01/20/2026 | Christopher Evan Van Pelt, MS, Materials Science and Engineering
10:00AM, RDMC 208
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Electrochemical Characterization of Redox-Active Copolymers for Energy Storage
Engineering
Materials Science & Engr
Chair: Emily Pentzer
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02/3/2026 | Kuan-Ling Liu, PHD, Entomology
8:30AM, ZOOM
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
NAVIGATING A CHANGING WORLD: MULTIDIMENSIONAL RESPONSES OF TWO ANT SPECIES TO HUMAN-ALTERED LANDSCAPES
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Entomology
Chair: Edward Vargo
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02/10/2026 | Kaylee Raye Kipp, PHD, Biomedical Sciences
12:00PM, VENI 106A
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
EVALUATION OF MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES RELATED TO PARASITE CONTROL AND ANTHELMINTIC RESISTANCE IN RANCHED AND WILD BISON HERDS IN THE UNITED STATES
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Veterinary Pathobiology
Chair: Guilherme Gomes Verocai
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22255
02/10/2026 | Olivia Faith Dingus, PHD, Biomedical Engineering
1:00PM, tbd
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Adhesive Multi-Network Hydrogels for Cartilage repair
Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chair: Melissa Grunlan
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02/17/2026 | Maureen Kelly, PHD, Biomedical Sciences
12:00PM, VENI 106 A (Open); VIDI 349 (Closed)
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
EVALUATING THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CUTANEOUS AND BLOOD-BORNE FILARIAL NEMATODES IN COMPANION ANIMALS
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Veterinary Pathobiology
Chair: Guilherme Gomes Verocai
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02/18/2026 | Benjamin Maurice Thomas, PHD, Genetics and Genomics
3:00PM, MREB2 room 1403
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Development of Protein Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Shiga Toxin producing E. Coli
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biochemistry & Biophysics
Chair: Zhilei Chen
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22256
02/20/2026 | Karissa L. Palmer, PHD, Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
9:00AM, AGLS 129
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
GOT MILK!: USING RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIALS TO INVESTIGATE HOW LABELING INFLUENCES CONSUMERS’ DECISION TO PURCHASE DAIRY AND PLANT-BASED MILK
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ag Leadership, Educ & Comm
Chair: Holli Leggette
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22260
02/20/2026 | Samantha Dyanne Aguilar, PHD, Educational Psychology
10:00AM, Harrington Tower
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Cultural Congruity for Latino Students in STEM: Fostering STEM and Ethnic Identity
Education and Human Development
Educational Psychology
Chair: Jeffrey Liew
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22257
02/20/2026 | Poojashree Boopathyraj Chettiar, PHD, Medical Sciences
1:00PM, MREB 2 - Room 1403
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
PKC-dependent NMDAR depression by striatal glutamate delta-1 (GluD1) receptor underlies cognitive flexibility
Medicine
College of Medicine
Chair: Shashank Dravid
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22265
02/26/2026 | Kiran Alla, MS, Horticulture
1:00PM, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Centre, Uvalde, TX
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Genome-Wide Association Study of Southern Native Tepary Beans and Rhizosphere Microbiome Dynamics of Summer Cover Crops
Agriculture and Life Sciences
Horticultural Sciences
Chair: Vijay Joshi
Co-Chair: Shuyang Zhen
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22270
03/2/2026 | Karina Lee Hissen, PHD, Biomedical Sciences
11:00AM, VIDI 106
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Investigating Dietary L-glutamate Effects on the Intestinal Mucosa of Hybrid Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis ♀ × Morone chrysops ♂)
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Veterinary Pathobiology
Chair: Michael Criscitiello
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22262
03/2/2026 | Nereyda Yovana Ortiz Osejo de Lemus, PHD, Sociology
2:00PM, West Campus Social Science Building
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Push–Pull, Herd Effects, and Spatial Context in U.S. Residential Mobility: Evidence from County-to-County Flows
Arts and Sciences
Sociology
Chair: Ernesto Amaral
Co-Chair: Mary Campbell
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22261
03/4/2026 | Robert Matthew Stellbauer, PHD, Water Management and Hydrological Science
1:30PM, https://tamu.zoom.us/j/5202321740
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
BEYOND INFRASTRUCTURE: MULTIPLE USE WATER SERVICES AND EXPERIENCES WITH HOUSEHOLD WATER INSECURITY
Arts and Sciences
Geography
Chair: Wendy Jepson
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22269
03/5/2026 | Vanessa D Verner, PHD, Sociology
1:00PM, TBD
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
"Not By the Commission of Men's Hands": Gender, Race and Class Politics within Black Pentecostalism
Arts and Sciences
Sociology
Chair: Sarah Gatson
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22263
03/5/2026 | Yufei Huang, PHD, Neuroscience
2:00PM, MREB2 Room1403
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Neural Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Cognitive Inflexibility in Early Alzheimer’s Disease
Medicine
College of Medicine
Chair: Jun Wang
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22268
03/6/2026 | Rusali Saha, MS, Computer Science
2:00PM, PETR 314
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
A COMPREHENSIVE MULTILINGUAL, MULTICULTURAL INVESTIGATION OF BIAS IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Chair: Kuan-Hao Huang
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22264
05/5/2026 | Jeong Jae Han, PHD, Interdisciplinary Engineering
1:00PM, WEB232
Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A HIGH-THROUGHPUT DRUG SCREENING PLATFORM TARGETING ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANT MICROBES BASED ON DROPLET MICROFLUIDICS TECHNIQUE
Engineering
Multidisciplinary Engineering
Chair: Arum Han
| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da22258