Graduate School
Markus Kemmelmeir, Dean
Spring 2024 Commencement Program
| Print Name | Degree | Major | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah S. Aamer | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Lizeth Aileen Acosta | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Audrey Adler | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Hussam Alshareef | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Unraveling the function and regulation of circular RNAs in aging and age-related diseases |
| Sylvia Akosua Asare | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Kenneth John Bailey | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Ana M. Barragan | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Monica Becher | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Riley Berriesford | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Charloth Vanesa Bledsoe | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Juliana Bogert | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Lauren Bony | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Benjamin Lee Bosse | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Hayden Taylor Brown | Doctor of Philosophy | Mathematics | Describing the Terminal Wealth of a Predetermined Schedule of Investments and Withdrawals |
| Laura West-Brownell | Doctor of Philosophy | English | The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s |
| Megan Burroughs | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Strategies for Targeting and Isolating Cryptic Natural Products from Plants: Isolation and Structural Determination of Holdripine and Raduladioxanolide |
| Anson Clark Call | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Alfalfa Aphids from Pixel to Picture: Deciphering Symbiotic and Predatory Interactions Across Scales |
| Taree Michelle Chadwick | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Qifan Chen | Doctor of Philosophy | Business Administration | Time, Institutions, and Energy - Three Papers in Entrepreneurship |
| Hailee Rose Ciccotti | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Janna Ray Cisneros | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Troy Henriques Clemons | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| JoAnna Cochenet-Gallastegui | Doctor of Musical Arts | Musical Arts | The Sound Of Struggle: A Study And Comparison Of Expressive Musical Features From Works By 鈥淒weller鈥 Composers (1933 - 1956) |
| JoAnna Cochenet-Gallastegui | Doctor of Musical Arts | Musical Arts | The Sound Of Struggle: A Study And Comparison Of Expressive Musical Features From Works By 鈥淒weller鈥 Composers (1933 - 1956) |
| Anthony David Collins | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Stephanie M. Coronado | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Ant-plant mutualism as a driver of caterpillar community abundance, diversity, and specialization |
| Katharine Noelle Cutting | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Katryn J. Davis | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | 鈥楾hese Bodies Were Born to Die鈥: Separatism and Medicine in a Fundamentalist Mormon Community |
| Ilya D. Dergachev | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Modeling Quantum Tunneling in Nonadiabatic Statistical Theory |
| Vincent Alexander DiMassa | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Jordan M. Dobrich | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Dustin W. Dutcher | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Sarah M. Edge | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Michon Morgan Edgington | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Abel B. Edossa | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Steven Michael Elicegui | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Amanda Lynn Elliott | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Keely Rose Eshenbaugh | Doctor of Philosophy | Political Science | The Role of Trade Unions in the United Kingdom鈥檚 2016 Brexit Referendum: An Overlooked Influence |
| Emily JoAnne Etter | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Omid Fakharian | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Ionic Polymer Metal Composites Sensors Sensitivity Improvement Under Different Loading Conditions and Their Application Towards Wearable Postural-Tactile Measurement |
| Mengyue Fan | Doctor of Philosophy | Business Administration | How Do Gig Workers Experience Their Work Environment? A Person-Gig Fit Perspective. |
| Sonia Celeste Figueroa | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Tarek Robert Firzli | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Deances Vianney Fisher | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Rodney Dusit Fong | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Amanda Christine Tobey Fries | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Enac Gallardo Diaz | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Advanced Kr x-ray spectroscopy and heat transport dynamics of hot dense implosion core plasmas |
| Cory Kenneth Gentner | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Christian Anton Gonzalez | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Jordyn Green | Doctor of Philosophy | Political Science | Improving School Improvement: Examining Coordination, Collaboration, and Learning During State Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act |
| Rolando Alfredo Grijalva Alvarado | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Effects of Ice and Water Contamination on Friction Pendulum Bearings |
| Savannah J. Halow | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Stationarity Perception and Virtual Reality Sickness |
| Sarah Yoda Thomas Hartzell | Doctor of Philosophy | Public Health | The effects of states鈥 COVID-19 stay-at-home orders on behavioral health outcomes in the United States |
| Joshua Gabriel Hartzog | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Career Technical Education, Academic Achievement, and Behavioral Engagement |
| Jennifer Joan Heppner | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Urbanization鈥檚 effects on avian morphology, hormones, and behavior across ontogeny |
| Rebekah Katie Tuttle Hermsmeier | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | |
| Crystal Herrera | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Melissa B. Higareda | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Cody Christopher Horton | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Kazi Zihan Hossain | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemical Engineering | Dissecting the Complex Behavior of Hyperelastic Conductive Materials Through Materials Model |
| Md Tamjid Hossain | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Privacy and Security for Trustworthy AI/ML in Multi-Agent Critical Infrastructures: An Analysis of Adversarial Dynamics and Protective Strategies |
| Cassandra Kay Hui | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Circadian disruption in genes, brain, and behavior. |
| Patrick R. Hurbain | Doctor of Philosophy | Epidemiology | Epidemiological assessment of harmful environmentally linked factors and their relationships with environmental justice |
| Nathan Jackson | Doctor of Philosophy | Natural Resources and Environmental Science | Effects of Enhanced Winter Nutrition and Climatic Variation on Population Performance of a Large Herbivore |
| Shalini Sewandhi Jayaweera | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Shreeya Regmi Joshee | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Armina Karapetian | Doctor of Philosophy | Business Administration | Risk Aversion in Decision Making: An Exploration Through Three Studies |
| Dorottya Kenessey | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | The evolution of dental morphology in relation to tooth size, crown configuration, and malocclusion |
| Lucy Kennington | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Zunaed Kibria | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Achieving Near-Natural Locomotion in Transfemoral Amputees - A Control Theoretic Approach |
| Rachel Faye Knecht | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | The Effects of a Syntax-Focused Reading Intervention on Middle-School Students鈥 Syntactic Knowledge |
| Rethika Ravhi Kumar | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Aimee Vera Lafayette | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | Seeking a Safe Space: Violence, Bureaucracy, and Citizenship in the Lives of Migrants Living in the United States |
| Megan LaMotte | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Pursuing a Deeper Understanding of the Black-White Mental Health Paradox: A Sequential, Mixed Methods, Three-Article Dissertation |
| Sridhar Lanka | Doctor of Philosophy | Materials Science and Engineering | |
| Kassandra R. Lee | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Individual differences in face perception |
| Michael D. Leonard | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | |
| Lindsay N. Lester | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Kyle Lethcoe | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | Structure-function Studies of Recombinant Apolipoproteins |
| Irene I. Li | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Lauren Lim | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Nancy Fidler Lim | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Ruby Diana Lopez Flores | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Marina Lopez | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Jose Lopez-Rubio | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Paul Gaudenz Franco Macaballug | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Kaylie Noel Machutta | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Arturo Macias Franco | Doctor of Philosophy | Animal and Rangeland Sciences | Precision Diet Formulation Incorporating Isoenergetic Lipid and Carbohydrate Supplementations as Water Intake Mitigation Strategies for Holstein Nursing Bull Calves |
| Olivia MacLaren | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Jacob Gregory Marble | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Pezhman Matinrad | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| Jennifer Maria Matus | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Mollie Ann McDonald | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Stimulating Mindfulness-to-Meaning: Noninvasive Brain Stimulation Targeting the Upward Spiral of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation |
| Kelli J. Mckeegan | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Documenting the patterns and ecological impacts of a densovirus in Melissa blue butterflies (Lycaeides melissa) and beyond |
| Lauren Teresa Mckinney | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Emily Andrea Medina | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | Tissue-dependent Calcium Signaling Dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana Under Heat and Wound Stress in Root and Shoot |
| Jason Mennel | Doctor of Philosophy | Materials Science and Engineering | Investigation and Improvement of the Low Temperature Performance of High-Capacity Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries |
| Faria Z. Miah | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Monica Michelle Minter | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Helping at the End-of-Life: A Phenomenological Study on the Experiences of Pediatric Counselors. |
| Profulla Mondol | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | |
| Heather Janette Mooney | Doctor of Philosophy | Business Administration | Taking the Plunge: A Study of Organizational and Individual Factors that Result in a Decision to Enter the Applicant Pool |
| Addison A. Morales | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Kristen R. Morrill | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Lauren Benedict Nguyen | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Spatial Learning and Memory, Cognitive Flexibility, and Rule-Learning in Food-Caching Mountain Chickadees (Poecile gambeli) Across an Elevational Gradient |
| Cherie Angelique Noll | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Horohito Norhatan | Doctor of Philosophy | Political Science | The Roles of a Basque-inspired Cooperative in the Community Based Economic Development in Cleveland, Ohio |
| Jordana Lynnae Oseto | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Victoria Janet Palacios | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Shuvo Kumar Paul | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration through a Multi-Module Interaction Framework with Sensor Fusion: Object Recognition, Verbal Communication, User(s) of Interest Detection, Gesture and Gaze Recognition |
| Philip K. Pavilionis | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | The use of a Virtual Reality Platform for Standardization of the Vestibular Ocular-Motor Screen |
| Shannon Lynn Payen | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Investigating Herpesvirus Replication and Virus-Host Interactions During SARS-CoV-2 Co-infections |
| Joel Peixoto | Doctor of Education | Education | Schools as Societal Change Agents |
| Shawn Pennell | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | A Case Study of the Spirituality of Service-Learning Instructors at a Land Grant Institution |
| Leanne Perez | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Lucas Phipps | Doctor of Philosophy | Animal and Rangeland Sciences | Development of Spatially Explicit State-and-Transition Model Maps for Rangeland Management |
| Devon A. Picklum | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | |
| Mitchell David Pisane | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Glen F. Prather | Doctor of Philosophy | English | |
| Alessandro Mauricio Ralls | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Understanding the Structure-Property Relationships of Solid-State Additively Manufactured Stainless-Steel Coatings |
| Rachel Rezaei | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Caitlin Rose Riley | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Kayleigh Robichaux | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | Elucidation and characterization of glycosyltransferases implicated in pectic polysaccharide biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. |
| Kelly Elizabeth Robinson | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Proteins, Physiology, and Phenotypes: Assessment of Predator and Antipredator Adaptations in a Chemically Mediated System |
| Allan Joseph Dela Cruz Romero | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Towards Development and Implementation of eco2-UHPC: Material Characterization and Applications to Structural Precast Columns |
| Emma Kay Rowley | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Isra Sabir | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Louisiana Montserrat Sanchez Ramos | Doctor of Philosophy | Public Health | Content and Effects of Facebook Breastfeeding Support Group for Low-Income Mothers |
| Sunil Sathappan | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Kelsey L. Scalaro | Doctor of Philosophy | Engineering Education | Access, Perceive, Interpret, and Believe: A Longitudinal Phenomenology of Undergraduate Engineering Student Recognition |
| Kendahl Romero Servino | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Jorja Erin Shires | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Abstract and Concrete Stimuli are Maintained Separately in Working Memory; mTBI status and HD-tDCS do not alter Performance |
| Fawwaz A. Siddiqui | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Sahajpreet Singh | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Robert Allen Smalley | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Alexa Jean Smith | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Kyler Weston Smith | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Ryan Smith | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | The Influence of Student Voice and Self-Regulated Learning on State Testing Performance |
| Valerie Ariana Smith | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Mauricio Solorio | Doctor of Philosophy | Economics | Essays on Experimental Economics and the Utility of Gambling |
| Benjamin Ross Sonnenberg | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | The causes and consequences of complex behavioral trait variation in a resident montane bird |
| Sarah Requa Sutton | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Brian Szekely | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | Vision as a Function of the Gait Cycle |
| Arsam Taslimi | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Probabilistic Simulation-Based Evaluation of the Effect of Near-Field Spatially Varying Ground Motions on Distributed Infrastructure Systems |
| Diane L. Teeman | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | |
| J.D. Anthony Thom | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | IoT Network Traffic Fingerprinting with Machine Learning and Hybrid Locality Sensitive Hashing |
| Nathan Charles Thom | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Mitigating Environmental Bias in Modern Facial Recognition Systems |
| Mathew John Thomas | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Spencer J. Trivitt | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Shenghong Wang, Sr | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences and Health | Model-based Exploration of Chemical Metabolism and Absorption Kinetics in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract |
| Chenxing Wang | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Robust and cross-domain anomaly detection and mitigation |
| Ping Wang | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Using an Adaptive Learning Platform to Promote Underprepared Students Success in Corequisite Math Courses: A Logistic Regression Analysis |
| Kendal M. Warner | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Roland Charles Johnston Watson | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| James R. Weston | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Conflict-Based Pedestrian Safety Scoring with All-Traffic Trajectory Data |
| Dominique White | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Geoffrey Scott Wilkinson | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Dillon Mark Winkelman | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences and Health | Whole Grains and Phosphorus in Chronic Kidney Disease |
| Katie Wolf | Doctor of Philosophy | English | The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings from the Home to the Colonial Landscape |
| Caleb Louis Wolz | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Alyssa Woodward | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Alexis Nichel Wybrecht | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Michael Anthony Yco | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Anita Yegappan | Doctor of Medicine | Medicine | |
| Nandar Yukyi | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | A Biological Distance Analysis of 19th-20th century Individuals from Myanmar |
| Nasif Zaman | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | EyeSightVR: An Immersive and Automated Tool for Comprehensive Assessment of Visual Function |
| Monica Y. Zepeda Rojo | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | |
| Yuzhu Zhang | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | A Real-time Data-driven Learning-based Optimal Dynamic Resource Allocation for Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted Wireless Network |
| Zhizhen Zhang | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences and Health | Advancing Chemical Hazard and Risk Assessments: Insights from Chemical Property Prediction and Multimedia Mass-Balance Modeling |
| Peiman Zogh | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Experimental and Empirical Evaluation of Kinematic Soil-Structure Interaction Effects in Large and Deeply Embedded Foundations |