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  • Luis Cantu (MA, PHIL) Luis Cantu (MA, PHIL)
    4/26/24 11:00 AM
    Making White Guilt Fitting
    @ 226 Major Williams Hall
  • Jenna Freireich (MARCH, ARCG) Jenna Leigh Freireich (MARCH, ARCG)
    4/26/24 12:00 PM
    Intertwinements
    @ 400 Cowgill Hall
  • Ola Karajeh (PHD, CSA) Ola Abdel-Raheem Mohammed Karajeh (PHD, CSA)
    4/26/24 12:00 PM
    Improving Text Classification Using Graph-based Methods
    @ 2030 Torgersen Hall
  • Min Jae Lee (MS, BCSM) Min Jae Lee (MS, BCSM)
    4/26/24 1:00 PM
    A Novel Approach to Indoor Environment Assessment: Artificial Intelligence of Things (ALOT) Framework for Improving Occupant Comfort and Health in Educational Facilities
    @ 423 Bishop Favrao Hall
  • Zachary Dowell (PHD, EDP) Zachary David Dowell (PHD, EDP)
    4/26/24 1:30 PM
    Investigating Point-of-Source Organic Waste Treatment: The Case of Household Biogas in the U.S.
    @ GENERAL Bishop Favrao Hall
  • Melissa Burt (PHD, BIOL) Melissa Ann Burt (PHD, BIOL)
    4/26/24 2:00 PM
    Global change effects on ant-mediated seed dispersal
    @ 120 Williams Hall
  • Rowan Molitor (MS, AE) Rowan Larson Molitor (MS, AE)
    4/26/24 2:00 PM
    Analyzing the Counterrotation of a Parent Spacecraft Due to the Motion of a Robotic Arm Payload
    @ 1 Randolph Hall
  • Matthew Long (MS, ME) Matthew Thomas Long (MS, ME)
    4/26/24 3:30 PM
    Computational Reconstruction and Quantification of Aerospace Materials
    @ 441 Goodwin Hall
  • Christian Heasley (PHD, EDCO) Christian Daniel Heasley (PHD, EDCO)
    4/26/24 3:30 PM
    Rural Student Career Development: Examining Between-Group Differences in Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectation
    @ GENERAL CRC
  • Mohamed Swailem (PHD, PHYS) Mohamed Swailem (PHD, PHYS)
    4/26/24 4:00 PM
    Aspects of population dynamics
    @ 304 Robeson Hall
  • Vivek Sharma (PHD, PHYS) Vivek Sharma (PHD, PHYS)
    4/29/24 9:00 AM
    SEARCH FOR BARYON NUMBER VIOLATION IN 130Te WITH CUORE
    @ 225 Davidson Hall
  • Thomas Layou (PHD, PAPA) Thomas Joseph Layou (PHD, PAPA)
    4/29/24 9:00 AM
    Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Responders (SAFER) Grant Program: An Analysis of Fiscal Federalism and How Local Governments utilize SAFER Grant Funding
    @ 6-001 VT Research Ctr - Arlington
  • Justin Henry (MA, PSCI) Justin Lee Henry (MA, PSCI)
    4/29/24 9:00 AM
    Liberal Democracy's Asylum Seeker Paradox: A Case Study of Australian Labor Party's Policies on Offshore Detention
    @ 531A Major Williams Hall
  • Richard Shaplin (PHD, MATH) Richard Martin Shaplin (PHD, MATH)
    4/29/24 9:30 AM
    Simple Stationary Steps in Quantum Walks
    @ 455 McBryde Hall
  • Emma Bueren (PHD, BIOL) Emma Kathryn Rose Bueren (PHD, BIOL)
    4/29/24 10:00 AM
    Viruses in host-associated systems: characterizing bacteriophages in honey bee gut and amphibian skin microbiomes
    @ 145 Steger Hall-North Wing
  • John Bryant (PHD, BSE) John Alexander Bryant (PHD, BSE)
    4/29/24 10:00 AM
    Synthetic Auxin Engineering: Building a Biofoundry Platform
    @ 108 Human & Ag Bio Science 1
  • Harish Thamarai Kannan (MS, ME) Harish Kumar Thamarai Kannan (MS, ME)
    4/29/24 10:00 AM
    Preview based Semi-Active Suspension Control
    @ 137 Durham Hall
  • Malle Schilling (PHD, ENGE) Malle Rea Schilling (PHD, ENGE)
    4/29/24 10:00 AM
    Understanding Place and Rurality in Engineering Education through Pathways and Engagement
    @ 340 Goodwin Hall
  • Hannah Glasson (PHD, ASPT) Hannah Gray Glasson (PHD, ASPT)
    4/29/24 10:30 AM
    Political Applications of Systems Theory in the Twentieth Century: From Cybernetic Control to Spontaneous Emergence
    @ 201 Major Williams Hall
  • Joseph Spencer (PHD, MSE) Joseph Andrew Spencer (PHD, MSE)
    4/29/24 11:00 AM
    Epitaxial Gallium Oxide Heterojunctions for Vertical Power Rectifiers
    @ 135CR Holden Hall
  • Ashwin Kumar Manjangkarani Giridharan (PHD, ME) Ashwin Kumar Manjangkarani Giridharan (PHD, ME)
    4/29/24 12:00 PM
    Investigation of Supersonic Jet Noise at Afterburner Conditions
    @ 306 Durham Hall
  • Chloe Jade Robertson (PHD, RW) Chloe Jade Robertson (PHD, RW)
    4/29/24 1:00 PM
    Navigating the legal constraints of being a nonimmigrant: A study of the technical communication challenges for international graduate students in the United States
    @ 370 Shanks Hall
  • Richard Stuebi (PHD, BXBR) Richard Theodore Stuebi (PHD, BXBR)
    4/29/24 1:00 PM
    Exploring Antecedents to Environmentally-Consequential  Consumer Choices and Behaviors
    @ GENERAL Northern Virginia 4-H Ed Ct
  • John Schepis (PHD, ENT) John Philip Schepis (PHD, ENT)
    4/29/24 1:00 PM
    Diapause biology, dispersal capabilities and insecticide use for Lygus lineolaris in Mid-Atlantic cotton systems
    @ 120 Hampton Roads ARC
  • Gabriel Adeneye (PHD, EDCI) Gabriel Oluwatosin Adeneye (PHD, EDCI)
    4/29/24 1:00 PM
    Instructional Design and Technology Through the Years: A Bibliometric Analysis of Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D) Journal
    @ 208 Univ Mall Ph II - 755 UCB
  • Taylor Lane (MACOM, COMN) Taylor Catherine Lane (MACOM, COMN)
    4/29/24 1:00 PM
    Women's Influence on Culture in Collegiate Esports
    @ GENERAL Shanks Hall
  • Aidan Bradley (PHD, EM) Aidan James Bradley (PHD, EM)
    4/29/24 1:00 PM
    Robotic Eavesdropping: Effects of Bioinspired Acoustic Sensing on Tracking and Estimation
    @ 455 McBryde Hall
  • Allison Sanchez (PHD, HNFE) Allison Diane Sanchez (PHD, HNFE)
    4/29/24 1:00 PM
    Evaluating Nutrition Recommendations and Identifying Predictors to Promote Healthy Weight Gain through Whole Foods in Athletic Individuals
    @ 1040 Integrated Life Science Bldg
  • Purushothaman Palani (MS, CPE) Purushothaman Palani (MS, CPE)
    4/29/24 1:30 PM
    Characterizing Retention behavior of DDR4 SoDIMM
    @ 330 Durham Hall
  • Mohsen Hosseini (PHD, CHE) Mohsen Hosseini (PHD, CHE)
    4/29/24 1:30 PM
    Surface Coatings for Antimicrobial Activity and Fast Evaporation
    @ 440 Goodwin Hall
  • Summer Thomas (PHD, CSES) Summer Payge Thomas (PHD, CSES)
    4/29/24 2:00 PM
    The Evaluation of Rotational Bale Grazing as an Alternative Winter-Hay Feeding System
    @ 337 Smyth Hall
  • Nicolas Swanson (MS, MATH) Nicolas J Brennan Swanson (MS, MATH)
    4/29/24 4:00 PM
    Deciding if a Genus 1 Curve has a Rational Point
    @ 455 McBryde Hall
  • Brogan Holcombe (MS, FIW) Brogan Elizabeth Holcombe (MS, FIW)
    4/30/24 9:00 AM
    No title on record.
    @ 105 Fralin Biotechnology Center
  • Ruixiang Xie (PHD, PGG) Ruixiang Xie (PHD, PGG)
    4/30/24 9:00 AM
    Policy Diffusion in U.S. Hazard Mitigation Planning: An Intergovernmental Perspective
    @ 111 Architecture Annex
  • Priyanka Ganguly (PHD, RW) Priyanka Ganguly (PHD, RW)
    4/30/24 10:00 AM
    Institutional Global Maternal Nutrition Communication: Unblackboxing Rhetorical Power Dynamics in Transnational Spaces
    @ 370 Shanks Hall
  • Jiefu Wang (PHD, CE) Jiefu Wang (PHD, CE)
    4/30/24 10:00 AM
    Carbon-efficient wastewater treatment through resource recovery, process intensification, and partial denitrification anammox
    @ 208 Human & Ag Bio Science 1
  • Christian Lytle (PHD, CE) Christian J Lytle (PHD, CE)
    4/30/24 10:00 AM
    Phosphate use for Sequestration, Anti-Scaling, and Corrosion Control: Critical Review, Simultaneous Optimization of Polyphosphate Dosing, Sequestration Mechanisms, and Stabilization of Magnesium Silicate Scale
    @ 440 Goodwin Hall
  • Sami Towsif Khan (PHD, BSE) Sami Towsif Khan (PHD, BSE)
    4/30/24 11:15 AM
    Impacts of stormwater management practices and climate change on flow regime and channel stability
    @ 108 Human & Ag Bio Science 1
  • Matthew Carrier (PHD, AE) Matthew James Carrier (PHD, AE)
    4/30/24 12:30 PM
    Coupling of the Magneto–Rayleigh-Taylor Instability to the Electrothermal Instability in Megaampere Pulsed-Power–Driven Implosions
    @ GENERAL Randolph Hall
  • Joseph Palazzolo (MARCH, ARCG) Joseph Robert Palazzolo (MARCH, ARCG)
    4/30/24 1:30 PM
    Architecture Destroyed by War: Rebuilding After Destruction
    @ 400 Cowgill Hall
  • Anthony Briganti (MSLFS, BCHM) Anthony Joseph Briganti (MSLFS, BCHM)
    4/30/24 2:00 PM
    Determining and Exploiting Common Interactions in the Peptidyl Transferase Center for Enhanced Derivative and Bidentate Design
    @ 3310 Torgersen Hall
  • Casey Brimmer (PHD, ASPT) Casey Anne Brimmer (PHD, ASPT)
    4/30/24 3:00 PM
    Creating a Pedagogy of the Full Self: Being and Inviting Full Selves Into Academia
    @ 201 Major Williams Hall
  • Sophia Vicente (PHD, ENGE) Sophia Vicente (PHD, ENGE)
    4/30/24 4:00 PM
    Exploring Programmatic Elements, Learning, and Sense of Belonging in an Engineering Internship Program
    @ 3022 Torgersen Hall
  • Daniel Stover (MS, CPE) Daniel James Stover (MS, CPE)
    5/1/24 9:00 AM
    General-Purpose Task Guidance from Natural Language in Augmented Reality using Vision-Language Models
    @ 011A Moss Arts Center
  • Samuel Beckenhauer (PHD, ASPT) Samuel Brian Beckenhauer (PHD, ASPT)
    5/1/24 10:00 AM
    The Politics of Conspiracy Theory and Control: Cybernetic Governmentality and the Scripted Political
    @ 427 Major Williams Hall
  • Dylan Longest (MS, EE) Dylan Henry Longest (MS, EE)
    5/1/24 10:00 AM
    Low-Power and High Precision Sensing Circuit for a Three-Channel Electrochemical Sensor
    @ 457A Whittemore Hall
  • Belladini Lovely (PHD, FPR) Belladini Lovely (PHD, FPR)
    5/1/24 11:00 AM
    Development of Cellulose-Titanium dioxide-Porphyrin Nanocomposite Films with High-barrier, UV-blocking, and Visible Light-Responsive Antimicrobial Features
    @ F Graduate Life Ctr
  • Ruth Aitken (MFA, ENCW) Ruth Elizabeth Aitken (MFA, ENCW)
    5/1/24 12:00 PM
    Good Morning, Forgotten Dream
    @ 403 Shanks Hall
  • Xiaona Zhou (MS, CSA) Xiaona Zhou (MS, CSA)
    5/1/24 12:00 PM
    Hierarchical Bayesian Dataset Selection
    @ 1100 Torgersen Hall
  • Cameron Braswell (MS, BIOL) Cameron Bryce Braswell (MS, BIOL)
    5/1/24 12:30 PM
    No title on record.
    @ 4069 Derring Hall
  • Abigail Chinn (PHD, CHEM) Abigail Frances Chinn (PHD, CHEM)
    5/1/24 1:00 PM
    Synthesis and Applications of Polysaccharide-Based Materials Using N-Thiocarboxyanhydrides and Polypeptides
    @ 225 Davidson Hall
  • Chia-Wei Tang (MS, CSA) Chia-Wei Tang (MS, CSA)
    5/1/24 1:00 PM
    M3D: Multimodal MultiDocument Fine-Grained Inconsistency Detection
    @ 1160 Torgersen Hall
  • Brett Pennington (MS, ME) Brett Kenneth Pennington (MS, ME)
    5/1/24 1:00 PM
    Frequency Response Modeling of AFSD Parts with Print Defects
    @ GENERAL Holden Hall
  • Lailee Delay (MS, CE) Lailee Alena Delay (MS, CE)
    5/1/24 1:00 PM
    Seasonal Variation of Flocculation in Freshwater Streams
    @ 200K Patton Hall
  • Jiayue Lin (MS, CSA) Jiayue Lin (MS, CSA)
    5/1/24 2:00 PM
    ImageSI: Interactive Deep Learning for Image Semantic Interaction
    @ 3160A Torgersen Hall
  • William Snyder (PHD, EM) William David Snyder (PHD, EM)
    5/1/24 2:00 PM
    Advancing Maternal Health through Projection-based and Machine Learning Strategies for Reduced Order Modeling
    @ 229 Norris Hall
  • Patarasuda Chaisupa (PHD, BSE) Patarasuda Chaisupa (PHD, BSE)
    5/1/24 2:30 PM
    Understanding and Engineering Chemically Activated Ubiquitin Ligases as a Biosensor for high-throughput detection and quantification of molecules in yeast
    @ 108 Human & Ag Bio Science 1
  • James Duval (MS, OCE) James Louis Duval (MS, OCE)
    5/2/24 9:00 AM
    No title on record.
    @ GENERAL Graduate Life Ctr
  • Fayu Chong (MS, FOR) Fayu Chong (MS, FOR)
    5/3/24 9:00 AM
    Reforestation Management to Prevent Ecosystem Collapse in Stochastic Deforestation
    @ 317A Julian Cheatham Hall
  • Morgan Oehler (MS, CE) Morgan Ashleigh Oehler (MS, CE)
    5/3/24 10:00 AM
    Watershed Scale Impacts of Floodplain Restoration on Nitrate Removal and the Practical Applications of Modeling Cumulative Floodplain Restoration Hydraulics
    @ 200K Patton Hall
  • Harshal Pilania (MFA, CTEC) Harshal Pilania (MFA, CTEC)
    5/3/24 12:00 PM
    Darśan - Dance for Kriśna
    @ 101 Henderson Hall
  • Carter Boyd (MS, GEOS) Carter Alexander Boyd (MS, GEOS)
    5/3/24 12:00 PM
    Quantifying the Size Distribution of Rivers Across Spatial Scales
    @ 4069 Derring Hall
  • Priyanka Bose (MS, GEOS) Priyanka Bose (MS, GEOS)
    5/3/24 1:00 PM
    Understanding Mercury's Thermochemical Evolution Using a Geochemical and Geophysical Lens
    @ GENERAL Derring Hall
  • Xuelong Mi (PHD, EE) Xuelong Mi (PHD, EE)
    5/6/24 9:00 AM
    Brain Signal Quantification and Functional Unit Analysis in Fluorescent Imaging Data by Unsupervised Learning
    @ 4-024 VT Research Ctr-Arlington
  • Hoang Anh Just (MS, CPE) Hoang Anh Just (MS, CPE)
    5/6/24 11:00 AM
    Fair and Efficient Data Valuation Methods for Machine Learning Models
    @ 302 Whittemore Hall
  • Logan Kelley (MS, ME) Logan Chaney Kelley (MS, ME)
    5/6/24 12:00 PM
    Bat Inspired Lifesize Ornithopter with Passive Lateral Wing Retraction
    @ 440 Goodwin Hall
  • Erin Boyle (MS, SOC) Erin Yafen Boyle (MS, SOC)
    5/6/24 1:00 PM
    Experiences of Community-Based Organizations in Preparing for and Responding to the August 2022 Flooding in Jackson, Mississippi
    @ 5 Performing Arts Building
  • Savannah Penven (MA, MCP) Savannah Kate Penven (MA, MCP)
    5/6/24 1:30 PM
    Feminist Curatorial Practices in Appalachian University Art Institutions
    @ 101A Henderson Hall
  • Dante Fuoco (MFA, ENCW) Dante Fuoco (MFA, ENCW)
    5/6/24 2:00 PM
    A King Dyed Pink is Doomed to Die
    @ 425 Shanks Hall
  • Seth Capizzi (MS, FPR) Seth Capizzi (MS, FPR)
    5/7/24 9:00 AM
    Evaluation of Unit Load Stability Under Dynamic Forklift Handling Conditions
    @ 102 Sardo Laboratory
  • Daryl Reed (MS, SOC) Daryl Reed (MS, SOC)
    5/7/24 10:00 AM
    No title on record.
    @ 209 Norris Hall
  • Violeta Perez Vera (MA, MCP) Violeta Estefania Perez Vera (MA, MCP)
    5/7/24 12:00 PM
    The Immediate Experience: Analyzing Contemporary Exhibition Spaces through Modern Theater Theory
    @ 101A Henderson Hall
  • Yash Mansharamani (MS, FPR) Yash Mansharamani (MS, FPR)
    5/7/24 1:00 PM
    Investigation into the Landfilling and Recovery of Wooden Pallets at Municipal Solid Waste and Construction & Demolition Facilities in the Continental United States
    @ 105 Sardo Laboratory
  • Mark Munson (MS, AE) Mark Allan Munson (MS, AE)
    5/8/24 1:00 PM
    Using the Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem to Design an Earth-Moon Orbit Architecture for Asteroid Mining
    @ 320 Norris Hall
  • Madeline Netto (MS, PSYC) Madeline Marie Netto (MS, PSYC)
    5/9/24 10:00 AM
    Fine-Grained Analyses of Multisensory Integration and Emerging Language in 24-Month-Olds
    @ 227 Williams Hall

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