Program: Counseling Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Robert Fox
Defense Date: June 24, 2013
Defense Time: 2 p.m.
Defense Location: Schroeder Complex,177
Dissertation Title: "Parent Attributional Style and Early Termination from Child and Parent Therapy"
Program: Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Amy Vaughan Van Hecke
Defense Date: June 25, 2013
Defense Time: 10 a.m.
Defense Location: Cramer Hall, 307A
Dissertation Title: "Parent and Family Outcomes of an Empirically Validated Social Skills Intervention for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders"
Program: Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Edgar DeYoe
Defense Date: June 26, 2013
Defense Time: 8 a.m.
Defense Location: Haggerty Engineering, 494
Dissertation Title: "Novel Paradigms for Visual Cortex Mapping with Functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging"
Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Fabien Josse
Defense Date: June 27, 2013
Defense Time: 10:30 a.m.
Defense Location: Haggerty Hall, 287
Dissertation Title: "Theoretical Analysis of Laterally Vibrating Symmetric Hammerhead Microcantilever Sensors in a Viscous Liquid Medium"
Program: Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Saunders
Defense Date: June 28, 2013
Defense Time: 10 a.m.
Defense Location: Cramer Hall, 326
Dissertation Title: "Spiritual Questioning and Its Impact on the Therapeutic Alliance: A Preliminary Study"
Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Fabien Josse
Defense Date: June 28, 2013
Defense Time: 10:30 a.m.
Defense Location: Haggerty Hall, 287
Dissertation Title: "Theoretical Analysis of Torsionally Vibrating Microcantilevers for Chemical Sensor Applications in Viscous Liquids"
Program: INPR
Advisor: Dr. Steven R. Goldzwig
Defense Date: July 1, 2013
Defense Time: 10 a.m.
Defense Location: Johnston Hall, 303
Dissertation Title: "Rhetorical Invention, Leadership, and Ethics: Dorthy Day's Extemporaneous Encounters"
Brian Slaboch
Program: Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Dr. Philip Voglewede
Defense Date: July 2, 2013
Defense Time: 9 a.m.
Defense Location: Olin Engineering, 204 A
Dissertation Title: "Profile Synthesis of RuPv Variable Joints"
Program: English
Advisor: Dr. Heather Hathaway
Defense Date: July 2, 2013
Defense Time: 1 p.m.
Defense Location: Coughlin Hall, 335
Dissertation Title: "Challenging Complicity: Rhetorics of Girlhood Trauma in Writing by Holly Goddard Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, and Jamaica Kincaid"
Program: Counseling Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Alan Burkard
Defense Date: July 8, 2013
Defense Time: 9:30 a.m.
Defense Location: Schroeder Complex, 177
Dissertation Title: "Supervisees' Experiences of Ruptures in Multicultural Supervision: A Qualitative Study"
Program: Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Downs
Defense Date: July 9, 2013
Defense Time: 1 p.m.
Defense Location: Wehr Chemistry, 100
Dissertation Title: "The Role of Amp-Activated Protein Kinase in Mouse Oocyte Maturation and Egg Activation"
Charles Felix Manful
Program: Chemistry
Advisor: Dr. William A. Donaldson
Defense Date: July 11, 2013
Defense Time: 1 p.m.
Defense Location: Wehr Chemistry, 306
Dissertation Title: "Preparation of Cyclohexenones from Acyclic (pentadienyl)iron(1+) Cations: Synthesis of Carvone Metabolites and Synthetic Studies Directed Toward Dihydrotachysterols"
