Ph.D. Thesis Defense

July 12

Caroline G. Gibson (Music), "An Investigation into Benjamin Britten's Church Parable: The Burning Fiery Furnace," S. McCoy, Chair; 10am, Rare Book Room, Music Library, MB

Monty G. Marshall (Political Science), "Third World War: Protracted Conflict, Diffusion of Insecurity, Arrested Development, and State Failure," W. Reisinger and T. Gurr, Co-Chair; 1:30pm, W322 SSH

Shailesh Sood (Business Administration), "Effect of Product Sampling by Established Brands," D. Weiss, Chair; 1:30pm, W401 PBAB

William R. Gamble (Chemistry), "Antifungal Natural Products from Coprophilous and Mycoparasitic Fungi," J. Gloer, Chair; 2pm, 323A CB

Wen-Fang Wang (Philosophy), "Non-Actualism," P. Butchvarov, Chair; 2:30pm, 218 EPB

15

Mei-Qi Jiang (Speech Pathology and Audiology), "The Role of Attention Mechanisms in Smooth Pursuit Performance in Normal and Schizophrenic Subjects," R. Hurtig, Chair; 9am, 233 SHC

Robert D. Dittmar (Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences), "Dynamic Economies with Non-convexities," D. Corbae, Chair; 10:30am, W207 PBAB

Doyle Kim (Business Administration), "Interaction of Advertising Exposures, Lagged Choice, and Price Sensitivity in the Multidimensional Discrete Choices," D. Weiss and J. Horowitz, Co-Chair; 10:30am, W401 PBAB

16

Euichaul Oh (Pharmacy), "Characterization of the Zinc Oxide Surface: Changes in Surface Area upon High Temperature Drying and Competitive Adsorption of Various Adsorbates," D. Wurster, Chair; 2pm, S538 PHAR

17

Shalini Narayana (Radiation Biology), "Construction of a Flow Based Phantom and Its Application in Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Using [150]Water," R. Hichwa, Chair; 9am, 0911Z JPP

Janet L. Vigna (Microbiology), "Assembly of the Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Molecule; Characterization of Class I Association with Invariant Chain," R. Lynch, Chair; 10am, 3-560 BSB

18

Alice E. Smith (Speech Pathology and Audiology), "Velopharyngeal/Laryngeal Temporal Coordination: The Influence of Vowel, Consonant, and Rate Contexts," J. Moon and J. Folkins, Co-Chair; 9am, 308 SHC

23

Julie A. Stierwalt (Speech Pathology and Audiology), "Communicative Abilities Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: Predictors of Change," D. Robin, Chair; 1pm, 308 SHC

30

Weizu Chen (Biochemistry), "Inhibition of Promoter Activity of the Malic Enzyme Gene by cAMP in Chicken Embryo Hepatocytes in Culture," R. Deschenes, Chair; 12:30pm, Aud. 2, BSB

Aug 23

Dawn Schweizer (Spanish), "Ibsen and Buero Vallejo: A Comparison of Their Tragic Presentation of Life," W. Dobrian, Chair; 1pm, 114 PH

26

Heather M. Clark (Speech Pathology and Audiology), "Generalized Motor Program and Parameterization Accuracy in Apraxia of Speech and Conduction Aphasia," D. Robin, Chair; 12noon, 204 SHC