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Author:

Homan, Eric

Title:

Context-Aware Perception for Edge and Embedded Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Neural Network
Context Awareness
Reinforcement Learning
Autonomy

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

Author:

Jang, Jinsung

Title:

The Logic of End-user Responsibility for Cyber-governance: A Paradigm Shift from Macro-decentralized Governance to Micro-distributed Governance

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

user responsibility
cyber-governance
duty of care
tort law
legal duty
distributed attack
cybersecurity
information problem
bounded rationality
CDA
DMCA
policy

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Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Ben Johnson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Edward Glantz, Major Field Member
Fred Fonseca, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Major Field Member

Author:

Khunsriraksakul, Chachrit

Title:

INTEGRATING GENOMIC, EPIGENOMIC, AND 3D GENOMIC DATA TO EMPOWER DISCOVERY, RISK PREDICTION, AND DRUG REPOSITIONING

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

Transcriptome-wide association studies
Genome-wide association studies
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Computational drug repurposing
Functional genomics
3D genomics
Epigenomics

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Committee Members:

Dajiang Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qunhua Li, Major Field Member
Laura Carrel, Major Field Member
James Broach, Major Field Member
Aron Lukacher, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nancy Olsen, Special Member
George Perry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kotsonis, George

Title:

High-Entropy Oxides: Epitaxial Growth, Kinetic Dependencies, and Linear Optical Properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Oxides
Entropy
Epitaxy

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Committee Members:

Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Foley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vincent Crespi, Outside Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kim, Nahyun

Title:

Corporate Social Advocacy, Corporate Misconduct, and Perceived Corporate Hypocrisy

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

Perceived Corporate Hypocrisy
Corporate Social Advocacy
Corporate Misconduct

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Committee Members:

Michael Schmierbach, Major Field Member
Fuyuan Shen, Major Field Member
Lijiang Shen, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Denise Bortree, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kim, Hyunhee

Title:

The Effects of Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence on Career Adaptability

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education (PHD)

Keywords:

career adaptability; mindfulness; emotional intelligence

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Committee Members:

Julia Green Bryan, Major Field Member
Deb Schussler, Outside Unit & Field Member
Richard Hazler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jolynn Carney, Major Field Member
Pui-Wa Lei, Major Field Member
Julia Green Bryan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Mahadevan Subramanya, Seshasayee

Title:

Hydrothermal Liquefaction for co-valorization of plastic and biopolymer waste

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Municipal waste management
Chemical Recycling
Plastic waste
Hydrothermal liquefaction
Biofuel

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Committee Members:

Phillip Savage, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christian Pester, Major Field Member
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Rui Shi, Major Field Member
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mandalaparthy, Varun

Title:

The Influence of Cosolvent Interactions Upon Interfaces and Macromolecules

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

protein stability
polymers
proteins
osmolytes
thermodynamics
statistical mechanics
lattice models
protein folding
urea
tmao
simulations
theory
solute interactions
molecular dynamics
monte carlo

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Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
William Noid, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward O'Brien, Major Field Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mahmud, Md Sultan

Title:

STUDY OF CORE TECHNOLOGIES IN TREE CANOPY PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS FOR DEVELOPING AN ADVANCED PRECISION SPRAYER

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Tree Canopy Sensing
Canopy Density Measurement
Canopy Volume Measurement
LiDAR Sensing
Camera Vision System
Deep Learning
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Precision Spraying
Site-Specific Management
Precision Crop Protection

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Committee Members:

Long He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daeun Choi, Major Field Member
Grzegorz Krawczyk, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Heinemann, Major Field Member
Heping Zhu, Special Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mali, Ankur Arjun

Title:

Theoretically deriving computational limits of Artificial Neural Networks with bounded precision and time

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Turing machine
automata theory
deep neural networks
formal language
recurrent neural network
artificial neural networks
theoretical limits
grammatical inference
state machines
memory augmented neural networks
language modelling

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Committee Members:

C Lee Giles, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexander Ororbia, Special Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member

Author:

Ma, Guoxuan

Title:

Essays of Industrial Organization

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

English auction
information asymmetry
multiple equilibria
moment inequalities
Young Firm
Heterogeneity
Financing choices
Kauffman Firm Survey data
Firm dynamics

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Committee Members:

Karl Schurter, Major Field Member
Mark Roberts, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Iliev, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marc Albert Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David Argente, Major Field Member

Author:

Stankiewicz, Kathryn

Title:

Coral biology and evolution through the lens of genomics and population genetics

Graduate Program:

Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

genomics
bioinformatics
corals
population genetics
hybridization
recombination
comparative genomics
Delta K
STRUCTURE

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Committee Members:

David Toews, Major Field Member
Istvan Albert, Outside Unit & Field Member
Iliana Baums, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Lajeunesse, Chair of Committee
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Song, Hyoungju

Title:

THE IMPACT OF UPPER ECHELONS’ HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL ON POST-IPO PERFORMANCE IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: THE LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVE

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

an initial public offering
Upper echelons
Human and social capital
A life cycle perspective
post-IPO performance

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Committee Members:

Donna Quadri-Felitti, Program Head/Chair
Phillip Jolly, Major Field Member
Donald Hambrick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seoki Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amit Sharma, Major Field Member

Author:

Stutzman, Christopher B

Title:

MONITORING OF METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING VIA OPTICAL EMISSIONS SENSING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Plume Sensing
Optical Emission Monitoring
Laser Powder Bed Fusion

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Edward Reutzel, Major Field Member
Abdalla Nassar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qian Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Jeffrey Corbin, Special Member
Albert Segall, Major Field Member

Author:

Stewart, Hannah Leigh

Title:

Biotic and abiotic manipulation of thermoregulatory capacities in Bombus impatiens

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Bumble bee
Bombus impatiens
Immune challenge
Thermoregulation
Task switching

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Committee Members:

Robert Berghage, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christina Grozinger, Major Field Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Major Field Member
Rudolf Schilder, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julie Urban, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Strayhorn, Jillian

Title:

A Bayesian Decision Analytic Approach to Selecting Optimized Interventions in the Multiphase Optimization Strategy

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

intervention optimization
decision analysis
Bayesian statistics
multicriteria decision analysis
multiphase optimization strategy

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Committee Members:

Timothy Brick, Major Field Member
Steffany Fredman, Major Field Member
David Vanness, Outside Unit & Field Member
Linda Collins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Steves, Megan

Title:

Elucidating the Interplay of Optical Function and Structure in Nanomaterials with Nonlinear Optical Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

2D materials
nonlinear optics
ultrafast spectroscopy
2d metals
transition metal dichalcogenides
second harmonic generation
microscopy

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sumner, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

Selenoproteins regulate B cell development and peripheral homeostasis

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology (PHD)

Keywords:

B lymphocyte
B cell
Selenoproteins
Selenium
SelenoW
SelenoH
B cell Development
Reactive Oxygen Species
ROS
NAC

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Committee Members:

Girish Kirimanjeswara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margherita Cantorna, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Troy Sutton, Major Field Member
Kumble Prabhu, Major Field Member
Kumble Prabhu, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tien, Kai Wen

Title:

Performance Assurance in Smart Maintenance

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

performance assurance
exception analytics
condition-based maintenance
continuous time Markov decision process
phase-type distribution
corrective maintenance
preventive maintenance

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Committee Members:

Sanjay Joshi, Major Field Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Saurabh Bansal, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member

Author:

Treanore, Erin D

Title:

Ecological and Evolutionary Aspects of Bumble Bee Diapause

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Diapause
Bumble bees
Social Insects
Nutritional Ecology
Pollinators

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Committee Members:

Rudolf Schilder, Major Field Member
Etya Amsalem, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Hines, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
James Marden, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Tiffin, Hannah

Title:

“Scratching” the Surface: Ticks and Sarcoptic Mange (Sarcoptes scabiei) in American Black Bears

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

black bear
ursus americanus
mange
sarcoptic mange
parasite
host-parasite interactions
carnivores
red fox
grey fox
coyote
ticks
Ixodes scapularis
backlegged tick
Sarcoptes scabiei
scabies
neglected diseases
zoonotic disease
zoonoses
One Health
Pennsylvania
wildlife
disease spillover
disease ecology
emerging disease

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Edwin Rajotte, Major Field Member
Erika Machtinger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Justin Brown, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Mullinax, Special Member
Mark Ternent, Special Member
Joyce Sakamoto, Major Field Member

Author:

Wenger, Eliott

Title:

Mechanistic Investigation of Oxygen-Activating Enzymes Using Rapid-Kinetics, Structural, and Spectroscopic Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Enzyme
Mechanism
Oxygen
Kinetics
Crystallography
Metalloenzyme
Stopped-flow
EPR-spectroscopy
Mossbauer-spectroscopy
Mass Spectrometry

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Committee Members:

Howard Salis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amie Boal, Major Field Member
Carsten Krebs, Co-Chair of Committee
Alexey Silakov, Major Field Member
Joseph Bollinger, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xie, Tianze

Title:

Design of selective palladium-based catalyst for direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

H2O2 direct synthesis
Pd carbide
H2O2 decomposition
Catalyst optimization
carbonization treatment
Kinetics

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Committee Members:

Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Seong H. Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor
James Hodges, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Chair of Committee

Author:

Williams, Brittany

Title:

The Effect of Visual Speech Information on Linguistic Release from Masking

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders (PHD)

Keywords:

Speech Perception
Masking
Bilingual
Audiovisual

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Committee Members:

Jacqueline Mogle, Outside Field Member
Anne Olmstead, Major Field Member
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Outside Unit & Field Member
Navin Viswanathan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Robb, Major Field Member
Nicole Etter (She/Her), Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Xia, Yu

Title:

Participatory Agency that Addresses Participation Inequity and Drives Collaborative Problem-Solving and Learning for Children

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

computer-supported collaborative learning
participation equity
participatory agency
collaborative design learning

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Committee Members:

Marcela Borge, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ty Hollett, Major Field Member
Tanner Vea, Major Field Member
Gerald Letendre, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Mary Land, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wang, Xi

Title:

Analysis of Crossover Designs with Nonignorable Dropout

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics (PHD)

Keywords:

crossover trials
ignorable missing
nonignorable missing
controlled multiple imputation
longitudinal data
repeated measures
intensive longitudinal data

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Committee Members:

Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Mauger, Major Field Member
Judie Ann Howrylak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ming Wang, Major Field Member
Shouhao Zhou, Major Field Member
Arthur Berg, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Witcher, Aaron

Title:

MAROONING POETICS: LINES OF FLIGHT, CULTURAL RECREATION AND ERRANTRY IN MARTINICAN LITERATURE

Graduate Program:

French (PHD)

Keywords:

Marronnage
Martinique
poetics
Creole culture
African Diaspora

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Committee Members:

Benedicte Monicat, Major Field Member
Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Eburne, Outside Unit & Field Member
Fabienne Kanor, Major Field Member
Benedicte Monicat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zainuddin, Nursyafiqi

Title:

Getting to the root of nematode chemotaxis: Manipulation of belowground plant-nematode interactions

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

nematode
kinesis
taxis
volatile
exudate
chemotaxis
non-volatile
olfactometer
behavior
ecological niche
environmental context
phytochemical
plant-nematode
evolution
parasitism
plant defense
carbon dioxide

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Committee Members:

Jared Ali, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Barbercheck, Major Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Edwin Rajotte, Major Field Member
Jared Ali, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Lixiang

Title:

Trustworthy Unsupervised and Supervised Learning

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Trustworthy Machine Learning
Clustering Uncertainty Assessment
Multi-view Stability-based Clustering
Enhancing Interpretability of DNN
Robust Surrogate Model for Uncertainty Quantification

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Committee Members:

Lin Lin, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Jia Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Emily Davenport, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yu, Anya

Title:

Investigating the Impact of Language Experience on Second Language Reading Comprehension Using a Resting-State Connectome-based Predictive Model

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

L2 reading
immersion
resting-state fMRI
machine learning
implicit learning

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Committee Members:

Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peggy Van Meter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jung, InHaeng

Title:

Novel Food Technology Acceptance Model: Application of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

UTAUT
Novel Food Technology Acceptance (NFTA)
Sustainability
Trust in the regulatory system
Convenience

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Committee Members:

Donna Quadri-Felitti, Program Head/Chair
Donna Quadri-Felitti, Major Field Member
Mary Oliver, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna Mattila, Major Field Member
Amit Sharma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dec Peevey, Dominika

Title:

Counting and Accounting During an Outbreak: a Case Study of Measles in 2015-2016 Mongolia

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

Outbreak
Disease Surveillance
Measles
Reported Cases
Hybrid Surveillance
Vaccination

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Committee Members:

Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessica Maral Conway, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sagan Friant, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Zhanchen

Title:

System Design and Implementation of Collaborative Mixed-Reality-Based Firefighter Training

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Mixed Reality
Collaboration
Firefighter Training

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Committee Members:

Thomas F La Porta, Program Head/Chair
Bin Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahanth Gowda, Committee Member

Author:

Derrickson, Kaylie

Title:

Advance-Fee Pet Scams Through the Lens of Narrative Victimology

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice (MA)

Keywords:

Qualitative
Fraud
Narrative Criminology
Victimization

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Committee Members:

L. Marvin Overby, Program Head/Chair
Jennifer Lindmar Schally, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Andrew Howard, Committee Member
Emily Ruth Strohacker, Committee Member

Author:

Detore, Tessia

Title:

Student Perceptions of Zero-Tolerance Policies

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy (MA)

Keywords:

Zero-tolerance
School resource officer
school-to-prison pipeline
restorative practices

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Committee Members:

Dana Mitra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mimi Schaub, Committee Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fonseca, Ana Caroline

Title:

A Longitudinal Investigation of Broiler Chickens' Microbiome Using High-Throughput Sequencing

Graduate Program:

Animal Science (MS)

Keywords:

Broiler
Probiotic
Essential oil
Microbiome
Performance.

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Committee Members:

Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Erika Ganda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Boney, Committee Member
Alberto Gino Lorenzoni Calvo, Committee Member
Francisco Dini Andreote, Committee Member

Author:

Felins, Michael

Title:

Biasing Distance and Heterogeneous Solution Effects in Liquid Gated Graphene Field Effect Transistors

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Liquid gating
Graphene
Biosensor
FET

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Saptarshi Das, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Sahin K Ozdemir, Committee Member

Author:

Schwob, Natalie

Title:

Sequencing Biases in Langauge and Motor Planning: A Comparative Study of Humans And Bonobos

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

sequencing
planning
evolution
motor planinng
language planning
domain general
bonobos

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Committee Members:

Elisabeth Karuza, Major Field Member
Daniel Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Navin Viswanathan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ruggiero, Cara

Title:

Learned Experience and Resource Dilution: A Family Systems Approach Using Mixed Methods to Understand Sibling Feeding

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Responsive feeding
siblings
family systems
mixed methods
infancy
toddlerhood

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Committee Members:

Stephen Kodish, Major Field Member
Jennifer Williams, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathleen Keller, Major Field Member
Gregory Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Susan McHale, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Damon Jones, Outside Field Member

Author:

Schneider, Haley Elizabeth

Title:

Public Futures: The Rhetorics of Sustainability and Survival in Philadelphia, 2007 - 2021

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Publics
futurity
environment
urban planning
climate change
rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Rosa Eberly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Allen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradford Vivian, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Program Head/Chair
Joshua Barnett, Major Field Member

Author:

Tan, Shyuan Ching

Title:

Application of Life Purpose in Addressing Health Disparities and Minorities Health

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Life purpose
aging-varying cognitive health
high-effort coping
functional health
poverty and health
racial minority adults
low SES adults

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David Almeida, Major Field Member
Alyssa Gamaldo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Graham-Engeland, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zita Oravecz, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Swaminathan, Siddharth

Title:

Pro-active and re-active dispatch of energy flexible buildings using peer-to-peer markets for building-to-grid integration

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Model predictive controls
building-to-grid integration
non-wires alternative
peer-to-peer markets
microgrid sizing
energy flexible buildings

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Minghui Zhu, Outside Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Outside Unit Member
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Tan, Tianxiang

Title:

Deep learning on Mobile Devices with Neural Processing Units

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Mobile computing
Edge computing
Deep Learning

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Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Major Field Member
Guohong Cao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tebyanian, Nastaran

Title:

Green Infrastructure Placement under Deep Uncertainty

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty
Green Infrastructure
Spatial Planning
Climate Change

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Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Iulo, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Guido Cervone, Outside Field Member
Hong Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Loukas Kalisperis, Major Field Member
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tao, Jun

Title:

New advances in structure learning of graphical models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

graphical model
statistical learning

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Vazquez, Lauren C

Title:

Children's Neural Processing of Affective Prosody: Speaker and Emotion Effects

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

: affective prosody
speaker familiarity
affective prosody
speaker familiarity

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Committee Members:

Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Walter, Ashley

Title:

"We didn't do it, and we won't do it again": Class-action sex discrimination lawsuits at news organizations in the 1970s

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

journalism history
women's labor
media
mass communications
feminist history

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Committee Members:

Katherine Maich, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Russell Frank, Major Field Member
James Risley, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephanie Madden, Major Field Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yoshioka, Natalie

Title:

G-Protein Coupled Receptor Kinase 2: A Novel Regulator of Postnatal Skeletal Development

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (PHD)

Keywords:

skeletal development
endochondral ossification
PTHrP-IHH feedback loop
GRK2

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Committee Members:

Fadia Kamal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patricia Mclaughlin, Major Field Member
James Broach, Major Field Member
Amanda Nelson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Irina Elcheva, Major Field Member
Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yeon, Ji Hwan

Title:

THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: DOES THE LIFE CYCLE STAGE OF A FIRM AND ITS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE MATTER?

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

Corporate Life Cycle
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Financial Performance
Corporate Governance

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Donna Quadri-Felitti, Program Head/Chair
Heyao Yu, Major Field Member
Phillip Jolly, Major Field Member
Seoki Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Judd Michael, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Yoo, Eun Sil

Title:

a study on collaborative networks in a home visiting program: based on the Nurse–Family Partnership program in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

collaborative network
egocentric network
home visiting program
performance
organizational type
network analysis

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Triparna Vasavada, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Younhee Kim, Major Field Member
Odd Jonas Stalebrink, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lauren Azevedo, Major Field Member
Sheela Pandey, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Xu, Yifan

Title:

Nanostructured block copolymer films with responsive photonic band gap and nonlinear optical properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Block copolymer
Photonic band gap property
Nonlinear optical property
Responsive materials

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Robert Hickey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Enrique Gomez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Ralph Colby, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yan, Yaowei

Title:

Fast Local Graph Node Proximity Ranking

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

Random Walk
Graph Clustering
Community Detection
Link Prediction
Multi-network Analysis
Social Network
Social Recommendation
Adversarial Attack

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Xiang Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Xiao Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member

Author:

Ye, Tian

Title:

The Impact of Resource Scarcity Type on Consumer Responses to CSR-related Activities

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

Resource scarcity
Culture priming
Emotion appeal
Cause scope
Donation intention
Corporate social responsibility

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Heyao Yu, Major Field Member
Seoki Lee, Major Field Member
Anna Mattila, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Bolton, Outside Unit & Field Member
Anna S Mattila, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Zorn, Jacob

Title:

Ferroelectric Materials by Design at the Mesoscale: Thermodynamic and Phase-Field Modeling

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

phase-field
thermodynamic
ferroelectric
landau theory
TDGL
Cahn-Hilliard
Allen-Cahn

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John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Jinchao Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Major Field Member

Author:

Zheng, Boyang

Title:

Theory of Two-Dimensional Materials: Substitutional Doping, Magnetism and Photoemission

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

2D materials
density functional theory

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Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Vincent Crespi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhou, Yanmengqian

Title:

On the Processing and Outcomes of Conflicting Advice

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

conflicting advice
decision-making
interpersonal communication
social influence

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Andrew High, Major Field Member
Denise Solomon, Major Field Member
Karen Gasper, Outside Unit & Field Member
Erina Macgeorge, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Zhao, Ye Alex

Title:

Tests of Hypotheses on Regression Coefficients in High-Dimensional Regression Models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

high-dimensional inference
regression coefficient testing
hypothesis testing

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Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Le Bao, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ethan Fang, Major Field Member

Author:

Balaguer Barbosa, Raymond

Title:

Upcycling By-products of the Agri-food Industry as Carbon Sources for the Application of Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation in Pennsylvania Vegetable Production Systems

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science (MS)

Keywords:

Anaerobic soil disinfestation
Vegetable Production
Soil health
Lettuce
Tomatoes

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Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Francesco Di Gioia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claudia Schmidt, Committee Member
Francisco Dini Andreote, Committee Member
Erin Rosskopf, Committee Member

Author:

Baik, Seung Yeon

Title:

The effects of worry and rumination on response to daily events in depression and generalized anxiety disorder: Application of the contrast avoidance model

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

generalized anxiety disorder
major depressive disorder
contrast avoidance
worry
rumination

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Michelle Gayle Newman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Louis Georges Castonguay, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Emdin Cook, Committee Member

Author:

Barger, David

Title:

"We Need to Talk": Toward a Process Model of Texting Before Conflict

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (MA)

Keywords:

modality switching
imagined interactions
serial arguments
computer-mediated-communication

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Kirt Wilson, Program Head/Chair
Denise Haunani Solomon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian Manata, Committee Member
Andrew High, Committee Member
Timothy Worley, Special Signatory

Author:

Beyda, Sophia

Title:

The Impact of the Organizational Structure of Android Third Party Libraries

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Smartphone Privacy

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Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Trent Ray Jaeger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Committee Member

Author:

Amin, Farheen

Title:

FitTok: A Modern Guide or Existential Threat?

Graduate Program:

Communications (MA)

Keywords:

Social Media
TikTok
Fitness

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Nakho Kim, Ph.D., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gina M. Brelsford, Ph.D., Committee Member
Craig Welsh, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Candace M. Hogue, Ph.D., Committee Member

Author:

Grosswiler, Kate

Title:

A U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS date (230.964 Ma ± 0.077 Ma) for the Maple Creek Gabbro, Wrangellia Large Igneous Province, Kluane Range, the Yukon

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

Wrangellia
zircon
CA-IDTIMS
large igneous province
carnian
triassic
extinction

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Brian Kelley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Jesse R Reimink, Committee Member

Author:

Gonzalez, Cristina

Title:

How do new safety practices contribute to service workers' turnover intentions? A Self-Determination perspective

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

COVID-19
Turnover Intention
Service Work
Safety Climate
Autonomy

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Alicia Ann Grandey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Gasper, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Hanyi Min, Committee Member

Author:

Nettleford, Shaneice Kimarie

Title:

Understanding the Role of Selenium and Selenoproteins during Gut Inflammation

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology (PHD)

Keywords:

Selenium
Selenoproteins
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Enteric Infections
Selenoprotein W
Yap1
Egfr
15-PGDH
15d-PGJ2
Gut Inflammation

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Connie Rogers, Outside Unit & Field Member
Girish Kirimanjeswara, Major Field Member
Margherita Cantorna, Major Field Member
Kumble Prabhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kumble Prabhu, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mahlobo, Christa

Title:

Examining Adolescent Precursors to Early Adult Flourishing in Black Americans: On the Role of Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Identity

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

flourishing
Black youth
development
ethnic-racial socialization
ethnic-racial identity

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Douglas Teti, Program Head/Chair
Abenaa Jones, Major Field Member
Alyssa Gamaldo, Major Field Member
Karen Bierman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan McHale, Major Field Member
Robert Roeser, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Crowley, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Alkhatib, Mohamed Redha

Title:

Alternative Ways To Feed The Arecibo Spherical Reflector

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Gregorian Sub-Reflector
Gain
Method of Moments
Optimization
Numerical Methods
Linefeed
FEKO
Electric Field

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Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Breakall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Shizhuo Yin, Major Field Member
Thomas La Porta, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Romo, Nina

Title:

Vocal Satisfaction in Transfeminine Speakers

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders (PHD)

Keywords:

Transgender
Voice
Satisfaction
Acoustics
Context
Identity

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Nicole Etter (she/her), Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Samantha Tornello, Outside Unit & Field Member
Navin Viswanathan, Major Field Member
Michael Robb, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aarthi Madhavan (she/her), Major Field Member

Author:

Tu, Wenyu

Title:

INVESTIGATING RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL NETWORKS IN RODENTS VIA A MULTIMODAL STRATEGY

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience (PHD)

Keywords:

Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging
DREADDs
default-mode network
respiration
anterior cingulate cortex
resting state network
hub

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Xiao Liu, Outside Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Patrick Drew, Major Field Member
Sonia Cavigelli, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Ledley, Andrew

Title:

Optimizing the Utilization of Gluten-Free Grains for the Production of Gluten-Free Beer

Graduate Program:

Food Science (PHD)

Keywords:

beer
gluten-free beer
brewing
amylases
mashing
fermentable sugars
malt enzymes
starch hydrolysis
starch gelatinization
starch granules

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Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Ryan Elias, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Catchmark, Outside Unit & Field Member
Helene Hopfer, Major Field Member
Philip Jensen, Special Member
Darrell Cockburn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Barnes, Benjamin

Title:

The Biogeochemical Cycling of Rare Earth Elements in the Modern and Ancient Oceans

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

biogeochemistry
rare earth elements
paleoceanography
paleoclimate
carbonate chemistry

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Miquela Ingalls, Major Field Member
Raymond Najjar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lee Kump, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Fantle, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Firgens, Benjamin Aaron

Title:

Foresight at the Wright Brothers National Memorial: Technology, Memory, and the American Imagination

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Public Memory
Technology
Rhetoric
Social Imagination
Wright Brothers

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Rosa Eberly, Major Field Member
Michele Kennerly, Major Field Member
Mary Stuckey, Major Field Member
Patrick Parsons, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Browne, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Fair, Ryan

Title:

EHANCEMENT OF CONJUGATED POLYMER CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; FROM THE INDIVIDUAL CHAIN TO MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Conjugated polymers
TEM
Persistence Length
Gel Permeation Chromatorgraphy
Light Scattering
GIWAXS
SANS
4D STEM
Organic Photovoltaic
Organic Field Effect Transistor
Organic Electronics

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Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christian Pester, Outside Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Ralph Colby, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Jiang, Xiaoying

Title:

Understanding China’s International Aid to Education Through the Lens of Mutual Benefit in South-South Cooperation: A Study of China’s Educational Aid Programs

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education (PHD)

Keywords:

international aid to education
South-South cooperation
mutual benefit
China
gift theory
adult education
working the planning table
international students
program planners

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David Post, Outside Field Member
Kevin Kinser, Outside Unit Member
John Holst, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Cossa, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Tian, Ye

Title:

Supporting claim-making in democratic deliberation through an information recommendation system

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Information overload
recommendation systems
claim-making
democratic deliberation

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Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Guoray Cai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Gastil, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Peppetti, Melissa

Title:

Teacher Quality in Rural Schools Under ESSA: Inequities, Root Causes, and Proposed Solutions

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership (PHD)

Keywords:

rural
Teacher Quality
equity
ESSA

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Maria Lewis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Eppley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kai Schafft, Major Field Member
Edward Fuller, Major Field Member
Gerald Letendre, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Johnson-Vegas, Lori

Title:

The Evolution of the Corporate University: Reasons for Continued Utilization, Operations During A Pandemic, and Connection to Talent Management

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

Corporate University
Talent Management
Talent Development
Pandemic
COVID-19
Learning and Development
Human Captial
Qualitative Research

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Wesley Donahue, Co-Chair of Committee
Mark Threeton, Major Field Member
Ashley Patterson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hyung Joon Yoon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Swigart, Kristen

Title:

Does Expressing Humility in Teams Help or Harm Leader Emergence?: The Role of Competitive and Safety Climates

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

humility
leadership emergence

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Jean Phillips, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rustin Meyer, Major Field Member
Rick Jacobs, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alicia Grandey, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nguyen, Tin

Title:

TOGETHER OR APART?: EFFECTS OF GEOGRAPHIC CONFIGURATIONS AND TEMPORAL DIVERSITY ON TEAM INNOVATION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

geographic dispersion
virtual teamwork
teams

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Stephen Humphrey, Outside Unit & Field Member
James LeBreton, Major Field Member
Samuel T. Hunter, Special Member
Alicia Grandey, Major Field Member
Susan Simkins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Caffier, Jamie

Title:

Acting on Behalf: The Contributions of American Actresses to the Allied Forces During World War II

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

World War II
American actresses
Espionage
Roles of Women During WWII
Women in Military
War Bonds
Canteens
Beginnings of USO

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Mary Zaborskis, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Beck, Program Head/Chair
Charles Kupfer, Co-Chair of Committee
Shirley Clark, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Barton, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Goodling, Devin

Title:

Compositional Dependence of Ferroelectric Properties in Thin Film Zn1-xMgxO

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

ZnO
ferroelectric
ZnMgO
RF sputtering

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Jon-Paul Maria, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mokhtar, Yossra Maged

Title:

Trace Metals Concentrations in Dust from Gravel Roads Treated with Oil and Gas Produced Water

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Oil and gas produced water
Radium
Lead
Dust suppression
Trace metals
Unpaved roads
Beneficial reuse
OGPW
Gravel roads

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Nathaniel Richard Warner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Jay Regan, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khatri, Ashutosh Anand

Title:

EFFECTS OF BREAST CANCER-RELATED LYMPHEDEMA ON SHOULDER MOMENT GENERATION: A MODEL BASED ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Lymphedema
Biomechanics
WISER Trial
ANSUR2
BCRL
Shoulder Moment
Shoulder Injuries
OpenSim
joint mechanics

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Meghan Vidt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Spencer Szczesny, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Matt Parkinson, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Yicheng

Title:

Exploring The Migration of CAR-Jurkat cells Expressing MicroRNA in an In Vitro Blood-Brain Barrier Model

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

In vitro BBB model
Glioblastoma
CAR-Jurkat cell
Cell Migration

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Cheng Dong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J Hayes, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Justin R Pritchard, Committee Member

Author:

Joshi, Deeksha

Title:

Transformer based semi-supervised learning for misinformation classification

Graduate Program:

Data Analytics (MS)

Keywords:

Machine learning
Transformers
NLP
Semi-supervised learning
Label Propagation
Label Spreading
DistillBERT
Misinformation Classification

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Raghu Sangwan, Program Head/Chair
Youakim Badr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrian Sorin Barb, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Benjamin

Title:

Assessing How Perceptions of Police Closeness Affect Social Distance and Recruitment Efforts

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice (MA)

Keywords:

police closeness
social distance theory
police recruitment
pennsylvania
gender
race
job satisfaction
law enforcement

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Jennifer Catherine Gibbs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Catherine Gibbs, Committee Member
Jennifer Gibbs, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jonathan Lee, Committee Member
Jennifer Lindmar Schally, Committee Member

Author:

Mishra, Ankush

Title:

mmCaliper: High resolution sensing of distances using mmWave Radars

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

wireless sensing
radars
high-resolution
waves
chirps

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Mahanth Gowda, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abutalib Aghayev, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Niu, Zhenyuan

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF PVA MICRONEEDLE FABRICATION TECHNIQUES AND THEIR POSSIBLE INTEGRATION WITH LASER INDUCED GRAPHENE FOR GLUCOSE SENSING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Microneedle
Wearable Device
Electrochemical
PVA
noninvasive glucose sensor

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

Author:

Kannan, Adithya Krishnan

Title:

OPTIMIZING PRIVACY PRESERVING NEURAL NETWORKS EMPLOYING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Homomorphic Neural Networks

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

Author:

Min, Lujin

Title:

Studies on Quantum Transport and Magnetic Properties of Novel Materials

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Quantum transport
Magnetism
Nonlinear Hall effect
High entropy material

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Chaoxing Liu, Outside Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Zhiqiang Mao, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Morteza Kayyalha, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Krainova, Nina

Title:

Impact of strong coupling on chemical properties and nonlinear response of organic semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

strong coupling
exciton-polaritons
polaron-polaritons
polariton chemistry
electroabsoption
photoluminescence
SHG
photocurrent

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Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Noel Giebink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhou, Keren

Title:

Design, development, and validation of portable sensors and systems for label-free probing of bacterial phenotypes in real-time

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Biosensor
Electrochemical
Optical
Point-of-care
Bacteria
Phenazines
Biofilm

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Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Major Field Member

Author:

Passero, Kristin

Title:

Incorporating Dependent Data into Precision Medicine Research Beyond Genome-Wide Association Studies

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Dependent data
EWAS
Gene-environment interactions
Family data
Longitudinal data
Simulation study
Polygenic risk score

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Andrew Patterson, Major Field Member
Idan Shalev, Major Field Member
Molly Hall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
Lisa Kopp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Beckman, Minor Field Member

Author:

Smalls, Ashley

Title:

Blerd Lines: An Intersectional Analysis in Media Fandom

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

fandom
social media
race and media

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Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Major Field Member
Stephanie Madden, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matt McAllister, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sara Liao, Major Field Member

Author:

Grimm, Erika

Title:

Linguistic Rupture, Racialization, and Resistance in Latina/x Feminisms: A Critical Phenomenological Approach

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

linguistic rupture
Latina
Latinx
feminist philosophy
philosophy of race
language
intersectionality
critical phenomenology
Continental philosophy
Anzaldua
Lugones
Ortega
Martinez
Alcoff

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Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair
Ted Toadvine, Major Field Member
Eduardo Mendieta, Major Field Member
Mariana Ortega, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alicia Decker, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Lu, Jiali

Title:

Modelling Birdsong Syntax with Partially Observed Markov Models

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

birdsong
neuroscience
probabilistic modelling
complex system

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Yingwei Mao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dezhe Jin, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lu Bai, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Major Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Mingyao

Title:

Roles of Pramex1 and Pramel1 during spermatogenesis

Graduate Program:

Animal Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Transgenic mouse
Single/double Knockout
Spermatogenesis
Prame gene family
Synergistic genetic enhancement
Sertoli cell-only phenotype
Retinoic acid signaling

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Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Joy Pate, Major Field Member
Francisco Diaz, Major Field Member
Jon Oatley, Special Member
Wansheng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margherita Cantorna, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Chung, Taejung

Title:

Comparative Genomic and Phenotypic Analyses of Bacillus cereus sensu stricto biovar Thuringiensis and Non-Thuringiensis

Graduate Program:

Food Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Food Microbiology
Food Safety
Bacillus cereus
Bacillus thuringiensis
Food borne pathogen

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Committee Members:

Jasna Kovac, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Istvan Albert, Outside Unit & Field Member
Edward Dudley, Major Field Member
Josephine Wee, Major Field Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Daily, Richard

Title:

Locked In: Intimacy, Incarceration, and HIV/AIDS in the Black Gay Arts Movement During the Long 1980’s

Graduate Program:

History (PHD)

Keywords:

Black Studies
Carceral Studies
Queer Studies
Queer of Color Critique
Affect Theory
U.S. History
HIV/AIDS
incarceration
Black Gay Men
Black Gay Artist
Joseph Beam

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Lori Ginzberg, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hil Malatino, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cathleen Cahill, Major Field Member
Ellen Stroud, Major Field Member
Michael West, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Greenberg, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Zhilong

Title:

Deep Learning for Security-oriented Program Analysis

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Software Security
Program Analysis
Binary Analysis

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member