COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 11:30 am
Spanish
Jung, Daniel
THE ROLE AND DYNAMICITY OF L2 MOTIVATION AND L2 ENGAGEMENT IN L2 SPANISH COURSE OUTCOMES
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Chair: Prof. Laura Guryznski-Weiss, (812-855-6392)
Friday, December 08, 2023, 10:00 am
Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior
Woodruff, Mary
Mechanisms of Heat Tolerance in a Wild Bird: An Experimental and Comparative Approach
Biology Building 065
Chair: Prof. Kimberly Rosvall, (812-856-2375)
Friday, December 08, 2023, 11:00 am
Spanish
Evans-Sago, Travis
"YO DIGO 'ESTÁ' PORQUE": THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE SPANISH COPULA IN A STUDY ABROAD VARIETY IN CHILE
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Chair: Prof. Manuel Díaz-Campos, (812-856-5462)
Friday, December 08, 2023, 1:30 pm
English
Kung, Hoi Na
Sensory Disorder: Race, Aesthetics, and the Senses After Colonialism
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Chair: Prof. Cynthia Wu / Prof. Shane Vogel, (812-855-0101 / 203-432-7992)
Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 1:30 pm
Mathematics
Marek, Peter
HF2-Synthetic Homotopy Groups of Topological Modular Forms
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Chair: Prof. Michael Mandell, (812-855-8524)
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 1:30 pm
Neuroscience / Psychology
Layfield, Dylan
THE WHEN AND HOW OF HIPPOCAMPAL PROCESSING: MEDIAL SEPTUM, REARING & SPATIAL MEMORY
Psychology Room 128
Chair: Prof. Jonathon Crystal / Prof. Ehren Newman, (812-856-2246 / 812-855-4541)
Thursday, December 14, 2023, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Ren, Zhongqing
Organization of the multipartite genome in Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Simon Hall, Room 001
Chair: Prof. Xindan Wang, (812-855-5584)
Tuesday, January 09, 2024, 4:00 pm
Mathematics
Dasu, Shival
Line-Point and Cube-Tube Intersection Patterns and Decoupling Theorems
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Chair: Prof. Ciprian Demeter, (812-855-1869)
Thursday, January 25, 2024, 1:00 pm
Anthropology
Ramon Celis, Pedro
Migration, ethnogenesis, and tradition: Zapotec urban organization in postclassic Guiengola, Tehuantepec
Frances Morgan Swain Student Building 159
Chair: Prof. Stacie King, (812-855-3900)
Friday, March 29, 2024, 12:00 pm
Gender Studies
Hoard-Jackson, Teresa
Fallopian Feminism: A Black Queer Feminist Methodological Intervention on Reproductive Technoscience
Lindley Hall 201H
Chair: Prof. Laura Foster, (812-855-0101)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 2:00 pm
Instructional Systems Technology
Phillips, Tanner
INVESTIGATING DESIGN AFFORDANCES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENGE FOR TEACHER REFLECTION
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Chair: Prof. Gamze Ozogul, (602-740-6725)
Monday, December 11, 2023, 10:00 am
Counseling Psychology
Gastil, Nickolaus
Social Circles and their Influence on Seeking Recovery for Substance Use Disorders in Rural Communities
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Chair: Prof. Ellen Vaughan, (812-856-8243)
Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 1:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Phillips, Andrea
Examining Influences on Elementary Teachers’ Transfer of Learning from a Science Professional Development Program
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Chair: Prof. Meredith Park Rogers, (812-856-8168)
Thursday, December 14, 2023, 1:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Zaker, Jessica
"People Deserve to be Treated Like Humans": Preservice Elementary Teachers' Conceptions of Social Issues and Social Action
Wright Education Building, Room 2277
Chair: Prof. Keith Barton, (812-856-8058)
Friday, December 15, 2023, 9:00 am
Instructional Systems Technology
Jantaraweragul, Kathleen
Examining Teachers' Project-Based Learning Experiences
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Chair: Prof. Thomas Brush, (812-856-8458)
Friday, December 15, 2023, 11:00 am
Higher Education
Dominguez, Anthony
Queer Experiences in Historically White Fraternities: A Narrative Inquiry into the Intersectional Lives of Queer Fraternity Men
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Chair: Prof. Lucy LePeau, (812-856-8392)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 1:30 pm
Information Science
Yang, Shengnan
The Role of ICTs in the Nonprofit Sector in Authoritarian Regimes
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Chair: Prof. Pnina Fichman, (812-856-1587)
Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 2:00 pm
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Zheng, Mengxin
Trojan Attack and Defense on Different Deep Learning Paradigms
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Chair: Prof. Lei Jiang, (812-855-7728)
Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 9:00 am
Computer Science
Nayem, Khandokar Md
Towards Realistic Speech Enhancement: A Deep Learning Framework Leveraging Speech Correlations, Spectral Language Models, and Perceptual Evaluation
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Chair: Prof. David Crandall / Prof. Donald Williamson, (812-856-1115 / 812-856-3716)
Friday, December 15, 2023, 10:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Ju, Yingnan
Data visualizations that improve the segmentation of medical images
Luddy Hall 4012
Chair: Prof. Katy Borner, (812-855-3256)
SCHOOL OF LAW, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, December 20, 2023, 10:00 am
Law and Democracy
Macia Briedis, Rafael
Constituting the Demos: Constitutionalism, Constituent Power, and the Articulation of Democratic Boundaries
Henderson House, conference room
Chair: Prof. Susan Williams, (812-855-6319)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, December 07, 2023, 3:00 pm
Environmental Science
Benson, Michael
Assessing the resilience of Eastern North American forests to climate change through the characterization of plant hydraulic traits
O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Room A221
Chair: Prof. Kimberly Novick, (919-434-4224)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 1:00 pm
Leisure Behavior
Kim, Yongseop
Preliminary Efficacy of a Technology-based Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention on Cognitive Function and Quality of Life among Older Adults at High Risk for Dementia Living in Assisted Living Facility
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Chair: Prof. Junhyoung Kim , (336-686-3939)
Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 2:00 pm
Health Behavior
Ferrand, John
Barriers and Facilitators to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Provision in a Midwest College Health Center: A Mixed Methods Study
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Chair: Prof. Eric Walsh-Buhi, (812-855-4867)
Thursday, December 14, 2023, 10:00 am
Health Behavior
Choe, Siyoung
Identifying predictors of marijuana vaping and investigating its polydrug use patterns, using machine learning and latent class analysis
School of Public Health room PH 125
Chair: Prof. Dong Chul Seo, (812-855-9379)
Thursday, January 11, 2024, 9:00 am
Human Performance
Norris, Braden
EXAMINING COLLEGIATE STUDENT ATHLETES SPORTS GAMBLING BEHAVIORS THROUGH THE LENS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE THEORY
School of Public Health IU Bloomington – room PH 125
Chair: Prof. Paul Pedersen, (812-855-4066)
