David J. Dorsey

Robust Deployment and Control of Sensors in Wireless Monitoring Networks

Major: Electrical and Computing Engineering
Chair: Kapil Dandekar PhD
Committee Members: Moshe Kam PhD, Leonid Hrebien PhD, Steven Weber PhD, and Hande Benson PhD
Date and Time: July 23, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Leonardo Urbano

Robust Automatic Multi-Sperm Tracking in Time Lapse Images

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Leonid Hrebien PhD
Committee Members: Moshe Kam PhD, Paul Kalata PhD, Naga Kandasamy PhD, and Puneet Masson PhD
Date and Time: May 23, 2014 8:00 AM
Location: Curits 162

Peemongkon Wattananon

Movement Coordination Impairment in Non-Specific Low Back Pain: Understanding Aberrant Patterns of Movement and our Ability to Change Them

Major: Physical Therapy & Rehab Sciences
Chair: Sheri P. Silfies PhD
Committee Members: David Ebaugh PhD, Susan Smith PhD, Scott Biely PhD, Gregory Hicks PhD, and Sri Balasubramannion PhD
Date and Time: April 11, 2014 9:00 AM
Location: Bellet 209

Seyed Hossein Hosseini Nourzad

Computational Framework for Modeling Infrastructure Network Performance and Vulnerability

Major: Civil Engineering (Concentration: Construction Engineering and Management)
Chair: Anu Pradhan PhD
Committee Members: Emin Aktan PhD, Ivan Bartoli PhD, Dario Salvucci PhD, Yi-Chang Chiu PhD, Patrick Gurian PhD, and Frank Moon PhD
Date and Time: June 11, 2014 1:30 PM
Location: Alumni Engineering Labs Room 275

Catherine Kendall

Deconstructing the Universal Woman: Examining How Domestic Violence is Experienced Among the Russian, African American, and Russian Communities in Sacramento

Major: Education
Chair: W. Edward Bureau PhD
Committee Members: Kristine Lewis Grant PhD and Roberto Degadillo PhD
Date and Time: June 06, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Sacramento Campus

Elizabeth Degnan Kryak

Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors on the Nurses’ Use of Complementary Alternative Medicine

Major: Nursing Science
Chair: Thomas Hardie PhD
Committee Members: Roberta Waite PhD
Date and Time: May 19, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: Bellet Building

Nazanin Moghadam Maragheh

Computational Study of Chain Transfer Reactions in Self-Initiated High Temperature Polymerization of Alkyl Acrylates

Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chair: Raj Mutharasan PhD
Committee Members: Masoud Soroush PhD, Andrew Rappe PhD, Giuseppe Palmese PhD, Michael Grady PhD, and Sriraj Srinivasan PhD
Date and Time: March 14, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: TBA

Gulay Samatli

Essays on Consumes Returns

Major: Decision Sciences
Chair: Wenjing Shen PhD
Committee Members: Avijit Banerjee PhD, Seung-Lae Kim PhD, Benjamin Lev PhD, Konstantinos Serfes PhD
Date and Time: December 07, 2012 2:30 PM
Location: Room 712, 3600 Market Street

Ben Pelleg

Light Scattering in Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals

Major: Electrical and Computing Engineering
Chair: Tim Kurzweg PhD
Committee Members: Adam Fontecchio PhD, Gary Friedman PhD, Pramod Abichandani PhD, and Caroline Schauer PhD
Date and Time: May 27, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: Bossone 709

Jared Patterson Coyle

Electrical Percolation of Carbon Allotropes in Conductive Polymer Media

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Timothy Kurzweg PhD
Committee Members: Adam Fontecchio PhD, Yury Gogotsi PhD, Kapil Dandekar PhD and Yon Vissel PhD
Date and Time: October 08, 2013 8:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Li Zhang

Opto-Electronic Frequency Stabilization Techniques in Forced Oscilators

Major: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Chair: Peter Herczfeld PhD
Committee Members: Afshin Daryoush PhD, Baris Taskin PhD, Mohammad Tofighi PhD, and Ulrich Rohde PhD
Date and Time: June 12, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone 709

Ceyhum E. Kirimli

Detection of Mutations of Transrenal DNA in Urine Without Amplification and Isolation Using an Array of Pecoelectric Plate Sensor (PEPS)

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kambiz Pourrezaei PhD
Committee Members: Ahmet Sacon PhD, Wan Shih PhD, Wei-Heng Shih PhD and Ying-Hsiu Su PhD
Date and Time: June 06, 2013 12:00 PM
Location: Location TBA

Kewei Liu

Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Hongseok (Moses) Noh PhD
Committee Members: Alan Lau PhD, Wei-Heng Shih PhD, Simon Giszter PhD and Jack Zhou PhD
Date and Time: August 20, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Siddhita D. Mhatre

Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease in Drosophila melanogaster

Major: Biology
Chair: Elias T. Spiliotis PhD
Committee Members: Aleisiter J. Saunders PhD, Daniel R. Marenda PhD, Jennifer Stanford PhD, and Jeffery Twiss PhD
Date and Time: May 13, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: PISB 103

Anna Vorobyeva

Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Pathway in APP Trafficking and Proteolysis

Major: Biology
Chair: Elias Spiliotis PhD
Committee Members: Aleister Saunders PhD, Jennifer Stanford PhD, Daniel Narenda PhD, Denise Garcia PhD, and Nadia Dahmang PhD
Date and Time: August 15, 2014 8:00 AM
Location: PISB,

Andrew James Klink

The Role of Biologics in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis

Major: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Chair: Brian K. Lee PhD
Committee Members: Alison Evans PhD, Lucy Robinson PhD, Judith Kelsen PhD, Robert Baldassano PhD, and Lindsay Albenbery PhD
Date and Time: May 15, 2014 8:00 AM
Location: TBD

Natasha Brown

Transforming Leadership in Hospitals by Exploring Leadership Practices for Organizational Success

Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Deanna Hill PhD
Committee Members: Allen Grant PhD and Jeffrey Branch PhD
Date and Time: April 24, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: TBD

Brijette Sena

Examining Non-Academic Factors Influence on an International School of Medicine Graduates’ Success in Obtaining a US Residency

Major: Education
Chair: Kristine S. L. Grant PhD
Committee Members: Allen Grant PhD, Craig Bach PhD, and Barbara Francois PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 2:30 PM
Location: Korman Center Room 227

Eric Joseph Hagan

Adult Graduates’ Perceptions on te Value of a Bachelor’s Degree Earned Online from a Private Research University: A Qualitative Case Study

Major: Education
Chair: Elizabeth Haslam PhD
Committee Members: Allen Grant PhD, William Northey, Jr. PhDand Fred Loomis PhD
Date and Time: March 28, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: One Drexel Plaza 1st Floor Conference Room

Alimatou Tchafa

The Role of Interstitial Fluid Flow on Breast Cancer Progressions

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Barbee
Committee Members: Andres Kriete PhD, Adrian Shieh PhD, Maruicio Reginato PhD, and Ashinel Undeh PhD
Date and Time: July 28, 2014 2:30 PM
Location: PISB Room 120

Yeetey A. Enuameh

Transforming the System of Care for Adolescents in Ghana: Preliminary Investigation of Adolescent Friendly Health Services Implementation in Two Administrative Districts of the Ghana Health Service

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Lisa Ulmer PhD
Committee Members: Angela Diaz PhD, Renee Turchi PhD, John Rich PhD, Edmund Nii Laryea Browne PhD and Zekarias Berhane PhD
Date and Time: May 17, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: 6th Floor Conference Room of Bellet Building

Anili Njoku

Psychosocial Predictors of Change in Colorectal Cancer Screening Decision Stage

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Augusta Villaneuva PhD
Committee Members: Ann Klassen PhD, Edward Gracely PhD, Nicole Vaughn PhD and Ronald Myers PhD
Date and Time: May 09, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: School of Public Health, Bellet Building, 1515 Race Street, Deans Conference Room

Runbo Li

Exploration of Quantitative Aspects of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe P. Foley PhD
Committee Members: Anthony W. Addison PhD, Catherine Bentzley PhD, Jean-Claude Bradley PhD and Peter A. Wade PhD
Date and Time: January 04, 2013 11:00 AM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 113

Alba Nino

Experiences of Immigrant Couple and Family Therapists Clinically Active in the U: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Couples and Family Therapy
Chair: Maureen Davey PhD
Committee Members: Argie Allen PhD, Ken Hardy PhD, Kathleen Fisher PhD and Mariana Falconier PhD
Date and Time: May 23, 2013 11:00 AM
Location: Bellet 209

Janet Wiley Adams

A Case Study Using Lesson Study to Understand Factors That Affect Teaching Creative and Cristical Thinking in Elementary

Major: Educatopm
Chair: Joyc Pittman PhD
Committee Members: Aroutis Foster PhD and Richard W. Ayers PhD
Date and Time: March 13, 2013 1:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza

Umit Saglam

Advanced Optimization and Statistical Methods in Portfolio Optimization and Supply Chain Management

Major: Decision Sciences
Chair: Hnade Y. Benson PhD
Committee Members: Avijit Banerjee PhD, Mrill Liechty PhD, Oben Ceryan PhD, and Steven Weber PhD
Date and Time: May 27, 2014 8:00 AM
Location: Location TBA

Hossein Rastgoftar

Evolution of Multi Agent Systems as Continua

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Harry Kwanty PhD
Committee Members: B.C. Chang PhD, Ani Hsich PhD, Marwan Simaan PhD, James Tangorra PhD, and Dennice Gayme PhD
Date and Time: September 09, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Roxanna Moores

Modeling and Performance Analysis of a Field-Aged Fe-Zeolite Catalyst

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Nicholas P. Cernansky PhD
Committee Members: Bakhtier Farouk PhD, Young Cho PhD, Sabrina Spatari PhD, and Howard Pearlam PhD
Date and Time: April 29, 2014 1:15 PM
Location: Curtis 162

Mary Ellen Holly

Experiential Learning and Student Engagement: Meaningful Learner Outcomes as Articulated by Drexel University Sacramento Ed.D. Graduates

Major: Education
Chair: Kathy Geller PhD
Committee Members: Benjamin Walker PhD and W. Edward Bureau PhD
Date and Time: June 05, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Sacramento Campus

Robert C. Allen

Safe Set Maneuverability, Restoration, and Protection for Aircraft

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Harry Kwatny PhD
Committee Members: Bor-Chin Chang PhD, Ajmal Yousuff PhD, James Tangorra PhD, and Tom Chmielewski PhD
Date and Time: March 10, 2014 2:30 PM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Youngbum Jun

Humanoids Toward Practical Applications

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Paul Oh PhD
Committee Members: Bor-Chin Chang PhD, Harry Kwatney PhD, Youngmoo Kim PhD, and M. Ani Hsieh PhD
Date and Time: April 23, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Nicole Gidaya

The Effect of Utero Exposure to Beta-2 Adrenergic Receptor (BZAR) Agonists and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) on the Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Craig Newschaffer PhD
Committee Members: Brian Lee PhD, Yvonne Michael PhD, Micahel Yudell PhD, Igor Burstyn PhD and Dani Fallin PhD
Date and Time: March 06, 2013 1:00 PM
Location: TBD

Micholas Dean Smith

Influence of Aqueous-Salt Conditions on the Structure and Dynamics of Monomeric and Dimeric Forms of the Alzheimer’s A1521-30 Protein Fragment

Major: Physics
Chair: Luis Cruz Cruz PhD
Committee Members: Brigita Urbanc PhD, Frank Ferrone PhD, Goron Karapetrov PhD, and Reinhard Schweitzer PhD
Date and Time: June 03, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Michelle K. Baker

Molecular Simulations and Modeling of HIV-1 gp41 Membrane Spanning Domain (MSD) in a Model Viral Bilayer

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Masoud Soroush PhD
Committee Members: Cameron Abrams PhD, Raj Mutharasan PhD, Luiz Cruz PhD, and Irwin Chaiken PhD
Date and Time: May 29, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: CAT 267

Marjorie A. Kiechel

Post-Processing of Electrospun Chitosan Fibers

Major: Materials Science and Engineerings
Chair: Christopher Li PhD
Committee Members: Caroline L. Schaner PhD, Hao Cheng PhD, Yossef A. Elabd PhD and Christopher Pastore PhD
Date and Time: May 23, 2013 1:00 PM
Location: Hill Confrence Room, Bossone

Shan Cheng

Ion Transport in Semicrystalline Solid Polymer Electrolytes

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Caroline Scahuer PhD
Committee Members: Chrisotpher Y. Li PhD, Grace Hsuan PhD, Kenneth Lau PhD, and Stephanie Wunder PhD
Date and Time: August 26, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Ho Kwong Kwan

Antecedents and Outcomes of Family-supportive Supervisor Behaviors

Major: Manegement
Chair: Chairs: Jeffrey Greenhaus PhD and Jonathan Zeigert PhD
Committee Members: Christian Resick PhD, Mary Mawritz PhD, and Lieke ten Brummelhuis PhD
Date and Time: April 30, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: GHALL Room 720 – Colloquium Room

Kavan Hazeli

Microstructure-Sensitive Investigation of Deformation and Fatigue Behavior of Magnesium Alloys

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Antonios Konstos PhD
Committee Members: Christopher Weinberger PhD, Anthony Rollett PhD, E. Caglan Kumbur PhD, Antonios Zavaliangos PhD, and Alan C.W. Lau PhD
Date and Time: March 13, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Mechanical Engineering Seminar Room (Curtis, Room 162)

John F. Doan

Philanthropic Motivation in the 21st Century

Major: Education Leadership and Management
Chair: Rebecca Clothey PhD
Committee Members: Craig Bach PhD and Allen Grant PhD
Date and Time: April 11, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: ODP Room 141

Sudipta Lahiri

Hybrid Automaton Based Controller Design for Damage Mitigation of Islanded Power Systems

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Chika Nwamkpa PhD
Committee Members: Dagmar Niebur PhD, Karen Miv PhD, Harry Kwatny PhD, and Gaurav Baipai PhD
Date and Time: November 20, 2013 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Michael Knauff

Kalman Filter Based State of Charge Estimation for Value Regulated Lead Acid Batteries in Wind Power Smoothing Applications

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Chika Nwamkpa PhD
Committee Members: Dagmar Niebur PhD,Tom Chmielewski PhD, Pritpal Singh PhD and Chris Dafis PhD
Date and Time: February 15, 2013 2:30 PM
Location: Main Building Room 049

Ehsan Fakharizadi

The Impact of Relational and Structural Embeddedness on Alliance Termination Outcomes

Major: Management
Chair: VK Narayahan PhD and Azi Gera PhD
Committee Members: Dali Ma PhD, Daniel Tzabbar PhD, and David Waguespack PhD
Date and Time: March 04, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Faculty Colloquium Room 722

Marcela P. Garcia

Examining the Ligand-Induced Change in Cell Adhesion

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Lynn Penn PhD
Committee Members: Daniel King PhD, Frank Ji PhD, Monica Iles PhD, Niaoli Sang PhD, and Orlando Rojas PhD
Date and Time: August 21, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: PISB 106

Paul B. Noto

Analysis of LXR Target Gene Expression Across Species

Major: Biology
Chair: Joseph Bentz PhD
Committee Members: Daniel Marenda PhD, Felice Elephant PhD, Nianli Sang PhD, Deepak Lala PhD and Brian McKeever PhD
Date and Time: May 31, 2013 3:00 PM
Location: PISB 103

Christopher Mascaro

Technologically Mediated Discourse and Information Exchange through Medium Specific Syntactical Features the 2012 Presidential Election on Twitter

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Sean Goggins PhDand PhD Denise Agosto
Committee Members: Dario Salvucci PhD, Kristene Unsworth PhD, and Scott Robertson PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: TBA

Taek-yul Kim

Essays on Corruption and Corporate Finance

Major: Finance
Chair: Co-Chairs: Jacqueline Garner PhDand Ralph Walking PhD
Committee Members: David Becher PhD, Michael Gombola PhD, and Bang Jeon PhD
Date and Time: August 07, 2014 1:30 PM
Location: G-Hall Conference Room 1139

Geoffrey A. Oxholm

Extracting and Exploiting Latent Structures in Observations to Recover Geometry

Major: Computing and Informatics
Chair: Ko Nishino PhD
Committee Members: David Breen PhD, Kostas Daniilidis PhD, Haiban Ling PhD, and Santiago Ontanon
Date and Time:
Location: TBD

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

Marisa Pontillo

Relationship Between Core Stability and Shoulder Injuries in Athletes

Major: Physical Therapy
Chair: Sheri Silifies PhD
Committee Members: David Ebaugh PhD, Clare Milner PhD, Chuck Thigpen PhD, and Brian Sennett PhD
Date and Time: December 18, 2013 1:30 PM
Location: Location TBA

Sidath Gunawardena

Recommending Research Profiles for Multidisciplinary Academic Collaboration

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Rosina Weber PhD
Committee Members: Denise Agosto PhD, Yuan An PhD, Julia Stoyanovich PhD and Donald Beaver PhD
Date and Time: May 23, 2013 12:00 PM
Location: Rush Building Room 014

Robert DeVito

The Persuasive Power of Energy Independence

Major: Culture and Communication
Chair: Rachel Reynolds PhD
Committee Members: Douglas Porpora PhD, Ernest Hakanen PhD, Susan Stein PhD, and Patrick Murphy PhD
Date and Time: October 29, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: PSA 115

Juilia Hagemann May

The Torture Debate in the Public Sphere: The Discussion of the Abu Gharib Revelations in Newspaper Opinion Pieces, Online Discussion Groups and Weblogs

Major: Culture and Communications
Chair: Douglas Porpora PhD
Committee Members: Earnest Hakanen PhD, Alexander Nikolaev PhD, Susan Stein PhD and Zizi Papacharissi PhD
Date and Time: May 29, 2013 11:00 AM
Location: PSA Room 115

Holly Funkhouser Cucuzzella

The Efffect of a Professional Education Outreach Visit on Immediately Reportable Communicable Disease Reporting Practices, Knowledge and Attitudes Among Physicians, Physician Assistants and Nurse in Burlington Country, New Jersey

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Randall Sell PhD
Committee Members: Ed Gracely PhD, Augusta Villaneuva PhD, Stephen Gambescia PhD and Tina Rizzo
Date and Time: May 07, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: Drexel School of Public Health, North Wing Conference Room, 13th Floor, Bellet Building, 1505 Race Street

Ginger Stringer

Effects of Sport Related Concussion on Academic Performance in High School Athletes

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Yvonne Michael PhD
Committee Members: Ed Gracely PhD, Craig Newschaffer PhD, Jennifer Taylor PhD, and Andrew Lincoln PhD
Date and Time: November 05, 2013 9:00 AM
Location: Bellet Building, Second Floor

Ginger Stringer

Effects of Sport Related Concussion on Academic Performance in High School Athletes

Major:
Chair: Yvonne Michael PhD
Committee Members: Ed Gracey PhD, Craig Newschaffer PhD, Jennier Taylor PhD, and Andrew Lincoln PhD
Date and Time: December 05, 2013 9:00 AM
Location: Bellet Building, Sixth Floor

Shaowen Hua

Analysts’ Incentives and Usage of Valuation Models

Major: Accounting
Chair: Anthony Curatola PhD
Committee Members: Edward Werner PhD, Barbara Grein PhD, Natalya Khimich PhD, and Daniel Dorn PhD
Date and Time: December 10, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: 3600 Market Street 7th Floor Room 736

Charlton Wolfgang

A Phenomenological Investigation into the Perspectives of Home Schooled Gifted Children and Their Families

Major: Education
Chair: Sheila Vaidya PhD
Committee Members: Elizabeth Haslam PhD, Marion Dugan PhD, Daniel King PhD and Lori Severino PhD
Date and Time: May 23, 2013 11:30 AM
Location: Seminar Room 004, Goodwin

Senem Zeytinoglu

Experiences of Couples Having a Young Child with Cleft Lip and/or Palate: Comparin Prenatal and Postnatal

Major: Couple and Family Therapies
Chair: Maureen Davey PhD
Committee Members: Erica Wilkins PhD, Harry Aponte PhD, Kathleen Fisher PhD, and Canice Crerand PhD
Date and Time: May 27, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: 742 3 - Parkway

Jane Bokunewicz

Social Networking for Employee Engagement in the Hospitality Industry

Major: Culture and Communication
Chair: Emmanuel Koku PhD
Committee Members: Ernie Hakanen PhD, Wes Shumar PhD, Israel Porner PhD, and Joseph Lema PhD
Date and Time: December 17, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: PSA 114

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

Jake Owens

The Ecology and Conservation of the Biko Island Drill (Mandrillus lecophaeus poensis)

Major: Biology
Chair: Michael O’Connor PhD
Committee Members: Gail Hearn PhD, Susan Kilham PhD, Shaya Hornarvar PhD, and Mary Katherine Gonder PhD
Date and Time: December 04, 2013 12:00 PM
Location: PISB 103

Steven Essinger

Partitioning Abiotic and Biotic Varitime

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Leon Hrebien PhD
Committee Members: Gail Rosen PhD, John Walsh PhD, Robi Poliker PhD, Jacob Russell PhD, and Chris Blackwood PhD
Date and Time: December 11, 2013 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Natalie Chemets

Enhancement of Skeletal Cell Differentiation by Microsecond Pulsed Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Adam Fontecchio PhD
Committee Members: Gennady Friedman PhD, Theresa Friedman PhD, Aelxander Friedman PhD, Andrew Cohen PhD, and Marla Steinbeck PhD
Date and Time: January 31, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Arianna Watters

Synthesis and Characterization of Well-Dispersed Nanostructure Polymer Systems

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Yury Gogotsi PhD
Committee Members: Giuseppe Palmese PhD, Chris Li PhD, Lynn Penn PhD, and Rob Jesen PhD
Date and Time: August 27, 2014 12:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Center

Kelly Coyle Blincoe

Timely and Efficient Facilitation of Coordination of Software Developers’ Activities

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Spiros Mancordis PhD
Committee Members: Giuseppe Valetto PhD, Dario Salvucci PhD, Sean Goggins PhD, and Daniela Damian PhD
Date and Time: January 15, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: TBD

Jessica Snyder

Bottom-Up Tissue Engineering of Biofabricated Hetero-Cellular Microfluidic to Study Drug Efficacy in Co-Culture

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Wei Sun PhD
Committee Members: Gongyao “Jack” Zhou PhD, E. Caglan Kumbur PhD, Ulrike Wegst PhD, and Honglu Wu PhD
Date and Time: June 09, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Qudus Hamid

Investigating the Integration of Mask-Less Fabrication Techniques to Develop Biological Microfluidics

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Wei Sun PhD
Committee Members: Gongyao “Jack” Zhou PhD, Min Sun Kim PhD, Leslie Lamberson PhD, and Yinghui Zhong PhD
Date and Time: June 09, 2014 10:00 PM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Xiaoyu Chu

Distributed Algorithms for Extending the Functional Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Steven Weber PhD
Committee Members: Harish Sethu PhD, Nagarajan Kandasamy PhD, Baris Taskin PhD, and Spiros Mancoridis PhD
Date and Time: January 16, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Linge Bai Lass

Directing Chemotaxis-Based Spatial Self-Organization

Major: Computer Science
Chair: David Breen PhD
Committee Members: Harish Sethu PhD, Santiago Ontanon Villar PhD, Julia Stoyanovich PhD, and Christopher Geib PhD
Date and Time: August 21, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: University Crossings

Samir Patel

Movements, behaviors and threats to loggerhead turtles, Caretta caretta in the Mediterranean Sea

Major: Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science
Chair: Susan Kilham PhD
Committee Members: Harold Avery PhD, Michael O’Connor PhD, James Spotila PhD, and Stephen Morreale
Date and Time: November 14, 2013 11:00 AM
Location: Curtis 341

Woodrow Clifton II

Automated Propulsion Control

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: B.C. Chang PhD
Committee Members: Harry Kwanty PhD, Prawat Nagvajara PhD, Ajmal Yousuff PhD, and Jack Zhou PhD
Date and Time: April 30, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room (Curtis 162)

Kara R. Newman

Alcohol Use in HIV: An Evaluation of Cognitive Factors

Major: Psychology
Chair: Mary Spiers PhD
Committee Members: Henry Kranzier PhD, David Metzger PhD, David DeMatteo PhD, Thomas Swirsky Sacchetti PhD, and Doug Chute PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 2:30 PM
Location: Stratton Building

Linda Norman

School-Community Engagement for School Resource Acquisition: A Phenomenological Study of Private School Leaders

Major: Education
Chair: Kathy D. Geller PhD
Committee Members: Holly Carpenter PhD and Jo Consalves PhD
Date and Time: May 02, 2014 1:30 PM
Location: Sacramento Campus

Hai Quang Ta

Effects of IFRS Adoption on Earnings Quality: Evidence from Canada

Major: Accounting
Chair: Godian Ndybizu PhD
Committee Members: Hsihui Chang PhD, Anthony Curatola PhD, Edward Werner PhD, and Bay Arinze PhD
Date and Time: May 08, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: Room 939, 9th Floor, GHall

Beth Vermeer

Essays on Tax Preparer Decision making: An Examination of Controls, Motivations and Decision Outcomes

Major: Accounting
Chair: Anthony Curtola PhD
Committee Members: Hsihui Chang PhD, Barabara Grein PhD, Bernhard Reichert PhD and George Tsakumis PhD
Date and Time: May 17, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: Room 736 (Sky Room) 3600 Market Street

Matthew Yarnold

Temperature-Based Structural Identification and Health Monitoring for Long-Span Bridges

Major: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Chair: Franklin Moon PhD
Committee Members: Ivan Bartoli PhD, Branko Glisic PhD, Ahmet Emin Aktan PhD, Jin Wen PhD
Date and Time: February 06, 2013 8:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room LeBow Room 240

Bob Gillepsie

The Relational Effects of Mindfulness Training: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Couples and Family Therapy
Chair: Co-Chairs: Maureen Davey PhD and Kimberly Flemke PhD
Committee Members: Jacqueline Hudak PhD, Erica Wilkins PhD, Don McCown PhD and Diane Gehart PhD
Date and Time: February 26, 2013 12:00 PM
Location: Bellet Building, Room 718

Lisa Hayley Glassman

The Effects of a Brief Acceptance-based Behavior Therapy vs. Trasitional Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Public Speaking Anxiety

Major: Clinical Psychology
Chair: Evan Forman PhD
Committee Members: James Herbert PhD, Jennifer Gallo PhD, John Kounios PhD, and Trina Andras PhD
Date and Time: May 08, 2014 3:30 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 212

Jack Suss

Biophysical and Physiological Ecology of Loggerhead Turtle Nests in Zakkynthos and Kyparrisia, Greece

Major:
Chair: Michael O'Connor PhD
Committee Members: James Spotila PhD, Jacob Russell PhD, Gail Hearn PhD, Susan Kilham PhD and Gail Schofield PhD
Date and Time: December 05, 2012 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building Room 103

Ronald Smith

Spatial Ecology of Timber Rattlesnakes and Pine Snakes in the Pinelands of New Jersey

Major: Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chair: Walter Bien PhD
Committee Members: James Spotila PhD, Susan Kilham PhD, Harold Avery PhD and Howard Reinert PhD
Date and Time: June 12, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: PISB 103

Glenn Guglietta

Ultrfast Spectroscopy & Charge Carrier Dynamics in Nanostructured Materials

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Ken Lau PhD
Committee Members: Jason Baxter PhD, Aaron Fafarman PhD, Jon Spanier PhD, and Chris Murray PhD
Date and Time: May 30, 2014 8:30 AM
Location: TBA

Joydeep Tripathi

On Design, Evaluation, and Enhancement of IP-Based Routing Solutions for Low-Power and Lossy Networks

Major: Electrical and Computing Engineering
Chair: Steven Weber PhD
Committee Members: Jaudelice C. DeOliveira PhD, Nagarajan Kandasamy PhD, Spiros Mancordis PhD, and J.P. Vasseur PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow 240

Tu Nguyen

Essays in Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Governance

Major: Finance
Chair: Eliezer Fich PhD
Committee Members: Jay Cai PhD, Naveen Davis PhD, Todd Gormley PhD and Ralph Walking PhD
Date and Time: April 29, 2013 10:30 AM
Location: Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Academic Building

Scott B. Dust

The Motivational Effects of Work Characteristics Need–Supply Fit on Active Employee Behaviors: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective

Major: Management
Chair: Christian J. Resick PhD
Committee Members: Jeffrey Greenhaus PhD, Jonathan Hegers PhD, Vadakek Narayanan PhD and Gary Latham PhD
Date and Time: May 15, 2013 1:30 PM
Location: TBD

Erica Caden

Studying Neutrino Directionality With Double Chooz

Major: Physics
Chair: Charles Lane PhD
Committee Members: Jelena Maricic PhD, Chris Peters PhD, Rick Van Berg PhD and Frank Ferrone PhD
Date and Time:
Location: TBD

Edward Damon

Measurement of Paraphotons in the Double Chooz Experiment Using Articulated Arm Calibration Methods

Major: Physics
Chair: Charles Lane PhD
Committee Members: Jelena Maricic PhD, David Goldberg PhD, Gordon Richards PhD, Joshua Klein PhD, and Michelle Dolinski PhD
Date and Time: May 05, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Room 109

Chelsea Morse

Multitasking and Vocational Functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: A Performance Based Assesment

Major: Psychology
Chair: Maria T. Schultheis PhD
Committee Members: Jennifer Gallo PhD, Douglas Chule PhD, Cobb Scott PhD, Tania Gionaventti PhD, and William Garnder PhD
Date and Time: May 19, 2014 4:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Suite 123

Shauna Henley

“Don’t Wash Your Chicken!” Results of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Reduce Incidence of Infectious Foodborne Diseases

Major: Biology
Chair: Michael O’Connor PhD
Committee Members: Jennifer J. Quinlan PhD, Jennifer Nasser PhD, Emmanuel Koku PhD, and Susan Stein PhD
Date and Time: December 03, 2013 8:00 AM
Location: Disque 109

Patricia Borrusso

Evaluation of the Domestic Environment as a Reservoir for Foodborne Pathogens: Identification of Consumer Practices Associated with Microbial Contamination in the Home

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Shivanthi Anandan PhD
Committee Members: Jennifer Quinlan PhD, Edward Gracely PhD, Rebecca Hoffman PhD, and Joshua Gurtley PhD
Date and Time: May 22, 2014 12:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building Room 103

Emrah Arioglu

Essays on Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

Major: Finance
Chair: Michael Gombola PhD
Committee Members: Jie Cai PhD, Naveen Daniel PhD, Eliezer Eich PhD and Yoto Yotou PhD
Date and Time: May 13, 2013 11:00 AM
Location: Academic Building Room 220

Louis L. Angelo

A Program Evaluation: Assessing the Implementation F

Major: Education
Chair: Joyce Pittman PhD
Committee Members: John Gould PhD and Charles Schwahn PhD
Date and Time: May 05, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Harrisburg Campus

Scott Alan Davidheiser

Identifying Areas for High School Teacher Development: A Study of Assesment Literacy in Central Bucks School District

Major: Education
Chair: Sarah Ulrich PhD
Committee Members: John Gould PhD andKenneth Voss PhD
Date and Time: May 16, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza, Dean’s Executive Conference Rooms

Anize M. Appel

Exploring the Effects of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic on Teacher Retention in a Zambian School

Major: Education
Chair: Roger G. Gonzalez PhD
Committee Members: John Gould PhD and Manuel Gonzalez PhD
Date and Time: May 15, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Harrisburg Campus, Room 11462

Christopher Danz

The Resiliency Education Program and Its Impact on Changing School Climate

Major: Education
Chair: Ken Mawritz PhD
Committee Members: John Gould PhD and William Rakow PhD
Date and Time: May 22, 2014 8:00 AM
Location: Harrisburg Campus

Gwanmo Ku

Efficient Control Decision fro Resource Allocation in OFDMA Networks

Major: Electrical & Computing Engineering
Chair: Steven Weber PhD
Committee Members: John MacLaren Walsh PhD, Jaudeline de Oloveira PhD, Leonard Cimini PhD, and Javier Garcia-Frias PhD
Date and Time: May 21, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Jonathan Purtle

Trauma, Stress, and Public Policy in the United States: A Mixed Methods Content Analysis of Federal Legislation, 1989 - 2009

Major: Health Management and Policy
Chair: Sandra Bloom PhD
Committee Members: John Rich PhD, Scott Barclay PhD, and Lisa Bowleg PhD
Date and Time: May 23, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: 7th Floor, Nesbitt Hall

Deepak Siromani

Crashworthy Design and Analysis of Aircraft Structures

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Tein-Min Tan PhD
Committee Members: Jonathan Awebuch PhD, Caglan Kumbur PhD, Matthew McCarthy PhD, Leslie Lamberson PhD, and Frank Moon PhD
Date and Time: December 04, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: Curtis 162

Guannan Chen

Tunable Interface Non-linear Electron Transport in Semiconductor Nanowire Heterostructure and its Application in Optoelectronics

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May PhD
Committee Members: Jonathan Spanier PhD, James Rondinelli PhD, Jason Baxter PhD, and Ritesh Agarwal PhD
Date and Time: June 10, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: PEARL 307

Christopher Reid Winkler

Exploring Mechanisms of Ferroelectric Switching in Real Time Using In Situ TEM

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May PhD
Committee Members: Jonathan Spanier PhD, Lane Martin PhD, Andrew Rappe PhD, and Mitra Taheri PhD
Date and Time: March 14, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Alumni Engineering Labs, Room 275

Wendy Renee Royer

Examining the Nature of Kindergarten Teacher and Parent Expectations for Reading Readiness: Relationships, Effects, and Perceptions

Major: Education
Chair: Dominic Gullo PhD
Committee Members: Joyce Pitman PhD and Michael Lausch PhD
Date and Time: May 29, 2014 8:00 AM
Location: TBD

Katherine Chuang

Understanding User Interaction Patterns in Health Social Media

Major: Information Science
Chair: Christopher Yang PhD
Committee Members: Jun-Ran Park PhD, Wiemao Ke PhD, Margo Orlin PhD and Jennifer Unger PhD
Date and Time: May 30, 2012 1:00 PM
Location: Rush Building

Eric D. Laird

Versatile Membranes Enabled by the Controlled Crystallization of Polymers from Carbon Nanotube Sidewalls

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Yury Gogotsi PhD
Committee Members: Karen I. Winey PhD, Kenneth K.S. Lau PhD, Caroline L. Schauer PhD, and Christopher Y. Li PhD
Date and Time: December 06, 2013 9:00 AM
Location: Curtis 341

Xue Sha

Synthesis and Characterization of Designed Polymer-Based Materials and Sensors

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley PhD
Committee Members: Karl Sohlberg PhD, Daniel King PhD, Jun Xi PhD, Alexander Sidorenko PhD, and Momea Ilies PhD
Date and Time: June 06, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall Room 103

Giola Connell Chilton

An Arts-Based Study of the Dynamics of Expressing Positive Emotions within the Intersubjective Art Making Process

Major: Creative Arts Therapy
Chair: Nancy Gerber PhD
Committee Members: Kathleen Fisher PhD, Donna Kaiser PhD, Shaun McNiff PhD, and Susan Finley PhD
Date and Time: March 07, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: 1601 Cherry Street, Room 701

Diane Price

A Phenomenological Exploration of the Experience of Caring for a Family Member with Cancer who Lived Longer Than Expected

Major: Nursing
Chair: Albert Rundio PhD
Committee Members: Kathleen Fisher PhD, Michael Dahnke PhD, Mary Ellen Glasgow PhD and Melanie Kalman PhD
Date and Time: November 21, 2012 8:30 AM
Location: TBD

Umit Koc

The Effects of the Timing of Post-Purchase Price Reductions and Brand Strength on Consumers’ Price Unfairness Perceptions

Major: Marketing
Chair: Rajneesh Suri PhD
Committee Members: Kent Monroe PhD, Rolph Anderson PhD, Srinivasan Swaminathan PhD, and Paul Jensen PhD
Date and Time: May 29, 2014 4:00 PM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Floor 9

Sharon Kelly

Addressing Relative Criteria for Miranda Waivers: A Comparison of Juvenile Justice Youths’ and Adult Offenders’ Understanding and Appreciation of the Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel during Police Investigations

Major: Psychology
Chair: Naomi Goldstein PhD
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun PhD, Dave DeMatteo PhD, Jessica Feleman PhD, and Rhonda McKiten PhD
Date and Time: May 19, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 212

Elizabeth Foster

An Examination of the Impeachment and Rehabilitation of a Character Witness Testimony

Major: Law-Psychology
Chair: David DeMatteo PhD
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun PhD, Donalf Bersoff PhD, Natalie Pedersen PhD and Jennifer Hunt PhD
Date and Time: August 07, 2013 9:00 AM
Location: Bellet Building

Sanjay Shah

“Potentially Mitigating and Aggravating: The Influence of Neurological Evidence in Capital Sentencing Hearings”

Major: Psychology
Chair: David DeMatteo PhD
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun PhD, Naomi Goldstein PhD, Maria Schultheis PhD and Paul Moberg PhD
Date and Time: March 21, 2013 2:30 PM
Location: Bellet Building, Room 1035

Thomas Heverin

Information Behaviors and Cognitive Modes Used for Cyber Situation Assessment

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Lisl Zach PhD
Committee Members: Kris Unsworth PhD, Xia Lin PhD, Denise Agosto PhD, and Lori Brainard PhD
Date and Time: June 04, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Room 014, Rush Building

David Fischer

The Intersection of Queer Identity and Mathematical Identity

Major: Education
Chair: Dominic Gullo PhD
Committee Members: Kristine Lewis Grant PhD, Ellen Clay PhD, Wes Schumar PhD and Kevin Kumashiro PhD
Date and Time: June 11, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: ODP

Imaani El-Burki

Defining Poverty: Newspaper Op-Ed and Internet Blog Discourse

Major: Culture and Communication
Chair: Co-Chairs: Rachel Reynolds PhD and Douglas Porpova PhD
Committee Members: Kristine Lewis Grant PhD, Ronald Bishop PhD and Ernest Hakanen PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: PSA 114

Lifan Guo

Semantically Enhanced Topic Modeling and it’s Applications in Social Media

Major: Information Science
Chair: Xiaohua PhD
Committee Members: Li Jiexun PhD, An Yuan PhD, Ke Weimao PhD, E.K. Park PhD, and Lisa Ulmer PhD
Date and Time: October 21, 2013 1:30 PM
Location: Rush Building, Room 014

Leonard Michael Spearing

A Study of the Relationship of Perceived Principal Supervision and Support to the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Beginning and Experienced K-12 Teachers

Major: Education
Chair: Michel Miller O’Neal PhD
Committee Members: Lois A. Severino PhD, Marion Dugan PhD, Francis T. Harvey PhD and Charles Lambert PhD
Date and Time: May 30, 2012 3:00 PM
Location: Lebow Executive Conference Room

Ernest Mamilconyan

Mass Function of Star Clusters in merging Galaxies

Major: Physics
Chair: Steve McMillan PhD
Committee Members: Lois Cruz Cruz PhD, Mercedes Mac-Low PhD, Somder Tyasi PhD, and Emrico Vesperini PhD
Date and Time:
Location: TBD

William Trevor King

Open Source Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy

Major: Physics
Chair: Jian-Min Yuan PhD
Committee Members: Luis Cruz Cruz PhD, Somdev Tyagi PhD, Michel Ballieres PhD and Jun Xi PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: Disque 109

Siobhan Toal

Defining Disorder and Order in the Unfolded State Using Short Model Peptides and Spectroscopic Techniques

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Karl Sohlberg PhD
Committee Members: Lynn Penn PhD, Daniel King PhD, Haileng Ji PhD, and Brigita Vibar PhD
Date and Time: August 28, 2014 2:30 PM
Location: Location TBA

Mirlinda Biba

Chromatographic Analysis and Separation of Short RNA Oligonucleotides with Novel Liquid Chromatography Methods

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Frank Ji PhD
Committee Members: Lynn Penn PhD, Kevin Owens PhD, Reinhard Schwitzer-Stenner PhD, Peter DeCarlo PhD, and James Canary PhD
Date and Time: June 05, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Curtis 341

James DeNicco

Essays on Jobless Recovery

Major: Economics
Chair: Chris Laincz PhD
Committee Members: Maria Olivero PhD, Mark Stehr PhD, Bang Jeon PhD and Scott Pressler PhD
Date and Time: May 13, 2013 1:00 PM
Location: Location TBA

Deborah Green

Auditory P50: A potential biomarker of early Alzheimer’s disease and relationship to cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid and tau

Major: Psychology
Chair: John Kounios PhD
Committee Members: Maria Schultheis PhD, Jennifer Gallo PhD, David Wolk PhD, Paul Moberg PhD, and Robi Polikar PhD
Date and Time: June 18, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Raiston House (Penn Memory Center), Room 241

Lindsay Lawer Shea

Investigating the Healthcare Experience of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Transition to Adulthood

Major: Health Management and Policy
Chair: Robert Field PhD
Committee Members: Mariana Chilton PhD, Darryl Brown PhD, Craig Newschaffer PhD, and Michael Howley PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 719

Steven Battle

Energy Efficient Scaling of Out-of-Order Processor Resources

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Baris Taskin PhD
Committee Members: Mark Hempstead PhD, Andrew (Drew) Hilton PhD, Kapil Dandekar PhD, and Naga Kandasamy PhD
Date and Time: August 22, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Christina I. Awosan

Never Married Heterosexual Black Male-Female Intimate Romantic Experiences: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Kenneth V. Hardy PhD
Committee Members: Dr. Marlene Watson, Dr. Robert Palisano, Dr. Adisa Ajamu, Dr. Cynthia Chestnut, and Dr. Kyle Killian
Date and Time: May 09, 2014 12:00 PM
Location: TBD

Ashley Johnson

An Epigenetic Role for Tip60 HAT in Neurodevelopment and Neurogeneration

Major: Biology
Chair: Aleister Saunders PhD
Committee Members: Mart Fortini PhD, Joe Beotz PhD, Daniel Marenda PhD, and Felice Elefant PhD
Date and Time: November 11, 2013 11:00 AM
Location: PISB 103

Clara Granda-Cameron

Risk Factors Associated with Unplanned Hospital Readmission in Adult Cancer Patients

Major: Nursing
Chair: Albert Rundio PhD
Committee Members: Mary Hovinga PhD and Maryam Behta PhD
Date and Time: December 09, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: College of Nursing and Health Professions

Lauren Bradley

A Remote Acceptance-Based Intervention for Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery

Major: Psychology
Chair: Evan Forum PhD
Committee Members: Meghan Butryn PhD, David Sawer PhD, James Herbert PhD, and J. Graham Thomas PhD
Date and Time: September 12, 2013 8:30 AM
Location: Stratton Hall

Gregory Alan Vetterick

Radiation Damage in Nanocrystalline Iron Thin Films

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Garret Tucker PhD
Committee Members: Michael Barsoum PhD, Christopher Weinberger PhD, Mitra Taheri PhD, Amit Misra PhD, and Marquis Kirk PhD
Date and Time: May 05, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: TBA

Michael Naguib Abdelmalak

MXenes: A New Family of Two-Dimensional Materials and its Application as Electrodes for Li-ion Batteries

Major: Materials Science & Engineering
Chair: Steven May PhD
Committee Members: Michael Barsoum PhD, Yury Gogotsi PhD, Ying Sun PhD, and Patrice Simon PhD
Date and Time: April 18, 2014 9:30 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Seyed Emad Adin Khazraee Afzali

Archaeology of Archaeology: A Study of Archaeological Knowledge in Practice

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Susan Gasson PhD
Committee Members: Michael Khoo PhD, Delia Neuman PhD, Roderick Campbell PhD, and Ian Hodder PhD
Date and Time: June 06, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Rush Building Room 014

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

Ramona Stammermann

High Resolution Numerical Models of Marshes in the Delaware Bay

Major: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Chair: Franco Montalto PhD
Committee Members: Michael Piasecki PhD, Richard Weggel PhD, Christopher Sommerfield PhD and Jerry Mead PhD
Date and Time: June 11, 2013 9:00 AM
Location: Alumni Engineering Labs 275

Rachel M. Kratzer

Mean and Extreme Radio Properties and the Origin of Radio Emissions

Major: Physics
Chair: Gordon Richards PhD
Committee Members: Michael Vogeley PhD, David Goldberg PhD, Brigita Urbanc PhD, and Richard White PhD
Date and Time: June 11, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Disque 919

Babak Anasori

Fabrication and Mechanical Properties of Magnesium Alloy Composites Reinforced with TiC and Ti2AIC Properties

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Antonios Zavaliangos PhD
Committee Members: Michael W. Barsoum PhD, Roger Doherty PhD, Mitra Taheri PhD, Antonios Kontsos PhD, and Suveen Mathaudhu PhD
Date and Time: May 29, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 108

Ghasideh Pourhashem

Life Cycle Environmental, Economic Evaluation of Emerging ligonocellulosie Biorefinery Products with Consideration of temporal Effects on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Sabsina Spatasi PhD
Committee Members: Michael Waring PhD, Nicholas Cernansky PhD, Richard Caincross PhD, and Peter DeCarlo PhD
Date and Time: November 25, 2013 9:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Michael Zarro

A Conceptual Model of Online Information Behavior in the Chronic Disease Transectory

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Xia Lin PhD
Committee Members: Michelle Rogers PhD, Aleksandra Saracevic PhD, Kristene Unsworth PhD, and Bo Xie PhD
Date and Time: August 29, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Rush Building, Room 009

Kevin Freedman

The Study of Single Molecule Protein Biophysics Using Solid-State Nanopores

Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams PhD
Committee Members: Minjun Kim PhD, Irvin Chaiken PhD, Raj Mutharasan PhD, and Steven Wrenn PhD
Date and Time: December 05, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: CAT 61

Neha Sunger

Quantitative Health Risk Assessment of Exposure to Recreational Water in the Philadelphia Area

Major: Civil, Architectural and Environment Engineering
Chair: Charley N. Haas PhD
Committee Members: Mira Olsen PhD, Patrick Gurian PhD, Franco Montalto PhD and Timothy Barwand PhD
Date and Time: January 15, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: Curtis Room 275

Steven Richard Spurgeon

Correlating Interfacial Structure and Magnetism in the Film Oxide Heterostructures Using Transmission Electron Microscopy and Polarized Neutron Reflectometry

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May PhD
Committee Members: Mitra Taheri PhD, James Rondinelli PhD, Jonathan Spanier PhD, Brian Kirby PhD, and Samuel Lofland PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 9:00 AM
Location: PISB 108

Nicholas Paparoidumis

Chemistry of allyl nitrate esters, B-nitroacetamides, and various other nitro compounds

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Frank Ji PhD
Committee Members: Monica Ilies PhD, Jeon-Claude Bradley PhD, Daniel King PhD, Joseph Salvino PhD, and Gary Molander PhD
Date and Time: November 13, 2013 12:00 PM
Location: CAT 061

Justin G. Mathew

The Biochemical Stimuli on Plasminogen System Activity: Implications for Drecreased Angiogenesis in Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Alisa Morss-Clyne PhD
Committee Members: Moses Noh PhD, Alan Lau PhD, Aleister Saunders PhD, and Margaret Wheatley PhD
Date and Time: May 29, 2014 11:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room, Curtis 162

Ankit More

Network-on-Chip Architectures (NoCs) for Exa-scale Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs)

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Harish Sethu PhD
Committee Members: Nagarajan Kandasamy PhD, Mark Hempstead PhD, Caglan Kumbur PhD and Baris Taskin PhD
Date and Time: May 17, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Jared Langevin

Human Behavior and Low Energy Architecture: Linking Environmental Adaptation, Personal Comfort, and Energy Use in the Built

Major: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Chair: Jin Wen PhD
Committee Members: Patrick Gurian PhD, Michael Wanky PhD, Tom Hewitt PhD, and Tianzhen Hong PhD
Date and Time: May 29, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: PISB 103

Molly Hessan

Reservoir Optimization and Model Performance Metrics

Major: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Chair: Mira Olsen PhD
Committee Members: Patrick Gurian PhD, Sabrina Spatari PhD, Mark Maimone PhD and Chris Crockett PhD
Date and Time:
Location: TBD

Thomas William Mather

“An Ensemble Approach Towards Dynamic Task Assignment for Many Robot Systems”

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: M. Ani Hsieh PhD
Committee Members: Paul Oh PhD, Antonios Kontsos PhD, John Lacontora PhD and Youngmoo Kim PhD
Date and Time: April 17, 2013 8:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

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

Monique Bell

Self-Enhancement and Self-Transcendence Organizational Values’ Effects on Customer Satisfaction and Corporate Reputation

Major: Marketing
Chair: Hyokjin Kwak PhD
Committee Members: Pavin Nath PhD, Trina Andras PhD, Rolph Anderson PhD and Charles Taylor PhD
Date and Time: May 16, 2013 10:30 AM
Location: 3600 Market Street, Conference Room 704

Cynthia Paul

Redesigning Middle School Mathematics in an Urban Charter School: A Case Study

Major: Education
Chair: Sheila Vaidya PhD
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich PhD, Rajashi Ghosh PhD, Sharri Maskow PhD and Arlene Holtz PhD
Date and Time: May 22, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: Location TBA

Mohit Sehgal

IFN-Alpha Induced Down Regulation of miR-221 in Dendritic for HCV Pathogenesis and Treatment Response

Major: Biology
Chair: Aleister Saunders PhD
Committee Members: Pooja Jain PhD, Zalar Khan PhD, Timothy Block PhD, Anand Mehta PhD, and Siddharth Balanchandran PhD
Date and Time: September 12, 2014 12:00 PM
Location: PISB Room 103

Ying Teng

Low Power Resonant Rotary Global Clock Distribution Network Design

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Naga Kandasamy PhD
Committee Members: Pravat Nagyajara PhD, Antonios Kontsos PhD, Mark Hempstead PhD, and Baris Taskin PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 605

Aleksander Kecojevic

Prescription Drug Misuse and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (YMSM)

Major: Public Health
Chair: Stephen Lankenau PhD
Committee Members: Randall Sell PhD, Augusta Villaneuva PhD, Seth Welles PhD, and Judy Morrissor
Date and Time: April 24, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: CHP Conference Room, 4th Floor Nesbitt Hall

Tanya Lewis-Walls

Relationship between Psychosocial Factors and Diabetes Testing Compliane in an Insured Population

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Augusta Villaneuva PhD
Committee Members: Randy Sell PhD, Michael Yudell PhD, Edward Gracely PhD and Deneen Vojta
Date and Time: May 16, 2013 12:00 PM
Location: TBD

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

Kelly E. Jones

The Relationship Between Executive Functioning and Adaptive Functioning in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease

Major: Psychology
Chair: Brian Daly PhD
Committee Members: Reem Tarazi PhD, David Matteo PhD, Douglas Chute PhD, and Jacqueline Kloss PhD
Date and Time: November 13, 2013 11:00 AM
Location: Stratton 315

Natalie Dixon

Bio-Inspired Modulation of Tris(triazolyl) borate’s Electronic Properties Resulting in Enhanced Reactivity of CU (I/II) and other transition Metal Complexes

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Anthony Addison PhD
Committee Members: Reinhard Schweitzer-Steiner PhD, Peter Wade PhD, Joe Foley PhD, Don King PhD, and Klaus Theupold PhD
Date and Time: November 08, 2013 1:30 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

Molly O’Connor

Chiral and Achibal Cu (11) and Ni (11) Complexes with Novel Multidentate Ligands

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Elizabeth Papish PhD
Committee Members: Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner PhD, Daniel King PhD, Lynn Penn PhD, Joe Foley PhD and Ann Valentine PhD
Date and Time: July 01, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall Room 109

Blake N. Johnson

Piezoelectric Cantilever-like Micro-biosensors for RNA Detection in Complex Liquids

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams PhD
Committee Members: Richard Cairncross PhD, Raj Mutharason PhD, Ponzy Lu PhD, Tein-Min Tan PhD and Robert Coilmore PhD
Date and Time: May 31, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: Speitel Conference Room 231

Avinash J. Dalal

Quantum and Affine Schubert Calculus and Macdonald Polynomials

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Jennifer Morse PhD
Committee Members: Robert Boyer PhD, Eric Scmutz PhD, Jonah Blasiak PhD, and Amy Myers PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Location TBD

Hua Chang

The Brand is Mine: Development and Validation of a Measure of Brand Ownership

Major: Marketing
Chair: Hyokjin Kwak PhD
Committee Members: Rolph Anderson PhD, Trina Larsen Andras PhD, Bert Rosenbloom PhD, Charles Taylor PhD, and Marina Puzakova PhD
Date and Time: May 30, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Room 722, Gerri C. LeBow Hall

Alison N. Novak

Generation Undecided: Millennial Discourses and Media Reactions to Changing Political Norms

Major: Culture and Communication
Chair: Ernest A. Hakanen PhD
Committee Members: Ronald Bishop PhD, Barbara J. Hoekje PhD, Sean Goggins PhD, and Kathleen Kendall PhD
Date and Time: May 16, 2014 12:00 PM
Location: PSA 114

Kimberly Nolan

Forward and Inverse Born Series for Diffuse, Scalar and Electromagnetic Waves

Major: Mathematics
Chair: J. Douglas Wright PhD
Committee Members: Ronald Perline PhD, Shari Moskow PhD, R. Andrew Hicks PhD, David Ambrose PhD and John Schotland PhD
Date and Time:
Location: TBD

Amy Glasofer

The Effect of a Business Process Management Enabled Clinical Decision Support System on the Adoption of a Protocol for Nurse-Directed Urinary Catheter Removal

Major: Nursing Science
Chair: Roberta Waite PhD
Committee Members: Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili PhDand Laura Wood PhD
Date and Time: June 12, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: TBA

Coleman Krawcyzk

Spectral Energy Distributions, Dust, and Black Hole Properties: A Statistical, Multi-Wavelength Quasar Analysis

Major: Physics
Chair: Gordon Richards PhD
Committee Members: Shyamalendu Bose PhD, David Goldbog PhD, and Michael Vogeley PhD
Date and Time: September 04, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall Room 919

Sam Kennerly

Stochastic Models of Quantum Decoherence

Major: Physics
Chair: Robert Gilmore PhD
Committee Members: Shyamalendu Bose PhD, Somdev Tyagi PhD, Georgi Medyedev PhD and Daniel Cross PhD
Date and Time: June 06, 2013 8:00 AM
Location: TBD

Chintan Oza

Platicity of Trunk Motor Lortex as a Result of Spinal Cord Injury and Robot Rehabilitation Training

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Barbee PhD
Committee Members: Simar Giszter PhD, Michel Lemay PhD, Joshua Jacobs PhD and Hualou Liang PhD
Date and Time: May 24, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 709

Arun Ramakrishnan

Afferent Effects in Wipe Reflex Corrections

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Rahamim Seliktar PhD
Committee Members: Simon Giszter PhD, Michel Lemay PhD, Iyla A. Rybak PhD and Joshua Jacobs PhD
Date and Time: June 05, 2013 8:00 AM
Location: TBD

Rui Wang

Power and Performance Management of Large-Scale Virtualized Server Clusters

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Harish Sethu PhD
Committee Members: Dr. Spiros Mancondis, Dr. Chris Nwampka, Dr. Baris Taskin, Dr. Steven Weber and Dr. Nagarajan Kandasamy
Date and Time: June 11, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Doruk Baykal

Tribological Assessment of Hydrogels for Replacing Damanges Articular Cartilage

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Adrian Shieh PhD
Committee Members: Steve Kurtz PhD, Michele Marcolongo PhD, Rahamin Seliktar PhD, Sriram Balasubramanian PhD and Nancy Pleshko PhD
Date and Time: March 13, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone 709

Amalie Elizabeth Donius

Structure-Property-Processing Correlations in Chitosan-based Porous Hybrid Materials

Major:
Chair: Caroline Schauer PhD
Committee Members: Steven May PhD, Antonios Zavaliangos PhD, Margaret Wheatley PhD, Daniel Gianola PhD, Ulrike Wegst PhD
Date and Time: November 19, 2012 9:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Erik Brewer

Assessing the Transport of Receptor-Medicated Drug Delivery Devices Across Cellular Monolayers

Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chair: Guiseppe Palmese PhD
Committee Members: Steven Wrenn PhD, Anthony Lowman PhD, Yossef Elabd PhD, and Aleister Saunders PhD
Date and Time: February 27, 2014 4:00 PM
Location: Location TBD

Yamuna Baburaj

Essays on Complementary Product and Strategies

Major: Management
Chair: V.K. Narayanana PhD
Committee Members: Sucheta Nadkarni PhD, Daniel Tzabbar PhD, Konstantinos Serfes PhD, and Susan Cohen Kaczka PhD
Date and Time: June 03, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room 722

Naomi Hampson

Porosity, Mineralization, Tissue Type and Morphology Interactions at the Human Tibial Cortex

Major: Anatomy and Neuroscience
Chair: Haviva Goldman PhD
Committee Members: Surya Kalidindi PhD, Richard Knight PhD, Antonios Zavaliangos PhD, and Karl Jepsen PhD
Date and Time: November 26, 2013 9:30 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Karen Sullam

Patterns, causes and consequences of variation in trophic traits and gut microbial communities among fish

Major: Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science
Chair: Jacob Russell PhD
Committee Members: Susan Kilham PhD, James Spotila PhD, Michael O’Connor PhD and Catherine Pringle PhD
Date and Time: November 05, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: PISB 103

Andrew Bergan

Test and Analysis of Stitched Composite Structures to Assess Damage Containment Capability

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Jonathan Awerbuch PhD
Committee Members: Tein-min Tan PhD, Sorin Siegler PhD, Christopher Weinberger PhD, Emin Aktan PhD, and Ivan Bartoli PhD
Date and Time: August 05, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room, Curtis Hall

Cynthia Gifford-Hollingsworth

Resilience and Adjustment during Transition to College: Comparison of Emerging Adults with an without a Sibling with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Major: Nursing Science
Chair: Ellen Giarelli PhD
Committee Members: Thomas Hardie PhD and Wendy Plante PhD
Date and Time: May 27, 2014 12:00 PM
Location: New College Building 11th Floor, Biochemistry Conference Room

Ann Marie Kriebel-Gasparro

Advanced Practice Nurses Knowledge, Barriers and Facilitators to Screening for Bipolar Disorder in the Primary Care Setting

Major: Nursing Science
Chair: H. Michael Dreher PhD
Committee Members: Thomas Hardie PhD, Carolee Polek PhD
Date and Time: May 19, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Bellet Building

Theodoros Katernikakis

Fight in the Basic Model of Communication: Cockpit Acts of Conversation, Trust, and Crisis Interaction

Major: Communication, Culture and Media
Chair: Douglas Porpora PhD
Committee Members: Thomas Hewitt PhD, Emmanuel Koku PhD, Alan Zemel PhD, and Janeen Kochan PhD
Date and Time: September 02, 2014 1:00 PM
Location: PSA Building Room 114

Kaloyan Popov

Size Determination of Dielectric Particles Using White Light Spectroscopy

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Adam Fontecchio PhD
Committee Members: Timothy Kurzweg PhD, Kapil Dandekar PhD, Gary Friedman PhD, Cheng Cheng PhD, Edwin Gerber PhD
Date and Time: October 16, 2012 8:00 AM
Location: TBD

Christopher M. Korpela

Environmental Interaction with a Mobile Manipulating Umanned Aerial Vehicle (MM-UAV)

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Youngmoo Kim PhD
Committee Members: Timothy Kurzweg PhD, Paul Kalata PhD, Paul Oh PhD, and Drew Winlkerson PhD
Date and Time: May 02, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: ECE 203

Xia Zhou

Exploring the Impact of Negative Comparative Word-of-Mouth on Marketing Communications

Major: Marketing
Chair: Hyokjin Kwak PhD
Committee Members: Trina Andras PhD, Rolph Anderson PhD, Bert Rosenbloom PhD and Joseph Rocereto PhD
Date and Time: May 03, 2013 3:00 PM
Location: Conference Room 736, 3600 Market Street

Jianhong Chen

It Is About Time! TMT Temporal Orientation and Competitive Behaviors

Major: Management
Chair: Sucheta Nadkami PhD
Committee Members: V.K. Narayanan PhD, Daniel Tzabbar PhD, Christian Resick PhD, Zeki Simsek PhD, and Ming-Jer Chen PhD
Date and Time: April 07, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: GHALL 722 – Colloquium Room

Chau D. Tran

Fabrication of Porous Carbon Nanofibers and their Composite on Electrodes for Supercapacitors

Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams PhD
Committee Members: Vibha Kalia PhD, Yossef Elabd PhD, Mithra Taheri PhD, and Christopher Li PhD
Date and Time: May 30, 2013 1:00 PM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Oren Leaffer

Resonance Spectroscopy

Major: Material Science and Engineering
Chair: Antonios Zavaliangos PhD
Committee Members: Wei Shih PhD, Jonathan Spanier PhD, Steven May PhD, Mitra Taheri PhDand Livneh PhD
Date and Time: February 21, 2013 3:00 PM
Location: Location TBA

John Robert Vogel

Essays on Empirical Finance

Major: Finance
Chair: Daniel Dorn PhD
Committee Members: Wesley Gray PhD, Jennifer Juergens PhD, David Becher PhD, and Yoto Yotov PhD
Date and Time: January 07, 2014 3:30 PM
Location: Location TBA

James W. Malazita

Ontic Cultures: Otology, Science Fiction, and the Digital Design Community

Major: Culture & Communication
Chair: Douglas Porpora PhD
Committee Members: Wesley Shumar PhD, Mary Ebeling PhD, Brent Luvaas PhD, Mimi Sheller PhD, and Glen Muschio
Date and Time: May 07, 2014 3:30 PM
Location: Room 114

Daniel Parry

A Polynomial Variation of Meinardus Theorem

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Robert Boyer PhD
Committee Members: Wladimir Pribitkin PhD, David Ambrose PhD, Doug Wright PhD, and Eric Schmutz PhD
Date and Time: May 28, 2014 3:00 PM
Location: Korman 245

Ilya Michael Waldstein

The Role of Context in Ontology Engineering and Evaluation

Major: Information Science
Chair: Rosina Weber PhD
Committee Members: Xia Lin PhD, Jung-ran Park PhD, Michael Rogers PhD and Larry Kerschberg PhD
Date and Time: May 20, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: Rush Building 014

Francis Richey

Ion Dynamics in Electrochemical Capacitors Using Infrared Spectroelectorchemistry

Major: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Lau PhD
Committee Members: Y. A. Elabd PhD, Vibha Kalra PhD, Yury Gogotsi PhD, and Chris Li PhD
Date and Time: April 07, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: TBD

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

Wonjin Jo

Fabrication and Characterization of Nanomaterial: Biologically Inspired Silica Nanotubes Using Flegella as Bio-templates

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Min Jun Kim PhD
Committee Members: Ying Sun PhD, Matthew McCarthy PhD, Ming Xiao PhD and Christopher Li PhD
Date and Time: May 24, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Dal Hyung Kim

Control of Tetrahymena Pyriformis as a Cellular Microrobot Using Various Stimuli at Low Reynolds Numbers

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: MinJun Kim PhD
Committee Members: Young Cho PhD, Alan C.W. Lau PhD, M. Ani Hsieh PhD and Gail Rosen PhD
Date and Time: March 08, 2013 10:00 AM
Location: Curtis 162

Kirill Gutsol

Plasma Dissociation of Hydrogen Selfide

Major: Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics
Chair: Alexander Fridman PhD
Committee Members: Young Cho PhD, Nicholas Cernanky PhD, Gary Friedman PhD, and Alexander Rabinovich PhD
Date and Time: June 13, 2014 10:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Kiwon Sohn

Optimization of Humanoid’s Motions Under Multiple Constraints in Vehicle Handling Task

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Chair: Paul Oh PhD
Committee Members: Youngmoo Kim PhD, Harry Kwatny PhD, B.C. Chang PhD, and Ani Hsieh PhD
Date and Time: May 14, 2014 8:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

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

Robert W. Ellenberg

A Stability Estimator to Unify Humanoid Locomotion: Walking, Stair Climbing, and Ladder Climbing

Major: Mechanical Engineering and Mechnics
Chair: Paul Oh PhD
Committee Members: Youngmoo Kim PhD, M. Ani Hsieh PhD, Sorin Siegler PhD, and Harry Kwanty PhD
Date and Time: May 07, 2014 9:00 AM
Location: Curtis 161

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

Jia Huang

Item Recommendation with Contextual Information

Major: Computing and Informatics
Chair: Xiaohua Hu PhD
Committee Members: Yuan An PhD, Weimao Ke PhD, Lisa Ulmer PhD, and Erija Yan PhD
Date and Time: May 21, 2014 1:30 PM
Location: Rush 014

Zhong Huang

Biomedical Information Extraction: Mining Disease Associated Genes from Literature

Major: Information Science
Chair: Xiaohua Hu PhD
Committee Members: Yuan An PhD, Zekarias Berhane PhD, Gasson Susan PhD, and Wiemao Ke PhD
Date and Time: February 05, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: Drexel IST Conference Room 014

John McDonough

Onion-like Caron for Electrochemical Capacitors

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May PhD
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi PhD, Caroline Schauer PhD, Gary Friedman PhD, and Jorge Santiagio-Auiles PhD
Date and Time: June 11, 2014 2:00 PM
Location: PISB 106

Riju M. Singhal

Carbon Nanotube Based Devices for Intracellular Analysis

Major: Material Science & Engineering
Chair: Christopher Li PhD
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi PhD, Gary Friedman PhD, Antonios Zavaliangos PhD and Eric Borgvret PhD
Date and Time: January 04, 2013 11:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow Room 240

Zeinab Mohamad Baba

Examining Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening Rates in a Program Designed to Provide Free Care to women in the State of Pennsylvania

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Lisa Ulmer PhD
Committee Members: Zekarias Berhane PhD, Ari Brooks PhD, Jackie Greggs-Walden PhD, and Carolee Polek PhD
Date and Time: May 27, 2014 12:00 PM
Location: CHP Conference Room, 4th Floor, Nesbitt Hall

Carol Larach

Utilization of Behavioral Health Services among Medicaid-Eligible Women with Pre-Existing Psychiatric Disorder during Perinatal Period

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Randall Sell PhD
Committee Members: Zekarias Berhane PhD, Cathy Bolton PhD, James Coyne PhD and Renee Turchi PhD
Date and Time: May 08, 2013 3:30 PM
Location: Bellet Building, 1515 Race Street, 13th Floor, North Wing Conference Room

Waquar Ahmad

Essays on Corporate Governance

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Jaqueline Garner PhD
Committee Members: Michael Gombola PhD, Ralph Walkling PhD, David Beecher PhD, Jie (Jay) Cat PhD and Teresa Harrison PhD
Date and Time: December 07, 2012 9:30 AM
Location: 3600 Market Street, Room 704

Hasti Majidi

Extremely Thin Absorber Solar Cells

Major: ?
Chair: Jason Baxter PhD
Committee Members: Masoud Soroush, Kenneth Lau PhD, Jonathan Spanier PhD and Cherie Kagan PhD
Date and Time: November 19, 2012 1:00 PM
Location: Curtis MEM Seminar Room

Joshua McKeever

Prospective Memory Acquisition in Multiple Sclerosis

Major: Psychology
Chair: Maria Schultheis PhD, Jennifer Gallo PhD, Tania Giovannetti PhD, Mary Spiers PhD, and Steve Paul Woods
Committee Members: Stratton Building, Suite 123
Date and Time: May 20, 2014 4:00 PM
Location: TBD

Candice Cooper

A Retrospective Study on African American Experiences of Witnessing Male to Female Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) as Low-Income Youth and the Impact on Adolescent Self-Identity and Development

Major:
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: December 11, 2012 10:00 AM
Location: Bellet Building, Room 209

Fred Brako

Examining Gender Role Beliefs and Marital Satisfaction of Ghanaian Immigrants in the U.S.

Major:
Chair:
Committee Members: TBD
Date and Time: November 30, 2012 2:00 PM
Location: Bellet Building, Room 209

Sheila Pirooznia

An Epigenetic Role for Tip60 in APP Mediated Neuronal Processes

Major: Biology
Chair: Aleister Saunders PhD
Committee Members: TBD
Date and Time: January 14, 2013 2:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building Room 103

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maria Raquel Catalano de Sousa

Assessing Green-Infrastructure as an effective strategy to help cities to build resilience to climate change

Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Dr. Franco Montalto
Committee Members: Dr. Patrick Gurian, Dr. Sabrina Spatari, Dr. Matt Palmer, and Dr. David Zee
Date and Time: October 15, 2015 6:00 PM
Location:

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

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:

Linda Celia

Discharge Readiness in Heart Failure Patients

Major: Nursing Science
Chair: Albert Rundio
Committee Members: Mary Lou McHugh
Date and Time: November 09, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Bellet Building

Xiwang Li

Net-Zero Building Cluster Simulations and On-Line Energy Forecasting for Adaptive and Real-Time Control and Decisions

Major: Architectural Engineering
Chair: Jin Wen
Committee Members: Patrick Gurain, Michael Waring, Er-Wei Bai, and Teresa Wu
Date and Time: October 29, 2015 12:30 PM
Location: AEL 275 (Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Conference Room)

Tingshan Huang

Adaptive Sampling and Statistical Inference for Anomaly Detection

Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair: Steven Weber
Committee Members: Nagarajan Kandasamy, Spiros Mancoridis, Harish Sethu, Matthew Stamm
Date and Time: November 20, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Cyndi Reed Rickards

Examining the Efficacy of 21st Century Higher Education Acquisition as a Result of Democratic Engagement within a Side-by-Side Community-Based Learning Course

Major: Education
Chair: Dr. Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Dr. Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro and Dr. Char Gray
Date and Time: October 07, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: McAllister Hall, Conference Room 4020

Zhou Meng

Mass Action Kinetic Analysis of P-Glycoprotein Mediated Transport Through Confluent Cell Monolayers

Major: Biology
Chair: Dr. Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Dr. Joe Bentz, Dr. Harma Ellens, Dr. Elias Spillotis, Dr. Tali Gidalevitz
Date and Time: November 20, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 215

Elizabeth Manders

Movement Synchrony and Interaction Quality in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Mixed Methods Secondary Analysis of Partnered Activities in Dance/Movement Therapy

Major: Creative Arts Therapy
Chair: Sharon Goodill
Committee Members: Kathleen Fisher, Ellen Giarelli, Marcia Polansky, and Sabine Koch.
Date and Time: January 21, 2016 10:30 AM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 903

Brandon Terranova

Physics and Applications of a 3D Plasmonic Nanostructure

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Tim Kurzway
Committee Members: Adam Fontecchio, Kapil Dandekar, Gray Friedman, and Ying Sun
Date and Time: November 03, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Joseph Lambert

Correlated Electron Phenomena in 2D Materials

Major: Physics
Chair: Goran Karapertov
Committee Members: Roberto Ramos, Shyamalendu Bose, A.T. Charlie Johnson, and Yury Gogotsi.
Date and Time: December 07, 2015 3:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

John DeVitis

The Design and Development of a Rapid Modal Testing System for Efficient Structural Identification of Highway Bridges

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Franklin Moon
Committee Members: Tein-Min Tan, Ahmet Emin Aktan, Yared Bayleyegn, and Ivan Bartoli
Date and Time: December 01, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Kimberlee Marcellus

An Evaluation of Material Stocks and Flows Found during Construction and Demolition Activities in the Philadelphia Region of the United States

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Sabrina Spatari
Committee Members: Patricia Gallagher, Joseph Martin, Mira Olsen, and Liv Hasselbach
Date and Time: December 14, 2015 3:00 PM
Location: AEL 275

Xiaobo Bai

Regulation of Microtubule Organization and Microtubule-dependent Transport by Septin 9

Major: Biology
Chair: Aleister Sanders
Committee Members: Elias Spiliotis, Daniel Marenda, Joseph Bentz, Jennifer Stanford, and Kenneth Myers.
Date and Time: December 07, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: PISB, Room 103

Mikhail Sher

Inventory Management and Supply Chain Coordination Mechanisms

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Seung-Lae Kim
Committee Members: Avijit Banerjee, Thomas McWilliams, Bruce McCullough, and Erik Benrud
Date and Time: November 16, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Lebow GHALL, Room 409

Kamelia Aryafar

Multimodal Information Retrieval

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Ali Shokoufandeh
Committee Members: Dario Salvucci, Sanitago Ontanon, Tony Hu, and Jeremy Johnson
Date and Time: December 01, 2015 8:00 AM
Location: University Crossings, Room 153

Bryan Spinelli

Shoulder Complex Motion and Coordination Impairments, and the Associated Clinical Factors in Women with a History of Breast Cancer Treatment

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: David Ebaugh
Committee Members: Sheri Silfies, Sue Smith, Linda Jacobs, and Ari Brooks
Date and Time: December 18, 2015 9:00 AM
Location:

Ahmet Can Sitik

Design and Automation of Voltage-Scaled Clock Distribution Networks

Major: Computer Engineering
Chair: Nagarajan Kandasamy
Committee Members: Baris Taskin, Ioannis Savidis, Prawat Nagvajara, and Emin Kumbur
Date and Time: December 04, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 303

Gayle Jean Logan

An Exploration of Healthcare Providers Values and Beliefs That Impact Treatment Recommendations for Older Adults with Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

Major: Nursing
Chair: Al Rundio
Committee Members: Maureen Davey, and Sharon Byrne
Date and Time: November 12, 2015 12:00 PM
Location:

John Alamia

Detection of Stale Channel State Information in Free Space Optical Interconnects using Space-time Block Coding

Major: Electrical and Computing Engineering
Chair: Adam Fontecchio
Committee Members: Timothy Kurzweg, Kapil Dandekar, Baris Taskin, and Som Tyagi
Date and Time: November 12, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: Korman, Room 115

Shokouh Pourarian

Tools for Evaluating Fault Detection and Diagnostic Methods for HVAC Secondary Systems of a Net Zero Building

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Jin Wen
Committee Members: Patrick Gurian, Michael Waring, Amanda Pertzborn, and Xiaohui Zhou
Date and Time: November 12, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: AEL, Room 275

Quinn Cunningham

The Effects of Surface-level and Deep-level Team Faultline Strength on Information Elaboration and Effectiveness: Examining the Moderating Role of Leader Sensemaking and Team Prosocial Motivation and the Mediating Role of Transactive Memory Systems

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Christian Resick
Committee Members: Jeff Greenhaus, Jonathan Ziegert, Mary Mawritz, Sucheta Nadkarni, and Steve Zaccaro
Date and Time: November 23, 2015 9:30 AM
Location: GHALL 408

Farinaz Farid

The Low Temperature Oxidation and Intermediate Temperature Pyrolysis of n-Decane and 2, 7-Dimethyloctane in a Pressurized Flow Reactor

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: David Miller
Committee Members: Nicholas Cernansky, Hongseok Noh, E. Caglan Kumbar, and Sabrina Spatari
Date and Time: November 20, 2015 3:00 PM
Location: MEM Seminar Room, Curtis 162

Nora Madison

Technologies of Visibility: New Mediations of Bisexuality

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Wesley Shumar
Committee Members: Brent Luvaas, Doug Porpora, Rachel Reynolds, and David Fryer
Date and Time: January 15, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: PSA Building (33rd & Powelton)

Mohammad Bolhassani

Improvement of Seismic Performance of Ordinary Reinforced Partially Grouted Masonry Shear Walls

Major: Cival Engineering
Chair: Ahmad Hamid
Committee Members: Franklin Moon, Aspasia Zerva, Ivan Bartoli, and Alan Lau
Date and Time: November 30, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow 240

Benjamin Kilham

The Social Behavior of the American Black Bear (Ursus Americanus)

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Sean O'Donnell
Committee Members: James Spotila, Walk Bien, Susan Kilham, and George Schaller
Date and Time: December 04, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: PISB 112

Michael Webb

Perceptions of MOOC Learning for Employability: Public Education as Microcosm

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Rebecca Clothey
Committee Members: Kristen Bells, Scott Warnock
Date and Time: November 16, 2015 11:00 AM
Location: ODP Room 141

David Masceri

Examination of Bridge Performance through the Extension of Simulation Modeling and Structural Identification to Large Populations of Structures

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Franklin Moon
Committee Members: Alan Lau, Emin Aktar, Ivan Bartoli, and Yared Shifferaw
Date and Time: December 08, 2015 2:00 PM
Location: AEL 275

Maria Lukatskaya

Capacitive Performance of Two-Dimensional Metal Carbides

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Michel Barsoum, Gennady Friedman, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, and Patrice Simon
Date and Time: December 08, 2015 10:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Taha Mohseni Ahooyi

Data-Based Probabilistic Modeling of Process Systems with Application to Fault Detection and Risk Assessment

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Giuseppe Palmese
Committee Members: Kenneth Lau, Masoud Soroush, Warren Seider, and Jeffrey Arbogast
Date and Time: December 11, 2015 1:00 PM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Deena Marie Wasson Cellini

The Underrepresentation of Women Pursuing the High School Principalship: A Collective Case Study of Perceived Barriers and Perspectives

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kathleen Provinzano
Committee Members: Ken Mawritz and Ray McFall
Date and Time: November 16, 2015 12:00 PM
Location:

Myles Ethan Lascity

Brand, Full View: UNIQLO as Product, Place and Idea

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Brent Luvaas
Committee Members: Joseph Hancock, Brooke Erin Duffy, Ernest Hakanen, Devon Powers, and Rachel Reynolds
Date and Time: December 10, 2015 12:00 PM
Location: PSA Library

Dianne Charsha

Impact on Health Outcomes of Boarding Postoperative Critically Ill Stable Older Patients

Major: Nursing
Chair: Rose Ann DiMaria
Committee Members: Jamie Slaughter and Dulcine Dinsmore
Date and Time: January 08, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: School of Nursing

Mary Merlo Katona

The Impact of Providing Formative Feedback through using Writer's Notebook

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Lori Severino
Committee Members: Kristen Betts and Jolene Brogese
Date and Time: December 15, 2015 11:30 AM
Location:

Boris Dyatkin

Influence of Structure and Surface Chemistry of Porous Carbon Electrodes on Supercapacitor Performance

Major: Materials Science and Engingeering
Chair: Steve May
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Michel Barsoum, Maureen Tang, Oleg Borodin
Date and Time: January 08, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Carlo Ciliberti

Intrapreneurship Infrastructure for Industrial Companies Pursuing New Ventures

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Joseph Martin
Committee Members: Anthony Deese, Stephen Smith, Robert Brehm, and Sabrina Spatari.
Date and Time: January 29, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: CAEE Conference Room

Julie Present Kover

Effects of Post-Divorce Relocation on Adult Children from Divorced Families

Major: Clinical Pyschology
Chair: David DeMatteo
Committee Members: Brian Daly, Pamela Geller, Kirk Heilbrun, and Stephen Anderer
Date and Time: January 14, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 312

Anthony Bucci

The Kinetics of Oxygen Transport in Monomeric Sarcosine Oxidase via Molecular Simulations

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Ken Lau
Committee Members: Jason Baxter, Raj Mutharasan, Cameron Abrams, and Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Date and Time: March 11, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Joshua Smith

Attaining 2D Black Phosphorus and Investigations into Floating-Electrode Dielectric Barrier Discharge Treatment of Solutions

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Anthony Addison
Committee Members: Karl Sohlberg, Aaron Fafarman, Suresh Joshi, and Zahra Fakhraai
Date and Time: February 25, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Victoria Scotti

Beyond Words: Making Meaning of Transitioning to Motherhood Using Montage Portraiture: An Arts-Based Research Study

Major: Creative Arts Therapies
Chair: Nancy Gerber
Committee Members: Joan Bloch, Patricia Leavy, Elizabeth Templeton, and Michael Emme
Date and Time: March 11, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: 701 Three Parkway Conference Room

Christopher King

The Prediction of Criminal Recidivism Using Self- and Evaluator-Appraised Risk and Needs

Major: Law-Psychology
Chair: Kirk Heilbrun
Committee Members: David DeMatteo, Christine Nezu, Ralph Fretz, Christina Finello
Date and Time: February 17, 2016 9:00 AM
Location: Stratton 312

Eugene Gowdey

Motivational factors behind Humanitarism Aid Volunteerism in the Health Care field. A study of the lived experiences of Dentists that served.

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Salvatore Falletta
Committee Members: Rod Githens Phe Bach
Date and Time: March 03, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: Drexel University - Sacramento

David Harris

Experiences with Experential Learning: An Examination of College Graduate Employment Adequacy

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Salvatore Falletta
Committee Members: W. Edward Bureau Rod Githens
Date and Time: March 01, 2016 3:30 PM
Location: Drexel University - Sacramento

Sarah Filone

Assessing "Credible Fear": Psychometric Examination of the Trauma Symptom Inventory-2 in the Context of Immigration Court Evaluations.

Major: Psychology
Chair: David MeMatteo, JD, PhD
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun, PhD Naomi Goldstein, PhD Judy Eldelson, PhD Amanda Zelechoski, JD, PhD
Date and Time: March 15, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Stratton 212

Michael Thomas Paz

Essays on Cost Management.

Major: Accounting
Chair: Hsihui Chang and Christopher Iliner
Committee Members: Mark Vargus Johnny Lee Anthony Curatola Hiu Lam Choy
Date and Time: March 07, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: GHall 939

Hyoungsup Kim

Plasma Discharges in Produced Water and It's Applications to Large Scale Flow.

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Young I. Cho
Committee Members: Dr. Alexander Fridman Dr. Nicholas Cernansky Dr. Matthew McCarthy Dr. Alexander Rabinovich
Date and Time: March 02, 2016 10:30 AM
Location: Curtis Hall 162

Anthony DeBonis

The Positive Qualities in a Mentorship that Breed Success

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Sarah Ulrich
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich Mary Dillon
Date and Time: March 11, 2016 3:30 PM
Location:

Jessica Zamzow

An Examination of the Association Between Sleep and Neurocognitive Performance in Multiple Sclerosis

Major: Pscyhology
Chair: Maria Schultheis
Committee Members: Jaqueline Kloss, Mary Spiers, Peter Arnett, Mark Alola
Date and Time: April 04, 2016 9:30 AM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 330

Yohan Dall'Agnese

Study of Early Transition Metal Carbide for Energy Storage Applications

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Richard Knight, Aaron Fafarman, Patrice Simon
Date and Time: March 25, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Joshua Young

First Principles Design of Electronic Function in Noncentrosymmetric Oxides

Major: Materials Sci and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: James Rondinelli, Jonathon Spanier, Karl Sohlberg, Karin Rabe
Date and Time: April 22, 2016 11:30 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Sydonie Maitland

Teachers' Perception of the Effectiveness of a Professional Learning Community to Build Student Academic Self-efficacy

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Dr. Penny L. Hammrich
Committee Members: Dr. Jennifer Adams Dr. Carmelita Graham
Date and Time: March 24, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza Dragon Conference Room

Jacob Nykaza

Imidazolium-Based Block Copolymers as Solid-State Separators for Alkaline Fuel Cells and Lithium Ion Batteries

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Guiseppe Palmese
Committee Members: Yossef Elabd Vibha Kalra Joshua Snyder Maureen Tang Christopher Li
Date and Time: April 28, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Aimee Joy Palumbo

The influence of work patterns and work characteristics on women's later life physical functioning

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Yvonne Michael
Committee Members: Lucy Robinson Jana Mossey Anneclaire DeRoss Carolyn Cannuscio
Date and Time: May 12, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, 7th floor seminar room

Yajaira Curiel

An Exploration of College-educated, First-Generation Mexican-American Men’s Meaning and Experiences of Manhood: Implications for Family Therapy

Major: Nursing & Health Professions, Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Dr. Kenneth Hardy
Committee Members: Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy Dr. Marlene F. Watson Dr. Argie Allen Dr. Maria Bermudez Dr. Anibal Torres
Date and Time: April 22, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: 3 Parkway Building, Room 742, 1601 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA

Adam Socia

Novel Chromatographic Approaches For Class Seperations Of Small Molecules

Major: Chemistry/ Analytical Chemistry
Chair: Peter Wade
Committee Members: Frank Ji, Peter DeCarlo, Daniel King, Lynn Penn, Peter Harvlson
Date and Time: May 09, 2016 9:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall 307

Xiajing Gong

Contour Integration via Cortical Interaction in Visual Cortex

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Kambiz Pourrezaei
Committee Members: Dr. Meltem Izzetoglu, Dr. Hualou Liang, Dr. Ahmet Sacan, Dr. Fengqing Zhang
Date and Time: April 05, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Monell Center Conference Room

Songjun Xu

Tip60 HAT action mediates environmental enrichment induced cognitive restoration

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Joseph Bentz
Committee Members: Felice Elefant, Nianli Sang, Michael Akins, Seena K Ajit
Date and Time: May 16, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: PISB 103

Richa Singhal

Advanced Carbon-Nanofiber materials for electrochemical energy storage devices

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Richard Cairncross
Committee Members: Giuseppe Palmese, Vibha Kalra, Yury Gogotsi, Ying Sun
Date and Time: June 03, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: AEL 275 (CAEE Conference Room)

Hammersla- Quick, Michele

Perceptions of Parent Engagement in Rural Title I schools

Major: Education
Chair: Kristine Lewis- Grant, PhD
Committee Members: Kathleen Provinzano, PhD William Curley, PhD
Date and Time: May 13, 2016 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom Videoconference

Steven Carabello

Experimental Investigations of Magnesium Diboride Josephson Junctions

Major: Physics
Chair: Shyamalendu Bose
Committee Members: Robert Ramos Michel Barsoum Lynn Penn Mather Herb
Date and Time: May 19, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: Disque 919

Linda Lomas

Examining the Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Professional Learning Communities at a Technical High School

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Lori Steverino
Committee Members: Sarah Reynolds Ultrich
Date and Time: May 16, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza room 141

Lauren Jablonowski

Transmembrane cell signaling by Targeted Ultrasound Contrast Agents in cancer therapy

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Adrian Shieh, PhD
Committee Members: Margaret Wheatley, PhD Fren Allen, PhD Flemming Forseberg, PhD John Eisenbrey, PhD
Date and Time: May 25, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Building 709

Florina Apolinar Claudio

Perceived Impact of Person-of-the-Therapist Training (POTT) Model on Drexel University Master of Family Therapy Postgraduates' Clinical Work: A Grounded Theory Stud

Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Marlene F. Watson, Ph.D., LMFT
Committee Members: Harry Aponte, Ph.D, MSW, LCSW, LMFT Christian Jordal, Ph.D, LMFT Michael LeBlanc, Ph.D, LMHC Barbara Streets, Ph.D, LP Erica Wilkins, Ph.D, MFT
Date and Time: May 02, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: 3 Parkway Building, Room 742, 1601 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA

Patricia Toth

What is the impact of Insitusimulation on delays in defibrillation amoung nurses on an intermediate criticial care unit

Major: Nursing
Chair: Linda Wilson RN, PhD
Committee Members: Carol Okupniak RN, DNP
Date and Time: May 12, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Videoconference

Han Hu

Multiscale Modeling of Nanostructure-Enchanced Two-Phase Heat Transfer

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Ying Sun
Committee Members: Matthew McCarthy Christopher Weinberger Nicholas Cemansky Jason Baxter
Date and Time: May 26, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Curtis 162

Won Sung

Validations of Clinical Test Used to Identify Patients Who Would Benefit from Trunk Stabilzation Excercises: Preliminary Steps to Refine Test Interpretation and Improve Intervention Prescription

Major: PT & Rehab Sciences
Chair: Sheri P. Silifies, PT, PhD
Committee Members: David Ebaugh, PT, PhD Susan S. Smith, PT, PhD Gregory Hicks, PT, PhD Scott Stackhouse, PT, PhD Peemongkon Wattananon, PT, PhD
Date and Time: June 14, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Three Parkway Building Room 742

Marisa Pontillo

The Relationship Between Core Stabilty and Shoulder Injuries in Athletes

Major: PT & Rehab Sciences
Chair: David Ebaugh, PT, PhD
Committee Members: Sheri P. Silfies, PT, PhD Clare Milner, PhD FACSM Charles Thigpen, PT, PhD Brian Sennett, MD
Date and Time: May 25, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway Building Room 742

Courtney Butowicz

Comprehensive Performance- Based Movement System Screening Tool for Athletes

Major: PT & Rehab Sciences
Chair: Sheri P. Silifies, PT, PhD
Committee Members: David Ebaugh, PT, PhD Clare Milner, PhD, FACSM Stella Volpe, PhD, RD James Onate, PhD, AT, FNATA
Date and Time: June 07, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Three Parkway Building Room 742

Jennifer Sue Gurski

Examining the Personal Nature of the K-14 Engineering Pipeline for Young Women

Major: Education
Chair: Penny Hammrich, PhD
Committee Members: Aroutis Foster, PhD Kathy Fadigan, PhD
Date and Time: May 09, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza

Ronald Silvis

White Teachers talking about Building Realtionships with students of color

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristine Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Vera Lee Virginia Hill
Date and Time: May 18, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom Videoconference

Donna Gallo

Teachers Attitudes as Related to the Implementation of the New Jersey Teacher Evaluation System

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Mary Jo Grdina, PhD
Committee Members: Sarah Reynolds Ulrich Mark Morell
Date and Time: April 27, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: One Drexel Plaza 141

Lee Dolat

Regulation of Epithelial Cell Motilityand Macropinocytosis by Septin GTPases

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Shivanthi Anandan
Committee Members: Elias Spiliotis Aleister Saunders Nianli Sang Mauricio Reginato
Date and Time: June 08, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: PISB 103

Megan Elizabeth Hums

Environmental Impacts of Biodiesel Produced from Low-Quality Waste Greases

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Raj Mutharasan
Committee Members: Dr. Richard Cairncross Dr. Sabrina Spatari Dr. Mira Olson Dr. Masoud Soroush Dr. Michael Haas
Date and Time: June 03, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Kelly Toppin

Hodykin Huxley Models

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Yixin Guo
Committee Members: Dennis Yang Jay Doug Wright Robert Boyer Rhonda Dzakpasu
Date and Time: June 09, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Math Department

Xuezhi Tang

Synchronization of coupled dynamical systems on Cayley and random graphs

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Douglas Wright
Committee Members: Georgi Medvedev, Pawel Hitczenko, Eric Schmutz, Jian-min Yuan
Date and Time: May 26, 2016 9:00 AM
Location: Korman 245

Christina Peters

Exploring the Quasar Luminosity Function with Quasars Selected by Color and Variability

Major: Physics
Chair: Gordon Richards
Committee Members: Michael Vogeley, Steve McMillan, Luis Cruz Cruz, Beth Willman
Date and Time: June 03, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Disque 919

Michael Stichter

Cavity Enhanced Magneto-Optic Rotation for Measurement of HO2

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Nicholas Cernansky
Committee Members: David Miller, E. Caglan Kumbur, Tein-Min Tan, Kevin Owens
Date and Time: August 19, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room, Curtis 162

Sofia Kalantzi

Essays on Fiscal and Macro-Prudential Policies with Credit Market Frictions: Theory and Empirics

Major: Economics
Chair: Dr. Marco Airaudo and Dr. Maria Pia Olivero
Committee Members: Dr. Richard Barnett Dr. Irina Murtazashvili Dr. George Tavlas
Date and Time: May 25, 2016 8:30 AM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall 1139

Alexa Bonacquisti

Psychological Responses and Treatment among Mothers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: The Impact of Attachment, Attitudes, Social Support, and Health Behaviors

Major: Psychology
Chair: Pamela Geller, PhD
Committee Members: Brian Daly, PhD Mary Spiers, PhD Chavis Patterson, PhD Gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN
Date and Time: May 02, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Stratton Hall Room 212

Viktoriya Lantushenko

Essays in Institutional Investor Behavior

Major: Finance
Chair: Edward Nelling
Committee Members: Eliezer Fich Daniel Dorn Greg Nini Clemens Sialm
Date and Time: May 24, 2016 10:30 AM
Location: GHALL #1237

Barbara M. Holdren

Social Support, Problem-Solving and Adherence to Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes

Major: Nursing
Chair: Elizabeth Gonzalez
Committee Members: Alis Fanzere Dominic Galluzzo
Date and Time: July 27, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Drexel University

Yusuf Osmanliogly

On the applications of metric trees and metric labeling to hard combinatorial optimization problems

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Ali Shokoufandeh
Committee Members: Dario Salvucci Jeremy Johnson Santiago Ontanon Bing Bai
Date and Time: May 25, 2016 10:30 AM
Location: University Crossings 149

Craig Smith

Too Important To Fail: Assessing the Role Of a First Year Experience Program in the Persistence of African American Male School At A Predominantly White University

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristine Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Kristen Belts Umar Johnson
Date and Time: May 23, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom Videoconference

Fengshuo Hu

Struture versus Property Relationships of Biobased Thermosetting Epoxy and Amine Systems

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Dr. Guiseppe Palmese Dr. Nicolas Alvarez Sr. Christopher Li Dr. John LaScala
Date and Time: July 14, 2016 9:00 AM
Location: Chemical Engineering Conference Room

Chia-Yun Hsieh

Conformal Polymer Thin Films on Structurally Complex Surfaces by Initiated Chamical Vapor Deposition

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Vibha Kalra
Committee Members: Guiseppe Palmese Masoud Soroush Kenneth Lau Christopher Li
Date and Time: August 22, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: CBE Conference Room 267

Fangwu Wei

Exploring Airport Access and Accessibility: Regional and National Perspectives

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Chaomei Chen, Co-chair: Tony H. Grubesic
Committee Members: Ali Shokoufandeh Daoqin Tong Ran Wei
Date and Time: May 24, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: UC 153

Brandon Morton

Data-Driven Approach To Influence Between Musicians

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Adam Fontecchio
Committee Members: Youngmoo Kim Matthew Stamm Michael Mandel Brian Mofee
Date and Time: April 22, 2016 12:00 PM
Location:

Suzanne Wolfinger

An Exploratory Case Study of Middle School Student Academic Achievement In A Fully Online Virtual School

Major: Education Leadership & Management
Chair: Allen Grant
Committee Members: Constance Lyttle Bruce Levine Janet Sloand (external member)
Date and Time: May 20, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Drexel One

Lucy Vogel Heacock

At the Beginning of the STEM Pipeline: A Case Study Exploring Preadolescent Female Students' Attitudes Toward Science, Perceptions of Scientists, and Developing Career Aspirations

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Dr. Penny Hammrich
Committee Members: Dr. Brian Smith Dr. Kathy Fadigan
Date and Time: May 20, 2016 3:00 PM
Location:

Wajeeha Ameen Choudhary

Can Malala Speak? A Visual Analysis of Malala Yousafzai in American Mass Media

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Rachel R. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Ernest Hakanen, Ph.D. Brent Luvaas, Ph.D. Evelyn Alsultany Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Alison Novak, Ph.D. (Rowan University)
Date and Time: August 15, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: PSA Library

Beatriz Oralia Reyes

Fidelity of Implementation: Facilitator Experiences and Behaivors in the Getting People in Sync (GPS) Prediabetes Prevention Program

Major: Health Policy & Social Justice
Chair: Nicole A. Vaughn, Ph.D
Committee Members: Sandra Bloom, MD Stephen Lankenau, PhD Candace Robertson-James, DrPH Augusta Villanueva, PhD
Date and Time: July 26, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 719

Nina Multak

Information gathering, decision making skills and clinical documentation technology as mediators of clinical performance in the physician assistant population

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Michelle Rogers, PhD
Committee Members: Aleksandra Sarcevic, PhD Prudence Dalrymple, PhD Linda Wilson, PhD Brad Pollock
Date and Time: August 14, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Rush Building Room 014

Michael Edlen

Interfacial Engineering and Charge Carrier Dynamics of Extremely Absorber (ETA) Solar Cells

Major:
Chair: Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Masoud Soroush Jason Baxter Vibha Kalra Jonathan Spanier
Date and Time: September 09, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: CBE Conference

Saejoon Kim

The Impact of Corporate Brand Strategy on Film Performance: From the Lenses of Internationalization, Cross-National Distance, and Organizational Form

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Dr. Hyokjin Kwak
Committee Members: Dr. Pravin Nath Dr. Trina Larsen Andras Dr. Rolph Anderson Dr. Bert Rosenbloom Dr. Brent Smith
Date and Time: May 20, 2016 12:00 AM
Location:

Jennifer Johnson Kebea

Engaging Students in the Anchor Mission of the University: A Mixed-Methods Study Utilizing the Delphi Method

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro Lina Dostilio
Date and Time: May 25, 2016 2:15 PM
Location: Main Building, Provost’s Conference Room

Elizabeth Nicholas

Relationships between Parent social problem-solving and child and parent post traumatic stress symptoms after pediatric injury

Major: Psycology
Chair: Brian Daly
Committee Members: Dr. Daniel Mirman Dr. Christine Nezu Dr. Meghan Marsac Dr. Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla
Date and Time: November 09, 2016 1:00 AM
Location: Stratton Hall room 212

Jamie Lyn Kennedy

A study of shape memory alloy wires as actuators for textile robotics and compression garments

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Timothy Kurzweg
Committee Members: Dr. Adam Fontecchio Dr. Youngmoo Kim Dr. Christopher Weyant Dr. Pramod Abichandani
Date and Time: May 31, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Haodong Yang

Drug Safety Signal Detection from Online Health Communities

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Christopher C. Yang
Committee Members: Weimao Ke Erija Yan Murugan Anandarajan Simon M Lim
Date and Time: June 06, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Room 311, Suite 300, 3401 Market Street

Noah Johnson

Investigation of Dibenzo[b,j][1,10]phenanthrolines and N-Propanoic Acid Spiropyrans and Spirooxazines for use in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Aaron Fafarman
Committee Members: Anthony Addison Daniel King Kenneth Lau Michael Zdilla
Date and Time: June 15, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Disque 109

Catherine E. Hall

Exploring the Use of Facets in Library Catalogs: The Beliefs, Behaviors, Policies and Procedures Which Guide Implementation

Major: Computing and Informatics
Chair: Dr. Xia Lin
Committee Members: Dr. Katherine McCain Dr. Jung Ran Park Dr. Eileen Abels Dr. Kathryn La Barre
Date and Time: June 03, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Rush Rm. 014

Laurie Bobley

A multiple case study of mandatory professional development, change and transformation

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Brian K Smith
Committee Members: Vera Lee Alan Sebel
Date and Time: June 22, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: One Drexel Plaza

Agatha Ekeh

Globalization and Nursing Practice: A Phenomenological StudyGlobalization and Nursing Practice: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Nigerian Registered Nurses Working in the United States’ Healthcare Industry in Northern California

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Dr. Kathy Geller
Committee Members: Dr. W Edward Bureau Olivia Stringer
Date and Time: May 31, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Drexel University Sacramento, S-18

Anush Narasimhan Sridharan

Contrast enhanced three-dimensional subharmonic imaging

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Leonid Hreblen
Committee Members: Dr. Fernand Cohen Dr. P. Mohana Shankar Dr. Peter Lewin Dr. Flemming Forsberg
Date and Time: June 20, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Ling Jiang

Recommendation in Online Health Commuities with Heterogenous Information Network Mining

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Christopher C. Yang
Committee Members: Weimao Ke Erija Yan Jung-ran Park Qizhi Dai
Date and Time: June 07, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Suite 300, Room 305

Haodong Yang

Drug Safety Signal Detection from Online Health Communities

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Christopher C. Yang
Committee Members: Weimao Ke Erija Yan Murugan Anandarajan Simon M. Lin
Date and Time: June 06, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Suite 300, Room 311

Elizabeth Dalianis

A Muilt-level Analysis of the Role of the Workplace and Employment in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Breastfeeding Practices

Major: Health Policy and Social Justice
Chair: Dr. Nicole Vaughn
Committee Members: Dr. Jennifer Breaux Professor Jennifer Kolker Dr. Nora Lee Dr. Jaime Slaughter
Date and Time: July 21, 2016 10:30 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 719

Mark W. Boady

Applications of Symbolic Computation to the Calculus of Moving Surfaces

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Jeremy Johnson
Committee Members: Pavel Greenfield Hoon Hong Bruce Char Dario Salvucci
Date and Time: May 26, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: UC 153

Anna S. Jaworski

Sea Level Change in the Deleware Bay and its Impacts on Fetch Limited Barrier Islands

Major: Biodiversity, Earth, & Enviornmental Sciences
Chair: James Spotila
Committee Members: Kenneth Lacovara David Velinsky Loyc Vanderkluysen Iiya Buynevich Jerry Mead
Date and Time: August 29, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: PISB 106

Chengqian Yin

Exogenous Pyruvate is Required for Cell Adaption to Hypoxia

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Dr. Joseph Bentz, Professor; Biology
Committee Members: Dr. Nianli Sang, Dr. Aleister Saunders, Dr. Felice Elefant, Dr. Bo Lu (Jefferson Radiation Oncology)
Date and Time: August 19, 2016 1:30 PM
Location: PISB Room 103

Lu Xiao

Bridging the gap between software architecture and quality

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Dr. Yuanfang Cai
Committee Members: Spiros Mancoridis, Dr.Jeffrey Popyack, Colin S. Gordon (Shidler College of Business) Rick Kazman (University of Hawaii)
Date and Time: August 16, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: University Crossing Room 153

Justin Woodard

Narrative Study of Vietnamese American Male Students; Equity, Access, and Retention on the Campus of San Francisco State University

Major: Higher Education
Chair: Dr. Jose Luis Chavez
Committee Members: Dr. Edward Bureau Dr. Timothy P. Fong
Date and Time: June 21, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Sacremento

Chung Y Wong

Spectral Density Functions and Their Applications

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Robert Boyer
Committee Members: Hugo Woerdeman Shari Moskow J. Douglas Wright Lei Cao
Date and Time: August 10, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Korman 245

Alexandra C. Viscosi

Mentoring Women: Identifying, Developing and Retaining STEM Stars

Major: Education Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich Michael Ober
Date and Time: July 18, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza 141

Bin Li

Soft Tactile Sensors for Mechanical Imaging

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Timothy Kurzweg
Committee Members: Yon Visell Adam Fontecchio Gary Friedman Zulfiya Orynbayeva
Date and Time: July 27, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Alison M. Tartaglia

Social, Situational and Psychological Factors Linked To Campus Sexual Assult

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Augusta M. Villanueva
Committee Members: Michael Yudell Edward Gracely Sandra Bloom Danielle Davidov
Date and Time: August 05, 2016 9:30 AM
Location:

Stephanie Mayne

The Effect of Macro-Level Factors (Policies, Prices, and Neighborhood Social Environment) on Smoking Behavior in Two Multi-Ethnic Cohorts of U.S Adults

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Amy Auchincloss
Committee Members: Loni Philip Tabb Yvonne Michael Ana Diez Roux Mark Stehr
Date and Time: July 13, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 719

Ashley B. Pattwell

Famous Ghosts in the Machine

Major: Communication, Culture, & Media
Chair: Douglas Porpora
Committee Members: Wes Shumar Ernie Hackanen Rachel Raynolds Jeff Pooley
Date and Time: August 25, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: PSA 114

Helene Maliko-Abraham

Persistence to Completion of Doctoral Degrees in Light of Student Creativity

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Dr. Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Dr. Brian Smith Dr. Craig Bach
Date and Time: August 23, 2016 10:30 AM
Location: Dragon Room, One Drexel Plaza

Zachary Boles

Taphonomy & Paleoecology of a Cretaceous-Paleogene Shallow Marine Bonebed

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Dr. Aleister Saunders
Committee Members: Dr. Jim Spotila Dr. Haviva Goldman Dr. Kenneth Lacovara (Rowan) Dr. Allison Tumarkin Deratzian (Temple University) Dr. Karen Chin (University of Colorado) Dr. Mary Schweitzer (NCSU)
Date and Time: September 01, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Curtis 341

Kristyn Voegele

Osteology, Myology and Biomechanics of Dreadnoughtus schrani and investigations for collagen I in a Cretaceous marine crocodile, thoracosaurus neocesariensis.

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Dr. Neister Saunders
Committee Members: Dr. Jim Spotila Dr. Sorin Siegler Dr. Kenneth Lacovara (Rowan) Dr. Matt Lamanna Dr. Mary Schweitzer (NCSU)
Date and Time: August 31, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Curtis 341

Dara Blomain

Social Cognitive Theory and Nutrition Behavior: Effect of an introductory Nutrition Course Intervention among College Students

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Dr. Ken Mewritz
Committee Members: Dr. Kathleen Provinzano Dr. Lynn Monahan
Date and Time: July 18, 2016 9:00 AM
Location: Pearlstein 101

Timothy Hayes

Quasi-Spline Sheaves and their Contact Ideals

Major: Mathemathics
Chair: Patrick Clarke
Committee Members: Robert Boyer Justin Smith Jonah Blasiak Marton Hablicsek
Date and Time: August 25, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Korman 245

Chia-Yun Hsieh

Conformal Polymer Thin Films on Structurally Complex Surfaces by Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Vibha Kalra
Committee Members: Kenneth Lau Guiseppe Palmese Masoud Soroush Christopher Li
Date and Time: September 02, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room, CAT 240

Melinda Sebastian

Investigating the way we see the upskirt: The social and legal implications of gendered surveillance online

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Dr. Wesley Shumar
Committee Members: Dr. Ernest Hakanen Dr. Robert D'Ovidio Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy Adam Holland J.D
Date and Time: August 26, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: PSA 114

Christopher M. Barr

Grain Boundary Sensitive Design in FCC Alloys: Towards Improved Materials Response in Extreme Environments

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Dr. Garritt Tucker
Committee Members: Dr. Mitra L. Taheri Dr. Roger D. Doherty Dr. Leslie Lamberson Dr. Dane Morgan
Date and Time: August 22, 2016 9:30 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Erica Wellington

Television's Effects on the Future Aspirations of African American Middle School Females: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Dr. Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Dr. Holly Carpenter Dr. Jose Chavez
Date and Time: August 22, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Sacramento/Virtual

Cheng-Hsin Lu

Synthesis and Characterizations of Pb-modified CdSe Aqueous Quantum Dots and Their Applications in Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steve May
Committee Members: Kenneth Lau Andrew Magenau Wei-Heng Shih Wan Shih
Date and Time: September 13, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Erin Ennis

Development of experimental and computational techniques to improve or predict the likelihood of separation success of chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques.

Major: Chemistry PhD
Chair: Kevin Owens
Committee Members: Lynn Penn Frank Ji Dan King Cathy Bentzley
Date and Time: September 23, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Pearlman #307

Pia LaShea Scott

African American men speak: unheard perspectives of re-entry & the self-paced in class education (spice) program in the 21st century

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: W. Edward Bureau
Committee Members: Joyce Pittman, Ahmad R. Washington
Date and Time: August 31, 2016 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom (Virtual)

Jean Marie Petrilack

The effects of deep breathing relaxation intervention on caregiver strain and blood pressure in family caregivers of persons with dementia

Major: Nursing Science
Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Gonzalez
Committee Members: Dr. Thomas Hardie, Dr. Ruth Ann Kiefer
Date and Time: September 13, 2016 1:30 PM
Location: Parkway Building , 1601 Cherry Street, room 903

Chengyang Wang

Localized surface funtionalization with atmospheric-pressure microplasma jet for cell-on-a-chip application

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Wei Sun
Committee Members: Dr. Alan Lau, Dr. Hongseok (Moses) Noh, Dr. Yinghui Zhong, Dr. Fred Allen, Dr. MinJun Kim
Date and Time: September 16, 2016 2:00 PM
Location: Curtis 162

Susan Solecki

An Exploratory Study on Parental Monitoring of Adolescent Cell Phone Use.

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Renee Turchi
Committee Members: Randy Sell Fran Cornelius Louise Ward Amy Brown
Date and Time: December 07, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt, Room 640

Ezekiel Crenshaw

Characterizing G-quadraplex Mediated Regulation of the Amyloid Precursor Protein.

Major: Biology
Chair: Daniel Marenda
Committee Members: Michael Akin Elias Spiliotis Alester Saunders Tali Gidalevitz Jeffrey Twiss
Date and Time: October 18, 2016 9:00 AM
Location: PIBS 103

Nancy McDonald

Designing a Competency-Based Degree for Post-Traditional Students at a Private, Nonprofit University

Major: School of Education
Chair: Dr. Jennifer H. Adams
Committee Members: Dr. William F. Lynch, Dr. Rod P. Githens
Date and Time: October 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Location: Online

Jared Wilson

Essays in Corporate Governance

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Ralph Walking
Committee Members: Michelle Lowry, Naveen Daniel, David Becher, Jonathan Karpoff
Date and Time: November 02, 2016 1:00 AM
Location: GHall 1139

Michael Stichter

Cavity Enhanced Magneto Optic Rotation for measurement of HO2

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Nicholas Cernansky
Committee Members: David Miller, E. Caglan Kumbur, Tein Min Tan, Kevin Owens
Date and Time: November 10, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Curtis 162

Linda L. Gaines

Web-based Technology Integration and Student Engagement in a Fully Online Graduate Program

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Dr. Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Dr. Jose Chavez, Dr. Stephanie Sutcliffe
Date and Time: November 17, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Via Zoom

Tara L. Parr

A brain-targeted teaching framework: modeling the intended change in professional development to increase knowledge of learning sciences research and influence pedagogical change in K-12 public classroom

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Dr. Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Dr. Kathleen Provinzano, Dr. Chris Eccles
Date and Time: November 15, 2016 9:00 AM
Location: Via Zoom

Jeff Kahn

Film Intrinsic Sensing in Flexible Robotic Fins

Major: MEM
Chair: Antonios Kontsos
Committee Members: James Tangora Ani Hsien Houry Kwatny Yon Visell
Date and Time: November 22, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: MEM Seminar Room

Misbha Enam Qureshi

Self-Reporting Experiences in Family Therapy of Lower-Income Black Adolescents in a Residential Treatment Facility: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Nursing & Health Professions
Chair: Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy
Committee Members: Dr. Marlene F. Watson Dr. Guy Diamond Dr. Angelle E. Richardson Dr. Kiran S. Arora
Date and Time: October 24, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: 1601 Cherry Street- Drexel University

Leah Katherine Reider

The Relationship Between Instructional Methods and Sixth Grade Students' Outcomes

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Mary Jo Grdina
Committee Members: Constance Lyttle, John Sanville
Date and Time: November 07, 2016 12:00 PM
Location: Conference Room in 3401 Market St.

Ellen Bernhard

Nevermind the subculture: Contemporary Punk Communities and the Evolution of American Punk Rock

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Jordan McClain
Committee Members: Ernest Hakanen, Barbara Hoekje, Ron Bishop, Lynne Edwards
Date and Time: October 07, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: PSA (Bldg #47), Room 114

Jonathan Berardino

Modeling and Analysis of Commercial Building Electrical Loads for Demand Side Management

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Karen Miu
Committee Members: Dr. Chika Nwankpa, Dr. Dagmar Niebur, Dr. Harry Kwatny, Dr. Hande Benson
Date and Time: November 28, 2016 10:00 AM
Location: Curtis 0-48 (Powerlab)

Jenne Massie

More than a shelter: Exploring the Impact of HOPWA-Funded Housing in the Lives of Women with HIVIAIDS

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Augusta Villanueva
Committee Members: Suruchi Sood, Renee Turchi, Lisa Bowleg, Christine Campbell
Date and Time: December 02, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: TBA

Shunlian Liu

Well-posedness of hydroelastic waves and their truncated series models

Major: Mathematics
Chair: David Ambrose
Committee Members: J.Douglas Wright, Shari Moskow, Gideon Simpson, Michael Sieeel
Date and Time: December 09, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Korman 245

Wenjian Du

Nanomechanical Sensing of Biological Interfacial Interactions

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Dr. Lynn S. Penn
Committee Members: Dr. Anthony W. Addison, Dr. Joe P. Foley, Dr. Hai-feng (Frank) Ji, Dr. Nianli Sang, Dr. Zhihong Wang
Date and Time: December 14, 2016 1:00 PM
Location: Disque 109

David Kern

The price of unhealthy food relative to healthy food and the association with diet quality, diabetes, and insulin resistance in a multi-ethnic population

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Amy Auchincloss
Committee Members: Mark Stehr, Genevieve Pham-Kanter, Lucy Robinson, Ana Diez Roux
Date and Time: December 16, 2016 2:45 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall 7th floor , Room 719

Shrenik Vora

Wireless and Battery-Free Biosignal Sensing using Passive RFID Tags

Major: ECE
Chair: Dr. Kapil Dandekar
Committee Members: Dr. Timothy Kurzweg Dr. Adam Fontecchio Dr. Bruce Eisenstein Dr. Owen Montgomery
Date and Time: December 05, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Marone Brown

Explaining the influence of stereotype threat on the efficacy of first year African-American college students within a public university in Maryland

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Dr. Ken Mawritz
Committee Members: Dr. Joyce Pittman, Dr. Derrick Pledger
Date and Time: November 22, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza

Tsz Kin Kwok

Maximizing the Experience of International Graduate Students: A Case Study

Major: School of Education
Chair: Dr. Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Dr. Rebecca Clothey Dr. Teck-Kah Lim
Date and Time: December 01, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: Drexel Plaza, Room 137

Marguerite Kennedy Vasconcellos

Listening to Learn: Family Engagement when Children are Deaf or Hearing Impaired

Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Constance Lyttle, PhD
Committee Members: Kenneth Mawritz, PhD, and Carol Flexer, PhD
Date and Time: December 14, 2016 3:00 PM
Location: Drexel University

Paul R. Sesink-Clee

Distribution, Drivers, and Risks of Wildlife Infectious Diseases Across Africa

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Jacob Russel
Committee Members: Mary Katherine Gonder, Michael O'Connor, Sean O'Donnel, Dan Duran, Ryan Harrigan
Date and Time: February 17, 2017 1:30 PM
Location: PISB 103

Timothy J. Schultz

Mapping the Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trial Space

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Dr. Chaomel Chan
Committee Members: Dr. Neal Handly, Dr. Yuan An, Dr. Erjia Yan, Dr. Chris Yang, Dr. Paul Stang
Date and Time: December 01, 2016 11:00 AM
Location: RUSH 205

Alyssa Bellingham

Direct Integration of Dynamic Emissive Displayed into Knitted Fabric Structure.

Major: ECE
Chair: Dr. Timothy Kurzweg
Committee Members: Dr. Adam Fontecchio, Dr. Kapil Dandekar, Dr. Ben Pelley, Dr. Caroline Schauer
Date and Time: February 02, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Yongjun Zhu

Graph-based Interactive Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Erjia Yan
Committee Members: Il-Yeol Song, Christopher Yang, Weimao Ke, Chaojiang Wu
Date and Time: February 07, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: Rush 006

Kaitlin Mari Baudier

Microhabitat and elevational patterns in thermal tolerance and thermoregulation of Neotropical army ants (Formicidea: Dorylinea: Ecitonini)

Major: BEES
Chair: Susan Kilham
Committee Members: Sean O'Donnell, Jacob Russell, Michael O'Connor, John Longino
Date and Time: April 21, 2017 12:00 PM
Location: PISB 103

Yuan Ling

Methods and Techniques for Clinical Text Modeling and Analytics

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Dr. Yuan An
Committee Members: Dr. Tony Xiaohua Hu, Dr. Weimao Ke, Dr. Ali Shokoufandeh, Dr. Jeffrey Headd
Date and Time: February 23, 2017 1:30 PM
Location: Rush 006

Long Ngugen

Life Cycle Environmental and Cost Aspects of High Density Polyethylene and Alternatives in Drainage Applications

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Dr. Sabrina Spatari
Committee Members: Dr. Grace Hsuan, Dr. Ivan Bartoli, Dr. Alan. Lau, Dr. Yaghoob Famam
Date and Time: February 24, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: AEL 275 (CAEE Conference Room)

Allena M Moncrief

Experiences of Sexual and Physical Intimacy from the Voices of African American Female Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) Survivors: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Couples and Family Therapy
Chair: Marlene F Watson, PhD
Committee Members: Argie Allen, PhD, Erica A Wilkins, PhD, Erika Evans-Weaver, PhD, Girija Kaimal, PhD
Date and Time: February 28, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: 1601 Cherry St, Room 782

Anna Caltabiano

Reversed-Phase and Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography Columns for Size-Exclusion Chromatography

Major: Analytical Chemistry
Chair: Kevin Owens
Committee Members: Peter Wade, Anthony Addison, Daniel King, Karl Sohlberg, Alexander Tsygankov
Date and Time: March 23, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall 109

James D Goetz

Applications of Ground-based Mobile Monitoring: Real-time Characterization of Source Emissions and Ambient Concentrations

Major: CAEE
Chair: Peter DeCarlo
Committee Members: Michael Waring Sabrina Spatari Raluca Ellis Prakash Bhave
Date and Time: February 14, 2017 9:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Siddharth Vyas

High Gradient Magnetic Repulsion for Focusing and Separation of Cells and Biomolecules for Applications in Medicine and Biology

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Timothy Kurzweg
Committee Members: Gary Friedman, Vladimir Genis, Alexander Fridman, and Allon Guez
Date and Time: March 07, 2017 12:00 PM
Location: ODP Room 043

Amy Henderson Riley

New Directions for Entertainment-Education: Results from a Mixed Methods Study Investigating the Role of Narrative Persuasion and Social Norms from a Radio Program for Individual and Social Change in Mozambique

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Suruchi Sood, PhD.
Committee Members: Randall Seil, ScD; Augusta Villanvera, PhD.; Arvind Signal, PhD.; Katie Bartels, MA
Date and Time: April 17, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Nestbitt Hall, Room 751

Vitale, Margaret, Elizabeth

Key Characteristics of Collaborative Leadership in Elementary Schools

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Kenneth Mawritz
Committee Members: Dr. Cosmas Curry, Dr. Constance Lyttle
Date and Time: March 21, 2017 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom Session

Lynn, Elizabeth

Pacific Islander Women Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces: A Narrative Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kathy D. Geller
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Ed.D; Olivia Stringer, Ed.D
Date and Time: March 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: 3200 Fifth Ave, Sacramento Campus

Heather Willever-Farr

Finding the Facts: Online Information Behaviors of Family History Researchers

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Andrea Forte
Committee Members: Katherine McCain, Denise Agosto, Lorraine Richards, Wendy Duff
Date and Time: March 20, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: SC326

Alyssa Marie Batula

Developing an Optical Brain-Computer Interface for Robot Control

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Adam Fontecchio
Committee Members: Youngmoo Kim, Hasan Ayaz, Banu Onaral, M. Ani Hsieh
Date and Time: April 17, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Marcella D. Gonsalves

Being a Leader, a Women and Survivor of Childhood Bullying: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Kathy D. Geller
Committee Members: Jamie Callahan (Co-Chair) Todd Migliaccio
Date and Time: May 31, 2017 9:30 AM
Location: 3200 5th street Avenue, Sacramento, CA, 95817 (building and room TBD)

Rizwana Begum

Energy Management of Multi-Component Computing Platforms Under Energy Constraints

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Kandasamy Nagaratan
Committee Members: Dr. Mark Hempstead, Dr. Baris Taskin, Dr. Ioannis Savidis, Dr. Geoffrey Challen
Date and Time: April 18, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: ECE Room 302

Evelyn Arana

Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Mammogram Frequency Among Women With Intellectual Disabilities: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Approach

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Dr. Michael Yudell
Committee Members: Dr. Ann Carroll Klassen, Dr. Amy Carroll-Scott, Dr. Phillip Massey, Dr. Nora Lee, Patricia Graves
Date and Time: May 02, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 640

Salini Mohanty

Pediatrician Response to Parental Requests to Delay or Refuse Childhood Immunization

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Amy Carroll-Scott
Committee Members: Renee Turchi, Michael Yudell, Kristen Feemster, Alison Buttenheim
Date and Time: May 12, 2017 10:45 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 440

Sachi Jayasuriya

Modeling and analysis of information-embedded power electronic converter systems

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Karen Miu Miller
Committee Members: Dr. Chika Nwankpa, Dr. Harry Kwathy, Dr. Frank Ferrese, Dr. Jaudelice di Oliveira
Date and Time: May 03, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Curtis 048 )Power lab)

Sergey Smolin

Dynamic Optoelectronic properties in Perovskite Oxide Thin Films Measured with Ultrafast Transient Absorption & Reflectance Spectroscopy

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Masoud Soroush
Committee Members: Jason Baxter, Steve May, Aaron Fafarman, James Rondinelli
Date and Time: May 25, 2017 3:00 PM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Arduizur Carli Richie-Zavaleta

Survivors of Trafficking in Healthcare Setting and their Reccomendation Regarding Identification Screening Protocols and Practices

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Augusta Villanueva
Committee Members: Renee Turchi, Ana Martinez-Donate, Shea Rhodes, Tiffany Epps
Date and Time: May 15, 2017 12:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall-4th Fl Conference Rm

Staci Berkowitz

Responsivity to an Analogue Psychological Acceptance Task and Neurophysiological Measures as Predictors of Treatment Responsivity for Public Speaking Anxiety

Major: Psychology
Chair: James Herbert
Committee Members: Evan Forman Fengqing Zoe Zhang John Kounios Michael Lowe Michael Levin
Date and Time: May 25, 2017 3:00 PM
Location: Main 301

Carol Anne Blank

Music Therapists' Decision Making in Music Together Within Therapy: Towards a Theoretical Framework

Major: Creative Arts Therapies
Chair: Dr. Sharon W. Goodill
Committee Members: Dr. Joke Bradt Dr. Stephanie Ewing Dr. Wendy Magee Dr. Petra Kern
Date and Time: May 31, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: CCC, Parkway CR 701

Wayne Harlow

The Development of an In-situ TEM Technique for Studying Corrosion Behaivor as Applied to Zirconium-based Alloys

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Dr. Steven May
Committee Members: Dr. Garritt Tucker Dr. Roger Doherty Dr. Peng Xu Dr. Mitra Taheri
Date and Time: May 17, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: MEM Seminar Room (Curtis 162)

Amber Choquette

Tailoring Electronic Properties in Semiconducting Perovskite Materials Through Octahedral Control

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Dr. Wei-Heng Shih
Committee Members: Dr. Ekaterina Pomerantseva Dr. Aaron Fafarman Dr. Jason Baxter Dr. Steven May
Date and Time: May 23, 2017 2:30 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room (LeBow 240)

Kendra Ray

Evaluating the efficacy of evidence-based music interventions for certified nursing assistants caring for nursing home residents with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders and depression.

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Girija Kaimal
Committee Members: Suruchi Sood; Jaime Slaughter; Mary Mittelman; Ayelet Dassa
Date and Time: May 01, 2017 11:00 AM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 901

Tara M. Zurlo

Relationship between Vertical Transfer Students' Grit, First Semester Academic Performance and Social Integration

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Toni Sondergeld
Committee Members: Dr. Valerie Klein, Dr. Steven Tolman
Date and Time: May 16, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: Drexel Bldg 3401, Room 348

Mollie A. Gambone

Trusted to Teach: An Ethnographic Account of 'Artisanal Teachers' in a Progressive High School

Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies
Chair: Kristy Kelly, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich Ph.D., Rajashi Ghosh Ph.D., Wes Shumar Ph.D., Deanna Hill, JD Ph.D.
Date and Time: May 19, 2017 11:00 AM
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 139

Yuriy Smolin

Nanoscale Polymer Integrated Photovoltaics and Supercapacitors: Experimental and Theoretical Studies

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Jason Baxter
Committee Members: Masoud Soroush, Kenneth K. S. Lau, Vibha Kaira, Daeyeon Lee
Date and Time: May 24, 2017 12:00 PM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Anna E. Wallace

Assisted Conception and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Large Commercially Insured Population in the United States

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Craig J. Newschaffer
Committee Members: Brian K. Lee, Loni Philip Tabb, Michael A. Yudell, Renee M. Turchi
Date and Time: May 23, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 751

Robyn S. Joppy

An Interactive Compliance Scorecard: Assessing The Impact On Non-Profit Human Services Organizations

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Dr. Valerie Klein, Dr. Nicole Huff
Date and Time: May 24, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: ET via Zoom

Alicia M. Drelick

Technology's Role in Progress Monitoring Non-Acedemic IEP Goals

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Toni Sondergeld
Committee Members: Dr. Mary Jean DeCarlo, Dr. Kerri McGinley
Date and Time: May 04, 2017 12:30 PM
Location: 3401 Market St, Room 338

Dana Eggleston

Enrollment Management Strategies at Four-year Open Enrollment Institutions of Higher Education

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Toni Sondergeld, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Joy Phillips Ph.D., Sheila Sharbaugh Ph.D.
Date and Time: May 31, 2017 11:00 AM
Location: Dragon Conference Room

Nicole J. Hall

Supporting Nurses to Speak Up

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Valerie Klein
Committee Members: Dr. Kristen Betts, Dr. Joseph DeRanieri
Date and Time: May 30, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom Session

Nicole Harvey

A Study of the Pennsylvania Framework for Leadership: Perceptions of Principals in a Suburban Southeastern Pennsylvania County

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Allen Grant
Committee Members: Regina Speaker Palubinsky, Sarah Ulrich
Date and Time: May 04, 2017 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom Session

Lauren D. Pitts

Dads and Daughters: Understanding African American Fathers' Perceived Influences on their Daughters' Academic Experiences and Educational Outcomes

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Kristine S. Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Dr. Kristen Betts, Dr. Barbara Guthrie
Date and Time: May 31, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom Session

Vincent Day

Understanding the Relationship Between K-12 Teacher Perceptions of Their Levels of Teaching Innovation and Their Experiences with Technology-Driven Professional Development

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Toni Sondergeld
Committee Members: Dr. Jay Phillips, Dr. Sally Maxwell
Date and Time: May 05, 2017 11:00 AM
Location: Drexel University Room 338

Aaron M. Selekman

The Impact of Language Status, Gender, and Ecological Factors on Academic Success of Hispanic Children in Grades 3-5

Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies
Chair: Dominic F. Gullo
Committee Members: Vera Lee, Penny Hammrich, Sheila Vaidya, Christina Charnitski
Date and Time: May 24, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market St, Conference Room

Kerry L. Sautner

Using Storytelling to Establish Justice: A Narrative Study on the Efficacy of Teaching Police Recruits Individual Rights through Storytelling

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Ed Bureau, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Dr. Michael Haslip, Dr. Sara A. Reed
Date and Time: May 23, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 141

Brian Erickson

Traitlike RS Brain Oscillations Predict Subsequent Problem Solving Strategies

Major: Psychology
Chair: John Kounios
Committee Members: Fengquing Zoe Zhang, Chris Sims, Kalina Christoff, Dan Mirman
Date and Time: June 09, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: Stratton Room 260

Ronald J. Maniglia

A Mixed Methods Approach: Reaching a Common Understanding of the Rating of Teacher Effectiveness and its Perceived Impact on Student Learning among New Jersey High School Teachers and Administrators Using the Stronge Teacher Effectiveness Performance Evaluation System

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Mary Jo Grdina
Committee Members: Dr. Toni Sondergeld, Dr. Nancy Richmond
Date and Time: May 12, 2017 12:00 AM
Location: 3401 Market St, Room 338

Jennifer Schwedler

The Impact of Organizational Conditiond and User Perceptions Adoption of a Technological Innovation: An Instrumental Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kathy D. Geller
Committee Members: Salvatore Falletta, EdD, Christine Miller, Ph.D.
Date and Time: May 24, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom Session

Scott E. Van Vooren

The K-12 Online Teaching Dynamic: A Study of Educators at Multiple Cyber Charter Schools in Pennsylvania

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Allen C. Grant
Committee Members: Dr. Sarah P. Ulrich
Date and Time: May 16, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom Session

Han Chen

A Novel Performance-Based Balance Assessment for Community-living Older Adults

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Robert Palisano
Committee Members: Sheri Silfies, John Melvin, Jianan Li
Date and Time: May 25, 2017 8:00 AM
Location: Parkway Bldg Center City Room 639

Kathleen M. Devine

Socioenvironmental Factors in Fall-Related Injury: A Hospital Registry Study

Major: Nursing Science
Chair: Dr. Jamie Slaughter
Committee Members: Dr. Elizabeth Gonzalez, Dr. Gary Young
Date and Time: May 25, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: 368 Parkway

Terrence D. Daniels

The socio-economic impact of student loan debt on African American Graduates of the University of Phoenix Residing in Philadelphia, PA

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Dr. Penny Hammrich, Dr. Eric Williams
Date and Time: May 24, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom Session

Hao Zhou

Design, Functionalization and Application of Long Circulating Nanoparticles

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Dr. Michele Marcolongo
Committee Members: Dr. Hao Cheng, Dr. Christopher Li, Dr. Margaret Wheatley, Dr. Kara Spiller
Date and Time: May 23, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 007

Katie Jo Sunday

Development of Ferrite-coated Soft Magnetic Composites: Correlation of Microstructure to magnetic properties

Major: Materials Sci and Engineering
Chair: Steve May
Committee Members: Garritt Tucker, Mitra Taheri, James Rondinelli, Iver Anderson
Date and Time: May 18, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Curtis 162

Katherine Van Aken

Relationship between carbon electrode materials and electrolytes in capacitive energy storage

Major: Materials Sci and Engineering
Chair: Ekaterina Pomerantseva
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Garritt Tucker, Maureen Tang, Vibha Kalra
Date and Time: May 12, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Disque 103

Samantha Winter

Predicting Weight. Related outcomes in Healthy Adolescents . Clinical Applications of fNRI & Machine Learning

Major: Psychology
Chair: Michael Lowe
Committee Members: Karol Osipowicz, Nancy Lee, Zoe Zhang, Sonia Yokum, Anna Rose Childress
Date and Time: April 28, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Stratton 330

Kristen Horton

In Their Eyes: A Case Study Describing the Contributions of Making on Teaching and Learning in a Designated Middle School Makerspace

Major: Educational Leadership & Mgmt
Chair: Dr. Kenneth Mawritz
Committee Members: Dr. Bruce Levine, Dr. Kathleen Hocker
Date and Time: May 31, 2017 5:00 PM
Location: Virtual

Alberto Uriarte

Adversarial Search and Spatial Reasoning in Real Time Strategy Games

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Dr. Santiago Ontanon
Committee Members: Dr. Marcelo Balduccini, Dr. Christopher Gelb, Dr. Michael Buro, Dr. Gabriel Synnaeve
Date and Time: May 22, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: University Crossings 153

Tirimba Obonyo

Expertise on Boards and the Market for Directors with Acquisition Experience

Major: Finance
Chair: Samuel Szewczyk
Committee Members: Co-Chair: George Tsetsekos Michael Gombola Jie Cai Seung Hee Choi
Date and Time: May 25, 2017 1:30 PM
Location: GHall 722

Anthony Terrence Womack

A Case Study of an Instrumental Music Program and its Influence on the Culture of a School

Major: Education
Chair: Brian K. Smith
Committee Members: Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro Vera Lee
Date and Time: May 25, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: 3001 Market Street, Dragon Conference Room

Michael Jerome Weir

A Study of the Influence of Advising on Underrepressented Undergraduate Student Persistence in STEM

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dr. Penny Hammrich
Committee Members: Dr. Bruce Levine Dr. Irving McPhail
Date and Time: June 02, 2017 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom Collaboration

Colleen P. Baillie

A Case Study Examining Undergraduate Public Health Student Experiences at a Large, Private, Urban Research University

Major: Education
Chair: William Lynch
Committee Members: Michael Haslip Subir Sahu
Date and Time: May 30, 2017 9:00 AM
Location:

Xun Yang

Coaxing New Reactivity from Metalated Nitriles

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Prof. Peter Wade
Committee Members: Joe Foley HaiFeng Ji Daniel King Dionicio Martinez Mike Zdilla
Date and Time: May 31, 2017 9:00 AM
Location: Disque 109

Naomi Bowen

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness with the Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System

Major: Education
Chair: Dr. MaryJo Grdina
Committee Members: Dr. Allen Grant; Dr. David Johnson
Date and Time: May 18, 2017 4:00 PM
Location: School of Education

Alyssa Bellingham

Direct Integration of Dynamic Emissive Displays into Knitted Fabric Structures

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Timothy Kurzweg
Committee Members: Adam Fontecchio; Kapil Dandekar; Caroline Schauer; Ben Pelley
Date and Time: May 18, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

Alex Howard Cohen

Accessibility-Related Service Failures Online: Examining their Effect on Avoidance Behaviors for Disabled Consumers and Their Social Networks.

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Rolph Anderson
Committee Members: Daniel Korschun; Hyokjin Kwak; Kristen Betts; Jonathan Deutsch; Joseph Lema
Date and Time: May 23, 2017 1:30 PM
Location: GHALL 1139

Elizabeth DeVilbiss

Prenatal nutritional supplementation and autism spectrum disorders in two European population-based cohorts

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Brian Lee
Committee Members: Craig Newschaffer, Lucy Robinson, Christine Ladd-Acosta, Cecilia Magnusson
Date and Time: June 15, 2017 9:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall 5th floor Conference Room

Alex Howard Cohen

Accessibility-Reliability Service Failures Online: Examining Their effect on Avoidance Behaviors for Disabled Consumers and their Social Networks

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Rolph Anderson
Committee Members: Daniel Korschun, Hyokjin Kwak, Kristen Betts, Jonathan Deutsch, Joseph Lema
Date and Time: May 23, 2017 1:30 PM
Location: TBD

Matthew I. Hartshorne

The effect of Grain Boundary Character and Grain Boundary Engineered Microstructures on the Sensitization and Corrosion of 316L stainless steel

Major: Materials Sci and Engineering,
Chair: Dr. Garitt Tucker
Committee Members: Dr. Mitra l. taheri, Dr. Roger Doherty, Dr. Leslie Lambesron, Dr. Chad Hunter - USAF AFRL
Date and Time: May 18, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: Curtis 162, the MEM seminar room.

Anthony Matranga

Mathematics Teacher Professional Development as Virtual Boundary Encounters

Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies
Chair: Jason Silverman
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Emmanuel Koku, Wesley Shumar, Brian Smith
Date and Time: June 14, 2017 12:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market Street- 3rd floor, room 340

Sachi Jayasuriya

Modeling and Analysis of Information-Embedded Power Electronic Converter Systems

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dr. Jaudelice de Oliveira
Committee Members: Dr. Karen Miu Miller, Dr. Dagmar Niebur, Dr. Harry Kwatny, Dr. Frank Ferrese
Date and Time: May 23, 2017 12:00 PM
Location: Curtis 048

Matthew Duvall

The Impact of Virtual Literacy Communities in an English Language Arts Classroom: A Case study Using Goodreads

Major: Educational Leadership Development and Learning Technologies
Chair: Brian K. Smith
Committee Members: Aroutis Foster, Penny Hammrich, Elizabeth Haslam, Michael Arnzen
Date and Time: June 06, 2017 11:00 AM
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 043

Allyson O'Brien

A computational framework for multiply-connected and electromagnetic quantum systems

Major: Physics
Chair: Somdev Tyagi
Committee Members: Dr. Michel Vallieres Dr. Pavel Grinfeld Dr. Shyamalendu Bose Dr. Joseph Trout
Date and Time: June 13, 2017 10:30 AM
Location: Disque 919

Kaitlyn Sniffen

Use of Algae in a Landfill Leachate Treatment System

Major: Civil, Architectual and Environmental Engineering
Chair: Dr. Mira Olson
Committee Members: Christopher Sales Patrick Gurian Susan S. Kilhan Wen K. Shieh
Date and Time: May 30, 2017 11:00 AM
Location:

Judith Higgins

Advancing Global Education: The Impact of a Global Classroom Program on Secondary Students Global Compentency and Global Citizenship

Major: Education
Chair: Dr. Mawritz
Committee Members: Dr. Levine Dr. Leah Christman
Date and Time: May 30, 2017 12:30 PM
Location:

Mohammad Reza Falamarz Sheikhabadi

Model, excitation and analysis uncertainties in the seismic assessment of bridges

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Aspasia Zerva
Committee Members: Kurt Sjoblom Ivan Bartoli Alan Lau Tein-Min Tan
Date and Time: June 01, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Pearlstein 307

Ji Wang

Decision Fusion in Non-Stationary Environments

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Leonid Hrebien
Committee Members: Moshe Kam, Xiaohua Hu, Paul Kalata, Pramod Abishandani
Date and Time: June 19, 2017 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 302

Chang Ren

Ionically Selective Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides (MXENE) Films

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Christopher Li
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Patrick Gurian, Vibha Kalra, Michel Barsoum
Date and Time: July 18, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Nenian Charles

Towards rational design of functional fluoride and oxyfluoride materials from first principles

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Andrew Magenau, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, James Rondinelli and Kenneth Poeppelmeier (Northwestern University)
Date and Time: July 18, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Barysheva Assia Ivanivna

Successful Teaching Is the Way to Successful Learning in the Higher Educational Institutions of the U. S. A.: A Grounded Theory Study

Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: John M. Gould, Cindy S. Ratekin
Date and Time: September 07, 2017 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online

James Patrick Kearney

A Study of High School Teachers' Experiences Making Innovations to Instruction

Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Joy Phillips, Maureen McQuiggan
Date and Time: August 03, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: Drexel Plaza, Room 110

Matthew Trevor Baltz

An Analysis of the Attitudes, Beliefs, and Perceptions that Impact the Selection of Interscholastic Athletic Funding Methods Amongst High School Athletic Departments in the Northeast United States

Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Penny Hammrich
Committee Members: Mary Jo Grdina, Robert Fleischman
Date and Time: August 23, 2017 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online

Danh Nguyen

Agile Spectrum-Sharing Wireless Systems Using Reconfigurable Antennas and Software-Defined Radios

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Baris Taskin
Committee Members: Kapil R. Dandekar, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Harish Sethu and Jeremy Johnson
Date and Time: August 11, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 302

J. Mia Kim

Influences of Family Literacy Workshops on Title 1 Students’ Family Involvement In Reading – Self-Efficacy and Perception of Reading Performance: A Mixed-Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Kristine Lewis-Grant
Committee Members: Kathleen Provinzano and Anthony Stevenson
Date and Time: September 01, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online

Corrin M. Linkes

Return-to-Learn for Students who Experience Concussions: A Case Study in a Western Pennsylvania High School

Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Bruce Levine
Committee Members: Christina Vorndran and Michael Glow
Date and Time: August 11, 2017 9:30 PM
Location: Online Zoom

Jennifer Gaudioso

Perceptions of School Principals on Participation in PLCs

Major: Educational Leadership
Chair: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Committee Members: Michael Haslip and Michael Pladus
Date and Time: August 22, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online

Matthew Terence Mawhinney

Protein Self-Assembly and Protein-induced DNA Morphologies

Major: Physics
Chair: Brigita Urbanc
Committee Members: Luis Cruz Cruz, Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner, Frank Ferrone and Daniel Marenda
Date and Time: September 20, 2017 10:00 AM
Location: Disque, Room 919

Matthew Voelker

Computational Studies of the Amyloidogenic Proteins Amyloid-beta and Alpha-synuclein

Major: Physics
Chair: Brigita Urbanc
Committee Members: Luiz Cruz Cruz, Eric Brewe, Jian-Min Yuan and Daniel Marenda
Date and Time: September 19, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: Disque, Room 919

Thomas A. Radzio

Physiological and Behavioral Ecology of Juvenile Gopher Tortoises

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: James Spotila, PhD
Committee Members: Susan Kilham, PhD; Michael O'Connor, PhD; Willem Roosenburg, PhD (Ohio University); Arthur Dunham, PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
Date and Time: December 07, 2017 11:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building Room 103

Josep Valls Vargas

Automated Narrative Information Extraction Using Non-Linear Natural Language Processing Pipelines

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Santiago Ontanon
Committee Members: Jichen Zhu; Dario Salvicci, PhD; Mark Riedl, PhD (Georgia Tech); David Elson (Google)
Date and Time: December 05, 2017 1:00 PM
Location: University Crossing Room 149

Sam Philip Snodgrass

Markov Models for Procedural Content Generation

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Santiago Onanton
Committee Members: David Breen, Dario Salvucci, PhD; Adam Smith (University of California Santa Cruz), Julian Togelius (New York University)
Date and Time: December 07, 2017 3:00 PM
Location: Rush Building Room 006

Cory Michael Kuncio

How Does Varsity Girls' Soccer Support the Mission Statement of a High School in Eastern Pennsylvania?

Major: Education
Chair: Penny L. Hammrich
Committee Members: Mary Jo Grdina, Gene White
Date and Time: November 13, 2017 4:00 PM
Location: Online (via Zoom)

Yaou Zhou

Auditor Changes by the Films Just Missing Analysts' Forecasts

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Hsihui Chang
Committee Members: Anthony Curatola (Co-Chair) Barbara Grein Xin Dai Johnny Lee
Date and Time: March 22, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room TBD

Jade Nicole Wallace

The Nature of University-Led Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) Professional Development: A Multi-Perspective Phenomenological Study

Major: EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Aroutis Foster, Katilin Moran
Date and Time: March 16, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

John Timlin

Clustering of High-Redshift Quasars

Major: Physics
Chair: Gordon Richards
Committee Members: Nic Ross, Jian-Min Yuan, Steve McMillan, Dave Goldberg
Date and Time: March 23, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Hope Fuss

Princpals' Perceptions of Changing the Age=Grade Trasitional Model of Schooling

Major: EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Artoutis Foster, Kristine McGee
Date and Time: March 12, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

David Purnell

Transitioning to and Sustaining an inquiry-Based Pedagogy

Major: EdD Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Joy Phillips, Katie Kennedy-Reilly
Date and Time: March 05, 2018 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Nicholas Coleman

Online Monitoring and Control of Electric Power Distribution Systems

Major: PhD Electrical Engineering
Chair: Steven Weber
Committee Members: Hande Benson, Harry Kwatny, Thomas Halpin, Karen Miu
Date and Time: March 12, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: CEPE Power Lab, Randell 046

Tao Sun

CEO Performance Evaluation and Discretionary Bonuses

Major: Accounting
Chair: Mark Vargus
Committee Members: Anthony Curatola (Co-Chair), Hsihu Chang, Curtis Hall, Thomas Chang
Date and Time: March 23, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall

Ekwoge Enang Abwe

Linking behavioral diversity with genetic and ecological variation in the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti)

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Jacob Russell
Committee Members: Mary Katherine Gonder, Sean O'Donnell, Meshagae Hunter-Brown, Bethan Morgan
Date and Time: March 23, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: PISB 103

Catherine Hertzog

Exploring Factors that influence General Education Teachers' Attitudes toward the Inclusion of IDEA Eligible Students Who Exhibit Disruptive Behaviors

Major: EdD Educational Leadership and Managament
Chair: Constance Lyttle
Committee Members: Vera Lee, Christopher Bloh
Date and Time: March 22, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: One Drexel Plaza, Room 004

Katherine Myers-Coffman

The Resilience Songwriting Program for Adolescent Bereavement: A Mixed Methods Exploratory Study

Major: PhD Creative Arts Therapies
Chair: Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Brian Daly, Robert Palisano, Sharlene Wolchik, Felicity Baker
Date and Time: March 22, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 903

Brianna Morgis

A Hold Me Tight Workshop for Couple Attachment, Sexual Communication, & Sexual Satisfaction

Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing
Committee Members: Jamie Slaughter-Acay, Kathleen Fisher, Ting Liu, Ruth Jampol
Date and Time: May 10, 2018 12:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 206

Yanni Ping

A Study of the Coordination of Decentralized Supply Chain: Outsourcing Decision Making and Selling under Novel Mechanisms

Major: PhD Business Administration
Chair: Seung-Lae Kim, Wenjing Shen
Committee Members: Hande Benson, Chuanren Liu, Konstantinos Serfes
Date and Time: April 30, 2018 10:00 AM
Location:

Elizabeth Wills

Probing Cosmic Anisotropy in the Northern Hemisphere with Atmospheric Neutrinos

Major: Physics
Chair: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Committee Members: Erik Blaufuss, Michelle Dolinski, Russel Neilson, Gordon Richards
Date and Time: April 23, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 108

Chelsey Hill

Automotive Recall Decisions

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Hande Benson
Committee Members: Chaojiang Wu, Murugan Anandarajan, Matthew Schneider, Eleanor McDonnell Feit
Date and Time: April 20, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room 501

Deborah Schwind

Evaluating a Novel Approach to Community Based Instruction (CBI) in Elementary School for Students with Autism

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Margo Orlin
Committee Members: Leslie Davidson, Girjia Kaimal
Date and Time: May 03, 2018 10:30 AM
Location: Three Parkway Building

Timothy Faver

Nanopteron-stegoton traveling waves in mass and spring dimer Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattices

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Shari Moskow
Committee Members: David Ambrose, Aaron Hoffman, Ron Perline, Gideon Simpson, Doug Wright
Date and Time: May 04, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Academic Building, Room 302

Sherine Lazarow

A Qualitative Study of the Perceived Impact that Changing Requirements from Medical Societies and Medical Boards are Having on the Day-to-Say Activities of Physicians

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Nancy Songer
Committee Members: Toni Sondergeld, Alan Kaell
Date and Time: April 16, 2018 4:30 PM
Location: Zom

Amanda Pentecost

Nanodiamond-Based Drug Delivery System for the Modulation of Macrophage Behavior

Major: Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Michele Marcolongo
Committee Members: Kara Spiller Yury Gogotsi Hao Cheng Wei-Heng Shih
Date and Time: March 14, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 106

Astha Ramaiya

Time of the Month: A Mixed-Method Study to Understand and Improve Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management in Rural North India

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Surush Sood
Committee Members: Anna Martinez-Donate, Arundati Muralidharan, Lucy Robinson, Randall Sell
Date and Time: May 15, 2018 10:30 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 719

Alexandra Budenz

The New Age of Strima and Social Support: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Social Media Communication about Mental Health

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Philip Massey
Committee Members: Ann Klassen, Michael Yudell, Jonathan Purtle, Elad Yom-Tov
Date and Time: May 08, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 340

Lisa Peterson

Environmental Economic and Social Evaluation of Stormwater Management

Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Sabrina Spatari
Committee Members: Patricia Gallagher, Franco Montalto, Joseph Martin, Patricia Awerbuch
Date and Time: April 12, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Alumni Engineering Labs (AEL), Room 275

Amy Summa

Exploring Supportuve Educational Experiences of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students from an Adult Perspective: A Reflective Phenomenology

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kenneth Mawritz
Committee Members: Toni Sondergeld, Catherine Renzelli
Date and Time: May 07, 2018 10:30 AM
Location:

Latricia Marie Baham

The Infusion of Mobile Learning: Understanding Pedagogical Implications for Today's Female High School Students

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Ayana Allen-Handy
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich, Rosalind Pijeaux Hale
Date and Time: May 07, 2018 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Terri Michelle Taylor

Exploring Factors that Influence Employee Motivation to Transfer Training from a Leadership Development Program: A Qualittive Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kenneth Mawritz
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, Kelley Wood
Date and Time: May 03, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Traci Dennis

A Second Chance: A Phenomenological Study of African American Student Perceptions of Urban Secondary Alternative Schools

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Ayana Allen-Handy
Committee Members: Joyce Pittman, Terica Butler
Date and Time: May 04, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Joanna Kaye

Targeting Therapists' Experiential Avoidance During Exposure Delivery: An Experimental Investigation to Improve the Quality of Exposure-Based Interventions

Major: Psychology
Chair: Evan Forman
Committee Members: James Herbert, Jennifer Schwartz, Anu Asnaani, Brett Deacon
Date and Time: April 30, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 312

Tom Ben-David

The Impact of Ventilation: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment by Understanding the Impact of Ventilation on Indoor Air Quality in Commercial Buildings

Major: Architectural Engineering
Chair: Michael Waring
Committee Members: Jin Wen, James Lo, Simi Hoque, William Bahnfleth
Date and Time: May 21, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Alumni Engineering Labs (AEL), Room 275

Emily Haney-Caron

True and False Confessions: Comparing Self-Reported Likelihood of Confession with Actual Confession Behavior

Major: Psychology
Chair: Naomi Goldstein
Committee Members: David DeMatteo, Kirk Heilbrun, Steven Drizin, Jennifer Perilla
Date and Time: April 11, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room TBD

Karolina Bryl

The Role of Dance/Movement Therapy in the Treatment of Negative Syndrome and Psychosocial Functioning of Patients with Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study

Major: Creative Arts Therapies
Chair: Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Kathleen Fischer, Mark Sossin, Andzej Cechinicki
Date and Time: May 14, 2018 10:30 AM
Location: Three Parkway Building

Megan Murphy

Memory Accuracy and the Ability to Recall Psychological Distress and Behavior Over Time

Major: Psychology
Chair: David DeMatteo
Committee Members: Brian Daly, Kirk Heilbrun, Jennifer Sschwartz, Emily Zimmerman
Date and Time: May 29, 2018 3:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 330

Kimberly Ward

Individualized student goals in school-based physical therapy practice: Goal development, use, and relationship to service delivery and outcomes

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Lisa Chiarello
Committee Members: Robert Palisano, Kathleen Fisher, Edward Gracely, Susan Effgen
Date and Time: May 25, 2018 9:00 AM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 742

Alan Black

Investigating Supplemental Context for Word Sense Disambiguation

Major: Information Science
Chair: Rosina Weber
Committee Members: Il Yeol Song, Santiago Ontanon, Asta Zelenkauskaite, Marcello Balduccini
Date and Time: May 16, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Rush Building

Ran Mo

Automatically Measuring Software Architecture and Identifying Architecture Problems

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Yuanfang Cai
Committee Members: Bruce Char, Xiaohua Hu, Rick Kazman, Jeffrey Popyck
Date and Time: June 08, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Rush Building, Room 006

Kimberly Ann McClellan

African Born Women Seeking HIV Care in Philadelphia: Qualitative Exploration of a Community of Practice

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Kristine Lewis Grant, Loretta Sweet-Jemmott
Date and Time: May 29, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: School of Education, Room 141

William Michael Ryan

University-Community Partnerships as Learning Organizations

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristine Lewis Grant and Jamie Callahan
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich
Date and Time: May 04, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Paul Richard Watson II

An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study of How First-Year Students Perceive Their Creativity and Innovation at a College of Technology in Pennsylvania

Major: Edcuational Leadership and Management
Chair: Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Sheila Vaidya, Clifford Coppersmith
Date and Time: May 07, 2018 10:00 AM
Location:

Ekaterina Fedorova

Illicit Drug Use and Prescripton Drug Misuse Among Young Adult Medical Marijuana Patients and Non-Patient Users in Los Angeles

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Stephen Lankenau
Committee Members: Alexis Roth, Lucy Robinson, Sheree Schrager, Alice Cepeda
Date and Time: May 17, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Nebitt Hall, Room 751

Avat Kioumarsi

Natural History of Marijuana Use Among Young Adult Medical Marijuana Patients in Los Angeles: From Initial to Current Use

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Stephen Lankenau
Committee Members: Alexis Roth, Philip Massey, Carolyn Wang, Tina Kim
Date and Time: May 24, 2018 3:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 320

Fatima Nabia Bassit

Challenges in Negotiating Gender Equality in the Northern Region of Ghana: Experience and Lessons from Empowered Women in Selected Communities in the Tamale Metropolis

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Rebecca Clothey, Atia Apusigah
Date and Time: May 31, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Dragon Conference Room, One Drexel Plaza

David Sulon

Analysis for periodic traveling interfacial hydroelastic waves

Major: Mathematics
Chair: David Ambrose
Committee Members: Douglas Wright, Andrew Hicks, Gideon Simpson, Benjamin Akers
Date and Time: May 29, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Academic Bldg, Room 302

Quing Li

Role of Meniscus Micromechanics in Joint Function and Osteoarthritis

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Adrian Shieh
Committee Members: Yinghui Zhong, Sriram Balasubramanian, Lin Han, Li-Hsin (Leo) Han
Date and Time: September 20, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 709

David Morrow

Immersing Learners: The Influence of a Study Tour Course on Undergraduate Hospitality Students' Commitment to the Hospitality Industry

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Committee Members: Toni Sondergeld, Jennifer Toadvine
Date and Time: May 17, 2018 10:45 AM
Location:

Ipshita Gupta

Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation (SHAPE) of Portal Hypertension

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Margaret Wheatley
Committee Members: Flemming Foraberg, Peter Lewin, Fred Allen, Jonathan Fenkel
Date and Time: June 06, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 709

Andrew Dillon

Mechanics of Low-Voltage Electrophoretic Deposition of Copper-Chalcogenide Noncrystal-Based Thin-Films

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Jason Baxter
Committee Members: Aaron Fafarman, Cameron Abrams, Maureen Tong, Michael Barsoum
Date and Time: May 30, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 162

Marco Elia

Three Essays in Hedge Fund Activism

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Naveen Daniel
Committee Members: Ralph Walking, Daniel Dorn, Gregory Nini, Kose John (NYU)
Date and Time: June 25, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: TBD

Andrew Steven Cook

Examination of Executive Coaches' Use of Creativity in their Coaching Practice

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Kathy Geller, Tony Sondergeld, Myra Edelstein
Date and Time: May 25, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Lara Carson Weinstein

Beyond Lifestyle Factors: Exploring the Role of the Social Determinants of Health in Weight Loss Attempts in People with Serious Mental Illness Living in Supportive Housing Settings

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Renee Turchi
Committee Members: Ann Klaussen, Mariana Chilton, Marianna LaNoue (Thomas Jefferson University), Leopoldo Cabassa (Washington University)
Date and Time: May 14, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 340

Reva Street

Electrospun Scaffolds for Organotypic Spinal Cord Cultures

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Caroline Schauer
Committee Members: Kenneth Barbee, Yinghui Zhang, Lin Han, Bonnie Firestein (Rutgers)
Date and Time: May 30, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Kim Rhone

African American parents' Involvement in their Adolescent Children's High School Experiences: A Narrative Inquiry

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristine Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Brian Smith, karren Dunkley
Date and Time: June 22, 2018 12:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Christine Ann Matik

A Phenomenological Study: Understanding the Experiences of Third Grade Students with Higher-Order Ambiguous Tasks

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Aroutis Foster, David Baugh
Date and Time: May 22, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Yuanyuan Feng

Managing Personal Health Information from Activity Trackers: The Healthy Users’ Perspective

Major: Information Studies
Chair: Denise Agosto
Committee Members: RObert Capra, Lorraine Richards, Michelle Rogers, Jichen Zhu
Date and Time: May 31, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Rush Building, Room 205

Mechele Newell

Success with an Unlikely Candidate: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Academically Successful Youth who have Aged out of Foster Care

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Jose Chavez
Committee Members: Rod Githens (Pacific University), Addie Ellis (External)
Date and Time:
Location:

Alexander Onderdonk

Activity Patterns in Lateral-Inhibition Type Neural Fields with Asymmetic Exitatory Distal Compents

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Yixin Guo
Committee Members: Doug Wright, Hugo Woerdeman, Dennis Yang, Ying Sun
Date and Time: June 13, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Academic Building, Room 302

Elsa Gorre

Development of a Cell Free MALDI TOFMS Method for the Identification of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Yeast Strain: Studies of the Molecular Properties of MALDI Matrices

Major: Chemisty
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Anthony Addison, Peter DeCarlo, Ezra Wood, Matthew Farber
Date and Time: May 17, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

Myles Akin

Multiplex Network Analysis of Local Topology in Simulated and In Vitro Spiking Neural Networks

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Yixin Guo
Committee Members: Patrick Clarke, Doug Wright, Dennis Yang, Qin Liu (UPenn)
Date and Time: June 06, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Academic Building, Room 302

Guyue Han

Sampling Algorithms for Big Graph Analysis

Major: Electrical/Telecom Engineering
Chair: Jaudelice de Oliveira
Committee Members: Steven Weber, Harish Sethu, James Shackleford, Andrea Forte
Date and Time: May 23, 2018 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Stephen Flemming

A Phenomenology: Exploring African American Mens Characterization of their K-12 Learning Experiences in a Large Urban School District

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Christopher Wright, Ray Vann Kee
Date and Time: May 22, 2018 1:00 PM
Location:

Nicolette DiPietro

Experiences and Perceptions about Adjuncts' Teaching

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Edem Tetteh
Date and Time: May 21, 2018 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom Session

Gabriel Ford

Spectrum Awareness Using Bayesian Nonparametric Pattern Recognition

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Leonid Hrebien
Committee Members: Moshe Kam, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Kapil Dandekar, Paul Kalata, Thomas Chmielewski
Date and Time: May 22, 2018 9:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Xi Wang

Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index and Gestational Weight Gain with The Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Autistic Traits Among Offspring

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Brian Lee
Committee Members: Felice Le-Scherban, Jaime Slaughter-Acey, Renee Turchi
Date and Time: June 08, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 719

Michele Nicolo

Predictors of hemoglobin A1c among adults, 40 to 59 years of age, in the United States: NHANES 2003 to 2004 and 2013 to 2014

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Stella Volpe
Committee Members: Deeptha Sukumar, Joseph Boullata, Patricia Shewokis, Sinclair Smith, Charlene Compher
Date and Time: July 10, 2018 3:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 206

Timotheus Guy-Homas

A Phenonemological Study: The Experiences of At-Risk Hispanic Student Participants In A Philadelphia After School Mentoring Program

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Allen Grant, Jessie Harper
Date and Time: June 12, 2018 12:00 PM
Location:

Hoori Rafieian

Variety Perceptions in the Presence of Goals

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Daniel Korschun, Yanliu Huang
Committee Members: Rolph Anderson, Chen Wang, Barbara Kahn
Date and Time: June 08, 2018 1:00 PM
Location:

Corbett Berry

Novel Calcium Dependent Mechanisms of NF-kappaB Activation Regulate Lymphocyte Tolerance and Immunity

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Barbee
Committee Members: Uri Hershberg, Bruce Freedman, Michael May, Michael Bouchard, Ahmet Sacan
Date and Time: May 31, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 341

Gavin Harrison

Block Black Box Algorithms Over Small Fields

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Jeffery Popyack
Committee Members: Jeremy Johnson, Bruce Char, Hugo Woerdeman, B. David Saunders
Date and Time: June 04, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: University Crossings, Room 153

Danitra Sherman

Comparative Analysis of Areas with Buffer Zones vs. Areas without Buffer Zones: Assessing the Impact of Anti-Abortion Protestors on Patient Experiences Characterized by Emotional and Psychological Responses

Major: Health Policy & Social Justice
Chair: David Cohen
Committee Members: Darryl Brown, Jonathan Purtle, Augusta Villanueva, Clarice Bailey
Date and Time: June 07, 2018 10:30 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 320

Elsie A. Butler

Using the Voces of K-4 Teachers to Explore a Reformed Professional Learning Model: A Qualitative Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kenneth Mawritz
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Patrice Bogan
Date and Time: May 15, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Mohammed Muthalib

An Electrical-Thermal Cicuit Framework for Utilizing Buildings as Controllable Power System Loads

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Dagmar Niebur
Committee Members: Karen Miu, Tom Chmielewski, Jin Wen, Frank Ferrese
Date and Time: June 07, 2018 12:00 PM
Location: ECE Power Lab, Randell Hall, Room 048

Karen Koenig-Sanko

Teachers'Experiences with Student Engagement after Mindset and Thinking Skills Instruction along with Implementation of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support at a Northern California Middle School: A Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kathy Geller
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Diane Brown
Date and Time: June 11, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: UOP, Room S1 Library

Pingge Jiang

High Performance Hierarchical B-spline Reigstration on Biomedical Images

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Matthew Stamm
Committee Members: James Shackleford, Nagarajan Kandaramy, Harish Sethu, Gregory Sharp
Date and Time: July 16, 2018 1:00 PM
Location:

Lawrence Keiser

Creativity Mindset: An Exploration of K-16 Educator Leaders' and Business Leaders' Understanding and Application to Their Professions

Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technology
Chair: Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Rebecca Clothey, Penny Hammrich, Rosalie Guzotsky, Barrie Litzky, Tsz Kwok
Date and Time: June 29, 2018 9:30 AM
Location: Dragon Conference Room, One Drexel Plaza

Christopher Brown

The Flow of Sickle Blood Through Glass Capillaries and its Diagnostic Implications

Major: Physics
Chair: Frank Ferrone
Committee Members: Michelle Dolinski, Som Tyagi, Andres Liu, Stephen McMillan
Date and Time: July 30, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

William Mongan

Predictive Analytics on Real-Time Biofeedback for Actionable CLassification of Activity State

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Kapil Dandekar
Committee Members: Adam Fontecchio, Genevieve Dion, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Tim Kurzweg
Date and Time: August 08, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: CASTLE Idea Lab

Issac Azevedo

The Effects of Conflicting Messages on Project Support Staff in Matrix Structured Organizations

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kathleen Provinzano
Committee Members: Salvatore Falletta, Holly Carpenter
Date and Time: July 18, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Belhassen Bayar

Constrained Convolutional Neural Networks: Deep learning Meets Multimedia Forensics

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: James Shackleford
Committee Members: Matthew Stamm, Steven Weber, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Spiros Mancordis
Date and Time: August 06, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Angela Guerriero

Methods of Inclusion in Music Therapy Practice: Implications for School-Based Music Therapists

Major: Creative Arts Therapies
Chair: Girija Kaimal
Committee Members: Dena Register, Joke Bradt, Proya Lalvani, Jen Katz Buonincontro
Date and Time: July 30, 2018 12:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 701

Pietro Joseph Ranieri III

Transfer Process in Plasma - Biological Systems: Medical and Agricultural Applications

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Alexander Fridman
Committee Members: Gregory Fridman, Vandana Miller, Li-Hsin Han, Nicholas Cernansky, Young Cho, Haifeng Ji
Date and Time: August 27, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 162

Yi-Hsuan Lin

A Flow-Based Model for Electronegative Impurity Transport in ECO-200

Major: Physics
Chair: Michelle Dolinski
Committee Members: Russel Neilson, Maher Harb, Andrea Pocar, Alexey Aprelev
Date and Time: August 31, 2018 1:30 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Allen Chao

Developing Isocyanide Methodology

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Peter Wade
Committee Members: Ezra Wood, Joseph Fox, Anthony Addison, Bill Malachowski, Scott Sieburth
Date and Time: August 01, 2018 9:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 307

Daniel Hagaman

Light-Driven Polymeric Bilayer Actuators Fabricated by 3-D Printing

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Lynn Penn
Committee Members: Lee Hoffman, Joe Foley, Lunal Khuon, Alexander Sidorenko, Jun Xi
Date and Time: August 23, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow 240

Junyang Xian

Development and Analysis of Active-Learning Techniques in Entry-Level Chemistry Laboratory and Classroom

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Kevin Owens, Susan Jansen-Varnum, Lee Hoffman, Jeremiah Scepaniak, Peter DeCarlo
Date and Time: August 13, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

Lawrence Camacho

Cooperative Education: Effect on Student Learning Outcomes of Business Administration Majors - A Casy Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Paul Harrington
Committee Members: Toni Sondergeld, John DiNardo, Rebecca Weidensaul, Karen Nulton, Jennifer Stanford
Date and Time: August 27, 2018 12:00 AM
Location: Creese Student Center, Room 232

Kimberly Ann McClellan

African-Born Women Seeking HIV Care in Philadelphia: Qualitative Exploration of a Community of Practice

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Kristine Lewis-Grant, Loretta Sweet-Jermmott
Date and Time: September 05, 2018 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Eric Wait

The Complete Interactome with 5-D GPU Accelerated Analysis, Visualization and UI for Biological Microscopy Applications

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Nagarajan Kandasamy
Committee Members: Alisa Clyne, David Breen, Uri Hershberg, Andrew Cohen
Date and Time: August 14, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Barbara Finck-Krampitz

Mixed Methods Design: Examining Secondary Teachers' Perceptions about the Efficacy of First Year Implementation of the ? Program on Students' Academic Performance in State Mandated Tests

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: David Helsel, Joy Phillips
Date and Time: August 20, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Willie Blackmon

A Sequencial Explanation Mixed Method Study of the Imposter Phenomenon Experience of First-Generation Students of Color at a Predominently White Institution

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Kristine Lewis-Grant, Diane LeGree
Date and Time: August 21, 2018 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Yaaqoub Malallah

Tunable RF Circuits Using Iron-Cobalt Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Afshin Daryoush
Committee Members: Kapil Dandekar, Abbas Omar, Jonathan Spanier, Mohammad Tofighi, Chins Chinnasamy
Date and Time: August 24, 2018 9:30 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Subham Dastidar

Structural and Photo-physical Properties of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Jason Baxter
Committee Members: Aaron Fafarman, Kenneth Lau, Steven May, Andrew Rappe
Date and Time: September 05, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow 240

Abigail Duffine

The Effect of Multicomponent, School-Based Obesity Intervention on the Health and Behaviors of Children

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Stella Volpe
Committee Members: Brandy-Joe Milliron, Patricia Shewokis, Michael Bruneau, Tanja Kral
Date and Time: September 07, 2018 2:00 PM
Location:

Priyalakshmi Panikker

Restoring Tip60 HAT/HDAC2 Balance in the Neurodegenerative Brain Promotes Neural Health

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Nianli Sang
Committee Members: Felice Elefant, Aleister Saunders, Tali Gidalevitz, Wen-Jun Gao
Date and Time: September 25, 2018 12:30 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 103

John Vergara

A Fundamental Study of Water Sorption in Epoxy/Amine Crosslinked Polymers

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Lynn Penn, Cameron Abrams, John J. La Scala, Giuseppe Palmese
Date and Time: August 30, 2018 9:00 AM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Donna Runner

Intentional Thought Process of Teachers Who Create Personalized Learning Pathways that Result in Improved Learning Outcomes

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Sheila Vaidya
Committee Members: Aroutis Foster, Ellen Linky
Date and Time: September 18, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Jude Sandt

Algebra On Demand

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, Terrance Meehan
Date and Time: August 24, 2018 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Liguo Li

The Reconstruction of the Musculotendinous System of the Neck of Sarupods and the Dodo Based on Anatomical Comparison with the Modern Birds and Its Implications of Biomechanical Function and Ecological Roles

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Peter Dodson, James Spotila, Susan Kilham, Ted Daeshler, Matthew Bonnan
Date and Time: August 06, 2018 3:30 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 103

Arun Srikant Sridhar

Effect of Alkyl Chain Length on Epoxy-Amidoamine Systems: A Molecular Simulated Study

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Cameron Abrams, Giuseppe Palmese, Nicolas Alvarez, Chris Li
Date and Time: September 12, 2018 12:00 AM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Jonathan Chenier

Classroom Without Walls Excursions and Their Impact on the Affective Growth of International Middle School Students

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Salvatore Falletta
Committee Members: Vera Lee, Robert Imholt
Date and Time: September 06, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - https://zoom.us/i/4519106256/

Stephen Stunder III

How Participating in a Learning Difference Program in an Independent School Affects Students Academic and Emotional Progress and Definition of Success

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Sheila Vaidya, Kiersten Waite
Date and Time: September 19, 2018 1:30 PM
Location:

Chong Liu

Experimental investigation of nanosecond-pulsed dielectric barrier discharge in atmospheric pressure and its application for direct liquefaction of natural gas

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Gennady Friedman
Committee Members: Danil Dobrynin, Adam Fontecchio, Kapil Dandekar
Date and Time: October 24, 2018 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Brandon Packard

Learning from Human Demonstration

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Santiago Ontanon
Committee Members: Michael Floyd, Darius Salvucci, David Breen, Jeremy Johnson
Date and Time: October 19, 2018 12:00 AM
Location: Rush Building, Room 209

Salvador DeCelles

Data Reduction Techniques for Efficient Performance Monitoring of Computer Systems

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Anup Kumar Das
Committee Members: Spiros Mancoridis, Naga Kansasamy, Matthew Stamm, Steven Weber
Date and Time: October 02, 2018 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Maliha Ibrahim

Therapist Fidelity in Two Family-Based Treatments: Association to Outcomes, Therapeutic Alliance and Therapist Factors

Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Guy Diamond
Committee Members: Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing, Jessica Choue, Aaron Hogue, Robert Gallop, Suzanne Levy
Date and Time: November 12, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room TBA

Benjamin Locklair

Beyond Self-Report: Construction and Validation of the Implicit Test of Antisocial Attitudes

Major: Psychology
Chair: Kirk Heilbrun
Committee Members: David DeMatteo, Fengqing (Zoe) Zhang, Adam Benforado, Jenniferr Gallo
Date and Time: October 24, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: Strratton Hall Room 217

Lauren Bradstreet

The Impact of Autism Traits and Psychosis Traits on Mentalizing in Individuals with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder

Major: Psychology
Chair: Maria Schultheis
Committee Members: Diana Robins, Brain Daly, Zoe Zhang, Monica Calkins, Paul Moberg
Date and Time: December 04, 2018 10:00 AM
Location: A.J. Drexel Autism Institue, Room 561

Divya Pathak

Smart Grid On Chip: Infusing Intelligence Into On-Chip Energy Management

Major: Computer Engineering
Chair: Baris Taskin
Committee Members: Ioannis Savidis, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Anup Das, Antonios Kontsos
Date and Time: November 07, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Congyu Liu

Essays on Bank Risk Management

Major: Finance
Chair: Jie Cai
Committee Members: Greg Nini, Michael Gombola, Thomas Chiang, Michael Pagano
Date and Time: December 10, 2018 2:30 PM
Location: Lebow GHall 1139

Danielle Marie Heeney

A Case Study Exploration of School-Based Mindfulness Instruction Through the Voices of Middle School Students with Emotinal and Behavioral Disabilities

Major: Education
Chair: Constance Lyttle
Committee Members: Janet Sloand, Annette Willgens
Date and Time: December 13, 2018 2:00 PM
Location: Drexel University

Robert Bernard Stone

Broad and Narrow Intrinsic Absorption in Quasars as it Relates to Overflows, Orientation, and Radio Properties

Major: Physics
Chair: Gordon Richard
Committee Members: Michael Vogeley, Steve McMillan, Naoko Nellson, Jenny Greene
Date and Time: December 07, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall 919

Lyandysha Zholudeva

The Neuroplastic and Therapeutic Potential of Interneurons in the Injured Spinal Cord

Major: Neuroscience
Chair: Michael Lane
Committee Members:
Date and Time: November 29, 2018 12:00 PM
Location: Room AUD B, Queen Lane Campus

Christopher Stairiker

Molecular changes in alveolar epithelial cells during influenza virus infection

Major: Microbology and Immunology
Chair: Peter Katsikis
Committee Members:
Date and Time: November 29, 2018 3:00 PM
Location: Room AUD B, Queen Lane Campus

Jessica Shaw

Inherent individual differences in presynaptic dopamine dynamics govern cocaine-associated behavior

Major: Neuroscience
Chair: Rodrigo España
Committee Members:
Date and Time: October 31, 2018 1:00 PM
Location: Room SAC B, Queen Lane Campus

Amanda Huon

Investigating Quadruple Pervckite Films: Synthesis and Characterizations of CaMu7O42

Major: Material Sciences and Engineering
Chair: Ekaterina Pomerantseva
Committee Members: Steven May, Wei Shih, Aaron Farfarman, Ho Nyung Lee
Date and Time: December 19, 2018 11:00 AM
Location: Hill Seminar Room, LeBow 240

Rava Vivian Allahyari

Sonic hedgehog signaling is negatively regulated in reactive astrocytes after forebrain stab injury

Major: Biology
Chair: John Bethea
Committee Members: Denise Garcia, Jerome Ricard, Aleister Saunders, Ramesh Raghupathi
Date and Time: January 22, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences, Room 103

Joshua Wall

The Formation and Early Evolution of Star Clusters

Major: Physics
Chair: Stephen McMillan
Committee Members: Michael Vogeley, Gordon Richards, Som Tyagi, Mark-Mordecai Mac Low
Date and Time: March 15, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Laura Marie Morris

Exploring student and staff perceptions of customer service support within a student enrollment system in University A

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Kristen Betts, Eileen Donnelly
Date and Time: February 11, 2019 12:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Lindsay VanHefter

Delaware Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Developmentally Appropriate Technology for Preschoolers

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Salvatore Falletta
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Kimberly Brancato
Date and Time: February 04, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Diana Razo Sandoval

Latina Administrators and their Journey of Empowerment

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kathy Geller
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Marin Martinez
Date and Time: March 11, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: University of the Pacific (or via Zoom)

Kimberly Marie Udeh

Exploring Graduate Students' Perceptions of Using Social Media in Education Coursework

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich, David Johnson
Date and Time: February 20, 2019 6:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Sadella Santos

Development of Self-Healing Thermosets for Corrosion Prevention

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Vibha Kalra, Steven Wrenn, Giuseppe Palmese, John La Scala
Date and Time: March 15, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Thelca Bedminster

Revisiting Play: Assisting Primary English Learners

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Vera Lee
Committee Members: Kathy Geller, Linda Thomas
Date and Time: February 26, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Christopher Holland

A Qualitative Investigation of Independent School Educators: Lived Experiences with PreK-12 Accreditation

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, George Zeleznik
Date and Time: March 18, 2019 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Virginia Vaughan

A Case Study: Exploring Parents and Teachers' Perception of Adaptive Behavior Instruction to Determine Their Contribution to Quality of Life for Students with Complex Disabilities in a Delaware Specialized School

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Date and Time: March 12, 2019 7:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Binita Sheth

A Qualitative Case Study on the Factors that Impact Teacher Attrition and Retention in a Head Start Preschool Organization in New Jersey

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Kathleen Provinzano, Suzette Sularski
Date and Time: March 11, 2019 6:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Simon Begashaw

Enhancing Multi-User Networks with Pattern Reconfigurable Antennas

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Nagarajan Kandasamy
Committee Members: Kapil Dandekar, Steven Weber, Goeffrey Mainland, Adam Fontecchio
Date and Time: March 20, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 302

Donovan Smalls II

A Qualitative Grounded Theory: Exploring Factors that Influence Division II Collegiate Basketball Coaches when Implementing a Balanced Academic, Social, and Athletic Student-Athlete Experience

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Marone Brown
Date and Time: March 15, 2019 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Melissa Egri McCauley

A Phenomenological Study: Exploring Female Superintendents Lived Experiences to Understand Factors Related to their Superintendency Career Paths in Pennsylvania

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Kathy Geller, Lindsay Pfister
Date and Time: March 06, 2019 12:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Di Tong

Generalists in Knowledge Production and Diffusion

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Daniel Tzabbar
Committee Members: Jeongsik Lee, Vadake Narayanan, Lauren D'Innocenzo, Dennis Park
Date and Time: April 17, 2019 12:00 PM
Location:

Mohammed Alghamdi

Physical Caregiving for Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy: How it Changes Over Time for Parents in the United States and How it Can Be Measured for Parents in Saudi Arabia

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Lisa Chiarello
Committee Members: Robert Palisano, Margo Orlin, Sarah Westcott McCoy, Ehab Abd-Elkafy
Date and Time: April 29, 2019 11:30 AM
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 742

The Voices of Leaders: Reintegrating with an Emotional Disturbance Back into the School Community

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Constance Lyttle
Committee Members: Kristen Betts, Janell Drone
Date and Time: March 20, 2019 4:30 PM
Location: 3001 Market Street

Khalid Sutton

Exploratory Case Study of Teacher and Principal Perceptions about Principal Leadership

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich, Sybil Knight-Burney
Date and Time: March 27, 2019 11:30 AM
Location: Zoom

Jessica Cellitti

When Failures are Left Unspoken: A Case Study of How Engineering Design Failure was Situated in an Elementary Science Classroom

Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies
Chair: Christopher Wright
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich, Valerie Klein, Brian Smith, Pamela Lottero-Perdue
Date and Time: April 05, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 340

Kendall DeVaughn Wilson-Flippin

Exploring the Influence of an Arts-Based Mindfulness Program

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Christine Wiley
Date and Time: March 26, 2019 7:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Eva Karasmanis

Spatial control of neuronal membrane traffic and mitotic abscission by Septin 9

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: John Bethea
Committee Members: Peter Baas, Denise Garcia, Jennifer Stanford, Elias Spiliotis, Kari Lenhart
Date and Time: April 25, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 103

Shelby Arnold

A Meta-Analysis of Mental Health Courts: State of the Research and Recommendations

Major: Psychology
Chair: David DeMatteo
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun, Naomi Goldstein, Alexandra Garcia-Mansilla, Patty Griffin
Date and Time: May 13, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 330

Nicole Lynn Malinoski

Authentic Engagement and Education: Identifying the Key Factors of Authentic Engagement in High School Seniors

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Allen Grant
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich, Joseph Kristobak
Date and Time: April 12, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Jaymes Fairfax-Columbo

The Road to a Criminal Conviction - Does it Matter How Someone Gets There?: A Cross-Section of Public Attitudes

Major: Psychology
Chair: David DeMatteo
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun, Naomi Goldstein, Adam Benforado, Michael Keesler
Date and Time: May 20, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 330

Elin Lantz

Understanding the Effects of Weight Suppression by Deconstructing its Dimensions

Major: Psychology
Chair: Michael Lowe
Committee Members: Adrienne Juarascio, David DeMatteo, Pamela Geller, Jena Shaw Tronieri
Date and Time: March 29, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 217

Hallie Espel-Huynh

Measurement and Prediction of Treatment Response Patterns among Residential Eating Disorder Patients Using a Novel Routine Outcome Monitoring Measure

Major: Psychology
Chair: Michael Lowe
Committee Members: Fengqing Zhang, Adrienne Juarascio, James Boswell, Heather Thompson-Brenner
Date and Time: May 06, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall

Peter Hitchcock

How Rumination Steals Attention from Potentially Reinforcing Cues

Major: Psychology
Chair: Evan Forman
Committee Members: Chris Sims, Yael Niv, John Kounios, Fengqing Zhang
Date and Time: May 20, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: 3201 Chestnut Street

Gbemileke Ogunranti

Models Addressing Sustainability and Risk Issues in Global Supply Chains

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Avijit Banerjee
Committee Members: Hande Benson, Ceryan Oben, Orakwue Arinze, Konstantinos Serfes, Matthew Reindorp
Date and Time: April 26, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall (GHall), Room 722

Leah Schumacher

Understanding the Impact of Exercise Images on Psychosocial Predictors of Physical Activity Among Women

Major: Psychology
Chair: Meghan Butryn
Committee Members: Evan Forman, Michael Lowe, Rebecca Pearl, Danielle Arigo
Date and Time: May 20, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Stratton Hall, Room 312

Jennie David

Assessing the Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Disordered Eating Behaviors in Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Major: Psychology
Chair: Brian Daly
Committee Members: Doug Chute, Dave DeMatteo, Bonney Reed-Knight, Shehzad Saeed, Orhan Atay
Date and Time: May 08, 2019 12:00 PM
Location:

Alex Felmeister

A Unified Framework for Collecting, Annotating, Modeling, and Prediction from Phenotypes in Multi-Institutional Pediatric Data Resources

Major: Information Science
Chair: Xianhua Hu
Committee Members: Yuan An, Michelle Rogers, Li Sheng, Bryan Wolf
Date and Time: April 09, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Rush Building, Room 006

Julia Hildebrand

Consumer Drones as Mobile Media: A Technographic Study of Seeing, Moving, and Being (with) Drones

Major: Communication
Chair: Mimi Sheller
Committee Members: Ernest Hakanen, Brent Luvaas, Lisa Parks, Peter Adey,
Date and Time: May 13, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: 3101 Market Street, Room 224

Mark McCurdy

Social Competence in Youth with Neurofibromatosis Type 1

Major: Psychology
Chair: Brian Daly
Committee Members: Nancy Raitano Lee, Doug Chute, Naomi Goldstein, Matthew Hocking
Date and Time: May 22, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall

Mona Elgohail

An Internet-based Intervention to Mitigate Depression in Muslim Women Experiencing Infertility: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Major: Psychology
Chair: Pamela Geller
Committee Members: Arthur Nezu, Alice Domar, Tamara Gray, Fengqing Zhang
Date and Time: May 31, 2019 12:30 PM
Location:

Kayci Vickers

Impact of Compensatory Recommendations on Consistency in Adherence to Behavioral Regimens in Traumatic Brain Injury

Major: Psychology
Chair: Maria Schultehis
Committee Members: Jennifer Gallo, Zoey Zhang, Karen Lindgren, William Gardner
Date and Time: May 13, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Stratton 123

Thomas Griffin

Essays in Corporate Finance: Recent Trends and Implications

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Eliezer Fich
Committee Members: Daniel Dorn, Michelle Lowry, Greg Nini, David Smith
Date and Time: May 14, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall (GHall), Room 1139

Tamara Galoyan

Multidisciplinary Investigation into Neurocognitive Basis of General Problem Solving, Transfer, and Implications for Pedagogy and Instructional Design

Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies
Chair: Penny Hammrich
Committee Members: Kristen Betts, Rajashi Ghosh, Brian Williams, Patricia Shewokis, Kurtulus Izzetoglu
Date and Time: May 16, 2019 2:30 PM
Location:

Greg Niedt

Urban Polyglossia: Changing identities in the Linguistic Landscape of South Philly

Major: Communication
Chair: Rachel Reynolds
Committee Members: Brent Luvaas, Wesley Shumar Tom Nakayama, Elana Shohamy
Date and Time: May 29, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: 3101 Market Street, Smart Classroom

Bander Alsulami

Behavioral Malware Detection and Classification Using Windows Prefetch Files

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Spiros Mancoridis
Committee Members: Colin S. Gordon, Rachel Greenstadt, Naga Kandasamy, Dario Salvucci
Date and Time: March 13, 2019 1:00 PM
Location:

Fei Jia

Overwhelming Consumption: How the Number of Song Choices and Mood Affect Music Consumption on Music Streaming Services

Major: Communication
Chair: Ernest Hakanen
Committee Members: Asta Zelenkauskaite, Hyunmin Lee, Mary Beth Oliver, Ronald Friedman
Date and Time: May 06, 2019 12:00 PM
Location:

Jasmine Gardner

Lipid and Protein Contributions to Viral Proliferation as Studied Using MD Simulations and Advanced MD Techniques

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams
Committee Members: Steven Wrenn, Aaron Fafarman, Nicolas Alvarez, Brigita Urbanc
Date and Time: May 09, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Marisol S. Norris

Between Lines: A Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Black Aesthetics in a Vocal Music Therapy Group for Chronic Pain

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Stephanie Brooks, Seran Schug, Guthrie Ramsey, Susan Hadley
Date and Time: May 29, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway Building Room 701

Blythe L. Rosikiewicz

Game On: An Exploration of Perceived Environmental Competitiveness at Work, Its Antecedents, and its Effects on Performance

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Mary Mawritz
Committee Members: Lauren D'Innocenzo, Jeffrey Greenhaus, Daniel Tzabbar, Gavin Kilduff
Date and Time: July 31, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall (GHall)

Mathilde D. Christensen

Hosting an Airbnb: Navigating a Collaborative Economy

Major: Communication, Culture and Media
Chair: Himi Sheller
Committee Members: Brent Luvaas, Wesley Shumar, Jennie Germann Molz, Joergen Ole Baerenholdt
Date and Time: May 23, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: 3201 Arch Street

Angel L Shelley-Royal

Evaluating the Impact of Economic Disadvantage on Specific Learning Disability Identification in Elementary School Students: A Grounded Theory Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Janet Sloand
Committee Members: Dominic Gullo, Daniel Lee, Constance Lyttle
Date and Time: May 06, 2019 2:00 PM
Location:

Claire Witherel

Biomaterial-medicated Control Over Marophage Behavior for Tissue Regeneration

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Yinghui Zhang
Committee Members: Lin Han, Kara Spiller, Ryan Petrie, Lesley Chow
Date and Time: June 05, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Pearlstein Building, Room 101

Rebekka Dieterich-Hartwell

Developing Movement Experience with Refugees Who Have Undergone Trauma: A Grounded Theory Study

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Sherry Goodill
Committee Members: Girija Kaimal, Craig Haen, Augusta Villanueva, Sabine Koch
Date and Time: May 21, 2019 12:00 PM
Location:

Jonan Phillip Donaldson

Conceptualizations of Learning in the Learning Sciences and STEM Education

Major: Educational Leadership & Policy
Chair: Brian K. Smith
Committee Members: Mary Bucy, Penny Hammrich, Ayana Allen-Handy, Kristy Kelly
Date and Time: May 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 141

Chelsea Knittel

Tools for Prediction and Understanding of Self-folding Behavior of Knitted Textiles

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Andrew Magenau
Committee Members: Caroline Schauer, Genevieve Dion, Michelle Marcolongo, Garritt Tucker, Randall Kamien
Date and Time: May 22, 2019 12:30 PM
Location: 3101 Market Street - Room 158, Suite 150

Danitra L. Sherman

Comparative Analysis of Areas With Buffer Zones Vs Without Buffer Zones: Assessing the Impact

Major: Health Policy and Social Justice
Chair: Darryl Brown
Committee Members: David Cohen, Jonathan Purtle, Augusta Villanueva, Edward Gracely, Clarice Balley
Date and Time: May 16, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 320

Yasamin Salmani

Investment Decision Making in Improving Multiple Sales Channels

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Fariborz Partovi
Committee Members: Avijit Banerjee, Seung-Lae Kim, Bert Rosenbloom, Rolph Anderson
Date and Time: May 24, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall (GHall), Room 408

Alec Lafontant

Early Prediction of Pressure Injury Development Using Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Peter Lewin
Committee Members: Leonid Zubkov, Michael Neidrauer, Banu Onaral, Michael Weingarten, Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili
Date and Time: May 15, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone 709

Niko Verdecias

Exploring Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge, Risk Perception, and Associated Socio-behavioral Determinants Among African American and Hispanic PLWHA

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Amy Carroll-Scott
Committee Members: Ana Martinez-Donate, Augusta Villanueva, Felice Le-Scherban, Judy Ferguson
Date and Time: May 20, 2019 9:30 AM
Location:

Kathryn L. Wofford

Utilizing the Innate Immune System to Mitigate Secondary Injury Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Margaret Wheatley
Committee Members: Ken Barbee, John Bethea, Kacy Cullen, Kara Spiller
Date and Time: May 02, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone 709

Jennifer Shaw Powers

Making Sense of Mattering: A Phenomenological Study of Black Deaf College Students and Academic Success

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristine S. Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Glenn Anderson
Date and Time: May 28, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Morey Mossovitz

Division 1 Athletic Directors Leadership Influence on Athletic Departments: A Multi-Site Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kathy D. Geller
Committee Members: Jason Silverman, Gina Pauline
Date and Time: May 21, 2019 4:00 PM
Location: Online

Janna Ataiants

Drug Overdose Among Female Participants of a Harm Reduction Program in Philadelphia

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Stephen E. Lankenau
Committee Members: Randall L. Sell, Alexis M. Roth, Lucy Robinson, Silvana Mazzella
Date and Time: May 09, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 440

Emily Lurier

Designing a Novel Immunomodulatory Surface Modification to Promote Biomaterial-Tissue Integration

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Barbee
Committee Members: Kara Spiller, Yinghui Zhong, Amy Throckmorton, Carlijn Bouten, Anthal Smits
Date and Time: May 23, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 709

Genymphas Higgs

Total Hip Replacement: The Impact and Etiology of in vivo Taper Corrosion

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Paul Brandt-Rauf
Committee Members: Steven Kurtz, Kenneth Barbee, Allison Evans, Clare Rimnac
Date and Time: May 16, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone 709

Shawnna L. Thomas-EL

In My Neighborhood But Not For Me: Anchor Residents Express the Sentiments They Hold About the Increased Expansion of a University Into Their Community

Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies
Chair: Ayana Allen-Handy
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich, Abioseh Porter, Janine Roberts, Christopher Wright
Date and Time: May 15, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Drexel University School of Education

Gloria Bazargan

Development of Models for Predicting the Properties of Switchable Mechanically Interlocked Molecular Architectures

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
Committee Members: Lynn Penn, Kevin Owens, Haifeng Ji, Xiaoming Song, Joseph Subotnik
Date and Time: August 05, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

David DiGuiseppi

An Unexpected Gelator with Unforeseen Properties: A Spectroscopic Investigation of Glycyl-Alanyl-Glycine

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Karl Sohlberg
Committee Members: Ezra Wood, Frank Ji, Nicolas Alvarez, Joel Schneider
Date and Time: July 18, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 112

Melissa Louise Oliver

Experiences of Board Certified Behavior Analysts in Center-Based Autism Education: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Christina Vorndran
Committee Members: Pamela Olsen, Deanna Hill
Date and Time: May 22, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Camilla Nix

Long Term Prevention of Biofilm Formation on Silicone Urinary Catheters Utilizing Thin Film Coatings

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Fred Allen
Committee Members: Yinghui Zhong, Amy Throckmorton, Frank Ji, Suresh Joshi
Date and Time: June 06, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 709

Alexandra Muratore

Hedonic Hunger, Disinhibited Eating, and the Physiological Impact of Palatable Food: A Study of Heart Rate Variability

Major: Psychology
Chair: Michael Lowe
Committee Members: Adrienne Juarascio, John Medaglia, Nancy Lee Raitano, Brad Appelhans
Date and Time: May 09, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Stratton 312

Lydia Svetkovich

The Impact of Response to Intervention/Multi-Tiered System of Supports for Literacy on Student Outcomes in a Pennsylvania Elementary School: A Quasi-Experimental Cohort Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Lori Severino
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Erica Kaurudar
Date and Time: August 19, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 3025

Brandy Miller

The Lone Unheard: African American Fathers' Experiences Navigating the Special Education System: A Narrative Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristine S. Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Christina Vorndran, Stephanie Budhai
Date and Time: May 29, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Jacelyn Biondo

The Effects of a Single-Session Dance Movement Therapy Intervention on Movement, Thought and Behavioral Dysfunction for People with Schizophrenia in a Short-Term Psychiatric Inpatient Facility: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Sherry Goodill
Committee Members: Joke Bradt, Wei Du, Nancy Gerber, Martha Davis
Date and Time: June 07, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Three Parkway, Room 701

Jasmine Alexander-Floyd

Natural Genetic Variation and an Alternative Physiological State Modify Polyglutamine Aggregation and Toxicity in C. elegans

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Jacob Russell
Committee Members: Tali Gidalevitz, Felice Elefant, Aleister Saunders, David Raizen
Date and Time: May 23, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 112

Lauren Klabonski

Understanding the Folding, Sorting, and Secretion of Neuroprotective Growth Factors

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Nianli Sang
Committee Members: Tali Gidalevitz, Michael Akins, John Bethea, Yair Argon
Date and Time: May 29, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 103

Andrea McDonough Varner

Creative Mindfulness in Secondary Art Education: A Narrative Inquiry

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Mary Jo Grdina
Committee Members: Kristen Betts, Craig Bach
Date and Time: May 24, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

LaTwyne Wise

Exploring the Perspectives and Needs of Teachers of Elementary Emotional Support Programs: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Janet Sloand
Committee Members: Tina Lawson, Salvatore Falletta, Constance Lyttle
Date and Time: May 20, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Eric Lohwasser Jr

The Effects of Corporate Litigant Counterparties Sharing an Auditor

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Hsihui Chang
Committee Members: Barbara Grein, Anthony Curatoia, Xin Dai, Thomas Chiang
Date and Time: May 24, 2019 10:30 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall (GHall), Room 722

Rachelle Johnson

Coca-Cola and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Sustainable Development Education in Kenya

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: William Lynch, Allen Goodman
Date and Time: July 19, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Yawei Li

Controlling and Optimizing Activity/Stability Balance in Electrocatalytic Materials

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Jason Baxter
Committee Members: Joshua Snyder, Goran Karapetrov, Ken Lau, Maureen Tang
Date and Time: May 29, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow Engineering Center, Room 240

Debra Cohen

Developing Students' Skills for the 21st Century: The National History Day Model as Academic Enrichment

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Vera Lee, Christopher Bellitto
Date and Time: September 12, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Mauria Uhlik

A Phenomenological Investigation into Online Professional Development for Authentic Assessment in Early Childhood Education

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Janet Sloand
Committee Members: Dominic Gullo, Beth Boyle
Date and Time: May 21, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Daniel Summers

Expansions of Catalan Functions

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Jonah Blasiak
Committee Members: Jennifer Morse, R. Andrew Hicks, Eric Schmutz, Hugo Woerdemann
Date and Time: June 11, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: Korman Center

Siddharth Bhatt

Communicating Value Through Space: How Space Influences Price Evaluations

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Rajneesh Suri
Committee Members: Yanliu Huang, Daniel Korschun, Chen Wang, Dhruv Grewal, Abhijit Guha
Date and Time: May 20, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: GHall 501

Daniel Volpetti

Facilitating Authentic Parent-Teacher Engagement in High-Poverty Urban Elementary Schools

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kathleen Provinzano
Committee Members: Bridget Sweeney Blakely, Robert Makaravage
Date and Time: September 04, 2019 4:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Leo Filippini

Charge Recovery Circuits

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Ioannis Savidis
Committee Members: Baris Taskin, Bahram Nabet, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Lunal Khuon
Date and Time: May 16, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: TBD

Carson Fox

New Continuous-Flow Total Artificial Heart For Use in Smaller Sized Adults and Pediatric Patients

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Sriram Balasubramanian
Committee Members: Amy Throckmorton, Lin Han, Adrian Shieh, Wade Fischer
Date and Time: May 23, 2019 11:30 AM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 709

Sarah Basehore

The Protective Role of Shear Stress on Endothelial Cell Glucose Metabolism

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Ken Barbee
Committee Members: Alisa Morss Clyne, Adrian Shieh, Fred Allen, Mauricio Reginato
Date and Time: June 03, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 709

Jonathan Garcia

Computational Models of Endothelial Cell Growth Factor Kinetics and Glucose Metabolism

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Barbee
Committee Members: Alisa Morss Clyne, John Bethea, Donald Buerk, Adrian Shieh
Date and Time: June 06, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 709

Sankalp Kota

Synthesis and Characterization of the MAB Phases: Temary, Nanolayered Transition Metal Borides

Major: Material Sciences and Engineering
Chair: Antonios Zavaliangos
Committee Members: Michel Barsoum, Steven May, Leslie Lamberson, Miladin Radovic
Date and Time: May 16, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: Curtis Hall Room 162

Junhee Kim

Selling and Buying Aspects of Used Products That Are Brand Anthropomorphized

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Rolph Anderson
Committee Members: Chen Wang, Trina Larsen Andras, Srinivasan Swaminathan, Christopher Laincz
Date and Time: May 13, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: GHall 939

Justin Lien

A Mixed Methods Study Examining the Integration of iPads and their Usage as an Instructional Tool for Special Education Teachers in Self-contained Special Education Classrooms

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Constance Fox Lyttle, Joni Baldwin
Date and Time: August 15, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Drexel DC Center

Ahmad Arabi Shams Abadi

Polymer Membranes for CO2 Removal and Water Treatment

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Masoud Soroush, Vibha Kaira, Christopher Li, Michael Grady
Date and Time: May 17, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Elaine Perignat

Examining Teachers' Creativity-Fostering Behaviors in a STEAM Classroom: A Mixed Methods Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Learning Technologies
Chair: Jen Katz-Buonincontro
Committee Members: Dom Gullo, Mary Jo Grdina, Penny Hammrich, Richard Hass
Date and Time: May 24, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: IDEA Lab - 3401 Market St

Janna Domenico

Theoretical Considerations and Computational Strategies for Molecular Electronic Device Design

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
Committee Members: Kevin Owens, Lynn Penn, Ezra Wood, Andrew Rappe
Date and Time: May 28, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 112

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

Venola Rolle

Perceptions of How Literacy and Numeracy Instructions Influence the Lives of Adult Learners: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study of Learners with Low-Literacy Skills

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Dom Gullo
Committee Members: Rajashi Ghosh, Kellee Jenkins
Date and Time: August 23, 2019 12:00 AM
Location:

Michelle Marie Nutini

Intentions to Implement: Predicting the Use of Pivotal Response Training (PRT) in Public School Autistic Support Classrooms

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Constance Fox Lyttle
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, David Mandell
Date and Time: May 20, 2019 2:30 PM
Location: One Drexel Plaza and Zoom

Fadi Althoey

Understating and Mitigation Damage Development in Cementitious Materials Exposed to Sodium Chloride

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Yaghoob Farnam
Committee Members: Grace Hsuan, Ivan Bartoli, Antonios Kontsos, Christopher Sales
Date and Time: June 06, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: Alumni Engineering Labs (AEL), Room 275

Lisajane Kappler

Alternative Learning and Psychiatric Day Treatment: Examining the Intersection of Academics and Therapy

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Ayanna Allen
Committee Members: Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro, Laurel Olexa
Date and Time: May 22, 2019 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom

Sathiavanee Veeramoothoo

Analysis of the Profitability, Liquidity, and Capital of Small and Large Banks in the United States

Major: Economics
Chair: Shawkat Hammoudeh
Committee Members: Mehmet Balcilar, Muhammad Shafiullah, Konstantinos Serfes, Rolph Anderson
Date and Time: May 21, 2019 8:00 AM
Location: Room 722

Gizelle A. Batomalaque

Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Systematics of the Helocostyline Land Snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Camaenidae) of the Philippines

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Jacob Russell
Committee Members: Gary Rosenberg, Tatyana Livshultz, Timothy Pearce, Jason Weckstein
Date and Time: June 13, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 103

Nicholas Polko

Response to Intervention and the Perceived Self Efficacy

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Alicia Drais-Parrillo
Date and Time: May 17, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Jacquelynn Orr

Inpatient Tertiary Care Utilization: A Mixed Methods Study of Chronic Disease Comorbidities from 2010-2015

Major: Healthy Policy and Social Justice
Chair: Maria Gold
Committee Members: James Buehler, Jonathan Purtle, Loni Tabb, Jamie Slaughter
Date and Time: July 31, 2019 12:30 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 132

Julia Richmond

Pepe for President: A Critical Examination of Memes in Political Discourse

Major: Communication, Culture and Media
Chair: Christina Vanella
Committee Members: Ernest Hakanen, Kevin Egan, Rachel Reynolds, Don Waisanen
Date and Time: May 20, 2019 1:00 PM
Location:

Jung Ah Han

The Essays on Negative Publicity

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Rolph Anderson, Bong Nam Jeon
Committee Members: Trina Larsen Andras, Eleanor Feit, Daniel Korschun
Date and Time: July 17, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Lebow College of Business

Patrick Urbankowski

Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Nitrides

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Barbak Anasori, Aaron Fafarman, Caroline Schauer
Date and Time: June 03, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow Engineering Center, Room 240

Zhen Yang

Understand Consumer's Product Decisions When Shopping by Voice

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Yanliu Huang
Committee Members: Chen Wang, Bert Rosenbloom, Trina Andras, Barbara Kahn
Date and Time: May 29, 2019 11:30 AM
Location: 3220 Market Street, Room 501

Yvonne Acheampong

Intimate Partner Violence Screening of Refugee Women in Primary Care Setting: A Mixed-Methods Study

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Suruchi Sood
Committee Members: Augusta Villanueva, Sandra Bloom, Ali Grooves, Gretchen Sanfeld
Date and Time: May 28, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: Dornsife School of Public Health

Amber Vraim

Ethical Decision-Making: Exploring How Teachers Define and Respond to Ethical Dilemmas

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Eric Brew, Michele Brewer
Date and Time: May 29, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Samantha Morelly

Processing - Structure - Performance Relationships in Li-Ion Batteries: A Rheological Perspective

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Aaron Fafarman
Committee Members: Nicolas Alvarez, Maureen Tang, Steve Wrenn, Caglan Kumbur
Date and Time: May 29, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: CBE Conference Room

Shane Esola

Nondestructive Approach for Defect Detection in Hard Armor Protective Inserts

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Antonios Kontsos
Committee Members: Ivan Bartoli, Alan Lau, Ajmal Yousuff, Giuseppe Palmese, James Zheng
Date and Time: June 07, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow Engineering Center, Room 240

Marcus Gerald

The Mechanism of TNFR2-mediated Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Daniel Marenda
Committee Members: John Bethea, Felice Elefant, Ryan Petrie, Karen Moxon
Date and Time: June 19, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 103

Jovana Radojevic

Mechanical Properties of Compacted Powder Mixtures: General Ideas and Special Cases

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Wei-Heng Shih
Committee Members: Antonios Zavaliangos, Chriopher Weyant, Michele Marcolongo, Leslie Lamberson
Date and Time: May 30, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 162

Emily LeBlanc

Explaining Actual Causation via Reasoning About Actions and Change

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Santiago Ontanon
Committee Members: Steven Gustafson, Dario Salvucci, Marcello Balduccini, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Luis Tari
Date and Time: May 28, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Rush Building, Room 009

Mallory Clites

Chemical Pre-intercalation Synthesis Approach for Improved Energy Storage Performance of Layered Oxide Cathodes

Major: Material Sciences and Engineering
Chair: Yury Gogotsi
Committee Members: Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Steven May, Christopher Li, Maureen Tang
Date and Time: June 04, 2019 9:00 AM
Location: Hill Conference Room, LeBow Engineering Center, Room 240

Vasil Pano

Wireless Network-on-Chip for Multi-Die Systems

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Nagarajan Kandasamy
Committee Members: Baris Taskin, Ioannis Savidis, Prawat Nagvajara, Ibrahim Tekin
Date and Time: June 18, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 605

Qiong Feng

Continuous Monitoring of Software Evolution

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Yuanfang Cai
Committee Members: Bruce Char, Jeffrey Popyack, Xiaohua Hu, Rick Kazman
Date and Time: July 17, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: 3675MK, Classroom 1103

Jonathan Propper

Assessing and Analyzing Stakeholder Perceptions of School Climate: Discovering Perceptual Congruence to Inform School Improvement

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Christopher Wright, Kurt Norder
Date and Time: June 11, 2019 2:15 PM
Location: Zoom

Andrew Zegelin

A Global Study of Workplace Happiness of International Teaching Staff Members

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Rebecca Clothey
Committee Members: Kathy Geller, Ann Davis
Date and Time: June 17, 2019 5:30 AM
Location: Zoom

Shnecia Lenise Walker

The Art of Being Unseen: A Phenomenological Study Exploring Alienation as Experienced by LGBT US Military Service Members who Served Before and After the Repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Kristine S. Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Carolyn Gustason
Date and Time: September 04, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Suzanne Grossman

From Around the World to Around the Corner: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of How Public Libraries Can Influence the Health of Immigrants

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Ann Klassen
Committee Members: Ana Martinez-Donate, Denise Agosto, Carolyn Cannuscio, Mark Winston
Date and Time: July 15, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 719

Peyman Aminpour

Multiscale Modeling of Thixotropy in Soft Clays

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Kurt Sjoblom
Committee Members: Ivan Bartoli, Antonios Zavaliangos, Joseph Martin, Archie Filshill
Date and Time: August 29, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: CAEE Department

James Hart

Direct Detection Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy: Characterization and Applications

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Mitra Iaheri, Michael Barsoum, Jonathan Spanier, Ray Twesten
Date and Time: July 16, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Bossone 302

Edward Waddell

Extramacrochaetae Promotes Branch and Bouton Number via the Sequestration of Daughterless in the Cytoplasm Neurons

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Felice Elefant
Committee Members: Daniel Marenda, Jennifer Stanford, Michael Akins, Faith Liebl
Date and Time: September 13, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 103

Zhelun Chen

Advanced Solver Development for Large-Scale Dynamic Building System Simulation

Major: Architectural Engineering
Chair: Jin Wen
Committee Members: Liang Chung-Lo, Simi Hoque, Amanda Pertzborn, Anthony Kearsley
Date and Time: July 31, 2019 10:30 AM
Location: Alumni Engineering Labs (AEL), Room 275

Chen Chen

Forensic Camera Model Identification and Attack Techniques

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: James Shackleford
Committee Members: Matthew Stamm, Youngmoo Kim, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Spiros Mandcoridis
Date and Time: August 20, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 302, ECE Seminar Room

Zhen Qiao

Fabrication of Highly Stretchable, Moldable, and Injectable Hydrogel and its Applications in Strain Sensing, Drug Delivery and Wound Healing

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Yinghui Zhong, Shu Yang, Jeremiah Scepaniak, Lee Hoffman
Date and Time: August 29, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 307

Eri Millrod

Experiential Learning and Competency Development in Dance/Movement Therapy Graduate Education: Early Practitioner Perspectives

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Sharon Goodill
Committee Members: Girija Kaimal, Erica Wilkins, Miriam Giguere, Meg Chang
Date and Time: August 20, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Three Parkway 701

Guy Desjardins

Urban Educators' Perspectives of the Effect of Trauma on Students Diagnosed With Disabilities

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Constance Lyttle, Elizabeth Meeker
Date and Time: August 16, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 3015

Renaldo A. Scott

Impact of Please ASK on ESL Student Comprehension of the English Article System Before Proper Nouns: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: James Connell, Lauren Fiori
Date and Time: August 16, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market St, Room 3025

Gwendolyn D. Blackshear

Teacher and Parent Perceptions of the Effectiveness of a Summer Reading Program Engaging Urban Low-income Elementary Students

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Marc Hill
Date and Time: August 16, 2019 8:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Jackeline Moreno

AGN Variability: A Probe of Supermassive Black Hole Physics

Major: Physics
Chair: Michael Vogeley
Committee Members: Gordon Richards, Michel Dolinski, Andrej Prsa, Adam Lidz
Date and Time: September 16, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall

Joseph Erickson

The Zero Attractor of Perturbed Chebyshev Polynomials and Sums of Taylor Polynomials for the Exponential

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Robert Boyer
Committee Members: Anatolii Grinshpan, Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi, Jay Douglas Wright, Kris Novak
Date and Time: September 20, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Korman 245

Andrew Zegelin

A Global Study of Workplace Happiness for International Teaching Staff Members

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Rebecca Clothey
Committee Members: Kathy Geller, Ann Davis
Date and Time: August 27, 2019 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Shan Mei

Polymer Brushes Derived from Polymer Single Crystals: Synthesis, Characterizations and Application

Major: Materials Sciences and Engineering
Chair: Andrew Magenau
Committee Members: Christopher Li, Lin Han, Lynn Penn, Bin Zhao, Steven May
Date and Time: September 05, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 302, ECE Seminar Room

Adeliada Mehmetaj

Revisiting Capital Accumulation: Implications for Business Cycles and Productivity Growth.

Major: Economics
Chair: Andre Kurmann
Committee Members: Marco Airaudo, Maria Olivero, Yoto Yotov, Richard Barnett
Date and Time: September 03, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall (GHall), Room 722

Michelle Piotrowski

Investigation of Changes in Initial Position of Ion Formation and the Exploration of Sample Preparation Parameters in Synthetic Polymer Analysis using MALDI TOFMS

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Anthony Addison, Ezra Wood, Cathy Bentzley, Frank Ji
Date and Time: October 03, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

Arjun Rajasekar

Detection of Hypoxia in Humans

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Matthew Stamm
Committee Members: Leonid Hrebien, Moshe Kam, Tom Chmielewski, Bor-Chin Chang, Richard Hamilton
Date and Time: September 19, 2019 2:30 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 302, ECE Seminar Room

Shnecia Lenise Walker

The Art of Being Unseen: A Phenomenological Study Exploring Alienation as Experienced by LGBT US Military Service Members who Served Before and After the Repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristine S. Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Carolyn Gustason
Date and Time: November 04, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Erin V. Hansen

Radon Injection for Light Response Calibration of the nEXO Detector

Major: Physics
Chair: Michelle Dolinski
Committee Members: Dave Moore, Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Brigita Urbanc, Steve McMillan
Date and Time: November 21, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Scott Haag

Geometric and Combinatorial Methods for Digital Elevation Models

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Ali Shokoufandeh
Committee Members: Elizabeth Watson, Dario Salvucci, Jeremy Johnson, Barry Evans
Date and Time: October 28, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: 3675 Market Street

Kayla Murphy

Investigating Pathophysiology and Developing Therapies for EAE, a Mouse Model of MS: The Role of Sex Differences and TNFRZ

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Daniel Marenda
Committee Members: John Bethea, Michael Akins, Felice Elefant, Megan Detloff
Date and Time: November 20, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 103

Venola Mae Rolle

Perceptions of How Literacy and Numeracy Instructions Influence the Lives of Adult Learners: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study of Learners with Low Literacy Skills

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Dominic Gullo
Committee Members: Rajashi Ghosh, Kellee Jenkins
Date and Time: December 04, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Carrie Garippa

An Exploratory Correlational Study Examining the Relationship Between the Teacher's Perception of School Community Leadership and Student Success in Selected Title I High Schools

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Mary Jo Grdina, Floyd Beachum
Date and Time: November 19, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Sijie Ran

Magnetically Actuated Micro-Robotic Systems for Bio-Medical Application

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Gennady Friedman
Committee Members: Adam Fontecchio, Allon Guez, Steven Weber, James Tangorra
Date and Time: December 02, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 302, ECE Seminar Room

Cathy Muste

Cell-Free Identification of S. cerevisiae Strains by Analysis of Extracellular Matrices using Liquid Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Daniel Kind, Ezra Wood, Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner, Matthew Farber
Date and Time: December 02, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

Mengnan Zhao

Accelerating Drug Development with Health-Consumer-Contributed Data and Heterogeneous Network Mining

Major: Information Science
Chair: Christopher Yang
Committee Members: Weimao Ke, Erjia Yan, Muge Capan, Chuanren Liu
Date and Time: December 06, 2019 2:00 PM
Location:

Nicholas Grodsky

Night-mares On Screens: Sleep Paralysis, Communication, Mediation

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Brent Luvaas
Committee Members: Ernest Hakanen, Dominic Pettman, Rachel Reynolds, Asta Zelenkauskaite
Date and Time: December 13, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 110-U

Kimberly M. Daniels

Associations of built and social neighborhood environment variables with pediatric BMI z-score and changes in BMI z-score

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Ana Diez-Roux
Committee Members: Amy Auchincloss, Felice Le-Scherban, Loni Tabb, Leah Schinasi
Date and Time: December 02, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 719

Qing Ping

Incorporating Textual Information with Recommender Systems

Major: Information Science
Chair: Chaomei Chen
Committee Members: Weimao Ke, Erjia Yan, Pak Cung Wong, Yi Fang
Date and Time: December 02, 2019 2:30 PM
Location: TBD

Kaho Long

The effect of insulin on self-assembly and toxicity of amyloid B-protein: Implications to type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease

Major: Physics
Chair: Brigita Urbanc
Committee Members: Frank Ferrone, Naoko Kurhashi Neilson, Daniel Marenda, Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
Date and Time: December 09, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Molly E. Mitchell

Distribution and Regulation of Fragile X Granules in the Spinal Cord

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Daniel Marenda
Committee Members: Denise Garcia, Veronica Tom, Ramesh Raghupathi, Michael Akins
Date and Time: December 10, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building (PISB), Room 112

Song Han

Piezoelectric Plate Sensor for Isolation-free and Amplification-free Detection through an Innovative Combustion-Free Aqueous Materials Synthesis Route

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kambiz Pourrezaei
Committee Members: Wan Y. Shih, Wei-Heng Shih, Kara Spiller, Yinghui Zhong
Date and Time: December 06, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Room 709

Owen Mayer

Image Forgery Detection: Signal Processing and Deep Learning Methods

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: John Walsh
Committee Members: Matthew Stamm, Steven Weber, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Spiros Mancoridis
Date and Time: December 02, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Hill Conference Room

Stephanie M. Winemiller

Exploring the Principal-Assistant Principal Relationship to Discover Practices Influencing the Assistant Principal's Instructional Leadership: A Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Mary Jo Grdina, Robert Bryson
Date and Time: December 18, 2019 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Jody Beth Bloom

Exploring the Impact of Comprehensive Civic Engagement on Adolescent Growth: A Quantitative Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Bruce Levine, Rebecca Katsh-Singer
Date and Time: December 02, 2019 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Patricia A. Feichtel

A Phenomenology Study into How Parents Understand and Perceive the Effect of Reading Aloud on Children's Emergent Literacy Skill Development and Reading Readiness

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Jason Silverman, Donna Koval
Date and Time: December 17, 2019 6:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Eliza Raquel Arata

Data-Informed Decision Making in a Community College Context

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jose Luis Chavez
Committee Members: Salvatore Falleta, Marybeth Buechner
Date and Time: December 18, 2019 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Christopher Henry

Processing-Structure-Property Relationships in Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Fibers

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams
Committee Members: Nicolas Alvarez, Ken Lau, Giuseppe Palmese, Antonio Kontsos
Date and Time: December 17, 2019 10:00 AM
Location: CAT 288, Conference Room

Carey Manifold

Relationships Matter: Improving Student Engagement and Retention with Marketing Strategies

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: James Connell, Danielle Insalaco-Egan
Date and Time: January 06, 2020 12:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Yosefa Birati

The Relationship of Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Characteristics and Gestational Diabetes Self Management

Major: Nursing
Chair: Joan Rosen Bloch
Committee Members: Beth Dezaretz Chiatti, Edward Joseph Gracely, Amy McKeever, Brandy-Joe Milliron
Date and Time: February 28, 2020 10:30 AM
Location: 3 Parkway Building, 1601 Cherry Street

Jocelyn Remmert

A Feasibility and Acceptability Study of a Patient-Centered Approach to Increasing Weight-Related Communication in Primary Care

Major: Psychology
Chair: Meghan Butryn
Committee Members: Pamela Geller, Leon McCrea, Rebecca Pearl, Adam Tsia
Date and Time: January 23, 2020 1:30 PM
Location: Stratton Hall

Jackie Murphy

Exploring the Effects of an Open Access Mindfulness Course on Online Graduate Student Persistence, Stress, and Mind Wandering: A Mixed Methods Explanatory Sequential Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Annette Willgens
Date and Time: February 12, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 3003

Jennifer Brilmyer

Relationships Among Chronic Pain, Obesity, and Participation Intensity

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Robert Palisano
Committee Members: Maggie O'Neil, Katie Shroyer
Date and Time: February 10, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Parkway 742

William Clifton Green II

A Phenomenological Study: Exploring Chinese Junior High School Students’ Lived Experiences and Perceptions of Using Game-based Technology to Learn English in an English as Foreign Language Classroom in Shanghai, China (EFL-C)

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Jason Silverman, Mei Wensheng
Date and Time: February 22, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Marianne Velma Weitz

Stress, Anxiety, and Self-Reported Health Among Breast Cancer Survivors Who Practice Yoga

Major: Nursing
Chair: Joan Bloch
Committee Members: Al Rundio, Kathleen Fisher, Linda Guerra, Sharon Byrne
Date and Time: March 03, 2020 8:00 AM
Location:

Hanyong Chung

The Effect of Product Market Competition on Mandatory Disclosure Strategy

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Helen Choy
Committee Members: Anthony Curatola, Hsihui Chang, Xin Dai, Bang Nam Jeon
Date and Time: May 08, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Gerri C. LeBow Hall, Room 939

Helen Murray

A Pilot Development Trial of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Gastroparesis

Major: Psychology
Chair: Adrienne Juarascio
Committee Members: Stephanie Manasse, Fengqing Zhang, Braden Kuo, Robert Edwards
Date and Time: April 10, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Stratton Hall

Israel Eledan

Exploring the Lived Experiences of Servant Leaders who Model Altruism to Motivate Young Adult Proteges for Altruistic Service in a Non-Profit Humanitarian Organization: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Kathy Geller, Mohamed Nur-Awaleh
Date and Time: March 23, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Rebecca Schiedel

The Role of Psychosocial Maturity and Race in Juvenile Transfer Decisions: An Examination through Statistical Models

Major: Psychology
Chair: Kirk Heilbrun
Committee Members: Naomi Goldstein, Adam Benfoarado, David DeMateeo, Zoe Zhang
Date and Time: April 08, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Tony Lin

Applying Deep Learning to Examine Tax Footnotes: A Study of Emotions and Tax Outcomes

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Anthony Curatola
Committee Members: Helen Choy, Hsihui Chang, Xin Dai, Vadake Narayanan
Date and Time: May 08, 2020 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom

Butsie Weinstein

An Examination of the Relationship Between Parents' Attitudes and Actions Pertaining to Mathematics and their First-Grade Private School Children's Attitudes Toward Mathematics

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Mary Jo Grdina
Committee Members: Jason Silverman, Michael Hardisky
Date and Time: March 23, 2020 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Alexa Hays

The Veteran Problem Inventory: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity

Major: Psychology
Chair: Arthur Nezu
Committee Members: Christine Maguth Nezu, Pamela Geller, Elaine Boland, Bryan Batien
Date and Time: April 28, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Travis Pollen

A Multifactorial Model of Risk Factors for Non-Contact Musculoskeletal Injury in Collegiate Swimmers: A Prospective Study

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Sheri Silfies
Committee Members: David Ebaugh, Clare Milner, Jennifer Taylor, Meghan Warren
Date and Time: April 30, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Parkway 742

Adam Regnier

Automated Fault Diagnostics for AHU-VAV Systems: A Novel Pattern Matching Approach

Major: Architectural Engineering
Chair: Jin Wen
Committee Members: Michael Waring, James Lo, Teresa Wu, Srinivas Katipamula
Date and Time: March 24, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Robert Swan

Constitutive Mechanical Behavior of Unbound Conventional and Light Weight Coarse Aggregate

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Joseph Martin
Committee Members: Jonathan Cheng, Miguel Pando, TImothy Stark, Theresa Loux
Date and Time: April 24, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

James Lynch

Scholastic Athletics in Urban Schools

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Cameron Kiosoglous
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Gareth Jones
Date and Time: May 08, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cmk385@drexel.edu for the link.

Barbara McPhail

The Great Divide: A Phenomenological Study on Leadership Development Among Part Time California National Guard Commissioned Officers

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kathy Geller
Committee Members: Salvatore Falletta, Jeff Weston
Date and Time: April 03, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Lauren Johnson

The Impact of Moral Injury on Depression and Suicide in U.S. Military Veterans: The Role of Internalizing Behaviors

Major: Psychology
Chair: Arthur Nezu
Committee Members: Christine Maguth Nezu, C. Virginia O'Hayer, Bryan Batien, Tracy Neal-Walden
Date and Time: April 14, 2020 11:30 AM
Location: Zoom

Marisa Felsher

A Dyadic Analysis of Prep-Related Interpersonal Communication Among Women who Inject Drugs in Philadelphia

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Alexis Roth
Committee Members: Kathleen Brady, Scarlett Bellamy, Emmanuel Koku, Stephen Lankenau
Date and Time: April 22, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact maf385@drexel.edu for the link.

Rasheda Likely

An Exploration of the Science Learning & Perceptions of Black Middle School Girls Using a Hair Care Curriculum

Major: Educational Leadership & Learning Technology
Chair: Christopher Wright
Committee Members: Ayana Allen-Handy, Alonzo Flowers, Brian Smith, Chonika Coleman-King
Date and Time: May 15, 2020 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Kripa Dholakia

Uncovering Ethical Dilemmas in International Service-Learning (ISL): A Grounded Theory

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Dave Ebaugh
Committee Members: Patricia Rubertone, Annette Willgens
Date and Time: April 22, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Tayler Pangburn

The Effect of Boundary Correctors on Scattering by a Periodic Obstacle

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Shari Moskow
Committee Members: J Douglas Wright, David Ambrose, Gideon Simpson, Fioralba Cakoni
Date and Time: May 29, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact tap54@drexel for link.

Oliver Harris

Mechanisms and Consequences of SEI Failure in Advanced Li-ion Batteries

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Joshua Snyder
Committee Members: Maureen Tang, Vibha Kalra, Steven Wrenn, Moses Noh
Date and Time: April 27, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact sl3385@drexel.edu for the link.

Martin Walsh

Bilayer Alteration From Ultrasound-Induced Microbubble Cavitation

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Nicolas Alvarez
Committee Members: Steven Wrenn, Guiseppe Palmese, Peter Lewin, Steve Dicker
Date and Time: April 30, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mpw57@drexel.edu for link.

Hamideh Talafian

Tracking Perceived STEM Career Identity in Minoritized Middle Schoolers in an Informal Learning Environment: A Mixed-Methods Study With Quantitative Ethnographic Techniques

Major: Educational Leadership & Learning Technologies
Chair: Penny Hammrich
Committee Members: Aroutis Foster, Toni Sondergeld, Brian Smith, David Shaffer
Date and Time: April 28, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Zheng Chen

Community-Based Methods for Large-Scale Relational Data Analysis

Major: Information Science
Chair: Xiaohua Tony Hu
Committee Members: Yuan An, Erjia Yan, Weimao Ke, Li Sheng
Date and Time: May 01, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bcp29@drexel.edu for link.

Yang Li

Decision Making with Social Media Platforms: The Effect of Peer Opinions on Investment and Product Adoption

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Chuanren Liu
Committee Members: Hande Benson, Jinwook Lee, Jade Lo, Wenjin Shen
Date and Time: May 21, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact yl837@drexel.edu for link.

Steven Gossert

Study of HIV-1 Viral Engagement of a Novel Virocidal Molecule using Molecular Dynamics

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Cameron Abrams, Steven Wrenn, Irwin Chaiken, Luis Cruz Cruz
Date and Time: June 04, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact stg39@drexel.edu for link.

Jillian Hawkins

Biopsychosocial Responses to 30 Minutes of Walking in Emerging Adult Women with Different Physical Activity Habits

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Clare Milner
Committee Members: Stella Volpe, Glenn Williams, Sinclair Smith, Dixie Thompson
Date and Time: May 28, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jh3266@drexel.edu for link.

Keisha April

Let's "Talk" About the Police: The Role of Race and Intergenerational Transmission of Police Legitimacy Attitudes in the Legal Socialization of Youth

Major: Psychology
Chair: Naomi Goldstein
Committee Members: David DeMatteo, Kirk Heilbrun, Rhonda McKitten, Abigail Gray
Date and Time: May 20, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ka586@drexel.edu for link.

Joseph Stanzione

The Dietary Influence on Substrate Utilization During a Submaximal Oxygen Consumption Test in Male Combat Sport Athletes and Runners

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Stella Volpe
Committee Members: Jennifer Nasser, Michael Bruneau Jr, Sinclair Smith, Duncan French, George Brooks
Date and Time: June 11, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jrs484@drexel.edu for link.

Joshua Carmichael

Long Wave Approximations of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou Lattice under Planar Motion

Major: Mathematics
Chair: J. Douglas Wright
Committee Members: Shari Moskow, Yixin Guo, Ronald Perline, David Goldberg
Date and Time: May 28, 2020 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jdw66@drexel.edu for link.

Kenneth Jones

Broken Chains: Non-traditional Aged Black Men Experiences in the College Admissions Process, A study in Portraiture

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Alonzo Flowers
Committee Members: Bruce Levine, Lisa Calvano
Date and Time: May 11, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact amf422@drexel.edu for link.

Minakshi Ratkalkar

Effects of Trauma and Child Welfare History on Potential Sentencing Jurors' Decisions for Youth Prosecuted in Criminal Court

Major: Psychology
Chair: Naomi Goldstein
Committee Members: David DeMatteo, Kirk Heilbrun, Karen Lindell, Lauren Fine
Date and Time: May 28, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Catherine Van Vooren

A Phenomenological Study: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Superintendents' Professional Development

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Noreen O'Neil
Date and Time: June 02, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jmg97@drexel.edu for link.

Cinthya Alberto

The Association of Maternal Characteristics, Immigrant Policies, and Maternal-Provider Ethnic Concordance on Health Care Access and Receipt of Family Centered Care among US-Born Latino Youth

Major: Health Services Research and Policy
Chair: Jim Stimpson
Committee Members: Jessie Kemmick Pintor, Brent Langellier, Loni Philip Tabb, Ana Martinez-Donate
Date and Time: May 29, 2020 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ca529@drexel.edu for link.

Yizhou Zhang

Incorporating Domain Information with Collaborative Filtering

Major: Information Science
Chair: Xiaohua Hu
Committee Members: Weimao Ke, Yuan An, Erjia Yan, Li Sheng
Date and Time: May 11, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Stuart Hirstein

The Characteristics of a High-Performing Independent School in the United States

Major: Educational Leadership and Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Louise Dunn
Date and Time: May 26, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Megan Reed

Addressing Overdose Risk among Recently Incarcerated People Living with HIV/AIDS

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Stephen Lankenau
Committee Members: Loni Tabb, Alexis Roth, Ali Groves, Florence Momplaisir, Anne Siegler
Date and Time: June 16, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mr925@drexel.edu for link.

Bipasha Dey

Humanizing Academic Advising: Perception of Student Success Through the Experiences of Community College Academic Advisors - An Instrumental Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Christina Vorndran
Committee Members: Jennifer Adams, Reine Sarmiento
Date and Time: May 13, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cmv69@drexel.edu for link.

Rachel Peters

Reasons for Uninsurance Among ACA Eligible Adults in an Urban Safety Net Setting

Major: Health Policy & Social Justice
Chair: Robert Field
Committee Members: Jonathan Purtle, Brent Langellier, Esther Chernak, Yvonne Claudio
Date and Time: June 03, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact rmm77@drexel.edu for link.

Krystal Brown

Daddy's Girl: A Phenomenological Study of the Impact of Father Abandonment on Young Women

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kathy Geller
Committee Members: Sarah Reynolds Ulrich, Homer Johnson Jr.
Date and Time: June 04, 2020 7:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kdg39@drexel.edu for link.

Matthew Breazeale

Understanding the Influence of Secondary Classical Christian Education on Faith Adherence Experiences of High School Alumni: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Keith Whitfield
Date and Time: May 28, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mb3697@drexel.edu for link.

Erika McDowell

Exploring Teachers Perceptions and Decisions in Urban School Discipline

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kathleen Provinzano
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Laura Rutherford
Date and Time: May 28, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ktp37@drexel.edu for link.

Joshua Jackson

Determinantal Representations of Bivariate Polynomials Without Roots on the Bitorus

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Hugo Woerdeman
Committee Members: Anatoli Grinshpan, Thomas Yu, Ron Perline, Kelly Bickel
Date and Time: June 08, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Ariana Levitt

Manufacturing of MXene-based Fibers, Yarns, and Knitted Electrochemical Capacitors

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Ekaterina Pomerantseva
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Genevieve Dion, Christopher Li, Vibha Kalra
Date and Time: May 29, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact asl95@drexel.edu for link.

Ishan Ghosh

Essays in Empirical International Trade and Entrepreneurship

Major: Economics
Chair: Andre Kurmann
Committee Members: Konstantinos Serfes, Yoto Yotov, Mian Dai, Philip Luck
Date and Time: May 29, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact idg23@drexel.edu for link.

Jennifer Furness

A Quantitative, Cross-Sectional Study: Investigating Staff Morale of Early Intervention Teachers in Eastern and Southeastern Pennsylvania Intermediate Units

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Brenda Robertson
Date and Time: May 18, 2020 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Leah Kulp

Towards an Adaptive Context-aware Checklist for Concurrent use in Dynamic Medical Settings

Major: Information Science
Chair: Aleksandra Sarcevic
Committee Members: Andrea Forte, Erin Solovey, Helena Mentis, Nadir Weibel
Date and Time: June 02, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact bcp29@drexel.edu for link.

Summer Bukeavich

Exploring Undergraduate Management Student Perceptions of Mindfulness at a College of Technology: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Joy Phillips, Tammy Rich
Date and Time: May 27, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Graceann Platukus

The Relationship Between Critical Thinking and Information Literacy in Community College Students

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Janis Wilson Seeley
Date and Time: May 29, 2020 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Christian Boniforti

Using Mobile Learning to Advance Innovation in Small Private Universities: A Multi-Site Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: William Lynch
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Jennifer Lesh
Date and Time: June 17, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact wfl27@drexel.edu for link.

Allyce Barron

Examining an Organization's Learning Ecosystem through the Perspectives of Learning & Development Professionals

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: William Lynch
Committee Members: Toni Sondergeld, Eric Bruner
Date and Time: June 12, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact wfl27@drexel.edu for link.

Amanda Atkinson

A Feminist Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Women Senior Student Affairs Officers at Women's Colleges

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Kathy Geller, Patricia Whitely
Date and Time: June 02, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Giovanni Calvarese

A Mixed Methods Exploration of Academic Literacy Engagement and Social Emotional Learning With High School Students

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jennifer Adams
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Joseph Cifelli
Date and Time: May 29, 2020 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jha46@drexel.edu for link.

May Cheung

The Role of Magnesium and Vitamin D on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Adults

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Deeptha Sukumar
Committee Members: Stella Volpe, Patricia Shewokis, Renee Amori, Harpreet Singh
Date and Time: May 19, 2020 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom

Manal Naseeb

Dietary Magnesium Intake in Relation to Fasting Blood Glucose and Insulin Concentrations and Body Mass Index in Middle School Students from the HEALTHY Study

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Stella Volpe
Committee Members: Brandy-Joe Milliron, Deeptha Sukumar, Michael Bruneau Jr., Sinclair Smith, Gary Foster
Date and Time: April 09, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Eram Albajri

Modulation of Cognitive Restraint Mediated Effects on the Prefrontal Cortex Response During Eating of Preferred High Fat/High Sugar Foods in Women as Measured by fNIR

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Jennifer Nasser
Committee Members: Hasan Ayaz, Jennifer Quinlan, Patricia Shewokis, Sinclair Smith, Angelo Del Parigi
Date and Time: May 22, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact eaa48@drexel.edu for link.

Edwin Dauber

Stylometric Authorship Attribution Techniques and Analysis for Collaborative Platforms

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Rachel Greenstadt
Committee Members: Spiros Mancoridis, Yuanfang Cai, Richard Harang, Michael Weisman
Date and Time: June 11, 2020 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact edg34@drexel.edu for link.

Mariah Rackley

Exploring Student Agency and Motivation in Personalized Learning Environments: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Kareem Edouard, Wilbur Stout
Date and Time: May 27, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Felix Jones

High and Infinite Dimensional Filtering Methods

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Gideon Simpson
Committee Members: David Aristoff, J. Douglas Wright, Robert Boyer, Cecilia Mondaini
Date and Time: June 16, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Ann-Marie Raphail

Improving Visual Attention with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Individuals with Right Parietal Disorders due to Stroke

Major: Psychology
Chair: Maria Schultheis
Committee Members: John Medaglia, Fengqing Zhang, Roy Hamilton, Branch Coslett
Date and Time: June 04, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ar3223@drexel.edu for link.

Haeyoung Jeong

The Influence of Selfie on Variety Seeking Behavior

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Chen Wang, Rajneesh Suri
Committee Members: Trina Larsen Andras, Daniel Korschun, Yanliu Huang, Rashmi Adaval
Date and Time: May 27, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact hj325@drexel for link.

Heidi Rochlin

Growth in Practice: Measuring Change in Teachers' Instructional Practice, Knowledge, and Buy-in

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Teresa Carboy
Date and Time: June 18, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact reismafk@drexel.edu for link.

Sungjoung Kwon

Essays on Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Michelle Lowry
Committee Members: David Becher, Jie Cai, Gregori Nini, Laura Field
Date and Time: May 27, 2020 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ps664@drexel.edu for link.

Ann Berrios

Social Media Usage and its Relationship to Self-Esteem among Female Adolescents: A Qualitative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kareem Edouard
Committee Members: Christine Vorndran, Ojoma Edeh Herr
Date and Time: June 09, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ke388@drexel.edu for link.

Andrea Farro

A Multilevel Examination of Leader Emergence: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding Gendered Leader Dynamics in Teams

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Lauren D'Innocenzo
Committee Members: Daan van Knippenberg, Wendy van Ginkel, Daniel Tzabbar, Michael Kukenberger
Date and Time: May 28, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact acf84@drexel.edu for link.

Alissa Sweigart

Exploring the Lived Experiences of AEDY Completers in Pennsylvania: A Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Ryan Giffing
Date and Time: June 05, 2020 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

John J. Davis Jr

A Qualitative Case Study: Exploring Teacher and Administrator Perceptions on Teacher Morale and the Potential Influence on Retention in a Southeastern PA Middle School

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Ellen Staurowsky
Date and Time: May 22, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Yuqiao Liu

Novel Antenna Technology for Internet of Things Applications

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Adam Fontecchio
Committee Members: Kapil Dandekar, Ahmad Hoorfar, Baris Taskin, Genevieve Dion
Date and Time: June 12, 2020 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Aleksandr Yaroslavskiy

Cental Limit Theorems for Tableaux Related to the Partially Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Pawel Hitczenko
Committee Members: J. Douglas Wright, Eric Schmutz, Cecilia Mondaini, Hosam Mahmoud
Date and Time: June 16, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Claudia Galvan

Voices of the Women Who Stayed. A Case Study of Women Leaders with Computer Science and Engineering Degrees in High-Tech Companies in Silicon Valley

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kathy Geller
Committee Members: Salvatore Falletta, Ceal Craig
Date and Time: June 09, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kdg39@drexel.edu for link.

Guillermo Ibarrola Recalde

A Quantitative Study Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integrating Climate Change and Environmental Context into Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) Curricula and their Effects in a First-Year University Level Chemistry Classroom

Major: Education
Chair: Toni Sondergeld
Committee Members: Alonzo Flowers, Daniel King, Susan Rutkowsky, Nancy Songer
Date and Time: July 13, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact gdi25@drexel.edu for link.

Kai Li

Research instrument in citation contexts: A quantitative examination based on full-text psychological pap

Major: Information Science
Chair: Erjia Yan
Committee Members: Jane Greenberg, Chaomei Chen, Jake Williams, Ali Kenner, Cassidy Sugimoto
Date and Time: May 27, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Bo Song

Knowledge Discovery from Multi-source Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Large-scale Data Sets in Biomedical Research

Major: Information Science
Chair: Xiaohau Hu
Committee Members: Weimao Ke, Yuan An, Erjia Yan, Li Sheng
Date and Time: June 02, 2020 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Matthew Newcomb

The Lived Experiences of Educationally Underserved African American Students in Predominantly White, Wealthy, Independent Schools: An Exploration of Belonging, Identity, and School Culture

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Erin Horvat
Committee Members: Ayana Allen-Handy, Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
Date and Time: June 17, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact emh346@drexel.edu for link.

Elias Ali

Functionally Graded Thin-walled Structural Systems Under Extreme Loading

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Aspasia Zerva
Committee Members: Ivan Bartoli, Michael Ryan, Abieyuwa Aghayere, Alan Lau
Date and Time: June 05, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Christine Delahanty

Creative Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Women Engineering Majors: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jason Silverman
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Vladimir Genis
Date and Time: June 18, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact js657@drexel.edu for link.

Jiayi Wang

Processing of Epitaxial Oxyfluoride Films and Characterization of Their Physical Properties

Major: Materials Sciences and Engineering
Chair: Wei-Heng Shih
Committee Members: Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Karl Sohlberg, James M. Rondinelli, Steven May
Date and Time: June 16, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jw3338@drexel.edu for link.

Mohammad Nozari

Investigation of Ruthenium Complexes

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Lynn Penn
Committee Members: Karl Sohlberg, Michael Zdilla, Daniel King, Aaron Fafarman, Lee Hoffman
Date and Time: June 25, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mn468@drexel.edu for link.

Elizabeth Ayayi-Bridges

Public Urban Boarding (PUB) Program: A School Choice for At-Promise Urban Youth

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Vera Lee, Olubusayo Olojo-Adeoye
Date and Time: June 17, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Anthony Batts II

A Mixed Methods Study: Exploring Non Academic Factors That Impact Literacy Development for Minority Students Enrolled in Advanced Placement Courses in an Urban School

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Vera Lee, Damien Robinson
Date and Time: June 22, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Kyle Juretus

Enhancing the Cybersecurity Root of Trust Through Hardware Layer Logic Obfuscation

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Baris Taskin
Committee Members: Ioannis Savidis, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Kapil Dandekar, Jeremy Johnson
Date and Time: July 29, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kjj39@drexel.edu for link.

Angela Bassani

Exploring the Experiences of Accounting Graduates who have Participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program in Northeast Pennsylvania: A Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Christopher Finnin
Date and Time: July 29, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Scott Kyper

A Multi-Site Case Study: Alternative Educational Programming High School Students in Central Pennsylvania

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Cameron Kiosoglous
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Ryan Axe
Date and Time: July 27, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cmk385@drexel.edu for link.

Donald Hall

Rational Design and Experimental Characterization of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Bacterial Stringent Response Activating Enzyme RelA

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Ezra Wood
Committee Members: Jun Xi, Dionicio Martinez, Garth Ehrlich, Michael Givskov, Jarosław Król
Date and Time: September 03, 2020 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dch66@drexel.edu for link.

Donna Sandfort

Medical Student Stress and Wellness Programs: An Explanatory, Sequential, Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Cameron Kiosoglous, Edward Gracely
Date and Time: August 07, 2020 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Katherine Vaughan

Perceived Attachment with Mother and Father in a Sample of Youth with Suicidal Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Stephanie Brooks
Committee Members: Jesse Smith, Jessica Chou, Jody Russon, Christina Young
Date and Time: August 10, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dsd67@drexel.edu for link.

Latasha Shears

Looking Within: Social Networks and Organizational Social Capital in PDPs for University Employees

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Rajashi Ghosh
Committee Members: Sheila Vaidya, Eric Brunner
Date and Time: August 10, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Xiaobo Li

Fundamentals of the Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition of Polyaniline and its Applications in Supercapacitors

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Giuseppe Palmese
Committee Members: Kenneth Lau, Vibha Kalra, Maureen Tang, Ekaterina Pomerantseva
Date and Time: July 23, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact sjp365@drexel.edu for link.

Michael Cimorelli

Developing an Electrically Sensitive Ultrasound Enhancing Agent

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Nicolas Alvarez
Committee Members: Steven Wrenn, Aaron Fafarman, Brett Angel, Andrew Kohut
Date and Time: July 21, 2020 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Pedro Edson Martins Amaral

Nanoscale Applications of Red Phosphorus Allotropes and Polyphosphides

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Aaron Fafarman, Daniel Strongin, Lee Hoffman, Vibha Kalra, Karl Sohlberg
Date and Time: August 25, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Victoria Dolceamore

The Influence of Music and Performing Arts Education in K-12: A Qualitative Case Study Analysis

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Michelle Carneyray-Yoder
Date and Time: August 19, 2020 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mt623@drexel.edu for link.

James Shoopack

Exploring the Effects of Learning Behavioral Therapy Techniques on Coaching: An Intrinsic Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kathy Geller
Committee Members: Ellen Staurowsky, Bruce Levine
Date and Time: August 24, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kdg39@drexel.edu for link.

Sarah Heidel

Examining the Effect of Occupational Socialization on Principals' Leadership of Physical Education Programs: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Cameron Kiosoglous
Committee Members: Kathleen Provinzano, Maureen Smith
Date and Time: August 26, 2020 6:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact cmk385@drexel.edu for link.

David Keller

Predictors of fish occurrence and scale dependence in wadeable streams

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Susan Kilham, Richard Horwitz
Committee Members: Michael O'Connor, Marina Potopova, Loni Tabb
Date and Time: August 14, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Ashley Adams

Paleoenvironment of the Morrison Formation in the Bighorn Basin of Montana, USA

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Amanda Lough
Committee Members: Ted Daeschler, Loyc Vanderkluysen, Dennis Terry, Peter Dodson
Date and Time: August 24, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ala97@drexel.edu for link.

Gregory Lang

(Re)Defining Space: Cycling Practice, Risk and Agency in Philadelphia

Major: Community, Culture & Media
Chair: Mary Ebeling
Committee Members: Wesley Shumar, Mimi Sheller, Harris Steinberg, Zach Furness
Date and Time: September 01, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact nmp39@drexel.edu for link.

David McDeavitt

Identifying Elements Critical to the Successful Implementation of an Employee Wellness Program

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: James Connell, Brian Mortimer
Date and Time: August 05, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Shuting Zhang

Molecular Dynamics of Amyloid Beta-Protein Assembly under Oxidative Conditions and Short Peptides in Aqueous Solutions

Major: Physics
Chair: Brigita Urbanc
Committee Members: Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner, Luis Cruz Cruz, Michelle Dolinski, Jian-Min Yuan
Date and Time: September 03, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact sz394@drexel.edu for link.

Zhengtao Chen

Engineering Non-Planar Polymers via Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Maureen Tang
Committee Members: Kenneth Lau, Vibha Kalra, Christopher Li, Moses Noh
Date and Time: August 12, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jix@email.chop.edu for link.

Thomas Mosca

A Phenomenological Study of Space and Entertainment on the Teaching and Leading Processes in Green Schools

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: William Lynch, Sean O'Donnell, Bruce Levine
Date and Time: September 08, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jmg97@drexel.edu for link.

Shaikha BuAli

A Qualitative Case Study on Instructional Practices in a Pennsylvania Online Middle School

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kareem Edouard
Committee Members: James Connell, Dona Fabrizio
Date and Time: August 19, 2020 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ke388@drexel.edu for link.

Alicia Lippert

Convergent Parallel Mixed-Methods Case Study: Examining and Exploring Teacher's Global Competence Including Perceptions and Preparedness at a South-Central Pennsylvania High School

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Jennifer Adams, Nikki Wishard
Date and Time: August 14, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Elizabeth Adedokun

Relationships Between Paternal Attachment, Fathers' Participation Levels in Family Therapy, and Adolescent Depression and Suicide Risk Symptoms

Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing
Committee Members: Guy Diamond, Robert Palisano, Joanna Herress, Alisha Rorer
Date and Time: August 28, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ek469@drexel.edu for link.

Steve Dissinger

Exploring Teachers’ Perceptions and Lived Experiences in the One-to-One Laptop Computer Environment: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Nancy Songer, John Sanville
Date and Time: August 17, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Sarah Gleeson

Directing Biomimetic Morphology and Mineralization of Nanofiber Shish-Kebabs

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Caroline Schauer
Committee Members: Christopher Li, Michele Marcolongo, Andrew Magenau, Lin Han
Date and Time: September 01, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact seg85@drexel.edu for link.

Michelle Efthimiadou

Perceptions of Cyber Students with High Incidence Disabilities on the Impact of Self-Determination on Post-Secondary Transition: A Descriptive Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Amanda Lannie
Committee Members: Toni Sondergeld, Chris Hardin
Date and Time: August 28, 2020 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact all354@drexel.edu for link.

Kenneth Bricker

Student Athletes Perceptions of Academic Support Programs on Academic Success

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Cameron Kiosoglous, Michael McFarland
Date and Time: August 21, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Shaun Murphy

Temperature Dependent Transmission Line Modeling and Power Flow

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Karen Miu
Committee Members: Dagmar Niebur, Emanuel Bernabeu, Tom Chmielewski, Gary Friedman
Date and Time: August 31, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact srm329@drexel.edu for link.

Joseph Glaser

Exploring the Evolution of Planetary Systems with Stellar Open Clusters

Major: Physics
Chair: Stephen McMillan
Committee Members: Aaron Geller, Gordon Richards, Russell Neilson, Eric Brewe
Date and Time: September 17, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Daniel Smith

A Collective Case Study: Exploring Undergraduate Student Veterans’ Perceptions of Social and Psychological Support Needs During Transition from Military to Higher Education

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Manlyn Howe
Date and Time: August 20, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Layla Batejan

Exploring Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions Regarding Their Training and Needs When Incorporating Social and Emotional Learning Strategies into Their Teaching: A Narrative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Jeffrey Rhodes
Date and Time: September 03, 2020 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Brian Clouse

An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study: Examining the Effects of an Onboarding Training Program on Organizational Socialization and Commitment in a Middle Eastern Energy Company.

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Sheila Vaidya, Tonette Rocco
Date and Time: August 25, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Yehudit Freudenberger

The Social, Emotional, and Educational Needs of Military Children in the U.S. Public School System: A Narrative Inquiry

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: James Connell
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Rebecca Weidensaul
Date and Time: September 16, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jec338@drexel.edu for link.

Rosemary DeLuccia Dall

The Effect of Vitamin D and Magnesium Supplementation on Bone Turnover Markers and Glycemic Indices in Overweight and Obese Individuals

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Deeptha Sukumar
Committee Members: Patricia Shewokis, Stella Volpe, Renee Amori, Harpreet Singh
Date and Time: September 04, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Catherine Stines

The “It” Factor: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Exceptional Teachers in Independent Schools

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Michael Haslip, Amy Defibaugh
Date and Time: September 14, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Nancy Young

Supporting Teachers in a Full-Time Special Education Program:A Qualitative Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Susan Mateka
Date and Time: September 10, 2020 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Asya Johnson

A Case Study: Exploring the Self-Efficacy of Untenured Teachers Enrolled in Non-traditional Teacher Education Programs in Title I Low-achieving Urban Schools

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Amanda Lanine, Dante Tawfeeq
Date and Time: September 17, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Justina Mason

Exploring the Impact of New Student Orientation at Two Year Colleges: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jennifer Adams
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Karen Wheel-Carter
Date and Time: September 18, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jha46@drexel.edu for link.

Anthony Miller

Leadership, Trust, Grit, and the Blended Family: A Phenomenological Study of Educational Leaders and the Impact of the Blended Family Experience

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Salvatore Falletta
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Wendy Combs
Date and Time: September 17, 2020 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact sf394@drexel.edu for link.

Vahideh Abdolazimi

pH Dependent Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Characteristics for Optical pH Sensing at Nanoscales

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair:
Committee Members: Adam Fontecchio, Jennifer Stanford, Gary Friedman, Youngmoo Kim
Date and Time: September 04, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Wenlei Bi

Physiological Ecology of Soft-released Giant Pandas

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: James Spotila, Jacon Owens, Jon Gelhaus, Susan Kilham
Date and Time: October 09, 2020 12:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Mary Whitten

A Modified-Delphi Study Establishing Consensus in the Therapeutic Management of Posttraumatic Stiffness of the Elbow

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Jane Fedorczyk
Committee Members: Namrata Grampurohit, Sheri Silfies
Date and Time: October 29, 2020 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mcw328@drexel.edu for link.

Adam Novak

A Qualitative Instrumental Case Study of Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Nurse Preceptor Relationships

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Zach Sharek
Date and Time: October 12, 2020 11:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Zachary Hinton

The Role of Chemistry and Pressure on Surfactant Interfacial Thermodynamics

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Steven Wrenn
Committee Members: Nicolas Alvarez, Giuseppe Palmese, Aviel Chaimovich, Christopher Li
Date and Time: October 16, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact zrh29@drexel.edu for link.

Lee Bzdil

Teacher-Student Relationships and Students with Emotional Disturbance and Externalizing Behaviors, an Instrumental Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Janet Sloand
Committee Members: Constance Lyttle, Carissa Bowersox
Date and Time: December 01, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jms557@drexel.edu for link.

Haolin Zhang

Differential transcriptomic neuroprotection by Tip60 during early versus late stages of amyloid-J3-induced Alzheimer's disease progression

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Jacob Russell
Committee Members: Felice Elefant, Michael Akins, Denise Garcia, Catherine von Reyn
Date and Time: December 08, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact hz354@drexel.edu for link.

Mustafa Furkan

Development and Validation of a Multipurpose Wireless Sensing System for Rapid and Objective Bridge Assessment

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Ivan Bartoli
Committee Members: Emin Aktan, Alan Lau, Miguel Pando, Marcello Balduccini
Date and Time: October 29, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Michael Shipman

A Mixed Methods Case Study: Investigating Effects of Authentic Assessment for Accounting Students in a Postsecondary Institution to Determine Experiential Learning Effects on Students Career Preparation

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Christopher Finnin
Date and Time: November 19, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Tomas Polakovic

Low-Dimensional Superconductivity for Single Photon Detection in Strong Magnetic Field

Major: Physics
Chair: Goran Karapetrov
Committee Members: Valentine Novosad, Somdev Tyagi, Steven May, Joshua Snyder
Date and Time: December 04, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lpd22@drexel.edu for link.

Swathi Jagannath

Perception, Communication, and Representation of Activity Delays in Dynamic Medical Teamwork

Major: Information Science
Chair: Aleksandra Sarcevic
Committee Members: Andrea Forte, Michelle Rogers, Yunan Chen, Kenton O'Hara
Date and Time: December 10, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact bcp29@drexel.edu for link.

Natasha Hepburn

A Case Study: Exploring the Perceptions of Generation Z About the Value of Their Digital Knowledge and Skills in a Selected Health Services Organization

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Jennifer Adams, Valerie Watzlaf
Date and Time: November 06, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Zhengqiao Zhao

Improvements in machine learning for predicting taxa, phenotypes and functions from genetic sequences

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Andrew Cohen
Committee Members: Bahrad Sokhansanj, Gail Rosen, Joshua Mell, Youngmoo Kim
Date and Time: December 09, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact tv349@drexel.edu for link.

Pavan Kantharaju

Learning Decomposition Models for Hierarchical Planning and Plan Recognition

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Santiago Ontanon
Committee Members: Dario Salvucci, David Breen, Christopher Geib, Ugur Kuter
Date and Time: November 23, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bcp29@drexel.edu for link.

Jennifer Hopwood

Using Diffusion of Innovation Theory to Explore Factors

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Christopher Wright, Lisa Kenyon
Date and Time: November 16, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jap386@drexel.edu for link.

Shane West

Healthcare Provider Well-Being and Burnout: Analyzing an Ongoing Epidemic Using Secondary Analysis of a Psychological Research Survey Instruments in an Academic Medical System

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Stephen Gambescia
Committee Members: Merritt Brockman, Michael Jablonover
Date and Time: December 07, 2020 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact sfg23@drexel.edu for link.

Rebekah Agar

Experiences of Non-Traditional Students in a Self-Paced, Computer-Based Developmental Mathematics Class at a Community College: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Jill Spelina
Date and Time: December 01, 2020 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Ketao Chen

Applications of Conductive Polymers in Electronics and DBD Plasma Nongaseous Polymerization of Conductive Polymers

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Daniel King
Committee Members: Ezra Wood, Joe Foley, Lee Hoffman, Lin He, Zhihong Wang
Date and Time: December 11, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kml445@drexel.edu for link.

Bo Chan

A Phenomenological Study: Exploring Parents’ Lived Experience and Motivation for Enrolling Their Elementary-Aged Children in a Weekend Language Program to Learn Chinese in the United States

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Lori Severino, Jeannie Ho
Date and Time: December 02, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Van Truong

Bridging the Gap Urban Adolescent Females of Color and STEM: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Alonzo Flowers
Committee Members: Rosa Banda, Michael Haslip
Date and Time: October 28, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Ja'Net Roberson

Crossing Bridges: A Narrative Inquiry into Transitioning from Foster Care to College

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Amber Battle
Date and Time: November 30, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Harlan Harrell

The "Beautiful Struggle" of Student Veterans in the Canopy of the Community College: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, Deidra Dennie
Date and Time: December 08, 2020 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Simge Uzun

Multiscale Integration of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides (MXenes) into Textile-Based Devices

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Genevieve Dion, Caroline Schauer, Emin Caglan Kumbur
Date and Time: December 09, 2020 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Shereese Harris

Federal Employees' Perceptions on Merit Promotion and Engagement

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Dominic Gullo, Wilfred Johnson
Date and Time: December 04, 2020 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Yongwei Zheng

Network-based Solid Polymer Electrolytes (SPEs) for Lithium Metal Batteries (LMBs) and Beyond

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Ekaterina Pomerantseva
Committee Members: Christopher Li, Andrew Magenau, Kenneth Lau, Vibha Kalra
Date and Time: December 11, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact cyl24@drexel.edu for link.

Joanna Valenti

Teacher Attitudes and Experiences Regarding Inclusive Education for Students with Autism: A Mixed Methods Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Bridget Sweeney Blakely
Committee Members: Christina Vorndran, Harriette Thurber Rasmussen
Date and Time: December 16, 2020 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bsb62@drexel.edu for link.

Jennifer Schmidt

Administrator, Teacher, and Instructional Coach Perceptions of Instructional Coaching as an Approach to Professional Development in K-12 Schools: An Instrumental Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Larry Keiser
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Johnna Weller
Date and Time: December 22, 2020 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact keiserlj@drexel.edu for link.

Karthik Sangaiah

Reimagining the Role of Network-on-Chip Resources toward Improving Chip Multiprocessor Performance

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Nagarajan Kandasamy
Committee Members: Baris Taskin, Mark Hempstead, Ioannis Savidis, Jeremy Johnson
Date and Time: December 17, 2020 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact taskin@coe.drexel.edu for link.

Tamara Brooks

A Re-Storied Account of C.S. Lewis, Intergenerational Spiritual Leaders, and Their Transformational Leadership Journey

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: William Lynch, Crystal Hurd
Date and Time: December 22, 2020 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Jennifer Kruzynski

Changing Teacher Knowledge and Perceptions of Disabilities through a Disability Simulation in St. Maarten

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Dominic Gullo, Charlotte Brickhouse
Date and Time: January 11, 2021 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Christine Call

Examining the Role of Weight Suppression in the Context of a Weight Gain Prevention

Major: Psychology
Chair: Meghan Butryn
Committee Members: Michael Lowe, Zoe Zhang, Eric Stice, Katherine Schaumberg
Date and Time: October 08, 2020 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Yaqin Sun

Outsourcing under Competition

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Wenjing Shen, Seung-Lae Kim
Committee Members: Benjamin Lev, Min Wang, Konstantinos Serfes
Date and Time: January 04, 2021 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Lisa Lanza

Prefrontal Cortex Response during Preferred Food Consumption as Measured by fNIRS, Level of Intuitive Eating and Current Weight in Post-partum Women

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Jennifer Nasser
Committee Members: Deborah Clegg, Stella Volpe, Michael Bruneau, June Horowitz, Meltem izzetoglu
Date and Time: January 11, 2021 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Amal Alanazi

Analysis of Technology Use and Muddiest Point Technique in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Lee Hoffman
Committee Members: Craig McClure, Eric Brewe, Lynn Penn, Joseph Foley
Date and Time: January 30, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dk68@drexel.edu for link.

Kelley Commeford

Characterizing Active Learning Environments in Physics

Major: Physics
Chair: Eric Brewe
Committee Members: Michelle Dolinski, Jen Stanford, Adrienne Traxler, Dave Goldberg
Date and Time: February 26, 2021 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Bridget Milorey

Studying and Characterizing Conformational Ensembles of Proteins and Peptides by Combining Spectroscopic Techniques

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Karl Sohlberg
Committee Members: Jun Xi, Jeremiah Scepaniak, Frank Ferrone, Harald Schwalbe, Bruce Bowler
Date and Time: March 05, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kml445@drexel.edu for link.

Maria Toglia

Examining the Impact of One Professional Development Program in Structured Literacy on Teacher Knowledge: A Quasi-experimental Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Lori Severino
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Peggy Hickman
Date and Time: February 22, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mlt98@drexel.edu for link.

Christen Mendonca

Adapting Sedentary Video Games to Facilitate Physical Activity for Adults

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Susan Smith, Sinclair Smith
Committee Members: Stephen Samendinger, Karin Pfeiffer, Stella Volpe
Date and Time: February 24, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact hbe25@drexel.edu for link.

Kristin Johnson

The Effects of Targeted Professional Development and Teachers' Attitudes in Co-taught Classrooms: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Michael Kozak
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Stacey Sidle
Date and Time: March 02, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mgk57@drexel.edu for link.

Taiisha Swinton

Teaching Inner-City Youth When Pedagogy is Not Enough: A Phenomenological Study about Change Agent Teachers

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Christina Vorndran, Felicia Lanham Tarason
Date and Time: February 08, 2021 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Nicholas Gehman

Workforce Readiness of Recent College Graduates: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Bruce Levine
Committee Members: Salvatore Falletta, Harriette Rasmussen
Date and Time: March 18, 2021 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bl63@drexel.edu for link.

Amanda Ward

The Successful Implementation of Innovative Instructional Techniques in a STEAM Elementary School: An Instrumental Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Paul Harrington
Committee Members: Eric Brewe, Becky Quackenbush
Date and Time: February 22, 2021 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lak53@drexel.edu for link.

Johannes Krause

Elemental cycling in blue carbon habitats: Investigations from the molecular to ecosystem scale

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: David Velinsky
Committee Members: Elizabeth Burke Watson, Richard Horwitz, Marina Potapova, Andrew Gray
Date and Time: March 15, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ebw49@drexel.edu for link.

Steven Hill

Astrocyte regulation of neuron structure and function mediated by Sonic hedgehog signaling

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Felice Elefant
Committee Members: Wen-Jun Gao, A. Denise Garcia, Michael Akins, Joshua Mell
Date and Time: March 17, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kp475@drexel.edu for link.

Rhonda Kelsey

Teacher's Lived Experiences Regarding the Use of Therapy Dogs as a Behavior Management Strategy: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Christina Vorndran
Committee Members: Janet Sloand, Crystal Glover
Date and Time: March 22, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cmv69@drexel.edu for link.

Anton Anikin

Charge Density Waves in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Major: Physics
Chair: Goran Karapetrov
Committee Members: Som Tyagi, Charles Lane, Steven May, Joshua Snyder
Date and Time: March 19, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact aaa483@drexel.edu for link.

Houda El mimouni

An Exploration of Privacy Experts’ and Non-experts’ Privacy Conceptualizations and Practices using the Concept of Habitus

Major: Information Science
Chair: Andrea Forte
Committee Members: Aleksandra Sarcevic, Susan Gasson, Eric Baumer, Susan Fussell
Date and Time: March 11, 2021 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bcp29@drexel.edu for link.

Meen Chul Kim

Learning Early-Stage Web Development at Scale: Exploring Methods to Assess Learning through Analysis HTML and CSS

Major: Information Science
Chair: Andrea Forte
Committee Members: Weimao Ke, Brian Smith, Amy Ko, Benjamin Hill
Date and Time: March 05, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bcp29@drexel.edu for link.

Dipexa Gandhi

Changing the Leadership Landscape: South Asian Women in Higher Education

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Rajashi Ghosh, Barret Katuna
Date and Time: March 26, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kek72@drexel.edu for link.

Matthew Halley

Integrative systematics and evolution of seasonal migration in the nightingale-thrushes (Aves: Turdidae: Catharus)

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Gary Rosenberg
Committee Members: Jason Weckstein, Richard McCourt, Jacob Russell, Nathan Rice
Date and Time: April 09, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Carmen Poston Farmer

Addressing Food Insecurity at a Community College with a Food Campaign: An Instrumental Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, Denise Simmons Graves
Date and Time: March 25, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Jennica Janssen

Public Opinion on the Appropriateness of Juvenile Sex Offender Registration and Notification Requirements

Major: Psychology
Chair: Naomi Goldstein
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Riya Shah, Rhonda McKitten
Date and Time: March 19, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jmj342@drexel.edu for link.

Mantel Featherson

The Automated Enterprise: A Narrative Inquiry Exploring Worker Perceptions of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in a Global Life Sciences Organization

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Bruce Levine, Christopher Finnin
Date and Time: March 19, 2021 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact drfeatherson@msn.com for link.

Trina Gregory

Exploring the Social Engagement of First-Year, First-Generation College Students at a Non-Urban HBCU in the Southeastern U.S.: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Kristine Lewis Grant, Kulwinder Kaur-Walker
Date and Time: March 22, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dh385@drexel.edu for link.

Sharon Kauffman

Community College Professors’ Perceptions of Open Educational Resources and their Impact on Student Success and Social Justice: An Instrumental Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, Michael Mills
Date and Time: March 26, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Brian Williams

A Mixed Methods Study: Understanding Risk Factors for Plagiarism Among MBA Students at a Northeastern U.S. Research University

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jose Luis Chavez
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Giuseppe Salomone
Date and Time: March 15, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jlc334@drexel.edu for link.

Kanit Hantanasirisakul

On the Electronic and Transport Properties of Two-dimensional (2D) Transition Metal Carbides and Carbonitride (MXenes)

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Jason Baxter, Goran Karapetrov, Jonathan Spanier
Date and Time: March 31, 2021 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kh654@drexel.edu for link.

Kelley Commeford

Characterizing Active Learning Environments in Physics

Major: Physics
Chair: Eric Brewe
Committee Members: David Goldberg, Michelle Dolinski, Jennifer Stanford, Adrienne Traxler
Date and Time: February 26, 2021 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Olga Kyzylova

Characterization of Time-Varying Backgrounds in the PROSPECT Experiment

Major: Physics
Chair: Michelle Dolinski
Committee Members: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Russell Neilson, James Napolitano, Brigita Urbanc
Date and Time: March 09, 2021 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Nicole Baird

Third Time's the Charm: An Examination of an Intervention for Developmental Education Math Repeaters

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Penny Hammrich, Natasha Miller
Date and Time: March 30, 2021 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jp3467@drexel.edu for link.

Conor McCafferty

A Cost-Benefit Analysis for Geotextile Tube Dewatering with and without a Spacer Product

Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Grace Hsuan
Committee Members: Patrick Gurian, Mira Olson, George Koerner, Richard Weggel
Date and Time: December 11, 2020 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom