Greg Schwenk
An Investigation of Two Framework-Based Materials: Novel Phosphorus Metal Halides (MxPyXz) and Antimicrobial Enabled y-CD-MOF-1

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Karl Sohlberg
Committee Members: Jeremiah Scepaniak, Lee Hoffman, Aaron Fafarman, Yanfeng Yue
Date and Time: September 16, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact grs72@drexel.edu for link.

Kevin Grzybowski
A Mixed Method Nested Case Study Identifying Creative Teaching Strategies to Reduce Math Anxiety in Middle and High School Students

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Neville Austin
Date and Time: September 15, 2022 6:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kg986@drexel.edu for link.

Ou Stella Liang
Developing Clinical Prediction Models for Post-Treatment Substance Use Relapse with Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Major: Information Science
Chair: Christopher Yang
Committee Members: David Bennett, Jane Greenberg, Jake Williams, Kate Gliske, Quyen Ngo
Date and Time: September 15, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ol54@drexel.edu for link.

Lisa Perreira
Collaborative Recovery: A Participatory Case Study Examination of the Experience of Principal Turnover and Efforts to Reestablish Positive School Culture

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Kathleen Provinzano, Harriette Rasmussen
Date and Time: September 13, 2022 7:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ldp59@drexel.edu for link.

Prakash Gautam
Calibration of light response for the nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay search with machine learning.

Major: Physics
Chair: Michelle Dolinski
Committee Members: Russell Neilson, Gordon Richards, David Goldberg, David Moore
Date and Time: September 08, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 107

Jerica Wilson
Discovery and Design: Development of Small Molecule Inhibitors

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Jeremiah Scepaniak
Committee Members: Yinghui Zhong, Jun Xi, Stephen Burley, Gail Rosen
Date and Time: September 06, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jkw68@drexel.edu for link.

Brian Walton
Impact of Faculty Advisor Perceptions of Academic Advising and Effects on Advising Process at a Medium-sized North-East Regional Undergraduate College

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Eric Brewe, Jennifer McLean
Date and Time: September 01, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bdw52@drexel.edu for link.

Erin Carter
Narratives of Art Therapy Educators during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriet Thurber Rasmussen
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Jessica Stallings
Date and Time: September 01, 2022 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact eec63@drexel.edu for link.

Robert Van Vorst
Social Emotional Learning and School Climate: A Case Study of Elementary Teachers

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Richard Rhodes
Date and Time: August 31, 2022 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact rv423@drexel.edu for link.

Courtney Brightharp
HER Health: Opportunities to improve the quality of health among pregnant women living with HIV in South Carolina

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Kimberly McClellan
Committee Members: Stephen Gambescia, Augusta Villanueva
Date and Time: August 31, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Kamilah Thorne
A Phenomenological Study of Professional Development

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Amanda Lannie
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Melissa Egri McCauley
Date and Time: August 29, 2022 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kt658@drexel.edu for link.

Antonio Negrin
A Phenomenological Study: Exploring Private High School Athletic Directors: Lived Experiences to Understand Factors Related to Their Role in Recruiting Student Athletes in the New York Metropolitan Area

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Cameron Kiosoglous
Committee Members: Ellen Staurowksy, Paul Harrington
Date and Time: August 29, 2022 12:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact tn448@drexel.edu for link.

Clarissa Lacson
Interprofessional Collaboration Between Pediatric Music Therapists and Multidisciplinary Team Members in Hospitals: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Rajashi Ghosh, Katherine Kelly, Helen Shoemark, Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili
Date and Time: August 26, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cjl52@drexel.edu for link.

Keyur Shah
Improving Precision of Deformable Image Registration

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Anup Kumar Das
Committee Members: James Shackleford, Gregory Sharp, Nagarajan Kandasamy, David Han
Date and Time: August 26, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Jean Solecki
Academic Instructional Strategies in the "RTI" System: A Quantitative Research Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Constance Lyttle
Committee Members: Bruce Levine, Richard Sabousky
Date and Time: August 25, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact js3995@drexel.edu for link.

Michele Diaz
Anti-Racist Teaching in Secondary ELA: A Phenomenology with Implications for In-Service and Pre-Service Teacher Education

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: H. Bernard Hall
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Mollie Gambone
Date and Time: August 25, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact md3678@drexel.edu for link.

Louis Mueller
Sulfuranide Methods for Preparing Azoles from the Isocyanide Asmic

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Karl Sohlberg
Committee Members: Joe Fox, Jun Xi, Haifeng Ji, Lynn Penn
Date and Time: August 25, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact lgm52@drexel.edu for link.

Christopher Mochin
A QUALITATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF MOTIVATION, RECRUITMENT, AND RETENTION OF VOLUNTEERS AND ORGANIZERS' LIVED EXPERIENCES WHILE SERVING IN NON-PROFIT SPORTS EVENTS

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Thurber Rasmussen
Committee Members: Cameron Kisoglous, Jeannette Brelsford
Date and Time: August 22, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cmm624@drexel.edu for link.

Brandon Wallace
Narrative Inquiry Explorations in the Lived Experiences of African American Males Who Graduated Community College During COVID-19

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Jose Luis Chavez, Yolanda Abel
Date and Time: August 19, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bcw63@drexel.edu for link.

Chandler Puhy
Mixed Methods Investigation of Researcher Implementation and Perceptions of Participatory Action Research with School-Aged Youth

Major: Psychology
Chair: Brian Daly
Committee Members: Nancy Lee, Stephen Leff, Jen Katz-Buonincontro, Fengqing Zhang
Date and Time: August 18, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact cep85@drexel.edu for link.

Catalina Correa
Crossroads in Two Colombian Cities: Urban Health Disparities and Human Rights of Venezuelan Migrant and Refugee Women

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Ana Martinez-Donate
Committee Members: Joe Amon, Allison Groves, Usama Bilal, Kathleen Page
Date and Time: August 18, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cc3693@drexel.edu for link.

Anna-kay Thomas
Exploring the Community Cultural Wealth of Black Medical School Students Who Completed Post-Baccalaureate Study Prior to Admissions: A Narrative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Paul Harrington, Linda Berardi-Demo
Date and Time: August 17, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact adt58@drexel.edu for link.

Brandon Wallace
Narrative Inquiry Explorations in the Lived Experiences of African American Males Who Graduated Community College During COVID-19

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Jose Luis Chavez, Yolanda Abel
Date and Time: August 16, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bcw63@drexel.edu for link.

Joseph Wraga
A Bayesian Analysis of the Ekpyrotic Universe

Major: Physics
Chair: David Goldberg
Committee Members: Jian-Min Yuan, Michael Vogeley, Adam Lidz, Jorn Venderbos
Date and Time: August 16, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Olivia Wilson
Air-stable Alkylborane Initiation as a Toolkit to Drive Radical Reactions in a Diverse Set of Polymer Applications

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Christopher Li
Committee Members: Andrew Magenau, Caroline Schauer, Joshua Lequieu, Kenneth Lau
Date and Time: August 10, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Leora Willner
Neural correlates of weight suppression and the interaction with BMI among individuals with anorexia or bulimia nervosa

Major: Psychology
Chair: Michael Lowe
Committee Members: Meghan Butryn, Laura Berner, Anna Rose Childress, Nancy Lee
Date and Time: August 10, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact lb863@drexel.edu for link.

Jessica Rast
Maternal health and antiseizure medication use during pregnancy

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Brian Lee
Committee Members: Kristen Dodge, Cecilia Magnusson, Lucy Robinson, Michael Yudell
Date and Time: August 04, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jer336@drexel.edu for link.

Laura Ryblewski
Phenomenological Study of Student Affairs and Academic Affairs Partnerships: Impact on Student Success

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: William Lynch
Committee Members: Joy Phillips, Robert Kurland
Date and Time: August 03, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact lar338@drexel.edu for link.

Cynthia Klobodu
Exploring the feasibility of incorporating nutrition-related lifestyle guidance into fertility counseling and treatment for female cancer survivors

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Brandy-Joe Milliron
Committee Members: Jonathan Deutsch, Jennifer Nasser, Kathleen Fisher, Vicki Schwartz, Mara Vitolins
Date and Time: August 03, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cnk48@drexel.edu for link.

Nguyen Tran
Elevated Bacterial STI Incidence in Canada: Reframing Clinical Decision Making for HIV PrEP beyond Risk Compensation

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Seth Welles
Committee Members: Neal Goldstein, Esther Chernak, David Brennan, Jason Roy
Date and Time: July 27, 2022 10:00 AM
Location:

Deborah Kapilow
Development of an Optical Thermography System Using a Pumped Two-Dyed Fluorescence Technique

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Matthew McCarthy
Committee Members: Grace Hsuan, Ying Sun, Young Cho, Ahmad Najafi
Date and Time: July 27, 2022 7:00 AM
Location: Lebow Hall, Room 240

Annalee Kelly
The Predictive Relationship Between Head Start Teacher Characteristics and Their Reporting of Children's Externalizing Behaviors: Investigating the Determinants of Suspensions and Expulsion in Early Childhood

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Dominic Gullo
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Yange Xue
Date and Time: July 22, 2022 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ak3852@drexel.edu for link.

Stacy Boyer
Taking Threat to the Next Level: A Multilevel Perspective of Stereotype Threat and Women's Leadership Outcomes

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Lauren D'Innocenzo
Committee Members: Daniel Van Knippenberg, Dali Ma, Jasmien Khattab, Mary Mawritz
Date and Time: July 19, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact slb462@drexel.edu for link.

Yolanda Babb
College and Career Readiness in Title I Elementary Education: A Single Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Michael Haslip
Committee Members: Lori Severino, Richard Rhodes
Date and Time: July 18, 2022 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact yb356@drexel.edu for link.

Dustin Fry
Streetscape Virtual Audits Across the Americas: Measurement, Validity, and Bias

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Gina Lovasi
Committee Members: Stephen Mooney, Jane Clougherty, Usama Bilal, Brisa Sanchez Loya
Date and Time: July 18, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 719

Diane Dallal
Understanding Reward Compensation: A Multimodal Investigation into the Role of Reward Deficit in Obesity and Consumption of High-Reward Foods

Major: Psychology
Chair: Evan Forman
Committee Members: Meghan Butryn, Bradley Appelhans, Nicole Geschwind, Adrienne Juarascio
Date and Time: July 15, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dd935@drexel.edu for link.

Abdullah Altundas
Isocyanides: Anionic Methods for Dearomatization to Complex Cyclohexadienes

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Haifeng Ji
Committee Members: Jun Xi, Jeremiah Scepaniak, Sarah Wengryniuk, Raphael Franzini
Date and Time: July 13, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact aba53@drexel.edu for link.

Olivia Boerman
Understanding the Biological Effects of Non-thermal, Non-cavitational Therapeutic Ultrasound in Chronic Wound Healing

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Andres Kriete
Committee Members: Peter Lewin, Michael Neidrauer, Michael Weingarten, Kara Spiller, Lin Han
Date and Time: July 07, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 709

Tanner Nassau
Supervised consumption sites and infectious disease risk among people who inject drugs

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Alison Evans
Committee Members: Ayden Scheim, Seth Welles, Alexis Roth, Kathleen Brady
Date and Time: June 29, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 751

Cheng Wang
A Community-Based View of Entrepreneurship

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Dali Ma
Committee Members: Joseph Mahoney, Jade Lo, Richardson Dilworth, Vadake Narayanan
Date and Time: June 27, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: GHall, Room 722

Alexander Furia
Asymptotic Analysis of Resonances of Periodic Scatterers

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Shari Moskow
Committee Members: David Ambrose, J. Douglas Wright, Ronald Perine, Fioralba Cakoni
Date and Time: June 21, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Korman, Room 245

David Woods
Exploring the Lived Experiences of College Students Who Completed an Early College High School Program: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Diane Lane
Date and Time: June 17, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact daw345@drexel.edu for link.

Angela Nissing
Community College Students in English for Academic Purposes Programs: A Mixed Methods Case Study of the Student Experience and Mindset

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Peggy Kong
Committee Members: John Gould, Elizabeth Benton
Date and Time: June 16, 2022 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact akn47@drexel.edu for link.

Brian McCommons
Disrupting interruptions: Navigating the transition to university life in Bolivia

Major: Education
Chair: Rebecca Clothey
Committee Members: Rogelio Minana, Kristy Kelly, Jennifer Adams, Gabriela Silvestre
Date and Time: June 16, 2022 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bm956@drexel.edu for link.

Andrew Bennett-Jackson
The bulk photovoltaic and space-charge effects in epitaxial BaTiO3 thin films

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Jonathan Spanier
Committee Members: Jason Baxter, Steven May, Caroline Schauer, Joshua Agar
Date and Time: June 15, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: LeBow Hall, Hill Conference Room

Madelena Rizzo
Prioritizing Participant Retention in Federal Reentry Court: Perspectives from United States Reentry Courts

Major: Psychology
Chair: Kirk Heilbrun
Committee Members: David DeMatteo, Adam Benforado, Christine Nezu, L. Felipe Restrepo
Date and Time: June 09, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact msr328@drexel.edu for link.

George Yang
Integrating Domain knowledge into Monte Carlo Tree Search for Real-Time Strategy Games

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Santiago Ontanon
Committee Members: Vasilis Gkatzelis, Edward Kim, Dario Salvucci, Michael Buro
Date and Time: June 09, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Ausilah Ahmad Sulieman Alfraihat
Quantification of Variations in Thoracic Vertebral Morphology and Prediction of Curve Progression and Correction in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Lin Han
Committee Members: Sriram Balasubramanian, Ahmet Sacan, Amer Samdani, Kenneth Barbee
Date and Time: June 08, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Patricia Williams
The Effects of Autism Training on Empowerment Outcomes for Parents and Caregivers of Autistic Youth

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Michael Haslip
Committee Members: Christina Vorndran, Lisa Elliott
Date and Time: June 07, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact prw35@drexel.edu for link.

La Chae' Swindle
A Qualitative Study: Exploring Summer Experiences

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: James Connell
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Jenny Pressman Hicker
Date and Time: June 07, 2022 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact las555@drexel.edu for link.

Dominick Macaluso
Traveling Front Solution Stability in a Lateral Inhibition Network in the Neural Field Model

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Yixin Guo
Committee Members: Ronald Perline, Rui Feng, J. Douglas Wright, Guang Yang
Date and Time: June 07, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Korman, Room 245

Maria Ruiz Rincon
Development of a Subject-Specific Computational Foot and Ankle Model and its Application to the Evaluation of Total Ankle Replacements

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Sorin Siegler
Committee Members: Carl Imhauser, Bor-Chin Chang, Steven Kurtz, Ahmad Najafi
Date and Time: June 06, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mr3393@drexel.edu for link.

Mary Martinelli
Characterizing meal planning strategy use during behavioral weight loss treatment

Major: Psychology
Chair: Meghan Butryn
Committee Members: Evan Forman, Nancy Sherwood, Bradley Appelhans, Michael Lowe
Date and Time: June 06, 2022 8:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mkm339@drexel.edu for link.

Tasha Mosconi
Relationship between Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices and Teacher Effectiveness: A Correlational Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Constance Lyttle
Committee Members: Kristine Lewis, Namik Sercan
Date and Time: June 03, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact tdm84@drexel.edu for link.

Mevlut Bayram
Switching Control Design for Aircraft Actuator Failures

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Harry Kwatny
Committee Members: Ajmal Yousuff, Bor-Chin Chang, Prawat Nagvajara, Alan Lau
Date and Time: June 03, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mb3242@drexel.edu for link.

Greg Albright
Analog Games on Digital Tabletops: A Media Microecology

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Ernest Hakanen
Committee Members: Alexander Jenkins, Paul Booth, Bob Rehak, Ron Bishop
Date and Time: June 03, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: 3101MK Room 224

Yizhou Yang
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Double Metal MXenes

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Yury Gogotsi, Jorn Venderbos, Aaron Fafarman
Date and Time: June 03, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: LeBow Hall, Room 241

Hyojong Jang
Circuits for bilateral looming feature integration in Drosophila

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Barbee
Committee Members: Jaimie Dougherty, Amy Throckmorton, Kimberly Dougherty, Catherine Von Reyn
Date and Time: June 03, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 709

Eammon Hart
Lp Estimates for Solutions to BSDEs and BDSDEs and Zero Knowledge Proofs for FLow Free and Related Graph Problems

Major:
Chair: Xiaoming Song
Committee Members: Eric Schmutz, J. Douglas Wright, Gideon Simpson, Fengqing Zhang,
Date and Time: June 03, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Korman, Room 245

Yongtaek Oh
Classification of insight and analytic problem-solving using an interpretable deep-learning model based on single-trial EEG data

Major: Psychology
Chair: John Kounios
Committee Members: Fengqing Zhang, John Medaglia, Hasan Ayaz, Mark Meeman, Jessica Fleck
Date and Time: June 02, 2022 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact yo54@drexel.edu for link.

Sevket Fatih Catpinar
Analysis and Design of Control Systems for Impaired Aircraft

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Ajmal Yousuff
Committee Members: Prawat Nagvajara, Bor-Chin Chang, Alan Lau, Harry Kwatny
Date and Time: June 02, 2022 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact sfc38@drexel.edu for link.

Catherine Stephan
Predictors of Employment and Job Performance in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

Major: Psychology
Chair: Nancy Lee
Committee Members: Brian Daly, Scott Spreat, Gregory Wallace, Christine Nezu
Date and Time: June 02, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cms666@drexel.edu for link.

Matthew Bressler
Operation and Calibration of Right-Side-Up Bubble Chambers at ∼keV Thresholds

Major: Physics
Chair: Russell Neilson
Committee Members: Michelle Dolinski, Michael Vogeley, Chuck Lane, Eric Dahl, Eric Brewe
Date and Time: June 02, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

Linyao Peng
Cryptic community structure, transmission dynamics, and within-host ecology of heritable pea aphid microbiomes

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Meshagae Hunte-Brown, Kerry Oliver, Joshua Mell, Jacob Russell
Date and Time: June 01, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room 108

Rebecca Lubin
Gifted State of Mind: The Critical Exploration of Leadership Perspectives on Elementary Gifted Education Pedagogy

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Alonzo Flowers
Committee Members: H. Bernard Hall, Allison Gunter
Date and Time: June 01, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Aakansha Nangarlia
Inactivation of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 viruses by Targeting Metastable Virus Spike Proteins

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kara Spiller
Committee Members: Paul Brandt-Rauf, Caroline Schauer, Kenneth Barbee, Irwin Chaiken
Date and Time: June 01, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Sreyashi Mukherjee
The Indian Woman: Analyzing Representations of Agency in Indian Advertising Since Independence

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Rachel Reynolds
Committee Members: Wesley Shumar, Ernest Hakanen, Douglas Haynes, Radhika Parameswaran
Date and Time: June 01, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: MACALS 4011

Taylor Wrye
The Great Equalizer: A Case Study of Distance Learning in Public Schools

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Cameron Kliosoglous
Committee Members: Salvatore Falletta, Giuseppe Salomone
Date and Time: June 01, 2022 12:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Casper Voyles
Barriers to Inclusion: Sexual Minorities' Participation and Identity Disclosure in Social Spaces

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Randall Sell
Committee Members: Meghan Butryn, Jay Orne, Michael LeVasseur, Tommy Otterbine, Ellen Staurowsky
Date and Time: May 31, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 440

Mohsen Foroughi Sabzevar
An AR-QR Code Approach to Improve Access of Crews to Design and Construction Information on Construction Sites

Major: Architectural Engineering
Chair: James Lo
Committee Members: Masoud Gheisari, Christine Fiori, Jin Wen, Simi Hoque
Date and Time: May 31, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Lebow Hall, Room 240

Samantha Joseph
Constructing a Community Trauma Index: Measuring Adverse Community Experiences across Philadelphia Neighborhoods

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Amy Caroll-Scott
Committee Members: Randall Sell, Brent Langellier, Yvonne Michael, Ana Martinez-Donate
Date and Time: May 31, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact sr554@drexel.edu for link.

Aviel Stein
Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques to Code

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Spiros Mancoridis
Committee Members: Ali Shokoufandeh, Jake Williams, Edward Kim, Rachel Greenstadt
Date and Time: May 27, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ajs568@drexel.edu for link.

Nilan Jayasuriya
Control System Design for Aircraft with Elevator Failures

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Harry Kwatny
Committee Members: Bor-Chin Chang, Ajmal Yousuff, Alan Lau, J. Douglas Wright
Date and Time: May 27, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Nina Rothstein
Personality Traits versus Emotional States in Human Robot Interaction: Delineating individual differences to predict attitudes and behaviors across non-erroneous and erroneous social robot interactions

Major: Psychology
Chair: John Kounios
Committee Members: Hasan Ayaz, Evangelia Chrysikou, Ewart de Visser, Fengqing Zhang
Date and Time: May 27, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Monell (3508 Market Street)

Gabrielle Salib
Nerdfighteria: Parasocial Relationships as Bridging Social Capital among Emerging Adults in Online Communities

Major: Information Science
Chair: Denise Agosto
Committee Members: Aleksandra Sarcevic, Sarah McRoberts, Foad Hamidi, Andrea Forte
Date and Time: May 27, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact gms79@drexel.edu for link.

Holly Gerber
Betrayal Trauma among Veterans: Associations with Suicidal Ideation and Chronic Pain

Major: Psychology
Chair: Art Nezu
Committee Members: Christine Nezu, Kelly Gilrain, Nazanin Bahraini, Pamela Geller
Date and Time: May 26, 2022 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact hrg33@drexel.edu for link.

Benjamin Lefler
Tailoring Perovskite Functionality with Fluoridation Topochemistry

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Aaron Fafarman, Jason Baxter, Yong-Jie Hu
Date and Time: May 26, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 340

Laura Bianco
The Impact of Lab Delivery Method on Student Achievement, Transfer of Learning, and Self-Perception in an Anatomy and Physiology Course

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Peggy Kong, Michelle Miller
Date and Time: May 25, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lb3259@drexel.edu for link.

Ashley Jones
Nontraditional Careers: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Peggy Kong, Stacia Visgarda
Date and Time: May 24, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact anm98@drexel.edu for link.

Yulia Malkova
Remote Manipulation of Untethered Bots in Soft Media

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Kapil Dandekar
Committee Members: David Han, Yury Gogotsi, Allon Guez, Gennady Friedman
Date and Time: May 24, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ym364@drexel.edu for link.

Anya Kurennaya
Imagined Places and Immersive Spaces: Negotiating Place, History, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century Tiki Bar

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Brent Luvaas
Committee Members: Wesley Shumar, Barbara Hoekje, Heike Jenss, Ken Albala
Date and Time: May 23, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: 3101 Market Street, Room 224

Brigette Schneible
The Role of Music Therapy in Older Adults' Transition into Long-Term Care

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Minjung Shim, Kristine Mulhorn, Laura Beer, Orii McDermott
Date and Time: May 23, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bks36@drexel.edu for link.

Valerie Raziano
Examining Prenatal Care as an Opportunity to Improve Prenatal and Infant Vaccine Receipt

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Ali Groves
Committee Members: Ann Klassen, Renee Turchi, Neal Goldstein, Kristen Feemster, Alison Buttenheim
Date and Time: May 23, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 440

Shannon Whitley
The Leadership Element: A Phenomenological Study of the Job Satisfaction of Government Contractor Employees

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Ronan Ramirez
Date and Time: May 20, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact csw49@drexel.edu for link.

Farhana Nusrat
Love at First Touch: How Swiping vs. Typing Changes Online Dating Decision-Making

Major: Business Administration
Chair: YanLiu Huang
Committee Members: Chen Wang, Michael Howley, Trina Andras, Cait Lamberton
Date and Time: May 20, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact fn68@drexel.edu for link.

Sherif Khalifa
Environmental Sustainability of Emerging Solar Photovoltaic Technologies

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Aaron Fafarman
Committee Members: Vasilis Fthenakis, Alberta Carpenter, Patrick Gurian, Megan Creighton, Jason Baxter, Sabrina Spatari
Date and Time: May 18, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: LeBow Hall, Hill Conference Room

Nishita Dsouza
Measuring Livability and its Influence on Health

Major: Community Health & Prevention
Chair: Ana Martinez-Donate
Committee Members: Irene Headen, Amy Carroll-Scott, Usama Bilal, Harrison Quick, Rodrigo Reis
Date and Time: May 18, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 719

Bolortsetseg Erdenee
Aquatic Insect response to flow regimes and climate change in terminal basins: The Great Basin, USA, and Central Asian Internal Drainage, Mongolia.

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Marina Potapova
Committee Members: Jon Gelhaus, Alain Maasri, Barbara Hayford, Bayartogtokh Badamdorj, Susan Kilham, Stefanie Kroll
Date and Time: May 11, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact be83@drexel.edu for link.

Anita Forrester
Exploring the Nature of the Field: A Transdivisionary Approach to Global Studies Programs at Community Colleges in the United States

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Joy Phillips, Hara Bastas
Date and Time: May 10, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact akf48@drexel.edu for link.

Alaina Walton
Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to the Experience of Self-Study for Institutional Accreditation: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jose Chavez
Committee Members: Joy Phillips, Mary Kirk
Date and Time: May 09, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact avw33@drexel.edu for link.

Elizabeth Campbell
A framework for measuring and mitigating bias in electronic health record data: A case study in childhood obesity incidence prediction

Major: Information Science
Chair: Jake Williams, Aaron Masino
Committee Members: Felice Le-Scherban, Christopher Yang, Xiaohua Hu
Date and Time: May 09, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: CCI Seminar Room 3675MK – 0928 (30)

Reza Pejman
Multi-physic Design Optimization of Multifunctional Composites: A Case Study on Structural Battery and Microvascular Composites

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Ahmad Najafi
Committee Members: Alan Lau, Antonios Kontsos, Giuseppe Palmese, Emin Kumbur
Date and Time: May 06, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 255B

Rebecca Crochiere
The Intraday Relation Between Physical Activity and Dietary Intake Among Behavioral Weight Loss Participants

Major: Psychology
Chair: Evan Forman
Committee Members: Jaclyn Maher, Kristine Beaulieu, Meghan Butryn, Fengqing Zhang
Date and Time: May 05, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact rjc356@drexel.edu for link.

Aleksandra Kirilakha
Three Essays on Sanctions

Major: Economics
Chair: Yoto Yotov
Committee Members: Mian Dai, Constantinos Syropoulos, Ohyun Kwon, Erdal Yalcin
Date and Time: May 05, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ak3494@drexel.edu for link.

LeeAnn Haaf
Effects of climate and coastal flooding on tree growth in low-lying Mid-Atlantic forests

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: David Velinsky
Committee Members: Danielle Kreeger, Elizabeth Watson, Susan Kilham, Salli Dymond
Date and Time: May 04, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room 103

Emily Weida
Impact of trauma-informed programming on financial well-being and multidimensional resilience

Major: Health Management & Policy
Chair: Mariana Chilton
Committee Members: Felice Le-Scherban, Amy Caroll-Scott, John Rich, Sandra Bloom
Date and Time: May 04, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact eab364@drexel.edu for link.

Daniel Ripperger-Suhler
Essays on Two-Sided Matching

Major:
Chair: Konstantinos Serfes
Committee Members: Roger McCain, Mian Dai, Ricardo Serrano-Padial, Kaniska Dam
Date and Time: May 04, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dr636@drexel.edu for link.

Daniel Flack
The Relationship Between Psychopathy, Antisocial Personality Traits, and Violence Among U.S. Veterans: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Major: Psychology
Chair: David DeMatteo
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun, Fengqing Zhang, Eric Elbogen, Christine Nezu
Date and Time: May 03, 2022 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact df456@drexel.edu for link.

Camacho Ruelas
Essays on International Trade and Conflict

Major: Economics
Chair: Constantinos Syropoulos
Committee Members: Yoto Yotov, Ohyun Kwon, Richard Barnett, Michelle Garfinkel
Date and Time: May 03, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact oac28@drexel.edu for link.

Allison Schaffer
The Impact of Family Stress on Mobile Military-Connected Children: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Committee Members: Fredericka Reisman, Kendra White
Date and Time: April 28, 2022 6:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Jeanne McPhee
Impact of Juvenile Risk Assessment Information on Judges¿ Decisions about Residential Placement and Restrictive Sanctions

Major: Psychology
Chair: Naomi Goldstein
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun, Denise Cubbon, Mark Soler, Fengqing Zhang
Date and Time: April 28, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jpm426@drexel.edu for link.

Ming Huang
Using Molecular Simulation to study amorphous crosslinked polymers properties

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams
Committee Members: Nicolas Alvarez, Christopher Li, Giuseppe Palmese, John LaScala
Date and Time: April 27, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Chris Connolly
Student and Faculty Perceptions of a Comprehensive Exam

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Sheila Vaidya
Committee Members: Joyce Pittman, Jon Scott Logel
Date and Time: April 25, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact clc432@drexel.edu for link.

Adam Jones
Navigating the Changing Terrain of US-China Educational Programs: A Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Rebecca Clothey
Committee Members: Peggy Kong, David Moser
Date and Time: April 25, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact amj389@drexel.edu for link.

Chelsea Smith
Phylogenetics of Apocynaceae and the evolution of angiosperm alkaloids

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Marina Potapova
Committee Members: Tatyana Livshultz, Suzanne Koptur, Shannon Straub, Jacob Russell
Date and Time: April 19, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact crs344@drexel.edu for link.

Adarsha Balaji
Hardware-Software Co-Design for Neuromorphic Computing

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Nagarajan Kandasamy
Committee Members: Spiros Mancoridis, Baris Taskin, Anup Kumar Das, Francky Catthoor
Date and Time: April 15, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Adarsha Balaji
Hardware-Software Co-Design for Neuromorphic Computing

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Nagarajan Kandasamy
Committee Members: Spiros Mancoridis, Baris Taskin, Anup Kumar Das, Francky Catthoor
Date and Time: April 14, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ab3586@drexel.edu for link.

Simar Singh
The relation of traditional and developmental measures of weight suppression to brain reward responsivity in bulimia nervosa

Major: Psychology
Chair: Michael Lowe
Committee Members: Adrienne Juarascio, Paakhi Srivastava, Anna Rose Childress, C. Alix Timko
Date and Time: April 07, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ss4776@drexel.edu for link.

Mengwen Yu
Bio-based Polybenzoxazine Thermosets with Superior Performance

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Giuseppe Palmese, Nicolas Alvarez, John LaScala, Christopher Li
Date and Time: April 01, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: CAT Hill Conference Room

Mengwen Yu
Structure-Processing-Property Relationships of Furanyl Benzoxazine Polymers Derived from Bio-based Feedstocks

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Lau
Committee Members: Giuseppe Palmese, Nicolas Alvarez, Christopher Li, John LaScala
Date and Time: April 01, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: CAT Hill Conference Room

Tiffany Mason
A Phenomenological Study to Examine the Lived Experiences of Successful Young Adults with Disabilities and their Perceptions on the Impact of Self-determination

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Janet Sloand
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Johnnie Jackson
Date and Time: March 31, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact tsm82@drexel.edu for link.

Anh Fridman
In-situ Sequential Interpenetrating Polymer Network of High-performance Materials for Vat-photopolymerization

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Giuseppe Palmese
Committee Members: Nicolas Alvarez, Christopher Li, Cameron Abrams, John LaScala
Date and Time: March 30, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Center for Automation Technology, Hill Conference Room

Yue Zhang
Studies on Visual Emotion Understanding

Major: Information Science
Chair: Xiaohua Hu
Committee Members: Weimao Ke, Yuan An, Li Sheng, Erjia Yan
Date and Time: March 25, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact yz559@drexel.edu for link.

Aginah Chambers
Emotional Intelligence as a Leadership Strategy Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Cameron Kiosoglous, Cavil Anderson
Date and Time: March 24, 2022 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact alc96@drexel.edu for link.

Jennifer McDaniel
An Instrumental Case Study Exploring the Accessibility of Synchronous, Virtual Instruction for Adult Learners with Disabilities within a Federal Government Agency

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristine Lewis-Grant
Committee Members: Liza Herzog, Stephanie Smith Budhai, Judy Giering
Date and Time: March 22, 2022 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jnm85@drexel.edu for link.

Dawn Dickey
Exploring Students with Disabilities’ Experiences and Perceptions of Assistive Technology Use in a Postsecondary Education Environment: A Sequential Transformative Mixed Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Janet Sloand
Committee Members: Toni May, Jennifer McLean
Date and Time: March 22, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dd3226@drexel.edu for link.

Munif Mujib
Modeling Emerging News Stories Across Digital Publications and Social Media

Major: Information Science
Chair: Jake Williams
Committee Members: Christopher Yang, Andrea Forte, Asta Zelenkauskaite, James Bagrow
Date and Time: March 18, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mim52@drexel.edu for link.

Mary Carlisle
Defining the Impact of the Fine Arts on Higher Education and Workforce Preparedness: An Alumni Perspective

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Larry Keiser
Committee Members: Craig Bach, Ned Laff
Date and Time: March 18, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Stacy Flowers
How Student Affairs and Higher Education Graduate Students Who Served in Residence Life Assistantships Experienced Supervision

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Lori Severino
Committee Members: James Connell, Ashley Tull
Date and Time: March 17, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact smf373@drexel.edu for link.

Justin Smith
Investigating Student Authenticity and its Relationship to Well-Being and Flourishing.

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Salvatore Falletta
Committee Members: Toni May, Gigi Secuban
Date and Time: March 17, 2022 11:00 AM
Location:

Bronwen Landless
Therapeutic Songwriting with People Experiencing Homelessness: Exploring the Impact on Participants and Their Surrounding Communities

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Natalie Carlton, Jessica Chou, Abbey Dvorak, Susan Hadley
Date and Time: March 17, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact bml69@drexel.edu for link.

Shaun Cruz
Holomorphic Embedded State Estimation for AC-DC Power Systems

Major:
Chair: Jaudelice de Oliveira
Committee Members: Dagmar Niebur, Thomas Halpin, Karen Miu Miller, Fei Lu, Harry Kwatny
Date and Time: March 17, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Microsoft Teams

Shontia Lowe
Bilingual Youth: Exploring Recently Arrived Immigrants' U.S. High School-Experiences Phenomenologically

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Jennifer Adams, Hannah Sung
Date and Time: March 17, 2022 8:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact sll87@drexel.edu for link.

Robert Carmona
A Psychosocial Analysis of the Creative Potential of Teachers Considering Personal and Administrative Impediments

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Fredricka Reisman
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Patricia Brumley
Date and Time: March 15, 2022 12:15 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact rc638@drexel.edu for link.

Luis Rebollar Tercero
Understanding the pH Dependence of the Electrocatalytic Reversible Hydrogen Reaction

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams
Committee Members: Aaron Fafarman, Katherine Willets, Joshua Snyder, Maureen Tang
Date and Time: March 14, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Hill Conference Room

Ariela Braverman Bronstein
An urban approach to adolescent birth rates in Latin America

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Ana Diez Roux
Committee Members: Brisa Sanchez Loya, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Usama Bilal, Ana Martinez-Donate
Date and Time: March 14, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Conference Room 719

Zenobia Garrison
Greetings, the title is: Role of Career Learning Experiences in Career Decision Making Self Efficacy (CDMSE) Development and Goal Setting Among Underprepared Community College Students: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jose Luis Chavez
Committee Members: Liza Herzog, Debra Bright
Date and Time: March 11, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact zmg35@drexel.edu for link.

Jessica Schafer
Early vs. Late Diagnosis: A Secondary Data Set Analysis of Language-Based Learning Disorders and Importance of Diagnosis Timing

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: James Connell
Committee Members: Lori Severino, Angelo Rizz
Date and Time: March 01, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jms3237@drexel.edu for link.

Sarah Fishel
How Solid is the Foundation? Assessing Jurors' Pre-Trial Application of the Presumption of Innocence

Major: Psychology
Chair: David DeMatteo
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun, Naomi Goldstein, Jennifer Schwartz, Adam Benforado
Date and Time: February 28, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Meghan Barrett
Alternative Reproductive Tactics Associated with Variable Sensory Biology and Thermal Physiology in Male Centris pallida (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Bees

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Jacob Russell
Committee Members: Michael O'Connor, Stephen Buchmann, Sean O'Donnell, Jennifer Stanford
Date and Time: February 14, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building Room 103 (Contact mrb397@drexel.edu for zoom link.)

Andrew McDonald
Exploiting Graphical Structures of Data and Neural Network Architectures

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Ali Shokoufandeh
Committee Members: Dario Salvucci, David Breen, Jeremy Johnson, Scott Haag
Date and Time: February 11, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Savita Lachman
A Model for Assessing Institutional Dynamics, Effectiveness, and Change: A Community College Qualitative Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Salvatore Falletta
Committee Members: Eric Brewe, Wendy Combs
Date and Time: February 10, 2022 4:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Gabriel Carryon
Biologically-inspired Neural-based Control of Compliant Foils Using Sensory-mediated Nonlinear Oscillators

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: James Tangorra
Committee Members: Simon Giszter, Harry Kwatny, Thomas Chmielewski, Youngmoo Kim
Date and Time: February 08, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Marcus Mason
I Show Up In The Gym, So I Can Show Up In The Class: A Narrative Study of Urban High School Teachers Who Use Physical Activity to Mitigate Stress and Burnout

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristine Grant
Committee Members: Bernard Hall, Rufus Spann
Date and Time: February 04, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mm4985@drexel.edu for link.

Adam Craig
Understanding How Time and Memory Interact with Network Topology in Real-World Systems with Selected Applications

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Andres Kriete
Committee Members: Uri Hershberg, Banu Onaral, Michael Glaser, Lev Muchnik, Carl Taswell, Ahmet Sacan
Date and Time: January 28, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact agc57@drexel.edu for link.

Adam Craig
Understanding How Time and Memory Interact with Network Topology in Real-World Systems with Selected Applications

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Andres Kriete
Committee Members: Uri Hershberg, Banu Onaral, Michael Glaser, Lev Muchnik, Carl Taswell, Ahmet Sacan
Date and Time: January 28, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Christopher Harden
Exploring School Lived Experience of Secondary Students with the Chronic Illness of Sickle Cell through Their Parents' Lens

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Janet Sloand
Committee Members: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Alcuin Johnson
Date and Time: January 28, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ch3258@drexel.edu for link.

Claudette Spencer
Persistence Factors Described by Nursing Students of African Descent: A Narrative Inquiry

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristine Lewis Grant
Committee Members: Liza Herzog, Rita Adeniran
Date and Time: January 05, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact crs392@drexel.edu for link.

Nicole McDaniel
Exploring Nontraditional Students’ Experiences with Federal Financial Aid Counseling and its Influence on their Attitudes toward Borrowing and Persistence: A Mixed-Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Bruce Levine
Committee Members: Kathleen Provinzano, Erin DiMarco
Date and Time: January 03, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact nlm92@drexel.edu for link.

Jeffrey Roman
Phenomenological Case Study: African American Millennial Entrepreneurs Creativity and Leadership Influences

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Larry Keiser
Committee Members: Paul Harrington, Derick Brennan
Date and Time: January 03, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jdr324@drexel.edu for link.

Trina Sokoloski
Wellness and Help-Seeking Among College Students: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Constance Fox Lyttle
Committee Members: Dominic Gullo, Joshua Holmes
Date and Time: December 20, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact tns52@drexel.edu for link.

Anita Forrester
Exploring the Nature of the Field: A Transdivisionary Approach to Global Studies Programs at Community Colleges

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Joy Phillips, Hara Bastas
Date and Time: December 17, 2021 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact akf48@drexel.edu for link.

Alexandra Walz
A Phenomenological Study of Successful Female Entrepreneurs’ Leadership Mindset

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, George Manning
Date and Time: December 17, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Denisa McDonald
On the Real-World Interactivity Potential of Minimalistic Knitted Sensors at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and User Experience

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Ali Shokoufandeh
Committee Members: Jeremy Johnson, Dario Salvucci, Genevieve Dion, Erin Solovey
Date and Time: December 16, 2021 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dq38@drexel.edu for link.

Brooke Mailhiot
Entertainment Technology Internships in Community Colleges: A Behind the Scenes Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Bill Lynch
Committee Members: Jose Luis Chavez, Robert Carpenter
Date and Time: December 15, 2021 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bms25@drexel.edu for link.

Mingjie Ying
C. elegans exploit UPR regulating growth factors biosynthesis in response to environmental stress

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Nianli Sang
Committee Members: Jerome Ricard, Tali Gidalevitz, Yair Argon, Michael Akins
Date and Time: December 15, 2021 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact my376@drexel.edu for link.

Bryan Boppert
Late-Admits, a Retention Black Hole: A Cross-Sectional Survey Design

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jose Luis Chavez
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Laura DiChiara
Date and Time: December 13, 2021 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Shihao Song
Design methodologies for reliable and high-performance NVM systems

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Kapil Dandekar
Committee Members: Francky Catthoor, James Shackleford, Anup Kumar Das, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Spiros Mancoridis
Date and Time: December 13, 2021 12:00 PM
Location: Microsoft Teams - Contact ss3695@drexel.edu for link.

Sara Schlenker
Data-Driven Computational Modeling of Plasticity-Induced Damage Effects

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Matthew McCarthy
Committee Members: Alan Lau, Ivan Bartoli, Ahmad Najafi, Antonios Kontsos
Date and Time: December 13, 2021 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Sara Schlenker
Data-Driven Computational Modeling of Plasticity-Induced Damage Effects

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Antonis Kontsos
Committee Members: Alan Lau, Ivan Bartoli, Ahmad Najafi, Matthew McCarthy,
Date and Time: December 13, 2021 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Mohammadreza Bahadori
Progressive failure modeling of composite materials leveraging multiscale non-destructive evaluation data

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Antonios Kontsos
Committee Members: Tein-Min Tan, Sorin Siegler, Ahmad Najafi, Nicolas Alvarez
Date and Time: December 10, 2021 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Thomas Fewer
An Identity-Based View of Political Ideology in Modern Organizations

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Dali Ma
Committee Members: Vadake Narayanan, Daniel Van Knippenberg, Murat Tarakci, Forrest Briscoe
Date and Time: December 10, 2021 9:30 AM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall (GHall) Room 409

Jeremy Leipzig
Tests of Robustness in Peer Review

Major: Information Science
Chair: Jane Greenberg
Committee Members: Gail Rosen, Xiaohua Hu, Karthik Ram, Erjia Yan
Date and Time: December 09, 2021 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Dustin Hill
Numerical Models of Ice Giant Interiors

Major: Physics
Chair: Stephen McMillan
Committee Members: Brigita Urbanc, David Goldberg, J. Douglas Wright, Russell Neilson, Krista Soderlund
Date and Time: December 09, 2021 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact djh349@drexel.edu for link.

Katherine Fiocca
Pre- and post-emergent effects on caste: a test of caste determination and flexibility in an independent-founding paper wasp (Mischocyttarus pallidipectus)

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Mary Gonder
Committee Members: Jacob Russell, David Velinsky, Sean O'Donnell, Helen White
Date and Time: December 09, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kaf363@drexel.edu for link.

Marko Jacovic
Securing Wireless Communication Systems at the Physical Layer

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Baris Taskin
Committee Members: Kapil Dandekar, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Ioannis Savidis, Geoffrey Mainland
Date and Time: December 08, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mj355@drexel.edu for link.

MD Shazzad Hossain
Power Management Techniques for Ultra-Low Voltage Integrated Circuits

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Baris Taskin
Committee Members: Ioannis Savidis, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Bahram Nabet, Geoffrey Mainland
Date and Time: December 06, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact msh89@drexel.edu for link.

Ellen Jenkins
Exploring Teacher Experiences and Perceptions of Mindfulness Practice with ELL and Refugee Student Populations: A Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jennifer Adams
Committee Members: Christina Vorndran, Frank Grossman
Date and Time: December 03, 2021 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ejj45@drexel.edu for link.

Yun Zhang
Spatiotemporal analysis of surface pressure and wind characteristics for cross-ventilation airflow rate assessment

Major: Architectural Engineering
Chair: Liang Chung Lo
Committee Members: Elliott Gall, Michael Waring, Patrick Gurian, Jin Wen
Date and Time: November 30, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact yz599@drexel.edu for link.

David Colucci
The Role of Chief Information Officer in Higher Education: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: William Lynch
Committee Members: Bruce Levine, Wayne Brown
Date and Time: November 23, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dfc24@drexel.edu for link.

Ragh Kuttappa
Scalable and Shareable Resonant Rotary Clocks

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Baris Taskin
Committee Members: Nagarajan Kandasamy, Fei Lu, Ioannis Savidis, Vinayak Honkote
Date and Time: November 19, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact fr67@drexel.edu for link.

Vincent Baker
Traveling waves in low-dimensional neuronal systems

Major: Physics
Chair: Luis Cruz Cruz
Committee Members: Hualou Liang, Brigita Urbanc, Gordon Richards, Alan Rosenwinkel
Date and Time: November 16, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact vjb42@drexel.edu for link.

Deborah Garwood
To our health: A case study on archivists¿ information work at medical history collections in Philadelphia, PA

Major: Information Science
Chair: Alexander Poole
Committee Members: Denise Agosto, Robert Riter, Kaitlin Costello, Jane Greenberg
Date and Time: November 16, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Etta Tsosie
Adhesion of Pharmaceutical Powders on Tools During Compaction

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Andrew Magenau
Committee Members: Antonios Zavaliangos, Alan Lau, Chris Weyant, John Strong
Date and Time: November 16, 2021 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact hrt32@drexel.edu for link.

Dana Mitchell
Using science to inform conservation practices for a diverse group of mammals in Central Africa

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Michael O'Connor
Committee Members: Jon Gelhaus, Jacob Russell, Kevin Smith, Mary Gonder, Kevin, Smith
Date and Time: November 03, 2021 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dmv52@drexel.edu for link.

Louis Devlin
Proteomic profiling of oncogenic SEPT9 reveals isoform-specific interactions in breast cancer cells

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Michael Akins
Committee Members: Elias Spiliotis, Shae Padrick, Ryan Petrie, Kevin Owens
Date and Time: October 27, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room 103

Yirui Liu
Network coding rate regions and entropy cone decomposition

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: David Han
Committee Members: Steven Weber, John Walsh, Raymond Yeung, Matthew Stamm
Date and Time: October 25, 2021 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact yl926@drexel.edu for link.

Jonathon Lundy
Adult Toy Collectors, Material Fandom, and Generational Media Audiences

Major: Communication, Culture & Media
Chair: Wesley Shumar
Committee Members: Ernest Hakanen, Hilde Van den Bulck, Jonathan Gray, Katriina Heljakka
Date and Time: October 14, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jnl48@drexel.edu for link.

Ali Jazayeri
Mining Frequent Patterns and Their Evolution in Continuous-time Temporal Networks

Major: Information Science
Chair: Christopher Yang
Committee Members: Aaron Masino, Hiroki Sayama, Erjia Yan, Jake Williams
Date and Time: October 08, 2021 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact aj629@drexel.edu for link.

Hannah Spece
Development and Characterization of 3D Printed Porous Polyetheretherketone for Orthopaedic Applications

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair:
Committee Members: Kenneth Barbee, Michele Marcolongo, Sriram Balasubramanian, Joseph Sarver, Steven Kurtz
Date and Time: September 30, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact hgs29@drexel.edu for link.

Varun Natu
Influence of surface terminations on intercalation, colloidal, and swelling properties of Ti3C2Tz MXene

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Andrew Magenau
Committee Members: Caroline Schauer, Michel Barsoum, Vibha Kalra, Joshua Snyder
Date and Time: September 29, 2021 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact vrn27@drexel.edu for link.

Cynthia Klobodu
Exploring the feasibility of incorporating nutrition-related lifestyle guidance into fertility counseling and treatment for female cancer survivors.

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Brandy-Joe Milliron
Committee Members: Jonathan Deutsch, Jennifer Nasser, Kathleen Fisher, Vicki Schwartz, Mara Vitolins
Date and Time: September 17, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom