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Author:

Weathers, Thomas Casey

Title:

CONSERVATION GENETICS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BROOK TROUT (Salvelinus fontinalis)

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Population genetics
Genetic differentiation
Isolation
Fragmentation
Riverscape genetics
Conservation

File:

Download Weathers_PhD_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Edward Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Lee King, Committee Member
Jesse R Lasky, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Matthew A Kulp, Special Member

Author:

Wallace, Anya Michelle

Title:

CURVING SPACETIME: ON PERFORMANCE, PLEASURE, AND THE IMAGINARY BLACK GIRLHOOD SEXUAL POLITICS

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Black girlhood
Girlhood
Visual Culture
Performance Writing
Art Writing
Popular Culture
Narratology
Translation
Language
black hole theory
Philosophy
Sexuality Studies
Gender Studies
Women's Studies
Art Education
Visual Culture Studies
Undisciplined
Body Politics
Black body
Rage
Freedom Studies
Fantasy
Creative Writing
Youth Culture Studies
Prison Culture Studies
Cultural Studies
Children's Narrative Studies
Fiction Studies
Rememory

File:

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Committee Members:

Wanda Knight, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wanda Knight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Grace Hampton, Committee Member
Courtney Desiree Morris, Outside Member
Uju Anya, Outside Member
Booker Stephen Carpenter, II, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Last, Beth Anna

Title:

Multi-scale Microstructure and Thermo-mechanical Characterization for Shape Memory Alloy Design via Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

shape memory alloy
additive manufacturing
microstructure
digital image correlation

File:

Download BethLast_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Reginald Felix Hamilton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Outside Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member

Author:

Ikis, Didem

Title:

ALASKAN PONDS AND THEIR MIGRATORY BIRD AND INSECT COMMUNITIES IN A CHANGING ARCTIC: DEVELOPMENT OF A LONG-TERM INVENTORY AND MONITORING PLAN FOR IZEMBEK NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

BIODIVERSITY
CLIMATE CHANGE
GLOBAL CHANGE
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
PHENOLOGY
SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP
CONSERVATION
ALASKA
ARCTIC
PONDS
INVENTORY & MONITORING
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

File:

Download Dikis-PhD-FINAL-4.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Victoria Anne Braithwaite-Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Committee Member
David Andrew Miller, Committee Member
Eric Post, Outside Member

Author:

Blecher, Jared Jacob

Title:

Hybrid Laser-Arc Welding of Ni-base Alloy 690

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

laser welding
hybrid welding
nickel alloy
keyhole porosity
root defect
inline coherent imaging
heat transfer and fluid flow modeling

File:

Download Blecher_Dissertation_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Outside Member

Author:

Cady, Matthew D

Title:

Nurture TRUMPS Nature: Genetics, The Environment, and Parenting and Their Effect on Child Food Intake and Childhood Obesity

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

childhood obesity
obesity
genetics
adoption
cluster analysis
environmental health
Nurture versus Nature

File:

Download Matt_Cady_Dissertation_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Keller, Committee Member
Jennifer Savage Williams, Committee Member
Melissa Bopp, Outside Member
Jody Ganiban, Special Member

Author:

Yao, Wenqing

Title:

Data-driven sensor recalibration and fault diagnosis in nuclear power plants

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

sensor recalibration
fault diagnosis
nuclear power plants
online monitoring
autoregressive support vector regression
resistance temperature detector

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Wenqing_Yao_20190415.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Kyle Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Justin Kyle Watson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Ivanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James A Turso, Special Member
Xin Jin, Special Member

Author:

Griffin, Dominiqua Monica

Title:

AN INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOL COUNSELING ROLES, PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, AND DEMANDS IN BARBADOS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS IN BARBADOS

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

Barbados
School Counseling
Guidance Counselling
International Education
International School Counseling
Caribbean

File:

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Committee Members:

Julia A Green Bryan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Seriashia Joyce Chatters, Committee Member
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Bharatula, Vasudha

Title:

REGULATION OF STRESS INDUCED GENE EXPRESSION IN SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Msn2
yeast
Stress

File:

Download Vbharatula_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Riley Broach, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Riley Broach, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Lauren Keil, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Committee Member
Scot R Kimball, Outside Member
Oranee Tawatnuntachai, Special Member

Author:

Speacht, Toni Leigh

Title:

Interdependence of the Musculoskeletal System in Response to Unloading, Immobilization, and RANKL

Graduate Program:

Physiology

Keywords:

osteopenia
sarcopenia
unloading
immobilization
RANKL
hindlimb suspension

File:

Download T_Speacht_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles H Lang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles H Lang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Member
Scot R Kimball, Committee Member
Gregory Steven Yochum, Outside Member
Henry Joseph Donahue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Donahue, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Im, Kyungjae

Title:

FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation

File:

Download Dissertation_KJ_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Almishwat, Mohammad Ali

Title:

STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC ENZYMOLOGY OF NUCLEOTIDE INCORPORATION BY A-FAMILY DNA POLYMERASES

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

DNA polymerase
A-family
DNA replication
DNA
Nucleotide incorporation
time-resolved
structural enzymology
X-ray crystallography
high-fidelity

File:

Download AlMishwat_PhD_Dissertation_2019_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Gregory Ferry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Gregory Ferry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Hafenstein, Committee Member
David Scott Gilmour, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Outside Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
Ken Keiler, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dusch, William George

Title:

Data Science in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning tunneling microscopy
data science
machine learning
python
data analysis
deep learning
scanning probe microscopy
condensed matter
software
vibration cancellation
automation
unsupervised learning
physics

File:

Download FinalDissertation-BillDusch.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Hudson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Sofo, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Whitehead, Shelley Alexandra

Title:

Nature Nurtures: How environmental variation influences Anopheles stephensi vectorial capacity

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
malaria
climate change
Anopheles
vector ecology
environmental variation
life history
Plasmodium

File:

Download Whitehead_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Brian Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Pei Wei

Title:

USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO ACCESS AND SUPPORT INFORMAL LEARNING IN MUSEUMS OF TAIWAN AND THE U.S.

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Informal Learning
Social Media

File:

Download PS_LEE.pdf

Committee Members:

Ladislaus M. Semali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ladislaus M. Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adnan Qayyum, Committee Member
Wei-Fan Chen, Committee Member
Roger Shouse, Outside Member

Author:

Patia, Kaitlyn Grace

Title:

The (F)utiliy of Knowledge: The Democratic Faith of W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Democratic Faith
Rhetoric
Memory
Addams
Du Bois
Poetics
Storytelling
Agitation
Hull-House

File:

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rangavittal, Samarth

Title:

ASSEMBLY AND ANALYSIS OF GREAT APE Y CHROMOSOMES

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Keywords:

genome assembly
great ape
Y chromosome
k-mers

File:

Download SR_dissertation_Spring_2019_SUBMISSION_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kateryna Dmytrivna Makova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raquel Assis, Committee Member
Wansheng Liu, Committee Member
Paul Medvedev, Outside Member

Author:

Beck, Faith Rose

Title:

Experimental and Theoretical Study of Oscillatory Two-Phase Flows with Heat and Mass Transfer

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

oscillatory reflood
liquid carryover
stability analysis
heat and mass transfer
thermal-hydraulics
liquid entrainment

File:

Download Faith_Dissertation2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan-Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rui Ni, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Outside Member
Horacio Perez-Blanco, Special Member
Gita Talmage, Special Member
Steven M. Bajorek, Outside Member

Author:

Zhao, Peng

Title:

Multiscale Modeling and Mechanics of 2D Layered Crystals

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Multiscale Modeling
2D Material
Finite Crystal Elasticity

File:

Download opt_Dissertstion_Peng.pdf

Committee Members:

The Pennsylvania State University, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Quinlan, Kevin Randall

Title:

Advances in Design of Computer Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Covering Arrays
Bayesian Design
Plackett and Burman Designs
Experimental Run Order
Optimization

File:

Download Thesis_2262019.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Keith Pearl, Committee Member
David Hunter, Committee Member
Enrique Del Castillo, Outside Member

Author:

Jin, Yue

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF TWO-PHASE FLOW THERMAL-HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR IN ROD BUNDLE DURING REFLOOD TRANSIENTS BASED ON THE RBHT EXPERIMENTAL DATA

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Two-Phase Flow
Heat Transfer
Reflood
Liquid Droplets
Mass Quality
DFFB

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Final_Yue_Jin_-2222222.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan-Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fan-Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Committee Member
Cengiz Camci, Outside Member
Kostadin Ivanov, Special Member
Maria Avramova, Special Member
Bao-Wen Yang, Special Member
Stephen Bajorek, Special Member

Author:

Jain, Abhishek

Title:

Multi-Scale Investigations in Soot Formation and Chemical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Multi-scale
Soot formation
Chemical Vapor Deposition
simulation
nanomaterials

File:

Download AJ-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xuan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Cook, Aaron Matthew

Title:

Economic Issues in Nutrient Pollution Control

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

nutrient pollution
Chesapeake Bay
dynamic control
water quality trading
lag times
multiple pollutants

File:

Download Cook_AEREC_Dissertation_4_08_19.pdf

Committee Members:

James Samuel Shortle, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Harvey Wrenn II, Committee Member
Karen Ann Fisher-Vanden, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Outside Member

Author:

Mathur, Tanmay Dutt

Title:

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS, DESIGN, AND FABRICATION OF PERICYCLIC MECHANICAL TRANSMISSION WITH STRAIGHT BEVEL GEARS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

LTCA
EHL
Internal bevel gear
Pericyclic drive
FSM

File:

Download Mathur-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C. Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C. Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Liming Chang, Committee Member
Robert C. Bill, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Safari, Mahsa

Title:

A REGENERATIVE APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING ENERGY RETROFIT PROJECTS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Retrofit; Project Delivery Method; Regenerative Design

File:

Download MS_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David R Riley II, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David R Riley II, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Somayeh Asadi, Committee Member
James Freihaut, Committee Member
Rachel Alice Brennan, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yaru Grace

Title:

A GIS Imagery Based Woody Biomass Biorefinery Location Model for Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Woody biomass
Pennsylvania
Facility location
GIS
NAIP imagery
Mixed integer linear programming

File:

Download Yaru_Liu_Dissertation_2019_v9.pdf

Committee Members:

Evelyn Ann Thomchick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Alexander Novack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Saurabh Bansal, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Outside Member

Author:

Broka, Damien

Title:

Symplectic Realizations of Non-Degenerate Poisson-Nijenhuis Manifolds

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

differential geometry
mathematical physics
complex variables
symplectic geometry

File:

Download damienbroka-phd.pdf

Committee Members:

Ping Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member
Adrian Ocneanu, Committee Member
Martin Bojowald, Outside Member
Mathieu Philippe Stienon, Committee Member

Author:

Lauvaux, Catherine Tasarla

Title:

UNDERSTANDING TRAJECTORIES OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE: THE RESPONSES OF A ROCKY MOUNTAIN FOREST-SAGGEBRUSH-GRASSLAND LANDSCAPE TO FIRE SUPPRESSION, LIVESTOCK GRAZIN, AND CLIMATE

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

fire suppression
fire history
Rocky mountains
Sawtooth National Forest
Soldier mountains
Douglas-fir
whitebark pine
sagebrush
subalpine fir
livestock grazing
tree enchroachment
vegetation dynamics
tree mortality
fire severity

File:

Download C_LauvauxDissertationSubmitted2.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan H Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan H Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Outside Member

Author:

Barney, Danielle

Title:

Intersections of Athletics and Institutional Identity in Women's College Transitions to Coeducation

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
intercollegiate athletics
coeducation
gender
institutional change
institutional identity

File:

Download Dissertation-Fall_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Geiger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Geiger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Member
Mark Dyreson, Committee Member
Jessica Lynn Schultz, Outside Member

Author:

Peng, Jiayu

Title:

New Developments in Design of Experiments

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Optimal design
Order-of-addition
Run order
Screening design
Exchange algorithm
Traveling Salesman Problem

File:

Download Jiayu_Peng_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Logan Reimherr, Committee Member
Xingyuan Fang, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Outside Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair
James Rosenberger, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Ching Chi

Title:

Dimensional Analysis for Response Surface Methodology

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Dimension reduction
Function approximation
Optimization
Variable selection

File:

Download Dissertation_CCY_17May19.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Kon-Jin Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Lin, Alex Yu

Title:

SOMATIC LOSS OF MATERNAL POLA2 CAUSES TISSUE-DEPENDENT CELL DEATH AND DNA DAMAGE IN POLA2 MUTANT ZEBRAFISH

Graduate Program:

Cell and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

DNA polymerase alpha
huli hutu
hht
zebrafish
DNA damage
Cell cycle arrest
Cell death

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_-_Alex_Yu-Shun_Lin_-_Final_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Keith C Cheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith C Cheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristin Ann Eckert, Committee Member
Douglas B Stairs, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Outside Member

Author:

Vu, Tiep

Title:

Signal classification under structured sparsity constraints

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Signal Classification
Sparsity Coding
Dictionary Learning
Image Classification
Optimization

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Outside Member

Author:

You, Cheng

Title:

Air Quality and Health Effects: Systematic Investigation

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Time Series
Detrending
Smoothing
Spline
Kernel
Regression
Case Crossover
Short-term Change
Long-term Trend
Acute Effect
Chronic Effect
Air Quality
Environmental Epidemiology

File:

Download ChengYou-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis K.J. Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis K.J. Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim M. Hanks, Committee Member
Yanyuan Ma, Committee Member
Fuqing Zhang, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Yuelong

Title:

Low-rank and Sparse Structures in Computational Imaging: Analysis and Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

High dynamic range imaging
Computational Imaging
Image alignment and stitching
Optimization
Statistical Estimation
Low-rank and Sparsity

File:

Download PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vishal Monga, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William E. Higgins, Committee Member
David J. Miller, Committee Member
Sean Brennan, Outside Member
Jesse Barlow, Committee Member

Author:

Yuan, Yakun

Title:

PROBING EMERGING PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX OXIDES AWAY FROM GROUND STATES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

complex oxides
nonlinear optics
phase retrieval X-ray crystallography
optical pump probe spectroscopy
polar metal

File:

Download Dissertation_YakunYuan.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Member
Richard D. Averitt, Special Member
James M. Rondinelli, Special Member

Author:

Nissley, Daniel

Title:

Modeling and predicting co-translational protein folding with chemical kinetic and molecular dynamic simulations

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

co-translational folding
protein synthesis
protein folding
synonymous codon
non-equilibrium

File:

Download Nissley_Dan_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward P. O'Brien, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Patrick O'Brien Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
William George Noid, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Outside Member

Author:

Hasanian, Mostafa

Title:

MUTUAL NONLINEAR INTERACTION OF ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVES IN PLATE, APPLICATIONS FOR NDE

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Nonlinear Ultrasonics
Wave Mixing
Nondestructive Evaluation
Mutual Interactions

File:

Download Hasanian-_PhD_Dissertation-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Bernhard Tittmann, Committee Member
Parisa Shokouhi, Outside Member

Author:

Marianelli, Allyson

Title:

Polymer-Based Experimental Model Systems for Intracellular Organization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

liquid liquid phase separation
macromolecular crowding
coacervation
giant vesicle
protocell
microfluidics

File:

Download Thesis_vFinal_112930.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Scott Eugene Lindner, Outside Member

Author:

Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Saranya

Title:

PROBING INTERFACIAL WATER STRUCTURE NEXT TO LIPID MEMBRANES USING VIBRATIONAL SUM FREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy
Interfacial Water Structure
Phospholipid monolayers
Ion-Lipid Interactions

File:

Download Saranya_Pullanchery_Dissertation_2018_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S. Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Li, Lingyu

Title:

SAFETY EFFECTS OF SHOULDER AND CENTERLINE RUMBLE STRIPS: A BAYESIAN PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING FRAMEWORK

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Propensity score matching
crash modification factor
shoulder and centerline rumble strips
safety effect estimates
causal inference
Bayesian method
covariate balancing

File:

Download Lingyu_Doctoral_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric T. Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric T. Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vikash V. Gayah, Committee Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Committee Member
Kari Lock Morgan, Outside Member

Author:

Stroup, Andrea Marie

Title:

An Introduction to the Electronic Waterpipe

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

Electronic waterpipe
e-waterpipe
hookah
e-head
waterpipe
electronic nicotine delivery systems

File:

Download Stroup_Final_Dissertation_-_revisions.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven A Branstetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven A Branstetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas J Gould, Committee Member
Stephanie Trea Lanza, Committee Member
Marianne Messersmith Hillemeier, Outside Member

Author:

Hodgson, John Gregory

Title:

COMPARISONS OF MEASURES OF CRITICAL THINKING AND ANALYTIC PERFORMANCE: EXPLORATORY STUDIES

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

critical thinking
intelligence analysis
participatory action research

File:

Download hodgson_critical_thinking.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Raymond Haynes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Raymond Haynes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richard Shemanski, Committee Member
Edward J Glantz, Committee Member
Guido Cervone, Outside Member

Author:

Bombile, Joel

Title:

Tight Binding Model of Charge Localization and Excitons in Semiconducting Polymers

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Organic electronics
Semiconducting polymers
Tight binding
Charge localization
Polaron
Exciton
Charge Transport

File:

Download Bombile-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Thomas Milner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member
Michael John Janik, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Rodriguez, Laura Elise

Title:

THE REACTIVITY OF NITROGEN HETEROCYCLES IN COMPLEX PREBIOTIC MIXTURES: USING CHEMICAL TRENDS TO EVALUATE PLAUSIBLE STRUCTURES OF PRIMITIVE GENETIC MATERIAL ON EARLY EARTH

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Astrobiology
Origins of life
Nucleobases
RNA World
Pre-RNA
Mass spectrometry
Michael addition

File:

Download Dissertation_Rodriguez_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Howard House, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Howard House, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Outside Member

Author:

Ozber, Natali

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF TRAFFICKING ROUTES OF THE MOVEMENT PROTEIN (MP) OF OURMIA MELON VIRUS (OUMV) AND IDENTIFICATION OF OUMV MP-INTERACTING PROTEINS IN PLANTS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

plant virus
trafficking pathways
plant–pathogen interaction
virus movement
host factors

File:

Download Natali_Ozber_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Cristina Rosa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cristina Rosa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Simou

Title:

Sensing and Characterizing Interactions with Lipid Membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Lipid Membrane
Biosensor
Physical Chemistry

File:

Download Simou_Sun_Final_Dissertation_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Cremer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member
Craig Eugene Cameron, Outside Member

Author:

Lewis, Allison Michelle

Title:

The Ecology and Functional Significance of Distinct Coral Symbionts

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Indo-Pacific
Scleractinia
Symbiodiniaceae
Endosymbiosis
Ecological Specialization
Calcification
Physiology
Caribbean
Taxonomy

File:

Download Lewis_Allison_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Todd C Lajeunesse, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Monica Medina, Committee Member
Todd C Lajeunesse, Committee Member
Timothy Iwao Miyashiro, Outside Member

Author:

Wei, Dandan

Title:

Understanding the oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds in the Amazon rainforest: field observations and model results

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Biogenic organic compounds
Amazon rainforest
Ozone
Isoprene
atmospheric oxidation
hydroxyl radicals
turbulent mixing

File:

Download Penn_State_University_Thesis_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose D. Fuentes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose D. Fuentes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William H. Brune, Committee Member
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Miriam Freedman maf43@psu.edu, Outside Member
John Orlando, Special Member

Author:

Sinding, Kyle Matthew

Title:

Evaluation of Pressure Field Estimation From Measured Velocity Fields, With Application to Tip Vortex Flows

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Pressure Estimation
Tip Vortex
Error propagation
Stereo Particle Image Velocimetry
Measured Velocity Fields
Pressure Fluctuations

File:

Download Sinding_Dissertation_Final_12_7_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael H Krane, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Michael H Krane, Committee Member
Stephen P Lynch, Outside Member
Jeff R Harris, Special Member
John Dabiri, Special Member