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Author:

Ochoa Lleras, Nicolas

Title:

Control Systems and Human Factors for the Prevention of Tractor Overturn

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Control systems
Tractor
Rollover
ADAS
Human Factors
Simulated environments

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Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer, III, Committee Member
Dennis Murphy, Committee Member
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ren, Jerry

Title:

MOUSE BREAST CANCER MODELING: CELL CYCLE ARREST, RADIATION MUTAGENESIS, AND TRANSPOSON-BASED CANCER GENE DISCOVERY

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Transposon
Mutagenesis
Breast Cancer
c-Myc
Radiation Mutagensis
CDK4/6 inhibitor
Ras
Mammary gland development
Cell cycle inhibition
PI3K
AKT
Oncogene
Oncogene Cooperation
Mutagenesis Screen

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Edward Joseph Gunther, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David James Degraff, Committee Member
George Lucian Moldovan, Committee Member
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Outside Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, 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:

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:

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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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

Author:

Pham, Viet

Title:

An Analysis and Framework for Multi-label Image Classification of Insect Taxonomy with Convolutional Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

multi-label image classification
image classification
computer vision
machine learning
insect taxonomy
convolutional neural networks

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Gertel, Victoria Haley

Title:

Prediction is Production? Exploring the Relationship Between Language Prediction and Production in Younger and Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

language prediction
language production
cognitive aging
language processing
self-paced reading

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Committee Members:

Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Diaz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Outside Field Member

Author:

Chang, Yi Ting

Title:

Independence's Others: Decolonial Taiwan in the Transpacific

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Independence
Taiwan
Transpacific
decolonial
island
Asian America

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Committee Members:

Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member
Shuang Shen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mariana Ortega, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hester Blum, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Tina Goudie, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kim, Kyungin

Title:

The experiences of Korean TVET teachers in Professional Learning Communities: A phenomenological study

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

Professional Learning Community
Technical and Vocational Education and Training
TVET Teachers
Phenomenology

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Committee Members:

Mark Threeton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Ewing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cynthia Pellock, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Joey Fleck, Major Field Member

Author:

Jose, Nikesh

Title:

Ultrasonic Structural Health Monitoring of a metal target position in the transducer near field

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound testing
Structural health monitoring
Piezo electric transducer
Immersion testing
Near Field

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Committee Members:

Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacques Riviere, Committee Member
Christopher Kube, Committee Member

Author:

Ferland, Troy

Title:

Fire, Climate, and Vegetation in Pleistocene East Africa: Insights from Bulk Organic and Compound Specific Indicators at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

organic geochemistry
PAHs
East Africa
paleoclimate
Olduvai Gorge

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Committee Members:

Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Hajek, Major Field Member
Kate Freeman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Foley, Kasey

Title:

Understanding Reception of Advice About Antibiotics by Emerging Adults in Primary Care Settings

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

interpersonal communication
advice
provider-patient communication
clinician-patient communication
antibiotic resistance
antibiotic stewardship
primary care

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Yau, Eric

Title:

Role of Surfactant Protein A and its Receptor SP-R210 in Influenza Responses in Macrophages

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Surfactant Protein
SP-A
Macrophages
Alveolar Macrophages
Influenza
IAV
Trafficking
Pulmonary Immunity
Pulmonary Inflammation
Surfactant Protein
SP-A
Alveolar Macrophage
Macrophage
AM
Influenza
Influenza A
IAV
Pulmonary Immunity
Pulmonary Inflammation
Trafficking
Virus Trafficking
IAV Trafficking
IAV Endocytosis
Surfactant Protein A

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Committee Members:

Jong Yun, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nicholas Buchkovich, Major Field Member
John Wills, Major Field Member
Zissis Chroneos, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eck, Andrew

Title:

Evaluating Dust Suppressant Efficacy and Roadbed Stability of Dirt and Gravel Roads

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

dirt and gravel roads
dust suppression
OGPW
oil and gas produced water
dust
oil and gas wastewater
road spreading
dust palliative
road dust

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Nathaniel Warner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William D Burgos, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Srinivasan, Arun

Title:

Topics on High-Dimensional Statistical Methods for Compositional Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

compositional data analysis
robust statistics
human microbiome
high-dimensional statistics
covariance estimation
knockoff filter
variable selection
tyler's m-estimator
huber's m-estimator

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Zhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Major Field Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Gentile, Kayla

Title:

Transport and Assembly in Active Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

micropumps
fluid motion
catalysis
enzymes
protein aggregation

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Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
James Adair, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Pheeters, Devyn

Title:

Soil Health Indicators as Tools to Understand The Effects of Disturbance

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

disturbance
occasional tillage
perennials
chisel-disk
moldboard plow
soil health

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Committee Members:

Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Mary Ann Victoria Bruns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Francisco Dini Andreote, Committee Member
Curtis James Dell, Committee Member

Author:

Matamoros, Cesar Ivan

Title:

Effect of Acetate Supplementation on Milk Fat Production and Mammary Lipogenesis

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology (PHD)

Keywords:

de novo
fatty acids
sodium acetate
de novo
fatty acids
sodium acetate

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Andrew Patterson, Outside Unit Member
Gregory Shearer, Major Field Member
Arlyn Heinrichs, Outside Field Member
Kevin Harvatine, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donna Korzick, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Miller, William

Title:

The Role Of Regulated In Development and DNA Damage Response 1 (REDD1) in Diabetes-Induced Retinal Pathology and Visual Dysfunction

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

antioxidants
diabetes
oxidative stress
retina
vision
glycogen glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3)
hyperglycemia
nuclear factor 2 (erythroid-derived 2-like factor) (NFE2L2) (Nrf2)
oxidative stress; post-translational modification (PTM)
reactive oxygen species (ROS)
retinopathy
chaperone mediated autophagy (CMA)

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Alistair Barber, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Sundstrom, Major Field Member
Scot Kimball, Major Field Member
David Waning, Major Field Member
Michael Dennis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Williamson, Jason

Title:

WORKPLACE LONELINESS: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL IDENTITY DISSIMILARITY, IDENTITY STRENGTH, AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Workplace Loneliness
Political Ideology
w

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Committee Members:

Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Daniel DellaPosta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Major Field Member
Susan Simkins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Weier, Jacklyn

Title:

The Political Economies of U.S. Communes

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

intentional communities
diverse economies
commons
governance
property
geography

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Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Major Field Member
Lorraine Dowler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathleen Sexsmith, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karl Zimmerer, Major Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dou, Nan

Title:

FOOD INSECURITY AND MENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

food insecurity
Hispanic minorities
depression
stress
social support
longitudinal study
Food insecurity
Mental health
Heart rate variability
Vulnerable populations

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Laura Murray-Kolb, Major Field Member
Xiang Gao, Major Field Member
Muzi Na, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Gregory Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yoga, Hanif

Title:

Machine Learning Approach for Prediction of Relative Permeability

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

machine learning
artificial intelligence
artificial neural network
relative permeability
hysteresis
equation of state
multiphase flow in porous media

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Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Russell Taylor Johns, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Yashar Mehmani, Committee Member

Author:

Zang, Brian Frederick

Title:

Early Mormon Communities of Practice and Cosmic Curriculum, 1820-1844

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Early Mormonism
communities of practice
curriculum
theology
cosmology

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Charles Kupfer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Tolbert, Major Field Member
John Haddad, Major Field Member
Hannah Spector, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Rogers Haddad, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kareem, Zainab

Title:

The Pathophysiology of OGF- OGFr axis in Type-2 Diabetic Mice Model of Stroke

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (MS)

Keywords:

OGF
OGFr
Ischemic stroke
T2D

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Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
Rashmi Kumari, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ian Alexander Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Jiansong

Title:

Reconsidering the czcD (NiCo) riboswitch as iron (II) riboswitch

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Irving-William series
metalloregulation
RNA
iron
metal selectivity
riboswitch
metal sensor
czcD riboswitch
NiCo riboswitch
metal overload

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Xin Zhang, Major Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Emily Weinert, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Freeman, Stephanie

Title:

The Efficacy of Persuasive Communication Strategies for Reducing Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Parks and Protected Areas

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management (PHD)

Keywords:

human-wildlife conflict
food storage
bear canister
Appalachian Trail
proximity
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
persuasive communication

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Brendan Taff, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Newman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Benfield, Major Field Member
Melissa Kreye, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brendan Derrick Taff, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kong, Hyoungee

Title:

Fleshly Japonisme: The Taste for Japan and Women's Bodies in France, 1871–1914

Graduate Program:

Art History (PHD)

Keywords:

France
visual culture
japonisme
Japanism
queer theory
gender
sexuality
advertisement
perfume
kimono
fashion
Yokohama photography
photography
nineteenth century
The Handmaiden
Chan-wook Park
periodical

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Nancy Locke, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Reed, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Rich, Major Field Member
Chang Tan, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Mansfield, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gao, Yuyan

Title:

Application of nanomaterials for wearable electronics

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Wearable electronics
Photonic sintering
bioelectronics

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Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Major Field Member
Larry Cheng, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Cunjiang Yu, Major Field Member
Reginald Hamilton, Major Field Member

Author:

Song, Eun Hyeon

Title:

The role of Notch signaling in development and function of skin innate lymphocytes

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Notch singlaing
Thymus
Innate lymphoid cells
Skin inflammation
γδT cells

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Na Xiong, Special Member
Melissa Rolls, Outside Unit & Field Member
Margherita Cantorna, Major Field Member
Kumble Prabhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
Anthony Schmitt, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Xinyuan

Title:

Diet and nutrition in the progression of Parkinson disease

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Diet quality
Nutrition
Metabolomics
Parkinson disease
Epidemiology

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Gregory C Shearer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Penny Kris-Etherton, Major Field Member
Xiang Gao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Laila Al-Shaar, Outside Unit & Field Member
A Ross, Major Field Member
Alberto Ascherio, Special Member

Author:

Sharp, Logan

Title:

Low-Temperature Electron Wind Force Annealing through Electropulsing Treatment

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

annealing
electropulsing
EPT
electron wind
electron wind force
EWF
titanium carbide
Ti3C2Tx
MXene
film
NiTi
nitinol
shape memory alloy
SMA
electrical resistivity
thermal microscopy
scanning electron microscopy
SEM
low temperature
Raman spectroscopy

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Daniel Connell Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Md Amanul Haque, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Ding, Yimin

Title:

Three-dimensional Light Field Control With Metasurface Holograms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hologram
Optical Metasurfaces
Integrated Photonics

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Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Veenis, Andrew

Title:

Towards a Better Understanding of the Influence of Noncovalent Interactions on RNA Catalysis and the Properties of RNA Moieties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA
Ribozyme
pKa
Cheminformatics
Bioinformatics
Molecular Dynamics

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Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Song Tan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Isbell, Sarah Abigail

Title:

Ecological management for enhancing nitrogen ecosystem services on agriculture land through crop, soil, and microbiome interactions

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

Ecological intensification
Agroecology
Nitrogen Management
Soil Ecology
Cover crops
Interseeding
Reduced-tillage
Corn
Nitrogen
Soil microbes
Cover crop mixtures
Soil Microbiome
Organic Agriculture
Next-generation sequencing

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Terrence Bell, Major Field Member
Charlie White, Outside Unit Member
Gregory Roth, Outside Field Member
Jason Kaye, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dillon, Gabrielle

Title:

Microvascular Function in those with Traditional and Non-traditional Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (PHD)

Keywords:

Cardiovascular Disease
Microvascular Function
Nitric Oxide

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Lacy Alexander, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Kenney, Major Field Member
Sara Ferguson, Major Field Member
Urs Leuenberger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jody Greaney, Special Member
Jonathan Bates Dingwell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Glogovsky, Peter

Title:

A Landscape of "Incalculable Advantage": How the Occupation of Lime Burning was an Integral Agent of Change in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

American Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

lime
kiln
ledgers
quarry
agriculture
landscape
business
occupation

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Charles Kupfer, Major Field Member
Anne Verplanck, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Buccitelli, Major Field Member
Joseph Cecere, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Rogers Haddad, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brown, Kayla

Title:

Parent-Child Coregulation in Early Childhood: Novel Methodological Approaches and Influences of Individual Differences

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

temperament
coregulation
self-regulation
externalizing

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Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Erika Lunkenheimer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martha Wadsworth, Major Field Member
Nilam Ram, Special Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Sunny Bai, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Sengeh, Joseph

Title:

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF CARBON PRECURSORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN CARBON FIBER, CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITES, AND GAS SORPTION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Carbon Fibers
Carbon-Carbon Composites
Methane Storage
Carbon Precursors
Polymer Precursors
Oxidative Stability
Carbon Yield
Volumetric and Gravimetric Capacity

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Ralph Colby, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Major Field Member
Semih Eser, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tze-Chiang Chung, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Duane, Tyler

Title:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves For Human Health Monitoring: Simulation-Based Analysis Of The Fifth Metatarsal

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Ultrasound
Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Guided Waves
Human Health Monitoring
Fifth Metatarsal

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Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Parisa Shokouhi, Committee Member
Elzbieta Sikora, Committee Member

Author:

Tubbeh Sierralta, Ramzi Michel

Title:

Hydraulic infrastructure development, irrigation governance, and climate change adaptation in the engineered Colca-Siguas watershed, Peru

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Water governance
Political ecology
Environmental justice
Sociotechnical assemblages
Hydraulic mission
Actor-network theory
State construction
State as effect
Polycentric governance
Latin America
Customary water governance
Glacial retreat
Water rights formalization
Majes-Siguas Special Project
Proyecto Especial Majes-Siguas
Social-ecological systems

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Larry Gorenflo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karl Zimmerer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Helen Greatrex, Major Field Member
Trevor Birkenholtz, Major Field Member
Kimberley Anh Thomas, Special Member

Author:

Drivas, Magdalayna

Title:

Make me pretty: The role of customization in the effects of attractive avatar use on self-image

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

video games
avatars
Proteus effect
social comparison theory
customization
body image

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Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Glew, Liana

Title:

Ravings: Reading, Writing, and Psychiatry in the American Asylum

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

American Literature
Disability Studies
History of Psychiatry
Madness
Disability
Literature
Asylums
Institutions
Patient Narratives
Medical Humanities
Archives
Paperwork
Patient Art

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Ebony Coletu, Major Field Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janet Lyon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Bérubé, Major Field Member
Hester Blum, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Trautman, Elizabeth

Title:

Elastic Wave Propagation through Polycrystalline Ice With and Without Embedded Spherical Particle Inclusions

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (MS)

Keywords:

Cryoultrasound
Analytical Attenuation

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Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Andrea P. Arguelles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Kube, Committee Member
Christian Peco, Committee Member

Author:

Patil, Chintan S

Title:

The Supply Chain Cash-Flow Bullwhip Effect

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Working Capital
Bullwhip Effect
Supply Chain

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Suvrat Dhanorkar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hui Yang, Major Field Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member

Author:

Challapalle, Nagadastagiri Reddy

Title:

DESIGN OF PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY ARCHITECTURES FOR DEEP LEARNING AND GRAPH APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hardware Accelerator
Deep Learning Architecture
Deep Learning Hardware
Processing in Memory
Memory Augmented Neural Networks
Graph Convolution Neural Networks

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

Author:

Zhao, Shulin

Title:

Optimizing Energy and Performance for Next-Generation Extended Reality Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Extended Reality
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Energy-effiency
Performance

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Chitaranjan Das, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bui, Pho

Title:

Nonadditive Effects of Cosolvent Mixtures on Protein Stability in Aqueous Solutions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

nonadditivity
ion specific effects
ion-pairing
cosolvent
protein stability
complex solutions
vibrational spectroscopy

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Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Noid, Major Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Gomez Campo, Kelly

Title:

Physiological ecology and functional genomics of symbiotic corals: The effect of light exposure

Graduate Program:

Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

Symbiotic corals
Photoacclimation
Light-stress
Coral bleaching
Heat-stress
Phenotypic plasticity
DNA methylation
Gene expression
Biological networks

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Sally Mackenzie, Major Field Member
James Marden, Major Field Member
David Hughes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Iliana Baums, Chair of Committee
Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Iams, Andrew

Title:

Microstructural Evolution in Additively Manufactured Duplex Stainless Steel Alloys

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
duplex stainless steel
microstructure
mechanical properties

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Tarasankar Debroy, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lucille Giannuzzi, Special Member
Robert Voigt, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cohen, Olivia

Title:

Disentangling News Story Effects on Public Opinion

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

news framing
public opinion
health communication
opioid use disorder

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Michael Schmierbach, Major Field Member
Fuyuan Shen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Oliver, Major Field Member
Jessica Myrick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zeng, Yi Xuan

Title:

hydraulics and performance evaluations of fish passages based on computational fluid dynamics and individual-based methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

fish passage design
fish behavior
individual-based model (IBM)
biased random walk model.
rock weirs
realistic rock weir modeling
numerical modeling

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Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margaret Byron, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peggy Johnson, Major Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smith, Kiara

Title:

Food Insecurity As A Longitudinal Predictor Of Diet, Sleep, Mental Health And College Academics

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences (MS)

Keywords:

food insecurity
nutrition
diet quality
mental health
sleep
academic performance
college student

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A Ross, Program Head/Chair
Muzi Na, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alison D Gernand, Committee Member
Jennifer Savage-Williams, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Haiyue

Title:

Consumer Response to Marketplace Practices: A Moral Perspective

Graduate Program:

Business Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

marketplace morality
moral transgression
company waste
profitability
cross-cultural consumer behavior

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Karen Winterich, Major Field Member
Anna Mattila, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hans Baumgartner, Major Field Member
Lisa Bolton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roggenbaum, Morgan

Title:

Engineering transcriptional logic within bacteria using complex, modular CRISPRi circuit arrays

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

synthetic biology
genetic circuits
CRISPRi
transcriptional read-through

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Jeffrey Catchmark, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Howard M Salis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin R Pritchard, Committee Member
Esther Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Fegley, Jessica

Title:

Improving Non-Point Source Pollutant Capture: Exploring the Potential of Off-line and On-line Green Stormwater Infrastructure Designs

Graduate Program:

Landscape Architecture (MS)

Keywords:

green stormwater infrastructure
stormwater
water quality
off-line
flow bypass
non-point source pollution
bioretention

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Stuart Patton Echols, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margaret Crowley Hoffman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew B Royer, Committee Member
Roxi Thoren, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kahiu, Maureen

Title:

Variation in Clarireedia spp. inhibition and turfgrass phytotoxicity among demethylation inhibitor fungicides

Graduate Program:

Agronomy (MS)

Keywords:

Demethylation inhibitor fungicides
phytotoxicity
DMIs
dollar spot

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Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
John Edward Kaminski, III, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Landschoot, Committee Member
Wakar Uddin, Committee Member

Author:

Soules, Michael

Title:

Persuasion, Coercion, and Force: How Rebel Groups Recruit

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Political Science
Civil Wars
Terrorism
Rebel Groups
Rebel Recruitment

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Douglas Lemke, Major Field Member
James Piazza, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bumba Mukherjee, Major Field Member
James Dillard, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Nelson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Morehouse, Jessica

Title:

Diet-Induced Modulation of Brainstem Perineuronal Net Development

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (MS)

Keywords:

Perinatal high fat diet (PNHFD)
Dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV)
Obesity
Brainstem
Neuroplasticity

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Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
Kirsteen Browning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anirban Paul, Committee Member

Author:

Hall, Nicole

Title:

Discovering Photocatalytic Materials From First Principles

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Density-functional theory
Photocatalyst
DFT+U

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John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Raymond Schaak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wesley Reinhart, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Yan, Tianyu

Title:

Shape control and shape transformations of metal nanocrystals: insights from molecular dynamics simulations

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

shape control
metal nanocrystal growth
molecular dynamics simulation
solution-phase synthesis

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Xueyi Zhang, Major Field Member
Kristen Fichthorn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Milner, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Nalubwama Kaweesa, Dorcas Vivian

Title:

Predicting and Validating Composite Mechanical Behavior Resulting from Voxel-based Microstructural Design and Macroscopic Interfacial Analysis

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Multi-material Additive Manufacturing
PolyJet process
Material design
Composites
Composite laminates
Functionally Graded Materials
Voxel-based design
voxels
Mechanical properties

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Nicholas Meisel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Huxman, Connor

Title:

Towards the Integration of Compliant Mechanisms in Orthopedic Implant Design

Graduate Program:

Engineering Design (MS)

Keywords:

orthopedic implants
compliant mechanisms
implant design
medical devices
flexure modeling
arthroplasty

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Timothy Simpson, Program Head/Chair
Jared Butler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member

Author:

Tang, Qicheng

Title:

lithologic control on ecohydrology of oak-maple forests

Graduate Program:

Soil Science (PHD)

Keywords:

preferential flow
stable isotope
catchment hydrology
tree water use

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David Eissenstat, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Buda, Major Field Member
Jonathan Duncan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Armen Kemanian, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Usher, Emery

Title:

Examination of the many regulatory roles of intrinsically disordered proteins

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

intrinsically disordered proteins
nuclear magnetic resonance
NMR
thermodynamics
biochemistry
biophysics
transcription
regulation
phosphorylation
proteins

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David Gilmour, Major Field Member
Scott Showalter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Song Tan, Major Field Member
Scott Lindner, Outside Unit Member
Amie Boal, Outside Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pant, Divya

Title:

Management intensive grazing of cover crops for soil health and profitability

Graduate Program:

Agronomy (MS)

Keywords:

Management intensive grazing
soil health
cover crop
corn silage
wheat

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Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Sjoerd Willem Duiker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ray B. Bryant, Committee Member
Charles M. White, Committee Member

Author:

Patil, Padmavathi

Title:

Searching for President 'Right': Evaluating a Typology of Research University Leaders

Graduate Program:

Higher Education (PHD)

Keywords:

higher education
presidents
leadership
human capital theory
upper echelons theory
organizational theory
typology
institutional outcomes

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Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
John Cheslock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kelly Rosinger, Major Field Member
Donald Hambrick, Minor & Outside Field Member
Aparna Joshi, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Judd, Kenneth Duane

Title:

Investigating Specific Cation Interactions with Anionic Surfactant Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface Using Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

ion pairing
ion specific effects
monolayers
spectroscopy
nonlinear optics
vibrational spectroscopy
thermodynamics
surfactants

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Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Maroncelli, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pastor, Aaren

Title:

Writing Gender, Race, and Disability Through the Gurdjieffian Bodymind

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

literary modernism
gender studies
disability studies
Katherine Mansfield
Leonora Carrington
G.I. Gurdjieff
Jean Toomer
bodymind

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Matt Tierney, Major Field Member
Claire Colebrook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Eburne, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janet Lyon, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Shakerian, Shahrad

Title:

Digital Twin Enabled Facilities Maintenance Management through the Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Sensory-Level Data

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Facility maintenance
digital twins
machine learning
signal processing
failure prediction
early failure detection
anomaly detection

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Bill Sitzabee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Asok Ray, Outside Unit & Field Member
Somayeh Asadi, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Fornini, Robert

Title:

The Physiological and Functional Differences in Athletes Experiencing Concussion, Depression or a Combination of Both

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (MS)

Keywords:

Concussion
Depression
EEG
Virtual Reality
Asymmetry

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Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Semyon Slobounov, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member
Peter Andrew Arnett, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Xianda

Title:

Energy and Quality Aware Video Streaming on Mobile Devices

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Video Streaming
Mobile Device
Energy Efficiency
Quality of Experience (QoE)

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

Author:

Wang, Ernest Weider

Title:

Pathologic Substrates of Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Parkinsonisms

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

MRI
parkinsonisms
pathology
neuropathology
gene-environment
pesticides
paraquat
HFE
susceptibility MRI
DTI
substantia nigra
iron
Parkinson's disease
progressive supranuclear palsy
multiple system atrophy
corticobasal degeneration
dopamine
movement disorders
neurology
brain

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Xuemei Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guangwei Du, Major Field Member
Gary Perdew, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Connor, Major Field Member
Matthew Coates, Special Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Galindo Martinez, Claudia Tatiana

Title:

Efficiency trade-offs in scleractinian corals

Graduate Program:

Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

coral bleaching
coral bleaching recovery
Orbicella faveolata
endolithic algae
heat stress
Ostreobium spp.
positive optical feedback loop
animal chromoproteins
light environment in hospite

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James Marden, Chair of Committee
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
David Eissenstat, Outside Unit & Field Member
Monica Medina, Major Field Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Stebbins, Ryan

Title:

Investigation into Novel Runner Extension Designs for Sand Casting Utilizing 3D Sand-Printing

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Sand Casting
Hybrid Manufacturing
3D Sand Printing

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Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member

Author:

Lor, Jim

Title:

Spatiotemporal infection patterns and interpatch movement in Notopthalmus viridescens populations

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

Seasonality
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
temperature
host density
infection intensity
infection prevalence
Infectious disease
interpatch movement
Notophthalmus viridescens

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Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
David Andrew Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julian D Avery, Committee Member
David A Kennedy, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Gregory

Title:

IMAGING BIOMARKERS OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

Cognition
MRI
Parkinson's Disease
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
penalized regression

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Xuemei Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Corina Drapaca, Major Field Member
Bruce Gluckman, Major Field Member
James Broach, Outside Unit Member
Xiao Liu, Outside Field Member
Charles Duffy, Special Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hossain, Ayaan

Title:

Advanced algorithms for the design and analysis of synthetic genetic parts

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

automated
design
synthetic
genetic
parts
combinatorial
optimization
machine
learning
algorithm
promoter
mRNA
transcription
translation
decay
repression
CRISPR
repeats
interference
graph
theory
path
finding
nonrepetitive
repetitive
gene
synthesis
assembly
oligopool
discovery
barcodes
primers
counting
NGS
reads
classifier
classification
regressor
regression
random
forest
LASSO
ridge
homologous
recombination
instability
tuning
efficiency
plasmids
genome
engineering
degenerate
IUPAC
vertex
cover
independent
set
initiation

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Paul Babitzke, Outside Unit Member
Howard Salis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Costas Maranas, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Outside Field Member
George Perry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ademujimi, Toyosi

Title:

Training of Bayesian Network model using Fusion-Learning and Engineering Models for Improved Fault Diagnostics

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Smart Manufacturing
Bayesian Network
Machine Learning
Fault Diagnostics
Small Dataset
Digital Twin
Structure Learning
Parameter Learning

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Dennis Lin, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Vittaldas Prabhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Daniel Finke, Major Field Member

Author:

Chammas, Sari

Title:

states transportation agencies in tackling reflective cracking

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Reflective cracking
Cracks
SAMI
Interlayer
Asphalt pavement

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Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Rajarajan Subramanian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shashidhara S Marikunte, Committee Member
Seroj Mackertich-Sengerdy, Committee Member

Author:

Jenkins, August Ida

Title:

Linkages Between Black Americans’ Relationship Adjustment and Emotional Well-Being Over Time: The Role of Socio-Ecological Context and Gender

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

emotional well-being
romantic relationship
African Americans
neighborhood context
discrimination
multiple timescales
gender

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Steffany Fredman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Almeida, Major Field Member
Amy Marshall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alyssa Gamaldo, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Battisto, Evan

Title:

Use of TEMPO-Oxidized Cellulose Nanofibrils to Enhance the Mechanical Properties of 3D-Printed Biocomposites

Graduate Program:

Biorenewable Systems (MS)

Keywords:

cellulose
3D-printing
biocomposites

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Jeffrey Catchmark, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen C Chmely, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amir Sheikhi, Committee Member

Author:

Griffin, Jason

Title:

Evaluating Eye Gaze Perception Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Computational Modeling Approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

eye-tracking
eye gaze perception
hidden Markov model
Autism Intervention
Serious game intervention

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Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Diane Williams, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Janet Hsiao, Special Member

Author:

Hirl, Katharine

Title:

Robust and Efficient Anaerobic Digestion of Lignocellulose

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

anaerobic digestion
switchgrass
bioenergy
robustness

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Jay Regan, Co-Chair of Committee
Juliana Vasco-Correa, Major Field Member
Tom Richard, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Costas Maranas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Catchmark, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Chelis, Theodore

Title:

Forms of Shame: Gower, Chaucer, Hoccleve

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

shame
history of emotions
subjectivity
middle english literature
gower
chaucer
hoccleve

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Janet Wynne Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Scott Smith, Major Field Member
Robert Edwards, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Cheney, Major Field Member
Caroline Eckhardt, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Walters, Kayla

Title:

A Profile Approach to the CIP Model of Leadership

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

CIP
leadership
person centered
LPA

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Samuel Hunter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donald Hambrick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Simkins, Major Field Member
James LeBreton, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Burke, Vanessa

Title:

Negotiating the Middle: A Promotion-Prevention Explanation of Midlife Identity Negotiation and Leadership

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Midlife
leadership
generativity
disengagement
acceptance
successful aging
Aging workforce

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Committee Members:

Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Samuel Hunter, Major Field Member
Aparna Joshi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
David Almeida, Outside Field Member

Author:

Gao, Yawei

Title:

Atomistic-level Study of Additive Manufacturing Processes and of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Condensed-phase Behavior

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

ReaxFF
Additive Manufacturing
PVDF

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Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Richard Yetter, Major Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wang, Ziqiao

Title:

Electrical Transport and Tunneling Measurements on Two-Dimensional Electron System at SrTiO3 Interface

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Two-dimensional electron system
Oxide interface
Electrical transport measurement
Tunneling measurement
Shubnikov-de Haas oscillation
Spin-orbit coupling
Strongly correlated electrons

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Committee Members:

Eric Hudson, Major Field Member
Qi Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Major Field Member
Richard Robinett, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kemp, Kayla

Title:

The Origins of Segregation Academies in Mississippi: 1954 to 1976

Graduate Program:

Sociology (MA)

Keywords:

segregation academies
social movements
civil rights movement
private schools

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Committee Members:

David Baker, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David P Baker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maryellen Schaub, Committee Member
Charles Seguin, Committee Member