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, August 18, 2026, 1:00 p.m.
IU School of Medicine
Medical Neuroscience
Enrique Chimal Juarez
Microenvironmental heterogeneity and tau as a therapeutic alternative in Alzheimer’s disease with cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Virtual
Chair: Adrian Oblak, Ph.D., 724-787-2015
Friday, August 21, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
IU School of Medicine
Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology
Pontian Erhagbe Adogamhe
Investigating the role Of endothelial cell NAMPT in the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension
R3 C2303
Chair: David Basile, Ph.D., 317-278-1565
Friday, August 21, 2026, 1:00 p.m.
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
Thomas Michael Starks
Exploring conversation-enabled wearables to support heart disease patient symptom tracking
IT 407
Chair: Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Ph.D., 317-278-7686
Friday, August 28, 2026, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Nursing
Nursing Science
Rileigh M Fagan
Exploring the symptom and disease experience in adolescents with conservatively managed chronic kidney disease stages I-V
Virtual
Chair: Janet S. Carpenter, Ph.D., 317-278-6065
Monday, August 31, 2026, 2:15 p.m.
IU School of Liberal Arts
Economics Ph.D.
Apurva Bendre
Unintended consequences of substance-use policies in the United States
Zoom
Chair: Sumedha Gupta, (317) 278-7218
Friday, September 18, 2026, 10:00 a.m.
IU School of Nursing
Nursing Science
Danielle N. Short
Systemic lupus erythematosus self-management: A qualitative descriptive study
Virtual
Chair: Wendy R. Miller, Ph.D., 812-797-4646