Doctoral Oral Exams for August 23–27

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

Kathleen Hulton, Ph.D., Sociology, Monday, Aug. 23, 9 a.m., via Zoom.  Dissertation: “Creating the Emotionally Competent Child: The Education of Feelings in American Public Schools.”  Janice Irvine, chr.

Victoria (Tori) Day, Ph.D., Mathematics and Statistics, Monday, Aug. 23, 10 a.m., via Zoom. Dissertation: “On the Universal Ordinary Deformation Ring for Ordinary Modular Deformation Problems.”  Tom Weston, chr.

Carolina Saenz, Ph.D., Environmental Conservation, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 11 a.m., via Zoom. Dissertation: “Attitudes and Interactions of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People with Wildlife in the Northern Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica.”  Todd K. Fuller, chr.

Chenyun Wu, Ph.D., College of Information and Computer Sciences, Tuesday, Aug. 24, noon, via Zoom.  Dissertation: “Understanding of Visual Domains Via the Lens of Natural Language.”  Subhransu Maji, chr.

Shuiyao Huang, Ph.D., Astronomy, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 3 p.m., via Zoom.  Dissertation: “A New Galactic Wind Model for Cosmological Simulations.”  Neal Katz, chr.

Xin Li, Ph.D., Geosciences, Friday, Aug. 27, 9 a.m. via Zoom.  Dissertation: “China’s Urbanization Model and its Practice in Western China: A Case Study of Urbanization in Xining, Qinghai.”  Piper Gaubatz, chr.

Ermin Zhao, Ph.D., Food Science, Friday, Aug. 27, 10:30 a.m. via Zoom Meeting.  Dissertation:  “Mapping Selected Polyphenols Metabolism with Gut Bacteria and Their Genes.”  Hang Xiao, chr.