Doctoral Oral Exams for May 3–7

The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates. All exams will be held via video conferencing. Contact the department for online meeting information.

Final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates are scheduled as follows:

Ilgin Erdem, Ph.D., Sociology, Tuesday, May 4, 1 p.m. Dissertation: “Rethinking Collective Action from the Standpoint of the Marginalized: Changing Repertoires of Revolutionary Activism in Urban Turkey.” Millicent Thayer, chr.

Emma Britton, Ph.D., College of Education, Wednesday, May 5, 10 a.m. Dissertation: “Critical Language Awareness in the Multilingual Writing Classroom: A Self-Study of Teacher Feedback Practices.” Theresa Austin, chr.

Chen Qu, Ph.D., College of Information and Computer Sciences, Thursday, May 6, 10 a.m. Dissertation: “History Modeling for Conversational Information Retrieval.” W. Bruce Croft, chr.

Blaise G. Arden, Ph.D., Chemistry, Thursday, May 6, 1:30 p.m. Dissertation: “Amyloidogenesis of ß2-microglobulin Studied by Mass Spectrometry and Covalent Labeling.” Richard Vachet, chr.

Sadhana Chalise, Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering, Thursday, May 6, 3 p.m. Dissertation: “Modeling the Structures of Dynamics of Polyelectrolytes.” M. Muthukumar, chr.