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Woe Be Gone, Yuhan Hu May 2025

Woe Be Gone, Yuhan Hu

Theses and Dissertations

In Woe be gone, Yuhan Hu explores the porous boundaries between image, memory, perception, and material through a deeply personal and reflective multimedia practice. Drawing on influences from film, literature, and game environments, Yuhan investigates how moments—fleeting or fixed—transform when mediated through photography, digital frames, and sculptural assemblage. Anchored by a series of installations and image-based works, the thesis unpacks the poetics of poor images, the failures and promises of translation, and the emotional residue of digital and physical touch. With a tactile sensitivity to materials like wood, wax, solder, and horsehair, Yuhan contemplates impermanence, miscommunication, and care, embracing …


How Much Touch Can The Paper Withstand?, Aldrin Regina Valdez May 2025

How Much Touch Can The Paper Withstand?, Aldrin Regina Valdez

Theses and Dissertations

Between embodiment and disembodiment, Aldrin Regina Valdez’s works on paper map histories of care, violence, and mourning, both personal and collective. They ask: how much touch can the paper withstand?


Indeed, In A Way, It's Worse., Jani C. Zubkovs May 2025

Indeed, In A Way, It's Worse., Jani C. Zubkovs

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates walking as both method and metaphor within an artistic practice grounded in photography. Through walking, I engage in a sustained act of seeing — one that resists the speed and consumption-driven logic of late capitalism and opens space for reflection, slowness, and heightened perception. My photographic work focuses on fragments of the built environment, particularly advertisements, signage, and residual human marks, reframing them through strategies of cropping, isolation, and recontextualization. These images question the distinction between original and reproduction, presence and absence, surface and depth. Drawing on thinkers such as Jonathan Crary, Luigi Ghirri, Siegfried Kracauer, and …


Studies About The World, And The Magical Principles Of Our Destructive Dynamics, Vanessa Georjana Sandoval Cuadrado May 2025

Studies About The World, And The Magical Principles Of Our Destructive Dynamics, Vanessa Georjana Sandoval Cuadrado

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis paper arises from an interest in how realities are fictional constructions. In it, I am exploring and questioning the separation between nature and culture, and how bodies are expressions of ecological relations. In this sense, I conceived the end of this world (the main subject of this paper) as an opening to the possibility of other worlds emerging.


Card Tables Are A Dime A Dozen, Art Is Rare, Shannon Pritchard May 2025

Card Tables Are A Dime A Dozen, Art Is Rare, Shannon Pritchard

Theses and Dissertations

In this text, through the categories of truth and mimicry, discomfort, repetition, and bureaucracy, Shannon Pritchard dissects her studio practice. With a dedication to high craft, she investigates the world through the lens of the Freudian Uncanny, linking eerie subject matter to conspiracy mindset, mid-century politics, and personal relationships.


Displaced Nostalgia, Nava Derakhshani May 2025

Displaced Nostalgia, Nava Derakhshani

Theses and Dissertations

Exploring themes of identity, displacement, gender, and belonging, this paper examines the artist's work and her approach to her art. She covers the many influences that she has access to while unable to visit her ancestral homelands. Acknowledging the translation that comes from this removal, her art is in conversation with other diasporic, exiled, marginalised groups. She makes art with various materials such as clay, shadow, light, and paint, to work on the themes that she is pursuing.


Paintings And Paintings, Anna T. Gregor May 2025

Paintings And Paintings, Anna T. Gregor

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis argues for a renewed distinction between mere paintings and capital-P Paintings, contending that meaning arises through sustained, reciprocal engagement between viewer and artwork. Amid "postmodern" disorientation, it proposes a reorientation toward individual works as sites of immanent logic and shared perception, rather than relying on external narratives or historical clichés.


The Function Of Art, Magdalen O. M. Pickering May 2025

The Function Of Art, Magdalen O. M. Pickering

Theses and Dissertations

With the help of machines and the powers of perception, Magdalen Pickering introduces logic to strange and fantastical subjects. The Function of Art explores a hybrid of techniques in painting, screenprinting, and computer generated imagery as Magdalen attempts to use generative printing to obscure art historical consciousness. The installation crosses into virtual reality; reframing textiles, landscapes, and the gallery space through a metaphysical lens.


E Is For Ephemera, E Rady May 2025

E Is For Ephemera, E Rady

Theses and Dissertations

E is for Ephemera contends with an artist's role as a performer - traversing questions of identity, documentation, temporality, authority, power relations and implication of the self in response to systemic forces. Here, performances are treated as zones in which simulated scenarios sometimes offer various potential opportunities to resolve.


My Head Is This Animal, Paula De Martino May 2025

My Head Is This Animal, Paula De Martino

Theses and Dissertations

De Martino’s paper explores the dynamics of control in human interaction by discussing her relationship with animals. The author's life experiences serve to construct a narrative, but she lies. She becomes an unreliable narrator who aims to blur the threshold between art and real life throughout the performative gesture of appropriating identities. She steals from the ancient myth of Medusa through her stone sculptures (her offspring), in an egoistic attempt to excuse her fear and longing for motherhood.


Works On Paper, Xingyun Wang May 2025

Works On Paper, Xingyun Wang

Theses and Dissertations

This paper is about my painting practice and artistic influences.


Folds, Bayan Abukiwan May 2025

Folds, Bayan Abukiwan

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis uses the fold as an orienting metaphor and material gesture to linger on the minor details of intimacy that are severed by occupation and political violence. Through painting, drawing and ceramics, the work traces the more implicit modes of dehumanization—particularly in relation to Palestine—while engaging the domestic as a site of quiet and complexity. Influenced by artists like Jennifer Packer and Beatriz González, the practice embraces slowness, touch, and opacity to fold the viewer into a haptic encounter with the work.


4 In 10 Tiktok Users Find Their ‘For You’ Page Extremely Or Very Interesting, Aashish Gadani May 2025

4 In 10 Tiktok Users Find Their ‘For You’ Page Extremely Or Very Interesting, Aashish Gadani

Theses and Dissertations

Using video supercuts, sculptural forms, and digital prints on textiles in my work, I explore how images/videos can be used to reflect on cultural and personal trends. In this paper, I discuss how the structure of software recommendation systems combines with ideas of the post-internet image and creates unintended cultural consequences.


The Logic Of Car Accidents And Other Digestive Processes, Rosalie G.L. Smith May 2025

The Logic Of Car Accidents And Other Digestive Processes, Rosalie G.L. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

In this essay the author explores the artistic process via an analogy with digestion. The author goes on to explain their work via components of their practice, described as organs.


Fountain, Sadaf Azadehfar May 2025

Fountain, Sadaf Azadehfar

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the intersections of water, power, identity, and architecture through the lens of colonial and postcolonial landscapes, focusing particularly on Persian gardens and fountain sculptures. Drawing on historical, cultural, and symbolic frameworks, the study explores how water systems embody both practical and spiritual roles, positioning water as a force of control, resistance, and regeneration. Central to this work are analyses of arches and garden designs, which serve as architectural metaphors for cosmic harmony, community gathering, and contested space. Through a combination of visual analysis, historical research, and personal artistic practice—including ceramic sculptures and multimedia installations—this thesis traces the …


The Spirit Of Things Sometimes Or Shrew Gazing, Mariel Rolwing Montes May 2025

The Spirit Of Things Sometimes Or Shrew Gazing, Mariel Rolwing Montes

Theses and Dissertations

Mariel Rolwing Montes’ paintings are viewed as though through a portal. Photography and collected objects are negotiated on the canvas through a collage logic, allowing for distortion through memory. In The Spirit of Things Sometimes or Shrew Gazing, Rolwing Montes contextualizes her work around references related to history, imagination, and mysticism.


Exploring The Development Of American Classical Music Through The Works Of Florence Price And David Maslanka, Kathryn Rebekah Hardgrave May 2025

Exploring The Development Of American Classical Music Through The Works Of Florence Price And David Maslanka, Kathryn Rebekah Hardgrave

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


A Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach To Developing A Mission To Titan, Alana Elizabeth Meara May 2025

A Model-Based Systems Engineering Approach To Developing A Mission To Titan, Alana Elizabeth Meara

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Interaction Of Escherichia Coli And Urinary Lactobacilli On Co-Culture, Shaniya Amari Plump May 2025

Analysis Of Interaction Of Escherichia Coli And Urinary Lactobacilli On Co-Culture, Shaniya Amari Plump

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Charger Rocket Works Failures And Prevention, Tyler Guy Price May 2025

Charger Rocket Works Failures And Prevention, Tyler Guy Price

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Gpu-Accelerated Particle-Based Fluid Simulations, Jacob Daniel Warren May 2025

Gpu-Accelerated Particle-Based Fluid Simulations, Jacob Daniel Warren

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Orbital Trajectory Simulation Of A Mission To Titan, Preston Hancock Beesley May 2025

Orbital Trajectory Simulation Of A Mission To Titan, Preston Hancock Beesley

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


A Baseline Survey Of Meiofauna From The Paint Rock River, Northern Alabama, Clay Grant Bibby May 2025

A Baseline Survey Of Meiofauna From The Paint Rock River, Northern Alabama, Clay Grant Bibby

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Budgeting For Success: A Historical Mass Growth Standard Of Uah Sli Teams, Zachary Wayne Blowers May 2025

Budgeting For Success: A Historical Mass Growth Standard Of Uah Sli Teams, Zachary Wayne Blowers

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


A Century Of Currency And Forms Of Exchange In Five Global Powers, Hannah A. Rodriguez-Rodriguez May 2025

A Century Of Currency And Forms Of Exchange In Five Global Powers, Hannah A. Rodriguez-Rodriguez

Honors College Theses

This research is a collective explanation of a century of history and of the forms of currency, forms of payment, and security features on financial devices in the top five global powers in 2025, according to GDP. It highlights the implications for fraud, security, economics, and politics as well as compares the forms of payment and exchange used in each country.


An Archeology Of Looking, Marco G. Dasilva May 2025

An Archeology Of Looking, Marco G. Dasilva

Theses and Dissertations

Marco DaSilva’s mosaics explore camouflage and syncretism, blending symbols from American culture, Catholic saints, Afro-Brazilian deities and queer spaces. His work examines objects as relics, where identity is hidden and revealed. By integrating simple materials and transforming them into unique compositions, DaSilva creates hybrid objects where all of his worlds intersect, crafting his own mythology.


National Culture, Institutional Quality, And Financial Development: International Evidence Before And After Financial Crisis, Selma Izadi, Frankie J. Weinberg, Mamunur Rashid May 2025

National Culture, Institutional Quality, And Financial Development: International Evidence Before And After Financial Crisis, Selma Izadi, Frankie J. Weinberg, Mamunur Rashid

Economics and Finance Faculty Research

This study examines the impact of Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions and institutional quality on financial development in the periods preceding and following the global financial crisis. The study analyzes data from 33 countries spanning 2001 to 2021 using a combination of OLS, two-stage GMM, and PVAR models and concludes that inflation and economic growth negatively, and exchange rate and institutional quality positively significantly enhance financial development. Countries characterized by low masculinity and uncertainty avoidance scores, alongside high individualism and indulgence scores, tend to exhibit greater financial development. The results also indicate that cultural factors ought to be regarded as dynamic …


The Impact Of Norepinephrine Exposure On Microglia Il-1b Production, Mikyas Telahun, Meah Katz, Kristy Bagley May 2025

The Impact Of Norepinephrine Exposure On Microglia Il-1b Production, Mikyas Telahun, Meah Katz, Kristy Bagley

Research and Creativity Symposium

Neuroinflammation, driven by proinflammatory cytokines, is linked to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Norepinephrine (NE) activates microglial adrenergic receptors, potentially increasing IL-1β production. This study investigates the effects of NE exposure on IL-1β production in human microglial cells, using adrenergic receptor-specific antagonists to isolate the effects of α1-AR, α2-AR, β2-AR, and combined α1& β2 -AR pathways. Microglia were treated with 100nM antagonists and exposed to control (0μM), medium (1 μM) or high (10 μM) NE concentrations. Media was collected at 3, 6 and 9 days, and protein content was standardized using a BioRad Protein Assay. IL-1β levels were quantified via ELISA (Sigma). …


The Effects Of Monetary Policies On Exchange Rates: A Multinational Panel Study (2000–2023), Yun Song May 2025

The Effects Of Monetary Policies On Exchange Rates: A Multinational Panel Study (2000–2023), Yun Song

Student Research

This study investigates the impact of monetary policy tools—interest rates, reserve requirements, and money supply—on exchange rates across five major economies: the United States, European Union, China, Japan, and Canada from 2000 to 2023. The analysis incorporates control variables such as GDP growth and inflation and utilizes various econometric models, from naïve regressions to advanced fixed effects specifications. The results show that interest rates and reserve requirements significantly influence exchange rate movements, while the role of money supply is more moderate. Special attention is given to the zero lower bound (ZLB) era using shadow rates. These findings align with Inoue …


No. 40: Migrant Shelters And Food Insecurity In Mexico City And Its Metropolitan Area During The Covid-19 Lockdown, Fernanda Vázquez-Vela, Guénola Capron May 2025

No. 40: Migrant Shelters And Food Insecurity In Mexico City And Its Metropolitan Area During The Covid-19 Lockdown, Fernanda Vázquez-Vela, Guénola Capron

Migration and Food Security (MiFOOD) Network

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically exacerbated vulnerabilities among migrant populations globally, and Mexico was no exception. This paper examines the experiences of four migrant shelters in Mexico City and its metropolitan area during the pandemic lockdown, highlighting how these institutions responded to the twin challenges of public health and food insecurity. The study draws on ethnographic and documentary research to analyse the coping strategies developed by managers and volunteers at the four shelters. These shelters serve diverse and particularly vulnerable groups, including undocumented migrants, women and children fleeing violence, and members of the LGBTTIQ+ community. Despite facing increased demand, reduced donations, …