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Author:

Hoffelmeyer, Michaela

Title:

Scalar Irresponsibility: Workplace Safety, Managerial Control, and Worker Coping in Small and Medium-Scale Meat Processing

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

labor
meat processing
scale
small
local

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Ransom, Major Field Member
Kathleen Sexsmith, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sam Tenorio, Outside Unit & Field Member
Heather Randell, Major Field Member
Clare Hinrichs, Major Field Member
Brian Thiede, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Alford, Katrina

Title:

Using the Community Capitals Framework to Conceptualize Drivers of Migration: A Quantitative Analysis of County-Level, Rural-Urban, and Age-Specific Trends in the United States

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Community Capitals
Migration
Rural migration
Elderly migration

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Committee Members:

Guangqing Chi, Major Field Member
Leif Jensen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Matthews, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brian Thiede, Major Field Member

Author:

Clarke, Jerome

Title:

Digital Colorline: Race, Machine Learning, and the Critique of Technology

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Digital Ethics
Du Bois
Adorno
Critical Theory

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Committee Members:

Daniel Susser, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cynthia Young, Co-Chair of Committee
Amy Allen, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Major Field Member
Sarah Miller, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhang, Wenhui

Title:

Studying the Performance and Security Trade-offs in Modern Linux Systems

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Linux
Container
Security

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Committee Members:

Trent Jaeger, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aiping Xiong, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Bardzell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Babbs Hollett, Karen

Title:

Racial Disparities in ECE Stability during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

early care and education
early childhood education
Covid-19 pandemic
racial disparities
stability

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Committee Members:

Erica Frankenberg, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ashley Patterson, Outside Unit Member
David Gamson, Outside Field Member
Kai Schafft, Major Field Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bray, Brandon A

Title:

Family and Contextual Factors That Predict the Development Course of ADHD-Related Behaviors in Early and Middle Childhood

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

ADHD
School-Risk
Elementary Age
Mixed Effects Model
Trajectory

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Committee Members:

Karen Bierman, Major Field Member
Jenae Neiderhiser, Major Field Member
Carlomagno Panlilio, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cynthia Huang-Pollock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sanders, Michael Thomas

Title:

Early Executive Functioning and Longitudinal Associations to Profiles of Adolescent Vulnerability to Later Substance Use Disorders

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

executive functioning
adolescent adjustment
risk-taking
substance use
executive functioning
adolescent adjustment
risk-taking
substance use

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Committee Members:

Karen Bierman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erika Lunkenheimer, Major Field Member
Martha Wadsworth, Major Field Member
Janet Welsh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Taverna, Emily

Title:

Validation of the Moral Injury Construct for Family Aggression Perpetration

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

domestic violence
morals
cognition
emotion
aggression
abuse
violence

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Committee Members:

Steffany Fredman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Marshall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Aaron Pincus, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Van Doren, Natalia

Title:

Characterizing the role of affect in substance use in daily life: a novel application of latent profile analysis for daily diary data

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

emotion
substance use
latent class anaylsis
heavy episodic drinking

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Committee Members:

Robert Roeser, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Michelle Newman, Major Field Member
Jose Soto, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bethany C. Bray, Special Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Yanan

Title:

Application of Convergence-Confinement Method in the Design and Construction of Large-Diameter Tunnels in Soft Ground

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Convergence-Confinement Method

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Committee Members:

Pinlei Chen, Major Field Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tong Qiu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hai Huang, Major Field Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Alioglu, Mecit Altan

Title:

Utilization of embedded printing for fabrication of 3D complex-shaped microfluidic devices in hydrogels and silicone composites

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

3D Printing
Bioprinting
Cancer-on-a-chip
Embedded Printing
Microfluidics
Silicone composite
Photocrosslinkable silicone
Organ Model Printing

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Committee Members:

Jing Du, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ibrahim Ozbolat, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Palmer, Major Field Member
Larry Cheng, Major Field Member
Francesco Costanzo, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Yuxiang

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERACTION OF MULTI-FUNCTIONALIZED POROUS AROMATIC FRAMEWORKS WITH PURE SO2 AND GAS MIXTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Functionalized Porous Aromatic Frameworks
Acid Gas Adsorption
Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simmulations

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Committee Members:

Susan Sinnott, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Outside Field Member
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Anari, Zahra

Title:

Pressure-driven Membrane Nutrient Recovery from Wastewater

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanofiltration
Reverse Osmosis
Nutrient Recovery
Wastewater Treatment
Struvite

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Committee Members:

Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rachel Brennan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephanie Velegol, Major Field Member
Christopher Arges, Major Field Member
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ritter, Kellan

Title:

The Drawing of Subnational Borders: Clarity, Conflcit, and Consequences

Graduate Program:

Political Science (PHD)

Keywords:

Conflict
Territory
Borders
Civil Conflict
Subnational Borders

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee Banaszak, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Lemke, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bumba Mukherjee, Major Field Member
Roseanne McManus, Major Field Member
Charles Seguin, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Rogers, Angela

Title:

Newcomer Onboarding: What Happens, What Helps, What Hinders, and Their Hopes

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development (PHD)

Keywords:

onboarding
newcomers
organizational socialization
learning
performance

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Committee Members:

Mark Threeton, Major Field Member
Hyung Joon Yoon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Priya Sharma, Outside Field Member
Paul Clark, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Schwab, David

Title:

CISLUNAR TRANSPORT CHARACTERIZATION FOR SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

three-body problem
cislunar space situational awareness
Hamiltonian mechanics
perturbation methods
action-angle coordinates
cislunar orbit determination
optimal cislunar transfer
cislunar station-keeping

File:

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Committee Members:

Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Cusumano, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jacob Langelaan, Major Field Member
Jill Bruer, Special Member
Roshan Thomas Eapen, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Puneet Singla, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Robert Melton, Major & Minor Field Member

Author:

Fischer, Kaitlin

Title:

Gender, Marriage, and Labor in Agrarian Northern Ghana: Creating Permission Structures Through Farmer Field Schools to Effect Changes in Household Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

farmer field school
permission structure
gender
time use
polygamy
northern Ghana

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Committee Members:

Brian Thiede, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Edward Martey, Special Member
Leif Jensen, Major Field Member
Leland Glenna, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathleen Sexsmith, Major Field Member
Brian King, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Dennington, Nina

Title:

Local Adaptation in Aedes aegypti and the implications for Disease Transmission in a Changing Climate

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Vector Biology
Climate Change
Adaptation
Local Thermal Adaptation
Dengue Virus
Ecology
Mosquito-borne Disease

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Thomas, Special Member
Elizabeth Mcgraw, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rudolf Schilder, Major Field Member
David Kennedy, Outside Field Member
Joyce Jose, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Benfield, Adam

Title:

Terrestrial ecosystem dynamics across Quaternary glacial terminations: Paleoecological insights from California and Malesia

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Palynology
Ecology
Indonesia
Tropics
Mono Lake
Pollen
Pleistocene

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit Member
Sarah Ivory, Special Member
Peter Wilf, Major Field Member
Sarah Ivory, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Roman DiBiase, Outside Field Member

Author:

Lee, Yu Tsung

Title:

Tackling Filesystem Vulnerabilities in Android: A Comprehensive Approach through Access Control Policy Analysis and Program Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Access Control Policy Analysis
Android
Program Analysis
Vulnerability Detection

File:

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Committee Members:

John Sampson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Peng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Trent Jaeger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
G. Tan, Major Field Member
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Major Field Member

Author:

Hayden, John

Title:

Growth and Ferroelectric Properties of Sputtered Aluminum Nitride-Based Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectrics
Wurtzite
Nitride
Thin Film
Sputtering

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
Tom Jackson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Johnson, Melinda

Title:

Shedding Light on the Red Nucleus in Parkinsonisms: A Neuropathological Study

Graduate Program:

Anatomy

Keywords:

parkinsonisms
Parkinson's disease
progressive supranuclear palsy
multiple system atrophy
corticobasal degeneration
atypical parkinsonisms
substantia nigra
red nucleus
pathology
neuropathology
MRI
susceptibility MRI
iron
movement disorders
neurology
brain

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Committee Members:

Patricia Mclaughlin, Program Head/Chair
Xuemei Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sharon Huang, Outside Unit Member
Pat Mclaughlin, Outside Field Member
James Connor, Major Field Member
Loren Evey, Outside Field Member

Author:

Stull, Samuel

Title:

Ambulatory Assessment to Study Nondrug Reward in Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

Opioid use disorder; nondrug reward; ambulatory assesment

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Gould, Program Head/Chair
Louisa Holmes, Outside Field Member
Eric Claus, Major Field Member
Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joshua Smyth, Major Field Member
Stephanie Lanza, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Siqi

Title:

Spatiotemporal Analytics for Advanced Manufacturing

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Feature learning
engineering knowledge
process monitoring
quality control
additive manufacturing
melt pool
additive manufacturing
melt pool
morphological modeling
feature learning
engineering knowledge
process monitoring
quality control
generative adversarial networks
spatiotemporal analytics

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Yan Lu, Special Member
Lingzhou Xue, Outside Unit Member
Edward Reutzel, Outside Field Member
Timothy Simpson, Major Field Member
Hui Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Qimin

Title:

Transcript assembly for modern RNA-seq data

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transcript Assembly
Single-cell RNA-seq
Transcript Annotation

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Committee Members:

John Sampson, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Qunhua Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Koslicki, Major Field Member
Paul Medvedev, Major Field Member
Mingfu Shao, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Wu, Zhengyu

Title:

Reinforcement Methods for 3D Concrete Printing: Evaluation, Analysis, and Experimental Testing

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Reinforcement
Structural Capacity
Construction Methods
Structural Testing
3D Concrete Printing

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
Nicholas Meisel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jose Pinto Duarte, Dissertation Advisor
Nathan Brown, Major Field Member
Ali Memari, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Van Bogart, Karina

Title:

Loneliness in daily life: Examining the roles of loneliness chronicity and negatively biased cognitions

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

loneliness
daily life
variability
chronicity
social hypervigilance
rumination
depressed mood

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Committee Members:

Thomas Gould, Program Head/Chair
Amy Marshall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Graham-Engeland, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Smyth, Major Field Member
Derek Spangler, Major Field Member

Author:

Haddaway, Rebecca

Title:

Medical Discourse and Antislavery Resistance in the Early American Republic

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

antislavery
abolitionism
medicine
medical writing
geography
bodysnatching
New York City
epidemic
yellow fever
Haitian Revolution
Haiti
Saint-Domingue
Philadelphia
leprosy
early republic
American
United States
visuality
anatomy riot
dissection
public health
Saint Domingo
disfigurement

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Committee Members:

Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Claire Colebrook, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carla Mulford, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Richard Doyle, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hester Blum, Major Field Member

Author:

Chang, Shengyuan

Title:

PUSHING OPTICAL METALENS TO THE LIMITS: TOWARDS LARGE APERTURE, BROADBAND ACHROMATIC DESIGNS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Optical Metasurface
Metalens
Broadband
Light
Two-photon Microscopy
Achromatic

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Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Major Field Member
Mikael Rechtsman, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xingjie Ni, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Christos Argyropoulos, Major Field Member

Author:

Baigabulov, Yedilkhan

Title:

Essays on Labor and Family Economics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Labor Economics
Family Economics
Divorce

File:

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Committee Members:

Barry Ickes, Program Head/Chair
Marc Henry, Major Field Member
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ewout Verriest, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bradley Setzler, Major Field Member

Author:

Brandenburg, Joseph

Title:

The Initial Development of the Self-Efficacy in Emotion Regulation Scale (SEERS)

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

Self Efficacy in Emotion Regulation Scale
Emotion Regulation
Self-Efficacy
Scale Development
Emotion
Exploratory Factor Analysis
Review of Emotion Regulation and Self-Efficacy Instruments

File:

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Committee Members:

James Diperna, Program Head/Chair
James Diperna, Major Field Member
Rayne Sperling, Outside Field Member
Reg Adams, Outside Unit Member
Cristin Hall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Outside Field Member

Author:

Huxford, Kayla

Title:

Aquariums and the Aesthetics of Care

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Aquariums
Aesthetics
Ethics of Care
Animal Studies
Tropical Fish

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Committee Members:

Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Carla Mulford, Major Field Member
Jennifer Wagner Lawlor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hester Blum, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christian Haines, Major Field Member

Author:

Stroughair, Nicholas

Title:

SOME SPECTRAL THEOREMS FOR TOEPLITZ-LIKE OPERATORS

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Toeplitz
Toeplitz-like
Gyroscopes
magnetized gyroscopes
Weyl
Levinson
Sturm-Liouville

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Committee Members:

Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, Program Head/Chair
Ludmil Zikatanov, Major Field Member
Nigel Higson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jacob Bourjaily, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Levi, Major Field Member
Jacek Brodzki, Special Member

Author:

Mei, Ruobing

Title:

Linear and Nonlinear Responses in Magnetic Topological Materials

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Magnetic topological insulators
quantum anomalous Hall
topological superconductivity
nonlinear Hall effect

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Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Chaoxing Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jorge Sofo, Major Field Member
Cuizu Chang, Major Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Zhongkun

Title:

Photo-Stereolithography for Engineering Heterogeneities in Intelligent Shape Memory Polymers with Tunable Performance

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

3D printing
Stereolithography
Shape memory polymer
Heterogeneities
Tunable Performance

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Xing Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hongtao Sun, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Qiushi Chen, Major Field Member
Robert Voigt, Major Field Member

Author:

Lan, Yi Chen

Title:

Recycling All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

all-solid-state lithium battery
recycling
cold-sintering process
polymer electrolyte
lithium metal battery
solid-state electrolyte

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Committee Members:

Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Enrique Gomez, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bryan Vogt, Major Field Member
Christian Pester, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Mena Garcia, Javier

Title:

Cold sintering of ceramic matrix composites for varistors and microwave dielectric substrates

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cold sintering
ceramic matrix composite
microwave substrate
varistor

File:

Download 2024-06-27_JavierMenaGarciaDissertation_V08.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Mongilio, Jessica

Title:

Risk factors for youth brain injury and post-injury behavioral change in the ABCD Study cohort

Graduate Program:

Criminology

Keywords:

adolescence
delinquency
alcohol use
TBI
head injury

File:

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Committee Members:

Pamela Wilcox, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Lisa Kopp, Outside Unit Member
Jennifer Maggs, Outside Field Member
Kyle Thomas, Special Member
Derek Kreager, Major Field Member
Jeremy Staff, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Dai, Enyan

Title:

Towards Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Trustworthy
Graph Neural Networks
Robustness
Privacy
Fairness
Explainability

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Xiang Zhang, Major Field Member
Suhang Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lu Lin, Major Field Member

Author:

Huang, Yidan

Title:

Introducing robots to employees: what can organizations do to protect employees and foster engagement

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management

Keywords:

service robots
job insecurity

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Committee Members:

Donna Quadri-Felitti, Program Head/Chair
Heyao Yu, Major Field Member
Anna Mattila, Major Field Member
Amit Sharma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bing Pan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Stumme, Anna

Title:

Utilizing Additive Manufacturing for Cylindrical Array Designs with Integrated Beamformer

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
3D printing
cylindrical array
butler matrix

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Wooram Lee, Major Field Member
Gregory Huff, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julio Urbina, Major Field Member
Mark Dorsey, Special Member
Allison Beese, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Scullard, Gabrielle

Title:

Horizontal isogenies and endomorphism rings of supersingular elliptic curves

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

elliptic curves
isogenies
arithmetic geometry
abelian varieties
number theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, Program Head/Chair
Antonio Blanca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mihran Papikian, Major Field Member
Kirsten Eisentraeger, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wen-Ching Li, Major Field Member

Author:

Mussman, Colin

Title:

Methods for the Holistic Synthesis of Phased Arrays

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Phased Array
Directivity
Short Backfire Antenna
Millimeter Wave
RFIC
Aperture Synthesis
Antenna Design

File:

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Werner, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wooram Lee, Major Field Member
Gregory Huff, Major Field Member
Sawyer Campbell, Major Field Member

Author:

Kerins, Devon

Title:

What lies beneath? Disentangling climate and catchment controls on the prodecuon and export of subsurface water and carbon fluxes

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Climate
reactive transport
Carbon

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Boyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Li Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wei Peng, Major Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Belles, Alexander

Title:

Investigating Dust Attenuation Using Swift/UVOT Observations of Galaxies Over Cosmic Time

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

interstellar dust
galaxy evolution
spectral energy distribution fitting

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Committee Members:

Robin Ciardullo, Major Field Member
John Nousek, Major Field Member
Hyungsuk Tak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Siegel, Major Field Member
Caryl Gronwall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Randy McEntaffer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Joel Leja, Major Field Member

Author:

Lee, Kippeum

Title:

Essays on Network Analysis of Firms

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

R&D collaboration
Networking
Knowledge spillover
R&D investment
Common value auction
Joint bidding
Winner's curse

File:

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Committee Members:

Marc Henry, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Karl Schurter, Major Field Member
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joris Pinkse, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sung Jae Jun, Major Field Member

Author:

Hayne, Emily

Title:

Using socio-cultural learning theory to understand nature journaling as meaning-making and an opportunity to nurture well-being

Graduate Program:

Recreation, Park and Tourism Management

Keywords:

Nature journaling
Socio-cultural learning theory
Nature connectedness
Place attachment
Relationships
Well-being

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Committee Members:

Lucy McClain, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrew Mowen, Major Field Member
Derrick Taff, Major Field Member
Danielle Lawson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew Justin Mowen, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Derrick Shao

Title:

Growth of the III-VI Two Dimensional Chalcogenide Layered Semiconductors for Electronic Device Applications by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular Beam Epitaxy
thin film
2D materials
indium selenide
growth kinetics
chalcogens

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Ying Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Quaynor, Phoebe

Title:

Multilingualism and coloniality in Ghana: A case study of language use in a primary school.

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Classroom talk
anticolonial pedagogy
translanguaging

File:

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Committee Members:

Kimberly Powell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jason Griffith, Major Field Member
Sean Goudie, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amy Crosson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sinfree Makoni, Outside Field Member

Author:

Menghani, Ritika Raj

Title:

High Throughput Brain Modeling For Real-Time Computation of Brain Injury Metrics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

finite element modeling
traumatic brain injury
computational biomechanics

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Melissa Brindise, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Proctor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Reuben Kraft, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaogang Hu, Major Field Member

Author:

Mahachi, Susan

Title:

Multicultural Attitudes, Inquiry-based Science Teaching Self-Efficacy, and Culturally Responsive Science Teaching Practices of Kenyan and Zimbabwean School Teachers

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

culturally responsive teaching
culturally responsive science teaching
inquiry-based science teaching self-efficacy
multicultural attitudes
student-centered teaching

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Committee Members:

Kimberly Powell, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amy Crosson, Major Field Member
Hollie Kulago, Major Field Member
Ravinder Koul, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sinfree Makoni, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Wang, Nan

Title:

Exploring the Effects of Solar Irradiation, Building Glazing Systems, and Tunable LEDs on the Thermal Environment for Building Energy Savings

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Indoor thermal environment
Building envelope
Energy systems
Renewable energy
Solar irradiation
Tunable LED
Glazing systems
Thermal comfort
Human psychology
Human physiology
Human behavior
Energy savings
Human participant experiment
Parametric simulation
Energy simulation

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Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Dorukalp Durmus, Major Field Member
Scott Roths, Minor Field Member
Julian Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anne-Marie Chang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Saha, Kushal

Title:

Assessing novel mechanisms to understand the dynamics of the Intestinal milieu in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Crohn's Disease
Ulcerative Colitis
Tight Junctions
Autophagy
Cytokines
MMP-12
Occludin
Inflammation
Mucosal immunity
Macrophages
T Cells
Gut Barrier
Intestinal Physiology
Mouse Models
Colitis

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Gregory Yochum, Co-Chair of Committee
Hong-Gang Wang, Major Field Member
Ralph Keil, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thomas Ma, Major Field Member
Prashant Nighot, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xia, Chen

Title:

An Activity-based Spatial-Temporal Analysis for Community Energy Vulnerability Assessment

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Energy Vulnerability
Activity Simulation
Markov Chain Model
Bayesian Spatial Mapping
Energy Vulnerability
Activity Simulation
Markov Chain Model
Bayesian Spatial Mapping

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Julian Wang, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Guangqing Chi, Outside Field Member
Yuqing Hu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wang-Chien Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wangda Zuo, Major Field Member

Author:

Li, Yuwei

Title:

The dyadic dynamics of serial arguments: Associations between goal structures and communication in conversations about recurring disagreements

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

serial arguments
conflict
dynamic dyadic systems
message production
communication goals
sequence analysis
configural frequency analysis

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James Dillard, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Erika Lunkenheimer, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Gastil, Major Field Member
Timothy Worley, Special Member
Denise Solomon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Bedillion, Margaret

Title:

The effects of alcohol and tobacco co-use on momentary subjective cannabis effects: Risk for increasingly hazardous cannabis use

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

EMA
co-use
cannabis
alcohol
tobacco
subjective drug effects

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Committee Members:

Thomas Gould, Program Head/Chair
Eric Claus, Major Field Member
Emily Ansell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rina Eiden, Outside Unit & Field Member
Robert Turrisi, Major Field Member
Joshua Smyth, Major Field Member

Author:

Sandoval Arango, Stephania

Title:

Integrating Phenotypes and Phylogeography to Investigate Evolutionary Patterns in Widespread Bee Species

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Orchid bees
Color variation
Ultraconserved Elements
Brood parasites
Behavior
Museum genomics

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Margarita Lopez-Uribe, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Thomas Baker, Major Field Member
Jesse Lasky, Outside Unit Member
Heather Hines, Major Field Member
Sara Hermann, Outside Field Member

Author:

Jackson, Jennifer

Title:

Utilizing Equity-Oriented Pedagogy To Support Teacher Learning

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Equity
Professional learning
Professional vision
Teacher identity

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Committee Members:

Scott Mcdonald, Program Head/Chair
Tiffany Nyachae, Major Field Member
Scott Mcdonald, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tanner Vea, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kathleen Hill, Major Field Member

Author:

Ivory, Susannah

Title:

Who wants to work remotely? Personality and attitudes about remote and in-person work in a post-COVID-19 workforce

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Remote work
Extraversion
Affiliation motive

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Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Rustin Meyer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alicia Grandey, Major Field Member
James LeBreton, Major Field Member
Kevin Kinser, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Jang, Jung Kuk

Title:

Emotional Sensitivity Matters: The Matching Effect of Direct and Indirect Emotional Cues on Social Servicescape

Graduate Program:

Hospitality Management

Keywords:

emotional cue
social servicescape
gender
emotional congruence
pre-consumption marketing appeal
emotional sensitivity
information processing style
direct emotional cue
indirect emotional cue
warmth
competence
hedonic
utilitarian
emotional incongruence

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

Author:

Shaheen, Samuel

Title:

Dissolved Gases, Salts, and Metals in Appalachian Basin Groundwater: Provenance and Processes in Relation to Oil and Gas Development

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Groundwater
Methane
Brine
Aqueous geochemistry
Oil and gas
Reactive transport
Machine learning

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Susan Brantley, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Max Lloyd, Outside Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Outside Unit Member
Christopher House, Major Field Member
Eric Roden, Special Signatory

Author:

Wu, Jinming

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) MODELING OF FLAME TRANSFER FUNCTION IN GAS TURBINE COMBUSTORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)
Large Eddy Simulation(LES)
Flame Transfer Function(FTF)
Gas Turbine Combustor

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jacqueline O'Connor, Major Field Member
Daniel Haworth, Major & Minor Field Member
Yuan Xuan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donghyun Rim, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Li, Yi

Title:

Mapping Chromosomal Interactions And Measuring Chromosome Dynamics In Budding Yeast

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

3D genome organization
Chromosome Dynamics

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Committee Members:

Qunhua Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Reese, Major Field Member
Shaun Mahony, Major Field Member
Ross Hardison, Major Field Member
Lu Bai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Santhosh Girirajan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sallai, Gaby

Title:

Interpreting doctoral engineering attrition: Investigating doctoral stress and coping, costs of persistence, and underlying structural causes of attrition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

graduate students
engineering
engineering education
qualitative methods
interviews
coping
stress
costs
attrition
persistence
policy
qualifying exams
graduate school milestones
departmental reform
doctoral engineering students
COPE inventory
expectancy-value theory
systems approach
systems theory
content analysis
thematic analysis
maximum variation sampling
premature departure
mastering out

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jacqueline O'Connor, Major Field Member
Catherine Berdanier, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jessica Menold, Major Field Member
Shelley Stoffels, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Hua, Dianya Mia

Title:

Pleasure Activism: Designing for Women’s Masturbation

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Pleasure Activism
Human Sexuality
Women's Masturbation
Interaction Design
Design History
Human-computer Interaction

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Yubo Kou, Major Field Member
Eli Blevis, Special Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xinning Gui, Major Field Member
Shaowen Bardzell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Eldreth, James

Title:

West Virginia "By Heart and By Choice:" Narratives on Rurality, Poverty, and Musical Engagement

Graduate Program:

Music Education

Keywords:

Rural
Rurality
Poverty
Musical Engagement
Community Music
Narrative Inquiry
Conflict Theory

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Committee Members:

Ann Clements, Chair of Committee
Sarah Watts, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Gardner, Program Head/Chair
Eric Mckee, Outside Field Member
James Johnson, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Shayesteh, Shayan

Title:

Adaptive Human-Machine Interaction for Enhanced Human-Robot Collaboration in Construction

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Human-Robot Collaboration
Immersive Virtual Environment
Physiological Sensing
Adaptive User Interface
Human-Machine Interaction
Construction Safety

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Committee Members:

James Freihaut, Program Head/Chair
John Messner, Major Field Member
Houtan Jebelli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Asok Ray, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dorukalp Durmus, Major Field Member

Author:

Young, Michael

Title:

Twentieth Century Sophistries: Popular Science, Human Manuals, and American Rhetorical History

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

history of rhetoric
rhetorical education
Dale Carnegie
public speaking
Scientology
L. Ron Hubbard
science fiction
brainwashing
deprogramming
Patty Hearst

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Committee Members:

Stuart Selber, Major Field Member
Debbie Hawhee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jeffrey Nealon, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Michele Kennerly, Minor Field Member
Kirt Wilson, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zou, Fan

Title:

Charting the Coevolution between Massive Black Holes and Galaxies with Deep Cosmic Surveys

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Massive black holes
Galaxies
Massive black holes
Galaxies
Sky surveys

File:

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Committee Members:

Randy McEntaffer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kohta Murase, Outside Unit Member
Joel Leja, Major Field Member
Donald Schneider, Major Field Member
Donghui Jeong, Outside Field Member
William Brandt, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Peles, Joshua

Title:

Effects of Operating Mode and Flow Conditions on Performance of Virus Removal Filters for Therapeutic Antibody Production

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Virus Filtration
Therapeutic Antibody
Protein Fouling
Virus Removal
Virus Breakthrough
Downstream Bioprocessing
Continuous Bioprocessing
Process Disruption
Flow Interruption

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Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Andrew Zydney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hee Jeung Oh, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Major Field Member
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Semerikov, Vladislav

Title:

Essays in Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Leverage
Financial Intermediaries
Heterogeneous Agents
Financial Cycle
DSGE.
DSGE
Monetary policy
hysteresis
learning-by-doing
endogenous productivity
optimal policy
new keynesian models
business cycles
Monetary Policy
Hysteresis
Learning-by-Doing
Optimal Policy
New Keynesian Models
Business Cycles
Endogenous Growth
Productivity
Local Projections
Bayesian Estimation
Inflation
Taylor Rule
Federal Reserve
Policy Normalization
Supply Chains
COVID-19
BVAR

File:

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Committee Members:

Barry Ickes, Program Head/Chair
Mihail Velikov, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Argente, Major Field Member
Ruilin Zhou, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ross Doppelt, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Carey, Sarah

Title:

Languages of Resistance: Moving from Colonial Monologism to Complex Communication

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Lugones
Derrida
Decolonial Theory
Deconstruction
Decolonial Feminism
Feminist Philosophy
Continental Philosophy

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Committee Members:

Sarah Miller, Program Head/Chair
Nancy Tuana, Major Field Member
Claire Colebrook, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Miller, Major Field Member
Leonard Lawlor, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Mariana Ortega, Dissertation Co-Advisor

Author:

Gancz, Abby

Title:

Uncovering Hidden Frailty And Disease Risk In Archaeological Populations Via Ancient Oral Microbiome Analysis

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

oral microbiome
ancient DNA
dental calculus
paleoepidemiology

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Committee Members:

Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair
Laura Weyrich, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sagan Friant, Major Field Member
Sharon DeWitte, Special Member
Justin Silverman, Outside Unit & Field Member
George Milner, Major Field Member

Author:

Campillo, America

Title:

Differential response of skeletal microstructure to locomotor loading in a bipedal rodent model (Rattus norvegicus)

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Locomotion
Human Evolution
Bone biology
Trabecular Bone
Cortical Bone
Subchondral Bone
Experimental Animal Model
Bipedalism

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Committee Members:

Tim Ryan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonas Rubenson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Richtsmeier, Major Field Member
George Milner, Major Field Member
Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Watson, Connor

Title:

Microfluidic Assays of vWF-Mediated Platelet Adhesion Under Supraphysiological Shear

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Microfluidics
Platelets
Blood
von Willebrand Factor
Thrombosis
Mechanical Circulatory Support

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Committee Members:

Pak Kin Wong, Major Field Member
Keefe Manning, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lacy Alexander, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott D Simon, Special Member
Francesco Costanzo, Major Field Member
Christopher Siedlecki, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Song, Jiaqi

Title:

Collective Fluid Regulation Using Enzymes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Enzymatic Catalysis
Micro-pump
Liposome
Convection
Solutal Buoyancy
Collective Behavior

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Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Igor Aronson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Asbury, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Kim, Eunjin

Title:

A Case Study of the Impact of an Asian American-Centered Digital Collage Lived Art Curriculum on Asian American Undergraduate Students

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Asian American
Asian American Undergraduate Students
Counterstories
Lived Curriculum
AsianCrit
In-betweenness
Digital Collage
Remix
Critical Consiousness
Critical Agency
Participatory Data Collection and Analysis
Art Education
Qualitative Case Study

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Karen Keifer-Boyd, Program Head/Chair
Wanda Knight, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Major Field Member
Francesca Lopez, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Eduardo Navas, Major Field Member

Author:

Freeburne, Sarah

Title:

Approaches Towards Polymer-Based Heterogeneous Photocatalyst Materials

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Photocatalysis
Heterogeneous Catalysis
Polymers

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Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Bryan Vogt, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Elacqua, Outside Unit & Field Member
Phillip Savage, Major Field Member
Christian Pester, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Pankratz, Katharina

Title:

Freshwater Bivalves as Localized Indicators of Anthropogenic Pollution Throughout the Appalachian Basin

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Biomonitor
NORM
Oil and Gas Produced Water
Coal Mining Discharges
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
Microplastics
Invasive Clam
Freshwater Mussel

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Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair
William Burgos, Co-Chair of Committee
C. Guilherme Becker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jay Regan, Major Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Brittlebank, Savanna

Title:

Effect of a parent teletraining to support increased communication opportunities during shared storybook reading with children with multiple disabilities

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

multiple disabilities
augmentative and alternative communication
partner training
telepractice
language development
multiple disabilities
augmentative and alternative communication
partner training
telepractice
language development

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Committee Members:

Diane Williams, Program Head/Chair
Krista Wilkinson, Major Field Member
David Mcnaughton, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janice Light, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nicole Etter (she/her), Major Field Member

Author:

Lection, Jennine

Title:

Cultivating Connections Between the Microbiome, Inflammation, and Reproductive Disease: A Comparative Perspective

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology

Keywords:

Canine
Equine
Bovine
Microbiome
Inflammation

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Gregory Shearer, Program Head/Chair
Erika Ganda, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
William Staniar, Major Field Member
Adrian Barragan, Outside Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Justin Silverman, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Eskanlou, Amir

Title:

A surface chemistry approach to inhibition of particle-induced hydroxyl radical generation: a case study of respirable coal dust

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coal
Pyrite
Quartz
Free radicals
Toxicity
Respirable coal dust
Diesel Particulate Matter

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Nelson Yaw Dzade, Major Field Member
Barbara Arnold, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Mohammad Rezaee, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Yang, Kaijie

Title:

Quantum Transport and Interaction in Topological Materials

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological material
moire system
quasi symmetry
Coulomb interaction
spin transport

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Committee Members:

Mikael Rechtsman, Major Field Member
Chaoxing Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pitcher, Mica

Title:

Fundamental and Applied Investigation of Disordered Cellulose

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

cellulose
disordered regions
lignocellulose conversion
material characterization
sustainable development goals
nanocellulose
nanoengineering

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Elacqua, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amir Sheikhi, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Robert Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Das, Subhra Kanti

Title:

Nucleosome dynamics studied with single-molecule methods

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET)
Nucleosome dynamics
Spontaneous histone exchange
Post-translational modifications (PTMs)
Linker histone H1
H1 CTD dynamics
Total internal-reflection microscopy (TIR)
Site-specific DNA labeling
Site-specific protein labeling
CpG methylation

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
Mark Hedglin, Major Field Member
Song Tan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Roundtree, Sarah

Title:

"I'm Not Broken": Disabled Students' Perceptions of Representation in Counseling Programs

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

disability
multicultural counseling
counseling
counselor education
higher education
universal design

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Prosek, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Elizabeth Prosek, Major Field Member
Allison Fleming, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janice Byrd, Major Field Member
Wilson Okello, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Zhang, Xusheng

Title:

Dynamics for the Potts and random-cluster models

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Markov chains
Random-cluster models
Mixing time
random graphs

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Martin Fürer, Major Field Member
Antonio Blanca, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chunhao Wang, Major Field Member
Alexei Novikov, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Chang, Joonho

Title:

Biomechanical Analysis of the Index Finger Motion for Optimal Trigger Design Using Cadaver Experiments.

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Cadaver study
Trigger grip design
Triggering force
Trigger grip span
Handle grip span
and FDP to FDS tendon force ratio

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Committee Members:

Andris Freivalds, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil Sharkey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andris Freivalds, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Neil Sharkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David J Cannon, Committee Member
Ling Rothrock, Committee Member
Hyun Min Mike Kim, Special Member

Author:

Chang, Ji Woong

Title:

MOLECULAR-LEVEL STUDIES OF FORMATION OF TRANSITION METAL NANOPARTICLES AND DEVELOPMENTS OF CONTINUOUS METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanoparticle synthesis
Anion
Hollow nanoparticle
Kirkendall effect
Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
Continuous method

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Committee Members:

Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member

Author:

Day, Todd Douglas

Title:

High Pressure Chemical Deposition of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon in Extreme Geometries

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

hydrogenated amorphous silicon
high pressure
chemical vapor deposition
optoelectronics
optical fiber

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Committee Members:

John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harry R Allcock, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member

Author:

DeCollibus, Marisa

Title:

Cultivating Early Adults’ Flourishing with Mindfulness & Technology Assisted Skill Transfer: A Pilot Comparative Effectiveness

Graduate Program:

School Psychology

Keywords:

Emerging Adulthood
Skill Transfer
Mindfulness
Transition to College
Personal Health Tracker
Well-being
Flourishing

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Committee Members:

James Diperna, Program Head/Chair
Robert Roeser, Outside Unit Member
Cristin Hall, Major Field Member
Jennifer Frank, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Deb Schussler, Outside Field Member
Damon Evan Jones, Special Member

Author:

Dai, Jun

Title:

Gaining Big Picture Awareness in Enterprise Cyber Security Defense

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

cyber security defense
enterprise network diagnosis
situation awareness
big picture
zero-day attack path
service dependency

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Committee Members:

Peng Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peng Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Yen, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Kelmelis, Kirsten

Title:

THE BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF URBANIZATION IN MEDIEVAL DENMARK (AD 1050-1536)

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

bioarchaeology
urbanization
medieval Denmark
paleodemography
paleoepidemiology
paleopathology

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Committee Members:

Stephen Augustus Matthews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Wood, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Member
George Robert Milner, Committee Member
Liying Luo, Outside Member
Jesper Boldsen, Special Member

Author:

Halkowski, Madeline

Title:

Socially assistive robotic instruction for children with autism spectrum disorder

Graduate Program:

Special Education

Keywords:

socially assistive robot
autism
single case
education

File:

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Committee Members:

P Murphy, Program Head/Chair
Soo-yong Byun, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Lee, Major Field Member
Richard Kubina, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
A. Angelique Aitken, Major Field Member

Author:

O'Boyle, Sarah

Title:

Targeting Complexity Complexity in Nanoscale Metal Sulfides with Colloidal Synthesis and Post-Synthetic Modifications

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nanoparticle Synthesis
Metal Sulfides
Cation Exchange
Inorganic Nanoparticles
Heterostructures
Ternary Metal Sulfides
Colloidal Synthesis
Nanocrystals
X-ray Diffraction
Electron Microscopy

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Robert Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Wasson, Derek

Title:

Effects of Macroalgae Supplementation in Lactating Dairy Cattle Diets

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Seaweed
methane
dairy cow

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Committee Members:

Ramesh Ramachandran, Program Head/Chair
Alexander Hristov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tara Felix, Major Field Member
Andre F. Brito, Special Member
Kenneth Davis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kevin Harvatine, Major Field Member

Author:

Javed, Zaineb

Title:

Mitochondrial dynamics in Ovarian Cancer: Role of alternative splice variants of fission protein Drp1

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Drp1
DNM1L splice variants
mitochondrial dynamics
ovarian cancer

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Committee Members:

Vonn Walter, Outside Field Member
Shengyu Yang, Major Field Member
Lisa Shantz, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Hong-Gang Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nadine Hempel, Special Member
Mohamed Trebak, Special Member

Author:

Dong, Ming

Title:

Addressing reliability challenges in solid-state nanopore sensors for robust point-of-care diagnostics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanopore
nucleic acid detection
pathogen identification
molecular diagnostics

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Committee Members:

Madhavan Swaminathan, Program Head/Chair
Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Pak Kin Wong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Weihua Guan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Major Field Member

Author:

Gong, Rushi

Title:

Investigation of Atomic Environments by Computational Thermodynamics: Applications in Intermetallic Catalysts and Molten Salts

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CALPHAD
Thermodynamics
First-principles calculations
Catalysts
Intermetallics
Molten salts
Short-range ordering
Software

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Michael Janik, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member

Author:

Xue, Wangyang

Title:

Dynamic Partitioning of Surfactants in Non-Equilibrium Emulsions: Impact on Interfacial Tension, Phase Behavior, and Wetting Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Wetting
Surfactant
Adsorption
Partitioning
Sessile Droplet
Emulsion
Solubilization
Equilibrium

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Committee Members:

William Noid, Major Field Member
Sulin Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ayusman Sen, Major Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair