
Dissertation Defenses
Listing of current doctoral dissertation defenses below and archives. Information includes candidate name, degree, department, title, committee, date of defense, and abstract
Candidate: Jeffrey M. Leslie
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Correlates of Teachers’ Job Satisfaction: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling Study Using 2003-2004 Schools and Staffing Survey
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
3208 Sangren
Hall
Candidate: Annie Tordilla
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Statistics
Title: A Two-Sample Adaptive Procedure Based on the Log-Rank and Peto and Peto’s Wilcoxon Tests
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
6625 Everett Tower
Candidate: David Joseph Piacenti
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Sociology
Title: The Ethnic Identity of Returning Immigrants to a Pueblo in Yucatán
Date: Friday, September 11, 2009 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
2526 Sangren
Hall
Candidate: Eileen M. Willits
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Can We Get Nurses to Stay? A Qualitative Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Formal Mentoring Program in an Acute Care Health System
Date: Monday, September 21, 2009 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
3208 Sangren
Hall
Candidate: Anne Cullen
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation
Title: The Politics and Consequences of Stakeholder Participation in International Development Evaluation
Date: Friday, September 25, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
4410 The Evaluation Center, Ellsworth
Hall
Candidate: Tina K. Head
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: Evaluation of Medication Effects on Academic Performance, Sleep, and Core ADHD Symptoms in Children
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
3723 Wood
Hall
Candidate: Charles Pearson
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Understanding the Impact of the Kalamazoo Promise from the Perspectives of Parents and Community Group Members
Date: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
3208 Sangren
Hall
Candidate: Tererai Mafukidze Trent
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation
Title: Metaevaluation of HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention Evaluations in Sub-Saharan Africa with a Specific Emphasis on Implications for Women and Girls
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
4410 Ellsworth
Hall
Candidate: Tomislav Bujanovic
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: Spatial Frequency Localization in Mammograms Using Wavelets
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
B-122 Parkview Campus
Candidate: Lori A. Wingate
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation
Title: The Program Evaluation Standards Applied for Meta-evaluation Purposes: Investigating Interrater Reliability and its Implications for Use
Date: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:00 a.m. - Noon
4405 Ellsworth Hall
Candidate: Roger W. Apple
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
Title: Adolescents’ Experience of the Factors Influencing Their Diabetes Treatment Regimen
Date: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
3208 Sangren
Hall
Candidate: Stephanie A. Combs
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Title: Effects of Body Weight Supported Treadmill Training on Motor Performance, Task Accomplishment and Participation in Persons with Chronic Stroke
Date: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2073 College of Health and Human Services
Candidate: Jason Paul Olsen
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: English
Title: Neon Allegiance
Date: Friday, October 16, 2009 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
3025 Brown
Hall
Candidate: Laura L. Grow
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: A Comparison of Methods for Teaching Auditory-Visual Conditional Discriminations to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
1509 Wood
Hall
Candidate: Michelle Ann Bakerson
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Persistence and Success: A Study of Cognitive, Social, and Institutional Factors Related to Retention of Kalamazoo Promise Recipients at Western Michigan University
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
204 Bernhard Center
Candidate: Richard H. Fowler
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Comparing Indigenous and External Rural Teachers: Beliefs, Origins of Beliefs, and Expectations
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
3306 Sangren
Hall
Candidate: Mina Zadeh
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: The Evaluation Center
Title: Evaluating Country, State, and Local Emergency Preparedness Plans through Conducting Exercises
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
4410 Ellsworth
Hall
Candidate: Breanne K. Hartley
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: A Molecular Analysis of Training with Multiple versus Single Manipulations to Establish a Generalized Manipulative Imitation Repertoire
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
2734 Wood
Hall
Candidate: Richard F. Goosen
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Longitudinal Study of Factors Impacting the Implementation of Notebook Computer Based CAD Instruction
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
3008 Beltline Campus - Grand Rapids
Candidate: Kerisa A Myers
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Child Care Centers on Higher Education Campuses: Internal and External Roles and Director Leadership
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
3008 Beltline Campus - Grand Rapids
Candidate: Angela P. Hatcher
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Psychology
Title: An Evaluation of a Sexual Assault Education Program
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
3715 Wood
Hall
Candidate: Miki Koyama
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
Title: The Collective Voices of Asian International Doctoral Students in Counseling Psychology in the U.S.: Recom-mendations for Faculty and Training Programs
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
3306 Sangren
Hall
Candidate: Jon L. Shaffer
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology
Title: Role of Residence Hall Staff in Offering Early Warning Academic Intervention
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Ferris State University FLITE 133
Candidate: Gretchen Rumohr Voskuil
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: English
Title: Adoption and Integration of Best Practice Methods in Secondary English Teaching
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
2033 Brown
Hall
Candidate: Wilson Okumu
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Chemistry
Title: The Lipid Acyl-Chain Dynamics in Giant Liposomes and Characterization of Domain 4 of the Wilson Disease Protein
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
2734 Wood
Hall
Candidate: Ronald Pimentel
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Statistics
Title: Kendall’s Tau and Spearman’s Rho for Zero Inflated Data
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
6625 Everett Tower
Candidate: Chaoli Cai
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Computer Science
Title: Anomaly Detection Techniques for Ad Hoc Networks
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
D210 Parkview Campus
Candidate: Daniel M. Huber
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology
Title: The Scholarly Activity Predictor Model among Counseling Psychology Doctoral Students: A Modification and Extension
Date: Monday, November 23, 2009 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
3306 Sangren
Hall
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