KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, July 10, 2023, 9:30 am
Business
Lakhiwal, Akshat
AI, Agency, and Action: The Application of Intelligent Technologies and its Effect on Morality, Deception, and Control
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Chair: Prof. Hillol Bala, (812-855-2607)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 12:00 pm
Psychology
Ingram, Polly
Drinker identity: Conceptualization, measurement, and nomological network building
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Chair: Prof. Peter Finn, (812-327-1342)
Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 2:00 pm
Mathematics
Cofoid, Christian
Analysis of a Ginzburg-Landau Model on a Singular Surface
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Chair: Prof. Peter Sternberg, (812-855-6726)
Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 2:00 pm
Chemistry
Chatterjee, Kaustav
Multimetal Oxychloride Intergrowth Photocatalysts For Solar Energy Harvesting
Memorial Union Tree Suites, Dogwood Rood
Chair: Prof. Sara Skrabalak, (812-856-1892)
Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 11:00 am
Psychology
Howe, Lindy
Decisional processes in daily drinking: A daily diary study exploring how real-world incentives are related to drinking behaviors and experiences
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Chair: Prof. Peter Finn, (812-327-1342)
Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 2:00 pm
Chemistry
Hewagama, Nathasha
Design and construction of catalytically active higher-order virus-like particle architectures.
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Chair: Prof. Trevor Douglas, (812-856-6936)
Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 3:00 pm
Physics
Fosque, Leandro
Identifying neural biomarkers with quasicriticality
Swain West 130
Chair: Prof. John Beggs / Prof. Gerardo Ortiz, (317-670-6157 / 812-855-0367)
Friday, June 02, 2023, 12:00 pm
Geological Sciences
Smith, Samuel
SCALE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LOCAL MOIST PHENOMENA AND SHIFTS OF THE LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
Geology Building Room 2033
Chair: Prof. Paul Staten, (812-856-5135)
Tuesday, June 06, 2023, 2:30 pm
History
Alvarez-Echandi, Isabel
In the Name of Social Democracy: Private Capital, Cold Warriors, and the PLN’s Anticommunist Internationalism in Costa Rica, 1953-1978
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Chair: Prof. Jeffrey Gould, (812-322-4972)
Friday, June 09, 2023, 10:00 am
Philosophy
Taskin, Ferhat
The Problem of Divine Creative Freedom
Sycamore Hall Room 120
Chair: Prof. Timothy O'Connor / Prof. John Walbridge, (812-855-6817 / 812-855-8689)
Monday, June 12, 2023, 11:00 am
Economics
Fan, Rong
Three Essays on Technology and Human Capital
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Chair: Prof. Bulent Guler / Prof. Todd Walker, (812-855-7791 / 812-856-2892)
Monday, June 12, 2023, 1:00 pm
Sociology
Davies, Cara
The Economic Incorporation of Refugees in the United States
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Chair: Prof. Patricia McManus, (812-855-8970)
Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 10:00 am
Italian
Cabrini, Leonardo
Tele-Cinefilia RAI (1975-2005)
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Chair: Prof. Andrea Ciccarelli, (812-855-6029)
Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 1:00 pm
Mathematics
Jung, Hongki
A Few New Decouplings
Rawles Hall 127
Chair: Prof. Ciprian Demeter, (812-855-1869)
Wednesday, June 14, 2023, 11:30 am
Psychology
Tomlinson, Claire
Brief Court Affiliated Online Parenting Programs in Family Law
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Room 128
Chair: Prof. Amy Holtzworth-Munroe, (812-855-8159)
Thursday, June 15, 2023, 9:00 am
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Taskin, Zeyneb
Occasionalism, Free Will, and The Problem of Evil
Global and International Studies Building, Room 3067
Chair: Prof. John Walbridge, (812-855-8689)
Friday, June 16, 2023, 11:00 am
Spanish and Linguistics
Pollock, Matthew
Crossing the Party Line: A Sociophonetic Analysis of Production and Perception in Andalusian Spanish Political Speech
Global and International Studies Building GA2134
Chair: Prof. Manuel Diaz-Campos / Prof. Samuel Obeng, (812-856-5462 / 812-855-8199)
Monday, June 19, 2023, 10:00 am
Sociology
Cheung, Pui Yin
Comparative Health Inequality in the United States: A Structural Perspective
Ballantine Hall 740B
Chair: Prof. Patricia McManus, (812-855-8970)
Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 10:00 am
Neuroscience / Psychology
Bosquez-Berger, Taryn
Impact of µOR-negative allosteric modulators on cellular, behavioral, and molecular aspects of fentanyl signaling
Multidisciplinary Science Building II Room 102
Chair: Prof. Heather Bradshaw / Prof. Andrea Hohmannn, (812-856-1559 / 206-850-2400)
Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 10:00 am
Microbiology
Dai, Jin
Role of rotavirus NSP1 and VP3 in evasion of host antiviral innate immunity
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. John Patton, (812-855-5211)
Wednesday, June 21, 2023, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Smith, Alison
Investigating the Requirements of Transdetermination during Ectopic Eye Development in Drosophila melanogaster
Simon 001
Chair: Prof. Justin Kumar, (812-856-2621)
Thursday, June 22, 2023, 9:00 am
Psychology
Holder-Dixon, Amani
Understanding the Roles of Treatment Modality, Access, Stigma, and Attitudes in Black and White Women's Mental Health Treatment Decisions
Psychological and Brain Sciences - P128
Chair: Prof. Anne Krendl, (617-970-8741)
Thursday, June 22, 2023, 10:30 am
Sociology
Coleman, Max
Status and the Psyche: How Mental Health Paradoxes Challenge Theories of Inequality
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Chair: Prof. Brea Perry, (812-856-0447)
Friday, June 23, 2023, 10:00 am
Statistical Science
Pebes Trujillo, Miguel
Inference of Hidden Hierarchies from Observable Networks
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Chair: Prof. Daniel Manrique-Vallier / Prof. Andrew Womack, (812-856-7832 / 913-634-8462)
Friday, June 23, 2023, 1:00 pm
Astrophysics (Astronomy)
Reed, Brendan
Neutron Stars and Neutron Skins: A Crossroads in Nuclear Astrophysics
Swain West 319
Chair: Prof. Charles Horowitz, (812-855-2959)
Monday, June 26, 2023, 9:30 am
Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior
Miller, Delaney
Functional ecology and genomics of a honey bee defensive symbiont, Bombella apis
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Irene Newton, (812-855-3883)
Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 10:00 am
French
Munier, Evie
Banlieusard·e·s: Female Identities, Intersectionality, and Performativity in Contemporary French Banlieue Cinema
Wendell W. Wright Education Building Room 1210
Chair: Prof. Brett Bowles, (812-855-7438)
Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 10:00 am
Anthropology
Cory, Mackenzie
Play, Agency, and Indigenous Childhood on the North American Plains
Karen D. Vitelli Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest, Classroom
Chair: Prof. Stacie King, (812-855-3900)
Thursday, June 29, 2023, 8:00 am
Gender Studies
Duan, Jiling
Maneuvering Within and Without: Chinese Feminisms in Transnational Flows and State Domination (1995-2020)
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Chair: Prof. Sara Friedman, (812-856-4595)
Thursday, June 29, 2023, 9:30 am
Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
Mills, Mackenzie
Investigating cochlear nonlinearity using distortion product otoacoustic emissions
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Chair: Prof. Robert Withnell, (812-855-9339)
Thursday, June 29, 2023, 12:00 pm
Anthropology
Van Alst, Emily
Elk Images and Elk Traditions: (Re)contextualizing Lakota rock art as sites of continued cultural knowledge and resiliency
Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Room #107 (Learning Lab)
Chair: Prof. Anne Pyburn, (812-219-6230)
Friday, June 30, 2023, 10:00 am
Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior
Parish, Audrey
Mechanisms of Provisioning to Pathogenesis in a Honey Bee Larval Symbiont
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Irene Newton, (812-855-3883)
Friday, June 30, 2023, 2:00 pm
History
Lueras, Natasha
Hayseed Queens: Women and Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
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Chair: Prof. Michael McGerr, (812-855-6113)
Tuesday, July 11, 2023, 12:00 pm
Sociology
Smith, Nicholas
Sick by Structure: Residential Segregation, Social Networks, and Black-White Disparities in Health
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Chair: Prof. Brea Perry, (812-856-0447)
Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 2:00 pm
Neuroscience / Psychology
Johnson, Clare
Differential regulation of endolipids by drugs of abuse and genetic sex in the central nervous system, plasma, salivary glands, and breast milk.
Multidisciplinary Science Building II, Gill Conference Room
Chair: Prof. Heather Bradshaw / Prof. Ken Mackie, (812-856-1559 / 812-855-2042)
Thursday, July 13, 2023, 12:00 pm
Sociology
Frieh, Ellis
“In the System But Not Of the System”: Understanding the Role and Experiences of Mental Health Peer Specialists
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Chair: Prof. Brea Perry, (812-856-0447)
Friday, July 14, 2023, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Abad, Andrew
Mechanisms of Detection and Restriction of Reovirus
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Pranav Danthi, (812-856-2449)
Friday, July 28, 2023, 3:00 pm
Astrophysics (Astronomy)
Livernois, Alexander
Early and long-term dynamical evolution of star clusters
Swain West 319
Chair: Prof. Enrico Vesperini, (812-855-6911)
Wednesday, August 02, 2023, 1:00 pm
Philosophy
Pearlman, Savannah
Why You Ought to Defer: Moral Deference and Marginalized Identity
Sycamore Hall 026
Chair: Prof. Matthew Adams / Prof. Adam Leite, (434-213-0142 / 812-361-5217)
Monday, August 07, 2023, 2:00 pm
Astronomy
Butler, Robert
Toward a More Complete Picture of Dust Extinction
Swain West 319
Chair: Prof. Samir Salim, (310-351-2535)
Friday, August 11, 2023, 1:00 pm
Astronomy
Hunter, Laura
Timescales of Stellar Feedback Driven Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium on Local Scales
Swain West 319
Chair: Prof. Liese van Zee, (812-855-0274)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 10:00 am
Curriculum & Instruction
McClain, Jessica
An Action Research Exploring Retention and Participation Of Underrepresented Students in STEM
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Chair: Prof. Gayle Buck, (812-856-8171)
Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 12:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Subasinghe Arachchige, Tulana Ariyaratne
Comparing chemists' and chemistry learners' views of the nature of science (NOS) with their demographics and field of expertise.
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Chair: Prof. Valarie Akerson, (812-287-2496)
Thursday, June 29, 2023, 1:00 pm
School Psychology
Ruark, Chelsey
Retrospective Perspectives of Adults Previously Hospitalized as Minors: An Exploration of Impacted Functioning, Support Involvement, and Intervention Individualization
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Chair: Prof. David Shriberg, (812-856-8049)
Thursday, July 06, 2023, 2:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Burch, Lori
Developing Combinatorial Meaning for Algebraic Structure: Lessons from a Design-Research Cycle
Wright Education Bldg 3115
Chair: Prof. Erik Tillema, (812-345-3652)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 2:00 pm
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Karim, Silvia
Environmental pollutants alter estrogen and thyroid hormone response and appetite control in zebrafish
Multidisciplinary Engineering and Sciences Hall (MESH), Room 115
Chair: Prof. Maria Bondesson, (812-855-1709)
Wednesday, June 07, 2023, 10:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Muhsen, Maram
Zebrafish as a model organism for investigation of neurotoxicity
Luddy Hall 4012
Chair: Prof. Maria Bondesson, (317-658-0121)
THE MEDIA SCHOOL, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, June 15, 2023, 1:00 pm
Media Arts & Sciences
Seewood, Andre
The Drama of the Subaltern Child in Film: Innocence, Hypocrisy, and Critique
Franklin Hall 230M
Chair: Prof. Joan Hawkins, (812-855-1548)
SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 1:00 pm
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Alqazlan, Bandar
Arabic Diacritics and Reading: A Proposed Psycholinguistic Approach to Foreign/Second-Language Pedagogy
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Chair: Prof. Nader Morkus, (812-345-6033)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, June 02, 2023, 1:00 pm
Public Affairs
Carlin, Patrick
Empirical Investigations of Indigenous Healthcare in the US
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, A225
Chair: Prof. Kosali Simon, (812-856-3850)
Wednesday, July 26, 2023, 1:30 pm
Public Affairs
Yushkov, Andrey
Three Essays on the Nature of Vertical Fiscal Interactions in Federations
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Chair: Prof. Craig Johnson, (812-855-0742)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 1:00 pm
Epidemiology
Mestre, Luis
ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CIGARETTE SMOKING, WEIGHT STATUS AND MORTALITY AND MORBIDITIES AMONG US ADULTS
School of Public Health, room PH 125
Chair: Prof. Maria Parker / Prof. Roger Zoh, (812-856-5950 / 812-855-3076)
Monday, June 05, 2023, 1:00 pm
Epidemiology
Li, Rui
Anti-Inflammatory Diets, Vegetarian Diets and Their Relationship with Risk and Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Among US Adults
School of Public Health, room PH 125
Chair: Prof. Juhua Luo, (812-856-2858)
Wednesday, June 07, 2023, 11:00 am
Human Performance
Desai, Gauri
Gait and Body Composition Mechanisms of Shock Attenuation Among Runners
School of Public Health, room PH 125
Chair: Prof. Allison Gruber, (978-697-2631)
Monday, June 12, 2023, 11:00 am
Human Performance
Gabler, Mikaela
Inspiratory Muscle Warm-Up Effects on Locomotor Muscle Oxygenation, Dyspnea, and Performance During Exercise in Sea-Level and Simulated Altitude Environments
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Chair: Prof. Robert Chapman, (812-856-2452)
Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 10:00 am
Human Performance
Davis IV, John
Understanding Internal Biomechanical Loads During Running Using Wearable Sensors
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Chair: Prof. Allison Gruber, (812-856-2447)
Monday, June 26, 2023, 10:30 am
Health Behavior
Park, Hyejin
FLAVORED TOBACCO PRODUCT USE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON QUITTING BEHAVIORS IN VULNERABLE U.S. ADULT POPULATIONS
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Chair: Prof. Dong Chul Seo, (812-855-9379)
Tuesday, June 27, 2023, 1:00 am
Environmental Health
Wang, Yankun
The Association of Household Food Insecurity with Dietary Inflammation, Cardiometabolic Risk, and Functional Disability
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Chair: Prof. Mary-Margaret Weigel, (812-856-4930)
Friday, July 07, 2023, 12:00 pm
Health Behavior
Lee, Shieun
UNDERSTANDING LONGITUDINAL RELATIONS AMONG FREQUENT SOCIAL MEDIA USE, ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS USE, AND INTERNALIZING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG U.S. ADOLESCENTS
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Chair: Prof, Angela Chow, (812-856-2986)
Monday, July 10, 2023, 10:00 am
Human Performance
Heo, Yoon
UNDERSTANDING THE SPORTS PRODUCT COLLABORATION: THE EFFECT OF SELF-IMAGE CONGRUENCE AND BRAND LOYALTY ON ATTITUDE TOWARD COLLABORATION
School of Public Health, room PH 125
Chair: Prof. Antonio Williams, (812-855-3061)
Thursday, July 20, 2023, 3:00 pm
Health Behavior
Bettinger, Samantha
Individual Assessment on Vaping Cessation and Other Vaping Beliefs in College Students at Indiana University
School of Public Health 125
Chair: Prof. Dong Chul Seo, (812-855-9379)
