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Upcoming Defenses

Toluwalope Makinde, Biomedical Sciences: Lanre will defend his thesis, "Extravascular signaling of Tie-2 Receptors in the pathogensis of airway remodeling in chronic asthma" on August 10, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. in Criss II, Room 310.

Zhifei Shao, Biomedical Sciences: Zhifei will defend his dissertation, Functional Responses of Lung Dendritic Cell Subsets in Flt3 Ligand-Induced Immunomodulation in Allergic Asthma," on August 10, 2009 at 1 p.m. in Criss II, Room 310. 

Past Defenses

Hans Wrage, Physics: Hans successfully defended his thesis, entitled "X-ray fluorescence cross sections for elements 55 < Z < 60 on July 28, 2009.

Peter Casey, International Relations: Peter successfully defended his master's thesis, “Extracting Fuzzy Preference Measures to Predict Government Formation,” on Monday, July 13, 2009.

Stefanie Lierz, Political Science: Stefanie Lierz successfully defended her thesis, “A Study of the Causal Factors of Civil Wars in the 1990s" on May 13, 2009.

Lauren W. Urban, Atmospheric Science: Lauren defended her thesis, "Effects of Meteorological Forcing Events on Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) in the South Atlantic Bight" on January 30, 2009. 

Adam Pitz, Medical Microbiology and Immunology: Adam successfully defended his thesis, "The Effects of Chronic Ethanol (EtOH) Ingestion and Smoke Exposure on Anti-Pneumococcal Host Defenses," on December 11th.

Nino Krilova, International Relations: Nino successfully defended her thesis, "Political effects of remittances: Political participation in developing countries," on December 4th.

Silvy Ahmad, International Relations: Silvy Ahmad defended her thesis, “Factors Predicting Support or Opposition in Israel for the Creation of a Palestinian State,” on Monday, November 24.

Arthur Stallworth, Department of Biomedical Sciences: Arthur successfully defended his master's thesis on November 17 at 9:00 a.m. in room 310, Criss II. His title is: TH17 cells and suppressor of cytokine signaling in house dust mite model of asthma: effect of FLT-3 ligand."

Amanual Yohannes, Department of Biomedical Sciences: Amanuel successfully defended his master's thesis on November 17 at 1:00 p.m. in room 310, Criss II. His title is: "WNT-3A in angiotensin II-induced proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells from human coronary artery bypass graft conduits."

Marsha Pierce, Department of Biomedical Sciences: Marsha succesfully defended her master's thesis on November 3, 2008, 9:30 a.m. in room 310, Criss II. Her title: "MicroRNAs are essential for hair cell development."

Rakhi Pandey, Department of Pharmacy: Rakhi defended her thesis, "Developing a mathematical model using a suitable pharmocokinetic equation to establish In vivo-in vitro correlation for solid oral dosage form," on Thursday, September 25th, 10:00 a.m, in Criss III, Room L61.

Daniel Rueth, International Relations: The INR program is pleased to announce the oral defense of Daniel Rueth’s thesis: “Constructing Minority Governments.”  The defense took place in the Spillane Room (CRHL 430) from 2:00 to 3:30 PM on Thursday, September 25^th.

Sciences: Xiang, doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, successfully defended his dissertation on Monday, August 25th at 9:00 a.m. in room 310, Criss II. His title: Outer Hair Cell Electromotility and Cochlear Amplifier. Xiang will be working with Dr. David He as a postdoc upon completion of his program.