Sezgi Başak Kavakli, Media and Communication PhD, Lew Klein College of Media and Communication
Media, Migration, Polarization: Can Journalists Help Mitigate Polarization Regarding Migration in Türkiye?
January 16, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Nadia Niknami, Computer and Information Science PhD, College of Science and Technology
Improving Performance of Intrusion Detection Systems for Software-Defined Networks
January 24, 2025, at 8:00 a.m.
Zoom

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

Michael J. Giordano, Education/Applied Linguistics PhD, College of Education and Human Development
The Effects of Lexical Coverage, Discourse Structure, and Text Variables on Listening Comprehension
February 1, 2025, at 5:30 p.m.
Japan Campus

Alexander Bourne, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Identifying Key Determinants of School Effectiveness in Jamaica From an Analysis of the National Education Inspectorate Findings
February 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Austin Matthew Mullen, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Conference Realignment and the Role of Faculty Athletics Representatives
February 24, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Ritter Hall 349

Ricardo Bennett, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Investigating the Impact of Mentorship and Feedback on Student Teachers' Perceptions of the Final Year Teaching Practice: Listening to Jamaican Student Teachers
February 25, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Channing Shippen, Music Therapy PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Perspectives on Group Music Therapy Encounters With People Experiencing Homelessness: a Narrative Inquiry
February 25, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.
Presser Hall Conference Room

Arjun Balaram, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
It Starts at the Top: Exploring CEOs' Global Mindset Attributes
February 26, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

HyunHee (Hanna) Woo, Music Therapy PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Music Therapy Practices for Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) Patients in Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals: Content Analysis
February 26, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Presser Hall Conference Room

Lauren E. Ruhnke, Anthropology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Negotiating (Non)Belonging: Queer Selfhoods and Socialities in Neoliberal Urban Mumbai
February 28, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Yun Wu, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
The Impact of Demographic Transition on China's Real Estate Market Prices
March 9, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Stephen Gluckman, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
“The whole world could break into a thousand little pieces”: Anxieties of Incomprehensibility and Community in Modern and Contemporary American Fiction?
March 10, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Maureen Shetty, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Advancing Representation in U.S. Clinical Trials: An Analysis of Intent to Participate, Participation Dynamics, Barriers, and Motivations
March 11, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Tawny Threats, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Give Teachers the Mic: An Investigation into the Literacy Gap and Education
March 11, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Elizabeth R. Jackson, Policy and Organizational Leadership Studies PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Like This and Like That: Black Middle-Class Collegians in White Spaces
March 11, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Alexa S. Trifilo, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Implicit Bias in Hiring: Leveraging Avatars to Foster Inclusive Hiring Practices
March 12, 2025, at 10:30 a.m.
Zoom

Julien G. Ehrenkonig, Anthropology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Illustrating Islam: Comics as Dakwah and the Negotiation of Muslim Identity in Indonesia
March 12, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Hao Jiang, Operations and Supply Chain Management PhD, Fox School of Business
From Coopetition to Control: Strategies for Navigating Supply Chain Complexities
March 13, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Roberto A. Guzmán-Hernández, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
The Role of Aggregated Tau on Endothelial and Cerebrovascular Dysfunction
March 13, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.
MERB 610

Yuzhang Zhou, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Financialization of Enterprises
March 15, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

Amanda M. Peluzzo, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
The Role of IL-19 in Lymphangiogenesis and Lymphatic Function Through Regulation of Junctional Morphology
March 18, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
MERB 1010

Kaitlyn Rose Campbell, Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The Path to the Pincer: Mapping the Development of the Infant Goal-Directed Grasp via Novel Neural and Kinematic Methods
March 18, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Min Kyung Boo, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Disidentifying with America: Idea of Development in Post-2000 Asian Immigrant Narratives
March 19, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Rick Barrantes Aguero, Music Performance/Bassoon DMA, Boyer College of Music and Dance
A Performance Guide and Analysis of Carlos Escalante Macaya's Desasosiego for Solo Bassoon, Strings, and Percussion (2017)
March 19, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Presser Hall 103

Luis Garcia Ayala, Political Science PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Making Legibility Work: The Bureaucratic Politics of State Knowledge
March 20, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Tammy Lind-Butikis, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Is DEI DOA? Leadership Practices that Foster Pride, not Prejudice in America's Schools
March 20, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.
Zoom

Lily F. Scott, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Neither Then nor Now: Queer Temporalities and Interwar Portraits of Expatriate Sapphists
March 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Amani Annie Rush, Educational Psychology PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Musing the Museum: A Case Study Exploring Racial Socialization through a Black Museum's Organizational Identity
March 21, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Janice Julal, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Explaining the Nexus Between Leadership and School Effectiveness in Jamaican Secondary Schools: a Focus on the Role of the Middle Manager
March 21, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Pawan Anand, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Impact of Integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Agile Software Engineering
March 21, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Jiajie Zhou, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Research on Double Helix Brand Consumption Index Based on Big Data Analysis: an Empirical Study on China's Automobile Brand Consumption Index
March 24, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.
Zoom

Teena A. Kochukoshy, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Clinical Trials Offices for Decentralized Clinical Trials
March 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Victoria Palmaccio, Physics PhD, College of Science and Technology
The HUNTER Experiment: a Precision Massive-neutrino Search Based on a Laser-cooled Atomic Source
March 24, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
SERC 408

Fabian Emilo Wainwright, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Principals as STEM Leaders: Managing in the Implementation of A STEM Based Primary Curriculum: A Mixed Methods Study
March 24, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Wenonah M. Carney, Religion PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Virgins, Visons, Dreams and the Prophetess: 'Catholic' New Prophecy and the Innovation of Montanism
March 24, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Brian Belisle, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Exploring the Interplay of Military Experience and Agile Mindset in Software Development
March 24, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Zoom

Haifeng Zhang, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Corporate Debt Structure and Corporate Innovation Output
March 24, 2025, at 8:30 p.m.
Zoom

Irem Altiner Sahin, Mathematics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Metalenses and Refraction Problems
March 25, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.
Wachman Hall 314

Lance McCoy, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
School Leaders' Perspectives on Gaming in K-12 Settings
March 25, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.
Zoom

Amber Davidson, Social and Behavioral Sciences PhD, College of Public Health
Personal and Environmental Factors Predicting Community Mobility of Young Autistic Adults
March 25, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Ritter Annex 992

Fergan E. Imbert, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Productive and Latent HIV Infection of the Central Nervous System: Virus and Host Wrestle for Control of the SUMOylation System
March 26, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
MERB 8th Floor Conference Room

Alexis Muench, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Evolution of Mutual Insurance Companies: Balancing Tradition with Modern Changes
March 26, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Alter Hall 556

Artur Andrade, Mathematics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Harmonic Analysis Methods for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems in Uniformly Rectifiable and Infinitesimally Flat Ahlfors Regular Domains
March 26, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Wachman Hall 312

Carolyn Adkerson, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Beyond Competition: an Exploration of How Collegiate Women Athletes Navigate Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Opportunites
March 27, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Erya Ouyang, Business Administration/Marketing PhD, Fox School of Business
Essays on Multimodal Machine Learning and Social Media Analytics
March 28, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Alter Hall 556

Angela Renee Rocchi, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
CRISPR Antiviral Excises JC Polyomavirus Genome and Suppresses Pathogenic Protein Expression Through Simultaneous Targeting of Early and Late Genes
March 28, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
MERB 710

Samuel Grant Black, Computer Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Image Classification with Unstructured Collections
March 28, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
SERC 306

Samantha N. Kimmel, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Dual Benefits: Dual Enrollment's Impact on Student Enrollment, Persistence, and Host Institution
March 28, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Melissa Ingster-Walker, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Programmatic Shifts in Need-Based and Merit Based College Financial Aid Policy
March 28, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Camille Rose Parker, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Neural Mechanisms Promoting Biased Social Memories in Intergenerational Child Abuse
March 28, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Tauheedah Shukriyyah Asad, Media and Communication PhD, Lew Klein College of Media and Communication
Hollywood Shuffle: The Changing Landscape of Black Entertainment, Production Culture, and the Industry's Move Down South
March 28, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Emily J. DeWoolfson, Music PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Charting the Currents: A Cartography of the Water Topic in Fin-de-Siècle French Music
March 31, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Jennifer Jones, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Is it Greener on the Other Side of the State Line? The Attractiveness of U.S. States for Cannabis Industry Expansion
March 31, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Zhaowei Zhang, Business Administration/Finance PhD, Fox School of Business
Essays on Derivative Pricing and Crypto Factor Models
March 31, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Issra Mehdi, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Dupe Effect: Exploring Consumer Motivations Behind Dupe Purchases
March 31, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.
Zoom

Brandis Nicole Whitfield, Mathematics PhD, College of Science and Technology
The Geometry of End-Periodic Mapping Tori
March 31, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.
Wachman Hall 313

Kirsten Paulus, Social and Behavioral Sciences PhD, College of Public Health
How We Communicate Behavior Matters: Adolescent Sexual Behavior in the Era of Streaming Television
April 1, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Ritter Annex 992

Alexandr Sergeevich Kislitsyn, Music Performance DMA, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Enhancing Performance on Bowed String Instruments Through Physical Training: an Illustrated Guide - Weightlifting, Strength, Endurance, and Other Types of Exercise for String Players
April 1, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Presser Hall 353

Lindsay Kristine Cloud, Health Policy PhD, College of Public Health
Examining the Impact of State Laws that Regulate Access to Firearms for Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States
April 1, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Tech Center 370

Nicole Emser, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art
April 1, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Jennifer Carroll Rivers, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
"I'll Find my Way or Make One": The Transformative Impact of HBCUs on the Career Trajectories of Emergent Black Professionals
April 1, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Jessica Sara Sternbach, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
"Through the Ears to the Soul": Female Musicians in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Paintings
April 1, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Architecture 203

Phoebe A. Bryant, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Silent Epidemic: Unseen Factors Driving Data Breach Fatigue in Everyday Lives
April 2, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Abdullah Al-Amin, Environmental Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Comprehensive Stormwater Management: Investigating PTE Fate and Transport, Bioretention Media Amendment, Biochar, and Innovative Design for Water Quality Improvement
April 2, 2025, at 12:30 p.m.
Zoom

Ryan Sanders, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
In the Shadow of the Leader: a Framework for Understanding Self-leadership and Training Transfer
April 2, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
Zoom

Emily Cowell, Biology PhD, College of Science and Technology
Ecological Dynamics of Methane-seep Foundation Species: Succession, Disturbance Response and Niche Stability
April 3, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
BioLife Room 234

Joseph Rilling, Statistics PhD, Fox School of Business
P-Value Based Variable Selection for Generalized Linear Models
April 3, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
William Wei Conference Room

Tanique Schaffe-Odeleye, Statistics PhD, Fox School of Business
Dynamic Causal Inference: Methodological Foundations and Applications
April 4, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.
William Wei Conference Room 361/Zoom

Henry M. Cohen, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
The Role of Mitochondrial Matrix and Intermembrane Space Calcium Signaling in Physiological and Pathological Metabolic Regulation
April 4, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
MERB 910

Louise Catherine Lamont Borthwick, Geoscience PhD, College of Science and Technology
Geophysical Investigation of Glacier Geometry and Subglacial Geology, and Their Influence on Glacier Dynamics: case Studies of Taku Glacier, Alaska and Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica
April 4, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Beury Hall 305

Alexis Gates, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Silver Linings: Pandemic Educational Technology Use in a Post-Pandemic Classroom
April 4, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Julio Avael, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
How Technology Adoption, Human Behavior, and Cost Efficiency Influence Hospital Task Allocation: a Resource-based View and Technological Unemployment Perspective
April 4, 2025, at 2:15 p.m.
Zoom

Brandon Michael Fairchild, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Pū 'ali Kalo i ka Wai 'ole: Harm Care, and the Uneven Growth of a Houseless Community
April 4, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.
Zoom

Jennifer N. Stanley, Criminal Justice PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Comorbidity Conundrum: Assessing Treatment Participation and Recidivism Outcomes Among Incarcerated Individuals With Co-occurring Opioid Use and Mental Health Disorders
April 4, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.
Mazur Hall 8

Eric Shepherd Martin, Teaching and Learning PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Japanese EFL Learners' High-Frequency Written and Spoken Receptive Word Knowledge
April 5, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Japan Campus

Lu Huang, Religion PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Mount Jizu: The Creation and Development of a Sacred Site in Southwest China (15-20th C.)
April 5, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Mazur Hall/Zoom

Huitong Pan, Computer Information Science PhD, College of Science and Technology
Information Extraction from Scientific Literature
April 7, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Jiaxin Zhao, Statistics PhD, Fox School of Business
On Principal Generalized Linear Modeling for Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Model Building
April 7, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
William Wei Conference Room

Elizabeth Garrison, Computer Information Science PhD, College of Science and Technology
Leveraging AI as Assistive Technology to Support Neurodivergent Users
April 7, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
SERC 306/Zoom

Kelsei D. Thomas, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Exploring Instructional Strategies Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory: Supporting Student Motivation in Online College Courses
April 8, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Stanley Joseph Konoval, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Kant's Copernican Hypothesis: an Affirmation of Transcendental Idealism as a Viable Foundation for the Sciences and Empirical Realism
April 8, 2025, at 4:00 p.m.
Mazur Hall 7th Floor/Zoom

Virginia F. Ulichney, Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Associations Between Everyday Social Connection and Emotional Well-being Across Adulthood
April 9, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Lindsey C. Stewart, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The Relationship Between Rumination and Rejection Sensitivity in Youth: a Longitudinal Study
April 14, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.
Zoom

Daniel C. Carsello, Music Studies PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
"America in Miniature": Constructing White Masculinity through Imagined Black Performance in Vernacular and Choral Music of the United States
April 15, 2025, at 2:15 p.m.
Rock Hall Conference Room

Leah C. Leiner, Mathematics PhD, College of Science and Technology
An Exploration of Compatibility
April 16, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.
Wachman Hall 617

Meryl Fernandez Lumba, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The Dual Structure of Comedy in Hegel's Philosophy of Art
April 16, 2025, at 8:00 p.m.
Mazur Hall

Kyle Lehrbach, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Project Access: Examining Reimbursement Rates and Mental Health Service Providers' Decision to Accept Health Insurance in Private Practice
April 17, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
PSC Conference Room/Zoom

Matthew Mattoni, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Functional Connectivity Heterogeneity and Consequences for Clinical and Cognitive Prediction
April 18, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
PSC Conference Room

Kasra Pourrostami Niavol, Environmental Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Biological Treatment Systems: Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) and Anaerobic Digestion
April 18, 2025, at 12:30 p.m.
Zoom

Anastasiia Agolli, Business Administration PhD, Fox School of Business
Dogs at the Workplace: Daily Investigation of Effects on Well-being and Job Performance
April 22, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Alter Hall 332

Jordan Cagle, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
When Black Men Succeed: A Qualitative Study Examining Black Men's K-12 Experiences and the Impact on their Life Success
April 22, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Jiayue Hu, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Multiscale Modeling of Failure Mechanisms in Multiphase Composite Materials
April 23, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.
Engineering 607A

Brittany Echols, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Health and the Cities: The Responses of Educational Leaders to Health Education Policy
April 25, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Joshua Richard Stern, History PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The Fractured Politics of Class Harmony: Labor Experts and Industrial Democracy in the United States and Chile, 1941-1973
April 25, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Gladfelter 914

Chong Li, Bioinformatics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Integrative Approaches Toward Understanding 3D Genome Organization and Functional Impact of Human Genetic Variation
April 28, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
SERC 306

Rafaa Saleh A Aljurbua, Computer Information Science PhD, College of Science and Technology
Graph-Based Approach: Bridging Insights from Structured and Unstructured Data
April 28, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Hussain Otudi, Computer Information Science PhD, College of Science and Technology
Modeling Infrequent Events by Integrating Noisy Data from Multiple Sources and Applying Machine Learning to Classify and Predict Disruptions
April 29, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Angela Kropf, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Business-to-Business Procurement Decisions in Privately Held and Publicly Traded Firms
April 29, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Karolina Joanna Janik, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Mechanisms of Abnormal Spinal Cord Development and Biomarkers of Open Neural Tube Defects: Insights from a Fetal Rat Model
May 1, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
MERB 610

Kaltra Marku, Spanish PhD, College of Liberal Arts
De Las Obras Literarias Al Cine Y La Televisión: Una Aproximación a Las Adaptaciones en Latinoamérica Durante El Siglo XX-XXI
May 1, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Mazur Hall 821

Abbey L. Friedman, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Prospective Profiles of Conduct Problems Among Youth: Stability and Transitions During Adolescence
May 5, 2025, at 9:30 a.m.
Weiss Hall 542

Seyedhamidreza Pirasteh, Music Composition PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Music of Protest: Intersectionality of Art and Activism Inside Iran and the Iranian Diaspora
May 5, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Presser Hall Conference Room

Molly Tassoni, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Examining Cognitive Correlates of Motivated Memory in Older Adults Using Standard and Naturalistic Paradigms
May 5, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615