayen

Optimizing a Cooperative Procurement Policy of Perishable Precast Materials for a Single Buyer, Single Manufacturer under Demand and Lead Time Uncertainty, Anik Mazumder

Personal Life, Halley McArn

A Systematic Review of Methods for Establishing Social-Communicative Repertoires for Linguistically Diverse Learners, Felicia McGill

Management of Herbicide-Resistant Italian Ryegrass Using Cover Crop and Fall Residual Herbicide, Connor T. McKoin

Effects of Prematuration Treatment on Developmental Competence of Domestic Cat Oocytes, Victor F. Medina

FROM EXIT TO APATHY: MIGRATION, REMITTANCES, AND THE EROSION OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, Sanjida Mehrin

APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO UNDERSTAND HEAT RECOVERY IN GEOTHERMAL ENERGY SYSTEMS, Edem T. Mensah

Evaluation of Host Resistance to Rotylenchulus reniformis in Sweetpotato Germplasm, Timothy S. Miller

Tonality Without Function in Lee Hoiby's The Shining Place: Five Poems of Emily Dickinson, Anne Millspaugh

POPULATION DYNAMICS, HOST RANGE, AND IMPACT OF THE NATURALIZED WEEVIL OCHYROMERA LIGUSTRI: A POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT OF INVASIVE LIGUSTRUM SINENSE, Brandi H. Misiaszek

EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF DOUBLE STRANDED RNAs (dsRNAs) IN REDUCING Aspergillus flavus GROWTH AND AFLATOXIN PRODUCTION, Mamuna Mahjabin Mita

Evaluation of Soybean Response to Sulfur Fertilizer Rates and Sources, Md Enamul Haque Moni

From Roses to Pixels; Design for Kashan’s Golab Festival, Safiyeh Niknami

With Vim and Courage: Confederate Soldiers and the Politics of War, Michelle N. Norello

SEEING WHAT MATTERS: SAFETY-CRITICAL SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION VIA TRANSFER LEARNING ON CONSTRUCTION SITES, obiora J. Odugu

MODELING BIOMASS DEWATERING BEHAVIOR DURING CONFINED MECHANICAL COMPRESSION, Faith Olamide Olawoyin

Weather Impacts on Specialty Fruit Wholesale Prices, Oladayo Daniel Oluleye

Variation in Hydraulic Vulnerability Among Tree Species in a Bottomland Hardwood Forest, Ayomide Oluwabusola Oyefara

Assessing Wintertime Export Fluxes in the Labrador Sea using ²³⁴Th-²³⁸U Disequilibria and a Mechanistic Particle Sinking Model., Matthew Parker

Sustainable Robotic Construction: A Computational Particle Packing Approach for The Development of Sustainable, Low-cement 3D Printable Materials, Aranya Aumit Paul

Can You See Nature?, Jalia M. Payne

UNDERSTANDING ROCK-BRINE GEOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS FOR UNDERGROUND HYDROGEN STORAGE, Ruoqin Pei

STREAMLINED REAL-TIME qPCR DETECTION ASSAY AND NUCLEIC ACID EXTRACTION PROTOCOLS FOR LEAF SCALD AND RATOON STUNT DISEASE IN LOUISIANA, Joao Vitor Pelizzaro Morales

Manual for Independence: How Democratic-Republicans Used the Memory of the Revolution to Start the War of 1812, Chloe Pellegrin

Privacy at Scale: A Study of Mobile App Privacy Practices, Katherine Perez

MERCHANTS OF DEBT: PUBLIC TRUSTS, POLITICS, AND PROFIT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LOUISIANA, Matthew S. Pinchback

Mycoplasma pogonae Infection in Captive Central Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps): Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatments, Tithipong Plangsangmas

Sedimentary Controls on Subdelta Formation and Mass Transport in an Interdistributary Bay of the Mississippi River Delta: East Bay, Louisiana, Giancarlo J. Portocarrero Cortez

UAV Remote Sensing for Assessment of Conservative Management Practices in Maize-Soybean Cropping System, Aakriti Poudel

ADAPTIVE MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING OPTIMIZATION UNDER DYNAMIC TRAFFIC CONDITIONS, Shaghayegh Rabbanian

Hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics in East Bay of Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, USA, Jacob E. Reinhardt

Global Ocean Bottom Temperature Observation Design: Observing System Simulation Experiments For Strategic Deployment of SMART Subsea Cables, Karen E. Renninger-Rojas

Proteomic Comparison of Canine Gallbladder Versus Hepatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms, Nadia Richmond

METAL FILMS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES: UNDERSTANDING BAND HYBRIDIZATION EFFECTS, Lina F. Rojas Murillo

All But Mud & Memories, Chase LT Romero

Ocean Bluffs: A Novel, Sunni R. Rosen

Impacts of Climate Change on Cannibalism and Disease Transmission in the Fall Armyworm, Kale Rougeau

AI-Based Accessibility Widget (AIBAW) Shortcomings for Blind Web Users, Joshua A. Rovira

ASSESSING NICHE DIFFERENCES ACROSS THE DWARF SALAMANDER SPECIES COMPLEX OF THE SOUTHEAST US, Sarah Roy

EXAMINING THE ROLE OF COGNITION AND LATE-LIFE TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION ON EVERYDAY FUNCTIONING, Ashlyn Runk

Optimization of Rheological Models Using Machine Learning-Based Surrogates, Sourav Saha

Willingness to Accept to Reduce Animal Welfare by Removing the Ban on Caged Eggs in California, Massachusetts, and Nevada, Atiyeh Sakeni

TARTANS: WEAVING A WARPED HISTORY WITH MYTHS, HERITAGE AND A WHOLE LOT OF HEATHER., Bethany Sassen

Theme and Variations on an African Chant, Kenneth Schafer

Evaluation of DIY Pest Management Strategies for the German Cockroach (Blattella germanica) in the Presence of Vitamin K Precursors and Synthetic Amorphous Silica, Mohamed S. Shaik

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF TRAP TYPE, FLUON TREATMENT, AND LURE COMPOSITION ON THE COLLECTION OF LONGHORNED BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYCIDAE) IN TWO FOREST ECOSYSTEMS IN SUBTROPICAL SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA, Chiranjivi Sharma

ENVIS: A USER-CENTERED WEB-BASED TOOL FOR INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSPATIAL DATA, Saima Sanjida Shila

ERGONOMIC AND BIOMECHANICAL ASSESSMENT OF VERTICAL LADDER CLIMBING FOR EXOSKELETON INTEGRATION IN CONSTRUCTION TASKS, Ehsan Shourangiz

IMPACT OF GLUFOSINATE ON SUGARCANE YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS WHEN APPLIED POST-DIRECTED AND ITS EFFICACY IN CONTROLLING EMERGED ITCHGRASS (ROTTBOELLIA COCHINCHINENSIS), Warner R. Simon

EFFICIENT SMALL TOOL DETECTION IN CONSTRUCTION VIA LIGHTWEIGHT DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS, Maryam Soleymani

Determining if Cajun/Creole Pregnant Women are Meeting Prenatal Dietary Guidelines While Consuming the Traditional Cajun Diet, Breanna Staab

AN EXAMINATION OF MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE OF THE BRIEF SUICIDE COGNITIONS SCALE, Austin Starkey

A Multi-Scale Numerical Analysis of Wave Propagation Through Coastal Vegetation Using Proteus & XBeach, Cole M. Statler

Source Origins of Hunter-Harvested Waterfowl in Arkansas and Louisiana, Shannon C. Stemaly

FORENSIC SAMPLING USING NANOPARTICLE EXTRACTION AND VACUUM CAPTURE, Jamira Stephenson

'There is that of God in all of us': Church, State, and Restrictive Abortion Policies, Kimsey J. Stewart

Designing Cybersecurity Measurement Systems for Global and Organizational Intelligence, Bassel Succar