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.
Friday, August 23, 2019, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Informatics and Computing
Informatics
Xing Yu
Using Social Media Websites to Support Scenario-based Design of Assistive Technology
IT 497
Chair: Erin Brady, Ph.D., 317-278-7672
Monday, August 26, 2019, 9:00 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Biochemical and Molecular Biology
Julie Ann Mund
A Synthetic Lethal shRNA Screen and Genetic Proof of Concept Identifies Rac1 as a Novel Target to Disrupt Plexiform Neurofibroma FormationMbr/> R3 C203
Chair: D. Wade Clapp, Ph.D., 317-944-7810
Thursday, August 27, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
IUPUI School of Science
Applied Earth Science
Melanie Marie Perello
Reconstructing Holocene Indian Summer Monsoon Variability Using High Resolution Sediments from the Southeastern Tibet
Room TBD
Chair: Broxton Bird, Ph.D., 317-274-7468
Friday, September 13, 2019, 12:00 p.m.
IU School of Medicine
Anatomy and Cell Biology
Whitney A Bullock
The Role of Wnt Signaling in Bone Mechanotransduction
R4 101
Chair: Alexander Robling, Ph.D., 317-274-7489
Monday, September 16, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
IU School of Education
Urban Education Studies
Cassandra Marie Shipp
An Exploratory Study Comparing Low Income Black Dominant Urban High School to Low Income White Dominant Urban High School in Terms of School Quality
ES 3138E
Chair: Jim Scheurich, Ph.D., 317-278-0009
Thursday, September 19, 2019, 2:00 p.m.
IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Biostatistics
Philani Brian Mpofu
Statistical Methods for Dealing with Outcome Misclassification in Studies with Competing Risks Survival Outcomes
HITS 1110
Co-chairs: Constantin Yiannoutsos, Ph.D., 317-278-3045; Giorgos Bakoyannis, Ph.D., 317-278-5457
Thursday, October 3, 2019, 9:00 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Pharmacology
Robert Craig Peery
Optimization of Surviving Dimerization Inhibitors for the Treatment of Docetaxel Resistant Prostate Cancer
R3 203
Co-chairs: Travis Jerde, Ph.D., 317-274-1534; Jian-Ting Zhang, Ph.D., 317-418-6868
Friday, November 1, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
IU School of Liberal Arts
Economics
Wondimu S Manalew
A Switching Regressions Framework for Models with Count-Valued Omni-Dispersed Outcomes: Specification, Estimation and Causal Inference
CA 537
Chair: Joseph Terza, Ph.D., 317-274-4747