Ketan Tailor

Program: Counseling Psychology

Advisor: Dr. Timothy Melchert

Defense Date:  April 24, 2018

Defense Time: 12:00 p.m.

Defense Location: Schroeder Complex 113F

Dissertation Title: "Men Who Abuse Women: Testing a Narrative-Feminist Approach to Group Psychotherapy"

Brittney Wyatt

Program: Biological Sciences

Advisor: Martin St. Maurice

Defense Date:  May 8, 2018

Defense Time: 11:00 a.m.

Defense Location: Wehr Life Science Room 111

Dissertation Title: "The Discovery and Characterization of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Pyruvate Carboxylase"

Gayle A. Kiszely

Program: History

Advisor: Dr. James Marten

Defense Date:  May 14, 2018

Defense Time: 10:00 a.m.

Defense Location: Sensenbrenner Hall Room 305

Dissertation Title: "The Age Demands It." Progressivism in Zion City Illinois, A Conservative Protestant Theocracy"

Lauren Yadlosky

Program: Clinical Psychology

Advisor: Ed de St. Aubin, Ph.D.

Defense Date:  May 16, 2018

Defense Time: 2:00 p.m.

Defense Location: Cramer 326

Dissertation Title: "Assessing Intersectional Identity: Investigating the Scales of Contextualized Identity and (Perceived) Marginalization (SCIM)"

Matthew Hurley

Program: Biological Sciences- Neuroscience

Advisor: Dr. SuJean Choi

Defense Date:  May 17, 2018

Defense Time: 11:00 a.m.

Defense Location: Schroeder Complex 256

Dissertation Title: "Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide (Pacap) Regulates Feeding In The Rat Striatum And Hypothalamus"