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Author:

Gorton, Jacob Preston

Title:

Thermal Hydraulics of Accident Tolerant Fuel Concepts and a Preliminary Demonstration of CASL’s Coupled Tools for BWRs

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Accident Tolerant Fuel
Critical Heat Flux
Channel Box
Silicon Carbide
FeCrAl
CTF
MPACT/CTF

File:

Download Gorton_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Collins, Committee Member
Arthur Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Coleman, Sulamunn Roger

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF NARCISSISM ON STRESS-REACTIVITY TO SOCIAL EXCLUSION

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

narcissism
grandiosity
vulnerability
stress
affect
heart rate
cortisol
Cyberball
social exclusion

File:

Download Sulamunn_Coleman_Dissertation_Final_Formatted__1_.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua M. Smyth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua M. Smyth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Committee Member
Hannah M. C. Schreier, Committee Member
Aaron L. Pincus, Outside Member

Author:

Meredith, Scott

Title:

Impact of Atomization and Processing Gas on the Heat Treatment Response of Additively Manufactured 17-4 PH Stainless Steel

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

stainless steel
precipitation hardening (PH)
additive manufacturing (AM)
nitrogen
gas atomization
aging

File:

Download ScottMeredith_MSthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Member
Jayme Scot Keist, Committee Member

Author:

Hanna, Jonathan Andrew

Title:

ANCIENT HUMAN BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND COLONIZATION IN GRENADA, WEST INDIES

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Archaeology
Caribbean
Climate
Demography
Geoarchaeology
Ideal Free Distribution
Radiocarbon
Resilience Theory

File:

Download Hanna--_Dissertation__Official_Version__fixed2.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas J. Kennett, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas J. Kennett, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas W. Bird, Committee Member
Kristina G. Douglass, Committee Member
Peter B. Newman, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Yifan

Title:

ACCESSING GROUP 6 TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE NANOSTRUCTURES WITH COLLOIDAL SYNTHESIS: FROM DITELLURIDES TO ALLOYS AND HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

transition metal dichalcogenide
colloidal synthesis

File:

Download 090418_Yifan_Sun.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Shengxi Huang, Outside Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Potter, Lindsey Nicole

Title:

AN ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY INVESTIGATION OF WEIGHT STIGMA: EXPLORING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN WEIGHT VIGILANCE AND POOR HEALTH IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Graduate Program:

Biobehavioral Health

Keywords:

ecological momentary assessment
weight stigma
weight discrimination
stigma
discrimination
vigilance
weight vigilance
within-person
multilevel modeling

File:

Download PotterL_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua M. Smyth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua M. Smyth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
ennifer E. Graham-Engeland, Committee Member
Stephanie T. Lanza, Committee Member
Jonathan E. Cook, Outside Member

Author:

Hart, Kevin Joseph

Title:

MEMBERS OF THE PLASMODIUM YOELII CAF1/CCR4/NOT COMPLEX ARE CRUCIAL OR ESSENTIAL FOR PROPER GAMETOCYTE DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Keywords:

Plasmodium
Malaria
CCR4
NOT1
CAF1
Parasitology

File:

Download Hart_KJ_Complete_Dissertation_Revised_FinalV3.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Eugene Lindner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Eugene Lindner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Lee Babitzke, Committee Member
Joseph C. Reese, Committee Member
Liwang Cui, Outside Member
Manuel Llinas, Committee Member

Author:

Falaki, Ali

Title:

Impaired control of multi-muscle synergies in Parkinson's disease

Graduate Program:

Kinesiology

Keywords:

Motor control
Synergy
Parkinson's disease
Stability
Posture
Uncontrolled manifold

File:

Download Dissertation_Ali_Falaki_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Latash, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Latash, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xuemei Huang, Committee Member
Robert L Sainburg, Committee Member
Rick Owen Gilmore, Outside Member

Author:

Goel, Nishit

Title:

Application of Micromachined Quartz Resonators for Pressure and Stress Sensing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Quartz
Resonator
Piezoelectric
Pressure Sensor
Stress Sensor
Metglas
Magnetrostriction

File:

Download 00_Thesis_NishitGoel_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Outside Member

Author:

Dusch, William George

Title:

Data Science in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning tunneling microscopy
data science
machine learning
python
data analysis
deep learning
scanning probe microscopy
condensed matter
software
vibration cancellation
automation
unsupervised learning
physics

File:

Download FinalDissertation-BillDusch.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Hudson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Sofo, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Cole-Malott, Donna Marie

Title:

Immigrant Girls from the Caribbean: Identities, Literacies, and the Academic and Social Construction of Selves

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Literacies
Immigrant girls from the Caribbean
Black girls
New Literacies
Black feminism
Caribbean
Curriculum
Memory
Memory work
Girlhood
solidarity
Patriarchy
Sexuality
Black
Cultural Memory
Endarkened feminism
Social identities
Academic identities

File:

Download Cole-Malott_-_Dissertation_9_24.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeanine Staples, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeanine Staples, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashley Nichol Patterson, Committee Member
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Outside Member

Author:

Shoppell, Samantha J

Title:

The Art of Learning Tea: Embodied Teaching and Learning Practices in the Intercultural Context of the Tea Institute at Penn State

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

Japanese tea ceremony
okeiko pedagogy
culture in education
embodiment
living art practice

File:

Download _thesis__s.shoppell_finalFINAL2.pdf

Committee Members:

Kimberly Anne Powell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wanda Knight, Committee Member

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:

Brigeman, Alyssa Nicole

Title:

Charge Transfer and Strongly Coupled States in Organic Photovoltaics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

organic semiconductors
organic photovoltaics
charge transfer states
polaritons

File:

Download Alyssa_Brigeman_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Albertson, Richard Mayo

Title:

Investigation of the Molecular Mechanisms of Dendrite Regeneration

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

Dendrite Regeneration
Dendrite Injury
Neuronal Injury
Injury Response
Neuronal Biology

File:

Download RAlbertson_ThesisF.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Rolls, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Istvan Albert, Committee Member
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Robert G Levenson, Outside Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member

Author:

Pisupati, Aditya

Title:

Structure-Function Relationships and Biochemical Manipulation of 6-TM Superfamily Ion Channels

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

ion channels
voltage-gated
structure
function
six-transmembrane
6-TM
Shaker
CNBD
TRPV

File:

Download AP_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy J Jegla, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melissa Rolls, Committee Member
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member
Santhosh Girirajan, Committee Member

Author:

Funk, Christopher A

Title:

On a Computation Model for Human and Machine Symmetry Perception

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Symmetry
Deep Learning
Convolutional Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Wallpaper Groups
Topology Comparison
EEG

File:

Download ChristopherFunk-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yanxi Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yanxi Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Collins, Committee Member
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
David T Reitter, Outside Member

Author:

Dunn, Nicholas Jeremiah

Title:

Thermodynamic Accuracy and Transferability of Coarse Grained Models and Applications to Petrochemical Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

coarse grained modeling
asphaltenes
bocs
molecular dynamics

File:

Download Nicholas_Dunn_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

William George Noid, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William George Noid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Outside Member

Author:

Soto, David Romualdo

Title:

P AND S BODY WAVE TOMOGRAPHY OF THE UPPER MANTLE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN WEST ANTARCTICA

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Geophysics
Seismology
Antarctica
Tomography
Rift
Tectonics

File:

Download Thesis_DS_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Hunmin

Title:

Distributed Control of Cyber-physical Systems: Security, Economics, and Smart grid

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Cyber-physical systems
Distributed control

File:

Download Thesis_Hunmin_Kim.pdf

Committee Members:

Minghui Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Outside Member

Author:

Snider, Katharine John

Title:

Moments of Light and Years of Agony: Caroline Peart, American Artist 1870-1963

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Caroline Peart
Christian Brinton
19th century American art
20th century American art
Philadelphia artists
American female artists
19th century American female artists
20th century American female artists
spiritualism
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

File:

Download KSJ_dissertation_Oct_24.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne Ayer Verplanck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Ayer Verplanck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Holly L Angelique, Outside Member

Author:

Correia Matias, Joao Pedro

Title:

Prime Geodesic Theorems for complexes of PGL3(F) and PGSp4(F)

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Primes
Prime Geodesic Theorem
Geodesic Path
Zeta function
Simplicial complex
Building

File:

Download Matias_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Kirsten Eisentraeger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuriy G Zarkhin, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Committee Member
Martin Furer, Outside Member

Author:

Fenton, Julie Lynn

Title:

Engineering Crystal Structure, Elemental Composition, and Interfaces in Inorganic Nanomaterials via Ion Exchange

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

nanomaterials
ion exchange
synthesis
colloidal nanoparticles
metastable crystal structures
inorganic materials

File:

Download JL_Fenton_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Elizabeth A Elacqua, Committee Member
Robert Martin Rioux Jr., Outside Member

Author:

Ren, Tingwei

Title:

MEMBRANE PROTEIN BASED BIOMIMETIC MEMBRANES: DESIGN, FUNCTIONAL STUDIES, AND FABRICATION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Membrane Protein
Biomimetic Membranes

File:

Download Dissertation_TingweiRen.pdf

Committee Members:

Manish Kumar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manish Kumar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member

Author:

Weaver, Tiffany Ileen

Title:

Spent Bullets: World War I Veterans in Pre-Code Film

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

World War I
Pre-Code film
american studies
film history

File:

Download Spent_Bullets.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Simon Bronner, Committee Member
Robin Redmon Wright, Outside Member

Author:

Krott, Matthew Joseph

Title:

Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite Vibration Treatments for Helicopter Airframes and Rotor Blades

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

F2MC
fluidic flexible matrix composite
helicopter
rotorcraft
structural dynamics
vibration absorber
damper
rotor blade
vibration control

File:

Download MatthewKrott-Dissertation-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward Smith, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Jose Palacios, Committee Member
Charles E Bakis, Outside Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C. Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bryan, Peter Cullen

Title:

The Dream of Three Lifetimes: Translation and Transnationality in Donald Duck Comics

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

American Studies
Communication
Popular Culture
Comics Studies

File:

Download Bryan_Dissertation_Manuscript__Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony Bak Buccitelli, Committee Member
Simon Bronner, Committee Member
Roderick Lamar Lee, Outside Member

Author:

Lee, Yue Christine

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE IDENTITY FORMATION PROCESS OF CSL LEARNERS: A SOCIOCULTURAL INTEGRATIVE APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Second language acquisition
language learner identities
Sociocultural theory
language socialization
language ideology
critical discourse analysis

File:

Download Yue_C_Lee_dissertation_1130.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew E. Poehner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mari Haneda, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jamie M. Myers, Committee Member
Ning Yu, Committee Member
Ning Yu, Outside Member

Author:

Amsili, Joseph Pierre

Title:

ROOT TRAITS OF COVER CROPS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SOIL ORGANIC CARBON STABILIZATION

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

cover crops
root traits
root biomass
root distribution
carbon inputs
organic agriculture
rhizodeposition
SOC stabilization

File:

Download Fall_2018_Joseph_Amsili_MS_thesis-Cover_crop_root_traits_and_SOC.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Philip Kaye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Armen R. Kemanian, Committee Member
Charles Macaulay White, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member

Author:

Fish, Carolyn

Title:

The Cartography of Climate Change in United States Media

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

cartography
climate change communication
map design
graphic journalism
storytelling

File:

Download Fish_Dissertation_September_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Cynthia Ann Brewer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anthony C Robinson, Committee Member
Roger Michael Downs, Committee Member
Janet Kay Swim, Outside Member

Author:

Whitehead, Shelley Alexandra

Title:

Nature Nurtures: How environmental variation influences Anopheles stephensi vectorial capacity

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
malaria
climate change
Anopheles
vector ecology
environmental variation
life history
Plasmodium

File:

Download Whitehead_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Brian Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special Member

Author:

Hall, Donald L

Title:

Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Devices in Indoor Environments via Vector Sensing and Machine Learning

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Emitter Localization
Emitter Identification
Machine Learning
Vector Sensing
Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
Indoor Environment

File:

Download Donald_Hall-MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Marion Jenkins Jr., Committee Member
Erik Henry Lenzing, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson, Sarah Ruth

Title:

American Identity, American Nostalgia: Using Images of Nature to Perform and Connect

Graduate Program:

American Studies

Keywords:

Human-nature relationship
identity
American literature
American art
wilderness
nineteenth century
twentieth century
twenty-first century
digital media
environmental humanities
nature idea
blogging
American nature writing
simulation
nostalgia
technological sublime
sublime
digital technologies

File:

Download SarahRWilson__Dissertation__Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles David Kupfer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles David Kupfer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Simon Bronner, Committee Member
John Rogers Haddad, Committee Member
Hannah Marie Spector, Outside Member

Author:

Lewis, Kathrine Annette

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF POOR PERFORMANCE IN A STEREOTYPICALLY MASCULINE DOMAIN ON MASCULINITY, HEART RATE VARIABILITY, AND SEXISM

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

masculinity
threat
sexism
heart rate variability
anger

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis_Lewis_GradFormat_.pdf

Committee Members:

Theresa K Vescio, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Adams Jr., Committee Member
Amy Dyanna Marshall, Committee Member

Author:

Smal, Pia Sybilly

Title:

A Narrative Inquiry of Instructors’ Emotional Receptivity in Addressing Students Needs in Higher Education

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

counselor education
student development
ethics of care
narrative inquiry
thematic analysis
mental health
emotional distress
higher education

File:

Download Instructors_emotional_receptivity.pdf

Committee Members:

JoLynn Carney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
JoLynn Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Taylor Herbert, Committee Member
Katie Kostohryz, Committee Member
Mari Haneda, Outside Member

Author:

Francisco, Sara Chari

Title:

Race and Gender Effects on Attitudes Toward Friendship Norm Violations

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Sociology
Race
Gender
Friendship
Social Norms

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Francisco_Sara_final_v6_.pdf

Committee Members:

Diane Helen Felmlee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ashton Michael Verdery, Committee Member
S. Michael Gaddis, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Tae Hee

Title:

Application of Radio Frequency Noiselet Waveforms for Nondestructive Imaging of Multilayered Structures

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Radio Frequency
Noiselet Waveform
Microwave
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Radar Imaging
Nondestructive Testing

File:

Download Dissertation_TaeHeeKim_101618_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Namiko Yamamoto, Outside Member

Author:

Diaz, Krystal

Title:

Thermodynamic Characterization of the Interaction of the Transcription Factor Pdx1 and its Regulatory Partner SPOP

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

pdx1
spop
protein-protein interaction
biophysics
fluorescence
isothermal titration calorimetry
intrinsically disordered proteins

File:

Download kdiaz_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott A Showalter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Chen

Title:

Scalable and Accurate Algorithms for Search in Genomic Big Data and Analysis of Genetic Variants

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Algorithm
Big Data
Database
Genomics
Probabilistic Data Structures
Data Mining
Parallel Computing
Bioinformatics
Genetic Variants
SNP
Computational Biology

File:

Download ChenSun_dissertation_v0830.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Medvedev, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Medvedev, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Kifer, Committee Member
Kamesh Madduri, Committee Member
Michael Degiorgio, Outside Member

Author:

Bulgarelli, Federica

Title:

Talker Variability as a Desirable Difficulty for Language Learning

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

talker variability
desirable difficulty
artificial language learning

File:

Download Bulgarelli_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel J Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Janet van Hell, Committee Member
Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, Committee Member
Matthew Thomas Carlson, Outside Member
Judith Kroll, Committee Member

Author:

Riegler, Kaitlin Elizabeth

Title:

Validity of the ImPACT Post-Concussion Symptom Scale (PCSS) Affective Symptom Clusters as a Screener for Depression in Collegiate Athletes

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

concussion
neuropsychology
depression
assessment
gender

File:

Download PS-Thesis-template_Riegler_2018_10-24-2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter Andrew Arnett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member
Semyon Slobounov, Committee Member

Author:

Dunham, Noah Paul

Title:

MECHANISTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE DIVERSE IRON AND 2-OXOGLUTARATE-DEPENDENT OXYGENASE SUPERFAMILY

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

enzymology
metalloenzymes
oxygenase
crystallography
structural biology
C-H activation

File:

Download dunham_dissertation_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Amie Kathleen Boal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Howard M Salis, Outside Member

Author:

Sun, Feng

Title:

Supporting Information Seeking and Sensemaking in Issue-Based Knowledge Crystallization

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

Information Seeking
Topic Modeling
Civic Engagement
Design-based Research
Information Visualization
Text Analysis
Human Computer Interaction

File:

Download fengs-final-dissertation__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Guoray Cai, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guoray Cai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Committee Member
Alan M. MacEachren, Outside Member

Author:

English, Mary Samantha

Title:

Beyond sensitivity: Maternal positive emotion and its relation to child regulation

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Child Emotion
Child Self-Regulation
Maternal Positive Emotion

File:

Download MaryEnglish_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Pamela Marie Cole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Erika Sell Lunkenheimer, Committee Member

Author:

Wolkowicz, Kelilah Louise

Title:

Preparing the Automated Future for Wheelchair Users Through Motion Prediction and User Input-Based Intent Inference

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Autonomous vehicles
Band-pass filters
Bar codes
Biopotentials
Brain-computer interfaces
Computerized instrumentation
Data acquisition
Design automation
Detection algorithms
Discrete transforms
Electroencephalography
Electromyography
Electrooculography
Estimation theory
Gaze tracking
Human computer interaction
Embedded systems
Indoor localization
Input variables
Intelligent vehicles
Kalman filters
Linear discriminant analysis
Linear feedback control systems
Linear systems
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical systems
Microprogramming
Motion control
Odometry
Path planning
Pose estimation
Prediction algorithms
Probability
Probability distribution
Programming
Rehabilitation robotics
Research and development
Robot control
Robot kinematics
Robot motion
Robot programming
Robotic equipment testing
Simulation
Simultaneous localization and mapping
State estimation
State feedback
System implementation
System integration
System validation
User interfaces
Virtual reality
Wearable sensors
Biopotential signals
Human-computer interfaces
Decision-making
Intent inference
Slip detection
Motion prediction
Robotic wheelchair

File:

Download Wolkowicz-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Outside Member

Author:

Liao, Chang

Title:

REGULATION OF STRESS ERYTHROPOIESIS AND THE NICHE: A NOVAL ROLE OF SELENOPROTEINS

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

Selenoproteins
Stress erythropoiesis
Erythropoietic nice

File:

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Committee Members:

K. Sandeep Prabhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
K. Sandeep Prabhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Paulson, Committee Member
Pamela Hankey Giblin, Committee Member
Qunhua Lia, Outside Member

Author:

Schwartz, Brandon

Title:

THE ROLE OF PORE STRUCTURE IN PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OBSERVED IN LABORATORY STUDIES OF MARCELLUS AND WOLFCAMP SHALE

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

permeability evolution
shale
pore structure
pore geometry
material stiffness
permeability enhancement

File:

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Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member

Author:

Liu, Yunzhi

Title:

Magnetic and Metallic Metalattices: A Transferrable Nanocasting by Confined Supercritical Fluid Chemical Deposition

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

3D artificial lattices
inverse opal
supercritical fluid chemical deposition
chemical fluid deposition
spin-engineered meta-materials
plasmonic meta-materials
metalattices
nanocasting

File:

Download Y.Liu_PhD_Thesis_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V Badding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Kamp, Eric Jeffrey

Title:

Magnetometry with the Nitrogen Vacancy Center: Techniques and Applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Condensed Matter Physics
Optics
Nitrogen Vacancy Center
Magnetometry

File:

Download EricJKamp-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mikael Caleb Rechtsman, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Oakar, Margaret Mary

Title:

Transitional Experiences of Military Service Members/Veterans Who Become Online Students

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

military
veteran
online
transition
adult students
student service members/veterans
military students
veteran students
online students
post-9/11

File:

Download Oakar_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dana Mitra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dana Mitra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mindy L Kornhaber, Committee Member
Adnan A Qayyum, Committee Member
Laurence Bradley Boggess, Outside Member