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Author:

Zokaeinikoo, Maryam

Title:

Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Models to Detect Chronic and Infectious Diseases

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Interpretable
Deep learning
Alzheimer's
COVID-19
Attention mechanism

File:

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Committee Members:

Prasenjit Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hui Yang, Committee Member
Qiushi Chen, Committee Member
Akhil Kumar, Outside Member
Steven James Landry, Program Head/Chair
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Kiani, Maryam

Title:

An Exploration of Active Learning in a Calculus I Classroom : An Action Research Study During COVID-19 Era

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

Active Learning
Calculus I
COVID-19
Action Research

File:

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Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Reuben Selase Asempapa, Committee Member
Triparna B Vasavada, Outside Member
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chang, Hwei Kit

Title:

The Effect of Embedded Interactive Adjunct Questions in Instructional Videos

Graduate Program:

Learning, Design, and Technology

Keywords:

ALA-Reader
cognitive load
constructed-response question
essay
COVID-19
generative learning process
knowledge structure
prompts
Pathfinder network
recognition question
resistance to active learning
technology enhanced
viewing completion.

File:

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Committee Members:

Roy Clariana, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roy Clariana, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Mary Land, Committee Member
ChanMin Kim, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Outside Member
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhai, Yusen

Title:

Investigating the Relationships Between College Student Mental Health, Risk Perception, Protective Factors, and Academic Persistence in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

COVID-19
Mental Health
Risk Perception
Optimism
Help-seeking
Social Support
Academic Persistence
College Student
Higher Education
Marginalized Students
Disproportionate Impact
Health Disparities
Inequalities

File:

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Committee Members:

Jolynn Carney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jolynn Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diandra Prescod, Committee Member
Julia A Green Bryan, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Outside Member
Liza Marie Conyers, Committee Member
Jolynn Carney, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stiberman, Laura

Title:

RACIAL/ETHNIC COUNTIES COMPOSITION EFFECTS ON COVID-19 CASE RATES AND CASE FATALITY RATIOS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2020: A SPATIAL APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

COVID-19
percentage of Blacks
percentage of Hispanics
spatial dependence
spatial nonstationary

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Augustus Matthews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guangqing Chi, Committee Member
Ashton Michael Verdery, Committee Member
Eric P Baumer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Al Shawan, Fahad

Title:

Organization Development Experts' Perspectives On Leading Organizations In Saudi Arabia During a Global Pandemic and Transitions Due to Saudi Vision 2030

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Organization Development
Saudi 2030 Vision
COVID-19
Organizational Change
Organization Development Practices
Organization Development Phases

File:

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Committee Members:

Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
William Rothwell, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Brendel, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Ewing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Land, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Mijin

Title:

Effective Telecommuting for Working Mothers With Young Children in the United Nations System During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Telecommuting
Flexible Working Arrangements
Productivity
Flexibility
Working Mothers
ECIT
COVID-19
Pandemic
Working From Home

File:

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Committee Members:

Wesley Donahue, Major Field Member
William Rothwell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Ewing, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hyung Joon Yoon, Major Field Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Wikle, Nathan

Title:

Mechanistic models for spatial and spatio-temporal data.

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

spatial statistics
spatio-temporal statistics
mechanistic models
COVID-19
air pollution
ant trophallaxis

File:

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Committee Members:

Tyler Wagner, Outside Unit & Field Member
David Hunter, Major Field Member
Ephraim Hanks, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Murali Haran, Major Field Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Weir, Elisabeth

Title:

Measuring Olfactory And Chemosensory Function In Healthy Controls And COVID-19 Positive Individuals

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

COVID-19
Olfaction
Smell
Taste
Detection Threshold
Chemesthesis
Anosmia
Chemosensory Function

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
John Hayes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Helene Hopfer, Committee Member
Cara L Exten, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Yanting

Title:

Role of video conferencing affordances in remote education during COVID-19

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

COVID-19
videoconferencing
remote education
affordance
usage

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair
John M. Carroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Chun-Hua Tsai, Committee Member

Author:

Hurlbutt, Nicole

Title:

Exploring Leadership Styles of Federal Civilian Employees and the Relationship to their Individual Employee Engagement

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

engagement
leadership
federal government
turnover intent
transformational leadership
COVID-19

File:

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Committee Members:

Jacqueline Mogle, Outside Field Member
Jean Phillips, Outside Unit Member
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William Brendel, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hyung Joon Yoon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Banerjee, Rhea

Title:

Attitudes Towards Seeking Mental Health Services Among International Migrants and U.S. Citizens: The Role Of Stigma

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

mental health
stigma
help-seeking
COVID-19
psychological distress
acculturation
international migrants
U.S. citizens

File:

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Committee Members:

Amber O'Shea, Major Field Member
Carlos Zalaquett, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Soto, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jolynn Carney, Major Field Member
P Murphy, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Juarez, Lee

Title:

(RE)Describing Belonging: A narrative Inquiry of Minoritized Students and their Sense of Belonging While Attending a Predominately White Institution during COVID-19

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

sense of belonging
minoritized students
predominately White institution
COVID-19
pandemic
narrative inquiry
justice and equity
inclusion

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Chiles, Outside Unit Member
Ashley Patterson, Outside Field Member
LaWanda Ward, Major Field Member
Royel Johnson, Major Field Member
Karly Ford, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Grossi, Jeffrey

Title:

Identifying the Impact of COVID-19 on Archaeology - A Comparison in Academic and Commercial Field Work

Graduate Program:

Anthropology (MA)

Keywords:

Archaeology
COVID-19
coronavirus
pandemic

File:

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Committee Members:

Tim Ryan, Program Head/Chair
Kirk Dow French, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Katherine Shenk, Committee Member

Author:

Griffith, Owen

Title:

An exploration of compounding effects of sports concussion and covid-19 in collegiate student-athletes

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

COVID-19
sports concussion
neurological event
ImPACT Test
academic trend
collegiate student-athlete

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Bates Dingwell, Program Head/Chair
Semyon Slobounov, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wayne Joseph Sebastianelli, Committee Member
Lacy Marie Alexander, Committee Member

Author:

Mbogo, Nyduta

Title:

Monitoring of Escherichia coli and SARS-CoV-2 in Municipal Wastewater of Rural Communities

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

Escherichia coli
E. coli
Wastewater epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
RT-qPCR
ST131
COVID-19

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Edward G Dudley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erika Ganda, Committee Member
Jasna Kovac, Committee Member

Author:

Pranesh, Raj

Title:

S_COVID: A FRUGAL YET EFFECTIVE ENGINE TO EXPLORE COVID-19 SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

COVID-19
Unsupervised learning
Question-answering
Search engine
Natural Language Processing
Information retrieval
COVID-19
Unsupervised learning
Question-answering
Search engine
Natural Language Processing
Information retrieval

File:

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Committee Members:

Rui Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhinav Verma, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Reed, Bridget

Title:

The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Wine Consumer Behavior in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Region

Graduate Program:

Food Science

Keywords:

wine
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania wine
COVID-19
pandemic
COVID-19 pandemic
consumer ethnocentrism

File:

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Committee Members:

John Hayes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Helene Hopfer, Committee Member
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair
Sarah Kirkmeyer, Committee Member

Author:

Strong, Emily

Title:

A Joint Model for Total and Age-Structured Negative Binomial Counts with Application to the COVID-19 Epidemic in Rhode Island

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

COVID-19
Negative Binomial Counts

File:

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Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Berg, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Jinpeng

Title:

Defining Vitamin D Receptor Expression in The Splenic Immune Cells Using a Novel VDRcre Mouse and the Effect of Vitamin D Status on SARS-COV-2 Infection in Hamsters

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

Vitmain D
VDR
T cells
Myeloid cells
Proliferation
Hamsters
COVID-19

File:

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Committee Members:

Margherita Teresa-Anna Cantorna, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Paul Schmitt, Committee Member
Kumble Prabhu, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Duke, Rachel

Title:

An Examination of Social Inclusion Understanding and Application Among Museum Professionals

Graduate Program:

Education, Development, and Community Engagement

Keywords:

social inclusion
museums
belonging
informal education
accessibility
education
COVID-19

File:

Download Rachel_Duke_Thesis_Manuscript_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lucy R. Mc Clain, Committee Member
Mark A Brennan, Program Head/Chair
Patreese Donette Ingram, Committee Member

Author:

Vozenilek, Natasha

Title:

Biotransformation of the active ingredients in PAXLOVID, nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, in aerobic soils

Graduate Program:

Biorenewable Systems

Keywords:

emerging contaminants
pharmaceuticals
COVID-19
pandemic
SARS-CoV-2
biotransformation
agriculture
nirmatrelvir
ritonavir
PAXLOVID
aerobic soil

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Mashtare, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather Elise Preisendanz, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Member
Clinton Williams, Special Signatory
Ronald Turco, Committee Member

Author:

Hochgraf, Anna Katherine

Title:

Comorbidity Between Body Dissatisfaction and Substance Use: A Daily Diary Study of Alcohol, Nicotine Vaping, and Cigarette Use Among Young Adults

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

body dissatisfaction
substance use
nicotine vaping
alcohol use
COVID-19
young adulthood

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Committee Members:

Susan McHale, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathleen Keller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Gregory Fosco, Major Field Member
Damon Jones, Major Field Member
Stephanie Lanza, Co-Chair of Committee
Charles Geier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Maselli, Annie

Title:

Democratic Crises and the Political Weaponization of Public Education: Rural Educational Leadership Sensemaking during Times of Social Upheaval

Graduate Program:

Educational Leadership

Keywords:

rural education
politics of education
education policy
educational leadership
superintendent
school boards
spatial polarization
democracy
COVID-19

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Committee Members:

Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Kelly, Major Field Member
Karen Eppley, Outside Field Member
Ashley Patterson, Outside Unit Member
Kai Schafft, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Shaochun

Title:

relational turbulence and couples’ convergence and divergence in weekly highs and lows across three months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (MA)

Keywords:

COVID-19
marital relationship
relational turbulence theory
interpersonal emotion dynamics
longitudinal dyadic diary study

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Committee Members:

Kirt Wilson, Program Head/Chair
Denise Haunani Solomon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew High, Committee Member
Brian Manata, Committee Member
Kellie St.Cyr Brisini, Special Signatory

Author:

Zafarnejad, Rey

Title:

Simulation Modeling to Inform Public Health Policy and Prevention

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Public Health
Healthcare Engineering
Agent-based Modeling
Compartmental Modeling
Big Data Analysis
Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Simulation Optimization
COVID-19
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

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Committee Members:

Steven Landry, Program Head/Chair
Paul Griffin, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Vanness, Outside Unit & Field Member
Steven Landry, Major Field Member
Qiushi Chen, Major Field Member

Author:

Xu, Qing

Title:

Game streaming as pandemic relief: how might gratifications of viewing gameplay combat mental stress

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

Game streaming
COVID-19
Stress
Twitch
YouTube gaming
Uses and gratification
Recovery

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Christofer J Skurka, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Jiayan

Title:

Towards precision public health: Building novel methods for utilizing formal and informal data

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

precision public health
GWAS
EDGE
phenome-wide gene-gene interactions
epistasis
EWAS
environment-environment interactions
knowledge-based filtering
social media
COVID-19
vaccine acceptance index
complex traits
common diseases

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Committee Members:

Kumble Prabhu, Program Head/Chair
Qunhua Li, Outside Field Member
Yifei Huang, Outside Unit Member
Shefali Setia Verma, Special Member
Molly Hall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kumble Prabhu, Major Field Member

Author:

Johnson-Vegas, Lori

Title:

The Evolution of the Corporate University: Reasons for Continued Utilization, Operations During A Pandemic, and Connection to Talent Management

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

Corporate University
Talent Management
Talent Development
Pandemic
COVID-19
Learning and Development
Human Captial
Qualitative Research

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Committee Members:

Wesley Donahue, Co-Chair of Committee
Mark Threeton, Major Field Member
Ashley Patterson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hyung Joon Yoon, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heather Zimmerman, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Gonzalez, Cristina

Title:

How do new safety practices contribute to service workers' turnover intentions? A Self-Determination perspective

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

COVID-19
Turnover Intention
Service Work
Safety Climate
Autonomy

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Committee Members:

Alicia Ann Grandey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Gasper, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Hanyi Min, Committee 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:

Suria, Catherine

Title:

Investigating Post-Pandemic Impacts on the Mobility of Transportation Disadvantaged Groups

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Transportation disadvantage
transportation engineering
civil engineering
pandemic
COVID-19
travel behaviors
Exploratory Factors Analysis
Logit Model
transportation
mobility
transportation planning

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Committee Members:

Nikhil Menon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sofia Margarita Vidalis, Committee Member
Grady Mathews, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Saravanan Gurupackiam, Committee Member

Author:

Parhizkar, Honey

Title:

BARBENHEIMER PHENOMENON: ANALYZING THE DUAL RELEASE OF BARBIE AND OPPENHEIMER AS A REFLECTION OF POST-COVID HALLYWOODS EVOLUTION

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

Barbenheimer
Blockbuster
COVID-19
Strikes
Auteur

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew McAllister, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin J Hagopian, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Stephanie Madden, Committee Member

Author:

Wrobleski, Amy

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

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

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Tian, Joanne

Title:

Older adults' driving exposure during COVID-19 and its relationship with cognition

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Older adults
driving exposure
cognition
EMA
cognitive training
COVID-19

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Committee Members:

Heidemarie Laurent, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
David Almeida, Major Field Member
Alyssa Gamaldo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lesley Ross, Special Member
Zachary Fisher, Major Field Member

Author:

Menon, Aravind

Title:

Understanding Vaccine Development and Emergency Use Authorizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed-Methods Approach

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

COVID
COVID-19
Vaccine
R&D
Research and Development
Emergency Use
EUA
Emergency Use Authorization
QCA
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Mixed-Methods
SES Framework
Social-Ecological Systems framework
AstraZeneca
Janssen
Moderna
mRNA
Protein Adjuvant
Viral Vector
Inactivated
Pandemic

File:

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Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sungwoog Choi, Major Field Member
Kristin Sznajder, Outside Unit & Field Member
Odd Stalebrink, Major Field Member
L. Marvin Overby, 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