Doctoral Oral Exams for March 27 – 31

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

Julia Doherty, Ph.D., Education, Monday, March 27, 10 a.m., Via Zoom. Dissertation: “Increasing Student Teacher Relationships and Classroom Engagement: The Effects of Modifying Existing Tier Two Intervention on Adolescent Students and Their Teachers.” John Hintze, Chair.

Kyle Kainec, Ph.D., Neuroscience and Behavior, Monday, March 27, 2 p.m., Life Sciences Lab
Room N610. Dissertation: “Consolidation of Memory Associations.” Rebecca Spencer, Chair

Connor Basich, Ph.D., Computer Science, Tuesday, March 28, 2 p.m., Via Zoom. Dissertation: “An Introspective Approach for Competence-Aware Autonomy.” Shlomo Zilberstein, Chair

Patricia Feraud-King, Ph.D., Education, Tuesday, March 28, 11:30 s.m., Furcolo Room W015. Dissertation: “‘You Crazy’: Examination of Black Transnational Collegians’ Mental Health at Historical White Institutions.” Chrystal George Mwangi, Chair

Risa Isard, Ph.D., Sport Management, Tuesday, March 28, 2:45 p.m., ISOM Room N390. Dissertation: “Women’s Professional Sport and Stigma.” Nicole Melton, Chair

Deeksha Mohan, Ph.D., Animal Science, Tuesday, March 28, 10 a.m., LSL Room 610. Dissertation: “The Role of LKB1 Spliceoforms iniTreg-Th17 Plasticity and its Interaction with PKC and SIRT1downstream of IL-6 Signaling.” Dr. Lisa Minter, Chair.

Celine Nader, Ph.D., English, Tuesday, March 28, 10 a.m., South College Room W365. Dissertation: “A 19th Century Ethnographic Exhibit Un/Caged: Informal Empire, AfroLatinidad, and Contemporary Artistic (Re)Framings.” Martin Espada, Chair.

Cynthia Peterson, Ph.D., Nursing, Tuesday, March 28, 10 a.m., Skinner Room 101. Dissertation: “Feasibility and Implementation of a Strengths-Based Resilience Program for Nurses.” Genevieve Chandler, Chair.

Carie Ruggiano, Ph.D., Education, Tuesday, March 28, 2 p.m., Via Zoom. Dissertation: “Embodied Examinations of Whiteness: Critical Whiteness and Digital Storytelling Pedagogies as Foundational to Antiracist Teaching.” Dr. Keisha L. Green, Chair.

Darius Dion-Dwayne Taylor, Ph.D., Education, Tuesday, March 28, 1 p.m., Furcolo Room W09. Dissertation: “The Evaluation of “The Wrong Answer Project” as Evidence for the Social Consequences of Testing.” Lisa A. Keller, Chair.

Stephanie Delzell, Ph.D., Microbiology, Wednesday, March 29, 10 a.m., Skinner Hall Room 112. Dissertation: “A Biochemical Approach to Characterize a Divergent Trypanosoma brucei Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase POLIB.”  Michele Klingbeil, Chair

Long The Nguyen, Ph.D., Management Science, Wednesday, March 29, 3 p.m., ISOM N301. Dissertation: “A Tale of Two Platforms: An Examination of User Motivations in Platform-based Digital Tasks.” Professor Traci Hess, Chair

Benjamin Scherrer, Ph.D., Education, Wednesday, March 29, 1 p.m., Via Zoom. Dissertation: “Living with Wetlands, Defying Demarcations: Towards Anti-Colonial Relations and Floodwater Pedagogies in Climate Change Education.” Dr. Korina Jocson, Chair.

Puming Fang, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thursday, March 30, 2 p.m., Via Zoom. Dissertation: “Enabling Novel Network Economics Using Multi-hop Asynchronous Resource Exchanges.” Tilman Wolf, Chair.

Teah Snyder, Ph.D., Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Thursday, March 30, 9 a.m., Via Zoom. Dissertation: “Epidemiologic Analysis of Infectious Disease Data.” Andrew Lover, Chair.

Porntip Twishime, Ph.D., Communication, Thursday, March 30, 1 p.m., ILC Building S415 and Zoom. Dissertation: “Ploy: An Immigrant Daughter’s Archival Survival Strategy.” Kimberlee Pérez, Chair.

Serena Dameron, Ph.D., Geoscience, Friday, March 31, 1:30 p.m., Morrill II Room 225 and Zoom. Dissertation: “Benthic Foraminifera as Tools of Paleoceanography: Three Case Studies from the Late Cretaceous of the North Pacific Ocean and Western Interior Seaway, and the Miocene-Pleistocene of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.” Dr. R. Mark Leckie, Chair.

Nicole Kent, Ph.D., Nursing, Friday, March 31, 10 a.m., Skinner Room 101. Dissertation: “Patterns of Substance Use and Buprenorphine Utilization to Predict Treatment Utilization for Opioid Use Disorder.” Karen Kalmakis, Chair.

Meghna Marjadi, Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Friday, March 31, 9:30 a.m., French Hall Room 209 and Zoom. Dissertation: “Timing is Everything: Climate Change Implications for Phenological Events and Reproductive Success in River Herring.” Dr. Allison Roy, Chair.

William Rodriguez, Ph.D., Microbiology, Friday, March 31, 10 a.m., ILCS Room 240. Dissertation: “A Shift in RNA Fate: Investigating the Role of C19ORF66 During KSHV Lytic Replication.” Mandy Muller, Chair.

Jingyang Yan, Ph.D., Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Friday, March 31, 11 a.m., Life Science Laboratories Room N410 and Zoom. Dissertation: “Monitoring and Control of the Roll-to-roll Microcontact Printing Process Through Neural Networks and Real-time Sensing.” Xian Du, Chair.