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December 2019 Graduates

Tania Cony Aburto Soto, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Barry Popkin, Dissertation: Dietary changes associated with hypertension diagnosis in Chinese adults

Sarah Ahn, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Gianpietro Dotti, Dissertation: Strategies to Address Tumor Intrinsic Mechanisms of Resistance to Adoptive Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapy

Lisa Marie Albert, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Audrey Pettifor, Dissertation: Associations of Father Absence and Orphan Status With First Pregnancy and HIV Infection: Longitudinal Evidence From School-Going Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Rural South Africa

Philip Ammirato, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Alexander Berg and Marc Niethammer, Dissertation: Recognizing Fine-Grained Object Instances for Robotics Applications

Astor Ankney, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Xian Chen, Dissertation: Novel Quantitative Proteomic Approaches to Reveal New Driving Mechanisms and Biomarkers of Tumorigenesis

Katelyn Arnold, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jian Liu, Dissertation: Application of heparin and heparan sulfate oligosaccharides prepared by chemoenzymatic synthesis

Megan Elizabeth Arrington, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Sharon Campbell and Richard Loeser, Dissertation: Modes of regulation of RAC GTPases

Jill Marie Arriola, Marine Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jaye Cable, Dissertation: Variability of Carbon Burial and Storage in Salt Marsh Sediments Under Influences of Human and Natural Disturbances Across Spatiotemporal Scales

Akash Abhijit Bapat, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jan-Michael Frahm, Dissertation: Towards High-Frequency Tracking and Fast Edge-Aware Optimization

Anne Elizabeth Beall, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Ralph Baric, Dissertation: Models of Coronavirus Pathogenesis and Immunity

Alzora L Benjamin, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jia-Rong Wu, Dissertation: Keeping the “P’s”: Instituting Risk Assessment in New-Onset Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation Prevention

Erica Bjornstad, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Emily Gower, Dissertation: Evaluating Epidemiological Risk Factors for Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury Globally: From the United States and a Low-Resourced Setting in Malawi

Jon Webb Bogart, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Albert Bowers, Dissertation: A Chemoenzymatic Platform for the Discovery of Thiopeptide Therapeutics

Matthew David Brady, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Gerald Meyer, Dissertation: Fundamental Insights into Dye-Sensitized Interfaces for Solar Fuels Production

Eric Michael Burke, History, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Joseph Glatthaar, Dissertation: Soldiers from Experience: The Emergence of Tactical Culture in Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-63

Abigail Michelle Carroll, Occupational Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Nancy Bagatell, Dissertation: Caregiving Teams and Toddlers Study: Two Single-Case Changing Criterion Designs to Examine the Effects of a Two Parent-Mediated Intervention for Families With Toddlers at Risk or With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Shengjie Chai, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Benjamin Vincent and Jan Prins, Dissertation: Bioinformatics Methods for Prediction of Splice Variant Neoantigens

David Shi-Ann Chang, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Pam Silberman, Dissertation: Effects of Collaboration Between Hospitals and Health Departments Around Assessments on Population Health Activities

Christina Anna Chauvenet, Maternal and Child Health, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Catherine Sullivan, Dissertation: Utilization and Benefits of the Farm to School Program in the United States

Elizabeth Marie Corteselli, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor James Samet, Dissertation: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids as Determinants of Redox Changes and Inflammatory Responses in Human Airway Epithelial Cells Exposed to Ozone

Philip Coryell, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jeremy Purvis, Dissertation: Expression and Localization Dynamics of the Aging Biomarker p16INK4a in Response to Cellular Stress, Autophagy, and Epigenetic Modulators

Anita Marie Caywood Crescenzi, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Rob Capra, Dissertation: Adaptation in Information Search and Decision-Making under Time Pressure

Wes Crouse, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Samir Kelada and William Valdar, Dissertation: Bayesian Inference of the Allelic Series in Multiparental Populations with Applications

Danielle Louise Cunningham Glasspoole, Dentistry (Oral and Craniofacial Biomedicine), Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque, Dissertation: The Role of Periodontal Bacteria and Epigenetic Modifications on Human Papillomavirus Pathogenicity

John Curiel, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jason Roberts, Dissertation: Tripartite Redistricting Cartels and Overlapping Ambition

Irem Dagliyan, Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Channing Der and Lee Graves, Dissertation: Effective Combinatorial Inhibition of Kras Downstream Signaling in Kras Mutant Cancers

Maia Christina Dedrick, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Patricia McAnany and C. Margaret Scarry, Dissertation: The Archaeology of Colonial Maya Livelihoods at Tahcabo, Yucatán, Mexico

Rachel Ann Dee, Pathology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Joan Taylor, Dissertation: Characterizing the Molecular Mechanisms of Blood Pressure Regulation by GRAF3, a Smooth Muscle-Specific Rho-GAP

Vic Deekens, Education, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jeffrey Greene, Dissertation: Fully Apt Epistemic Performance, Epistemic Cognition, and Transfer Across Academic Disciplines: PhDs, Pedagogy, and Processes

Ghazal Dezfuli, Public Policy, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Patricia Sullivan, Dissertation: Political Regimes, Rebel Support, and Incentives for Peace Negotiations

Li Dong, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Fei Zou and Xiaojing Zheng, Dissertation: Statistical Deconvolution Methods for Transcriptomics Data

Oleksandra Dorosheva, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Rihe Liu, Dissertation: Blocking Constituitively Active G⍺q in Uveal Melanoma

Patrick Doyle, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Yue Wu and Alfred Kleinhammes, Dissertation: Impedance Study of Wet Granular Systems

Jessica Grace Drexel, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors John McGowan and Eric Downing, Dissertation: Reconfiguring Self, World, and Word: Modernist Poetic Epiphanies in Eliot, Williams, Levertov, and Revell

Dan Druffel, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Scott Warren, Dissertation: Experimental and Computational Exploration of Layered Electrides: As 2D Materials and as Electrodes for Electron-Anion Exchange

Travis W Duncan, Educational Leadership, Doctor of Education, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Eric Houck, Dissertation: The Influence of Principal Leadership on Literate Practices in a Middle School: An Investigation and Framework into a Principal's Leadership in Middle School Literacy Instruction

Maria J. Duran, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor María DeGuzmán, Dissertation: Chicana Perspectives on the Politics of Public Mourning

Kara Rose Eichelberger, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor William Goldman, Dissertation: Yersinia Pestis-Host Cell Interactions During Distinct Inflammatory Phases of Primary Pneumonic Plague

Jody Ann Feld, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Prudence Plummer, Dissertation: Use of attention demanding tasks to estimate fall risk and walking activity in subacute stroke

Kirstin Frescoln, City and Regional Planning, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Mai Nguyen, Dissertation: Making Public Housing Work – Examining the Implementation and Impacts of a Work Requirement in Public Housing

Alessandra B Garcia Reeves, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Morris Weinberger, Dissertation: Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Implications for Resistance Rates and Quality of Care in Hospitals

Marie Garlock, Communication Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Della Pollock, Dissertation: Performing Cancer Cultures: Activating Healthcare and Environmental Justice

Margaret Waruguru Gichane, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Kathryn Moracco and Nora Rosenberg, Dissertation: An Examination of the Characteristics and Predictors of Transactional Sex Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Malawi

Weida Gong, Marine Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Adrian Marchetti, Dissertation: Characterization of the taxonomic composition and physiological status of natural eukaryotic phytoplankton communities

Kasia Grzebyk, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Orlando Coronell, Dissertation: Modifying Interfacial Polymerization Reaction Conditions in High-Pressure Membrane Fabrication for Enhanced Organic Micropollutant Removal

Emiliano Guaraldo, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Serenella Iovino, Dissertation: Estrazione. The Anthropocene and the Emergence of Italian Petro-imagination

Ray Haggerty, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jeremy Purvis, Dissertation: Motif Inference From Single Cell Dynamics

Talia Lee Hatkevich, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jeff Sekelsky, Dissertation: Meiotic Prophase I: From Homolog Pairing to Crossover Regulation

Jessica Hayden, School Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Rune Simeonsson, Dissertation: Adolescent Perceptions of Parent’s Failure and Intelligence Mindsets

Kathryn Margaret Headley, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Nathaniel Hathaway, Dissertation: Chemical Screen for Epigenetic Barriers to Single Allele Activation of Oct4

Lauren Hill, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Saif Khairat, Dissertation: Determining Safe Output Thresholds for Chest Tube Removal Following Lung Resection

Chani Hodonsky, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Christy Avery, Dissertation: Shared Genetic Architecture of Red Blood Cell Traits in U.S. Populations

Sarah R. Hoffman, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Smith, Dissertation: Combined Oral Contraceptive Utilization and Uterine Fibroid Incidence and Prevalence in the Study of Environment, Lifestyle, and Fibroids (SELF)

Christopher Erik Holmquist, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor William Marzluff, Dissertation: Knock Out and Functional Analysis of Enzymes Responsible for 3’ Oligouridylation and Metabolism of Histone MRNA.

Jessica Yasmine Islam, Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jennifer Smith, Dissertation: Assessing the clinical validity and cost-effectiveness of human papillomavirus testing using self-collected specimens for cervical cancer screening in Kenya

Mohamed Hani Ismail, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Sarah Birken, Dissertation: Improving Care for Spanish-Speaking People With Diabetes in a Free Clinic Setting

Quan Jin, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Xiao Xiao, Dissertation: Impact of GDF11 and GDF11 Propeptide Gene Delivery in Skeletal Muscle

Ahsan Kamal, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Charles Kurzman, Dissertation: Saving Sindhu: Indus Enclosure and River Defense in Pakistan

Sravya Kattula, Pathology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Alisa Wolberg, Dissertation: Defining the Role of Factor XIII in Venous Thromboembolism

Ronald Kim, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Kathryn Reissner, Dissertation: Mechanism and Functional Significance of GLT-1 Downregulation by Cocaine

Ryan Kingsbury, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Orlando Coronell, Dissertation: Investigation of Selective Mass Transport in Ion Exchange Membranes for Clean Energy and Water Processes

Alan David Kuntz, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Ron Alterovitz, Dissertation: Integrating Optimization and Sampling for Robot Motion Planning with Applications in Healthcare

Yanni Lai, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Boyce Griffith, Dissertation: Multigrid Methods for the Bidomain Equations

Kelsey Nicole Lamb, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Stephen Frye, Dissertation: Design and Characterization of Chemical Tools for Polycomb and Heterochromatin Protein 1 Sub-Families of CBX Chromodomains

Daniele Lauro, History, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Morgan Pitelka and William Fletcher, Dissertation: Daniele Lauro: Meanings and Functions of Rituals in the Politics of the Tokugawa Shogunate: a Study of the 1843 Shogunal Pilgrimage to Nikkō (Nikkō shasan).

Hyunna Lee, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Sharon Campbell, Dissertation: Role of Metavinculin in Actin Reorganization and Force Transmission

Christine Lee, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Dhiren Thakker, Dissertation: Physiologically-based Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Drugs with Transporter-mediated Disposition: Prediction of Vincristine and Amoxicillin Disposition in Children

Owen Eric Leete, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Michael Kosorok, Dissertation: Precision Medicine Methods for Right Censored Data

Cristina Leos, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Susan Ennett, Dissertation: Examining the Effect of State- and Individual-Level Structural Racism on Latino Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors: An Intergroup and Intragroup Analysis

Ilana Levin, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Deborah Thorpe, Dissertation: Assessment of Reactive Balance Responses During Walking in Adults With Cerebral Palsy

Yitong Li, Cell Biology and Physiology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Keith Burridge and Claire Doerschuk, Dissertation: The Role of Endothelial MERTK During the Inflammatory Response in Lungs

Paul Little, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Wei Sun, Dissertation: Analysis of Somatic Mutation Data and Cell Type-specific eQTL Mapping

Courtney Luecking, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Dianne Ward, Dissertation: Implementation of a Child Care + Home Intervention to Improve Children’s Nutrition and Physical Activity: Assessment of Fidelity, Parent Engagement, and Enhanced Implementation

Courtney L. Lundquist, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Sandra Greene, Dissertation: What Practices and Factors Led to Botswana’s 90-90-90 Achievement and how can Lessons Learned be Adapted and Implemented in Other Sub-Saharan African Countries?

Vicki Madigan, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Aravind Asokan and Ronald Swanstrom, Dissertation: Host Factors Affecting AAV Transduction

Amanda Whittemore Martin, City and Regional Planning, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Mai Nguyen, Dissertation: Race, Place, and Resilience: Social Equity In North Carolina’s Post-Disaster Buyout Program

Alessia Martini, Romance Languages and Literatures, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Dissertation: Modern Trajectories: American Urban Space in Italian Travel Narrative of the 1920s-30s

Sara Carlson Maxwell, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Altha Cravey, Dissertation: The Agency of Wild Native Plants and Plant Materials in the Political Lives of the Tuscarora of North Carolina

James Vincent Mccann, Cell Biology and Physiology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Andrew Dudley, Dissertation: The Role of TGF-β in Vascular Heterogeneity and Tumor Angiogenesis

Evan Wesley McConnell, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Leslie Hicks, Dissertation: Development of Chemical Proteomic Methods to Quantify Cysteine Oxidation and Reactivity

Heidi M McNeill, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Saif Khairat, Dissertation: Preventing ICU Readmissions: The Implementation of a Risk Stratification Tool in the Assessment of Readiness for ICU Transfers to Medical Units

Morgan McSweeney, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Samuel Lai and Michael Jay, Dissertation: Characterization and therapeutic management of anti-PEG antibodies

Candace Mixon, Religious Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Juliane Hammer, Dissertation: Mother of Her Father: Devotion to Fatima Al-zahra in Contemporary Iran

Dean Nehama, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Barbara Savoldo, Dissertation: B7-H3-directed chimeric antigen receptor T cells for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme

Cody Neshteruk, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Dianne Ward, Dissertation: Identifying Opportunities to Improve Parent Involvement in Children’s Physical Activity

Kate Newns, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Robert Nicholas, Dissertation: Analysis of a fitness-conferring compensatory mutation in the mleN gene of antibiotic-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and development of a potent and gonococcal-selective LpxC inhibitor as a potential treatment for gonorrhea

Jennifer Karin Ocasio Adorno, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Timothy Gershon, Dissertation: Balancing growth: mechanisms underlying cerebellar development and medulloblastoma pathogenesis

Yang Ou, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor James West, Dissertation: Application of an integrated assessment model with US state-level resolution to study national and regional air pollution control and human health

Allison Pack, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Carol Golin, Dissertation: HIV Testing Among Orphaned and Separated Youth in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania: The Potential Role of Living Arrangements

Zherong Pan, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Dinesh Manocha, Dissertation: Efficient Motion Planning for Deformable Objects with High Degrees of Freedom

Eunbyung Park, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Alexander Berg, Dissertation: Learning to Adapt from Few Examples

Lilia Susana Pedraza Zamora, Nutrition, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Lindsey Taillie and Barry Popkin, Dissertation: How did Mexico’s Sugary Drinks and Junk Foods Tax Change Shopping Behaviors, Overall and Across Store Types?

Dimas Pena-Romera, Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Wayne Landsman, Dissertation: Networks of Past Syndicate Collaborations and Loan Contract Terms

BJ Lee Peterson, Nursing Practice, Doctor of Nursing Practice, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Deborah Mayer, Dissertation: Improving Lung Cancer Screening and Referral Rates of North Carolina Medicaid Enrollees

Marya Plotkin, Health Policy and Management, Doctor of Public Health, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Stephanie Wheeler, Dissertation: Doppler to Improve Fetal Heart Rate Assessment in Intrapartum Care in Tanzania: Does it Save Newborn Lives, and What Are Implications for Scale-Up?

Derick Poindexter, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Alan Weakley, Dissertation: Comprehensive systematic approaches to understanding species diversity: a case study utilizing a non-model group of sedges, Carex sect. Acrocystis (Cyperaceae)

True Price, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jan-Michael Frahm, Dissertation: Scene Reconstruction Beyond Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo

Chelsea Raulerson, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Karen Mohlke and Terrence Furey, Dissertation: Adipose Gene and Isoform Expression Effects on Cardiometabolic Traits

Meredith Ringel-Ensley, English and Comparative Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Shayne Legassie, Dissertation: Errant Latin: The Transformation of Language in Medieval Missions to the Mongol Empire

Zachary Gordon Robbins, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Leena Nylander-French, Dissertation: Biomarkers of oligomeric 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate exposure in the automotive refinishing industry

Hudson Gordon Roth, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor David Nicewicz, Dissertation: Investigations Toward the Application of Organic Photoredox Catalysis to the Synthesis of Natural Products

Mike Schotzinger, Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor John Ramsey, Dissertation: The Characterization of Single DNA Molecules in Nanofluidic Devices

Gabrielle Scronce, Human Movement Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Vicki Mercer, Dissertation: Assessment of a Community-Based Implementation of the Otago Exercise Program

Amy Sentementes, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Pamela Conover, Dissertation: The Psychology of Social Group Issue Relations

Youngee Seo, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Alexander Kabanov, Dissertation: Development Of Poly (2-oxazoline)s-based Nanoferrogels

Adam Smith, Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Neil Mulligan, Dissertation: The Effect of Increased Immersion and its Relationship with Presence on Episodic Memory Performance within Virtual Reality Environments

Stephen Andrew Stacks, Musicology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor David Garcia, Dissertation: Headed For the Brink: Freedom-singing in U.S. Culture After 1968

Alexandra Farquhar Farquhar, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Alexander Miller, Dissertation: Palladium and Nickel Catalyzed Olefin Isomerization and Polymerization

Tigist Yibeltal Tamir, Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Michael Major and Adrienne Cox, Dissertation: Identification and Characterization of Kinase Regulators in KEAP1/NRF2 Signaling

Frank David Teets, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Brian Kuhlman and Klaus Hahn, Dissertation: Function-Driven Approaches to the Design of Optogenetic Tools

Tainayah W Thomas, Health Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Carol Golin, Dissertation: Mixed Method Approach to Examine Prediabetes Screening, Follow-up Care & Guideline Implementation

Kimber Symone Thomas, American Studies, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Glenn Hinson, Dissertation: The House that Black Built: Black Women, Materiality, and Makeshifting in the Jim Crow South, 1927-1947

Yichen Tu, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Serhan Ziya and Nur Sunar, Dissertation: Queuing Systems With Strategic and Learning Customers

Bryan Velarde, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Mark Crescenzi, Dissertation: The American Military-Industrial Compensation Hypothesis

Katherine Alexis Veleta, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Timothy Gershon, Dissertation: Anti-Apoptotic BCL-XL is Required for Cerebellar Development and Medulloblastoma Progression

Sarah Catherine Vick, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Jonathan Serody, Dissertation: Immunosuppressive Mechanisms in the Tumor Microenvironment Mediating Resistance to Immunotherapy

Ian Vonwald, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Wei You, Dissertation: Initiation, Structure, Morphology, and Charge Transport in Conjugated Polymer Brushes

Jin Wang, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Danyu Lin and Donglin Zeng, Dissertation: Semiparametric Single-index Models for Optimal Treatment Regimens With Censored Outcomes

James Mitchell Watkins, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Layna Mosley, Dissertation: Essays on Foreign Aid and Governance

Sara Anna Margaretha Wehlin, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Gerald Meyer, Dissertation: Visible-Light-Driven Halide Oxidation in Organic Solvents by Cationic Transition Metal Complexes

Rob Williams, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Mark J.C. Crescenzi, Dissertation: The Geography of Secession

Ryan Williams, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Kevin McGuire, Dissertation: The Consequences of Specialization: Decision Making in U.S. Federal Specialized Courts

Jason Wong, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Blossom Damania, Dissertation: Role of Kinases in Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Pathogenesis

Garrett Wright, History, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Kathleen DuVal, Dissertation: Paawaariihusuɔ: Travel and the Central Great Plains

Qiuyu Xiao, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Michael Reiter, Dissertation: Efficient Data Protection by Noising, Masking, and Metering

Shenmeng Xu, Information and Library Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Bradley Hemminger, Dissertation: Understanding The Scholarly Communication Process Through Digital Traces: A Study of Twitter

Dillon Christopher Yost, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Yosuke Kanai, Dissertation: Electron Dynamics From First-Principles Quantum Theory: Electronic Stopping and Wannier Function Propagation

Zheqi Zhang, Statistics and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Nilay Argon and Serhan Ziya, Dissertation: Prioritization and Distribution of Casualties in Disaster Response Management

Wujuan Zhong, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Yun Li, Dissertation: Multi-SNP Mediation Intersection-Union Test

Yipin Zhou, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professor Tamara Berg, Dissertation: Learning Beyond-pixel Mappings from Internet Videos

Anqi Zhu, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy, 19-Dec, Advisors: Professors Michael Love and Joseph Ibrahim, Dissertation: Statistical Methods for Sequencing Count Data and Integrative Functional Genomics

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