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Author:

Mannon, Ethan Bruce

Title:

Reading the Earth Workers: The Georgic Mode in Twentieth-century American Literature and Writing

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Georgic
Pastoral
Agriculture
Farming

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Edwin Burkholder, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ian Stuart Marshall, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Sally Mcmurry, Committee Member
James Eisenstein, Committee Member
Bryan Lee Mcdonald, Special Member

Author:

Shorter, Jameliah Inga

Title:

Kantian Cosmopolitanism and the Racial Hierarchy

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

race
Kant
Cosmopolitanism
Anlagen
slavery

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Teresa Gines, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Special Member

Author:

Weeber, Susan Cooke

Title:

Poetics of Interruption: Media and Form in Twentieth-Century Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature; African American literature; critical race theory; aesthetics; media

File:

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Committee Members:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Michael Bell, Committee Member
Benjamin Jared Schreier, Committee Member
Nergis Erturk Lennon, Outside Member
Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member

Author:

Hensley, David J.

Title:

Defending French in Flanders, 1880-1975

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Flanders
Belgium
Language policy
Minorities
French language

File:

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Committee Members:

Sophie C De Schaepdrijver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jennifer Boittin, Committee Member
John Philip Jenkins, Committee Member
Willa Zahava Silverman, Committee Member

Author:

Hasan, Aminah Amatullah

Title:

Metaphysics, War And The Critique Of The Conatus Essendi In Emmanuel Levinas

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Levinas
french philosophy
phenomenology
early modern
20th century philosophy
17th century philosohphy
spinoza
Heidegger
metaphysics
ethics
politics
war
peace
conatus
philosophy
17th/18th century philosophy

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Member
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Committee Member
Benjamin Jared Schreier, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Shan-Jan Sarah

Title:

Gendering the Huddled Masses: Media Framing of Immigration and its Impact on Public Opinion

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

gender
immigration
citizenship
media
comparative politics

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee Ann Banaszak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Ann Banaszak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna Bahry, Committee Member
Vineeta Yadav, Committee Member
Lise Nelson, Outside Member

Author:

Stafford, Andrew Robert

Title:

Creative Gender and the Flaubertian Imaginary

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

Gustave Flaubert
Gender identity
19th Century Literature
French Literature
Creative agency
Madame Bovary
Salammbô
Education sentimentale
Bouvard et Pécuchet

File:

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Committee Members:

Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benedicte Marie-Christine Monicat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn Marie Grossman, Committee Member
Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Committee Member
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Outside Member

Author:

Alladin, Terrence

Title:

An Analysis of Public and Private Community Corrections in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

Community corrections
recidivism
privatization
efficiency and effectiveness

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Ames Peterson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven Ames Peterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Charles Hummer Ii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Goktug Morcol, Committee Member
Clemmie Edward Gilpin, Special Member

Author:

Middlewood, Brianna Lia

Title:

IF YOU’RE NEITHER FOR NOR AGAINST US, THEN YOU’RE AGAINST US: PERCEPTIONS OF INDIFFERENCE

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Indifference
Appraisal Theory of Emotion
Social Psychology
Emotion-perception

File:

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Committee Members:

Karen Gasper, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Gasper, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet Swim, Committee Member
Mel Mark, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member

Author:

Brock, Theresa Marie

Title:

Resisting Power, Subverting Discourse: Genre, Reception, and Women’s Subjectivation in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron

Graduate Program:

French

Keywords:

French
Heptaméron
literature
Early Modern
Genre
Reception Theories
Women's and Gender Studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jean-Claude Vuillemin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bénédicte Monicat, Committee Member
Christine Clark-Evans, Committee Member
Thomas Beebee, Outside Member

Author:

Jones, Laura

Title:

Climate Variation and Pathogen Pressure Impact the Ecology and Evolution of Bees in Agroecosystems

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

solitary bee
pollinator
agroecosystem
thermal tolerance
climate
pathogen

File:

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Committee Members:

Margarita Lopez-Uribe, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Kennedy, Major Field Member
Rudolf Schilder, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tracy Langkilde, Major Field Member
Jared Ali, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Douglas Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Quesenberry, Krista Dawn

Title:

Reading at the Intersection of Modernist, Feminist, and Lifewriting Studies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American literature
modernism
modernist
lifewriting
autobiography
feminism
feminist
gender
sexuality
interdisciplinary
cross-disciplinary
feminist science studies
feminist ethics
disability studies

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Susan Squier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Susan Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Robert Caserio, Committee Member
Dr. Sandra Spanier, Committee Member
Dr. Sarah Clark Miller, Outside Member

Author:

Scott, Stephanie Marie

Title:

Beyond National Trauma: Experiential Memory and Epistemic Practices in the Literature of Ireland and Irish-America's Minoritized Populations

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

contemporary literature
epistemology
ethics
Ireland
postcolonial literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Stewart Morrisson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Edmond Marsh, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Outside Member
Paige Reynolds, Special Member

Author:

Matzko, Paul Edward

Title:

Creating the Silent Majority: State Censorship and the Radio Right in the 1960s

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

conservatism
New Right
New Christian Right
radio
broadcasting
Walter Reuther
National Council of Churches
United Church of Christ
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Federal Communications Commission
Internal Revenue Service
Carl McIntire
Billy James Hargis
H. L. Hunt
Fairness Doctrine
censorship
Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC
WLBT
WXUR
Everett C. Parker
E. William Henry
Ronald Reagan
Radio Right

File:

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Committee Members:

Philip Jenkins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Scott Cross, Committee Member
Philip Jenkins, Committee Member
Roger Kent Finke, Outside Member
Amy S Greenberg, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jiang, Tong

Title:

A GABAergic increase of principal neural activity promotes stress resilience and reversal of the detrimental effects of chronic stress exposure in brain region- and sex-specific manner

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Chronic stress
Stress resilience
Neurobiology
Neuroscience
GABAergic interneuron
Chemogenetics
Rodent behavior

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Committee Members:

Timothy J Jegla, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Donna Korzick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yingwei Mao, Chair of Committee
Nikki Crowley, Major Field Member
Bernhard Luscher, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Jauregui, Marjorie

Title:

The Role of Mushrooms and Microgreens as sources of Essential Nutrients and Non-nutritive Phytochemicals in a Post-nuclear Catastrophe Scenario

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Nuclear catastrophe
nuclear winter
microgreens
mushrooms
hot-air drying
protein
vitamins
phytochemicals

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Committee Members:

Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Alison Gernand, Outside Unit & Field Member
Helene Hopfer, Co-Chair of Committee
Joshua Lambert, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Ziegler, Major Field Member

Author:

Seiler, Jacob

Title:

Energy Dispatch Optimization with Combined Heat and Power: Opportunities in Controlled Environment Agriculture and Data Centers

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Dispatch Optimization
Controlled Environment Agriculture
Data Center
Energy Management
Combined Heat and Power
Energy Storage
Carbon Capture
Carbon Utilization

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Seth Blumsack, Outside Unit & Field Member
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
James Freihaut, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julian Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Sullivan, Rhea

Title:

Opioid-responsive microRNAs in neural stem cell fates: implications for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome infants

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

opioid
neonatal
neurodevelopment
microRNA
saliva
withdrawal
NOWS
NAS
iPSC
neural
stem cells
differentiation

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Committee Members:

Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Proctor, Outside Unit Member
Steven Hicks, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jeffrey Sundstrom, Major Field Member
Robert Levenson, Co-Chair of Committee
Zissis Chroneos, Outside Field Member

Author:

Munson, Nicholas

Title:

Investigation Of Novel Antenna Array Architectures

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Antenna Array
Frequency Diverse Array
Beamforming
Sudoku
Frequency Hopping
Radar Waveform Design

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Ram Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Cullina, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Doherty, Major Field Member
William Correll Jr., Special Member
Travis D Bufler, Special Member

Author:

Fisher, Rose

Title:

Grammatical Gender and Number in Pennsylvania Dutch: Continuing Down the Path of Nominal Deflection

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Pennsylvania Dutch
Morphology
Grammatical gender
Number
Amish
Mennonites
Dialectology
Language change

File:

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Committee Members:

Carrie Jackson, Program Head/Chair
Michael Putnam, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Richard Page, Major Field Member
John Lipski, Outside Field Member
Matthew Carlson, Outside Unit Member
Carrie Jackson, Major Field Member

Author:

Qiu, Ling

Title:

Human-Centered AI In Healthcare: Voice Assistant For Accessible Remote Health Interventions

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

health
voice assistant
human computer interaction
health interventions
breast cancer
dementia

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
S. Shyam Sundar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Joshi, Tejaswini

Title:

"I” The True Instrument: The Rhetorics of Ethnographic Research Practice in HCI

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Human Computer Interaction
Ethnography
Theories and Methods
Humanistic Essay
Subjectivity
Qualitative Research Methods
Reflexive Research

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kathleen Sexsmith, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member
Priya Kumar, Major Field Member

Author:

Cui, Zheng

Title:

Who is the Leader? Media Representation of Global Climate Leadership in the United States and China (2009–2021)

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

global climate regime
climate leadership
news media
mixed methods.

File:

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Sara Liao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Juliet Pinto, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Major Field Member
Christofer Skurka, Major Field Member

Author:

Sharan, Sharad

Title:

Higher-Order Methods for Trajectory Design in Multi-Body Environments

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Two-point boundary value problem
Cislunar Space
Multi-Order Shooting Scheme (MOSS)
Higher-order Differential Correction
Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem (CR3BP)
Bi-Circular Restricted 4-Body Problem (BCR4BP)
Trajectory Optimization
Multi-body system

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Alok Sinha, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Melton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Puneet Singla, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Major Field Member

Author:

Li, Bowen

Title:

Properties and Applications of Magnetic materials for flexible electronics

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Magetic Materials
Laser-induced Graphene
Flexible Electronics
Soft Materials
Wearable Sensors
Soft Robotics

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Committee Members:

Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Lenahan, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Outside Field Member
Larry Cheng, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Shaikh, Kashif Ahmed

Title:

Roles of ZFAND6 in regulating mitochondrial homeostasis and innate immune signaling

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

ZFAND6
Mitophagy
TRAF2
cIAP1
Inflammasome
cGAS-STING
mitochondria
ROS
inflammation
innate immunity

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Committee Members:

Amanda Nelson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Aron Lukacher, Major Field Member
Zissis Chroneos, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Ziaur Rahman, Special Member
Edward Harhaj, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kopp, Marissa

Title:

Control Points of Soil Greenhouse Gasses in Forested Socioecological Systems

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

soil respiration
soil CO2 efflux
soil carbon
carbon
forest
communication
control points

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Committee Members:

Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Erica Smithwick, Major Field Member
Shannon Cruz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jason Kaye, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Duncan, Major Field Member

Author:

Kline, Lindsey

Title:

The Development, Ideologies, and Possibilities of Structured Global Health Programs in U.S. Medical Schools

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Global Health
Medical Education
Critical Internationalization
Structured Global Health Programs

File:

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Committee Members:

Karly Ford, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Karen Paulson, Major Field Member
N. Benjamin Fredrick, Special Member
Kevin Kinser, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Cossa, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karly Ford, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Joshi, Prathamesh

Title:

Advancements in and operations of gravitational-wave searches during the fourth observing run

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Gravitational waves
astronomy
data analysis
gravitational-wave searches
LIGO

File:

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Committee Members:

Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Major Field Member
Chad Hanna, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Shandera, Major Field Member

Author:

Sadek, Mansura

Title:

WHAT’S LIMITING THE OPERATING VOLTAGE IN GALLIUM NITRIDE LATERAL DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Gallium Nitride
Semiconductor
superjunction
power device
Isolation
HEMT
Implantation

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Rongming Chu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sukwon Choi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member

Author:

Hong, Sungwan

Title:

Essays on International Trade and Climate Change

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

green industrial policy
Inflation Reduction Act
energy transition
re- newable energy equipment trade
green industrial policy
Inflation Reduction Act
energy transition
international trade
renewable energy equipment

File:

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Committee Members:

Barry Ickes, Program Head/Chair
Fernando Parro, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jingting Fan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Yeaple, Major Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Ho, Sheng-Yang Kevin

Title:

The rational torsion subgroups of the Drinfeld modular Jacobians for prime power levels

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Drinfeld modules
Jacobians of Drinfeld modular curves
Modular units
Harmonic cochains
Eisenstein ideals

File:

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Committee Members:

Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, Program Head/Chair
Naser Talebizadeh Sardari, Major Field Member
Rose Zbiek, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mihran Papikian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wen-Ching Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Huang, Ruiquan

Title:

Provably Efficient and Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement Learning
Bandits
Federated Learning
Differential Privacy
Safety
Multi-task Learning
POMDP
Reward-free RL
Low-rank MDPs
Predictive State Representations
PSRs
Regret
Sample Complexity
Optimism
Upper Confidence Bound
UCB
Offline RL

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Major Field Member
Jia Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jing Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Menendez Burns, Francisco

Title:

Genomics and Physiological Response to Cadmium and the Evolution of Heavy Metal ATPases in Theobroma cacao L.

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Cadmium stress
Heavy metal tolerance
Theobroma cacao
Gene expression
Transporter proteins
HMA gene family
Phylogenetics
RNA sequencing
Differential gene expression
Abiotic stress response
Functional genomics
Metal detoxification
Vacuolar sequestration
Photosynthesis inhibition
Stomatal conductance
Hormone regulation
Abscisic acid
Transcriptomics
Orthogroup analysis
Synteny analysis
Evolutionary biology
Bioinformatics
Plant physiology
Environmental adaptation
Mixed linear models
Experimental design optimization
ICP-OES metal quantification
Yeast complementation assays
Stress signaling pathways

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Committee Members:

Siela Maximova, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erin Connolly, Major Field Member
Mark Guiltinan, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
Claude Depamphilis, Outside Unit Member
Gabriele Monshausen, Outside Field Member

Author:

Bowman, Belen

Title:

Coaxial Rotor Aerodynamic Interactions and Effect on Performance

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Coaxial Rotor
Interactions
Performance
Separation Distance
RPM Ratio
Hover
CFD

File:

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Committee Members:

Jules Lindau, Major Field Member
Jose Palacios, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Lynch, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Michael Kinzel, Special Member

Author:

Kweon, Junho

Title:

domain-inspired fast optimization for nonlinearly constrained electronic systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

algorithm unrolling
model-based learning
non-convex optimization
nonlinear constraints

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Minghui Zhu, Major Field Member
Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, Outside Unit & Field Member
Yan Li, Major Field Member
Vishal Monga, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Redder, Brian W

Title:

Assessing Drinking Water Quality in Pennsylvania: Linking Science, Policy, and Public Health

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

Water Quality
Biogeochemistry
groundwater
drinking water
policy

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Committee Members:

Margot Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Kathryn Brasier, Outside Unit Member
Elizabeth Boyer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Miller, Outside Field Member
Tyler Groh, Major Field Member

Author:

Welch, Sophia

Title:

The Effects of Project Sequence on Energy Reduction During Step-By-Step Passive House Retrofits of Single-Family Houses

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Passive House
Retrofit
Single Family Home
Building Energy Modeling
Step-by-step
Embodied Carbon

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Ali Memari, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rahman Azari, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Esther Obonyo, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hosoi, Mihoko

Title:

Authenticity, Risk, and Trust in Leadership: a Study of Asian Women in U.S. Academic Libraries

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Asian women librarians
Asian American women librarians
academic libraries
leadership
Asian critical theory (AsianCrit)
racialized organizations
gendered organizations
thematic analysis

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Committee Members:

Adrienne Dixson, Program Head/Chair
John Cheslock, Major Field Member
Sarah Damaske, Outside Unit & Field Member
LaWanda Ward, Major Field Member
Alicia Dowd, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dhengre, Snehal

Title:

From Vision to Insight: Leveraging Eye-Tracking to Evaluate Human Performance, Mental Workload, and Problem-solving Confidence

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Human performance
Eye-tracking
Dermatology
Medical education
Sequence-network analysis
NASA-TLX
task load
Confirmatory factor analysis
Pupil
Metacognition
Problem-solving
Confidence bias
Mental effort
Attention allocation
Mental workload
Total body skin examination
Confidence prediction

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Committee Members:

Ling Rothrock, Program Head/Chair
Nina Lauharatanahirun, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ling Rothrock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hui Yang, Major Field Member
Yiqi Zhang, Major Field Member

Author:

Yang, Yifan

Title:

Investigating the Nature and Functions of Brain-Wide Sequential Activities with Multi-Modal Techniques

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

infra-slow brain waves
memory
sensory coding
brain states
deep learning
global signal
neural representation
time cells
hippocampal replay
fMRI
electrophysiology

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Committee Members:

Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Drew, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiao Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member

Author:

Ye, Hepeng

Title:

Modeling surface enhanced vibrational spectroscopy and molecule-metal nanoparticle optical coupling using electronic structure and electrodynamics methods

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Vibrational spectroscopy
SERS
Raman
Plasmonics
strong coupling
vibronic

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Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Knappenberger, Major Field Member
Edward O'Brien, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Chapman, Sarah

Title:

Consequences of Macromolecular Crowding on Complex Coacervation as a Model for Intracellular Compartments

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
Macromolecular Crowding
Complex Coacervation
Intracellular Compartments
Membraneless Organelles
Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP)
Confocal Microscopy
Optical Tweezers (C-Trap)
Polypeptides
Liquid Droplets
Solid Aggregates
Single-Phase Coacervates
Multiphase Coacervates
Model Systems

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Committee Members:

Esther Gomez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair
Ruobo Zhou, Major Field Member

Author:

Tang, Yichun

Title:

Experimental study of fracture behaviors in manmade and biological polymer-ceramic composites

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Composites
Micro-CT
Fracture behaviors
Digital Volume Correlation
Crack growth
Three-point bend
Toughening mechanisms

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jing Du, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Md Haque, Major Field Member
Daniel Cortes Correales, Major Field Member
Larry Cheng, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Ike, Sandra

Title:

Templating Induced Graphitization by Graphene Oxide Derived Additives: Phenolic Resins, Biomaterials and Energy Storage Applications

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Graphene Oxide
Hard Carbons
Novolac
Lignin
Graphitization
Templating
Reduced Graphene Oxide
Carbonization
Energy Storage

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Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Program Head/Chair
Sarma Pisupati, Major Field Member
Randy Vander Wal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nelson Yaw Dzade, Major Field Member

Author:

Birrer, Samuel

Title:

Impact of oil-water-surfactant interactions on stability and non-equilibrium processes in emulsion droplets

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

emulsions
droplets
surfactants
ionic liquids
interfaces
solubilization
stability
phase inversion
coalescence
colloids
active matter
fluid physics

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Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Apsley, Hannah

Title:

Parents in Recovery from Substance Use Disorders: A Daily Diary Assessment of Parenting Experiences and Holistic Recovery Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

substance use
recovery
parenting
meaningfulness
commitment
daily diary
holistic

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Committee Members:

Douglas Teti, Program Head/Chair
Derek Kreager, Outside Unit Member
Hobart Cleveland, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Deirdre O'Sullivan, Outside Field Member
Zachary Fisher, Major Field Member
Gregory Fosco, Major Field Member

Author:

Marques Dos Santos Vieira, Francisco

Title:

Electronic Structure of High Entropy Ceramics: Mechanisms of Property Emergence

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High entropy
high-entropy
oxides
DFT
DFT+U
Band gap

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Special Member

Author:

Krebs, Jordan

Title:

Improved and Standardized Chromatin Assays for Human Cells and Tissues

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Nucleosomes
DNA accessibility
Benzonase
Transcription
Transcription factors

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Frank Pugh, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shaun Mahony, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ross Hardison, Major Field Member
Aron Lukacher, Outside Field Member
Zissis Chroneos, Outside Unit Member
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Emdadi, Arash

Title:

Fundamental Analysis and Performance Assessment of the Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) System

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Salinity Gradient Energy
Reverse electrodialysis (RED)
Ion Exchange Memebrane
Salt Screening
Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater
Uphill Transport
Green Hydrogen Customers

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Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Hee Jeung Oh, Major Field Member
Derek Hall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bruce Logan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gina Noh, Major Field Member

Author:

Jacob, Benson

Title:

Flow-Induced Crystallization of Isotactic Polypropylene

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Flow-Induced Crystallization
Isotactic Polypropylene
Rheology
X-ray Scattering
Polymer Physics
Thermal Analysis

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Charles Bakis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Milner, Major Field Member
Ali Borhan, Major Field Member
Alicyn Rhoades, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ralph Colby, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Patrick Brant, Special Member

Author:

Hoang, Van Trung

Title:

PHYSICALLY INSPIRED DEEP LEARNING FOR IMAGING AND VISION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

3D Sonar Detection
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
3D Medical Segmentation
Image Restoration
Image Dehazing
Joint Inverse Problems

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Romulo Meira Goes, Major Field Member
William Higgins, Major Field Member
Sean Brennan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vishal Monga, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Harnett, Steve

Title:

Planning Paths, Estimating Path Properties, and Predicting Path Costs for Autonomous Ground Vehicle Navigation Using Graph-Based Abstractions of Mapped Obstacle Fields

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

robotics
path planning
graph theory
navigation
maps
mapping
path search
Dijkstra's algorithm
A*
UGV
UUV
UAV
ground vehicles
mobile robots

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Karl Reichard, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Herschel Pangborn, Major Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jesse Lorenzo Pentzer, Special Member
Katie Fitzsimons, Major Field Member
Sean Brennan, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr

Author:

Gan, Ze Feng

Title:

Time-Varying Noise of Electric Multirotor Aircraft

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aeroacoustics
rotorcraft
acoustic signal processing
beats
eVTOL aircraft
UAVs
drone noise
urban air mobility

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Kenneth Brentner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joseph Horn, Major Field Member
Eric Greenwood, Major Field Member
Michelle Vigeant-Haas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sicheng Kevin Li, Special Member

Author:

Serrano, Elisa

Title:

Barájamela Más Despacio, I Don’t Understand: Using Pláticas as Pedagogy to Foster Critical Linguistic Consciousness Amongst Spanish-Speaking Language Minority Youth

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

pláticas
pedagogy
LatCrit
language ideologies
identity
linguistic justice

File:

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Committee Members:

Kimberly Powell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Gilberto Conchas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tiffany Nyachae, Major Field Member
Ricardo Martinez, Major Field Member
Francesca Lopez, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Everett, Annie

Title:

Inclusion as Written, Delivered, and Received: Translating Policy and Programming into Inclusive Educational Practice

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

international students
inclusive educational practice
curriculum design
ethnography
institutional effectiveness
inclusion

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Committee Members:

Karly Ford, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marcela Borge, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kelly Rosinger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Paulson, Major Field Member
Leah Hollis, Major Field Member

Author:

Mackey-Barkers, Yolanda

Title:

The Black Renaissance and the Radical Politics of Black Print Culture, 1915-1945

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Black Print Culture
Black Radical Politics
Harlem Renaissance

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Committee Members:

Xiaoye You, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Aldon Nielsen, Major Field Member
Shirley Moody, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael West, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hester Blum, Major Field Member

Author:

Puello, Francisco

Title:

Veterans’ Perceptions of Administrative Burden in Healthcare Services: An In-Depth Qualitative Analysis within the Veterans Health Administration

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

Veterans Health Administration Burden
Administrative Burden
Quality of Health Care under the VHA
Health Cervices Accessibility

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Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Michele Tantardini, Major Field Member
Glenn McGuigan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eileen Ahlin, Major Field Member
Dan Mallinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Moore, Zoe

Title:

Examination of the mechanical and functional effects of common musculotendon disorders using experimental and computational methods

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Musculotendon disorders
rotator cuff tear
muscle disuse
tendinopathy
computational modeling
mechanical properties

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Committee Members:

Meghan Vidt, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonas Rubenson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Julianna Simon, Major Field Member
Gregory Lewis, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gendrue, Nathan

Title:

Optimizing and Advancing Ventilation Strategies for Large Opening Underground Mines Through Field Survey and Numerical Modeling

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Mine Ventilation
Large Opening Mines
CFD
Mine Ventilation Simulation
Natural Ventilation

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Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suresh Iyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Major Field Member
William Groves, Major Field Member
Shimin Liu, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Arnold, Callum

Title:

The Role of Categories in Shaping Our Understanding of Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

COVID-19
Measles
Rapid Diagnostic Test
Imperfect Diagnostics
ELISA
Latent Class Analysis
SEIR
Epidemiological Model
Vaccine Preventable Disease
IgG Serosurvey
Approximate Bayesian Computation
SIR
Outbreak Detection
Infectious Disease Surveillance
Uncertainty
Early Warning Signal
Critical Slowing Down

File:

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Ferrari, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Berg, Outside Unit & Field Member
Maciej Boni, Major Field Member
Katriona Shea, Chair of Committee

Author:

Lenover Moyer, Makenna

Title:

An Evolutionary Medicine Approach to Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Pennsylvania, USA

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

ibs
evolutionary medicine
anthropology
irritable bowel syndrome
digestion
behavior
industrialization
pennsylvania

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Committee Members:

Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair
Mary Shenk, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Vernon Chinchilli, Outside Unit & Field Member
Laura Weyrich, Major Field Member
Sagan Friant, Major Field Member
Kofi Clarke, Special Member

Author:

Saltmarsh, Ele

Title:

Exploring the Potential of In-Silico Tools to Enhance Adaptation to Climate and Soil-Based Stress in Maize

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science (PhD)

Keywords:

climate change
maize
crop growth model
optimization
evolutionary algorithm
water use
water recovery
Midwest
Cycles
agronomy

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Committee Members:

Robert Chiles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carolyn Lowry, Major Field Member
Armen Kemanian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniela Carrijo, Major Field Member
Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Miller, Michael

Title:

Self-assembled Fluorous-Aqueous Peptide Biomaterials for Biomimicry and Drug Delivery

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

self-assembly
fluorine
peptide
gut microbiome
theranostic
drug delivery
biomaterials

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Committee Members:

Urara Hasegawa, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Medina, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Pak Kin Wong, Major Field Member
Justin Pritchard, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

King, Kellianne

Title:

'Domestic Demons' and Nervous Men: An Examination of Nervousness in Nineteenth Century America

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

medicine
history
United States
gender
race
psychology
neurology
nineteenth century
twentieth century

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Committee Members:

Lori Ginzberg, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christina Snyder, Major Field Member
Ray Block, Outside Unit Member
Erin Heidt-Forsythe, Outside Field Member
Amy Greenberg, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Davis, Evan

Title:

“Feedback Loops”: The News Media’s Amplification of Online Conspiratorial Discourses

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Great Replacement Theory
Conspiracy Theory
Feedback Loop
Critical Discourse Analysis
Social Media
News Media
Amplification

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter Kareithi, Major Field Member
Ozge Aybat, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Haddad, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mary Zaborskis, Major Field Member
Mary Zaborskis, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Xiao, Yi

Title:

Emerging Ferroelectric Device and Circuit Solutions for Data-intensive Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric memory
FeRAM
FeFET
FTJ
emerging non-volatile memory

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Kai Ni, Special Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tom Jackson, Outside Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Major Field Member

Author:

Shan, Shuhua

Title:

Morphology Mechanics in Battery Anodes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Multifunctional Li-ion battery; Flow-through electrolyte; Zinc dendrite; Ni-Zn battery

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Donghai Wang, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Feifei Shi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chris Rahn, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Chao-Yang Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Sajal, Sultan Mahmud

Title:

Improving the Fidelity of Trace-Driven Experiments in Cloud Computing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Workload Analysis
Cloud Computing
Performance Evaluation
Analysis of Systems
Testing of Systems
Verification of Systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Qunhua Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Timothy Zhu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Siddhartha Sen, Special Member
Ruslan Nikolaev, Major Field Member

Author:

Casement, Steven

Title:

Anglo-Spanish Polemics, The Diplomatic Environment, and Early Modern Alliance Building: Anglo-Spanish Relations During the Restoration, 1660-1678

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

England
Diplomacy
Spain
Confessional
Alliance
Restoration

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Committee Members:

Faisal Husain, Major Field Member
Ronnie Hsia, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Catherine Wanner, Outside Field Member
Daniel Beaver, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marcy North, Outside Unit Member
Kathryn Merkel-Hess Mcdonald, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Roy, Debrina

Title:

A Multifaceted Exploration of Collaborative Dynamics in Virtual Design Environments and High-Tech Startups

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Virtual collaboration
Design teams
Team cohesion
Hidden Markov Models
Startup team cohesion
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Markov models

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Scarlett Miller, Major Field Member
Andrea Arguelles, Outside Unit Member
Catherine Berdanier, Outside Field Member
Christopher Dancy, Major Field Member
Jessica Menold, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Gautam, Sanjana

Title:

The Learning Code : Designing AI-Driven Adaptive Learning Systems for Social Learning

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

education and learning
adaptive learning
social learning
personal data tracking
artificial intelligence
collaborative learning
system design

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jack Carroll, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Huang, Major Field Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Koirala B K, Sonu

Title:

Detoxification mechanisms underlying chemical adaption in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae)

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

metabolic detoxification
host adaptation
oxidative stress
pesticide resistance
enzymes

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Kelli Hoover, Major Field Member
John Tooker, Major Field Member
Fang Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Hines, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Wapeemukwa, Wayne

Title:

Journey to a Critical Theory of Discovery

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Doctrine of Discovery
Indigenous relations to land
Racial Capitalism
Indigenous dispossession
Settler Colonialism
Capitalism
Land
Metis
Marxism

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Committee Members:

Amy Allen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ted Toadvine, Major Field Member
Julie Reed, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brenda Macdougall, Special Member
Robert Bernasconi, Major Field Member
Eduardo Mendieta, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Miller, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Toh, Eunice

Title:

Black Cosmo-cologies: Rebirth and Renaissance in the Long Nineteenth Century

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

African American Literature
Black Ecologies
19th-Century Literature

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Committee Members:

Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sean Goudie, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alex Lubin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shirley Moody, Major Field Member
Pier Gabrielle Foreman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Holoviak, Stephen

Title:

Atomistic Materials Modeling Applied to 2D Heterostructures and Electrocatalysis

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Density functional theory
molecular dynamics
platinum
gallium oxide

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Wrobleski, Amy

Title:

Mushroom Harvesting in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States: Policy, Practices, and Place

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Mushroom Harvesting
Mushroom Hunting
Mushroom
Foraging
COVID-19
Social Media
Policy
Public Lands
Community Science

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Committee Members:

Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Mary Shenk, Outside Unit Member
Sagan Friant, Major Field Member
John Pecchia, Outside Field Member
Eric Burkhart, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Newby, Eli

Title:

Relationship Between Network Structure and Emergent Properties in Biological Network Control and Network Hyperuniformity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Network Science
Hyperuniformity
Network Structure
Complex Systems
Systems Biology
Control Theory

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Committee Members:

Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dezhe Jin, Major Field Member
David Radice, Major Field Member
Reka Albert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Tipsawat, Pannawit

Title:

Released Piezoelectric Thin Films for Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (PMUT)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectric thin films
PMUT
MEMS
Effective longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient
PZT
Neurostimulation
Released piezoelectric thin films
Acoustic
Ultrasound

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrea Arguelles, Major Field Member

Author:

Cui, Jianming

Title:

Diffusion Growth Mechanism of Nanowires with Multi-scale Theory and OptiBoost Method for Accelerated Molecular Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanowires
Molecular Dynamics
Multi-scale Theory
Markov Chains
Accelerated Molecular Dynamics
Hyperdynamics
Bond-boost method
OptiBoost
Twinning
Detwinning

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Committee Members:

Kristen Fichthorn, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Janik, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Rui Shi, Major Field Member

Author:

Conn, Trinity

Title:

De novo Sources of Potentially Adaptive Genetic Diversity in Reef-Building Corals

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Corals
Population Genetics
Somatic Mutations
Genomics
Clonal Evolution

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Chair of Committee
Jesse Lasky, Major Field Member
Kristin Eckert, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Toews, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Iliana Baums, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Xinru

Title:

Exploring DNA Changes That Shape Human Evolution

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

comparative genetics
molecular evolution
primate

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Committee Members:

David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair
Stephen Schaeffer, Major Field Member
Qunhua Li, Outside Field Member
Kateryna Makova, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Francesca Chiaromonte, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Kunchay, Sahiti

Title:

User-centered Design of mHealth Tools For Understanding and Addressing Alcohol Use in Young Adults

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

mHealth
smartwatches
user-centered design
human-computer interaction
ubiquitous computing

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Committee Members:

Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amulya Yadav, Major Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Rockrohr, Dillon

Title:

Interpreting the Culture War: Universities, Left Cultural Criticism, and the Christian Right

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

higher education
English
humanities
critical university studies
critical theory
interpretation
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Walter Benjamin
Michel Foucault
Edward Said
culture war

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Committee Members:

Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member
Christian Haines, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Nealon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sabine Doran, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Whitt, Heather

Title:

Scenario-Based Assessment of Information Technology Alignment and Misalignment: Incorporating User Perspectives

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

scenario-based methods
IT alignment

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Committee Members:

Rosalie Ocker, Major Field Member
Steven Haynes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward Glantz, Major Field Member
James Thomas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khoruzhaya, Yulia

Title:

MOTION CONSTRUCTIONS IN L2 SPANISH LEARNERS’ ORAL PRODUCTION: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

motion events
second language acquisition
Spanish
usage-based approaches
longitudinal

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Committee Members:

Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Schrauf, Major Field Member
Kevin McManus, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Major Field Member
Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Cequn

Title:

Superconducting proximity effect in topological insulator thin films and graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological insulator
graphene
topological superconductivity
Josephson junction
Superconductivity
Proximity effect
2D materials
tunneling spectroscopy
van der Waals heterostructures

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Chaoxing Liu, Major Field Member
Jun Zhu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Major Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Rincon Ramirez, Monica Tatiana

Title:

γ-Duality and Primordial Cosmology: Measuring the Quantum Geometry of Space

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

loop quantum gravity
cosmology
duality rotations
duality
spinfoams
parity
parity violation
rotation
loop
quantum
gravity
barbero
immirzi
barbero imirzi parameter
quantum geometry
phenomenology
diffeomorphism
reversing
orientation reversing diffeomorphism
inflation
primordial
gravitational waves
primordial gravitational waves
tensor
tensor modes
general relativity
quantum corrections

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Committee Members:

Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Major Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Eugenio Bianchi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donghui Jeong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Irina Mocioiu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Rublein, Caroline

Title:

Distributed, Scalable Resource Allocation in Edge Computing Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Edge computing
Optimization
Resource allocation
Reinforcement learning

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Thomas La Porta, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ting He, Major Field Member
Soundar Kumara, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Mahon, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Jiayang

Title:

A first-principles study of low dimensional transition metal carbides and transition metal dichalcogenides

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
transition metal carbides
transition metal dichalcogenides
DFT
superconductivity

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Krajewski, Adam

Title:

Efficient Materials Informatics between Rockets and Electrons

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

materials informatics
materials discovery
scientific computing
machine learning
artificial intelligence
database design
high entropy alloys
compositionally complex materials
functionally graded materials
extreme environments
hypersonics
data driven
thermodynamics
graphs
compositional spaces
python
nim
CALPHAD
HEA
FGM
ULTERA
pySIPFENN
MPDD
alloy design
inverse design

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Wenrui Hao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Li, Faqiang

Title:

Two Essays in Industrial Organization

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

School Choice
Retail Competition
Dynamic Structural Model
Demand Model
Retail Chain Entry
Tax Design
Charter Expansion

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Committee Members:

Barry Ickes, Program Head/Chair
Jingting Fan, Major Field Member
Chloe Tergiman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kala Krishna, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Roberts, Major Field Member
John Singleton, Special Member
James Tybout, Major Field Member

Author:

Salamah, Manar

Title:

Crafting Work and Life Meaningfully: Factors Impacting Effective Job Crafting - Helps, Hindrances, and Hopes

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Job Crafting
Job Demand-resource model
higher education
female employees

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Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
Mark Threeton, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hyung Joon Yoon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Susan Land, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khanfar, Aseel

Title:

Dynamic Analysis of Attention Allocation in Laparoscopic Surgery Training: Integrating Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Objective Skill Assessment

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

eye-tracking
mixed reality
laparoscopic surgical training
simulation-based training
visual attention
computer vision
deep learning

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Paul Griffin, Major Field Member
Jason Moore, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scarlett Miller, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Shawn Safford, Special Member
Jessica Menold, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Jackson, Sarah

Title:

Don’t Stand in the Fire!: Effective Collaboration, Communication, Interactions, and strategy in Mediated Environments – A Discourse Analytic Approach to MMORPG Streaming on Twitch

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Discourse Analysis
Multimodality
Video Games
Twitch.tv
Live-Streaming

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Committee Members:

Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair
Suresh Canagarajah, Major Field Member
Michael Schmierbach, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sinfree Makoni, Major Field Member
Susan Strauss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Neuwald, Nicholas

Title:

Food Switching: A Potentially Obesogenic Behavioral Phenotype In Children

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Nutrition
Food Variety
Childhood Obesity
Sensory Specific Satiety
Food Switching
Dynamic Sensory Contrast
Overconsumption
Hedonic Eating
Eating Behaviors
Obesogenic
Phenotype

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Meg Bruening, Program Head/Chair
Barbara Rolls, Major Field Member
Jennifer Williams, Major Field Member
Kathleen Keller, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Hayes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Travis Masterson, Major Field Member

Author:

Choi, Esther

Title:

SOD1 trimers in amytrophic lateral sclerosis

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
neurodegeneration
SOD1

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Committee Members:

Xuemei Huang, Major Field Member
Zachary Simmons, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Proctor, Outside Unit Member
James Broach, Outside Field Member
Nikolay Dokholyan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yousefian, Pedram

Title:

Oxygen Vacancy Dynamics and Their Impact on Reliability of BaTiO3-based Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)
BaTiO3
Reliability
Oxygen Vacancy
Lifetime Prediction
Machine Learning
Common Cause Failure
HALT
TSDC

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Adekeye, Olayemi

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON E-CIGARETTE USE AMONG U.S. ADOLESCENTS: A QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Graduate Program:

Nursing

Keywords:

E-cigarettes
Social media
Adolescents
Attitudes
Beliefs

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Committee Members:

Susan Loeb, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marie Boltz, Major Field Member
Cara Exten, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Branstetter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ying-Ling Jao, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Yuanheng

Title:

Demystifying Academic Promotional Genres

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

Promotional Genre
Writing

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Committee Members:

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