Graduate School

Current Students – Upcoming Doctoral Defenses

April

4/25/13
David Agum, African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
African Social and Political History: The Novelist (Chinua Achebe) as a Witness
401 Tuttleman Learning Center, 3:00 p.m.

4/25/13
Ke Li, Business Administration, Fox School of Business and Management
Ph.D.
Customer Relationship Management: From Conversion to Churn to Winback
405 Alter Hall, 9:30 a.m.

4/25/13
Lia O'Brien, Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Future Orientation as a Mediating Factor in the Relation Between Family Instability and Adolescent Problem Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model
542 Weiss Hall, 10:00 a.m.

4/25/13
Kalpana Thakare, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy
Ph.D.
Evaluation of PHP Polymer as a New Carrier in the Formulation of Solid Dispersions of Poorly Water Soluble Drugs4
414 School of Pharmacy, 2:00 p.m.

4/25/13
Adam Vidiksis, Music Composition, Center for the Arts/Boyer College of Music and Dance
D.M.A.
Transfigurations: A Symphonic Work for Orchestra and Live Computer Processing
136 Presser Hall, 12:00 p.m.

4/25/13
Joshua Weikert, Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Balancing Act: How an Unbalanced Media Affects the Electorate
458 Gladfelter Hall, 10:00 a.m.

4/26/13
Lily Bonga, Art History, Center for the Arts/Tyler School of Art
Ph.D.
Late Neolithic Pottery in Greece
B 082 Tyler School of Art, 3:00 p.m.

4/26/13
Zhijian Feng, Business Administration, Fox School of Business and Management
Ph.D.
Reinsurance and Firm Performance in Property-Liability Insurance Market: Group Affiliation, Domicile, and Interconnectedness Effects
621 Alter Hall, 12:15 p.m.

4/26/13
Joanna Kallan, Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
"It's Like a Different Kind of Parenting": Constructions of Good and Bad Parenting in Neonatal Intensive Care
812 Gladfelter Hall, 10:00 a.m.

4/26/13
Joshua Myers, African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
(Re)Conceptualizing Intellectual Histories of Africana Studies: Preliminary Considerations
Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Hall Annex, 2:00 p.m.

4/26/13
Anne-Marie Verenna, Cell Biology, School of Medicine
Ph.D.
Investigations of Anatomical Variations of the Thorax and Heart, and Anatomical Knowledge of First Year Medical, Dental, and Podiatry Students
410 Medical Education and Research Building, 2:00 p.m.

4/26/13
Amy Yeboah, African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
(Re)Inscribing Meaning: An Examination of the Effective Approaches, Adaptations, and Improvisational Elements in Closing the Excellence Gap for Black Students
Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Hall Annex, 12:00 p.m.

4/29/13
Brandy Blasko, Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
The Uncharted Influence of Prison Staff Decision Making
111 TECH Center, 10:00 a.m.

4/29/13
Stephen Ellison, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine
Ph.D.
The Effects of Interleukin-19 on Attenuation of the Vascular Response to Injury
1010 Medical Education and Research Building, 1:00 p.m.

4/29/13
Anne Neikirk, Music Composition, Center for the Arts/Boyer College of Music and Dance
D.M.A.
Symphonic Prayers for Orchestra and Soprano Soloist
136 Presser Hall, 2:30 p.m.

4/29/13
Susan Spaid, Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Work and World: On the Philosophy of Curatorial Practice
821 Anderson Hall, 1:30 p.m.

4/29/13
Sabrina Volpone, Business Administration, Fox School of Business and Management
Ph.D.
It is a Small World and It is Only Getting Smaller: Exploring the Relationship Between Social Network Characteristics and Outcomes While Accounting for the Influence of Mediators and Moderators
332 Alter Hall, 10:00 a.m.

4/29/13
Jian Zhang, Business Administration, Fox School of Business and Management
Ph.D.
Essays on Corporate Fraud and Governance
405 Alter Hall, 1:00 p.m.

4/30/13
Erin Jurgensen, School Psychology, College of Education
Ph.D.
Examining Social Support as a Factor Promoting Resiliency Against Negative Outcomes Among Sexual Minority Youth
242 Ritter Hall Annex, 3:00 p.m.

4/30/13
Daniel Lehman, Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Local Party Organizations and the Mobilization of Latino Voters
458 Gladfelter Hall, 3:30 p.m.

4/30/13
Daniel Pitonyak, Physics, College of Science and Technology
Ph.D.
Exploring the Structure of Hadrons Through Spin Asymmetries in Hard Scattering Processes
A108 Barton Hall, 3:00 p.m.

4/30/13
Nicolas Real, Music Performance, Center for the Arts/Boyer College of Music and Dance
D.M.A.
Concerto No. 1 for Flute, String Orchestra, and Percussion
136 Presser Hall, 1:30 p.m.

4/30/13
Alyssa Richman, Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
(In) Visible Bodies: Lesbian Women Navigating Gender, Sexuality, and Race
1221 Anderson Hall, 10:30 a.m.

4/30/13
Tony Williams, English, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Caliban's Victorian Children: Racial Negotiations from Emancipation to Jubilee
821 Anderson Hall, 11:00 a.m.

May

5/1/13
Narayan Bhandari, Chemistry, College of Science and Technology
Ph.D.
Investigations of the (Photo) Chemistry of Nano-and Micron-Dimensioned Iron Oxides for Metal(oid) Remediation
226 Beury Hall, 1:00 p.m.

5/1/13
Douglas Ficek, Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
"Man is a Yes": Fanon, Liberation, and the Playful Politics of Philosophical Archaeology
722 Anderson Hall, 11:00 a.m.

5/1/13
Dana Harrison, English, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Realism in Pain: Literary and Social Constructions of Victorian Pain in the Age of Anaesthesia 1846-1870
821 Anderson Hall, 3:30 p.m.

5/1/13
Sandy Homel, Ecucational Administration, College of Education
Ed.D.
Act 101 Summer Bridge Program: An Assessment of Student Success Following One Year of Participation
301 Ritter Hall, 9:00 a.m.

5/1/13
Matthew Shannon, History, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education During the Cold War
914 Gladfelter Hall, 2:00 p.m.

5/2/13
Kara Blacker, Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
The Effects of Action Video Game Training on Visual Short-Term Memory
856 Weiss Hall, 3:00 p.m.

5/2/13
Elizabeth Stone, Statistics, Fox School of Business and Management
Ph.D.
Multilevel Model Selection: A Regularization Approach Incorporating Heredity Constraints
Statistics Conference Room, Speakman Hall, 4:00 p.m.

5/3/13
Athenesia Faggins, Biology, College of Science and Technology
Ph.D.
miR-184 Regulates Growth, Development, and Maintenance of Glia in the Drosophila Melanogaster Post-Embryonic Nervous System
234 Bio-Life Sciences Building, 12:00 p.m.

5/3/13
Kathryn Makar, Educational Psychology, College of Education
Ph.D.
Predictors of Students' Academic Performance
242 Ritter Hall Annex, 10:00 a.m.

5/3/13
Ilyse Resnick, Psychology/Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Role of Linear Representation of Large Magnitudes on Understanding and Estimation
322C Weiss Hall, 9:30 a.m.

5/3/13
Hajime Yamagata, Chemistry, College of Science and Technology
Ph.D.
The Effects of Vibronic Coupling on the Photophysics of Pi-Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers
226 Beury Hall, 1:00 p.m.

5/3/13
Ling Zhang, Business Administration, Fox School of Business and Management
Ph.D.
Essays on Corporate Governance of Financial and Non-Financial Firms
404 Alter Hall, 1:30 p.m.

5/7/13
Yuqi Gu, Business Administration, Fox School of Business and Management
Ph.D.
Creditor Control and Corporate Governance
405 Alter Hall, 1:00 p.m.

5/8/13
Thomas Mogan, History, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
The Limits of Catholic Racial Liberalism: The Villanova Encounter with Race, 1940-1985
914B Gladfelter Hall, 10:00 a.m.

5/8/13
Bharat Wagh, Chemistry, College of Science and Technology
Ph.D.
Desmethyl Analogs of Telithromycin and Cethromycin: An Effort to Address Antibiotic Resistance
404 Beury Hall, 10:00 a.m.

5/9/13
Zachary Reichenbach, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine
Ph.D.
Modulation of the Endogenous Cannabinoid System to Attenuate Inflammation in CNS Injury
810 Medical Education and Research Building, 1:00 p.m.

5/10/13
Richard Ronca, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine
Ph.D.
The Effects of a Cannabinoid-2 Receptor Agonist on Postischemic Learning and Memory
1010 Medical Education and Research Building, 1:00 p.m.

5/20/13
Amy Yandek, Art History, Center for the Arts/Tyler School of Art
Ph.D.
Pagan Roman Religious Acculturation? An Inquiry into the Domestic Cult at Karanis, Ephesus, and Dura-Europos: The First to Fifth Centuries CE
B 083 Tyler School of Art, 9:00 a.m.

June

6/12/13
Jerry Hionis, Jr., Economics, College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D.
Non-Parasitic Warlords and Geographical Distance
300 Ritter Hall Annex, 1:00 p.m.