Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony and Reception

Saturday, May 13, 2017, 5:30 p.m. Durham Convention Center Durham, North Carolina

What Graduate Students Mean to Duke Congratulations to the 2017 Ph.D. candidates! As soon-to-be alumni of the Duke Graduate School, they represent a powerful legacy. Since the establishment of the school in 1926, graduate students have been the intellectual glue of our community. They push academic boundaries, offer fresh perspectives in research approaches, and give voice to emerging fields. To echo James B. Duke’s founding Indenture of , students and alumni of The Graduate School are individuals of “outstanding character, ability and vision” who pursue “those areas of teaching and scholarship that would most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote hu- man happiness.”1 The Duke Graduate School has garnered an international reputation for excellence in research, teaching, and service, and its graduate students, as much as anyone, have contributed to the prominence that the university enjoys today.

In This Program Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony Program...... 2

Graduate School Diploma Distribution...... 2

About Your Commencement Gift ...... 2

The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award...... 3

Order of the Hooding Ceremony...... 4

Dissertations Completed for Doctor of ...... 8

2017 Dean’s Awards: Mentoring, Teaching, and Inclusive Excellence . . . 32

2017 Forever Duke Student Leadership Award...... 33

2016-2017 Few-Glasson Alumni Society Inductees...... 33

Ph.D. Degree Granting Programs at Duke...... 34

Significance of the ...... 35

Congratulations from The Duke Graduate School Staff ...... 36

1 This statement includes excerpts from the Indenture and Mission of Duke University, revised February 23, 2001.

1 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony Program Presiding ����������������������������������������������������������Paula D. McClain, Ph.D. Dean of The Graduate School Vice Provost for Graduate Professor of Political and

Introductory Remarks

Presentation of The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award

Hooding Ceremony Address ��������������������������Paula D. McClain, Ph.D.

Presentation of the Academic Hoods ������������John Klingensmith, Ph.D. Associate Dean of The Graduate School Associate Professor of Cell Biology

Closing Remarks

Graduate School Diploma Distribution Ph.D. candidates in attendance will receive their diploma during the hooding ceremony. Those unable to attend can pick up their diplomas at The Graduate School (2127 Campus Drive) from May 15 to May 18, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (please bring your student ID).

About Your Commencement Gift Each year, The Graduate School gives a gift to students who attend the Ph.D. hooding ceremony as a way to say congratulations and thank-you for their contributions to the university. This year’s gift is Duke : Moments, a coffee- table book of campus photos. The Graduate School would like to thank Duke University Stores for providing the book at a special rate. Additional copies of the book, as well as other Graduate School and Duke University gifts, can be found at the store, which is located in the Bryan Center.

2 Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award In the 1970s, psychology wrestled with an identity crisis, facing questions about everything from its methodology to its theories to its relevance to society. Kenneth J. Gergen helped ignite that debate, putting forth ideas that criticized the basic foundations of the discipline and sparked intense arguments within the field. Over the course of a five-decade career, Gergen emerged as a controversial and influential figure who challenged and enriched the potentials of his discipline. He is widely recognized for his contributions to social constructionist theory, technology and cultural change, and relational theory and practice. He holds honorary degrees from in Europe and the United States. His books have been translated into multiple languages, and he has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim, Fulbright, Humboldt, and Hongguo foundations. Gergen grew up in Durham with his three brothers. Their father, John Jay Gergen, was chair of the Duke Department of Mathematics from 1937 to 1966. Gergen earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale and served a stint in the Navy before coming to Duke for his Ph.D. in psychology. He earned his in 1963 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. In 1967, he became chair of the Department of Psychology at Swarthmore College. His early work, which examined topics such as social perception, self-presentation, and responses to altruism, received support from sources such as the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1973, Gergen published arguably his most influential work, an article titled “Social Psychology as History.” Going against the mainstream, empiricist view of the discipline, he argued that social psychology research should be viewed as historical inquiry because, “unlike the natural , it deals with facts that are largely non-repeatable and which fluctuate markedly over time.” The article ignited an intense response. Gergen said his ideas were rejected by mainstream researchers but embraced by those on the fringes (who were frustrated with the status quo of what was considered legitimate inquiry) and by colleagues from other fields. In the ensuing years, Gergen became a major figure in the development of social constructionism, an alternative to the empiricist view of scientific knowledge. Social constructionism holds that rather than reflecting an objective truth, scientific descriptions and explanations are derived from social interchange—communities agreeing on what is real, rational, and good. Gergen’s ideas remain controversial within his own field, but they are now shared across the social sciences. He helped establish the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology within the major division of the American Psychological Association that is concerned with methods of research. He also played a key role in establishing the journals Theory and Psychology and Qualitative Psychol- ogy. He is cofounder and current president of the Taos Institute, a virtual organization of scholars and practitioners exploring the intersection of social constructionist ideas and professional practices.

Gergen’s significant writings includeThe Saturated Self and Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community. His other articles and books have tackled such topics as psychotherapy, organizational leadership, education, dialogic process, Buddhism, narrative, aging, arts-based research, and future-forming research.

The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award is given annually to a graduate of a Duke University Ph.D. program who rendered distinguished service to his or her field of endeavor, to Duke, or to the betterment of humanity. Nominees must have received their Ph.D. from Duke at least 10 years ago.

3 Order of the Hooding Ceremony Ph.D. candidates will be called in the order listed Note: The list of candidates appearing in this program is not an officially certified list of graduates. Certification must come from the University Registrar.

MOLECULAR CANCER BIOLOGY BIOMEDICAL Angela Lynn Gaviglio Sena Bae Yulong Li Nicholas Brian Bottenus Alexander Christian Robeson Yangxiaolu Cao Katherine Kerr Slemmons Shwetadwip Chowdhury Brittany Nicole Jesse Davis RELIGION Andrew Michael Fales Sean Patrick Burrus Cristina Elena Fernandez Eric Russell Chalfant Fang-Yao Hu Andrew Thomas Coates Jennifer Gamboa Jackman Sonia M. O. Hazard Thomas Andrew Jochum Mari Joerstad Anna Jisu Lee Julia Linnea Kelto Lillis Linying Li Daniel John Stulac Amy Frees Martinez Michelle Wolff Hoan Thanh Ngo Saadia Yacoob Hung Xuan Nguyen Brandon Scott Nichols ART, ART HISTORY AND Laila Christine Roudsari VISUAL STUDIES Jung Eun Choi Allison Lindsey Schmidt Kathryn Desplanque Jay Ketan Shridharani Katherine de Vos Devine Xiaoyu Tian Michael Tauschinger-Dempsey Maryam Vejdani Jahromi Yan Wu Bonnie Joann Cuthbert ADMINISTRATION Chun-Chieh Hsu Christopher Gorham Calvin Joshua Steven Rose Song Ma You-il Park BIOLOGY Esther E. Sackett Mercy Yvonne Akinyi Hillary Jane Doescher Wiener Selcan Tuncay Aydin Yue Zhang Erin Alison McKenney Musoki Mwimba CAROLINA-DUKE PROGRAM Jia Wern Pan IN GERMAN STUDIES Yan Xue Sandra Maike Christine Niethardt Claire Elizabeth Scott

CELL BIOLOGY Yi-Tzu Lin Valerie Angela Tornini Aarti Urs

4 EARTH AND OCEAN SCIENCES Danielle E. Gorka Elizabeth Marjorie Bloomhardt Doran Charles Edward Hendrick Jennifer Sue Harkness Minhee Lee Kendra Elena Kaiser Chaoren Liu Katherine Murray Ratliff Xuehong Liu Margaret Ann Zimmer Yang Liu Gerardo X. Ortiz, Jr. ECOLOGY Julia Hamilton Roberts Brenna Renee Forester Mark Larston Sleeper Erin Cedar Seybold Ian Edward Stewart Kendra Nicole Smyth Jacob Charles Timmerman Joy Elia Stanistreet Qin Wang Yang Yang Hasan Sadik Arik Du Zhang Luis Enrique Candelaria Barrera Yuqi Zhang Robert Edwin Davies, II CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL Xiaomin Fu ENGINEERING Olga Kozlova Mark Stephan Bartlett, Jr. Milenka Moschella Miloslavich Andres A. Contreras Matthew Thomas Panhans Sarah Elisa Axelroth Diringer Patricia Alexander Robinson Jeffrey Michael Farner Budarz Eli Benjamin Sellinger-Liebman Aaron Anthony Forbis-Stokes John David Singleton Courtney M. Gardner Tedi-Theodore Skiti Carley Ann Gwin Bingzhi Zhao Osman Karatum ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER Curtis Aaron Lee ENGINEERING Andrew Joseph Stershic Liji Chen Judith Margaret Winglee Itay Menachem Cnaan-On CLASSICAL STUDIES Qian Gong Theodore Adam Graham Mehadi Hassan Kathryn Ann Langenfeld Craig David LaBoda Zipeng Li COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY Qiuyun Llull AND BIOINFORMATICS Juan Ramirez, Jr. Chaitanya Ramanuj Acharya Qingtao Sun Ayal Baruch Gussow Christopher John Tralie Andrea Barrett Moffitt Kyle Richard Ulrich Florian Wagner Andre Jan Simoes Van Rynbach Hanghang Wang ENGLISH COMPUTER SCIENCE Clare Eileen Callahan Hieu Trung Bui Jonathan-David Mackinley Howard Songchun Fan Mary Caton Lingold Jiangwei Pan Marina Sofia Magloire Darrell Franklin Smith CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Nikolas Oscar Sparks Samuel Joseph Shearer Cheryl Spinner Stefan de la Peña Waldschmidt

5 ENVIRONMENT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Drew Benjamin Day AND MATERIALS SCIENCE Matthew Robert Fuller Dean Rogers Culver Claudia Patricia Gonzalez-Hunt Gregory Kealoha Fricke Binbin Li Ashleigh Jane Swingler Seyedmahdi Bijan Seyednasrollah Lei Tang Shana Miriam Starobin Qing Tu

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MEDICAL PHYSICS David James Kaczan Larry Courtney Cumberbatch Jennifer Orgill Yang Sheng

EVOLUTIONARY MOLECULAR GENETICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY Emily Elizabeth Blankinship Boehm Wei Xin Gladys Ang Gabriel Stephen Yapuncich Xiou Cao Eric Michael Feeley GENETICS AND GENOMICS Nicholas Joseph Homa Anthony James Burnetti Dustin James Landau Abigail Leavitt LaBella Brandt Edward Levitt Emily Elizabeth Miller Cindo Oliver Nicholson Patrick Andrew Nevarez Elyse Anne Schmidt Jenny Zhang Ruchira Sharma José M. Vargas-Muñiz HISTORY Christina Cecelia Davidson MUSIC Ashley Lynn Elrod Jung-Min Lee Jonathon M. Free Paul Allen Sommerfeld Rochelle Rojas-Neilsen Justin Mark Tierney Tricia Marie Ross Andrew Van Horn Ruoss NEUROBIOLOGY Erin Elizabeth Hisey IMMUNOLOGY Sneha Ravi Katherine Bao Jason Omar Sosa Pagán Jie Liang Si-Qi Liu Latefa Ali Dardas Nancy Dias Abhishek Jonathan Bose-Kolanu Dalmacio Dennis Flores, III Lisa Anne Klarr Mariam Ibrahim Kayle Sophie Kathleen Greenwald Smith Brittney Jayne Sullivan Hants Andrew Williams MARINE SCIENCE AND Megan Renee Winkler CONSERVATION Alyse Anne Larkin-Swartout Rose Mary Xavier T. Shay Viehman PATHOLOGY Xuhui Bao MATHEMATICS Phillip Volkmar Andreae Ching-Heng Chou Brian David Fitzpatrick Francisco Javier Soto Cordero Hangjie Ji PHARMACOLOGY Yu Pan William James Spencer Henri Petrus Roesch Amanda Marie Travis Rujie Yin

6 PHILOSOPHY SOCIOLOGY Jing Hu Austin William Ashe Susanne Meyer Raphaël Charron-Chénier Trenita Brookshire Childers PHYSICS Jessica Irene Dawson Venkitesh Padmanabha Ayyar Joshua J. Fink Chingyun Cheng Mary Beth Fallin Hunzaker Zepeng Li Yiannis Makris STATISTICAL SCIENCE Jun Yan Christine Peijinn Chai Xi Chen POLITICAL SCIENCE Lorin Anthony Crawford Samuel Ely Bagg Mengyang Gu Cindy Yawen Cheng Kenichiro McAlinn Matthew Benjamin Cole Xiangyu Wang Michael Collins Hawley Lan Wei Jiseon Sophie Lee Joshua Y. Lerner Taneisha Nicole Means Benjamin James Radford Alicia Martínez Reyes-Barriéntez Anna Elisabeth Schultz

PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE Shelley Maureen Alonso-Marsden Allison Cantor -Maier Allison Marie Detloff Korrina Ashley Duffy Katrina Pelagia Jongman-Sereno Michael John Lacagnina Ilana Beth Lane Micah Roland Lattanner Rosa Li Kelsey Riley Lucca Julie Lippincott Martin Su Hean Park Linda Marie Skalski Amanda Vamvas Utevsky Elizabeth Christine Victor Jonathan Andrew Winkle

PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES Kristen Cooksey Stowers Zoelene Hill Robert Miles Richards

ROMANCE STUDIES Reginald Dewight Patterson

7 Dissertations Completed for Graduate School Academic Year 2016–2017 Roozbeh Abedini Nassab Wei Xin Gladys Ang “Magnetomicrofluidics Circuits for “Methods and Mechanisms of Mitigating Organizing Bioparticle Arrays.” Mast Cell Activation in Anaphylaxis.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Science) Benjamin Yellen, Adviser. May Soman Abraham, Adviser. December 2017. 2016. Chaitanya Ramanuj Acharya Hasan Sadik Arik “Efficient Analysis of Complex, Multimodal “Macroprudential Policies and Financial Genomic Data.” (Computational Biology Frictions.” (Economics) A. Craig Burnside and Bioinformatics) Andrew Allen, and Mariano Massimiliano Croce, Advis- Adviser. December 2016. ers. May 2017. Perciliz Lumaban Tan Ahern Austin William Ashe “Genetic and Functional Dissection of “Criminal Injustice: Race, Representative Age-Related Macular Degeneration.” (Cell Bureaucracy, and New York City’s Criminal Biology) Nicholas Katsanis and Christopher Justice System.” (Sociology) Eduardo Nicchitta, Advisers. December 2016. Bonilla-Silva, Adviser. May 2017. Mercy Yvonne Akinyi Selcan Tuncay Aydin “Disease Risk in Wild Primate Populations: “Understanding the Effects of Genetic Host and Environmental Predictors, Variation on Osmo-adaptation Dynamics Immune Responses and Costs of Across S. cerevisiae Using Bulk Segregant Infection.” (Biology) Susan Alberts, Analysis and Whole Genome Sequencing.” Adviser. May 2017. (Biology) Nicolas Buchler and Paul Magwene, Advisers. May 2017. Shelley Maureen Alonso-Marsden “Teacher Decision-Making about Student Venkitesh Padmanabha Ayyar Mental Health: The Role of Race and “Fermion Mass Generation without Gender.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.” Kenneth Dodge, Adviser. May 2017. (Physics) Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Adviser. September 2016. Katherine Anne Alser “Targeting Virulence as an Approach to Se Na Bae Bacterial Pathogenesis: Efforts Towards “Next Gen Sequencing Tools to Derive the Development of Chemical Biology Insights into Protein Expression and Tools and Anti-Chlamydial Therapeutics.” Gene Function.” (Biomedical Engineering) (Chemistry) Dewey McCafferty, Adviser. Raphael Valdivia, Adviser. May 2017. December 2016. Samuel Ely Bagg Blair Russell Anderson “The Dispersion of Power: Thinking “Genetic Dissection and In vivo Modeling Democratically in the 21st Century.” of Sickle Cell Disease Nephropathy.” (Political Science) Jack Knight, Adviser. (Genetics and Genomics) Allison Ashley- May 2017. Koch, Adviser. December 2016. Xuhui Bao Phillip Volkmar Andreae “Immunotoxin Monotherapy and “Analytic Torsion, the Eta Invariant, and Combinatorial Therapy with Immune Closed Differential Forms on Spaces Checkpoint Inhibitors for Malignant of Metrics.” (Mathematics) Mark Stern, Brain Tumors.” (Pathology) Darell Bigner, Adviser. September 2016. Adviser. December 2016.

8 Katherine Bao Robert Blake Billmyre “BZIP Transcription Factors BATF “Genome Evolution in the Fungal Pathogen and c-Maf are Essential for Type-2 Cryptococcus deuterogattii.” (Genetics and Inflammation.” (Immunology) Richard Genomics) Joseph Heitman, Adviser. May Reinhardt and Weiguo Zhang, Advisers. 2017. December 2016. David Martin Bjergaard Nicholas John Barrows “A Measurement of the Radiation “Characterization of Host Factors and Environment Around Prompt J/ψ Events Anti-viral Compounds for Diverse at ATLAS.” (Physics) Ayana Arce, Ad- Mosquito-borne Flaviviruses.” (Molecular viser. May 2017. Genetics and Microbiology) Mariano Garcia-Blanco, Adviser. December 2016. Allison Cantor Black-Maier “Understanding How Knowledge Mark Stephan Bartlett, Jr. Fluctuates in Accessibility.” (Psychology “A Mean Field Approach to Watershed and Neuroscience) Elizabeth Marsh, Hydrology.” (Civil and Environmental Adviser. May 2017. Engineering) Amilcare Porporato, Adviser. December 2016. Elizabeth Marjorie Bloomhardt “Theory and Practice in Sustainability Kristen Anne Batich Science: Influence of Urban Form on the “Enhancing Dendritic Cell Migration to Urban Heat Island and Implications for Drive Antitumor Responses.” (Pathology) Urban Systems.” (Earth and Ocean John H. Sampson, Adviser. May 2017. Sciences) Jay Golden and Lincoln Pratson, Advisers. September 2016. Aaron Baird Berdanier “Predicting Forest Responses to Changing Emily Elizabeth Blankinship Boehm Environmental Conditions.” (Ecology) “The Evolution of Extended Sexual James Clark, Adviser. September 2016. Receptivity in Chimpanzees: Variation, Male-Female Associations, and Hormonal Sarah Bereza Correlates.” (Evolutionary Anthropology) “The Right Kind of Music: Fundamentalist Anne Pusey, Adviser. December 2016. Christianity as Musical and Cultural Practice.” (Music) Philip Rupprecht, Katherine Elizabeth Bonnington Adviser. May 2017. “Effect of LPS Remodeling and LPS-binding Proteins on Outer Membrane Vesicle Marco Bertolini Production and Composition.” (Biochemistry) “Moduli Space of (0,2) Conformal Field Meta J. Kuehn, Adviser. May 2017. Theories.” (Physics) M. Ronen Plesser, Adviser. September 2016. Abhishek Jonathan Bose-Kolanu “Hypervisor Theory: An Anti-Theory of Alexandra Lyndon Bey the Media.” (Literature) Mark Hansen and “Using Shank3 Model Mice to Probe Fredric Jameson, Advisers. May 2017. the Neuroanatomic Basis of Autism.” (Neurobiology) Yong-hui Jiang, Adviser. Amie Carol Bostic May 2017. “Inequality, the Welfare State, and Demographic Change.” (Sociology) Srishti Lipsa Bhagat Kieran Healy and Martin Ruef, Advisers. “Exploring the Role for mGluR5 in September 2016. Regulating Striatal Medium Spiny Neuron Development.” (Neurobiology) Nicole Nicholas Brian Bottenus Calakos, Adviser. May 2017. “Ultrasound Beamforming Methods for Large Coherent Apertures.” (Biomedical Engineering) Gregg Trahey, Adviser. May 2017.

9 Matthew Thomas Bowers Xiou Cao “Behavioral Ecology of the Western “Neuronal Regulation of the Innate Atlantic Short-finned Pilot Whale Immune Response in Caenorhabditis (Globicephala macrorhynchus).” elegans.” (Molecular Genetics and (Marine Science and Conservation) Microbiology) Alejandro Aballay, Adviser. Douglas Nowacek, Adviser. September May 2017. 2016. Yangxiaolu Cao Patrick Thomas “Pattern Formation in Engineered Bacteria: “Magnitude and Mechanisms of Unforced from Understanding to Applications.” Variability in Global Surface Temperature.” (Biomedical Engineering) Lingchong You, (Earth and Ocean Sciences) Wenhong Li, Adviser. May 2017. Adviser. December 2016. Beatrice Helene Capestany Hieu Trung Bui “The Use of Neuroscience for Mitigation “Localized DNA Computation.” (Computer During Sentencing in Non-Capital Cases.” Science) John Reif, Adviser. May 2017. (Psychology and Neuroscience) Aaron Kay, Adviser. May 2017. Anthony James Burnetti “Coupling of the Yeast Metabolic Cycle Brenna M. Casey and the Cell Division Cycle in Populations “In Transit: Women, Photography, and and Single Cells.” (Genetics and Genomics) the Consolidation of Race in Nineteenth- Nicolas Buchler and Paul Magwene, Century America.” (English) Priscilla Advisers. May 2017. Wald, Adviser. May 2017. Sean Patrick Burrus Christine Peijinn Chai “Remembering the Righteous: Sarcophagus “Statistical Issues in Quantifying Text Sculpture and Jewish Patrons in the Roman Mining Performance.” (Statistical Science) World.” (Religion) Eric Meyers and Mary David Banks, Adviser. May 2017. Boatwright, Advisers. May 2017. Eric Russell Chalfant Clare Eileen Callahan “Practicing Disbelief: Atheist Media in “Habitats of Abandonment: Subjectivity America from the Nineteenth Century and the Aesthetics of Dispossession from to Today.” (Religion) David Morgan, the Industrial Revolution to the Great Adviser. December 2016. Depression.” (English) Priscilla Wald, Adviser. December 2016. Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran “Head into the Cloud: An Analysis of Christopher Gorham Calvin the Emerging Cloud Infrastructure.” “Material Weakness Discovery Lag and (Computer Science) Bruce Maggs, Misstatement Risk in a Constrained Adviser. December 2016. Control Testing Environment.” (Business Administration) William Mayew and Jui-Yun Chang Katherine Schipper, Advisers. May 2017. “Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II Serves as a Biochemical Kathleen Marie Candando Integrator of Calcium Signals for the “Antigen Drives Regulatory B10 Cell Induction of Synaptic Plasticity.” Development and Function.” (Immunology) (Biochemistry) Ryohei Yasuda and Thomas Tedder, Adviser. September 2016. G. Vann Bennett, Advisers. September 2016. Luis Enrique Candelaria Barrera Raphaël Charron-Chénier “Essays on Econometrics of Network “Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets Models.” (Economics) Shakeeb Khan and and the Production of Racial Inequality.” Arnaud Maurel, Advisers. May 2017. (Sociology) Kieran Healy, Adviser. May 2017.

10 Xi Chen Itay Menachem Cnaan-On “Bayesian Dynamic Modeling for Streaming “Using Coding to Improve Localization Network Data.” (Statistical Science) Mike and Backscatter Communication Performance West, Adviser. May 2017. in Low-Power Sensor Networks.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Liji Chen Jeffrey Krolik and Robert Calderbank, “Sparse Sample Detection Using Magnetic Advisers. September 2016. Bead Manipulation on a Digital Microfluidic Device.” (Electrical and Computer Andrew Thomas Coates Engineering) Richard Fair, Adviser. “The Senses of Fundamentalism: A September 2016. Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Chingyun Cheng Fundamentalism.” (Religion) David “Ultracold Fermi Gases in a Bichromatic Morgan, Adviser. December 2016. Optical Superlattice.” (Physics) John Thomas, Adviser. December 2016. Matthew Benjamin Cole “Dystopia and Political Imagination in Cindy Yawen Cheng the Twentieth Century.” (Political Science) “The Politics of Food Safety.” (Political Michael Gillespie and Thomas Spragens, Science) Tim Buthe, Adviser. May 2017. Advisers. May 2017. Trenita Brookshire Childers Andres A. Contreras “Trapped Like Monkeys in a Cage: “Model Reduction and Domain Structural Racism and Mental Health in Decomposition Methods for Uncertainty the Dominican Republic.” (Sociology) Quantification.” (Civil and Environmental Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Linda George, Engineering) Omar Knio, Adviser. May Advisers. May 2017. 2017. Jung E. Choi Kristen Cooksey Stowers “Materializing Depths: The Potential of “Food Swamps, Obesity and Health Zoning Contemporary Art and Media.” (Art, Art Restrictions on Fast Food Restaurants.” History, and Visual Studies) Mark Hansen, (Public Policy) William Darity, Jr. and Adviser. December 2016. Kelly Brownell, Advisers. September 2016. Ching-Heng Chou Francisco Javier Soto Cordero “The Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor- “The Role of H3.3K27M-induced Stimulated Gene 6 Protein (TSG-6) in Repression in Brainstem Gliomagenesis.” Osteoarthritis.” (Pathology) Virginia (Pathology) Oren Becher and Daniel Kraus, Adviser. May 2017. Wechsler, Advisers. May 2017. Shwetadwip Chowdhury Lorin Anthony Crawford “Technical Developments in Structured “Bayesian Kernel Models for Statistical Illumination Microscopy for Coherent Genetics and Cancer Genomics.” (Statistical and Multimodal Fluorescent Sub-Diffraction Science) Sayan Mukherjee and Kris Resolution Imaging.” (Biomedical Wood, Advisers. May 2017. Engineering) Joseph Izatt, Adviser. December 2016. Matthew Stephen Crowe “Leveraging the Requirement of Nathaniel John Clement MEK1/2 Kinases for to Inhibit “Modulation of Active Exploratory the MAPK Pathway in Oncogenic BRAF- Behaviors in Humans.” (Psychology and Driven Cancer.” (Pharmacology) Christopher Neuroscience) R. Alison Adcock, Adviser. Counter, Adviser. December 2016. December 2016.

11 Lauren Burianek Crowe Robert Edwin Davies, II “Extracellular Hsp90 is Actively Trafficked “Inference in Poorly Identified Econometric and Internalized in Breast Cancer Cells.” Settings with Applications in Financial (Cell Biology) Timothy Haystead and Economics.” (Economics) George Christopher Nicchitta, Advisers. Tauchen, Adviser. May 2017. December 2016. Brittany Nicole Jesse Davis Dean Rogers Culver “Modeling the Direct Effects of TNFα “On the Asymptotic Reduction of upon Drug-induced Toxicity with in Classical Modal Analysis for Nonlinear Human, Tissue-engineered Myobundles.” and Coupled Dynamical Systems.” (Biomedical Engineering) George Truskey, (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Adviser. December 2016. Science) Earl Dowell, Adviser. December 2016. Jessica Irene Dawson “Errors in Judgement: How Status, Values, Laurie Courtney Cumberbatch and Moral Foundations Influence Moral “Absolute Quantification in Small Plant Judgments of Guilt and Punishment.” Radiotracer Studies.” (Medical Physics) (Sociology) Stephen Vaisey and Lynn Tim Turkington, Adviser. May 2017. Smith-Lovin, Advisers. December 2016. Bonnie Joann Cuthbert Drew Benjamin Day “Structural and Biochemical Analyses “The Effects of Ozone Exposure on of the Francisella tularensis Virulence Cardiovascular Pathophysiology.” Regulators MglA, SspA and PigR.” (Environment) Junfeng Zhang, Adviser. (Biochemistry) Maria Schumacher and May 2017. Richard Brennan, Advisers. May 2017. Kathryn Desplanque Michael James Czerwinski “Art, Commerce, and Caricature: Satirical “A Systems Level Analysis of Temperature- Images of Artistic Life in Paris, 1750- Dependent Sex Determination in the 1850.” (Art, Art History, and Visual -Eared Slider Turtle Trachemys scripta Studies) Neil McWilliam, Adviser. May elegans.” (Cell Biology) Blanche Capel, 2017. Adviser. December 2016. Allison Marie Detloff Nicole Marie Dalzell “Individual Differences in the Neural “Bayesian Approaches to File Linking Response to Personal Goal Pursuit Success with Faulty Data.” (Statistical Science) and Failure: A Developmental Analysis.” Jerome Reiter, Adviser. May 2017. (Psychology and Neuroscience) Timothy Strauman, Adviser. September 2016. Latefa Ali Dardas “A Nationally Representative Survey of Katherine de Vos Devine Depression Symptoms among Jordanian “Appropriation Art, Intellectual Property, Adolescents: Associations with Depression and Fair Use Since the 1990s.” (Art, Art Stigma, Depression Etiological Beliefs, and History, and Visual Studies) Kristine Stiles Likelihood to Seek Help for Depression.” and Hans J. Van Miegroet, Advisers. May (Nursing) Leigh Ann Simmons, Adviser. 2017. May 2017. Nancy Dias Christina Cecelia Davidson “Parental Bereavement: Looking Beyond “Converting Spanish Hispaniola: Race, Grief — Challenges and Health.” Nation, and the A.M.E. Church in Santo (Nursing) Debra Brandon and Paula Domingo, 1872-1904.” (History) Laurent Tanabe, Advisers. September 2016. Dubois, Adviser. May 2017.

12 Sarah Elisa Axelroth Diringer Jeffrey Michael Farner Budarz “Distribution, Transport, and Control “Lights, Camera, Reaction! The Influence of Mercury Released from Artisanal of Interfacial Chemistry on Nanoparticle and Small-Scale Mining (ASGM) in Photoreactivity.” (Civil and Environmental Madre de Dios, Peru.” (Civil and Engineering) Mark Wiesner, Adviser. Environmental Engineering) Heileen December 2016. Hsu-Kim, Adviser. December 2016. Eric Michael Feeley Haydée María Domínguez Tejo “The Role of Galectin-3 in Pathogen “Distribution and Conservation of the Sensing and Cell Autonomous Defense.” Antillean Manatee in Hispaniola.” (Marine (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Science and Conservation) Andrew Read, Jörn Coers, Adviser. May 2017. Adviser. September 2016. Cristina Elena Fernandez Robert Francis Vergil Dudley, IV “Human Vascular Microphysiological “Rhetoric, Roman Values, and the Fall Systems for Drug Screening.” (Biomedical of the Republic in Cicero’s Reception Engineering) George Truskey, Adviser. of Plato.” (Classical Studies) Jed Atkins, December 2016. Adviser. September 2016. Theodore Robert Fetter Korrina Ashley Duffy “Innovation, Diffusion, and Regulation “Building Affiliation With Behavioral in Energy Technologies.” (Environmental Mimicry: Personality Factors, Physiological Policy) Lori Bennear, Adviser. May 2017. Consequences, and Neural Mechanisms.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Tanya Joshua J. Fink Chartrand and Mark Leary, Advisers. May “Crime, Policing, and Social Status: 2017. Identifying Elusive Mechanisms Using New Statistical Approaches.” (Sociology) Ashley Lynn Elrod Kieran Healy, Adviser. May 2017. “Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany.” (History) Brian David Fitzpatrick Thomas Robisheaux, Adviser. May 2017. “Complete Mirror Pairs and Their Naive Stringy Hodge Numbers.” (Mathematics) Andrew Michael Fales Paul Aspinwall, Adviser. May 2017. “Development of Plasmonic Nanoplatforms for Diagnostics, Therapy, and Sensing.” Dalmacio Dennis Flores, III (Biomedical Engineering) Tuan Vo-Dinh, “The Perspectives of Gay, Bisexual, and Adviser. September 2016. Queer Adolescent Males with Parent- Child Sex Communication.” (Nursing) Songchun Fan Julie Barroso and Michael Relf, Advisers. “Towards Energy-Efficient Mobile Sensing: September 2016. and Frameworks for Heterogeneous Sensing and Computing.” Aaron Anthony Forbis-Stokes (Computer Science) Benjamin Lee, “Anaerobic Digestion Pasteurization Adviser. December 2016. Latrine – Self-sustaining Onsite Fecal Sludge Treatment for Developing Countries.” Alicia Marie Farin (Civil and Environmental Engineering) “Molecular Mechanisms of Airway Marc Deshusses, Adviser. May 2017. Epithelial Progenitor Cell Maintenance and Repair.” (Cell Biology) Barry Stripp, Brenna Renee Forester Adviser. September 2016. “Using Landscape Genomics to Conserve Adaptive Capacity: A Case Study with a Southern Appalachian Salamander.” (Ecology) Dean Urban, Adviser. May 2017.

13 Jonathon M. Free Wangyao Ge “Redistributing Risk: The Political Ecology “Organic Thin Films Deposited by of Coal in Late Twentieth Century Emulsion-Based, Resonant Infrared, Appalachia.” (History) Nancy MacLean, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation: Adviser. December 2016. Fundamentals and Applications.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Adrienne Charles Reisen Freundlich Stiff-Roberts, Adviser. December 2016. “Decentralized State Estimation using Robotic Sensor Networks.” (Mechanical Mariana Gomez-Schiavon Engineering and Materials Science) “Stochastic Dynamics and Epigenetic Michael Zavlanos and Mary Cummings, Regulation of Gene Expression: from Advisers. May 2017. Stimulus Response to Evolutionary Adaptation.” (Computational Biology and Gregory Kealoha Fricke Bioinformatics) Nicolas Buchler, Adviser. “Distributed Control of Heterogeneous December 2016. Mobile Robotic Agents in the Presence of Uncertainties.” (Mechanical Engineering Qian Gong and Materials Science) Devendra Garg and “High-rate Modeling and Computing Earl Dowell, Advisers. December 2016. for Optical Systems---Gigapixel Image Formation and X-ray Imaging Physics.” Lin Fu (Electrical and Computer Engineering) “Soft Self-assembly and Densest Packings Michael Gehm, Adviser. May 2017. in Colloidal Models.” (Chemistry) Patrick Charbonneau, Adviser. May 2017. Claudia Patricia Gonzalez-Hunt “Toxicant-Induced Mitochondrial Xiaomin Fu Dysfunction and Dopaminergic Neuro- “Essays in Labor Economics.” (Economics) degeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans.” Peter Arcidiacono and Arnaud Maurel, (Environment) Joel Meyer, Adviser. May 2017. Advisers. May 2017. Danielle E. Gorka Matthew Robert Fuller “Understanding the Toxicity Effects of “Habitat Loss, Alteration, and Fragmentation Nanostructures: I. Effect of Physico- in River Networks: Implications for chemical Properties on Environmentally Freshwater Mussels and their Landscape Relevant Organismal Toxicity. II. Design Genomics.” (Environment) Martin Doyle, of Novel Nanostructures to Reduce Adviser. May 2017. Environmental Toxicity while Retaining Patrick William Galbraith Functional Properties.” (Chemistry) Jie “The Politics of Imagination: Virtual Liu, Adviser. December 2016. Regulation and the Ethics of Affect in Gregory Robert Gossweiler Japan.” (Cultural Anthropology) Anne “Mechanochemistry for Active Materials Allison, Adviser. May 2017. and Devices.” (Chemistry) Stephen Craig, Courtney M. Gardner Adviser. September 2016. “Microbial Communities and Transgenic Amanda Starling Gould Crops: Understanding the Role Transgenic “Digital Environmental Metabolisms: Crops May Play in the Rise of Antibiotic An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Resistance.” (Civil and Environmental Engi- Environmental .” (Literature) neering) Claudia Gunsch, Adviser. May 2017. N. Katherine Hayles, Adviser. May 2017. Angela Lynn Gaviglio Theodore Adam Graham “The Role of Stromal-Derived Factors “Playing the Tyrant: The Representation in Neuroblastoma Differentiation.” of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian (Molecular Cancer Biology) Gerard Tragedy.” (Classical Studies) Peter Burian Blobe, Adviser. December 2016. and William Johnson, Advisers. May 2017. 14 Mengyang Gu Jennifer Sue Harkness “Robust Uncertainty Quantification and “Identifying Water Contamination from Scalable Computation for Computer Models Fossil Fuel Development using Geochemical with Massive Output.” (Statistical Science) and Isotopic Fingerprints.” (Earth and James Berger, Adviser. September 2016. Ocean Sciences) Avner Vengosh, Adviser. May 2017. Yifang Guo “Essays on Energy Economics and Mehadi Hassan Industrial Organization.” (Economics) “Coded Aperture X-ray Tomographic Daniel Yi Xu and Christopher Timmins, Imaging with Energy Sensitive Detectors.” Advisers. September 2016. (Electrical and Computer Engineering) David Brady, Adviser. May 2017. Ayal Baruch Gussow “Population Genetic Annotation of the Michael Collins Hawley Human Genome: Identifying Pathogenic “Cicero’s Legacy and the Story of Mutations.” (Computational Biology Modern Liberty.” (Political Science) and Bioinformatics) David Goldstein, Michael Gillespie and Ruth Grant, Adviser. December 2016. Advisers. May 2017. Carley Ann Gwin Sonia M. O. Hazard “Bacterial Responses to Nanoparticle “The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Treatment: Community Structure, Cultures of Print in Antebellum America.” Resistance, and Function.” (Civil and (Religion) David Morgan, Adviser. May 2017. Environmental Engineering) Claudia Gunsch, Adviser. December 2016. Charles Edward Hendrick “Nitrogen–Heteroatom Bond Enabled Ethan Alexander Hada Synthesis of Pharmacologically Valuable “On the Advancement of Probabilistic Aminoarenes via Aryne and Aryl-Zinc Models of Decompression Sickness.” Intermediates.” (Chemistry) Qiu Wang, (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Adviser. May 2017. Science) Laurens Howle, Adviser. September 2016. Zoelene Hill “Examining the Role of Intergroup Wei Han Relations in Black and Hispanic Parents’ “Biologically Inspired Design of Preschool Enrollment Decisions.” (Public Protein-Silica Hybrid Nanoparticles Policy) Anna Gassman-Pines, Adviser. for Drug Delivery Applications.” May 2017. (Biomedical Engineering) Gabriel López, Adviser. September 2016. Jessica Nicole Hines “In Search of Pity: Chaucerian Poetics and the Shaobo Han Suffering of Others.” (English) David Aers “Bayesian Learning with Dependency and Sarah Beckwith, Advisers. May 2017. Structures via Latent Factors, Mixtures, and Copulas.” (Electrical and Computer Rachel Marie Hirschey Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Adviser. “Development and Test of an Intervention September 2016. to Increase Exercise among Breast Cancer Survivors.” (Nursing) Isaac Lipkus, Devin Clark Hargrove Adviser. May 2017. “The Building Blocks of Authentic Leadership: Being Consistent and Being Marsha Marianne Hirschi Seen.” (Business Administration) Richard “Structural and Functional Studies of P. Larrick and Sim B. Sitkin, Advisers. Nucleoside Transporters and a Transient May 2017. Receptor Potential Mucolipin Channel.” (Biochemistry) Seok-Yong Lee, Adviser. May 2017.

15 Erin Elizabeth Hisey Changwei Hu “A Pathway from the Midbrain to the “Scalable Bayesian Matrix and Tensor Striatum is Critical to Multiple Forms Factorization for Discrete Data.” (Electrical of Vocal Learning and Modification in and Computer Engineering) Lawrence the Songbird.” (Neurobiology) Richard Carin, Adviser. May 2017. Mooney, Adviser. May 2017. Fang-Yao Hu Andrew Douglas Holmgren “Noninvasive Vascular Characterization “Coding Strategies for X-ray Tomography.” with Low-cost, Label-free Optical (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Spectroscopy and Dark Field Microscopy David Brady, Adviser. September 2016. Enables Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis.” (Biomedical Engineering) Nicholas Joseph Homa Nirmala Ramanujam, Adviser. December “Virus-Host Interactions during Epstein- 2016. Barr virus Latent Infection of B cells.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Yezhou Huang Micah Luftig, Adviser. May 2017. “Predicting Transcript Production Rates in Yeast With Sparse Linear Jong Soo Hong Models.” (Computer Science) Alexander “Optimal Capital Requirements in Hartemink, Adviser. September 2016. Financial Networks with Fire Sales.” (Business Administration) David B. Cheng-Wei Huang Brown, Adviser. September 2016. “Bridging the Scale Gap from Leaf to Canopy in Biosphere-Atmosphere Gas Max Jules Housman and Particle Exchanges.” (Environment) “FtsZ Protofilament Curvature Is the Gabriel Katul, Adviser. September 2016. Opposite of Tubulin Rings.” (Cell Biology) Harold Erickson, Adviser. September Xin Jiang Hunt 2016. “Efficient Inference for High Dimensional Data Under Physical and Human Jonathan-David Mackinley Howard Constraints.” (Electrical and Computer “ ‘Inhabitants of the Deep’: Water and Engineering) Rebecca Willett and Robert the Material Imagination of Blackness.” Calderbank, Adviser. May 2017. (English) Maurice Wallace and Nathaniel Mackey, Advisers. May 2017. Mary Beth Fallin Hunzaker “Cultural Cognition and Bias in Chun-Chieh Hsu Information Transmission.” (Sociology) “RNA Localization and Translational Stephen Vaisey, Adviser. May 2017. Regulation on the Endoplasmic Reticulum.” (Biochemistry) Christopher Nicchitta, Vijeth Iyengar Adviser. September 2016. “Contributions of the Human Medial Prefrontal Cortex to Associative Cynthia Tien-Cynn Hsu Recognition Memory: Evidence from “Descending Control of Limb Movements Functional Neuroimaging.” (Psychology in Drosophila melanogaster.” (Neurobiology) and Neuroscience) Roberto Cabeza, Vikas Bhandawat and Stephen Lisberger, Adviser. September 2016. Advisers. September 2016. Jennifer Gamboa Jackman Jing Hu “Delivery and Scavenging of Nucleic “A New Perspective on Sympathy and Acids by Polycationic Polymers.” Its Cultivation, with Insights from the (Biomedical Engineering) Charles Confucian Tradition.” (Philosophy) David Gersbach, Adviser. September 2016. Wong and Owen Flanagan, Advisers. May 2017.

16 Arunkumar Jagannathan Kendra Elena Kaiser “Optical Control of Magnetic Feshbach “Spatial and Temporal Scaling in Resonances by Closed-Channel Ecohydrology: A Case Study of Soil Electromagnetically Induced Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from a Subalpine Transparency.” (Physics) John Thomas, Catchment.” (Earth and Ocean Sciences) Adviser. September 2016. Brian McGlynn, Adviser. May 2017. Hangjie Ji Ioannis Kalampokis “Thin Films with Non-conservative “IL-10-producing Regulatory B Cell Effects.” (Mathematics) Thomas Witelski, Development in Human Autoimmune Adviser. May 2017. Disease.” (Immunology) Thomas Tedder and Michael Krangel, Advisers. September Thomas Andrew Jochum 2016. “Electrical Interfaces to Implanted Neural Medical Devices.” (Biomedical Engineering) Osman Karatum Patrick Wolf, Adviser. December 2016. “Advanced Aerogel Composites for Oil Remediation and Recovery.” (Civil and Mari Joerstad Environmental Engineering) Desiree “The Life of the World: The Vitality and Plata and Lee Ferguson, Advisers. Personhood of Non-Animal Nature in September 2016. the Hebrew Bible.” (Religion) Ellen Davis, Adviser. December 2016. Mariam Ibrahim Kayle “Health Care Transitions in Sickle Cell McKenzie Frances Johnson Disease.” (Nursing) Sharron Docherty, “Strong Institutions in Weak States: Adviser. May 2017. Institution Building, Natural Resource Governance, and Conflict in Ghana and Christine Marie Kenison Sierra Leone.” (Environmental Policy) “Bestselling Borders: The Mutual Erika Weinthal, Adviser. May 2017. Implications of German and Polish Identity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Kristin M. Johnson Twentieth Century Novel.” (Carolina- “A Longitudinal Investigation of Infant Duke Program in German Studies) Gesture Use and Parent Speech: Unique Jonathan M. Hess, Adviser. May 2017. and Dynamic Influences on Infant Vocabulary Acquisition.” (Psychology and Do Hyoung Kim Neuroscience) Makeba Wilbourn, “Effect of Termination of Long-term Adviser. September 2016. Free Air CO2 Enrichment on Physiology and Carbon Allocation in a Loblolly Pine Katrina Pelagia Jongman-Sereno Dominated Forest.” (Environment) Ram “Determinants and Implications of Oren, Adviser. September 2016. Self-perceived Authenticity: Beliefs About Authenticity and Reactions to Behavioral Kelly Ann Kimmerling Incongruence.” (Psychology and “Viral Delivery of the Fat-1 Gene to Neuroscience) Mark Leary, Adviser. Treat Post-Traumatic Arthritis with September 2016. Diet-Induced Obesity.” (Biomedical Engineering) Farshid Guilak, Adviser. David James Kaczan September 2016. “Roads, Rights, and Rewards: Three Program Evaluations in Environmental Isaac J. Kimsey and Resource Economics.” (Environmental “Visualizing Rare Watson-Crick-Like Policy) Alexander Pfaff and Brian Murray, Tautomeric and Anionic Mismatches in Advisers. May 2017. DNA and RNA.” (Biochemistry) Hashim Al-Hashimi, Adviser. September 2016.

17 Rigel Joseph Kishton Dustin James Landau “Metabolism Regulates the Fate and “Multiple Approaches to Novel GSD Function of T Lymphocytes.” (Molecular Ia Therapies.” (Molecular Genetics and Cancer Biology) Jeffrey Rathmell and Microbiology) Dwight Koeberl, Adviser. Donald McDonnell, Advisers. September December 2016. 2016. Ilana Beth Lane Lisa Anne Klarr “Social-Cognitive Determinants of “Useless: The Aesthetics of Obsoles- Success in Online Communities for cence in Twentieth Century U.S. Culture.” Weight Management.” (Psychology and (Literature) Fredric Jameson and Robyn Neuroscience) Gary Bennett, Adviser. Wiegman, Advisers. May 2017. September 2016. Alexander Robert Kovach Kathryn Ann Langenfeld “Structural Characterization of the “Forging a History: the Inventions and Bacterial Riboregulator Hfq and the Intellectual Community of the Historia Novel M. tuberculosis Toxin-Antitoxin Augusta.” (Classical Studies) Mary Module Rv3188-Rv3189.” (Biochemistry) Boatwright, Adviser. May 2017. Richard Brennan, Adviser. May 2017. Alyse Anne Larkin-Swartout Olga Kozlova “Ecological Controls on Prochlorococcus sp. “Essays in Food Retail Demand.” Diversity, Composition, and Activity at (Economics) Patrick Bayer, Adviser. High Taxonomic Resolution.” (Marine May 2017. Science and Conservation) Zackary I. Johnson, Adviser. December 2016. Abigail Leavitt LaBella “Gene Flow and Population Structure Micah Roland Lattanner in Two Species of Deep-sea Mollusks “Stigma, Avoidant-Orientation, and Self- Assessed Using Multilocus Amplicon Disclosure in Friendships.” (Psychology Datasets.” (Genetics and Genomics) and Neuroscience) Laura Richman, Clifford Cunningham and Paul Magwene, Adviser. May 2017. Advisers. May 2017. Amanda Jeanne Lea Craig David LaBoda “Evolution and Mechanisms of Plasticity “Devices and Circuit Design Strategies in Wild Baboons.” (Ecology) Susan for Building Scalable Integrated Molecular Alberts and Jenny Tung, Advisers. May Circuits.” (Electrical and Computer 2017. Engineering) Alvin Lebeck, Adviser. May 2017. Minhee Lee “Structure-Based Drug Design in Michael John Lacagnina Medicinal Chemistry I. Development “Neuroimmune and Developmental of Translesion Synthesis Inhibitors II. Mechanisms Regulating Motivational Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Behaviors for Opioids.” (Psychology and Sulfonyl Piperazine Derivatives for LpxH Neuroscience) Staci Bilbo and Christina Inhibition.” (Chemistry) Jiyong Hong, Williams, Advisers. December 2016. Adviser. May 2017. Rachel M. Lance Curtis Aaron Lee “Underwater Blast Injuries, and the “A New Method for Modeling Free Sinking of the Submarine HL Hunley.” Surface Flows and Fluid-structure (Biomedical Engineering) Cameron Bass, Interaction with Ocean Applications.” Adviser. December 2016. (Civil and Environmental Engineering) John Dolbow, Adviser. September 2016.

18 Jiseon Sophie Lee Yulong Li “Guns and Roses: A Study of Violent “Defining the Role of the Histone and Nonviolent Resistance Movements.” Methyltransferase, PR-Set7, in Maintaining (Political Science) Kyle Beardsley and the Genome Integrity of Drosophila Michael Ward, Advisers. May 2017. melanogaster.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) David MacAlpine, Adviser. September Jung-Min Lee 2016. “National Identity Formation and Musical Modernism in Post-World War II Korea.” Linying Li (Music) Philip Rupprecht, Adviser. May “Peptide-Based Stimuli-Responsive 2017. Materials for Bioanalytical Applications.” (Biomedical Engineering) Gabriel López Anna Jisu Lee and Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisers. May “Quantifying and Engineering Bacterial 2017. Population Dynamics in Time and Space.” (Biomedical Engineering) Lingchong You, Zipeng Li Adviser. December 2016. “Design, Optimization, and Test Methods for Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array Digital Christopher Leonetti Microfluidic Biochips.” (Electrical and “The Effects of Brominated Flame Computer Engineering) Krishnendu Retardants on Thyroid Hormone Chakrabarty, Adviser. May 2017. Homeostasis in Human Placenta Tissues and Cell Culture.” (Environment) Heather Zuchuan Li Stapleton, Adviser. September 2016. “Remotely Sensed Estimates and Controls of Large-Scale Oceanic Net Community Joshua Y. Lerner Production.” (Earth and Ocean Sciences) “Using Ideas As My Maps: Tracing the Nicolas Cassar, Adviser. May 2017. Flow of Ideas Through the Legislative Process.” (Political Science) Mathew Qing Li McCubbins, Adviser. May 2017. “Multi-domain Protein Unfolding Pathway Studies by Single Molecule Brandt Edward Levitt Techniques.” (Mechanical Engineering “Drug Development in Dengue Virus and Materials Science) Piotr Marszalek, and Molecular Epidemiology of Malaria Adviser. May 2017. in Western Kenya.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Steve Taylor and Jing Li Jen-Tsan Chi, Advisers. May 2017. “Multi-Row Aerodynamic Interactions and Mistuned Forced Response of an Jincheng Li Embedded Compressor Rotor.” (Mechanical “Synthesis and Properties of GaAs1-xBix Engineering and Materials Science) Prepared by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.” Robert Kielb, Adviser. December 2016. (Electrical and Computer Engineering) April Brown, Adviser. December 2016. Rosa Li “Decision-making Across Development: Zepeng Li The Impact of Ambiguity and Social “Measurement of Tau Neutrino Appearance Context.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) and Charged-current Tau Neutrino Cross Scott Huettel, Adviser. May 2017. Section with Atmospheric Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande.” (Physics) Christopher Binbin Li Walter, Adviser. May 2017. “Conservation of Endemic Species in China.” (Environment) Stuart L. Pimm, Adviser. May 2017.

19 Chen Li Qiuyun Llull “Towards Systematic Improvement of “Microeconomic Models for Managing Density Functional Approximations.” Shared Datacenters.” (Electrical and (Chemistry) Weitao Yang, Adviser. Computer Engineering) Benjamin Lee, December 2016. Adviser. May 2017. Jie Liang Kelsey Riley Lucca “Dendritic Cells in the Intestine: from Sensing “Developmental and Evolutionary Origins Microbiota to Inducing Inflammatory Bowel of Language: Insights from the Study of Disease.” (Immunology) Gianna Hammer, Pointing and Gaze in Infants, Bonobos, Adviser. May 2017. and Chimpanzees.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Makeba Wilbourn, Julia Linnea Kelto Lillis Adviser. May 2017. “Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity.” (Religion) Anthony L. Luz Elizabeth Clark and J. Smith, Advisers. “Genetic Sensitivity to Mitochondrial May 2017. Toxicity.” (Environment) Joel Meyer, Adviser. May 2017. Yi-Tzu Lin “Cell Lineage Specification during Mouse Erik Allen Lykken Embryonic Gonad Development.” (Cell “microRNA Regulation of Cellular Biology) Blanche Capel and David Immunity.” (Immunology) Qi-Jing Li and McClay, Advisers. May 2017. You-Wen He, Advisers. September 2016. Mary Caton Lingold Song Ma “Sonic Records: Listening to Early African “The Life Cycle of Corporate Venture Diasporic Literature and Music, 1650- Capital.” (Business Administration) John 1850.” (English) Priscilla Wald, Adviser. Graham and David Robinson, Adviser. May 2017. September 2016. Chaoren Liu Marina Sofia Magloire “Charge Transfer and Energy Transfer: “Whosoever Doubts My Power: Conjuring Methods Development and Applications Feminism in the Interwar Black Diaspora.” in Bio-molecular Systems.” (Chemistry) (English) Aarthi Vadde and Priscilla Wald, David Beratan, Adviser. May 2017. Adviser. May 2017. Xuehong Liu Yiannis Makris “Detection and Quantification of Single- “Alternative Tests of Quarkonium walled Carbon Nanotubes in Environmental Production Theory Using Jets.” (Physics) and Biological Samples for Evaluation of Thomas Mehen, Adviser. May 2017. Fate, Transport and Bioaccumulation.” (Chemistry) P. Lee Ferguson and Jie Liu, Julie Lippincott Martin Advisers. May 2017. “The Relative Importance of Perceived Acceptance versus Perceived Social Status Si-Qi Liu for Emotional Outcomes and Self-Esteem.” “Molecular Insights of CD4+ T Cell (Psychology and Neuroscience) Laura Differentiation, Effector Formation and Richman, Adviser. May 2017. Helper Function.” (Immunology) Qi-Jing Li, Adviser. September 2016. Amy Frees Martinez “Metaboloptics: In vivo Optical Imaging Yang Liu to Enable Simultaneous Measurement of “Multifunctional Gold Nanostars for Glucose Uptake, Mitochondrial Membrane Cancer Theranostics.” (Chemistry) Tuan Potential, and Vascular Features in Cancer.” Vo-Dinh, Adviser. December 2016. (Biomedical Engineering) Nirmala Ramanujam, Adviser. December 2016.

20 Eric Michael Mastria David Michael Miller “Improving Anticancer Therapy with “Flexible Silicon Photodiode Probes for ELP-based Drug Delivery Systems.” Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy.” (Biomedical Engineering) Ashutosh (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Chilkoti, Adviser. May 2017. Nan M. Jokerst, Adviser. December 2016. Kenichiro McAlinn Andrea Barrett Moffitt “Dynamic Modeling and Bayesian “Integrative Computational Genomics Predictive Synthesis.” (Statistical Science) Defines the Molecular Origins and Outcomes Mike West, Adviser. May 2017. of Lymphoma.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Sandeep Dave, Adviser. Shelly Tamiko Hokama McClatchey December 2016. “Opening Basement Membrane Gaps During C. elegans Uterine-Vulval Bradley Thomas Moore Attachment.” (Genetics and Genomics) “Population Sequencing for Studying David Sherwood, Adviser. September 2016. Natural and Artifcial Variation in C. elegans.” (Computational Biology and Eoin Robert McDonnell Bioinformatics) L. Ryan Baugh, Adviser. “The Role of Acetylation in the Metabolic May 2017. Reprogramming of Cancer Cells.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Matthew Milenka Moschella Miloslavich Hirschey, Adviser. December 2016. “R & D-based Growth Models with Transitional Dynamics: Evidence from Erin Alison McKenney OECD Countries.” (Economics) Pietro “Comparative Analysis of the Gut Peretto, Adviser. May 2017. Microbiome in Lemurs (Order: Primates).” (Biology) Anne Yoder, Adviser. May 2017. Laura Moure Cecchini “Reimagining the Baroque in Italian Taneisha Nicole Means Modernism. From the fin-de-siècle to “They’re There, Now What?: The Identities, Lucio Fontana.” (Art, Art History, and Behaviors, and Perceptions of Black Visual Studies) Mark Antliff, Adviser. Judges.” (Political Science) Kerry Haynie, September 2016. Adviser. September 2016. Sarah Beth Mueller Leonel Eugenio Medina Daza “Characterizing the Role of the Previously “Quantitative Analysis of Kilohertz- Undescribed Protein Caskin2 in Vascular Frequency Neurostimulation.” (Biomedical Biology.” (Pharmacology) Christopher Engineering) Warren Grill, Adviser. Kontos, Adviser. September 2016. September 2016. Musoki Mwimba Pamela Milagros Medina Quispe “Circadian Regulation of Plant Physiology: “Essays in Firm Responses to Demand A New Role for Humidity, the Forgotten and Competition Shocks.” (Economics) Zeitgeber.” (Biology) Xinnian Dong, Daniel Yi Xu, Adviser. September 2016. Adviser. December 2016. Susanne Meyer Kaleb Markus Naegeli “Flavors of Responsibility.” (Philosophy) “Dynamic Regulation of Plasma Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adviser. Membrane during Cell Invasion.” December 2016. (Molecular Cancer Biology) David Emily Elizabeth Miller Sherwood, Adviser. May 2017. “The Discovery of EJC Independent Alivelu Nagamani Roles for EIF4A3 in Mitosis, Microtubules, “Visionary Experience of Mantra: An and Neural Crest Development.” (Genetics Ethnography in Andhra-Telangana.” and Genomics) Debra Silver, Adviser. (Religion) Leela Prasad, Adviser. May 2017. December 2016. 21 Elisabeth Dawn Narkin Karen Eileen O’Connell “Rearing the Royals: and “Genetic Analysis of Mitotic Recombination the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” (Molecular France, 1499-1610.” (Art, Art History, Genetics and Microbiology) Thomas and Visual Studies) Sara Galletti, Adviser. Petes and Sue Jinks-Robertson, Advisers. May 2017. September 2016. Patrick Andrew Nevarez Justin Keith O’Hare “Mechanisms of Dual-Targeting “Striatal Circuit and Microcircuit Arabidopsis HEMERA to the Mechanisms for Habitual Behavior.” Chloroplasts and Nucleus.” (Genetics (Neurobiology) Nicole Calakos, Adviser. and Genomics) Meng Chen and Philip May 2017. Benfey, Advisers. December 2016. Anthony Nicholas Oliveri Hoan Thanh Ngo “The Role of Dopaminergic Systems “Development of Nucleic Acid Detection in the Neurobehavioral Teratology of Methods and Systems Using Nanobio- Organophosphates in Zebrafish.” sensors and Surface-enhanced Raman (Pharmacology) Edward Levin, Adviser. Spectroscopy for In Vitro Molecular September 2016. Diagnostics.” (Biomedical Engineering) Tuan Vo-Dinh, Adviser. May 2017. Spencer Dwight Orey “The Dream Refinery: Psychics, Spirituality Hung Xuan Nguyen and Hollywood in Los Angeles.” (Cultural “Engineering Prokaryotic Sodium Anthropology) Louise Meintjes, Adviser. Channels for Excitable Tissue Therapies.” December 2016. (Biomedical Engineering) Nenad Bursac, Adviser. May 2017. Jennifer Orgill “Water, Sanitation, and Development: Trang Nguyen Household Preferences and Long-Term “Solitons in Exciton-Polariton System: Impacts.” (Environmental Policy) Marc Reduced Modelling, Analysis, and Numerical Jeuland, Adviser. May 2017. Studies.” (Mathematics) Stephanos Venakides, Adviser. September 2016. Gerardo X. Ortiz, Jr. “The Synthesis of Novel N-Heterocyclic Brandon Scott Nichols Scaffolds and Diazirine-Based Molecular “Systems and Methods for Intra-Operative Tags.” (Chemistry) Qiu Wang, Adviser. Wide-Field Quantitative Functional Imaging September 2016. of Breast Tumor Margin Morphology.” (Biomedical Engineering) Nirmala Fu Ouyang Ramanujam, Adviser. May 2017. “Essays on Multinomial Choice Models.” (Economics) Shakeeb Khan and Matthew Cindo Oliver Nicholson Masten, Advisers. May 2017. “The Development and Application of a Method to Quantitatively Identify RNA Yu Pan Binding Sites, and Whole Transcript “Augmentations and Exact Lagrangian Targets of RNA Binding Proteins.” Cobordisms.” (Mathematics) Lenhard Ng, (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Adviser. May 2017. Jack Keene, Adviser. December 2016. Jiangwei Pan Sandra Maike Christine Niethardt “Algorithms for Geometric Matching, “Narration and Consciousness in the Late Clustering, and Covering.” (Computer Eighteenth-Century German Novel.” Science) Pankaj Agarwal, Adviser. Sep- (Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies) tember 2016. Jonathan M. Hess, Adviser. December 2016.

22 Jia Wern Pan Yizhi Qi “Evolution and Development of the “POEGMAlation – A Next-Generation Drosophila Peripheral Olfactory System.” PEGylation Technology.” (Biomedical (Biology) Pelin Volkan, Adviser. May 2017. Engineering) Ashutosh Chilkoti, Adviser. December 2016. Matthew Thomas Panhans “Utilization and Competition in the Yue Qin Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance “When Consumption Embraces Faith: Marketplaces.” (Economics) Juan Carlos How Religious Beliefs and Practices Suarez Serrato, Adviser. May 2017. Influence Consumption.” (Business Administration) Gavan Fitzsimons and Daniel Aaron Papsdorf Richard Staelin, Advisers. September “From Power to Profit: Natives and 2016. Non-natives in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1763-1803.” (History) Philip Stern Fangfei Qu and Elizabeth Fenn, Advisers. May 2017. “Decoding the Function of Ankyrin-B in Organelle Transport.” (Cell Biology) Su Hean Park Vann Bennett, Adviser. December 2016. “The Impact of Individual’s Beliefs on Overcoming Temptations.” (Psychology Benjamin James Radford and Neuroscience) James Shah, Adviser. “Automated Learning of Event Coding December 2016. Dictionaries for Novel Domains with an Application to Cyberspace.” (Political You-il Park Science) Michael Ward, Adviser. “The Effect of IFRS Adoption on the December 2016. Predictive Ability of Aggregate Accruals for Economic Growth.” (Business Ramanujan T. Raghavan Administration) Qi Chen and Katherine “Analysis of Purkinje Cell Responses Schipper, Advisers. May 2017. in the Oculomotor Vermis during the Execution of Smooth Pursuit Eye Reginald Dewight Patterson Movements.” (Neurobiology) Stephen “Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Lisberger and Marc Sommer, Advisers. Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy December 2016. of Creole Fugitive Fables.” (Romance Studies) Laurent Dubois and Michaeline Arjun Rallapalli Crichlow, Advisers. September 2016. “Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Molecular Switch Designed Using a Systematic Goldie Tricia Phillips Design Process Based on Monte Carlo “Passive Acoustics: A Multifaceted Tool Methods and Markov Chains.” (Electrical for Marine Mammal Conservation.” and Computer Engineering) Alvin (Marine Science and Conservation) Douglas Lebeck, Adviser. September 2016. Nowacek, Adviser. September 2016. Juan Ramirez, Jr. Nicholas Francis Polizzi “Synthetic Aperture Processing for “Experimental and Theoretical Models to Thinned Array Sensor Systems.” (Electrical Probe Mechanisms of Biological Charge and Computer Engineering) Jeffrey L. Flow.” (Biochemistry) David Beratan and Krolik, Adviser. December 2016. Michael Therien, Advisers. September 2016. Rohit Ramnath Alexander Matthew Price “Spatiotemporal Dynamics of CaMKI “Temporal Regulation of LMP1 and During Structural Plasticity of Single Apoptosis Resistance After Primary EBV Dendritic Spines.” (Neurobiology) Ryohei Infection.” (Molecular Genetics and Mi- Yasuda and Scott Soderling, Advisers. crobiology) Micah Luftig, Adviser. September 2016. September 2016.

23 Hrishikesh Mohan Rao Patricia Alexander Robinson “Bottom-up and Top-down Mechanisms of “Essays on the Economics of Insurance Visually-Guided Movements.” (Biomedical and Healthcare Markets.” (Economics) Engineering) Marc Sommer, Adviser. Frank Sloan, Adviser. May 2017. December 2016. Luz Angela Rodríguez Ramírez Katherine Murray Ratliff “On the Regulation of Small Actors: Three “From the River to the Sea: Modeling Experimental Essays about Policies Based Coastal River, Wetland, and Shoreline on Voluntary Compliance and Decentral- Dynamics.” (Earth and Ocean Sciences) ized Monitoring.” (Environmental Policy) A. Brad Murray, Adviser. May 2017. Alexander Pfaff, Adviser. September 2016. Sneha Ravi Henri Petrus Roesch “Functional Diversity of Retinal Ganglion “Proof of a Null Penrose Conjecture Using Cells in the Rat.” (Neurobiology) Gregory a New Quasi-local Mass.” (Mathematics) Field, Adviser. May 2017. Hubert Bray, Adviser. May 2017. Robert L. Reece Rochelle Rojas-Neilsen “Legacies of Slavery: An Analysis of “Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: the Dimensions of Slavery’s Post- Witch Trials in Early Modern Spain, 1525- Emancipation Effects.” (Sociology) 1675.” (History) Thomas Robisheaux, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Martin Ruef, Adviser. December 2016. Advisers. May 2017. Joshua Steven Rose Alicia Martínez Reyes-Barriéntez “A Tale of Two Metallophosphatases: “The Politics of Latina/o Faith: An Biochemical and Functional Characterization Examination of Religion as a Potential of Novel Substrates of PP1 and MESH1.” Political Cleavage among Latinas/os.” (Biochemistry) Pei Zhou, Adviser. May 2017. (Political Science) Kerry Haynie, Adviser. December 2016. Stefan Cooper Rosin “Plant-Animal Interactions and Defaunation Robert Miles Richards in Tropical Forests: How Animal “Public Opinion and Congressional Communities and Anthropogenic Responsiveness in Policy Making.” (Public Disturbances Drive Patterns in Seed Policy) Donald Taylor, Adviser. May 2017. Predation, Seedling Damage, and the Regeneration of Tropical Forest Trees.” Julia Hamilton Roberts (Environment) John Poulsen, Adviser. “Application of the Stability of Proteins May 2017. from Rates of Oxidation Technique to the Analysis of Mouse Models of Aging Justyne Eliza Ross and Parkinson’s Disease.” (Chemistry) “Epigenetic Basis of Centromere Michael Fitzgerald, Adviser. May 2017. Maintenance and Inheritance.” (Genetics and Genomics) Beth Sullivan, Adviser. Scott Haile Robertson September 2016. “Quantitative Spectral Contrast in Hyperpolarized 129Xe Pulmonary MRI.” Tricia Marie Ross (Medical Physics) Bastiaan Driehuys, “Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Adviser. December 2016. and Religion in Early Modern Germany.” (History) Thomas Robisheaux, Adviser. Alexander Christian Robeson May 2017. “TRAF Regulation of Caspase-2- Dependent Apoptosis in Response to Laila Christine Roudsari DNA Damage.” (Molecular Cancer “A Model of Lung Tumor Angiogenesis in Biology) Sally Kornbluth, Adviser. a Biomimetic Poly(ethylene glycol)-based December 2016. Hydrogel System.” (Biomedical Engineering) Jennifer West, Adviser. September 2016. 24 Andrew Van Horn Ruoss Zackary Nathan Scholl “Competitive Collaboration: The Dutch “The (Un)Folding of Multidomain Proteins and English East India Companies and Through the Lens of Single-molecule the Forging of Global Corporate Political Force-spectroscopy and Computer Economy (1650-1700).” (History) Philip Simulation.” (Computational Biology and Stern, Adviser. May 2017. Bioinformatics) Weitao Yang and Piotr Marszalek, Advisers. September 2016. Esther E. Sackett “Goal Interdependence and the Role of Anna Elisabeth Schultz Team Goal System Awareness.” (Business “The Geography of Accountability.” Administration) Jonathon Cummings and (Political Science) Erik Wibbels, Adviser. Gráinne Fitzsimons, Advisers. May 2017. May 2017. Rayn Terin Tatsuma Sakaguchi Jennifer Link Schwabe “Using Image Processing Methods to “Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions Improve the Detection of Buried Explosive for Disruption of LSD1 (KDM1A) Threats in GPR Data.” (Electrical and Complexes.” (Chemistry) Dewey Computer Engineering) Leslie Collins, McCafferty, Adviser. May 2017. Adviser. September 2016. Claire Elizabeth Scott Mohammad Reza Sanatkar “Murderous Mothers: Feminist Violence in “The Dynamics of Polarized Beliefs in German Literature and Film (1970-2000).” Networks Governed by Viral Diffusion (Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies) and Media Influence.” (Electrical and Kata Gellen, Adviser. May 2017. Computer Engineering) Henry Pfister, Adviser. December 2016. Louise Seamster “Race, Power and Economic Extraction Tracy Anne Schifeling in Benton Harbor, MI.” (Sociology) Linda “Combining Information from Multiple Burton and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Advisers. Sources in Bayesian Modeling.” (Statistical September 2016. Science) Jerome Reiter, Adviser. September 2016. Eli Benjamin Sellinger-Liebman “Essays on the Industrial Organization of Allison Lindsey Schmidt Health Care Markets.” (Economics) Allan “Assessing the Injury Tolerance of the Collard-Wexler, Adviser. May 2017. Human Spine.” (Biomedical Engineering) Cameron Bass, Adviser. May 2017. Ozlem Senlik “Custom Silicon Annular Photodiode Elyse Anne Schmidt Arrays for Spatially Resolved Diffuse “The Role of Irgm1 in Mitochondrial Reflectance Spectroscopy.” (Electrical and Dynamics and Metabolism.” (Molecular Computer Engineering) Nan M. Jokerst, Genetics and Microbiology) Gregory Adviser. December 2016. Taylor, Adviser. May 2017. Subramanian Sethuraman Kevin Paul Schoenfelder “The Effect of Reputation Shocks to “Aneuploidy Tolerance in a Polyploid Rating Agencies on Corporate Disclosures.” Organ.” (Genetics and Genomics) (Business Administration) Mohan Ven- Donald Fox and Daniel Lew, Advisers. katachalam, Adviser. September 2016. September 2016. Erin Cedar Seybold “Hydrologic, Ecological, and Biogeo- chemical Drivers of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Forested Headwater Stream Networks.” (Ecology) Brian McGlynn, Adviser. May 2017.

25 Seyedmahdi Bijan Seyednasrollah Jay Ketan Shridharani “Ecosystem Response to a Changing “Injury Detection and Localization in Climate.” (Environment) James Clark, the Spine Using Acoustic Emission.” Adviser. May 2017. (Biomedical Engineering) Cameron Bass, Adviser. December 2016. Yan Shang “Essays in Empirical Operations Robert Kenneth Shriver Management: Bayesian Learning of “Consequences of Changing Rainfall Service Quality and Structural Estimation Variability for the Chihuahuan Desert of Complementary Product Pricing and Annual Plant Community.” (Ecology) Inventory Management.” (Business William Morris, Adviser. May 2017. Administration) Jing-Sheng Song and Andres Musalem, Advisers. September 2016. John David Singleton “Essays on the Supply-Side of School Ruchira Sharma Choice.” (Economics) Peter Arcidiacono “Olfactory Receptor Accessory Proteins and Patrick Bayer, Advisers. May 2017. Play Crucial Roles in Receptor Function and Gene Choice.” (Molecular Genetics Linda Marie Skalski and Microbiology) Hiroaki Matsunami, “The Impact of Marijuana Use on Adviser. May 2017. Memory in Patients with HIV/AIDS.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Christina Samuel Joseph Shearer S. Meade and Kathleen J. Sikkema, Advisers. “The Kigali Model: Making a 21st Century September 2016. Metropolis.” (Cultural Anthropology) Charles Piot, Adviser. May 2017. Tedi-Theodore Skiti “Essays on Strategic Investment.” Yang Sheng (Economics) Daniel Yi Xu and Allan “Knowledge Discovery in Databases of Collard-Wexler, Advisers. May 2017. Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning.” (Medical Physics) Q. Jackie Wu and Mark Larston Sleeper Fang-Fang Yin, Advisers. May 2017. “The Development of Enzyme- Activated Prochelators Designed to Ying Shi Target Cancer Cells Overexpressing “Essays in the Economics of Education.” γ-glutamyltransferase.” (Chemistry) (Public Policy) Seth Sanders, Adviser. May Katherine Franz, Adviser. May 2017. 2017. Katherine Kerr Slemmons Megumi S. Shimizu “Deciphering the Role of the YAP “Sources, Quality, and Fate of Organic Oncoprotein in Ras-driven Matter in Deep-Sea Sediments in the Larsen Rhabdomyosarcoma Tumorigenesis.” A Embayment, Weddell Sea: Changes (Molecular Cancer Biology) Corinne by Global Warming and Ice Shelf Melt.” Linardic, Adviser. May 2017. (Marine Science and Conservation) Cindy L. Van Dover, Adviser. May 2017. Darrell Franklin Smith “The Invention of Rhythm.” (English) Shinichiro Shirota Julianne Werlin, Adviser. May 2017. “Bayesian Modeling and Computation for Complex Spatial Point Patterns.” (Statistical Sophie Kathleen Greenwald Smith Science) Alan Gelfand, Adviser. May 2017. “The Hole in the Fence: Policing, Peril, and Possibility in the US-Mexico Border Phanindhar Shivapooja Zone, 1994-Present.” (Literature) Rey “Active Surface Deformation Technology Chow, Adviser. December 2016. for Management of Marine Biofouling.” (Biomedical Engineering) Gabriel López, Adviser. September 2016.

26 Kendra Nicole Smyth Joy Elia Stanistreet “Ecological Immunology in Meerkats: “Ecology of Beaked Whales and Sperm Testing Environmental, Social, Hormonal, Whales in the Western North Atlantic and Transgenerational Factors.” (Ecology) Ocean: Insights from Passive Acoustic Christine Drea, Adviser. May 2017. Monitoring.” (Ecology) Douglas Nowacek and Andrew Read, Advisers. May 2017. Ashley Elizabeth Sobel Leonard “Characterization of Influenza A Virus Shana Miriam Starobin Infection through Analysis of Intrahost “Institutions, Innovation, and Grassroots Viral Evolution and Within-Host Change: Alternatives to Transnational Infection Dynamics.” (Biology) Katia Governance in the Global South.” Koelle, Adviser. December 2016. (Environment) Erika Weinthal, Adviser. September 2016. Paul Allen Sommerfeld “Scoring Star Trek’s Utopia: Musical Andrew Joseph Stershic Iconicity in the Star Trek Franchise, 1966- “Application of Numerical Methods 2016.” (Music) Bryan Gilliam, Adviser. to Study Arrangement and Fracture of May 2017. Lithium-Ion Microstructure.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) John Jason Omar Sosa Pagán Dolbow, Adviser. September 2016. “Temperature Activation Mechanism of TRP Ion Channels.” (Neurobiology) Jorg Ian Edward Stewart Grandl, Adviser. May 2017. “The Impact of Morphology and Composition on the Resistivity and Nikolas Oscar Sparks Oxidation Resistance of Metal “Lost Bodies/Found Objects: Storyville Nanostructure Films.” (Chemistry) and the Archival Imagination.” (English) Benjamin Wiley, Adviser. December 2016. Priscilla Wald and Maurice Wallace, Advisers. May 2017. Daniel John Stulac “History and Hope: The Agrarian William James Spencer Wisdom of Isaiah 28–35.” (Religion) “The Role of PRCD in Building the Ellen Davis, Adviser. May 2017. Photoreceptor Outer Segment.” (Pharmacology) Sarah Goetz Vadim Amanda Leigh Suhey Arshavsky, Advisers. May 2017. “Documenting Chile: Visualizing Identity and the National Body from Dictatorship Cheryl Spinner to Post-Dictatorship.” (Romance Studies) “Technologies of Illusion: Enchanting Esther Gabara, Adviser. December 2016. Modernity’s Machines.” (English) Priscilla Wald, Adviser. May 2017. Ning Sui “DELLA is O-Fucosylated by Jaydeep Kumar Srimani SPINDLY.” (Biology) Tai-ping Sun, “A Mechanistic Understanding of the Adviser. December 2016. Postantibiotic Effect and Treatment Strategies.” (Biomedical Engineering) Brittney Jayne Sullivan Lingchong You, Adviser. May 2017. “Age Appropriate Treatment of Drug- Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa.” Edward John Stanek, IV (Nursing) Janice Humphreys and Janet “Premotor Mechanisms for Orofacial Bettger, Advisers. May 2017. Coordination.” (Neurobiology) Fan Wang and Richard Mooney, Advisers. September 2016.

27 Qingtao Sun Valerie Angela Tornini “Discontinuous Galerkin Based Multi- “Clonal Analysis of the Zebrafish Fin Domain Multi-Solver Technique for Regeneration Blastema.” (Cell Biology) Efficient Multiscale Electromagnetic Kenneth Poss, Adviser. December 2016. Modeling.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Qing Huo Liu, Adviser. Christopher John Tralie May 2017. “Geometric Multimedia Time Series.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Carter M. Suryadevara Guillermo Sapiro and John Harer, “CAR T-cell Immunotherapy for Brain Advisers. May 2017. Tumors.” (Pathology) John Sampson, Adviser. May 2017. Amanda Marie Travis “Circuitry Underlying Rod Bipolar Cell Ashleigh Jane Swingler Sensitivity.” (Pharmacology) Vadim “An Econophysics Approach to Short Arshavsky, Adviser. May 2017. Time-Scale Dynamics of the Equities Markets.” (Mechanical Engineering and Qing Tu Materials Science) Laurens Howle, “Interfacial Properties of Graphene and Adviser. May 2017. 2D Materials Heterostructures Investigated by Scanning Probe Microscopy.” (Mechanical Lei Tang Engineering and Materials Science) Stefan “Enzymatic Polymerization of High Zauscher, Adviser. May 2017. Molecular Weight DNA.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Stefan Virginia Camila Tuma Zauscher, Adviser. September 2016. “The Cuban Diaspora and the Question of Nostalgia.” (Literature) Michael Hardt, Michael Tauschinger-Dempsey Adviser. May 2017. “Visualizing Zones of Occupation: Making Tangible the Violent Infrastructures in Kyle Richard Ulrich the Global Economy of Fear.” (Art, Art “Gaussian Process Kernels for Cross- History, and Visual Studies) Bill Seaman, Spectrum Analysis in Electrophysiological Adviser. May 2017. Time Series.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Adviser. Mathieu Therezien September 2016. “Heterogeneous Aggregation Modeling Towards Understanding the Transport Melanie April Ungar and Fate of Nanoparticle Contaminants.” “Gender and Humor in German Literature (Civil and Environmental Engineering) of the fin de siécle.” (Carolina-Duke Mark Wiesner, Adviser. December 2016. Program in German Studies) Eric Downing, Adviser. December 2016. Xiaoyu Tian “Prospective Estimation of Radiation Aarti Urs Dose and Image Quality for Optimized “Role of Vinculin in Regulating Force- CT Performance.” (Biomedical Engineering) Sensitive Dynamics of Adherens Junc- Ehsan Samei, Adviser. September 2016. tions During Collective Cell Migration.” (Cell Biology) Brenton Hoffman, Adviser. Justin Mark Tierney September 2016. “At the Conflux.” (Music) John Supko, Adviser. May 2017. Amanda Vamvas Utevsky “Social Decision-Making in the Primate Jacob Charles Timmerman Brain.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) “Gold(I)-Catalyzed Hydrofunctionalization Scott Huettel and Michael Platt, Advisers. of Alkenes and Alkylidenecyclopropanes May 2017. with Carbon and Nitrogen Nucleophiles.” (Chemistry) Ross Widenhoefer, Adviser. May 2017. 28 Andre Jan Simoes Van Rynbach Siyang Wang “Micro-Fabricated Surface Trap and “A Molecular-scale Programmable Cavity Integration for Trapped Ion Stochastic Process Based on Resonance Quantum Computing.” (Electrical and Energy Transfer Networks: Modeling and Computer Engineering) Jungsang Kim, Applications.” (Electrical and Computer Adviser. September 2016. Engineering) Alvin Lebeck, Adviser. September 2016. José M. Vargas-Muñiz “Septins’ Role in Morphogenesis, Xiangyu Wang Development, and Pathogenesis of the “Distributed Feature Selection in Large n Human Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus and Large p Regression Problems.” fumigatus.” (Molecular Genetics and (Statistical Science) David Dunson, Microbiology) William Steinbach, Adviser. Adviser. September 2016. May 2017. Qin Wang Maryam Vejdani Jahromi “Development and Characterization “Assessment of Cardiac Function by of Boronate-Masked Prochelators for Acoustic Radiation Force (ARF) Based Peroxide-Triggered Metal Chelation.” Methods of Ultrasound Elastography.” (Chemistry) Katherine Franz, Adviser. (Biomedical Engineering) Patrick Wolf, May 2017. Adviser. May 2017. Jie Wang Elizabeth Christine Victor “Rab4 and Rab10 Oppositely Regulate “Neural Mechanisms of Young Adult AMPA Receptors Exocytosis and Structural Sexual Decision-Making and Risk Behavior.” Plasticity in Single Dendritic Spines.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Ahmad (Neurobiology) Ryohei Yasuda , Adviser. R. Hariri, Adviser. September 2016. December 2016. T. Shay Viehman Hanghang Wang “Coral Decline and Reef Habitat Loss in the “Improving Mass Spectrometry-Based Caribbean: Modeling Abiotic Limitations Metabolite Identification and Quantification on Coral Populations and Communities.” and Application to Cardiovascular Disease.” (Marine Science and Conservation) (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Patrick Halpin and James Hench, Svati Shah, Adviser. May 2017. Advisers. May 2017. Huihui Wang Christopher Michael Vockley “Consumer Behavior and Firm Competition.” “Quantifying Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (Business Administration) Wilfred in Hormone Response and Disease.” Amaldoss and Preyas Desai, Advisers. (Cell Biology) Brigid Hogan and Timothy September 2016. Reddy, Advisers. September 2016. Onica Leigh Washington Florian Wagner “Characterization of a Full-Length TTP “Methods for Systematic Exploratory Family Member Association with RNA Analysis of Gene Expression Data with Sequence Elements.” (Biochemistry) Applications to Cancer Genomics.” Perry Blackshear, Adviser. September (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) 2016. Sandeep Dave, Adviser. May 2017. Eric Qian Wei Stefan de la Peña Waldschmidt “Novel Roles for Fibroblast Growth “The Complete Bentham: Rationality’s Factor Homologous Factors in Caveolae- Afterlife in Victorian Literature.” (English) Mediated Cardioprotection.” (Marine Nancy Armstrong and Kathy Psomiades, Science and Conservation) Geoffrey S. Pitt Advisers. May 2017. and Cynthia M. Kuhn, Advisers. May 2017.

29 Lan Wei Megan Renee Winkler “Methods for Imputing Missing Values “Obesity and Overweight among Black and Synthesizing Confidential Values American Adolescent Females: The Role for Continuous and Magnitude Data.” of Social Influences in Everyday Dietary (Statistical Science) Jerome Reiter, Practices.” (Nursing) Debra Brandon, Adviser. September 2016. Adviser. September 2016. Hongchuan Wei Michelle Wolff “Sensor Planning for Bayesian Nonparametric “Intimate Life Together: A Decolonial Target Modeling.” (Mechanical Engineering .” (Religion) Willie Jennings and and Materials Science) Silvia Ferrari and J. Carter, Advisers. May 2017. Michael Zavlanos, Advisers. September 2016. Yan Wu “Regulation of Valve Interstitial Cell Melodi Javid Whitley Phenotype and Function Using Biomimetic “Preclinical and Clinical Studies of an Hydrogels.” (Biomedical Engineering) Investigational Protease-Activated Jennifer West, Adviser. May 2017. Fluorescent Probe for Cancer Theranostics.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) David G. Rose Mary Xavier Kirsch, Adviser. May 2017. “Neurobiology of Insight in Schizophrenia: Interrelationships with Symptom Domains Hillary Jane Doescher Wiener and Genetic Influences.” (Nursing) Allison “Conversation Pieces: The Role of Products Vorderstrasse, Adviser. May 2017. in Facilitating Conversation.” (Business Administration) James Bettman and Mary Yan Xue Frances Luce, Advisers. May 2017. “Ca2+-Mediated Thermal Sensing in Plants.” (Biology) Zhen-Ming Pei, Doron Wilfand Adviser. May 2017. “Mark, Matthew, and the Tanakh: A Comparison of Tanakh References in Saadia Yacoob Mark and Matthew.” (Religion) Joel “Hermeneutics of Desire: Ontologies of Marcus, Adviser. December 2016. Gender and Desire in Early Ḥanafī .” (Religion) Ebrahim Moosa and Leela Hants Andrew Williams Prasad, Advisers. December 2016. “Non-Pharmacological Approaches for Pain Management in Sickle Cell Disease: Louis Yako Development of a Mindfulness-Based “Bullets in Envelopes: Iraqi Academics in Intervention.” (Nursing) Paula Tanabe, Exile.” (Cultural Anthropology) Charles Adviser. September 2016. Piot, Adviser. May 2017. Judith Margaret Winglee Jun Yan “Improving Membrane Distillation “Experimental Study of Storage Ring Performance by Reducing the Effluent Free-Electron Laser with Novel Capabilities.” Concentration of Volatile and Semi- (Physics) Ying Wu, Adviser. September 2016. Volatile Contaminants.” (Civil and Yang Yang Environmental Engineering) Mark “Ground and Electronic Excited States Wiesner, Adviser. May 2017. from Pairing Matrix Fluctuation and Jonathan Andrew Winkle Particle-Particle Random Phase “The Cognitive Mechanisms of Value-Based Approximation.” (Chemistry) Weitao Choice.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Yang, Adviser. September 2016. Scott Huettel, Adviser. May 2017.

30 Gabriel Stephen Yapuncich Jenny Zhang “Body Mass Prediction from Dental and “Characterizing Genetic Drivers of Postcranial Measurements in Primates and Lymphoma through High-Throughput Their Nearest Relatives.” (Evolutionary Sequencing.” (Genetics and Genomics) Anthropology) Doug M. Boyer, Adviser. Sandeep Dave, Adviser. September 2016. May 2017. Du Zhang Rujie Yin “Electronic Excitations from Density “High Dimensional Signal Representation.” Functional Theory, Time-Dependent (Mathematics) Ingrid Daubechies, Linear Response and Many-Body ’s Adviser. May 2017. Functions.” (Chemistry) Weitao Yang, Adviser. May 2017. Serkan Yolacan “Order Beyond Borders: The Azerbaijani Ying Zhao Triangle Across Iran, Turkey, and Russia.” “Physical and Genetic Analysis of (Cultural Anthropology) Engseng Ho, the CUP1 Tandem Array in the Yeast Adviser. May 2017. Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Thomas Pinar Yoldas Petes, Adviser. September 2016. “Speculative Biologies: New Directions in Art in the Age of the Anthropocene.” (Art, Art Bingzhi Zhao History, and Visual Studies) Mark Hansen and “Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing.” Bill Seaman, Advisers. December 2016. (Economics) Tim Bollerslev, Adviser. May 2017. Cagri Yoltar “The Politics of Indebtedness: The Dialectic Huiqing Zhou of State Violence and Benevolence in “Occurrence and Function of Hoogsteen Turkish Kurdistan.” (Cultural Anthropology) Base Pairs in Nucleic Acids.” (Biochemistry) Charles Piot, Adviser. May 2017. Hashim Al-Hashimi, Adviser. September 2016. Safak Yucel “Capacity Investment in Renewable and Christy Zhou Koval Conventional Energy Sources.” (Business “A Theory and Test of How Speakers Administration) Kevin Shang Gürhan with Nonnative Accents are Evaluated Kök and, Advisers. September 2016. in Entrepreneurial Settings.” (Business Administration) Ashleigh Rosette and Xu Zhang Gráinne Fitzsimons, Advisers. September “Indirect Training Algorithms for Spiking 2016. Neural Networks Based on Spiking Timing Dependent Plasticity and Their Applications.” Yuan Zhuang (Mechanical Engineering and Materials “Equilibrium Phase Behavior and Science) Craig Henriquez, Adviser. May 2017. Self-assemble Dynamics of a Continuous- Space Microphase Former.” (Chemistry) Yuqi Zhang Patrick Charbonneau, Adviser. December “A Symphony of Charge Transfer Theory, 2016. Conductive DNA Junction Modeling and Chemical Library Design.” (Chemistry) Margaret Ann Zimmer David Beratan, Adviser. December 2016. “Runoff Generation across Ephemeral to Perennial Piedmont Catchments.” (Earth Yue Zhang and Ocean Sciences) Brian McGlynn, “Global Supply Chain Management with Adviser. May 2017. Advanced Information and Production Technologies.” (Business Administration) Jing-Sheng Song, Adviser. May 2017.

31 2017 Dean’s Awards: Mentoring, Teaching, Inclusive Excellence

The Duke University Graduate School is committed to creating a vibrant culture that values exemplary mentoring, inspires exceptional teaching, and fosters an inclusive and diverse university community. The Dean’s Awards recognize faculty, graduate students, and departments and programs that have excelled in those areas.

Mentoring Students Faculty Joyell Arscott Ph.D. Candidate Debra Brandon Nursing Associate Professor and Director of Faculty Adviser: Elizabeth Merwin the Ph.D. in Nursing Program Zachary Carico Linda M. Burton Ph.D. Candidate James B. Duke Professor of Sociology Immunology and Dean of Social Sciences Faculty Adviser: Michael S. Krangel

Joseph A. Izatt Eleanor M. Caves Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Ph.D. Candidate Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering Biology Faculty Adviser: Sönke Johnsen Kathy A. Psomiades Associate Professor of English

Teaching Inclusive Excellence Nicole Dalzell Biosciences Collaborative for Ph.D. Candidate Research Engagement (BioCoRE) Statistical Science Sherilynn Black, Assistant Professor of Faculty Adviser: Jerome P. Reiter the Practice, Medical Education; Director, Office of Graduate Biomedical Erin McKenney Diversity, School of Medicine Ph.D. Candidate Biology Daniel Lew, Professor of Pharmacology Faculty Adviser: Anne D. Yoder & Cancer Biology, School of Medicine Dorian Canelas, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Chemistry Devyn Gillette, Program Director

32 2017 Forever Duke Student Leadership Award The Duke Alumni Association created the Forever Duke Student Leadership Award in 2016 to recognize graduating students who embody the “Forever Duke” spirit in their service to the university. Below are students from The Graduate School who received the award this year. Emily Boehm, Evolutionary Anthropology Mary Caton Lingold, English Dalmacio Flores III, Nursing Abbe LaBella, Evolutionary Anthropology

2016–17 Few-Glasson Alumni Society Inductees The Duke Graduate School Few-Glasson Alumni Society, created in 2016, recognizes graduates of the school who have distinguished themselves through their career accomplishments, the potential of their current endeavors, or their support for graduate students and graduate education at Duke. The honor is named for William Preston Few and William Henry Glasson. Few, the first president of Duke University, oversaw the creation of The Graduate School and was a strong supporter of graduate education at Duke. Glasson was a professor of political economy and social sciences at Duke and the first dean of The Graduate School, serving in that role from 1926 to 1938. The inaugural inductees into the Few-Glasson Alumni Society are: Martin Dempsey, A.M.’84 English Linda George, Ph.D.’75 Sociology Yibin Kang, Ph.D.’00 Genetics

33 Ph.D. Degree Granting Programs at Duke Art, Art History and Visual Studies History Biochemistry Immunology Biology Literature Biomedical Engineering Marine Science and Conservation Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Mathematics Business Administration Mechanical Engineering and Carolina-Duke Program in Materials Science German Studies Medical Physics Cell Biology Molecular Cancer Biology Chemistry Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Civil and Environmental Engineering Music Classical Studies Neurobiology Computational Biology and Nursing Bioinformatics Pathology Computer Science Pharmacology Cultural Anthropology Philosophy Earth and Ocean Sciences Physics Ecology Political Science Economics Psychology and Neuroscience Electrical and Computer Engineering Public Policy Studies English Religion Environment Romance Studies Environmental Policy Sociology Evolutionary Anthropology Statistical Science Genetics and Genomics

34 Significance of the Academic Dress Today’s academic dress has its origins in the clerical dress that medieval scholars used for warmth in unheated buildings. The tradition of special academic dress seems to have entered this country through King’s College (now Columbia) in colonial New York. The custom grew so rapidly that in 1894, an American Intercollegiate Commission standardized the style and color of robes and hoods. The commission decided all robes would be black, which is not the standard for schools today. Bachelor’s robes have open, pointed sleeves; master’s have sleeves that close at the wrist; and the doctoral has bell-shaped sleeves, velvet trim down the front, and three velvet strips across the sleeves. The that forms part of today’s academic dress was originally a head covering for bad weather. Later it was dropped to the shoulders in the form of a small cape. Eventually, the hood became a separate piece of apparel bearing even more symbolism than the gown. The hood’s facing is colored velvet trimming denoting the wearer’s discipline (e.g., arts and letters, ; engineering, ; law, ). The width of the velvet trimming designates the level of the degree. The lining of the hood identifies the institution that granted the degree, dark blue with a white chevron for Duke. The or square has come to be symbolic of academia. It has evolved from a tufted, square cap called a quadralus worn by medieval laity to a rigid, square academic cap, commonly called a “mortarboard.” The velvet tam is commonly worn by doctorate holders. A tassel is attached to the center of the cap. Tradition dictates that doctoral and master’s graduates flick the tassel on the cap from left to right when the degree is conferred.

Hood Colors Indicating the Fields of Study

Apricot: Nursing Orange: Engineering Brown: Fine Arts : Music Copper: Economics Purple: Law Dark Blue: Philosophy Russet: Drab: Business Administration : Golden : Science : Divinity, Theology Green: Medicine : Physical Therapy Lavender: White: Arts, Letters, Humanities : Education

35 Congratulations from The Graduate School Staff The Graduate School staff members congratulate our 2017 Ph.D. candidates on obtaining their degrees and thank them for giving us the opportunity to be a part of their successful journey at Duke.

Office of the Dean Paula D. McClain Mike Byerley Dean of the Graduate School and Director of Development Vice Provost for Graduate Education Carlus Walters Marsha Adams-Parker Assistant to the Dean and Vice Provost Human Resources Manager for Graduate Education

Pakis Bessias John Zhu Network Administrator Senior Public Affairs Officer and Communication Strategist

Academic Affairs John Klingensmith Denise Leathers Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Staff Specialist

Hugh Crumley Helene McAdams Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Coordinator, Student Records

Natavan Khan Francisco Ramos Staff Assistant Manager of Program Evaluation and Assessment

Admissions Elizabeth Hutton Randi Smith Associate Dean, Graduate Admissions Duke Kunshan Admissions Specialist

Scott C. Andrews Stacy Torian Data Manager Communications Specialist

Yvonne Restani Nancy Wines Program Coordinator Admissions Specialist

36 Finance and Administration Shanna Fitzpatrick Regina Nowicki de Guerra Associate Dean for Finance and Data Analyst II Administration and Chief Financial Officer Lynette Roesch Staff Assistant Tammy Dickens Staff Accountant Cynthia Wilcock Financial Analyst Iryna Merenbloom Assistant Dean, Budgets and Finance Lisa Wioskowski Financial Aid Coordinator Caroline Morris Fellowship Coordinator

Graduate Student Affairs Jacqueline Looney Brad Teague Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Assistant Dean and Director, Programs and Associate Vice Provost English for International Students (EIS)

Melissa Bostrom Kaitlyn Aigner Assistant Dean for Graduate EIS Program Coordinator Student Professional Development Lynn Bergschneider Latishia Futrell EIS Instructor Program Coordinator Diane Bryson J. Alan Kendrick EIS Instructor Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Development Rene Caputo EIS Instructor Sondra Ponzi Senior Program Coordinator Cathy Harrison EIS Instructor Maria LaMonaca Wisdom Director of Graduate Student Advising Elizabeth Long and Engagement for the Humanities EIS Instructor

Maria Parker EIS Instructor

Stacy Sabraw EIS Instructor 37