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Author:: Kafle, Madhav Prasad
Title:: Negotiating Academic Literacy in Mobility: Undergraduate Refugee Students’ Challenges in US Higher Education
Graduate Program:: Applied Linguistics
Keywords:: academic literacy
Bhutanese refugees
higher education
informal networks
literacy challenges
literacy pedagogy
mobility
negotiation
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Committee Members:: Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Brubaker, Timothy Ryan
Title:: Multiphase plasmas in medicine: Plasma jet--liquid interaction and the direct generation of plasma in conductive liquids
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: plasma medicine
atmospheric pressure plasma jet
plasma-liquid interaction
reactive oxygen species
blood
inactivation of bacteria
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Committee Members:: Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Committee Member
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Outside Member
Sean David Knecht, Committee Member

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Author:: Fortenbaugh, Robert
Title:: MOLECULAR-SCALE CONTROL OVER REACTION RATE AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF PHOTOTHERMALLY CURED SILICONE
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Photothermal
photothermal effect
nanoparticles
silicone
photothermal heat
PDMS
polymer
3D printing
paints and coatings
thermoset polymer
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Committee Members:: Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

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Author:: Glass-Heffner, Andrea
Title:: Gentrification, Interrupted: Place-Based Identity, Vanishing Landscapes, and the War on Gentrification in Urban America
Graduate Program:: American Studies
Keywords:: American Studies
Urban Studies
Gentrification
digital culture
gender and sexuality
spatial justice
memory
space and place
popular culture
visual culture
folklore
vanishing landscapes
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Committee Members:: Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Simon J. Bronner, Committee Member
Kenneth Brian Cunningham, Outside Member

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Author:: Diddi, Pratiti
Title:: INTERPLAY OF NARRATIVES AND SELF-DISCLOSURE IN ORGANIZATIONAL CRISIS COMMUNICATION
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: Narratives
Stealing Thunder
Organizational crisis
Crisis Communication
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Committee Members:: Fuyuan Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise Sevick Bortree, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Denise Sevick Bortree, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Ahern, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Pabbi, Lavish
Title:: INSTRUMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY IN NOVEL 2D SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Atomic Force Microscopy
Active noise cancellation
Doped Graphene
2 dimensional materials
Transition metal dichalcogenides
Spinodal decomposition
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Committee Members:: Eric W Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric W Hudson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Outside Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Liu, Chuyu
Title:: Local Government and Ethnic Violence in Authoritarian Regime
Graduate Program:: Political Science
Keywords:: Ethnic Conflict
Authoritarian Regime
China
Xinjiang
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Committee Members:: Xun Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xun Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bumba Mukherjee, Committee Member
Glenn Palmer, Committee Member
David Atwill, Outside Member

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Author:: Hackenbrack, Nicole Marie
Title:: INVESTIGATING THE REPLICATION AND EVOLUTION OF ICOSAHEDRAL VIRUSES WITH CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Graduate Program:: Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: virus
cryo-electron microscopy
replication
evolution
picornavirus
partitivirus
adenovirus
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Committee Members:: Susan Hafenstein, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joyce Jose, Committee Member
Scott Eugene Lindner, Committee Member
B. Tracy Nixon, Committee Member

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Author:: Smallcomb, Molly
Title:: Focused ultrasound histotripsy of connective tissue: A tendon model
Graduate Program:: Acoustics
Keywords:: histotripsy
ultrasound
tendon
cavitation
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Committee Members:: Juli Simon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Meghan Elise Vidt, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Mitchell, Stacey
Title:: Moving through Modern Spain (1888-1923): Revelatory Darkness as Critical Medium
Graduate Program:: Spanish
Keywords:: Spanish modernism
Spanish literature
Revelatory Darkness
Space
Movement
Black Spain
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Committee Members:: Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria Rosa Truglio, Committee Member
Mary Elizabeth Barnard, Committee Member
Nancy Elizabeth Locke, Outside Member
William R. Blue, Special Member
Leslie Harkema, Special Member

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