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August 2020 Graduates

Reuben Adatorwovor, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Jason Fine, Dissertation: Relaxing the Independence Assumption in Relative Survival Analysis

Kezia Adoma Addo, Toxicology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Rebecca Fry, Dissertation: Translational Approach to Examine the Effects of Acetaminophen on the Placenta

Heather Hanney Aiken, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Kristin Papoi, Dissertation: Assessing for Accountability: How Reading Assessments Shape Early Literacy Instruction in North Carolina Schools

Turgay Akbaba, History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Cemil Aydin, Dissertation: From the Terrible Turk to the Incredible Turk: Reimagining Turkey as an American Ally, 1919-1960

Travis Townley Alexander, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Matthew Taylor and Priscilla Wald, Dissertation: A Glamorous Nightmare: HIV/AIDS, American Literature, and the Viral Power of Whiteness

Pedro Luiz Baldoni, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Naim Rashid and Joseph Ibrahim, Dissertation: Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Epigenomic Data

Joshua Owen Barker, Mass Communication, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Adam Saffer, Dissertation: Testing Associations Between Personal Networks, Vaping Outcome Expectancies, and Perceptions of Anti-Vaping Advertisements: A Dissertation

Arjun Bhattacharya, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Michael Love and Melissa Troester, Dissertation: Statistical Methods for Inferring Genetic Regulation Across Heterogeneous Samples and Multimodal Data

Katie Leelynn Biggers, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Desiree Murray and Sandra Evarrs, Dissertation: Influence of Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder on Social Problem-Solving Skills in Early Elementary Students

Rachael M Billock, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Kimberly Powers, Dissertation: Harnessing HIV and Syphilis Networks to Reduce HIV Transmission in North Carolina

Candace Buckner, Religious Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Zlatko Plese, Dissertation: Symbolic Egypt: Literary Cartographies, Symbolic Spaces, and Transformative Journeys in Coptic Hagiography from 400-800 ce

Derek Carbaugh, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Helen Lazear, Dissertation: Viral Genetic Determinants of Zika Virus Pathogenesis

Si Chen, Marine Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian White, Dissertation: Particle Collision in Grid Turbulence

Daniel Alexander Chester, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Ashley Brown, Dissertation: Microgel Films with Controllable Loss Tangent as a Platform to Study Cell Mechanotransduction Responses

Leah Christiani, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Frank Baumgartner and Timothy Ryan, Dissertation: He said what?! Group threat and explicit racial rhetoric in American politics

Olivia Council, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Ronald Swanstrom, Dissertation: HIV-1 Compartmentalization and Reservoir Formation

James Powell Custer, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor James Cahoon, Dissertation: Creation and Characterization of Silicon Nanowire Electron Ratchets for Use as Geometric Diodes at Room Temperature

Saulo Mendes, Marine Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Alberto Scotti, Dissertation: On the Statistics of Oceanic Rogue Waves in Finite Depth: Exceeding Probabilities, Physical Constraints and Extreme Value Theory

Alexis Dolor Davis, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Rune Simeonsson, Dissertation: Deriving Education Code Sets From the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY)

Thibaut Alexandre Davy-Mendez, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Sonia Napravnik, Dissertation: Disparities in Hospitalization Rates Among Persons With HIV in the United States and Canada Between 2005 and 2015

Adam Ross DePrimo, Occupational Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Nancy Bagatell, Dissertation: The Épistémè of the Normal Bell Curve in Post-secondary Transition

Mary Evelyn Dooley, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Rune Simeonsson and Robert Martinez, Dissertation: Unheard and Unseen: Black Female Experience in North Carolina Schools “We’re Here Too.”

Christopher R Dorsett, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Paul Manis and Spencer Smith, Dissertation: Regulation of Dendritic Integration by Interneurons in the Mouse Visual Cortex

Katerina Marie Dudley, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Laura Klinger, Dissertation: Reconceptualizing Behavior Outbursts in ASD: The Role of Anxiety

Marc Eder, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Jan-Michael Frahm, Dissertation: Mitigating Distortion to Enable 360° Computer Vision

Ruituo Fan, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Shankar Bhamidi and Nicolas Fraiman, Dissertation: Learning Latent Community Structures in Network-Based Data

Fuhui Fang, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Mark Forest and Boyce Griffith, Dissertation: Numerical Advances for Fluid-Structure Interaction in Entangled Polymer Solutions with Applications to Active Microbead Rheology

Nicole Fender Fisher, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Morris Weinberger, Dissertation: What Factors Influence Success in Public-Private Partnerships? Lessons for Neuroscience Policy

Nicole Frascino, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian Pence, Dissertation: The Effect of Adverse Life Events on HIV Services Among Female Sex Workers and Other High-Risk Women in Malawi

Emily Freeman, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Lynda Stone, Dissertation: Becoming Feminists: Case Studies of Curriculums, Voices, and Ethics of Feminist Teachers in U.S. Public Schools

Jennifer Lynn Fulton, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Jeffrey Johnson, Dissertation: Stereoselective 1,2‒ and 1,4‒Additions Enabled by Asymmetric Organocatalysis

Elle Glenny, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Ian Carroll, Dissertation: Impact of the Intestinal Microbiota on Host Energy Homeostasis and Intestinal Epithelial Biology in Anorexia Nervosa

Anagha Gogate, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Stephanie Wheeler, Dissertation: Examining the Use of Combination Therapies for Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Comparative and Cost Effectiveness Study

William David Green, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Melinda Beck, Dissertation: Hidden Consequences of Obesity: How Systemic Inflammation and Immunometabolism Combine to Impair Influenza Immunity

Rachel Kirsten Greene, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Gabriel Dichter, Dissertation: Reward Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Behavioral Indicators, Neural Correlates, and Mechanisms of Treatment Response

Noah Greifer, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Patrick Curran, Dissertation: Estimating Balancing Weights for Continuous Treatments Using Constrained Optimization

Jennifer Lynn Griggs, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Karen Bradham and Rebecca Fry, Dissertation: Effects of Arsenic-Contaminated Soil Exposure on Gut Bacteria and its Relationship With Oral Bioaccessibility of Arsenic Using a Multi-Compartment In Vitro Gastrointestinal Model

Anton Gudz, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Michel Gagné, Dissertation: Lewis and Brønsted Acidic Homogeneous Catalysis for C–O Bond Reduction and Late-stage Natural Product Functionalization

Daniel Gustafson, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Stephen Gent, Dissertation: Economic Stress in Self-Determination Challenges

Clare Elise Gyorke, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Uma Nagarajan, Dissertation: The Role of Interleukin-1a and the Noncanonical Inflammasome in Murine Chlamydial Oviduct Disease

Maleeha Haroon, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Andrea Hussong, Dissertation: Alcohol Stress-Dampening and Emotional Self-Awareness as Moderators of Negative Mood-Related Drinking

Joanna E Helms, Musicology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Andrea Bohlman, Dissertation: Electronic Music History Through the Everyday: The Rai Studio Di Fonologia (1954–83)

Michael Wayne Henderson, Pathology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Nigel Key and Rafal Pawlinski, Dissertation: Coagulation-Independent Role of High Molecular Weight Kininogen in Acute Liver Failure

Ryan P Hickson, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Gang Fang, Dissertation: Potential Differences Between Men and Women in the Duration of P2Y12 Inhibitor Therapy After an Acute Myocardial Infarction: Disparities by Patient Sex or Differences in the Balance of Ischemic Benefits and Bleeding Risks?

Charlie Hodgens, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Joseph Kieber and Jason Reed, Dissertation: Innovations in cloning genes identified in genetic screens and their application to cytokinin signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana

Emily Holding, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Steven Knotek, Dissertation: Texting to Increase the Impact of Parenting (TIIP) Program: Examining the Effects of a Texting Supplement on Parent and Child Outcomes in the Incredible Years Preschool Basic Parenting Program

Lorenzo Neal Hopper, Maternal and Child Health, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Jon Hussey, Dissertation: Estimating the Impacts of Father Engagement on Early Childhood Obesity in a National Sample of U.S. Children

Jamie Howgate, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Benjamin White and Rebecca Slifkin, Dissertation: An Evaluation of Determinants that Influence Decisions to Adopt School-Based Dental Sealant Programs by Principals in Elementary Schools in Georgia that Predominantly Serve Low-income Children

Rohan Isaac, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Laurie McNeil, Dissertation: Electron-phonon coupling and excited-state absorption studies of binary charge-transfer complexes containing pyromellitic dianhydride

Andrew Jenkins, Communication Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Christian Lundberg, Dissertation: Cultures of the Drug: Language, Self, and Politics in Contemporary American Drug Discourse

Melissa Lorena Jensen, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Lindsey Taillie, Dissertation: Screen Time, Television Food and Beverage Advertising, and Dietary Intake in Chilean Preschool and Adolescent Children

Chris Johnston, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Troy Blackburn, Dissertation: Quadriceps Muscle Quality Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Potential Mechanism for Quadriceps Dysfunction and Post-Traumatic Knee Osteoarthritis

Gieira Shaquae Jones, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Melissa Troester, Dissertation: Racial Differences in Hepatocyte Growth Factor Gene Signature Expression by Breast Cancer Subtype and its Association With Survival Outcomes

Sonny Eugene Kelly, Communication Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Renee Craft, Dissertation: Pipelines to Pathways: Reframing and Reclaiming Black Youth Identities through Performance

Audrey Lengel Kelly, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Karin Pfennig, Dissertation: Variation and Hybridization in the Spadefoot Toads Spea multiplicata and Spea bombifrons

Thomas Michael Kolb, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Daphne Klotsa, Dissertation: Statistical Mechanics & Effective Thermodynamics of Multi-Component Active Matter

Amanda Y Kong, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Shelley Golden, Dissertation: Associations of Tobacco Retailer Density With Neighborhood Sociodemographics, Individual Smoking Behaviors, and COPD Hospital Discharge Rates: A Spatial Health Approach

Mackenzie Krone, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Marcey Waters, Dissertation: Characterizing and Engineering the Recognition of Histone Post-Translational Modifications by Reader Proteins

Stephan T Kudlacek, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian Kuhlman, Dissertation: Computer-Based Design and Stabilization of the Dengue Virus Envelope Protein for Use as a Subunit Vaccine

Allison Maria Lacko, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Shu Wen Ng, Dissertation: Disparities in the quality of household packaged food purchases in the United States: trends over time and geography and the role of state policies

Benjamin Wyman Langworthy, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Jianwen Cai and Michael Kosorok, Dissertation: Extensions to Canonical Correlation Analysis and Principal Components Analysis with Applicatoins to Survival and Brain Imaging Data

Aubrey Erin Lauersdorf, History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Kathleen DuVal, Dissertation: Apalachee Diplomacy, Politics, and Power, 1528-1678

Jae Ho (Mike) Lee, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Boyce Griffith, Dissertation: Simulating In Vitro Models of Cardiovascular Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods, Models, and Applications

Seungeun Lee, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Roger Mills-Koonce, Dissertation: The Role of Family Environmental Factors on ADHD and Odd Comorbidity in Early Childhood

Yun Liu, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Leaf Huang, Dissertation: Nanoparticle Mediated Chemo-Immunotherapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Hongsheng Liu, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Shu Lu, Dissertation: Decomposition and stochastic optimization methods for machine learning

Letanya Anitraous Love, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Steven Knotek, Dissertation: A Pilot Study Examining the Treatment Feasibility, Acceptability, and Initial Outcomes of STEPS (Student Training for Educational and Personal Success): A Social-Emotional Learning Program for Black Males

Haidong Lu, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Stephen Cole, Dissertation: Clinical Effectiveness of Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitor-Based Antiretroviral Regimens in a Pooled Cohort of North American Adults

Raquel Cristina Martinez Chacin, Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Lee Graves, Dissertation: A New Mechanism of Activation of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/Cyclosome

Andrew Brian Maurer, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Gerald Meyer and Jillian Dempsey, Dissertation: Fundamental Insights Into Photo-Induced Charge Transfer in Metal Complexes Through Electroabsorption Spectroscopy

Terika Lakeisha McCall, Health Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Saif Khairat, Dissertation: mHealth for Mental Health: Culturally-tailored Interventions for Managing Anxiety and Depression in African American Women

Heidi Schuldt McClure, Educational Leadership, Doctor of Education, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Eric Houck, Dissertation: The Realities of Per-Pupil Expenditure at the School Level: Considering an Alternative Data Collection Protocol and Methodology

Elizabeth Sarah McClure, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor David Richardson, Dissertation: Disparities in Work Exposures, Health, and Mortality at the Alcoa Aluminum Smelting Facility in West Badin, North Carolina

Meriel McCollum, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Jones, Dissertation: Hurricane Florence in the Carolinas: Experiences of Hospital Staff

Katherine Marie McKiernan, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, Dissertation: Club Goods Provision: The Effect of Weak Parties on Clientelism Strategies

Brian McPhee, Classics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer, Dissertation: Blessed Heroes: Apollonius' Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns

Melissa McWilliams, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Steve Knotek, Dissertation: Texting to Increase the Impact of Parenting (TIIP) Program: Examining the Effects on Parent Engagement in the Incredible Years® BASIC Preschool Parenting Program

Cassandra Jean Meakin, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Rebecca Fry, Dissertation: Inorganic Arsenic as an Endocrine Disruptor in the Placenta: Implications for the Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling Pathway

Elaine Monbureau, Marine Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian White, Dissertation: Ambient Responses to Mode-1 Gravity Current Intrusions

Kathryn Moore, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Kristy Ainslie, Dissertation: Polymeric Biomaterial Drug Delivery Systems for Glioblastoma Therapy and Vaccines

Jordan Morehouse, Mass Communication, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Adam Saffer, Dissertation: The Networked Devotional-Promotional Engagement Model: Examining Congregant Engagement and Religious Public Relations

Arundati Nagendra, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor David Penn, Dissertation: Why is Schizophrenia Worse for Black Americans? Understanding Pathways to Real-World Impairment

Seema Nandi, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Ashley Brown, Dissertation: Synthetic Platelet-like Particles for the Enhancement of Wound Healing Outcomes

Zach Nasipak, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Charles Evans, Dissertation: Numerical and analytical models of self-force effects in Kerr extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

Virginia Carter Olmsted Mcgraw, History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Donald Raleigh, Dissertation: Soviet by Design: Fashion, Consumption, and International Competition During Late Socialism, 1948-1982

Sheila Vipul Patel, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Bruce Fried, Dissertation: Maternal and neonatal service spread in Ethiopia: An analysis of team dynamics in a quality improvement implementation strategy

Kimberly Zoe Pentel, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Donald Baucom, Dissertation: Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy for Same-Sex Female Couples: A Pilot Study

Steven J Pfeiffer, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian Pietrosimone, Dissertation: Evaluating Cartilage Health Using Multiple Imaging Modalities in Individuals With Knee Osteoarthritis

John William Phillips, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Ram Neta, Dissertation: Belief and Cognitive Agency: Making Room for Epistemic Normativity

Amy Elizabeth Pomeroy, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Timothy Elston and Henrik Dohlman, Dissertation: Mechanistic Models of Interactions Within and Between MAPK Pathways

Jennifer Potter-Birriel, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor William Marzluff, Dissertation: A Region of Drosophila SLBP Distinct From the Histone Pre-mRNA Binding and Processing Domains is Essential for Deposition of Histone mRNA in the Oocyte

Max Louis Reason, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Ted Mouw, Dissertation: Migration, Integration, and Adolescence in Contemporary Germany

Jennifer Richmond, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Kurt Ribisl, Dissertation: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Services Use: Exploring the Role of Racial Equity Training for Nurse Navigators and Improved Measurement of Trust in Health Care

Judith Noemi Rivera, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Sha Chang and David Lalush, Dissertation: Exploring Potential Therapeutic Benefits of Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy

Kaitlyn Rose Rouillard, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Mark Schoenfisch, Dissertation: Characterization of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Susceptibility to Nitric Oxide and Antibiotics Under Cystic Fibrosis-Relevant Conditions

Katherine Elizabeth Sacks, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Daniel Gitterman, Dissertation: The Causes and Effects of Variations in Welfare Generosity: Examining the Social Safety Net

Stephanie Salcedo, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Eric Youngstrom, Dissertation: Differences in Depressive Symptom Presentation between Latino and non-Latino White Youths on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D): A Moderated Nonlinear Factor Analysis (MNLFA) Approach

Eric Travis Sampson, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Dissertation: Intellectual Courage in the Face of Intractable Normative Disagreement

Matthew Joseph Satusky, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Dorothy Erie, Dissertation: On and Off: Fluorescently Tagging DNA and Counting Protein Stoichiometry in the Cell

Matthew D Schueller, Classics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Jennifer Gates-Foster and Hérica Valladares, Dissertation: Public Entertainment Venues as Urban Network Actors in Roman Macedonia and Thrace

Michael Schultz, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Eric Hodges, Dissertation: Mindfulness, Interoception, and Stress in Type 1 Diabetes Self-Management Among Late Adolescents and Early Adults

Michael A Schultz, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Arne Kalleberg, Dissertation: Moving Up From the Bottom: Changing Institutions and the Mobility of Low-Wage Workers

Megan Elizabeth Schutzbach-Horton, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor David Nicewicz, Dissertation: Development of Photoredox Catalysis-Mediated Functionalization Methods for Arenes and Olefins

Andrew Brian Seidenberg, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Kurt Ribisl, Dissertation: Consumer Responses to Modified Risk Tobacco Product Claims

Shahar Shmuel, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Lund, Dissertation: Anticholinergic and Sedative Drug Load in Older Adults

Ruth K. Smith, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Andrea Hussong, Dissertation: Assessing the Role of Emotion Regulation in the Association Between Negative Urgency and College Drinking

Peter Sotory, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Michael Daniele and Alper Bozkurt, Dissertation: Biomimetic Nanostructures to Enhance Light Transmission Efficiency in Biomedical Optoelectronic Devices

Steven Spivack, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Jonathan Oberlander, Dissertation: The Impact of Medicare Readmission Reduction Policies on Patients, Primary Care Practices, and Hospitals

Leigh Ann Spivey, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Mitchell Prinstein, Dissertation: Diversity among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: Implications for Assessment, Health Risks, and Intervention

Daniel Sprague , Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Joseph Calabrese, Dissertation: Identification of Functional Domains in Non-Coding RNA

Samantha S Stadmiller, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Gary Pielak, Dissertation: 19F NMR of SH3 Folding and Peptide Binding in Cells and Cell-Like Environments

Melissa Ann Stockton, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Brian Pence, Dissertation: Depression Screening and Treatment for People Initiating HIV Care in Malawi

Kirsten Studer, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Howard Weinberg, Dissertation: Characterization and Formation of Iodinated Disinfection Byproducts from Organic and Inorganic Precursors

Christoph Stutts, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Bolick, Dissertation: The Place of White Supremacy and Racism in High School U.S. History Classrooms: A Comparative Case Study

Hamsa Lakshmi Subramaniam, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Audrey Pettifor, Dissertation: The Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on Preterm Birth in a U.S. Population of Women Living With HIV: A Reexamination of Analysis Methods

Kimiko McGirr, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Timothy Elston and Henrik Dohlman, Dissertation: Identifying signaling pathway architectures using model-driven experimental design

Aaron Daniel Taggart, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor James Cahoon, Dissertation: Investigating the Role of Surface Trap States on Metal Oxide Photocathodes for Solar Energy Applications

Min Tang, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Gillian Russell and Laurie Paul, Dissertation: Learning a New Language as a Transformative Experience

Logan Tatham, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor David Rose, Dissertation: On the Quantum Type C Spider

Alberta Tran, Nursing, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Cheryl Jones, Dissertation: Critical Care Registered Nurse Transitions: A Life Course Perspective

Courtney Vaughn, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Aziz Sancar, Dissertation: Exploring the Role of DNA Damage, Nucleotide Excision Repair, and Circadian Rhythm on Cellular Response to Platinum-Based Drugs

Alison Joan Velchik, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Rune Simeonsson, Dissertation: Project Grow: A Reading Fluency Intervention

Emily Marie Wager, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor James Stimson, Dissertation: People Like Us? American Preferences for Bigger Government in the Age of Inequality

Peiyao Wang, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Yufeng Liu and Dinggang Shen, Dissertation: Flexible Supervised Learning for Heterogeneous Data

Yiqing Wang, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Penny Gordon-Larsen, Dissertation: The Role of Gut Microbiome and Host Metabolome in Diet and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Tessa Bullington Warren, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Ennio Rao, Dissertation: Textual Healing: Gender, Genre, and Disease at the Sixteenth-Century Italian Court

Panit Wattanakoon, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Toan Phan and Gary Biglaiser, Dissertation: Essays on Banking Competition and the Real Economy

Daniela Weiner, History, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professors Konrad Jarausch and Karen Auerbach, Dissertation: Teaching a Dark Chapter: Representations of the Holocaust and the Second World War in East German, West German, and Italian History Textbooks, 1943-2000

Olivia Frances Williams, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Andrew Moran, Dissertation: Elucidation of Light-Harvesting Dynamics in Layered Perovskites With Transient Absorption Spectroscopies

Adane Fekadu Wogu, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Jianwen Cai, Dissertation: Statistical Methods for Competing Risks in Case-Cohort Studies

Josh Wooten, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Juan Song, Dissertation: Neuropeptides Modulate Local Astrocytes to Regulate Adult Hippocampal Neural Stem Cells and Neurogenesis

Ling Xiao, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Hugh O'Neill, Dissertation: Search and Innovation: How Firms Distribute Learning and Patterns of Search

Nuo Xu, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Jonathan Serody, Dissertation: Optimizing and Understanding Checkpoint Inhibition Therapy and Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapy Against Breast Cancer

Jennifer Youngshin Yi, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Stacey Daughters, Dissertation: Attenuation of Neural Response during Substance-Free Activity and Monetary Reward Processing in Individuals with Opiate Use Disorder and Moderate Depressive Symptoms

Ashlyn Young, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Michael Daniele, Dissertation: Development and In-line Monitoring of a Blood-Brain Barrier Microphysiological System

Jessica Carolyn Young, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Michele Jonsson Funk, Dissertation: Evaluating Strategies to Reduce Prolonged Opioid Use Following Surgery: An Observational Study Among Older Adults in the United States Using Insurance Claims Data and Electronic Health Records

Chloe Rebecca Zachary, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Deborah Jones, Dissertation: Dimensions of Oppositionality in Young Children: Associations to Parenting Practices and Impact on Treatment Outcomes

Joseph Michael Zanghi, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Simon Meek, Dissertation: Enantioselective Copper-Catalyzed C–C Bond Forming Reactions Utilizing α-Borylcopper Nucleophiles

Bingxin Zhao, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, August 2020, Advisors: Professor Hongtu Zhu, Dissertation: Topics in high-dimensional asymptotics of ridge-type estimators

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