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Author:

Veenis, Andrew

Title:

Towards a Better Understanding of the Influence of Noncovalent Interactions on RNA Catalysis and the Properties of RNA Moieties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA
Ribozyme
pKa
Cheminformatics
Bioinformatics
Molecular Dynamics

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Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Song Tan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Isbell, Sarah Abigail

Title:

Ecological management for enhancing nitrogen ecosystem services on agriculture land through crop, soil, and microbiome interactions

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

Ecological intensification
Agroecology
Nitrogen Management
Soil Ecology
Cover crops
Interseeding
Reduced-tillage
Corn
Nitrogen
Soil microbes
Cover crop mixtures
Soil Microbiome
Organic Agriculture
Next-generation sequencing

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Committee Members:

Terrence Bell, Major Field Member
Charlie White, Outside Unit Member
Gregory Roth, Outside Field Member
Jason Kaye, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dillon, Gabrielle

Title:

Microvascular Function in those with Traditional and Non-traditional Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (PHD)

Keywords:

Cardiovascular Disease
Microvascular Function
Nitric Oxide

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Committee Members:

Lacy Alexander, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Kenney, Major Field Member
Sara Ferguson, Major Field Member
Urs Leuenberger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jody Greaney, Special Member
Jonathan Bates Dingwell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Glogovsky, Peter

Title:

A Landscape of "Incalculable Advantage": How the Occupation of Lime Burning was an Integral Agent of Change in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

lime
kiln
ledgers
quarry
agriculture
landscape
business
occupation

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Committee Members:

Charles Kupfer, Major Field Member
Anne Verplanck, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member
Joseph Cecere, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Rogers Haddad, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brown, Kayla

Title:

Parent-Child Coregulation in Early Childhood: Novel Methodological Approaches and Influences of Individual Differences

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

temperament
coregulation
self-regulation
externalizing

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Erika Lunkenheimer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martha Wadsworth, Major Field Member
Nilam Ram, Special Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Sunny Bai, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Sengeh, Joseph

Title:

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF CARBON PRECURSORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN CARBON FIBER, CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITES, AND GAS SORPTION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Carbon Fibers
Carbon-Carbon Composites
Methane Storage
Carbon Precursors
Polymer Precursors
Oxidative Stability
Carbon Yield
Volumetric and Gravimetric Capacity

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Committee Members:

Ralph Colby, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Major Field Member
Semih Eser, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tze-Chiang Chung, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Duane, Tyler

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves For Human Health Monitoring: Simulation-Based Analysis Of The Fifth Metatarsal

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Guided Waves
Human Health Monitoring
Fifth Metatarsal

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Member
Elzbieta Sikora, Committee Member

Author:

Tubbeh Sierralta, Ramzi Michel

Title:

Hydraulic infrastructure development, irrigation governance, and climate change adaptation in the engineered Colca-Siguas watershed, Peru

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Water governance
Political ecology
Environmental justice
Sociotechnical assemblages
Hydraulic mission
Actor-network theory
State construction
State as effect
Polycentric governance
Latin America
Customary water governance
Glacial retreat
Water rights formalization
Majes-Siguas Special Project
Proyecto Especial Majes-Siguas
Social-ecological systems

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Committee Members:

Larry Gorenflo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karl Zimmerer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Helen Greatrex, Major Field Member
Trevor Birkenholtz, Major Field Member
Kimberley Anh Thomas, Special Member

Author:

Drivas, Magdalayna

Title:

Make me pretty: The role of customization in the effects of attractive avatar use on self-image

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

video games
avatars
Proteus effect
social comparison theory
customization
body image

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Glew, Liana

Title:

Ravings: Reading, Writing, and Psychiatry in the American Asylum

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

American Literature
Disability Studies
History of Psychiatry
Madness
Disability
Literature
Asylums
Institutions
Patient Narratives
Medical Humanities
Archives
Paperwork
Patient Art

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Committee Members:

Ebony Coletu, Major Field Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janet Lyon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Bérubé, Major Field Member
Hester Blum, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies