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August 2019 Graduates

Daniel Kurt Ackermann, Art History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Bernard Herman, Dissertation: Becoming Kentucky: Cultural Confluence and Middle Ground in the Material Culture of the Trans-Appalachian West

Christopher Kemal Akcali, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor David Pfennig, Dissertation: The Evolution of Coral Snake Mimicry

Sallie Allgood, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Leeman, Dissertation: Active Ingredients of Community Health Worker Delivered Interventions to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risks

Amanda Margaret Al-Raba'A, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors María DeGuzmán and miriam cooke, Dissertation: Translators and Interpreters in Iraq War Literature

Krutika Amin, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Justin Trogdon, Dissertation: Impact of Out-of-Network Service Utilization and State Policy Changes on Payments and Follow-Up Visits

Jennet Louise Arcara, Maternal and Child Health, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Sandra Martin and Ilene Speizer, Dissertation: Abortion and Autonomy in Urban Uttar Pradesh, India

Anthony Arceci, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Michael Emanuele, Dissertation: Cell Cycle Transcription Control by Ubiquitin Signaling

Lauren Renee Bangert, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Sandra Evarrs and Aysenil Belger, Dissertation: Exploring the Moderating Effects of Executive Functioning on the Relationship between Trait Anxiety and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia During Stress in Adolescents with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Kelly Johnson Barber-Lester, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Eileen Parsons, Dissertation: Choosing to Learn: Exploring White Teachers' Paths of Critical Consciousness Development

Aaron Barrett, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Boyce Griffith, Dissertation: An Adaptive Viscoelastic Fluid Solver: Formulation, Verification, and Applications to Fluid-Structure Interaction

Virginia Leigh Bass, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Michael Madden and Avram Gold, Dissertation: Pulmonary and Vascular Effects of Fatty Acids: Evidence from Endothelial Cell and Rodent Exposure Studies

Rachel Baum, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Gregory Characklis, Dissertation: Risk Pooling to Mitigate Hydrology-Related Financial Losses for Water Utilities

Sarah Byrne Bausell, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jocelyn Glazier, Dissertation: Seeing and Strengthening Listening: New Theoretical and Methodological Directions for Critical Discourse Analysis

Cicek Tascioglu Beeby, Classics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Donald Haggis, Dissertation: Spatial Narratives of Mortuary Landscapes in Early Iron Age Greece

Trevor Bell, Mass Communication, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Seth Noar, Dissertation: The Impact of Narrative Messages on Adolescents’ Type 1 Diabetes Management

Halei Collette Benefield, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Melissa Troester, Dissertation: Biomarkers in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer and the effect of exposure history

Donte Leshon Bernard, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Enrique Neblett, Dissertation: Impostor phenomenon: A multi-method examination of construct validity among Black college students

Margit Maria Bertalan, Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Paul Leslie, Dissertation: Fencing for Conservation: Community Perceptions, Social Impacts, and the Utilization of Multiple Indicators to Determine Efficacy of Conservation Initiatives

Shannon Michelle Blakey, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jonathan Abramowitz, Dissertation: Response Prevention or Response Permission? A Randomized Controlled Trial of the “Judicious Use of Safety Behaviors” during Exposure Therapy

Mary Ashley Sobran, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Peggy Cotter and Rita Tamayo, Dissertation: Understanding the Regulatory Dynamic of the Two-Component Systems, PlrSR and BvgAS, During Bordetella Colonization of the Mammalian Respiratory Tract

David B. Braudt, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Kenneth Bollen and Kathleen Harris, Dissertation: (Re)investigating Measurement Strategies Linking Social Origins and Educational Destinations

David Paul Brooks, Curriculum and Instruction, Doctor of Education, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Xue Rong, Dissertation: Global Perspectives and Classroom Implications: A Mixed Methods Analysis Comparing General High School Social Studies Teachers With Those who Teach in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme

Alissa Jane Brown, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Robert Peet and Peter White, Dissertation: The Occurrence of Conspecific Negative Density Dependence in Temperate Forest Trees Varies by Species, Plant Traits, and Environmental Context

Julia Whitney Browne, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor David Penn, Dissertation: The Therapeutic Alliance in Individual Resiliency Training for First Episode Psychosis: Relationship with Treatment Outcomes and Therapy Participation

Ruofei Bu, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Amy Oldenburg, Dissertation: Endoscopic, Anatomic OCT for Imaging and Compliance Measurement of Upper and Central Airways

Nathan William Burnham, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Todd Thiele, Dissertation: An Examination of the Role of the Central Noradrenergic System in Binge-Like Ethanol Consumption

Kody Campbell, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jason Mihalik, Dissertation: A Biofidelic Evaluation of The Head Impact Telemetry System on Measuring Head Impact Location and Frequency Through Laboratory and On-Field Assessments

Alexander L Carlson, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Rebecca Knickmeyer Santelli, Dissertation: Infant Gut Microbiome Associated with Cognition, Fear Behavior, and Brain Structure

Elena Nicole Casey, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Carmen Hsu, Dissertation: The Fracturing of Melancholy: Mental Health, Social Marginality, and National Crisis in the Theater of Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Oguz Cetin, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Adam Mersereau and Ali Parlakturk, Dissertation: Novel Assortment Problems in Retail Operations

Elizabeth Chen, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Kathryn Moracco, Dissertation: Development and Validation of a New Scale to Measure the Acceptability of Mobile Health Applications Among Adolescents

Seul Ki Choi, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Lisa Hightow-Weidman, Dissertation: Sexual Empowerment and Stigma Among Young Black Men who Have Sex With Men: healthmpowerment.org, a Mobile Phone Optimized Online Intervention to Reduce Sexual Risk Behaviors

Elizabeth Christenson-Diver, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jill Stewart, Dissertation: A Longitudinal, Landscape-Scale Field Study Assessing the Effects of Commercial Hog Operations on Microbial Quality of Surface Waters in North Carolina, USA

Massimiliano Cirulli, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Serenella Iovino, Dissertation: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Space of the Rivoluzione Antropologica

Matthew Josephs Cohen, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Donald Baucom, Dissertation: The Development and Evaluation of an Empirically Informed Intervention for Partners of Women Hospitalized for Perinatal Distress

Robert K. Colby, History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Harry Watson, Dissertation: The Continuance of an Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

Nicole Elizabeth Corbin, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Emily Buss, Dissertation: Spatial Hearing and Functional Auditory Skills of Children who have Unilateral Hearing Loss

Carla Coste Sanchez, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Ainslie Kristy, Dissertation: Physical Characterization, Metal-Binding Kinetics and in Vivo Efficacy of an Orally Bioavailable Chelating Agent

Andrew Crowther, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Mohanish Deshmukh, Dissertation: Serotonergic Regulation of Adult Neural Precursor Cells

Gracelyn Cruden, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Kristen Hasmiller Lich, Dissertation: Supporting Decision Making for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment in North Carolina

Tianqu Cui, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jason Surratt, Dissertation: Chemical Characterization of Source-Specific Atmospheric Organic Aerosol via Mass Spectrometry

Angel D Davalos, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Amy Herring, Dissertation: Bayesian Methods for Correlated Predictors and Confounding Variables in Epidemiology

Meng Deng, Dentistry (Oral and Craniofacial Biomedicine), Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jenny Ting, Dissertation: Innate Immune Recognition, Regulation and Evasion

Tim Dinh, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Praveen Sethupathy, Dissertation: Genome-Scale Approaches to Identifying Novel Regulators of Fibrolamellar Carcinoma

Qian Dong, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Rene Lopez, Dissertation: Interfaces and Device Geometry of PbS Colloidal Quantum Dots (CQDs) Solar Cells

Marc Aaron Emerson, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Yvonne Golighly and Melissa Troester, Dissertation: Race, Age and Treatment Delay in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study Phase 3

Adrienne Erazo, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Oswaldo Estrada, Dissertation: Identity in Transit: Central American Migration in Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Literature

Chris Etheridge, Mass Communication, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Rhonda Gibson, Dissertation: Community, Communication, and Information: Crime and Public Safety Information-Seeking Behaviors in an Urban System

Nina Lee Exner, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Barbara Moran, Dissertation: Development of Research Competencies among Academic Librarians

Tamara Fakhoury, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Susan Wolf and Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Dissertation: Quiet Resistance: The Value of Personal Defiance

Sherif Farag, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Alexander Tropsha, Dissertation: Computational Design of Novel Non-Ribosomal Peptides

Samuel Harrison Fishman, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Samuel Morgan, Dissertation: Burning with Educational Ambition: Status Attainment in the 21st Century US

Mike Dolan Fliss, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Stephen Marshall, Dissertation: Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement Traffic Stops: Measurement, Interpretation, and Intervention Possibilities

Laurel Foote-Hudson, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Marsha Collins and Inger Brodey, Dissertation: Echoes of Honor: A Comparative Analysis of Blood, Honor, and Revenge From Spanish and Japanese Drama to the Digital Age

Michael Fox, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Joseph Viscomi and Jerome McGann, Dissertation: The Aesthete's Idea of History

Margaret Elizabeth Franz, Communication Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Christian Lundberg, Dissertation: We Have Never Been Liberal: Legal Rhetoric and the Politics of Citizenship After Reconstruction

Danielle Rose Gartner, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Whitney Robinson, Dissertation: Racial and Geographic Variation in Treatment With Hysterectomy Among Reproductive Aged Women With Non-Cancerous Gynecologic Conditions: Studies of North Carolina

Gena Rachel Gerstner, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Eric Ryan, Dissertation: The Influence of Obesity and Stress on Muscle Fatigability and Steadiness in Career Firefighters

Thomas Fergusson Gilliss, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor John Wilkerson, Dissertation: Statistical Modeling and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inference of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Background Data

Kaylyn Nellie Siporin Gootman, Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jaye Cable, Dissertation: Spatial and Temporal Variability of Exchange Between Stream Waters and the Hyporheic Zone Using Laboratory Flume Experiments, Field Tracers, and Transient Storage Modeling

Alex Gorzalski, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Orlando Coronell and Gregory Harrington, Dissertation: Improved Predictions of Contaminant Degradation in Water Treatment Reactors

Jessica Griswold, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jeffrey Johnson, Dissertation: Stereoconvergent Conjugate Additions and Novel Transformations of Configurationally Labile Molecules

Colin Thomas Guider, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Chris Jones, Dissertation: Methods of Ensemble Data Assimilation on Adaptive Moving Meshes

Andrew Guinn, City and Regional Planning, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Meenu Tewari, Dissertation: Embedded Mobility: Federal Technical Education Reforms and Inclusive Industrial Development in Northeastern Brazil, 2003-2016

Matthew David Hambro, German Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Ruth von Bernuth, Dissertation: Redrawing Time: Temporality in German-Language Graphic Narratives

Kristen Hampton, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor William Miller, Dissertation: Spatial Dynamics of Syphilis and Gonorrhea Transmission Among Sexual Networks and Core Groups in North Carolina

Michaelyn Ann Hartmann, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Jeff Sekelsky and Robert Duronio, Dissertation: Meiotic Crossover Patterning in Drosophila melanogaster

David Andrew Holcomb, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jill Stewart, Dissertation: Characterizing Domestic Fecal Transmission and Child Enteric Infections during an Urban Onsite Sanitation Intervention

Murad Hossain, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Caterina Gallippi, Dissertation: Early identification of kidney allograft dysfunction with in vivo viscoelastic response (VisR) ultrasound

Ruixue Hou, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Venkata Saroja Voruganti, Dissertation: Genetic Variants and Their Interaction With Calcium Intake and Physical Activity Associate With Bone Health in Hispanic Children

Chao Huang, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Hongtu Zhu, Dissertation: Advanced Statistical Learning Methods for Heterogeneous Medical Imaging Data

Erika Huckestein, History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Susan Pennybacker, Dissertation: Confronting the Fascist Menace: The Politics of British Women’s Activism at Home and Abroad, 1918-1945

Deepak Jena, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Atul Nerkar, Dissertation: Drug Hunters in the Pharmaceutical Industry—Striving for Success

Lauren Tarabokia Kendall, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Rita O'Sullivan, Dissertation: Becoming Teacher Leaders: Case Study of Teachers 3-7 Years After Participation in a 12-Month Teacher Leadership Professional Development Program

Seoyeon Kim, Mass Communication, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Lucinda Austin, Dissertation: Effects of CSR initiative type on consumer responses, in relations to company-cause fit and stigmatized industry

Eunsoo Timothy Kim, Maternal and Child Health, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Kavita Singh, Dissertation: The Role of Health Facilities in Women’s Use of Maternal and Newborn Postnatal Care in Malawi

Amber Renee Kimball, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Coretta Jenerette and Linda Beeber, Dissertation: Healthcare Experiences and Outcomes in Older Adults With Hearing Loss

Tracy Lehmer Kinsey, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Til Stürmer, Dissertation: Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism Following New Use of Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in U.S. Women

Kaci Lee Kuntz, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Scott Warren, Dissertation: Altering the Surface and Interlayer Composition of 2D Materials

Patrick Stephenson Lang, German Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jakob Norberg, Dissertation: A God in the Mechanism: German Language Theater and the Atomic Bomb, 1945-65

Ryan Lavalley, Occupational Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Antoine Bailliard, Dissertation: Doing Occupation Together: Transformations of a Senior Center Welcoming Spanish-Speaking Older Adult Immigrants

Anna Lee, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Marcia Van Riper, Dissertation: Family Variables and Quality of Life in Children With Down Syndrome

David Michael Lee, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor J. Calabrese, Dissertation: A 5′ Fragment of Xist can Sequester RNA Produced From Adjacent Genes on Chromatin

Anna Levett, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Miriam Cooke and Gregory Flaxman, Dissertation: Mediterranean Dream-Places: The Past and Future of Surrealism in Late Twentieth-Century Arab Literature

Weizi Li, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Ming Lin, Dissertation: Simulation and Learning for Urban Mobility: City-scale Traffic Reconstruction and Autonomous Driving

Qi Lu, Art History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Wei-Cheng Lin, Dissertation: Grassland, Urban Space, and Ways of Life: The Seasonal Imperial City Qingzhou in The Khitan Liao Dynasty, 1031 CE-1125 CE

Amelia Caroline Louise MacKenzie, Maternal and Child Health, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Siân Curtis, Dissertation: Women’s Perspectives on Menstrual Bleeding Side Effects of and Partner Opposition to Contraception and the Influence of These Factors on Contraceptive Use

Celine Siewe Marquez, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Mary Palmer, Dissertation: Exploring the Use of an Evidence-Based Guideline for Urinary Incontinence and Related Outcomes in Older Women During Hospitalization

Ricardo David Martinez-Schuldt, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jacqueline Hagan, Dissertation: Emigrant Claims and Consular Protection Services: An Analysis of Mexico’s Department of Protection Administrative Data 2010-2015

Andrew Meeker McCallister, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Rosa Branca, Dissertation: Modeling, Optimizing, and Building of a Continuous-Flow Xenon-129 Polarizer With Lung and Brown Adipose Tissue Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications

Sam Meijer, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor John Wilkerson, Dissertation: Precision Modeling of Germanium Detector Waveforms For Rare Event Searches

Kelsey Miller, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor James Jorgenson, Dissertation: Analysis of Complex Lipid Mixtures Using Ultrahigh-Pressure Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-MS)

Katrina Morgan, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jason Metcalfe, Dissertation: Wave decay in the asymptotically flat stationary setting

Dillon Newton Morse, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton, Dissertation: Semi-Classical Backreaction of Quantum Scalar Fields on an Evolving Spacetime

Maya Gelman Mosner, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Gabriel Dichter and David Penn, Dissertation: Expanding the Boundaries of ASD Research: An Integrative Approach

Mike Muglia, Marine Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Harvey Seim, Dissertation: An Observation-Based Study of Gulf Stream Position, Width, Orientation, Marine Hydrokinetic Energy, and Meander Kinematics off Cape Hatteras, NC

Alexandria Grace Mullins, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Marcey Waters, Dissertation: Improving the Selective Recognition of Methylated Arginine

Veronica A. Murphy, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors John Gilmore and Jason Stein, Dissertation: Early Brain Development in Children at Risk for Schizophrenia

Evan Franklin Nelsen, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Richard Superfine, Dissertation: Atomic Force Microscopy With a Versatile Optics System for Applications in Biophysics

Dong Nie, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Dinggang Shen, Dissertation: Blurry Boundary Delineation and Adversarial Confidence Learning for Medical Image Analysis

Lee Brewster Norton, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Florence Dore, Dissertation: Books of Life: Post-DNA Life Science in 1960s American Fiction

Kayleigh R O'Keeffe, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Charles Mitchell, Dissertation: Within-host microbial interactions and plant parasites: from pairwise interactions to the microbiome

Reid Hans Johnson Olsen, Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Bryan Roth, Dissertation: Development of Next-Generation G Protein Biosensors for Deconvoluting the Complexity of GPCR Signaling

Christina Parker, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Samuel Lai, Dissertation: Development and characterization of bispecific proteins for targeted drug and gene delivery systems

Esita Patel, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Barbara Mark, Dissertation: The Impact of Full Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Policy on Access to Care in the Privately Insured

Sam Pellock, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Matthew Redinbo, Dissertation: The Structure, Function, and Inhibition of Gut Bacterial β-glucuronidases

Keith Penich, Classics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor James O'Hara, Dissertation: Vision and Narrative in Apollonius' Argonautica

Michael Timothy Peruzzi, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Michel Gagné and Sidney Wilkerson-Hill, Dissertation: Catalytic Methods for Dearomatization and Chemoselective Amide Reduction

John-Paul Petrash, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jeff Spinner-Halev, Dissertation: A Sociospatial Analysis of Student Groups on University Campuses: Toward Capacious Campus Pluralism Rooted in Meaningful Association

Eric John Piechota, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Gerald Meyer, Dissertation: Fundamental insights into electron transfer reactions of cyclometalated ruthenium donor-bridge-acceptor compounds

Samantha Piszkiewicz, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Gary Pielak and Dorothy Erie, Dissertation: Tardigrade Disordered Proteins as Potential Excipients for Biologics

Erica Nicole Pollock, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Steven Knotek, Dissertation: Contributions from the School that Influence Student Achievement: Differences in Teachers’ Perceptions

John Prybylski, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Michael Jay, Dissertation: Gadolinium Deposition From MRI Contrast Agents: Mechanism and Prevention

Jamin Rager, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Reyco Henning, Dissertation: A Search for Bosonic Dark Matter with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Lillian Reuman, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jonathan Abramowitz, Dissertation: GIV CARE: A group intervention to reduce accommodation among relatives of individuals with fear-based disorders

Kristen Lee Ricchetti-Masterson, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor James Thomas, Dissertation: Epidemiology of Pre-diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis and Early Classification of High Severity at Diagnosis

Jerrod Nathan Rosenbaum, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jessica Wolfe, Dissertation: Beyond the Bosphorus: The Holy Land in English Reformation Literature, 1516-1596

Jason Anders Rosenfeld, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Leah Frerichs, Dissertation: Social Capital and Community Health Clubs in Haiti

Nicole Marie Voss Ross, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Steven Hemelt, Dissertation: Essays on higher education in the United States: The effects of contemporary state- and institution-level policies on student outcomes

Anna Rybinska, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Yong Cai and Samuel Philip Morgan, Dissertation: Intentions to Remain Childless: An Old Response to New Exigencies or A New Response to Old Exigencies?

George Moses Scheer, Communication Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Eric Watts, Dissertation: Deploying Place: A Cultural Economy of Art and Urbanism in The Great Recession

Megan Danielle Schertzer, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Joseph Calabrese, Dissertation: Control of Polycomb by Cis-Repressive Long Non-Coding RNAs

Casey Alexandra Schmidt, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor A. Matera, Dissertation: In Vivo Analysis of Metazoan tRNA Intron Splicing

Antonio Serrato-Capuchina, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Daniel Matute, Dissertation: Exploring the Role of Transposable Elements in Reproductive Isolation

Nagarajan Sethuraman, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Jayashankar Swaminathan and Ali Parlakturk, Dissertation: Digital Disruption & Innovative Operations: Implications of 3D Printing Business Models and Maker Movement

Serge Severenchuk, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Timothy Ryan, Dissertation: Polarization and Partisan Bias

Kriti Sharma, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Elizabeth Shank, Dissertation: Illuminating Dark Matter: Light Microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy Through Transparent Porous Media for Applications in Soil and Sediment Microbial Ecology

Karen Miles Sheffield-Abdullah, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Woods-Giscombe, Dissertation: Perspectives of Stress, Psychological Distress and Self-Care Among Perinatal African American Women: An Exploration of Intersectional and Integrative Factors to Help Women and Their Healthcare Providers Understand and Reduce Stress-Related Risk Factors for Adverse Birth Outcomes

Christopher Shea Sheppard, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Mitchell Prinstein, Dissertation: Advancing the Peer Victimization Literature: Assessment, Methodology, and the Psychological Framework

Henry Hongsuk Shin, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Xiaogang Hu, Dissertation: Transcutaneous Nerve Bundle Stimulation for Dexterous Hand Grasp Patterns: Development and Exploration of an Alternative Stimulation Method

Lisa P. Shock , Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Sandra Greene, Dissertation: Relationships Between Accountable Care Organizations and Skilled Nursing Facilities: What are the Critical Process Elements?

Katherine Moeller Simpson, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors James Jorgenson and Leslie Hicks, Dissertation: The Use of Porous Graphitic Carbon Stationary Phase in Capillary Chromatography for Metabolomics

Aleisha Monique Smith, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor William Kim, Dissertation: Investigating the Genetic Makeup and Vulnerabilities in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Allison Sarah Reeves Somogyi, History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Chad Bryant and Karen Auerbach, Dissertation: The Bitter End: Life and Survival in the Holocaust Diaries of Young Jewish Women in Budapest under the Arrow Cross Regime, October 1944 - February 1945

Kyeongtak Song, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Erik Wikstrom, Dissertation: Talar Cartilage Deformation Following Static and Dynamic Loading in Those With and Without Chronic Ankle Instability

Jennifer Elizabeth Speer, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Nancy Allbritton, Dissertation: Drug Transport and Metabolomic Assays Using Primary Cell Derived Intestinal Models

Jenny Spencer, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Stephanie Wheeler, Dissertation: HPV Vaccination as a Tool to Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities in Cancer

Lauren Elizabeth St. Louis, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Marcey Waters, Dissertation: Exploring the Application of Peptides to Biology

Auston Sterling, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Ming Lin, Dissertation: Audio-Material Modeling and Reconstruction for Multimodal Interaction

Frank Joseph Stillo Iii, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Dissertation: Racial Disparities in Access to Municipal Drinking Water: Lead Exposure Risk and a Risk Communication Intervention

Jennifer Strachan-Fontaine , Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Harriet Able, Dissertation: Prekindergarten Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy and Instructional Practices With Dual-Language Learners

Paula D Strassle, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor David Weber, Dissertation: Incidence and Risk Factors for Non-Device Associated Healthcare Associated Infections

Melanie Studer, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor George Pink, Dissertation: Examining Undergraduate Public Health Education as a Pipeline to the Public Health Workforce

Elizabeth Ann Suarez, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Michele Jonsson Funk, Dissertation: Use of Ondansetron for Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

Junghyun Lee Suh, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Stephen Frye, Dissertation: Development of Small Molecules and Peptidomimetic Ligands Targeting Epigenetic Reader Proteins

Sterling Richard Swygert, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jeremy Marzuola, Dissertation: Analysis of Thin Films Related to Flows in Cylindrical Geometries

Nicholas Eng Soon Tay, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors David Nicewicz and David Lawrence, Dissertation: The Development of Selective Aromatic Functionalizations in Acridinium-mediated Photoredox Catalysis

Emily Karen Toutkoushian, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Gregory Cizek, Dissertation: Modeling Complex Data from Interactive, Instructional Simulations to Assess and Understand Selected Dimensions of Middle School Students’ NGSS-aligned Science Learning

Didem Turkoglu, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Charles Kurzman and Neal Caren, Dissertation: The Political Price of a Public Education: Neoliberalism and Struggle Over Tuition

Randall Ung, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Garret Stuber, Dissertation: Neural dynamic adaptation of extended amygdala to stress and anxiety

Ashley Cook Vaughan, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Marcia Van Riper, Dissertation: Contextual Influences on Family Management of the Challenges Related to Down Syndrome

Patricia Anne Vignaux, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Nathaniel Hathaway, Dissertation: A Modular Chromatin In Vivo Assay Reveals the Influence of Promoter Structure on Heterochromatin Memory

Deshira Wallace Newball, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Leslie Lytle, Dissertation: Stress makes it difficult to live a healthy life: The relationship between stress and dietary behaviors among Latinos

Mary Elizabeth Walters, History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Wayne Lee, Dissertation: Unexpected Humanitarians: Albania, the U.S. Military, and Aid Organizations during the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Crisis

Lu Wang, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Vidyadhar Kulkarni, Dissertation: Stochastic Models for Service and Taxi Systems

Mengzhe Wang, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Zibo Li and Paul Dayton, Dissertation: Rapid Construction of PET Probes Via Tetrazine Ligation

Jingkai Wei, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Gerardo Heiss, Dissertation: Aortic Stiffness, White Matter Integrity and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults

Nathan Ashbrook Whitman, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Matthew Lockett, Dissertation: Development of Paper-Based Breast Cancer Models to Probe the Relationship Between the Tumor Microenvironment and the Estrogen Receptor Alpha Signaling Pathway

Laura Elizabeth Wiener, Biostatistics, Doctor of Public Health, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Gary Koch, Dissertation: Extensions of Methods for Clinical Trials: (1) Randomization-based ANCOVA for Longitudinal Clinical Trials with Missing Data, Particularly the Sequential Parallel Comparison Design, and (2) Methods for Clarifying Criteria for Study Continuation at Interim Analysis

John Dunc Williams, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Paula Song, Dissertation: Which Rural Hospitals Merge and what Happens to them Afterward?

Jonathan Paul Williams, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Jan Hannig, Dissertation: Nonpenalized Model Selection via Generalized Fiducial Inference and Bayesian Hidden Markov Models

Brett Robert Winters, Toxicology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Michael Madden and Joachim Pleil, Dissertation: Utilization of Airborne Molecules for in Vivo and in Vitro Toxicity Testing

Liuqing (Jasmine) Yang, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors J. S. Marron and Hongtu Zhu, Dissertation: Statistical Methods for Deconvolution in Cancer Genomics

Ting Yao, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Hugh O'Neill, Dissertation: Dream Maker vs. Dream Taker: Effects of Venture Capital Investors and Entrepreneurial Boards

Weiyan Yin, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Weili Lin, Dissertation: The Modular Brain: Spatiotemporal Evolution in the Early Brain Functional Development

Xiao You, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Joanna Atkin, Dissertation: Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Advances and its Applications

Yang Yu, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Shu Lu and Amarjit Budhiraja, Dissertation: Analyzing sampling in stochastic optimization: Importance sampling and statistical inference

Jing Yu, Biostatistics, Doctor of Public Health, August 2019, Advisors: Professor Gary Koch, Dissertation: Statistical Methods for Topics Involving Repeated Measures for Categorical Data

Fan Zhou, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2019, Advisors: Professors Hongtu Zhu and Haibo Zhou, Dissertation: Advanced Analysis Methods for Large-Scale Structured Data

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