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Author:

Phillips, Joseph Biaggio

Title:

Of Time and the Development of Affective Polarization

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Affective Polarization
Partisanship
Political Behavior
Prejudice
Perspective-Taking

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Committee Members:

Eric Plutzer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Plutzer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanna Linn, Committee Member
Michael J Nelson, Committee Member
Christopher Daryl Cameron, Outside Member
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Morel, Annamarie

Title:

Glamour, Guns, And Glitter: Selfie-Empowerment and Self-Representation Online

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

photography
self-portraits
selfies
social media
digital culture
visual culture
gender
identity
vernacular photography
glamour
fashion
popular culture
folklore
influencer
beauty
firearms

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Committee Members:

Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Josef Bronner, Committee Member
Jeffrey A Tolbert, Committee Member
Russell Frank, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Voeller, Nathaniel Trent

Title:

Depression Apps, Design, and the Rhetorics of Mental Disability

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Technical Communication
Digital Rhetoric
Disability Rhetoric
Mental Disability Rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Stuart Selber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stuart Selber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cuevas-Buendia, Gerardo Valente

Title:

Exploring the Relationship Between School District Racial/Ethnic Composition and Socio-Economic Composition and School Punishment in an Era of Changing School Disciplinary Policies

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

School Discipline
Racial/Ethnic Composition
Socio-Economic Composition

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Committee Members:

David M Ramey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David M Ramey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Member
Jeremy Staff, Committee Member
Barrett Alan Lee, Outside Member
Erica Frankenberg, Outside Member
Thomas Anthony Loughran, IV, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tabur, Merve

Title:

Ends of Language in the Anthropocene: Narrating Environmental Destruction in Turkish, Arabic, and Arab-Anglophone Speculative Fiction

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature

Keywords:

Turkish literature
Arabic literature
Arab-Anglophone literature
Speculative fiction
Middle East
Anthropocene
Environmental justice
Environmental destruction
Climate Change

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Committee Members:

Nergis Erturk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nergis Erturk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shuang Shen, Committee Member
Anna Ziajka Stanton, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Sabine Doran, Outside Member
Charlotte Diane Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ancic, Ivana

Title:

At The Limits of the Human Rights Regime: Perpetrator Perspectives in Contemporary Literatures and Visual Cultures

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

World Literature
Human Rights
Global South
Perpetrator
Race
Global Capitalism

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Committee Members:

Rosemary Jolly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Major Field Member
Sarah Townsend, Outside Unit & Field Member
Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nolte, Hannah

Title:

Cognitive stress and engineering design: Investigating the effect of state mindfulness-based interventions on the experience of introductory engineering students

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Engineering design
mental stress
mindfulness
mental workload
creativity
Engineering Design
mental stress
mindfulness
mental workload
creativity

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Steven Landry, Major Field Member
Chris McComb, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Catherine Berdanier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jessica Menold, Major Field Member

Author:

Ravida, Nigel

Title:

The Effects of Novel Drug Compounds on Glioblastoma As An Indicator For Therapeutic Intervention

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (MS)

Keywords:

Glioblastoma
Hypoxia
Cytotoxicity

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Committee Members:

Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
James Robert Connor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seyed Alireza Mansouri, Committee Member

Author:

Shirazi, Talia

Title:

Endocrine organization of sex differences in psychology and behavior: Evidence from isolated GnRH deficiency

Graduate Program:

Anthropology (PHD)

Keywords:

hormones
organizational effects
behavioral endocrinology
isolated GnRH deficiency
androgens
estrogens
puberty

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Committee Members:

Asher Rosinger, Major Field Member
Sonia Cavigelli, Outside Field Member
Mark Shriver, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Puts, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Katherine Shenk, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khandare, Sujata

Title:

Mechanical response of tendons to common therapies and the effects of tendon injury progression

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Dry needling
Focused ultrasound
Tendon
Mechanical properties
Mechanical testing
Rotator cuff
Computational model
Glenohumeral joint
Muscle activation
Force couple
Tear severity
Rotator cuff tear

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Committee Members:

Stephen Piazza, Outside Unit & Field Member
Spencer Szczesny, Major Field Member
Meghan Vidt, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julianna Simon, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Thomas, Kierstan Bailey

Title:

Knowing While Black: Insidious Ignorance and Oppositional Knowledge

Graduate Program:

Philosophy (PHD)

Keywords:

social epistemology
white ignorance
Black feminism
Black feminist epistemology
critical philosophy of race
epistemology of ignorance
epistemology of resistance
epistemology of oppression
willful ignorance

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Committee Members:

Nancy Tuana, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hil Malatino, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Miller, Major Field Member
Robert Bernasconi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rife, Jared Sorensen

Title:

The Faith That Matters Most: LDS Youth Folklore and Culture in the 21ST Century

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Mormon
LDS
Folklore
Youth
Digital

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Committee Members:

John Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member
Simon Bronner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Haddad, Major Field Member
Chris Hollenbeak, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Clares Pastrana, Ana Paula

Title:

Fundamental Understanding into Bimodal Powder Size Distributions in Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing Process

Graduate Program:

Additive Manufacturing and Design (MS)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Binder Jetting
bimodal distributions

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Committee Members:

Allison Beese, Program Head/Chair
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy W. Simpson, Committee Member
Edward William Reutzel, Committee Member

Author:

Patel, Aditya

Title:

Software Support For Offloading off-the-shelf applications to PIM Cores

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

PIM
BLIMP
Compiler
LLVM

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Tongguang

Title:

Hardware Functional Obfuscation With Ferroelectric Active Interconnects

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

FeFET
Hardware Security
Reverse Engineering
Ferroelectric

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Yocum, Rebeka

Title:

Socialization of Safety: An Investigation into the Impact Socioeconomic Factors Have on Crash Frequency, Severity, Risk, and Cost in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

transportation safety
crash frequency
crash severity
crash risk
crash cost
statistical analysis
socioeconomics

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Committee Members:

Eric Donnell, Major Field Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Major Field Member
John Hughes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rathbun, Molly

Title:

Herpes simplex virus 1 ecology and evolution in natural infections

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Herpes simplex virus type 1
genital herpes
virus genomics
transmission
host20 pathogen evolution
oligonucleotide enrichment
within-host diversity
virus transmission
host-pathogen evolution
neurovirulence
comparative transcriptomics
virus evolution

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Committee Members:

Moriah Szpara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
Kateryna Makova, Outside Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Outside Unit Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Miyashiro, Major Field Member

Author:

Yanich, Daniel

Title:

POLICE BODY-WORN CAMERAS IN SMALL AND RURAL PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENTS

Graduate Program:

Criminal Justice (MA)

Keywords:

Police Body-Worn Cameras (BWC)

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Abrams, Alyssa

Title:

Comparing Heavy Episodic Drinking and High-Intensity Drinking: Effects on Academic Achievement Across Adolescence

Graduate Program:

School Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

alcohol
adolescence
heavy episodic drinking
high-intensity drinking
time varying effect model
academic achievement
time-varying effect model

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Committee Members:

Cristin Hall, Major Field Member
Jennifer Frank, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Turrisi, Outside Unit Member
Elizabeth Hughes, Outside Field Member
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Outside Field Member
James Diperna, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alharbi, Omar

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF OCEANIC WAVES ON LASER PROPAGATION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Optical Propagation
FSO
Ocean Waves
Underwater Wireless Optical Communication
IoT
IoUT
Air-Water-Interface

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Committee Members:

Tim Kane, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
John Doherty, Major Field Member
Diane Henderson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair