Upcoming Announcements
This list of scheduled Ph.D. dissertation defenses is posted so that faculty and others may attend the defense. If you wish to attend, please contact the committee chair in advance as a courtesy.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Liberal Arts
Economics
Golnoush Kazeminezhad
Count-regression-based empirical casual analysis from a potential outcomes perspective: Accounting for boundedness, discreteness, dispersion and unobservable counfounding
Virtual
Chair: Joseph Vincent Terza, Ph.D., 317-274-4747
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 12:00 p.m.
IU School of Medicine
Medical Neuroscience
Ting Wang
Modulation of intraocular pressure by tuning transcriptional control of lipid synthesis
Goodman Hall Auditorium
Chair: Nuria Morral, Ph.D., 317-278-9039
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 10:30 a.m.
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing & Engineering
Informatics
Pradeep Varathan Pugalenthi
Multi-omics investigation into Alzheimer's disease: Functional mechanism and early detection
IT 497
Co-chair: Jingwen Yan, Ph.D., 765-337-3715; Co-chair: Sarath Chandra Janga, Ph.D., 317-278-4147
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 11:00 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Pharmacology
Aishat Abiola Motolani
Dissecting the role of novel O-Glcnacylation of NF-kB in pancreatic cancer
Walther Hall (R3) 203
Chair: Tao Lu, Ph.D., 317-278-0520
Friday, April 26, 2024, 4:00 p.m.
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing & Engineering
Health & Rehabilitation Science
Bing He
Integrating imaging and genetics data for improved understanding and detection of Alzheimer's disease
IT 407
Chair: Sarath Chandra Janga, Ph.D., 317-278-4147
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Education
Urban Education Studies
Kathryn Noel Rusnak
From compliance to empowerment: Mediating teaching activity in data team meetings through cultural historical activity theory and collaborative inquiry in the context of neoliberal education reform
ES 2117
Chair: Kathleen King Rhorius, 317-278-3493
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
IU School of Nursing
Nursing Science
Caeli Louise Malloy
Symptom clusters and self-management in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease
NU 135
Co-chair: Wendy Trueblood Miller, Ph.D., 812-797-4646; Co-chair: Susan Rawl, Ph.D., 317-698-1943
Friday, May 3, 2024, 9:00 a.m.
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing & Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
Travis Faas
A model of project continuation in game jams and hackathons
IT 357
Co-chair: Andrew Miller, Ph.D., 317-278-7674; Co-chair: Lynn Dombrowski, Ph.D., 317-278-7673
Monday, May 6, 2024, 1:00 p.m.
IU School of Philanthropy
Philanthropic Studies
Jin Ai
Intellectual structure and dynamics of novelty within philanthropic and nonprofit studies: A computational and structural analysis
3011 University Hall
Co-chair: Katherine Badertscher, Ph.D., 317-278-8950; Co-chair: Chao Guo, Ph.D., 215-898-5532
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Medical & Molecular Genetics
Gabriel Maldonado-Velez
Studying the effect of TBX4 loss-of-function on postnatal lung development and how it predisposes to pulmonary hypertension
EH 304
Chair: Micheala A. Aldred, Ph.D., 317-278-7716
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 12:00 p.m.
IU School of Medicine
Medical Neuroscience
Yuexi Yin
Converging effects of chronic pain and binge alcohol consumption on corticostriatal neurons and the effects of acute alcohol exposure on the medical prefrontal cortex
Goodman Hall, Auditorium
Chair: Brady K. Atwood, Ph.D., 206-290-1649
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
IU School of Medicine
Medical & Molecular Genetics
Jeffrey Peter Solzak
Harnessing compensatory pathways and acquired resistance in treating triple negative breast cancer
EH 304
Chair: Xiongbin Lu, Ph.D., 317-274-4398
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
IU School of Medicine
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Sukrati Kanojia
Investigating the impact of SND1 and CHD3 as PDX1 interacting partners on B cell function
Walther Hall-Lecture Hall Auditorium R3 C203
Co-chair: Jason Spaeth, Ph.D., 317-274-8986; Co-chair: Carmella Evans Molina, Ph.D., 317-278-3177