Andrew F. Chelius, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
"We Meet our Clients Where They're at and Most People are in Traumatic Situations:" A Study of Formal and Informal HR Across a Fragmented Institutional Landscape
April 1, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Gladfelter 713
Cheri Amor Hudson, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
From Likes to Lives: Understanding Social Media Influence on Health Decisions
April 1, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom
Adanna Ogechi Ohaegbulam, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
What's Your Fashion Footprint? Understanding Consumer Behavior Towards Sustainable Fashion
April 1, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom
Sanjib Chakraborty, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Disruptive Workforce Dynamics: The Impact of AI and Technology in the Telecommunications Industry
April 1, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Alter 722
Justin Chang, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Strategies Toward Vicinal Functionality via Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions
April 1, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Beury Hall
Tyhesha R. Tidwell, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Balancing Leadership Expression within the Executive Environment: Insight from Black Leaders
April 2, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom
Kristina Mari Westover, Music Education PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
A Grounded Theory of Secondary School Music Teacher Resilience
April 2, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Presser Center for Research and Creativity in Music
Jenifer Taylor Eaton, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Parents' Literacy Beliefs and Their Literacy Supporting Behaviors During Shared Book Reading With Their Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
April 2, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.
Zoom
Kimberly Alecia Douglas, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Silent Esquire Under Fire: a Phenomenological Study on the Perceived Interpersonal Mistreatment of Black Female Lawyers in the Workplace
April 2, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom
Bryan Hartling, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Last Mile: AI's Transformation of Leadership Across Hierarchies
April 2, 2026, at 12:30 p.m.
Zoom
Christian Geoffrey Hahm, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Genetic Encoding for Evolving Instincts and Learning in Non-Axiomatic Reasoning Systems
April 3, 2026, at 8:00 a.m.
SERC 306
Munui Park, Media and Communication PhD, Klein College of Media and Communication
Antifeminism as a Winning Political Strategy: A Case Study of the 2022 Korean Presidential Election Campaign
April 3, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
The Mind Lab, AH1
Noah A. Randolph, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
"The Same Blinding Games": Un-Monumental Practices in the American Symbolic Landscape
April 3, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Arch 203
Olivia A. Chambers, Africology and African American Studies PhD, College of Liberal Arts
She Ain't No Mammy: African American Midwives' Utilization of Ma'at in the Preservation and Continuity of African Epistemology
April 3, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom
Kacie Hoagland, Spanish and Portuguese PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Language and Identity Development of Spanish Heritage Speakers: a Case for Critical Immersion
April 3, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Mazur Hall 1221
Amber S. Roberts, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Impact of Outbound, International Medical Tourism on Practitioner-Patient Relationship Dynamics in the United States
April 3, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom
Anthony Jeron Smith, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Public Policy Effect on Customer Value and Technology Adoption in the United States: A Case for Plug-In Electric Vehicles
April 3, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Altar 507
Bryce William Collingwood, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Investigating DNA Remodeling in DNA Mismatch Repair
April 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Beury Hall 404
Yuanyuan Zhong, Business Administration/Risk Management and Insurance PhD, Fox School of Business
Essays on Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets
April 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom
Logan T. Smith, Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Creating and Evaluating the Predictive Utility of Risk Phenotypes for Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in Adolescence
April 6, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615
Md Saidur Rahman Pavel, Electrical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Array Processing with Compressive Measurements and Coherent Signals
April 6, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
ECE Conference Room, Engineering Building
Julie Whalen McIntyre, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
You Gotta Love Them First: Educators' Experiences with a Trauma-Informed Approach in Urban Secondary Schools
April 6, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.
Zoom
Michael Brody Mistrot, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Solutions for Extradimensional, Aperiodic Network Solid Electrolytes and Advanced Structural Determination
April 7, 2026, at 12:30 p.m.
Ritter Hall 200
Esmeralda Soriano, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Categorization of Ethnoracial Differences in Associations Between Contextual- and Individual-level Factors and Trajectories of Adolescent Delinquent Behaviors
April 7, 2026, at 3:15 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615
FengYi Yin, Media and Communication PhD, Klein College of Media and Communication
Emerging South-South Media Flows: Chinese Media in Africa
April 8, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom
Bethany Kosmicki, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Situation as Assemblage: Elements Contributing to a Community-Supported Abortion Access Island in the Midwest
April 8, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Gladfelter Hall 713
Jonathan Piscitelli, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Investigating Strand Specific Iterative Nicking in Mismatch Repair
April 8, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Beury Hall 404
Crishnaa Joshi, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Sleep Consistency, Unfair Treatment, and Sleep Hygiene in Black University Students: A Daily Diary Study
April 8, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615
Jay Bradford, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Minority Stress and Depression Among Black College Students: Investigating the Protective Contributions of Faculty Support and Coping
April 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Weiss Hall 542
Qi Zhang, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Scalable Information Extraction with Large Language Models
April 10, 2026, at 9:30 a.m.
Zoom
Negar Mohammadi Koushki, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Domain Knowledge Assisted Configuration Management and Diagnosis in Data Centers
April 10, 2026, at 10:15 a.m.
Zoom
Daniel Craig Remer, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Beyond the Body as Object: A Critical Examination of the Ethics of Objectification in Transplant
April 10, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Mazur 722
Steven A. Martinez, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Why We Keep Scrolling: Novelty and Habit Learning as Drivers of Digital Information-seeking
April 10, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615
John Benjamin Allard, Bioinformatics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Phylogeny-informed Machine Learning for Comparative Genomics
April 10, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
BioLife 234
Kanghyun Cho, Management Information Systems PhD, Fox School of Business
The Role of Algorithmic Automation and Augmentation in Expert Decision-Making
April 10, 2026, at 3:00 p.m.
Speakman Hall 200
Jovan Andjelkovic, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Data Representations in High-Dimensional and Complex Data: Predictive Modeling in Healthcare and Social Media
April 13, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom
Gavin Thomas Koma, Bioengineering PhD, College of Engineering
Kinematic Analysis of Locomotion and Skilled Reaching to Understand Motor Circuit Function in Health and Post-Injury
April 13, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Engineering Building 201A
Nicole L. Lemon, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Mitochondrial Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors as a Potential Therapy Against Cerebrovascular Dysfunction and Neurodegeneration in Models of Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
April 13, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
MERB 810
Jazmyne L. Jackson, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Investigating Mitochondrial Alterations in Esophageal Pathologies
April 15, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Pharmacy Allied Health Building, Room 310
Ganesh Khatei, Geoscience PhD, College of Science and Technology
Particulate Matter Emissions and Soil Moisture Dynamics in Salt-Affected Soils
April 15, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Beury Hall 305
Yingdongjin Fang, Media and Communication PhD, Klein College of Media and Communication
"Being There" in a Story World: An Explication of Narrative Presence
April 16, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Annenberg Hall
Claire Deckers, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Sex Differences and the Role of Dorsal Raphe Serotonin Systems in Heroin-motivated Behaviors
April 17, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
MERB 810
Michele Pich, Criminal Justice PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Conceptions and Applications of Trauma-Informed Policing: International Perspectives
April 20, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Gladfelter Hall 9th Floor
Jacquayla Jackson, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Teacher Beliefs and the Discipline Gap: A Mixed-Methods Study of Educator Identity, Racialized Perceptions, and Discipline Practices
April 20, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom
Weixiao Gao, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Additive Manufacturing of Anisotropic Cu-ZnO Composites for Transverse Thermoelectric Applications
April 24, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Engineering Building 201A
Hannah Elizabeth Jackson, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Inclusion in Charter Schools: A Comparative Study of Administrators' and General Education Teachers' Preparation, Practices, and Shared Vision for Including Students With Disabilities
April 24, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom
Zoe Vicencia Adogli, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Neurobiological Markers of Timing and Chronicity of Early Life Adversity and their Subjective Impact
April 29, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom
Hannah Kim, Bioinformatics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Harnessing Interdisciplinarity in the Investigation of Nucleotide Sequence Evolution
April 29, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
BioLife 234
Billy Truong, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Divergent Roles of ERK2 Substrate Binding Specification in Blood Neoplasms
April 30, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Matthew Ford, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The State, Struggle, and Organized Labor in the Public Sector: Police and Teacher Unions in Philadelphia's Long Sixties
April 30, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Gladfelter Hall 713
Gianna Lynette Harris, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
The Invisible Character of K-12 Academic Success: School Social Workers' Perception of Educational Leaders
April 30, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom
Shantanu Ramesh Shinde, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
A Multiscale Approach for Safety Evaluation of EV Batteries
April 30, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Engineering Building 201A
Omar Hussein Alkahily, Media and Communication PhD, Klein College of Media and Communication
The Impact of Acts of Religiosity on Celebrities' Perceived Trustworthiness
April 30, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Annenberg Hall 005/Zoom
José Rodriguez-Plaza, Spanish PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Reading Aguajes: Spiritual Manifestations and Subtextual Disruptions in Diasporic Caribbean Literature
April 30, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.
Mazur Hall 821
Chuan Lu, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Research on the Development of China's Commercial Paper Market and the Influencing Factors of Transfer Discount Price
April 30, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom