Monday, April 2, 2007 – ( 2 )  

12:30 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 205 
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059  

Candidate: Mr. Alvin Smith
Department of Microbiology
College of Medicine
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. John T. Stubbs
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Chad Womack

Dissertation Title:  “The Role of Leukocyte Specific protein-1in DC SIGN Mediated HIV-1 Entry and Trafficking in Dendritic Cells”

2:00 p.m.        
Graduate School , Room 101 
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059  

Candidate:  Mr. Babacar Dieng
Department of English
College of Art s a nd Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Dana A.Williams
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Evelyn Hawthorne

Dissertation Title:  “The Emergence of Postcolonialism in Mdi-Century Novels of the African Diaspora:  A
Study”

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 – (2)

8:00 a.m.
Graduate School , Room 101 
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059  

Candidate:  Mr. Uche Charles Udeochu
Department of Chemistry
College of Art s a nd Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Oladapo Bakare
Dissertation Advisor:  Charles M. Hosten

Dissertation Title:  “Investigation of the Orientation and Electrochemistry of Iron (III) tetrakis
(N,N,N-trimethy1-4-aniliniumyl) Porphyrin and 1,10-Phenanthroline-5,6-dione using Surface
Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations”
   

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

Candidate:  Ms. Carol Ann Hedgspeth
Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
School of Education
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Constance Ellison
Dissertation Advisor:  Veronica G. Thomas

Dissertation Title:  “The Path to Persistence toward the Ph.D. Degree:  Testing a Structural Model”


Wednesday, April 4, 2007 - ( 2 )

  2:00 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 101
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, D C  20059  

Candidate:  Ms. Majda Ramadan Atieh
Department of English
College of Art s a nd Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Dana A. Williams
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Eleanor W. Traylor

Dissertation Title:  “The African American Tafsir (Interpretation) of the Islamic Harem:  Female
Resistance in Morrison’s Paradise ”

 
2:00 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 205
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, D C  20059

Candidate:  Ms. Francine Toliver Edwards
Department of Communication and Culture
School of Communications
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Richard L. Wright
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Melbourne S. Cummings

Dissertation Title:  “The Leader-Member Communication Dyad:   An Investigation of Workplace Communication Between African American Supervisor s a nd Employees”

Thursday, April 5, 2007 -  (3)  

9:30 a.m.
Graduate School , Room 205
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, D C  20059  

Candidate:  Mr. Debay Tadesse
Department of African Studies
College of Art s a nd Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Sulayman Nyang
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Wilfred L. David

Dissertation Title:  “The Regional Dimensions of Ethiopia’s Economic and Social Development with Special Reference to the Nile River ”

  2:00 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 205
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, D C  20059  

Candidate:  Ms. Kami Jamila Carey
Department of Communication and Culture
School of Communications
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Melbourne S. Cummings
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Richard L. Wright

Dissertation Title:  “The Shifting Character of Social and Ethnic Identity Among African American Sojourners”

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

Candidate:  Mr. Waly Diouf
Department of English
College of Art s a nd Sciences
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Eleanor Traylor
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Dana A.Williams

Dissertation Title:  “Rites of Identity and Stages of Postcolonial Consciousness in Richard Wright ’s Native Son and Ayi Kwe Armah’s Fragments”

Friday, April 6, 2007-  ( 1 )

 3:00 p.m.
Graduate School , Room 101
Howard University
4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
Washington , D C   20059
 
Candidate:  Ms. Marnel Nichole Niles
Department of Communication and Culture
School of Communications
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Melbourne S. Cummings
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Anne M. Nicotera

Dissertation Title:  “Safe Space:  A Small Group Perspective on Black Women Friendships”