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G. Brint Ryan College of Business Marilyn Wiley, Dean Doctor of Philosophy Business

Yi He Major Professors: Austin Hill-Kleespie and Takeshi Nishikawa Dissertation: Value Matters, Particularly if Controlling for the Autocorrelation of Stock Returns

MD Enayet Hossain § Major Professor: Takeshi Nishikawa Dissertation: Title unavailable at print time Solomon Mwaura Ndungu § Major Professor: Jianren Xu Dissertation: Title unavailable at print time

College of Science John Quintanilla, Dean Department of Biological Sciences Doctor of Philosophy Biology Wenasa Frifer Major Professor: Warren Burggren Dissertation: Crude Oil and Temperature Effects on Behavior, Regeneration, and Oxygen Consumption in the Planarians schmidtea Mediterranea and Girardia dorotocephala Derek D. W. Nelson Major Professor: Dane Crossley Dissertation: Cardiovascular Responses to Crude Oil and Hypoxia in Pelagic and Coastal Teleosts: A Study of Hemodynamic Mechanisms Jyotheeswaran Panapakam Major Professors: Arthur Goven and Pudur Jagadeeswaran Dissertation: Natural Product Screens for AntiThrombotic Activity Using Zebrafish as a Model Organism Vaibhavi Srinivasan Major Professor: Aaron Roberts Dissertation: Effects of Methylmercury Exposure on Behaviors in Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas)

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Amira Sultan Rasoul Major Professor: Ana Paula Alonso Dissertation: Characterization of Fatty Acid Elongation1 (FAE1) in Thlaspi arvense Payton Sawyer Whitehead Major Professor: Kent Chapman Dissertation: Specialized Lipid Droplet Associated Proteins are Required for the Selective Packaging of Various Lipid Classes into Lipid Droplets

Department of Chemistry

Department of Mathematics

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

Chemistry

Mathematics

Abdullah Mohammed Mustafa Abu Anzeh Major Professor: Xin Cui Dissertation: Selective Sequential Coupling and 1,4-Hydrofunctionalization of Allenes: A General Method for Multi-Substituted Conjugated Dienes

Nathan Alexander Dalaklis Major Professor: Mariusz Urbanski Dissertation: Multifractal Analysis of Birkhoff Averages for Conformal Graph Directed Markov Systems

Kabirat Yetunde Balogun Major Professor: Jeffry Kelber Dissertation: Investigation of the Mechanism of Nitrogen Reduction Reaction at the Interface of Vanadium Oxide Catalyst

Justin Dean Swain Major Professor: Giordano Tierra Chica Dissertation: On Accurate and Efficient Numerical Schemes for Energy Based Systems with Applications to Liquid Crystals and Mixtures of Fluids

Seyed Alireza Hajiseyed Javadi Major Professor: Thomas Cundari Dissertation: Computational Investigation of Transition Metal Porphyrins Porphyrins as Electrocatalysts for Nitrogen and Nitrate Reduction Reaction Ting Han Major Professor: Hong Wang Dissertation: Design and Synthesis of BetaFunctionalized Porphyrins and Advanced Porous Materials Ashlee Juel Major Professor: Guido Verbeck Dissertation: Portable Mass Spectrometry for the Trace Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds in Environmental and Biological Applications Barret Z. Nabona Major Professor: Legrande Slaughter Dissertation: Computational and Experimental Studies on the Reactivity of Acyclic Diamino Carbenes and Investigations of Novel Acyclic Carbene Ligands

Department of Physics Doctor of Philosophy Physics Todd Byers Major Professor: Gary Glass Dissertation: Upgrade and Testing of a Scanning Light Ion Microprobe for Investigation of Astrocytes and Development of a System for Light Elemental Analysis Trever Ray Harborth Major Professor: Yuri Rostovtsev Dissertation: Coherence in Matter and Radiation \\ Matter and Field Interactions Ibikunle Abimbola Ojo Major Professor: Jose Perez Dissertation: Hydrogenation and Modification of Graphene using Electron Irradiation in the Range of 20-25 KeV

Karen Abigail Reyes Major Professors: Teresa Golden and Guido Verbeck Dissertation: The Analysis of Synthetic Opioids Belonging to the Fentanyl Class

College of Visual Arts and Design Karen Hutzel, Dean Art Education Doctor of Philosophy Art Education Chanjuan Chen § Major Professor: Tyson Lewis Dissertation: Title unavailable at print time

Asli Kinsizer Major Professor: Manisha Sharma Dissertation: Deconstructing an Orientalist Fantasy of the Harem, Hammam, and Odalisque Through a Feminist Intersectional Postcolonial Lens

Li Xu § Major Professor: Tyson Lewis Dissertation: Title unavailable at print time

Stefan David Robinson Major Professor: Laura Evans Dissertation: When Art Speaks: A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Transformational Potential within the Aesthetic Experience

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§ - Summer 2025 Graduate


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