Defense Announcements

03/28/2025 | Ethan Xavier Davis, MED, Curriculum and Instruction

8:40AM, Zoom Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/88602363590?pwd=rOS4Cgb2TCHX5FrxtGX2yUni5iXXrY.1

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Teaching, Learning & Culture

Chair: JOHN WILLIAMS

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15628


03/28/2025 | John T White, PHD, Anthropology

9:00AM, Remote (virtual)

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Investigating Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene Human Occupation of Southcentral Alaska

Arts and Sciences
Anthropology

Chair: Frank Goebel
Co-Chair: Heather Thakar

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15607


03/28/2025 | Adithya Sathyanarayanan, MS, Visualization

9:00AM, LAAH 255

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts
College of Perf Vis Fine Arts

Chair: Michael Walsh

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15632


03/28/2025 | Jenna Elise Aguilar, MS, Visualization

9:45AM, LAAH 255

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts
College of Perf Vis Fine Arts

Chair: Caleb Kicklighter

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15621


03/28/2025 | Anna Evelyn Keniston, MS, Visualization

10:30AM, LAAH 255

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts
College of Perf Vis Fine Arts

Chair: Michael Gayk

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15624


03/28/2025 | Alyssa Ann Cassity, MS, Visualization

11:15AM, LAAH 255

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts
College of Perf Vis Fine Arts

Chair: Suryansh Kumar
Co-Chair: Michael Gayk

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15630


03/28/2025 | Riley Paige Floerke, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Paul Keiper
Co-Chair: Gregg Bennett

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15601


03/28/2025 | Noah Noah Gurrola, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Paul Keiper

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15603


03/28/2025 | Kendall Jackson Downey, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Hyun-Woo Lee

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15608


03/28/2025 | Stockton Robert Salyer, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Hyun-Woo Lee

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15609


03/28/2025 | Kristen S. Lopez, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Paul Keiper

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15610


03/28/2025 | Josh Ryan Ducheneaux, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, Online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Paul Keiper

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15611


03/28/2025 | Elizabeth Hernandez, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Paul Keiper

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15614


03/28/2025 | Connor Jay Schulman, MS, Sport Management

12:00PM, online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Paul Keiper

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15617


03/28/2025 | Kathryn Grace King, MS, Visualization

12:00PM, LAAH 255

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts
College of Perf Vis Fine Arts

Chair: Felice House

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15627


03/28/2025 | Jan Eileen Torbeck, MAR, Architecture

3:00PM, Hallway to Room 401, Left of revue space

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Architecture
Architecture

Chair: Robert Warden

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15619


03/28/2025 | Kayla Marie Art, MNR, Natural Resources Development

3:00PM, HFSB 303

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Rangeland Wildlife & Fish Mgmt

Chair: Ty Werdel

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15631


03/31/2025 | Wafa Bassiouni, MLA, Landscape Architecture

9:00AM, A303

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Architecture
Land Arch & Urban Planning

Chair: Boqian Xu
Co-Chair: Galen Newman

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15623


03/31/2025 | Izzy Aguilar Putiz, MS, Marine Biology

10:00AM, OCSB380A

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Marine Sci & Maritime St
Marine Biology

Chair: Jaime Alvarado-Bremer

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15616


03/31/2025 | Lee Lee May, PHD, Ecology and Conservation Biology

1:00PM, WFES 406

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
The Production of Destruction: The Past, Present, and Future of Wildfire in the Lost Pines "Forest" of Bastrop County, Texas

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Ecology & Conservation Biology

Chair: Urs Kreuter

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15602


04/1/2025 | Tyler J. Varner, MS, Athletic Training

8:00AM, Hildebrand Equine Complex 708

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Lori Greenwood

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15600


04/1/2025 | Jasmin Lee Norman, MS, Athletic Training

8:00AM, Hildebrand Equine Complex 708

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Lori Greenwood

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15605


04/1/2025 | Elise Elise Huggins, MS, Athletic Training

8:00AM, Hildebrand Equine Complex 708

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Kinesiology & Sport Management

Chair: Lori Greenwood
Co-Chair: Anthony Boucher

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15606


04/1/2025 | Majid Ahmed H Alfifi, PHD, Computer Science

10:00AM, Peterson/Zoom

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Extremism on Social Media: Characterization, Detection, and Countermeasures

Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Chair: James Caverlee

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15599


04/1/2025 | Maureen Jane Hayden, PHD, Marine Biology

12:00PM, Rudder 301

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
MICROPLASTICS IN SEDIMENT AND INVERTEBRATES ON TEXAS BEACHES

Marine Sci & Maritime St
Marine Biology

Chair: Mary Wicksten

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15622


04/1/2025 | Jason Shane Calahan, MED, Curriculum and Instruction

3:00PM, Zoom

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Teaching, Learning & Culture

Chair: Ramona Pittman

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15604


04/2/2025 | Ashton Rebbecca Dodd, MS, Animal Science

9:00AM, KLCT 300

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Mapping Histone Acetylation Throughout Bovine Spermatogenesis and Preimplantation Embryo Development

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Animal Science

Chair: Lacey Luense

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15633


04/4/2025 | Al Rahman, PHD, Industrial Engineering

10:30AM, Emerging Technology Building 4055

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
3D PRINTING OF BIOMASS-FUNGI COMPOSITE MATERIALS: EXPERIMENTATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

Engineering
Industrial & Systems Eng

Chair: Zhijian Pei
Co-Chair: CHUKWUZUBELU UFODIKE

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15613


04/8/2025 | Emma J Whaley, MS, Food Science and Technology

2:00PM, Hybrid

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
EFFECT OF FLAVONOIDS ON MAILLARD REACTION PRODUCT FORMATION IN A CHEMICALLY LEAVENED BAKED GOOD

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Food Science & Technology

Chair: Joseph Awika

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15626


04/10/2025 | Rebecca Claire Harlow Adamek, PHD, Biomedical Sciences

1:00PM, VENI 107B

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Lymphatic adaptation to edemagenic stress: a comparative study of fluid therapy and mesenteric venous hypertension

Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Physiology & Pharmacology

Chair: Cristine Heaps

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15615


05/5/2025 | Homa Pesarakli, PHD, Architecture

1:00PM, Langford A

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
EVALUATE THE IMPACTS OF DESIGN ON THE OCCURRENCE OF INTERRUPTION EVENTS DURING THE MEDICATION PROCESS IN THE ICU

Architecture
Architecture

Chair: Zhipeng Lu
Co-Chair: Farzan Sasangohar

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15620


05/9/2025 | Ariana V Benedict, MA, History

11:00AM, Glasscock Building

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Arts and Sciences
History

Chair: Jonathan Brunstedt

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15618


05/12/2025 | Connor K Brubaker, PHD, Statistics

10:00AM, Blocker 427

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Frequency Band Analysis for Multiple Time Series

Arts and Sciences
Statistics

Chair: Scott Bruce
Co-Chair: Mohsen Pourahmadi

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15625


05/12/2025 | Evan Marshall Fox, PHD, Chemistry

12:00PM, CHEM 255

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Spatially defined organic redox polymers to probe effects of redox site spacing on structure property relationship.

Arts and Sciences
Chemistry

Chair: Emily Pentzer

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15612


05/22/2025 | Zihang Wei, PHD, Civil Engineering

2:00PM, DLEB 304F

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Data-Driven Discovery and Control of Physically Analyzable Traffic Network Dynamics Models

Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engr

Chair: Yunlong Zhang
Co-Chair: Yang Zhou

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da15629