Thursday, September 10, 2026, 2:15 p.m.
Division: College of Arts and Sciences
Program: Spanish
Name: Anna Lurito
Title: The Perception of Prosodic Focus in Madrid and Mexico City Spanish
Location: Remote defense; contact chair for details
Chair: Professor Erik Willis
Contact: 812-855-8494
Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 1:00 p.m.
Division: College of Arts and Sciences
Program: Chemistry
Name: Nicholle Chew
Title: Towards Redox-Switchable Catalysis: Development of a Ferrocene-Based N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand and Its exploration in catalysis
Location: Chemistry Building, Room C033
Chair: Professor Thomas Snaddon / Professor Jeremy Smith
Contact: 812-856-1887 / 812-856-4119
Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 3:00 p.m.
Division: College of Arts and Sciences
Program: Biochemistry
Name: Minyong Kim
Title: Substrate selectivity and RPA-mediated regulation of Topoisomerase3-Rmi1
Location: Simon Hall 001
Chair: Professor Hengyao Niu
Contact: 812-855-8780
Friday, September 25, 2026, 11:30 a.m.
Division: College of Arts and Sciences
Program: Biochemistry
Name: Gayani Ranasinghe
Title: Impact of Multipass Translocon proteins on Alphavirus Structural Protein Biogenesis and Translational Recoding
Location: Simon Hall 001
Chair: Professor Suchetana Mukhopadhyay
Contact: 248-860-1592
Monday, October 5, 2026, 3:00 p.m.
Division: College of Arts and Sciences
Program: Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Name: Niger Sultana
Title: Islam in Transit: Ritual Mourning and Gendered Memory in Diaspora
Location: Classroom Office Building Room 261
Chair: Professor Jason Baird Jackson
Contact: 812-856-1868
Monday, November 9, 2026, 10:00 a.m.
Division: School of Education
Program: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology
Name: Darcy Furlong
Title: Cripping Child Centered Care: Centering Children's Participation in (Dis)ability Assessments
Location: Remote defense; contact chair for details
Chair: Professor Jessica Lester
Contact: 812-856-8328
Friday, December 11, 2026, 1:00 p.m.
Division: School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Program: Information Science
Name: Huixin Tian
Title: Zhuanma: The Making of Coding Careers among Transnational Chinese Migrants
Location: Remote defense; contact chair for details
Chair: Professor Ronald Day
Contact: 812-361-4384