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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

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation__Chiau-Wen_Jang__PSU_Spring_2025.pdf

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

File:

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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

File:

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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