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Author:

Delvalle, Tanner Clinton

Title:

Establishment, Species Competition, and Persistence of Hybrid Bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. x C. transvaalensis Burtt Davy] and Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) Mixtures Maintained as an Athletic Field Surface

Graduate Program:

Agronomy (PHD)

Keywords:

Turfgrass
Bermudagrass
Kentucky Bluegrass
Bluemuda
Athletic Field
Sports Turf
Herbicide

File:

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Committee Members:

Surinder Chopra, Program Head/Chair
Henry Sommer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrew McNitt, Major Field Member
Peter Landschoot, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Fidanza, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Huang, Chiu Lin

Title:

Unpacking Local Food: Three Essays on Consumer Definition, Motivation, and Geographic Variation

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Local Food
Organic Food
Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Information Treatment
Urban-Rural Differences
Non-Hypothetical Willingness to Pay

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Committee Members:

Katherine Zipp, Program Head/Chair
Edward Jaenicke, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martina Vecchi, Major Field Member
Yizao Liu, Major Field Member
Katherine Zipp, Outside Field Member
Chloe Tergiman, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Menon, Nandana

Title:

Composition-process-structure linkages in metal additive manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Metal additive manufacturing
Laser-Directed Energy Deposition
Melt pool modeling
Composition-process-structure linkages
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amrita Basak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Major Field Member
Chris Rahn, Major Field Member
Sudeepta Mondal, Special Member

Author:

Li, Zhaohui

Title:

Automated and Semi-Automated Assessment of STEM Reasoning Questions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Automated Assessment
Machine Learning
Selective PredictionHuman-in-the-Loop
NLP
Education
Relation Networks
Contrastive Learning
Human-in-the-Loop
Selective Prediction

File:

Download ZhaohuiLI_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Dongwon Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Huijuan Xu, Major Field Member
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
Rebecca Passonneau, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Yu, Shuai

Title:

A New Perspective of Understanding Compaction of Particulate Asphalt Mixtures: Mechanism and Automated Assessment

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Asphalt mixture
Particle rotation
Compaction mechanism
Artificial Intelligence
Sensing technology
Density prediction

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_ShuaiYu.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Tong Qiu, Major Field Member
Mansour Solaimanian, Major Field Member
Shihui Shen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Frederick, Jared

Title:

The Unfinished Work: The Hidden History of Gettysburg and the Second World War

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

American Civil War
World War II
Gettysburg
National Park Service
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight Eisenhower

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Beck, Program Head/Chair
Charles Kupfer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member
Brian Black, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anne A. Verplanck, Special Member
John Haddad, Major Field Member

Author:

Tang, Chao

Title:

The Active Influence of Taoism on German Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Graduate Program:

German (PHD)

Keywords:

Taoism
German Orientalism
Image of China
Orientalism
German Modern Literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Carrie Jackson, Program Head/Chair
Kathlene Baldanza, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bettina Brandt, Major Field Member
Daniel Purdy, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Thomas Beebee, Major Field Member

Author:

Haines, Christopher

Title:

Electrochemistry as a Synthetic Tool for Dehydration Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Electrochemistry
Organic
Synthesis
Dehydration
Catalysis

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
C Okafor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ramesh Giri, Major Field Member
Eric Nacsa, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Squire Booker, Major Field Member

Author:

Godwin, James

Title:

Catalytic Depolymerization Of Switchgrass-Derived Lignin From Optimized Cosolvent Enhanced Lignocellulosic Fractionation Process To Produce Aromatics And Sustainability Assessment Of Lignin Using Life Cycle Assessment

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Transfer Hydrogenolysis
Lignin Valorization
Biomass Fractionation
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Mixed-metal Spinel
Switchgrass
Life Cycle Assessment
Response Surface Methodology
Box-Behnken Design
Optimization
Transfer Hydrogenation
Transition Metals
Lignin

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Stephen Chmely, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Juliana Vasco-Correa, Major Field Member
Tom Richard, Major Field Member
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Olsen, Megan

Title:

Conditioned Withdrawal: The Impact of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (PHD)

Keywords:

addiction
withdrawal
GLP-1RA

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Committee Members:

Scott Bunce, Major Field Member
Jennifer Nyland, Major Field Member
Nicholas Graziane, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patricia Mclaughlin, Major Field Member
Patricia Grigson Kennedy, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair