Doctoral oral exams for May 20-24

Peter Fielding, Ph.D., Music. Monday, May 20, 9 a.m., 272 Music Department Conference Room. Dissertation: “The Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Nova Scotia: A Classification of Pitch Space.” Gary Karpinski, chr.

Elizabeth Cahn, Ph.D., Regional Planning. Monday, May 20, 10 a.m., 301 Hills North. Dissertation: “Project Space(s) in the Design Professions: An Intersectional Feminist Study of the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture (1974-1981).” Mark Hamin, chr.

Owen Thompson, Ph.D., Economics. Monday, May 20, 11 a.m., 919 Thompson Hall. Dissertation: “Essays on Human Capital Formation.” Arindrajit Dube & Michael Ash, co-chrs.

Michael Beaulieu, Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering. Monday, May 20, 1 p.m., A110/A111 Conte Polymer Science Building. Dissertation: “Applications of Planar and Patterned Metal Oxide Nanocomposites and Reactive Polymer Blends as Gas Permeation Membranes.” James Watkins, chr.

Gitanjeli Prasad, Ph.D., Chemistry. Monday, May 20, 2 p.m., 153 Goessman. Dissertation: “Reactive Heterocycles for Examining Polyketide Biosynthesis.” Nathan Schnarr, chr.

Nauman Javed, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering. Wednesday, May 22, 1 p.m., 109 Knowles Engineering Building. Dissertation: “Interpreting Sensor Information in Large-Scale Distributed Cyber-Physical System.” Tilman Wolf & Michael Zink, co-chrs.

Casey Stevens, Ph.D., Political Science. Wednesday, May 22, 3 p.m., 314 Thompson. Dissertation: “Resilient Environmental Governance: Protecting Changing Ecosystems through Multilevel Governance.” Peter Haas, chr.

Shunhai Wang, Ph.D., Chemistry. Thursday, May 23, 2 p.m., 329 Integrated Science Building. Dissertation: “Development of Mass Spectrometry-Based Methods for Quantitation and Characterization of Protein Drugs: Transferrin as a Model Drug Delivery Vehicle.” Igor Kaltashov, chr.