2025 Doctoral Degree Candidates
Name Degree Program Graduation Dissertation Title
Adebola Opeyemi Adesina Doctor of Philosophy Education August 2025 Examining Influential Factors on the success of Project Management in Education: A Content Analysis
Kelsey Marie Allen Doctor of Philosophy Neuroscience August 2025 Measurement of a natural visual orienting behavior in mice enhances the utility of mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders
Eberechukwu Olivia Aniche Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice August 2025
Kian S. Assemi Doctor of Philosophy Psychology December 2025 Revisiting the Measurement and Analysis of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure at the Individual Organism Level
Robert William Baker III Doctor of Philosophy Chemical Physics August 2025 Synthesis and Thermodynamics of Novel Materials for Advanced Manufacturing
Anithakrithi Balaji Doctor of Philosophy Biomedical Engineering August 2025 Amperometric Characterization of Nanosecond Electric Pulse-Evoked Exocytosis in Adrenal Chromaffin Cells: Custom Experimental Setup and Spike Detection Software
Sushila Baral Doctor of Philosophy Cellular and Molecular Biology December 2025 Regulatory and Virulence Mechanisms in the Human Bacterial Pathogen the Group A Streptococcus: Dissecting sRNA Function and Mobile Genetic Element Dynamics
Nicole Marie Beaulieu Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science and Engineering December 2025
Jeffery Best Doctor of Philosophy Geography August 2025 Advancing UAV-Based Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Ecological Monitoring, Habitat Disturbance Detection, and Forensic Science in Arid Landscapes
Monika Bharti Doctor of Philosophy Education August 2025 Teaching Writing to Multilingual Learners of English (MLE): Pre-Service Teachers' Experiences in a Practicum Context
Arnab Biswas Doctor of Philosophy Neuroscience December 2025
Jordana K. Blazek, PhD Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science and Engineering December 2025
Sheila Bridges Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice August 2025
Rocky Steven Brockway Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology December 2025
Zara Rose Browne Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology December 2025
Terina O. Caserto Doctor of Philosophy Education August 2025 An Exploration of the Effect of Instructor Type and Location on Dual Enrollment Course Outcomes
Robert P. Chastain Doctor of Philosophy Statistics and Data Science August 2025 Multivariate Random Events Driven by Truncated Exponential Observations
Luis Chavez Doctor of Philosophy Public Health (Social and Behavioral Health) August 2025 Social Capital as a Mediator of Housing Instability and Distress Among California Latino Populations: A Multi-Sample Multi-Year Analysis
Uriel Cholula Rivera Doctor of Philosophy Environmental Sciences and Health August 2025 Assessing the effects of deficit irrigation on alfalfa grown in Northern Nevada
Victoria Chow Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Tara Christensen Doctor of Philosophy Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology August 2025 How interactions with plants influence butterfly responses to environmental stressors: from pathogens to climate change
Talitha Kamakamakamae Nawahielua Aweau Ho'okala-Richards Doctor of Philosophy Chemistry December 2025
Heather Marie Crain Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Shawon Dey Doctor of Philosophy Electrical Engineering August 2025 Hierarchical Game Theory based Control for Large Scale Multi-Agent Systems: A Hybrid Reinforcement Learning Approach
Christine B. Emmons Doctor of Philosophy Education December 2025 Active Learning in Undergraduate (Micro)Biology Courses
William Lewis Eubanks III Doctor of Philosophy Chemistry December 2025
Gaetano Roberti Evangelista Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science and Engineering December 2025 Enhancing Infrastructure Monitoring with Calibrated Vision Language Model Ensembles: A Graffiti Detection Case Study
Madison Taylor Fenner Doctor of Philosophy Neuroscience December 2025
Chiara Ferrari Doctor of Philosophy Psychology December 2025 Systemic Factors Related to Transitioning Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders to Less Restrictive Educational Settings
Chase Fiore Doctor of Philosophy Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology August 2025 Multifaceted Role of Sympathetic Influence in the Heart
Cristian Eric Franco Doctor of Philosophy Biochemistry December 2025 Biophysical and Biochemical Modulation of Cerebral Capillary Blood Flow: Effects of Lipids, Cholesterol, and Drag-Reducing Polymers on Capillary Function
Beverly Bovey Garber Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice August 2025
Weylin Gilbert Doctor of Philosophy Environmental Sciences and Health December 2025
Galen Michael Arthur Gorelangton Doctor of Philosophy English December 2025 Shin Buddhism as Disability Rhetoric
Grace Greenstein Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Travis Dell Griffin Doctor of Philosophy Physics December 2025 Direct Experimental Temperature Diagnostics of High-Temperature Solids in Extreme Conditions
Fei Guan Doctor of Philosophy Civil and Environmental Engineering December 2025 Pedestrian Safety and Level of Service at Uncontrolled Crossings - Advanced Data to Enhance Evaluations
Timothy Patrick Hannon Doctor of Philosophy Judicial Studies December 2025 Outer Space Mining and the Future of Space Law
Shannon Colleen Hartmann Doctor of Philosophy Political Science August 2025 MAPPING TERROR: EXPLORATORY SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS AND THE LOCAL DYNAMICS OF TERRORISM IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE PHILIPPINES
Theodore Elliott Hartsook Doctor of Philosophy Natural Resources and Environmental Science August 2025 Three-dimensional wildland fuel mapping with remote sensing and machine learning
Majid Hassani Doctor of Philosophy Chemical Physics December 2025 From Pulses to Pathways: Unveiling Molecular Motion and Energy Landscapes with 2D IR Spectroscopy
Megan K. Hellum Doctor of Philosophy Education December 2025
Tony Heng Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice August 2025
Samantha Hoeper Doctor of Philosophy Public Health (Social and Behavioral Health) December 2025
Elijah John Holschbach Doctor of Philosophy Biochemistry December 2025
Kara Anne Wood Doctor of Philosophy Social Psychology August 2025 Message Framing, Source, and Personality in Older Adults' Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions with AI-driven Healthcare Treatment Recommendations
Kendra Briana Isable Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology December 2025 “From Sun Up to Sun Down”: A Bioarchaeological Study of Stress and Community Care Practices During Chattel Slavery in Colonial New Amsterdam (New York City).
Roshni Jain Doctor of Philosophy Cellular and Molecular Biology December 2025
Md Tasmirul Jalil Doctor of Philosophy Mechanical Engineering August 2025 Microcantilever Spectroscopy: Experimental Parameter Estimation through Near-Surface Hydrodynamics, and Label-Free Mass Sensing via Nodal-Line Manipulation
Lauren E. Jones Doctor of Philosophy Neuroscience December 2025
Jon F. Kadas Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Alireza Kamran Pishhesari Doctor of Philosophy Mineral Resources Engineering December 2025
Sampada Karandikar Doctor of Philosophy Social Psychology August 2025 Affluenza: Scale Construction and Validation, Association with Dark Personality Traits, and Potential Role in Perpetration of White Collar Crime
Ericka R. Kay Doctor of Philosophy Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology August 2025 Ecological Perspectives on Cannabis sativa Phytochemistry: Biotic Interactions and Abiotic Stress in Managed and Natural Systems
Jennifer Marie Kimberlain Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Mia Rae Kirk Doctor of Philosophy Public Health (Social and Behavioral Health) August 2025 Harm reduction vending machines: Exploring and improving acceptability of a low barrier approach to reducing drug related harms
Sridhar Lanka Doctor of Philosophy Materials Science and Engineering December 2025
Julissa J. Larios Rodriguez Doctor of Philosophy Civil and Environmental Engineering August 2025 Evaluation of Recycled Plastics in Asphalt Mixtures
Garrett Larson Doctor of Philosophy Chemistry August 2025 Chemical Synthesis of Scytonemin and Structural Derivatives for Elucidating Photoprotective Mechanisms in Cyanobacteria
Stuart M. Law Doctor of Philosophy Psychology August 2025 An Early Evaluation of a Radically Individualized and Functional Approach to Assessment and Intervention for Individuals with Emergent Verbal Repertoires
Amber D. Lee Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Samantha Charlotte Lee Doctor of Philosophy Neuroscience December 2025 Face perception, divided attention, and fMRI decoding of socially relevant face information
Mackenzie Noel Leis Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Natalie F. Leslie Fournier Doctor of Philosophy Psychology December 2025 Evaluation of the Cortical Subplate in Autism Using Postmortem Tissue and Machine Learning as an Indicator of Long-Range Connectional Alterations in Development.
Cameron Keegan Locke Doctor of Philosophy Chemistry August 2025 Nonlinear Mechanics and Applications of Bipyridine-Based Associative Polymer Networks
Austin Perry Lopez Doctor of Philosophy Mechanical Engineering August 2025 Flies, Data, Robots: Insect-Inspired Flight Strategies for Robust UAV Navigation in GPS Denied Environments
Kelly Loria Doctor of Philosophy Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology August 2025 Aquatic Ecosystem Function Under Climate Stress: Linking Hydroclimate Volatility to Biogeochemical Responses in Streams and Lakes
Erick L. Luerken Doctor of Philosophy Statistics and Data Science August 2025 A Vector Generalized Linear Model for Trivariate Stochastic Episodes with Pareto and Geometric Marginals
Hudson S. Lynam Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science and Engineering August 2025 AN ANALYSIS OF VISUAL ELEMENTS OF NAVIGATION IN AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITIES
Christopher J. Mallon Doctor of Philosophy Chemical Physics August 2025 Remaining Unperturbed by the Vibrational Response: Probing Vibrational Coupling, Relaxation, and Solvent Effects with 2D IR Spectroscopy
Jake Quiambao Manalansan Doctor of Philosophy Neuroscience August 2025 Perception of Warm and Cool Colors
Bridget Martinez Doctor of Philosophy Basque Studies December 2025 Bloodlines and Boundaries: How the Basque Genome Challenges One-Size-Fits-All Medicine
Lawrence Mcentee Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice August 2025
Jeremy McFarland Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology December 2025 Indigenous Marine Management Systems in Northwest California: The Archaeology and Implications of Indigenous Stewardship Practices for Modern Marine Conservation and Restoration
Emily Louise McGinty Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice August 2025
Ghazal Mehdizadeh Doctor of Philosophy Atmospheric Science August 2025 Investigating Snowfall Enhancement through Cloud Seeding: A Microphysical Modeling and Remote Sensing Approach
Nina Mikhaylovna Miller Doctor of Philosophy Geophysics December 2025
Zachary Joseph Minaker Doctor of Philosophy Physics December 2025 Shock Waves in Gas and Plasma in Strong Magnetic Fields
Kellen Robert Mitchell Doctor of Philosophy Mechanical Engineering December 2025 Interface-engineered Additive Manufacturing of Thermoplastic Polymers:Printing Technique and Material Design for End-use Manufacturing
Gabriella Mizell Doctor of Philosophy Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology August 2025 The influence of biotic interactions on carbon allocation in a dominant savanna ant-plant
Teresa Jeannine Moiola Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Kelsey Molina Miller Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Soroush Najafi Doctor of Philosophy Electrical Engineering August 2025 ROBUST AND ADAPTIVE VOLT-VAR AND DEMAND RESPONSE STRATEGIES FOR ACTIVE DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS UNDER COMPLEX UNCERTAINTIES
Daria Nakritskaia Doctor of Philosophy Chemical Physics December 2025
Melvis Esanyoh Ngalla-Oluka Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice August 2025
Emer Ni Bhraonain Doctor of Philosophy Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology December 2025 Characterization of interstitial cells and their role as regulators of motility and neural pathways in the esophageal region.
Marja-Lisa Rose Paulson Doctor of Philosophy Economics December 2025 Capturing Elusive Metrics in Economics
Cong Peng Doctor of Philosophy Biomedical Engineering December 2025 A Cost-Effective, High-Performance and Bioinspired Pulse Sensor for Quantitative Assessment of Arterial Stiffness
David Perez Guerra Doctor of Philosophy Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology December 2025 Adaptive Disruption of Carotenoid Metabolism in Cavefish via Loss of Beta-carotene oxygenase 2a (Bco2a)
Jessica Marie Peterson Doctor of Philosophy Mechanical Engineering December 2025
Erin Phillips Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
Devon A. Picklum Doctor of Philosophy Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology December 2025
Sammelan Pokharel Doctor of Philosophy Civil and Environmental Engineering December 2025
Sanjeevan Pradhan Doctor of Philosophy Political Science August 2025 Tough Sell: Rising Powers, Domestic Legitimation and Costly International Initiatives
Phillip Alexander Pratt Doctor of Philosophy Mathematics December 2025 From Boussinesq Equation to Porous Medium Equation: Analytical Extensions and Structural Reformulations in Nonlinear Groundwater Flow
Swathi Cheema Ragulan Doctor of Philosophy Psychology August 2025 An Evaluation of the Effect of Treatment Integrity Errors and Observation Conditions on the Accuracy and Reliability of Data Collection
Md Hafizur Rahman Doctor of Philosophy Mechanical Engineering December 2025 Understanding the electrification-driven lubrication mechanism of phosphonium ionic liquids to enhance the degradation resistance of electric vehicle components
Alexandar P. Rollings Doctor of Philosophy Physics December 2025
Yu Rong Doctor of Philosophy Business Administration August 2025 Followers' Moral Experience of Servant Leadership as an Antecedent of Unethical Pro-organizational Behaviors
Jessica Rowland Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice December 2025
David Kofi Saah Doctor of Philosophy Statistics and Data Science August 2025 Flexible Statistical Models for Imprecise and Uncertain Data: A New Generalization Approach
Seyed Mahmoud Sajjadi Mohammadabadi Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science and Engineering December 2025 Distributed Machine Learning in Heterogenous Edge Neworks
Abigail Grace Sandquist Doctor of Philosophy Hydrology August 2025 Effect of Vegetation Structure on Evapotranspiration and the Prediction of Evapotranspiration
Hailey Schollnick Doctor of Philosophy Chemistry August 2025 Design and Synthesis of water-soluble P,N-Ligands for coordination to Ruthenium centers: Applications in Aqueous atom transfer radical addition and aqueous nitrile hydration
Arko Pratim Sen Doctor of Philosophy Physics December 2025 Search for exotic physics modality in multi-messenger astronomy with the Global Positioning System
Tracy L. Shane Doctor of Philosophy Animal and Rangeland Sciences August 2025 Remote-sensing and statistical approaches to evaluating landscape changes associated with targeted livestock grazing
Mohammed Idris Shareef Doctor of Philosophy Neuroscience December 2025 Temporal dynamics and perceptual consequences of face adaptation
Tina Slowan-Pomeroy Doctor of Philosophy Education December 2025 Integration of Lecture and Laboratory with Implementation of Active Learning Techniques in an Undergraduate Microbiology Course
Samuel Z. Smith Doctor of Philosophy Political Science August 2025 Governance of Information Markets: Elite Interviews for High-Risk Domains & Recommended Policy Regulatory Solutions
Kevin Dean Springer Doctor of Nursing Practice Nursing Practice August 2025
Gunner N. Stone Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science and Engineering December 2025 Toward Interpretable, Data-Driven Frameworks for 3D Point-Cloud Analysis in Forest Ecology
Hamid Taghavi Ganji Doctor of Philosophy Civil and Environmental Engineering August 2025 On machine-learning based surrogate modeling of soil-structure interaction problems
Zarmish Tariq Doctor of Philosophy Education December 2025
Kaitlyn Anne Thomas Doctor of Philosophy Engineering Education December 2025 Epistemic (In)justice Toward Women in Engineering
Angela Manka Tita Doctor of Philosophy Mineral Resources Engineering December 2025
Xiangxiang Wang Doctor of Philosophy Mathematics August 2025 Geometric Properties of Grassmannians and Color Image Set Recognition Using Quaternionic Grassmannians
Ziru Wang Doctor of Philosophy Civil and Environmental Engineering December 2025 Large-scale Roadway Element Automatically Extraction
Mariana Jordan Webb Doctor of Philosophy Hydrology August 2025 Advancing Understanding of Atmospheric River Flood Hazards: From Antecedent Conditions to Social Vulnerability
Tianlu Wei Doctor of Philosophy Cellular and Molecular Biology December 2025 Investigation of the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which YPEL regulates synaptic function
Mackenzie Victoria Wise Doctor of Philosophy Psychology December 2025 Exercise-Induced Modulation of Early Visual Responses in Humans