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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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| William F. Northrop, Doctor of Philosophy (Mechanical Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 16, 2009 |
| Time | 11:00AM |
| Place | GM Room, Lurie Building |
| Chair(s) | Dionissios N. Assanis and Stani V. Bohac |
| Title of Dissertation | Particulate and Gas Phase Hydrocarbon Emissions from Partially Premixed Low Temperature Diesel Combustion of Biodiesel |
| Hao Jiang, Doctor of Philosophy (Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 16, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | Baer Room, Cooley |
| Chair(s) | Frederick D. Becchetti, Jr. and Kimberlee J. Kearfott |
| Title of Dissertation | Improvent of Energy Resolution in a Solenoid-based Radioactive Nuclear Beam Facility |
| Xiaoguang Wang, Doctor of Philosophy (Urban & Regional Planning) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 17, 2009 |
| Time | 09:30AM |
| Place | 2227 Art and Architecture |
| Chair(s) | Joseph D. Grengs |
| Title of Dissertation | How the Built Environment Influences Driving: Insights from Global Positioning System Data |
| Ginger Smith Carls, Doctor of Philosophy (Health Services Organization and Policy and Economics) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 17, 2009 |
| Time | 1:30pm |
| Place | 3610 Crossroads Griffith |
| Chair(s) | Richard A. Hirth |
| Title of Dissertation | Ozone Alerts and Asthma Exacerbations: A Case Study of Dallas-Fort Worth2000-2008. |
| Jared D Chrispell, Doctor of Philosophy (Biological Chemistry) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 17, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | 6311 Medical Science I |
| Chair(s) | Debra A. Thompson |
| Title of Dissertation | Characterization of RPE65 and RDH12, Two Enzymes Associated with RetinalDystrophy and Retinoid Processing |
| Yousong Ding, Doctor of Philosophy (Medicinal Chemistry) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 17, 2009 |
| Time | 04:00PM |
| Place | Library, LSI |
| Chair(s) | David H. Sherman |
| Title of Dissertation | Characterization and Analysis of Biosynthetic Systems from Nostoc sp. ATCC 53789 and Selected Fungal Natural Product Pathways |
| Susanne M. Cohen, Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology) Candidate |
| Date | Wed, November 18, 2009 |
| Time | 2:30 pm |
| Place | Titiev Lib. 211 West Hall |
| Chair(s) | Alaina Lemon |
| Title of Dissertation | Communicating Change in a Transforming State: Globalization and thePolitics of Office Communication in Urban Russia |
| Christopher B. Churchill, Doctor of Philosophy (Aerospace Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Thu, November 19, 2009 |
| Time | 10:00AM |
| Place | 1044 FXB |
| Chair(s) | John A. Shaw |
| Title of Dissertation | Thermo-electro-mechanical Constitutive Evolution of Shape Memory Alloy Structures |
| Wei Guo, Doctor of Philosophy (Materials Science and Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Thu, November 19, 2009 |
| Time | 03:00PM |
| Place | GM rm, Lurie Eng. Center |
| Chair(s) | Xiaoqing Pan |
| Title of Dissertation | Synthesis, Doping, and Properties of Epitaxial ZnO Films on Si Substrates. |
| Katherine Wickard Drake, Doctor of Philosophy (Political Science) Candidate |
| Date | Fri, November 20, 2009 |
| Time | 11:00am |
| Place | 5664 Haven Hall |
| Chair(s) | Richard L. Hall and John E. Jackson |
| Title of Dissertation | Diverse Districts and the Electoral Connection: Electoral Coalitions andLegislators' Pursuit of Policy Preferences. |
| Jun Yang, Doctor of Philosophy (Chemistry) Candidate |
| Date | Fri, November 20, 2009 |
| Time | 12:00PM |
| Place | MH 1427 |
| Chair(s) | Mark E. Meyerhoff |
| Title of Dissertation | Anti-thrombotic Nitric Oxide Generating Layer-by-Layer Assembly |
| Heather Elizabeth Adams, Doctor of Philosophy (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Candidate |
| Date | Fri, November 20, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | Dana 2024 |
| Chair(s) | George W. Kling II |
| Title of Dissertation | Controls on Bacterial Productivity in Arctic Lakes and Streams. |
| Julie Kristin Hurt, Doctor of Philosophy (Medicinal Chemistry) Candidate |
| Date | Fri, November 20, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | 2548 C.C. Little |
| Chair(s) | George A. Garcia |
| Title of Dissertation | Modulation of Expression and Antibacterial Targeting of Shigella flexneri VirF |
| Shau-yuh Yu, Doctor of Philosophy (Space and Planetary Physics) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 23, 2009 |
| Time | 10:00AM |
| Place | SRB 2246 |
| Chair(s) | Mary Anne Carroll and Jack H. Waite Jr. |
| Title of Dissertation | Study of Alpha-Pinene Nitrate Formation Yields With a GC-ECD System |
| Rita Elias Awwad, Doctor of Philosophy (Civil Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 23, 2009 |
| Time | 12:00PM |
| Place | 2355 GGB |
| Chair(s) | Photios G. Ioannou |
| Title of Dissertation | Statistical Alternatives to the Low Bid Method: Neutral and Risk-Sensitive Perspectives |
| Nancy M. Baum, Doctor of Philosophy (Health Services Organization & Policy) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 23, 2009 |
| Time | 01:00PM |
| Place | 3610 Crossroads SPH |
| Chair(s) | Peter D. Jacobson |
| Title of Dissertation | Resource Allocation in Public Health Practice |
| Nicholas Jesse Bisek, Doctor of Philosophy (Aerospace Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 23, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | 1044 and FXB |
| Chair(s) | Iain D. Boyd |
| Title of Dissertation | Numerical Study of Plasma-Assisted Aerodynamic Control for Hypersonic Vehicles |
| Divya Srinivasan, Doctor of Philosophy (Biomedical Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Mon, November 23, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | IOE 2869 |
| Chair(s) | Bernard J. Martin |
| Title of Dissertation | Visuomotor Coordination in Symmetric and Asymmetric Bimanual Reaching Tasks |
| Haili Ping, Doctor of Philosophy (Pharmaceutical Sciences) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 24, 2009 |
| Time | 10:00AM |
| Place | B022 Pharmacy |
| Chair(s) | Gordon L. Amidon and Steven P. Schwendeman |
| Title of Dissertation | BRIDGING THE IN VITRO DISSOLUTION TESTS TO IN VIVO DISSOLUTION FOR POORLY SOLUBLE ACIDIC DRUGS |
| Daphne E. Gallagher, Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 24, 2009 |
| Time | 11:30AM |
| Place | Rm 4021 Museum of Anthro. |
| Chair(s) | Richard I. Ford and Rebecca D. Hardin |
| Title of Dissertation | Farming Beyond the Escarpment: Society, Environment, and Mobility inPrecolonial Southeastern Burkina Faso |
| Hee Sun Chung, Doctor of Philosophy (Pharmaceutical Sciences) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 24, 2009 |
| Time | 12:00PM |
| Place | 1567 CC Little |
| Chair(s) | Victor Chi-Min Yang |
| Title of Dissertation | PTD-Mediated Red Blood Cell Encapsulation of L-Asparaginase for Potential Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| Feng Wang, Doctor of Philosophy (Biological Chemistry) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 24, 2009 |
| Time | 02:00PM |
| Place | 6311 MSI |
| Chair(s) | Ming Lei |
| Title of Dissertation | STRUCTURAL ANALYSES OF TELOMERE ASSOCIATED PROTEINS |
| Ying-Liang Lee, Doctor of Philosophy (Materials Science and Engineering) Candidate |
| Date | Tue, November 24, 2009 |
| Time | 03:00PM |
| Place | 2150 Dow |
| Chair(s) | Amit K. Ghosh |
| Title of Dissertation | Microstructure Evolution of Metals through Thermo-Mechanical Processes (TMP)and Mechanical Property of TMP Samples and Small Scale Test Samples |
