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Author:

Park, Mingean

Title:

POLICY AND POPULATION: INSTITUTIONS AND FERTILITY BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Population Policy
Family Policy
Fertility Behavior
Birth Rate
Pregnancy
Abortion Bans
Policy Bundles
Polycentricity
Causal Inference
Spatiotemporal Models

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Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Shugo Shinohara, Special Member
Lilliard Richardson, Outside Unit Member
Sungwoog Choi, Outside Field Member
Younhee Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dan Mallinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Baxter, Ryan

Title:

Multi-Scalar Drivers and Patterns of Abandoned Cropland in the United States: Implications for Renewable Energy

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Energy
Landuse
Landscape
GIS
Cropland
Landscape Ecology
Agriculture
Geography
Spatial Modeling

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Committee Members:

Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Tom Richard, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Miller, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Helen Greatrex, Major Field Member

Author:

Sadique, Farhan

Title:

Exploration of salesperson competencies for customer engagement in selected home improvement retail organizations in the USA

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

Salesperson
Competencies
Delphi
Customer Engagement
USA
Home Improvement
competency framework for salesperson
competency inventory
Retail Organization
Workforce Education and Development

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Committee Members:

Rama Radhakrishna, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
William Rothwell, Major Field Member
Mark Threeton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Aguilar, Morris

Title:

“Omics of Disease”: Automation, Weaving, and Capturing

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

Multi-Omic Analysis
Genomics
Metabolomics
Small RNA
Precision Medicine
Bioinformatics
Disease Pathogenesis
Biomarker Discovery
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Computational Biology
Cardiovascular Disease

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Committee Members:

David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Patterson, Major Field Member
Dajiang Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Broach, Major Field Member
Dokyoon Kim, Special Member
Molly Hall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Rusk, Zane

Title:

Perceptual and Quantitative Comparison of Headphone-Based Spatial Audio Techniques With Applications in Spatial Enhancement of Music and Binaural Panning

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

virtual acoustics
acoustics
spatial audio
3D audio
3D sound
surround sound
audio
audio signal processing
binaural rendering
panning
perceptual evaluation
listening tests

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Dorukalp Durmus, Major Field Member
John Messner, Major Field Member
Michelle Vigeant-Haas, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Victor Sparrow, Minor Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Roths, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Sankhe, Chinmay

Title:

Regulation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition via Matrix Stiffness and Histone Methyltransferases

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hyaluronic acid
atomic force microscopy
cytoskeleton
integrin-linked kinase
apoptosis
hydrogels
Hyaluronic Acid
Atomic Force Microscopy
Cytoskeleton
Apoptosis
Hydrogels
epigenetics
H3K9Me2
chromatin
Hippo Signaling
nuclear localization
biosensor

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Esther Gomez, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amir Sheikhi, Major Field Member
Sergei Grigoryev, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hernandez Bejarano, Manuel

Title:

Density estimation for some semiparametric models

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Density estimation
Functional convergence
Nonparametric kernel den- sity estimator
Nonparametric regression
Specification testing
Density estimation
Functional convergence
Nonparametric kernel density estimator
Nonparametric regression
Specification testing
ARCH models
Quantile regression

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Major Field Member
Andres Aradillas-Lopez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Jiang, Panwei

Title:

Multi-scale computational modeling of the effects of defects and microstructural anomalies on mechanical response of parts resulting from additive manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Crystal plasticity model
Fatigue Indicator Parameter
DAMASK
Microstructure-sensitive
Lattice strutcture
Gibson-Ashby model
Texture
Grain morphology

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Saurabh Basu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Palmer, Major Field Member
Darren Pagan, Major Field Member
Amrita Basak, Outside Unit Member
Ed De Meter, Outside Field Member

Author:

Xu, Cheng

Title:

Systematic dissection of sequence features affecting the binding spcificity of a pioneer factor

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Gene regulation
Transcription factor
Pioneer factor
Binding specificity
synthetic oligonucleotide library
FOXA1
AP-1
TF cooperativity
ChIP-ISO

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Committee Members:

Robert Paulson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
Lu Bai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kumar, Pavan

Title:

SEMI-ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR SINGLE-PHASE THERMAL CONDUCTION AND STRESS PROBLEMS OF FINITE-DOMAIN SLAB AND CYLINDER WITH A GROWING OR RECEDING BOUNDARY

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Moving Boundary Problem
Thermal Conduction
Semi-Analytical Solution
Finite Element Analysis
Laplace Transform
Inverse Problems
Additive Manufacturing

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Corina Drapaca, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Kube, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alok Sinha, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Kennedy, Megan

Title:

Gender, Identity and Candidate Quality in Statewide Elections

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Gender
Statewide Elections
Executive Office
Legislative Office
Judicial Office

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Committee Members:

Lee Banaszak, Program Head/Chair
Michael Nelson, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lee Banaszak, Co-Chair of Committee
Melissa Wright, Outside Unit & Field Member
Erin Heidt-Forsythe, Major Field Member

Author:

Andersen Tuttle, Karlin

Title:

Your Trusted Friend: Untold Histories of Five Christian Women's Magazines, 1974-2023

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

Christian women's magazines
women's magazines
Brio Magazine
Daughters of Sarah
Just Between Us
Christian Womanhood

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
James Risley, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matt Tierney, Outside Field Member
Cathleen Cahill, Outside Unit Member
Matt McAllister, Co-Chair, Major Member & Dissertation Advisor
Sara Liao, Major Field Member

Author:

Gharpure, Akshay Pradip

Title:

GRAPHITIZATION SYNERGIES BETWEEN COAL TAR PITCH, WASTE PLASTICS AND GRAPHENE FORMS: A STUDY OF MIXTURE COMPOSITIONS, PROCESS CONDITIONS AND CHEMICAL COMPATIBILITY

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Graphitization
Carbon Materials
Characterization
Pitch
Waste Plastics
Upcycling
Graphene
Graphene Oxide
TEM
XRD
Raman Spectroscopy
FTIR
Crystallite Size
Nanostructure
TGA DSC
Mesophase

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Sarma Pisupati, Major Field Member
Randy Vander Wal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Barbara Arnold, Major Field Member

Author:

Hendrick, Christopher

Title:

Model-Scale Evaluation of Autonomous Ship Landing Guidance and Control Modes for Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

VTOL
Rotorcraft
Ship Landing
Autonomous
Froude Scaling
Model-Scale
UAV
Guidance
Control

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Joseph Horn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chris Rahn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Johnson, Major Field Member

Author:

Chakraborty, Debopriya

Title:

THE ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR MAINTAINS INTESTINAL HOMEOSTASIS

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology (PHD)

Keywords:

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
Gut microbiome
Intestinal homeostasis
Goblet cells
Antimicrobial peptides
Chemotherapy
Drug-receptor interactions
Dietary activation of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor

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Committee Members:

Andrew Patterson, Major Field Member
C Okafor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Adam Glick, Major Field Member
Gary Perdew, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kumble Prabhu, Major Field Member
Anthony Schmitt, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Varghese, Sushant

Title:

Addressing Flexibility Needs in Electricity Markets

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Real-time market
market design
ramp products
future scenario
investment incentives
Real-time market
Electricity market
Flexibility
Market design
future scenario
Investment incentives

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Paul Griffin, Outside Unit Member
Mort Webster, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seth Blumsack, Outside Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Major Field Member

Author:

Wehr, Katrina

Title:

Designing for Belonging: How Instructional Designers Support Online Learners’ Sense of Belonging

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology (PHD)

Keywords:

instructional design
online learning
belonging
higher education

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Committee Members:

Susan Land, Program Head/Chair
Scott Mcdonald, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ty Hollett, Major Field Member
Susan Land, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tanner Vea, Major Field Member

Author:

Alrashidi, Essa

Title:

HIGHER EDUCATION PRIVATIZATION IN SAUDI VISION 2030: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROSPECT AND IMPACT ON NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Privatization
Higher Education
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Vision 2030
National Development

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Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Triparna Vasavada, Major Field Member
Glenn McGuigan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Tantardini, Major Field Member
Younhee Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dawuda, Ismael

Title:

Geologic Modeling and Data Assimilation for CO2 Sequestration in Point Bar Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Geologic Modeling
Geostatistical Simulation
Data Assimilation
Reservoir Simulation
History Matching
CO2 Sequestration
Grid Transformation
Point Bar Reservoir
Lateral Accretions
Inclined Heterolithic Stratifications
Heterogeneities
Rock Physics Modeling
Bayesian Model Selection
Value of Information

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Sanjay Srinivasan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gregory King, Major Field Member
Eugene Morgan, Major Field Member
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Major Field Member
Charles Ammon, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rui Zhang, Special Member

Author:

Alnasser, Shehab

Title:

MAKING SENSE OF OPEN GOVERNMENT: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF ITS DEFINITIONS, INTELLECTUAL ROOTS, AND CONTINGENCY FACTORS

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Open Governments
E-government
National Culture
Conceptualization
Intellectual Roots
Contingencies

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Committee Members:

L. Marvin Overby, Program Head/Chair
Bing Ran, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michele Tantardini, Major Field Member
Glenn McGuigan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dan Mallinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Schwab, David

Title:

Engineering Applications of Perturbation Theory Applied to the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

three-body problem
cislunar space situational awareness
Hamiltonian mechanics
perturbation methods
action-angle coordinates
cislunar orbit determination
optimal cislunar transfer
cislunar station-keeping

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Cusumano, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jill Bruer, Special Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Robert Melton, Major & Minor Field Member

Author:

Acevedo, Tarik

Title:

Post-Reclamation Management of Mined Land Soils and their Impacts on Microbial Activity

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

Mined Land Restoration
Microbial Activity
MicroResp
Tea Bag Index
Restoration Ecology

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Committee Members:

Sharifa Crandall, Outside Unit Member
Charlie White, Outside Field Member
Patrick Drohan, Major Field Member
Mary Ann Bruns, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Corbett, Thomas

Title:

Exploration of Internal Cooling Schemes Enabled Through Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Heat Transfer
Fluid Dynamics
Internal Cooling
Gas Turbines

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karen Thole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Xuelin

Title:

Artificial Receptor Display for Cell Surface Engineering

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cell surface engineering
Cell recognition
polyvalency
Aptamer

File:

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Committee Members:

Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Yuguo Lei, Major Field Member
Yong Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Girish Kirimanjeswara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Justin Pritchard, Major Field Member

Author:

Pfaff, Sarah

Title:

Unraveling Plant Cell Wall Assembly: From Cellulose Synthesis and Xylan Patterning to Lignification

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

plant cell wall
cellulose
xylan
lignin
microscopy
cryoEM
X-ray scattering
NMR
CBM
cellulose synthase
xylem vessels
primary cell wall
secondary cell wall
cryoET
microtubules
actin
golgi
protoplasts
FIB milling
tomography

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Ying Gu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Cosgrove, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gabriele Monshausen, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
B Nixon, Major Field Member

Author:

Bentley, Christopher

Title:

Deployable and Reconfigurable Structures with Multiphysics Integrations

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deployable Structures
Reconfigurable Structures
Deployment Routines
Origami-inspired Structures
Origami-inspired Acoustic Arrays
Self-Adaptive Reconfigurable Structures

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Michael Roan, Major Field Member
Amanda Hanford, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jared Butler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Frecker, Major Field Member

Author:

King, Carli

Title:

Investigating the Role of TCF7L1 in Colorectal Cancer

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

colorectal cancer
TCF7L1

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Committee Members:

Gregory Yochum, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhonghua Gao, Major Field Member
Kristin Eckert, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Vladimir Spiegelman, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Garborg, Christopher

Title:

Understanding the nature and drivers of brain motion in a behaving mouse model

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Brain Motion
Two-photon Microscopy
Intra-abdominal Pressure
Cerebrospinal Fluid

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Committee Members:

Patrick Drew, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Spencer Szczesny, Major Field Member
Jean-Michel Mongeau, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Major Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member
Yuguo Lei, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Doty, Christopher

Title:

Crisis Media - Discovering Social Media's Role in the Emergency Management Process

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Social Media
Data Mining
Interviews
Emergency Management
Crisis
Disaster

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
Timothy E. Kohler, Special Member
Stephanie Madden, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrea Tapia, Major Field Member
Nick Giacobe, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

De Jeronimo Diaz, Cesar

Title:

The Cardiac Inflammatory Response in Sterile and Viral Inflammation

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology (PHD)

Keywords:

Left Ventricle
Hypertension
Flow Cytometry
NLRP3
SARS-CoV-2
Inflammation
Inflammasome
Salt Sensitivity
Macrophage

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Committee Members:

Vishal Singh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Connie Rogers, Major Field Member
Matam Kumar, Special Member
Donna Korzick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kumble Prabhu, Major Field Member
Gregory Shearer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Yudi

Title:

Towards Secure and Performant Cyber-Physical Systems: Estimation, Optimization, and Control

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cyber-physical systems
Smart Grid
Attack recovery
System resilience
Overlay routing
Cross-path attack
PMU placement

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Thomas La Porta, Major Field Member
Ting He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Major Field Member

Author:

Shih, Justin

Title:

Precise Genome Editing in Oryza Sativa and Magnaporthe Oryzae

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology (PHD)

Keywords:

genome editing
CRISPR
plant genetics
crop improvement
rice
HDR
base editing
prime editing
rice blast

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Committee Members:

Cristina Rosa, Major Field Member
Timothy Mcnellis, Major Field Member
Claude Depamphilis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yinong Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mainzer, Emily

Title:

Preservice Elementary Teachers' Engagement with Open Mathematics Tasks

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

open mathematics tasks
preservice teacher education
instructional practice
elementary mathematics methods courses
engagement

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Committee Members:

Kimberly Powell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Gwen Lloyd, Major Field Member
Andrea Mccloskey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew Baxter, Outside Field Member
Matthew McCrudden, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Wang, Rui

Title:

Coupled processes in wellbore stimulation

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Wellbore stimulation
Coupled processes
Flowback rate
Pump-in/flowback test
Fracture closure
Sandstone acidizing
Post-flush period
Breakdown pressure
High-porosity channels

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Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Corina Drapaca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory King, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hyde, Andrew

Title:

Chemical energy sources for Enceladus and early Earth

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

prebiotic chemistry
Enceladus
thioamide
thioformamide

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Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Christopher House, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kate Freeman, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Outside Unit Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Outside Field Member

Author:

Albawardi, Abdulaziz

Title:

EXPLORING LEARNERS’ MOTIVATION IN NEIGHBORHOOD LEARNING PROGRAMS IN RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: A MIXED METHODS STUDY

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Adult learner
literacy
motivating factors
participation
persistence
success

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Committee Members:

Esther Prins, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ty Hollett, Outside Field Member
Clemente Abrokwaa, Outside Unit Member
Jose Cossa, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Behoora, Ishan

Title:

Line of sight sensors: Applications and related 1.5D terrain guarding problem variants

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

machine learning
algorithms
computational geometry
approximation
hardness
line of sight sensors

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Martin Fürer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Antonio Blanca, Major Field Member
Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit & Field Member
Piotr Berman, Special Member

Author:

Katen, Jeffrey

Title:

Explicit Algorithms for Drinfeld Modules

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

Drinfeld Modules
Algebraic number theory
Algorithms

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Committee Members:

Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, Program Head/Chair
Mihran Papikian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kirsten Eisentraeger, Major Field Member
Wen-Ching Li, Major Field Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Linscott, Maryknoll

Title:

Evolution in mammary cancer: Using Mouse models to investigate the selective pressures driving the progression of distinct mutant clones

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

cancer evolution
breast cancer
premalignancy
oncogenic signaling level
PIK3CA
Ras
Myc

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Committee Members:

Edward Gunther, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vonn Walter, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Yongsoo Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Katherine Aird, Special Member

Author:

Jayachandran, Darsith

Title:

Optoelectronic Applications using Two-Dimensional (2D) Semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
Optoelectronics
semiconductors
sensors

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Larry Cheng, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zelinsky, Ellen

Title:

Functions of Polygalacturonases in Cell Separation and Expansion During Arabidopsis Growth and Development

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Arabidopsis thaliana
Pectin
Polygalacturonase
Cell wall

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Committee Members:

Hong Ma, Major Field Member
Daniel Cosgrove, Major Field Member
Charles Anderson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jean-Paul Armache, Outside Unit & Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

James, Nigel

Title:

Essays on Social Protection and Health Insurance

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

non-contributory pension
mental health
depression
geriatric
regression discontinuity
difference-in-differences
social pension schemes
health insurance
ANC
quality of care
spatial analysis
UHC
subsidy
diarrhea
fever
acute respiratory infection
child health
health insurance

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Chris Hollenbeak, Program Head/Chair
Jeannette Rogowski, Major Field Member
Stephen Matthews, Outside Field Member
Yubraj Acharya, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Thiede, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Zhuang, Jingyuan

Title:

Promoting second language development of English modality through online concept-based language instruction: A mixed methods study

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics (PHD)

Keywords:

concept-based language instruction
English modality
mixed-methods research

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Committee Members:

Ning Yu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Schrauf, Major Field Member
Kevin McManus, Major Field Member
Celeste Kinginger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Celeste Kinginger, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hadjiandreou, Eliana

Title:

The stringent moral circle: Self-other discrepancies in the perceived expansion of moral concern

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

morality
prosocial behavior
perceptions
self-other differences
cynicism

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Committee Members:

Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Rachel Smith, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Charlie Crimston, Special Member
Sean Laurent, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Wanchen

Title:

Small x Resummation in Perturbative QCD

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Inelastic Scattering or Small-x Physics
Resummation
Small-x physics
Deep Inelastic Scattering
Perturbative QCD

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Committee Members:

Kohta Murase, Major Field Member
Mark Strikman, Major Field Member
Anna Stasto, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Brannick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kronman, Fae

Title:

A Developmental Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework for Cell Census Atlasing

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience (PHD)

Keywords:

reference atlas
common coordinate framework
CCF
brain development
anatomical segmentation
GABA neurons
multimodal registration
brain mapping
developmental atlas
mouse brain
neurodevelopment
digital atlas
image registration

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Committee Members:

Alistair Barber, Program Head/Chair
Xuemei Huang, Major Field Member
Anirban Paul, Major Field Member
Yongsoo Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Richtsmeier, Outside Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Koons, Caroline

Title:

Sounding Out the Nation: The Rhetoric of American Music and National Identity

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

rhetoric
american history
music
sound
national identity

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Committee Members:

Michele Kennerly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kirt Wilson, Major Field Member
Debbie Hawhee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Bouhaddane, Pierre Yanis

Title:

Examinations of BWR-corroded Zircaloy-2 water rods with XANES and XRD to investigate the role of nickel in enhancing hydrogen pickup at high burnup

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Zircaloy-2
hydrogen pickup
XANES
nickel
X-ray diffraction
XRD
zirconium oxide
in-reactor corrosion
high burnup
water rods
oxidation state
Zry-2
zirconium alloys
oxidation
corrosion

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Committee Members:

Jon Schwantes, Program Head/Chair
Xing Wang, Major Field Member
Arthur Motta, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hojong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member

Author:

Jing, Hang

Title:

Harnessing the Power of Quantum Computing for Renewable Energy Systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Quantum computing
Renewable energy systems

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Chunhao Wang, Outside Field Member
Yan Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Cullina, Major Field Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Liu, Zhihan

Title:

Novel machine learning methods for interpreting human genetic variants

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

machine learning
copy number variation
de novo mutation
pathogenicity prediction
penetrance estimation

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Committee Members:

Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
Qunhua Li, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Mingfu Shao, Outside Field Member
Dajiang Liu, Outside Unit Member
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor