Academics
| Name | Program | Dissertation Title | Date & Time Location |
Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Dissertation Defenses to date Updated 09/28/2011 |
155 | |||
| Saparov, Bayrammurad | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Ternary and Quaternary Pnictides of Alkali, Alkaline-and Rare-earth Metals and Group 12 Metals: Size and Electronic effects in Zintl Phases | 01 / 02 / 11 1 :00 PM Brown Lab-Rm 219 | Bobev, Svilen |
| Dyson, Nancy | Education | A Number Sense Intervention for Urban Kindergartners At-Risk for Mathematics Difficulties | 01 / 07 / 11 10:00 AM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Heibert, James & Jordan, Nancy |
| Nelson, Christopher | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Total Synthesis of Natural Products and The Development of a New Reagent for Chemical Synthesis | 01 / 07 / 11 10:00 AM Brown Lab-Rm 219 | Taber, Douglass F. |
| Lewus, Rachael | Chemical Engineering | Monoclonal Antibody Interactions and Phase Behavior | 01 / 07 / 11 2:00 PM Colburn Lab-Rm 366 | Lenhoff, Abraham & Sandler, Stanley |
| Johnson, Gordon | Plant and Soil Sciences | Characterization, Utilization, and Remediation of Derelict Poultry House Pad Soils | 01 / 11 / 11 1:30 PM Carvel Research Center-Georgetown | Binford, Gregory |
| Gao, Yuqian | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Molecular Characterization of Organic Aerosol by Mass Spectrometry | 01 / 12 / 11 1:00 PM Brown Lab-Rm 218 | Johnston, Murray |
| Fisher,Laural | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Synthesis, Stability and Reactivity of Dianions of Cyclopropene Carboxylic Acids, and Their Application in Diels-Alder Cycloadditions | 01 / 13 / 11 11:30 AM Brown Lab-Rm 221 | Fox, Joseph |
| Al-Majnouni, Khalid Ali | Chemical Engineering | High Temperature Decomposition of Bronsted Acid Sites: Structures Formed and Their Catalytic Activity Towards Small Alkane Activation | 01 / 17 / 11 10:00 AM Colburn Lab-Rm 366 | Lobo, Raul & Vlachos, Dion |
| Miracco, Edward | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Mechanistic Studies of the Pseudouridine Synthases TruB and R1uA and Their Interaction with 5-Fluorouridine | 01 / 21 / 11 10:00 AM Brown Lab-Rm 219 | Mueller, Eugene |
| Kou, Xiaoming | Physics and Astronomy | Novel Microwave Properties and "Memory Effect" in Magnetic Nanowire Array | 01 / 24 / 11 1:00 PM Sharp Lab-Rm 215 | Xiao, John Q. |
| Radnai-Griffin, Dorit | Human Development & Family Studies | The Effects of Training and Onsite Support on the Quality of Early Language and Literacy Environment and Adult-Child Interactions in Infant and Toddler Classrooms | 01 / 26 / 11 10:00 AM Memorial Hall-Rm 107 | Paris, Cynthia |
| Zordan, Christopher | Chemistry | Development of a Analytical Method for the Determination of Atomic and Molecular Composition of Ambient Nanoparticles From Single Particle Spectra | 02 / 01 / 11 10:00 AM Robinson Hall-Rm 206 | Luther, George |
| Anderson, Michael Anthony | Education & Human Development | Pushing the Margins to the Center and Creating a Culture of Excellence and Professionalism. Investigating the Impact of an Engaged Adolescent Participation in Hip-Hop Pedagogy: An Exploration of the Education Possibilities of Youth Culture | 02 / 03 / 11 10:00 AM Willard Hall-Rm 117 | Meacham, Shuaib |
| Li, Zheng | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Space-Time Coding for Asynchronous Cooperative Relay Networks | 02 / 07 / 11 11:00 AM Evans Hall-Rm 204 | Xia, Xiang-Gen |
| Krishna, Ohm | Materials Science & Engineering | Conformational Assembly and Biological Properties of Collagen Mimetic Peptides and Their Thermally Responsive Polymer Conjugates | 02 / 07 / 11 8:00 AM Center for Composite Materials-Rm 104/106 | Kiick, Kristi |
| Helou, Jirar | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Binary Dithered Oversampling Analog to Digital Converter | 02 / 09 / 11 10:30 AM | Kiamilev, Fouad |
| Richardson, Scott | Education | Performances of Masculinities in Elementary Schools | 02 / 11 / 11 2:00 PM Williard Hall-Rm 117 | Hampel, Robert |
| He, Na | Economics | Essays on Willingness to Pay, Preferences, and Experimental Auctions | 02 / 11 / 11 10:00 AM Townsend Hall-Rm 233 | Bernard, John |
| McHugh, Kelly | Political Science & International Relations | The Politics of Strategic Retrenchment: France in Algeria, Britian in the East of Suez, and the United States in Vietnam | 02 / 15 / 11 10 :00 AM Smith Hall-Rm 348 | Kaufman, Stuart |
| Morrarty, Erin | Psychology | Foster Children's Diurnal Cortisol Patterns Across Early Childhood and Associations with Social-Cognitive and Behavior Regulation Outcomes at Early School Age | 02 / 18 / 11 2:00 PM Wolf Hall-Rm 108 | Dozier, Mary |
| Silverstein, Glenn | Urban Affairs & Public Policy | Unlocking the Black Box: How Delaware Elementary Schools Fulfill Expectations of Performance Measures and Accountability | 02 / 22 / 11 1:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 187 | Raffel, Jeffery |
| Ali, Bakhtyar | Materials Science and Engineering | Performance Optimization Studies of Solution Processed Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells | 02 / 25 / 11 10:00 AM Center for Composite Materials-Rm 106 | Shah, S. Ismat |
| Oswald, Michelle | Urban Affairs & Public Policy | Development of a Decision Support system for Transportation Adaptation in Response to Climate Change | 03 / 01 / 11 10:00 AM DuPont Hall-Rm 302 | McNeil, Sue |
| Eagleson, Hannah | English | Inhabiting Time: Donne, Herbert, and the Individual Body in Theological History | 03 / 01 / 11 10:00 AM Memorial Hall-Rm 114 | Poole, Kristen |
| DuPont, Mary | Education & Human Development | Advancing Community College Grant Proposal Development | 03 / 07 / 11 1:00 PM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Toccafondi, Primo |
| Cromer, Michael | Mathematical Sciences | A Tale of Two Micelles: The Analysis and Simulation of a Two-Species Scission/Reforming Model For Wormlike Micellar Solutions | 03 / 07 / 11 9:00 AM Ewing Hall-Rm 336 | Cook, Pam |
| Roeder, Katherine | Art History | Cultivating Dreamfulness: Fastasy, Longing, and Commodity Culture in the Work of Winsor McCay, 1904-1914 | 03 / 08 / 11 1:00 PM Gore Hall-Rm 316 | Werth, Margaret & Leja, Michael |
| Claro,Lyndsey | History | Pieces of History: The Past and Popular Culture in Victorian Britain, 1837-1882 | 03 / 09 / 11 2:00 PM Munroe Hall-Rm 203 | Brophy, James |
| Pi, Lijuan | Fashions Studies | Analysis of Consumers' Visual Perception of Garment Fit: An Eye Tracking Study | 03 / 11 / 11 1:00 Alison Hall West-Rm 309 | Lennon, Sharron |
| Coyle, Heather | Art History | Laughing Matters: Art Caricature in America, 1878-1918 | 03 / 11 / 11 10:00 Am Old College-Rm 325 | Werth, Margaret |
| Blackman, Melissa | Chemistry and Biochemistry | The Tetrazine Ligation: Development of a Novel Bioorthogonal Diels-Alder Reaction and Its Applications | 03 / 14 / 11 10:30 AM Brown Lab-Rm 219 | Fox, Joseph |
| Kacanda, Leah | Urban Affairs & Public Policy | A Street of Hopes and Dreams: Rehabilitation, Revitalization, and Gentrification Along Market Street in Wilmington, Delaware | 03 / 14 / 11 2:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 295 | Sheppard, Rebecca |
| Bosse, Solveig | Linguistics and Cognitive Science | The Syntax and Semantics of Free Arguments in German and English | 03 / 17 / 11 10:00 AM Colburn Lab-Rm 109 | Bruening, Benjamin |
| Han, Yuexia | Education & Human Development | A Guidebook for a Teacher Training Program: Fostering Students' Creativity by Using Xiang Thinking as an Approach | 03 / 17 / 11 3:30 PM Willard Hall-Rm 117 | Whitson, Tony |
| Altunbas, Aysegul | Materials Science and Engineering | Hierarchical Structures Based on Self-Assembling b-Hairpin Peptides and their Application as Biomaterials and Hybrid Materials | 03 / 18 / 11 1:00 PM Center for Composite Materials-Rm | Pochen, Darrin J. |
| Gillespie, Christopher | Chemical Engineering | Protein Solution Thermodynamics: Polymorphic Crystallization, Liquid-liquid Phase Separation and Osmotic Second Virial Coefficients | 03 / 18 / 11 3:15 PM Colburn Lab-Rm 366 | Lenhoff, Abraham |
| Biedrzycki, Meredith | Plant and Soil Sciences | Importance of Rhizospheric Processes in Plant-Plant Interactions | 03 / 21 / 11 10:30 AM DE Bio-tech Inst-Rm 102 | Bais, Harsh |
| Longazel, Jamie | Sociology and Criminal Justice | "I've Lost My City": Law, Community, and Immigration Under Colorblind Neoliberalism | 03 / 22 / 11 1:00 PM Smith Hall-Rm 321 | Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin |
| Cathcart, Mary Ellen | Linguistics and Cognitive Science | Impulsatives | 03 / 22 / 11 11:00 AM 46 E. DE Ave-Rm 202 | Bruening, Benjamin |
| D'Addio, Elizabeth | Chemical Engineering | High Throughput Investigation of Supported Catalysts for CO-free Hydrogen Production from Ammonia Decomposition | 03 / 22 / 11 9:45 AM Colburn Lab-Rm 366 | Lauterbach, Jochen |
| Barsky, Lauren | Sociology | Framing Responsibility: A Political Economy Approach to Meeting Basis Needs in a Disaster | 03 / 23 / 11 10:00 AM Disaster Research-Conf Rm | Wachtendorf, Tricia |
| Murphy,Aideen | Education | "Runts","Alphas", & "Middle Dwellers": Relational Aggression & Conflict Resolution in Middle Schools. | 03 / 23 / 11 12:00 AM East Hall-Rm 104 | Hampel, Robert |
| Qian, Xiaoyu | Education | A Multi-Level Differential Item Functioning Analysis of Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study: Potential Sources of Gender and Minority Difference Among U.S. 8th Graders' Science | 03 / 23 / 11 2:00 PM Willard Hall-Rm 117 | Nandakumar, Ratna |
| Klauber, Evgeni | Political Science and International Relations | Political Autonomy and Ethnic Mobilization: Russian-speaking Minorities In Ukraine's Crimea and Donbas, and Kazakhstan's Qaraghandy | 03 / 23 / 11 3:00 PM Smith Hall-Rm 348 | Green, Daniel |
| Santoro, Lily | History | The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic. | 03 / 24 / 11 10:00 AM Munroe Hall-Rm 203 | Heyrman, Christine |
| Liu, Greg | Operations Research | Comparison of Regression and ARIMA Models With Neural Network Models For Forecasting The Daily Stream Flow of White Clay Creek | 03 / 25 / 11 1:00 PM Townsend Hall-Rm 233 | Krishnan, Palaniappa |
| Cheng, Liang | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Implications of the Arthropod Exoskeleton Microstructures and the Mechanical Behavior of the Bio-Inspired Composites | 03 / 31 / 10 2:30 PM Spencer Lab-Rm 126 | Karlsson, Anette |
| Srinivasiah, Sharath | Plant and Soil Sciences | In Situ and In Vitro Evaluation of Viral-host Dynamics in Soils and Uranium Contaminated Subsurface Aquifers | 03 / 31 / 11 11:00 AM DBI- RM 102 | Wommack, K. Eric |
| Qiao, Xiaofen | School of Education | Foreign Language Curriculum Inquiry Through Autobiographies: A Study Using an Adaptation of the Method of Currere | 04 / 04 / 11 12:00 PM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Whitson, James |
| Moseychuk, Oleksandra | Biological Sciences | CK2 is the Key Molecular Switch Regulating C2C12 Cell Differentiation into Osteoblasts and Adipocytes | 04 / 04 / 11 3:00 PM Wolf Hall-Rm 318 | Nohe, Anja |
| Kostyak, John | Biological Sciences | CIB1 Regulates Megakaryopoiesis | 04 / 04 / 11 3:00 PM Wolf Hall-Rm 318 | Naik, Ulhas |
| Grasso, Damion | Psychology | Electrophysiological Correlates of Childhood PTSD and Treatment of Outcome | 04 / 05 / 11 1:00 PM Wolf Hall-Rm 108 | Simons, Robert |
| Bauer,Brad | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Development and Application of Charge Equilibration Force Fields for the Study of Aqueous Solutions and Interfaces | 04 / 06 / 11 1:00 PM Brown Lab-Rm 221 | Patel, Sandeep |
| Clausen, Kathy | School of Education | Analyzing the Effects of MyMathLab on Student Achievement in Elementary Algebra | 04 / 06 / 11 1:30 PM Willard Hall-Rm 117 | Heibert, James |
| Kluver, Daria | Geography | Seasonal Snowfall Prediction in the United States Using Multiple Discriminant Analysis | 04 / 07 / 11 10:00 AM Pearson Hall-Rm 304 | Leathers, Daniel |
| Wright, Beverly | Materials Science & Engineering | Novel Uses of Sub-micron Probes: The Piezoelectric and Mechanical Measurement of Nanocrystalline Zinc Oxide | 04 / 07 / 11 9:00 AM Center for Composite Materials-Rm 106 | Opila, Robert |
| Hwang, Stephen | Education | The Role of Role: Engaging with Mathematical Justification as Student and Teacher | 04 / 08 / 11 9:15 AM Williard Hall-Rm 207 | Morris, Anne |
| Schultz, Kelly | Chemical Engineering | High-Throughput Microrheological Characterization of Biocompatible Hydrogelators | 04 / 08 / 11 11:00 AM Colburn Lab-Rm 366 | Furst, Eric |
| Theilacker,William | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Extracellular Matrix Protein Patterns and Gradients to Modulate Axonal Growth | 04 / 09 / 10 2:00 PM Brown Lab-Rm 221 | Beebe, Jr., Thomas |
| Volpe, Julia | Human Development & Family Studies | Retirement Transitions of Collegiate Student-Athletes Experiencing Career-Ending Injury | 04 / 11 / 11 3:00 PM Alison Hall-Rm 202 | Ohannessian, Christine |
| Burke, Kevin | English | Chaucerian Representations of Agency: Determined and Free Action in Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale | 04 / 11 / 11 10:30 AM Memorial Hall-Rm 216 | Dean, James |
| Muscarella, Philip | Marine Studies | Circulation at the Delaware Bay Mouth from the Lagrangian and Eulerian Perspectives | 04 / 11 / 11 3:30 PM Robinson Hall-Rm 206 | Kirwan, A.D. |
| Kleinstuber, Ross | Sociology | Everyone Has Choices: Constructing Individualism in the Cultural and Institutional Life of Capital Mitigation | 04 / 12 / 11 1:00 PM Smith Hall-Rm 321 | Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin |
| Terrill, Brandy | Educational Leadership | Professional Development Needs in the Area of Arts Integration for Worcester and Wicomico Counties | 04 / 13 / 11 1:00 PM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Whitson, Tony |
| Mostafid, Erfan | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Assessing Aerobic Activity During Aerobic Bioreactor Landfilling and Quantifying Gas and Water Transport Properties of Landfill Biocovers | 04 / 13 / 11 10:00 AM Pearson Hall-Rm 311A | Imhoff, Paul T. |
| Mostafid, Erfan | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Assessing Aerobic Activity During Aerobic Bioreactor Landfilling and Quantifying Gas and Water Transport Properties of Landfill Biocovers | 04 / 13 / 11 10:00 AM Pearson Hall-Rm 311A | Imhoff, Paul T. |
| Fuhrman, Catherine | Education | A Plan For Creating A 21st Century Copright and Fair Use Curriculum in the Hempfield School District | 04 / 13 / 11 11:00 AM Williard Hall-Rm 117 | Klein, Rachel |
| Najera, Kristina | Education | An Emploration of Students' Cognitive Processes: Strategies Sixth Grade Students Use to Write Essays Using an Electronic Concept Mapping Tool | 04 / 13 / 11 11:00 AM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Klein, Rachel |
| Li, Xiaowei | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Robust Phase Unwrapping and its Applications in Radar Signal Processing and Imaging | 04 / 13 / 11 11:00 AM Evans Hall-Rm 210 | Xia, Xiang-Gen |
| Funkhouser, Beverly | Education | Drawing on Technology: An Investigation of Preservice Teachers' Beliefs in the Context of an Introductory Educational Technology Course | 04 / 14 / 11 11:00 AM Williard Hall-Rm 207 | Mouza, Chrystalla |
| DeAngelis, Andrew | Chemistray and Biochemistry | Rhodium(II)-Catalyzed Intermolecular Reactions of a-Alkyl-a-diazoesters: Selectivity Over ß-Hydride Elimination | 04 / 15 / 11 3:00 PM Brown Lab-Rm 205 | Fox, Joseph |
| Nassim, Sami | Education | The World is Knocking on Our Doors: Examination of the Experience of First Year Undergraduate International Students and Support Services Programs Available to Them at the University of Delaware | 04 / 15 / 11 3:30 PM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Cooksy, Leslie |
| Zaykowski, Heather | Sociology | I Wouldn't Call it a Crime: How Young People Make Sense of Victimization and Account for Their Responses to Violence | 04 / 15 / 11 10:00 AM Smith Hall-Rm 321 | Bachman, Ronet |
| Singh, Bhavana | Plant and Soil Sciences | Biochemical Determinants of Interspecific Variations in Nickel Tolerance and Hyperaccumulation | 04 / 18 / 11 10:30 AM DE Bio-tech Inst-Rm 201 | Bais, Harsh |
| Gupta, Anindita | Biological Sciences | Study of the Role of Retinoic Acid Signaling in Colon Cancer | 04 / 18 / 11 3:00 PM Wolf Hall-Rm 308 | Czymmek, Kirk and Boman, Bruce |
| Gordon, Leo-Rey | Economics | An Estimation of the Economic Growth Effect of Offshore Banking in Caribbean Islands | 04 / 18 / 11 10:00 AM Gore Hall-Rm 114 | Butkiewicz, James |
| Clark, Kristi | Biological Sciences | Characterization of a Chromosomal Duplication in the PLP1 Locus: A New Mouse Model of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease | 04 / 19 / 11 9:00 AM Wolf Hall-Rm 318 | Hobson, Grace & DeLeon, Patricia |
| Gusick, Richard | Education | Strengthening Thinking Skills Instruction: A District's Fifteen Year Journey | 04 / 25 / 11 2:00 PM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Archbald, Douglas |
| Longsdorf, Kristy | Chemistry and Biochemistry | A Novel Strategy for Biomolecule Presentation on Surfaces Using Tetrazine Ligation | 04 / 29 / 11 1:15 PM Brown Lab-Rm 219 | Beebe, Jr., Thomas |
| Kremer, Peleg | Energy & Environmental Policy | Local Food Systems as a Strategy for Sustainability: Analysis of Scale Dependent Sustainable Urban Food System-A Case Study in Philadelphia | 04 / 29 / 11 2:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 187 | Schreuder, Yda |
| Cojocaru, Laura | Economics | Financial Development, Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from the Former Communist Countries | 05 / 02 / 11 3:30 PM Gore Hall-Rm 102 | Miller, Jeffrey |
| Pupcenoks,Juris | Political Science and International Relations | Ethnicity, Not Religion: Mobilization and Reactive Conflict Spillover in Muslim Migrant Communities | 05 / 04 / 11 2:00 PM Smith Hall-Rm 348 | Miller, Mark |
| Jones, Patricia | Biological Sciences | L-type Voltage-Sensitive Calcium Channel-Medicated Regulaton of Osteoblast Behavior | 05 / 05 / 11 9:00 AM Wolf Hall-Rm 318 | Duncan, Randy |
| Chung, Seung | Chemical Engineering | Quantitative Modeling and Analysis of the Transforming Growth Factor ß Signaling Network | 05 / 05 / 11 1:00 PM Colburn Lab-Rm 366 | Ogunnaike, Babatunde |
| Khalid, Rizwan | Physics and Astronomy | Sparticle and Higgs Spectroscopy for Yukawa and Gauge-Yukawa Unified Models | 05 / 05 / 11 2:00 PM Sharp Lab-Rm 215 | Shafi, Qaisar |
| Paramasivam, Sivakumar | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Insights Into Structure, Dynamics of Thioredoxin Reassembly and Dynein Light Chain 8 and Ionization States of Thiamin Cofactor by Mas NMR Spectroscopy | 05 / 09 / 11 12:00 PM Brown Lab-Rm 219 | Polenova, Tatyana |
| Opila, Mary Cate | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Structural Condition Scoring of Buried Sewer Pipes for Risk-Based Decision Making | 05 / 10 / 2011 10:00 AM Dupont Hall-Rm 301 | Attoh-Okine, Nii O. |
| Parashar, Tulasi | Physics and Astronomy | On Kinetic Dissipation in Collisionless Turbulent Plasmas | 05 / 12 / 11 1:30 PM Sharp Lab-Rm 215 | Shay, Michael |
| Yonten, Hasan | Political Science & International Relations | Multilateralism in International Migration: A Constructivist Approach with Empirical Insights. | 05 / 13 / 11 9:00 AM Smith Hall-Rm 347 | Denemark, Robert |
| Taromi, Reza | Civil and Environmental Engineering | A Multi-Objective Land Development Optimization Model | 05 / 18 / 11 1:00 PM DuPont Hall-Rm 302 | Faghri, Ardeshir |
| Al-Lozi, Muhammad Amin | Economics | Financial Development and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Jordan: A Small Open Economy Framework with Fixed Exchange Rate | 05 / 18 / 11 10:00 AM Lerner Hall-Rm 125 | Butkiewicz, James L. |
| Chehab, Sara | Political Science and International Relations | Dubai Goes Global: Toward a New Model of Development | 05 / 19 / 11 11:00 AM Smith Hall-Rm 348 | Khan, M. A. Muqtedar |
| Lonergan, William | Chemical Engineering | Structure-property Relationships of Supported Pt-3d Bimetallic Catalysts | 05 / 20 / 11 1:30 PM Colburn Lab-Rm 366 | Chen, Jingguang |
| Carson, Patrick | Civil Engineering | Evolving and Confirming Estimated Parameters Based on Structural Health Monitoring Data | 05 / 20 / 11 9:30 AM Dupont Hall-Rm 302 | Shenton, Harry |
| Kim, Hannah | History | Ties that Bind: People, Policy and Perception in U.S.-Korean Realations, 1905-1965 | 05 / 23 / 11 12:00 PM Munroe Hall-Rm 203 | Boylan, Anne |
| Choi, Sunghee | Urban Affairs & Public Policy | National Policy and Community Cultural Democracy: Centralization and Decentralization of the Houses of Culture in Korea | 05 / 27 / 11 1:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 187 | Warren, Robert |
| Lu, Xuesong | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Design, Fabrication, Characterization and Analysis of Wide Band Gap Gallium Phosphide Solar Cells | 05 / 27 / 11 11:00 AM Evans Hall-Rm 204 | Barnett, Allen |
| Wasileski, Gabriela | Criminology | Not So Obscure A Challenge: Battered Female Migrants and Public Policies in the United States and Greece | 05 / 31 / 11 10:30 AM Smith Hall-RM 321 | Miller, Susan |
| Di Stasi, Stephanie | Biomechanics and Movement Science | The Fickle ACL Deficient Athlete: Investigation of the Non-Coper Response to Injury, Surgery, and Neuromuscular Training | 05 / 31 / 11 9:00 AM Center for Composite Materials-Rm 106 | Snyder-Mackler, Lynn |
| Mathai, Manu | Energy & Environmental Policy | Beyond Prometheus and Bakasura: Elements of an Alternative to Nuclear Power in India's Response to the Energy and Environment Crisis | 08 / 12 / 10 2:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 187 | Byrne, John |
| Johnson, David A. | Chemical Engineering | Investigating the Effects of Blood Flow in Human Arteries | 08 / 25 / 10 10:00 AM Colburn Lab-Rm 366 | Beris, Antony & Naik, Ulhas |
| Hidrue, Michael K. | Economics | The Demand for Conventional and Vehicle-to-Grid Electric Vehicles: A Latent Class Random Utility Model | 09 / 01 / 10 3:00 PM Purnel l Hall-Rm 118 | Parsons, George |
| Borchers, Allison M. | Economics | Valuation of a Quasi-Public Good Using Revealed and Stated Preference Techniques | 09 / 08 / 10 3:30 PM Townsend Hall-Rm 233 | Duke, Joshua |
| Rao, Panambur Sharath Chandra | Energy & Environmental Policy | Energy-Microfinance Intervention for Low Income Households in India | 09 / 09 / 10 2:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 187 | Wang, Young Doo |
| Dahan, Nayla G. | Economics | Essays in Labor and Health Economics: Economic Effect of Obesity on Wages and its Impact Over Time | 09 / 10 / 10 2:30 PM Purnell Hall-Rm 239 | Link, Charles |
| Powers, Sarah G. | Art History | Images of Tension: City and Country in the work of Charles Sheeler, Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper | 09 / 17 / 10 11:00 AM Old College-Rm 325 | Leja, Michael & Gibson, Ann |
| Gerstenhaber,David | Chemistry & Biochemistry | The Development of Novel Synthetic Methodologies and Their Application to Natural Product Synthesis | 09 / 23 / 10 3:00 PM Brown Hall-Rm 219 | Taber, Douglass F. |
| Mormul,Michelle | History | The Linen and Flaxseed Trade of Philadelphia, 1765 to 1815 | 09 / 23 / 10 2:00 PM Munroe Hall | Matson, Cathy |
| Vermeire, David | Economics | Firm Heterogeneity and Antidumping Petition Filing | 09 / 23 / 10 10:00 AM Willard Hall-Rm 110 | Falaris, Evangelos |
| Gao, Feng | Chemistry and Biochemistry | The Design and Application of Protein Kinase-Inducible Domains as a General Approach For Detection of Kinase and Phosphatase Activities | 09 / 23 / 10 2:00 PM Brown Lab-Rm 220 | Zondlo, Neal |
| Muhovic-Dorsner, Kamala | Energy & Environmental Policy | Wealth, Power, Justice and Climate Change Policy: A Critical Research Framework for the Evaluation of Justice and Sustainability Concerns Regarding the Efforts of the European Union to Respond to the Problem of Climate Change | 09 / 30 / 10 2:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 185 | Byrne, John |
| Barrera, Ivan D. | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Approaches for Congestion Control in Computer Networks | 09 / 30 / 10 8:00 AM Evans Hall-Rm 204 | Arce, Gonzalo & Bohacek, Stephan |
| Lindsay, Bruce R. | Energy & Environmental Policy | U.S. Disaster Policy: An Analysis of Federal Emergency Supplemental Appropriations | 10 / 01 / 10 2:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 187 | Sylves, Richard T. |
| Farhadzadeh, Ali | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Sand and Stone Transport Under Breaking Irregular Waves and Currents | 10 / 01 / 10 3:00 PM Dupont Hall-Rm 350 | Kobayashi, Nobuhisa |
| Falgowski, Kerry Ann | Biological Sciences | Model System Design and Assay Development of Gene Repair in Caenorhabditis Elegans | 10 / 04 / 10 2:00 PM Wolf Hall-Rm 318 | Kmiec, Eric |
| Illuzzi, Jennifer L. | Biological Sciences | The DNA damage and Repair Response as a Function of Mutant Huntingtin | 10 / 04 / 10 9:30 AM Wolf Hall-Rm 318 | Kmiec, Eric |
| Harbottle, Kainoa | English | Conjuring Culture: Performance Magic, Masculinity and Literature in Victorian and Edwardian England | 10 / 05 / 10 Memorial Hall Conf Rm | Gates, Barbara |
| Chen, Long | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Exploring Novel Many-Core Architectures for Scientific Computing | 10 / 11 / 10 2:30 PM Evans Hall-Rm 201 | Gao, Guang |
| Strom, Matthew J. | Marine Studies | Cathodic Current Enhancement via Manganese and Oxygen Related Reactions in Marine Biofilms | 10 / 12 / 10 10:00 AM Cannon Bldg-Rm 104, Lewes | Dexter, Stephen |
| Creazzo, Tim | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Silicon Nanocrystal Devices for Silicon Photonics | 10 / 14 / 10 10:00 AM Evans Hall-Rm 204 | Prather, Dennis |
| Peel, J. Jason | Educational Leadership | Algebra I Plus Program: Does Double the Time and a Remedial Curriculum Improve a Student's Perceptions of Math and Achievement in Albegra I? | 10 / 19 / 10 2:00 PM Willard Hall-Rm 217 | Archbald, Douglas |
| Zhu, Qinghua | Applied Mathematics | Pricing Exchange Options with Stochastic Correlations | 10 / 20 / 10 10:00 AM Ewing Hall-Rm 336 | Edwards, David |
| Wang, Yuzhen | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Study of Double Stranded DNA Break Repair Protein-Human Rad54 | 10 / 20 / 10 2:00 PM Brown Lab-Rm 221 | Chen, Junghuei |
| Colak, Levent | Physics | Chemically Synthesized Fe-Pt Binary Alloy Nanoparticles | 10 / 22 / 10 8:30 AM Sharp Lab-Rm 215 | Hadjipanayis, George |
| Jha, Amit | Materials Science and Engineering | Acid Based Hydrogel Systems for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery | 10 / 26 / 10 10:00 AM Cntr for Comp. Mat.-Rm 106 | Jia, Xinqiao |
| Murtha, Hillary | History | Instruments of Power: Sonic Signaling Devices and American Labor Management, 1821-1876 | 10 / 27 / 10 3:00 PM Munroe Hall-Rm 203 | Boylan, Anne |
| Shireen, Rownak | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Design and Characterization of Modules for Millimeter-Wave Imaging Applications | 10 / 29 / 10 2:30 PM DuPont Hall-Rm 302 | Prather, Dennis |
| Bonner, Melissa A. | Biological Sciences | Gene Editing in Mammalian Cells Results in Transient DNA Breakage and Replication Stress | 10 / 29 / 10 3:00 PM Wolf Hall-Rm 318 | Kmiec, Eric |
| Marchena, Elton L. | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Fabrication and Characterization of Novel Microcavities for Si-based Light Emitters | 10 / 29 / 10 9:00 AM DuPont Hall-Rm 302 | Prather, Dennis |
| Kleintop, Adrienne | Plant and Soil Sciences | Evaluation of Low Phytic Acid Maize Germplasm Adapted to the Delmarva Peninsula | 10 / 29 / 10 9:30 AM Townsend Hall-Rm 156 | Hawk, James |
| Briel, Holly | Educational Leadership | Implementation and Outcomes of a Pilot Virtual School in the First State | 11 / 01 / 10 1:00 PM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Mouza, Chrystalla |
| Thompson, William R. | Biomechanics and Movement Science | Perlecan Modulates the Function of the Osteocyte Lacuno-Canalicular System | 11 / 01 / 10 9:00 AM Center for Composite Materials | Farach-Carson, Mary C. |
| Beal, Christy | Entomology & Wildlife | Bird Foraging Preferences & Caterpillar Biomass on Suburban Woody Landscape Trees | 11 / 02 / 10 1:00 PM Townsend Hall | Tallamy, Douglas |
| Medina, Andres | Electrical and Computer Engineering | New Methodologies for Performance Modeling of Routing Protocols in Wireless Networks | 11 / 02 / 10 10:00 AM Evans Hall-Rm 204 | Bohacek, Stephan |
| Craig, Roger | Computer and Information Sciences | Predicting the Functions and Interacting Partners of Biological Sequences: Kernel Methods Using Structural and Phylogenetic Information | 11 / 04 / 10 1:30 PM Smith Hall-Rm 219 | Liao, Li |
| Spiridonov, Georgi B. | Economics | Choice Set Formation and Its Implication for Welfare Measures in a Random Utility Model of Recreation Demand | 11 / 04 / 10 10:00 AM Purnell Hall-Rm 422 | Hoffman, Saul |
| Chhabra, Bhumika | Materials Science & Engineering | Surface Passivation and Open Circuit Voltage in Ultra-Thin Silicon Solar Cells | 11 / 05 / 10 2:30 PM Purnell Hall-Rm 236 | Opila, Robert & Honsberg, Christiana |
| Jampana, Balakrishnam Raju | Materials Science and Engineering | Wide Bandgap InGaN Solar Cells: Materials Science and Device Engineering | 11 / 05 / 10 10:00 AM Memorial Hall-Rm 037 | Honsberg, Christiana; Opila, Robert & Ferguson, Ian |
| Zhan, Mingjiang | Chemical Engineering | Bio-composite from Soybean Oil and Chicken Feather Fibers for Electronic Applications | 11 / 09 / 10 11:00 AM Center for Composite Materials-Rm 106 | Wool, Richard |
| Maxwell, Valerie | Educational Leadership | Teachers' Responses to Pedagogical Challenge: Investigating the Implementation of a New Mathematics Curriculum | 11 / 15 / 10 10:00 AM Willard Hall-Rm 207 | Berk, Dawn |
| Johnson, Laura | History | Material Translations: Cloth in Early American Encounters, 1520-1750 | 11 / 16 / 10 9:00 AM Munroe Hall-2nd fl conf rm | Heyrman, Christine |
| Deusner, Melody B. | Art History | A Network of Associations: Aesthetic Painting and its Patrons, 1870-1914 | 11 / 16 / 10 2:30 PM Old College-Rm 122 | Kallmyer, Nina & Leja, Michael |
| Nataraj, Latha | Electrical and Computer Engineering | The Fabrication and Characterization of Low-Dimensional Structures for Optoelectronic Applications | 11 / 17 / 10 1:00 PM Evans Hall-Rm 204 | Clouter, Sylvain |
| Trnka, Keith | Computer and Information Sciences | Word Prediction Techniques for User Adaptation and Sparse Data Mitigation | 11 / 19 / 10 12:15 PM Smith Hall-Rm 102A | McCoy, Kathleen |
| Srinivasan Shandrasekaran, Vasan Churchill | Mechanical Engineering | Role of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube in Interlaminar Shear Strength of Epoxy/Glass Fiber/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Composites | 11 / 22 / 10 12:15 PM Spencer Lab-Rm 133 | Santare, Michael & Advani, Suresh |
| Nilakantan, Guarav | Materials Science and Engineering | Modeling the Impact of Flexible Textile Composites Through Multiscale and Probabilistic Techniques | 11 / 22 / 10 9:30 AM Center for Composite Materials-Rm 106 | Gillespie, Jr., John & Keefe, Michael |
| Prettyman, Allen | Human Development & Family Studies | Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators: E-Learning vs. Face-to-Face | 11 / 29 / 10 11:30 AM Allison Hall-Rm 202 | Unger, Donald |
| Chen, Junjun | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Investigation of Chemical Ubiquitination of PCNA and Mechanism, Inhibition of USP1/UAF1 & The Molecular Recognition of RNA By The Pseudouridine Synthase RLUA | 12 / 22 / 10 11:00 AM Brown Lab-Rm 220 | Zhuang, Zhihao |
| Grossman,Stacy | Psychology | Classroom Emotional Support as a Protective Factor for Adaptive Social Behavior | 12 / 01 / 10 11:30 AM Wolf Hall-Rm 108 | Izard, Carroll |
| Perrine, Kathryn | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Organic & Metal-Organic Reactions on Functionalized Silicon Surfaces | 12 / 10 / 10 9:30 AM Brown Lab-Rm 219 | Teplyakov, Andrew |
| Kerestes, Christopher | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Design, Fabrication and Analysis of Transparent Silicon Solar Cells | 12 / 14 / 10 11:30 AM Evans Hall-Rm 204 | Barnett, Allen |
| Stanley, Emily | Psychology | Feedback-Related Brain Activity During the Chicken Game | 12 / 15 / 10 12:30 PM Wolf Hall-Rm 108 | Simons, Robert |
| Janerette, Dariel | Urban Affairs & Public Policy | Save The Children: An Analysis of the Feasibility and Fairness of the No Child Left Behind Act's Student Proficiency Timeline in Delaware | 12 / 16 / 10 1:00 PM Graham Hall-Rm 185 | Ware, Leland B. |
| Sultana, Dilara | Physics | Isotropic Rare Earth Based Hard Magnets Through Non-Equilibrium Processing | 12 / 16 / 10 8:00 AM Sharp Lab-Rm 215 | Hadjipanayis, George |
| Sun, Shangjin | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Structural Investigations of Microtubule-Associated Motor Proteins by MAS Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy | 12 / 22 / 10 9:30 AM Brown Lab-Rm 219 | Polenova, Tatyana |
