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Author:

Molina, Mallory Elyse

Title:

Resolving Black Hole and Star-Formation Activity in Nearby Galaxies

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astronomy
galaxies
AGN
Star formation
dust
attenuation
LINERs

File:

Download Molina-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Eracleous, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Eracleous, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Outside Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Alkhoori, Hamad

Title:

Electromagnetic Scattering by a Three-dimensional Object Composed of an Orthorhombic Dielectric-Magnetic Medium Endowed with Magnetoelectric Gyrotropy

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Anisotropic optical materials
Electromagnetic optics
Scattering theory
Electromagnetic scattering
Dielectric anisotropy
Magnetic anisotropic
Magnetoelectric gyrotropy

File:

Download Alkhoori_Dissertation_v9.pdf

Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James K. Breakall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ram M. Narayanan, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Anna Stasto, Outside Member
Craig F. Bohren, Special Member

Author:

Haynes-Thoby, Latoya A

Title:

Factors that Contribute to Resilience for Young Adult Black Women with Histories of Intimate Partner Violence

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

trauma informed care
trauma
resilience
Black feminist theory
counseling
intimate partner violence
domestic violence
social support
spirituality
Counselor Education
reflexivity interviewing
resistance
survivorship

File:

Download Factors_that_contribute_to_resilience_for_young_adult_Black_women_with_histories_of_intimate_partner_violence_-_Haynes-Thoby.pdf

Committee Members:

Julia A Green Bryan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa M Conyers, Committee Member
Carlomagno Del Carmen Panlilio, Committee Member
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Outside Member
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Diandra Janelle Prescod, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margaret Ann Lorah, Special Member

Author:

Henderson, Codey

Title:

The Impact of Phospholipid Bilayer Interactions on Lipid Diffuison

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Supported Lipid Bilayers
Lipid Diffusion
Lipid Diffusion Model
Bilayer-Support Interactions
Dye Aggregation
Single Particle Tracking
FRAP

File:

Download The_Impact_of_Phospholipid_Bilayer_Interactions_on_Lipid_Diffuison.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward Patrick O'Brien, Jr., Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Esther Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Nandy, Debmalya

Title:

COVARIATE INFORMATION: A NOVEL APPROACH TO SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION & FEATURE SCREENING FOR ULTRAHIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES IN SUPERVISED PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Fisher information
Density information
Supervised problems
Sufficient dimension reduction
Feature screening
Ultrahigh dimension
Bootstrap

File:

Download PennState_StatisticsPhDDissertation_Final_eTD_081619.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesca Chiaromonte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Runze Li, Committee Member
Bing Li, Committee Member
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Outside Member
Lingzhou Xue, Committee Member
Weixin Yao, Special Member

Author:

Byukusenge, Maurice

Title:

Descriptive Epidemiology and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Serotypes from Rwanda

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

Non-typhoidal Salmonella
Epidemiology
Whole genome sequencing
Rwanda

File:

Download byukusenge_maurice_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhushan M Jayarao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhushan M Jayarao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Varma Kuchipudi, Committee Member
Ernest Hovingh, Committee Member
Isabella Cattadori, Outside Member
Edward G Dudley, Outside Member
Nanasse Nzayirambaho, Special Member

Author:

Nwokonko, Robert

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISM OF UNIMOLECULAR COUPLING BETWEEN STIM AND ORAI

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Store operated calcium channels
Electrophysiology
Membrane proteins
Orai calcium channel
Endoplasmic reticulum
Calcium signalling

File:

Download RMN_THESIS_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Leon Gill, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mohamed Trebak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
Blaise Peterson, Committee Member
Jong Kak Yun, Outside Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gollakota, Akhila

Title:

HYDROTHERMAL LIQUEFACTION OF MODEL FOOD WASTE BIOMOLECULES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrothermal liquefaction
Food waste
Subcritical water

File:

Download Thesis_AG.pdf

Committee Members:

Phillip E Savage, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Phillip E Savage, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Robert Rioux, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Basalik, Stefanie

Title:

The First Lady's Hidden-Hand: Mamie Eisenhower's Approach to 1950s Politics

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Mamie
Eisenhower
First Lady
Hidden-Hand
1950s
Politics
Fashion
Toile
White House
Housewife
Mamie Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Member
Carol Nechemias, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dasgupta, Anish

Title:

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND CATALYTIC TESTING OF PALLADIUM AND NICKEL BASED INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS FOR ACETYLENE SEMI-HYDROGENATION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Pd-Zn
hydrogenation
acetylene
intermetallic compounds
gamma brass
catalysis

File:

Download thesis-upload081919.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Rioux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Truong, Christine

Title:

Advancing Planar Particle Shadow Velocimetry by Development of Multiplanar and Stereoscopic Imaging Variants in Consideration of the Depth of Correlation

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

particle shadow velocimetry
particle image velocimetry
psv
turbulence
experimental fluid mechanics

File:

Download ChristineTruong-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeff Robert Harris, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy John Eden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Jacqueline Antonia O'Connor, Outside Member
Margaret Louise Byron, Outside Member
Barton Lee Smith, Special Member
Judith Todd Copley, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Ning

Title:

DATA-DRIVEN MODELING AND INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Data-Driven Modeling
Interpretable Machine Learning
Healthcare Analytics
Drug-Drug Interactions
Patient Satisfaction

File:

Download NingLiu-Dissertation-FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Eunhye Song, Committee Member
Terry Harrison, Outside Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zahedi, Mona

Title:

Evaluating the Use of Fluidized Bed Combustion Fly Ash as Concrete Pozzolan

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Fluidized Bed Combustion
Fly ash
Anthracite coal
Bituminous coal
ASTM C618
Mechanical properties
Durability
Concrete
Hydration mechanism
Beneficiation

File:

Download PhD_dissertation-Mona_Zahedi.pdf

Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Farshad Rajabipour, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Aly Marei Said, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lichtenstein, Timothy Thomas

Title:

FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS OF LIQUID METALS TOWARDS ELECTROCHEMICAL SEPARATIONS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrorefining
Thermodynamics
barium-alloys
electromotive force
Electrochemical separation
Phase diagram

File:

Download Thesis_TimothyLichtenstein_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hojong Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Thomas Mallouk, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
James L. Willit, Special Member

Author:

Widstrom, Andrea Lyn

Title:

Applicability of standard kinetic parameters for describing a photothermally driven reaction

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Diels-Alder
photothermal
gold nanoparticle
solvent
kinetic
viscosity
retro Diels-Alder
dipole
activation
thermodynamic
Arrhenius

File:

Download Widstrom_Andrea_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
William D Burgos, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roberts, Nicole

Title:

Biological Underpinnings of Adolescent Weight Status and Food Intake Behavior across Multiple Time Scales and Levels of Analysis

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

adolescent brain development
obesity
fMRI
resting state connectivity
cognitive modeling

File:

Download NRoberts_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles F. Geier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles F. Geier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zita Oravecz, Committee Member
Diana Fishbein, Committee Member
Lorah D Dorn, Outside Member
Douglas Michael Teti, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stefani Fae, Giovani

Title:

UNDERSTANDING SOYBEAN YIELD LIMITING FACTORS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION IN THE U.S. AND BRAZIL

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

Soybean
Agricultural Intensification
Laser Diffraction
Yield Limiting Factors
International Tour

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_GSF.pdf

Committee Members:

Armen R. Kemanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory W. Roth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charlie White, Committee Member
Sjoerd Willem Duiker, Committee Member
John Earl Watson, Outside Member

Author:

Lebold, Kathryn

Title:

A Dual Potential Approach for Modeling Structure and Energetics with Coarse-Grained Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

coarse-graining
dual-potential
transferability
representability
thermodynamics

File:

Download Lebold-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Will Noid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Will Noid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Kennehan, Eric Ronald

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF EXCITONIC PROPERTIES AND HOT-CARRIER COOLING IN LEAD SULFIDE QUANTUM DOTS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Spectroscopy
Transient Absorption
Quantum Dots
Lead Sulfide
Perylene Diimide
Phonon
electron-phonon
PbS
Flash photolysis
electro-optical
exciton

File:

Download Kennehan_Eric_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Jihang

Title:

An Experimental Study of the Effect of a Pilot Flame on Combustion Instabilities

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Combustion Instability
Gas Turbine
Combustion
Pilot Flame
Flame Transfer Function

File:

Download Dissertation_Jihang_Li.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Domenic Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Domenic Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Daniel Haworth, Committee Member
Dr. Jacqueline O'connor, Committee Member
Dr. Michel Micci, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gray, Christopher

Title:

Oligomeric Ruthenium Light Absorbers and Nanostructured Lenses for Improved Harvesting of Solar Energy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

photoelectrochemical cells
water-splitting
solar energy
solar fuels
nanomaterials
oligomer
ruthenium polypyridal

File:

Download Gray__Chris_-_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Le, Yunying

Title:

DAILY RELATIONAL PROCESSES AMONG NEW PARENTS TRANSITIONING TO PARENTHOOD

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

dyadic daily diary
coparenting
couple closeness
first-time parents
capitalization

File:

Download Yunying_Le_dissertation_09092019.pdf

Committee Members:

Steffany Fredman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steffany Fredman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Ethan Feinberg, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Committee Member
Amy Dyanna Marshall, Outside Member
Lesley Anne Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tofighi, Mohammad

Title:

Informed Learning for Image Restoration and Understanding

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine Learning
Cell Detection
Image Processing
Image Deblurring
Deep Learning
Video Deblurring

File:

Download Tofighi_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Leonid V Berlyand, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ibrahim, Ahmed

Title:

An Inductively Powered 32-Channel Implantable System-on-Chip for Gastric Electrical-Wave Recording

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Inductive Link
Gastric
slow wave
recording system

File:

Download Ibrahim_Final_Report_Aug2019_Review.pdf

Committee Members:

Mehdi Kiani, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Bo

Title:

INTEGRATIVE OMICS FOR DISCOVERING NOVEL MECHANISMS OF IKAROS’ GENE REGULATORY FUNCTIONS IN LEUKEMIA

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

Ikaros
Leukemia
omics
epigenetic regulation

File:

Download Dissertation_for_PhD_in_Boinformatics_and_Genomics_Bo_Zhang_funding.pdf

Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sinisa Dovat, Committee Member
Vladimir S Spiegelman, Committee Member
Ross Cameron Hardison, Outside Member
James Riley Broach, Program Head/Chair
James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Feng Yue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Feng Yue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Garcia Gonzalez, Susana Elizabeth

Title:

CONNECTIVITY IN THE U.S. HYDROECONOMIC NETWORK: TOWARD CONSISTENT ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING OF NATIONAL CONSUMPTION

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Water Footprint
Environmental Accounting
Complex Networks
Input-Output Modeling
Virtual Water

File:

Download SGarciaGonzalez_Dissertation_10032019.pdf

Committee Members:

Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sarah Michele Rajtmajer, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bahari, Fatemeh

Title:

Neural dynamics underlying sleep-wake regulation in rodent brain

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Sleep-Wake regulation
Rodents
Epilepsy
Single-unit recordings
EEG

File:

Download Dissertation_Bahari_2019_20190926.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce J. Gluckman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce J. Gluckman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin D. Alloway, Outside Member
Steven J. Schiff, Committee Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Outside Member
Patrick J. Drew, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reainthippayasakul, Wuttichai

Title:

PHOTOCURABLE DIELECTRICS FOR ELECTRONIC PACKAGING AND ENCAPSULANT APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

photocurable
dielectrics
composites
electronic packaging
thermal conductivity
crosslinking

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Outside Member
Judith Todd Copley, Program Head/Chair
Qing Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Beecher, David Lory

Title:

"AN HONORABLE AND MANLY SPORT": THE ROLE OF THOROUGHBRED HORSE RACING IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Horse racing
Slavery
Plantation Life
Antebellum South
Gambling
Thoroughbred

File:

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Committee Members:

John Rogers Haddad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Indrit Hoxha, Outside Member
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Eshelman, Melanie Alice

Title:

Post-transcriptional Regulation of the Intestinal Epithelium by Tristetraprolin

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Tristetraprolin
Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase
Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation
DSS Colitis
Colitis-associated Cancer

File:

Download EshelmanMA_Dissertation_Aug2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory Steven Yochum, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory Steven Yochum, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Riley Broach, Committee Member
David James Degraff, Committee Member
Lisa M Shantz, Outside Member
George Lucian Moldovan, Committee Member
Faoud T Ishmael, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Wei Lin

Title:

CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND RURAL DISPARITIES: RURALITY, ENVIRONMENT AND BODY MASS INDEX AMONG U.S. CHILDREN

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Childhood obesity
Rural-urban difference
Food environment
Multilevel modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn J. Brasier, Committee Member
Guangqing Chi, Committee Member
Jennifer Van Hook, Outside Member
Kathryn J Brasier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Muratov, Oleg

Title:

ESSAYS ON INFORMATION DESIGN IN ECONOMIC THEORY

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Information Design
Competition
Research and Development
Moral Hazard
Optimal Contracts
All-Pay Auctions
Contest Theory

File:

Download Oleg_Muratov_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ron Siegel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ron Siegel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Rohit Lamba, Committee Member
Fenghua Song, Outside Member
Barry William Ickes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zheng, Hongjun

Title:

ELECTRON DYNAMICS IN NANOSCALE METALS: FROM ATOMICALLY PRECISE CLUSTERS TO PLASMONIC NANOMATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

transient absorption spectroscopy
2DES
monolayer protected clusters
MPCs
gold nanorod
carrier dynamics
spatially resolved spectroscopy

File:

Download Dissertation_of_Hongjun_Zheng_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xin Zhang, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vohsen, Samuel

Title:

The Chemical and Microbial Ecology of Deep-Sea Corals

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

deep-sea
coral
microbiome
apicomplexans
sulfur-oxidizers
SUP05
chemoautotrophy
Mollicutes
symbionts
metabolomics
metagenome

File:

Download Final_dissertation_Vohsen.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles Raymond Fisher, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iliana Brigitta Baums, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Langkilde, Program Head/Chair
Andrew David Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Tian

Title:

THE APPLICATION OF DIELECTRIC AND ELECTROCALORIC COOLING DEVICES BASED ON DIELECTRIC POLYMERS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Dielectric
nanocomposite
electrocaloric

File:

Download Ph.D_thesis-Tian_Zhang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rengasamy, Prasanna Venkatesh

Title:

Tackling the computation and memory needs of interactive workloads on next generation platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CPU
Memory
Mobile
SoCs
GPGPU
ML
Feature Importance
Criticality
User Interactive
LOST
Load-to-Store
Accelerators
Energy

File:

Download PrasannaThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pattnaik, Ashutosh

Title:

Be(-A)ware of Data Movement: Optimizing Throughput Processors For Efficient Computations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPUs
Throughput Processors
Compute Scheduling
Near Data Computing
Processing In Memory

File:

Download AshutoshPattnaik-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Member
Aniruddha Vaidya, Special Member
Asit Mishra, Special Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Monaco, Christopher D

Title:

Ego-Motion Estimation Using Doppler and Spatial Data in SONAR, RADAR, or Camera Images

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ego-motion estimation
doppler
sonar
radar
camera
autonomous
automotive
underwater
motion estimation
localization
perception
odometry
dead-reckoning
vehicle
spatial
doppler velocity log
navigation

File:

Download Monaco_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Outside Member
Russell Charles Burkhardt, Outside Member
Kurt A Hacker, Special Member
Karen Ann Thole, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Davenport, Katie

Title:

Examining Veterans' Use of Employment Programs and Program Mode of Delivery on Veterans' Employment Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

veterans
delivery mode
work satisfaction
work status;
programs

File:

Download Davenport_Dissertation_191016.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Francis Perkins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Francis Perkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark A Brennan, Jr., Committee Member
John Ewing, Committee Member
Janet Agnes Welsh, Outside Member
Mark A Brennan, Jr., Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tang, Houjun

Title:

TRAFFIC SAFETY PREDICTION: AN APPLICATION OF DATA MINING ALGORITHMS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Traffic Safety
Data Mining
Crash Severity
Crash Frequency

File:

Download Dissertation_by_Houjun_Tang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Jia Li, Outside Member
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Meng, Miao

Title:

Innovative Implantable and Wearable Medical Devices Enabled by Ultrasonic Power Transfer and Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Biomedical implants
Design methodology
Ultrasound
Wireless power transmission
Inductive links
Power transfer efficiency (PTE)
Gastric neurophysiology
Power management
Pulse-based data transfer
Piezoelectric energy harvesting
Wearable
Integrated circuit
Slow waves
Beamforming

File:

Download Meng_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Mehdi Kiani, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ghalyan, Najah

Title:

Sequential Machine Learning for Decision-Making in Mechanical Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

symbolic dynamics
Hidden Markov Models
ergodicity
measure-preserving transformations
image classification
fatigue damage
thermoacoustic instabilities
probabilistic finite state automata
time series
bag-of-words
support vector machines
generating partition
quantization
lossy source coding
sliding block source coding
clustering
dynamic programming
Viterbi algorithm
anomaly detection
change point detection
transient change detection
quickest change detection
data-driven modeling

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Najah_Ghalyan.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Outside Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Grasshorn Gebhardt, Henry

Title:

In Pursuit of Optimal Clustering Analysis with Emission Line Surveys

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Astronomy
Astrophysics
Cosmology
Large-Scale Structure
Power Spectrum
Emission-Line Galaxies

File:

Download GrasshornGebhardt-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghui Jeong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghui Jeong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member
Caryl Ann Gronwall, Committee Member
Sarah Elizabeth Shandera, Outside Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member
Randall Lee Mcentaffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mansur, Naheed Natasha

Title:

Child, School, and Labor: A multi-vocal study of working children in Bangladesh

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

Child labor
Video-cued multi vocal ethnography
Out-of-school children
Education policy and working children

File:

Download Dissertation_MANSUR.pdf

Committee Members:

David Post, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member
Joseph M Valente, Outside Member
Scott A Roths, Outside Member
David Parker, Special Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gonzalez Angel, Ana Maria

Title:

Genomic and Transcriptomic Insights on the -Orbicella- Species Complex

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Coral Reefs
Orbicella
genomics
transcriptomics
speciation
reproductive isolation

File:

Download 2019_11_24_DoctoralDissertation_AMGA_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Monica Medina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Outside Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bersch, Brian

Title:

ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT IN SYNTHETIC TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND NOVEL GRAPHENE/METAL HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
MoS2
WSe2
graphene
2D-Ga
2D-metals
superconducting heterostructures
TMDs
transition metal dichalcogenides
confinement heteroepitaxy
CHet
intercalation
SiC
MOCVD
field-effect transistors
transport
2D superconductors
2D heterostructures

File:

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Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Choi, Jinhang

Title:

Context-Aware Design and Optimization of Embedded Deep Neural Network Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Deep Neural Networks
Design Automation
Parallel Architectures
Edge Computing

File:

Download JChoi-PhDDissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Outside Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jiang, Xueyuan

Title:

Sequence and Expression Evolution of Animal and Plant Genes

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Sequence evolution; Expression evolution

File:

Download Xueyuan_Jiang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Raquel Assis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shaun Mahony, Committee Member
Yifei Huang, Committee Member
Qunhua Li, Outside Member
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
Raquel Assis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Davis, Laurin Goad

Title:

Open-Air Architecture and the Student Body in the United States, 1904-1940

Graduate Program:

Art History

Keywords:

open-air schools
education
health
architecture

File:

Download Davis_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Craig Robert Zabel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Craig Robert Zabel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amara Leah Solari, Committee Member
Robin Lemuel Thomas, II, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Member
Elizabeth C Mansfield, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stokes, Jamesa

Title:

Molten Silicate Reactivity with Environmental Barrier Coating Materials for Gas Turbine Engine Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

environmental barrier coatings
CMAS
glass
rare earth disilicate
crystallization
EBC
yttrium disilicate
ytterbium disilicate
apatite
melting

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Edward Wolfe, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Richard Hellmann, Jr., Committee Member
John C Mauro, Committee Member
Peter J Heaney, Outside Member
Bryan Harder, Special Member
Valerie Wiesner, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tupikov, Yevhen

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF SONGBIRD HVC MICROCIRCUIT FOR PRECISE TIMING

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

songbird
HVC
polychronous
precise timing
neural circuit
song learning
song development
sequence growth

File:

Download YevhenTupikov-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dezhe Jin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dezhe Jin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kenigsberg, Abby

Title:

Elastodynamic and Mechanical Properties of Smectite-Rich Fault Gouge

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

smectite
fault gouge
velocities
fabric
permeability

File:

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Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member
Jacques Riviere, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Messina, Kyle

Title:

Influence of biological small molecules on the twister ribozyme and development of methodologies to study and discover small ribozymes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

RNA
Twister Ribozyme
Kinetics
Small Molecule
Cryo-EM
Bioinformatics

File:

Download Messina_KJ_2019_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip C Bevilacqua, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Craig Eugene Cameron, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Turley, Colin

Title:

Time Sensitive Searches for Electromagnetic Counterparts to High Energy Neutrinos

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Multimessenger Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High-energy physics
Gaussian Processes
Neutrino Astrophysics
gamma-ray astrophysics
gamma ray bursts
blazars
quasars
active galaxies
Swift satellite
Fermi satellite

File:

Download turleythesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Brindley Fox, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Cowen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Khota Murase, Committee Member
G. Jogesh Babu, Outside Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

White, Julie

Title:

Investigations into the genetic architecture of the human face

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

geometric morphometrics
GWAS
facial genetics
facial asymmetry
3D imaging

File:

Download FigureS11_AllMultiPeakLoci.pdfDownload TableS1_PreviousGWASHits.xlsxDownload TableS3_SuggestiveHits.zipDownload TableS4_203LeadSNPs.xlsxDownload TableS5_MultiPeakLoci.xlsxDownload TableS6_MultiEffectSNPs.xlsxDownload TableS7_ModelEstimatesAfterRefinement.xlsxDownload White_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Shriver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Shriver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George H Perry, Committee Member
Joan Therese Richtsmeier, Committee Member
Hannah M.C. Schreier, Outside Member
Mary Katherine Shenk, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khan, Mohammad Nasim

Title:

Assuring Security and Privacy of Emerging Non-Volatile Memories

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Non-Volatile Memory
NVM
Security
Privacy
Reliability
Testing
STTRAM
RRAM
PCM
MRAM
FeRAM

File:

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Committee Members:

Swaroop Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Trent Ray Jaeger, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Swaroop Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Ouyang, Yuxia

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF CONSUMPTION INFORMATION ON THE VALUATION OF ORGANIC FOOD AND THE MODERATING EFFECT OF CONSUMER CITIZENSHIP

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management

Keywords:

Consumption information
Consumer citizenship
Organic food
Willingness to pay
Economic valuation
Mixed methods

File:

Download Yuxia_Ouyang_-_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Amit Sharma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amit Sharma, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hubert Van Hoof, Committee Member
Seoki Lee, Committee Member
Amit Sharma, Outside Member
James Rosenberger, Outside Member
Anna S Mattila, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Narayanan, Iyswarya

Title:

Towards maximizing the efficiency of datacenter power and server infrastructure

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

datacenter
power management
resource management
capacity planning
energy storage in a datacenter
datacenters

File:

Download FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Hosam K. Fathy, Outside Member
Timothy Zhu, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Calhoun, Brian Hardin

Title:

BEYOND HEAVY EPISODIC DRINKING: MULTI-LEVEL MODELS LINKING PREGAME HEAVY ALCOHOL USE, DAY DRINKING, AND HIGH-INTENSITY DRINKING WITH ACUTE AND MEDIUM-TERM NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES AND RISKY BEHAVIORS ACROSS COLLEGE

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

college drinking
heavy episodic drinking
high-intensity drinking
pregaming
day drinking
multilevel modeling

File:

Download Brian_Calhoun_Dissertation_11.1.2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Lianne Maggs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diana Fishbein, Committee Member
Jeremy Staff, Outside Member
Michael A Russell, Outside Member
Lesley Anne Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Aurite, William Robert

Title:

FACTORS IN GENETIC DATA SHARING DECISIONS

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Genetic Data Sharing
Genetic Data
Genetic Data Privacy
Personal Privacy
Interdependent Privacy

File:

Download Aurite_Dissertation_Informatics_-FINAL-_.pdf

Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrea Tapia, Committee Member
Lynette Yarger, Committee Member
Alyssa Ann Gamaldo, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Subramanian, Anita

Title:

THE EFFECT OF PRENATAL VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION ON MATERNAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND PLACENTAL ANGIOGENESIS IN BANGLADESH

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Pregnancy
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Placental Growth Factor
Angiogenic Factors
Vitamin D
Placental Villi
Systolic Blood Pressure
Diastolic Blood Pressure

File:

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Committee Members:

Alison Diane Gernand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alison Diane Gernand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiang Gao, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Francisco Javier Diaz, Outside Member
Daniel E. Roth, Special Member
Laura E Murray-Kolb, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Xi

Title:

Enzyme Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Enzyme Diffusion
Enzyme Chemotaxis
Cascade Reaction
Enzyme Assembly
Aggregation
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
Microfluidics
Active Matter
Nanoscale Motility

File:

Download thesis__Xi_Zhao_final_formatting.pdf

Committee Members:

Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Igor S Aronson, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Passary, Donny

Title:

Studies of partition functions with conditions on parts and parity

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Partitions
Parity
Overpartitions
Congruences
Mock theta functions
Partition identities

File:

Download DP-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

George E Andrews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George E Andrews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ae Ja Yee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Committee Member
Donald Richards, Outside Member
James A Sellers, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Program Head/Chair
Ae Ja Yee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hughes, Camilla

Title:

MOLECULAR CHANGES IN THE CORPUS LUTEUM DURING MATERNAL RECOGNITION OF PREGNANCY

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Corpus luteum
Pregnancy
Bovine
Maternal Recognition of Pregnancy
Progesterone
Immune Cell

File:

Download Dissertation_CHKHughes_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joy Lee Pate, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joy Lee Pate, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Troy Ott, Committee Member
Wansheng Liu, Committee Member
A Catharine Ross, Outside Member
Terry D Etherton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cui, Jin

Title:

Insights into the epigenetic regulation of Unstable factor for orange1 in maize

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Unstable factor for orange1
Maize genetics
RNA-seq
small-RNA
DNA methylation
alternative splicing

File:

Download Final_submission_JinCui.pdf

Committee Members:

Surinder Chopra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Surinder Chopra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Majid R Foolad, Committee Member
Jesse R Lasky, Outside Member
David Robert Huff, Committee Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guo, Tiantong

Title:

Regularized Deep Networks For Inverse Problems In Image Processing And Vision

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Regularized Deep Networks
Inverse Problems
Image Processing
Computer Vision

File:

Download tt_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stefansson, Gudmundur

Title:

Extreme Precision Photometry and Radial Velocimetry from the Ground

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

astrophysics
astronomy
exoplanets
extrasolar planets
instrumentation
observations
spectroscopy
planets

File:

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Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Randall Lee Mcentaffer, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Outside Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Frederick R Hearty, Committee Member
Donald P Schneider, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Fu

Title:

Defect Engineering of Two-Dimensional Electronically Functional Materials

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
Material synthesis
Transmission electron microscopy
Defect engineering
Optical and electronic properties

File:

Download PhD_thesis_Fu_Zhang_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhu, Qiong

Title:

The Local Economic Impact of International Students

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Economic Impact
International Student
Spatial Econometrics

File:

Download Dissertation_final_Qiong_Zhu.pdf

Committee Members:

John Jesse Cheslock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leticia Oseguera, Committee Member
Kevin Kinser, Committee Member
Guangqing Chi, Outside Member
Liang Zhang, Special Member
Leticia Oseguera, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Habashy, Noel

Title:

“If I had more of a relationship with them, it would be good”: Community members' perspectives of Community-Engaged Education Abroad programs in Costa Rica

Graduate Program:

Agricultural Education

Keywords:

Education Abroad
Service Learning
International Service Learning
Community Development
International Development
Costa Rica
Community Engaged Education Abroad

File:

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Committee Members:

Nicole Sheree Webster, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Connie Devine Baggett, Committee Member
Kathleen J D Sexsmith, Outside Member
Carter A Hunt, Outside Member
Edgar Yoder, Committee Member
Mark A Brennan, Jr., Program Head/Chair

Author:

Spencer, Lauren A.

Title:

SOCIAL SHARING OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL EVENTS: WHETHER OR NOT SHARING HELPS DEPENDS ON THE LISTENER’S RESPONSE

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

affect
emotion regulation
coping
interpersonal closeness
interpersonal emotion regulation
social support

File:

Download SPENCER_DISSERTATION_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Gasper, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Gasper, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephanie A Shields, Committee Member
Alicia Ann Grandey, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member
Melvin Michael Mark, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Byerly, Jack Cameron

Title:

Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of Neighborhood Effects on Mental Health among Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Neighborhood effects
Older adults

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Augustus Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Eric Silver, Committee Member
David Manuel Almeida, Outside Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Shue

Title:

The role of high density lipoprotein for alcohol intake and myocardial infarction: results from two prospective cohorts

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

alcohol intake
HDL
cardiovascular disease
prospective cohort
mediation analysis
longitudinal analysis

File:

Download Penn_State_Dissertation_Shue_Huang_4.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiang Gao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Gao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Penny Margaret Kris-Etherton, Committee Member
Sy-Miin Chow, Outside Member
Gregory C Shearer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory C Shearer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
A Catharine Ross, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schoeneman, John

Title:

International Corporate Networks: A study of Foreign Direct Investment, Executive Hiring, and Lobbying

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

International Political Economy
Social Network Analysis
Corporate Networks

File:

Download Schoeneman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Zorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Zorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bruce A Desmarais, Jr., Committee Member
Boliang Zhu, Committee Member
Xiaoyue Niu, Outside Member
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Santos Thedin, Regis

Title:

An Investigation of coupled atmospheric turbulence and ship airwakes for helicopter-ship dynamic interface simulations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

CFD
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Ship Airwakes
Flight Dynamics
Rotorcraft

File:

Download thedin2019phdthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sven Schmitz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven Schmitz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Member
Michael P Kinzel, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kirkpatrick., Daphne

Title:

THE IMPACT OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S PRINCIPAL EFFECTIVENESS FRAMEWORK FOR LEADERSHIP

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

Principal Effectiveness
Framework for Leadership
Principal Evaluation
Superintendent Roles and Responsibilities
Superintendent's Professional Development
Principal Supervisors
Pennsylvania

File:

Download DISSERTATION_KIRKPATRICK_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Deborah Lynn Schussler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Lynn Schussler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tiffany M Squires, Committee Member
Marsha Elizabeth Modeste, Committee Member
John Ewing, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Shuo

Title:

MULTISTAGE BREAST CARCINOGENESIS MODELING USING TRANSGENIC MICE: BIOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

breast cancer
transgenic mouse model
chemical carcinogenesis
DMBA
targeted therapy
mechanisms of resistance

File:

Download Shuo_Li_Final_Dissertation_.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Joseph Gunther, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa M Shantz, Committee Member
Douglas B Stairs, Committee Member
Todd Schell, Outside Member
Wafik El-Deiry, Special Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dong, Zefeng

Title:

THREE ESSAYS ON CONSUMER DEMAND, HEALTH AND FOOD ENVIRONMENT

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Consumer Demand
Food Environments
Obesity
Type 2 Diabetes
Physical Activity

File:

Download Zefeng_Dong_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Jaenicke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Jaenicke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Harvey Wrenn, II, Committee Member
Peter William Newberry, Outside Member
Yizao Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Jaenicke, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roman-Martinez, Angel

Title:

Mackey Bijection for some Reductive Groups and Continuous Fields of Reduced C*-Algebras

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Representation theory
Mackey bijection
Reduced group C*-algebra

File:

Download Math_Dissertation-Angel_Roman.pdf

Committee Members:

Nigel David Higson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nigel David Higson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nathanial Patrick Brown, Committee Member
Paul Frank Baum, Committee Member
Murat Gunaydin, Outside Member
Eyal Subag, Special Member
Carina Pamela Curto, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Paudel, Sulav

Title:

INSECT-PLANT INTERACTIONS IN A WARMING WORLD: EFFECTS OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ON TOMATOES AND THEIR INSECT HERBIVORES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

climate change
elevation
insect-plant interactions
global warming
glucose oxidase
salivary defense elicitors
polyphenol oxidase
trypsin protease inhibitors
induced plant defense
leaf trichomes
domestication
inducibility

File:

Download Sulav_Paudel_2019_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edwin George Rajotte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Majid R Foolad, Outside Member
Gary Felton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mukherjee, Tuhin

Title:

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA BASED MODELING OF COMMON DEFECT FORMATION IN METAL PRINTING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
3D printing
Residual stresses
Defects
Lack of fusion
Heat and fluid flow

File:

Download Thesis_Mukherjee_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Timothy W. Simpson, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yang, Ya Fei

Title:

SOURCES OF EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES AMONG SECOND-GENERATION IMMIGRANTS TO TAIWAN

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

second-generation immigrants
educational inequality
parental involvement
immigrant educational policy
Taiwan

File:

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Committee Members:

David Post, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member
Soo-Yong Byun, Committee Member
Ralph Salvador Oropesa, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nichols, Robert

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF ENVIORNMENTAL POLLUTANTS ON THE GUT MICROBIOME

Graduate Program:

Molecular Toxicology

Keywords:

Microbiome
16S sequencing
Metatranscriptoics
AHR
TCDF
Flow Cytometry

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew David Patterson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew David Patterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary H Perdew, Committee Member
Curtis John Omiecinski, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Outside Member
Curtis John Omiecinski, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zuback, James Scott

Title:

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS BETWEEN FERRITIC AND AUSTENITIC ALLOYS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing
Functionally graded materials
Steels
Hardness
Diffusion
Ferritic alloys
Austenitic alloys
Superalloys

File:

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Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Outside Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rosenberg, Matthew

Title:

A Search for Very High Energy Photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

HAWC
high-energy astrophysics
gamma rays
gamma-ray bursts

File:

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Committee Members:

Miguel Alejandro Mostafa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Miguel Alejandro Mostafa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Kohta Murase, Committee Member
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Outside Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Halper, Sean

Title:

Design Optimization Algorithms for Synthetic Biology Applications

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Synthetic Biology
Metabolic Engineering
CRISPR
Design Optimization
Gene Synthesis

File:

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Committee Members:

Howard M Salis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Howard M Salis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

He, Xin

Title:

MECHANOCHEMISTRY OF ADSORBED MOLECULES AT TRIBOLOGICAL INTERFACES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

tribology; lubrication; mechanochemistry; surface science

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Han Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xueyi Zhang, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member
Seong Han Kim, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liang, Xiao

Title:

TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL IN A CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT CONSIDERING PEDESTRIANS

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Traffic signal control
connected vehicles
autonomous vehicles
pedestrians
genetic algorithm

File:

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Committee Members:

Vikash Varun Gayah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Member
Jose A. Ventura, Outside Member
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukran Ilgin Guler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Joseph Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dong, Yan

Title:

ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF NICKEL-IRON LAYERED DOUBLE HYDROXIDE AS AN OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION CATALYST THROUGH INTERCALATION

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

layered double hydroxde
pH-near-neutral condition
intercalation
in-situ anion exchange
oxygen evolution reaction

File:

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Committee Members:

Sridhar Komarneni, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mohajerani, Farzad

Title:

Interaction-driven Transport of Molecules, Colloids and Vesicles

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Chemotaxis
Diffusiophoresis
Crowding
Soft Materials
Active Materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Darrell Velegol, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell Velegol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Ayusman Sen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip Savage, Program Head/Chair
Ayusman Sen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Bian, Yuchen

Title:

LOCAL COMMUNITY DETECTION ON COMPLEX NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Local community detection
random walk
memory-based random walk
multi-walker chain
query replacement
query node
topology potential field

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiang Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiang Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Zihan Zhou, Committee Member
Chaopeng Shen, Outside Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hu, Zhisheng

Title:

Reinforcement learning for adaptive cyber defense: Algorithms, analysis and experiments

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement learning
Adaptive cyber defense

File:

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Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Peng Liu, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Shannon

Title:

THE USABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT RECORDS FOR INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENT

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

wage records
unemployment insurance
education records
employment records
institutional research
assessment
human capital theory
signaling theory
workforce development
higher education
employment outcomes of education
labor economics
labor research
earnings of college graduates
retention

File:

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Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
John Thomas Harwood, Outside Member
David W. Stevens, Special Member
Susan Mary Land, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jia, Mengyuan

Title:

Genetic characterization and mapping of late blight resistance genes in the wild tomato accession PI 270443

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Late blight
tomato
gene mapping
disease resistance
Recombinant Inbred Line
GBS
RNA-sequencing

File:

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Committee Members:

Majid R Foolad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Majid R Foolad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Guiltinan, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Committee Member
Beth Krueger Gugino, Outside Member
Hamid Ashrafi, Special Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Hong En

Title:

Towards Optimized Feedback and Performance Metrics for Simulation-Based Needle Insertion Training

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

surgical training
eye-tracking
needle insertion
simulation-based training
haptic feedback
skill acquisition

File:

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Committee Members:

Scarlett Rae Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Carson Mccomb, Committee Member
Jason Zachary Moore, Outside Member
Conrad S Tucker, Committee Member
David C Han, Special Member
Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wu, Lihua

Title:

Self-Incompatibility in Petunia: Characterization of S-RNase and S-Locus-F-Box Proteins, and Sequence Analyses of the S-Locus Region Containing Their Genes

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Self-incompatibility
Petunia inflata
S-RNase
S-locus
S-locus-F-box proteins

File:

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Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Teh-Hui Kao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wan, Wendian

Title:

ALGORITHMS FOR OPERATION OF POWER SYSTEMS: RISK, UNCERTAINTY, DISCRETENESS, AND NONCONVEXITY

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

stochastic programming
economic dispatch
power system optimization
nonconvex optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Vinayak V Shanbhag, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member
Guodong Pang, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Outside Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Program Head/Chair
Mort D Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Sclafani, Judith

Title:

Morphological change in response to mass extinction: a case study of Strophomenida (Brachiopoda) at the Late Ordovician

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Late Ordovician mass extinction
recovery
morphometrics
paleoecology
evolutionary history

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark E Patzkowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fan, Long

Title:

Fluid transport behaviors of intact coal and coal measure rocks: applications for subsurface coal mine methane control and coalbed methane production

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Gob permeability
Gob compaction
Cyclic loading
Fracture permeability
Coal permeability
Fracture sliding

File:

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Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffery L Kohler, Committee Member
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
Mathieu Philippe Stienon, Outside Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Berger, Tom

Title:

Handling Qualities Requirements and Control Design for High-Speed Rotorcraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rotorcraft
Handling Qualities
Flight Control System
Control Laws
Tiltrotor
Compound Helicopter

File:

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Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Mark B. Tischler, Special Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair