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Graduate Calendar

Temple’s Graduate Calendar is your resource for key dates and deadlines related to graduate education, including deadlines for submitting final dissertations and theses, doctoral dissertation and MFA project completion grant applications, fellowship nominations and First Summers Research Initiative applications.

You can also access the Office of the University Registrar calendar, which includes important universitywide dates.

Upcoming Defense Dates

The following are scheduled dissertation defenses. This schedule is updated continuously as defense announcements are received by the Graduate School.

January 2026

Kyle Brunner, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Design, Synthesis, and Structural Elucidation of Spiroligomers for Targeted Molecular Recognition
January 9, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Beury Hall, 404

Helena Anderson-Mayne, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Principals in Mathemativerse
January 13, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Arthur Krieger, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Addiction as Compulsion
January 14, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Mazur 722

Rachel Lee Anemone, Music Performance/Piano DMA, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Spiritual Metamorphosis: The Evolution of Scriabin's Fanfare Motif in Piano Sonatas 2-4
January 14, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Hui Fan, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Discussion on Digital Application of Rural Finance for Serving Rural Revitalization
January 17, 2026, at 8:00 p.m.
Zoom

Christopher Dwight Goehner, Business Administration DBA, Fox School of Business
Ensuring Donor Dollars Count: Evaluation Nonprofit Mission Alignment
January 27, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Samantha Boudeau, Bioinformatics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Genetic Ancestry and Population Health: Elucidating the Relative Role of African Genetic Ancestry in Cancer Genomics and the Broader Implications for Racial Health Disparities in Cancer
January 30, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
BioLife 234

February 2026

Kyle Williams Stephens, Business Administration DBA, Fox School of Business
Analyzing Deviant Workplace Behaviors: A Comparative Study of New and Traditional Scales
February 8, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Natsuko Imaoka, Teaching and Learning PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Learning Through Narrow Reading and Explicit Instruction
February 16, 2026, at 5:00 p.m.
Japan Campus

Nicholas Salvo, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Detectives on Drugs: Contamination and Containment in U.S. Crime Fiction
February 24, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Thomas J. Biglin, Jr., Music Therapy PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Tuning the Instrument: A Phenomenographic Exploration of the Value of Praxis of Personal (Music) Therapy for Music Therapists
February 24, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Presser Hall, 3rd Floor

Kaitlyn Nagi, Executive Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Power of Policy Narratives: Administrative Communication Strategies for Retaining Highly Effective Teachers in High-Need Schools
February 26, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

March 2026

Courtney Kershaw, Executive Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Exhausted but Expected: Voices from the Staffroom on Burnout in Public Education
March 10, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

William E. Maher, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Queer Eschatologies: Transubstantiation in Contemporary Latin American Art
March 18, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Tyler B086

Christine E. Colosimo, Dance PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Erick Hawkins and the Development of a Dance Avant-Garde in the United States
March 26, 2026, at 3:00 p.m.
Wachman 313

April 2026

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

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