Defense Announcements

01/6/2025 | Marshall Donald Allen, PHD, Mechanical Engineering

1:00PM, JCAIN 206

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Systematic Design of Metallic Functionally Graded Materials & Structures

Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Chair: Richard Malak
Co-Chair: Raymundo Arroyave

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01/13/2025 | Myra Dickey, PHD, Entomology

3:00PM, minnie belle heep room 413

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Disease Ecology and population genetics of a wild population of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in south Texas

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Entomology

Chair: Juliana Rangel Posada

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01/15/2025 | Brittany Renee White, PHD, Curriculum and Instruction

12:00PM, zoom

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
THE EFFECTS OF A PRACTICE-BASED READING COMPREHENSION PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ON ADMINISTRATORS’ KNOWLEDGE OF READING COMPREHENSION: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Education and Human Development
Teaching, Learning & Culture

Chair: Kausalai Wijekumar

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01/24/2025 | Jordan K Robinson, MS, Atmospheric Sciences

10:00AM, OMB 1209

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Evaluating the Diurnal Wind Cycle and Its Impact on Propagating Convection in the Himalayas

Arts and Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Courtney Schumacher

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01/28/2025 | Ittipon Khuimphukhieo, PHD, Plant Breeding

9:00AM, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Weslaco, TX, USA

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
High throughput phenotyping in sugarcane using an unoccupied aerial systems

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Soil & Crop Sciences

Chair: Jorge Dasilva
Co-Chair: Russell Jessup

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02/12/2025 | Johnathan Kelley Ellard, MS, Ecology and Conservation Biology

2:00PM, Wildlife, Fisheries, and Ecological Sciences Building (WFES)

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Spatially intensive fish inventories conducted 70 years apart reveal strong spatial footprints of reservoirs in a regulated temperate river

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ecology & Conservation Biology

Chair: Joshuah Perkin

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