Qian Qian
The Formation of One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Poly(L-Lactic Acid) Crystals via Evaporative Crystallization on Water Surface

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Andrew Magenau
Committee Members: Lin Han, Hao Cheng, Christopher Li, Caroline Schauer
Date and Time: September 22, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 709

Grace Adams-Square
Federal Guidance and State Response to Cyberbullying Policy: A Document Analysis

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Bridget Blakely
Committee Members: Janet Sloand, Natasha Altema McNeely
Date and Time: September 22, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Microsoft Teams - Contact ga423@drexel.edu for link.

Saundra King-Lee
The Transition of Women Warriors From the Military to Civilian Life: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: James Connell, Robert Manning
Date and Time: September 19, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact slk336@drexel.edu for link.

David Mattson
A Positionality of Wonder: Connecting Teachers' Creativity Inside and Outside the Classroom

Major: Education
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Wesley Shumar, Craig Bach, Larry Keiser, Ross Anderson
Date and Time: September 19, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Science Center, Classroom 3025

Jesse Mark
Neuroadaptive Training Approaches to Enhance Skill Acquisition in Flight Simulators

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Hasan Ayaz
Committee Members: Banu Onaral, Kurtulus Izzetoglu, John Kounios, Daniel Callan
Date and Time: September 19, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Pearlstein Business Center, Room 203

Susan Budde
Meaningful Mathematics: Action Research to (Re)Design Mathematics and Learn Language

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Jason Silverman, Val Karanxha
Date and Time: September 18, 2023 6:30 AM
Location: Zoom

Murrell Green
The Exploration of Black Male Alumni's Perspectives on the Experience and Impact of Attending an HBCU in the Atlanta Area: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, David Booze
Date and Time: September 15, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Kareem Brown
A Phenomenological Study of Exploring Lived Experiences of African American Male Students with a Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Component in a High Poverty Urban High School

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Amanda Lannie
Committee Members: H. Bernard Hall, Basiyr Rodney
Date and Time: September 15, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kb3647@drexel.edu for link.

Katie Benjamin
Early Career Teacher’s Perceptions of Instructional Coaching on Self-Efficacy: A Narrative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: John Gould, Daman Harris
Date and Time: September 14, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kb3672@drexel.edu for link.

Lara Taylor
Teacher Burnout and Resilience: A Narrative Inquiry Study about Teacher Experiences in the Wake of COVID-19

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, Robert Maninger
Date and Time: September 13, 2023 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lt549@drexel.edu for link.

Maisha Richardson
Experiences of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Working in an Integrated Community Setting: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Amanda Lannie
Committee Members: Janet Sloand, Marnisha Henry
Date and Time: September 12, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mne25@drexel.edu for link.

Traci Childress
Early Childhood Education Leader Stories as Social Justice Praxis: A Narrative Exploration of Directors' Leadership

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Michael Haslip
Committee Members: Bonnie Botel-Sheppard, Vera Lee
Date and Time: September 12, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 3015

Dimen Isikwe
An Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Case Study: Exploring K-3 Teachers¿ Educational Technology Use to Improve the Technology Integration Process for Literacy Instruction

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Janet Sloand
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Keila Foster
Date and Time: September 11, 2023 6:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dc3352@drexel.edu for link.

Jasiel Ayala
A Heideggerian Phenomenological Qualitative Study: Teachers' Perceptions of the Preparation Programs and Their Ability to Integrate Culturally Sustaining Practices in Instruction

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Stephanie Budhai
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Yamil Sanchez Rivera
Date and Time: September 08, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ja3288@drexel.edu for link.

Belinda Banks
Special Educators' Lived Experiences Supporting Black Middle and High School Students with Disabilities: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Bridget Blakely, Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Beverly O'Bryant
Date and Time: September 07, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact bmb373@drexel.edu for link.

Laurie Rogers
A Novel, Comprehensive Evaluation for Peripheral Nerve Dysfunction as a Consequence of Elbow and Forearm Trauma

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Glenn Williams
Committee Members: Lisa Chiarello, Susan Smith, Margaret Finley, Sarah Doerrer
Date and Time: September 06, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lcr26@drexel.edu for link.

John Kornfeind
Cyclizations with Nitriles and Isocyanides via Cascade Sequences

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Haifeng Ji
Committee Members: Anthony Addison, Bruce Beaver, Ezra Wood, Fraser Fleming, Joe Foley
Date and Time: September 06, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jmk478@drexel.edu for link.

Robert Daugherty
Exploring Students' Perceptions of Learning and Satisfaction with On-line Learning to Understand Their Pedagogical Experiences at a Private Government University

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joyce Pittman
Committee Members: Christopher Wright, Daniel Perna
Date and Time: September 06, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact rld86@drexel.edu for link.

Ellen Armour
Elucidating the importance of Tip60 nucleocytoplasmic localization in Alzheimer's disease

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Tali Gidalevitz
Committee Members: Felice Elefant, Ryan Petrie, Kari Lenhart, John Warrick
Date and Time: September 06, 2023 9:30 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 108

Bricia Trejo
Femicides in Latin American cities: Theory, trends and public health implications

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Yvonne Michael
Committee Members: Usama Bilal, Brisa Sanchez Loya, Nina Sun, Heidi Stoeckl
Date and Time: September 06, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact bgt26@drexel.edu for link.

Dion Patterson
AP Courses and Black Male Students: Perceptions of Educators

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Craig Bach, Devonii Reid
Date and Time: September 05, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dlp326@drexel.edu for link.

Mohanad Idrees
Engineering tough laminated composites using novel additive manufacturing techniques and tuning resin properties

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Cameron Abrams
Committee Members: Megan Creighton, Richard Cairncross, Nicolas Alvarez, John LaScala, Giuseppe Palmese
Date and Time: September 05, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Hill Conference Room

Matthew Mieles
An Investigation of Gel and Composite Materials: Techniques to Improve Their Mechanical Properties and The Use of DBD Plasma as a Polymerization Tool

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Yinghui Zhong, Lee Hoffman, Haifeng Ji, Lynn Penn, Peter Lelkes
Date and Time: August 31, 2023 10:15 AM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 452

Yao Wang
High-Frequency and High-Power Capacitive Power Transfer Technology

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Karen Miu Miller
Committee Members: Fei Lu, Ivan Bartoli, Lifeng Zhou, Xiaonan Lu
Date and Time: August 31, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room B302

Christine Sealing
Insights into the magmatic system and degassing structures of volcanoes on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea) from fluid geochemistry and seismology

Major: Ecology, Evolution, and Earth Systems
Chair: Edward Daeschler
Committee Members: Loyc Vanderkluysen, Simon Cam, Patricia Nadeau, David Velinsky
Date and Time: August 30, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact crs358@drexel.edu for link.

Marlene DeMaio
A Delphi Method Study: Exploring and Identifying Foundation Skills for Surgeons to Transform Surgical Education.

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Christopher Wright, Dan Farahmand, Kaye Shelton
Date and Time: August 29, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact md3739@drexel.edu for link.

Jarrad Nardiello
Administrative Leadership and Teacher Morale During a time of Crisis: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Rodney Warfield, Jason Silverman
Date and Time: August 28, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jgn28@drexel.edu for link.

Jinjie He
Indirect Non-thermal Plasma Treatment in Public Health, Agricultural and Food Safety Applications

Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Christopher Sales
Committee Members: Alexander Fridman, Michael Ryan, Patrick Gurian, Alexander Rabinovich
Date and Time: August 24, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Lori Ferguson
School Leaders' Role in Dismantling the Digital Divide: Technology Use for Black K-8 Students attending Low-Income Schools

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Gary Knight, Aroutis Foster
Date and Time: August 23, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact lf599@drexel.edu for link.

Brittany Wilburn
An Evaluation of Biochar as an Effective Soil Amendment in Coastal Marsh Restoration Efforts

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Marina Potapova
Committee Members: Elizabeth Watson, Marie Kurz, Jocelyn Sessa, Karrah St. Laurent
Date and Time: August 23, 2023 10:30 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 103

Sean Lewis
A New Look At The Formation and Early Evolution of Stellar Clusters

Major: Physics
Chair: Stephen McMillan
Committee Members: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, David Goldberg, Brigita Urbanc, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
Date and Time: August 21, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

Shengbang Fang
Image Forensics and Anti-Forensics for Generative AI

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: John Walsh
Committee Members: Nagarajan Kandasamy, Matthew Stamm, Edward Kim, David Han
Date and Time: August 17, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Catherine Kania
An Examination of Teacher Inter-District Migration Intent: A Quantitative Survey Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Sheila Vaidya
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, Matt Alloway
Date and Time: August 16, 2023 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ck865@drexel.edu for link.

Hebah Falatah
Ultrasound Nano-Scale Phase-Change Contrast Agents for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Radiosensitization

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Amy Throckmorton, Peter Lewin
Committee Members: Hien Dang, Margaret Wheatley, Dennis Leeper, John Eisenbrey
Date and Time: August 15, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 709

Costa Huang
Reproducible and Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Santiago Ontanon
Committee Members: Edward Kim, Shahin Jabbari, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Simon Lucas
Date and Time: August 11, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: 3675 Market, Room 1056

Thomas Intoccia
The Financial Literacy of College Students: A Case Study of Financial Attitudes, Beliefs, and Confidence

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Peggy Kong
Committee Members: Bruce Levine, Bora Ozkan
Date and Time: August 08, 2023 11:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ti84@drexel.edu for link.

Kristina Thomopoulos-Titomihelakis
Application of fNIRS to Assess State Vs. Trait Eating Behavior

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Jennifer Nasser
Committee Members: Deeptha Sukumar, Allan Geliebter, Hasan Ayaz, Brandy-Joe Milliron, Trish Shewokis
Date and Time: August 07, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dnt38@drexel.edu for link.

Kyndell Pierce
Online Distance Learning: An Ethnographic Study through the Lens of Diverse Educators during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Michael Kozak
Committee Members: Johanna Barnhart, Cameron Kiosoglous
Date and Time: August 07, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kbp62@drexel.edu for link.

Hayley Klingenberg
Preclinical Assessment of the Immunogenicity, Durability, and Efficacy Induced by Pre-erythrocytic Stage Vaccines Against Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

Major: Microbiology and Immunology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: August 04, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Geary A

Meagan Tomasso
Cdc42EP3-bound septin filaments promote actin filament assembly

Major: Biochemistry
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: August 03, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101

Ebonish Lamar
New Student Affairs Professional Staff Attrition: A Narrative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: DeMethra Bradley, Harriette Rasmussen
Date and Time: August 03, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ekl39@drexel.edu for link.

Robyn Ashmen
Discovering the Availability and Need for Prenatal NICU Education Programs for High-risk Pregnancy Women

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Stephen Gambescia
Committee Members: Frances Cornelius, D.N. Lombardi
Date and Time: August 02, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 11W74

Celina Guzman
Evaluation of the Functional Performance of KLK2 Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cell Designs

Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: August 02, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312

Shabnam Pirestani
AURKA control of PD-L1 expression in head and neck cancer

Major: Cancer Biology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: August 01, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101

Jennifer Lynch
CX3CR1 Regulation and Signaling During Phenotypic Plasticity of Prostate Cancer Cells

Major: Cancer Biology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: August 01, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Geary A

Justin Do
Modifying the Epigenome to Facilitate Transdifferentiation of Adult Human Skin Fibroblasts

Major: Cancer Biology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: July 31, 2023 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jd3725@drexel.edu for link.

Md Abu Saleh Tajin
Reconfigurable Radio Frequency Transceivers for Next Generation Internet of Things

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Nagarajan Kandasamy
Committee Members: Baris Taskin, Adam Fontecchio, William Mongan, Kapil Dandekar
Date and Time: July 31, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Xiaonan Liu
Dissecting the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuronal morphogenesis in mouse cortical neurons

Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: July 28, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312

Hanieh Razzaghi
Semantic Data Quality Assessment: An Investigation of Fitness for Use in Large Clinical Datasets

Major: Information Science
Chair: Jane Greenberg
Committee Members: Mat Kelly, Jung-Ran Park, Charles Bailey, Christopher Yang, Shadi Rezapour
Date and Time: July 28, 2023 8:30 AM
Location: Zoom

Taylor McCorkle
Sex-dependent mechanisms underlying cognitive deficits following repeated mild TBI in adolescent rats

Major: Neuroscience
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: July 27, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Queen Lane Campus, Auditorium B

Jonathan Snyder
Pancreatic Islet GRK2 Regulates Hormone Secretion and Glycemic Control by Regulating Metabolism and GPCR Sensitivity

Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
Chair:
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Date and Time: July 26, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 8-312

Tara Fortino
Spinal Interneuron Transplantation to Repair the Injured Cervical Spinal Cord

Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: July 26, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Queen Lane Campus, Auditorium A

David Joyner
Improved HIV-Specific T Cell Immunity Following Adenosine Deaminase-1 Co-Delivery in Preclinical Models of Vaccination

Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: July 24, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Geary A

Katrina Carroll-Haskins
Art-Based Supervision for Early Professional Art Therapists: A Grounded Theory and Arts-Based Research Study

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Girija Kaimal
Committee Members: Robert Palisano, Natalie Carlton, Jordan Potash, Abbe Miller
Date and Time: July 24, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kla67@drexel.edu for link.

Ellen Garven
A Multiscale Computational Platform in the Design of a Geometrically Tunable Blood Shunt

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Margaret Wheatley
Committee Members: Amy Throckmorton, Sriram Balasubramanian, Randy Stevens, Adrien Shieh
Date and Time: July 24, 2023 8:45 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact eg533@drexel.edu for link.

Ryan Andris
Creating a Two-Dimensional Heterointerface in Layered Oxide Electrodes for Advanced Electrochemical Energy Storage

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Andrew Magenau
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Aaron Fafarman, Steven May
Date and Time: July 21, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Hill Conference Room

Ryan Andris
Creating a Two-Dimensional Heterointerface in Layered Oxide Electrodes for Advanced Electrochemical Energy Storage

Major: Materials Sciences and Engineering
Chair: Andrew Magenau
Committee Members: Yury Gogotsi, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Aaron Fafarman, Steven May
Date and Time: July 21, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Hill Conference Room

Brian Andrews
Assessment of Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Respect to Capturing Intrinsic Conformational Preferences of Amino Acid Residues in the Unfolded State and Application to Simulating a Disease-Related, Disordered Protein

Major: Physics
Chair: Brigita Urbanc
Committee Members: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Eric Brewe, Luis Cruz Cruz, Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
Date and Time: July 20, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Kelvin Koser
Using Accessory Gene Content to Predict the Clinical Isolation Source of Haemophilus influenza Genomes

Major: Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics
Chair:
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Date and Time: July 18, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Geary A

Kathryn Snyder
Therapy-Based Art Intervention in a High Needs Preschool: A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Possibilities for Supporting Emergent Literacy, Expression, and Learning

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Girija Kaimal
Committee Members: Jessica Chou, Robert Palisano, Lisa Kay, Teresa Van Lith
Date and Time: July 17, 2023 7:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ks546@drexel.edu for link.

Dayna Robinson
Defining the signaling mechanisms by which dopamine stimulates Akt activation in primary human macrophages

Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
Chair:
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Date and Time: July 12, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312

Natalie Stuart
Development of Novel Method to Investigate Unique Facets of Gamma-Al2O3 and Uncover the Connection between Surface Area and Particle Size

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
Committee Members: Kenneth Lau, Haifeng Ji, Ezra Wood, Steven May, Alexander Sidorenko
Date and Time: June 30, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 106

Micaela O'Reilly
Role of NF-kB in sympathetic hyperreflexia after spinal cord injury

Major: Neuroscience
Chair:
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Date and Time: June 29, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Queen Lane Student Activities Center B

Valdijah Ambrose-Brown
Called to Teach: An Explanatory Sequential Study of Racism-Related Stress and Black Women's Well-Being in Higher Education Ecologies

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Larry Keiser
Committee Members: Kristen Betts, Ross Anderson
Date and Time: June 27, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact vqa23@drexel.edu for link.

Leyla Lindsay
School Leadership and School-Family-Community Partnerships in an Urban School District

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: James Connell
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie
Date and Time: June 27, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ll848@drexel.edu for link.

Tanya Pauline McCreary Ardoin
An Investigation into the Awareness of the Biology and Epistemological Beliefs about Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Among Medical Professionals and PK-12 Educators: A Correlational Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Cameron Kiosoglous
Committee Members: Kristine Grant, Duane Jackson
Date and Time: June 26, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact tma44@drexel.edu for link.

Cynthia Edlow
Exploring Career Agility through the Lived Experiences of Oncology Nurse Employees in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Michael Kozak, Ashley Bryant
Date and Time: June 23, 2023 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ce466@drexel.edu for link.

Yaser Kashcooli
Printing Materials With Spatially Resolved Properties Using A Single Resin Vat And Modified Digital Light Processing (DLP) Technique

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Richard Cairncross
Committee Members: Nicolas Alvarez, Antonios Kontsos, Giuseppe Palmese, Masoud Soroush
Date and Time: June 23, 2023 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact yk442@drexel.edu for link.

Anthony Ginexi
A Case Study of Managers Drawing on Intercultural Competence to Influence Employee Engagement: Implications for Cultural Development Strategies

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Kate Piselli, Gary Fraser
Date and Time: June 23, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact acg84@drexel.edu for link.

Jennifer Villareale
Designing Player-AI Interaction: Engaging Players to Understand AI Through Play

Major: Digital Media
Chair: Jichen Zhu
Committee Members: Frank Lee, Glen Muschio, Casper Harteveld, Dario Salvucci
Date and Time: June 23, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jmv85@drexel.edu for link.

Maryann McEvoy
Understanding Pennsylvania's Alternate Education Referral Process: The Role of Trauma Informed Education and Educator

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Peggy Kong
Committee Members: Chris Vorndran
Date and Time: June 22, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Christina Chwyl
Beyond Calorie Tracking: Evaluating a Remotely Delivered Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Using an Ad Libitum Plant-Based Diet versus a Balanced Calorie Deficit Diet

Major: Psychology
Chair: Evan Forman
Committee Members: Meghan Butryn, Erica LaFata, Nicholas Wright, Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy
Date and Time: June 21, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact cmc646@drexel.edu for link.

Brian Keech
Decision Making Processes of Higher Education Governing Boards: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Ken Blank
Date and Time: June 20, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Stacy Iannone
Oncology Healthcare Professionals’ Experiences with Individuals on the Autism Spectrum who are also Diagnosed with Cancer

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Kathleen Fisher
Committee Members: Kristen Betts, Jacqui Rick
Date and Time: June 20, 2023 8:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact sli35@drexel.edu for link.

Jamie Ahrens
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Young Adults with Down Syndrome as Emerging Societal Members ¿ A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Janet Sloand, Craig Bach
Committee Members: Jordan McCaw
Date and Time: June 19, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ja3283@drexel.edu for link.

Leigh Husted
Special Educator Perceptions of the Ohio Alternate Assessment: A Qualitative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kate Piselli
Committee Members: Jennifer Hinkle, Jen Katz-Buonincontro
Date and Time: June 16, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lh892@drexel.edu for link.

Ryan Higgins
Restoring Effectively: A Phenomenological Examination of the Relationship Between Restorative Discipline and Teacher Retention

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Stephanie Budhai
Committee Members: Constance Lyttle, Ashley Anne Grant
Date and Time: June 16, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Claire Lankford
Compensation and Wrongful Conviction: An Examination of Public Perceptions on Reentry Needs for Wrongful Conviction

Major: Psychology
Chair: David DeMatteo
Committee Members: Kirk Heilbrun, Naomi Goldstein, Jennifer Schwartz, Jennifer Cox
Date and Time: June 16, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cm3444@drexel.edu for link.

Moe Woodard
Supporting Creativity in Black Girls as They Learn to Code Virtual Environments in an Afterschool Program

Major: Education
Chair: Aroutis Foster
Committee Members: Christopher Wright, Ayana Allen Handy, Michelle Rogers, Danah Henriksen
Date and Time: June 15, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mw896@drexel.edu for link.

Anthony Ruffino
Probing Polar Fluctuations in Epitaxial Ferroelectrics Using Inelastic Light Scattering

Major: Physics
Chair: Jonathan Spanier
Committee Members: Aaron Fafarman, Steven May, Som Tyagi, Jorn Venderbos
Date and Time: June 14, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Michael Berry
A Randomized Pilot Trial of a Tailored, Reduced-Frequency Approach to Dietary Self-Monitoring for Weight Loss

Major: Psychology
Chair: Evan Forman
Committee Members: Meghan Butryn, Adrienne Juarascio, Nancy Sherwood, Deborah Tate
Date and Time: June 13, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mpb334@drexel.edu for link.

Hyeju Kim
Analysis of Models of Pulsatile Flow in Viscoelastic Vessels

Major: Mathematics
Chair: David Ambrose
Committee Members: Jeremy Marzuola, Shari Moskow, J. Douglas Wright, Gideon Simpson
Date and Time: June 13, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Korman Center, Room 245

Tykesha Reed
A Phenomenological Study of Community College Leaders Navigating Change in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Peggy Kong, Kathleen Provinzano
Committee Members: Dionne Curbeam
Date and Time: June 13, 2023 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact tr562@drexel.edu for link.

Veronica Black
Exploring the Experiences of Foreign-Born Black Teachers to Ascertain Perceived Factors and Barriers to Passing the Teacher Licensure Exam: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristine Grant
Committee Members: Joyce Pittman, Butsie Weinstein
Date and Time: June 12, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Zhiyang Liu
The Advantages and Applications of Tandem-Column Liquid Chromatography in Pharmaceutical Compound Separations

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Kevin Owens
Committee Members: Ezra Wood, Mark Schure, Haifeng Ji, Karl Sohlberg
Date and Time: June 12, 2023 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact zl358@drexel.edu for link.

Warin Tepayayone
Cultural Relevance in Dance/Movement Therapy Models: Exploring Teaching and Practicing Implementations of Dance/Movement Therapy in Thailand

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Sherry Goodill
Committee Members: Fran Cornelius, Sukhontha Kongsin
Date and Time: June 12, 2023 8:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact wt28@drexel.edu for link.

Arkita Chakrabarti
Nanosize and Strain Induced Crystal Phase Selectivity in Cesium Lead Iodide

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Aaron Fafarman
Committee Members: Maureen Tang, Jason Baxter, Thomas Mallouk Mallouk, Steven May
Date and Time: June 09, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Lebow Engineering Center, Room 241

Kelsey Clark
Clinician education in exposure interventions for eating disorders: An experimental investigation of training approaches

Major: Psychology
Chair: Adrienne Juarascio
Committee Members: Stephanie Manasse, Jennifer Schwartz, Nicholas Farrell, Cheri Levinson, Glenn Walker
Date and Time: June 09, 2023 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kec88@drexel.edu for link.

Robin Fernandez
Virtual Learning and Special Education: A Narrative Inquiry

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Constance Lyttle, Breanna Fulton
Date and Time: June 09, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact rf444@drexel.edu for link.

Lorena Laverde
Exploring the Lived Experiences of DACA Students with Intrusive Advising at a Hispanic Serving Institution in the Mid-Atlantic Region: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Jose Chavez, Sarah Vandermark
Date and Time: June 09, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Vignesh Perumal
Data-driven design optimization for metal additive manufacturing

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Antonios Kontsos
Committee Members: Alan Lau, Nicolas Alvarez, Ahmad Najafi, Matthew McCarthy
Date and Time: June 09, 2023 12:30 PM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 162

Lincoln Rehm
Demographics, Conservation, and Optical Properties of Giant Clams (Sub-family: Tridacninae) in Palau

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: David Velinsky
Committee Members: Gary Rosenberg, Richard McCourt, Jacob Russell, Alison Sweeney
Date and Time: June 09, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact lfr34@drexel.edu for link.

Rebecca Williams
An updated model of perceived stress in caregivers for acquired brain injury

Major: Psychology
Chair: Maria Schultheis
Committee Members: Pamela Geller, Katie Devlin, Kelli Williams, Claire McGrath
Date and Time: June 08, 2023 5:30 PM
Location: Stratton Hall, Suite 123 Conference Room

Rebecca Epting
Building Racial Consciousness: A Phenomenological Study of How White Teachers Learn and Practice Racial Literacy

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Stephanie Budhai
Committee Members: Vera Lee, Jeffrey Lee
Date and Time: June 08, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact re364@drexel.edu for link.

Joanna Chen
The independent and interactive effects of BMI and weight suppression on symptom trajectories in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa

Major: Psychology
Chair: Michael Lowe
Committee Members: Adrienne Juarascio, Meghan Butryn, Stephanie Manasse, Laura Berner
Date and Time: June 08, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jyc52@drexel.edu for link.

Julia Wisniewski
Understanding Grit, Anxiety, and Their Influence on First-Year Undergraduate Honors College Success

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Salvatore Falletta
Committee Members: William Lynch, Paula Cohen
Date and Time: June 08, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jgw37@drexel.edu for link.

Weixiang Yu
Probing AGN Accretion Flows With Multi-Wavelength Time-Domain Observations

Major: Physics
Chair: Gordon Richards
Committee Members: Stephen McMillan, Russell Neilson, Masao Sako, Michael Vogeley
Date and Time: June 08, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109

Kejia Wu
Essays on Banking and Credit

Major: Economics
Chair: Konstantinos Serfes
Committee Members: Mian Dai, Avramidis Panagiotis, Sebastien Bradley, Mark Stehr
Date and Time: June 08, 2023 8:30 AM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 722

Lyndsey Clark
Exploration of Facilitating Health Professions Curriculum to Diverse Students

Major: Health Sciences
Chair:
Committee Members: Fran Cornelius, Stephanie Krauthamer, Abby Dougherty
Date and Time: June 07, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lc999@drexel.edu for link.

Pratusha Reddy
Investigation of cerebrovascular reactivity using hypercapnia and optical brain imaging

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Barbee
Committee Members: Sriram Balasubramanian, Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Kurtulus Izzetoglu, Wan Shih, Ahmet Sacan, Trish Shewokis
Date and Time: June 07, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 709

Josh McGinnis
Rigorous Approximation of Lattices with Random Materials by Wave Equations

Major: Mathematics
Chair: Shari Moskow
Committee Members: J. Douglas Wright, Cecilia Freire Mondaini, Pawel Hitczenko, Roy Goodman
Date and Time: June 06, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Korman Center, Room 245

London Thompson
Unmasking Barriers, Unleashing Potential: A Phenomenological Study on Academic Advisors' Implementation of Critical Support Systems for Black Male Student Athletes' Academic Success

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Stephanie Budhai
Committee Members: Cameron Kiosoglous, Chris Lucas
Date and Time: June 05, 2023 6:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lt535@drexel.edu for link.

Nerlie Clark
Parent Receptivity to Therapist Feedback: An Exploratory Change Event Study of the MacArthur Story Stem Battery Feedback Session

Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Rikki Patton, James Muruthi
Committee Members: Denise Parent, JoAnn Robinson, Christian Jordal
Date and Time: June 05, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact npc39@drexel.edu for link.

Asha Sethuraman
Factors Assessing the Efficacy of Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children via Telemedicine – A Pilot Survey of Clinicians

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Linda Wilson
Committee Members: Ellen Giarelli, Joanne Serembus, Kristen Betts
Date and Time: June 05, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact as5474@drexel.edu for link.

Ali Rivera Gonzalez
Inequities in Health Care in Puerto Rico

Major: Health Services Research and Policy
Chair: Alexander Ortega
Committee Members: Jim Stimpson, Scarlett Bellamy, Dylan Roby, Jonathan Purtle
Date and Time: June 05, 2023 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact acr324@drexel.edu for link.

Timothy Purwin
Multi-omics Characterization of the Loss of Transcriptomic Modulators BAP1 and SOX10 in Uveal and Cutaneous Melanomas

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Ming Xiao
Committee Members: Andrew Aplin, Edward Hartsough, Kara Spiller, Ahmet Sacan
Date and Time: June 04, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone Research Center, Room 709

Lien Ta
Essays on Labor market during and post COVID-19

Major: Economics
Chair: Andre Kurmann
Committee Members: Etienne Lale, Marco Airaudo, Tristan Potter, Ricardo Serrano-Padial
Date and Time: June 02, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Erik Pedersen
Perceptions of Educators of Building Leaders' Role and Effectiveness within Instructional Technology Implementation

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Michael Kozak
Committee Members: Dominic Gullo, Charles Lentz
Date and Time: June 02, 2023 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ep538@drexel.edu for link.

Mark Anayee
Mechanism and Kinetics of 2D Transition Metal Carbides (MXenes) Synthesis

Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Steven May
Committee Members: Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Yury Gogotsi, Yong-Jie Hu, Babak Anasori
Date and Time: June 01, 2023 6:00 PM
Location: Lebow Engineering Center, Room 240

Reza Kheirollahi
Investigate Advanced Approaches on Direct Current Solid-State Circuit Breakers

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Karen Miu Miller
Committee Members: Fei Lu, Jun Wang, Baris Taskin, Bahram Nabet
Date and Time: June 01, 2023 3:30 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 106

Akanksha Bhatnagar
Uncovering Tip60's neural functions for neuroepigenetic therapeutic modulation in Alzheimer's Disease

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Anna Denise Garcia
Committee Members: Felice Elefant, Tali Gidalevitz, Ryan Petrie, Sandhya Kortagere
Date and Time: June 01, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 112

Ashley Medina
Resident Physicians’ Actions Related to Psychological Safety: A Qualitative Study

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Diane DePew
Committee Members: Jane Donovan, Kathryn Farrell
Date and Time: June 01, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact arm479@drexel.edu for link.

Ojas Pradhan
A Dynamic Bayesian Network Framework for Data-Driven Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis of Smart Building Systems

Major: Architectural Engineering
Chair: Jin Wen
Committee Members: Michael Waring, James Lo, Zheng O'Neill, Teresa Wu
Date and Time: June 01, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact omp28@drexel.edu for link.

Kerry Spicer
Latinx College Student Experiences: The Value of BAIT in Persistence

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jose Chavez
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Greg Nayor
Date and Time: May 31, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kls464@drexel.edu for link.

Kaitlin Koffer
Experiences and Stories of Older Autistic Adults and Their Family Members: A Mixed Methods Approach

Major: Health Policy and Social Justice
Chair: Sandra Bloom
Committee Members: Jessie Kemmick Pintor, Lindsay Shea
Date and Time: May 31, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kk629@drexel.edu for link.

Brianna Billington
A Case Study: Exploring Pre-Service Teachers' Readiness for Teaching in K-12 Online Learning Environments while Enrolled in a University-Based Teacher Preparation Program

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Committee Members: Toni May, Michael Barbour
Date and Time: May 31, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Denisha Bolden
Investigating the Interrelationships Preventing Impoverished Students from Exiting Special Education: A Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Bridget Blakely
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Charlene Symia
Date and Time: May 30, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dys27@drexel.edu for link.

Wahib Ghazni
Essays on Corporate Investment & Managerial Attribution

Major: Business Administration
Chair: David Becher
Committee Members: Naveen Daniel, Jay Cai, Edward Nelling, Melissa Frye
Date and Time: May 30, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 722

Dara Bright
Wallet Weight: An Instrument Development Study for Measuring Financial Stress in College Students Using a Design-Based Research (DBR) Approach

Major: Education
Chair: Toni May
Committee Members: Kathleen Provinzano, Gregory Stone, Willie Pearson, Pamela Geller
Date and Time: May 30, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dnb66@drexel.edu for link.

Wenyan Yin
Human Chefs Cook More Calories: The Impact of Human (vs. Robotic) Food Producers on Food Calorie Estimation and Choice

Major: Business Administration
Chair: YanLiu Huang
Committee Members: Trina Andras, Chen Wang, William Havlena, Cait Lamberton
Date and Time: May 26, 2023 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact wy82@drexel.edu for link.

Christine Chesebrough
Interactions between the dynamics and phenomenology of creative relational reasoning: The effect of analogical aha! moments on affect, learning, and transfer.

Major: Psychology
Chair: John Kounios
Committee Members: Evangelia Chrysikou, Fengqing Zhang, Mark Beeman, Kenneth Kurtz
Date and Time: May 26, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cbc72@drexel.edu for link.

Matthew Roehrig
A Qualitative Exploration of Teacher Perceptions within Co-Taught Classrooms

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Amanda Lannie, Larry Keiser
Committee Members: Jessica Cohen
Date and Time: May 25, 2023 4:15 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mtr93@drexel.edu for link.

Zachary Cohen
Learning by Mistake: Constructing the Conceptual Framework of Mistake Literacy Through a Mixed Methods Case Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Committee Members: Jim Rickabaugh, Salvatore Falletta
Date and Time: May 25, 2023 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Meghan Dennis
School Practitioners' Perceptions of the Behavioral Multi-tiered Systems of Support: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Chris Vorndran
Committee Members: Amanda Lannie, Melanie Susi
Date and Time: May 25, 2023 8:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact md3653@drexel.edu for link.

Samantha Grabus
Historical Subject Representation: An Analysis of Historical Vocabularies for Temporally-Aligned and Contextual Access Points

Major: Information Science
Chair: Jane Greenberg
Committee Members: Weimao Ke, Mat Kelly, Richard Marciano, Erjia Yan
Date and Time: May 24, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Kristen DeGraff
A Case Study Exploration for a Collaborative ASD Transitional Support Process

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: James Connell
Committee Members: Kate Piselli, Jennifer Migliorino-Reyes
Date and Time: May 24, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact krd98@drexel.edu for link.

Khalid Hurayb
Large-signal Stability Analysis of Droop-controlled Converters for Microgrid Applications

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Karen Miu Miller
Committee Members: Pritpal Singh, Dagmar Niebur, Fei Lu, Mahmoud Kabalan
Date and Time: May 24, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Room 231

Jen Carroll
A Correlational Quantitative Study Exploring The Relationship Between Faculty's Pedagogical Strategies in Online Classrooms And Factors Influencing Active Instruction

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Peggy Kong
Committee Members: Sheila Vaidya, Kate Morse
Date and Time: May 24, 2023 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact jas697@drexel.edu for link.

John Hamman
A Mixed Methods Approach to the Effectiveness of Corequisite Developmental Mathematics Classes

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Valerie Klein
Committee Members: Toni May, Alycia Marshall
Date and Time: May 23, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Luke Brown
Equilibria and Bifurcation Theory for Mean-Field Games

Major: Mathematics
Chair: David Ambrose
Committee Members: Gideon Simpson, Jameson Grabber, J. Douglas Wright, Cecilia Freire Mondaini
Date and Time: May 23, 2023 3:30 PM
Location: Korman Center, Room 245

Nalini Prakash
Examining the Impact of Dance/Movement Therapy on Interpersonal Synchrony, Empathy, Peer Relationships, and Cultural Self-Efficacy in Middle School Students: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Minjung Shim
Committee Members: Sherry Goodill, Nancy Beardall, Suruchi Sood, Arun Ramakrishnan
Date and Time: May 23, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 11W03

Nalini Prakash
Examining the Impact of Dance/Movement Therapy on Interpersonal Synchrony, Empathy, Peer Relationships, and Cultural Self-Efficacy in Middle School Students: A Mixed Methods Study

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Minjung Shim
Committee Members: Arun Ramakrishnan, Nancy Beardall, Sherry Goodill, Suruchi Sood
Date and Time: May 23, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact np348@drexel.edu for link.

Hetal Patel
Making the Invisible Visible: A Narrative Inquiry on the Journey of South Asian American K-12 Public School Teachers

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Stephanie Budhai
Committee Members: Sarini Ettigi, Vera Lee
Date and Time: May 22, 2023 4:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact hp467@drexel.edu for link.

Amira Clemens
Social Support and Social Support Seeking Behaviors as it Relates to Homelessness and Mental Health Among Black Youth Aging out of Foster Care

Major: Nursing
Chair: Loretta Jemmott
Committee Members: Jennifer Collins, Kathleen Fisher, Justine Sefcik, Veronica Carey
Date and Time: May 22, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room TBD

Michael Hauer
Exploring the Use of Social Media as a Part of Social and Behavior Change Communication Health Programs

Major: Community Health and Prevention
Chair: Suruchi Sood
Committee Members: Emmanuel Koku, Augusta Villanueva, Alexis Roth, Helen Wang
Date and Time: May 22, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 440

Katrina Strueloeff
"At that point you have to fight": The Pathways of Minoritized Women* Senior Leaders in P-20 Education in Philadelphia and New Orleans

Major: Education
Chair: Kathleen Provinzano
Committee Members: Vera Lee, Rajashi Ghosh, Toni May, Alonzo Flowers
Date and Time: May 22, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Science Center, Room 3025

Yuna Kim
Multilevel probabilistic CCA for integrative analysis of multi-omics data with repeated measurements

Major: Biostatistics
Chair: Scarlett Bellamy
Committee Members: Robert Krafty, Gail Rosen, Lucy Robinson, Li Jiao
Date and Time: May 19, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 719

Rosie Mae Henson
Geographic and Social Proximities to the United States and Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities: 2005-2021

Major: Health Services Research and Policy
Chair: Brent Langellier
Committee Members: Usama Bilal, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez, Jan Eberth, Pricila Mullachery
Date and Time: May 19, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: 3600MK, Room 709

Kimberly Sterin
¿The Decision Point¿: How School Business Administrators Promote Racial Equity through School Finance Management

Major: Education
Chair: Ayana Allen Handy
Committee Members: Bruce Levine, H. Bernard Hall, Kathleen Provinzano, Allison Socol
Date and Time: May 17, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Science Center, Room 3025

Elizabeth Kahle
Biomimetic Proteoglycans Molecularly Engineer Cartilage Pericellular Matrix And Can Be Leveraged As A Multi-Functional Drug Delivery Platform

Major: Biomedical Science
Chair: Adrian Shieh
Committee Members: Chris Rodell, Michele Marcolongo, Andrew Magenau, Lin Han, X. Lucas Lu
Date and Time: May 17, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 722

Mohammed Sani Alhassan
Evaluation of CD137 in Multiple Myeloma

Major: Pharmacology and Physiology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: May 16, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 8-312

Yani Suber
Septin complexes differentially regulate microtubule motors and contribute to organelle positioning in a paralog-specific manner

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Jennifer Stanford
Committee Members: Kristen Verhy, Ryan Petrie, Elias Spiliotis, Kari Lenhart
Date and Time: May 15, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 103

Dan Schoepflin
Designing and Analyzing Clock Auctions

Major: Computer Science
Chair: Vasilis Gkatzelis
Committee Members: Manolis Pountourakis, Eric Balkanski, Michal Feldman, Giorgos Christodoulou, Shahin Jabbari
Date and Time: May 15, 2023 9:30 AM
Location: 3675 Market St

Neville Vakharia
Knowledge Management and Museums: Enablers, Orientation, and Performance

Major: Information Science
Chair: Alexander Poole
Committee Members: Jen Katz-Buonincontro, Jane Greenberg, Yuha Jung, Scott Cooper
Date and Time: May 12, 2023 7:00 PM
Location: 3675 Market St, Room 928

Mithila Guha
The Impact of Sociopolitical Activism: An Analysis of Peer Effects, Dialogues, And Brand Performance on Social Media

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Daniel Korschun, Trina Andras
Committee Members: William Havlena, Michael Howley, Nathan Fong
Date and Time: May 12, 2023 1:30 PM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 408

Christina Thompson
The Effects of Over-ground Adaptive Cycling on Physical Activity Participation in Children with Physical Disabilities: A Pilot Study

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair:
Committee Members: Lisa Chiarello, Margo Orlin, Ann Harrington
Date and Time: May 12, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 5W08

Heather Krick
Functional Popsicles: A Sensory Evaluation and Product Optimization Study

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Jonathan Deutsch
Committee Members: Brandy-Joe Milliron, Chetan Sharma, May Cheung
Date and Time: May 12, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact hmk56@drexel.edu for link.

Katie Mathew
Ready or not? A mixed methods case study of the beliefs about kindergarten readiness and transition practices of families

Major: Education
Chair: Ayana Allen Handy
Committee Members: Dominic Gullo, Vera Lee, Kristine Grant, Tameka Ardrey
Date and Time: May 11, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: 3401 Market Street, Room 3400

Martha Coates
Examining Polypharmacy Status, Associated Symptoms, and the Trajectory of Physical Function and Health Outcomes in Older Adults with and without Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

Major: Nursing
Chair: Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili
Committee Members: Justine Sefcik, Margaret Finely, Leslie McClure, Laura Gitlin
Date and Time: May 09, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Health Science Building

Sam Giancarli
Allometric effects on metabolism, ecology, and biomechanics in avian and squamate reptiles

Major: Environmental Science
Chair: Edward Daeschler
Committee Members: Michael O'Connor, Matthew Bonnan, Sean O'Donnell, Art Dunham
Date and Time: May 08, 2023 1:30 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Science Building, Room 103

Zoe Godfrey
Active Listeners: Three Essays on the Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers¿ Active Engagement with Music in Marketing Contexts

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Daniel Korschun
Committee Members: YanLiu Huang, Chen Wang, Bernard Jaworski, Trina Andras
Date and Time: May 05, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 409

Madlene Minassian
A Phenomenological Study on Lived Experience with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion of Multinational Enterprise Employees Residing in the Homogenous Republic of Armenia

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Peggy Kong
Committee Members: Tamara Galoyan, Oli Mival
Date and Time: May 05, 2023 10:45 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact mam996@drexel.edu for link.

Shadi Dini
Speech Acts Classification Using Supervised Machine Learning Models; Computational Pragmatics: interdisciplinary context of pragmatics and Natural Language Processing

Major: Educational Leadership & Learning Technologies
Chair: Aroutis Foster
Committee Members: Christopher Wright, Kurtulus Izzetoglu, Rebecca Clothey, Tamara Galoyan
Date and Time: May 04, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact sd964@drexel.edu for link.

Stephen Sclafani
Observation of Neutrinos from the Milky Way Galaxy

Major: Physics
Chair: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Committee Members: Stephen McMillan, Michelle Dolinski, Gordon Richards, Ignacio Taboada
Date and Time: May 03, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Alison Hartman
What Keeps Me Up At Night: An Exploration of Sleep, Anxiety, and Mood Among Women With Infertility

Major: Psychology
Chair: Pamela Geller
Committee Members: Mona Elgohail, John Medaglia, Michael Perlis, Jacqueline Kloss
Date and Time: May 01, 2023 8:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Mike D'Antuono
Essays on Corporate Innovation and Shareholder Wealth

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Eliezer Fich
Committee Members: David Becher, Edward Nelling, Anh Tran, Tu Nguyen
Date and Time: April 28, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 722

Jason Chen
Three Essays On Environmental, Social, and Governance

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Gregory Nini
Committee Members: Michelle Lowry, David Becher, Eliezer Fich, Joseph Kalmenovitz
Date and Time: April 26, 2023 2:15 PM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 722

Evangeline Williams
Understanding Commensal-to-Pathogen Transitions in Haemophilus influenzae through Comparative and Functional Genomics

Major: Microbiology & Immunology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: April 25, 2023 3:30 PM
Location: New College Building, Geary A

Yiyun Fan
Examining Education-related Twitter Discourse and Networks from Different Points in Time during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Major: Education
Chair: Aroutis Foster
Committee Members: Toni May, Kristen Betts, Christopher Wright, Jeffrey Carpenter
Date and Time: April 25, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact yf366@drexel.edu for link.

Andrew Bergman
Is Healthcare Waste Overutilization Taught in Medical School

Major: Health Sciences
Chair:
Committee Members: Al Rundio, William Lorman, Christa Schorr
Date and Time: April 24, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Tamikia Life
Effects of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Project Management Leadership

Major: Project Management
Chair: Kapil Dandekar
Committee Members: Christine Fiori, Frank Anbari, Ludo Scheffer, Joseph Martin, Hazem Maragah, Julie Drzymalski
Date and Time: April 21, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact tml58@drexel.edu for link.

Ukamushu Undieh
Dysfunction of the Gut Microbiome-Brain Axis in Neurodegenerative Disease: Role of Indole and its Metabolites

Major: Microbiology & Immunology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: April 21, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Geary A

Robert Lee
The Impact of a Student Led Peer Mentor Program on Incoming First-Year Health Sciences Students

Major: Health Sciences
Chair:
Committee Members: Michael Bruneau Jr, Anne Dower, Ebony White
Date and Time: April 18, 2023 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Kathleen Bryant
A history of low-dose ethanol alters behavioral strategy selection and ventral hippocampus function

Major: Neuroscience
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: April 17, 2023 9:30 AM
Location: Queen Lane Campus, Auditorium B

Matthew Bell
Identifying Immune Correlates of Protection Against Clostridioides difficile Infection and the Development of an Optimized C. difficile Toxin DNA Vaccine for the Elderly

Major: Microbiology & Immunology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: April 14, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Geary B

Chase Chen
Group Audits and Investment Efficiency

Major: Business Administration
Chair: Hiu Lam Choy
Committee Members: Hsihui Chang, Tony Curatola, Johnny Lee, Jui-Chin Chang
Date and Time: April 14, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Gerri C Lebow Hall, Room 722

Alexa Cannon
Investigation of Novel Therapeutic Targets in RAC1-mutant Melanoma

Major: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: April 11, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 10-301

Richa Pande
Role of macrophage derived small extracellular vesicles in regulation of T cell mediated resolution of inflammatory pain

Major: Microbiology & Immunology
Chair:
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Date and Time: April 07, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Geary A

Allison Yankey
A novel interaction between long non-coding RNA lncTCF7 and SND1 modulates the gene regulation activity of the SWI/SNF complex.

Major: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
Chair:
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Date and Time: April 06, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Geary A

Jared Luchetta
Investigating how the Chemokine CXCL12 Impacts Neuronal Network Function and Structural Plasticity: The Modulatory Role of Inhibitory Neurons

Major: Pharmacology & Physiology
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: April 03, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 8-312

Rebecca Holton
CHTF18 safeguards the quantity and quality of the ovarian reserve and mediates meiotic cohesion

Major: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
Chair:
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Date and Time: March 30, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Room 11-101

Kerri Sullivan
A Theory of Action for the Authentic, Concurrent, and Intentional Development of K-12 Students¿ Artistic, Creative, and Social-Emotional Abilities

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kate Piselli
Committee Members: Larry Keiser, Dale Schmid
Date and Time: March 30, 2023 10:00 AM
Location:

Andrea Rosenkranz
Determining Secondary Structural Elements of Hepatitis B Virus Pregenomic RNA and Preliminary Analysis of the DDB1-HBx Interaction as a Therapeutic Target

Major: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
Chair:
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Date and Time: March 29, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 11-101

Zhuo Wang
Dynamic systems and machine learning approach to online EEG signals processing for different applications

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Anup Das
Committee Members: Allon Guez, Thomas Chmlelewski, Valentina Graci, Emily Keshner, Nagarajan Kandasamy
Date and Time: March 28, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Microsoft Teams - Contact zw383@drexel.edu for link.

Chao Wang
Fibril-Forming Collagens are the Key Regulators of Collagen Fibrillar Structure and Biomechanics in Cartilaginous Tissues

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Sriram Balasubramanian
Committee Members: Lin Han, Lei Han, Michele Marcolongo, Yinghui Zhong
Date and Time: March 27, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 709

Mallory Morris
Speaking Life: A Phenomenological Study of Teacher Expectations and Beliefs About Students as Revealed Through Teacher Talk During PLC Meetings

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Valerie Klein, Sarah Ulrich
Committee Members: Cara Gutzmer
Date and Time: March 24, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mam982@drexel.edu for link.

Kyle Samson
The effects of dual hypocretin/orexin receptor blockade on oxycodone seeking and dopamine neurotransmission in the nucleus accumbens

Major: Neuroscience
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: March 24, 2023 9:30 AM
Location: Queen Lane Campus, SAC A

Rini Jose
The importance of Place and Space: Individual and Community-level Determinants of Hepatitis C Virus in Philadelphia, PA

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Seth Welles
Committee Members: Danica Kuncio, Neal Goldstein, Alison Evans, Ana Martinez-Donate
Date and Time: March 23, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Conference Room 719

Dianna Marinaro
Identification and Navigation of Mental Health Stressors in Collegiate Female Athletes

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Stephanie Budhai
Committee Members: Bridget Blakely, Matthew Scanlon
Date and Time: March 22, 2023 6:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact dmm565@drexel.edu for link.

Konstantin Budagyan
Exploring Allelic Differences in KRAS mutant CRC

Major: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
Chair:
Committee Members:
Date and Time: March 21, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 10-301

Michal Monselise
Healthcare in AI for Social Good: An Examination of Applications in Social Media

Major: Information Science
Chair: Christopher Yang
Committee Members: Helen Loeb, Jane Greenberg, Shadi Rezapour, Erjia Yan, Afsaneh Razi
Date and Time: March 20, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact mm4837@drexel.edu for link.

Tameka Jackson-Leung
Leisure Activities that Impact the Wellness of Older Black Community-Dwelling Adults

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Kristine Mulhorn
Committee Members: Lynne Sutherland, B. Brent Simmons
Date and Time: March 17, 2023 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact tjj27@drexel.edu for link.

Dharma Teja Varapula
A single molecule DNA analysis device for optical mapping and sequencing

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Sriram Balasubramanian
Committee Members: Lin Han, Li-Hsin Han, Ming Xiao, Moses Noh
Date and Time: March 15, 2023 10:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dv329@drexel.edu for link.

Samantha Beebe
Ready? Set? Escape! The Effect of Digital Escape Rooms on Student Motivation in Asynchronous Learning Environments

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Fran Cornelius
Committee Members: Linda Wilson, Laura Cruz
Date and Time: March 10, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact sab556@drexel.edu for link.

Ryan McCloskey
Exploring Lived Experiences of Public Elementary School Teachers¿ Perceptions of Cognitive Engagement in Distributed, Virtual Professional Learning Experiences in Their Place of Work: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Kelly Ballard, Aroutis Foster
Date and Time: March 09, 2023 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Gina Yacovelli
Factors Associated with Evaluation & Management Error Rates of Medical Students

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Linda Wilson
Committee Members: Rosemary Trout, Merritt Brockman, Rebecca McIntyre
Date and Time: March 09, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact gy75@drexel.edu for link.

Yun-Ting Yen
An investigation of the association between residential greenspace and childhood asthma exacerbation in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area through examining exposure-response, effect modification, mediation, and spatial patterning

Major: Environmental and Occupational Health
Chair: Anneclaire De Roos
Committee Members: Leah Schinasi, Michelle Kondo, Chen Kenyon, Brisa Sanchez Loya
Date and Time: March 07, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 140

Jillian Szilagyi
A Narrative Study: Exploring Primary Teachers' Perceptions on Administering Computer-based Reading Assessments to Understand Their Adoption of Computer-Based Reading Assessments Practices

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Monica Ouly-Uhl
Date and Time: March 06, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jas965@drexel.edu for link.

Rachel Dawson
A Quantitative Study: Examining the Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Self-Efficacy with Implications in the Workplace

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Sheila Vaidya
Committee Members: Kate Piselli, Melinda Norelli
Date and Time: March 06, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact clg45@drexel.edu for link.

Rachel Dawson
A Quantitative Study: Examining the Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Self-Efficacy with Implications in the Workplace

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Sheila Vaidya
Committee Members: Kate Piselli, Melinda Norelli
Date and Time: March 06, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact clg45@drexel.edu for link.

Laura Zagacki
Sibling Participation in Occupational Therapy for Children with Physical Disabilities

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Robert Palisano
Committee Members: Rebecca Lieberman-Betz
Date and Time: March 03, 2023 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Please contact lmz45@drexel.edu for link.

Dixie Schexnaildre
A Descriptive Exploratory Study of Layered Access Disparities to Holistic Wellness: Enumerating Interpreters Trained in Safe & Effective Delivery of Syncretic Yogic Concepts in American Sign Language

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Al Rundio
Committee Members: Beth Chiatti, Deb Guthmann
Date and Time: February 23, 2023 11:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ds3537@drexel.edu for link.

Eisha Smith
Mentoring Matters: Augmenting Academic Success for African American Students Enrolled in a Predominately White Institution: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Ayana Allen Handy, Jaime Slaughter-Acey
Date and Time: February 16, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Kelly Bastek-Jones
School Administrator’s Lived Experiences with the Special Education Process: A Phenomenological Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Stephanie Budhai
Committee Members: Kate Piselli, Jennifer Kanupka
Date and Time: February 16, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact kb3458@drexel.edu for link.

Laura Baehr
Impact of group tele-exercise on physical activity determinants and behavior in individuals with spinal cord injury: A mixed method study

Major: Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Margaret Finley
Committee Members: Girija Kaimal, Michael Bruneau, Lisa Chiarello, Shivayogi Hiremath, Ross Newton
Date and Time: February 06, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room TBD

Ebrahim Maghami
Fracture micromechanics analyses of hard tissues: Study of increased glycation through diabetes and age-related changes

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Ahmad Najafi
Committee Members: Antonios Kontsos, Alan Lau, Sorin Siegler, Lamya Karim
Date and Time: January 30, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Curtis Hall, Room 162

Alissa Sperling
Summer STEM Enrichment for Adolescent Girls: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Toni May
Committee Members: Simi Hoque, Kate Piselli
Date and Time: January 27, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ars549@drexel.edu for link.

Elizabeth Euiler
Biomechanics of the adaptive rowing in individuals who use a manual wheelchair

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Margaret Finley
Committee Members: Shana Harrington, Sheri Silfies, Michael Bruneau, Clare Milner
Date and Time: January 04, 2023 1:30 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 3W09

Eli Worth
Measurement of Kinetics of Sickle Hemoglobin Polymerization using Absorbance: Implications for Therapy

Major: Physics
Chair: Frank Ferrone
Committee Members: Patrick Loll, Luis Cruz Cruz, Chuck Lane, Som Tyagi
Date and Time: January 04, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919

Lauren Brazil
Ethnographic Study: What is the Collective Thinking of Educators Regarding the Key Characteristics of Effective Leadership and its Effect on Teacher Performance in a High School Located in a Central New Jersey School District

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: John Gould
Committee Members: Michael Kozak, Ed Frick
Date and Time: December 20, 2022 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Kristen Gallo
A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding How Cooperative Education Impacts Students Studying Entrepreneurship

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Jennifer Adams
Committee Members: Bruce Levine, Liza Herzog
Date and Time: December 19, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact kg576@drexel.edu for link.

Chukwuemeka Chikelu
Collagen Nanoyarns: Hierarchical Three-Dimensional Biomaterial Constructs for Tendon Fiber Reconstruction

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Fred Allen
Committee Members: Caroline Schauer, Lin Han, Chris Rodell, Raymond Habas
Date and Time: December 16, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 709

Sorayda Santos
Exploring Latina's lived experiences getting to the C-suite in the Financial Services Industry: A Narrative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Rajashi Ghosh
Committee Members: Deanna Hill, Edith Chears
Date and Time: December 16, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ss5224@drexel.edu for link.

Katie Elliott
Finnish Teachers View of their Role in the Prevention of Violent Extremism

Major: Education
Chair: Kristy Kelly
Committee Members: Jennifer Adams, Kristine Grant, Arnika Kuusisto, H. Bernard Hall
Date and Time: December 16, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Science Center, Room 3025

Elizabeth Cyr
Promoting Meaningful Participation in Two Wheel Bike Riding for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

Major: Health Sciences
Chair: Robert Palisano
Committee Members: Lisa Chiarello, Maria Fragala Pinkham
Date and Time: December 15, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ec649@drexel.edu for link.

John Tsinetakes
Incipient Soft-Fault Detection in DC-DC Converters through Switching Observers

Major: Electrical Engineering
Chair: Leonid Hrebien
Committee Members: Christopher Peters, George Facas, Moshe Kam, Fei Lu
Date and Time: December 15, 2022 10:30 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 302

Robert Gray
Player Modeling in Adaptive Games via Multi-Armed Bandits

Major: Digital Media
Chair: Santiago Ontanon, Jichen Zhu
Committee Members: Glen Muschio, Amy Hoover, Shahin Jabbari
Date and Time: December 14, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom

Guangzi Song
Estimation of the Informativeness of the Conditional Autoregressive Model Framework with Applications

Major: Biostatistics
Chair: Harrison Quick
Committee Members: Usama Bilal, Brisa Sanchez Loya, Loni Tabb, Leah Schinasi
Date and Time: December 14, 2022 11:30 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 751

Leon Thomas
Exploring Academic Language and the Academic Identities of Black and Latino Males in a Community College in Maryland: A Narrative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Deanna Hill
Committee Members: Sarah Ulrich, Ivan Harrell
Date and Time: December 13, 2022 2:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lct38@drexel.edu for link.

Andrew Lindsay
Biomass Burning Photochemistry: Radicals and Radical Precursors

Major: Chemistry
Chair: Joe Foley
Committee Members: Shannon Capps, Ezra Wood, Daniel King, Karl Sohlberg, Philip Stevens
Date and Time: December 12, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ajl384@drexel.edu for link.

Jessica Eager
Elucidating and refining macrophage phenotype related biomarkers of wound healing

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Andres Kriete
Committee Members: Kara Spiller, Ahmet Sacan, William Dampier, Rajanikanth Vadipegalli
Date and Time: December 12, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 705

Anqi Wang
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity and Sexual Minority Stress: Impact on Chronic Disease and Health Conditions Related to Inflammation

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Seth Welles
Committee Members: Alison Evans, Neal Goldstein, Scarlett Bellamy, Loni Tabb, Randall Sell, Jana Mossey
Date and Time: December 12, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 132

Eric Folkins
Identifying Clinical Tests that are Predictive of Temporary Low Back Pain Development During the Prolong Standing Test

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Sheri Silfies
Committee Members: Erika Nelson Wong, David Ebaugh
Date and Time: December 09, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 3W12

Lige Zhang
Drop impact on lubricated surfaces: interstitial air film and post-contact dynamics

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Ying Sun
Committee Members: Matthew McCarthy, Young Cho, David Miller, Nicolas Alvarez
Date and Time: December 09, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Hill Conference Room

Asa Lewis
Bioaccumulation, Fate, and Treatment of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Christopher Sales
Committee Members: Joseph Hughes, Patrick Gurian, Erica McKenzie, Daniel Spooner, Marie Kurz
Date and Time: December 09, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ajl394@drexel.edu for link.

Emily McGady
The Effects of Trauma Informed Care Training, which Emphasizes Secondary Trauma Education, on New Teachers: A Mixed Methods Explanatory Sequential Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kristen Betts
Committee Members: Sandra Bloom, Sarah Ulrich
Date and Time: December 09, 2022 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact em3246@drexel.edu for link.

Bryan Featherstone
Understanding and combating environmental and anthropogenic pressures on vulnerable large mammal populations on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Jacob Russell
Committee Members: Sean O'Donnell, Michael O'Connor, Mary Gonder, Gail Rosen
Date and Time: December 09, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Builidng, Room 112

Joan Rybas
The Lived Experiences of Students with Dyslexia: A Qualitative Study

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Lori Severino
Committee Members: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Kelly Bollard
Date and Time: December 09, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom

Carrie Cottone
Investigating Clinical Practices of Medical Art Therapists Working with Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease

Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Joke Bradt
Committee Members: Girija Kaimal, Kim Smith-Whitley, Ellen Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan
Date and Time: December 07, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact caa32@drexel.edu for link.

Levi Maharaj
TopoKnit: A Process-Oriented Topology Representation for Modeling and Analyzing Weft-Knitted Textiles

Major: Computer Science
Chair: David Breen
Committee Members: Ali Shokoufandeh, Dario Salvucci, Genevieve Dion, Vadim Shapiro, Randall Kamien
Date and Time: December 05, 2022 5:15 PM
Location: Zoom

Sarukkalige Shanika De Silva
Propensity score methods for spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal data

Major: Biostatistics
Chair: Leslie McClure
Committee Members: Loni Tabb, Harrison Quick, Felice Le-Scherban, Nandita Mitra
Date and Time: December 05, 2022 10:30 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 719

Benoit Bechade
Exploring the metabolic and digestive functions of bacterial gut symbionts in Cephalotes turtle Ants

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Sean O'Donnell
Committee Members: Michael O'Connor, Mary Gonder, Jacob Russell, Corrie Moreau
Date and Time: December 02, 2022 1:30 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 103

Taylor Chamberlain
Improving Early Childhood Education Experiences for Military Families: An Exploratory Sequential Design

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Committee Members: Toni May, Sara Reed
Date and Time: November 30, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact trc79@drexel.edu for link.

Wanyu Huang
Combinations of Environmental Risk Factors (fine particles, aeroallergens, community level respiratory infections): their independent and joint effects on childhood asthma exacerbation

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Amy Auchincloss, Anneclaire De Roos
Committee Members: Chen Kenyon, Lucy Robinson, Leah Schinasi
Date and Time: November 21, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 132

Zachary Cohen
Learning by Mistake: A Concurrent Mixed Methods Case Study Constructing the Conceptual Framework of Mistake Literacy

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo
Committee Members: Jim Rickabaugh, Salvatore Falletta
Date and Time: November 16, 2022 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom

Alexandra Jednorski
High Conjugation Efficiency CdPbS Near-infrared, Direct-Staining Molecular Probe Toward Intraoperative Breast Cancer Margin Assessment

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Kenneth Barbee
Committee Members: Wei-Heng Shih, Wan Shih, Chris Rodell, Paul Brandt-Rauf
Date and Time: November 11, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: Bossone Hall, Room 709

Yaser Kashcooli
Printing Materials With Spatially Resolved Properties Using A Single Resin Vat And Modified Digital Light Processing (DLP) Technique

Major: Chemical Engineering
Chair: Giuseppe Palmese
Committee Members: Nicolas Alvarez, Antonios Kontsos, Kenneth Lau, Richard Cairncross
Date and Time: November 03, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact yk442@drexel.edu for link.

Shafiah Firoz
Factors That Influence Online Learning Designs While Maintaining Quality and Promoting Innovation in Online Learning Design Practices

Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: William Lynch
Committee Members: Kristen Betts, Mariette Fourie
Date and Time: November 01, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact spf39@drexel.edu for link.

Matthew Hirschhorn
Novel Integrated Pediatric Total Artificial Heart

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Sriram Balasubramanian
Committee Members: Joseph Sarver, Randy Stevens, Amy Throckmorton, Steven Day, Lin Han
Date and Time: October 28, 2022 12:30 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 709

Greg Risser
Modulating Macrophage Phenotype for the Promotion of Angiogenesis in an Ischemic Environment

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Margaret Wheatley
Committee Members: Yinghui Zhong, Kara Spiller, Hao Cheng, Kenneth Barbee
Date and Time: October 26, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Bossone, Room 709

Megan Radler
The septin cytoskeleton is required for morphogenesis in pyramidal neurons

Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Anna Denise Garcia
Committee Members: Kazuhito Toyooka, Elias Spiliotis, Kari Lenhart, Ryan Petrie
Date and Time: October 14, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 104

Aparna Bhattachryya
The role of endothelial cell morphology and alignment in the coordinated regulation of AK-mediated and calcium-mediated eNOS phosphorylation

Major: Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Adrien Shieh
Committee Members: Alisa Morss Clyne, Lin Han, Kenneth Barbee, J Yasha Kresh
Date and Time: October 11, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Bossone, Room 705

Amie Devlin
The Stress Pathway: A Proposed Link Between Neighborhood Disorder and Cardiovascular Disease

Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Sharrelle Barber
Committee Members: Irene Headen, Yvonne Michael, Felice Le-Scherban, Loni Tabb
Date and Time: October 04, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact am4495@drexel.edu for link.

Kevin Aubol
Running surface, ground contact time, and other biomechanical factors that may affect Achilles tendon forces during running

Major: Rehabilitation Sciences
Chair: Clare Milner
Committee Members: Trish Shewokis, Josh Baxter, Karin Silbernagel, Margaret Finley
Date and Time: September 29, 2022 9:00 AM
Location: Health Sciences Building, Room 11W74

Abishek Kumar
BEAPS: Incorporating shape dynamics in virtual agents developed focusing on customizing the mesh for pose space actions

Major: Digital Media
Chair: Stefan Rank
Committee Members: Rob Lloyd, Michael Wagner, Paul Diefenbach, David Breen
Date and Time: September 22, 2022 12:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ask85@drexel.edu for link.

Melissa Kavanaugh
Use of Formative Research Methods to Explore and Understand Food Handling Practices, Attitudes and Behaviors Among Older Adults in the United States

Major: Nutrition Sciences
Chair: Jennifer Quinlan
Committee Members: Rosemary Trout, Kathleen Fisher, Shauna Henley, Jennifer Nasser
Date and Time: September 19, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Health Sciences Building, 11th Floor, West Room 3