Ashley Carey, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
The Role of Hyperhomocysteinemia, Hypertension, and Cerebral Hypoperfusion in Amyloid Beta-induced Cerebral Endothelial Cell Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
September 4, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
MERB 610

Jose Fernando Paz Amaya, Bioengineering PhD, College of Engineering
The Role of BDNF and Dural Damage in Spontaneous Locomotor Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury
September 5, 2024, at 9:00 a.m.
COE 809

Mohammad Soltaninejad, Risk Management and Insurance PhD, Fox School of Business
Essays on Insurance Asset-Liability Dynamics
September 9, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Katie R. Jobson, Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Infant Cerebellar Microstructure and Its Subsequent Influence on Motoric and Linguistic Development in Toddlers
September 13, 2024, at 9:00 a.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Matthew Sereno, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Exploring the Impact of the Digital Age on Entrepreneurs Born Pre Versus Post 1981
September 13, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Justice Ifafunmilayo Isaacs, Africology & African-American Studies PhD, College of Liberal Arts
"The Hoodoo You Knew": an Afrocentric (Re)location of Conjure and Hoodoo Cosmology
September 24, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Steven Weaver, Bioinformatics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Advancing Molecular Epidemiology: Enhanced Methods and Applications in Pathogen Transmission Network Analysis
October 10, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.
Bio-Life 234

Dana Brice Pacheco, Anthropology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Citizenship and Belonging After the Constitutional Court Ruling 168-2013: an Examination of the Black Fatigue Among Dominican Youth of Haitian Descent in the Dominican Republic From 2015 Through 2019
October 10, 2024, at 3:30 p.m.
Zoom

Matthew Soderblom, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
American Madness: The Frontier in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Willa Cather, and O.E. Rølvaag
October 14, 2024, at 1:15 p.m.
Zoom

Theodora Sakellarides, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Feelings Work: An Examination of Emotional Labor in Black American Women's Literature
October 16, 2024, at 1:30 p.m.
Zoom

Darien Henry, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Improving Jamaican Schools Through Better Leadership: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Aspiring Principals Program: a Mix-methods Analysis of Educational Leadership Preparation in Jamaica
October 15, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Gernissia Cherfrere, Urban Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
What's at Stake: Illuminating the Voices of Community Stakeholders Engaged in District Strategic Planning
October 17, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
R130

Brian Shields, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The Cultural Broker: Babette Deutsch and Transatlantic Modernism
October 18, 2024, at 9:30 a.m.
Zoom

Genesis Arteta, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Fuerza en Números: Latino Representation on College Campuses and the Educational Outcomes of Latino Students
October 21, 2024, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Jing Han, Media & Communication, Klein College of Media and Communication
From Memes to Movements: the Interplay Between the GameStop Phenomenon and Peripheral Subreddits in Digital Financial Mobilization
October 25, 2024, at 2:00 p.m.
AH 1H

Yun Wu, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
The Impact of Demographic Transition on China's Real Estate Market Prices
October 28, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Lili Fu, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Research on the Issuing Motivations of Convertible Bonds of Listed Companies
October 29, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Katherine H. Dawson, Media & Communication, Klein College of Media and Communication
The Lady Vanishes: Tracing an Infrastructure of Acousmatic Feminine Labor
October 30, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
AH 1H

Taryn Anthony, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Integrating Data Analytics and Computational Programming for Enhanced Material Design in High Performance Thin-film Optical Coatings
October 30, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Lan Zhou, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Motivations and Economic Consequences of Corporate Financialization: Evidence From Chinese Listed Non-financial Companies
November 2, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Lisa Schmelkin, Bioinformatics PhD, College of Science and Technology
The Mechanistic Role of Epistasis in Evolutionary Rate Variation and Neutral Theory
November 4, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
SERC 604

Haijiang Fang, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Study on Financial Support Efficiency for Collaborative Innovation by Lab-Grown Diamond Industry Clusters in China
November 4, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Alison Maree Printz, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
November 5, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.
ARCH 203

Busra Tanriverdi, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Characterizing Threat's Influence in Post-encoding Reactivation and Its Downstream Consequences on Memory Representations
November 6, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.
Weiss 615

Phillip Garcia, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Fragments in the Flesh: an Autohistoria-teoria of Disability and Decolonist Rhetorics
November 8, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Naima A. Hall, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Within the Academy - Rhetoric or Impact? Experiences of Black Women DEI Leaders Post the 2020 Racial Reckoning
November 11, 2024, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Sheida Vafadar, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Experimental and Finite Element Evaluation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
November 11, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Jeffrey Zheng, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
An Analytics Approach for Modeling College Student Graduation
November 12, 2024, at 2:30 p.m.
Ritter Hall, 4th Floor

Michael Brandon Henderson, Geography and Urban Studies PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Geography Hesitant and African Ascendant: Addiction, Debt, and Other Biosocial Barriers to (Re)membering and the Case for Black Space
November 13, 2024, at 12:30 p.m.
Zoom

Peiyu Liang, Computer and Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Beyond Local Neighborhoods: Leveraging Informative Nodes for Improved Graph Neural Networks Performance
November 13, 2024, at 2:00 p.m.
SERC 306

Zhenyu Zhao, Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Semi-supervised Deep Learning Frameworks for Transmission-scale Load Disaggregation and Behind-the-meter Solar Prediction
November 14, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Victor Pascual Duran, Spanish PhD, College of Liberal Arts
"I Would Like to See Those Who Usually Write These Shepherd Books Where Everything is Springtime": Literary Field and Countryside Literature in Spain and Colonial Latin America (1516-1808)
November 15, 2024, at 10:30 a.m.
Mazur Hall 821

Liang Gong, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
How Do Economic Fluctuation and Technical Innovation Affect Mobile Payment Adoption in China and the United States
November 16, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Sidra Sheikh, Policy and Organizational Studies PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Framing School Securitization: a Mixed Methods Study of the School Violence Prevention Program
November 19, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
RH 449

Yunlong Guo, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Venture Investment Return and Its Influencing Factors Analysis
November 20, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Lamar L.E.D. Edghill, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Exploring Jamaican Mathematics Preservice Teachers' Content Knowledge, Learning Experiences, and Application of the 5E Constructivist Model
November 21, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Omidreza Ahmadzadeh, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Online Co-Estimation of State of Charge and Voltage Dynamics of Li-ion Batteries via Physics-Inspired Modeling
November 25, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Hanzi Xu, Computer and Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Enhancing NLP Capabilities: Strategies for Language Model Adaptation in Low-resource Text Classification Task and Evaluations
December 2, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Saman Enayati, Computer Science PhD, College of Science and Technology
Maximizing Learning Efficiency With Limited Labeled Data: Applications To Healthcare And Education
December 4, 2024, at 9:30 a.m.
Zoom

Somaiyeh Dadashi, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Development of Multi-modal Nonlinear Spectroscopy for Interfacial Studies
December 4, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
SERC 703

Elizabeth S. McCluskey, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
HOXA1 and Quercetin as Key Regulators of Airway Epithelial Regeneration in COPD
December 4, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
MERB

Jeanette Einspahr, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
A Sticky Situation: Essential Roles of Adhesion G Protein-coupled Receptors ADGRF5 and ADGRF1 in Cardiac Homeostasis and Failure
December 9, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
MERB 910

Vaibhav Singh , Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Modeling Cation Dynamics in Strong-Field Ionization: Non-Adiabatic Dynamics Quantum Chemistry Approaches
December 11, 2024, at 9:30 a.m.
Beury Hall

Christopher Bruce Carnivale, Biology PhD, College of Science and Technology
Investigations of Bacterivory and Microplastics in the Southern Ocean
December 11, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
Biolife 234

Wesley Deeg, Physics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Photogalvanic Study of the Structure/Topology Relationship in Chiral Multifold Semimetals and Development of Novel Broadband Ultrafast Probes
December 11, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.
SERC 408

Wenqing Yan, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Research on Digital Currency Reshaping China's Social Credit System
December 11, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Ka-Yi Chat, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Peripheral Inflammation and Corticostriatal Reward Circuitry: Interactive Roles in Components of Anhedonia During Adolescence
December 12, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Shea Stewart , Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Mechanistic Studies Into Visible-light Driven Hydrodesulfurization Reactions for C-C Coupling
December 12, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
SERC 604

Zhang Cheng, Environmental Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Advancing Data-driven and Hybrid Modeling for Environmental Biotechnology: Principles and Practices
December 12, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.
EN 301A

Dwayne M. Edwards, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Principal Leadership of Instructional Coaching in Jamaican High Schools: a Mixed Methods Study of the Implementation of the Student Support Pathway Coaches Programme
December 12, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Jie Zhou, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Research on Mergers and Acquisitions of Listed Companies in China
December 12, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Renato Jesus Rodriguez Nunez, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Physics-inspired and Control-Oriented Modeling of Lithium Batteries for Accurate State-of-Charge Prediction and Fast-Charging
December 13, 2024, at 10:30 a.m.
EN 312

Nicole Mazzarella Kennedy, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Personal Compatibility, Self-Efficacy, and Active Involvement of Co-Teachers in Elementary School Classrooms
December 13, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Tran Tishion, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Assessing Linguistic Standardization in Composition Course Syllabi: a Keyword Analysis of White Language Supremacy
December 13, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Daniel Guarín, Spanish and Portuguese PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The Complexity of Pronouns of Address in Spanish: the Case of Hispanic Communities in Philadelphia and Their Linguistic Landscape
December 13, 2024, at 2:00 p.m.
Mazur Hall 821

Jessica Taddeo, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Investigating the Role of the Lipid-immune Signaling Axis in Salmonella Enterica Serovar Typhimurium Infections
December 16, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
MERB 710

Ramon R. Rios III, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
The Corporation of Leadership in Higher Education: the Relationship Between College Rankings and the Characteristics of University Presidents
December 16, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Wenge Wang, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
The Modality of Cooperation Between Art and Financial Institutions in China
December 16, 2024, at 8:30 p.m.
Zoom

Brooke Jean Adamski, Spanish and Portuguese PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Religious Culture or Cult?: Literary and Visual Perceptions and Experiences of the Virgin Mary in Spain and the New World (13th-16th C.)
December 17, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Danni Luo, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
The Design, Synthesis and Application of Spiroligomer-based Macromolecules
December 17, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
SERC 601

Shiyun Yao, Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Biomethane Enhancement Through Electro-methanogenesis: A Study of Alternating Potentials Strategy
December 18, 2024, at 8:00 a.m.
Zoom

Zhi Chen, Physics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Effectively Prevent Emitting Black Carbon and PM2.5 Pollution Into the Air with Electrorheology
December 18, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
SERC 408

Theresa M. White, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
What are the Academic Experiences of Master's Students who are Caregivers?
January 24, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom