Doctoral Oral Exams for March 24, 2025 – March 28, 2025

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The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:

Jared Yeager, PhD., Computer Science
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 3:30PM, Computer Science A311.
Dissertation: “Machine Checked Verification of Validation Tests for Seldonian Algorithms.” J. Eliot Moss, Chair.

Kimberly Acevedo, PhD., Organismic Evolutionary Biology
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 11:00AM, LSL 410. 
Dissertation: “Phenotypic and Genomic Characterization of Aspergillus parasiticus and Aspergillus sojae at the Population Level.” John Gibbons, Chair.

Juan Carlos Cabrera Pons, PhD., Comparative Literature
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 3:00PM, via Zoom.
Dissertation: “Naves Inventoras de Regiones: Colonial Spanish American Epic Poetry and the Invention of America.” Maria Barbon, Chair.

Tao Wang, PhD., Physics
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 3:30PM, Hasbrouck 409 and via Zoom.
Dissertation: “New Techniques in Computational Quantum Field Theory.” Nikolay Prokofiev, Chair.

Nadia Fernandez, PhD., Environmental Conservation
Friday, March 28, 2025, 1:30PM, Holdsworth Hall 105
Dissertation: “Evolutionary Processes Shaping Population Structure in a Neotropical Freshwater Fish, the Golden Dorado.” Lisa Komoroske, Chair.

Grayson Chong, PhD., English
Friday, March 28, 2025, 1:30PM, South College E245. 
Dissertation: “Tun Yuh Hand Mek Fashion: Dancehall Fashion as Everyday Resistance in Jamacia and the Caribbean Diaspora.” Rachel Mordecai, Chair.

Raymond Caraher, PhD., Economics
Friday, March 28, 2025, 9:00AM, Crotty Hall 308 and via Zoom.
Dissertation: “Three Essays on Reproductive Health Policy.” Michael Ash, Chair.

Karl Lyn, PhD., Economics
Friday, March 28, 2025, 2:00PM, via Zoom. 
Dissertation: “Black Ecologies of Repair: Worldmaking and the Next Generation.” Amilcar Shabazz, Chair.

Thomas Daventry-Shea, PhD., Philosophy
Friday, March 28, 2025, 1:00PM, via Zoom. 
Dissertation: “New Digital Order: Essays on the Epistemology of the Internet.” Hilary Kornblith, Chair.

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