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Doctor of Philosophy (continued) Surat Terapathana, Civil Engineering, B.S., Virginia Military Institute; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: An Energy Method for Earthquake Resistant Design of RC Structures
Benjamin Uchiyama, History, B.A., University of California, Davis; M.A., Harvard University Dissertation: Carnival War: A Cultural History of Wartime Japan, 1937-1945
Garrett E.B. Thompson, Cinematic Arts, B.A., Susquehanna University; MFA, University of Southern California Dissertation: Waging “War” Against Black Intellectualism: Fighting for and Dying Over Knowledge, Dope and Hip Hop Culture in Black Liberation
Jeffrey Craig Vaglio, Architecture, B.S., University of Kansas; M.Arch, G.Cert., University of Southern California Dissertation: Aerophysics of Double-skin Facades: Cavity Dynamics and Structural Response of Multi-story Doubleskin Facades
Gerardo Antonio Toro Farmer, Ocean Sciences, B.S., Universidad de Valle, Spain Dissertation: Spatial Distribution of the Optical Properties, Suspended Materials, and the Particulate Organic Carbon as a Tool for Validating Remote Sensing Images in Shallow Areas
Joanna Dawn Valentine, Classics, B.A., Evergreen State College Dissertation: The Archaeology of Parmenides: Philosophy and Material Culture in Fifth-century Campania
Joshua David Train, Computer Engineering, B.S., Biola University; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Routing Fountains: Leveraging Broadcast Channels to Improve the Dissemination of Control Information for Large Inter-domain Networks Stephen Charles Tratz, Computer Science, B.S., B.S., University of Idaho; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Semantically-enriched Parsing for Natural Language Understanding En-Shuo Tsau, Electrical Engineering, B.S., National Taiwan University; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Robust Features for Audio and Vibration Signal Processing Shao Hung Fred Tsen, Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology, B.S., University of California Los Angeles Dissertation: Extracellular Hsp90α Promotes Human Dermal Fibroblast Migration and Skin Wound Healing via the Distal NPTY Motif within LRP-1 Receptor and Three Downstream Akt Kinases: Direct Evidence for a Cross-Membrane Signal Transduction Mechanism
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Antonella Vecchiato, Linguistics, M.A., University of Southern California; LAUREA, University of Venice, Italy Dissertation: Events in the Grammar of Direct and Indirect Causation Gretel Haydee Vera Rosas, American Studies and Ethnicity, B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: The Breaking and Remaking of Everyday Life: Illegality, Maternity and Displacement in the Americas Bjarni Johann Vilhjalmsson, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, B.S., University of Copenhagen, Denmark Dissertation: Mapping Complex Traits in Structured Populations Luisa Villani, Literature and Creative Writing, B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.A., University of Pittsburgh Dissertation: The Intimate Estrangement of Poetry, Drama and Opera Eduardo Villanueva Chigne, Philosophy, B.A., Pontific Catholic University of Peru; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Dissertation: Constraining Assertion: An Account of Context-sensitivity
Jack Tseng, Integrative and Evolutionary Biology, B.A., University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: Convergent Morphological Evolution in Hyenas and Dogs: The Relationship Between Form and Function
Leonora Kathleen Wagner, Music, B.S., Biola University; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: The Collaboration of Choir and Congregation in Performing the Music of Michael Praetorius
Po-He Tseng, Computer Science, B.S., National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Eye-trace Signatures of Clinical Populations Under Natural Viewing
Adrienne Ellen Walser, English, B.A., University of Arizona; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Modernism’s Poetics of Dislocation
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Hao Wang, Psychology, B.E., Xiangtan University, China Dissertation: Acquisition of Functional Categories