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Author:: Dartey, Edwin
Title:: Southernizing Multilingualism: Rethinking Language, Philosophy, and Pedagogy in Ghanaian Classrooms
Graduate Program:: Applied Linguistics
Keywords:: Southern multilingualism
Translanguaging
Language-in-education policy
Multilingual education
Early-exit transitional bilingual education
Afro-communitarianism
Personhood
Fanon’s colonial subjectivity and psychopolitics of language
Linguistic repertoire
Classroom discourse
Committee Members:: Suresh Canagarajah, Major Field Member
Sinfree Makoni, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Deryn Verity, Major Field Member
Kidane Mengisteab, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tommaso Milani, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Ali, Aqsa
Title:: Microfinance: bibliometric analyses of the evolution of and themes in literature and comparative analyses of regulatory frameworks across nations
Graduate Program:: Public Administration
Keywords:: Microfinance
Accountability
Equity
Social Network Analysis
Bibliometric Analysis
legal frameworks
Commercialization
Profiteering
Committee Members:: Goktug Morcol, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Beckett-Camarata, Major Field Member
Eileen Ahlin, Program Head/Chair
Triparna Vasavada, Major Field Member
Nihal Bayraktar, Outside Unit & Field Member

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Author:: Mitch, Ryan
Title:: Oxygen-Deficient Metal Oxides and Thiol-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles as Model Ice Nucleating Particles
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: ice nucleation
functional groups
gold nanoparticles
aerosol particles
clouds
climate
mineral dust
metal oxides
adsorbate
spinels
defect engineering
Committee Members:: Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Jerry Harrington, Outside Unit & Field Member
James Hodges, Major Field Member
Miriam Freedman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Irakoze, Zilfa
Title:: Physiological and metabolomic characterization of biocontrol efficacy against toxigenic fungi: from Trichoderma strains to community-driven interventions
Graduate Program:: Food Science
Keywords:: Biocontrol
Plant extract
Biochemometrics
Ancestral knowledge
Aflatoxin
Mycotoxins
Aspergillus spp
Trichoderma spp.
Antifungal
Fusarium spp.
Volatile organic compounds
Antibiosis
International agriculture
Climate change
Abiotic stress
Outreach and extension
Community engagement
Metabolomics
Committee Members:: Paul Esker, Outside Unit & Field Member
Helene Hopfer, Major Field Member
Joshua Lambert, Major Field Member
Josephine Wee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Roberts, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Hancock, William
Title:: "Its History Is Written in Blood": The English Civil War in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 1829–1909
Graduate Program:: English
Keywords:: nineteenth-century
American
United States
literature
English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell
Charles I
Roundhead
Cavalier
regicides
Sir Walter Scott
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Alexander Caruthers
John Esten Cooke
Wilson J. Vance
Thomas Carlyle
Joel T. Headley
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
Committee Members:: Garrett Sullivan, Major Field Member
Claire Bourne, Major Field Member
Christina Snyder, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Marsh, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hester Blum, Special Member
Benjamin Schreier, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

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Author:: Sauder, Ruth
Title:: "Our biggest shield has been each other": Refugee-background students narrating belonging in higher education
Graduate Program:: Lifelong Learning and Adult Education
Keywords:: refugee-background students
oral history
belonging
higher education
Committee Members:: Esther Prins, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Holst, Co-Chair of Committee
Meredith Doran, Outside Field Member
Jacob Rieker, Outside Unit Member
Priya Sharma, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

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Author:: Tang, Zixin
Title:: "Your Language is Not My Language": Understanding Human Mechanisms and Machine Perceptions of Written Production Across Language Variations
Graduate Program:: Information Sciences and Technology
Keywords:: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Language Diversity
Large language models (LLMs)
Language variation
psycholinguistic
Committee Members:: Carleen Maitland, Program Head/Chair
Dongwon Lee, Major Field Member
Mahir Akgun, Major Field Member
Wenpeng Yin, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janet van Hell, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Huang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

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Author:: Cruz, Gabriel
Title:: A Biobehavioral Study On The Effects Of Inhibitory Control On Drinking
Graduate Program:: Biobehavioral Health
Keywords:: alcohol drinking
college students
fMRI
ecological momentary assessments
transdermal alcohol concentration.
transdermal alcohol concentration
Committee Members:: Thomas Gould, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Hakun, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eric Claus, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Samuel Baugh, Minor Field Member
Michael Russell, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Steven Branstetter, Major Field Member
Alexis Santos, Outside Field Member

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Author:: Pulhani, Rachit
Title:: A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Integrating Long-read Transcriptomics and Genomic Predictions to Annotate Immunoglobulin (ig) Loci
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Immunoglobulin gene annotation
adaptive immunity
V(D)J recombination
long-read transcriptomics
genomic–transcriptomic integration
novel gene discovery
immune repertoire diversity
Committee Members:: Yana Safonova, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Koslicki, Committee Member
Mahmut Kandemir, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Norman, Nicholas
Title:: A Climatology of Significantly Severe Hail in the Northeast United States from 2011-2022
Graduate Program:: Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Keywords:: hail
forcasting
forecasting techniques
mesoscale forecasting
operational forecasting
reanalysis data
ERA5
hodograph
skew-t
hail reports
statistical analysis
severe weather
climatology
doppler radar
dual-polarization
forensic meteorology
storm mode
tornado
large hail environments
SHIP
Northeast
Northeast US
Committee Members:: Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kelly Lombardo, Committee Member

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