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Author:

Balakrishna Rai, Siddhartha

Title:

Tackling the Challenges in Enabling Processing in Memory in DDR-DRAM Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Processing in Memory
Bank level In Memory Processing
DRAM
Memory
NUMA capability for Bank Level In Memory Processing
LLM

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Major Field Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Major Field Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Burtnett, Sarah

Title:

Investigating dietary methods for improving fatty acid digestibility and milk fat yields in lactating dairy cattle

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

milk fat depression
emulsifiers
oleic acid

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Committee Members:

Ramesh Ramachandran, Program Head/Chair
Robert Vansaun, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tara Felix, Major Field Member
Arlyn Heinrichs, Major Field Member
Kevin Harvatine, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Belcher, Daniel

Title:

Ribosome Biogenesis and Translational Control in Skeletal Muscle: Insights into Anabolic Deficits and Atrophy in Cancer Cachexia

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology

Keywords:

skeletal muscle
cancer cachexia
ribosomes
translational efficiency
muscle wasting
skeletal muscle
cancer cachexia
ribosomes
protein synthesis
muscle wasting
skeletal muscle
cancer cachexia
ribosome
muscle wasting
translational efficiency

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Committee Members:

Gregory Shearer, Program Head/Chair
Gustavo Nader, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scot Kimball, Outside Unit & Field Member
William Staniar, Major Field Member
Robert Paulson, Major Field Member

Author:

Foster, Linsea

Title:

Surface engineering of metal, graphite, and metal-graphite composites for improved strength and various material properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cold sintering
Surface engineering
Powder metal
Powder carbon
Green machining
Soft magnetic composites

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Michael Lanagan, Major Field Member
Randy Vander Wal, Outside Unit & Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daudi Waryoba, Special Member
Daudi Waryoba, Special Member

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Committee Members:

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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Committee Members:

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