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

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: