Outstanding Thesis Award Recipients

Main Content

Outstanding Thesis Award Recipients

Year Name Department or Program Thesis
2023 Abeer Matar Almalky Computer Science Deep Learning for Detecting and Classifying the Growth Stages of Weeds on Fields
2023 Elijah Conlin Lockhart Creative Writing some boys name themselves
2022 Kendall A. Hyde Animal Science Preantral Follicle Population, Spatial Distribution, and Ovarian Tissue Autotransplantation in Mares
2022 Lauren Lourdes Ramos Creative Writing Every Granddaughter Is Gunita
2021 Subash Kharel Computer Science Pothole Detection Using Deep Learning and Area Assessment Using Image Manipulation
2020 Sarah Jilek
English Saint Catastrophe
2020 Nita Shillova
Molecular Biology, Microbiology, & Biochemistry Per-oral Inoculation with Live or Killed Chlamydia Muridarum Protects Against a Chlamydia Muridarum Per-vaginal Challenge
2020 Survesh Shrestha
Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes Defect Detection on Rail Base Area Using Infrared Thermography
2019 Casey J. Bryan
Plant Soil and Agricultural Systems
The Efficacy of Cover Crops for Pollinator Habitat Provision and Weed Suppression In a Southern Illinois Agroecosystem
2019 Samuel Smucker
Department of Cinema and Photography
The Baadasssss and The Avant-Garde: The Radical Aesthetics and Politics of Melvin Van Peebles
2018 Julia Ryherd
Geography & Environmental Resources
Quantifying the Rates and Spatial Distribution of Recent Sedimentation within the Hydrologically Connected Floodplains of the Middle Mississippi River, Usa, Using Digital Elevation Models And Dendrogeomorphology
2018 Nibedita Sen
English
Leviathan
2018 Yub Raj Sapkota
Physics
Physical Properties of Topological Insulator: Bismuth Selenide Thin Films
2017 Kirk Schlueter English Sugar, Rust, Bone
2016 Liana Kirillova Historical Studies Exceptional Cases of White Ethnic Inclusion in Affirmative Action Policy since 1970
2015 Sudip Pandey Physics Department Magnetic, Transport, and Magnetocaloric Properties of Boron Doped Ni-Mn-In Alloys
2014 Evan R. Walters Geology Sulfate Reducing Bioreactor Dependence on Organic Substrates for Long-Term Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage
2013 Lindsey G. Roberts Anthropology A taphonomic study exploring the differences in decomposition rate and manner between frozen and never frozen domestic pigs ( Sus scrofa)
2012 Ruth Awad English Maps of a Glass Country
2011 Anish Poudel Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes An intelligent systems approach for detecting defects in aircraft composites by using air-coupled ultrasonic testing
2010 Alison Marie Hantak Physiology Ginsenosides enhance the cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor-α in human MDA-MB 231 and MCF-7 breast cancer cells in a caspase-dependent manner
2009 Mary M. Coonce Physiology Consequences of premature and persistent luteinizing hormone receptor activation on Leydig cell development
2008 Gabriel P. Johnson Plant Biology Early embryology of Ceratopteris richardii and immunocytochemistry of placental transfer cell wall ingrowths
2007 Forrest M.R. Brem Plant Biology Comparing Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection prevalence among habitats before, during, and after an epizootic in central Panama
2006 Jemil Yesuf Civil & Environmental Engineering Evaluation of cellulolytic enzymes from a newly isolated Brevibacillus sp. JXL; and optimization of coslif pretreatment variables of sweet sorghum bagasse using a response surface method
2005 Joshua P. Der Plant Biology Molecular phylogenetics and classification of Santalaceae
2004 Hilda Medalia Mass Communication & Media Arts
2003 Haagen D. Klaus Anthropology Life and death at Huaca Sialupe : the mortuary archaeology of a Middle Sicań community, North Coast of Peru
2002 Philip J. Jensik Physiology Cloning and characterization of P2X receptor channels from larval bullfrog skin
2001 Chad S. Briggs Psychology Supermaximum security prisons and institutional violence : an impact analysis
2000 Ernesto Valenzuela Agribusiness Economics Gravity model application for estimation of interregional trade within the U.S.
1999 Steven J.T. Jackson Physiology The role of Interleukin-6 in fever
1998 Christopher A.P. Nelson Philosophy Coming to terms with the ineffable : Meister Eckhart, discourse and the divine
1997 Charles Kingsley Radio-Television The therapeutic application of television : an experimental study
1996 April L. Jackson Physiology The role of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in the inhibition of luteinizing hormone secretion by delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in ovariectomized rats