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Dissertation Defense Information


Name: Jeremy McIntyre

Program: Physiology

Dissertation Title:
Roles of EMX2 in Odorant Receptor Gene Expression and Olfactory Sensory Neuron Axon Growth

Major Professor: Dr. Timothy McClintock

Date: 11/16/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: MN 463
Name: Angela Madden

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
A Descriptive Study of Literacy Identity Development in an Elemenetary Writing Workshop

Major Professor: Dr. Janice Almasi

Date: 11/16/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: 151 Taylor Education Building
Name: Steven Estep

Program: Educational Leadership

Dissertation Title:
Teacher Practices in a High Performing, Appalachian Rural High School

Major Professor: Dr. Lars Bjork

Date: 11/11/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: Lena Baily Room, Dickey Hall
Name: John Henninger

Program: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Production Sequencing and Stability Analysis of a Just-In-Time System with Sequence Dependent Setups

Major Professor: Dr. Kozo Saito

Date: 11/10/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 220K CRMS
Name: Julie Miker

Program: Mathematics

Dissertation Title:
Eigenvalue Inequalities for a Family of Spherically Symmetric Riemannian Manifolds

Major Professor: Dr. Peter Hislop

Date: 11/10/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: POT 745
Name: Jennifer Fairchild

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
What Might Have Been: The Communication of Social Support and Women's Narrative Reconstruction Post-Miscarriage

Major Professor: Dr. Michael Arrington

Date: 11/06/2009

Time: 12:15 PM

Place: 104 Med Behavioral Sci Bldg
Name: Traci Dundas

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
Socially Disadvantaged Students in Socially Disadvantaged Schools: Double Jeopardy in Mathematics Achievement in the G8 Countries

Major Professor: Dr. Xin Ma

Date: 11/06/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: TEB 122
Name: Christina Benac

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
Understanding and Promoting Regular Dental Visitation: Theoretical Analyses and Message Testing

Major Professor: Dr. Seth Noar

Date: 11/05/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: Keeneland Room, WT Young Library
Name: Chunxu Liu

Program: Statistics

Dissertation Title:
A Nonparametric Version of Wilks' Lambda - Asymptotic Results and Small Sample Approximations

Major Professor: Dr. Arne Bathke

Date: 11/05/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 853 Patterson Office Tower
Name: Samuel Glasscock

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
German Requiems Before Brahms: An Examination of Baroque Era Compositions with Textual or Musical Similarities

Major Professor: Dr. Jefferson Johnson

Date: 11/04/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: Study Room 5 Lucille Little Library
Name: Amani Anwar Mustafa Khalil

Program: Nursing

Dissertation Title:
Depressive Symptoms and Dietary Adherence in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Receiving Hemodialysis"

Major Professor: Dr. Susan Frazier

Date: 11/04/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: CON 315
Name: Robert Page

Program: Biology

Dissertation Title:
Transcriptional and Morphological Changes During Tyroxine-Induced Metamorphosis of the Mexican Axolotl and Axolotl-Tiger Salamander Hybrids

Major Professor: Dr. S. Voss

Date: 10/28/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 101F Morgan Bldg.
Name: Vivian Ojogun

Program: Chemical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
The Effect of Fluorination on Partitioning Behavior and Bilayer Self Assembly

Major Professor: Dr. Barbara Knutson

Date: 10/28/2009

Time: 8:00 AM

Place: 209 CRMS
Name: Derrick Hammons

Program: Entomology

Dissertation Title:
Insect-Plant Relationships and Sustainable Management of Popillia Japonica and Cotinis Nitida in Vineyards

Major Professor: Dr. Daniel Potter

Date: 10/23/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: S-201 Ag. Sci. Center North
Name: Katharine Jo Hahn

Program: Counseling Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Considering the Power of Context: Racism, Sexism, and Belonging in the Vicarious Traumatization of Counselors

Major Professor: Dr. Pam Remer

Date: 10/23/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 122 Taylor Ed. Bldg.
Name: Rajesh Gaur

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
Protesting Liberalization in India: An Examination of Discursive Strategies used by Street Vendors, Squatters, and Small Retailers

Major Professor: Dr. Chike Anyaegbunam

Date: 10/22/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: EGJ 117
Name: Meiwu An

Program: Civil Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Integration of the Regression-Based Land Use Model and the Combined Trip Distribution-Assignment Transportation Model

Major Professor: Dr. Mei Chen

Date: 10/21/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: OHR 120
Name: Kedra Cyrus

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Syntheses and Evaluation of Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs): A Potential Chemical Genetic Approach to Breast Cancer Therapy

Major Professor: Dr. Kyung Bo Kim

Date: 10/21/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: College of Pharmacy 223
Name: Paula Jones

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
Secondary Teachers' Perceptions and Use of a Course Management System: A Case Study of Limitations on Implementation in the Context of a High School

Major Professor: Dr. Joan Mazur

Date: 10/20/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: TEB 151
Name: Hua Bai

Program: Entomology

Dissertation Title:
Functional Genomics Approaches to Study Hormone Action in Mosquito and Beetle

Major Professor: Dr. Subba Palli

Date: 10/20/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: S201 Ag. Sci. Center North
Name: Tao Tang

Program: Nutritional Science

Dissertation Title:
The Interplay between the Expression and Functions of Wnt13 Proteins during Apoptosis in Bovine Aortic Endothelial Cells

Major Professor: Dr. Catherine Mao

Date: 10/20/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: CTW 405
Name: Sefka Genova

Program: Public Administration

Dissertation Title:
Policy Innovation, Program Maintenance, and Enrollment: The Case of State Medicaid Buy-In Programs

Major Professor: Dr. Edward Jennings

Date: 10/16/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 1645 POT
Name: Melinda Leonard

Program: Experimental Psychology

Dissertation Title:
The Role of Pragmatic Language Use in Mediating the Relation between ADHD Symptomology and Social Skills

Major Professor: Dr. Elizabeth Lorch

Date: 10/19/2009

Time: 3:30 PM

Place: 207J Kastle Hall
Name: Tyasning Nusawardani

Program: Entomology

Dissertation Title:
The Regulation of Host Innate Immune Responses by Campoletis sonorensis Parasitization and CsIV Vankyrin Gene Expression

Major Professor: Dr. Bruce Webb

Date: 10/14/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: S201 Ag. Sci. Center North
Name: Erin Gilles

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
Beyond the Commerce of Birth Control: An Examination of the Content of Web-Based DTC and User-Created Messages about Oral Contraceptives

Major Professor: Dr. Beth Barnes

Date: 10/13/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: Grehan Building
Name: Siva Gandhapudi

Program: Microbiology

Dissertation Title:
A Role for Heat Shock Factor 1 in T cell Immune Response

Major Professor: Dr. Jerold Woodward

Date: 10/12/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: MN 442
Name: Chi Lu

Program: Electrical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Micro-Fabricated Hydrogen Sensors Operating at Elevated Temperatures

Major Professor: Dr. Zhi Chen

Date: 10/08/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 453F FPAT
Name: Eugene Patrick Leddin

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
Content Relevance Centric Theory: An Investigation of Content Relevance's Ability to Predict Learning Outcomes in a Training Environment

Major Professor: Dr. Derek Lane

Date: 10/06/2009

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: Maggie Room, Grehan Bldg
Name: Andrea Rae Vansickel

Program: Experimental Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Agonist Replacement Medications for Methamphetamine Dependence: A Laboratory Analysis

Major Professor: Dr. Craig Rush

Date: 09/30/2009

Time: 12:30 PM

Place: 104 Medical Behavioral Sci
Name: Sarah Beth Martin

Program: Anatomy and Neurobiology

Dissertation Title:
Exploring New Relationships between Hippocampus Volume and its Function

Major Professor: Dr. James Geddes

Date: 09/29/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: MN 363
Name: Ruby Stevens

Program: Educational Psychology

Dissertation Title:
An Analysis of Variance to Examine Whether Middle School Students' Perceptions of Teacher Interactions and Home-School Dissonance Predict School Attachment

Major Professor: Dr. Lynda Brown Wright

Date: 09/28/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: Carla Childers

Program: Business Administration

Dissertation Title:
Linking Service Encounters to Financial Performance: An Extended Approach to Valuation

Major Professor: Dr. Scott Kelley

Date: 09/25/2009

Time: 8:00 AM

Place: 446 B&E
Name: Liangrong Yi

Program: Computer Science

Dissertation Title:
Decision-Theoretic Planning in Social Welfare and Music Generation

Major Professor: Dr. Judy Goldsmith

Date: 09/24/2009

Time: 2:30 PM

Place: CRMS 209
Name: Liping Huang

Program: Statistics

Dissertation Title:
Statistical Methods in Microarray Data Analysis

Major Professor: Dr. Mai Zhou

Date: 09/24/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 853 POT
Name: Saikat Boliar

Program: Veterinary Science

Dissertation Title:
Immunopathogenesis of Influenza A Virus: Inhibition of Monocyte Differentiation into Dendritic Cell

Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Chambers

Date: 09/21/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 110 Gluck
Name: Somaya Malkawi

Program: Rehabilitation Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Participation in Play Activities of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Major Professor: Dr. Susan Effgen

Date: 09/21/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: 216 CTW
Name: Shaoxin Feng

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Studies on Drug Solubilization Mechanism in Simple Micelle Systems

Major Professor: Dr. Paul Bummer

Date: 09/21/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 403 CTW
Name: Nelson Akafuah

Program: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Visualization and Characterization of Ultrasonic Cavitating Atomizer and Other Automotive Paint Sprayers Using Infrared Thermography

Major Professor: Dr. Kozo Saito

Date: 09/21/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 220K CMS
Name: James Searcy

Program: Pharmacology

Dissertation Title:
Lipid Signaling in Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Pharmacologically Targeting

Major Professor: Dr. Nada Porter

Date: 09/18/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: MN 463
Name: Anyi Li

Program: Physics

Dissertation Title:
Study of QCD Critical Point Using Canonical Ensemble Method

Major Professor: Dr. Keh Fei Liu

Date: 09/17/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 357 Chem-Physics
Name: Zhaolin Zhang

Program: Entomology

Dissertation Title:
Studies on Hormone Response Elements and their Binding Proteins in Drosophila Melanogaster and Tribolium Castaneum

Major Professor: Dr. Subba Palli

Date: 09/17/2009

Time: 12:30 PM

Place: N224 Ag Sci Center North
Name: James Butler

Program: Microbiology

Dissertation Title:
Mechanisms Governing the Zonal Activity of Alpha-fetoprotein Enhancer E111

Major Professor: Dr. Brett Spear

Date: 09/16/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: Seminar MN 363, Defense 410 HSRB
Name: Corey Brelsfoard

Program: Entomology

Dissertation Title:
Characterization of the Wolbachia and Host Interaction and the Population Genetic Structure of the Lymphatic Filariasis Vector Aedes polynesiensis

Major Professor: Dr. Stephen Dobson

Date: 09/16/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: S-201 Ag. Sci. North
Name: Liu Yang

Program: Electrical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Modeling and Analysis of Complex Production Systems with Split, Merge and Re-Entrant Operations

Major Professor: Dr. Yu-Ming Zhang

Date: 09/16/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 220 K CRMS
Name: Vijayalakshmi Varadarajan

Program: Physics

Dissertation Title:
Specific Heat of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

Major Professor: Dr. Joseph Brill

Date: 09/15/2009

Time: 12:30 PM

Place: CP 179
Name: Laura Daws

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
Happy Ever After.com: The Construction of Identity on Wedding Websites

Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Lindlof

Date: 09/11/2009

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: 117 Grehan
Name: William Haris, Jr.

Program: Counseling Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Understanding Black Males' Perceptions of Marriage: Development and Validation of the Black Marriage Perception Survey

Major Professor: Dr. Pam Remer

Date: 09/10/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: AAshish Joshi

Program: Anatomy and Neurobiology

Dissertation Title:
Substrate and Regulation of Mitochondrial p-Calpain

Major Professor: Dr. James Geddes

Date: 09/04/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 8413 BBSRB
Name: Janet Forren

Program: Nursing

Dissertation Title:
Post Discharge Nausea and Vomiting in Ambulatory Surgical Patients: Incidence and Management Strategies

Major Professor: Dr. Debra Moser

Date: 09/14/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: CON 315T
Name: Antonio Shelton

Program: Educational Leadership Studies

Dissertation Title:
Accessing the Superintendency: Identifying the Assets of an African American Female Superintendent

Major Professor: Dr. Beth Rous

Date: 09/02/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 151 Taylor
Name: Gregory Finkbonner

Program: Educational Leadership Studies

Dissertation Title:
A Comparison of Student Achievement between Highly Qualified and Non-Highly Qualified Teachers in Kentucky

Major Professor: Dr. Lars Bjork

Date: 09/01/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 122 Taylor
Name: Jennifer Hamrick-King

Program: Gerontology

Dissertation Title:
An Interactive Approach Toward Improving Memory and Overall Functioning in Alzheimer's Disease: Implications for Disease Management

Major Professor: Dr. John Watkins

Date: 08/28/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 504 CON
Name: Jorge Gamboa

Program: Physiology

Dissertation Title:
Skeletal Muscle Adaptation to Hypoxia

Major Professor: Dr. Francisco Andrade

Date: 08/27/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: MN 563
Name: Margath Walker

Program: Geography

Dissertation Title:
La Frontera Esta de Moda: Cultural Production, National Identity and Urban Change on the U.S. -Mexico Border

Major Professor: Dr. Susan Roberts

Date: 08/25/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: Miller Hall
Name: Gilbert Ogunro

Program: Economics

Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on the Black-White Wage Gap

Major Professor: Dr. Kenneth Troske

Date: 08/14/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: Economics Rm 324
Name: Keneth Sanford

Program: Economics

Dissertation Title:
Two Empirical Essays in Discrete Choice. Essay One: Ticket Pricing Decisions by Price Discriminating Monopolists. Essay Two: State Income Taxes and Residential Location Decisions

Major Professor: Dr. Frank Scott

Date: 08/13/2009

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: Economics Rm 324
Name: Gil Kim

Program: Economics

Dissertation Title:
A Contribution to Exchange Rate Economics

Major Professor: Dr. Yoonbai Kim

Date: 08/12/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: Economics conf. room
Name: Artress White

Program: English

Dissertation Title:
A House Built on Faith: Religious Rhetoric as Narrative Strategy in Black Fiction

Major Professor: Dr. Joyce Green MacDonald

Date: 08/11/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 1345 POT
Name: Brenikki Floyd

Program: Communiation

Dissertation Title:
Racial Differences in Sexual Debut: Implications for Designing HIV/STD and Pregnancy Prevention Messages

Major Professor: Dr. Rick Zimmerman

Date: 08/10/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: EGJ 117 (Maggie Room)
Name: Mary Griffin-Jenner

Program: Educational Leadership

Dissertation Title:
Work-Based Learning: Who's Participating and Why?

Major Professor: Dr. Charles Hausman

Date: 08/06/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: Carol Patrick

Program: Educational Leadership

Dissertation Title:
A Comparison of Achievement Gains for Full-day and Half-day Kindergarten Students

Major Professor: Dr. Charles Hausman

Date: 08/06/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: Reynolds Frimpong

Program: Chemical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Synthesis and Characterization of Magnetic Hydrogel Nanocomposites

Major Professor: Dr. J. Zachary Hilt

Date: 07/29/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: A157 AsTeCC
Name: Luis Gonzalez

Program: Economics

Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on Wealth and Transfers

Major Professor: Dr. James P. Ziliak

Date: 07/29/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 324 Gatton
Name: Sandra Winter

Program: Public Administration

Dissertation Title:
An Empirical Analysis of Factors Afffecting the Utilization and Cost of Healthcare by Kentucky State Prison Inmates

Major Professor: Dr. J.S. Butler

Date: 07/27/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 445 POT
Name: Ae Sook Kim

Program: Public Administration

Dissertation Title:
Policy Innovation, Diffusion, Reinvention, and Evolution in State Medicard Managed Care Programs

Major Professor: Dr. Edward T. Jennings, Jr.

Date: 07/24/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: 445 POT
Name: Jennifer Eli

Program: Education Sciences

Dissertation Title:
An Exploratory Study of Prospective Middle Grade Teachers' Mathematic Connections While Completing Investigative Tasks in Geometry

Major Professor: Dr. Margaret Schroeder

Date: 07/23/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 355 Dickey Hall
Name: Jennifer Robinson

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
Teacher Leadership and School Reform: A Case Study of the Accelerating Student Achievement Project in a Central Kentucky School District

Major Professor: Dr. Lars Bjork

Date: 07/23/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: Shashank Rao

Program: Business Administration

Dissertation Title:
Managing Supply Chain Risks through Outsourcing: Three Studies

Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Goldsby

Date: 07/23/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: B&E 446
Name: Glenda Patton

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
A Case Study: Exploring the Leadership Styles of Community-Based Early Childhood Program Directors

Major Professor: Dr. Lars Bjork

Date: 07/22/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: Venkata Kavuluru

Program: Computer Science

Dissertation Title:
Analysis of Security Measures for Sequences

Major Professor: Dr. Andrew Klapper

Date: 07/22/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 209 CRMS
Name: Gwendolyn Rinker

Program: Nursing

Dissertation Title:
Factors Associated with Residential Radon Testing Intentions

Major Professor: Dr. Ellen Hahn

Date: 07/21/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 315T College of Nursing
Name: Gao Liu

Program: Public Administration

Dissertation Title:
Essays on Municipal Bond Insurance

Major Professor: Dr. Merlin Hackbart

Date: 07/21/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 445 POT
Name: Lisa Allen

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
Differentiating Professional Development for Teachers: How Teachers Develop and Implement Professional Growth Plans

Major Professor: Dr. Charles Hausman

Date: 07/20/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: Su-Yun Chang

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
Teachers' Beliefs about Mandarin Literacy Instruction and Their Classroom Practices in an Elementary School in Central Taiwan

Major Professor: Drs. Mary Shake and Beth Goldstein

Date: 07/17/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 122 TEB
Name: Travis Sexton

Program: Biology

Dissertation Title:
The Distribution of Unpaired During Drosophila Oogenesis

Major Professor: Dr. Douglas Harrison

Date: 07/16/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 305 Morgan Bldg.
Name: Rosalie Aldrich

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
Message Strategies for Suicide Prevention

Major Professor: Dr. Nancy Harrington

Date: 07/16/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: EGJ 117
Name: Xun Li

Program: Business Administration

Dissertation Title:
Foundations of Supply Chain Agility: A Work Design Perspective

Major Professor: Dr. Clyde Holsapple

Date: 07/16/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: 446 Gatton College
Name: Jordan Clark

Program: Anatomy and Neurobiology

Dissertation Title:
The Role of Cyclophilin D in Traumatic Spinal Cord and Brain Injury

Major Professor: Dr. James Geddes

Date: 07/15/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: MS 302
Name: Tatiana Levit

Program: Business Administration

Dissertation Title:
Consumer Emotional Intelligence and the Impact of Affective Misforecasting on Product Evaluations for Restrained Versus Unrestrained Eaters

Major Professor: Dr. David Hardesty

Date: 07/15/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 446 B&E
Name: William J. Jones

Program: Business Administration

Dissertation Title:
Math Anxiety and Consumer Choice under Price Promotions: Insights from the Integration of Bio-Behavioral Perspectives

Major Professor: Dr. Terry Childers

Date: 07/15/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: B&E 446
Name: Cynthia Reeser

Program: Family Studies

Dissertation Title:
Historical Context in Developmental Research: A Birth Cohort Analysis of the Baby Boom Generation

Major Professor: Dr. Ronald Werner-Wilson

Date: 07/14/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 316 Funkhouser
Name: MohamedDiwanMohideen Abul Hameed

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Computational Design of 3-Phosphoinositide Dependent Kinase-1 Inhibitors as Potential Anti-Cancer Agents

Major Professor: Dr. Chang-Guo Zhan

Date: 07/13/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 223 College of Pharmacy
Name: Zhen Hou

Program: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Algorithms for Vision Based Defect Detection on Textured Surfaces

Major Professor: Dr. Johne M. Parker

Date: 07/10/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: Dept. of Mechanical Eng.
Name: Purnima Mehrotra

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
Understanding Determinants of Sexual Behaviors of College Students in India

Major Professor: Dr. Rick Zimmerman

Date: 07/10/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 117 Grehan
Name: Zhongyi Nie

Program: Mathematics

Dissertation Title:
Estimates for a Class of Multi-Linear Forms

Major Professor: Dr. Russell Brown

Date: 07/10/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: POT 745
Name: David Link

Program: Chemistry

Dissertation Title:
Bootstrap Enhanced N-dimensional Deformation of Space with Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy

Major Professor: Dr. Robert Lodder

Date: 07/09/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: ASTeCC A-157
Name: Tracy Sturgill

Program: Veterinary Science

Dissertation Title:
Vaccine Responses and Immune Modulation in the Neonatal Foal

Major Professor: Dr. David Horohov

Date: 07/08/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 121 Gluck
Name: Ganna Lyubartseva

Program: Chemistry

Dissertation Title:
Alterations of Zinc Transporters in Alzheimer's Disease

Major Professor: Dr. Mark Lovell

Date: 07/06/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: Sanders-Brown 120
Name: Sandra Slater

Program: History

Dissertation Title:
"My God was called Conqueror of Men": Constructions and Contestations of Masculinities in the New World, 1480-1640

Major Professor: Dr. Daniel B. Smith

Date: 07/02/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 1745 POT
Name: Nathaniel Jones

Program: Exercise Science

Dissertation Title:
Potentiation of Muscle Twitch and Vertical Jump by Heavy Load Back Squats

Major Professor: Dr. James Yates

Date: 07/01/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: Seaton Bldg
Name: Alice Erickson

Program: Special Education

Dissertation Title:
A Survey of Supports Used by Women with Arthritis Over Age 50 to Maintain Employment

Major Professor: Dr. Debra Harley

Date: 06/30/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 236 Taylor Ed
Name: Megan Sampley

Program: Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Dissertation Title:
Glucose Regulation of Transcription in Pancreatic Beta-Cells

Major Professor: Dr. Sabire Ozcan

Date: 06/29/2009

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: BBSRB
Name: Agnes Stairs

Program: Clinical Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Examining the Construct of Perfectionism: A Factor Analytic Study

Major Professor: Dr. Gregory Smith

Date: 06/26/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 206-A Kastle Hall
Name: Yi Jiang

Program: Plant Pathology

Dissertation Title:
Identification and Characterization of Host Factors Involved in Tombusvirus Replication

Major Professor: Dr. Peter Nagy

Date: 06/25/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 266 Plant Sci Bldg
Name: Janet Lines

Program: Microbiology

Dissertation Title:
The T Cell Response to Influenza Virus in Neonatal Mice

Major Professor: Dr. Beth Garvy

Date: 06/19/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: MN 463
Name: Yongmei Pan

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Computational Modeling and Design of Protein Drugs for Anti-cocaine Therapuetics

Major Professor: Dr. Chang-Guo Zhan

Date: 06/17/2009

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: 223 College of Pharmacy
Name: Jin Dai

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Preparation and Characterization of Blackberry Extracts and their Anticancer and Anti-inflammatory Properties

Major Professor: Dr. Russell Mumper

Date: 06/16/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 223 College of Pharmacy
Name: Xugang Guo

Program: Chemistry

Dissertation Title:
Imide-Functionalized Conjugated Polymers: Synthesis, Structure-Property and Device Studies

Major Professor: Dr. Mark Watson

Date: 06/15/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 137 Chemistry-Physics Bldg
Name: John Allen

Program: Geology

Dissertation Title:
Paleogeographic Reconstruction of the St. Lawrence Promontory, Western Newfoundland

Major Professor: Dr. William Thomas

Date: 06/12/2009

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: 203 Slone Bldg
Name: Yushu Liu

Program: Statistics

Dissertation Title:
The Development and Comparison of PLS and OrPLS for Discrimination

Major Professor: Dr. William Rayens

Date: 06/10/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 853 POT
Name: Krasimira Rozenova

Program: Physiology

Dissertation Title:
Studies on the Role of Acid Sphingomyelinase and Ceramide in the Regulation of TACE Activity and TNF alpha Secretion by Macrophages

Major Professor: Dr. Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian

Date: 06/09/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: MN 463
Name: Geraldine Reeves

Program: Nursing

Dissertation Title:
Heart Failure, Diabetes Mellitus, and Depressive Symptoms: The Convergence of Common Co-Morbidities

Major Professor: Dr. Debra Moser

Date: 06/05/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: College of Nursing
Name: Michelle Stephens

Program: Anatomy and Neurobiology

Dissertation Title:
Glutamate Regulation in the Hippocampal Trisynaptic Pathway in Aging and Status Epilepticus

Major Professor: Dr. Greg Gerhardt

Date: 06/03/2009

Time: 8:00 AM

Place: MN 563
Name: Qiang Zeng

Program: Materials Science and Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Evolution of Textures and Microstructures and its Effect on Mechanical Properties in Continuous Cast AA 3004 and 5052 Al Alloys

Major Professor: Dr. Tongguang Zhai

Date: 06/01/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 112 Raymond Bldg
Name: Ravindra Tejwani

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Studies of Partitioning and Transport Across Lipid Bilayer Membrane

Major Professor: Dr. Bradley Anderson

Date: 05/29/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 223 Pharmacy Building
Name: Mohammad Bani Ahmad

Program: Clincial Science

Dissertation Title:
The Role of Decay Accelerating Factor (DAF/CD55) in the Immunopathogenesis of Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection

Major Professor: Dr. Oliver Oakley

Date: 05/29/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: CTW #409
Name: Ajay Makkuni

Program: Chemical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Adsorbents for Aqueous and Vapor Phase Mercury Separation: Synthesis, Characterization and Mathematical Modeling

Major Professor: Dr. Dibakar Bhattacharyya

Date: 05/26/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 120 Raymond Bldg
Name: Mary Gieske

Program: Biology

Dissertation Title:
Mechanism of Estrogen/Estrogen Receptor Alpha in Priming the Pituitary for the Luteinizing Hormone Surge

Major Professor: Dr. Chemyong Ko

Date: 05/20/2009

Time: 5:00 PM

Place: CTW 403
Name: Karen Strand

Program: Educational Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Behavioral Affects of Consideration of Future Consequences and Time Perspective on Self-Regulation and Procrastination in Mastery and Performance Oriented College Students

Major Professor: Dr. Lynley Anderman

Date: 05/15/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 151 Taylor Ed
Name: Joel Kilty

Program: Mathematics

Dissertation Title:
Boundary Value Problems for Elliptic Systems on Lipschitz Domains

Major Professor: Dr. Zhongwei Shen

Date: 05/15/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: POT 745
Name: Brian Mason

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
A Performance Guide to the Music and Solo Improvisational Style of Dave Samuels

Major Professor: Dr. James Campbell

Date: 05/14/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: LCLI Study Room 5
Name: Elizabeth Salt

Program: Nursing

Dissertation Title:
Medication Adherence in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Major Professor: Dr. Ann Peden

Date: 05/12/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 504 College of Nursing
Name: Stephanie Hyberger

Program: Educational and Counseling Psychology

Dissertation Title:
An Examination of Parental Closeness, Parental Monitoring, Relationship Quality, Dating Patterns, Alcohol Use, Marijuana Use, and Sexual Risk-Taking in Adolescence

Major Professor: Dr. Rory Remer

Date: 05/12/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: 245 Taylor Ed.
Name: Linda Kimsey

Program: Public Administration

Dissertation Title:
How Efficient are Military Hospitals? A Comparison of Technical Efficiency Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Major Professor: Dr. John Scott Butler

Date: 05/12/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 445 POT
Name: Rupak Dutta

Program: Physics

Dissertation Title:
Precision Study of Standard Model Corrections in Hadronic B Decays

Major Professor: Dr. Susan Gardner

Date: 05/11/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: CP 177
Name: Agus Hudoyo

Program: Agricultural Economics

Dissertation Title:
The Production of Social Capital and Its Impact on Income: Using ZIP Code Area as Unit Analysis in Rural Area Kentucky

Major Professor: Dr. David Debertin

Date: 05/08/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 341 Barnhart Bldg.
Name: James Couch

Program: Counseling Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Exploring Lesbian and Gay Experiences with Individuals, Systems, and Environments: Patterns of Response to Heterosexist Prejudice and Discrimination

Major Professor: Dr. Pam Remer

Date: 05/08/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 151F Taylor Ed. Bldg.
Name: Anduamlak Meharie

Program: Anthropology

Dissertation Title:
Urban Development and Displacement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Impacts on Livelihoods and Social Relations in Yeka Tefo Community, with a Focus on Youth

Major Professor: Dr. Peter Little

Date: 05/08/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 104 Lafferty Hall
Name: Keneth Macpherson

Program: Geology

Dissertation Title:
Long-Period Ground Motions in the Upper Mississippi Embayment from Finite-Fault, Finite-Difference Simulations

Major Professor: Dr. Edward Woolery

Date: 05/08/2009

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: 102 M&MR
Name: Meada Hall

Program: Special Education

Dissertation Title:
Training Parents to Use Constant Time Delay with a CD-ROM to Teach Their Children with a Disability to Prepare Recipes

Major Professor: Dr. John Schuster

Date: 05/07/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: 236 Taylor Ed. Bldg.
Name: Gabriel Briggs

Program: English

Dissertation Title:
The New Negro in the "Old" South

Major Professor: Dr. Alan Nadel

Date: 05/06/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: POT
Name: Kavita Bitra

Program: Entomology

Dissertation Title:
Functional Characterization of Nuclear Receptors and Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins

Major Professor: Dr. Subba Palli

Date: 05/06/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: S-201 ASCN
Name: Gilbert Singletary

Program: Educational Psychology

Dissertation Title:
An Exploratory Study that Examines Academic Achievement and Performance of Nontraditional Students

Major Professor: Dr. Lynda Brown Wright

Date: 05/05/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: 151 Taylor Ed. Bldg.
Name: Jill Day

Program: Kinesiology and Health Promotion

Dissertation Title:
Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Academic Performance in Rural Children Living in Eastern Kentucky

Major Professor: Dr. John Hall

Date: 05/05/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: 103 Seaton
Name: Nirmal Ravi

Program: Biomedical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
IGF-1 Plasmid-Releasing Scaffolds for Regeneration of Damaged Growth Plate

Major Professor: Dr. David Puleo

Date: 05/04/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: Wenner Gren Research lab
Name: Karen Derefinko

Program: Clinical Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Using the FFM to Understand and Integrate the Deficits of Psychopathy

Major Professor: Dr. David Berry

Date: 05/04/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 206A Kastle Hall
Name: Rong Chen

Program: Materials Science and Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Effects of Electric Current on the Impression Behavior of Solder Alloys

Major Professor: Dr. Fuqian Yang

Date: 05/04/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 120 Raymond Bldg.
Name: Andrea Smith

Program: Clinical Psychology

Dissertation Title:
The Culture Connection: Testing a Model of African American Attitudes Toward Mental Health Service Utilization

Major Professor: Dr. Tamara Brown

Date: 05/04/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: Kastle Hall
Name: Lauren Gudonis

Program: Clinical Psychology

Dissertation Title:
The Interaction Between Personality Traits and Contextual Disadvantage on Criminal Behavior: A Longitudinal Study of High-Risk Females

Major Professor: Dr. Peter Giancola

Date: 04/30/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: 207J Kastle Hall
Name: Christina Edwards

Program: Animal Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Identification and Characterization of the Glucagon-like Peptide-2 Hormonal System in Ruminants

Major Professor: Dr. David Harmon

Date: 04/29/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: N12 AGN
Name: Matthew Wells

Program: Mathematics

Dissertation Title:
Aspects of the Geometry of Metrical Connections

Major Professor: Dr. Richard Millman

Date: 04/27/2009

Time: 4:00 PM

Place: POT 318
Name: Johnathan Rogers

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
The Relationship of School Culture Indicators and Student Academic Success

Major Professor: Dr. Charles Hausman

Date: 04/23/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 122 TEB
Name: Elizabeth Holbrook

Program: Computer Science

Dissertation Title:
Satisfaction Assessment of Textual Software Engineering Artifacts

Major Professor: Dr. Jane Hayes

Date: 04/23/2009

Time: 12:30 PM

Place: Hardmon 241
Name: Xiaolong Deng

Program: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics to Planetary Atmospheres

Major Professor: Dr. Raymond LeBeau

Date: 04/23/2009

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: 173 Anderson Building
Name: Jorge Figueroa-Magana

Program: Political Science

Dissertation Title:
The Role of Subnational Identities in Shaping Mass Attitudes Towards Economic Globalization and Neoliberal Reforms: The Case of the State of Yucatan

Major Professor: Dr. Charles L. Davis

Date: 04/23/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: 245 POT
Name: John Hairel

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
The Wind Band Music of Eric Whitacre with an Analysis and Discussion of Three Choral Works Adapted for Wind Band

Major Professor: Dr. J. Cody Birdwell

Date: 04/23/2009

Time: 3:45 PM

Place: LCLI 224
Name: Darla Diltz

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
The Hotel Casablanca: A Biographical and Contextual Genesis of a New American Opera

Major Professor: Dr. Noemi Lugo

Date: 04/23/2009

Time: 8:00 AM

Place: LCLI 224
Name: Christopher Strange

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
Two Solos by Hank Mobley

Major Professor: Dr. Miles Osland

Date: 04/22/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: 4 Fine Arts Library
Name: Tonja Fisher

Program: Entomology

Dissertation Title:
Identification and Analysis of Uncharacterized Open Reading Frames in campoletis sonorensis Genome

Major Professor: Dr. Bruce Webb

Date: 04/22/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 301 ASCN
Name: Tien Mun Yee

Program: Civil Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Three-Dimensional Free Surface Non-Hydrostatic Modeling of Plunging Water Wtih Turbulence and Air Entrained Transport

Major Professor: Dr. Scott Yost

Date: 04/22/2009

Time: 8:30 AM

Place: 120 OHR
Name: Liecheng Sun

Program: Civil Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Analytical Strip Method of Antisymmetric Laminated Plates

Major Professor: Dr. Issam Harik

Date: 04/22/2009

Time: 12:30 PM

Place: 173 Ralph Anderson Bldg.
Name: Stephanie Lang

Program: History

Dissertation Title:
Selling the Mountains: The Broad Form Deed and the Economic, Social and Legal Transformation of Eastern Kentucky, 1880-1930

Major Professor: Dr. Ronald Eller

Date: 04/22/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 1745 POT
Name: Ryan Spangler

Program: Hispanic Studies

Dissertation Title:
The Religion of Poetry: An Evaluation of the Spiritual Crisis in the Poetry of Jose Marti

Major Professor: Dr. Enrico Mario Santi

Date: 04/21/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: POT 1145
Name: Michael Sander

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
CATS as a Predictor of Student Success in Post-Secondary Education

Major Professor: Dr. Charles Hausman

Date: 04/21/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 245 Taylor Ed. Bldg.
Name: Joseph Carucci

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
The Contribution of Gerry Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band to the Jazz Tradition

Major Professor: Dr. Miles Osland

Date: 04/20/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: Niles Study Room
Name: Kelly Kleinhans

Program: Rehabilitation Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Written Descriptions: An Individualized Method for Interpreting Unfamiliar Communicative Acts

Major Professor: Dr. Judith Page

Date: 04/20/2009

Time: 8:00 AM

Place: 102-A College of Nursing
Name: Goce Andrevski

Program: Business Administration

Dissertation Title:
Competitive Strategy, Alliance Network Structure, and Firm Performance

Major Professor: Dr. Walter Ferrier

Date: 04/20/2009

Time: 9:30 AM

Place: B&E 253
Name: Duy Hinh Khieu

Program: Business Administration

Dissertation Title:
The Determinants of Bank Loan Recovery Rates

Major Professor: Dr. Donald Mullineaux

Date: 04/20/2009

Time: 4:00 PM

Place: B&E 446
Name: Hannah Freeman

Program: English

Dissertation Title:
Phantasmatic Pastoral: Landscape and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Britih Women's Writing

Major Professor: Dr. Ellen Rosenman

Date: 04/17/2009

Time: 10:30 AM

Place: 1345 POT
Name: Kristin Kant

Program: Antrhopology

Dissertation Title:
Painting the Mountains: An Investigation of Tourist Art in North America

Major Professor: Dr. Mary Anglin

Date: 04/17/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: Lafferty 104
Name: James Monaghan

Program: Biology

Dissertation Title:
Physiological Genomics of Spinal Cord and Limb Regeneration in a Salamander, the Mexican Axoloti

Major Professor: Dr. S. Randal Voss

Date: 04/17/2009

Time: 11:15 AM

Place: Morgan Building 107
Name: Audrey Scarlata

Program: Business Administration

Dissertation Title:
Can XBRL Improve Financial Analysis? The Joint Effects of Technology and Knowledge on Decision Performance

Major Professor: Dr. Dan Stone

Date: 04/17/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 352 B&E
Name: Eun Hae Kim

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
Bartok and Nature: An Imaginative Reading of Representation in Selected Piano Pieces

Major Professor: Dr. Alan Hersh

Date: 04/16/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: Fine Arts Library Room 2
Name: Alicestyne Adams

Program: History

Dissertation Title:
Spirited Away: Black Evangelicals and the Gospel of Freedom, 1790-1890

Major Professor: Dr. Ronald Eller

Date: 04/16/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: 1745 POT
Name: Kevin Ford

Program: Exercise Science

Dissertation Title:
Changes in Longitudinally Assessed Biomechanical Parameters Related to Increased Risk of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injuries in Adolescent Female and Male Athletes

Major Professor: Dr. Robert Shapiro

Date: 04/16/2009

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: 103 SB
Name: David Hollingsworth

Program: History

Dissertation Title:
Political Piety: Evangelicals and the American Revolution in South Carolina and Georgia

Major Professor: Dr. Daniel B. Smith

Date: 04/16/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 1745 POT
Name: Lee Roher

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
The Relationship Between the Degree of Participation in Online Embedded Professional Development for High School Mathematics Teachers and Student Achievement Gains in College Algebra

Major Professor: Dr. Douglas Smith

Date: 04/16/2009

Time: 1:30 PM

Place: ITC 151-F
Name: Arwa Abu Khweek

Program: Microbiology

Dissertation Title:
Structure Function Analysis of HmsH-A beta-barrel Outer Membrane Protein Essential for Plague Biofilm Formation

Major Professor: Dr. Robert Perry

Date: 04/16/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: MN 263
Name: Douglas Drewek

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
It Could Happen to You: A Study of the Unaccompanied Solo Improvisations of Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins

Major Professor: Dr. Miles Osland

Date: 04/15/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: 209 Lucille Little Library
Name: Laura Stephenson

Program: Gerontology

Dissertation Title:
Civic Engagement of Elders: Influence of Generativity and Gerotranscendence throughout the Life Course

Major Professor: Dr. Pamela Teaster

Date: 04/15/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: 405 Wethington
Name: Mario Garcia

Program: Music (Voice Performance)

Dissertation Title:
How Patriotism and War Influenced English Song Literature by George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten

Major Professor: Dr. Noemi Lugo

Date: 04/14/2009

Time: 4:30 PM

Place: Little Library, Room 5
Name: Tricia Brown

Program: Mathematics

Dissertation Title:
Rees Products of Posets and Inequalities

Major Professor: Dr. Margaret Readdy

Date: 04/14/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: POT 745
Name: Vasile-Gilbert Lepadatu

Program: Philosophy

Dissertation Title:
Early Heidegger's Transition from Life to Being

Major Professor: Dr. Ronald Bruzina

Date: 04/14/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 121 Hardymon
Name: Brian Wortham

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Polyamines in Yersinia pestis: Roles in Biofilm Formation and Analogue Antimicrobial Activity

Major Professor: Dr. Hsin-Hsiung Tai

Date: 04/14/2009

Time: 10:30 AM

Place: 115 Nursing
Name: Karl Persson

Program: Computer Science

Dissertation Title:
A Protocol Suite for Wireless Personal Area Networks

Major Professor: Dr. D. Manivannan

Date: 04/14/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 241 Hardymon
Name: Emily Lykins

Program: Clinical Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Effects of Mindfulness and Meditation Experience on Cognitive and Emotional Functioning and Ego Depletion

Major Professor: Dr. Ruth Baer

Date: 04/13/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 207-I Kastle Hall
Name: Maureen Dwyer

Program: Rehabilitation Sciences

Dissertation Title:
The Role of the Hip Abductor Muscle Complex in the Function of the Pathological Hip Joint

Major Professor: Dr. Carl Mattacola

Date: 04/13/2009

Time: 12:30 PM

Place: CON 102A
Name: Xiaowei Dong

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Lipid-based Paclitaxel and Doxorubicin Nanoparticles to Overcome P-gp-mediated Drug Resistance in Solid Tumors

Major Professor: Dr. Russell Mumper

Date: 04/13/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 223 College of Pharmacy
Name: Eric Kahn

Program: Mathematics

Dissertation Title:
The Generalized Burnside and Representation Rings

Major Professor: Dr. Marian Anton

Date: 04/13/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: CB 212
Name: Rebecca Gilbertson

Program: Experimental Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Neurocognitive Functioning in Detoxified Substance Dependent Individuals: The Role of Nicotine and HPA Axis Function

Major Professor: Dr. Sara Jo Nixon

Date: 04/10/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 206-A Kastle Hall
Name: Jessica Cunningham

Program: Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation

Dissertation Title:
Investigating the Application of Rasch Theory in Measuring Change in Middle School Student Performance in Physical Science

Major Professor: Dr. Kelly Bradley

Date: 04/10/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: DH 109
Name: Michael Yonchak

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
Rehearsal Strategies and Stylistic Interpretations to Three Works for Wind Ensembles by Frank Zappa

Major Professor: Dr. John Birdwell

Date: 04/08/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: Niles Gallery Study Room
Name: Stewart Thompson

Program: Family Studies

Dissertation Title:
Promises We Have Kept: Using Grounded Theory Methodology to Understand the Backgrounds, Antecedents and Characteristics of Caucasian Low-Income Parents' Healthy Marriages

Major Professor: Dr. Donna Smith

Date: 04/07/2009

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: 316 Funkhouser
Name: Oleksandr Zelyak

Program: Physics

Dissertation Title:
Persistent Currents and Quantum Critical Phenomena in Mesoscopic Physics

Major Professor: Dr. Ganpathy Murthy

Date: 04/07/2009

Time: 12:30 PM

Place: CP 357
Name: Elizabeth Roland

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
An Exploratory Study of High School Students' Conceptions of Atomic and Cellular Structure and Relationships between Atoms and Cells

Major Professor: Dr. J. Truman Stevens

Date: 04/06/2009

Time: 2:30 PM

Place: 151F Taylor Ed. Building
Name: Paige Lush

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
Music and Identity in Circuit Chautauqua: 1904-1932

Major Professor: Dr. Ronald Pen

Date: 04/03/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: Niles Study Room, Little Library
Name: Justin Balko

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
The Pharmacogenomics of EGFR-dependent NSCLC: Predicting and Enhancing Response to Targeted EGFR Therapy

Major Professor: Dr. Esther Black

Date: 04/03/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: PH206, COP
Name: Jon Fulkerson

Program: Business Administration (Finance)

Dissertation Title:
An Anlaysis of Alternate Portfolio Return Decomposition Methods

Major Professor: Dr. Bradford D. Jordan

Date: 04/03/2009

Time: 12:30 PM

Place: B&E 446
Name: Walter Bower

Program: Sociology

Dissertation Title:
A Congregational Study of a Changing Religious Ecology in an Urban Neighborhood: A Racially Homogeneous African American/Multiracial Church Comparison

Major Professor: Dr. Dwight Billings

Date: 04/01/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: POT 245
Name: Tedrin Lindsay

Program: Music

Dissertation Title:
The Development of a Core Repertoire of American Operas by New York City Opera and the Ford Foundation, 1957-1960

Major Professor: Dr. Diana Hallman

Date: 03/30/2009

Time: 12:00 noon

Place: Fine Arts Library, Study Room 5
Name: Firas Jarrar

Program: Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation Title:
Simulation and Optimization of Super Plastic Forming (SPF) and Quick Plastic Forming (QPF) of Lightweight Alloys

Major Professor: Dr. Marwan Khraisheh

Date: 03/30/2009

Time: 12:00 noon

Place: CRMS 220K
Name: Michelle Estis

Program: Clinical Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Effect of Comorbidity on the Performance of Children with ADHD on the Conners' Continuous Performance Test

Major Professor: Dr. David Berry

Date: 03/27/2009

Time: 11:30 AM

Place: 210 Kastle Hall
Name: Fabien Tondel

Program: Agricultural Economics

Dissertation Title:
International Trade and Industrial Geography

Major Professor: Dr. David Freshwater

Date: 03/27/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 341 Barnhart Bldg.
Name: William Weathers

Program: Communication

Dissertation Title:
Systematically Transformed Self-Efficacy in Narratives of Recovery from Alcoholism

Major Professor: Dr. Nancy Harrington

Date: 03/25/2009

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: 117 Grehan Building
Name: Julie Oestreich

Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences

Dissertation Title:
Variability in ADP-Mediated Platelet Response

Major Professor: Dr. Wendell Akers

Date: 03/25/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: COP 223
Name: Lise Solberg Nes

Program: Clinical Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Self-Regulatory Deficits in Fibromyalgia and Temporomandibular Disorders

Major Professor: Dr. Suzanne Segerstrom

Date: 03/25/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 207 Kastle Hall
Name: Barbara Sharanowski

Program: Entomology

Dissertation Title:
Hymenopteran Molecular Phylogenetics: From Apocrita to Braconidae (Ichneumonoidea)

Major Professor: Dr. Michael Sharkey

Date: 03/25/2009

Time: 1:00 PM

Place: 201 ASCN
Name: Katherine J. Smith

Program: Experimental Psychology

Dissertation Title:
Novel Mechanisms of Ethanol Neurotoxicity: Dysfunction of Tubulin Polymerization and Microtubule Associated Proteins Immunoreactivity in Organotypic Hippocampal Slice Cultures

Major Professor: Dr. Mark Prendergast

Date: 03/23/2009

Time: 11:00 AM

Place: 413 BBSRB
Name: Francis O'Hara

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
Kentucky's Response to the Vocational Education Act of 1963: Leadership for the Development of a Unique System of Secondary Area Technology Centers

Major Professor: Dr. Joyce Logan

Date: 03/23/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: Joyce Velez

Program: Toxicology

Dissertation Title:
Chemotherapeutic Toxicity in Cardiac and Neuronal Tissue: P53 and Oxidative Stress - An Insight

Major Professor: Dr. Daret K. St.Clair

Date: 03/20/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: MN 463
Name: Chad Morris

Program: Anthropology

Dissertation Title:
Assessing Factors Influencing Participation and Dissemination in Community-Based Public Health Coalitions: An Exploration of Social Change

Major Professor: Dr. John van Willigen

Date: 03/13/2009

Time: 8:30 AM

Place: 104 Lafferty Hall
Name: Anthony Donkor

Program: Instruction and Administration

Dissertation Title:
Parental Involvement in Education in Ghana: The Case of the Hope International School

Major Professor: Dr. Lars Bjork

Date: 03/13/2009

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: 109 Dickey Hall
Name: Michael Woodman

Program: Microbiology

Dissertation Title:
Immune System Mechanisms Involved in the Clearance of Borrelia Species During Mammalian Infection

Major Professor: Dr. Brian Stevenson

Date: 03/12/2009

Time: 9:00 AM

Place: MN 363

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