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: @formatdate(9/2/2016 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Hill Conference Room, CAT 240

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: @formatdate(9/23/2016 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Pearlman #307

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: @formatdate(10/7/2016 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: PSA (Bldg #47), Room 114

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: @formatdate(10/18/2016 9:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: PIBS 103

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: @formatdate(10/24/2016 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 1601 Cherry Street- Drexel University

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: @formatdate(10/28/2016 12:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(11/2/2016 1:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: GHall 1139

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: @formatdate(11/7/2016 12:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Conference Room in 3401 Market St.

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: @formatdate(11/9/2016 1:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Stratton Hall room 212

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: @formatdate(11/22/2016 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: MEM Seminar Room

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: @formatdate(11/22/2016 3:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: One Drexel Plaza

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: @formatdate(11/28/2016 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Curtis 0-48 (Powerlab)

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: @formatdate(12/1/2016 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: RUSH 205

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: @formatdate(12/1/2016 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Drexel Plaza, Room 137

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: @formatdate(12/2/2016 3:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: TBA

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: @formatdate(12/5/2016 3:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Bossone 302

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: @formatdate(12/7/2016 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Nesbitt, Room 640

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: @formatdate(12/9/2016 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(12/14/2016 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Disque 109

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: @formatdate(12/14/2016 3:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Drexel University

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: @formatdate(12/16/2016 2:45:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Nesbitt Hall 7th floor , Room 719

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: @formatdate(2/2/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(2/7/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Rush 006

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: @formatdate(2/14/2017 9:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Bossone 302

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: @formatdate(2/17/2017 1:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(2/23/2017 1:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(2/24/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(2/28/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 1601 Cherry St, Room 782

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: @formatdate(3/7/2017 12:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: ODP Room 043

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: @formatdate(3/20/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: SC326

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: @formatdate(3/21/2017 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Session

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: @formatdate(3/23/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Disque Hall 109

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: @formatdate(3/27/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 3200 Fifth Ave, Sacramento Campus

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: @formatdate(4/17/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Bossone 302

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: @formatdate(4/17/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Nestbitt Hall, Room 751

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: @formatdate(4/18/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: ECE Room 302

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: @formatdate(4/21/2017 12:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: PISB 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: @formatdate(4/28/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Stratton 330

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: @formatdate(5/1/2017 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Three Parkway Building, Room 901

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: @formatdate(5/2/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 640

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: @formatdate(5/3/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Curtis 048 )Power lab)

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: @formatdate(5/4/2017 9:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Session

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: @formatdate(5/4/2017 12:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 3401 Market St, Room 338

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: @formatdate(5/5/2017 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Drexel University Room 338

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: @formatdate(5/12/2017 12:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 3401 Market St, Room 338

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: @formatdate(5/12/2017 10:45:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 440

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: @formatdate(5/12/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Disque 103

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: @formatdate(5/15/2017 12:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Nesbitt Hall-4th Fl Conference Rm

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: @formatdate(5/16/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Session

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: @formatdate(5/16/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Drexel Bldg 3401, Room 348

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: @formatdate(5/17/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: MEM Seminar Room (Curtis 162)

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: @formatdate(5/18/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Bossone 302

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: @formatdate(5/18/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Curtis 162, the MEM seminar room.

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: @formatdate(5/18/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Curtis 162

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: @formatdate(5/18/2017 4:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: School of Education

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: @formatdate(5/19/2017 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 139

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: @formatdate(5/22/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: University Crossings 153

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: @formatdate(5/23/2017 12:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Curtis 048

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: @formatdate(5/23/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 141

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: @formatdate(5/23/2017 1:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: GHALL 1139

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: @formatdate(5/23/2017 1:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: TBD

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: @formatdate(5/23/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Nesbitt Hall Room 751

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: @formatdate(5/23/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 007

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: @formatdate(5/23/2017 2:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Hill Conference Room (LeBow 240)

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: @formatdate(5/24/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: ET via Zoom

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: @formatdate(5/24/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Session

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: @formatdate(5/24/2017 12:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: CBE Conference Room

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: @formatdate(5/24/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 3401 Market St, Conference Room

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: @formatdate(5/24/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(5/25/2017 8:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Parkway Bldg Center City Room 639

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: @formatdate(5/25/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 3001 Market Street, Dragon Conference Room

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: @formatdate(5/25/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 368 Parkway

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: @formatdate(5/25/2017 1:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: GHall 722

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: @formatdate(5/25/2017 3:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: CBE Conference Room

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: @formatdate(5/25/2017 3:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Main 301

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: @formatdate(5/30/2017 9:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location:

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: @formatdate(5/30/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Session

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: @formatdate(5/30/2017 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(5/30/2017 12:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(5/31/2017 9:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Disque 109

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: @formatdate(5/31/2017 9:30:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 3200 5th street Avenue, Sacramento, CA, 95817 (building and room TBD)

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: @formatdate(5/31/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Session

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: @formatdate(5/31/2017 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Dragon Conference Room

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: @formatdate(5/31/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: CCC, Parkway CR 701

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: @formatdate(5/31/2017 5:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Virtual

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: @formatdate(6/1/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Pearlstein 307

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: @formatdate(6/2/2017 10:30:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Collaboration

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: @formatdate(6/6/2017 11:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: One Drexel Plaza Room 043

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: @formatdate(6/9/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Stratton Room 260

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: @formatdate(6/13/2017 10:30:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Disque 919

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: @formatdate(6/14/2017 12:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: 3401 Market Street- 3rd floor, room 340

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: @formatdate(6/15/2017 9:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Nesbitt Hall 5th floor Conference Room

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: @formatdate(6/19/2017 12:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 302

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: @formatdate(7/18/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Bossone 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: @formatdate(7/18/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Hill Conference Room

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: @formatdate(8/3/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Drexel Plaza, Room 110

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: @formatdate(8/11/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Bossone 302

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: @formatdate(8/11/2017 9:30:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
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: @formatdate(8/22/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Online

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: @formatdate(8/23/2017 3:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Online

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: @formatdate(9/1/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Online

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: @formatdate(9/7/2017 2:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Zoom Online

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: @formatdate(9/19/2017 1:00:00 PM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Disque, Room 919

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: @formatdate(9/20/2017 10:00:00 AM, "MMMM dd, yyyy h:mm tt")
Location: Disque, Room 919