Dissertation Defenses
Faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend the public portion of dissertation defenses (usually the first 45-60 minutes).
Clinical | Cognitive | Developmental | Biological and Health | Social | Clinical/Developmental | Clinical/Health | Individualized
UPCOMING ORAL PHD DEFENSES:
Recent PhD oral defenses are listed below.
Clinical Program Defenses |
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| 6/07 | Karen Petersen Advisor: Stephen Manuck, PhD |
Socioeconomic Status as a Correlate of Plasma Inflammatory Markers: An Association that May Be Modulated by the Interleukin-6 (-174) G/C Promoter Polymorphism |
| 5/07 | Stephanie Zerwas Advisor: Celia Brownell, PhD |
Imagination in Motion: Pretense Representation as Perceptual Simulation |
| 11/06 |
Shannon Lenze Advisor: Ellen Frank, PhD |
"The Role of Life Events on Treatment Outcome During Acute and Maintenance Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder" |
| 7/06 |
Judy Thompson Advisor: Michael Pogue-Geile, PhD |
"Pre-onset Abnormalities, Psychosocial Stressors, and the Development of Psychosis: A Prospective Population-based Study" |
Cognitive Program Defenses |
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9/07 12:00 PM, LRDC 2nd Floor Auditorium, 3939 O'Hara St. |
Anthony Harrison Cognitive Program Advisor: Chris Schunn, PhD |
Online or Offline? Exploring Working Memory Constraints in Spatial Updating |
| 8/07 | Rod Roscoe Advisor: Michelene Chi, PhD |
Opportunities and Barriers for Tutor Learning: Knowledge-Building, Metacognition, and Motivation |
| 8/07 | Anita Barber Advisor: Walter Schneider, PhD |
Task Preparation and the Switch Cost: Characterizing Task Preparation through Stimulus Set Overlap, Transition Frequency and Task Frequency |
| 9/06 | Elizabeth Tricomi Shiflett Advisor: Julie Fiez, PhD |
"Imaging the Role of the Caudate Nucleus in Feedback Processing During a Declarative Memory Task" |
| 8/06 | Donald J. Bolger Advisor: Charles Perfetti, PhD |
"The Development of Orthographic Knowledge: A Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of the Self-Organizing Principles of the Ventral Visual Cortex for Reading" |
| 7/06 | Rhiannon Ellis Hart Advisors: Julie Fiez, PhD and Jonathan Schooler, PhD |
"Applications of Intentional Suppression: the Effect of Suppression on Recognition Memory of Ecologically Valid Stimuli" |
| 4/06 |
Elizabeth Wheeler |
"Examining Theories on Ventromedial Prefrontal Function" |
4/06 |
Vincent Van Veen Advisors: |
"A Neuroimaging Approach to the Relationship Between Attention and Speed-Accuracy Trade-off" |
4/06 |
Amy Overman Advisor: |
"Characterization of the Nature of the Age-related Memory Impairment " |
| 8/05 | Nicole Landi Advisor: Charles Perfetti, PhD |
"Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigations of the Relationship Between Semantic Processing and Reading Comprehension" |
| 7/05 | Robert Hausmann Advisor: Michelene Chi, PhD |
"Elaborative and Critical Co-Construction: Two Potential Collaborative Problem-solving Mechanisms" |
| 4/05 |
Lesley Anne Hart Advisor: Charles Perfetti, PhD |
"A Training Study Using an Artificial Orthography: Effects of Reading Experience, Lexical Quality and Text Comprehension in L1 and L2" |
| 10/04 |
Robert S. Goldberg Advisor: Charles Perfetti, PhD |
"The Cortical Distribution and Interaction of Semantic Knowledge" |
| 9/04 | Roger Taylor Advisor: Kevin Crowley, PhD |
"Informal Science Learning: Influences of Explanatory Elaboration and Learner Control on Knowledge Acquisition" |
| 8/04 |
Stephanie Siler Advisor: Kurt Van Lehn, PhD |
"Does Tutors' Use of Their Knowledge of Their Students Enhance One-on-One Tutoring?" |
| 8/04 |
Kwang-Su Cho Advisor: Christian Schunn, PhD |
"When Experts give Worse Advice than Novices: The Type and Impact of Feedback given by Students and an Instructor on Student Writing" |
| 4/04 |
Jason Chein Advisor: Julie Fiez, PhD |
"Evaluating Models Working Memory: FMRI and Behavioral Evidence on the Effects of Concurrent Irrelevant Information" |
Developmental Program Defenses |
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| 8/07 | Clare Holt Advisor: Susan Campbell, PhD |
Maternal Harshness and the Mother-Child Relationship in the Toddler Years: Associations with Internalizing Problems at School Entry |
| 8/05 | Geetha Balaraman Ramani |
"Cooperative Play and Problem Solving in Preschool Children" |
| 7/05 | Michael Schonberg Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD |
"Risk Factors for Boys' Conduct Problems Within and Across Neighborhoods" |
| 4/05 | Lisa Newell Advisor: Mark Strauss, PhD |
"The Development of Pure vs. Co-Occurring Externalizing and Internalizing Symptomatology in Children" |
| 3/05 |
Wendy Etheridge Smith Advisor: Robert McCall, PhD |
"Structural Characteristics that Predict Quality in Preschool Classrooms in Child Care Centers" |
| 8/04 |
Shannah Tharp-Taylor Advisors: Robert McCall, PhD, Sharon Nelson-Le Gall, PhD |
"The Effects of Early Deprivation on Social and Emotional Development after Adoption from Russian Orphanages" |
Biological and Health Program Defenses |
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| 1/06 | Denise Janicki Advisor: Thomas Kamarck, PhD |
"Chronic Stress, Inflammation,and Progression of Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis: A Mediation Model" |
Social Program Defenses |
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| 5/05 | Leslie Hausmann Advisor: John Levine, PhD |
"Developing Group Perceptions through Communication: Extensions of the Saying-is-Believing Effect" |
| 4/04 |
Debbie Robinson Advisor: Richard Moreland, PhD |
"Group Reactions to Risky Prospective Members" |
Clinical/Developmental Program Defenses |
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| 7/06 | Amanda Thompson Advisor: Anna Marsland, PhD |
"Close Relationships Among Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis" |
| 6/06 | Larry Kalb Advisor: Rolf Loeber, PhD |
"Screening for Violent Recidivism in the Juvenile Justice System: Establishing Accuracy" |
| 3/06 |
Joyce Giovannelli Advisor: Mark Strauss, PhD |
"Face Processing Abilities in Children with Autism" |
| 6/05 | Joy Beck Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD |
"Trajectories, Antecedents, and Outcomes of Childhood Somatization in School-age boys" |
| 3/05 |
Alyssa Oland Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD |
"The Development of Pure vs. Co-Occurring Externalizing and Internalizing Symptomatology in Children" |
| 4/04 | Miles Gilliom Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD |
"Desistance from Childhood Physical Aggression" |
Clinical/Health Program Defenses |
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| 9/06 | Edie Goldbacher Advisor: Karen Matthews, PhD |
"Depression and the Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Women: A Longitudinal Investigation" |
| 7/06 | Rebecca Ringham Advisor: Marsha Marcus, PhD |
"Eating Behaviors in Overweight Children of Binge Eating Mothers" |
| 7/06 | Tamara Somers Advisor: Andrew Baum, PhD |
"Risk Reducing Behaviors in a Community Sample of Women with a Family History of Breast Cancer" |
| 5/05 | Sonya Brady Advisor: Karen Matthews, PhD |
"Impact of Violence Exposure on Hostility, Physiological Arousal, and Health in Youth" |
| 5/05 | Wendy (Millman) Troxel Advisor: Karen Matthews, PhD |
"Marital Quality, Communal Strength, and Physical Health" |
Individualized Program Defenses |
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