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Author:

Cho, Eugene

Title:

The Role of Ad Customization, Ad Personalization and Privacy Customization in Reducing Reactance to Ads from Smart Speakers

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

advertisement; ad attitudes
ad intrusiveness; reactance
customization; personalization; power usage; privacy concern; smart speaker(s)
voice assistant(s)
voice deletion
voice profiling
voice recognition.

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Committee Members:

Michael Schmierbach, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Frank Dardis, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Daly, Kelly A

Title:

Child Maltreatment and Social Maladaptation: A Focus on Early Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

early adolescence
social reorientation
adolescent development
maltreatment

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Chad Shenk, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Amy Marshall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ginger Moore, Major Field Member

Author:

Chatterley, James

Title:

The use of pulse waves to increase carbon nanotube thin-film thermophone efficiency

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (PHD)

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube thin-film thermophone
CNT thin-film thermophone
Pulse Wave

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Committee Members:

Thomas Gabrielson, Major Field Member
Dan Russell, Major Field Member
David Jenkins, Outside Unit & Field Member
Benjamin Beck, Special Member
Timothy Brungart, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cornblatt, Cassidy

Title:

Investigation of mechanical signal transduction in Arabidopsis thaliana, including processing of the plasma membrane receptor-like kinase FERONIA and the role of MILDEW RESISTANCE LOCUS O 1 (MLO1), MLO13, and MLO15

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

FERONIA
mechanical signal transduction
RALF signaling
MILDEW RESISTANCE LOCUS O

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Committee Members:

Cristina Rosa, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ying Gu, Major Field Member
Gabriele Monshausen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Teh-Hui Kao, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Hyeyeon

Title:

Examining Students' Help-Seeking When Learning From Multiple Texts

Graduate Program:

Educational Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Informational Help-Seeking
Self-Regulation
Multiple Text Comprehension
Behavioral Indicators

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Committee Members:

Alexandra List, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rayne Sperling, Major Field Member
Amy Crosson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peggy Van Meter, Major Field Member
Matthew McCrudden, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Byeong-Young Cho, Special Member

Author:

Cole, Harrison

Title:

Tactile Maps for Flood Mitigation Planning: Design and Evaluation

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

geography
cartography
accessibility
tactile
disability
flood

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Committee Members:

Anthony Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jack Carroll, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lorraine Dowler, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Major Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kryst, Erica

Title:

The Role of Higher Education in the Habitus Transformation of Youth from Rural Communities

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy (PHD)

Keywords:

rural education
higher education
habitus
rural youth and communities
rural out-migration

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Committee Members:

Gerald K Letendre, Program Head/Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Soo-yong Byun, Major & Minor Field Member
Mark Brennan, Outside Unit Member
Kai Schafft, Outside Field Member

Author:

Feng, Yanxiao

Title:

OPTIMIZING INDIVIDUALIZED INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT PREDICTION MODEL

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermal sensation; Thermal preference; Responsive control; Real-time measurement; Event alert; Internet of things; Threshold tuning; Feature interactions; Mini-batch based learning.

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Committee Members:

Ying-Ling Jao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Julian Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
Esther Obonyo, Major Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Almasad, Abdullah

Title:

Sustainable Planet: Site Suitability Analysis for Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants Using Fuzzy MCDM and Network Science Based Approaches

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Geographical Information System
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process
Site Suitability Analysis
Graph Theory

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Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Major Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thamer Alquthami, Special Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guha, Anurup

Title:

ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES FOR HEALTH MONITORING OF HUMAN LONG BONES – MODELING AND EXPERIMENTS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Long Bones
Tibia
Frequency Domain
Wave-structure
partial-loading
omni-directional shear
tuning fork
SawBones
Stress Fracture
Eccentric Geometry
Time-domain
Bone Cement
Bone Ultrasound

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Parisa Shokouhi, Major Field Member
Clifford Lissenden, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Aynardi, Special Member
Daniel Cortes Correales, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory Lewis, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Scheffer, Julian

Title:

Intergroup Morality: Strategic Moralization for "Us" and "Them"

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Moralization
Politics
Effort
Motivation
Social Psychology

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Committee Members:

Christopher Cameron, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Peter Hatemi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karen Gasper, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stoltzfus, Lars

Title:

Ex-Plain Queerness: Mediated Being And Becoming Among Gender And Sexually Diverse Amish, German Baptist Brethren, And Mennonites

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

Media Studies
Queer Studies
Transgender Studies
Media and Identity
Amish
Mennonite
Hutterite
Plain People

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Committee Members:

Hil Malatino, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Matthew Jordan, Major Field Member
Matthew Mcallister, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Parsons, Major Field Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rea, Elizabeth

Title:

Programming Women: Rhetorical Education, Literacy, and Coding

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

literacy
coding
rhetorical education
feminism

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Committee Members:

Suresh Canagarajah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stuart Selber, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cheryl Glenn, Major Field Member
Debra Hawhee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mohammad, Umar Farooq

Title:

Ultrasound image classification and segmentation using deep learning applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Medical Image Segmentation
Medical Image Classification

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Purushartha

Title:

Extending an Automated Content Assessment Method and Improving its Robustness for Classroom Use

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

natural language processing
automated summary content assessment
automated feedback generation
content assessment
educational use of artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Rebecca Jane Passonneau, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rui Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Joeun

Title:

The Incomplete Gender Revolution and A "Crisis of Family" in South Korea

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

Family formation
gender inequality
the division of domestic labor
low fertility
South Korea
contingent employment
the gender war
misogyny
long hours
employment conditions

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Committee Members:

Sarah Damaske, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Soo-yong Byun, Outside Unit & Field Member
Molly Martin, Major Field Member
Nancy Luke, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Raymo, Special Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lepore, Judith A

Title:

Civilizing the Unruly Masses: The Impact of Edward L. Bernays's Invisible Governance on American Democracy

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Edward Bernays
public relations
democracy
engineering of consent
masses
Sigmund Freud
politics
American Studies
mass manipulation
propaganda
Progressive Era

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Committee Members:

Charles Kupfer, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Gina Brelsford, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Simon Bronner, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Haddad, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Zaikina, Olga

Title:

Art in the Late Soviet Apartment: Andrei Monastyrski's Artist's Books, Objects and Actions in the Context of Moscow Conceptualism, 1970-80s

Graduate Program:

Art History (PHD)

Keywords:

Moscow Conceptualism
Soviet unofficial culture
Late Soviet material culture
Andrei Monastyrski
Conceptual Art

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mansfield, Program Head/Chair
Nancy Locke, Major Field Member
Adrian Wanner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Craig Zabel, Major Field Member
Sarah Rich, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Campbell, Natalie

Title:

A Design Intervention Opportunity Utilizing Artful Rainwater Design (ARD) in Theme Park Design

Graduate Program:

Landscape Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

Stormwater
Artful Rainwater Design
Theme Park
Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Research Through Design

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Committee Members:

Stuart Patton Echols, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eliza Pennypacker, Committee Member
Roxi Thoren, Program Head/Chair
Hong Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Shen, Yaqi

Title:

How do different types of morphological awareness in Chinese and English contribute to English reading for Chinese adolescents studying English as an additional language?

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

morphological awareness
vocabulary knowledge
reading comprehension
Chinese adolescents
English

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Committee Members:

Amy Crosson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Pui-Wa Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Poehner, Major Field Member
Jonna Kulikowich, Minor Field Member
Kimberly Anne Powell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kenney, Alex

Title:

Navigating Anti-Black Racism: How Black Collegians Experience the Racial Climate at a Predominantly White Institution

Graduate Program:

Higher Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Racial Climate
Black Collegians
Critical Race Theory

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Committee Members:

LaWanda Ward, Major Field Member
Royel Johnson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gary King, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karly Ford, Major Field Member
Gerald K Letendre, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Inara Rodis, Paulina Dela

Title:

Online Fight or Offline Flight?: Black and Asian Women’s Perceptions of and Responses to Cyber Aggression

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

Racism
Sexism
Social Networks
Cyber Aggression
Responses
Black Women
Asian Women

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Committee Members:

Gary Adler, Major Field Member
Charles Seguin, Major Field Member
Diane Felmlee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair
Jose Soto, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mcdevitt, Dillon

Title:

Alterations in neuronal excitability within the reward neurocircuitry following opioid exposure

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience (PHD)

Keywords:

Nucleus Accumbens
Paraventricular Thalamic Nucleus
Anterior Cingulate
Morphine
Opioids
Electrophysiology
Reward

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Graziane, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kent Vrana, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Yuval Silberman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Victor Ruiz-Velasco, Major Field Member
Alistair Barber, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Al Ma'Awali, Mahmood

Title:

Understanding Wellness Practices and Their Relation To University Adjustment among Middle Eastern International College Students In The United States: A Grounded Theory

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Wellness
University Adjustment
International
Middle Eastern
Undergraduate

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Committee Members:

Faisal Husain, Outside Unit Member
Richard Hazler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Craig Campbell, Outside Field Member
Jeffrey Hayes, Major Field Member
Julia Green Bryan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Chen, Xin

Title:

MATERIALS DESIGN OF DIELECTRIC POLYMERS FOR ENERGY STORAGE, ELECTROCALORIC COOLING, AND ELECTRO-ACTUATORS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Dielectric polymer
PVDF-based polymers
Electrocaloric cooling
electromechanical coupling
capacitors
energy storage

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Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Co-Chair of Committee
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Qing Wang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Qiming Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dey, Madhuri

Title:

Reconstituting the 3D Breast Cancer Microenvironment for Chemo and Immunotherapy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Breast cancer
3D tumor models
Chemotherapy
Immunotherapy
MAIT-MR1
3D bioprinting
Perfusion
Tumor Angiogenesis
Cancer Invasion

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
James Connor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christine Keating, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Ibrahim Ozbolat, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Liao, Moyu

Title:

Essays on Identification, Estimation and Inference of Economic Models with Testable Assumptions

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Refutability
Identification
Estimation
Hypothesis Testing
LATE

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Committee Members:

Marc Henry, Program Head/Chair
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marc Henry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Major Field Member
Joris Pinkse, Major Field Member

Author:

Liu, Shangbin

Title:

Non-enzymatic Glucose Sensors based on Laser-induced Graphene integrated with Skin-interfaced Microfluidic component for On-body measurement

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

biosensor
glucose
mircofludic

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Larry Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Hsu, Committee Member

Author:

Crowe, Charles

Title:

Aqueous Phase Separation within Water-in-Oil Emulsions as Cellular Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

liquid-liquid phase separation
phase separation
microfluidics
neutral polymer phase separation
emulsion
water-in-oil
coacervation
bioinspired
artificial cell
microscopy
droplet

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Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
Peter Butler, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lin, Yinan

Title:

Mixed Modifier Effect in Aluminosilicate Glasses

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

aluminosilicate-based glass
dissolution
dynamic
mixed modifier effect.
aluminosilicate glass
mixed modifier effect
mechanical
glass transition

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Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Kimel, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Herbstritt, Steph

Title:

Re-envisioning Agriculture as Sustainable Multifunctional Landscapes

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Perennial warm season grasses
Mixtures
Opportunity land
Perennial bioenergy crop
Field experiment
NDVI
Multifunctional agriculture

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Committee Members:

Herschel Elliott, Major Field Member
Tom Richard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Duncan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Armen Kemanian, Outside Field Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lauver, Matthew

Title:

The Role of Polyomavirus Capsid Mutations in Antibody Evasion and Virulence

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Polyomavirus
Antibody Evasion
Virus Capsid Mutations
Viral Pathogenesis
T cell Deficiency

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Committee Members:

Nicholas Buchkovich, Major Field Member
Aron Lukacher, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Schell, Major Field Member
Zissis Chroneos, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Miller, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

Obstacles to Comparative Migration Research: Comparability of Estimates and The Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes Project

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

Migration
Survey
Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition
Comparative Research
Sample Composition

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Committee Members:

Eric Plutzer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Van Hook, Major Field Member
Scott Yabiku, Major Field Member
Jennifer Glick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Miller, Hilary Lynn

Title:

"Popularly it was known as the National Road": The Cumberland Road and the Expansion of American Culture and Identity

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

National Road
Internal Improvements
Early American Republic
Transportation History
United States History

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John Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Anne Verplanck, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Witwer, Major Field Member
Sofia Vidalis, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Haddad, Major Field Member

Author:

Mooney, Micah

Title:

Musical Topic as an Embodiment of Community in Two Musical-Dramatic Works of the 1940s

Graduate Program:

Music (MA)

Keywords:

Topic theory
Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Oklahoma!
Tempesta
Pastoral
Church Musical
Opera
Musical Theatre
Theory
Analysis

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R J David Frego, Program Head/Chair
Taylor Aitken Greer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric John Mckee, Committee Member

Author:

Tanygin, Vivian Sergei

Title:

Surface Chemistry of Transition Metal Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

nanoparticles
xps
epr
chalcogen
noble metal
nanomaterials
inorganic
electronic properties
esr
morphology
surface chemistry
nmr

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Raymond Schaak, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Golbeck, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Mills, Shavonte

Title:

Visions of an Emancipated Society: The Oberlin Mission, Black Activists, and Transnational Education, 1835-1875

Graduate Program:

History (PHD)

Keywords:

Education
African American Studies
19th century U.S. history
Transnationalism

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Committee Members:

Christina Snyder, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ellen Stroud, Major Field Member
Kathyrn Merkel-Hess, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Esther Prins, Outside Unit Member
Michael West, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Gilyard, Outside Field Member

Author:

Erdely, Daniel

Title:

Crumpled Laser Induced Graphene Silver Nanowire Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Energy Harvesting

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

triboelectric
laser-induced-graphene
AgNW

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Larry Cheng, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David W Snyder, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member

Author:

Belsare, Akash

Title:

Humanimal Narratives: Genre and Animality in Contemporary Ethnic Literatures

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Multi-ethnic literature
Race
Animality

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Committee Members:

Cynthia Young, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rosemary Jolly, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tina Goudie, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aldon Nielsen, Major Field Member
Shirley Moody, Major Field Member
Mark Morrisson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ko, Paul

Title:

Essays on International Macroeconomics and Trade

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

international business cycles
business cycle accounting
business cycle synchronization
international trade

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Eaton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Yeaple, Major Field Member
Kim J. Ruhl, Special Member
Xun Cao, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Tybout, Major Field Member
Marc Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Billing, Samantha

Title:

Indigenous Identity on the Edge of Empire: Diplomacy and Destruction in Colonial Central America

Graduate Program:

History (PHD)

Keywords:

Miskitu
Indigenous history
Latin America
Caribbean studies
Atlantic World
early modern history
British empire
Spanish empire
Nicaragua
Honduras
Indigenous slavery
Race

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Amara Solari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Restall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Greenberg, Major Field Member
Ronnie Hsia, Major Field Member
Michael Kulikowski, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Walker, Jasmine

Title:

Backwater Hydrodynamic Influence on Avulsion Style and Floodplain Character: Case Study From Mungaroo Formation, Northern Carnarvon Basin

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

Seismic
Geomorphology
Channel
Interpretation
Floodplain
Paleo
Delta
Paleo-Deltaic
3D Seismic Data

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Committee Members:

Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Di Biase, Committee Member

Author:

Sgarrella, Joseph

Title:

Biomimetic Computational Techniques for the Simulation of Fungi Networks

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Fungal Infection
Growth Mechanics
Meshing
Phase-Field
Geometric Constraints

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Christian Peco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member
Michael Hillman, Committee Member

Author:

Barie, Katherine

Title:

Environmental and social factors affecting gyne and brood physiology in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

Bombus
Carbon dioxide
Social environment
Physiology
Bumble bee

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Etya Amsalem, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christina M Grozinger, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather M Hines, Committee Member

Author:

Di Monte, Kristin

Title:

Morphology Dependent Optical Properties of Mixed Organic/Inorganic Aerosol Particles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

Aerosol Particles
Aerosol
Optical Growth Factor
fRH
Hygroscopicity
Hygroscopicity Parameter
Water Soluble Organic Compounds
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy
CRDS
Multicomponent
Inorganic Salt

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Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Miriam Arak Freedman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member

Author:

Perez Holguin, Rolfy

Title:

Outcomes after Sublobar Resection versus Lobectomy in Lung Non-Small Cell Carcinoma In Situ

Graduate Program:

Clinical Research (MS)

Keywords:

Non-small cell lung cancer
Carcinoma In Situ
Sublobar resection
lobectomy

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Committee Members:

Douglas Leslie, Program Head/Chair
Chan Shen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vonn Andrew Walter, Committee Member
Tonya Sharp King, Committee Member

Author:

Abrams, Samuel

Title:

Extending Video Action Recognition in the Compressed Domain

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Action Recognition
Neural Networks
Video Compression

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

O'Connor, Michael

Title:

PARP14 regulates cyclin D1 expression to promote cell cycle progression

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

cell cycle
cyclin D1
CDK4/6 inhibitors
CRISPR
PARP14
breast cancer

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Committee Members:

Thomas Spratt, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
James Broach, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Ralph Keil, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Lisa Shantz, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
George Moldovan, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chai, Jiaming

Title:

Graph-based Methods For Zero-shot Learning In Image Classifications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Zero-shot Learning
Image Classification

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Committee Members:

Wang-Chien Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Soares, Nicholas

Title:

Incorporating Novel Sprue Design and Additive Manufacturing Techniques to Improve Nickel Aluminum Bronze Castings

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

metal casting
sand casting
3D sand printing
additive manufacturing
nickel aluminum bronze

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Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

West, Ashley Brooke

Title:

Clusters of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Alcohol Use Across Three Timescales

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (PHD)

Keywords:

physical activity
sedentary behavior
alcohol use
adolescents
college students
polysubstance use

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Michael Russell, Outside Field Member
Diana Fishbein, Outside Unit & Minor Member
David Conroy, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lacy Alexander, Major Field Member
Jonathan Bates Dingwell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Furer, Melinda Leigh

Title:

The Impact of Construal-Level Manipulation on Real (Non-Hypothetical) Snack Food Choice

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Psychology
Snack Food Choice
Construal Level

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Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Stephen Wilson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Smyth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Busuito, Alex

Title:

The Intergenerational Reach of Child Maltreatment: Exploring Transmission Mechanisms in Developmental and Socioeconomic Contexts

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

self-regulation
early childhood
infancy
maltreatment
cumulative risk
intergenerational transmission of risk

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Erika Lunkenheimer, Major Field Member
Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Ginger Moore, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Diana Fishbein, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brenner, Einat Karin

Title:

Examining Cognitive Reserve as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Connectivity and Cognitive Outcome Following Neurologic Disruption

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

neuroimaging
traumatic brain injury
mild cognitive impairment
alzheimer's disease
resting state connectivity
dynamic connectivity
fMRI
neuropsychology
cognitive reserve

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Ann Kolanowski, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren Massimo, Special Member
Michele Diaz, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Salomaa, Anna Christina

Title:

Beyond Categories: Complexities In Sexual Minority Measurement And Prejudice

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

sexuality
wsw
msm
mental health
minority stress
bisexual stigma
sexual minorities

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Louis Castonguay, Major Field Member
Jes Matsick, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Samantha Tornello, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jose Soto, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ratcliff, Kizzann Ashana

Title:

Longitudinal Influences of Parenting Behavior and Child Language on Young Children’s Social-Emotional Competence

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

social emotional competence
parenting
language
development

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Karen Bierman, Major Field Member
Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ginger Moore, Major Field Member
Janet Welsh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Johnson, Benjamin Norman

Title:

Resolving the Latent Structure of Borderline Personality Disorder: Predicting Symptoms in Daily Life

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

personality disorder
phenotype
classification
assessment
diagnosis
individualized treatment
ecological momentary assessment
ambulatory assessment
mixture modeling
latent variable modeling
borderline personality disorder

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Kenneth Levy, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Hallquist, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Major Field Member
Peter Molenaar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

May, Emily M.

Title:

Substance Use in Diverse Rural Adolescents: Processes of Risk and Resilience Across Multiple Ecological Levels

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

adolescence
substance use
alcohol use
marijuana use
rural
education
neighborhood

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Sandra Azar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mayra Bamaca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dawn Witherspoon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martha Wadsworth, Major Field Member
Peter Molenaar, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Caniglia, Michael

Title:

Work, Public Assistance, and the Transition to Adulthood Among Children Maltreated During Early Adolescence

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

foster care
transition to adulthood
adolescence
public assistance
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

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Sarah Anne Font, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Fenelon, Committee Member
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Molly Martin, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Lizhen

Title:

Contrastive Visual Learning from Spatiotemporal Information

Graduate Program:

Informatics (MS)

Keywords:

Contrastive learning
computer vision
perception

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James Z Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Bradley Paul Wyble, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Maereg, Tiyobista

Title:

The Interactive Relationship between Ethnic-Racial Identity, Academic Expectations, and Neighborhood Ethnic-Racial Concentration: Variation by Gender and Ethnicity-Race

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

ethnic-racial identity
neighborhood ethnic-racial concentration
gender differences
academic expectations
ethnic-racial differences

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Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Mayra Bamaca, Committee Member

Author:

Carpenter, Catherine

Title:

Memory Processes as we Age: A Dissociation of Unitization, Association and Item Memory Over Time

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

psychology
memory
aging
associative memory
unitization

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Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member

Author:

Du, Weihang

Title:

Digital Image Correlation Analysis for Functionally Graded Material SS316L/Inconel 625

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

DIC
FGM
SS316L/Inconel625

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Jingjing Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hongtao Sun, Committee Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Essington, Erin

Title:

Rational Engineering of Explosive-Sensing Soil Bacteria

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

buried explosives
Bacillus subtilis
genetic circuits

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Howard M Salis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Esther Gomez, Committee Member
Phillip Savage, Program Head/Chair
Amir Sheikhi, Committee Member

Author:

Ngoutane, Raphia

Title:

A comparative analysis of women’s nutrition decision-making autonomy during pregnancy in Burkina Faso and Madagascar

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (MS)

Keywords:

Women's autonomy
Decision-making
Food choice process model
Maternal nutrition/diet/supplementation

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Stephen R Kodish, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Ransom, Committee Member
A Ross, Program Head/Chair
Laura E. Murray-Kolb, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Agarwala, Vandana

Title:

Cross-Species Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding

Graduate Program:

Statistics (MS)

Keywords:

Bioinformatics
Deep Learning
Gene Regulation
Domain Adaptation
Transfer Learning
Computational Biology
Machine Learning

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Shaun Mahony, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qunhua Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Lawrence, Brooke

Title:

The Role of Beekeeping Management Systems on Microbes, Pathogens, and Immunity in Honey Bees

Graduate Program:

Entomology (MS)

Keywords:

honey bees
microbiome
bee bread
virus
beekeeping
immune genes

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Margarita Maria Lopez-Uribe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell William Cockburn, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Member

Author:

Chahl, Avery

Title:

Examining the Effects of School Connectedness on Social Emotional Learning Technique Use in Middle Childhood

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (MS)

Keywords:

peer relationships
social emotional learning
SEL
social network analysis
network analysis

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Sunny Bai, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kelly Rulison, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Davoodi, Marjan

Title:

From Sinner to Disordered: The Evaluation Of The Transformation of Morality To Mental Health Paradigm Via Word Embeddings

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

Mental Health
medicalization
Word Embeddings
Morality

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Charles Seguin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary J Adler, Jr., Committee Member
David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Greg Eghigian, Committee Member

Author:

Apsley, Hannah

Title:

Grit among Cambodian adolescents: Validity and reliability of the original and short forms of the grit scale

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (MS)

Keywords:

Cambodia
Adolescent
Grit
Validity
Reliability
Factor Analysis

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Hobart H Cleveland, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexis R Santos, Committee Member
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ojha, Amit

Title:

Heat Strain Risk Assessment of Field Workers: Integrating Wearable Sensing and Artificial Intelligence

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Data-driven health monitoring
Construction workers' safety
Occupational heat strain risk
Wearable biosensors
Physiological sensing

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Houtan Jebelli, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Clure, Catherine

Title:

The spatiotemporal dynamics of organic contaminants in surface water and their potential accumulation in riverine smallmouth bass of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

Endocrine Disrupting Compounds
Ecotoxicology
Bayesian Statistics
Fish Health
Organic Contaminants

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Tyler Wagner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather Elise Preisendanz, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Megan Kepler Schall, Committee Member

Author:

Hughey, Jordan

Title:

In-silico modeling gene expression utilizing genomic activity and 3D contact information

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

gene regulation
transcriptome
association studies
machine learning
epigenomics
epigenetics

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Dajiang Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
James Broach, Outside Unit & Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Major Field Member
George H Perry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tang, Tiffany

Title:

Effects of Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy on Taste Preferences and Underlying Neural Signaling in an Obese Rat Model of Spinal Cord Injury

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (MS)

Keywords:

spinal cord injury
vertical sleeve gastrectomy
neural mechanisms
obesity
taste preference

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Andras Hajnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuval Silberman, Committee Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair
Ziaur Rahman, Committee Member

Author:

Cha, Joonyoung

Title:

SECURITY PATTERN DETECTION IN SOFTWARE CODE USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Graduate Program:

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations (MS)

Keywords:

Security Pattern
Software Code
Machine Learning
Security Pattern Detection (SPD)
Convolutional Neural Network
Long Short-Term Memory
Security
vulnerability

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Jungwoo Ryoo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Joseph Fusco, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Philip Laplante, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Bing

Title:

Model development and application on coupled hyporheic exchange flux in river-hyporheic zones

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hydrology
hyporheicFoam
Hyporheic exchange flux
OpenFOAM
Transient storage model
mass transfer coefficient
hyporheic zone
heterogeneous

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Li Li, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ying Pan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

He, Fan

Title:

Impact of Air Pollution on Cardiac Electrophysiology and Sleep Health in Adolescents

Graduate Program:

Epidemiology (PhD)

Keywords:

Air Pollution
Cardiac Autonomic Modulation
Sleep Health
Adolescents

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Vernon Chinchilli, Major Field Member
Laila Al-Shaar, Special Member
Jeffrey Yanosky, Major Field Member
Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, Outside Unit & Field Member
Duanping Liao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Duanping Liao, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Jose, Sethu

Title:

A Scheduling Framework for Decomposable Kernels on Energy Harvesting IoT Edge Nodes

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Internet of Things
Non-Volatile Processors
Energy Harvesting
Approximate Computing
Scheduling.
Internet Of Things
Scheduling

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Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Nejatishahidein, Negin

Title:

DEPTH FILTERS IN BIOPROCESSING: PERFORMANCE AND SCALE-UP

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CFD
clarification
depth filtration
flow distribution
lenticular stack
scale‐up
cell culture fluid
host cell proteins
protein binding
monoclonal antibodies
flow structure

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Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ali Borhan, Major Field Member
Stephanie Velegol, Major Field Member
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Fares, Matthew

Title:

Fluorogenic Quantification of Proteome Stress

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Fluorogenic
Proteome Stress
Protien
Protein folding
Protein misfolding
Fluorescence

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Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Joseph M Bollinger, Jr., Committee Member
Richard W Ordway, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Miriam Arak Freedman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Feng, Jinglin

Title:

Three Essays on Food Assistance, Environmental Stressor, and Food Choices

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

dietary quality
SNAP
instrumental variables unconditional quantile regression
caloric acquisitions
charitable food assistance
SNAP benefit month
Healthy Eating Index
air pollution
wildfire smoke exposure
food purchases

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Daniel Brent, Outside Field Member
Paul Grieco, Outside Unit Member
Douglas Wrenn, Program Head/Chair
Edward Jaenicke, Major Field Member
Linlin Fan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

King, Philip

Title:

Bridging the Oldest and Newest Manufacturing Technologies: Additive Manufacturing, Metal Casting, and Internet of Things

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Hybrid Manufacturing
Design for Additive Manufacturing
Metal Casting

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Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Kunz, Major Field Member
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrea Arguelles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Voigt, Major Field Member

Author:

Healey, Izzy

Title:

Replacing White Noise Through Seeing, Sustaining & Resisting: Listening to Hear the Voices of 2nd Generation Latino/a/x Immigrants in a Digital Storytelling Workshop

Graduate Program:

Art Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Critical Whiteness
Whiteness
Mestiza Consciousness
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Digital Storytelling Workshop
asset-based pedagogy
Latino
Latina
Latinx
Testimonio
Borderlands
2nd generation immigrant

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Karen Keifer-Boyd, Program Head/Chair
Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, Major Field Member
Steven Rubin, Special Member
Kimberly Powell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
A K Sandoval-Strausz, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Eduardo Navas, Major Field Member

Author:

Collins, Stephanie

Title:

The Gall of It All: Bacterial Bile Acid Amidation Facilitates Host-Microbiota Communication

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

gut microbiome
bile acids
receptors
bile salt hydrolase
PXR
metabolomics

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Andrew Patterson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gary Perdew, Major Field Member
Istvan Albert, Major Field Member
Emily Weinert, Major Field Member
Darrell Cockburn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Levchenko, Yuliana

Title:

EXPLORING THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF NURSING HOME ADMISSION

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

aging
nursing homes
disability
health

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Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair
Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ashton Verdery, Major Field Member
Andrew Fenelon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Van Hook, Major Field Member

Author:

Chapman, Alexander

Title:

Three Essays on Family, Health, and Opioid Misuse Trajectories in the Transition to Adulthood

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

Substance use
Opioid
Health and Wellbeing
Family Formation
Cohort Analysis

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Ashton Verdery, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Iceland, Major Field Member
Shannon Monnat, Special Member
Hobart Cleveland, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Baumer, Major Field Member
Michelle Frisco, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vanalli, Chiara

Title:

Toward a mechanistic understanding of helminth coinfections: Disentangling the within- and between-host processes of infection and the role of climate

Graduate Program:

Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Gastrointestinal helminths
Antibody attack rate
Cross-immunity
Free-living stages
Seasonality
Temperature
Humidity
Spatial distribution

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Matthew Ferrari, Chair of Committee
Isabella Cattadori, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Hudson, Major Field Member
Jessica Conway, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marino Gatto, Special Member
Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rifat, Mustafa

Title:

Surface finishing of Additively Manufactured metallic components- effect of prior surface condition and post-processing routes

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Indentation
Surface Roughness
Additive Manufacturing
Microstructure
Electron Beam Melting
Direct Metal Laser Sintering
Bead-blasting
Residual Stress
Nano-scratch test
Pile-up Behavior
Hardening
Centrifugal Disc Finishing
Surface Finishing

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Saurabh Basu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ed De Meter, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Voigt, Major Field Member
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gu, Qinxue

Title:

Exploring North Atlantic decadal variability using machine learning

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Decadal variability
Machine learning
Self-organizing map
Atlantic Multidecadal Variability
North Atlantic Oscillation
Internal variability
Climate change
Atmosphere-ocean-sea ice interactions
North Atlantic Ocean
Decadal variability
North Atlantic Ocean
Machine learning
Self-organizing map
Atlantic Multidecadal Variability
North Atlantic Oscillation
Internal variability
Climate change
Atmosphere-ocean-sea ice interactions
Decadal variabilityachine learning×Self-organizing map×Atlantic Multidecadal Variability×North Atlantic Oscillation×Internal variability×Climate change×Atmosphere-ocean-sea ice interactions×North Atlantic OceanDecadal variability
Machine learning
Self-organizing map
Atlantic Multidecadal Variability
North Atlantic Oscillation
Internal variability
Climate change
Atmosphere-ocean-sea ice interactions
North Atlantic OceanDecadal variabilityNorth Atlantic OceanMachine learningSelf-organizing mapAtlantic Multidecadal Variability

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David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Carleton, Outside Unit & Field Member
Melissa Gervais, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Laifang Li, Major Field Member
Raymond Najjar, Major Field Member

Author:

Yu, Jiayi

Title:

Shear related reactivation of fractures/faults and the effects on permeability evolution and induced seismicity

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Induced seismicity
Unconventional shale reservoir
Fracture-proppant conductivity evolution

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Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Chris Marone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Major Field Member

Author:

Jones, Laura

Title:

Climate Variation and Pathogen Pressure Impact the Ecology and Evolution of Bees in Agroecosystems

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

solitary bee
pollinator
agroecosystem
thermal tolerance
climate
pathogen

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Margarita Lopez-Uribe, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Kennedy, Major Field Member
Rudolf Schilder, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tracy Langkilde, Major Field Member
Jared Ali, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Douglas Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Van Syoc, Emily

Title:

Modulating the gut microbiome in metabolic disease: towards a "whole microbiome" perspective

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology (PHD)

Keywords:

microbiome
type 2 diabetes
metabolic syndrome
probiotics
metformin
mycobiome
fungi
bacteria
bioinformatics
computational biology
physiology

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Donna Korzick, Program Head/Chair
Erika Ganda, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Connie Rogers, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Istvan Albert, Major Field Member
Laura Weyrich, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Xie, Lola

Title:

Digital Media as a Self-management Tool for Young Women at Risk of Eating Disorders: A Dissertation on Patient Narratives of Eating Disorder on Social Media

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

Social Media
Self-management
Health management
Patient Narratives
Narrative Persuasion
Eating Disorders

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Juliet Pinto, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bu Zhong, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jessica Myrick, Major Field Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schoppelrei, Elizabeth Mae

Title:

Speculative Formations: Queer and Trans Communities in the Long Twentieth Century

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

Transgender
Queer
Community building
Literature
Poetry
Science Fiction
Speculative Fiction
Speculative Formations
German queer culture
transgender poetry
transvestites
kinship
Black feminist thought
queer ecologies

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Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hil Malatino, Major Field Member
Daniel Purdy, Minor & Outside Field Member
Jonathan Eburne, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Outside Unit Member
Tracy Rutler, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Oh, Nawon

Title:

The "dark-side" of customer oriented efficiency: injuries and illnesses in order fulfillment services

Graduate Program:

Business Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

workplace safety
injuries and illnesses
fulfillment centers

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Daniel DellaPosta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair
Tessa Recendes, Major Field Member
Vilmos Misangyi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Forrest Briscoe, Major Field Member

Author:

O'Brien, Terrence

Title:

Essays on Cryptocurrency Exchange Volume Manipulation and Volatility

Graduate Program:

Business Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

cryptocurrency exchange volatility manipulation fraud fintech asset pricing regulation

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Mehmet Canayaz, Major Field Member
Quanwei Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair
Karl Muller, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Haushalter, Major Field Member

Author:

Rizk, Elias

Title:

Purified Neuronal Populations of Regenerating Ganglion Cells reveal DNA methylation-mediated Role of Na+/K+ ATPase in Axon Regeneration

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience (PHD)

Keywords:

IR Injured regenerated INR Non-injured regenerated UA Adult cells UE Embryonic cells RT PCR Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction TBS Tris-buffered saline SEM Standard error of the mean DMSO Dimethyl sulfoxide ELF5 ets domain transcription factor 5 DAPI 4'
6-diamidino-2-phenylindole
IGF1 Insulin-like growth factor-1 DDR1 Discoidin domain receptor NSPC Neural stem/progenitor cells RhoA Ras homolog family member A ROCK Rho-associated protein kinas Na+ Sodium K+ Potassium ATPase adenosine triphosphatase Ca2+ Calsium FXYD FXYD protein family ATP adenosine triphosphate SRC SRC protein ER Endoplasmic reticulum mRNA Messenger ribonucleic acid ROS Reactive oxygen species PKC Protein kinase C Mg2+ Magnesium Cl- Chloride AQP4 Aquaporin 4 PLC Phospholipase C GLT Glutamine PBS Phosphate buffered saline DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid RNA Ribonucleic acid CpGs Cytosine guanine sites
CNS Central nervous system RGC Retinal ganglion cell FACS Fluorescence activated cell sorting DML Differentially methylated loci DMR Differentially methylated regions PNS Peripheral nervous system WD Wallerian degeneration SARM Sterile alpha and TIR motif CCL2 The chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2 CCL3 The chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 3 CCL4 The chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 4 FOS Fos Proto-Oncogene
AP-1 Transcription Factor Subunit JUN Jun Proto-Oncogene
AP-1 Transcription Factor Subunit Camp Cyclic adenosine monophosphate GAP43 Growth associated protein 43 ATF3 Activating transcription factor 3 STAT3 Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 CR3 Macrophage-1 antigen is a complement receptor LIF Leukemia inhibitory factor CXCR2 . C-X-C chemokine receptor type 2 CCN cysteine-rich
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James Connor, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Robert Connor, Special Member
Alistair Barber, Program Head/Chair
Jeffrey Sundstrom, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Proctor, Major Field Member
Jian Yang, Outside Field Member
Ibrahim Ozbolat, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Piotti, Anna

Title:

Evaluating the influence of professional development programming on German language instructors' engagement with and understanding of social justice pedagogy

Graduate Program:

German (PHD)

Keywords:

German language instruction
social justice pedagogy
instructor professional development

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Carrie Jackson, Program Head/Chair
Carrie Jackson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julia Goetze, Major Field Member
Beate Brunow, Special Member
Celeste Kinginger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Richard Page, Major Field Member
Katharina Schuhmann, Special Member

Author:

Feldman, Jason Scot

Title:

A Tri-Factor Approach to ADHD Assessment: Integrating Multi-Rater Consensus, Situational Specificity, and Symptom-Level Prognostics of Impairment and Diagnostic Status

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

ADHD
Trifactor Model
Informant Discrepancies
Assessment
ADHD
Trifactor Model
Informant Discrepancies
Assessment

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Lisa Kopp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradley Wyble, Major Field Member
Cynthia Huang-Pollock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bloch, Chase

Title:

Implausible Denials: How Leaders Use Revealed Covert Actions to Achieve Foreign Policy Goals

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

International Relations
Conflict Studies
Covert Actions
Text Classification

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Committee Members:

Lee Banaszak, Program Head/Chair
Glenn Palmer, Major Field Member
Roseanne McManus, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shomir Wilson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Burt Monroe, Co-Chair of Committee