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Author:

Soules, Michael

Title:

Persuasion, Coercion, and Force: How Rebel Groups Recruit

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Political Science
Civil Wars
Terrorism
Rebel Groups
Rebel Recruitment

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Committee Members:

Douglas Lemke, Major Field Member
James Piazza, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bumba Mukherjee, Major Field Member
James Dillard, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Nelson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Fisher, Deborah

Title:

The Metamorphoses of John Singleton Copley: Mythological Characters in Colonial American Portraiture

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

John Singleton Copley
18th Century American Portraiture
Greco-Roman Mythology

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Committee Members:

Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair
Mathias Hanses, Outside Unit & Field Member
Charles Kupfer, Major Field Member
Anne Verplanck, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Haddad, Major Field Member

Author:

Morehouse, Jessica

Title:

Diet-Induced Modulation of Brainstem Perineuronal Net Development

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (MS)

Keywords:

Perinatal high fat diet (PNHFD)
Dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV)
Obesity
Brainstem
Neuroplasticity

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Committee Members:

Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
Kirsteen Browning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anirban Paul, Committee Member

Author:

Hall, Nicole

Title:

Discovering Photocatalytic Materials From First Principles

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Density-functional theory
Photocatalyst
DFT+U

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Raymond Schaak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wesley Reinhart, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Jang, Jinhyuk

Title:

Government Formation in Asian-Pacific Democracies

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Government formation
portfolio allocation
democratic accountability
coalition formation
Asian-Pacific democracies

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Committee Members:

Vineeta Yadav, Major Field Member
Sona Golder, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Syed Ali, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Golder, Major Field Member
Michael J Nelson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Charles Crabtree, Special Member

Author:

Banerjee, Kalins

Title:

Adaptive Statistical Methods for Microbiome Association Analysis

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Noise accumulation
Feature selection
Adaptive Microbiome Association Test
Distance correlation learning
Maximum mean discrepancy
Subset testing

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Committee Members:

Vernon Chinchilli, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lan Kong, Major Field Member
Amanda Nelson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Arthur Berg, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yan, Tianyu

Title:

Shape control and shape transformations of metal nanocrystals: insights from molecular dynamics simulations

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

shape control
metal nanocrystal growth
molecular dynamics simulation
solution-phase synthesis

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Committee Members:

Xueyi Zhang, Major Field Member
Kristen Fichthorn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Milner, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Nalubwama Kaweesa, Dorcas Vivian

Title:

Predicting and Validating Composite Mechanical Behavior Resulting from Voxel-based Microstructural Design and Macroscopic Interfacial Analysis

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Multi-material Additive Manufacturing
PolyJet process
Material design
Composites
Composite laminates
Functionally Graded Materials
Voxel-based design
voxels
Mechanical properties

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Huxman, Connor

Title:

Towards the Integration of Compliant Mechanisms in Orthopedic Implant Design

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design (MS)

Keywords:

orthopedic implants
compliant mechanisms
implant design
medical devices
flexure modeling
arthroplasty

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Committee Members:

Timothy Simpson, Program Head/Chair
Jared Butler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Qicheng

Title:

lithologic control on ecohydrology of oak-maple forests

Graduate Program:

Soil Science (PHD)

Keywords:

preferential flow
stable isotope
catchment hydrology
tree water use

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Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Buda, Major Field Member
Jonathan Duncan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Armen Kemanian, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair