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Dissertation defense schedule
March
Jennifer Sweeney
Program: English
Advisor: John Su
Date/Time: March 20, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
Defense Location: Cudahy, Room 417
Dissertation Title: "Melancholic Reading Practice: Understanding Racial Grief in The Joy Luck Club, Beloved and Anil's Ghost"
Hans Moscicke
Program: Religious Studies
Advisor: Andrei Orlov
Date/Time: March 22, 2019, 8 a.m.
Defense Location: AMU, Room 313
Dissertation Title: "The New Day of Atonement: A Matthean Typology"
Sergio Estrada Villegas
Program: Biological Sciences
Advisor: Stefan Schnitzer
Date/Time: March 25, 2019, 9 a.m.
Defense Location: WLS, Room 111
Dissertation Title: "Drivers of Tropical Forest Succession: Observation and Experimental Studies of Edafic Factors, Historical Contingencies and Competition in Regenerative Forests"
Justice Hagan
Program: English
Advisor: Dr. Jodi Melamed
Date/Time: March 25, 2019, 10 a.m.
Defense Location: Raynor Beaumier Suite, BC
Dissertation Title: "No Home But the World: Narratives of Displacement and Forced Migration"
Maral Fakoor
Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Ronald H. Brown
Date/Time: March 26, 2019, 9 a.m.
Defense Location: Olin Engineering, Room 540
Dissertation Title: "Disaggregation: Inferring Daily Gas Flow from Billing Cycle Data"
Yibiao Wu
Program: Chemistry
Advisor: Dr. Chris Dockendorff
Date/Time: March 28 2019, 10 a.m.
Defense Location: TW, Room 306
Dissertation Title: "Design and Synthesis of Simplified Analogs of the Natural Product Sordarin as Potential Antifungal Agents"
Dominic Zappia
Program: Religious Studies
Advisor: Dr. Julian Hills
Date/Time: March 29 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Defense Location: AMU, Room 380
Dissertation Title: "Confessing Characters: Coming to Faith in the Gospel of John"
April
Peter Sable
Program: Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: John Borg
Date/Time: April 1, 2019, 10:00 a.m.
Defense Location: Engineering Hall, Room 323
Dissertation Title: "Multi-scale Traction Dynamics in Obliquely Impacted Polymer-Metal Targets"
Meghan Costello
Program: Biological Sciences
Advisor: Lisa Petrella
Date/Time: April 1, 2019, 1:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Wehr Life Sciences, Room 111
Dissertation Title: "synMuv B Proteins Regulate Chromatin Compaction During Development"
David Wilson
Program: Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Casey Allen
Date/Time: April 2, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Engineering Hall, Room 323
Dissertation Title: "Bayesian Estimation of Transient Engine Exhaust Composition from Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Measurements"
Sarah Bahr
Program: Nursing PhD
Advisor: Dr. Marianne Weiss
Date/Time: April 2, 2019, 1:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Clark Hall College of Nursing Student Lounge
Dissertation Title: "The Influence of Continuity of Nursing Care in the Acute Care Setting on Readiness for Discharge and Post-Discharge Utilization"
Luke V. Togni
Program: Religious Studies
Advisor: Dr. Mark Johnson
Date/Time: April 2, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Defense Location: AMU, Room 380
Dissertation Title: "A Sweet Influence: St. Bonaventure's Franciscan Reception of Dionysian Hierarchy"
Denise K. Fryzelka
Program: Nursing
Advisor: Dr. Marianne Weiss
Date/Time: April 3, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Defense Location: EC, Room 117
Dissertation Title: "Healthcare Provider Influence on Health Behavior Modification in Gestational Diabetics"
Jonathan Robert Heaps
Program: Theology
Advisor: Robert Doran
Date/Time: April 23, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Defense Location: AMU, Room 380
Dissertation Title: "The Ambiguity of Being: Medieval and Modern Cooperation on the Problem of the Supernatural"
