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Author:

Pan, Yuxuan

Title:

Three essays on Mental Health, Racial Disparity, and Consumer Behavior

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

mental health
nutritional quality
racial disparity
soda tax
food security
covid

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Committee Members:

Dave Abler, Program Head/Chair
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Field Member
Stephan Goetz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Linlin Fan, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Grieco, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Liu, Tianyi

Title:

Advancing Integrated Nucleic Acid Testing for HIV Self-Testing and Personalized Viral Load Monitoring

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Human Immunodeficiency Viruses
Viral Load
Self-Testing
Nucleic Acid Testing
Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction
Quantification

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Weihua Guan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cunjiang Yu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Jia, Xiaodong

Title:

Nesting Structures in Mirrors: Formal Techniques for Parsing and Inferring Visibly Pushdown Grammars

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

program analysis
grammars
context-free grammars
visibly pushdown grammars
automata theory
parsing
parser generator
formal verification
coq
visibly pushdown automata
parsers
software verification

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
G. Tan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Abhinav Verma, Major Field Member
Danfeng Zhang, Major Field Member
Dinghao Wu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Aryal, Vivek

Title:

ALKYLARYLATION OF UNACTIVATED ALKENES IN ALKENYL KETIMINES AND AMINES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Unactivated alkenes
Coordinating groups
Alkylarylation
Ni-catalysis
Alkylorganozinc reagents

File:

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Committee Members:

Ramesh Giri, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Nacsa, Major Field Member
Emily Weinert, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Peoples, Wilson

Title:

Learning General Differential Operators on Unknown Manifolds

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Manifold Learning
Graph Laplacian
Operator Estimation
Radial Basis Functions
Kernel Methods

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Committee Members:

Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, Program Head/Chair
John Harlim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Case, Major Field Member

Author:

Oneill, Laurel

Title:

Applied Spectroscopy: From the Lab, To the Field, To the Classroom

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

spectroscopy
engineering education
queering
raman spectroscopy
laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
bubbles

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Major Field Member
Tim Kane, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Major Field Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Major Field Member
Lorraine Dowler, Outside Field Member

Author:

Son, Yeongwoo

Title:

COMPOSITIONALLY COMPLEX PEROVSKITE OXIDES: DIELECTRIC, FERROELECTRIC, ELECTROCALORIC, AND ENERGY STORAGE PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High entropy perovskite oxide
Pulsed laser deposition
ferroelectricity
dielectric relaxation
relaxor ferroelectric
polarization stability
electrocaloric effects
energy storage
antiferroelectric

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Qiming Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member

Author:

Fjeldsted, Aaron

Title:

The Development of Advanced Analysis Techniques for Gamma-Ray Spectra

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Nuclear Security
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy
Machine Learning

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Committee Members:

Dipanjan Pan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member
Kenan Unlu, Major Field Member
Azaree Lintereur, Special Member
Douglas Wolfe, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wesley Reinhart, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Lofy, Special Member

Author:

Zhao, Tianxiang

Title:

Deep Learning for Structured Data: Weak Supervision and Interpretability

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Weak Supervision
Graph Neural Network
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Sequential Decision Process

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suhang Wang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vasant Honavar, Major Field Member

Author:

Le, Linh

Title:

MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT TO ENABLE HIGH-ENERGY DENSITY AND LONG-CYCLING LI METAL BATTERIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrolytes
Li Protection
Lithium Batteries
Fast-charging

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Donghai Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Feifei Shi, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Osborne, Cornelia

Title:

The Significance of Compatibility in Scleractinian Corals and Applications for Environmental Bioengineering in a Warming Ocean

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Coral
Climate change
Gene expression
Hybridization
Chimerism
Reproduction
Thermal stress
Acropora
Diploria
Spawning
Restoration
Conservation
Marine biology
Gamete recogntion

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
David Toews, Major Field Member
Manuel Llinas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Valerie Chamberland, Special Member
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Major Field Member
Todd Lajeunesse, Chair of Committee
Iliana B Baums, Special Member
Zachary Szpiech, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Chatterjee, Arnab

Title:

Advanced Thermal Analysis for studying Martensite Phase Transformation of Shape Memory Adaptive Material Systems fabricated using Additive Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Shape Memory Alloys
Additive Manufacturing
Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Martensitic transformation
Energetics
Kinetics
Thermoelastic phase transformation
Nitinols
Active Material Systems

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Committee Members:

Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair
Edward Reutzel, Outside Field Member
Paris Vonlockette, Outside Unit Member
Todd Palmer, Major Field Member
Reginald Hamilton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Choi, Jinsol

Title:

Morphogenesis and nanomanufacturing of synthetic brochosomes and their applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Leafhopper
Brochosomes
Synthetic Brochosomes
Microfluidics
Nanomanufacturing
Bioinspired Materials

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Field Member
Tak Sing Wong, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Yang, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Hargrove, Brianne

Title:

Analysis and Synthesis of Nonlinear-Elastic Compliant Mechanisms

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Compliant mechanisms
Material nonlinearity
Large deformations
Analytical model
Superelasticity
Synthesis
Optimization
Additive manufacturing

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Zoubeida Ounaies, Major Field Member
Paris von Lockette, Special Member
Mary Frecker, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Reginald Hamilton, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jared Butler, Major Field Member
Jovana Jovanova, Special Member

Author:

Yin, Qin

Title:

Understanding Construction Safety: Exploring Relationships between Individual-level Perceptions of Team Construct

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

construction safety
teamwork

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Committee Members:

Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Susan Simkins, Outside Field Member
James LeBreton, Outside Unit Member
Yuqing Hu, Major Field Member
Esther Obonyo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Wang, Haizhou

Title:

Using AI Technologies To Solve Software Security Challenges

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Large Language Model
Artificial Intelligence
Software Security
Reverse Engineering
Deep Learning
Information Security

File:

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Major Field Member

Author:

Yang, Fuhan

Title:

Understanding respiratory disease seasonality: quantitative characterization, mechanistic interpretation, and future projection

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Respiratory disease dynamics
Seasonality
Stochasticity
Forecast
Infectious disease modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Program Head/Chair
Ephraim Hanks, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Jessica Conway, Chair of Committee
Ottar Bjornstad, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Maciej Boni, Dissertation Co-Advisor

Author:

Howells, Callie Lynn

Title:

Studies of Allergic Diseases: Exploring Predictors of Asthma Treatment Superiority and Food Allergy Associations with Dietary Patterns and Metabolic Syndrome

Graduate Program:

Epidemiology (PhD)

Keywords:

cardiovascular disease
metabolic syndrome
asthma
food allergy
diet quality
dietary patterns
corn allergy
allergic asthma

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Thompson, Program Head/Chair
Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dave Mauger, Outside Field Member
Djibril M Ba, Special Member
Timothy Craig, Outside Unit Member
Cheryl Thompson, Major Field Member

Author:

Singh, Parmveer

Title:

Understanding Researchers’ Positionality in Integrating and Designing the Transdisciplinary Research Process and Outcomes: A Case Study of Thriving Agriculture Project

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

Stakeholder participation
co-production of knowledge
conceptual clarity
transdisciplinary research wicked problems
Delphi study
consensus
program evaluation

File:

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Committee Members:

Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Emily Pakhtigian, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Ewing, Major Field Member
Mark Brennan, Major Field Member
Mark Brennan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kemmerling, Jesse

Title:

The Development of Gallium Nitride Super-Heterojunction Transistors for 10-kV Blocking and 3-kV Switching

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
wide-bandgap
high voltage switch
MOSFET
HEMT
semiconductor switch
breakdown voltage
current collapse
on-resistance
transistor
super-heterojunction
superjunction
dynamic performance
electric field distribution
charge balance
charge balance technique
Schottky barrier diodes
dynamic on-resistance
gallium nitride
III-V semiconductor
semiconductor fabrication
TCAD
simulation
2DEG
AlGaN/GaN
high electron mobility transistors
metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors
SHJ
capacitance
field-plate
p-n junction
fast-switching
10-kV
3-kV switching
3-kV
analytical model
derivation
Ron-BV relationship

File:

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Committee Members:

Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Rongming Chu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Yue

Title:

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on kidney diseases: insights from real-world data

Graduate Program:

Epidemiology (PhD)

Keywords:

COVID-19
Kidney Diseases
Long COVID
Real-World Evidence

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Committee Members:

Kathryn Risher, Major Field Member
Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leslie Parent, Outside Unit & Field Member
Nasrollah Ghahramani, Special Member
Djibril M Ba, Special Member
Duanping Liao, Major Field Member
Kathryn Risher, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Brown, Avery

Title:

Vibromechanical Performance of Carbon/Epoxy Stiffened Panels with Acoustic Black Hole Features

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Carbon/Epoxy
Vibration Reduction
Stiffened Panel

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Bakis, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Christopher Kube, Major Field Member
Ben Beck, Outside Unit Member
Matthew D Waller, Special Member
Edward Smith, Dissertation Co-Advisor
George Lesieutre, Outside Field Member
Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bernhard, Katie

Title:

Risk, Livelihood Decisions, and Resilience in the Greater Virunga Transboundary Landscape

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

conservation social science
park-adjacent communities
tropics
East Africa
household resilience
conservation social science
risk preferences
decision making
survey methods
East Africa
mixed methods
livelihoods
tropics

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Committee Members:

Derrick Taff, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Edwin Sabuhoro, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erica Smithwick, Outside Field Member
Katherine Zipp, Outside Unit Member
Carter Hunt, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Hart, Tricia

Title:

Cardiometabolic Effects of Pecans as a Snack: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

cardiometabolic diseases
metabolic syndrome
tree nuts
pecans
lipids
lipoproteins
flow mediated dilation
HEI-2020

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Committee Members:

Meg Bruening, Program Head/Chair
Gregory Shearer, Major Field Member
Michael Russell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alison Gernand, Major Field Member
Kristina Petersen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Angermeier, Susanna

Title:

Microfluidic Ion Exchange Applications and Predictive Modeling for Lanthanide Separations

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

microfluidics
adjacent lanthanide separations
ion exchange
scale-up
predictive ion exchange modeling

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Committee Members:

Jon Schwantes, Program Head/Chair
Xing Wang, Major Field Member
Amanda Johnsen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ashleigh Kimberlin, Special Member
Jon Schwantes, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Shijia

Title:

Internet of Multimodality: Problems in Security, Healthcare and AR/VR

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

IoT Security
Wearable Sensing
Mobile Computing
AR/VR
Healthcare

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Rui Zhang, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mahanth Gowda, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Whichard, Corey Logan

Title:

Social Ties During Incarceration and Community Reentry: A Network Approach to Prison Life, Reentry Preparation, and the Return Home

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

Incarceration
Reentry
Social Networks
Prison

File:

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Committee Members:

Derek Allen Kreager, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
D. W. Osgood, Committee Member
Richard B Felson, Committee Member
Susan Marie Mchale, Outside Member
Sara Wakefield, Special Member

Author:

Fonseca Pacheco, Fernando

Title:

The Theater of Futures Past: Infrastructures of the Latin American Avant-Garde

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Theater
avant-garde
Latin America
infrastructure
Asturias
Ramiro Guerra
Hugo Carrillo
Carpentier
Roldán
José Coronel Urtecho
Joaquín Pasos
Cuba
Nicaragua
Guatemala

File:

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Committee Members:

Sarah J. Townsend, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah J. Townsend, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julia Cuervo Hewitt, Committee Member
Jonathan P. Eburne, Committee Member
Maria Rosa Truglio, Outside Member

Author:

Champi, Christopher

Title:

First- and second-person singular subject pronoun expression in Dominican Spanish: The structure and acquisition of variable forms

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Subject Pronoun Expression
Variation
Acquisition of Variation
Dominican Spanish

File:

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Committee Members:

Karen Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
Matthew Carlson, Committee Member
Michael Putnam, Outside Member

Author:

Geraths, Cory Paul

Title:

Voices and Visages: Mary Magdalene's Afterlives in Text and Art

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Mary Magdalene
Rhetoric
Historiography
Feminism
Art
Afterlives
Christianity
Communication
Graphic
Apocryphal
Gnostic

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Committee Members:

Michele Kennerly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michele Kennerly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Cheryl Glenn, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Eunjeong

Title:

TRANSLINGUAL DISPOSITION, NEGOTIATION PRACTICES, AND RHETORICAL ATTUNEMENT: MULTILINGUAL WRITERS’ LEARNING OF ACADEMIC WRITING

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

translingual disposition
rhetorical attunement
multilingual writing
negotiation

File:

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Committee Members:

A. Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
A. Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member
Karen E Johnson, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Member
Mari Haneda, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Michelle Nancy

Title:

Molecular Aesthetics: Race, Form, and Matter in Contemporary Asian American Literature

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Asian American literature
posthumanism
feminist science studies
American literature

File:

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Committee Members:

Tina Chen Goudie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tina Chen Goudie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Gabeba Baderoon, Outside Member

Author:

Kisselev, Olesya Viktorovna

Title:

WORD ORDER AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN THE WRITING OF HERITAGE AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS OF RUSSIAN: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

word order
information structure
learner language
Russian as a heritage language

File:

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Committee Members:

Xiaofei Lu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Lantolf, Committee Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
Irina Mikaelian, Outside Member

Author:

Youn, Soo Jeong

Title:

THERAPIST EFFECTS: UNPACKING THE MEANING BEHIND DIFFERENCES

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

therapist effects
practice oriented research
practice research networks
psychotherapy process

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Committee Members:

Louis Georges Castonguay, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Louis Georges Castonguay, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Jeffrey Wilson, Committee Member
Jeffrey Hayes, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Outside Member

Author:

Bhargava, Sakshi

Title:

Individual and Contextual Predictors of Middle School Youth’s Academic Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

home-based involvement
school-based involvement
academic socialization
neighborhood structure
social dynamics
behavioral engagement
emotional engagement
academic performance

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Committee Members:

Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Member
Sandra T Azar, Committee Member
Mayra Y Bamaca, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Xu

Title:

Secure control and learning of cyber-physical systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Cyber-physical systems
Security
Machine learning
Control

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Weikart, Daphne

Title:

The Anti-inflammatory Effects of Cocoa and Cocoa Fractions in Pre-clinical Models of Inflammation

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Cocoa
polyphenol
obesity
inflammation
colitis

File:

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Committee Members:

Jasna Kovac, Co-Chair of Committee
Joshua Lambert, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew Neilson, Special Member
John Vanden Heuvel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Darrell Cockburn, Major Field Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fundora, Kevin

Title:

Targeting VPS4 for novel cancer therapy

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Targeted cancer therapy
Synthetic lethality
VPS4
ESCRT
Drug discovery
Autophagy
Apoptosis

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Committee Members:

Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Hong-Gang Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kent Vrana, Major Field Member
Valerie Brown, Special Member
Raymond Hohl, Outside Field Member
Yoshinori Takahashi, Major Field Member
Fang Tian, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Jang, Chiau Wen

Title:

A Case of Teacher Education for Democracy in a School-University Partnership

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

school-university partnership
teacher education
democratic professionalism
liberal democracy
populism
accountability

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Committee Members:

Rachel Wolkenhauer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anne Whitney, Major Field Member
Kimberly Powell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Fran Arbaugh, Major Field Member
Natalie Rae, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Sadagopan, Aravinth

Title:

Fluid-thermal-structural interaction of a control surface in hypersonic flow: numerical simulation, experimental correlation and reduced-order modeling

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Cone-Slice-Ramp
High-speed flows
Shock-wave/boundary layer interaction
Fluid-thermal-structural interaction
aerothermoelasticity
compressible shear layer
stability analysis
reduced-order modeling

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Sven Schmitz, Major Field Member
Cengiz Camci, Major Field Member
Daning Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
George Lesieutre, Major Field Member

Author:

Bouvier, Meredith

Title:

The Career Bridging of Immigrant Teachers in Portland, Oregon

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

immigrant teacher
career bridging
credential recognition
professional identity
critical pedagogy
adult learning
workplace learning
teacher learning
peer learning

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Committee Members:

Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Craig Campbell, Major Field Member
Mark Brennan, Outside Unit & Minor Member
Gerald Letendre, Minor & Outside Field Member
Esther Prins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kevin Thomas, Special Member
Rebecca Tarlau, Special Member

Author:

Wright, Sterling

Title:

FROM BITE TO BYTE: DECODING ANCIENT ORAL MICROBIAL DIALOGUES

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Ancient DNA
Oral microbiomes
Anthropology
Bioinformatics
Data Science
Microbiome
History
Roman archaeology
Industrial Revolution
Iron Age
Middle Ages
Roman era
Classical archaeology
Archaeology
Bioarchaeology
Biostats
Compositional analysis
DNA
Shotgun metagenomics
Metagenomics

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Committee Members:

Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair
Mary Shenk, Major Field Member
George Perry, Major Field Member
Jake Nabel, Outside Unit Member
Laura Weyrich, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Emily Davenport, Outside Field Member

Author:

Hazarika, Saurov

Title:

Computational Study of the Structure, Dynamics and Function of Nuclear Receptor

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Molecular dynamics simulations
Nuclear Receptor
Enhanced Sampling
Free Energy
Markov state modeling
Non-native contacts
Allostery
Conformational Selection
Induced-fit mecahnism

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair
Ganesh Anand, Major Field Member
William Noid, Major Field Member
C Okafor, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
hyebin song, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Seibert, Jon

Title:

Assimilating NASA IMPACTS Data for 7 Feb 2020 Storm to Improve Winter Cyclone Prediction

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Winter snowstorms
Data assimilation
Statistical methods
Object-based methods
Snowband tracking

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Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Steven Greybush, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Romit Maulik, Outside Unit & Field Member
Matthew Kumjian, Major Field Member
Yunji Zhang, Major Field Member

Author:

Toykoc, Hakan

Title:

Studies on the abrasive flow machining and orbital abrasive flow machining processes

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Abrasive flow machining
computational fluid dynamics
Orbital abrasive flow machining
comsol multiphysics
heat transfer

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Saurabh Basu, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Alexander Rattner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Saurabh Basu, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Ed De Meter, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Hongtao Sun, Major Field Member

Author:

Kenney, Sophia

Title:

The One Health Problem of Antimicrobial Resistant Nontyphoidal Salmonella

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Salmonella
One Health
Antimicrobial Resistance

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Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
Erika Ganda, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Koslicki, Minor Field Member
Alberto Gino Lorenzoni Calvo, Outside Field Member
David Kennedy, Outside Unit Member
Francisco Dini Andreote, Major Field Member

Author:

Ryan, Caillin

Title:

Investigating the effects of configurational entropy on the hardening of transition metal-based carbonitride ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hardness
Ceramics
High Entropy Carbonitrides (HECNs)
TiCN
Configurational Entropy
Microindentation
Nanoindentation
Entropy-Hardening
Alloys
FAST
Single-phase
Multiphase
Cations
Anions
Synthesizability
Hardness-Standardization
Physiochemical
Elastoplasticity

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John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Md Haque, Outside Unit & Field Member
Timothy Eden, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Abu AlRub, Ayah

Title:

Understanding the effects of occupational, organizational, and cultural stressors on mental health in the construction industry

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Construction industry
Electricians
Mental health
Occupational stress
Organizational stressors
Cultural stressors
Suicide prevention
Substance use
Male-dominated industries
Job Demands-Resources model
Social Ecological Model
Narrative inquiry
Gender lens
Workplace stigma
Help-seeking behavior
Union labor
Apprenticeship programs
Construction
Suicide
JD-R
Occupational stressors
organizational stressors
Unions
alcoholoism
safety
social ecological model
apprentices
journeyperson
foreperson
trainers
mentorship
bullying
support systems

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Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Craig Richard Dubler, Special Member
W. Oliver Baker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rob Leicht, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Justine Lindemann, Outside Field Member
John Messner, Major Field Member

Author:

Apsley, Abner

Title:

A Critical Analysis of the Biomolecular Variation of Immune Cells Across Time and Stressful Environmental Exposures Using Multiomic Methods

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

genomics
multiomics
multiomic integration
stress
early-life adversity
immune system
immune cells
epigenomics
DNA methylation
transcriptomics
metabolomics
NMR
RNA-seq

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Committee Members:

Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
David Almeida, Outside Unit Member
Yogasudha Veturi, Major Field Member
Idan Shalev, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Molly Hall, Outside Field Member

Author:

Tan, Yinong

Title:

Essays on International Trade and Supply Chain Risks

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Supply Chain Disruption Risks
Trade Barriers
Inventories
Delivery Delays
Multi-Country
Multi-Sector General Equilibrium Trade Model
Domestic Transportation Infrastructure
Shipment Dynamics

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Marc Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Fernando Parro, Major Field Member
Jingting Fan, Major Field Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Yeaple, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Kabbara, Zouheir

Title:

Identifying an alternative to the classic presentation of autism: the ISM autism presentation

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

Autism Diagnostics
Autistic Females
Autism
ISM Presentation

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Committee Members:

Diane Williams, Program Head/Chair
Krista Wilkinson, Major Field Member
Kathryn Drager, Major Field Member
Diane Williams, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suzy Scherf, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Wang, Lida

Title:

Integrating single cell expression quantitative trait loci to dissect complex disease genes and identify novel drugs for treatment

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

sc-eQTL
TWAS
GWAS
Colocalization
scRNAseq

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Committee Members:

Shouhao Zhou, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dajiang Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Laura Carrel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dave Mauger, Major Field Member
Arthur Berg, Major Field Member

Author:

Bhatt, Jishnu

Title:

Enhancing the Efficiency of Somatic Embryogenesis and Genetic Transformation in Theobroma cacao L.

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Plant
Transformation
Somatic Embryo
Biotechnology
Binary Vector
Cacao
Plant Tissue Culture
Genetic Engineering

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Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
Siela Maximova, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Howard Salis, Outside Field Member
Mark Guiltinan, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Messerian, Kevork Oliver

Title:

Sterile Filtration of Lipid Nanoparticles for mRNA Vaccines and Therapeutics

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Sterile filtration
mRNA
Lipid nanoparticles
fouling
membrane
bioprocessing
modeling
vaccines
mRNA vaccines

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Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Esther Gomez, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Major Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Davaasuren, Dolzodmaa

Title:

Automated Plant Cell Morphology through Volumetric Image Segmentation and Placenta Pathology Analysis from Photos

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Segmentation
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Medical Imaging
Data Science
Placenta
Plant Cell
Cell Morphology

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James Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Alison Gernand, Outside Unit & Field Member
Justin Silverman, Major Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Program Head/Chair
Charles Anderson, Outside Field Member

Author:

Basu, Aditya

Title:

Your Name is My Name: Attacking and Defending Programs from Name Collisions

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

file system
systems security
UTF-8
canonicalization
computer security
case collision
name collision
computer science
Unicode
copying programs
software
attack
vulnerability
Linux
Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF or BPF)
case preserving
case insensitive
defense

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Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Trent Jaeger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ruslan Nikolaev, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member
Abutalib Aghayev, Major Field Member

Author:

Munoz, Esther

Title:

Position-specific stable carbon isotope analysis of pyrimidines

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Position-specific stable carbon isotope analysis
Isotope Geochemistry
synthetic pyrimidine stable isotopes
pyrimidine degradation
uracil
uridine
cytosine
cytidine
RNA stable isotopes
E. coli stable isotopes

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Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Allison Baczynski, Major Field Member
Christopher House, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kate Freeman, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Chia, Liu Ee

Title:

ESSAYS ON ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS, CREDIT CONSTRAINTS, AND HOUSING MARKETS

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Real Estate
Housing Market
Housing Prices
Air Pollution
Environmental Monitoring
Weather Shock
Credit Constraint
Small-dollar Mortgage
Credit Supply
Cash Discount

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

Author:

Lawrence, Shamara

Title:

Role of IFNγ/JAK1/STAT1 Pathway in FOXA1 Repression and the Basal/Squamous State in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Bladder Cancer
Lineage Plasticity
Tumor Heterogenity
FOXA1
Molecular Subtype
IFNγ/JAK/STAT1 Signaling

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Committee Members:

Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Ryan Hobbs, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Outside Unit Member
Vonn Walter, Outside Field Member
Gregory Yochum, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David DeGraff, Outside Unit Member
David De Graff, Special Member

Author:

Al Qadeeri, Dalal

Title:

Essays on Technology Commercialization in Business Markets

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Marketing Strategy
B2B Marketing
Digitalization
B2B Offerings Design
Technology Licensing
Interorganizational Relationships
Marketing Strategy
B2B Marketing
Offering Design
Modularity
Digitalization
Technology Licensing
Financial Event Study

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Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair
J. Andrew Petersen, Major Field Member
Stefan Wuyts, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gary Lilien, Major Field Member
Bruce Desmarais, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member

Author:

Bai, Wushuang

Title:

Defining the region of influence in traffic systems: methodology and implications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Traffic Simulation
Traffic Dynamics
SUMO
Region of Influence

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Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Herschel Pangborn, Major Field Member
Satadru Dey, Major Field Member
Kshitij Jerath, Special Member
Vikash Gayah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sean Brennan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

White, Jesse

Title:

Regulation of the selective autophagy receptor TAX1BP1 by phosphorylation

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

TAX1BP1
Autophagy
Selective autophagy
SLR
RLR
Immunology

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Hong-Gang Wang, Co-Chair of Committee
Hyun Jin Kwun, Major Field Member
Ryan Hobbs, Outside Unit & Field Member
Zissis Chroneos, Major Field Member
Edward Harhaj, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Youran

Title:

Arabidopsis FRO8 Is Involved In Iron Remobilization And Mitochondrial Iron Homeostasis During Senescence

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Arabidopsis
Iron Remobilization
Mitochondrial Iron Homeostasis
Senescence

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Committee Members:

Erin Connolly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Mcnellis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hong Ma, Major Field Member
Surinder Chopra, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lu, Yang

Title:

Development and testing of a sensor for assessment of postural stability in pregnant women

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

IMU sensor
Postural stability
Pendant IMU
Pregnant women
balance

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Committee Members:

Saurabh Basu, Program Head/Chair
Jason Moore, Outside Unit Member
Stephen Piazza, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Ling Rothrock, Major Field Member
Danielle Downs, Outside Field Member
Andris Freivalds, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr

Author:

Kovacevic, Branko

Title:

Machine Learning Models for Molten Salt Reactor Safeguards

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Molten salt reactors
Machine learning
safeguards
gamma-ray modeling
neutron modeling
alpha spectra modeling

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Committee Members:

Jon Schwantes, Program Head/Chair
Amanda Johnsen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xing Wang, Major Field Member
William Walters, Special Member

Author:

Chang, Qi

Title:

Methods for Bronchoscopic Video Analysis and Synchronization

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Lung Cancer
Bronchoscopy
Early Detection
Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy
Bronchial Lesion
Lesion Detection and Segmentation
Multimodal Video Synchronization
Image-Guided Intervention

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Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Robert Collins, Major Field Member
William Higgins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Necdet Aybat, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vishal Monga, Major Field Member

Author:

Arribas Colmenar, Sara

Title:

Constelaciones de artistas: estudio de los espacios de creación colaborativa y análisis de redes en espectáculos y circuitos españoles (1909-1936)

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Social Network Analysis
Ballets Espagnols
Residencia de Señoritas
Café Pombo
Teatro de Arte
Concurso de Cante Jondo 1921
Lorca
dance
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
María Lejárraga
Antonia Mercé
Manuel de Falla
Humanidades Digitales
Digital Humanities
danza española
20th Century
Análisis de Redes Sociales

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Judith Sierra-Rivera, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Melissa Wright, Outside Unit & Field Member
Krista Brune, Major Field Member
Juan Udaondo Alegre, Major Field Member
Matthew Marr, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marco Martinez, Major Field Member
Nicolás Fernandez Medina, Special Member

Author:

Song, Jianan

Title:

Gallium nitride super-heterojunction device design and single event effect response

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
Superjunction
Radiation
TCAD
Single event effect
Dielectric

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Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Rongming Chu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehdi Kiani, Major Field Member
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member

Author:

Geronimo-Lopez, Kamil

Title:

Designing as Emancipation: A Participatory Design-Based Case Study in Popular Education Game Design

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Popular Education
Participatory Game Design
Board Games
Systemic Literacy
Conscientization
Adult Education

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Committee Members:

Susan Land, Program Head/Chair
Pamela VanHaitsma, Outside Unit Member
Craig Campbell, Major Field Member
John Holst, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Mcdonald, Outside Field Member
Gabriela Richard, Special Member

Author:

Umer, Muhammad

Title:

Investigation of Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Dilute Particle Clouds for Thermochemical Energy Storage Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Particle heat exchangers
Thermochemical energy storage
Particle cloud heating
Heat transfer in particles under sub-atmospheric pressure
Heat transfer coefficient
Wall convection
Free-falling particle system
Convection and radiation in dilute particle flow.
Sub-atmospheric pressure
Dilute particle flow

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Linxiao Zhu, Major Field Member
Jacqueline O'Connor, Major Field Member
Brian Fronk, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saya Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Anbarasu, Saranya

Title:

MULTI-DOMAIN MODELING, SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF INTEGRATED ENERGY SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Decarbonization
Decentralization
Smart Communities
Integrated Energy Systems
Modelica
Reduced order modelingOptimization
Reinforcement Learning
Sustainability.
Decarbonization
Decentralization
Integrated Energy Systems
Modelica
Reduced-order models
Optimization
Reinforcement learning
Sustainability
Real-world case study
Smart communities
Neural networks
Interdependencies

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Committee Members:

Satadru Dey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wangda Zuo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Greg Pavlak, Major Field Member
James Freihaut, Major Field Member
Jiazhen Ling, Special Member
Sen Huang, Special Member
James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fansler, Joshua

Title:

Mental Health and Readiness in the United States Military

Graduate Program:

Health Policy and Administration

Keywords:

military
mental health
military readiness
suicidal ideation
residential treatment
depression
PTSD
homophily

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John Dattilo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joel Segel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Moran, Major Field Member
Charleen Hsuan, Major Field Member
David Vanness, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Lee, Kyungsene

Title:

Cell surface engineering for conformal encapsulation

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Cell surface engineering
Cell encapsulation
Conformal coating
Type 1 diabetes

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Paul Cremer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Butler, Major Field Member
Yuguo Lei, Major Field Member
Yong Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sala, Christopher

Title:

Land and Ocean Contributions to United States Summertime Precipitation Variability

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Midwest United States
Southeast United States
Precipitation
North Atlantic Subtropical High
Wave Trains
Great Plains Low-Level Jet
Asia–North America Teleconnection
Summer

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Committee Members:

Sukyoung Lee, Major Field Member
Pengfei Zhang, Major Field Member
Shujie Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Laifang Li, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Swann, Mitchell

Title:

Time Domain Source Separation Methods for Impulsive Aeroacoustic Sources

Graduate Program:

Acoustics

Keywords:

source separation
aeroacoustics
vortex/edge noise
statistical inversion
PCA
RPCA
maximum likelihood estimation
Bayesian estimation
array processing

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Committee Members:

Daniel Brown, Major Field Member
Michael Krane, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Samuel Grauer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Adam S Nickels, Special Member
Jeff Harris, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Tyler Dare, Major Field Member
Julianna Simon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Delcid, Giselle

Title:

A Homeplace to bELong: Critical Ethnographic Analysis of Sense of Belonging for English Learners in Equity Focused Courses

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

belonging
English Learners
ethnic studies
culturally responsive
language affirmation
segregation
Proposition 203
Arizona
LatCrit
Critical Race Theory
sense of belonging
critical ethnography
testimonios

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kelly, Jon

Title:

Structural and Functional Integrity of the Visual System Following Exposure to Repetitive Head Impacts

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Repetitive Head Impacts
Concussion
Brain Injury
Vision
Visual System
Macular Pigment Carotenoids
Rugby
Collision Sports

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John Challis, Major Field Member
Lacy Alexander, Major Field Member
Semyon Slobounov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Arnett, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jonathan Dingwell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Norrid, Austin

Title:

I Continue to Teach: The Life and Careers of Paula Grossman (1919–2003), a Trans Music Educator

Graduate Program:

Music Education

Keywords:

Music Education
Trans
Transsexual
Biography
Transgender
Queer Studies
Trans Studies
LGBTQ
LGBT
Trans Rights
Trans Activism
Music
Music Teacher

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Committee Members:

Sarah Watts, Chair of Committee
Christopher Kiver, Outside Field Member
Charles Youmans, Outside Field Member
Linda Thornton, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
C. Libby, Outside Unit Member
Robert Gardner, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Mitra, Semontee

Title:

Puja at the Crossroads: A Transnational Ethnography of Hindu Festivals in the United States

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

South Asian Indians
Diaspora
Hindu Religion
Religious Festivals
Women
Goddesses
Durga Puja
Diwali
Kali Puja
Navratri
Folk Traditions
Indian Americans
Commercialization of Religion

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Simon J. Bronner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Simon J. Bronner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Triparna B Vasavada, Outside Member

Author:

Brubaker, Timothy Ryan

Title:

Multiphase plasmas in medicine: Plasma jet--liquid interaction and the direct generation of plasma in conductive liquids

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

plasma medicine
atmospheric pressure plasma jet
plasma-liquid interaction
reactive oxygen species
blood
inactivation of bacteria

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Committee Members:

Sven G Bilen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Committee Member
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Outside Member
Sean David Knecht, Committee Member

Author:

Zahabi, Mehrzad

Title:

Cold Sintered Calcium Carbonate Binders and Affinity Examination of 1D|2D Graphitic and Silica Nanoparticles in Civil Cementitious Materials

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Cold Sintering
Precast Construction Material Alternative
Precipitate and Ground Calcium Carbonate
Graphitic Nanoparticles
Graphene Oxide
Carbon Nanotube
Strain Sensing
Porosity
Carbonation
Alkali-Silica Reaction

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Committee Members:

Aly Marei Said, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aly Marei Said, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali M Memari, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Outside Member
Somayeh Asadi, Program Head/Chair
Ali M Memari, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Fortenbaugh, Robert

Title:

MOLECULAR-SCALE CONTROL OVER REACTION RATE AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF PHOTOTHERMALLY CURED SILICONE

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Photothermal
photothermal effect
nanoparticles
silicone
photothermal heat
PDMS
polymer
3D printing
paints and coatings
thermoset polymer

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member