Monday, April 30, 2007 – (4)  

9:00 a.m.   
Graduate School , Room 101 
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059

Candidate:  Mr. Solomon Arefaine Berhe
Department of Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Jason S. Matthews

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Oladapo Bakare
Dissertation Title:  “Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Imido-Substituted 1,4-Naphthoquinone 
                              and Indazole-Dione Derivatives”
 

1:00 p.m.        
Graduate School , Room 205 
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059

Candidate:  Ms. Carla Brailey
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Ivor Livingston

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Ralph Gomes
Dissertation Title:  “A Critical Analysis of Black Preachers’ Sermons in the Electronic-Digital Age from 1980
                             to 2005:  A Quest for Social Change”
 

Monday, April 30, 2007 – Continued

1:00 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 101
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, D C  20059

Candidate:  Mr. Abraham Merritt Smith
Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Selwyn H. H. Carrington

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Vincent C. Peloso
Dissertation Title:  “Todo Una Raza Entro En La Mala Vida:” Crime in Cuba 1880-1895
 

4:00 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 205
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, D C  20059

Candidate:  Mr. Neba Vincent Funiba
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Art s a nd Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Walda Katz-Fishman

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Ralph Gomes
Dissertation Title:  “Underlying Causes of Poverty in Cameroon , 1916 to 2004: A Historical Materialist
                              Approach”
 

Tuesday, May 1, 2007 - (1)
 

11:00 a.m.
School of Education
Academic Support Building A, Room 115
Howard University
Washington, D C  20059

Candidate:  Ms.  Daphney V. Denerville
Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Constance Ellison

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. A. Wade Boykin
Dissertation Title:  “Vernacular Features and Writing Performance Among African American
                              Fifth Graders”
 

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 (1)

11:00 a.m.
Graduate School , Room 101
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, D C  20059

Candidate:  Ms. Maria Mboono Nghidinwa
Department of Mass Communication and Media Studies
School of Communications
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Anju Chaudhary

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Carolyn M. Byerly
Dissertation Title:  “The Role of Women Journalists in Namibia ’s Liberation Struggle,
                             1985-1990”
 

Thursday, May 3, 2007 (2)

9:00 a.m.
Graduate School , Room 101
Howard University
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059

Candidate:  Ms. Deborah Ward
Department of Genetics and Human Genetics
College of Medicine
Committee Chairperson: Dr. Hassan Ashktorab

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Verle Headings
Dissertation Title:  “Functional genomic analysis of malaria infection in rhesus macaques”

4:00 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 205
Howard University
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059

Candidate:  Mr.  David H. Graham
Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
School of Education
Committee Chairperson: Dr. Constance Ellison

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Sylvan Alleyne
Dissertation Title:  “Parental Involvement in the Education of Secondary School Children in Barbados :  An
                             Examination of Family and School Contexts on Classroom Motivation”


Friday, May 4, 2007 (2)

10:00 a.m.
Graduate School , Room 101
Howard University
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059

Candidate:  Mr. Ainsley A. Gibson
Department of Chemistry
College of Arts and Science
Committee Chairperson: Dr. Vernon R. Morris

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. John A. W. Harkless
Dissertation Title:  “Electronic Structure Properties of the 3^rd-Block Transition Metals using
                              Ab Initio, DFT and Quantum Monte Carlo Methods”
 

1:00 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 205
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington , D C   20059

Candidate:  Mr.  Michael Aaron Smith
Department of Microbiology
College of Medicine
Committee Chairperson: Dr. Georgia Dunston

Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Paulett Furbert-Harris
Dissertation Title:  “Oncogene Expression in Proliferative Zones of Multicellular Prostate Tumor
                              Spheroids in Response to Eosinophil Major Basic Protein (MBP)”