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Author:

Pan, Yue

Title:

Evaluation Of Urban Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations With Ground-Based Doppler Lidar

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

planetary boundary layer
doppler lidar
urban greenhouse gas
large eddy simulation
mesoscale modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

John Cimbala, Outside Unit & Field Member
George Young, Major Field Member
Ying Pan, Major Field Member
Brian J. Gaudet, Special Member
Kenneth Davis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Brian Gaudet, Special Member

Author:

Zukowski, Isaiah

Title:

Speak for yourself: Co-theory and expertise in a reentry higher education program

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

re-entry
reentry
prisons
HEP
cotheorizing
grounded
participatory
formerly incarcerated
college pathways

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Land, Program Head/Chair
Kelly Rosinger, Outside Unit Member
Jeanine Staples-Dixon, Outside Field Member
Erica Frankenberg, Outside Field Member
Esther Prins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Cossa, Major Field Member

Author:

Koslosky, John Erik

Title:

Selling the Farm: How the Shift From Local to Corporate Newspaper Ownership Undermined American Investigative Reporting

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Newspapers
journalism
investigative reporting
watchdog journalism
political economy
reflexive thematic analysis
oral history
newspaper ownership

File:

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Juliet Pinto, Major Field Member
Russell Frank, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matt McAllister, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Risley, Major Field Member

Author:

Chen, Mingming

Title:

Advancing Network Security in the Era of Network Programmability

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Software-defined Networking
Network Security
coordinated sampling
P4
topology poisoning
secure SDN discovery protocol
control plane security

File:

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Trent Jaeger, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Thomas La Porta, Chair & Co-Dissertation Advisr
Antonio Blanca, Major Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
Aiping Xiong, Outside Unit & Field Member
Teryl Taylor, Special Member
Frederico Araujo, Special Member

Author:

Reiss, Justin

Title:

Development of Solid State Radiation Detectors Comprised of Halide and Oxide Perovskites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Radiation Detection
Single Crystal Growth
Ceramics Processing
Metal-Halide Perovskites

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Timothy Eden, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Provencher, Ed

Title:

Quorum Sensing Adaptation in the Bacterial Symbiont Vibrio fischeri

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

quorum sensing
experimental evolution
symbiosis
lipopolysaccharide
bioluminescence production
evolution

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Committee Members:

Santhosh Girirajan, Program Head/Chair
Jordan Bisanz, Major Field Member
Istvan Albert, Major Field Member
Timothy Miyashiro, Dissertation Advisor
Timothy Meredith, Chair of Committee
Claude Depamphilis, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Albert, Patrick

Title:

Optimized Processing of High Density Ternary Hafnium-Tantalum Carbides and Molybdenum Alloys Via Field Assisted Sintering Technology

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Field Assisted Sintering Technology (FAST)
Spark plasma Sintering (SPS)
refractory materials
ultrahigh temperature ceramics (UHTC)

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jay Keist, Major Field Member
Timothy Eden, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Mark Traband, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Feng, Guanhua

Title:

The roles of Pollen Wall Formation1 in gene expression regulation and pollen wall deposition in Arabidopsis

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Plant reproductive development
Anther and pollen development
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs)
Histone deacetylases (HDACs)
HID domain
Phylogenetics
Transcriptomic analysis
Comparative genomics
Chromatin remodeling
Pollen wall formation
Sporopollenin
metabolic biosynthesis
transcriptional regulation
Arabidopsis
Exine and Sexine layer
Scanning electronic microscopy

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Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
Hong Ma, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Anderson, Outside Field Member
Yinong Yang, Outside Unit Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Major Field Member

Author:

Wilt, Alexis

Title:

Investigating the Interaction of Short- and Long-Term Blocking Effects in the L2 Acquisition of the German Perfekt

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Second Language Acquisition
Short-Term Blocking
Long-Term Blocking
Blocking
Comprehensible Output
Dictogloss Task
L1 Influence

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Committee Members:

Carrie Jackson, Program Head/Chair
Michael Putnam, Major Field Member
Karen Miller, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carrie Jackson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Karen Miller, Outside Field Member
Kevin McManus, Outside Unit Member
Nick Henry, Special Member

Author:

Affinito, Raphael

Title:

The Role of Fluid Pressure and Fluid Drainage on Frictional Strength and Stability in Fault Wear Material

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Faults
Friction
Frictional Stability
Earthquakes
Fluid Pressure
Fault Drainage
Fault Healing
Ultrasonic Fault Monitoring
Slow Slip
Frictional Strength
Dilatancy Strengthening

File:

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Chris Marone, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tushar Mittal, Major Field Member
Donald Fisher, Major Field Member
Marco Scuderi, Special Member

Author:

Peng, Delong

Title:

Non-Hermitian Physics of Sensing on Exceptional Surfaces

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Non-Hermitian Optics
Exceptional Surfaces
Exceptional Points
Parity-Time symmetric Photonics
WGM-Resonators
Sensing

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Committee Members:

Laura Cabrera, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit Member
Sahin Ozdemir, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jian hsu, Major Field Member
Larry Cheng, Outside Field Member

Author:

Chen, Weili

Title:

Essays on Technology Adaptation in a Globalized World

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Intellectual Property Rights
Multinational Firms
Technology Proximity
Trade Conflict
Technology Transfer
Technology Decoupling
Production Networks
Geopolitics

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Committee Members:

Barry Ickes, Program Head/Chair
Mehmet Canayaz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jingting Fan, Major Field Member
Mark Roberts, Major Field Member
Stephen Yeaple, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Turker, Furkan

Title:

Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Oxides via Intercalation through Epitaxial Graphene towards 2D/3D Hot Electron Transistors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

epitaxial graphene
two-dimensional
indium oxide
gallium oxide
intercalation
hot electron transistor
graphene schottky diode

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maxwell Wetherington, Major Field Member

Author:

Liu, Yutong

Title:

Strategies to stimulate biosulfidogenesis in the deep layer of a meromictic acidic pit lake for environmental remediation

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Acidic pit lake
Bioremediation
Heavy metal(loid)s
Sulfur cycle
Sulfate reducing bacteria
Microbiology

File:

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Committee Members:

Jay Regan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William Burgos, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jay Regan, Major Field Member
Jennifer Macalady, Co-Chair, Outside Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Rachel Brennan, Major Field Member
Estelle Couradeau, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Sharbaf, Mohammadreza

Title:

Utilizing High-Alkali and High-Sulfur Supplementary Cementitious Materials for Sustainable Concrete Production

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

ASR
Volcanic ash
Ground bottom ash
Calcined clay
FBC fly ash
Miniature concrete prism test (MCPT)
Soluble Alkalis
Pore Solution
Alkali Binding
Low carbon concrete
Off-specification fly ash
Volume instability
Calcium sulfite
Low-carbon concrete
Sustainable concrete
Clinker substitution
Supplementary cementitious materials
Pozzolan
High-alkali SCMs
Akali-silica reaction
Available alkalis
Soluble alkalis
Pore solution
Alkali binding
High-sulfur fly ash
Internal sulfate attack
Hannebachite
High-SO3 coal ash products
Marginal coal ash products

File:

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Committee Members:

Farshad Rajabipour, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Gorski, Major Field Member
Juan Pablo Gevaudan Burgos, Outside Unit & Field Member
Aleksandra Radli¿ska, Major Field Member
Farshad Rajabipour, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, Joonwoo

Title:

The Influence of a New Practice of Public Sector Innovation on Government Performance: Focusing on the Agile Government Model

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

Public Sector Innovation
Agile government
Government Performance
Organizational Learning

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Committee Members:

Goktug Morcol, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Gina Brelsford, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Tantardini, Major Field Member
Bing Ran, Major Field Member
Younhee Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Poudel, Pradip

Title:

Zinc Biofortification of Microgreens Using Different Agronomic Approaches

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science (PhD)

Keywords:

Hidden hunger
Agronomic biofortification
Seed nutri-priming
Zinc deficiency
Nutritional quality
Metabolomics

File:

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Committee Members:

Misha Kwasniewski, Outside Unit Member
Erin Connolly, Major Field Member
Francesco Di Gioia, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Lambert, Outside Field Member
Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Daneshpour, Raheleh

Title:

Synthesis and electrocatalytic performance of nickel-iron catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

OER
Iron-Nickel Electrocatalyst

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Committee Members:

Ezra Clark, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hilal Ezgi Toraman, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michael Janik, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Rioux, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Helmuth, Timothy

Title:

Ironing Out the Influence of a Common HFE Mutation on Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Iron
Hormesis
Antioxidant
HFE
Ferroptosis

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Committee Members:

Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Xuemei Huang, Major Field Member
Kirsteen Browning, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Connor, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guohong Li, Major Field Member
Scott D Simon, Special Member
Rashmi Kumari, Outside Field Member

Author:

Cui, Suhan

Title:

Advancing Predictive Modeling on Electronic Health Records: From Handcrafted to Automated Methods

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Electronic Health Records
Machine learning
Deep Learning
Health Informatics
Automated Machine Learning
Multi-Modal Learning
Multi-Task Learning
Knowledge Graph
Text Mining

File:

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Committee Members:

Sharon Huang, Major Field Member
Qiushi Chen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Dongwon Lee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Minhao Cheng, Major Field Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Special Member
Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Widdershins, Afton

Title:

Establishing Multidrug Control of a Heterogeneous Tumor: An in silico and in vitro model

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

cancer treatment
mathematical oncology
adaptive therapy
NSCLC
EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors

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Committee Members:

Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Justin Pritchard, Outside Unit Member
Nikolay Dokholyan, Major Field Member
Raymond Hohl, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew Read, Outside Field Member
Elsa Hansen, Special Member

Author:

Deng, Daxuan

Title:

Enhancing Primary Inference through Data Integration

Graduate Program:

Biostatistics

Keywords:

Data integration
Empirical likelihood
Secondary outcomes
Missing data
Coarsened data
Survival analysis
Information scores

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Committee Members:

Guangwei Du, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vernon Chinchilli, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lan Kong, Major Field Member
Ming Wang, Special Member
Shouhao Zhou, Major Field Member
Dave Mauger, Major Field Member
Chixiang Chen, Special Member
Shouhao Zhou, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Ren, Jerry

Title:

MOUSE BREAST CANCER MODELING: CELL CYCLE ARREST, RADIATION MUTAGENESIS, AND TRANSPOSON-BASED CANCER GENE DISCOVERY

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

Transposon
Mutagenesis
Breast Cancer
c-Myc
Radiation Mutagensis
CDK4/6 inhibitor
Ras
Mammary gland development
Cell cycle inhibition
PI3K
AKT
Oncogene
Oncogene Cooperation
Mutagenesis Screen

File:

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Committee Members:

Edward Joseph Gunther, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Joseph Gunther, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David James Degraff, Committee Member
George Lucian Moldovan, Committee Member
Aron Eliot Lukacher, Outside Member
Hong-Gang Wang, Committee Member
Ralph Lauren Keil, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mitra, Semontee

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

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

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Brubaker, Timothy Ryan

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Zahabi, Mehrzad

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

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

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lesko, Tyler

Title:

Effectiveness of Sorghum and Maize Flavonoids Against Pests

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science

Keywords:

fall armyworm
maize
sorghum
flavonoids
plant defense
secondary metabolites
mushrooms

File:

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Committee Members:

Surinder Chopra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Felton, Committee Member
Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Ruairidh James Hay Sawers, Committee Member
Michael S. Wolfin, Committee Member

Author:

Ochoa Lleras, Nicolas

Title:

Control Systems and Human Factors for the Prevention of Tractor Overturn

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Control systems
Tractor
Rollover
ADAS
Human Factors
Simulated environments

File:

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Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer, III, Committee Member
Dennis Murphy, Committee Member
Yiqi Zhang, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fortenbaugh, Robert

Title:

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

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

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

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Chen, Caini

Title:

stable foams comprised of starch and chitosan in polyelectrolyte complexation

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

chitosan
starch
polyelectrolyte complexation
foam
potato
microwave expansion
extrusion
crosslinking

File:

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sibel Irmak, Committee Member
Ramaswamy C Anantheswaran, Committee Member

Author:

Thirucherai Govindarajan, Hariram

Title:

Optimization of Inter-Cache Traffic Entanglement in Tagless Caches with Tiling Opportunities

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Tagless cache

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Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cueva Welchez, Sergio

Title:

Evaluation of corn silage quality and its effects on dairy cow performance

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

dairy cow
corn silage
amylase enabled corn silage
rumen fermentable organic matter

File:

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Committee Members:

Adele Turzillo, Program Head/Chair
Christopher Canale, Special Member
Alexander Hristov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tara Felix, Major Field Member
Guojie Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kevin Harvatine, Major Field Member

Author:

Shakya, Evaniya

Title:

Effectiveness of Microfinance, Nutrition Education, and Couples Strengthening on Maternal and Child Diets in Rural Niger: Evidence From a Program Evaluation Project

Graduate Program:

Nutritional Sciences

Keywords:

Niger
Dietary diversity
Program evaluation

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Committee Members:

Kristina Petersen, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Kodish, Major Field Member
Muzi Na, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alison Gernand, Major Field Member
Stephanie Lanza, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Lloyd, Elisabeth

Title:

Tuning Structure and Properties of Porous Hydrogels Exhibiting Properties Reminiscent of Natural Tissues from the Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrogels
Porous Hydrogels
Biomimicry
Amphiphilic Block Copolymers
Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Hickey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hee Jeung Oh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Urara Hasegawa, Major Field Member
Ralph Colby, Major Field Member

Author:

Mc Vey, Thomas Matthew

Title:

Cotreatment-Assisted Anaerobic Digestion of Poultry Manure and Switchgrass

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

anaerobic digestion
poultry litter
poultry manure
switchgrass
biogas
renewable natural gas
technoeconomic analysis
TEA
ADM1
methane
cotreatment
intermittent milling
Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1
MATLAB
SuperPro
ruminant

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Paul Patterson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ali Demirci, Major Field Member
Tom Richard, Major Field Member
Daniel Ciolkosz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Paschall, Lauren

Title:

Investigating the Role of Mechanobiology in ACL Injury and Reconstruction

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

ACL
ACL reconstruction
Mechanobiology
Sex-Differences
Estrogen
Immune cells

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Committee Members:

Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Esther Gomez, Outside Field Member
Justin Brown, Major Field Member
Spencer Szczesny, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Braden Fleming, Special Member
Erdem Tabdanov, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Troy, Cassandra

Title:

THE POTENTIAL OF SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM FOR CLIMATE RISK MITIGATION: A MIXED METHODS INVESTIGATION

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

climate change
environmental communication
solutions journalism
social cognitive theory
exemplification theory
efficacy
mixed methods
self-efficacy
collective efficacy
response efficacy
climate action

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Juliet Pinto, Major Field Member
Christofer Skurka, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jessica Myrick, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet Swim, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Huang, Siyuan Siyuan

Title:

Sex differences in dorsal striatal volume and interest in quitting smoking

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Cigarette smoking
Sex-related differences
Voxel-based morphometry
Drosal striatum
Gray matter volume

File:

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Stephen Wilson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Steven Branstetter, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Kim, Christine

Title:

Coparenting as a Predictor and Outcome of Infant Developmental Processes: The Role of Socioeconomic Risk

Graduate Program:

Human Development and Family Studies

Keywords:

Coparenting
Socioemotional Development
Infancy
Sleep
Transition to Parenthood

File:

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Committee Members:

Douglas Teti, Program Head/Chair
Douglas Teti, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Heidemarie Laurent, Major Field Member
Rina Eiden, Outside Unit & Field Member
Damon Jones, Major Field Member

Author:

Hwang, Eunkyung

Title:

Misfit Memory Work: Challenges to K-12 Self-Portraiture Lessons Stigmatizing Female Students with Scars and Illnesses

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Misfit Memory Work
Women with Scars and Illnesses
Misfit
Feminist Disability Studies
Stigmatization of Scars
Memory Work
Arts-based Research
Self-Portraits
K-12 Self-Portraiture Lessons
South Korean Art Education

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Committee Members:

Karen Keifer-Boyd, Program Head/Chair
Aaron Knochel, Major Field Member
Wanda Knight, Major Field Member
Janet Lyon, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karen Keifer-Boyd, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Dongsheng

Title:

Production and Process Planning in Agribusiness

Graduate Program:

Business Administration

Keywords:

Agribusiness
Production Planning
Harvesting Operations

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Committee Members:

Saurabh Bansal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yue Zhang, Major Field Member
Jason Acimovic, Major Field Member
Phillip Coles, Special Member
Brent Ambrose, Program Head/Chair
John Pecchia, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Hart, Pierce

Title:

Application of Partial-Pressure Fields as a Means of Accounting for Aircraft Drag Sources

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

aerospace
aerodynamics
CFD
fluid dynamics
fluid mechanics

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Maughmer, Major Field Member
Sven Schmitz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Campbell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daning Huang, Major Field Member
Amy Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Waldron, Katja

Title:

Examining the Effects of Discrimination and Microaggressions on Alcohol Use Behaviors among Latino/a/x College Students at a Predominantly White Institution

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

Discrimination
Microaggressions
Alcohol Use
Latino/a/x
College Students
Predominantly White Institution

File:

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Committee Members:

Emily Ansell, Major Field Member
Robert Turrisi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Damon Jones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Thomas Gould, Program Head/Chair
Michael Russell, Major Field Member

Author:

Ma, Chunyu

Title:

Advancing Biomedical Exploration: Leveraging Biomedical Knowledge Graphs with Computational Methods

Graduate Program:

Bioinformatics and Genomics (PhD)

Keywords:

Knowledge Graph
Computational Method
Biomedical Exploration

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Committee Members:

David Koslicki, Program Head/Chair
Suhang Wang, Outside Unit Member
David Koslicki, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mehrdad Mahdavi, Outside Field Member
Reka Albert, Major Field Member

Author:

Lee, Chonghan

Title:

Resource Constrained Transformer Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

AutoML
Transformer
HW-SW Codesign
NLP
Computer Vision
NAS
PIM

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Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Program Head/Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guoray Cai, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ting He, Major Field Member
John Sampson, Major Field Member

Author:

Vidal Soares, Andre

Title:

Nuclear data uncertainty reduction for advanced reactor modeling and simulation through Bayesian data assimilation

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

molten salt reactor; nuclear data uncertainty; data assimilation; Bayesian Monte Carlo; nuclear material control and accountability; safeguards

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Committee Members:

Dipanjan Pan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amanda Johnsen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Arthur Motta, Major Field Member
Elia Merzari, Major Field Member
William Walters, Special Member
Mauricio Nascimento, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Ni, Haomiao

Title:

Deep Learning for Visual Data Analysis and Synthesis in Healthcare and Beyond

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Healthcare AI
Generative AI

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Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
James Wang, Major Field Member
Sharon Huang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Fenglong Ma, Major Field Member
Ying Sun, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Abraham, Ellie

Title:

Investigating the use of untargeted metabolomics for herbal product applications

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Metabolomics
predictive modeling
herbal products
Herbal prodects

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Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
Joshua Kellogg, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Lambert, Outside Field Member
Jesse Lasky, Major Field Member
Justin Silverman, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Dweikat, Sarah

Title:

Multi-Parameter Phenotype-Based Investigations of Attenuation in Herpes Simplex Virus

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

hsv
neonatal
genomics
phenotypic diversity
minor variants

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Committee Members:

Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair
David Kennedy, Major Field Member
Moriah Szpara, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lisa Akhtar, Special Member
Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares, Outside Unit Member
Troy Sutton, Outside Field Member

Author:

Jeh, Ha Eun

Title:

Sensory plastid-localized proteins trigger epigenetic reprogramming as a component of environmental sensing in plants

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

epigenetics
sensory plastid
retrograde signaling
plant stress response
transgenerational memory

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Committee Members:

Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
Sally Mackenzie, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erin Connolly, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hong Ma, Major Field Member
Jesse Lasky, Major Field Member