Home Navigating Your Degree Oral Defense Dates Oral Defense Dates Ashleigh Simonis Program: Naval Architect & Marine Eng Dissertation Title: Wave Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Dispersive Wave Models Date: 8 Sep 2026 Time: 3:30 p.m. Location: WEST HALL ROOM 146 (MHL CONFERENCE ROOM) Chair: Yulin Pan Kendall Dean Program: Cellular & Molecular Biol Dissertation Title: Understanding the Effects of ANK3 Variation in Bipolar Disorder Patient-Derived Neurons Date: 9 Sep 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM Chair: Lori L Isom and Paul Michael Jenkins Elisa Bravo Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Making the Makers: A Quantitative Examination of Participation Determinants and Longitudinal Outcomes Date: 9 Sep 2026 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91032215223?JST=2 Chair: Jesse Laurent Austin-Breneman and Shanna Daly Michael Veksler Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Engineering and Functional Coating of Complex Microparticles for Chiral Photonics Date: 9 Sep 2026 Time: 2:15 p.m. Location: NCRC B10 G063/G064 Chair: Nicholas Kotov Alan Tseng Program: Naval Architect & Marine Eng Dissertation Title: Microplastic Transport in the Global Ocean: the Effects of Particle Size, Biofouling, and Fragmentation Date: 11 Sep 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: CONFERENCE ROOM; NA&ME BUILDING Chair: Yulin Pan Baharan Meghdadi Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Multiomics Digital Twins to Decode Tumor Metabolism and Precision Vulnerabilities in Patients with Brain Cancer Date: 15 Sep 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10, RESEARCH AUDITORIUM / HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97757206103 PW: 1234 Chair: Deepak Nagrath Aparna Ananthasubramaniam Program: Ind Interdept Degree Prog Dissertation Title: Studying Non-Financial Spillover Effects of Household Economic Shocks from a Systems Perspective: Three Computational Case Studies Date: 22 Sep 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: MEET.GOOGLE.COM/NIA-PVKC-YRZ Chair: Daniel M Romero and Kristin S Seefeldt Contact Academic Records and Dissertations Hours: Academic Records and Dissertations is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The office is closed Saturdays and Sundays and on the following holidays: Thanksgiving (Thursday and the following Friday), Christmas through New Year’s, Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4), and Labor Day. Location 0120 Rackham Building 915 East Washington Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070 Contact Phone: 734.763.0171 Fax: 734.936.3335 Email: [email protected]
Ashleigh Simonis Program: Naval Architect & Marine Eng Dissertation Title: Wave Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Dispersive Wave Models Date: 8 Sep 2026 Time: 3:30 p.m. Location: WEST HALL ROOM 146 (MHL CONFERENCE ROOM) Chair: Yulin Pan
Kendall Dean Program: Cellular & Molecular Biol Dissertation Title: Understanding the Effects of ANK3 Variation in Bipolar Disorder Patient-Derived Neurons Date: 9 Sep 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM Chair: Lori L Isom and Paul Michael Jenkins
Elisa Bravo Program: Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Title: Making the Makers: A Quantitative Examination of Participation Determinants and Longitudinal Outcomes Date: 9 Sep 2026 Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91032215223?JST=2 Chair: Jesse Laurent Austin-Breneman and Shanna Daly
Michael Veksler Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Engineering and Functional Coating of Complex Microparticles for Chiral Photonics Date: 9 Sep 2026 Time: 2:15 p.m. Location: NCRC B10 G063/G064 Chair: Nicholas Kotov
Alan Tseng Program: Naval Architect & Marine Eng Dissertation Title: Microplastic Transport in the Global Ocean: the Effects of Particle Size, Biofouling, and Fragmentation Date: 11 Sep 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: CONFERENCE ROOM; NA&ME BUILDING Chair: Yulin Pan
Baharan Meghdadi Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Multiomics Digital Twins to Decode Tumor Metabolism and Precision Vulnerabilities in Patients with Brain Cancer Date: 15 Sep 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: NCRC BUILDING 10, RESEARCH AUDITORIUM / HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/97757206103 PW: 1234 Chair: Deepak Nagrath
Aparna Ananthasubramaniam Program: Ind Interdept Degree Prog Dissertation Title: Studying Non-Financial Spillover Effects of Household Economic Shocks from a Systems Perspective: Three Computational Case Studies Date: 22 Sep 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: MEET.GOOGLE.COM/NIA-PVKC-YRZ Chair: Daniel M Romero and Kristin S Seefeldt
