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A doctorate degree represents one of the highest honors in academia. The 2020 Summer term’s Ph.D. graduates not only earned this honor, they did so with the extra stress of doing their work remotely. The College of Science recognizes and applauds the hard work applied to receive this degree.<\/p>\n
Ziyang Huang, Ph.D. Kathleen McCormac-Miller, Ph.D. Annelise Cunningham, Ph.D. Samuel Eckrich, Ph.D. Michael Gramlich, Ph.D.<\/strong> Madeline Marks, Ph.D. Rosanna Scott, Ph.D. Christopher Spencer, Ph.D. Brittany Stevenson, Ph.D. Chelsea Wiener, Ph.D. Juan Bogota, Ph.D.<\/strong>, Pooja Patel, Ph.D. Theresa Kessler, Ph.D.<\/strong> Betsir Zemen, Ph.D.<\/strong> Majid Noroozi, Ph.D. Ramchandra Rimal, Ph.D. Wei Yan, Ph.D.<\/strong> Wesley Chambers, Ph.D.<\/strong> Leos Pohl, Ph.D.<\/strong> Westley James, Ph.D. Justin Reyes, Ph.D.<\/strong> Chi Hong Yuen, Ph.D.<\/strong> Xiongwei Cao, Ph.D.<\/strong> Sandor Fabian, Ph.D. Joshua Lambert, Ph.D. Lain Graham, Ph.D.<\/strong> Corey Pomykacz, Ph.D.<\/strong> Alec Szalewski, Ph.D. Angela Vergara, Ph.D. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A doctorate degree represents one of the highest honors in academia. The 2020 Summer term’s Ph.D. graduates not only earned this honor, they did so with the extra stress of doing their work remotely. The College of Science recognizes and applauds the hard work applied to receive this degree. Chemistry Ziyang Huang, Ph.D. Faculty Advisor: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":26992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,34,35,38,40,12,18,14,22,5377,16,6492,28],"tags":[6239,6252,6253,6240,6250,6248,6249,6247,6255,6235,6227,6238,6229,6251,6254,6244,6230,6242,6245,6231,6246,6241,6234,6243,6232,6236,6237,6233,6228],"class_list":["post-26957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-biology-departments","category-chemistry-departments","category-breaking-news","category-graduate-student-news","category-mathematics","category-ps-phd-highlight","category-physics-departments","category-psychology-departments","category-research","category-political-science-departments","category-sociology-department","category-top-news","tag-dr-chi-hong-yuen","tag-dr-alec-szalewski","tag-dr-angela-vergara","tag-dr-annelise-cunningham","tag-dr-betsir-zemen","tag-dr-brittany-stevenson","tag-dr-chelsea-wiener","tag-dr-christopher-spencer","tag-dr-corey-pomykacz","tag-dr-joshua-lambert","tag-dr-juan-bogota","tag-dr-justin-reyes","tag-dr-kathleen-mccormac-miller","tag-dr-lain-graham","tag-dr-leos-pohl","tag-dr-madeline-marks","tag-dr-majid-noroozi","tag-dr-michael-gramlich","tag-dr-pooja-patel","tag-dr-ramchandra-rimal","tag-dr-rosanna-scott","tag-dr-samuel-eckrich","tag-dr-sandor-fabian","tag-dr-theresa-kessler","tag-dr-wei-yan","tag-dr-wesley-chambers","tag-dr-westley-james","tag-dr-xiongwei-cao","tag-dr-ziyang-huang"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Swadeshmukul Santra, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Magnesium based materials for crop protection and reduction of copper usage in the agricultural field<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Melanie Beazley, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: The Effects of Dissolved Oxygen on Phosphorus Cycling in Benthic Freshwater Systems<\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nClinical Psychology<\/h1>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Kristi Alexander, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: How is she managing? Examination of a woman’s emotion regulation strategy in the relationship between anxiety, depression, and prenatal attachment.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor, Mark Rapport, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Working memory in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: an investigation of short-term and central executive memory components using functional near-infrared spectroscopy.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFaculty Advisor, Sandra M. Neer, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Neurological Reactivity to Personalized Odors and Sounds in Combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Clint Bowers, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Habituation Trajectory During Exposure Therapy: Comparing Trauma Frequency and Trauma Type<\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Daniel Paulson, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Cognitive and vascular risk factors for depression: Testing an integrated theoretical framework<\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Bedwell, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Maladaptive personality traits and acute psychological distress in individuals with head and neck cancer<\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Robert Dvorak, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Loss of Control Eating as an Escape from Aversive Self-Awareness<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Cassisi, Ph.D.
\nCo-chair: Cerissa Blaney, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Brief Behavioral Health Intervention Program for Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease<\/em><\/p>\nConservational Biology<\/h1>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: William Crampton, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Biodiversity and Community Composition of Freshwater Fish Assemblages in the Lower Amazon<\/em><\/p>\nHuman Factors & Cognitive Psychology<\/h1>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Corey Bohil, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Impacts of State & Trait Anxiety on Category Learning<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Peter A. Hancock, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Neurophysiological Correlates for Trust in Robots<\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\nIndustrial Organizational Psychology<\/h1>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Clint Bowers, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Examining the Role of Item Scrolling in Mobile Cognitive Assessment<\/em><\/p>\nMathematics<\/h1>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Marianna Pensky, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Estimation and Clustering in Block Models<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Marianna Pensky, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Estimation and Clustering for network and indirect data<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Jiongmin Yong, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Mean Field Optimal Control and Related Problems<\/em><\/p>\nPlanetary Sciences Physics<\/h1>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Daniel T. Britt, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Experimental and Computational Investigation of Plume Surface Interactions in Vacuum Microgravity<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Daniel T. Britt, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: The Physical Properties of Asteroids<\/em><\/p>\nPhysics<\/h1>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Jacquelyn J. Chini, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Investigating the inclusiveness of STEM courses and reducing barriers by applying the universal design for learning framework<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Eduardo Mucciolo, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Tensor Network States: Optimizations and Applications in Quantum Many-Body Physics and Machine Learning<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Theoretical Studies of Collisions Involving Three Bodies and Electron-Molecule Collisions Relevant to Astrophysical and Atmospheric Conditions<\/em><\/p>\nSecurity Studies<\/h1>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Michael Mousseau, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Cute Panda or Evil Dragon? Market Economy, Conflict Behavior and China’s Peaceful Rise<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Andrew Boutton, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Improving Foreign Militaries \u2013 The Effects Of U.S. International Military Education and Training Programs<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Powell, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Food, Familiarity, and Forecasting: Modeling Coups with Computational Methods<\/em><\/p>\nSociology<\/h1>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Timothy Lee Hawthorne, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Mapping Sense of Place in Hopkins, Belize: Creating Spatial Narratives to Understand Development using Participatory GIS<\/em>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
\nFaculty Advisor: Jason Ford, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Marijuana Use Among Adults in the United States: Comparing Correlates of Use, Assessing the Impact of Education, and Evaluating Use and Health amid Justice-Involved Populations<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisors: Lin Huff-Corzine, Ph.D., and Amy Reckdenwald, Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Family Mass Homicide: An investigation<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Faculty Advisor: Fernando Rivera Ph.D.
\nDissertation: Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria: Responses to Trauma and Constructing a New Life in Central Florida<\/em><\/p>\n