COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, August 22, 2019, 2:00 pm
Geological Sciences
Hellert, Spencer
Causes of Phenotypic Integration Patterns and Their Effect on Selection
Geology Building, Room 522
Chair: Prof. P. David Polly, (812-855-7994)
Friday, August 23, 2019, 12:00 pm
Sociology
Zack, Elizabeth
The Effect of American Dream Ideology on Americans' Political and Racial Attitudes and Policy Preferences
Ballantine 740B
Chair: Prof. Stephen Benard, (812-856-7418)
Friday, August 23, 2019, 12:30 pm
Spanish
Cole, Christina
Marvelous Performances: The Emotion of Wonder in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Global & International Studies Building Room 2170
Chair: Prof. Steven Wagschal, (812-855-1623)
Friday, August 23, 2019, 1:00 pm
Geological Sciences
Kearney, John
Using phenocryst compositions from reworked tephra to enhance the chronostratigraphic resolution of Bed III and Bed IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Geology, Rm 522
Chair: Prof. Claudia Johnson, (812-855-0646)
Friday, August 23, 2019, 1:00 pm
Anthropology
Barzilai, Rebecca
Material Realities and Novel Ideas: The Vibrancy of Place and Ceramic Practices at the Emerald Acropolis
Student Building 159
Chair: Prof. Susan Alt, (812-856-5260)
Friday, August 23, 2019, 3:00 pm
Chemistry
Beckett, Daniel
New Developments in Composite Quantum Chemical Methods for Large Molecules and Unravelling the Behavior of Complex Smaller Systems
Chemistry CH001
Chair: Prof. Krishnan Raghavachari, (812-856-1766)
Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 9:30 am
History
Dobbs, Aimee
UNDER THE BANNER OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM: THE EMERGENCE OF THE AZERBAIJANI MUSLIM REFORM MOVEMENT IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA
Weatherly Hall 122
Chair: Prof. Ben Eklof / Prof. Toivo Raun, (812-855-6298 / 812-855-2233)
Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 11:15 am
Communication & Culture
Ramirez, Javier
Vamos al cine: Film Exhibition and Moviegoing in El Paso, Texas, 1935-1955
Franklin Hall, room FF230M
Chair: Prof. Gregory Waller, (812-855-5721)
Friday, August 30, 2019, 10:00 am
Cognitive Science / Psychology
Emerick, Brandi
Visual Perception and Neural Synchrony Differences Between Chronic Cannabis Users and Nonusers
Psychology 137C
Chair: Prof. Thomas Busey / Prof. Brian O'Donnell, (812-855-4261 / 812-856-4164)
Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 3:00 pm
Cognitive Science
Nikoulina, Anastasia
Risky Decision-Making and Functional Brain Networks in Naturalistic Contexts: The Case of Music and Alcohol Use Disorder
Eigenmann Building, Room 525
Chair: Prof. Thomas James, (812-856-0841)
Friday, September 06, 2019, 10:00 am
Folklore & Ethnomusicology
Richardson, Thomas
Transplanted Tradition: Appalachian Old-Time Music in Contemporary Toronto
The Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. John McDowell, (812-855-0390 )
Friday, September 06, 2019, 3:00 pm
Anthropology
McDonell, Emma
After the Boom: The Politics of Race, Value, and Development in Peru's Quinoa Bust
Student Building 159
Chair: Prof. Eduardo Brondizio / Prof. Richard Wilk, (812-855-5818 / 812-855-5818)
Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 2:00 pm
Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior
Cole, Logan
The radical structural evolution of genomes in flowering plant mitochondria
Simon Hall Room 001
Chair: Prof. Jeffrey Palmer, (812-361-7393)
Monday, September 23, 2019, 2:00 pm
Physics
Tanhayi Ahari, Mostafa
Non-Abelian interferometry & Entangled Pauli principle in correlated topological matter
Swain Hall West, Room 214
Chair: Prof. Gerardo Ortiz, (812-225-6167)
Friday, September 27, 2019, 11:15 am
Spanish
Henderson, Carly
Perfect Timing? Exploring the Effects of Immediate and Delayed Feedback, Communication Mode, and Working Memory on the Acquisition of Spanish as a Foreign Language
Global and International Studies Building, Room 2134
Chair: Prof. Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, (812-855-6392)
Friday, October 04, 2019, 12:15 pm
Microbiology
Fritts, Ryan
The physiology, mechanisms, and evolution of bacterial cross-feeding and nutrient acquisition
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Jake McKinlay, (812-855-0359)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, August 26, 2019, 1:00 pm
Learning & Developmental Sciences
Georgen, Christopher
DANCE STEP: Collective and Embodied Science Learning Across Contexts
Wright Education Bldg 2277
Chair: Prof. Joshua Danish, (310-420-5548)
Friday, August 30, 2019, 9:00 am
Learning & Developmental Sciences
Gomoll, Andrea
Co-Designing problem-based learning experiences that empower students to create change: Professional vision in the work of co-design
Wright Education Bldg 2277
Chair: Prof. Cindy Hmelo-Silver, (812-856-8335)
Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 10:00 am
Higher Education
Houlemarde, Mark
SILENCED, NOT SILENT: A HISTORY OF CAMPUS SEXUAL VIOLENCE FROM 1946-1960
Wright Education Bldg 4214
Chair: Prof. Andrea Walton, (812-856-8358)
Thursday, October 03, 2019, 1:00 pm
Higher Education
Hu, Yang
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF GENDER AND RACIAL/ETHNIC COMPOSITION ON WOMEN OF COLOR STUDENTS' LIKELIHOOD TO PURSUE A DOCTORAL DEGREE IN STEM DISCIPLINES
Wright Education Bldg 4204
Chair: Prof. Victor Borden, (812-856-0855)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, September 06, 2019, 1:30 pm
Computer Science
Kent, Andrew
Advanced Logical Type Systems for Untyped Languages
BLIF (Luddy Hall) 4015
Chair: Prof. Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, (812-856-3240)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Wednesday, August 28, 2019, 1:30 pm
Human Performance
Baranauskas, Marissa
Zinc as a Predictor of the Erythropoietic Response to Acute Normobaric Hypoxia
School of Public Health, Room 048
Chair: Prof. Robert Chapman, (812-856-2452)
Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 12:00 pm
Health Behavior
Ortiz Sanchez, Edgardo
Coping through compulsivity? Mediations among stigma and sexual compulsivity in a probability sample of gay and bisexual men in the US
School of Public Health, Room 125
Chair: Prof. Brian Dodge, (812-856-0792)
