SPRING COMMENCEMENT MAY 2021 2021 Graduates THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL two thousand twenty-one commencement the university of north carolina at chapel hill CANDIDATES for GRADUATE DEGREES May 2021 Degree candidates’ names are followed by their area of major study, dissertation or project title and the name of their doctoral advisor. The Graduate School Santosh Balakrishnan, Biomedical Engineering, Endoscopic ESTABLISHED 1903 Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of the Airway. Dean Suzanne Barbour Professor Amy Oldenburg. Rachel Bangle, Chemistry, Interfacial Electron Transfer for Solar DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Energy Conversion: Kinetic and Mechanistic Insights. Professor Gerald Meyer. Salvatore Jude Affinito,Business Administration, Am I Myself Aliosha Celeste Barranco Lopez, Philosophy, Hinge- at Work? Engagement, Identity, and Role Transitions. Professor Commitments as Arational Beliefs. Professors Ram Neta and Michael Christian. Alex Worsnip. Megan Agajanian, Pharmacology, Kinase Regulation of WNT Yasmin V. Barrios, Epidemiology, Maternal Psychosocial Signaling. Professor Michael Major. Adversity and Pregnancy and Delivery Complications Karar Z. Ahsan, Maternal and Child Health, Equity in Maternal Associated With Perinatal Depression and Anxiety: A Health Services Use in Bangladesh: An Analysis of Social Cumulative Index Approach. Professor Joanna Maselko. Gradients, Demographic and Structural Determinants, and William Belzak, Psychology, Using Regularization to Evaluate Major Policy Changes. Professor Gustavo Angeles. Differential Item Functioning Among Multiple Covariates: A Dayuma Alban, Anthropology, The Gender of Oil: Gender Penalized Expectation-Maximization Algorithm via Coordinate Dynamics and Oil Extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Descent and Soft-Thresholding. Professor Daniel Bauer. Professor Florence Babb. Sofia Benson-Goldberg,Speech and Hearing Sciences, Katherine Isabelle Albanese, Chemistry, Measuring Quantifying Emergent Literacy Learning Opportunities Noncovalent Interactions Involved in the Recognition of Extended to Students With Intellectual and Developmental Histone Post-Translational Modifications and Engineering Disabilities and Complex Communication Needs in Special Reader Protein Scaffolds Into Improved Tools for Epigenetics Education. Professor Karen Erickson. Research. Professor Marcey Waters. Stephanie Berger, Anthropology, Exploring Pre-Columbian Karel P. Alcedo, Cell Biology and Physiology, CD73 is a Critical Health and Lifeways in the Greater Coclé Region, Panama. Regulator of Hepatocytes in Homeostasis and Disease. Professor Dale Hutchinson. Professor Natasha Snider. Marc Besson, Mathematics, Twisted Affine Schubert Varieties Jill Williamson Alty, Chemistry, Amidyl Radical-Mediated and Twisted Affine Demazure Modules. Professor Jiuzu Hong. Polyolefin C - H Functionalization. Professors Frank Leibfarth Siddhartha Biswas, Economics, Federal Student Loans, College and Erik Alexanian. Choice, and Student Welfare. Professor Donna Gilleskie. Yao An, Physics, In Situ Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Christopher Blake-Turner, Philosophy, Basing is Committing: Investigation of Molecular Adsorption and Kinetics: Metal- Essays on Reasoning, Rationality, and Logic. Professor Organic Frameworks, Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Surfaces, Ram Neta. and Shales. Professor Sean Washburn. Hunter Nicole Bomba, Pharmaceutical Sciences, A Biomaterials Lucas Argentieri Mariani, Economics, Essays on Banking. Approach to Increasing the Persistence of Induced Neural Stem Professor Anusha Chari. Cells in the Glioblastoma Tumor Resection Cavity. Professor David Attewell, Political Science, Redistribution Attitudes and Shawn Hingtgen. Socio-Structural Conflict in Postindustrial Europe. Professor Alyssa Bowen, History, Chile in Our Hearts: The Chile Solidarity Gary Marks. Movement of Spain and the Rise of (Neo)Liberal Democracy, Nora Katherine Augustine, English and Comparative 1973 – 1998. Professors Miguel La Serna and Klaus Larres. Literature, Extra/Ordinary Minds: Mad Genius Rhetoric and Francesco Bratos, Romance Languages and Literatures, Women’s Memoirs of Mental Illness. Professor Jordynn Jack. Italian Crime Fiction and the Global Penal State. Professor Aya Avishai, Psychology, Realizing the Tobacco Endgame: Serenella Iovino. Understanding and Mobilizing Support for Banning Cigarettes in the United States. Professor Paschal Sheeran. two thousand twenty-one commencement the university of north carolina at chapel hill Wyatt Haynes Bridgman, Mathematics, Nonlinear Model Thomas W. Christy, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Reduction of Stochastic Microdynamics. Professor Sorin Mitran. Shape-Jump: RNA-RNA Interactions Detected via Covalent Brendan Brown, Statistics and Operations Research, Linkage and Reverse Transcription. Professor Kevin Weeks. Convergence Questions for Reflected Diffusions Arising From Danielle Sinead Chun, Epidemiology, Methodological Interacting Particles. Professor Sayan Banerjee. Approaches for Conducting Claims-Based Studies in Patients Quinton Bruch, Chemistry, Investigations of Dinitrogen Fixation Diagnosed With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Professor via an N2 Cleavage Pathway. Professor Alexander Miller. Jennifer Lund. Maury Bruhn, Romance Languages and Literatures, Nicholas Robert Colaianni, Bioinformatics and Computational Seeing Impossible Things: Proust and the Reader’s Visual Biology, How Do Plants Accommodate Immune Surveillance Imagination. Professor Jessica Tanner. and Commensal Community Formation? Professors Jeffery Zachary Buchin, Psychology, Retrieval-Based Learning and Dangl and Corbin Jones. Element Interactivity: The Role of Prior Knowledge. Professor Michel Anthony Companion, Psychology, Assessment of Lateral Neil Mulligan. Habenula-Projecting Central Amygdala Circuits and Their Role Destiney Buelto, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Regulation in Binge-Like Ethanol Consumption. Professor Todd Thiele. of Post-Endocytic Membrane Traffic by Arf GTPase Activating Yidan Cong, Chemistry, Machine Learning Assisted Strategic Proteins and Non-Endocytic Clathrin Adaptors. Professor Synthesis of Tissue Mimetic Elastomers. Professors Sergei Mara Duncan. Sheiko and Wei You. Robin M. Buller, History, Ottoman Jews in Paris: Sephardi Michael Evan Conroy, Statistics and Operations Research, Immigrant Community, Culture, and Identity, 1918 – 1939. Rare Event Analysis for Branching Processes and Interacting Professors Karen Auerbach and Donald Reid. Particle Systems. Professors Amarjit Budhiraja and Mariana Tyler Sinclair Bunzey, English and Comparative Literature, Olvera-Cravioto. Writing in the Break: On the Textuality of Hip-Hop. Professor Premela G. Deck, Social Work, The Development and GerShun Avilez. Psychometric Testing of the Parents Divorcing Conflict Kimberly Burnett, English and Comparative Literature, “Up Measurement Tool. Professor Kim Strom. Above My Head”: Gospel Music and the Sonic Fictions of Miheer Dewaskar, Statistics and Operations Research, High- Black Womanhood in Twentieth-Century African American Dimensional Problems in Statistics and Probability: Correlation Literature. Professor Danielle Christmas. Mining and Distributed Load Balancing. Professors Andrew Jeffery Todd Burroughs, Public Policy, Bargaining Over Boots Nobel and Shankar Bhamidi. on the Ground: Civil-Military Decision-Making on Force John Nathaniel Diehl, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Allocation. Professor Patricia Sullivan. Investigation of the Kinome in Pancreatic Ductal John Shields Caldwell, Musicology, Songs From the Other Adenocarcinoma. Professor Channing Der. Side: Listening to Pakistani Voices in India. Professor Elsabe Cornelia Dixon, American Studies, Building the White Michael Figueroa. Right of Textile Work: Dan River Mills and the Development of Kevin Cannon, Biology, Assembly of Septins on Curved Schoolfield Village, 1882 – 1931. Professor Seth Kotch. Membranes: From Single Molecules to Higher-Order Matthew Dixon, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Effect of Colorectal Structures. Professor Amy Gladfelter. Cancer on Antidepressant Medication Utilization and the Juan Carvajal Garcia, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Factors Associated With Discontinuation Among Medicare Mechanism and Genetics of Polymerase Theta-Mediated End Patients. Professor Jennifer Lafata. Joining. Professors Dale Ramsden and Jeff Sekelsky. Kathy T. Do, Psychology, Neurodevelopmental Changes in Josie Caves Sivaraman, Epidemiology, The Association Parent and Peer Influence on Risky Decision Making Across Between Mental Health/Substance Use Disorders and Suicide Adolescence. Professor Eva Telzer. in the North Carolina Medicaid Population. Professor Thomas John Dombrowski, Physics, From Single to Collective: Stephen Marshall. Model Swimmers at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers. Praneeth Chakravarthula, Computer Science, Towards Everyday- Professor Daphne Klotsa. Use Augmented Reality Eyeglasses. Professor Henry Fuchs. Kathryn E. Dorney, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Receptive Youthika Chauhan, Business Administration, Essays on Social Language in IEPs of Students With Significant Cognitive Entrepreneurship in Low-/Low-Middle-Income Countries. Disabilities and Complex Communication Needs. Professor Professor Hugh O’Neill. Karen Erickson. Yuzhi Chen, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Elc Alleb Christian Estrera, Public Policy, Three Essays on Characterizing the Effects of Aerosol Sulfate, Phase State and Education Policy. Professor Steven Hemelt. Aging on Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Brian