Doctoral Oral Exams for Nov. 29–Dec. 3

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

Kiara Amaro-Rivera, Ph.D., School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 10 a.m. via Zoom. Dissertation: “Factors Associated with the Perception of Diet Quality: Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2018.” Elena Carbone, chr.

Arie Stern, Ph.D., Mathematics and Statistics, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 10 a.m., Lederle Graduate Research Tower, Room 1634. Dissertation: “Anticanonical Models of Smoothing of Cyclic Quotient Singularities. ” Jenia Tevelev, chr.

Emily Bechtold, Ph.D., Microbiology, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1 p.m., 222 Morrill Science Center 2.  Dissertation: “Community Assembly and Stress Response of Grassland Phyllosphere Bacteria.”  Klaus Nüsslein, chr.

Puspam Keshri, Ph.D., Chemistry, Thursday, Dec. 2, 10 a.m., Goessman 153. Dissertation: “Quantitative Imaging of Tensile Forces at Cell-Cell Junction with DNA-Based Probes.” Mingxu You, chr.

Lian Guo, Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Thursday, Dec. 2, 10:30 a.m., French Hall 209.  Dissertation: “Thermal Ecophysiology of Juvenile Anadromous River Herring.”  Stephen McCormick and Adrian Jordaan, co-chrs.

Sarah Lavallee, Ph.D., History, Thursday, Dec. 2, 1 p.m., Herter 601. Dissertation: “Reclaiming the Past: The Legacy of National Socialism in Northern Germany.” Jon Olsen, chr.

Timothy Juvshik, Ph.D., Philosophy, Friday, Dec. 3, 2 p.m., E301 South College. Dissertation: “A Metaphysics of Artifacts: Essence and Mind Dependence” Ned Markosian, chr.