June
Jessica Anderson
Program: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Director: Rosemary Stuart
Date/Time: June 10, 2022, 10:00 a.m.
Defense Location: Life Sciences 111, Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Modulation of Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis in Yeast - Role of the Mrp7 (bL27) Protein"
Thomas d Aquin Mbatna Taiwe
Program: Educational Policy and Leadership
Dissertation Director: Rev. Jeffrey Labelle, S.J
Date/Time: June 13, 2022, 2:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Schroeder Complex
Dissertation Title: "Peacebuilding Through Education: The Case of Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis"
Md Hasanul Aziz
Program: Computer Science
Dissertation Director: Dr. Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Date/Time: June 14, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Smartphone-based non-invasive blood constituent measurement system using photoplethysmographs from fingertip videos"
Shannon Keating
Program: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Director: Tony Gamble
Date/Time: June 16, 2022, 10:00 a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Evolution of Sex Chromosome in Geckos (Reptilia: Gekkota)"
Lu Lu
Program: Biological Sciences
Dissertation Director: Allison Abbott
Date/Time: June 20, 2022, 10:00 a.m.
Defense Location: Life Sciences 111
Dissertation Title: "Functional Analysis Of Male Gonad-enriched microRNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans"
Morgan Nitta
Program: Clinical Psychology
Dissertation Director: James Hoelzle
Date/Time: June 24, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "The utility of clinical and blood-based biomarkers to discriminate between typical and prolonged pediatric mTBI symptom"
Elizabeth Paitel
Program: Neuroscience
Dissertation Director: Kristy Nielson
Date/Time: June 29, 2022, 9:00 a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Frontal-Cerebellar EEG as an Index of Risk for Alzheimer's Disease in Healthy Elders"
Jason Hitchcock
Program: Theology, Ph.D.
Dissertation Director: Julian V. Hills
Date/Time: June 29, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Finding Paul in the Fourth Gospel: John 8 and the Reception of the Apostle to the Gentiles"
Tianjiao Zhao
Program: Civil Engineering
Dissertation Director: Saeed Karshenas
Date/Time: June 30, 2022, 3:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Semantic Representation of Road Infrastructure Information"
Hsiaoan Wang
Program: Computer Science
Dissertation Director: Debbie Perouli
Date/Time: June 30, 2022, 1:30 p.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Adaptive Pedagogy Framework for Risk Management, Incident Response, and Disaster Recovery Education"
Barbara Jane Sloan
Program: Religous Studies
Dissertation Director: Marcus Plested
Date/Time: June 30, 2022, 2:00 p.m.
Defense Location: Alumni Memorial Union Room 305
Dissertation Title: "Greek Patristic and Byzantine Exegesis in the Works of Thomas Aquinas, 1261–1274"