Upcoming Oral Defense Dates
Below is information about the Oral Dissertation Defenses for Rackham Doctoral students. They are listed by date and time for a two week period.
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Grace S. Yang, Doctor of Philosophy (Communication) Candidate
Date
Tue, May 22, 2012
Time
01:00PM
Location
5450NQ
Chair(s)
L. Rowell Huesmann
Title of Dissertation
Do the Gender and Race of the Video Game Characters Matter? The Effects of Violent Game Playing on Implicit Stereotyping and Aggressive Behavior
Julie Marie Maslowsky, Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) Candidate
Date
Tue, May 22, 2012
Time
02:00PM
Location
Rackham east conference
Chair(s)
John E. Schulenberg
Title of Dissertation
Substance use consequences of adolescent mental health problems: Integrating national and high-risk samples
Jonathan Eugene Helm, Doctor of Philosophy (Industrial and Operations Engineering) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 23, 2012
Time
09:00AM
Location
IOE 2869
Chair(s)
Mark Peter Van Oyen
Title of Dissertation
Stochastic and Deterministic Methods for Patient Flow Optimization in Care Service Networks
Rakesh M. Patil, Doctor of Philosophy (Mechanical Engineering) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 23, 2012
Time
09:00AM
Location
2233 G. G. Brown
Chair(s)
Hosam K. Fathy and Zoran S. Filipi
Title of Dissertation
Combined Design and Control Optimization: Application to Optimal PHEV Design and Control for Multiple Objectives
Robin Johnson, Doctor of Philosophy (Biophysics) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 23, 2012
Time
01:00PM
Location
Chemsitry 1300
Chair(s)
Ari Gafni and Duncan G. Steel
Title of Dissertation
Single-Molecule Microscopy Studies of Amyloid-Beta Oligomer Binding on Live Cells
Nebahat Ilgi Gercek, Doctor of Philosophy (Near Eastern Studies) Candidate
Date
Thu, May 24, 2012
Time
09:00AM
Location
4000 Thayer Building
Chair(s)
Gary M. Beckman
Title of Dissertation
The Kaska and the Northern Frontier of Hatti
Crystal Lee Young, Doctor of Philosophy (Chemistry) Candidate
Date
Thu, May 24, 2012
Time
1:00pm
Location
Chemistry 1640
Chair(s)
Katrin Karbstein and Anna K. Mapp
Title of Dissertation
ROK1ng the Ribosome Assembly Boat: An Investigation of the DEAD-box Protein Rok1 and its Co-factor Rrp5
Megan Keady Ahern, Doctor of Philosophy (English and Women's Studies) Candidate
Date
Thu, May 24, 2012
Time
03:00PM
Location
2242 Lane Hall
Chair(s)
Michael Awkward
Title of Dissertation
Gender, Relationality, and Affect in Post-1960s U.S. Women’s Novels and Neuroscience: Emergent Frameworks After Postmodernism
Ann Victoria Bell, Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology) Candidate
Date
Fri, May 25, 2012
Time
10:00AM
Location
4147 LSA
Chair(s)
Renee Anspach and Karin A. Martin
Title of Dissertation
Conceiving infertility: Classed and racialized experiences of involuntary childlessness
Laura Frances Spencer, Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Physics) Candidate
Date
Fri, May 25, 2012
Time
10:00AM
Location
McDivitt in FXB
Chair(s)
Alec D. Gallimore
Title of Dissertation
The Study of CO2 Conversion in a Microwave Plasma/Catalyst System
Jill Marie Haenfler, Doctor of Philosophy (Cellular and Molecular Biology) Candidate
Date
Fri, May 25, 2012
Time
02:00PM
Location
A,B,C Seminar Rooms, BSRB
Chair(s)
Cheng-Yu Lee
Title of Dissertation
The role of Lgl, aPKC, and Numb in distinguishing neural stem cells from progenitor cells in Drosophila
Jing Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science and Engineering) Candidate
Date
Mon, May 28, 2012
Time
09:30AM
Location
4941 BBB, CSE
Chair(s)
Hosagrahar V. Jagadish
Title of Dissertation
PROVENANCE IN MODIFIABLE DATASETS
Roy Weigi Chen, Doctor of Philosophy (Economics) Candidate
Date
Tue, May 29, 2012
Time
10:00AM
Location
3356 North Quad
Chair(s)
Yan Chen
Title of Dissertation
Social Identity and Cooperation
Gabriel Morris Ehrlich, Doctor of Philosophy (Economics) Candidate
Date
Tue, May 29, 2012
Time
10:00AM
Location
Lorch 301
Chair(s)
Robert B. Barsky
Title of Dissertation
Essays on Housing and Land Economics
Yunpeng Zhao, Doctor of Philosophy (Statistics) Candidate
Date
Tue, May 29, 2012
Time
10:00AM
Location
438 West Hall
Chair(s)
Elizaveta Levina and Ji Zhu
Title of Dissertation
Statistical inference for some problems in network analysis
Matthew Conrad Smith, Doctor of Philosophy (Molecular and Cellular Pathology) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 30, 2012
Time
09:00AM
Location
1170A-C BSRB
Chair(s)
Jason E. Gestwicki
Title of Dissertation
Inhibiting Protein-Protein Interactions in the Hsp70 Complex as a Means to Regulate Protein Homeostasis
Mary Heitzman van de Kerkhof, Doctor of Philosophy (Education) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 30, 2012
Time
09:00AM
Location
SOE
Chair(s)
Elizabeth Davis
Title of Dissertation
SIXTH GRADERS’ ENGAGEMENT WITH PROSE AND GRAPHICS AS THEY READ AND MADE MEANING OF SCIENCE TEXTS
Yung-Hui Chien, Doctor of Philosophy (Educational Studies) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 30, 2012
Time
09:30AM
Location
Rm 2327, SOE Building
Chair(s)
Donald Freeman
Title of Dissertation
Life in the 21st Century: A Study of Pre-service Teachers’ Uses of Technology and English
Heather Marie McLaughlin, Doctor of Philosophy (Human Genetics) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 30, 2012
Time
10:00AM
Location
5915 Buhl
Chair(s)
Anthony Antonellis
Title of Dissertation
Genetic and Functional Evaluation of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Mutations in Patients with Peripheral Neuropathy
Natalie Jane Sabik, Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology and Women's Studies) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 30, 2012
Time
11:30AM
Location
2242 Lane Hall
Chair(s)
Elizabeth Ruth Cole
Title of Dissertation
An Exploration of Body Image and Psychological Well-Being Among Aging African American and European American Women
Di Li, Doctor of Philosophy (Business Administration) Candidate
Date
Wed, May 30, 2012
Time
01:30PM
Location
R4020 Ross Building
Chair(s)
Amy K. Dittmar
Title of Dissertation
Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions
Terence Joseph V. Saldanha, Doctor of Philosophy (Business Administration) Candidate
Date
Thu, May 31, 2012
Time
10:00AM
Location
R5020 Ross Business Schoo
Chair(s)
M. S. Krishnan
Title of Dissertation
Mechanisms towards IT-enabled Business Innovation: Review, Theoretical Framework, and Empirical Analyses
Danielle Nicole Shapiro, Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology and Women's Studies) Candidate
Date
Thu, May 31, 2012
Time
10:00AM
Location
G240 Lane Hall
Chair(s)
Julie Beth Kaplow and Abigail J. Stewart
Title of Dissertation
Parent and Child Mental Health in Nontraditional Families: The Intersecting Roles of Gender, Dyadic Support, and Communication
Colleen Probst Woods, Doctor of Philosophy (History) Candidate
Date
Thu, May 31, 2012
Time
01:00PM
Location
1014 Tisch
Chair(s)
Penny M. Von Eschen
Title of Dissertation
Bombs, Bibles, and Bureaucrats: The United States, the Philippines, and the Making of Global Anti-Communism, 1945-1960
Brian Matthew Mills, Doctor of Philosophy (Kinesiology) Candidate
Date
Thu, May 31, 2012
Time
02:00PM
Location
CCRB 3050
Chair(s)
Rodney D. Fort
Title of Dissertation
Economic and Historical Perspectives on Stationarity, Structural Change and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis in Long-Term North American Professional Sports Attendance: Substitution, Policy Implications and Exploring Uncertainty
Andrea Dooley Thompson, Doctor of Philosophy (Chemical Biology) Candidate
Date
Fri, June 1, 2012
Time
01:00PM
Location
2901 TML
Chair(s)
Jason E. Gestwicki
Title of Dissertation
The 70-kDa heat shock protein (Hsp70) chaperone system: linking ATP turnover and complex formation to protein homeostasis.
Ivy Fei Tso, Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) Candidate
Date
Fri, June 1, 2012
Time
01:00PM
Location
East Hall 2234
Chair(s)
Patricia J. Deldin
Title of Dissertation
Eye Gaze Processing in Schizophrenia
Marcelino Eloy Viera, Doctor of Philosophy (Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish) Candidate
Date
Fri, June 1, 2012
Time
1:00pm
Location
RLL Dept Room 4314
Chair(s)
Gareth Williams
Title of Dissertation
IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERALISM: THE LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF ANARCHISM IN THE RIO DE LA PLATA (1860-1940)