College of Arts and Sciences Doctor of Philosophy Graduates December 2020
APPLIED GEOLOGY
Israel Adebowale Olaoye
Dissertation Title: "Water Quality Modeling of the Old Woman Creek Watershed, Ohio, Under the Influence of Climate Change to Year 2100"
Dissertation Director: Joseph Ortiz
Kalpani Manurangi Ratnayake Mudiyanselage
Dissertation Title: " A Multi-Proxy Approach to Reconstruction of Deglaciation and Holocene Climate Change: Evidence from Lake Erie Sedimentary Archives"
Dissertation Director: Joseph Ortiz
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Nasim Eshghi
Dissertation Title: “Approximation of Matrix Functions by Quadrature Rules Based on the Lanczos or Arnoldi Processes”
Dissertation Director: Lothar Reichel
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES – CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Nashrah Ahmad
Dissertation Title "Preventive and Osteoarthritis Suppressive Effects of Peretinoin"
Dissertation Director: Tariq M. Haqqi
Kevin Budge
Dissertation Title: "Novel Regulators of Neuroinflammation and Neuroprotection"
Dissertation Directors: Fayez Safadi and Jason Richardson
Ashley E. Davis
Dissertation Title: “Comparison of Metabolic Effects between High Aerobic Capacity and Low Aerobic Capacity in Rats Subjected to Intermittent Fasting and Caloric Restriction Diets"
Dissertation Director: Colleen M. Novak
Erin Gorrell
Dissertation Title: “Skeletal Muscle Thermogenesis Induction by Exposure to Predator Odor"
Dissertation Director: Colleen M. Novak
Jessica R. Krieger
Dissertation Title: “Bovine and Porcine Adipogenesis, Myogenesis, and Tissue Engineering Strategies to Improve Flavor and Pigmentation of Cell-Based Meat”
Dissertation Director: Min-Ho Kim
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES – NEUROSCIENCES
Zahra Ghasemahmad
Dissertation Title: "Behavioral and Neuromodulatory Responses to Emotional Vocalizations in Mice"
Dissertation Director: Jeffrey J. Wenstrup
William A. Noftz
Dissertation Title: "Cholinergic Projections to the Inferior Colliculus"
Dissertation Director: Brett Schofield
CHEMISTRY
Srijana Bhandari
Dissertation Title: "An Electronic Structure Approach to Understand Charge Transfer and Transport in Organic Semiconducting Materials"
Dissertation Director: Barry D. Dunietz
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Md Amjad Hossain
Dissertation Title: "Design of Crowd-Scale Multi-Party Telepresence System with Distributed Multipoint Control Unit Based on Peer to Peer Network"
Dissertation Director: Javed Khan
ENGLISH
Maeed Mohammad Almarhabi Sr.
Dissertation Title: "Cultural Trauma and the Formation of Palestinian National Identity in Palestinian-American Writing"
Dissertation Director: Babcar M'Baye
Amy Flick
Dissertation Title: "(Re)Defining Risk: An Examination of Harm Reduction Discourse and Language"
Dissertation Director: Pamela Takayoshi
Sarah Mary Lawrence
Dissertation Title: "A Rhetoric of Self-Injury: Establishing Identity and Representing the Body in Online Self-Injury Forums"
Dissertation Director: Sara Newman
HISTORY
Stephanie Christine Jannenga
Dissertation Title: "Making College Colonial: The Transformation of English Culture in Higher Education in Pre-Revolutionary America"
Dissertation Director: Kim Gruenwald
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Preya Bhattacharya
Dissertation Title: "Can Microfinance Impact National Economic Development? A Gendered Perspective"
Dissertation Director: Andrew Barnes
Joshua Ray Testa
Dissertation Title: "Accountability in Higher Education: How Colleges and Universities Respond to Performance-Based Funding Formulas and Why it Matters"
Dissertation Directors: Anthony Molina and Daniel Hawes
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Ashley N. Abraham
Dissertation Title: “Individual Differences in Context Effects during Word Recognition”
Dissertation Director: Jocelyn Folk
PURE MATHEMATICS
Abdulrahman Nasser Alajmi
Dissertation Title: "On The Lattice Size With Respect To The Standard Simplex in 3D"
Dissertation Director: Jenya Soprunova
Michael Andrew Roysdon
Dissertation Title: "On Some Geometric and Functional Inequalities in Asymptotic Geometric Analysis"
Dissertation Director: Artem Zvavitch
TRANSLATION STUDIES
Mohammed Omar Salem Alzahrani
Dissertation Title: "The Reader's Turn: The Packaging and Reception of Contemporary Arabic Literature in Arabic and in English Translation"
Dissertation Director: Brian James Baer