James Martin:"Self-Touch in Henry James's Major Phase"Committee Chair: Andrew Furman, Ph.D.Committee Members: Marina Banchetti, Ph.D., and Shelby Johnson, Ph.D.February 8, 2023Virtual via zoom: https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/84254835971?pwd=YittaWU4b01nR0FTUUpqcVgvYldIZz09

Akshay Shailendra Naraine:"Using Electroshock to Probe Mechanisms of Herbicide Neurotoxicity and Novel Neuroprotective Compounds in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster"Committee Chairs: Kenneth Dawson-Scully, Ph.D. , and Sarah L. Milton, Ph.D.Committee Members:David Binninger, Ph.D. , Howard M. Prentice, Ph.D. , and Venkatesh Shanbhag, Ph.D.February 8,2023Florida Atlantic University, Sanson Life Sciences (SC-1), Room 141

Kevin Allen:"Igniting Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB): The Role of Personality"Committee Chair: Michael Harari, Ph.D.Committee Members: Siri Terjesen, Ph.D. and William Luther, Ph.D.February 15, 2023Location: TBD. Contact chair for details.

Teodora Kamburov:"Grit in Adult Students with Disabilities: A Multiple-Case Study"Committee Chair: Sabrina Sembiante, PhD.Committee Members: Michelle Vaughan, Ed.D., and Mary Lou Duffy, PhD.February 15,2023Virtual via Zoom

Angelica Downey: "Effects of Covert Audio Coaching on Community-Based Employment Communication for College Students with Intellectual Disability"Committee Chair: Charles Dukes, Ed.D. Ph.D.Committee Members: Rangasamy Ramasamy, Ph.D., Kelly Kearney, Ed.D. and Ayse Torres, Ph.D.February 16, 2023Virtual via Zoom - https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/85484492507?pwd=UEJTSkpUajlsbG9DWEhFRmN2TGtMdz09#success Meeting ID: 854 8449 2507 Passcode: WNEb8H

Join us for our Virtual Graduate Information Session on Thursday, February 16 from 5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. This hour long session will include information regarding Financial Aid, Testing and Test Preparation and Graduate Admissions. For students seeking academic advising from specific programs, departmental contact information will be provided. For questions regarding the session, please contact Elizabeth Weber, Manager, Graduate Admissions and Events at elizabethweber@fau.eduWebEx Meeting Information:Meeting link: https://fau.webex.com/fau/j.php?MTID=m44b3d16d7d96891508132dedde3d4735Meeting number: 2624 247 0688Password: Will be provided upon successful registration.You can also dial in and enter your meeting number.Join by phone: +1-415-655-0003 US TollAccess code: 2624 247 0688

Iris Rodgers: "Expanding the Narrative: Black Female Doctoral Student’s Creating Cultural Safe Spaces as Resistance"Committee Chair: Traci Baxley, Ed.D.Committee Members: Bianca Nightengale-Lee, Ph.D., Karline Prophete, Ph.D., Angela Rhone, Ph.D. and Kalisha Waldon, Ph.D.February 17, 2023Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus, College of Education (ED-47), Room 338

Stephanie M. Flint: "Our "Hideous Progeny": Monstrous Womanhood and Intersectional Identity at the Advent of the Film Sequel in American Cinema, Literature, and Popular Culture"Committee Chair: Taylor Hagood, PhD.Committee Members:Eric Berlatsky, PhD., Stephen Charbonneau, PhD. and Jane Caputi, PhD.February 17, 2023Virtual via Zoom - https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/82043382321?pwd=b21kL1hLK29mWUFKRCt5b0xUd2VoUT09 Meeting ID: 820 4338 2321 Passcode: 4eLbhr

Yoonhee Lee: "Early Childhood Teachers' Perspectives and Practices in Multicultural Education in South Korea"Committee Chair: Sabrina Sembiante, Ph.D.Committee Members: Traci Baxley, Ed.D., and John Hardman, Ph.D.February 20, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. ESTVirtual via Zoom: https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/5997204370?pwd=NDd3NXlsMTAxMndUM2tPbHpzc1hKZz09

Lauren Berlingo: "The Sexual Lives of Individuals with Disabilities: Attitudes from the General Public"Committee Chair: Charles Dukes, Ed.D, Ph.D.Committee Members: Sharon M. Darling, Ph.D., Lisa A. Finnegan, Ph.D. and Michael Maniaci, Ph.D.February 22, 2023Virtual via Zoom - https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/86330953477?pwd=dWQzOW9nYUFUN3p6WjRKVU5mVGlydz09 Meeting ID: 863 3095 3477 Passcode: NfJ9pM

Riley William Wehr: "Last Hours of The Cretaceous, New Evidence From The K/T Boundary, Hell Creek Formation, SW North Dakota"Committee Chair: Anton Oleinik, Ph.DCommittee Members: Anton Oleinik, Ph.D., Eric Prokocki, Ph.D. and Erik Johanson, Ph.D.March 1, 2023Virtual via Zoom - https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/3298206640?pwd=MVlCMjRjRTlaU0JLb2pCRFpnbWltZz09

Harshal Amit Sanghvi: "An Artificial Intelligence Driven Framework for Medical Imaging"Committee Chairs: Ankur Agarwal, Ph.D. and Bassem Alhalabi, Ph.D.Committee Members:Abhijit S. Pandya, Ph.D. and B.Sue Graves, Ed.D.March 7, 2023Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus, College of Engineering and Computer Science (EE-96), Room 405

Elizabeth Saldana: "A Collection on Would-be-Motherhood"Committee Chair: Ayşe Papatya Bucak, MFA.Committee Members: Stacy J. Lettman, Ph.D. and Becka McKay, Ph.D.March 13, 2023Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus, Culture and Society Building (CU-97), Room 301

Jennifer Ling Bagdasarian: "The Robot Will See You Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Microfoundations of Institutional Change Within Medicine"Committee Chair: Elizabeth Goodrick, PhD.Committee Members: Ravi Behara, PhD, and Siri Terjesen, PhDMarch 14, 2023Virtual via Zoom -https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/84629645877?pwd=UE45T243UlJ1aWhwOUIzUkJrelJmZz09

Denesha Evette Ritchie:"Looking on the Inside: Princess Margaret Hospital's Maternity Wards, The Bahamas"Committee Chair: Michael Harris, Ph.D.Commitee Members: Michael Harris, Ph.D., Clifford Brown, Ph.D., and Meredith Ellis, Ph.D.March 14, 2023Florida Atlantic University, College of Social Work and Criminal Justice Building (SO-44), Room 383

Judy Yang: "The Effects of L71 and S81 within the Minimal Essential Region (MER) of the BNIP3L Protein in Activating Organelle Degradation to Drive Fiber Lens Differentiation"Committee Chairs: Lisa Brennan, Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Marc Kantorow, Ph.D. (Thesis Advisor)Committee Members: Ewa P. Wojcikiewicz, Ph.D.March 15, 2023Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus, College of Medicine, Charles E. Schmidt (BC-71), Room 128

Adedamola Adele: "Development of a HIFI- Lens Specific Knockout Mouse as A Model for Hypoxia Driven Lens Differentiation:Committee Chair: Marc Kantorow, Ph.D.Committee Members: Lisa Brennan, Ph.D. and Ewa Wojcikiewiz, Ph.D.March 15, 2023Florida Atlantic University, College of Medicine, Charles E. Schmidt (BC-71), Room 128

Christopher Hasse:"There Is No "I" In Team: Impacts of Surgical Team Dynamics on Case Scheduling Errors and Post-Operative Complications"Commmittee Chair: Ravi S. Behara, Ph.D.Committee Members: Jahyun Goo, Ph.D., and Chiang-Sheng Derrick Huang, Ph.D.March 15, 2023Schmidt Family Complex; room TBD. Contact chair for more details.

Join us for our Virtual Graduate Information Session on Thursday, March 16, from 5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. This hour long session will include information regarding Financial Aid, Testing and Test Preparation and Graduate Admissions. For students seeking academic advising from specific programs, departmental contact information will be provided. For questions regarding the session, please contact Elizabeth Weber, Manager, Graduate Admissions and Events at elizabethweber@fau.eduWebEx Meeting Information:Meeting link: https://fau.webex.com/fau/j.php?MTID=m30cc1538537670f53ee88fa34c913a57Meeting number: 2624 737 3820Password: E6myNGRFr36 (36696473 from phones)You can also dial in and enter your meeting number.Join by phone: +1-415-655-0003 US TollAccess code: 2624 737 3820

Evelyn Breda: "Bone Collectors: Personhood and Appeal in the Sale and Trade of Human Skeletal Remains on Facebook"Committee Chair: Dr. Meredith A.B. EllisCommittee Members: Michael Harris, Ph.D,, Clifford Brown Ph.D, and Ryan Seidemann P.hD.March 16, 2023Virtual via Zoom - https://fau-edu.zoom.us/j/82519450304?pwd=S0RwSTRxaUtuUnNVeDN4aUNaTFVRdz09