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2026

• Das, Kaustav Kashyap — The Faint and the Furious: Probing the Low-Mass End of Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Zwicky Transient Facility (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Davis, Ivey E. — A Portrait of the Sun as a Young Star: Studying Space Weather Around Young Suns in the Optical and Radio (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dunne, Delaney Anne — Joint Analysis Techniques for Line Intensity Mapping, with Application to the CO Mapping Array Project (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ponnada, Sam Bharat Vijay K. — On the Non-Thermal Physics of Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays in Galactic Ecosystems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prusinski, Nikolaus Zen — The Geometry and Kinematics of Baryonic Feedback (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scherbak, Peter John — Unstable and Stable Mass Transfer in Stellar Binaries: From Common Envelopes to Circumbinary Outflows (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhuang, Zhuyun — Multi-Element Abundances as Probes of Galaxy Growth Across Cosmic Time (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2025

• Boyeneni, Siddharth — An Electrodynamic Perspective of Black Holes (Senior thesis (Major))
• Cap, Chi Lan — Physically-Motivated Modeling of Kinetic Inductance Phonon-Mediated Detector for Light Dark Matter Searches (Senior thesis (Major))
• Huang, Yuping — Building a Radio Camera in Search of Exoplanet Magnetospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Karambelkar, Viraj — The Landscape of Stellar Mergers with Time-Domain Surveys (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nunez-Cravin, Evan Haze — An "InCLOSE" View of the Circumgalactic Medium of z~2 Star-Forming Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rodriguez, Antonio Cuevas — Compact Object Binaries in the Multiwavelength and Time Domain Sky (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sharma, Yashvi — Chasing Metamorphic Supernovae with Zwicky Transient Facility, SEDM-KP, and AI (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xuan, Wenhao Jerry — Probing the Origins of Directly Imaged Planets and Brown Dwarfs: From Atmospheric Compositions to Binarity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2024

• Goldberg, Max Elliot — Early Dynamics and Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Plant, Kathryn Annette — A New Sensor for Milky-Way Particle Accelerators: The Standalone-Radio Cosmic Ray Detector at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rubenzahl, Ryan Asa — From the Sun to the Stars: A Solar Calibrator for the Keck Planet Finder and New Frontiers in Exoplanet Obliquities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Samantha Chloe — The Interplay of Waves and Stellar Evolution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yadlapalli Yurk, Nitika — Interferometric Millimeter Observations of the High Energy Universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2023

• Blunt, Sarah — The Orbits of Young Extrasolar Planets as Formation Probes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Guochao — Understanding the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxies with Intensity Mapping (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yao, Yuhan — High Energy Transients Powered by Black Holes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2022

• Chen, Yuguang — The Absorption and Emission of Neutral Hydrogen around High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• de los Reyes, Mithi Alexa Caballes (Mia) — Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Universe as Probes of Stellar and Galactic Evolution (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kamraj, Nikita — Probing the Corona in Active Galactic Nuclei Using Broadband X-Ray Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenthal, Lee Jesse — The California Legacy Survey: a Three-Decade Census of Extrasolar Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Seebeck, Jerome John — Searching for Persistent Radio Sources (Senior thesis (Major))
• Zhang, Zhaoxi Michael — Understanding Exoplanet Atmospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2021

• Bochenek, Christopher David — The Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• De, Kishalay — The Whisper and the Bang: Cosmic Fireworks in the Lives of Compact Binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ho, Anna Yen Qin — The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Sullivan, Dónal Brendan — Mapping the Diffuse Universe: Integral Field Spectroscopy of Galaxy Environments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2020

• Callister, Thomas Alfred, III — Searching for the Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background and Prompt Radio Emission from Compact Binaries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duggan, Gina Elizabeth — Signatures of the r-Process in Ancient Stellar Populations Using Barium Abundances (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Escala, Ivanna Ashley — Elemental Abundances in the Local Group: Tracing the Formation History of the Great Andromeda Galaxy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jencson, Jacob Edmund — Hunting for Hidden Explosions: Exploring the Transient Infrared Sky with the Spitzer Space Telescope (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Theios, Rachel Lauren — Leveraging the Rest-Ultraviolet and Rest-Optical Spectra of Galaxies at 2 < z < 3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tinyanont, Samaporn — Insights Into Stellar Explosions From Infrared Light (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2019

• Anderson, Marin Mallory — Adventures Through Time and Phase Space: Characterizing the Dynamic Radio Sky, From MHz to GHz, From Seconds to Years (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barenfeld, Scott Alexander — New Insights into Circumstellar Disk Evolution in the Era of ALMA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eastwood, Michael William — Searching for the Cosmic Dawn with the Hyperfine Structure Transition of Hydrogen (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kleiser, Io K. — Modeling Rapidly Fading Supernovae as Nickel-Free Core-Collapse Explosions of Extended Helium Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leethochawalit, Nicha — Spectroscopy of Galaxies: Evolution of Escape Fractions, Metallicity Gradients and Stellar Metallicity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmitz, Denise Marie — A Perturbative Model for the Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2018

• Bryan, Marta Levesque — Lurking in the Shadows: Wide-Separation Gas Giants as Tracers of Planet Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• David, Trevor Justin — On the Evolutionary Pathways of Stars and Extrasolar Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mishra, Abhilash — The Low-Frequency Frontier: Cosmology with Future 21cm Experiments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Strom, Allison Leigh — Unveiling the Physical Conditions in Star-Forming Galaxies at the Peak of Galaxy Assembly (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2017

• Balokovic, Mislav — Unveiling the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei with Hard X-ray Spectroscopy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jensen-Clem, Rebecca Marie — A Toolbox for Exoplanet Exploration (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kao, Melodie Minyu — Constraining Substellar Magnetic Dynamos using Brown Dwarf Radio Aurorae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Montet, Benjamin Tyler — Low-Mass Stars and Their Companions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oklopčić, Antonija — Radiative Processes in Astrophysical Gases: From the Intergalactic and Interstellar Medium to Exoplanetary Atmospheres (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Villadsen, Jacqueline Rose — The Search for Stellar Coronal Mass Ejections (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2016

• Bottom, Michael — Two Roads to Planet Detection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cao, Yi — Cosmic Explosions: Observations Of Infant Hydrogen-Free Supernovae Towards An Understanding Of Their Parent Systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Manohar, Swarnima — Lurking in ULIRGs: Molecular Gas in local Merging Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2015

• Findeisen, Krzysztof — New Insights from Aperiodic Variability of Young Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jermyn, Adam Sean — The Atmospheric Dynamics of Pulsar Companions (Senior thesis (Major))
• Luan, Jing — Toward Understanding Astrophysical Phenomena (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mooley, Kunal Prakash — Exploring the Dynamic Radio Sky: The Search for Slow Transients with the VLA (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schenker, Matthew Aaron — Did Galaxies Reionize the Universe? (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trainor, Ryan Francis — Faint Galaxies in the Megaparsec-Scale Environments of Hyperluminous QSOs at Redshifts 2 < z < 3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Ke — Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2014

• Morton, Timothy Davies — Demographic Studies of Extrasolar Planets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mukherjee, Eric S. — How Far from Jerusalem? Tropical Customs and the Question of Race in the Book of John Mandeville (Senior thesis (Major))
• Stevenson, Matthew Alan — Observational and Theoretical Advances in Cosmological Foreground Emission (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tendulkar, Shriharsh Prakash — Beyond the Blur: Construction and Characterization of the First Autonomous AO System and an AO Survev of Magnetar Proper Motions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2013

• Gluščević, Vera — CMB as a Probe of New Physics and Old Times (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Tucker A. — Detailed Properties of High Redshift Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Max-Moerbeck Astudillo, Walter Kennerth — The Relationship Between the Radio and Gamma-Ray Emission of Blazars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Newman, Andrew Burch — Dark Matter and the Assembly History of Massive Galaxies and Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pérez Muñoz, Laura María — Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rudie, Gwen Charlena — The Intergalactic and Circumgalactic Medium Surrounding Star-Forming Galaxies at Redshifts 2<z<3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2012

• Bhalerao, Varun B. — Neutron Stars and NuSTAR: A Systematic Survey of Neutron Star Masses in High Mass X-ray Binaries & Characterization of CdZnTe Detectors for NuSTAR (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cody, Ann Marie — A Search for Pulsation in Young Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gonçalves, Thiago Signorini — Topics in Galaxy Evolution: Early Star Formation and Quenching (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krause, Anna Elisabeth — Topics in Large-Scale Structure (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Samuel Kuhnman — Three Paths to Particle Dark Matter (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tseliakhovich, Dmitriy — The Cosmic Stories: Beginning, Evolution and Present Days of the Universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2011

• Ali-Haimoud, Yacine — A New Spin on Primordial Hydrogen Recombination and a Refined Model for Spinning Dust Radiation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kasliwal, Mansi Manoj — Bridging the Gap: Elusive Explosions in the Local Universe (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2010

• Bogosavljević, Milan — Lyman Continuum and Lyman α Emission from Galaxies at High Redshift (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grin, Daniel — The Lukewarm Frontier: Some Cosmological Consequences of 'Low Energy' Physics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kraus, Adam L. — Multiple Star Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2009

• Brobeck, Elina — Measurement of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with CHICOS (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cameron, Patrick Brian — The Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars: Astrometry, Timing, and Transients (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Corder, Stuartt Allan — Optimizing Image Fidelity with Arrays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Law, David Richard — The Kiloparsec-Scale Structure and Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Menéndez-Delmestre, Karín — The Luminous, the Massive and the Dusty: A Near- to Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Submillimeter Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlichting, Hilke Elisabeth — Understanding the Origin of Planetary Systems: Studying the Kuiper Belt and the Dynamics of Planet Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stark, Daniel Paul — Observing Galaxy Formation in the First Two Billion Years (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2008

• Christopher, Micol Huw — Young, Massive Star Clusters in the Antennae (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Enoch, Melissa Lanae — Molecular Clouds and Star Formation: A Multiwavelength Study of Perseus, Serpens, and Ophiuchus (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hainline, Laura Jeannine — Multi-Wavelength Properties of Submillimeter-Selected Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moran, Sean Michael — Understanding the Physical Processes Driving Galaxy Evolution in Clusters: A Case Study of Two z ~ 0.5 Galaxy Clusters (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Donovan, Francis Thomas — The Detection and Exploration of Planets from the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Slesnick, Catherine Louise — 1-10 Myr-Old Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star Forming Regions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2007

• Becker, George Dana — A High-Resolution Study of the High-Redshift Intergalactic Medium (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Soderberg, Alicia Margarita — The Many Facets of Cosmic Explosions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2006

• Bundy, Kevin A. — The Mass Assembly History of Field Galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Erb, Dawn Karuna — The Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies at z ~ 2: Kinematics, Stellar Populations, and Metallicities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pan, Margaret Whei-Jie — Slices of Theoretical Astrophysics: Solar System Dynamics and Relativistic Explosions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Reddy, Naveen Ananta — A Multi-Wavelength Census of Star Formation at Redshift z ~ 2 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2005

• Eisner, Joshua Aaron — High Angular Resolution Studies of the Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farmer, Alison Jane — Adventures in Theoretical Astrophysics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacoby, Bryan Anthony — Recycled Pulsars (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2004

• Berger, Edo — Cosmic Explosions: The Beasts and Their Lair (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hunt, Matthew Philip — Faint Optically Selected AGN at z = 3 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaplan, David Lior Ariel — The Diversity of Neutron Stars: Nearby Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars and the Compact Central Objects in Supernova Remnants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2000

• Kollmeier, Juna Ariele — On the Kinematics of Galaxies and Associated QSO Absorption Systems (Senior thesis (Major))

1999

• Benford, Dominic James — Broadband submillimeter instrumentation for the detection of distant galaxies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1935

• Johnson, Josef Jerome — Visual Measurements of the Polarization of the Solar Corona (Dissertation (Ph.D.))