Defense Announcements

07/14/2025 | Dhruv Rathod, MS, Visualization

1:00PM, ARCC 307

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

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

Chair: Edgar Rojas Munoz
Co-Chair: Jinsil Seo

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18587


07/14/2025 | Ana Maria Velasquez Escobar, PHD, Genetics and Genomics

2:00PM, AGLS 113 & https://tamu.zoom.us/j/98577060017

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Developing a Gene Drive Approach for Island Mouse Eradication and Biodiversity Conservation

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Nutrition

Chair: David Threadgill

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18564


07/16/2025 | Kay Renee Phelps, MS, Marine Biology

11:00AM, online

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Marine Sci & Maritime St
Marine Biology

Chair: Daniel Roelke

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18576


07/16/2025 | Ashfaq Iftakher, PHD, Chemical Engineering

1:30PM, JEB 256

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
MODELING AND COMPUTING APPROACHES FOR COMPUTER-AIDED MOLECULAR AND PROCESS DESIGN

Engineering
Chemical Engineering

Chair: M M Faruque Hasan

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18590


07/17/2025 | Gabriella Grace Mazzapica, MED, Curriculum and Instruction

10:00AM, Virtual

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Teaching, Learning & Culture

Chair: Susan Fields

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18575


07/17/2025 | Kasandra Giselle Thatcher, MS, Visualization

10:00AM, Zoom

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

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

Chair: Courtney Starrett

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18580


07/17/2025 | Alexandra Lane Prouse, PHD, Marine Biology

11:00AM, OCSB 142

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Trophic Ecology and Contaminant Body Burdens of Marine Predators Across Ocean Basins

Marine Sci & Maritime St
Marine Biology

Chair: Jay Rooker
Co-Chair: Antonietta Quigg

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18578


07/18/2025 | Meredith Gayle Sheets, MED, Curriculum and Instruction

11:00AM, Zoom

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#da18581


07/18/2025 | Rorey Mattingly Yates-Iannelli, 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#da18563


07/18/2025 | Jordan Kenneth Marks, 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
Co-Chair: Paul Keiper

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18565


07/18/2025 | Whitney Paige Tanner, 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#da18566


07/18/2025 | Jose De Santiago, 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#da18567


07/18/2025 | Thomas Jeremy Adams, 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#da18569


07/18/2025 | Robert Charles Perez, 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#da18589


07/18/2025 | Joy Yamilex Lopez, MS, Visualization

12:30PM, TBD

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

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

Chair: Tianna Uchacz

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18582


07/21/2025 | Jonathan Alexander Kerman, MS, Soil Science

9:00AM, HEEP 440

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Assessing soil functional recovery on a recently rewilded Fly Ash Deposit

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Soil & Crop Sciences

Chair: Felipe Andres Aburto Guerrero

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18583


07/21/2025 | Weifang Liang, PHD, Agricultural Economics

10:00AM, AGLS 301

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Essays on Risk Management and Price Forecasting in Agricultural and Food Economics

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Agricultural Economics

Chair: Yong Liu

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18574


07/21/2025 | Julia Ann Minter, MS, Horticulture

2:00PM, HORT 203

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Potential of Fall Seeded Cover Crops for Vineyard Floor Management in Texas

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Horticultural Sciences

Chair: Justin Scheiner

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18573


07/21/2025 | Robert Shane Corkren, MNR, Natural Resources Development

2:30PM, HFSB Room 303

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Rangeland Wildlife & Fish Mgmt

Chair: Stephen Webb

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18579


07/22/2025 | Ammon Salvatore Hoffman, MS, Biology

10:00AM, remote

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Arts and Sciences
Biology

Chair: Angela Hawkins

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18585


07/22/2025 | Lauren E. Tompkins, MED, Curriculum and Instruction

10:00AM, Virtual - Zoom

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Education and Human Development
Teaching, Learning & Culture

Chair: Susan Fields

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18588


07/23/2025 | Dylan Monteiro, MS, Physics

12:00PM, MIST M102

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:

Arts and Sciences
Physics & Astronomy

Chair: David Toback

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18591


07/29/2025 | Sarita Neupane, PHD, Biomedical Sciences

9:00AM, VENI 101 A

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Investigating the role of glucose and diabetic-associated metabolites during urinary tract infection

Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Veterinary Pathobiology

Chair: Sargurunathan Subashchandrabose

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18570


08/11/2025 | Shweta Kailani, PHD, Educational Psychology

9:00AM, HECC 715B conference room

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Meeple-Centered Learning: Using Collaborative Games To Enhance Ill-Structured Problem-Solving Skills In Undergraduate Students

Education and Human Development
Educational Psychology

Chair: Susan Pedersen
Co-Chair: Tugce Aldemir

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18571


08/21/2025 | Max Errickson Simons, PHD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics

2:00PM, ILSB 3143

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Biosynthesis of UDP-L-Arabinofuranose, CDP-Fucofuranose and CDP-6-deoxy-Altrofuranose for the Capsular Polysaccharides of Campylobacter jejuni

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Biochemistry & Biophysics

Chair: Tatyana Igumenova

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18572


08/21/2025 | Sunder Neelakantan, PHD, Biomedical Engineering

2:00PM, tbd

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Investigating the biomechanical alteration in the right ventricle and pulmonary system in pulmonary hypertension

Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

Chair: Reza Avazmohammadi

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18577


08/28/2025 | Claudia A Collier, PHD, Biomedical Engineering

11:00AM, 5039

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
ANALYZING ENTERIC NEUROINFLAMMATION IN GULF WAR ILLNESS: EX VIVO AND IN VITRO STUDIES

Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

Chair: Shreya Raghavan

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18586


10/2/2025 | Xiner Li, PHD, Computer Science

12:00PM, TBD

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
Robust Artificial intelligence for Life Science: Graphs, Geometries, and Sequences

Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Chair: Shuiwang Ji

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18568


12/9/2025 | Steve Jackson, PHD, Toxicology

10:00AM, USDA Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center: 2881 F&B Road, College Station, Texas

Tentative Title of Thesis / Dissertation / Record of Study:
NutriClay strategies against foodborne AMR bacterial pathogens

Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vet Integrative Biosciences

Chair: Timothy Phillips

| Direct Link: https://grad.tamu.edu/aggie-life/Defense-Announcements#da18584