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2012-2013 Doctoral Defenses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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