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: December 13, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact md3739@drexel.edu for link.
Dominique McDaniel
Bayesian Inference with Principal Stratification in Randomized Clinical Trials to Deal with Intercurrent Events
Major: Biostatistics
Chair: Leslie McClure
Committee Members: Brian Lee, Alisa Stephens-Shields, Arman Sabbaghi, Karen Price, Loni Tabb
Date and Time: December 06, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Nesbitt Hall, Room 540
Teresa LuPone
Development of a High Throughput High Content Imaging Viral Titer Assay to Investigate the Effect of Substance Misuse on HIV-1 Replicative Dynamics in hMDMs
Major: Microbiology and Immunology
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Date and Time: October 13, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: New College Building, Geary A
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: October 06, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact dlp326@drexel.edu for link.
Karol Zhong
Maternal Psychotropic Medication Use During Pregnancy and Child Health Outcomes
Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Kristen Dodge
Committee Members: Lucy Robinson, Brian Lee, Dheeraj Rai, Michael Yudell
Date and Time: December 15, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cz358@drexel.edu for link.
Lynette Schroeder
An Intrinsic Case Study of Girls' Experiences in a Secondary Education Mentoring Program
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Peggy Kong, Jen Katz-Buonincontro
Committee Members: Kimberly Spagone
Date and Time: October 12, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom
Giang Le Minh
Understanding mechanisms of OGT/O-GlcNAc regulation of breast cancer stem cells
Major: Biochemistry
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Date and Time: November 15, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101
Tyler Bradley
Interactions between Nitrification, Biofilms, and Engineered Responses in Drinking Water Distribution Systems
Major: Environmental Engineering
Chair: Christopher Sales
Committee Members: Gail Rosen, Patrick Gurian, Joseph Hughes, Gary Burlingame
Date and Time: October 13, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom
Eden Callahan
Investigating Authentic Learning Experiences for Elementary English Learners: An Instrumental Case Study
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Kareem Edouard
Committee Members: Valerie Klein, Anthony Grazel
Date and Time: November 17, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ec963@drexel.edu for link.
Andrew O'Brien
Dynamic Causality: Sparse Symbolic Regression as a Tool to Learn Causal Dynamic Structural Equations with Applications to Counterfactuals
Major: Computer Science
Chair: Edward Kim
Committee Members: Rosina Weber, Dario Salvucci, Hualou Liang, Kathleen McCoy
Date and Time: October 23, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Microsft Teams
Mike Kovacevich
A Search for Neutrino Flares with 10 years of IceCube's Cascade Events
Major: Physics
Chair: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Committee Members: Eric Brewe, Michael Vogeley, Michelle Dolinski, Erik Blaufuss
Date and Time: December 11, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 919
Dionne Taylor
Female Patients with Healthcare Disparities Assessment of Physician Communication Styles and the Potential Impact on Care
Major: Health Sciences
Chair: William Lorman
Committee Members: Albert Rundio, Constance Perry, Mondraya Howard
Date and Time: October 23, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom
James Thomas
Powder adhesion on tools during pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Antonios Zavaliangos
Committee Members: Michele Marcolongo, Steven May, Marc Galop, Pratik Saha
Date and Time: November 03, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: LeBow Engineering Center, Room 240
Ben Robinson
Septin Regulation of Multivesicular Body/Late Endosome Maturation and Movement
Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Ryan Petrie
Committee Members: Elias Spiliotis, Jennifer Stanford, Kari Lenhart, Michael Marks
Date and Time: November 16, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 109
Marcella Anthony
Black Mothering, Serious Mental Illness and Caregiving: An Exploratory Singular Case Study Using an Autoethnographic Approach
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Stephanie Budhai
Committee Members: Joy Phillips, Kathy Geller
Date and Time: November 06, 2023 5:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact maa58@drexel.edu for link.
Parsa Namakiaraghi
Engineering Cementitious Composite with Nature-Inspired Architected Polymeric Reinforcing Elements
Major: Civil Engineering
Chair: Amir Farnam
Committee Members: Ahmad Najafi, Ivan Bartoli, Reza Moini, Grace Hsuan
Date and Time: December 18, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact pn363@drexel.edu for link.
Lahari Uppuluri
Cas9 mediated methods for targeted analysis of genome using long read sequencing and optical mapping
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Matthew McCarthy
Committee Members: Li-Hsin Han, Andrei Jablokow, Joshua Mell, Ming Xiao
Date and Time: November 27, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact lu42@drexel.edu for link.
James Johnson
Optimization of Human Organotypic Brain Slice Cultures for Use as a Novel Model of NeuroHIV
Major: Microbiology and Immunology
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Date and Time: November 17, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 8312
Nicholas Stachowski
Effects of BDNF and epidural stimulation on locomotor outcomes and spinal ROR interneurons after complete SCI in mouse
Major: Neuroscience
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Date and Time: November 20, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Queen Lane Campus, SAC Hall
Kevin Martinez Folgar
Urban Determinants and Disparities in Chronic Liver Disease
Major: Epidemiology
Chair: Usama Bilal
Committee Members: Mariana Lazo Elizondo, Steven Solga, Ana Diez Roux, Harrison Quick
Date and Time: November 27, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact km3785@drexel.edu for link.
Cassidy Buhler
Advances in optimization with applications to nature conservation
Major: Business Administration
Chair: Hande Benson
Committee Members: Avijit Banerjee, Jinwook Lee, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Anna Devlin
Date and Time: December 15, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Gerri C LeBow Hall, Room 722
Savannah Patrick
Transitioning from Military Life: Furthering Higher Education for the Air Force Enlisted Member
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Harriette Rasmussen
Committee Members: William Lynch, Rebecca Weidensaul
Date and Time: November 20, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact sp3663@drexel.edu for link.
Candace Rizzi-Wise
Opposing Regulation of Fear and Other Contextual Responses by the Dorsal Versus Ventral Lateral Septum
Major: Neuroscience
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Date and Time: November 21, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Queen Lane Campus, SAC B
Giang Le Minh
Understanding mechanisms of OGT/O-GlcNAc regulation of breast cancer stem cells
Major: Biochemistry
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Date and Time: November 15, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: New College Building, Room 11101
Alex Kalinowski
Developing Novel Triple Embeddings for Scalable Alignment of Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language
Major: Information Science
Chair: Yuan An
Committee Members: Jake WIlliams, Weimao Ke, Ying Ding, Jane Greenberg
Date and Time: January 12, 2024 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact ajk437@drexel.edu for link.
Carmen Price-Bullock
Exploring the Shortages of Black Educators in Special Education in Public Schools
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Chris Vorndran
Committee Members: Kristine Grant, Myrtle Dorsey
Date and Time: December 08, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact cp975@drexel.edu for link.
Henry Colby
Partitioning and Ammonium Replacement of Nicotine and Basic Gases to Particulate Matter
Major: Chemistry
Chair: Kevin Owens
Committee Members: Michael Waring, Daniel King, Karl Sohlberg, Peter DeCarlo, Ana Rule
Date and Time: December 20, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact hjc53@drexel.edu for link.
Zhouquan Fu
Bioprinting of Novel Gelatin Methacryloyl Hydrogels: Bioink Design, Printing Optimization by Machine Learning, and Applications in Cell Protections under Oxidative Stress
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Chair: Antonios Kontsos
Committee Members: Yinghui Zhong, Alan Lau, Wei Sun, Gongyao Zhou, Li-Hsin Han
Date and Time: December 11, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact zf58@drexel.edu for link.
Breanne Pirino
The kappa-opioid receptor in subregions of the nucleus accumbens shell in affective behavior and ethanol drinking
Major: Neuroscience
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Date and Time: November 30, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Queen Lane Campus, SAC B
Bani Malhotra
A Mixed-methods Art Therapy Study Examining Psychosocial Outcomes with Hospitalized Adult Burn Patients
Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Girija Kaimal
Committee Members: Trish Shewokis, Johanna Czamanski-Cohen, Linwood Haith, Minjung Shim
Date and Time: December 11, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact bm3223@drexel.edu for link.
Ian Nichols
An examination of mammal community composition shifts and species turnover across landscape mosaics in Cameroon and on Bioko Island
Major: Biological Sciences
Chair: Sean O'Donnell
Committee Members: Ryan Petrie, Mary Gonder, Jon Gelhaus
Date and Time: December 07, 2023 3:00 PM
Location: Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building
Anthony Howcroft
Investigating the impact of content introduction and self-efficacy on student performance in general chemistry
Major: Chemistry
Chair: Ezra Wood
Committee Members: Jennifer Stanford, Susan Jansen-Vamum, Monica Ilies, Karl Sohlberg
Date and Time: December 15, 2023 1:00 PM
Location: Disque Hall, Room 108
Pam Shute
Influence of Social-Emotional Learning in Early Childhood Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Case Study
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Joy Phillips
Committee Members: Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Toni Lehman
Date and Time: December 07, 2023 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact pes36@drexel.edu for link.
David Freiberg
Numerical Insights into Sticking and Other Complex Properties of Powder Compaction
Major: Materials Science and Engineering
Chair: Wei-Heng Shih
Committee Members: Miguel Pando, Andrew Magenau, Antonios Zavaliangos, Sean Garner
Date and Time: November 27, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: Lebow Engineering Center, Room 240
Asli Arslanbek Evci
Arts-based psychosocial intervention training in humanitarian emergency settings: Clinical, ethical, cultural, and professional implications
Major: Creative Arts in Therapy
Chair: Girija Kaimal
Committee Members: Rebekka Dieterich-Hartwell, Gaelynn Wolf Bordonaro, Holly Feen-Calligan, Adenike Webb
Date and Time: December 19, 2023 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact aa4352@drexel.edu for link.
Sandy Mason
¡Apoyo! Exploring How Support Shapes the Latinx Experience Around College and Career Readiness in an Urban High School: A Phenomenological Study
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Vera Lee
Committee Members: Yolanda Abel, Kristine Grant
Date and Time: December 08, 2023 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact sgm67@drexel.edu for link.
Carisssa Casey
Exploring Teachers' Racial Awareness About Black and Asian Identities through Race-Based Professional Development and Implicit Racial Bias: A Mixed Methods Case Study
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Peggy Kong, Vera Lee
Committee Members: Christen Clougherty
Date and Time: December 14, 2023 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact cc3733@drexel.edu for link.
Dara McDowell
Understanding Relationships and Experiences of Race-Related Stress, Historical Loss, Social Support and Substance Misuse among Black Young Adults
Major: Couple and Family Therapy
Chair: Jessica Chou, Ellen Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing
Committee Members: Reggie Banks, Bertranna Muruthi, David Bennett
Date and Time: December 15, 2023 9:00 AM
Location: Health Sciences Building
John Bredin
Imagine a Hollywood for the Greater Good: A Story of Lost Film, Found Family, and Recovered Dreams
Major: Educational Leadership & Management
Chair: Larry Keiser
Committee Members: William Lynch, Janna Jones
Date and Time: December 13, 2023 4:00 PM
Location: Zoom - Contact jb4436@drexel.edu for link.
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
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Date and Time: December 07, 2023 9:30 AM
Location: Zoom - Contact ar3267@drexel.edu for link.