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Doctor of Philosophy
Alison Smith Bressler, Field of Specialization:
Environment and Sustainability. Dissertation: A
Social-Ecological Analysis of Ecological Nutrient
Management using Cover Crops in the U.S. Midwest.
Katharine Krevans Brieger, Field of Specialization:
Epidemiological Science. Dissertation: Modifiable
Risk Factors During and After Women’s Reproductive
Years: From Prenatal Nutrition to Postmenopausal
Exposures.
Conor Edward Brigham, Field of Specialization:
Chemistry. Dissertation: Development of Nickel- and
Palladium-Mediated Decarbonylative Coupling of
Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: From Organometallic
Reactivity to Catalysis.
Gillen Brown, Field of Specialization: Astronomy and
Astrophysics. Dissertation: Investigating the Formation
of Star Clusters with Simulations and Observations.
Adam Lloyd Bruce, Field of Specialization: Aerospace
Engineering. Dissertation: Learning to Forget
Advanced Online Recursive Identification for
Estimation and Adaptive Control.
Tobias Eugene Burger, Field of Specialization: Chemical
Engineering. Dissertation: Eliminating Out-of-Band
Loss in Thermophotovoltaic Systems Utilizing Cell-
Side Spectral Control.
Miles Alberto Burnett, Field of Specialization:
Mechanical Engineering. Dissertation: Alternative
Fuels and Combustion Strategies for Emissions
Reductions: Experimental Studies of C3 Fuel Kinetics.
Tsenguun Byambadorj, Field of Specialization:
Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dissertation:
SOI Through-Wafer Monolithic Knudsen Pumps for
Microscale Gas Chromatography Applications.
Yuan Cao, Field of Specialization: Chemical Engineering.
Dissertation: The Electrochemical Properties of Iron
Diselenide Hedgehog Particles.
Nicholas Daly Carney, Field of Specialization: Political
Science. Dissertation: Essays on the Role of State
and Local Government in Low-Income Housing
Development.
Sanaz Chamanara, Field of Specialization: Environment
and Sustainability. Dissertation: Environmental Justice
and Governance Dynamics of Supply Chains in the
Livestock Sector.
Steven Anthony Chavez, Field of Specialization:
Chemical Engineering. Dissertation: Engineering
the Flow of Energy and Charge Carriers in Hybrid
Plasmonic Systems and Catalysts.
Yiwang Chen, Field of Specialization: Mathematics.
Dissertation: Some Results on Homogeneity Results
for GLn.
Huey-Fen Chen, Field of Specialization: Health Service
Organization and Policy. Dissertation: Economic
Evidence for Decision Making in Pediatric Populations.
Che-Hsuan Cheng, Field of Specialization: Materials
Science and Engineering. Dissertation: Engineering
Hybrid Interfaces of Organic-Inorganic 2D
Semiconductors.
Teyuh Chou, Field of Specialization: Electrical
and Computer Engineering. Dissertation: Design
Techniques for Energy-Efficient and Scalable Machine
Learning Accelerators.
Caitlin Chien Clerkin, Field of Specialization: Classical
Art and Archaeology. Dissertation: Seleucia-on-the-
Tigris, Revisited.
Patrick Stephen Coit, Field of Specialization:
Immunology. Dissertation: A Longitudinal and
Transancestral Analysis of DNA Methylation Patterns
in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
Elizabeth Collins-Woodfin, Field of Specialization:
Mathematics. Dissertation: Free Energy and Overlaps
of a Spherical Spin Glass with an External Field.
Anna Cornel, Field of Specialization: Classical Studies.
Dissertation: An Other View: Intersectional and
Identity in Classical Greece.
Nathan Craig, Field of Specialization: Toxicology.
Dissertation: The Particulars of Particulate Matter
Induced Myofibroblast Differentiation.
Stephanie Crilly, Field of Specialization: Cellular and
Molecular Biology. Dissertation: Membrane Trafficking
and Signaling of the Delta Opioid Receptor Within the
Biosynthetic Pathway.
Cara Isabel D’Amico, Field of Specialization:
Pharmacology. Dissertation: Droplet Microfluidics
Coupled to Capillary Electrophoresis and Mass
Spectrometry for Pharmacological Applications.
Marina David, Field of Specialization: Physics.
Dissertation: Explorations in Quantum Gravity:
Holography and AdS Black Holes.
Christopher Durbin Davidson, Field of Specialization:
Biomedical Engineering. Dissertation: Biomaterial
Control of Cell Forces to Enable Intercellular
Communication During Vasculogenic Assembly.
Thomas Allan Davidson, Field of Specialization:
Biomedical Engineering. Dissertation: Interface
Engineering through Adhesion and Remineralization
for Dental Composites using Mineral Binding Peptides.
Amber Caprice Sizemore Davis, Field of Specialization:
Educational Studies. Dissertation: Nurturing Black
Girl Imagination: Using Portraiture to Disrupt the
Omnivisibility of Black Girlhood and to Illuminate
Black Girls’ Childhoodness, Creativity, and Criticality
in Science Learning Spaces.
Ashlee Davis, Field of Specialization: Chemistry.
Dissertation: Overcoming Limitations in Carbonyl-
Olefin Metathesis Using Novel Catalytic Approaches.
Brandon Jovon Davis, Field of Specialization: Applied
Physics. Dissertation: Growth, Characterization and
Assembly of Lead Chalcogenide Nanosemiconductors
for Ionizing Radiation Sensors.
Rosalie DeFino, Field of Specialization: Educational
Studies. Dissertation: Race Evasion and Race
Cognizance in Elementary Math Teaching: A Study of
White Teacher Candidates’ Learning, Discourse, and
Early Practice.
Michael I. Demidenko, Field of Specialization:
Psychology. Dissertation: Neural Characteristics of
Reward in Adolescents: Neural Substrates of Risk-
taking, Researcher Degrees of Freedom and a Person-
Specific Network Approach.
Puran Deng, Field of Specialization: Nuclear Engineering
and Radiological Sciences. Dissertation: Computational
Methods for Coupled Fast and Thermal Spectrum
Reactor Core Analysis.
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