Yale University

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

One Hundred Fifty-Fourth Commencement

Monday, May 18, 2015

Order of Exercises commencement diploma ceremony Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Monday, May 18, 2015

Organ Prelude English Department Dissertation Prize Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, WoO 10 samuel fallon J. Brahms justin sider Meditation Estwing Hammer Prize M. Duruflé zhixue du allison hsiang Sonata VI victoria mccoy F. Mendelssohn Excellence in Teaching Prize Jacob Street, Organist david auerbach Yale Institute of Sacred Music james super

Processional Miguel Ferreyros Memorial Award Grand Choeur Triomphale, Op. 47 No. 2 christopher harnisch Alexandre Guilmant Harry Burr Ferris Prize Please rise when the faculty and graduating nicole darricarrere students enter the hall. eric guo brant webster Recognition of Student Prize Recipients Theron Rockwell Field Prize kyle andrew dugdale Marsten Anderson Prize carmel addie raz jessica moyer William Ebenezer Ford Prize Francis J. Anscombe Award taylor kilian chao gao colton lynner Henry Prentiss Becton Prize Hans Gatzke Prize ngai yin yip nathaniel kurz Frederick W. Beinecke Prize rachel rothschild ryan hall James B. Grossman Dissertation Prize Frances Blanshard Fellowship Prize su mei lee meredith gamer William J. Horwitz Prize sylvia houghteling marina brown Harding Bliss Prize matteo di giovanni alyssa siefert Academic Excellence in International Relations Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize farsan ghassim john cooper Mary Ellen Jones Prize Dirk Brouwer Memorial Prize hoong chuin lim katherine tease Annie Le Fellowship Anthony DiGuida Delta Mu Research Prize olga buzovetsky lisa braun joori park George Washington Egleston Historical Prize andrew horowitz Elias Loomis Prize Recognition of Public Service Award Recipient ivy tan community service award srikanth toppaladoddi jill kelly John Spangler Nicholas Prize nicholas frankel Recognition of Graduating Prize Teaching daniel goldhill Fellows bradley parry alexander cerjan 2011-2012, 2013-2014 alexis rovner jean elyse graham 2010-2011 Philip M. Orville Prize andrew horowitz 2011-2012, 2012-2013 erin wirth moriarty susanna kimport 2013-2014 yige zhang Marguerite A. Peyre Prize Recognition of Graduate Mentor Award clementine fauré-bellaïche Recipients benjamin hoffmann in the humanities John Addison Porter Prize verity harte dana johanna graef Professor of Philosophy and Classics shawnakim blake lowey-ball in the natural sciences Leonard J. Savage Writing Prize hal blumenfeld cynthia rush Professor of Neurology, of Neurobiology, & of Neurosurgery George Gaylord Simpson Prize alex dornburg in the social sciences teresa feo naomi lamoreaux Carolyn Slayman Prize in Genetics Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics helen rankin and History steven reilly Presentation of Diplomas Edwin W. Small Prize justin barr phd, mphil, ma, ms, and mas david minto Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; C.N.H. Long Professor of Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize Genetics; and Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular, michael yarbrough Cellular & Developmental Biology George Trimis Prize Thomas Pollard, Emeritus Dean of the james duffy Graduate School nicolas werquin Karl K. Turekian Prize Recessional david auerbach Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1 Richard Wolfgang Prize M. Dupré joseph fournier david romney tina wang Arthur and Mary Wright Prize mary brazelton shawnakim lowey-ball Academic Procession Marshal Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School

Graduate School Marshals Pamela Schirmeister, Sr. Associate Dean Richard Sleight, Associate Dean Allegra Di Bonaventura, Associate Dean Robert Harper-Mangels, Assistant Dean Carl Hashimoto, Assistant Dean Robin Ladouceur, Assistant Dean

Graduate School Banner Bearers Steven Reilly, Genetics Sara Ronis, Religious Studies phd Student Marshals Matthew Akamatsu, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Alyssa Siefert, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering ma Student Marshal Donna Hernandez, Global Affairs ms Student Marshal Michela Paganini, Physics mphil Student Marshal Quiao Lu, Immunobiology

Degree recipients and their families and friends are cordially invited to a reception immediately following Commencement Exercises in the Hall of Graduate Studies courtyard, 320 York Street. degrees granted, december 2014 and may 2015 african american studies Najwa Mayer Master of Arts Doctor of Philosophy Juliet Monique Nebolon Lucia Esther Cantero Master of Arts Specters of the Market: Consumer-Citizenship and the Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard Visual Politics of Race and Inequality in Brazil African American Studies Anthropology Master of Arts Adom Getachew Joseph Plaster The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination: Towards a Master of Arts History of Anti-Colonial World Making Political Science Master of Arts Master of Philosophy Melissa Ann Castillo-Garsow African American Studies Heather Victoria Vermeulen Karla Marcela Cornejo Villavicencio American Studies Master of Arts Scott Wasserman Stern Janine Elyse Stockford african studies Master of Arts anthropology Joseph Charles Guido Doctor of Philosophy Annemari Raath Antonites american studies An Archaeological Investigation of Zhizo/Leokwe Foodways at Schroda and Pont Drift, Limpopo Valley, South Africa Doctor of Philosophy Ryan Patrick Clasby Megan Jeannette Asaka Exploring Long Term Cultural Developments and The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Slopes of the Andes: Seattle’s Urban Landscape A Case Study from the Site of Huayurco, Jaen Region, Peru Claudia Calhoun Catherine Anne Claus “The Story You Are About to Hear Is True”: Dragnet, Drawing Near: Conservation By Proximity In Okinawa’s Transmedia Storytelling, and the Postwar Police Coral Reefs Procedural Forestry and Environmental Studies Film Studies Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy Michael Jason Degani The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Tao Leigh Goffe Postsocialist Tanzania Chiney Royal: Afro-Asian Intimacies in the Americas Abigail Anne Dumes Tisha Yvonne Hooks Divided Bodies: The Practice and Politics of Lyme Disease Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination in the United States Carolee Klimchock Dana Johanna Graef Heiress Weds Coachman: Elopement Scandals and the Isles of Green: Environmentalism and Agrarian Change in Performance of Coach Driving in the Gilded Age Costa Rica and Cuba Master of Philosophy Forestry and Environmental Studies Sarah Ariadne LeBaron von Baeyer Fadila Habchi National Worlds, Transnational Lives: Nikkei-Brazilian African American Studies Migrants in and of Japan and Brazil Master of Arts Atreyee Majumder Seng Fatt Liew Being Human in Howrah: On Historical Sensation and Light Transport and Lasing in Complex Photonic Public Gesture in an Industrial Hinterland Structures Oscar Gabriel Prieto Master of Philosophy Gramalote: Domestic Life, Economy and Ritual Practices of a Prehispanic Maritime Community Christopher James Axline Master of Philosophy Teresa Lynn Brecht Kevin Shu-Wei Chou Samar Mussa Al-Bulushi Eric Nuokai Jin Ryan Cecil Jobson African American Studies Xin Liang Kristen English McLean Zlatko Kristev Minev Elliott Edward Prasse-Freeman Anirudh Narla Amelia Elizabeth M Sancilio Sonya Dawn Sawtelle Master of Science Michelle Elizabeth Young Master of Science applied mathematics Eric Andrew Kittlaus Doctor of Philosophy Linshu Li Chong Deng Philip Charles Reinhold Estimating Function Approaches for Spatial Point Kyle Anthony Serniak Processes Erik Stassen Zhu Wang Heitman On the Improved Asymptotics for Oscillatory Solutions of Laszlo Janos Szocs Second Order Ordinary Differential Equations Jae Oh Woo archaeological studies Information Theoretic Inequalities, Limit Theorems, and Universal Compression over Unknown Alphabets Master of Arts Master of Philosophy Patricia S. Glass Yahui He Huamin Li applied physics architecture Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy Joseph Lawrence Clarke Joel David Chudow The Architectural Discourse of Reverberation, 1750-1900 Terahertz Spectroscopy of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as a Probe of Luttinger Liquid Physics Kyle Andrew Dugdale Architecture After the Death of God: Uriel Birnbaum’s Der Benjamin Leung Kaiser und der Architekt Crystal Growth on a Designed Surface, Geometry, or Construct: MOCVD of Semipolar and Polar GaN on Master of Philosophy Sapphire and Amorphous Surfaces Michael Surry Schlabs astronomy Ramiro Luis Nandez Acosta Elucidating the Role of OCRL at Sites of Clathrin- Doctor of Philosophy Mediated Endocytosis Joel Daniel Tanner Robert J. Ross Simulating Convection in Stellar Envelopes The Role of Hsp90 in Spermatogenesis and the Piwi- piRNA Pathway Luis Carlos Vargas A Spectroscopic Survey of Chemical Evolution in Local Lena Kumba Schroeder Group Dwarf Satellite Galaxies Super-Resolution Investigations of COPI-Coated Vesicles in Thin Sections Master of Philosophy Rebecca Kiino Swartz Jeremy David Bradford Establishing a Role for Nuclear Envelope Bridging Master of Science Complexes in Homology-Directed Repair Duncan Alan Campbell Ruth Wangechi Wang’ondu Master of Science Induction of Markers of DNA Damage Signaling upon Matthew Jason Giguere Reactivation of Epstein-Barr Virus: A Novel Role for ZEBRA and the Pre-replicative Phase of the Viral Allison Taylor Merritt Lytic Cycle Master of Science Brant Michael Webster Joseph Randall Schmitt Quality Control of Nuclear Pore Complex Assembly Master of Science Molly Miranda Weiner Master of Science Novel Function of Piwi in Axis Determination during Drosophila Oogenesis Sarah Denise Benjamin Albert Wong cell biology Molecular Characterization of Integrin-Induced mRNA Stabilization in T Cells Doctor of Philosophy Master of Philosophy Nicole Darricarrere Patrick Donald Ellis Mechanistic Studies of Small RNA Pathways Mediated by Argonaute Proteins and Novel Insights from Genome- Sarah Elizabeth Hill Wide RNA Interference Screening Applications Xinyu Hong Samir Gautam SoRi Jang Re-engineering the Cell Wall of Staphylococcus Aureus with Small Molecules: Applications in Basic Bacteriology Junyi Jiao and Vaccine Design Omar Saul Julca Zevallos Allison Louise Gilder Karlina June Kauffman Polycystin Trafficking to the Apical and Ciliary Membrane Nikit Kumar Jacob Michael Gonzalez Piwi, a Nuclear Argonaute/Piwi Protein, is a Key Bryan Adam Leland Regulator of the Testicular Stem Cell Niche in Drosophila Christopher Kan May Yang Guo Jin Meng Regulation of T-Cell Function by Herpesvirus Noncoding RNA’s María Jesús Olarte Carhuaz Sneha Ramesh Mani Ah Rume Park The Role of the PIWI/piRNA Pathway in Maintaining Rachel Starr Plumb Genomic Integrity during Drosophila Oogenesis and Embryogenesis Nur-Taz Rahman Rachel Marie Stewart Jonathan Graeupner Iridium-Catalyzed Water Oxidation and Hydrogenation Ke Zhang Louise Melanie Guard Meng Zhang Synthesis and Reactivity of Organometallic and Master of Science Coordination Complexes of Mg and Ni Laura Grossi Gennady Khirich Temperature Dependence, pH Dependence, and the cellular and molecular Complexity of Energy Landscapes in Enzymes physiology Sandra Marie King Total Syntheses of Hasubanan and Acutumine Alkaloids Doctor of Philosophy and Development of a Method for the Selective Reduction of Alkenyl Halides Kseniya Eugene Gavrilov Suppression of BCR-ABL by siRNA-loaded Nanoparticles Phillip Lichtor for the Treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia The Discovery and Study of Peptide-Based Catalysts for Selective Epoxidation Master of Philosophy Michael George Manas Patrick James Dunn The Development of Catalytic Processes for Alternative Max Christian Petersen Energy and Green Chemistry Applications Gregory Alan Manley Lindsey Katharine Stavola Understanding the Role of Conformational Flexibility Kevin Nai-Hsiu Su in Allosteric Regulation: Allosteric Ligands Alter Conformational Motions on the Millesecond Timescale in chemistry Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase Curren Tapfuma Mbofana Doctor of Philosophy Lewis Base Mediated Reactions of Allenes and Alkynes Seth Chase Alexander Jonathan Miller Design and Investigations of Bisarsenical Cyanine Dyes Further Expansions of Functionality in Beta-Peptide with Cysteine- Rich Peptides and 14-Helical Beta-Peptide Bundles Mimics of Oriented Transmembrane Domains Kanak Shail Raina Daniel Jacob Aschaffenburg Development of Novel Chemical Biological Tools to Study Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopic Polarimetry the Unfolded Protein Response Kimberly Terese Barrett David Kingsland Romney Peptide-Catalyzed, Enantioselective Synthesis of Axially Regio- and Enantioselective Reactions Mediated by Chiral Benzamides Peptide-Based Oxidation Catalysts Elizabeth Anne Bielinski Hee Won Suh Transition Metal Catalysts for Hydrogen Storage and Synthetic, Mechanistic, and Catalytic Studies of Nickel- Carbon Dioxide Activation and Palladium-Catalyzed Carboxylation with Carbon Elizabeth V. Denton Dioxide Expanding the Scope of Peptide Mimetics that Target Maung Kyaw Moe Tun Protein-Protein Interactions Total Synthesis of (-)-Huperzine A and Studies Towards Joseph Allen Fournier the Synthesis of the Antimalarial Alkaloid Ocimicide A1 Studies of the Microscopic Structures Underlying the Jing Wang Bulk Properties of the Hydrated Proton and Ionic Liquids DNA-Origami Templated Formation of Liposomes and through Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy Related Structures Ricardo Gallardo-Macias Tina Wang Synthesis and Optimization of Novel Non-Nucleoside Chemical Perspectives on Protein Glycation Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Michael Roy Casselman Williams Bo Wang Intermolecular Vibrations of Hydrophobic Amino Acids Nan Ye Jinsuop Youn Peijia Yuan Methods and Strategies for Synthesis: (a) New Methods for Highly Functionalized Quinolines, (b) Synthetic Mingshuo Zeng Studies Toward Adriatoxin B, and (c) Total Synthesis and Structure Assignment of Nosperin classics Master of Science Doctor of Philosophy Nicholas Adam Arnet Joshua David Fincher Mikhail Askerka Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Redefinition of Epic Poetry Anne Munroe Carroll and the Heroic Code Sean Michael Colvin Master of Philosophy Wei Dai Meghan Christine Freeman Kyle William East Ben Adam Jerue Master of Arts Nicola Feldman Saundra Denise Field Master of Arts Olga Gorlova Sarah McKinnon Norvell Daria Lei Huang Luke D. Patient Philosophy Joshua Ryan Hummel Haya Jamali comparative literature Kenneth Saihei Kan Doctor of Philosophy Xiangmeng Kong Ariel Sophia Bardi Xiaohan Li Cleansing, Constructing, and Curating the State: India/ Patrick Robert Melvin Pakistan ’47 and Israel/Palestine ’48 Kate DeVries Otley Leif Erling Dahlberg Spacing Law and Politics: The Constitution and Corey Erik Perez Representation of Judicial Places and Juridical Spaces in Megan Elizabeth Reesbeck Law, Literature and Political Philosophy in Works from Greek Antiquity to the Present Michael Joseph Robertson Eugenia Kelbert Alexandra Schatz Acquiring a Second Language Literature: Patterns in Dimitar Yavorov Shopov Translingual Writing from Modernism to the Moderns Shashi Bhushan Sinha Annie Pfeifer To the Collector Belong the Spoils: The Transformation of Angela Steinauer Modernist Practices of Collecting Bennett Thompson Master of Philosophy Eric Pierce Trautman Mark Adrian Rivera Vinay Chetan Trivedi-Parmar Master of Arts Tyler Joseph Wadzinski Alexandra Shraytekh Master of Arts Allison Sara Walker Ksenia Sidorenko Jiewen Huang Master of Arts Large-Scale Graph Data Processing Ayten Tartici Minh Tam Le Feature Selection for Diffusion Methods Within a Master of Arts Supervised Context David Aaron Carper Daniel Noah Leyzberg Craig Erik Eklund Creating Personalized Robot Tutors That Adapt to The Needs of Individual Students computational biology and Hongqiang Liu bioinformatics Traffic Planning under Network Dynamics Donya Victoria Quick Doctor of Philosophy Kulitta: a Framework for Automated Music Composition Yao Fu Master of Philosophy Computational Methods for Estimating Functional Consequences of Genetic Variants and Application to Elena Corina Grigore Cancer Genomics Master of Science Cong Li Rasmus Jacobsen Kyng Some Statistical Methods for Joint Analysis of High- Alexandru Octavian Litoiu Dimensional Genomics Data Master of Science Zhixiang Lin Aditi Ramachandran Some Statistical Methods for Spatial-Temporal Brain Master of Science Gene Expression Data Aaron Segal Kelly Patrick Stanton Harmonic Analysis of ChIP-seq Ewa Syta Master of Science Minghui Tan Master of Science Stefan Philippe Avey Weiyi Wu Paul Frederick Baranay Master of Science Jason Robert Bedford Ennan Zhai Christopher Andrew Stec Fragoso Master of Science Shantao Li Dongqu Chen Cong Liang Lu Chen Robert Andrew McDougal Jose Manuel Faleiro Mate Levente Nagy Luyi Guo Ruijie Song Michael Garrett Hopkins Qian Wang Yujia Hu He Zhu Shantao Li computer science Chao Teng Chen Xu Doctor of Philosophy Luyang Zhang Justin Wildrick Hart Yuanyuan Zhang Robot Self-Modeling east asian languages and ecology and evolutionary literatures biology Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy Jessica Dvorak Moyer April Joy Dinwiddie Gender and Genre in the High Qing: Depictions of Cellular Patterning of Butterfly Wing Scales in an Feminine Sociability and Household Dynamics across Late Evolutionary Context Imperial Genres Elisabeth Jane Forrestel Paul August Vierthaler Biogeographic Influences on Grassland Community Quasi-History and Public Knowledge: A Social History Structure and Function of Late Ming and Early Qing Unofficial Historical Daniel Henry Goldhill Narratives Robustness, Structure and Thermotolerance: Experimental Master of Philosophy Evolution of the RNA Phage Phi6 Fu-ming Lee Andrew William Jones Characterizing the Extent and Drivers of Intraspecific Riley Parker Soles Variation in Alewives Master of Arts Koryu Kin Justine Kirby Wiesinger Evolution of Pregnancy in Mammals - A Cell Type Perspective east asian studies Master of Science Master of Arts Arun Rajendra Chavan Lani Miranda Alden Benjamin Robert Evans Yuan Chen Sarah Federman Nicholas B. Frisch Brian Park Wee Shian Goh Samuel Spencer Snow Randall Tye Graham Elizabeth Loren Gerlach Spriggs Adam Dante Haliburton economics Tiying Huang Alistair John Hughes Doctor of Philosophy Mikko H Salovaara Sabrin Beg Hanting Sha Political Economy of Agricultural Contracts in a Developing Country Jiakai Sheng Claire Louise Brennecke Shuang Song Essays on Information Acquisition Hui Wen Tea Marianne Caro Bruins Linan Yao The Effects of the Economic and Policy Environment on the Resources Parents Allocate to Children Alex Willey Cohen Market Frictions in Developing Countries Sabyasachi Das An Enquiry into the Efficacy of “Town Hall” Meetings in Local Democracies Marina Delmondes de Carvalho Rossi Tibor Alejandro Heumann Epstein Essays in Welfare and Taxation in Economies with Master of Arts Dispersed Information Matthew Oliver Hom James Alexander Duffy Philip Kalikman Three Essays on the Nonparametric Estimation of Master of Arts Nonlinear Cointegrating Regressions Chiara Margaria Gabriele Ariel Foà Essays on Household Finance Rebecca Jay McKibbin Amanda Grace Gregg Monica Morlacco Factory Productivity, Firm Organization, and Corporation Master of Arts Reform in Late Imperial Russia Emily Elizabeth Nix Richard Peter Langford Craig Palsson Estimating the Environmental Benefits of Gasoline Taxes Master of Arts and the Market Benefits of Hybrid Vehicles Tommaso Porzio Yu Liu The Political Economy Determinants of the Firm Size Gerardo Ruiz Sanchez Distribution: Evidence from China Jakob Heinrich Florian Schneebacher Sofia Moroni Alexey Smolin Essays on Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information Meredith Lundberg Startz Adam Mohamed Osman Master of Arts Essays on the Roles of Credit and Information in Development Economics Yu Jung Whang Zhentao Shi Master of Arts Three Essays on High-Dimensional Model Econometrics Antoine Luc Pascal Arnoud Noam Ben Tanner Maliheh Birjandi-Feriz Essays in Economic Decision Making Taha Choukhmane Cristina Jazmin Tello-Trillo Essays on International Trade and Firm Performance Fabian Paul Eckert Nicolas David Werquin Joachim Hubmer Essays in the Theory of Taxation Aigerim Kabdiyeva Kai Yan DongHyuk Kim Essays on the Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations Louise Laage Master of Philosophy Yuchen Liu Noriko Georgina Amano Patino Achill Prabhat Rudolph Yaniv Ben Ami Fabian Lorenz Schrey Jin-Wook Chang Master of Arts Ling Zhong Jialu Chen Giovanni Compiani Master of Arts Matthew William Grant Master of Arts engineering and applied Candice Inez Pelligra science Orientational and Spatial Control of ZnO Nanorods in Functional Composite Thin Films by Self- and Directed- Doctor of Philosophy Assembly Laura H. Arias Chavez Fang Ren Re-Designing Membranes: Electrospun Nanofibers for Property Control of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Control of Structure and Material Properties through Synthesis Seyla Azoz Mark Joseph Schwab Utilization of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Vertical Nanochannels in Gallium Nitride for Hybrid Electronic Applications and Solar Cell Devices Organic/Inorganic Photovoltaics Elizabeth Ann Calle Kamran Shamaei Ghahfarokhi Alveolar Barrier Formation in Engineered Lung Tissue Compliant Knee Exoskeletons and Their Effects on Gait Biomechanics Karen Carla Dannemiller Integrating Measurements of Environmental Fungal Alyssa Siefert Communities with Human Health Outcomes Biomimetic Nanosystems Targeting Antigen-Presenting Cells for Improved Immunotherapeutics Juan Fernandez Garcia Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Measurements and David Dale Simon Modeling of the Electrical Mobilities of Charged Biomechanics and Remodeling of Free-Floating Tissue Nanodrops in Gases: Relation between Electrical Mobility, Equivalents Size, and Charge, and Effect of Ion-Induced Dipole Peter Haugen Tobin Interactions Engineering Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurin for Energy Forrest Stephen Gittleson and Electron Transfer Nanomaterials and Design in Lithium Battery Interfaces Hari Vasudevan Enping Hong Development of Clusterwheel Balancing Robots and The Biophysical Context of Interleukin-15 Presentation: Methods for Improving Performance of Wheeled Inverted Strategies for Biomimetic Cytokine Delivery Pendulum Machines Hanqiong Hu Hongda Xiao Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Thin Films by Accountability in Cloud Computing and Distributed Electrospray Deposition Computer Systems Jingjing Kanik Wenqing Xu Image Analysis and Biomechanics for Patient- Black Carbon: a Reactive Sorbent for the Destruction of Specific Mitral Valve Modeling from Transesophageal Hazardous Organic Contaminants by Hydrogen Sulfide Echocardiography Jie Yang Michael Kanik Gallium Nitride-Based Transistors and Associated Gate Bulk Metallic Glass Resonators Stacks Yang Liao Christopher Daniel Yerino Dynamics and Coherent Structures in Two-Dimensional Tensile Quantum Dots and Lattice-Matched Epitaxy on Turbulence (111) and (110) Surfaces Andrew Harrison Mack Ngai Yin Yip Single Molecule Optical Trapping Measurements on Sustainable Production of Water and Energy with Nucleosomes: Kinetics, Feedback, and High Bandwidth Osmotically-Driven Membrane Processes and Ion- Exchange Membrane Processes Michael Douglas McHugh Induction of Immunological Tolerance with Biodegradable Zhiteng Zhang Immune Modulating Nanosystems Characterizing Functionalized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNT) and Application of MWCNT as Shaoshuai Mou Support for Platinum Catalyst Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems Katherine Rey Zodrow Ahsan Imon Nawroj Biofilm Characterization and Prevention in Engineered Master of Science Systems Nripesh Parajuli Master of Philosophy Joseph Ryan Petrulli Chanhee Boo Yekaterina Rokhlenko Master of Science Master of Science Punnathat Bordeenithikasem Julia Catherine Salevan Jonathan Chen Master of Science Youngwoo Choo Jonas Schwan Master of Science Anthony Philip Straub Jiajia Cui Namratha Reddy Vedire Dhrubajyoti Devbrat Das Mary Grace Mamaril Velasco Zachary S. Fishman Alejandro Virrueta Linda Ellen Fong Master of Science Mary Katherine Germino Nayi Wang Xiang Guo Yu Wang Master of Science James Winters Patrick Han Iva Xhangolli Master of Science Master of Science Xu Han Xiaodong Zhu Master of Science Master of Science Prashanth Harshangi Master of Science Francisco Mariano Quintos Antonio Sandy Hernandez Zachary Augenfeld Master of Science Anthony H. Bianchi Brendan Huang Master of Science Subhajyoti Chaudhuri Nathan John Kempema Jinryang Chung Master of Science Maxwell Alexander Emerson Emily Rae Kinser Ashley Lauren Gard Master of Science Bezawit Asheber Getachew Arina Korneva Priyanka Manoj Hardikar Emil Boye Kromann Master of Science Bridget Emily Hegarty Minsuk Kwak Qiyang Huang Thomas Alan Kwan Humberto Jaramillo Kyle Moor Yichen Jiang Aaron Harvey Morris Na Young Jun Andres Rene Munoz Rojas Jittisa Ketkaew Master of Science Zachary Alexander Kobos Rebecca Marie LaCroix Robert Bradley Holden Renaissance Studies Jingbei Liu Master of Arts Haiying Lu Ashley Nicole James Samuel Kipyego Maritim African American Studies Master of Arts Lyndsey Brye McMillon Edward Hazell Chester King Amanda Scott Pellowe Master of Arts Silin Ren Angus Roderick Ledingham Young-Eun Seo Master of Arts Michelle Ashley Vaisman Palmer Rampell Master of Arts Tony Wu Rebecca Merrick Rush Sirjan Xhurxhi Master of Arts Elizabeth Colette Wiet english language and Master of Arts literature Master of Arts Doctor of Philosophy Seo Hee Im Merve Gul Emre Adam Christopher Keller Paraliterary Institutions Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy european and russian studies Samuel Meade Fallon Personal Effects: Persona and Literary Culture in Master of Arts Elizabethan England Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy Wendi Ardath Bootes Edgar Eduardo Garcia Lauren Sarah Young Deep Land: Hemispheric Modernisms and Indigenous Media experimental pathology Jean Elyse Graham The Book Unbound: Print Logic between Old Books and Doctor of Philosophy New Media Tara Anne Bancroft Len Joshua Gutkin Investigating the Role of the AKT1/eNOS/TSP2 Signaling Dandiacal Forms Axis in Angiogenesis and Tissue Repair Justin Andrew Sider Jonathan William Haskins Parting Words: Address and Exemplarity in Victorian ERBB4 Couples the ERBB Signaling Network to the Poetry Hippo Pathway and Cholesterol Homeostasis William Weatherford Weber Casey Gerald Langdon Shakespearean Metamorphoses Combination High Throughput Compound Screening for Melanoma and Lung Adenocarcinoma Master of Philosophy Alexandra Mary Teixeira Shannon Fogarty Beddingfield Epithelial (E)-cadherin is a Novel Regulator of Platelet Master of Arts Function Margaret Jeanne Deli Master of Arts Master of Philosophy Sarah Rae Osterhoudt The Forest in the Field:The Cultural Dimensions of Nicole Elizabeth Calabro Agroforestry Landscapes in Madagascar Anthropology forestry and environmental BinBin Jiang Pearce studies Phosphorus Cycles in Urban Systems and Implications for Sustainable Urban Resource Management Doctor of Philosophy Stefan Renckens Agha Ali Akram Regulating Transnational Private Governance: Domestic The Economics of Water Resources: Essays in Drinking Interests, Market Fragmentation, and Institutional Fit in Water Quality and Irrigation Water Use the European Union Noel Ramesh Aloysius Kathryn L. Richards-Hrdlicka Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources in A Genomic Approach to Finding and Understanding How Tropical River Basins: The Case of Congo the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus is Genetically Structured in Mercedes Aurelia Bravo Northeastern America Health Impacts of Air Pollution: Investigating Methods of Alark Saxena Exposure Assessment and Factors Affecting Vulnerability Evaluating the Resilience of Rural Livelihoods to Change Master of Philosophy in a Complex Social-Ecological System: A Case of Village Nathan Wankit Chan Panchayat in Central India Three Essays on the Economics of Environmental Public Lei Zhao Goods and Externalities Natural and Anthropogenic Contributions to Urban Heat Peter Anton Christensen Islands Essays on Urban and Growth and Public Goods in the Master of Philosophy Setting of Rapid Urbanization Guilherme Medeiros DePaula Jennifer Elaine Gaddis Fit to Feed: Labor, Ecology, and the Remaking of the Kandice Lyn Harper National School Lunch Program Jennifer Burlingame Hoyle Elaine Rosamond Hooper Meghna Krishnadas The Effect of Forest Fragmentation on the Biodiversity, Phylogenetic Diversity and Phylogenetic Community Daniel Maynard Structure of Seedling Regeneration in the Central Sarah Priscilla Randle Amazon: Area Effects and Temporal Dynamics Anthropology Ashley Dawn Keiser Natalie Marie Schultz Merging Above- and Belowground Processes: Identifying How Decomposer Community Composition Shapes Litter Noah Sokol Decomposition Dynamics Nikki Johnson Springer David Michael Kneas Eleanor Catherine Stokes Substance and Sedimentation: A Historical Ethnography of Landscape in the Ecuadorian Andes Ranran Wang Anthropology Byungman Yoon Jennifer Rose Bunnell Miller Lily Zeng Examining Predation Risk as a Guide for Mitigating Large Carnivore Attacks on Livestock Yong W. Zhao Nedal Talal Nassar Global Stocks and Flows, Losses and Recoveries of Platinum-Group Elements french Kathleen Lenna McCann Discovering the LSU Processome Interactome Doctor of Philosophy William Henry Olds III Clementine Chantal Faure-Bellaiche Regulation of Food Intake by Mechanosensory Ion “L’air protestant” - Andre Gide and the Religion of Channels in Enteric Neurons Literary Modernism Yukun Pan Benjamin Hoffmann Efficient piggyBac F1 Dominant Screen in Mice for Growth Posthumous America: Literary Recreations of America at Retardation the Turn of the Eighteenth Century Helen Bonevie Rankin Dustin Alan Hooten Localized JNK Signaling Functions as a Size Organizer Animals and French Realism Steven Kenneth Reilly Master of Philosophy Evolutionary Changes in Promoter and Enhancer Activity During Human Corticogenesis Catherine Laure Caroline Chiabaut Ashley Brooke Sjolund Master of Arts Characterization of TDG and MBD4 Variants and Their Link to Cancer Jennifer Alice Carr Akemi Joy Tanaka Jessica Valerie Kasje Genetic Analysis of Epithelial Sheath Muscle in Drosophila Usha Rungoo Melanogaster African American Studies Tiffany Werlyne Todd Nemo-Like Kinase Modulates the Pathogenesis of the genetics Polyglutamine Disease Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy Doctor of Philosophy Samir Zaidi Matthew Joseph Davis Genes and Mechanisms of Congenital Heart Disease: Characterizing Putative Driver Events in Cancer: Fast- Converging Developmental Pathways Cycling with RAC1 and Oncogenic Stabilization of a Master of Philosophy Dominant-Negative CBL Mutation Siming Zhao Xiaobin Gao Revealing the Genetic Landscapes of Gynecological Cancers Structural and Functional Gene Alterations in Cancer and by Whole Exome Sequencing Diabetes Master of Philosophy Jennifer Ruth Czochor Guarino Hanwen Bai Characterization of microRNA Regulation and Function in Hypoxia Biology Ashley Rebecca Bonneau Yanwen Guo Brandon Scott Dunn Characterization of the Mammalian Small RNA Samuel Joseph Endicott Turnover Landscape Kyle Andrew Gettler Eriona Hysolli Insights into Novel Regulators of Human Somatic Cell John Kenneth Gockley Reprogramming Kylia Michelle Goodner Sara Guckian Kosmaczewski Christian Charles Dutton Harman RNA Ligation by RtcB Regulates tRNA Splicing, the UPR, and Axon Regeneration Erin Nicole Heim Stephen John Mastriano Charles Jonathan Hernandez High-Throughput Determination of miRNA-Mediated Timothy George Johnstone 3’UTR Regulation and Expanding the Rules for miRNA Targeting Ronit Sharon Kaufman Georgy Eduardovich Manucharyan The Role of Upper-Ocean Mixing in Large-Scale Ocean Katelynn Margaret Mannix and Climate Dynamics Kailin Riley Mesa Erin Wirth Moriarty Christine Anne Roden Interrogating Seismic Anisotropy in Subduction Zones and Continental Interiors Richard Sarro Alison Diane Nugent Natalia Aliakseeuna Shylo Orographic Convection and Precipitation in the Tropics Samuel Brady Sondalle Tolulope Morayo Olugboji Jr. Gregory Conrad Stachelek Revealing the Fine Structures of the Lithosphere Carol Yoon Joo Suh Asthenosphere Boundary Audrey Lauren Turchick Kazuhiko Otsuka Point Defects and Transport Properties of Ferropericlase in Daixi Xin the Lower Mantle Valeria Yartseva Joseph Edward Panzik Luyi Zeng Assessing Earth’s Proterozoic Geomagnetic Field Geometry and Paleogeography Using Theoretical and Analytical Bixiao Zhao Techniques Yige Zhang geology and geophysics Deciphering the “Doubthouse” Climate Change of the Cenozoic Era Doctor of Philosophy Master of Philosophy Zhengyu Cai Fluid Flow and Damage in Two-Phase Media: Theory Ross Peter Anderson and Applications to Magma and Environmental Dynamics David Auerbach Simon Alastair Darroch Robin Canavan Diversity Gradients in the Fossil Record - Developing Predictive Models for Biodiversity Loss Shineng Hu Caroline Mary Eakin Zhen Liu Dynamics of Flat Slab Subduction beneath Peru Anwar Mohiuddin Allison Yi Hsiang Varun Srinivasa Murthy Evolutionary Origins of Major Reptile Lineages: Case Studies on Phylogenetic Incongruence and the Importance Holger Petermann of Fossils Azusa Takeishi Taylor Michael Kilian Mengnan Zhao Precambrian Paleomagnetism of Mafic Dike Swarms and the Wyoming Craton: Implications for an Archean Yiqi Zheng Supercontinent Srinath Krishnan germanic languages and Changes in the Hydrological Cycle During Early Eocene literatures Hyperthermals Doctor of Philosophy Chao Liu Sr and Mg Isotope Geochemistry of Marinoan Cap Anna Elizabeth Henke Carbonates Taking the World by Storm: Forgiveness in Walter Benjamin’s Early Works Hans Jochen Lind Donatienne Ruy Regime der Aisthesis. 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the newberry memorial organ, woolsey hall Built in 1901 by the Hutchings-Votey Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts, the Newberry Memorial Organ was improved mechanically and almost doubled in size in 1915 and was then rebuilt and greatly enlarged in 1928. One of the largest, most outstanding, and beautiful instruments of this period, it is kept in excellent playing condition and is used throughout the academic year for recitals and concerts. The organ has 12,617 pipes in a three-story chamber. An “echo room” in the basement of Woolsey Hall has 700 additional pipes of zinc, lead, and sugar pine, producing tones that sound like horns, flutes, and whistles. The instrument, which requires tuning three times a year due to changes in humidity and temperature, is powered by two 20-horsepower motors. the shield of the graduate school of arts and sciences The design for the Graduate School shield was drawn by Yale art professor Theodore Sizer and approved by the University. Four themes are symbolized in the arms of the School. The background of the “chief” (the place of honor) is Yale blue, with Roman numerals in white representing 1847, the year of the founding of the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, the earliest formal organization for graduate study at Yale and, in fact, in the entire United States. Below, on a white background, is a black Y-shaped device representing the “pallium,” a garment worn by philosophers in ancient Rome, and frequently used as a symbol for Yale. The three red crosses are derived from the arms of Bishop George Berkeley, who established in 1732 an endowment for Yale College graduates “reading for the second degree.” These were the first scholarships exclusively for graduate study at Yale the mace of the graduate school of arts and sciences The mace is carried at the head of ceremonial processions by the School’s marshal and displayed at such events as the annual Matriculation ceremony, awards Convocation, and Commencement. The shaft of the mace is turned red mahogany. Inset near the top of the shaft on two sides is the shield of the Graduate School, rendered in cloisonné-enameled metal. For description of the shield, see above. The shaft is topped by a disk of grained red and black macasser ebony, on which sits a large, faceted crystal orb, the chief design element of the mace. The orb symbolizes several characteristics of advanced study in the arts and sciences. The global shape suggests the ambition of advanced study to be comprehensive in its inquiry. The transparent clarity of the fine Austrian lead crystal of which the orb is made alludes to the motto of Yale University, Lux et Veritas, and to the enlightenment that scholars seek in their research and teaching. Finally, the many facets of the orb symbolize the complexity of advanced learning in the arts and sciences and the importance of approaching its subjects from many intellectual directions. In addition to the large ceremonial school mace described above, there are four smaller maces that are carried by faculty and staff marshals. These marshals’ batons each have a similarly turned shaft of mahogany. At their tops is a single enameled shield.