March
Jared Zeman
Program: Mechanical Engineering
Dissertation Director: Adam Dempsey
Date/Time: March 3, 2025, 3:00p.m.
Defense Location: Engineering Hall, Room 423 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Flex-Fuel Prechamber Enabled Mixing-Controlled Combustion (PC-MCC)"
Devon Lantagne
Program: Biomedical Engineering
Dissertation Director: Robert A Scheidt
Date/Time: March 17, 2025, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: Haggerty/Olin 278 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Interactions of Explicit and Implicit Memories on Sensorimotor Adaptation and After Concussion"
Sarah Calonder
Program: PhD - Nursing
Dissertation Director: Aimee Woda
Date/Time: March 19, 2025, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: “The Impact of Electronic Health Record Training: How Students Utilize the Electronic Record to Inform Clinical Judgment"
Jeff Carron
Program: Educational Policy and Leadership
Dissertation Director: Eric Dimmitt
Date/Time: March 19, 2025, 1:00p.m.
Defense Location: Schroeder Complex
Dissertation Title: "Examining Early-Career Principals' Experiences with Coaching and Self-Efficacy Development in Wisconsin Public Schools"
Dulat Bostan
Program: Chemistry
Dissertation Director: Dmitri Babikov
Date/Time: March 19, 2025, 1:00p.m.
Defense Location: Todd Wehr 121
Dissertation Title: "Quantum Effects in Collisional Energy Transfer Simulated Using Mixed Quantum/Classical Theory"
William Ewing
Program: PhD - Nursing
Dissertation Director: Lynne Knobloch-Fedders, Ph.D.
Date/Time: March 20, 2025, 8:30a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Perceptions of Reactions to Trauma Disclosure and Posttraumatic Growth"
Carolin Anna Joy
Program: Chemistry
Dissertation Director: Dmitri Babikov
Date/Time: March 20, 2025, 2:00p.m.
Defense Location: Todd Wehr Chemistry Building, Room 121
Dissertation Title: "Exploring Rotational Energy Transfer of Intermolecular Collisions in Complex Systems: a MQCT Approach"
Emily Corcoran
Program: Computational Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Dissertation Director: Sarah Hamilton
Date/Time: March 21, 2025, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: Cudahy Hall Room 414 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Exploring Electrical Impedance Tomograph Techniques for Breast Cancer Detection in Three Dimensions"
Lauren Opielinski
Program: Exercise and Rehabilitation Science
Dissertation Director: Marie Hoeger Bement
Date/Time: March 24, 2025, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: AHPRC Film Room - 216 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "The Effects of COVID-19 on Physical Activity, Physical Function, and Psychological Health"
Sarah Annalee Bennin
Program: Educational Policy and Leadership
Dissertation Director: Dr. Eric Dimmitt
Date/Time: March 26, 2025, 8:00a.m.
Defense Location: Schroeder Building Room 124A
Dissertation Title: "Lived Experience of Generation Z Teachers in Wisconsin That Remain in the Classroom Beyond Their Third Year of Teaching"
Sylvia Aquino
Program: Psychology
Dissertation Director: Stephanie Hood
Date/Time: March 26, 2025, 10:00a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Aims Towards Assessing Preferences During Conversational Arrangements"
Aldiyar Shakenov
Program: Chemistry
Dissertation Director: Chae S. Yi
Date/Time: March 27, 2025, 1:00p.m.
Defense Location: Todd Werr Chemistry Bldg, TW121
Dissertation Title: "Synthetic and Mechanistic Investigations of Ruthenium Catalyzed Coupling Reactions Via C−C and C−N Bond Activation"
Jami Zahrt
Program: Educational Policy and Leadership
Dissertation Director: Eric Dimmitt
Date/Time: March 27, 2025, 4:00p.m.
Defense Location: Schroeder Complex 124 A or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "A Comparative Analysis of In-person Versus Virtual Literacy Coaching to Support Tutor Intervention Fidelity"
Rachel McNealis
Program: Philosophy
Dissertation Director: Grant Silva
Date/Time: March 28, 2025, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "The Coloniality of Age: Temporal Dominance and the Governance of Maturity"
Timothy Houge
Program: History
Dissertation Director: Bryan Rindfleisch
Date/Time: March 28, 2025, 10:00a.m.
Defense Location: AMU 254 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: “To Control Their Own Educational Destinies”: How Indigenous-Sovereign Education Activism Ended Termination...1960-1975
Meghan Bennett
Program: Clinical Psychology
Dissertation Director: Jacklynn Fitzgerald
Date/Time: March 28, 2025, 12:00p.m.
Defense Location: CM 307LA
Dissertation Title: "The Relationship Between Trauma Exposure, Trauma Recency, and Anhedonia with Skin Conductance Responsivity to Reward"
Mary Tait
Program: Psychology
Dissertation Director: James Hoelzle, Ph.D.
Date/Time: March 28, 2025, 2:00p.m.
Defense Location: Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "A Factor Analytic Investigation of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory - Second Edition in Justice Involved Youth"
Audrey Vice
Program: Chemistry
Dissertation Director: Ofer Kedem
Date/Time: March 28, 2025, 2:00p.m.
Defense Location: TW 112 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Exploring and Engineering the Surface Microenvironment of Single-Atom Catalysts for Suzuki Cross-Coupling"
Jack Forden
Program: Computer Science
Dissertation Director: Dennis Brylow
Date/Time: March 28, 2025, 3:00p.m.
Defense Location: Cudahy Hall 210
Dissertation Title: "Systematic Software Systems for Maximizing Student Learning, Engagement, and Academic Achievement"
Ke Xu
Program: Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Dissertation Director: Daniel Rowe
Date/Time: March 31, 2025, 9:00a.m.
Defense Location: Cudahy Hall Room 414 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Image Reconstruction Method to Separate Simultaneous Encoded Slices with In-plane and Through-plane Acceleration in FMRI"
Gregory Simandl
Program: Neuroscience
Dissertation Director: SuJean Choi
Date/Time: March 31, 2025, 1:00p.m.
Defense Location: Schroeder Complex SC256 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Role for Astrocytes in Complex Cognition: An Evolutionary, Behavioral and Computational Perspective"
Shirin Nezampour
Program: Computational Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Dissertation Director: Mehdi Maadooliat
Date/Time: March 31, 2025, 1:00p.m.
Defense Location: Cudahy Hall, Room 401 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Collective estimation of spectral density functions for multivariate time series"
Paris Her
Program: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dissertation Director: Edwin Yaz
Date/Time: March 31, 2025, 2:00p.m.
Defense Location: E-Hall 154 or Microsoft Teams Link
Dissertation Title: "Towards the Advancement of Violence Recognition in Security Footage with Explainable Neural Networks"
