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Author:

Wu, Yuhao

Title:

TOPOLOGICAL EXPLOITATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC METASURFACE AND WEARABLE ANTENNA SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Metasurface
Topological Photonics
wearable antenna
PT-symmetry

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Sawyer Campbell, Major Field Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Genggeng

Title:

Authorial Stance in Research Articles: An intertextual perspective

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics (PHD)

Keywords:

citation
academic writing
research writing
English for Academic Purposes
stance
engineering writing

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Committee Members:

Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair
Susan Strauss, Major Field Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Unit & Field Member
Deryn Verity, Major Field Member
Xiaofei Lu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Benavides Bolanos, Jhony Armando

Title:

AN EXPLORATION OF REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING HYDROLOGICALLY SENSITIVE AND CRITICAL SOURCE AREAS IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES

Graduate Program:

Soil Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Hydrologically sensitive area
critical source area
concentrated flow pathways
remotely piloted aircraft system
drone
unmanned aerial vehicle
uncrewed aerial vehicle
unmanned aircraft system
photogrammetry
structrure from motion
remote sensing
soil phosphorus
fragipan
international agriculture and development
digital elevation model
water quality
eutrophication
soil moisture
google earth engine
RADAR
thermal infrared imagery
multispectral imagery
NDVI

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Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair
Heather Preisendanz, Outside Field Member
Dimitrios Bolkas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Jacobson, Major Field Member
Patrick Drohan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tyler Groh, Major Field Member
Mary Ann Bruns, Major Field Member

Author:

Zheng, Yi

Title:

Video Analytics with In-SSD Processing Approaches

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

In-Storage-Processing
SSD
Firmware
FTL
Wear-Leveling
ORAM
Non-Volatile Memory

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Huijuan Xu, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
John Messner, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Dollinger, Roberta

Title:

The role of Spt5-nucleic acid contacts in promoter proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA polymerase II
DSIF
NELF
transcription
promoter proximal pausing
RNA
DNA
NGN
NusG
KOW
elongation factors
Spt5

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Melissa Rolls, Major Field Member
David Gilmour, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Showalter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Song Tan, Major Field Member
Katsuhiko Murakami, Major Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bridges, D Angelo

Title:

Written in Black: Rhetoric, Prophecy, and Visions of Collective Freedom

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

African American rhetoric
collective freedom
Charles Chesnutt
Zora Neale Hurston
James Baldwin
Christian discourse
prophecy

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Committee Members:

Cynthia Young, Outside Unit Member
Shirley Moody, Major Field Member
Cheryl Glenn, Major Field Member
Kirt Wilson, Outside Field Member
Raymond Gilyard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Morrisson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Newmyer, Lauren

Title:

A Social Network Approach to Modern Fertility Trends

Graduate Program:

Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

Fertility
Social Networks
Contraception

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Committee Members:

Ashton Verdery, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Shenk, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Van Hook, Major Field Member
Diane Felmlee, Major Field Member
David P Baker, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Werner, Claire

Title:

Pathophysiology of the Colonic Enteric Nervous System in Male and Female Rats Following Spinal Cord Injury

Graduate Program:

Anatomy (PHD)

Keywords:

spinal cord injury
neurogenic bowel
prokinetic
sex differences

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Gregory Yochum, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andras Hajnal, Major Field Member
Gregory Holmes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Prashant Nighot, Major Field Member
Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
Patricia Mclaughlin, Major Field Member

Author:

Sheffield, Sarah

Title:

Using Single-Ion Conductors as Dielectrics in Organic Transistors

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Organic Semiconductor
Organic Single Crystals
Single-Ion Conductors
Polymer Dielectric
Organic Transistor
Polymer Thin Films
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Rubrene
Nafion
Ionomers

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Elacqua, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Larry Cheng, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Biggs, Heidi

Title:

Mapping new Terrains in Sustainable HCI: Land/Body Doubling and Justice-Oriented Critical Posthuman Subjectivities

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Human Computer Interaction
Interaction Design
Design Research
Sustainable Human Computer Interaction
Climate Change
Anthropocene Era
Wetlands
Design Fiction
Climate Justice

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel Susser, Major Field Member
Audrey Desjardins, Special Member
Eduardo Navas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shaowen Bardzell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member

Author:

Simsek, Caner

Title:

And I Took That Personally: Explaining The Differing Routes to Personalist Dictatorships

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

authoritarian regimes
personalist regimes
security personalization
purges

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Committee Members:

Lee Banaszak, Program Head/Chair
Vineeta Yadav, Major Field Member
Joseph Wright, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bruce Desmarais, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Liu, Shuo Shuo

Title:

Statistical Learning on High-Dimensional Multi-Source Data

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Transfer Learning
Multi-View Clustering
High-Dimensional Data
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhu, Major Field Member
Lan Kong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Reimherr, Major Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Xiao, Xue

Title:

Essays on Commercial Real Estate

Graduate Program:

Business Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Commercial Real Estate
Climate Risk
Mortgage
Lease
Space Market

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Committee Members:

Liang Peng, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Brent, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jiro Yoshida, Major Field Member
Brent Ambrose, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Navare, Sawali

Title:

Investigation of the impact of roasting conditions on in vitro phospholipase A2 enzyme inhibitory activity and content and profile of procyanidins in cocoa beans

Graduate Program:

Food Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Cocoa
Proanthocyanidins
Superheated steam
LCMS
Vacuum roasting
cocoa roasting
Phospholipase A2

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Committee Members:

Ryan Elias, Major Field Member
Ramaswamy Anantheswaran, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ali Demirci, Outside Unit & Field Member
Helene Hopfer, Major Field Member
Joshua Lambert, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stewart, Bryn

Title:

From above and below: controls of external climate drivers and internal subsurface structure on catchment hydro-biogeochemistry

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

water quality
catchment
hydrology
biogeochemistry
reactive transport modeling
climate change
solute export
dissolved organic carbon
dissolved inorganic carbon

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Boyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Li Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Major Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Chang

Title:

A Fluorescence-Based Investigation into the Mechanisms of Biomimetic-Membrane Component Translocation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

chemotaxis
lipid flip-flop
membrane component translocation
microfluidics
lipid bilayer

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Geathers, Jasmine

Title:

Development of a Rapid and Clinically Relevant Model of AMD

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Hyperreflective Foci
AMD
R345W fibulin-3
Sodium Iodate
Retinal Degeneration

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Committee Members:

Salvatore Stella, Major Field Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair
John Hulleman, Special Member
Vladimir Spiegelman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Sundstrom, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Connor, Dissertation Co-Advisor

Author:

Somers, Alex

Title:

Modeling and Simulation of Plasma Facing Component Wall Effects Using the Particle-Mesh, Material-Interaction Particle-In-Cell Code Package (PEMMICAN)

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Computational Plasma Physics
Modeling and Simulation
PIC
Plasma-Material Interaction
Plasma Vapor Shielding
Particle-In-Cell

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Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William Walters, Major Field Member
Leigh Winfrey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elia Merzari, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
George Larsen, Special Member
Holly Flynn, Special Member

Author:

Ma, Zheng

Title:

Understanding and Modeling of Drivers’ Decision-Making and Driving Performance under Driver-Automated Vehicle Interaction in Mixed Traffic

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Autonomous driving
Driver behavior
Human-automation interaction
Aggressive and risky driving

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Steven Landry, Major Field Member
Ling Rothrock, Major Field Member
Yiqi Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sean Brennan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Xue, Joanne

Title:

True or Performative CRM Initiative: A Matter of Perception in Search of CRM Authenticity

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management (PHD)

Keywords:

cause-related marketing
celebrity endorsement
hospitality management

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Committee Members:

Donna Quadri-Felitti, Program Head/Chair
Heyao Yu, Major Field Member
Anna Mattila, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hubert Van Hoof, Major Field Member
Lisa Bolton, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Broyles, Lauren

Title:

Hydroclimatic Risks for Household Water Insecurity and the Household Water-Food Nexus

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

household water insecurity
environmental seasonality
climate change
Bangladesh
extreme weather events

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Outside Field Member
Emily Pakhtigian, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Asher Rosinger, Outside Field Member
Rachel Brennan, Co-Chair of Committee
Alfonso Mejia, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Clare Hinrichs, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Derstine, Nathan

Title:

The role and evolution of reproductive signals in bees

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

chemical ecology
signal evolution
Dufour's gland

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Committee Members:

Stephen Schaeffer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Etya Amsalem, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tanya Renner, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Major Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Subbakrishna Adishesha, Amogh

Title:

Improving Usability of Noisy and Unstructured Biomedical Imaging and Healthcare Text Data Modalities

Graduate Program:

Informatics (PHD)

Keywords:

Data Usability
Noise Removal
CT imaging
Histotomography
Micro CT
Angular Upsampling
Healthcare Text data
Healthcare topic modeling
Language Models

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
Keith Cheng, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick La Riviere, Special Member

Author:

Han, Zhubing

Title:

Understanding the composition–structure–property relationships and enhancing the electromechanical responses in ferroelectric polymers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Ferroelectric polymers
Piezoelectric polymers
PVDF
Dielectrics

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Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Outside Field Member
Qing Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cifci, Muhammed

Title:

Large Language Models and the Political Economy of Globalization

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

political economy
economic globalization
political communication
text analysis

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Committee Members:

Michael Nelson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bumba Mukherjee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Burt Monroe, Major Field Member
Charles Seguin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bruce Desmarais, Major Field Member

Author:

Valverde, Nancy

Title:

PROTEGIENDO LA RAZA: PROTECTIVE FACTORS FOR LATINX EMERGING ADULTS WITH A HISTORY OF ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education (PHD)

Keywords:

ACEs
Latinx emerging adults
perceived stress
perceived social support
resiliency
depression
anxiety.

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Committee Members:

Julia Green Bryan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Elizabeth Prosek, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristen Nadermann, Major Field Member
Alexis Santos, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Hayes, Major Field Member

Author:

Kelliher, Julia

Title:

The Role of High-Density Lipoprotein Oxylipins in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Neuroinflammation

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology (PHD)

Keywords:

Oxylipin
oxylipins
HDL
high density lipoprotein
MCI
mild cognitive impairment
dementia
Alzheimer's
AD
Alzheimers
Lipids
PUFA
Oxidized lipids
Cognitive Impairment
Inflammation
Neuroinflammation
Systemic inflammation
Acute inflammatory challenge

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Committee Members:

Gregory Shearer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karolina Skibicka, Major Field Member
Donna Korzick, Program Head/Chair
Christopher Engeland, Outside Unit Member
Jennifer Graham-Engeland, Outside Field Member

Author:

Rokni, Eric

Title:

The color Doppler ultrasound twinkling artifact on pathological mineralizations

Graduate Program:

Acoustics (PHD)

Keywords:

Doppler ultrasound
twinkling artifact
pathological mineralizations
microbubbles
kidney stones

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Committee Members:

Scott Medina, Outside Unit & Field Member
Julianna Simon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrea Arguelles, Major Field Member
Richard Meyer, Major Field Member
Andrew Barnard, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gonzalez Santana, Judit

Title:

Remote Sensing Observations and Modeling of Volcano Flank Instability

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

InSAR
Time-series analysis
Numerical modeling
Volcano deformation
Flank instability
Satellite remote sensing

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit & Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Christelle Wauthier, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Shaffer, Derek

Title:

Influence of Composition on the Post-Processing Response of Additively Manufactured Precipitation Hardening Stainless Steels

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Precipitation Hardening
17-4 PH
Martensitic Stainless Steel
Solution Heat Treatment
Aging

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jay Keist, Outside Field Member
Amrita Basak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tarasankar Debroy, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Frasca, Terri

Title:

Can Women of Color "Just Say No"?: Reactions to Their Refusals of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-Related Service Requests in Nonacademic Workplaces

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

diversity
equity
inclusion
service
gender
race
organization
culture
diversity
equity
inclusion
service
gender
race
organizations
cultures

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Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Stephanie A Shields, Special Member & Co-Dissertation Advisor
Aparna Joshi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Major Field Member
Jes Matsick, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Erin Heidt-Forsythe, Outside Field Member

Author:

Quinones Valdivia, Fernando Ismael

Title:

Undocumented Times: Rhetorics of a Colonial Moment

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Pluriversal
Speech
Writing
Language
Immigration
Chihuahua
Modernity
Decolonial
Postcolonial
Anticolonial
Confinement
Solitude
Labyrinth
Tree
Bird
Aftertimes

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Michele Kennerly, Major Field Member
Jeremy Engels, Major Field Member
Matthew Restall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Debbie Hawhee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kirt Wilson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cornelius, Jason

Title:

Mid-Fidelity Performance Analysis for Fixed-Pitch Speed-Controlled Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Helicopter
Multirotor
CFD
Rotorcraft
High Performance Computing
GPU
Coaxial
Coaxial Rotor
Machine Learning
Surrogate Models
Dragonfly
Drone
UAS
Urban Air Mobility
Unmanned Aerial Systems
BEMT
Aerodynamics
Aircraft
C81 Tables
OVERFLOW
ARC2D
Airfoil Performance
NASA
Langley TDT
Langley 14-by 22-ft. Subsonic Tunnel Facility
Langley Transonic Dynamics Tunnel
Hybrid BEMT-URANS CFD
Linux Bash Scripting
GPU CFD Acceleration
Gaussian Process Regression
Neural Networks
Conceptual Design
Preliminary Design

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Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Haworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jose Palacios, Major Field Member
Edward Smith, Major Field Member
Larry Young, Special Signatory

Author:

Chen, Jin

Title:

Exemplifying Risks in Health News: The Interplay of Social Identity and Objective Risk

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

emotions
identification
stereotype content model
risk perception
mental health
exemplars

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Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Shannon Cruz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christofer Skurka, Major Field Member
Jessica Myrick, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Major Field Member

Author:

Fernández, Margarita

Title:

Impacts of anthropic disturbance on microarthropods: implications for sustainable management in Patagonian woodlands

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

Patagonia
microarthropods
woodlands
sustainable management
anthropic disturbance

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Jared Gregory Ali, Program Head/Chair
Margot Kaye, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Laura Leites, Major Field Member
David Eissenstat, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Tooker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Special Member

Author:

Hao, Qiang

Title:

Three Essays on the Health Economics of Overtreatment of Thyroid Cancer

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Overtreatment
Hemithyroidectomy
Total thyroidectomy
Surgical Outcomes
Cost-effectiveness

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Chris Hollenbeak, Program Head/Chair
David Vanness, Major Field Member
Chan Shen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chris Hollenbeak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joel Segel, Major Field Member

Author:

Oh, Soojin

Title:

DO THEY SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE? AN OBSERVER-ORIENTED APPROACH TO THE FEMALE LEADERSHIP (DIS)ADVANTAGE

Graduate Program:

Business Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Gender
Leadership
Stereotype
Motivated Cognition

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Vilmos Misangyi, Major Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair
Stephen Humphrey, Major Field Member
Aparna Joshi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carolyn Dang, Major Field Member

Author:

Cosgrove, Abigail

Title:

How Aging Shapes Semantic Memory: Exploring the Relationships between Language Abilities, Network Construction, and Word Characteristics on the Structure of Semantic Networks in Younger and Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Aging
Semantic Memory
Network Science

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Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Michele Diaz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet van Hell, Major Field Member

Author:

Kang, Jee Eun

Title:

Short-term and Long-term Associations between Loneliness and Cognitive Functioning across the Adult Life Span

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Loneliness
cognition
Ecological momentary assessment
Cognitive aging
Chronic loneliness
State loneliness

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Committee Members:

David Almeida, Major Field Member
Lynn Martire, Major Field Member
Marty Sliwinski, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Graham-Engeland, Outside Unit & Field Member
Heidemarie Laurent, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

De Los Rios, Maria J

Title:

Understanding Persistence Through University Climate Assessment: First-year Students’ Experiences at Chilean Universities and their Plans of Re-enrolling for the Next Academic Term

Graduate Program:

Higher Education (PHD)

Keywords:

Diversity
University
Chile
Persistence
Climate
Students

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Karen Paulson, Major Field Member
Leticia Oseguera, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Gilberto Conchas, Outside Field Member
Eric Plutzer, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Zhang, Xiang

Title:

Experimental investigation on multiscale interactions in intermittent flow boiling and a new hybrid VOF-Lagrangian modeling approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Multiscale simulation
Intermittent flow boiling
Hybrid VOF-Lagrangian

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Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander Rattner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ali Borhan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Fan-Bill Cheung, Major Field Member
Matthew Rau, Major Field Member

Author:

Bricker, Kristen

Title:

MIR-21 REGULATION OF SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNITY AND IMMUNITY

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

B cells
Autoimmunity
Germinal Center
Antibody
Infection
Influenza
Plasma Cells
miRNA

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Committee Members:

Aron Lukacher, Major Field Member
Ziaur Rahman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Schell, Major Field Member
Zissis Chroneos, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Special Member
S. Rameeza Allie, Major Field Member

Author:

Duncombe, Sydney

Title:

Trafficking, motility, and regulation of cellulose synthases in plants

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

plant cell wall
cellulose
cellulose synthase
hexokinase
cytosolic invertase
confocal microscopy
super-resolution microscopy

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Committee Members:

Enrique Gomez, Outside Unit Member
William Hancock, Outside Field Member
Ying Gu, Major Field Member
Charles Anderson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Han, Xu

Title:

Exploring Brain Functional Networks Using Multimodal Approaches in Awake Rodents

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

rsfMRI
brain network
resting state
RSFC
optogenetics
chemogenetics
neurovascular coupling

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Melissa Rolls, Major Field Member
Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Xiao Liu, Outside Field Member
Nanyin Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Davis, Daniel

Title:

Examining the function of the foot's arch during gait

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (PHD)

Keywords:

foot arch
gait
walking
running
musculoskeletal modeling
plantar aponeurosis

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Jonathan Bates Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Piazza, Major Field Member
John Challis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Meghan Vidt, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonas Rubenson, Major Field Member

Author:

Shenoy, Ganesh

Title:

The Role of Iron in Glioblastoma

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

glioblastoma
iron

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Sundstrom, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Connor, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Schell, Major Field Member
Zissis Chroneos, Major Field Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair
Sheldon Holder, Special Member

Author:

Peng, Aoran

Title:

A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF CREATIVE RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR IN ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Engineering Design
Engineering Education
Creative Design
Design Theory and Methodology

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Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Saurabh Bansal, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scarlett Miller, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yiqi Zhang, Major Field Member
Christopher Dancy, Major Field Member
Jessica Menold, Major Field Member

Author:

Adhikari, Bishwodeep

Title:

Field evaluation of hydrological and pollutant retention performance of green stormwater infrastructures

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Green stormwater infrastructures
Bioretention
Metals
Base cations
De-icing road salt
Nature-based solutions
Nutrients
Infiltration basin
Soil chemistry

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Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
Shirley Clark, Outside Unit Member
Hong Wu, Outside Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Szukalo, Ryan

Title:

Predictive and Thermodynamically Transferable Coarse-Grained Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

coarse-graining
transferability
representability
local density

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William Noid, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bell, Kirsten

Title:

Photocatalytic Polymer Brush Functionalized Glass Beads for Enhanced Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

photocatalysis
photocatalysts
heterogeneous
polymerizations
controlled radical polymerizations

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Robert Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bryan Vogt, Major Field Member
Robert Rioux, Major Field Member
Christian Pester, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Fateminasrollahi, Fatemehsadat

Title:

Attractor identification and control in Boolean models of plant-pollinator networks

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

Boolean modeling
mutualistic systems
complex systems
plant-pollinator communities
network theory

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Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mcduffie, Kendra

Title:

Constructing Whiteness: Racialized and Gendered Depictions of Korea in Transwar Japan

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

Japan
Korea
Representation
Gender
Literature
Visual Culture

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Gregory Smits, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Abel, Major Field Member
Jooyeon Rhee, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zafarnejad, Rey

Title:

Simulation Modeling to Inform Public Health Policy and Prevention

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Public Health
Healthcare Engineering
Agent-based Modeling
Compartmental Modeling
Big Data Analysis
Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Simulation Optimization
COVID-19
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

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Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Paul Griffin, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Vanness, Outside Unit & Field Member
Steven Landry, Major Field Member
Qiushi Chen, Major Field Member

Author:

Almohammed, Sali

Title:

A PROPOSED TRAINING PROGRAM EXPLORING THE FIRST WEEK EXPERIENCE OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AS PERCEIVED BY STUDENTS, THEIR TEACHERS, AND ADMINISTRATIONS AT JAZAN UNIVERSITY IN SAUDI ARABIA”

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

Education
Disability
Training
Students
Teachers
Administrators
University
Equality Discrimination
Saudi Arabia
Jazan
Qualitative Research
Narrative research
Descriptive research Explanatory research
Thematic analysis
Campus life
Social inclusion
Accessibility
Accommodations Institutional support
Attitudes

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Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
Rama Radhakrishna, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Land, Program Head/Chair
William Brendel, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hyung Joon Yoon, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Robles, Pedro

Title:

DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK

Graduate Program:

Public Administration (PHD)

Keywords:

Information Technology Governance
Artificial Intelligence
Policy Diffusion
Conceptual Framework
Autonomous Vehicle

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Goktug Morcol, Program Head/Chair
Michele Tantardini, Major Field Member
Rhoda Joseph, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Best, Major Field Member
Dan Mallinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Vishwanath, Siddharth

Title:

Statistical Learning for Robust Topological Inference

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Topological data analysis
Topological inference
Statistical learning
Robust statistics
Generative models
Learning on graphs
Differential privacy

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Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alexei Novikov, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenji Fukumizu, Special Member
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Major Field Member
Satoshi Kuriki, Special Member
Nicole Lazar, Major Field Member
Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Nah, Suyoung

Title:

Emotional Responses to Received Support and Changes in Well-Being of Care Recipients and Their Spousal Caregivers

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies (PHD)

Keywords:

Caregiving
Spouse Support
Gratitude
Mental Health

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Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David Almeida, Major Field Member
Lynn Martire, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jennifer Graham-Engeland, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory Fosco, Major Field Member

Author:

Mondal, Orville

Title:

Essays in Causal Inference and Experimental Design

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

Causal inference
Non-compliance
External validity
experimental design

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Keisuke Hirano, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joris Pinkse, Major Field Member
Barry Ickes, Program Head/Chair
Michael Gechter, Major Field Member
David Vanness, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Tran, Hoang

Title:

Electrocatalysis at the Electrode/Electrolyte Interface: a Multiscale Molecular Model

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Electrocatalysis
Molecular modeling
DFT
Molecular dynamics

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Robert Rioux, Major Field Member
Scott Milner, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Altamimi, Abdulelah Lafi

Title:

Deep Learning Approach to Large-Scale Systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Deep Reinforcement Learning
Wildfire Mitigation
Stochastic Model Predictive Control
Classification
System Identification
Parameters Estimation
Deep Learning
Neural Network

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Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Constantino Lagoa, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jing Yang, Major Field Member
Kostas Papakonstantinou, Outside Unit & Field Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Zhe

Title:

Inference Methods for High-Dimensional Data: A Focus On Different Hypothesis Testing Problems

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

statistical inference
high dimension
marginal coordinate hypothesis
sufficient dimension reduction
partial linear model
power enhancement
linear hypothesis

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Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair
Bing Li, Major Field Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Runze Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Meyer, Mc Cauley

Title:

Studies of RNA structure and function in prebiotically inspired peptide-rich droplets and extant in vitro conditions

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA Structure
DMS-MaP
Ribozymes

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Christopher House, Outside Unit Member
Christine Keating, Outside Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Squire Booker, Major Field Member
Joseph Bollinger, Major Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Seabloom-Dunne, John Louis

Title:

Tactical Technical Communication – A History of Study and Practice

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Technical Communication
Tactical Technical Communication
Rhetoric
Pedagogy

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Stuart Selber, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cheryl Glenn, Major Field Member
Raymond Gilyard, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Morrisson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Afolayan, Emmanuel

Title:

Semiconductor Dilution To Improve The Performance Of Organic Light Emitting Diodes

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Organic light emitting diode
Semiconductor dilution
Optoelectronics
Spontaneous Orientational polarization
Outcoupling

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Noel Giebink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Donald Ebeigbe, Major Field Member
Nelson Yaw Dzade, Outside Unit & Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member

Author:

Jahanmahin, Omid

Title:

STUDYING THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS OF NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLY AND ATTACHMENT: INSIGHTS FROM MONTE CARLO AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Directed self-assembly
semiconductor
insulator
Monte Carlo simulation
COMSOL simulation
surface element integration
Dielectrophoresis (DEP)
Oriented Attachment (OA)
Atomic-scale investigations
Rare event sampling
Umbrella sampling
MD simulation
In silico studies
Reactive force field (ReaxFF)
Gold nanowire (NW) self-assembly
Nanoparticle assembly
Surface element integration (SEI)
Semiconductor
Insulator
Dielectric particles

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Kristen Fichthorn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christine Keating, Outside Unit & Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Themis Matsoukas, Major Field Member

Author:

He, Fang

Title:

Applications of Deep Learning on Temporal and Graph Data Mining

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Temporal Data Mining
Graph Data Mining
Representation Learning
Deep Learning

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Kamesh Madduri, Major Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
Wang-Chien Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Zhen Lei, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reichenberger, David

Title:

Evaluating the consequences of evening light-emitting device use on sleep health

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health (PHD)

Keywords:

screen use
sleep
blue light-blocking glasses
intervention

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Orfeu Buxton, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Outside Field Member
Michael Russell, Major Field Member
Anne-Marie Chang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Fernandez-Mendoza, Outside Unit Member
Stephanie Lanza, Major Field Member
Joshua Smyth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Davis, Brandon

Title:

Development and Evaluation of DNA Nanostructures for Cell Surface Engineering

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

cell surface engineering
DNA nanotechnology
nongenetic cell engineering

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Yong Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Scott Medina, Major Field Member
Yuguo Lei, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Hong Zheng, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Nguyen, Robert

Title:

Silicon Valley Stories: Repetitions, Recursions, and Infinite Loops

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Silicon Valley
technology industry
media studies
digital studies
film studies
television studies
repetition
recursion
infinite loop
speculative media studies

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Matt Tierney, Major Field Member
Tina Goudie, Major Field Member
Brian Lennon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sabine Doran, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiaoye You, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yan, Runan

Title:

Investigation of the effect of microbiota on the survival and culturability of Campylobacter spp.

Graduate Program:

Food Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Campylobacter
chicken meat microbiota
culturability
survival
viability qPCR
cold storage

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Jasna Kovac, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nkuchia M'ikanatha, Special Member
Edward Dudley, Major Field Member
Catherine Cutter, Major Field Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Umezawa, Kiyomi

Title:

Head Start Teachers' Language Ideologies and Policy Implementation in New Immigrant Settlement Areas in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

Head Start
Policy
Teachers' Language Ideology
Bilingual Education
New Immigrant Settlements
Latin@
Policy Implementation
Ethnography

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Kimberly Anne Powell, Program Head/Chair
Esther Prins, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Henward, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kai Schafft, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Francesca Lopez, Major Field Member

Author:

Zhao, Xiaoyue

Title:

On the Effects of Material Properties and Parameters on the Triboelectric Output of Filler-Modified Polymers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Triboelectric effect
Polymer composite
Mechanical property
Electrical property
PDMS
Carbon nanotube
TENG

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Michael Lanagan, Outside Field Member
Amira Barhoumi Meddeb, Special Member
Paris Vonlockette, Major Field Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ola Rashwan, Outside Unit Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Desmet, David

Title:

How Older and Young Adults Balance Competing Lateral Stepping Objectives During Walking Maneuvers

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology (PHD)

Keywords:

walking
lateral maneuvers
aging
balance
multi-objective regulation

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Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Joseph Cusumano, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tarkeshwar Singh, Major Field Member
Jonas Rubenson, Major Field Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Glaid, Andrew

Title:

Interesting Interface Interactions: The Synthesis of Metal Metalattices and the Binding of Ions to Lipid Membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Metalattice
Supercritical Fluid Deposition
Supported Lipid Bilayer
Ion Binding
Microfluidic Assay

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Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Fan, Foxian

Title:

Evolution of AM Surface Morphology during Centrifugal Disc Finishing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Additive Manufacturing
Centrifugal Disc Finishing
Surface Characterization
Image Processing
Machine Learning
Mass Finishing

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Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Christopher Kube, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guhaprasanna Manogharan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brigid Mullany, Special Member
Robert Voigt, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kang, Bokgyeong

Title:

Computational Methods and Spatial Models with Intractable Likelihoods

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Intractable likelihood
Hawkes process
Sample quality measure
Markov chain Monte Carlo
Spatially-varying dispersion
Zero inflation
Conway-Maxwell Poisson

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Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Matthew Ferrari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Berg, Major Field Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Major Field Member
John Hughes, Special Member
Murali Haran, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhou, Shuai

Title:

Environmental Migration in the United States: A Spatio-temporal Perspective, 1970-2020

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

environmental variability
environmental migration
spatio-temporal
multilevel method
United States

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Brian Thiede, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Ashton Verdery, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guangqing Chi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Randell, Major Field Member
Brian Thiede, Major Field Member

Author:

Wen, Tong

Title:

Effects of Air Pollution on Blood Pressure and Sickle Cell Disease

Graduate Program:

Epidemiology (PhD)

Keywords:

Air pollution
Particulate matter
Nitrogen dioxide
Elemental Carbon
Traffic-related air pollution
Blood pressure
Sickle cell disease

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Douglas Leslie, Program Head/Chair
Lan Kong, Outside Field Member
Donghyun Rim, Outside Unit Member
Jeffrey Yanosky, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Duanping Liao, Major Field Member

Author:

Featherston, Emily

Title:

Biochemical and structural factors governing metal selectivity in lanthanide-binding proteins

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Lanthanide
Rare earth element
Protein
Protein structure
Luminescence

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Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Scott Lindner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amie Boal, Major Field Member

Author:

Mulligan, Ashley

Title:

Wordsworth's Sacrificial Poetics: Rhetoric and Self-Formation, 1791-1801

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

William Wordsworth
Romanticism
Poetry
Rhetoric

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Daniel Purdy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cheryl Glenn, Major Field Member
Robert Edwards, Major Field Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Program Head/Chair
Claire Colebrook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Almudhhi, Turki Khalid

Title:

Boiling Characteristics During Quenching of Metal Rods Under Pool and Flow Boiling Conditions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Minimum Film Boiling Temperature
Two-Phase Heat Transfer
Rod Bundle
Film boiling heat transfer
Pool Boiling

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Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander Rattner, Major Field Member
Fan-Bill Cheung, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elia Merzari, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Rau, Major Field Member
Stephen Bajorek, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Tong

Title:

Understanding Heterogeneity in Associations Between Internalizing Problems and Alcohol Use Behaviors Into Early Adulthood With Developmental Behavioral Genetics

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Behavioral problems
alcohol use behaviors
longitudinal
trajectories
genetics
Depression
Anxiety
Longitudinal
Alcohol Use
Genetics

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Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Jenae Neiderhiser, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Jennifer Maggs, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Outside Field Member

Author:

Sieg, Jacob

Title:

Thermodynamic Corrections to RNA Folding Models in Cells

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA
metabolites
Magnesium
Thermodynamics
Nearest neighbor model

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Andrew Patterson, Outside Field Member
Paul Babitzke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Edward O'Brien, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hertzler, James

Title:

Kinetochore-Based Microtubule Regulation And Calcium Signaling Are Required For Functional Dendrite Regeneration In Drosophila

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience (PHD)

Keywords:

Kinetochore
dendrite
dendrite regeneration
calcium
functional regeneration
drosophila

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Melissa Rolls, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janine Kwapis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kevin Alloway, Major Field Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Major Field Member
Sonia Angele Cavigelli, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zawadzki, Brianna

Title:

Investigating Planet Formation Through Simulation, Observation, and Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics (PHD)

Keywords:

astronomy
protoplanetary disks
exoplanets
planet formation
machine learning
interferometry
imaging

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Bradford Foley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rebekah Dawson, Major Field Member
Kevin Luhman, Major Field Member
Robin Ciardullo, Program Head/Chair
Ian Czekala, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Ford, Major Field Member

Author:

Sudhakar Shetty, Samidha

Title:

Statistical Analysis of Missing Not at Random Problems with a Nonparametric Regression Model and Semiparametric Missingness Mechanism.

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Efficient influence function model misspecification
nonignorable missing data
propensity of missing data
robust estimation
semiparametric statistics.
Nonignorable missing data
Semiparametric statistics
Efficient influence function
Robust estimation
Efficient estimation

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Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yanyuan Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaoyue Niu, Major Field Member
Rongling Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Nguyen, Kien

Title:

LOST CIRCULATION MATERIAL DESIGN FOR DRILL-INDUCED AND NATURAL FRACTURES IN ROCKS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

fracture mechanics
wellbore
lost circulation material
drill-induced fractures
natural fractures
drilling fluid loss
LCM partial compression
wellbore breakdown
fracture width estimation
non-Newtonian drilling fluid
Levenberg-Marquardt
LCM blend design

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Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Luis Ayala H, Major Field Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mohammad Rezaee, Major Field Member
Amin Mehrabian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Asadian, Elnaz

Title:

The Impact of Lean Methods Implementation on Construction Team Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Lean Construction
Team Dynamics
Last Planner System (LPS)

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Rob Leicht, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Somayeh Asadi, Major Field Member
John Messner, Major Field Member
Susan Simkins, Outside Field Member
Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Humphrey, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Blázquez-Cuena, Juan

Title:

La belleza del mal: actualizaciones modernistas(1890-1930) del mito de Don Juan en la literatura española

Graduate Program:

Spanish (PHD)

Keywords:

Modernismo
Don Juan
Modernidad
Valle-Inclán
Jacinto Grau
Machado
Octavio Picón
Echegaray
Blanca de los Ríos

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Krista Brune, Major Field Member
Juan Udaondo Alegre, Major Field Member
Nicolás Fernández Medina, Special Member
Eduardo Mendieta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Marr, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Sun, Yuan

Title:

Effects of AI Attributes and Explanation Affordance on User Trust in AI Systems

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications (PHD)

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence
Explanation Affordance
User Agency
Message Interactivity
Trust

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Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Fuyuan Shen, Major Field Member
Jessica Myrick, Major Field Member
James Dillard, Outside Unit & Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Teoman, Ece

Title:

Essays on Commitment and Delegation

Graduate Program:

Economics (PHD)

Keywords:

delegation
commitment
agenda setting
principal-agent problem
voting games
political economy
project selection
mechanism design
dynamic games

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Chloe Tergiman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nageeb Ali, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rohit Lamba, Major Field Member
Vijay Krishna, Major Field Member
Miaomiao Dong, Major Field Member
Marc Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kuatbek, Maksat

Title:

DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SHORT-LIVED FISSION FRAGMENTS OF TH-232 USING RADIOCHEMICAL SEPARATION TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Thorium-232
Fission Product Yields
Short-lived fission products
CFYs
STAYSL-PNNL

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Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amanda Johnsen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Walters, Major Field Member
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member
Christopher Arges, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bruce Pierson, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Qi

Title:

Dimension Reduction and Graphical Models using Optimal Transport

Graduate Program:

Statistics (PHD)

Keywords:

Sufficient dimension reduction;
Metric space-valued data;
Graphical model;
Optimal transport;

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Bing Li, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lingzhou Xue, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ting He, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bing Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Runze Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Gutiérrez Fuentes, Camila

Title:

The Origins, Migrations, and Queer Imaginations of Global Women’s Comics Cultures

Graduate Program:

Comparative Literature (PHD)

Keywords:

comics
graphic novel
feminism
visual culture
Shōjo
aesthetics
women's studies
Japanese literature
manga
historieta
Boys Love
BL
comix
girls
phenomenology
illustration
lyrical image
少女
漫画
マンガ
queer
LGBT

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Committee Members:

Scott Smith, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Marr, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Abel, Major Field Member
Charlotte Eubanks, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charlotte Eubanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lin, Yen Ting

Title:

Understanding glass-water interactions by spectroscopic investigation of surface structure

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Glass surface
AFM-IR
Water Adsorption
Spectroscopy
Material Interfaces

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Committee Members:

Bryan Vogt, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Themis Matsoukas, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seong Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Christian W. Pester, Special Signatory

Author:

Zhang, Ruoxi

Title:

Exploring the three-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall effect and topological superconductivity in topological insulator heterostructures

Graduate Program:

Physics (PHD)

Keywords:

quantum anomalous Hall effect
topological superconductivity
molecular-beam epitaxy
Josephson junction

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Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Chair of Committee
Moses Chan, Dissertation Advisor
Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Yan, Qile

Title:

Mesh-Less Methods for Solving PDEs on Unknown Manifolds

Graduate Program:

Mathematics (PHD)

Keywords:

kernel methods
point cloud data
elliptic PDEs solvers
mesh-free methods
Radial Basis Function

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Committee Members:

Ludmil Zikatanov, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Harlim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiantao Li, Major Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Zhou, Chen

Title:

Application of machine learning to optical sensing and imaging

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Optical sensing
optical imaging
machine learning

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Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christine Keating, Outside Unit & Field Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Major Field Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member

Author:

Ellis, Katherine

Title:

"We Make the Sick into Men Again": Implicating Doctors' Masculinity in the Conceptualization of Medicalized Trauma in World War I France

Graduate Program:

French (PHD)

Keywords:

World War I
masculinity
trauma
France
psychology
psychiatry

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Committee Members:

Jennifer Boittin, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alicia Decker, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Eghigian, Outside Unit & Field Member
Adlai Murdoch, Program Head/Chair
Emmanuel Jean-Francois, Major Field Member
Christopher E. Forth, Special Member

Author:

Stanley, Melissa

Title:

Navigating Contention in a Discordant Society: How Teachers Manage Contentious Issues Discussion in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction (PHD)

Keywords:

Contentious issues
secondary social studies education
discussion
teacher agency
teacher beliefs
controversy
Contentious issues
discussion
dialogic stance
framework
Contentious issues
secondary social studies education
discussion
teacher agency
teacher beliefs
controversy
dialogic stance
framework

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Committee Members:

Carla Zembal-Saul, Program Head/Chair
Jason Griffith, Major Field Member
Jessica Schocker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephanie Schroeder, Major Field Member
Scott Metzger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor