Lagos, Lorenzo. Three essays on firms and institutions in developing countries. Sponsor: Suresh Naidu.
Neurobiology and Behavior
Batty, Eleanor. Nonlinear approaches for neural encoding and decoding. Sponsor: Liam Paninski.
Vaadia, Rebecca. Development and function of proprioceptive and touch-sensing dendrite territories in Drosophila larvae. Sponsor: Wesley Grueber.
Operations Research
Powers, Vladlena. Discrete optimization problems in popular matchings and scheduling. Sponsor: Yuri Faenza.
Statistics
Lee, Jin Hyung. Spike sorting for large scale multi-electrode array recordings in primate retina. Sponsor: Liam Paninski.
TC / English Education
Esdaille, Elroy. The notion of song, identities, discourses, and power: Bridging songs with literary texts to enhance students' interpretative skills. Sponsor: Ruth Vinz.
TC / Philosophy and Education
Buck, Brandon. White schools, white ignorance: Towards a racially responsive pedagogy. Sponsor: Megan Laverty.
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Applied Mathematics
Lee, Hwi. Applications of nonlocal models in studies of smoothed particle hydrodynamics-like meshless methods.
Art History and Archaeology
Le Pouésard, Emma. Early Christian, Byzantine, and western medieval art.
Biomedical Informatics
Kitaygorodsky, Alexander. Prediction of genetic effect of noncoding variants.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Choi, Hyoseak. Literature's children: Literary culture and the question of modern childhood in Japan 1870s to 1950s.
Germanic Languages
Preston, Thomas. Post-teleological aesthetics and affect in German literature and film.
History
Kleiser, Randal Grant. An empire of free ports: Trade, reform, and revolution in the Atlantic world, 1750-1781
