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Spring 2007 Doctoral Dissertations and Recitals

March 6 Benjamin Hornberger, Physics
Phase Contrast Microscopy with Soft and Hard X-rays Using a Segmented Detector
March 7 Norberto Barreto, History
Imperial Thoughts: The US Congress and the Philippine questions, 1898-1934
March 14 Duan Ziyang, Computer Science
Semantic Based Analysis and Synthesis of Web Services and Workflows
March 15 Sharon Weyser, Music 
Final DMA Recital - Horn Performance
March 16 Lee SeonYoung, Music
Final DMA Recital - Violin Performance
March 16 Iordanis Gravanis, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
The role of annexin II in tPA-dependent microglial activation
March 19 Jeremy A. Hake, Music
Final DMA Recital - Cello Performance
March 22 Mei Zhu, Music
Final DMA Recital - Piano Performance
March 23 Paul Humphrey, Philosophy
Metaphysics of Mind: Hylomorphism and Eternality in Aristotle and Hegel
March 23 Tuyen Tonnu, Music
Final DMA Recital - Piano Performance
March 23 Yukiko Sekino, Music
Final DMA Recital - Piano Performance
March 26 Benjamin Lanz, Music
Final DMA Recital - Trombone Performance
March 26 Alfredo R. Varela, IDPAS
Ritual and Social Change: A Japanese Example - University School Festivals
March 27 Christopher Lowell Johns, Philosophy
The Science of Right in Leibniz's Practical Philosophy
March 28 Dwan A. Gerido, Physiology and Biophysics
Cataracts and Skin Disease: A Study of Two Prominent connexin-Related Disorders
March 29 Suk Kyoung Lee, Chemistry
DC Slice Ion Imaging Study of Atomic Orbital Orientation and Alignment in Photoissociation
March 29 Pradipta De, Computer Science
MiNT: A Reconfigurable Mobile Multi-hop Wireless Network Testbed
March 30 Nidia Haydée De Jesús, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Impact of Mutating a Single Conserved Nucleotide between the Cloverleaf and Internal Ribosome Entry Site on Biological Properties of Poliovirus and Coxsackievirus A20
March 30 Parag P. Patwardhan, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Determinants for Multisite Phosphorylation of p130Cas by Src
March 31 David Bowlin, Music
Final DMA Recital - Violin Performance
April 9 Judy Dunaway, Music Composition
Sex Workers' Internet Radio Lounge
April 10 Yeonjoo Jang, Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Fine-Tuning of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) Signaling by Positive and Negative Regulators
April 10 Zhang Mingyu, MEC
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Materials Processing: Code Development and Applications
April 10 Thomas Millioto, Music
Final DMA Recital - Guitar
April 11 Shazia Rana, Biomedical Engineering
Development of a Bioengineered Matrix Designed to Resist Early Glycation and Promote Normal Wound Repair in Diabetes
April 12 Gregory Ingles, Music
Final DMA Recital - Trombone
April 16 Wang Huan, Physiology and Biophysics
Oxidation, Calcium and Cataract
April 17 Agnieszka Skrodzka-Bates, Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies
Peripheral Visions: Regional Identity in the Literature and Cinema of East Central Europe
April 18 Colin A. Forestal, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Interactions between Francisella tularensis and Cells of Innate Immunity
April 18 Yang Zhongming, AMS
Restricted Linear Mixture Regression Models: Estimation, Power and Sample Size Calculations
April 20 Ariel Brewer, Biopsychology
Galanin and Reward
April 20 Martine Marion Mirrione, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Imaging Neuronal Activation during Seizures: A Role fo Tissue Plasminogen Activator, Microglia, and Zinc
April 21 Alicia Bennett, Music
Final DMA Recital - Clarinet
April 23 Mark N. Coleman, IDPAS
The Functional Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Auditory System
April 23 Bengt J. Allen, Ecology and Evolution
Costs of Sexual Selection in the Sand Fiddler Crab, Uca pugilator
April 24 Valentin Polishchuk, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Thick Non-Crossing Paths and Minimum-Cost Continuous Flows in Geometric Domains
April 24 Quan Wen, Physics
An Optimization Theory of Brain Structures
April 24 Francisco Javier Alvarez Botas, Genetics
Identification of a Novel Eukaryotic N-Acetylglucosamine Transporter
April 25 Conor Nelson, Music
Final DMA Recital - Flute
April 25 Erica Margaret Woodin, Clinical Psychology
Motivational Interviewing as a Targeted Prevention Approach for Physically Agressive Dating Couples
April 25 Shiri Cohen, Clinical Psychology
Development of a Brief Couples Therapy for Depression: Targeting Illness-Related Behaviors and Attitudes, Empathy and Support
April 25 Daniel Robinson Roe, Chemistry
Study of Biologically Relevant Phenomena using Small Peptide Models
April 26 Christopher Jensen, Ecology and Evolution
Predation and its Consequences: Insights into the Modeling of Interference
April 27 Guy Anthony LoFaro, History
The Sword of St. Michael: the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II
April 27 Martin Vasquez, Vocal Performance
Recital Program
April 27 Sebastian A. Reyes, Physics
Correlations in Low Dimensional Systems
April 27 Harold Bien, Biomedical Engineering
Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis in Urban Air Pollution: Optical Mapping in a Tissue-Engineered Model
April 27 Zhiru Jia, Biopsychology
Bilingual Emotional Word Processing: A Behavioral and Event-Related Potential Study
April 28 Helen G. Liu, Music
Final DMA Recital - Violin
April 30 Kent Gustavson, Music Composition
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April 30 Wilson A. Lee, Materials Science & Engineering
The Efficacy of Surface Modified Nano Titanium Dioxide against Photocatalytic Activity from Ultraviolet Irradiation
April 30 Manuela Kulaxizi, Physics and Astronomy
Marginal Deformations of Gauge Theories and their Dual Description
May 1 Chen Yutian, Economics
Essays on Strategic Industrial Competition
May 1 Song Gao, Economics
Elderly Care and Public Health Insurance Programs Evaluation
May 1 Chen Xin, Physics and Astronomy
Long-Time Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Botulinium Biotoxin Type-A at Different pH Values and Temperatures
May 1 Jie Wang, Chemistry
Membrane Topology of the Amphiphilic and Semi-Hydrophobic Helices in the T Domain of Diphtheria Toxin
May 1 Cheng Liu, Biomedical Engineering
Functional Characterization of Mustn1 during Skeletal Myogenesis
May 1 Diego Trancanelli, Physics
Studies on Gauge/Gravity Dualities
May 2 Amy B. Rosen, Biomedical Engineering
Finding Fluorescent Needles in the Cardiac Haystack: Tracking the location and fate of hMSCs with quantum dots for electrical and mechanical repair of damaged myocardium
May 3 Inna Burdein, Political Science
Principled Conservatives or Covert Racists: Disentangling Racism and Ideology through Implicit Measures
May 3 Hui Guo, Computer Science
Ontology Extraction and Applications
May 3 Tokufumi Kato, Physics
Tau Neutrino Appearance in the Atmospheric Neutrinos with Super-Kamiokande
May 3 Mir M Ali, Economics
Initiation and Addiction: An Analysis of Adolescent Smoking Behavior
May 3 Bin Fang, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Parallel Spherical cutoff 3D FFT and its implementation in SPME algorithm for biophysical simulation studies: Application to the 6D torue QCDOC supercomputer
May 3 Ivar Lyberg, Mathematics
Statistical Mechanics of Hard Spheres and the Two-dimensional Ising Lattice
May 3 Philip Colosimo, Physics
A Study of Wavelength Scaling in Strong-field Optical Ionization
May 4 Corine Driessens, Social Welfare
The Impact of Psychosis on Vocational Functioning
May 4 Jeremy W. Hubbell, History
Minneapolis: Urban-environmental Change in the Upper Mississippi, 1824-1924
May 4 Vladislav Kuzminskiy, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Optoelectronic Fiber Based Fluorescence Detection Sensor Systems
May 4 Zhou Lili, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Low-Contrast Lesion Detection in Tomosynthetic Breast Imaging
May 4 Adam McGlynn, Political Science
Reforming Urban Schools Through Systemic Policy Change: The Adoption, Efficiency and Performance of Mayoral Control
May 5 Johnny Johnson, Physiology and Biophysics
MMP-7 modulates the transition of normal pancreatic acinar cells to metaplastic ducts associated with the neoplastic epithelium of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
May 7 Laura Barger, Music
Final DMA Recital: Contemporary Piano Music from 1970-2001
May 7 John Arrigo-Nelson, Music Composition
Quintet for Piano and Strings
May 7 Jerry Sell, Physics
Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Francium and Rubidium with Amplitude Modulated Light
May 7 Aaron J. Beck, Marine and Atmospheric Science
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) and dissolved trace metal cycling in the subterranean estuary and coastal ocean
May 7 Maya Lang, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
The Hypochondriac: Bodies in Protest from Herman Melville to Toni Morrison
May 7 Yu Wen-Che, Geosciences
Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Structures in the Earth's Inner Core
May 8 Ryoko Akai, Music
Final DMA Recital - Violin
May 8 Simone Giombi, Physics
Topics in String Theory and Quantum Field Theory
May 8 Elena Yarritu, Music
Final DMA Recital - Flute
May 8 Lisa Whitehead, Physics
Measurement of the Single Charged Pion Production Cross Section in Charged-Current Neutrino-Carbon Interactions
May 8 Paul J. Lawrence, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Hepatoctye-Specific Endocytic Activity Exhibited by the Coxsackie and Adenovirus Receptor (CAR)
May 8 Donne Bennett De Leon Caces, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
Reconstructing Aquaporin 2 Trafficking and AHNAK Function in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes
May 9 David Alan Rubenstein, Biomedical Engineering
Development of a Novel Bioassay Chamber to Optimize Autologous Endothelial Cell Viability and Density on Topological and Topographical Substrates
May 9 Sahap Mert Aybat, Physics
Studies in Perturbative QCD
May 9 Kimberly DeFazio, English
"The City in the Eye of the Writings"
May 9 Oana Iulia Carnu, Oral Biology and Pathology
The Impact of the Diabetic State on Gingival Tissues: The Role of Tetracyclines in Disease Management
May 9 Myung-Jin Paik, Music
Final DMA Recital - Piano
May 10 Alan Dion, Physics
Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at sNN = 200 GeV
May 10 Gretchen Woertendyke, English
Specters of Haiti: Race, Fear, and the American Gothic, 1789-1855
May 10 Luis Edoardo Lopez, Mathematics
Topics in Algebraic Cycles
May 10 Jeffrey L. Reynolds, Social Welfare
The Best of Intentions: Using the Transtheoretical Model to Explore Substance Use Patterns and HIV Risk Behaviors in a Suburban Sample
May 11 Ma. Cecilia Conaco, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Reciprocal Actions of REST and a microRNA Promote Neuronal Identity
May 11 Jean Nicolas Pestieau, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Uncertainty Quantification and Grid-Based Geometrical Computations for Turbulent Fluid Mixing
May 11 Jian Du, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Simulation of Magnetohydrodynamic Multiphase Flow
May 11 Sireen El Zaatari, Anthropological Sciences
Ecogeographic Variation in Neandertal Dietary Habits: Evidence from Microwear Texture Analysis
May 14 Dong Huishi, Physics
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the ZH → μ+μ- + b ‾b Channel in p‾p Collisions at s =1.96 TeV
May 14 Wonkuk Kim, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Application of Asymptotic LRTS Results to Mixture Problems in Genetic Research
May 15 Hsiu-Hsiu Chang, Music Composition
Who, If I Cry Out, Would Hear Me Among the Angels
May 15 Ehud N. Sommer, Political Science
A Supreme Discretion and A Passivity Conundrum: Strategic Agenda-Setting on the US Supreme Court
June 25 Ganna Tsupryk
Job Match Quality: Measurement and Applications

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