Mr. Yachen Xie will take his oral comprehensive examination

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Nathan Moore
Peilei Fan (Planning, Design and Construction)
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Ms. Zihan Lin will present and defend her dissertation proposal

Title: Spatiotemporal modeling of dams and consequent impacts on the Mekong River Basin ecosystem.

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Committee members:
Jiaguo Qi
Yadu Pokhrel (College of Engineering)
Daniel Kramer (James Madison College)
Joseph P. Messina (College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama)

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Ms. Jovanka Nikolic will defend her dissertation

Title: Regional Climate Response to Land Use and Land Cover Change in Contiguous United States

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Committee:
Sharon Zhong (Chair)
Julie Winkler
Jeff Andresen
Phanikumar Mantha, College of Engineering
Joseph Charney,  US Forest Service

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Mr. Ken Camacho will defend his thesis

Title: SENTIMENT MAPPING: POINT PATTERN ANALYSIS OF SENTIMENT CLASSIFIED TWITTER DATA

The defense will consist of two steps:  a 30-60 minute uninterrupted presentation by the student summarizing the thesis research, and a subsequent two-stage questioning session.  All faculty and students are welcome to attend the presentation and to participate in the initial portion of the question session, which will be moderated by the Advisor.  The Advisor and Guidance Committee will ask questions in the second stage of this session.  Geography graduate students and other non-committee members may attend the second questioning stage with the permission of the defending student.

Committee:
Raechel Portelli (chair)
Ashton Shortridge
Bruno Takahashi (Journalism)

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Mr. Yuhao Wang will defend his thesis

Title:  Land Use Land Cover Change And Driver Detection of Urban Land Expansion In  Zhangye City, Northwest China

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Committee:
Jiaguo Qi (chair)
Ashton Shortridge
Peilei Fan (School of Planning, Design, and Construction)

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Ms. Cristina Gauthier-Hernandez will defend her thesis at the following date and time:

Title:  Dams in the Amazon: Social and Environmental Impacts on Basic Sanitation, People, and the Environment

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Committee:
Emilio Moran (chair)
Joseph P. Messina
David Hyndman (Earth and Environment)
Joan Bray Rose (Fisheries & Wildlife)

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Ms. Kyeesha Wilcox will defend her thesis.

Title:  EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOOD EFFECTS AND DIABETES, OBESITY AND LACK OF SLEEP OUTCOMES IN METROPOLITAN DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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Amber Pearson
Ashton Shortridge

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