Samantha Mercanti-Anthony
An Intrinsic Exploratory Case Study: Instructors’ Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Community Engagement Quality Factors with a Selected Hybrid program at a Private University
Major: Education
Chair: Deanna Hill PhD
Committee Members: Rebecca Clothey PhD and Eric Hagan PhD
Date and Time: September 16, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Executive Conference Room, One Drexel Plaza
Zexi Liu
3D Computational Archaeology and Face Synthesis using Novel Surface Modeling and Registration Techniques
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: James Shackleford PhD
Committee Members: Fernand S. Cohen PhD, Ali Shokoufandeh PhD, Matthew Stamm PhD, and Baris Taskin PhD
Date and Time: September 24, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302
Zhongchuan Zhang
3D Pedestrian Tracking and Virtual Reconstruction of Ceramic Vessels Using Geometric Color Cues
Major: Electrical and Computing Engineering
Chair: Ioannis Savidis PhD
Committee Members: David Breen PhD,Tom Chmieleweski PhD, Fernand Cohen PhD, and Nagarajan Kandasamy PhD
Date and Time: September 25, 2014 8:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302
James Worcester
Task Partitioning For Distributed Assembly
Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: M. Ani Hsieh PhD
Committee Members: Paul Oh PhD, David Breen PhD, Youngmoo Kim PhD, John Lancontora PhD, and Alan Lau PhD
Date and Time: September 30, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 162
David Kurt Grunberg
Developing a Noise-Robust Beat Learning Algorithm for Music Information Retrieval
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: John Walsh PhD
Committee Members: Youngmoo Kim PhD, Paul Oh PhD, Yon Visell PhD, and Daniel Lee PhD
Date and Time: October 08, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Curtis 162
Jeffrey Scott
Computational Modeling and Analysis of Multi-timbral Music Instrument Mixtures
Major: Electrical and Computing Engineering
Chair: Yon Visell PhD
Committee Members: Youngmoo Kim PhD, John Walsh PhD, Curille Taillandier PhD, and John Reiss PhD
Date and Time: October 14, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Center
Eric Peterson
Multiple Module Adaptive Regulation of Systems with Different Zero Structures
Major: Mechanical Engineerng and Mechanics
Chair: Harry Kwanty PhD
Committee Members: B.S. Chang PhD, Ani Hsieh PhD, Aimal Yousuff PhD, and Karen Miu PhD
Date and Time: November 04, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 302
Sayandeep Acharya
Distributed Detection and Fusion in Parallel Sensor Architectures
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Leonid Hrebien PhD
Committee Members: Moshe Kam PhD, Matthew Stamm PhD, Paul Kalata PhD, and Chris Rorres PhD
Date and Time: November 07, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 302
Christopher R. Dennison
The Electrochemical Flow Capacitor: A New Concept for Grid-Scale Energy Storage
Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: E.C. Kumbur PhD
Committee Members: Y. Cho PhD, B. Farouk PhD, N. Cernansky PhD, Y. Gogotsi PhD, and C. Nwapka PhD
Date and Time: November 10, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: Location TBD
Ana Hernandez
Latino Skin Color: The Role of Discrimination, Racial Identity, Parental Racial Socialization on Self-Esteem and Depression
Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Maureen Davey PhD
Committee Members: Eric Johnson PhD, Marlane Watson PhD, Ken Hardy PhD, Gloria Lopez PhD, and Roberta Waite PhD
Date and Time: November 11, 2014 9:00 AM
Location: Three Parkway Plaza, Room 742
Ian McAninch
Molecular Toughening of Epoxy Networks
Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Richard Carncross PhD
Committee Members: Giuseppe Palmese PhD, Cameron Abrams PhD, Christopher Li PhD, and John La Scala PhD
Date and Time: November 14, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room, Room 240, LeBow Engineering Center
Kevin PW Smith
The Neonate Ecology of the Northern Pinesnack (Pituophis melanoleucus)
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: James R. Spotila PhD
Committee Members: Waiter F. Bien PhD, Michael P. O'Connor PhD, M. Rockwell Parker PhD, and Harold W. Avery PhD
Date and Time: November 14, 2014 2:30 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room 103
Carlos Orego
Biology and Management of Olive Ridley Turtles (lepidochelys olivacea) at Ostional National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Harold Avery PhD
Committee Members: Susan Kilham PhD, James Spotila PhD, Kenneth Lacovara PhD, Pamela Plotkia PhD, and Rolden Walverdi PhD
Date and Time: November 18, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Room 103
Denise M. Begnoche
Prediction of Walking in Young Children with Cerebral Pasly
Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Lisa A. Chiarello PhD
Committee Members: Robert J. Palisano PhD, Margo N. Orlin PhD, Edward Gracely PhD, and Sarah Westcott McCoy PhD
Date and Time: November 19, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: TBD
Noga Neeman
Physiological and Abiotic Constraints on the Behavior of Ectotherms
Major: Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Chair: James Spotila PhD
Committee Members: Michael O'Connor PhD, Gail Hearn PhD, Frank Paladino PhD, and Shaya Honarvar PhD
Date and Time: November 20, 2014 3:30 PM
Location: PISB 104
Neena Goerge
The Burden of Infection-Associated and Common Cancers Among South Asian and Other Asian Subpopulations in the United States 1999-2009
Major: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Chair: Allison Evans PhD
Committee Members: Seth Welles PhD, Longjian Liu PhD, Lucy Robinson PhD, and AnneClarie DeRoos PhD
Date and Time: November 21, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Nesbit Hall 5th Floor Conference Room
Mohamed Shamma
On Buckling, Kink Boundaries and Kinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May PhD
Committee Members: Michael Barsoum PhD, Antonios Kontsos PhD, Christopher Li PhD, Elad Caspi PhD, and Roger Doherty PhD
Date and Time: November 25, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room, CAT
Iftkhar Ahmad
Mathematical Models to Describe Antioxidant Depletion in Polyethylene/clay Nano-composites
Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Giuseppe Palmese PhD
Committee Members: Richard Cairncross PhD, Nily Dan PhD, Grace Hsuan PhD, and Christopher Li PhD
Date and Time: December 01, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: CAT 267
Thomas Park
openHTML: Assessing Barriers and Designing Tools for Learning Web Development
Major: Information Studies
Chair: Andrea Forte PhD
Committee Members: Jennifer Rode PhD, Greg Hislop PhD, Brian Dorn PhD, and Mark Guzdial PhD
Date and Time: December 02, 2014 3:30 PM
Location: Rush Building
Zelimir Husnic
Micro Coaxial Helicopter Controller Design
Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Harry Kwanty PhD
Committee Members: Bor-Chin Chang PhD, Ajmal Yousuff PhD, Jack Zhou PhD, and Humayun Kabir PhD
Date and Time: December 03, 2014 2:30 PM
Location: TBD
Michael Todd Felts
The Development of an Entreprenuerial Orientation: A Case Study of Net Generation Students with Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations
Major: Education
Chair: Kethy D. Geller PhD
Committee Members: Edward Bureau PhD and Alan Stavitsky PhD
Date and Time: December 05, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Sacramento
Arben Kojtari
Structure-Based Design and Synthesis of D-amino Alkyl Phosphonate Esters for Prostate-Specific Antigen Inhibition
Major: Chemistry
Chair: Peter Wade PhD
Committee Members: Lynn Penn PhD, Schwitzer-Stenner PhD, Joe Foley PhD, Marvin Schulte PhD, and Jun Xi PhD
Date and Time: December 05, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109
Xin Yang
Coalescence and Particle Self-assembly of Inkjet Printed Colloidal Drops
Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Ying Sun PhD
Committee Members: Adam Fontecchio PhD, Christopher Li PhD, Matthew McCarthy PhD, and Hongseok (Moses) Noh PhD
Date and Time: December 05, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Randell Hall, Room 326 (3rd Floor)
Wenda Wang
Polymer Crystallization at Curved Liquid/Liquid Interface
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Dr. Caroline Schauer
Committee Members: Dr. Vibha Kalra, Dr. Nily Dan, Dr. Christopher Li, Dr. Steven May, and Dr. Shu Yang
Date and Time: December 11, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302
Alex Fridman
Learning of Identity from Behavioral Biometrics for Active Authentication on Desktop Computers and Mobile Devices
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Kapil Dandekar PhD
Committee Members: Steceb Weber PhD, Moshe Kam PhD, Leonid Hrebien PhD, and Rachel Greenstadt PhD
Date and Time: December 12, 2014 9:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 302
James Throckmorton
Ionic Liquid-Modified Thermosets and Their Nanocomposites: Dispersion, Exfoliation, Cure, and Degradation
Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chair: Richard Cairncross PhD
Committee Members: Giuseppe Palmese PhD, Cameron Abrams PhD, Yury Gogotsi PhD, and Christopher Li PhD
Date and Time: December 15, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room
Cole Smith
Correlation of Structure and Properties in Perovskite Oxide Thin Films
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Jonathan Spanier PhD
Committee Members: James Rondinelli PhD, Xiao Xing PhD, Goran Karapetrov PhD, and Steven May PhD
Date and Time: December 15, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302
Valerie A. Delleville
Investigating Factors that Affect New Student Retention Rates in Fully Online Programs at a Private University in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Major: Education
Chair: Allen Grant PhD
Committee Members: Bruce Levine PhD and Ken Hartman PhD
Date and Time: December 16, 2014 9:00 AM
Location: One Drexel Plaza
Ryan Measel
Wireless Communications in Reverrent Environments
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Timothy Kurzweg PhD
Committee Members: Leon Hrebien PhD, Thomas Chmielewki PhD, Moshe Kam PhD, and Leonardo Urbano PhD
Date and Time: January 06, 2015 9:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302
Feiyu Xiong
Distance Measures in Bioinformatics
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Paul Kalata PhD
Committee Members: Moshe Kam PhD, Leonic Hrebien PhD, Ahmet Sacan PhD, Li Ban PhD, and Yanjun Qi PhD
Date and Time: January 12, 2015 8:30 AM
Location: ECE Conference Room, Bossone 302
Alina Freire-Fierro
Systematics of Monnina (Polygalaceae)
Major: Environment Sciences
Chair: James Spotila PhD
Committee Members: Walter Bien PhD, Susan Kilham PhD, Jacob Russell PhD, Alfred Schuyler PhD, and Laurence Dorr PhD
Date and Time: January 13, 2015 2:30 PM
Location: PISB Conference Room 103
Travis Cunningham
A Phenomenological Study of the Resiliency of Special Education Teachers
Major: Education
Chair: Kathy D. Geller PhD
Committee Members: W. Edward Bureau PhD and Fred Balcom PhD
Date and Time: January 22, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Sacramento
Pouya Dianat
A Novel Optoelectronic Device Based on Two-Dimensional Correlated Fermions
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Baris Taskin
Committee Members: Dr. Bahram Nabet, Dr. Michel Barsoum, Dr. Mark Hempstead, Dr. Mark Currie, and Dr. Arye Rosen
Date and Time: February 12, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room, Curtis 162
Donald J. Bucci, Jr.
Assessing Performance of Data Fusion Algorithms Using Human Response Models
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Matthew Stamm PhD
Committee Members: Leonid Hrebien PhD, Moshe Kam PhD, Spiros Mancoridis PhD, Tom Chmielewski PhD, and Pramod Abichandani
Date and Time: February 13, 2015 4:00 PM
Location: Bossone Conference Room 302
Ronaela Lynne Ruvalcaba
The Evolution of a Partnership: A Phenomenological Examination of the Co-Teaching Relationship
Major: Education
Chair: Dr. W. Edward Bureau
Committee Members: Dr. Lori Severino and Dr. Mohammad I. Warrad
Date and Time: February 18, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Sacramento
Stacy McAfee
Single, Head of Household, Low-Income Women Pursuing a Higher Education Degree or Certificate: A Narrative Study
Major: Education
Chair: Dr. Kathy D. Geller
Committee Members: Dr. W. Edward Bureau and Dr. Pam Walker
Date and Time: February 18, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: Sacramento
Jeff Frank Weston
The Greatest Generation II: A Narrative Study of Veterans in Higher Education
Major: Education
Chair: Dr. Salvatore Falleta
Committee Members: Dr. William Bureau and Dr. Wendy Combs
Date and Time: February 19, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Sacramento
Soodabeh Sarafrazi
Economic and Financial Risks in Different Asset Classes and Different Regions
Major: Economics
Chair: Dr. Shawkat Hammoudeh
Committee Members: Dr. Christopher Laincz, Dr. Konstantinos Sefes, Dr. Mehmet Balcilar, and Dr. Fredj Jawadi
Date and Time: February 23, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room 722
George Dimanson Sworo
Pattern Diversity Characterization of Reconfigurable Antenna Arrays for Next Generation Wireless Systems
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Steven Weber
Committee Members: Dr. Kapil Dandekar, Dr. Mark Hempstead, Dr. Moshe Kam, and Dr. Richard Primerano
Date and Time: February 26, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 302
Diana S Kusunoki
Designing Information Displays to Support Awareness in Ad Hoc, Interdisciplinary Emergency Medical Teamwork
Major: Information Studies
Chair: Dr. Aleksandra Sarcevic
Committee Members: Dr. Andrea Forte, Dr. Michael Muller, Dr. Delia Neuman, and Dr. Christopher Yang
Date and Time: February 27, 2015 10:30 AM
Location: Rush Building, Room 014
Ashley Witt
An Investigation of Positive and Negative Affect Before, During, and After Binge Episodes in Bulimia Nervosa
Major: Psychology
Chair: Dr. Michael Lowe
Committee Members: Dr. Meghan Butryn, Dr. David DeMatteo, Dr. J. Graham Thomas, and Dr. Matthew Nock
Date and Time: March 02, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 330
Siddharth Nilakantan
Instrumenting and Analyzing Platform-Independent Communication in Software Applications
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Dr. Baris Taskin
Committee Members: Dr. Jeremy Johnson, Dr. Timothy Kurzweg, Dr. Mark Hempstead, and Dr. Joseph Devietti
Date and Time: March 03, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: TBD
Ryan Rebozo
The Influence of Disturbance on the Demography of the Rare Pine Barren Gentian (Gentiana autumnalis) in New Jersey
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Dr. Susan Kilham
Committee Members: Dr. Walter Bien, Dr. Jim Spotila, Dr. Tatyana Liushultz, Dr. John Dighton, Dr. Lena Struwe, and Dr. Hal Avery
Date and Time: March 03, 2015 2:30 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 111
Zenghui Liu
MDSA Tone and Audit Pricing
Major: Accounting
Chair: Dr. Hsihui Chang
Committee Members: Dr. Thomas Chiang, Dr. Anthony Curatola, Dr. Hiu Cam Choy, and Dr. Johnny Lee
Date and Time: March 04, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room 939
Nikhil Gulati
Online Learning of Exploiting Diversity in Adaptive Wireless Systems
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Mark Hempstead
Committee Members: Dr. Kapil Dandekar, Dr. Moshe Kam, Dr. John M. Walsh, and Dr. Rachel Greenstadt
Date and Time: March 09, 2015 8:00 AM
Location: ECE Room 302
Jonathan L. Cass
What is the "Western Pattern?" Refining Factor-Derived Dietary Petterns from the NHANES Food Frequenxy Questionnare Using 24 Hour Dietary Recall Data
Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Dr. Ann Klassen
Committee Members: Dr. Ed Gracely, Dr. Longjian Liu, Dr. Totl Villanueva, and Dr. Stella Volpe
Date and Time: March 10, 2015 12:00 PM
Location: 4th Floor Conference Room, Nesbitt Hall
Donna Radl
The Effects of Self-Book Art Therapy on Emotional Distress in Female Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Major: Creative Arts Therapy
Chair: Dr. Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Dr. Nancy Gerber, Dr. Lydia Komarnicky, Dr. Tom Hardie, and Dr. Mark Moore
Date and Time: March 11, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway, Room 701, Center City
Shuyang Chen
AMPK-HOACS Pathway Facilities Nuclear Accumulation of HIF-12 by Deacetylating Hsp70 in Cytosol
Major: Biology
Chair: Felice Elefant PhD
Committee Members: Aleister Saunders PhD, Joseph Bentz PhD, Mauricio Reginato PhD, and Nianli Sang PhD
Date and Time: March 12, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: PISB 103
Dane Ward
A Novel Approach to Estimating Population Density, Dispersal, and the Barriers to movement in the Northern Pine Snake, Pituophis melanolecus, in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Dr. Susan Kilham
Committee Members: Dr. Walter Bien, Dr. James Spotila, Dr. Daniel Duran, Dr. Harold Avery, and Dr. Emile DeVito
Date and Time: March 13, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: PISB 112
Mi Zhang
Social Media Analytics of Smoking Cessation Intervention: User Behavior Analysis, Classifiation, and Prediction
Major: Information Studies
Chair: Dr. Christopher C. Yang
Committee Members: D. Weimao Ke, Dr. Erija Yan, Dr. Jiexun Li, and Dr. Kayo Fujimoto
Date and Time: March 16, 2015 3:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 305
Somayeh Youssefi
Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosols Due to Terpenoids Ozonolysis Ventilated Settings
Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Dr. Michael Waring
Committee Members: Dr. Patrick Gurian, Dr. Sabrina Spatari, Dr. Peter De Carlo, and Dr. Raymond Wells
Date and Time: March 17, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: TBD
Voltaire Villanueva
A Study of Latino Student Persistence in Emerging Adulthood: A Grounded Theory
Major: Education
Chair: Dr. Jose Luis Chavez
Committee Members: Dr. W. Edward Bureau and Dr. Elaine Kuo
Date and Time: March 20, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: DUS
Patrick McLaughlin
Amphibian Ecology and Conservation on Bioke Island, Equitorial Guinea
Major: Biology
Chair: Dr. Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Dr. Gail Hearn, Dr. Jacob Russell, Dr. David Blackburn, and Dr. Shaya Honarvar
Date and Time: March 20, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: PISB, Room 103
Chari Cohen
Chronic HBV Infection and Community-Based Services for High-Risk Asians and Pacific Islanders
Major: Public Health
Chair: Dr. Randall Sell
Committee Members: Dr. Alison Evans, Dr. Raymond Lum, Dr. Amy Jessop, and Dr. Thomas London
Date and Time: April 06, 2015 9:30 AM
Location: 4th Floor Conference Room, Nebitt Hall
Abigail Dominy
Underwater Visual Ecology of the Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin)
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Susan Kilham PhD
Committee Members: James Spotila PhD, Harold Avery PhD, PhD Water Bren, Oanid Marenda PhD, and Ellis Loew PhD
Date and Time: April 09, 2015 3:30 PM
Location: PISB 104
Janet Riggs
Is There a Difference in Weight Over Time in Heart Failure Patients Based on Cognitive Function?
Major: Nursing
Chair: Dr. Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili
Committee Members: Dr. Elizabeth Gonzalez and Dr. Barbara Riegel
Date and Time: April 14, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: Bellet Building, Room TBA
Yang Gao
Femtoliter and Single Cell Probes
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Timothy Kurzweg
Committee Members: Dr. Gary Gennady, Dr. Adam Fontecchio, Dr. Yury Gogotsi and Dr. Zulfiya Orynbayeva
Date and Time: April 14, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: ECE Conference, Room 302
Tracy Petrillo
The New Era of Leadership in Nonprofits: A Value Proposition Study for the Certification of Association Professionals
Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Dr. Kathy D. Geller
Committee Members: Dr. Rod Githens and Dr. Jo Linder-Crow
Date and Time: April 16, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Sacramento Campus, TBA
Mamta Shah
Preservice Teacher Education in Game-Based Learning: Cultivating Knowledge and Skills for Integrating Digital Games in K-12 Classrooms
Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technology
Chair: Dr. Aroutis Foster
Committee Members: Dr. Elizabeth Haslam, Dr. Dominic Gullo, Dr. Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro and Dr. Diane Jass Ketelhut
Date and Time: April 20, 2015 12:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza, Room 141
Ariel Stolerman
Authroship Verification
Major: Computer Science
Chair: Dr. Rachel Greenstadt
Committee Members: Dr. Ali Shokoufandeh, Dr. Dario Slavucci, Dr. Santiago Ontanon Villar, and Dr. Patrick Juola
Date and Time: April 20, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: University Crossings
Marina Gershkovich
A Randomized Trial of an Internet-Based Self-Help Intervention for Social Anxiety Disorder with and without Therapist Support
Major: Psychology
Chair: Dr. James Herbert
Committee Members: Dr. Evan Forman, Dr. Michelle Rogers, Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz and Dr. Erica Yuen
Date and Time: April 21, 2015 3:30 AM
Location: TBA
Mikhail Sher
Inventory Management and Supply Chain Coordination Mechanisms
Major: Business Administration
Chair: Dr. Seung-Lee Kim
Committee Members: Dr. Avijit Banerjee, Dr. Thomas McWilliams, Dr. Bruce McCullough and Dr. Erik Benrud
Date and Time: April 22, 2015 3:30 PM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room 722
Jingmin Chen
Numerical Methods and Uniqueness for the Canham-Helfrich Model of Biomembranes
Major: Mathematics
Chair: Dr. Thomas Yu
Committee Members: Dr. Rob Kusner, Dr. Ronald Perline, Dr. Gideon Simpson and Dr. Pavel Grinfeld
Date and Time: April 27, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: Korman, Room 245
Thomas Zylkin
Essays on International Trade and International Political Economy
Major: Economics
Chair: Dr. Constatinos Syropoulos
Committee Members: Dr. Yoto Yotov, Vibhas Madan, Dr. Irina Murtazashvili, and Dr. Eric Bond
Date and Time: April 27, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room TBD
Aliki Panagopoulou
Sea Turtles and Small-Scale Fisheries: Designing Conservation Policies for a Marine Area on Crete, Greece
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Dr. Susan S. Kilham
Committee Members: Dr. James R. Spotila, Dr. Stephen J. Morreale, Dr. Frank V. Paladino, Dr. Zoe A. Meleus and Dr. Walter F. Bien
Date and Time: April 27, 2015 3:00 PM
Location: PISB, Room 112
Yi Hu
Assessing the Diversity, Variability, and Nutritional Roles of Symbiotic Bacteria in Ant Species
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Dr. Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Dr. Susan Kilham, Dr. Sean O'Donnell, Dr. Shivanthi Anandan, Dr. Jacob Russell, and Dr. Corrie Moreau
Date and Time: April 30, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: PISB 103
Josa Hanzlik
Retrieval Analysis and Finite Element Modeling of Porous-coated Implants
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Kara Spiller
Committee Members: Dr. Steven Kurtz, Dr. Judd Day, Dr. Adrian Shieh and Dr. Sri Balasubramanian
Date and Time: May 04, 2015 3:00 PM
Location: TBA
Kristy Jost
Textile Supercapacitors
Major: Materials Engineering
Chair: Dr. Caroline Schauer
Committee Members: Dr. Yury Gogotsi, Dr. Genevieve Dion, Dr. Steven May and Dr. Adam Fontecchio
Date and Time: May 05, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 302
Kelsey B. Hatzell
Conducting (suspension) Flowable Electrodes for Water and Energy Technologies
Major: Material Science and Engineering
Chair: Dr. Caroline Schauer
Committee Members: Dr. Michel Barsoum, Dr. Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Dr. Yury Gogotsi and Dr. E. Caglan Kumbur
Date and Time: May 06, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 302
Anton Slutsky
Toward Effective Knowledge Discovery in Social Media Streams
Major: Information Studies
Chair: Dr. Xiaohua Hu
Committee Members: Dr. An Yuan, Dr. Weimao Ke, Dr. Erjia Yan and Dr. Li Sheng
Date and Time: May 06, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: TBA
Patrick McLaughlin
Amphibian Eology and Conservation on Broko Isaldna, Equitorial Guinea
Major: Biology
Chair: Dr. Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Dr. Gail Hearn, Dr. Jacob Russell, Dr. David Blackburn, and Dr. Shaya Honavar
Date and Time: May 06, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: PISB 103
Eric A. Wargo
A Microstructure-Driven Approach to Characterize Transport Phenomena in Porous Media of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Dr. E. Caglan Kumbur
Committee Members: Dr. Alan Lau, Dr. MinJun Kim, Dr. Christopher Weinberger and Dr. Steven May
Date and Time: May 07, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: Curtis, Room 162
Jennifer A. Shaw
The Effect of Evaluative Conditioning on Implicit Attitudes and Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drinks
Major: Psychology
Chair: Dr. Evan Forman
Committee Members: Dr. James Herbert, Dr. Michael Lowe, Dr. Meghan Butryn and Dr. Chantal Nederkoorn
Date and Time: May 08, 2015 9:30 AM
Location: Stratton Building
Raymond Canzanese
Detection and Classification of Malicious Processing Using System Call Analysis
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Naga Kandasamy
Committee Members: Dr. Spiros Mancoridis, Dr. Moshe Kam, Dr. Steven Weber, Dr. Harish Sethu and Dr. Ko Nishino
Date and Time: May 08, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Builing, Room 709
Heidi Strohmaier
Successful Psychopathy: Do abnormal selective attention processes observed in criminal psychopaths replicate among non-criminal psychopaths
Major: Psychology
Chair: Dr. David DeMatteo
Committee Members: Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, Dr. Naomi Goldstein, Dr. Jennifer Gallo and Dr. Kim Sanschagrin
Date and Time: May 08, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Stratton 212
Katrina Graham
Do Leaders’ Hierarchical Perceptions Matter? A Social Dominance Theory Perspective on Abusive Supervision, Empowering Leadership, and Team Performance.
Major: Business Administration
Chair: Dr. Jonathan Ziegert
Committee Members: Dr. Jeffrey Greenhaus, Dr. Mary Marwitz, Dr. Sucheta Nadkarni, and Dr. Ronald Piccolo
Date and Time: May 11, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall
Jing Sun
Gender, Reproductive, and Lifestyle Risk Factors Associated with Liver Disease Severity in Chronic Hepatitis B Infection
Major: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Chair: Dr. Alison A. Evans
Committee Members: Dr. Seth Welles, Dr. Nora L. Lee, Dr. Lucy Robinson and Dr. Joan R. Bloch
Date and Time: May 12, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, 5th Floor Conference Room
Mitchell D'Rozario
Novel Roles of teh Type 1 bHLH Proteins Daughterless/TCF4 in Postmitotic Neurons in the Central Nervous System
Major: Biology
Chair: Dr. Daniel Marenda
Committee Members: Dr. Felice Elefant, Dr. Michael Akins, Dr. Jacob Russell, Dr. Faith Liebl and Dr. Jeffrey Twiss
Date and Time: May 19, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Korman 111F
Dawn Marie Konrady
Choosing to Participate in E-Learning Education: A Study of Undergraduate Students' Diverse Perceptions, Attitudes, and Self-Identified Barriers to E-Learning
Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Dr. Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Dr. Rebecca Clothey and Dr. Dr. Susan Davenport
Date and Time: May 20, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: TBA
Renata Carneiro
Family Therapy Supervisors Sexual Attraction Towards Supervisees
Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Dr. Eric Johnson
Committee Members: Dr. Guy Diamond, Dr. Maureen Davey, Dr. Harry Aponte and Dr. Seven Harris
Date and Time: May 22, 2015 9:30 AM
Location: 3 Parkway, Room 742
Aylin
Fingerprints in Textual Data-Automatically Extracted by Machine Learning
Major: Computer Science
Chair: Dr. Rachel Greenstadt
Committee Members: Dr. Damon McCoy, Dr. Spiros Mancoridis, Dr. Arvind Narayanan and Dr. Dario Salvucci
Date and Time: May 22, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Rush Building, Room 137
Lindsey Peterson
Answering the Ultimate Legal Question: A Survey of Lawyers and Psychologists
Major: Psychology
Chair: Dr. Naomi Goldstein
Committee Members: Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, Dr. David DeMatteo, Dr. Emily Zimmerman and Dr. Michael Drossner
Date and Time: May 26, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Stratton 220
Borirak Opasanont
Dynamics of Chemical Bath Deposition of Inorganic Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications
Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Dr. Jason Baxter, Dr. Aaron Fafarman, Dr. Jonathan Spanier and Dr. Hongseok (Moses) Noh
Date and Time: May 26, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: CAT, Room 288
Erin Reichenberger
Pas de Deux: Environment and Microbial Communities - Interactions, Influence, & Analysis
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Patricia Shewokis
Committee Members: Dr. Guillermo Alexander, Dr. Ruth Hershberg, Dr. Uri Hershberg, Dr. Gail Rosen, Dr. Jacob Russell and Dr. Ahmet Sacan
Date and Time: May 27, 2015 9:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 709
Marilyn Carolyn Sobel
Earth, Wind and Fire: Rhynchospora knieskernil Survival Strategies in a Disturbance-Dependent Environment
Major: Biology
Chair: Dr. Micahel J. O'Connor
Committee Members: Dr. Walter F. Bien, Dr. James R. Spotila, Dr. Gerry Moore, and Dr. Dennis Gray
Date and Time: May 28, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room 112
Jeffrey Wildman
Throughout Characterization of Wireless Networks via Stochastic Geometry and Random Graph Theory
Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Harish Sethu
Committee Members: Dr. Steven Weber, Dr. Ali Shokoufandeh, Dr. John M. Walsh and Dr. Kapil Dandekar
Date and Time: May 28, 2015 12:00 PM
Location: Curtis, Room 275
Yuxiang Fei
Metabolic Rates of Giant Panda and Red Panda
Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Dr. Susan Kilham
Committee Members: Dr. James Spotila, Dr. Frank Paladino, Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, Dr. Harold Avery and Dr. Michael O' Connor
Date and Time: May 29, 2015 9:30 AM
Location: PISB, Room 112
Majid Sharifi
Effect of Network Structure/Topology on Mechanical Properties of Crosslinked Polymers
Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Kenneth K. S. Lau
Committee Members: Dr. Cameron Abrams, Dr. Richard A. Cairncross, Dr. Christopher Li and Dr. Giuseppe R. Palmese
Date and Time: May 29, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference, Room 240
Alan Sim
Evaluation of Treatment Adherence Methods Among Military Members of the HIV Natural history Cohort Study
Major: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Chair: Dr. Seth L. Welles
Committee Members: Dr. Brian K. Agan, Dr. Grace E. Macalino, Dr. Zekarias Berhane and Dr. Jana M. Mossey
Date and Time: May 29, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: TBA
Lei Song
An Integrated Process Model of Stereotype Threat Effects on Product Price and Value Judgments
Major: Marketing
Chair: Dr. Rajneesh Sun
Committee Members: Dr. Yanliu Huang, Dr. Trina Andras, Dr. Rolph Anderson, Dr. Paul Jensen and Dr. John Kuonios
Date and Time: May 29, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room 939
Samuel Laurencin
Fiber-reinforced, Anisotropic, Superporous Cryogels for Meniscal Replacement
Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Giuseppe Palmese
Committee Members: Dr. Kenneth Lau, Dr. Richard Cairncross, Dr. Anthony Lowman and Dr. Suzanne Moher
Date and Time: May 29, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 302
Candice Roberts
Everybody's Living Room: Couch Surfing and Hybrid Society
Major: Culture and Media
Chair: Wesley Shumar
Committee Members: Emmanuel Koku, Mimi Sheller, Brent Luvaas, and Michael Stefarone.
Date and Time: June 03, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: PSA Building, Room 114
Minjung Shim
A Model of Dance/Movement Therapy for Resilience-building in People Living with Chronic Pain: A Mixed Methods Grounded Theory Study
Major: Creatuve Arts Therapies
Chair: Dr. Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Dr. Sherry Goodill, Dr. R. Burke Johnson, Dr. Susan Gasson, and Dr. Richard Jermyn
Date and Time: June 05, 2015 1:30 PM
Location: Three parkway building, Room 782
Rachel Gordon
Essays of Corporate Finance
Major: Finance
Chair: Dr. David Becher
Committee Members: Dr. Jennifer Juergens, Dr. Ralph Walkling, Dr. Michelle Lowry and Dr. Diane Denis
Date and Time: June 16, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Pearlstein, Room 1237
Crystal Moorman
Dwarf Galaxies in Voids: Luminosity, Gas and Star Formation Properties
Major: Physics
Chair: Dr. Michael Vogeley
Committee Members: Dr. Gordon Richards, Dr. Adam Lidz, Dr. Robert Gilmore and Dr. Luis Cruz Cruz
Date and Time: July 09, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919
Irina Stoyneva
Risk, Innovation, Institutional ownership type: the moderating impact of institutional environment
Major: Management
Chair: Dr. Vadake Narayanan
Committee Members: Dr. Haemin Park, Dr. Konstantinos Serfes, Dr. Samuel Szewczyk, Dr. Hubert Glover, and Dr. Parthiban David
Date and Time: July 20, 2015 12:00 PM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room 722
Yemin Lan
A Study of Microbial Diversity Using Comparative Genomics and Comparative Metagenomics Methods
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Andres Kriete
Committee Members: Dr. Uri Hershberg, Dr. Ahmet Sacan, Dr. Christopher Sales, and Dr. Gail Rosen
Date and Time: July 20, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone Room 302
Neal Goldstein
On Individual and Community-Level Determinants of Pertussis Incidence and Vaccination
Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Seth L. Welles
Committee Members: E. Claire Newbern, Alison A. Evans, Loni P. Tabb, and Michele A. Kutzler.
Date and Time: July 31, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 540
Christopher Hawley
Growth of Nanowires and Nanowire Heterstructions by Chemical Vapor Deposition and Vapor Transport
Major: Material Science and Engineering
Chair: Dr. Steve May
Committee Members: Dr. Jason Baxter, Dr. James Rondinelli, Dr. Svetlana Neretina, and Dr. Jonathan Spanier
Date and Time: August 13, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Room 302
Brianna Miller
A Case Study: Exploring Opportunity to Learn Math and Science, Teachers' Efficacy, and Students' Attitudes toward STEM at the Upper Elementary Level
Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Bruce Levine
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich and Lori Suski
Date and Time: August 14, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza
Jonah Smith
A New Class of Integrable Surfaces Related to Bertrand Curves
Major: Mathematics
Chair: Dr. Shari Moskow
Committee Members: Dr. Ronald Perline, Dr. Andrew Hicks, Dr. Douglas Wright, and Dr. Annalisa Calini
Date and Time: August 21, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: Korman Room 245
Wei Wu
On the Binding Stress-Enhanced Sensitivity of PMN-PT Piezoelectric Plate Sensor (PEPS)
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Dr. Caroline Schauer
Committee Members: Dr. Steve May, Dr. Hao Chen, Dr. Wei-Heng Shih, and Dr. Wan Y. Shih
Date and Time: August 21, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 302
Ashley Kalinski
Alterations in the local environment of axons converge on intrinsic pathways that support growth of adult neurons
Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Dr. Felice Elefant
Committee Members: Dr. Eilas Spiliotis, Dr. Robert Loudon, Dr. John Houle, and Dr. Jeff Twiss
Date and Time: August 27, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 104
Vishal Pramod Kasliwal
Probing Accretion Physics with Active Galactic Nuclei Variability: Insights from Kepler & the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Major: Physics
Chair: Dr. Michael Vogeley
Committee Members: Dr. Gordon Richards, Dr. Stephen McMillan, Dr. John MacLaren Walsh, and Dr. Michelle Dolinski
Date and Time: September 01, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919
Haozhen Zhao
The Role of Document Structure and Citation Analysis in Literature Information Retrieval
Major: Information Studies
Chair: Xiaohua Hu
Committee Members: Yuan An, Weimao Ke, Erjia Yan, and Li Sheng
Date and Time: September 04, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Rush 014
Young Bok Kang
Liver on a chip: Engineering a Liver Sinusoid Functional unit
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Hongseok Noh
Committee Members: Michael Bouchard, Wei Sun, Li-Hsin Han, and Hao Cheng
Date and Time: September 08, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Curtis 162
Austen Groener
Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters: Shape, Projection, and Environment
Major: Physics
Chair: David Goldberg
Committee Members: Michael Vogeley, Gordon Richards, Luis Cruz, and Andrew Hicks.
Date and Time: September 10, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Dique Hall, Room 919
Frank Jones
Relationship between Age-Related Cognitive Impairment and Anatomical Changes in Dendritic Bundles and Neuronal Microcolumns in the Prefrontal Cortex
Major: Physics
Chair: Dr. Luis Cruz
Committee Members: Dr. Brigita Urbanc, Dr. Frank Ferrone, Dr. David Goldberg, and Dr. Daniel Marenda
Date and Time: September 14, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919
Tian Zhou
Polymer Single Crystal Templating (PSCryT) Method for the Synthesis of Polymer Brushes with Controlled Morphology and Properties
Major: Materials Sciences and Engineering
Chair: Caroline Schauer
Committee Members: Hao Cheng, Kenneth K. S. Lau, Bin Zhao, and Christopher Y. Li.
Date and Time: September 14, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302
Derya Meral
Molecular Dynamics Studies of Intrinsically Disordered Peptides and Proteins
Major: Physics
Chair: Dr. Brigita Urbanc
Committee Members: Dr. Luis Cruz, Dr. Jian-Min Yuan, Dr. Som Tyagi, and Dr. Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
Date and Time: September 14, 2015 3:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109
Maxwell Henderson
The Effects of Aging on Neural Processes and Microcolumnar Networks
Major: Physics
Chair: Dr. Luis Cruz
Committee Members: Dr. Michelle Dolinski, Dr. Brigita Urbanc, Dr. Jian-Min Yuan, and Dr. Daniel Davenport
Date and Time: September 15, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919
Stephen Lombardi
Radiometric Scene Decomposition: Estimating Complex Reflectance and Natural Illumination from Images
Major: Computer Science
Chair: Ko Nishino
Committee Members: Santiago Ontanon, David Breen, Kristin Dana, and Srinivasa Narasimhan.
Date and Time: September 15, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: University Crossing 153
Jeffrey Armstrong
Homotopy Theory of Module Categories over A∞ Categories
Major: Mathematics
Chair: Patrick Clarke
Committee Members: J. Doug Wright, Justin Smith, Jim Stasheff, and Vasily Dolgushev.
Date and Time: September 21, 2015 12:00 PM
Location:
Ramya Namani
Morphological Variations at Human Ankle Joint Complex affect their Biomechanical Function
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Jack Zhou
Committee Members: Dr. Sorin Siegler, Dr. John M. Lacontora, Dr. Sriram Balasubramanian, Dr. Fred Allen, and Dr. Javad Parvizi.
Date and Time: September 23, 2015 5:00 PM
Location: Curtis 162, MEM Seminar Room
Damir Simic
Targeting HDAC5 to Improve Cancer Chemotherapy
Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Felice Elefant
Committee Members: Nianli Sang, Tali Gidalevitz, Monicah Otieno, Gregg Johannes
Date and Time: June 04, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 112