Schedule For Defense of Doctoral Dissertations
ALASSANE MAIGA
Agronomy
Effects of Planting Practices on Growth, Yield, and Nitrogen Management of Grain Sorghum
Genotypes
Major Professor: P. V. Vara Pagadala, Agronomy
Outside Chairperson: Loretta Johnson, Biology
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 8:30 a.m.; 2002 Throckmorton Hall
RACHEL OPOLE
Agronomy
Effect of Environmental Stress and Management on Grain and Biomass Yield of Finger
Millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.)
Major Professor: P. V. Vara Pagadala, Agronomy
Outside Chairperson: Anthony Joern, Biology
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.; 2002 Throckmorton Hall
XIAOYAN CHEN
Economics
Three Essays on Human Capital
Major Professor: William Blankenau, Economics
Outside Chairperson: J. Bruce Prince, Management
Monday, May 21, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.; 329 Waters Hall
SAMUEL MOLINA
Biochemistry
Functions of Connexin 46 in Lens and Solid Tumors During Hypoxia
Major Professor: Dolores Takemoto, Biochemistry
Outside Chairperson: Bruce Schultz, Anatomy and Physiology
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.; 36 Chalmers Hall
RAYMOND MUTAVA
Agronomy
Evaluation of Sorghum Genotypes for the Slow Wilting Trait and Drought Tolerance
Major Professor: P.V. Vara Pagadala, Agronomy
Outside Chairperson: Christopher Little, Plant Pathology
Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.; 2002 Throckmorton Hall
KUBROM TEKA
Mathematics
The Obstacle Problem for the Second Order Elliptic Operators in Nondivergence Form
Major Professor: Ivan Blank, Mathematics
Outside Chairperson: David Steward, Civil Engineering
Monday, June 4, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.; 131 Cardwell Hall
MATTHEW LOEHR
Human Ecology - Family Studies
"I Feel Like They're My Family": Characteristics of One Successful Resource Couple
Who Fosters High Risk Teenagers
Major Professor: Karen Myers-Bowman, School of Family Studies and Human Services
Outside Chairperson: Mark Barnett, Psychology
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at 1:00 p.m.; 254 Justin Hall
KOICHI YAMAURA
Agricultural Economics
World Markets of Vertically Differentiated Agricultural Commodities: A Case of Soybean
Markets
Major Professor: Tian Xia, Agricultural Economics
Outside Chairperson: Shannon Washburn, Communications
Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 2:30 p.m.; 342 Waters Hall
SHARAD SILWAL
Mathematics
Harnack's Inequality in Spaces of Homogeneous Type
Major Professor: Diego Maldonado, Mathematics
Outside Chairperson: Medhat Morcos, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.; 144 Cardwell Hall
KEJIA LI
Electrical Engineering
Custom Biomedical Sensors for Application in Wireless Body Area Networks and Medical
Device Integration Frameworks
Major Professor: Steve Warren, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Outside Chairperson: A. Philine Wangemann, Anatomy and Physiology
Friday, August 17, 2012 at 2:00 p.m..; 2064 Rathbone Hall