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RELATE
Research, Education, Lectures Accessing the Technical Edge
The official newsletter of the Charlotte Research Institute
March 25, 2015
Events:
Dissertation Defense Announcements
Nanoscale Science
VisCenter Seminar
iCONE Seminar
Department of Geography & Earth Sciences
UNC Charlotte Center City
Charlotte Venture Challenge Finals
David H. Murdock Research Institute and North Carolina Biotechnology Center
College of Computing and Informatics
SciVisit
Office of International Programs
Science & Technology EXPO
The William States Lee College of Engineering
Infrastructure, Design, Environment, and Sustainability- (IDEAS) Center
Dissertation Defense Announcements
"Integration and persistence of international students in U.S. four-year institutions: A
qualitative case study."
Candidate:
Titilola Oluwatosin Adewale
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Mark D'Amico
Committee:
Dr. Corey Lock, Department of Educational Leadership, Dr. Sandra Dika,
Department of Educational Leadership, Dr. Spencer Salas, Department of Middle, Secondary, and K12 Education.
Defense Date:
March 26, 2015 - 1:00pm
Location:
COED 061
Degree Program Name: Ed.D. in Educational Leadership
"A Machining Stability Model with Process Damping for Hard-to-machine Materials"
Candidate:
Christopher Tyler
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Tony Schmitz
Committee:
Dr. John Ziegert, Dr. Peter Schmidt, Dr. Abasifreke Ebong
Defense Date:
March 27, 2015 - 10:00am
Location:
Duke 106
Degree Program Name: MEES PhD
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"Cognitive, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Predictors of College Sleep and Health"
Candidate:
Hannah D. Peach
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Jane Gaultney, Department of Psychology and Health Psychology PhD
Program
Committee:
Dr. Charlie Reeve, Dept. of Psychology and Health Psychology PhD Program; Dr.
Andrew Harver, Dept. of Public Health; Dr. Joseph Marino, Dept. of Kinesiology
Defense Date:
March 27, 2015 - 10:00am
Location:
Colvard 3131
Degree Program Name: PhD in Health Psychology
"Approximating Solutions of Boundary Value Problems"
Candidate:
Hamid Semiyari
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Douglas S. Shafer
Committee:
Dr. Joel D. Avrin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UNC Charlotte Dr.
Vincent O. Ogunro, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNC Charlotte Dr. James
S. Sochacki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics at James Madison University
Defense Date:
March 27, 2015 - 11:00am
Location:
Fretwell 302
Degree Program Name: Applied Mathematics
"An Exploration of Learning Experiences: A Case Study of Eight African American Males in
Different English Tracks"
Candidate:
Brian Keith Williams
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. D. Bruce Taylor
Committee:
Dr. Chance Lewis Dr. Tehia Starker Glass Dr. Jae Hoon Lim
Defense Date:
March 27, 2015 - 1:00pm
Location:
COED 362
Degree Program Name: Curriculum and Instruction
"Effects of a Self-Monitoring Checklist with Picture Prompts as a Component of the SelfDirected IEP"
Candidate:
Karen M. Diegelmann
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. David W. Test
Committee:
Dr. Fred Spooner, Department of Special Education and Child Development; Dr.
Wendy Wood, Department of Special Education and Child Development; Dr. Lyndon Abrams,
Department of Counseling
Defense Date:
March 27, 2015 - 1:00pm
Location:
COED 110
Degree Program Name: PHD in Special Education
"They said what? How to Effectively Communicate with Advocates"
Candidate:
Melissa Strompolis
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Ryan P. Kilmer
Committee:
Dr. Ryan P. Kilmer, Department of Psychology at UNC Charlotte, Dr. James R.
Cook, Department of Psychology at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Margaret Quinlan Carbone, Department of
Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Joanne G. Carman, Department of Political Science
and Public Administration at UNC Charlotte
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Defense Date:
March 27, 2015 - 2:00pm
Location:
Colvard 4103
Degree Program Name: PHD in Health Psychology (Community psychology concentration)
“The Way the Cookie Crumbles: Assessing the Resilience of Starter-Home Neighborhoods
through the Great Recession.”
Candidate:
Melissa Anne Currie
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Janni Sorensen, Geography and Earth Sciences Department
Committee:
Dr. Heather Smith, Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences; Dr. Owen Furuseth,
Associate
Provost for Metropolitan Studies and Extended Academic Programs; and Dr. Jose Gamez,
Architecture and Urban Design
Defense Date:
March 31, 2015 - 10:00am
Location:
McEniry 441
Degree Program Name: Geography PhD
"A Fault-Tolerant Design for Real-Time Monitoring and Modulation of the Human Brain."
Candidate:
Ipsita Acharya
Sponsoring Chair: Dr. Bharat Joshi
Committee:
Dr. Yogendra Kakad, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
UNC Charlotte, Dr. Arindam Mukherjee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNC
Charlotte, Dr. Pinku Mukherjee, Department of Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte, Dr. Jiang (Linda)
Xie, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Hitten Zaveri, Department of
Neurology at Yale School of Medicine
Defense Date:
March 31, 2015 - 2:30pm
Location:
EPIC 2344
Degree Program Name: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
"Microspherical photonics: Giant Resonant Light Forces, Spectrally Resolved Optical
Manipulation, and Coupled Modes of Microcavity Arrays"
Candidate:
Yangcheng Li
Under the direction of: Dr. Vasily N. Astratov, Department of Physics and Optical Science
Defense date:
Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 4:30pm, Grigg 132
Degree:
PhD in Optical Science and Engineering
Nanoscale Science Seminar Series
“Nanoparticle Synthesis, Conversion Chemistry, and Self-Assembly in Polymers”
Speaker:
Dr. Joseph Tracy, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina
State University
Date:
Thursday, March 26, 3:30 PM
Location:
Burson 115
Please contact Dr. Marcus Jones (Chemistry Department) if you would like to meet with Dr. Tracy.
“Scanned Probe Microscopy Techniques for Nano-scale Characterization of RF
Semiconductor Technologies”
Speaker:
Dr. James Slinkman, IBM Microelectronics
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Date:
Thursday, April 2, 3:30 PM
Location:
Burson 115
Please contact Dr. Yong Zhang (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) if you would
like to meet with Dr. Slinkman.
“The Breaking and Mending of Porphyrins: Synthesis of Pyrrole-Modified Porphyrins”
Speaker: Dr. Christian Bruckner, University of Connecticut
Date: Thursday, April 9, 3:30 PM
Location:
Burson 115
Please contact Dr. Michael Walter (Chemistry Department) if you would like to meet with Dr.
Bruckner.
“Programmed Drug Delivery”
Speaker:
Dr. Zhen Gu, Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University
Date:
Thursday, April 16, 3:30 PM
Location:
Burson 115
Please contact Dr. Juan Vivero-Escoto (Chemistry Department) if you would like to meet with Dr. Gu.
“Therapeutic RNA Nanotechnology”
Speaker:
Dr. Peixuan Guo, William Farish Endowed Chair in Nanobiotechnology, Markey Cancer
Center, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky
Date:
Wednesday, April 22, 4:00 PM
Location:
Burson 115
Please contact Dr. Kirill Afonin (Chemistry Department) if you would like to meet with Dr. Guo.
“Application of Engineering in Cancer Research and Treatment”
Speaker:
Dr. Andrew Wang, UNC Chapel Hill
Date:
Thursday, April 23, 3:30 PM
Location:
Burson 115
Please contact Dr. Juan Vivero-Escoto (Chemistry Department) if you would like to meet with Dr.
Wang.
VisCenter Seminar
"Extracting Space-Time Patterns in Infectious Diseases"
Speaker:
Dr. Eric Delmelle, Geography and Earth Sciences
Date:
March 26, 2015 at 12:30 PM
Location:
Woodward, 130
Refreshments will be served
iCONE Seminar
Candidate Series
“Transparent Conducting Oxide Active Plasmonics and Metasurfaces: Ultrasmall and Ultrathin Optics”
Date:
March 27, 2015, Seminar 9:30 AM, Discussion with Candidate 10:30 AM
Location:
Grigg, 132
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Department of Geography & Earth Sciences
Speaker Series
Speaker:
Date:
Location:
Cuizhen (Susan) Wang - University of South Carolina
March 27, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
McEniry, 116
Speaker:
Date:
Location:
Gregory Hancock, College of William and Mary
April 17, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
McEniry, 116
Chemistry Seminar
“New Approaches in Organometallic Chemistry”
Speaker:
Dr. Arkady Krasovskly, the Dow Chemical Company
Date:
Monday, March 30 at 4:00 PM
Location:
Burson 115
Please contact Dr. Kirill Afonin if you would like to meet with Dr. Krasovskly.
UNC Charlotte Center City
“Using Digital Resources to Unlock Neighborhood History”
Introducing Digital Charlotte: an event to celebrate and explore new digital library projects
dedicated to preserving and sharing the history and culture of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.
A Presentation by Tom Hanchett, Staff Historian at the Levine Museum of the New South. Lecture Hall
Date:
Location:
March 30, 2015 at 6:30pm
UNC Charlotte Center City Campus 320 E. 9th Street
Charlotte Venture Challenge Finals
The 2015 Southeast Venture Conference will take place at Le Méridien Charlotte, NC, 555 South
McDowell Street, North Tower • Charlotte, NC 28204 | 704-372-9610
The dates are March 31st thru April 1st.
David H. Murdock Research Institute and North Carolina Biotechnology Center
April Gene REG Seminar
"Effects of Mushroom Vitamin D2 Supplementation on Serum Vitamin D Levels and Exercise-induced
Muscle Damage in NASCAR Pit Crews"
Speaker:
Fuxia Jin, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Dole Nutrition Research Laboratory, North Carolina
Research Campus
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Date:
Thursday, April 2, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Location:
David H. Murdock Research Institute, Event Room, 150 Research Campus Drive,
Kannapolis, NC 28081
Register:
http://goo.gl/1SGpAS
Lunch will be provided and commence at 12:00 PM, followed by the seminar from 12:15 PM - 1:45
PM. The Genomic Sciences Exchange Group is funded in part by the North Carolina Biotechnology
Center to support ongoing collaborative genomics research in the Greater Charlotte region.
Questions about Gene REG? Email: conferences@dhmri.org
College of Computing and Informatics
2015 College of Computing and Informatics Distinguished Lecture Series
Speaker:
Rick Stevens, Department of Computer Science at The University of Chicago; and
Associate Director of Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Laboratory Argonne National
Laboratory
Date:
April 10, 2015 - 3:00pm
Location:
Woodward 106
Speaker:
Date:
Location:
Oussama Khatib, Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
April 17, 2015 - 3:00pm
Woodward 106
Speaker:
Centre for
Michael Dulin, Senior Scientist, Genomics & Molecular Epidemiology British Columbia
Date:
Location:
Disease Control
April 24, 2015 - 3:00 PM
Woodward, 106
For more Computing and Informatics events, click here.
SciVisit
Hosted by Gaston College as part of the North Carolina Science Festival.
Date:
April 17, 2015, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Location:
Dallas Campus of Gaston College
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medical (STEMM) faculty at Gaston College lead interactive
sessions for high school students at various locations across campus. This year’s session topics of the sessions
include chemistry, biotechnology, biodiversity, anatomy and physiology, computer security, psychology, math,
disease transmission, robotics and health among many others. We hope you will join us for a morning filled with
fun while learning about STEM disciplines!
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To participate in this year’s event, please sign up at sciVisit Registration.
(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DmuKS4q2gl0s8NV_yfkFhhF3DPuAFP8tbSySPspiEzA/viewform?usp=send_for
m)
For more information please contact us at sciVisit@gaston.edu
You can see the agenda and other items of possible interest by clicking here.
Office of International Programs
International Film Series:
The campus community is invited to one or all of five films looking at health, the environment, and
culture as part of a film series sponsored by International Studies and a grant from the Chancellor’s
Diversity Fund.
Yesterday
Date:
Location:
Contact:
April 21, 2015 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Student Union Theater
Office of International Programs
About the film: After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and
young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
10th Annual UNC Charlotte recognition of International Women's Day (IWD)
Date:
Location:
Thursday, March 26, in room 340 of the Student Union from 3:30-5:00pm
Student Union
Join OIP as we celebrate the 10th Annual UNC Charlotte recognition of International Women's Day
(IWD) on Thursday, March 26, in room 340 of the Student Union from 3:30-5:00pm.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the campus IWD celebration, the 2015 program will include
a presentation from keynote speaker Sharon Reed, the Founder of Global Girls Project and a UN
Women 2014 Global Community Champion for Women’s Economic Empowerment.
IWD is recognized by the United Nations on March 8 and is celebrated in countries around the world.
The goal of this celebration is to honor women’s achievements and inspire leadership and
development related to women’s issues.
UNC Charlotte’s annual recognition of IWD is co-sponsored by the Office of International Programs
and the Multicultural Resource Center with partnership from various academic units. The event is
open to all on campus.
For more information, visit the website, email OIP or call 704-687-7755.
Science & Technology EXPO
Main Event: Sunday, April 26th, 12-4 pm in the UNC Charlotte Union Plaza
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Join faculty, staff, and students as they present exhibits, discussions, and films in the weeks leading up
to the main event.
April 10 - 26th in various locations.
Visit the website to learn more.
The William States Lee College of Engineering
Senior Design Spring Expo
Date:
April 30, 2015 - 11:00am - 2:30pm
Location:
Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)
Open to the Public
Infrastructure, Design, Environment, and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center
BioEnergy Symposium
The UNC Charlotte IDEAS Center is pleased to announce the fourth annual BioEnergy Symposium on May 14th,
2015. This year's symposium has a focus on Beneficial Byproducts of Bioenergy.
If you have questions or need assistance please contact:
Karyn Williamson-Coria at 704-687-1932 or by email at kwill235@uncc.edu
For more information about the BioEnergy Symposium click here.