March
Amanda Zastrow
Program: English Ph.D.
Dissertation Director: Dr. Amy Blair
Date/Time: March 8, 2024, 1:30p.m.
Defense Location: Olin Engineering, EN119
Dissertation Title: "A Liberated West?: Female Authors' Representations of the "Real and the Fantasized” on the American Frontier"
Jose Miguel Jaramillo
Program: Educational Policy and Leadership
Dissertation Director: Rev. Jeffrey LaBelle, S.J., Ed.D.
Date/Time: March 13, 2024, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: EDPL conference room, SC 113F or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Toward A Continuum for Jesuit Education Founded Upon Cura Personalis and Magis"
Mitra Rouhani
Program: Exercise and Rehabilitation Science
Dissertation Director: Alexander Ng
Date/Time: March 18, 2024, 2:00p.m.
Defense Location: Athletic and Human Performance Research Center-Film room-216 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Mechanisms of Neuromuscular Fatigability in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis"
Catherine Simmerer
Program: English
Dissertation Director: John Curran
Date/Time: March 19, 2024, 2:00p.m.
Defense Location: Eisenberg Reading Room
Dissertation Title: "Disillusionment and Domesticity in Mid-20th Century British Catholic Literature"
Kathryn Kern
Program: Exercise and Rehabilitation Science
Dissertation Director: Alexander Ng
Date/Time: March 20, 2024, 10:00a.m.
Defense Location: Schroeder Complex Room 256 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Immune Cell and Muscle Bioenergetics in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis"
Daniel P. Mueller
Program: Religious Studies
Dissertation Director: Julian V. Hills
Date/Time: March 20, 2024, 10:00a.m.
Defense Location: Alumni Memorial Union 305
Dissertation Title: "Place in Luke-Acts: A Geocritical Reading of Synagogue, House, and Temple"
Landon Cowan
Program: Behavior Analysis Ph.D.
Dissertation Director: Tiffany Kodak
Date/Time: March 21, 2024, 8:00a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "A Clinical Problem-Solving Model For Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Learning In Skill-Acquisition Programs"
Chase Sakitis
Program: Computational Sciences
Dissertation Director: Daniel B. Rowe
Date/Time: March 22, 2024, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Formal Bayesian Approaches to the SENSE and GRAPPA Parallel FMRI Reconstruction Techniques along with their Combination"
Sisi Han
Program: Civil Engineering
Dissertation Director: Yong Bai
Date/Time: March 22, 2024, 12:00p.m.
Defense Location: Engineering Hall 352
Dissertation Title: "Understanding of AI-Aided Reality Capture Data for the Development of BIM Modeling for Building Façade Inspections"
Bianca Tocci
Program: Counseling Psychology
Dissertation Director: Alexandra Kriofske-Mainella
Date/Time: March 25, 2024, 12:00p.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "The Mental Health Management of Individuals in Sex Work"
Laxmi Devkota
Program: Graduate Arts and Sciences
Dissertation Director: Dr. Adam Fiedler
Date/Time: March 26, 2024, 10:00a.m.
Defense Location: Wehr Chemistry - TW 121
Dissertation Title: "Magnetic Properties and Biological Relevance of Scorpionate-Based Transition Metal Complexes"
Liamog Drislane
Program: English
Dissertation Director: Gerard Canavan
Date/Time: March 26, 2024, 1:00p.m.
Defense Location: Cudahy 143 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Speculative Escapism in Contemporary Fantasy: Labor, Utility, Affect"
Megan Heeder
Program: Theology
Dissertation Director: Andrew Kim
Date/Time: March 27, 2024, 8:30a.m.
Defense Location: Alumni Memorial Union (AMU) 313
Dissertation Title: "The Beauty of a Good Appetite in a Social Media Age"
Amanda Potter
Program: PhD-College of Nursing
Dissertation Director: Kristina Thomas Dreifuerst
Date/Time: March 27, 2024, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Situation Awareness Preparation and Prebriefing: Fostering the Cognitve Processes of Thinking Like a Nurse in Simulation"
Nicholas Langer
Program: Chemistry
Dissertation Director: Ofer Kedem
Date/Time: March 27, 2024, 10:00a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Elucidating the Effect of Surface Modifications on Nanomaterial Function"
Craig Miller
Program: Counselor Education & Counseling Psychology
Dissertation Director: Sarah Knox
Date/Time: March 27, 2024, 10:50a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Trainees' Experience Using Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) in Clinical Practice and Supervision"
Kendall Kastner
Program: Behavior Analysis
Dissertation Director: Stephanie Hood
Date/Time: March 27, 2024, 12:30p.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "An evaluation of Delay and Denial Training: Durability Against Treatment Relapse"