Listing of current doctoral dissertation defenses below and archives. Information includes candidate name, degree, department, title, committee, date of defense, and abstract

Candidate: John McMahon
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Interdisciplinary Heath Sciences
Title: Impact of Participating in a Short-Term Intervention Model of Sports Education Camps for Children with Visual Impairments
Date: Monday, April 8, 2013 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
College of Health and Human Services, Room 1284

Candidate: LaShonda R. Anthony
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research and Technology
Title: Committed Seventh-day Adventist Students at Secular Institutions of Higher Education
Date: Monday, April 15, 2013 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
4550 Sangren Hall

Candidate: Daniel Rolando Romero
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
Title: A Qualitative Study of Counselors Who Work with Spanish-speaking Clients: Implications for Counselor Training and Practice
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
4402 Sangren Hall

Candidate: Travis Gary Hayden
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Geosciences
Title: Examining Antarctica from a Geodynamic Perspective: Backstripping, Ice Thickness, Tectonics, and Erosion
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
1192 Rood Hall

Candidate: Molly Elizabeth Heyn
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
Title: The Lived Experiences of Male Saudi Arabian International College Students in the United States
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
3120 Sangren Hall

Candidate: Diana Stout
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: English
Title: Teaching Students About Plagiarism: What It Looks Like and How It Is Measured Date: Friday, April 26, 2013 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
4028 Brpwm Hall

Candidate: Lucas Broten
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: The Use of a Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Protocol to Prevent Re-Hospitalization in Depressed Inpatients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
3713 Wood Hall

Candidate: Tanya N. Douleh
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: Motivational Interviewing Assessment and Behavior Therapy as a Stepped-Care Approach to the Treatment of Adolescent Depression
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
3713 Wood Hall

Candidate: Jennifer Blackwood
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Title: An Examination of Executive Function, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Fall Risk in Community Dwelling Older Adults
Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Health and Human Services Building, Room 2024

Candidate: Kristin H. Hampel
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Chemistry
Title: Characterizing Algal Biomass Grown on Nutrient Removal Systems and Evaluating Potential Uses for the Resulting Biomass
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
1220 Chemistry Building

Candidate: Khalil Jumah Tawfiq Hamam
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Physics
Title: Organic Solar Cells Based on High Dielectric Constant Materials: An Approach to Increase Effeciency
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
2202 Everett Tower

Candidate: Steven James Sanocki
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research and Technology
Title: The Process of Becoming a Teacher Leader and How Teacher Leadership Becomes Distributed within a School: A Grounded Theory Research Study
Date: Friday, May 10, 2013 10 a.m. to noon
2401 Sangren Hall

Candidate: Renee Lee Gardner
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: English
Title: Reconceiving Self-Abnegation: Female Vulnerability as Embodied (Un)Sovereignty
Date: Friday, May 10, 2013 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
4028 Brown Hall

Candidate: Amin Duff Lotfizadeh
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: Motivating Operations in Drug Discrimination
Date: Friday, May 10, 2013 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
3715 Wood Hall

Candidate: Sudesh A. Woodiga
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Title: Global Skin Friction Diagnostics: The GLOF Technique and Measurements of Complex Separated Flows
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2013 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Parkview Campus, Room D-210

Candidate: Mohammed Alyami
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation
Title: Modification and Adaptation of The Program Evaluation Standards in Saudi Arabia
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 10 a.m. to noon
4410 Ellsworth Hall

Candidate: Heidi Beidinger-Burnett
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research and Technology
Title: Effective Leadership Behaviors: How One Principal Made Sense of and Integrated Researched-Based Behaviors into his Daily Practice
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
2401 Sangren Hall

Candidate: David Jeng
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Biological Sciences
Title: Discovery and Characterization of a Tanapox Virus Encoded Human Neuregulin Mimetic
Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
1710 Wood Hall

Candidate: Elizabeth Wheat
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Political Science
Title: Judicial Behavior and Litigant Success in Environmental Cases at the United States Court of Appeals
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
3309 Friedmann Hall

Candidate: Stephanie Theresia Stilling
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: Title Sharing: Social Behavior in Situations of Risk
Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
3713 Wood Hall

Candidate: Robin K. Buchler
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research and Technology
Title: Anxiety-Reducing Strategies in the Classroom
Date: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
2401 Sangren Hall

Candidate: Julienne D. Houck
Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Mathematics
Title: A Pattern in the Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category of Rational Spaces
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2013 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
6625 Everett Tower

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