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Author:

Lowrey, Kendal

Title:

Intergenerational Poverty, Public Assistance Use, and Earnings Among Second Generation Immigrants

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

socioeconomic status
poverty
public assistance
earnings
second generation
immigrants
intergenerational mobility

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Committee Members:

Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
John Iceland, Major Field Member
Leif Jensen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Van Hook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michelle Frisco, Major Field Member

Author:

Horisk, Kaitlyn

Title:

Plants, Precipitation, and People in Dhofar, Oman: Dryland Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing World

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Paleoecology
climate change
vegetation
Arabia
pastoralism
taxonomic turnover
isotopes
pollen
Agent-based model

File:

Download Horisk_DoctoralDissertation.2024.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Ivory, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joy McCorriston, Special Member
Kate Freeman, Major Field Member

Author:

Cong, Weilin

Title:

Fundamental problems in graph learning: optimization, generalization, privacy, and model design

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Graph representation learning
Optimization
Generalization

File:

Download Final_thesis__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Chache, Frederick

Title:

Implementation of an Age of Information Aware Wireless Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Age of Information
Wireless Sensor Networks
LoRa
Internet of Things

File:

Download Dissertation-6.pdf

Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Karl Reichard, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Cullina, Major Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Ramesh Bharadwaj, Special Member

Author:

Lentes, Julie

Title:

Seeds of Empathy, Rooted in Critical Reflection: Nurturing Cultural Humility in Global Health Trainees

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education (DED)

Keywords:

cultural humility
critical reflection
transformative learning
global health
adult education
health professions education

File:

Download Lentes_Dissertation_Final_3.18.24.pdf

Committee Members:

Karin Sprow Forte, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Betsy Aumiller, Outside Field Member
Karin Sprow Forte, Major Field Member
Kristin Sznajder, General Studies & Outside Unit Member
Elizabeth Tisdell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Petty, Raya

Title:

"I said what I said": Black women narratives on identity, communication, and refusal at historically white institutions

Graduate Program:

Higher Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Black women
Black girlhood
Higher education
Refusal

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Committee Members:

Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Tiffany Nyachae, Outside Field Member
Janice Byrd, Outside Unit Member
Wilson Okello, Major Field Member
LaWanda Ward, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Zheyu

Title:

Accelerating Data-intensive Bioinformatic Workloads

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Bioinformatic
Genome sequencing
FPGA
In-memory computing
Whole Silde Imaging
Max Cut
Nanopore Sequencing
Sorting

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mathur, Jayant

Title:

The role of immersive virtual reality in developing design and process intuition for additive manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
virtual reality
immersive user experiences
design for additive manufacturing
engineering education
digital simulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Meisel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Scarlett Miller, Major Field Member
John Messner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Sebastian, Aswathy

Title:

Advancing Genomic and Transcriptomic Knowledge Through Reproducible Bioinformatics Workflows

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

Bioinformatics
Workflows
Genomics
Transcriptomics
Metabarcoding

File:

Download dissertation_AS.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Patterson, Major Field Member
Shaun Mahony, Chair of Committee
Istvan Albert, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Reka Albert, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Siefert, Jacob

Title:

Reachability Analysis of Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Using Hybrid Zonotopes and Graphs of Functions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Verification
Control
Set-Theoretic Methods
Reachability Analysis
Estimation
Hybrid Zonotopes

File:

Download SiefertJacob_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Herschel Pangborn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Constantino Lagoa, Outside Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Outside Unit Member
Brandon Hencey, Special Member
Sean Brennan, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies