• Monday, March 5, 2007 – No defenses scheduled  
  

• Tuesday, March 6, 2007 – No defenses scheduled  
  

• Wednesday, March 7, 2007 – No defenses scheduled  
  

• Thursday, March 8, 2007 
  10:00 a.m.
  Graduate School , Room 101
  Howard University
  4^th & College Streets, N.W.
  Washington , D C   20059  
  
  Candidate: Ms. TyWanda McLaurin-Jones
  Department of Psychology

  Dissertation Title: African-American Parenting: Does It Delay Tobacco Smoking Initiation?

   

  Friday, March 9, 2007 – No defenses scheduled  

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• Monday, February 12, 2007 – No defenses scheduled  

• Tuesday, February 13, 2007 – 1 defense scheduled  

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

             Candidate:   Ms. Jennifer Louise Jones
             Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
             School of Communications
             Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Jay R. Lucker
             Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Dennis Drayna
             Dissertation Title:  “The Relationship Between Deficits in Musical Pitch Recognition and Auditory   
                                                   Processing Abilities”
 

• Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - No defenses scheduled

• Thursday, February 15, 2007 - No defenses scheduled

• Friday, February 16, 2007 - No defenses scheduled

•   Friday, December 1, 2006 – (1)  

            10:00 a.m.
            Graduate School , Room 101
            4^th & College Streets,  N.W.
            Howard University
            Washington, D C  20059  
 
            Candidate:  Ms. Rachel M. Anderson Droogsma
            Department of Communication & Culture
            School of Communications
            Dissertation Chairperson:  Dr. Richard Wright
            Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. William J. Starosta
            Dissertation Title:  “He Might of Cracked My Spirit, but He Never Broke It”:  A Feminist Standpoint
                                         Analysis of Woman Abuse Survivors’ Messages in The Clothesline Project”

• Monday, December 4, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  
  

• Tuesday, December 5, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  
  

• Wednesday, December 6, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  
  

• Thursday, December 7, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  
  

• Friday, December 8, 2006 – (2)  

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

            Candidate:  Mr. Simeao Hilario Joao
            Department of Mathematics
            College of Arts & Sciences
            Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Toka Diagana
            Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Louis W. Shapiro
            Dissertation Title:  “Combinatorial Interpretation of Catalan Identities and Extensions to Ternary
                                         Analogues of Catalan Generating Function”

            10:00 a.m.  

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

            Candidate:  Mr. Neville Anthony Tomlinson
            Department of Mechanical Engineering
          College of Engineering , Architecture and Computer Sciences
            Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Lewis Thigpen
            Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. H. A. Whitworth
            Dissertation Title:  “Determination of Contact Stress Distribution in Pin Loaded Orthothropic Plates”

            Monday, December 11, 2006 – 1 defense
            3:00 p.m.
           Graduate School , Room 101
            4^th & College Streets, N.W.
            Howard University
            Washington , D C   20059

            Candidate:  Ms. Abena N. Brown-Elhillali
            Department of Psychology
            College of Arts and Sciences
            Dissertation Chairperson:  Dr. A. Wade Boykin
            Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Jules P. Harrell
            Dissertation Title:  “Cardiovascular Reactivity and Attentional Bias in Anxiety”  

  Tuesday, December 12, 2006 – 1 defense
  11:00 a.m.
  Graduate School , Room 101
  4^th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington , D C   20059  

  Candidate:  Ms. Sheketha Renay Hauser
  Department of Psychology
  College of Arts and Sciences
  Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Jules P. Harrell
  Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Yousef Tizabi
  Dissertation Title:  “The Effects of Nicotine on Behavior, Proinflammatory Cytokines, 
  and Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor in an Animal Model of Depression”  

    Wednesday, December 13, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  

    Thursday, December 14, 2006 – No defenses scheduled    

    Friday, December 15, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  

   Monday, November 6, 2006
  10:00 a.m.
   Graduate School , Room 101
   4^th & College Streets, N.W.
   Howard University
   Washington , D C   20059

Candidate:  Ms. Darla Mae Scott 
Department of Psychology 
College of Arts and Sciences  
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Jules Harrell
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. A. Wade Boykin  
Dissertation Title:  “The Impact of Background Stimulation and Variability
        on Academically Relevant Outcomes for Low Income African American Students”
    
      

Friday, November 3, 2006    

10:00 a.m.  
Graduate School , Room 205
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington , D C   20059  

Candidate:  Mr. Olanrewaju Aluko
Department of Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering , Architecture and Computer Sciences
Dissertation Title:  “A Compact Analytic Method for Stress Distribution in Composite Pinned Joints”
Committee Chairperson:  Dr.  Lewis Thigpen
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Horace A. Whitworth

• November 27, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  

• Tuesday, November 28, 2006 – (1)

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

         Candidate:  Ms. Bernadette Eudora Levine
         Department of Economics
         College of Arts and Sciences
         Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Ransford Palmer
         Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Satish Wadhawan
         Dissertation Title:  “Capital Mobility:  Implications for Monetary Policy”  

• Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - (3)  

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

          Candidate:  Mr. Fonya Nzeffe
          Department of Physics & Astronomy
          College of Arts and Sciences
          Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Walter Lowe
          Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Everette Joseph
           Dissertation Title:   “Surface-based Investigation Aerosol Indirect effect in the Mid-Atlantic region”

        2:00 p.m.

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

        Candidate:  Ms. Jacquelyn Renee Moore
        Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
      School of Communications
        Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Wilhelmina Wright-Harp
        Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Ovetta Harris
        Dissertation Title:  “The Effect of the Syntactically Salient Storybook Intervention Model on the Syntax of Children who use
                                         AAC”

         3:30 p.m.

        School of Social Work , Room 111
        601 Howard Place, N.W.
        Howard University
          Washington, D C  20059

         Candidate:  Mr. Dennis Edward Corbin
       School of Social Work
         Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Cudore Snell
         Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Annie Brown
         Dissertation Title:  “Spirituality and its relationship to HIV/ADS risk behaviors of African American young adults”

• Thursday, November 30, 2006 – (1)  

        3:00 p.m.
       Graduate School , Room 205
       Howard University
       4^th & College Streets, N.W.
       Washington , D C   20059  

       Candidate:  Ms. Julietta Raymond
       Department of Sociology & Anthropology
       College of Arts and Sciences
       Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Roderick Harrison
       Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Ralph C. Gomes
       Dissertation Title:  “An Assessment of Direct and Interactive Effects of Risk and Protective Factors on
                                         Female Adolescent Delinquency:  Implications for Policy Development”  

• Monday, August 14, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  
  

• Tuesday, August 15, 2006 – (1)

10:00 a.m.
Graduate School , Room 205
Howard University
4^th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, D C  20059

Candidate:  Mr. Chase Gilbert Adams, III
 Department of Mathematics
 College of Arts and Sciences
 Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
 Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Neil Hindman
 Dissertation Title:  “Largeness of the Set of Finite Sums of Sequences in N”

• Wednesday, August 16, 2006 – (1)

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

Candidate:  Mr. Muhammad Hamisu Sani
Department of Mass Communication and Media Studies
School of Communications  
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Barbara B. Hines
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Carolyn Byerly
Dissertation Title:  “Framing Ethno-Religious Friction:  The Role of the Nigerian Press in the 
                                   2002 Miss World Controversy”

• Thursday, August 17, 2006 – No defenses scheduled

• Friday, August 18, 2006 – No defenses scheduled
  

•   Monday, July 24, 2006   - (1)

            2:00 p.m.

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

            Candidate:  Ms. Jahn Natalie O’Neil  
             Department of Physiology and Biophysics  
             College of Medicine  
             Committee Chairperson: Dr. Richard M. Millis  
             Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Kebreten F. Manaye
             Dissertation Title:  “Alzheimer’s Disease and Depression:  A Stereological, Behavioral and
             Neurochemical Assessment of a Double Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease”
 

• Tuesday, July 25, 2006 – No defenses scheduled

•  Wednesday, July 26, 2006 – No defenses scheduled  

•   Thursday, July 27, 2006 – (2)

                10:00 a.m.

                Graduate School , Room 205
                 Howard University
                 4^th & College Streets, N.W.
                 Washington, D C  20059  
 
                 Candidate:  Mr. Hassan Moore
                 Atmospheric Sciences Program/Physics
                 Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Everette Joseph
                 Dissertation Advisor:  Demetrius Venable 
                 Dissertation Title: “Sensitivity Verification for a Non-Coaxial Lidar Configuration for the Analysis of Ozone”

                 11:00 a.m.

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

                 Candidate:  Ms. Sheila Marie Aird
                 Department of History
                 College of Art s a nd Sciences 
                 Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Emory Tolbert
                 Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Selwyn H.H. Carrington
                 Dissertation Title:  “The Forgotten Ones: Enslaved Children in Caribbean Societies, 1673-1838”

•   Friday, July 28, 2006 – No defenses  

• Friday, April 28, 2006
  10:00 am., Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Janice Doris McCain
  Department of African Studies
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Wilfred David
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Luis Serapiao
  Dissertation Title: “Towards Economic Development in the Kingdom of Lesotho: A Case Study of Women’s
  Participation in National Development”
  

• 2:00 pm., Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Lizette Roldan
  Program of Atmospheric Sciences – Graduate School
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Everette Joseph
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Vernon R. Morris
  Dissertation Title: “Characterization of Microphysical Properties of Saharan Dust During Trans-Atlantic Transport”

• 2:00 pm., Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Wallace V. Short
  Department of African Studies
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Robert Edgar
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Mybe Cham
  Dissertation Title: “William Henry Sheppard: Pioneer African American Presbyterian Missionary, Human Rights
  Defender, and Collector of African Art, 1865-1927”

• Thursday, April 27, 2006
  9:30 am., Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Ayanna Demetris Lenard
  Department of Communication & Culture
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Abhik Roy
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Richard Wright
  Dissertation Title: “Hallelujah to the Lamb: Perceptions of the Roles of Laywomen through their Experiences in the African American Baptist Church”
  

• 1:00 pm., Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Nicole Jacqueline John
  Department of Chemistry
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Jason S. Matthews
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Oladapo Bakare
  Dissertation Title: “Synthesis and Characterization of Amide Derivatives of the Natural Product Podocarpic Acid: Potential Lipoxygenase and Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors”
  

• 2:00 pm., Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Teresa M. Grant
  Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Aaron Stills
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Frederick D. Harper
  Dissertation Title: “The Relationship of Risk Factors to the Level of Criminal Offenses for Persons Diagnosed with Psychiatric Disorders Involved in the Criminal Justice System”
  

• Wednesday, April 26, 2006
  9:00 a.m., Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Tantiboro Siriki Ouattara
  Department of Chemistry
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Oladapo Bakare
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Jason S. Matthews
  Dissertation Title: “Design and Synthesis of Management (II) and Zinc (II) ?-Ketoiminate Complexes: Applications in Materials Science and Catalysis”

• 12:00 Noon, Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Simeao Hilario Joao
  Department of Mathematics
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Toka Diagana
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Louis W. Shapiro
  Dissertation Title: “Combinatorial Interpretation of Catalan Identities and Extensions to Ternary Analogues of Catalan Generating Function”

• 1:00 pm., Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Mxolisi S. Siwatu
  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Ivor L. Livingston
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ron C. Manuel
  Dissertation Title: “Race and Gender Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Social Ecological Approach to Preventive Health”
  

• Tuesday, April 25, 2006
  12:00 Noon, Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Irene Suzuko Moshesh
  Department of Mathematics
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Clement Lutterodt
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Neil Hindman
  Dissertation Title: “Image Partition Regularity of Affine Transformations”

   

• 3:00 p.m., Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Karen Addison Wright
  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Ralph C. Gomes
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ivor L. Livingston
  Dissertation Title: “The Relationship of Sociodemographic Factors, Social Relations, Health Behaviors and other Correlates for Metabolic Syndrome among Mexican American, Non-Hispanic Black, and Non-Hispanic White Women”

• Monday, April 24, 2006
  12:30 p.m., Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Ms. Debra Paulette Gillum
  Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Constance Ellison
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sylvan Alleyne
  Dissertation Title: “Community College Students Perceived Academic Preparedness, Study Skills and Habits,
  College Satisfaction, and Factors Influencing Remediation”
  

• 2:00 p.m., Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Ms. Feven Negga
  Department of Sociology and Anthropology
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Ralph Gomes
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ivor Livingston
  Dissertation Title: “Black Immigrants and African Americans in the US labor market: The effect of demographic
  variables, human capital skills and structural factors on earnings”
  

• Friday April 14, 2006

  2:00 pm. , Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington , D C 20059
  
  Candidate: Ms. Terracita A. Powell
  Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Constance Ellison
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sylvan Alleyne
  Dissertation Title: “The  Impact of Obesity on Well-Being Among African-American and Caucasian College Students”
  

Friday, April 7, 2006

3:00 p.m., Room 205
Graduate School (Annex III)
4th & College Streets, N.W.
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059

Candidate: Mr. Karl Manley Thompson, Department of Microbiology
College of Medicine
Committee Chairman: Dr. Kunle Kassim
Dissertation Co-Advisor: Dr. Susan Gottesman
Dissertation Co-Advisor: Dr. John T. Stubbs, III
Dissertation Title: “A Novel o E Regulated Small RNA in Escherichia coli”

Monday, April 3, 2006

2:00 p.m., Room 224
E. E. Just Hall (Biology Building)
415 College Street, N.W.
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059

Candidate: Shercoda Genee Smaw, Department of Biology
College of Arts and Sciences
Committee Chairman: Dr. George A. Middendorf
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Raymond L. Petersen
Dissertation Title: “Combined Field and Laboratory Investigations of Two Urban-Adapted Mosses, Bryum capillare and Bryum argenteum : Incidence of Occurrence, Microbial Associates, Rates of Growth and Development, Including Tolerances to pH, Acid Rain, Salt”

 

Thursday, March 30, 2006

10:00 a.m. , Room 205
Graduate School (Annex III)
4th & College Streets, N.W.
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059

Candidate: Ms. Angela J. Jackson, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Committee Chairman: Dr. Eric Walters
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. William Southern
Dissertation Title: “Insights into the Simultaneous Targeting of Dihydrofolate Reductase , Thymidylate Synthase , and Glicinamide Ribonucleotide Transformylase ”

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

• 1:00 p.m. , Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington , DC 20059

Candidate: Mr. Louis Lee Woods, III, Department of History
Committee Chairman: Dr. Selwyn H. H. Carrington
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Emory Tolbert
Dissertation Title: “ Messmen No More: African American Sailors on the USS Mason in World War II”

• 2:00 p.m., Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington, DC 20059

Candidate: Mr. Kevin L. Glasper, Department of Political Science
Committee Chairman: Dr. Maurice Woodard
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Lorenzo Morris
Dissertation Title: “Black Interest Groups' Responses to Police Brutality and Racial Profiling”

 

Monday, March 27, 2006

• 10:30 a.m. , Room 101
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington , DC 20059

  Candidate: Mr. Abdul Rahaman Ofoli, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Tepper Gill
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ahmed Rubaai
  Dissertation Title: “Development and Implementation of Real-Time Intelligent Controllers for Automation and Power Industry”

• 11:00 a.m., Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington , DC 20059

  Candidate: Ms. Angelina M. Amadou, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Tristan Hubsch
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Prabbakar Misra
  Dissertation Title: “Microphysical and Optical Properties of Organic Aerosols and Their Relevance to Cloud Condensation Nuclei”

• 3:00 p.m., Room 205
  Graduate School (Annex III)
  4th & College Streets, N.W.
  Howard University
  Washington , DC 20059

  Candidate: Mr. Glenn Anthony Chambers, Jr., Department of History
  Committee Chairman: Dr. Emory J. Tolbert
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Selwyn H. H. Carrington
  Dissertation Title: “Foreign Labor and the Struggle for a Honduran Identity: West Indian Workers and Community Formation In the Republic of Honduras , 1876-1954”

 

Friday, March 24, 2005
2:00 p.m. , Room 224
E. E. Just Hall ( Biology Building )
415 College Street, N.W.
Howard University
Washington, D C 20059

Candidate: Mr. Supriyo De - Department of Biology
Committee Chairman: Dr. Franklin R. Ampy
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sisir K. Dutta
Dissertation Title: “ Polychlorobiphenyl Induced Gene Expression Profiling in Human Liver Cells: Development of Genomic Biomarkers”

Friday, March 24, 2005
2:30 p.m.
Graduate School (Annex III) Room 205
4th & College Streets , N.W .
Howard University
Washington, D C 20059

Candidate: Mr. Nicolas N. Epie - Department of Microbiology
Committee Chairman: Dr. Georgia M. Dunston
Dissertation Advisor: Dr. John Stubbs, III
Dissertation Title: “Role of Lissencephaly Protein 1 (LIS1) on HIV-1 Transcription”

Friday, March 10, 2006
12:15 p.m.
Graduate School, Room 205
4th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, DC 20059

Candidate:  Mr. Abdul Rahman
Department of Mathematics
College of Arts and Sciences
Dissertation Title:  "On the Construction and Cohomology of a Self-Dual Perverse Sheaf on Simple Stratified Spaces Motivated by String Theory"
Committee Chairperson: Dr. Stanley Einstein-Matthews
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Tristan Hubsch

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
1:30 p.m.
Howard University
Graduate School, Room 205
4th & College Streets, N.W.
Washington, DC 20059

Candidate:  Ms. Yolanda J. Butler
Department of Political Science
Chairperson:  Dr. Lorenzo Morris
Dissertation Title:  “The Dilemma of Devolution in Federal Grants:  A Case Study of the Social Services Block Grant Program”
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Daryl B. Harris
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Maurice Woodard

Candidate:  Mr. Youngqing Chen
Department of Biology
Chairperson:  Dr. William Eckberg
Dissertation Title:  “PCBS Induced Gene Expression Profiling in Human Kidney Cells:  Genomic Biomarkers”
Committee Chairperson:  Dr. Franklin Ampy
Dissertation Advisor:  Dr. Sisir. K. Dutta

• 5/2: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Betty Patricia Alleyne, Department of Economics
  Dissertation Title: “The Spatial Impact of Gentrification on the Likelihood of Homeownership in Non-Gentrified Neighborhoods in Washington, D C”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Rodney Green
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Haydar Kurban

  10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Helen Grace Muftizade, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
  Dissertation Title: “A Study of the Effects of the Metamorphic Technique on Stress, State Anxiety, Blood Pressure, and Heart Rate”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. R C Saravanabhavan
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Frederick D. Harper
  
  3:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Nicole R. Williams, Department of Psychology
  Dissertation Title: “The Influence of Intimate Relationships on the Psychological Well Being of African American Professional Women”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Linda Berg-Cross
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Jules P. Harrell

  3:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Kimberley Alexis Turner, Department of Communication & Culture
  Dissertation Title: “A Content Analysis of the Charter and Mission Statement and its Articulation in Presidential Communication at a Historically Black University”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Carolyn Stroman
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Anne M. Nicotera
  

• 5/3: 1:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Jamie Dannyelle Walker, Department of English
  Dissertation Title: “Evolution of a Poet: Re-Membering the Black Female Aesthetic and the Transformed Consciousness of Sonia Sanchez, Prophetic Voice of the Black Arts Movement”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Sandra Shannon
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Barbara L. Griffin

  2:00 p.m., Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Mr. Jahi Issa, Department of History
  Dissertation Title: “The Universal Negro Improvement Association in Louisiana : Creating a Provisional Government in Exile”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Aziz Batran
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Emory J. Tolbert

• 4/5: 1:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Mr. Andre Dereck Hoyrd, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Long Live Such Scientists . . .”; The Fiction of George S. Schuyler and Nordicism”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Eleanor Traylor
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Jon Woodson
  
• 4/6: 2:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Mr. Kareen N. Washington, Department of Genetics and Human Genetics, College of Medicine
  Dissertation Title: “Protein Phosphatase-1 Dephosphorylates RNA Polymerase II's C-terminal Domain”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. William P. Winter
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sergei Nekhai
  
• 4/7: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Mr. Jeffrey John Fearing, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “African-American Image, History, and Identity in 20th Century Washington, D.C., as Chronicled Through the Art and Social Realism Photography of Addison N. Scurlock and the Scurlock Studios, 1904-1994”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Emory Tolbert
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
  

  12:00 Noon Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Abena Lewis-Mhoon, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Adorning Adversaries, Affecting Avenues: African American Women's Impact on Adornment and Fashion Design in Washington, D.C., 1880-1950”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Aziz Batran
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Emory J. Tolbert

  1:30 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Mr. Shundong Bi, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine
  Dissertation Title: Evolution, Systematics and Functional Anatomy of a New Species of Cricetodontini (Cricetidae, Rodentia, Mammalia) From the Northern Junggar Basin, Northwestern China ”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Daryl P. Domning
  Dissertation Advisor: Raymond L. Bernor

• 4/11: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Brenda Allard Christie, Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Pharmacy , Nursing and Allied Health Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Selected Factors Contributing to Disparities in Overweight among White, Black, and Mexican-American Female Adolescents”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Barbara Harland
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Alland Johnson

• 4/12: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Lisa Marie Goodson, Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Pharmacy , Nursing and Allied Health Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Interrelationships of Coronary Heart Disease Risk, Dietary and Serum Levels of Antioxidant Vitamins, Folate and Fat in African American and White Adults”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Barbara Harland
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Alland Johnson
  
  
• 4/13, 2005 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. La Tanya Lynn Reese, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Black Surrogacy: Refiguring Myth, Memory, and Motherhood in Suzan-Lori Parks´ Topdog/Underdog, The America Play, F ing A, and In the Blood.”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Barbara L. Griffin
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sandra G. Shannon
  
  
  11:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Mr. Quito Swan, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “The Truth is an Offense: The Struggle for Decolonization and the Rise of Black Power in Bermuda , 1967-77”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Emory Tolbert
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Selwyn H. H. Carrington
  
  
• 4/14 : 1:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Maria L. Bejacmar-Didier, School of Social Work
  Dissertation Title: “The Impact of Social Support Structures and Economic Supports on the
  Economic Well-Being of Low-Income African American Adult Mothers Who Began Child-Bearing and Adolescents”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Jacqueline Smith
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ruby Gourdine
  
  
  2:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Mr. Aubrey A. Smith, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine
  Dissertation Title: “Isolation and Sequence Analysis of the Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase Gene from the Marine Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. W. Malcolm Byrnes
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Thomas E. Smith
  
  
• 4/18: 1:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Dawn Carroll Ellis, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Communications
  Dissertation Title: “The Effects of Medium on the Expressive Vocabulary Skills in the Spoken Narratives of Low and Middle Socioeconomic African-American Children with Typical Language”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Ovetta Harris
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Joan C. Payne
  
  
• 4/19: 3:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Sharon Zoe Spencer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “A Historical Materialist Analysis of the Visual Presentation of the African American Woman in Mainstream Film 1896-2004”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Ralph Gomes
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Walda Katz-Fishman
  
  
• 4/20: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Pricilla Ann Brown, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “ Avant-Garde Blues: Experimentation in Wanda Coleman's Poetry.”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Gregory Hampton
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. R. Victoria Arana

  11:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Mr. Nathan Carter, Department of Communication and Culture, School of Communications
  Dissertation Title: “Reclaiming Emancipatory Speech: An Argument for Developing Critical Pedagogy Methods into the Design of the Basic Communication Course”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. William J. Starosta
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Richard Wright

  2:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Tamara Lynn Scott, Department of Communication and Culture
  Dissertation Title: “Social/Historical Dynamics and the Politics of Media: A Case Study of the Amos ‘n' Andy Show”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Melbourne Cummings
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Richard Wright

  3:00 p.m. Physics Department – Thirkield Hall
  Candidate: Mr. Shewaferaw S. Shibeshi, Department of Physics and Astronomy
  Dissertation Title: “Simulated Transport of Low Density Lipoproteins in a Permeable T-Junction”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Tristan Hubsch
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. William E. Collins

• 4/21: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Mr. Derrick Rodney Rosenior, Department of Communication and Culture, School of Communications
  Dissertation Title: “A Collective Memory, Mythic and Nostalgic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Racial Reconciliation in American Pentecostalism”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Abhik Roy
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Melbourne S. Cummings
  

• 4/22: 11:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Mr. Melvin Charles Washington, Department of Communication and Culture, School of Communications
  Dissertation Title: “The Emergence of the Underground Railroad as an Organization”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Anne M. Nicotera
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Richard L. Wright
  
  12:00 Noon, Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Mr. Donghua Dia, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Reactivity of Siloles , and of Their Precursors, 1, 4-Dilithiobutadienes, and of a Silole Dianion”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Oladapo Bakare
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Paul F. Hudrlik
  
  
  2:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Tracie Nicole Babb, Department of Communication and Culture, School of Communications
  Dissertation Title: “Rap Music's Transformation in a Postmodern World”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Melbourne Cummings
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Richard L. Wright
  
• 4/25: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Elizabeth Beulah Fryar, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine
  Dissertation Title: “The Importance of Sequence in Combination Chemotherapy: A Comparison of the Cytotoxic Effects of Selective Antifolates in Combination with Raloxifene and 5-Fluorouracil”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Robert E. Taylor
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Donnell Bowen

  10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Milagros Denis, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “One Drop of Blood: Racial Formation and Meaning in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1960”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Emory J. Tolbert
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Selwyn H. H. Carrington

  2:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Jerrye Brown Feliciana, Department Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education
  Dissertation Title: “The Impact of Participation in a Parent Training Program on Maternal Sense of Competency and Stress in Urban African American Mother”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. R C Saravanabhavan
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ann Carter-Obayuwana
  
  2:00 p.m. E. E. Just Hall, Room 224 | 4th & College Streets, N.W. | Washington , D C 20059
  Candidate: Mr. Marcus Gomez Hodges, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “The Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum Iron Regulatory-Like Protein (PfIRPa) in Asexual Stage Plasmodium falciparum Parasites ”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Franklin R. Ampy
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Clarence M. Lee
  

• 4/26: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Chetachi Ada Egwu, Department of Communication and Culture, School of Communications
  Dissertation Title: “Romancing the Net: Attitudes and Practices Concerning Internet Dating/Relationships Among People of African Descent”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. William Starosta
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Stroman

  12:00 noon | C. B. Powell Building , Room C-204 | 525 Bryant Street, N.W. | Washington, D C 20059
  Candidate: Mr. Joseph Kehinde Popoola | Department of Communication and Culture, School of Communications
  Dissertation Title: “Organizational Identification and Commitment as Correlates of Job Satisfaction”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Richard Wright
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Anne M. Nicotera
  

• 4/27: 9:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Mr. William G. Jones, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “ Congress and Africa 's Constituency: The Intersection of Racial Factors and Related Interest and Business Interest in the Development of the Africa Growth and Development Act (AGOA)
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Babalola Cole
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Lorenzo Morris

  10:30 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Anna Kristie Lee, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Investigating the Influence of Mortality Salience, Worldview Threat and Group Identity on Perceptions of Ingroup and Outgroup Targets”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Lloyd R. Sloan
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Kellina M. Craig

  1:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Sheralyn Trisha Christine Dash, Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education
  Dissertation Title: “The Dynamics of Ability Grouping, Teacher Expectations and School Engagement: The Barbados Context”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Sylvan Alleyne
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Veronica Thomas
  
  1:30 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. La Tanya Reese, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “ Black Surrogacy: Refiguring Myth, Memory, and Motherhood in Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, The America Play, F ing A, and In the Blood”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Barbara L. Griffin
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sandra G. Shannon
  

• 4/28: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Mr. Diarra Osei Robertson, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “ Black Politics Re-Considered: A Conceptualization of the Role of Agency and Culture in the Political Process”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Louis Wright
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Lorenzo Morris
  
• 4/29: 9:30 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Atiya Njeri Stancil, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Glyconutrients and Cognition, Perception, and Memory ”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Jules Harrell
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Leslie Hicks

  10:30 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Stacey-Ann Wilson, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “Ethnicity and Politics in Small Plural Societies: A Comparative Study of Trinidad and Tobago , Guyana and the Fiji Islands ”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Jane Flax
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. John W. Cotman

  1:30 p.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Joan Mechelle Browne, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “ Personality, Life Satisfaction, and Career Decision Status: An Examination of Factors That Impact the Career Decisions of Black College Students”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Leslie Hicks
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Jules P. Harrell

  2:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Nubia Kai Al-Nura Salaam, Department of African Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “An Introduction to Malinke Historiography”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Sulayman Nyang
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Mbye Cham
  

• 4/25: 10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 205
  Candidate: Ms. Elizabeth Beulah Fryar, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine
  Dissertation Title: “The Importance of Sequence in Combination Chemotherapy: A Comparison of the Cytotoxic Effects of Selective Antifolates in Combination with Raloxifene and 5-Fluorouracil”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Robert E. Taylor
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Donnell Bowen

  10:00 a.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Milagros Denis, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “One Drop of Blood: Racial Formation and Meaning in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1960”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Emory J. Tolbert
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Selwyn H. H. Carrington

  2:00 p.m. Graduate School , Room 101
  Candidate: Ms. Jerrye Brown Feliciana, Department Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education
  Dissertation Title: “The Impact of Participation in a Parent Training Program on Maternal Sense of Competency and Stress in Urban African American Mother”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. R C Saravanabhavan
  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ann Carter-Obayuwana
  
  2:00 p.m. E. E. Just Hall, Room 224 | 4th & College Streets, N.W. | Washington , D C 20059
  Candidate: Mr. Marcus Gomez Hodges, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
  Dissertation Title: “The Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum Iron Regulatory-Like Protein (PfIRPa) in Asexual Stage Plasmodium falciparum Parasites ”
  Committee Chairperson: Dr. Franklin R. Ampy
  Dissertation Advisor: