Ph.D Thesis Defenses

April 5

Maya Anaokar (Mass Communications), "How Journalists Learn about Mass Media Law," C. Dyer, chair; 10am, W322 SSH

David McKay (History), "The Philosophical Politician: Ancients and Moderns in the Early Republic," K. Cmiel, chair; 2:30pm, 273 SH

April 8

Pamela Coke (Education), "Preaching What You Practice: Articulating the Transition from Sixth to Seventh Grade," B. Sunstein, chair; 10am, N293 LC

April 9

Matthew Bognar (Statistics), "Bayesian Estimation of a Potential Function in a Pairwise Interacting Point Process," M. Cowles, chair; 9:30am, 177 SH

Ann Paulk (Art History), "Thomas Eakins and Antiheroic Modernism," J. Kinsey, chair; 9:30am, E101 AB

Miao-Ju Hsu (Physical Rehabilitation Science), "Efficacy of Energy Storing-Releasing Prosthetic Feet in Individuals with Transtibial Amputation during Ambulation: Physiological, Functional, and Temporal/Distance Assessments," D. Nielsen, chair; 1:30pm, 2610 SB

April 10

Bettina Fabos (Education), "A Commercial Highway in Every Classroom: Investigating Web Content in Schools," C. Lewis, chair; 12:30pm, N262 LC

April 11

Imad Benjelloun (Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences), "Multistage Optimization Using Analytical Hierarchy Process Evaluation and Confidence Intervals," D. Bricker, chair; 11:30am, 424 NH

Samuel Huskey (Classics), "Ovid's Tristia I & III: An Intertextual Katabasis," H. Dettmer, chair; 3pm, 203 SH

April 12

Mary Holland (Health, Leisure, and Sport Studies), "Making Muscles: Representations of Women's Muscles in the 1970s," S. Birrell, chair; 3pm, E101A FH

April 15

Joseph Collins (Education), "A True Experiment Comparing Learning Outcomes of a Two-way Interactive Telecourse and a Traditional Face-to-Face Course," E. Pascarella, chair; 10am, N434 LC

Emily Lee (Anthropology), "A Story of Strategies: Nego- tiating State and Society in Chengdu, China," M. Wolf, chair; 11am, 119 MH

David Ludden, Jr. (Psychology), "What Is Learned in the Artificial Grammar Learning Task? Theoretical and Empirical Investigations," P. Gupta, chair; noon, E17 SSH

April 16

Eric Kelley (Free Radical and Radiation Biology), "Endogenous Nitric Oxide Production Sensitizes Human Breast Cancer Cells to Photodynamic Action," G. Buettner, chair; 8am, B180 ML

Paul Custer (History), "Letters Never Sent: Gender and Labor in the English Cotton Industry, 1770-1830," J. Cox and D. McCloskey, co-chairs; 9am, 273 SH

Hangsuck Lee (Statistics), "Pricing Exotic Options with Application to Equity-indexed Annuities," E. Shiu, chair; 2:30pm, 177 SH

Velana Huntington (Anthropology), "Bodies in Contexts: Holistic Ideals of Health, Healing, and Wellness in an American Orisha Community," M. Wolf, chair; 3pm, 119 MH

April 17

Angela Hess (Anatomy and Cell Biology), "Molecular Dissection of Melanoma Tumor Cell Vasculogenic Mimicry," M. Hendrix, chair; 2pm, 1-561 BSB

Theresa Walton (Health, Leisure, and Sport Studies), "Wrestling with Gender?: Media Representations of Girls' and Women's Amateur Wrestling in the U.S.," S. Birrell, chair; 3pm, 322 FH

April 18

Sarath Guttikunda (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering), "Impact Assessment of Asian Megacity Emissions on Global, Regional, and Urban Air Quality," G. Carmichael, chair; 3pm, 104 IATL

Rebecca Johnson (Anthropology), "Change in Woodland Diet and Vessel Form at the Gast Farm Site in Southeast Iowa," M. Whelan and W. Green, co-chairs; 3pm, 119 MH

Arcea Zapata de Aston (Spanish), "Fuerza erótica y liberación: Un Nuevo sujeto femenino en la poesía de Delmira Agustini, Juana de Ibarbourou y Alfonsina Storni," O. Hahn, chair; 4pm, 529 PH

April 19

Ellen Fairchild (Education), "Home Schooling and Public Education in Iowa: The Views of Rural Superintendents," D. Bills, chair; 8am, N434 LC

HyungJoo Kim (Mechanical Engineering), "Multi-scale Computational Homogenization of Composites with Voxel-based Meshing and Element Splitting Techniques," C. Swan, chair; 10am, 2130 SC

Michael Dunne (Anthropology), "Change and Continuity in Prehistoric Foodways: A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of the Middle to Late Woodland Transition at the Gast Farm Site (13LA12) in Southeast Iowa," M. Whelan, chair; 2pm, 119 MH

April 22

Thor Aspelund (Statistics), "Non-linear Association-marginal Models for Multivariate Ordinal Rating Data with Application to Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis," J. Lang, chair; 8am, 60 SH

Katherine Lemos (Psychology), "Statistics in Context: The Influence of Comparison Information on Naïve Risk Perceptions," R. S. Baron, chair; 9am, E17 SSH

Sok Bae Lee (Economics), "Essays on Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods in Econometrics," J. Horowitz, chair; 1:30pm, W364 PBB

Maria Viola (Mathematics), "Non Outer-conjugate Z9-actions on a Free Group Factor," F. Radulescu, chair; 1:30pm, 217 MLH

April 23

Rudyard Alcocer (Comparative Literature), "Beyond Hybridity: Discourses of Heredity in Caribbean Narrative," A. Méndez, chair; 11am, 331 EPB

Christina Beardsley (Biomedical Engineering), "Development of Quantitative Measures for Bone Comminution Severity," T. Brown, chair; 11am, 2174A WL

Eduardo Guizar-Alvarez (Spanish), "Literatura posnacional en México: Parodia, rescritura, reinvención," A. Méndez, chair; 8:30am, 529 PH

James Horn (Biochemistry), "Thermodynamic Contributions to Protein-Protein Binding," K. Murphy, chair; 12:30pm, Aud. 2, BSB

Andrea Kann (Art History), "Picturing the World: The Illustrated Manuscripts of 'The Book of John Mandeville,' " R. Bork, chair; 1pm, E101 AB

Risto Rautiainen (Occupational and Environmental Health), "Injuries and Occupational Diseases in Agriculture in Finland: Cost, Length of Disability, and Preventive Effect of a No-claims Bonus," C. Zwerling, chair; 1pm, 123 IREH

Yu Huang (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "Optimization Techniques for the Next Generation of VLSI Test," S. Reddy, chair; 4pm, 4511 SC

April 24

Ginger Dickson (Education), "Contributions of the Cultural Ambience and Instructional Strategies to Student Multi- cultural Competence and Attitudes toward Diversity and Multiculturalism," D. Jepsen and A. H. Skinstad, co-chairs; 1pm, N340 LC

Christopher Eddy (Chemistry), "I. Near Infrared Measures of Urea and Glucose in Hemodialysis Solutions and in Whole Bovine Blood. II. Optical Carbon Monoxide Sensor," M. Arnold, chair; 1pm, 323A CB

Jon Rubach (Biochemistry), "Dynamics of Catalysis by Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase," B. Plapp, chair; 1pm, Aud. 1, BSB

Jennifer Joslin (Health, Leisure, and Sport Studies), "Putting It in Play: Girljock and the Politics of Outrageousness," S. Birrell, chair; 2pm, 322 FH

April 25

Gregg Shoultz (Education), "A Comparison of the Relevant Factors Associated with Variance in Teacher Salaries in Iowa," G. Chambers, chair; 9:30am, N201 LC

Julie Gonzalez (Education), "Artificial Neural Networks: A Comparison of Three Modeling Approaches to Study College Application Behavior," L. Bartlett and S. DesJardins, co-chairs; 2pm, N434 LC

Yun Shao (Electrical and Computer Engineering), "Efficient and High Quality Delay Testing for Combinational and Scan Circuits," S. Reddy, chair; 3pm, 4511 SC

William Whittaker (Anthropology), "Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Roman Frontier Economy in the Eastern Netherlands," J. Enloe and G. Storey, co-chairs; 4:30pm, 119 MH

April 26

Joseph Krieg (Geoscience), "Chronology and Paleoclimatic Significance of Eolian Sand within the Green River Lowland, Northwestern Illinois, U.S.A.," E. Bettis, chair; 11:30pm, Callen Room, 205D GILH

Aida Audeh (Art History), "Rodin's Gates of Hell and Dante's Divine Comedy: An Iconographic Study," D. Johnson, chair; 1pm, E101 AB

Jianjun Xu (Chemistry), "Kinetic Separation Methodology for the Stereospecific Preparation of Functionalized Mono- fluorinated Vinyl Derivatives," D. Burton, chair; 1pm, 323A CB

Leda Kanellakos (Sociology), "Formal Vocabulary as a Status Cue: Interactions with Diffuse Status Characteristics," M. Lovaglia, chair; 1:30pm, W113 SSH

Amy Hendrickson (Education), "Scaling of Two-stage Adaptive Test Configurations for Achievement Testing," M. Kolen, chair; 2pm, 340B LC

Louis Beaugris (Mathematics), "Some Results Related to the Generators of Cyclic Codes over Zm," R. Oehmke, chair; 3:30pm, 40 SH

April 30

Wannee Tapaneeyakorn (Nursing), "Nurse Administrators' Perceptions of Quality Indicators of Nursing Care in Thailand," J. Dochterman, chair; 10am, 133 NB

Fusheng Tang (Biochemistry), "Analysis of the Roles of Myosin V, VAC17, and VAC8 in Vacuole Movement," L. Weisman, chair; 12:30pm, Aud. 2, BSB

Scott Vandervelde (Business Administration), "The Effects of Profitability Pressure and the Seriousness of Interim Evidence Findings on Audit Planning Decisions of Different Financial Statement Accounts," A. Schepanski and R. Tubbs, co- chairs; 2pm, W252 PBB

Rubén Uribe (Geoscience), "Petrography and Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Upper Cretaceous Carbonate Concretions and Veins in the Cariblanco Formation of South-central Puerto Rico," L. González, chair; 2:30pm, 227 TH

May 1

Christian Shorey (Geoscience), "High Resolution Temporal Climatic Records Preserved in Speleothem Deposits: A Case Study of the American Midwest and Southeast Asia," L. González, chair; 1pm, 227 TH

May 2

Tammie Cumming (Education), "Reliability Estimation in Complex Simulation Environments," S. Dunbar, chair; 1pm, 340B LC

Kedron Bardwell (Political Science), "Money in Gubernatorial Elections: Campaign Finance Lessons from the States," P. Squire, chair; 1:30pm, 337 SH

Bhairavavajjula Nageswararao (Civil and Environmental Engineering), "Stochastic Meshless Methods for Deformation and Fracture in Materials and Structures," S. Rahman, chair; 3pm, 3210 SC

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