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Schedule of Doctoral Defenses

Friday, April 12, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Brian Laslie, History. 8 a.m., 201, Eisenhower Hall. Title of Dissertation: Red Flag: How the Rise of "Realistic Training" After Vietnam Changed the Air Force's Way of War 1975-1999. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Sara Kearns, Counseling and Student Development. 8:30 a.m., 106, Bluemont Hall. Title of Dissertation: First-Year College Students' Perceptions of Their Experiences Using Information and Communication Technologies in Higher Education. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: John Selman, Adult, Occupational, and Continuing Education. 10:30 a.m., 368, Bluemont Hall. Title of Dissertation: Barriers to Participation in Religious Adult Education: An Exploratory Study. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Ury Cohn, Sociology. 11:30 a.m., 201A, Waters Hall. Title of Dissertation: Scare Tactics: How Restrictions Frame the Immigration Debate. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Ali Sydney, Electrical Engineering. 1 p.m., 2064, Rathbone Hall. Title of Dissertation: The Evaluation of Software Defined Networking for Communication and Control of Cyber Physical Systems. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Joy Martin, Curriculum and Instruction. 2 p.m., 257, Bluemont Hall. Title of Dissertation: Exploring Secondary Writing Teachers' Metacognition: An Avenue to Professional Development. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Raymond Freeby, Adult, Occupational, and Continuing Education. 11 a.m., 341, Bluemont Hall. Title of Dissertation: A Phenomenological Observation of Two Theatrical Learning Environments. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: William Hill, Psychology. 11 a.m., 498, Bluemont Hall. Title of Dissertation: A Comparison of Ecological and Evolutionary Models of Decisions Under Risk. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Dawn Refsell, Agronomy. 1 p.m., 2002, Throckmorton Hall. Title of Dissertation: Integrated Weed Management in Kansas Winter Wheat. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Siddharth Deshmukh, Electrical Engineering. 9 a.m., 2064, Rathbone Hall. Title of Dissertation: Estimation and Control Over a Network in a Spatially Distributed Cyber Physical Systems. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Katie Costigan, Geography. 9:30 a.m., 164H, Seaton Hall. Title of Dissertation: Hydrology and Geomorphology of Great Plains Rivers. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Melissa Briggs, Counseling and Student Development. 2 p.m., 368, Bluemont Hall. Title of Dissertation: A Phenomenal Study of Adolescent Girls that Self Injure Involved in Phototherapy Group Work. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Adriatik Likcani, Human Ecology - Marriage and Family Therapy. 1 p.m., 214, Campus Creek Complex. Title of Dissertation: Differentiation and Intimate Partner Violence. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Liyan Chen, Grain Science. 3 p.m., 201, Shellenberger Hall. Title of Dissertation: Detoxification and Nutritional Enhancement of Soy Meal via Microbial Bioprocessing. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Andrew Cousino, Mathematics. 3:30 p.m., 1012, Throckmorton Hall. Title of Dissertation: Using Bayesian Learning to Classify College Algebra Students by Understanding in Real Time. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Nicholas Roseveare, Electrical Engineering. 11:30 a.m., 2116, Fiedler Hall. Title of Dissertation: Optimization and Resource Management in Wireless Sensor Networks. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Lianqing Zheng, Statistics. 12:30 p.m., 213, Thompson Hall. Title of Dissertation: Statistical Identification of Metabolic Reactions Catalyzed by Gene Products of Unknown Function. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Samuel Demel, Statistics. 11 a.m., 209, King Hall. Title of Dissertation: Modeling and Computations of Multivariate Datasets in Space and Time. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Priscilla Mfombep, Agronomy. 1 p.m., 2002, Throckmorton Hall. Title of Dissertation: Soil Carbon Sequestration: Factors Influencing Mechanism, Allocation and Vulnerability. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Doctoral Defense: Adryanna Siqueira, Human Ecology - Marriage and Family Therapy. 1 p.m., 214, Campus Creek Complex. Title of Dissertation: Examining the Relevance of Parent-Adolescent Relationships in the Romantic Relationship Quality of Young Adults. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Miguel Arango, Agronomy. 1 p.m., 2002, Throckmorton Hall. Title of Dissertation: Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agro-Ecosystems: Measurements in Corn Production Systems and Simulations at Field and Regional Scale in Kansas. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Habib Diop, Agronomy. 10 a.m., 2002, Throckmorton Hall. Title of Dissertation: Biofuel Feedstocks: Implications for Sustainability and Ecosystem Services. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Doctoral Defense: Qi Zhang, Industrial Engineering. 2 p.m., 2036, Durland Hall. Title of Dissertation: Investigations on Power Consumption, Pelleting Temperature, Pellet Quality, and Sugar Yield in Pelleting of Cellulosic Biomass. Part of the Schedule for Defense of Doctoral Dissertations.