Duke University Commencement 2010
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S u n d a y , t h e S i x t e e n t h o f M a y , Tw o T h o u s a n d a n d Te n t e n o ’ c l o c k i n t h e m o r n i n g ~ wa l l ac e wa d e s t a d i u m Duke University Commencement ~ 2010 One Hundred Fifty-Eighth Commencement
Notes on Academic Dress Academic dress had its origin in the Middle Ages. When the European universities were taking form in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, scholars were also clerics, and they adopted Mace and Chain of Office robes similar to those of their monastic orders. Caps were a necessity in drafty buildings, and Again at commencement, ceremonial use is copes or capes with hoods attached were made of two important insignia given to Duke needed for warmth. As the control of universities University in memory of Benjamin N. Duke. gradually passed from the church, academic Both the mace and chain of office are the gifts costume began to take on brighter hues and to of anonymous donors and of the Mary Duke employ varied patterns in cut and color of gown Biddle Foundation. They were designed and and type of headdress. executed by Professor Kurt J. Matzdorf of New The use of academic costume in the United Paltz, New York, and were dedicated and first States has been continuous since Colonial times, used at the inaugural ceremonies of President but a clear protocol did not emerge until an Sanford in 1970. intercollegiate commission in 1893 recommended The Mace, the symbol of authority of the a uniform code. In this country, the design of a University, is made of sterling silver throughout. gown varies with the degree held. The bachelor’s Significance of Colors It is thirty-seven inches long and weighs about gown is relatively simple with long pointed Colors indicating fields of eight pounds. At the lower end of the hammered sleeves as its distinguishing mark. The gown for study and colors identifying shaft is a gilt (gold-plated) pine cone. The the master’s degree has an oblong sleeve with some of the universities upper end of the shaft displays the inscription the rear part cut square and the front part with represented by members Universitas Dukiana 1838. This inscription is a cutaway arc. The most elaborate academic of the faculties of the surmounted by a short, hammered neck followed costume is the doctoral gown with velvet panels University are: by the head which has eight flutings alternating down the front and three bars of the same with eight gilt ribs. Above the head of the mace, material across the sleeves. The velvet is usually Arts, Letters, Humanities: white a band carries the motto of Duke University: black, but it may be a color designating the Business Administration: drab Eruditio et Religio. The upper end of the mace is a field of study to which the degree pertains. The Dentistry: lavender Divinity, Theology: scarlet crown of gilt laurel leaves which carries the seal gown itself, usually black like those of the lower Economics: copper of Duke University surrounded by the three degrees, may be of a color distinctive of a Education: light blue symbols of the Trinity to indicate that Duke particular university. Engineering: orange University emerged from Trinity College. The hood bears a still larger symbolic burden: Fine Arts: brown Forestry: russet The Chain of Office of the President of Duke the width of its velvet trimming designates Law: purple University is four feet long and is also made of the level of the degree; the color heralds the Medicine: green major field of study; and the lining identifies sterling silver throughout. The main part Music: pink the institution that granted the degree. Duke Nursing: apricot consists of nine silver pine cones alternating University is symbolized by a lining of Duke Philosophy: dark blue with ten gilt clusters of three laurel leaves each. blue with a white chevron. Physical Therapy: teal In the front hangs the gilt medallion with the Science: golden yellow official seal of Duke University surrounded by a The cap, originally round, is usually a square laurel wreath into which are set the three mor-tar-board and is the same for all degrees. symbols of the Trinity. In the back is the gilt coat The standard tassel for the cap is black, but the of arms of the Duke family with the motto cap worn with the doctoral robe may have a In Adversis Idem set in a sterling wreath of laurel gold tassel. The Duke doctoral gown is in the leaves and bearing the inscription Duke. authentic Duke blue. The Duke University shield, embroidered in blue on white, is applied to each front panel. With this gown there may be worn a black velvet, four-pointed, soft tam with a square top and a gold metallic bullion tassel.
Two T h o u s a n d Te n C o m m e n c e m e n t 1 C ommen c e m e n t P rog r a m Presiding Richard H. Brodhead, President of the University When the Wind Symphony sounds the fanfare for the entrance of the faculty, the audience and candidates will rise and remain standing through the prayer. Processional March Flourish for Wind Band Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Candidates for Degrees Members of the Faculty Members of the University Administration Members of the Board of Trustees Members of the Platform Party National Anthem Nancy Cheng, Amanda Susan Cummings, Caroline Lanier Griswold, Katherine Anne Morrison Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts Georgia Hopkins Hoyler Candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Science Genevieve Marie Lipp Candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering Invocation Samuel Wells, Dean of the Chapel Welcoming Remarks Remarks by a Student David Scott Distenfeld Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Conferring of Honorary Degrees Introduction Daniel T. Blue, Jr., Chair, Board of Trustees Commencement Address Muhammad Yunus Conferring of Earned Degrees Introduction and Presentations Peter Lange and Deans Concluding Remarks Alma Mater Sara Avari Patrick Womble Candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts The audience stands for the Alma Mater and remains standing until the platform party and the faculty leave the Stadium. Dear Old Duke, thy name we sing. And though on life’s broad sea To thee our voices raise, we’ll raise, Our fates may far us bear, To thee our anthems ring We’ll ever turn to thee in everlasting praise. Our Alma Mater dear. —R. H. James ’24 Procession Out Crown Imperial William Walton (1902-1983) “… In Beauty Bearing the Crown Imperial…”
D u k e U n i v e r sit y C omme n ceme n t E x e r cises 2 Hon o ra ry D e g r e e R e c ip ie nt Te m p l e G r a n d i n D octor of H umane L etters Faculty Sponsor — Alvin L. Crumbliss Trustee Sponsor — Janet Hill As Temple Grandin Dr. Grandin has traveled the globe implementing likes to put it, her unique design for curved livestock handling she is a professor of chutes, which are now in almost half of the cattle animal science at facilities in North America. She is considered an Colorado State expert in flight zone and other principles of grazing University and an animal behavior that reduce stress on animals expert in humane during handling and are considered more humane. livestock facilities design and animal behavior who happens to be autistic. A native of Boston, She is also one of the leading advocates and Dr. Grandin was diagnosed with autism at an authorities on autism —a theme she writes about early age and struggled throughout her childhood in her books Emergence: Labeled Autistic and as she adapted to the difficult aspects of her Thinking in Pictures, both groundbreaking works disorder. By the time she reached high school, that changed the way that healthcare professionals she began to flourish both academically and and parents look at the diagnosis and treatment socially under the tutelage of a mentor, her high of autism. She is the author of Animals in school science teacher and support from her family. Translation and Animals Make Us Human, both A gifted student with a photographic memory, New York Times best sellers. she graduated from Franklin Pierce College and This past February, HBO aired a full-length film received her master’s from Arizona State University based on Dr. Grandin’s life. She has also been and a Ph.D. in animal science from the University featured on NPR, BBC radio and was recently of Illinois. named one of Time’s “Most Influential People of 2010.” She has been honored by the American Society of Animal Science, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Autism Society of America.
Two T h o u s a n d Te n C o m m e n c e m e n t 3 Honorary D e g re e R e c ip ie nt Joel Klein D octor of H umane L etters Faculty Sponsor — Charles T. Clotfelter Trustee Sponsor — Marguerite W. Kondracke Joel Klein has After attending New York public schools himself, been chancellor of Mr. Klein went on to graduate from Columbia the New York University and to earn a law degree from Harvard City Department Law School. Before being named chancellor, of Education, he was chairman and chief executive officer of the nation’s largest Bertelsmann, Inc., one of the world’s largest media public-school companies, and assistant attorney general in district, since 2002. He oversees more than 1,600 charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s schools, 1.1 million students, 136,000 employees, antitrust division. and a $21 billion operating budget. Mr. Klein once told the New Yorker that he’d long Mr. Klein’s effective yet sometimes controversial felt a “passion” about education and was indebted education-reform program, considered by many to the “phenomenal teachers” who schooled him to be the most sweeping reform platform ever in his youth. He recounts that when he first got to attempted in a major urban school system, has Columbia, the dean told him, “you should shoot transformed New York schools into an incubator to graduate in the middle of your class; you come for achievement. His “Children First” initiative from poverty, you didn’t go to Andover or Exeter.” has changed the way schools operate, giving Thankfully, Klein’s teachers didn’t prepare him principals greater control over how they run their to graduate in the middle of the class. He graduated schools while holding them accountable for magna cum laude and works every day to ensure results. He has also worked to end the tradition that his students are taught the same lessons about of social promotion, increase school options, success as he was. improve teacher quality and establish new support structures for struggling students and their parents. Combined, his many reforms have improved test scores and increased graduation rates. Chancellor Klein also helped found the Education Equality Project, a national organization aimed at closing the racial- and ethnic- achievement gap in public education.
D u k e U n i v e r sit y C omme n ceme n t E x e r cises 4 Hon o ra ry D e g r e e R e c ip ie nt Alasdair MacIntyre D octor of H umane L etters Faculty Sponsor — Stanley M. Hauerwas Trustee Sponsor — Charles M. Smith Alasdair MacIntyre Since his first book, Marxism: An Interpretation, is a senior research appeared in 1954, he has written more than thirty fellow at the other books, including the influential triumvirate University of Notre of recent works: After Virtue: A Study in Dame’s Center for Moral Theory; Whose Justice? Which Rationality? Ethics and Culture and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: and one of the Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition. most influential moral philosophers of our time. He has made prominent contributions to several Professor MacIntyre has taught at colleges and fields including moral philosophy, political theory, universities across the globe including Duke, philosophy of the social sciences, and philosophy where he is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, of religion. Oxford, Princeton, Brandeis, Boston University, Yale, Vanderbilt and Wellesley College. A native Among those he has influenced is Duke’s own of Scotland, he earned his undergraduate degree distinguished theologian Stanley Hauerwas, who from the University of London and his master’s has engaged with one of Professor MacIntyre’s from Oxford and Manchester Universities. key arguments: that it’s not enough to do the right thing, but also to do it for the right reason. Reverend Sam Wells, dean of Duke Chapel calls According to the MacIntyrian take on morality, Professor Macintyre “quite simply the most truthfulness, justice, and courage are virtues that significant philosopher of his generation.” Professor are necessary parts of any polity. But we also MacIntyre’s works, he adds, have “transformed need to be aware of the context, the particular the field of philosophical—and theological—ethics.” historical and sociological circumstances, from which those virtues arise.
Two T h o u s a n d Te n C o m m e n c e m e n t 5 Honorary D e g re e R e c ip ie nt Sir John Pendry D octor of S cience Faculty Sponsor — David R. Smith Trustee Sponsor — Thomas M. Gorrie Sir John Pendry Sir Pendry earned his undergraduate, master’s, is a physicist who and doctoral degrees from the University of has had a major Cambridge and has taught at Imperial College impact on nearly London since 1981, where he is a professor of all areas of theoretical solid-state physics. In recognition of condensed-matter his scientific and engineering breakthroughs, he theory, notably has won the Paul Dirac Medal and the Descartes in the area of x-ray scattering. Also one of the Prize, both considered to be prestigious honors foremost innovators in the field of metamaterials, in his field, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of or unconventional materials which respond London. In 2004, Professor Pendry was knighted to light in entirely new ways, he is known for for his contributions to science. creating the first practical “invisibility cloak.” Collaborating with a team of Duke scientists, As he puts it, some of his earliest memories he developed a recipe for a cloak that can hide an are of his wide-ranging intellectual curiosity as arbitrary object from electromagnetic fields. applied to the mysteries of science. “I was A version of this design has been implemented interested in ‘why this’ and ‘how that,’ ” he experimentally to the delight of science and recalls. “When I got to university, I quickly saw the science-fiction fans alike and has caught the that theory, and in particular theoretical physics, imagination of the world’s media. enabled you to cover a lot of ground and a wide area of science.” He considers the practical applications of his work, particularly in metamaterials, to be limitless.
D u k e U n i v e r sit y C omme n ceme n t E x e r cises 6 Hon o ra ry D e g r e e R e c ip ie nt M u h a m m a d Yu n u s D octor of H umane L etters Faculty Sponsor — L. Gregory Jones Trustee Sponsor — David M. Rubenstein Muhammad there would have to be an institutional solution. Yunus is a Shortly thereafter he established the Grameen Bangladeshi banker Bank. Today, replicas of the Grameen Bank model and economist now operate in more than 100 countries. who is considered the father of Dr. Yunus has also begun to apply his bottom microfinance, a up strategy for banking to healthcare, having concept he developed—as an economics professor— established Grameen Healthcare, a trust dedicated of providing loans to entrepreneurs too poor to to establishing sustainable best practices in a broad qualify for traditional bank loans. With his belief in range of healthcare services to address the health the self-reliance of all people, he has altered the face needs of Bangladesh and all of the world’s poor. of finance and entrepreneurship and has inspired In 2006, he and Grameen Bank were jointly millions worldwide to imagine their own potential. awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to Born in the city of Chittagong, Professor Yunus create economic and social development from studied at Dhaka University in Bangladesh and below. His Nobel Committee’s citation said, “Every received a Fulbright Scholarship to study economics single person on earth has both the potential and at Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. the right to live a decent life. Across cultures and in economics from Vanderbilt in 1969 and the civilizations, Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen following year became an assistant professor of Bank have shown us that the poor can work to economics at Middle Tennessee State University. bring about their own development.” He later returned to Bangladesh to head the He has served on the International Advisory Group economics department at Chittagong University, for the Fourth World Conference on Women, but found it difficult to teach economic theory in a the Global Commission on Women’s Health, the university classroom with the backdrop of a terrible Advisory Council for Sustainable Economic famine in Bangladesh. This revelation spurred him Development, and the U.N. Expert Group on to do something immediate to help those around Women and Finance. Last year, President Barack him. He lent $27 out of his own pocket to 42 Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of craftsmen in a little village, telling them that they Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor. could pay the money back when they could afford to. In the months that followed, he decided that
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D u k e U n i v e r sit y C omme n ceme n t E x e r cises 10 Daniel Ray Radiloff Angela Tarango ‡ Functional Analysis of Trefoil Factors 1 and 3 in Tumorigenesis “Choosing the Jesus Way:” The Assemblies of God’s Home Missions to James Robert Rigby American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity Intermittency and Irreversibility in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System Yi-Hsin Erica Tsai Richard William Roberts Host Constraints on the Post-Glacial Migration History of the Parasitic Plant, Maternally Inherited Peptides Are Strain Specific Chemosignals That Activate Epifagus virginiana a New Candidate Class of Vomeronasal Chemosensory Receptor Mark Joseph Vignola Alexander Lawrence Ruch The Phospholipase cPLA2 Regulates the Expression of Type I Intereferons and Fictions of the Afterlife: Temporality and Belief in Late Modernism Intracellular Immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis Joel Alden Schlosser Hilary Erin Wade Engaging Socrates Multimodal Regulation of Gene Transcription by Progestins Joshua Barton Scott Heather Anne Wake Divine Exposures: Religion and Imposture in Colonial India Modeling, Fabrication, and Test of a CMOS Integrated Circuit Platform for Electrophoretic Control of On-Chip Heterogeneous Fluids: Toward Particle Separation Amanda J. Sheets on a Custom CMOS Chip Cha-Cha-Cha: Variable Adhesive Activity of the Haemophilus Cryptic Genospecies Trimeric Autotransporter Cha Graham Meldahl West A Covalent Modification Technique for Protein-Ligand Binding Analysis Using Alexander A. Shestopalov Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Platforms Chemical Reactions and Self-Assembly in Nano-Confined Environments: The Development of New Catalytic Microcontact Printing Techniques and Cord James Whitaker Multicomponent Inorganic Janus Particles Race and Conversion in Late Medieval England Swati Shresth Jennifer Ann Woodruff Sahibs and Shikar: Colonial Hunting and Wildlife in British India, 1800-1935 Learning to Listen, Learning to Be: African-American Girls and Hip-Hop at a Durham, NC Boys and Girls Club Laura Anne Simmons Kovacs Defining Roles for Cyclin Dependent Kinases and a Transcriptional Oscillator Liang Zhai in the Organization of Cell-Cycle Events Imaging and Characterizing Human Prostates Using Acoustic Radiation Force Jesse David Slone Hao Zhang Analysis of the Drosophila Sugar Receptor Genes Forebrain Acetylcholine in Action: Dynamic Activities and Modulation on Target Areas April Helen Spesock Mingtao Zhao Poxvirus Modulation of the Immune Response Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography System Development for In Vivo Ophthalmic Imaging Changchun Sun Characterizations and diagnostics of Compton Light Source Zhiya Zhao Dopant Incorporation in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors May 16, 2010 Abayomi Alexander Adigun Wei Chen Adenylyl Cyclase Cell Signaling as a Target and Underlying Mechanism for A Measurement of the Differential Cross Section for the Reaction γn → pi{-} p Persistent Effects of Early-Life Organophosphate Exposure from Deuterium Kathleen Marie Bader Ruey-Kuang Cheng Tentative Embrace Neural Coding Strategies in Cortico-Striatal Circuits Subserving Interval Timing Jason Ryan Blevins Patrick Ilukol Chiyo Essays in Industrial Organization and Econometrics Socio-ecology and Behavior of Crop Raiding Elephants in the Amboseli Ecosystem Twyla Michelle Blickley Katie Lynnann Ciesienski The Toxicological Effects of Engineered Nanoparticles, Quantum Dots, in Estuarine Fish Design of Photocage Ligands for Light-Activated Changes in Coordination of Jeremy Nathan Block d-block Transition Metals NMR Structure Improvement: A Structural Bioinformatics & Visualization Approach Laura Cobian Bruno de Moura Borges Transcending Borders: The Transnational Construction of Mexicanness, 1920-1935 Technology and Development: The Political Economy of Open Source Software Matthew Simon Cook Fred Allison Bower III Hijacking Germ Cells for Cancer: Examining a ‘Dead End’ in Male Germ Cell Technology Impacts of CMOS Scaling on Microprocessor Core Design for Development Hard-Fault Tolerance in Single-Core Applications and Optimized Throughput in Dominic Joseph Crotty Throughput-Oriented Chip Multiprocessors Development of an Integrated SPECT-CmT Dedicated Breast Imaging System Catherine Christiane Bowler Incorporating Novel Data Acquisition and Patient Bed Designs Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel Earl Brigham Daniels Samuel Loren Brady Credible Commitments, Credible Threats, and Environmental Policy Development of Radiochromic Film for Spatially Quantitative Dosimetric Analysis Radhika Das of Indirect Ionizing Radiation Fields Identification of Novel Imprinted Domains in the Therian Lineage Julia Ling-Yu Chen Rachael N. Deagman Cellular Responses to Lactic Acidosis in Human Cancers Learning to Love ‡ Dissertation Title
Two T h o u s a n d Te n C o m m e n c e m e n t 11 Charles Joseph Del Dotto Jing Huang Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Coherent Structures in Land-Atmosphere Interaction Modernism, 1900-1964 Marjorie Letitia Hubbard Scott William Dianis The Effect of Structural Microheterogeneity on the Initiation and Propagation of Harmonic Source Wavefront Correction for Ultrasound Imaging Ectopic Activity in Cardiac Tissue Stefan Paul Dolgert Brian O’Neal Ingram Citizen Canine: Humans and Animals in Athens and America Biochemical Characterization of Lipid A Modification Enzymes from Rhizobium Sinziana Dorobantu leguminosarum and Rhizobium etli Political Competition and the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment Katelin Patricia Isaacs Songyun Duan Women’s Retirement Insecurity across U.S. Birth Cohorts Simplifying System Management through Automated Forecasting, Diagnosis, Patrick Jagoda and Configuration Tuning Network Aesthetics: American Fictions in the Culture of Interconnection Bülent Eken Alvaro Esteban Jarrin Stevens after Deleuze: The Effects of a New Ontology on the Problems of Poetics Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Affect and Inequality in Southeastern Brazil Erdem Serkan Erdo an Jeffrey Loren Jauregui Efficient Test Methods for RF Transceivers Mass Estimates, Conformal Techniques, and Singularities in General Relativity Marie-Joelle Estrada Hongsheng Jiang Testing the Romantic Construal Model: The Impact of Personalization, Specialness, The Paris Commune in Shanghai: The Masses, the State, and Dynamics and Value in Evaluating Romantic Actions of ‘Continuous Revolution’ Angelo Marsiglia Fasolo Cong Jin Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy for Small Open and Emerging Economies Particulate Allergens Potentiate Allergic Asthma through Sustained IgE Mediated Lisa Fazio Mast Cell Activation Understanding the Hypercorrection Effect: Why High-Confidence Errors are Carrie Elizabeth Johnson more likely to be corrected Understanding the Cellular Response to Cytosolic Cytochrome c Christy A. Fernandez James Adlai Joseph Computational Spectral Microscopy and Compressive Millimeter-wave Holography Precision Measurement of the Sound Velocity in an Ultracold Fermi Gas through David Cunningham Fink the BEC-BCS Crossover Divided by Faith: The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and the Confessionalization Roxolana Oresta Kashuba of Biblical Exegesis Bayesian Methods to Characterize Uncertainty in Predictive Modeling of the Effect Simone Colette Gray of Urbanization on Aquatic Ecosystems Spatial Modeling of Measurement Error in Exposure to Air Pollution Michael Paul Kennedy Alexis Pauline Gumbs Echo “We Can Learn To Mother Ourselves”: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism Sehoon Keum Kathryn Louise Haas Genetic Modifiers in Response to Ischemia Copper at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: New Insights into hCtr1 Function Anna Luise Keyte and the Role of Histidine in Human Cellular Copper Acquisition The Development of Limbs and Somites in the Opossum, Monodelphis domestica: Deborah Lee Hall A Study of Heterochrony, Heterotopy and the Origins of Neonatal Adaptation Outgroup Similarity as Cognitive Dissonance: An Investigation of the Turncoat Effect Mary Frances Kidd James Michael Harrington Double-Beta Decay of 150Nd to Excited Final States Physicochemical Characterization of Chelation and Transport of Iron by Low Jongmyeong Kim Molecular Weight Chelators A Discrete Monolayer Cardiac Tissue Model for Tissue Preparation Specific Modeling Giles Burgess Harrison-Conwill Koonyong Kim Inhabiting the City: Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas The Spatial Unconscious of Global America: A Cartography of Contemporary Dianne Grayce Hendricks Social Space and Cultural Form Investigation of the roX RNAs and the RNA Helicase MLE in Dosage Compensation Sangroh Kim in Drosophila melanogaster Cone Beam Computed Tomography (cbct) Dosimetry: Measurements and Valerie Mary Hickey Monte Carlo Simulations A Tale of Three Disciplines: Navigating the Boundaries at the Nexus of Conservation Madhumita Lahiri Science, Policy, and Practice Beautiful Infidels: Romance, Internationalism, and Mistranslation Meleah A. Hickman Bonnie E. Lai Gene Duplication and the Evolution of Silenced Chromatin in Yeasts Reduction of HIV-virion Transport for Prevention of HIV Transmission Elizabeth Byrd Holmberg Ariel Bybee Laughton A New Approach for Complex Problem Solving: The Independent Systems Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan Dynamics Elicitation Method Gregory Woodae Lee Sarah Rapisardo Horn Figural Reading in the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Dialogue with Augustine and Calvin Regulation of Mitochondrial Dynamics during Apoptosis and the Cell Cycle Phoebe Szu Pei Lee Hisani Nzinga Annie Horne The Mechanism of Mitotic Recombination in Yeast The Role of the Myelin and Lymphocyte Protein (MAL) in Breast and Ovarian Cancer Tae Jun Lee Gabriel Philip Howles-Banerji Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Networks: Cell Cycle Entry and Bacterial Infection Active Staining for In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of the Mouse Brain Jingbo Li Coordinated Analysis of Sprites with High Speed Images and Remote Electromagnetic Fields
D u k e U n i v e r sit y C omme n ceme n t E x e r cises 12 Xiang Li Supriya Shaunak Munshaw ‡ Radiation Dose and Diagnostic Accuracy in Pediatric Computed Tomography Computational Methods to Study Diversification in Pathogens, and Invertebrate Zheng Li and Vertebrate Immune Systems Non-linear Adaptive Bayesian Filtering for Brain Machine Interfaces Tamisha Dawn Navarro Klaus Libertus Virgin Capital: Foreign Investment and Local Stratification in the US Virgin Islands Object-Directed Action Experiences and their Effect on Cognitive and Kinohi Stephen Sadao Nishikawa Social Development Reading the Street: Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, and the Rise of Black Pulp Fiction Melissa Evelyn Libertus Gregory John Nusz Behavioral and Electrophysiological Markers of Number Sense in Infancy Label-free Biodetection with Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Adulthood Kian Ming Ong Thomas Middleton Limbert The Emergence, Maintenance and Defeat of Dominant Party Authoritarian Regimes Timepiece (DPARs) Treva Blaine Lindsey Joshua Samuel Osterberg Configuring Modernities: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation’s Capital, 1890-1940 Ecotoxicology of Natural and Anthropogenic Extreme Environments Alexander Carl Loney John William Paisley Narrative Revenge and the Poetics of Justice in the “Odyssey”: A Study on “Tisis” Machine Learning with Dirichlet and Beta Process Priors: Theory and Applications David Bryant Lowry Roberto Pancrazi Integrating Genetics, Geography, and Local Adaptation to Understand Ecotype Essays on Macroeconomics in the Frequency Domain Formation in the Yellow Monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus Prachi Pandit Vincent Chi-Ann Mao Non-Cartesian MR Microscopy for Cancer Imaging in Small Animals The Thermo-Mechanical Dynamics of DNA Self-Assembled Nanostructures Amanda Baumann Parrish Nathan Douglas Martin Regulation of Apoptosis following Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Release Social Class and Elite University Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis Amit Patel Jennifer Ashley Martinez Reeb Spaces and the Robustness of Preimages The Innate Immune Response to Vaccinia Viral Infection Michael Andrew Patterson John Christakis Mavropoulos Spatiotemporal Kinetics of AMPAR Trafficking in Single Spines Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Slows Prostate Tumor Growth Margaret Elizabeth Peloso Jennifer Lynn McCulley Adapting to Rising Sea Levels Tel1p and Mec1p Regulate Chromosome Segregation and Chromosome Kristen Elizabeth Pleil Rearrangements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Region-specific Mechanisms of Estrogen and Age on Neuronal Ensemble Activity David Wallace McIvor during Spatial Navigation Mourning in America: Racial Trauma and the Democratic Work of Mourning Kevin Michael Preuss Thomas A. McWatters III The Role of Threshold Size in Insect Metamorphosis and Body Size Regulation Religious Conviction, Respect, and the Doctrine of Restraint in the Elizabeth Ann Rach Exclusionist-Inclusionist Debate The Spatial and Temporal Regulatory Code of Transcription Initiation in Janet Hart Melonakos Drosophila melanogaster A Paradoxical Role for PTEN in the Cellular Response to Hypoxia Lu Ren Louis Eugene Metzger IV Modeling Temporal and Spatial Data Dependence with Bayeisan Nonparametrics Characterization of Peripheral-Membrane Enzymes Required for Lipid A Biosynthesis Faisal Reza in Gram-Negative Bacteria Computational Molecular Engineering Nucleic Acid Binding Proteins and Enzymes Colin Douglas Miller Jennifer Soome Rhee The Practice of the Body of Christ: Human Agency in Pauline Theology after MacIntyre Anthropomorphic Attachments in U.S. Literature, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence David McCheyne Moffitt Timothy John Robinson A New and Living Way: Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle Detecting Changes in Alternative mRNA Processing From Microarray Expression Data to the Hebrews Bogdan Florin Romanescu Emily Victoria Moran Cost-effective Designs for Supporting Correct Execution and Scalable Performance Seed Dispersal, Gene Flow, and Hybridization in Red Oak in Many-core Processors Adam Remy Morris Adesoji Sajuyigbe Ribonomic and Mechanistic Analysis of the Human Pum1 RNA Binding Protein Electromagnetic Metamaterials for Antenna Applications Jennifer Lee Morse Suzanne N. Schneider Farm Fields to Wetlands: Biogeochemical Consequences of Re-Flooding in Coons, Queers, and “Human Curiosities”: White Fantasies of Black Masculinity, Coastal Plain Agricultural Lands 1840-1915 Kenneth Darrel Morton, Jr. Amy B. Schulting Bayesian Techniques for Adaptive Acoustic Surveillance The Kindergarten Home Visit Project: A Kindergarten Transition Intervention Study Benjamin Mudrak Woochoel Shin Secretion and Lipopolysaccharide Binding of Heat-Labile Enterotoxin The Company that You Keep: When to Buy a Competitor’s Keyword Sarah Victoria Mudrak Claire Jarvis Parker Siburt Studies of Spontaneous Oxidative and Frameshift Mutagenesis in Thermodynamic Investigations of Metalloproteins: Metal as Probe and Protein as Probe Saccharomyces cerevisiae ‡ Dissertation Title
Two T h o u s a n d Te n C o m m e n c e m e n t 13 Andrew Joseph Simnick Hao Wang Affinity-Modulation Drug Delivery using Thermosensitive Elastin-Like Polypeptide Bayesian Multi- and Matrix-variate Modelling: Graphical Models and Time Series Block Copolymers Shilyh J. Warren Michael Sirivianos Real Politics and Feminist Documentaries: Re-Visioning Seventies Film Feminisms Toward Trustworthy Distributed Systems by Means of Social Trust Bayly Simpson Wheeler Daniel Isaac Speiser The Role of Genomic Sequence in the Spatial and Temporal Propagation of The Form and Function of Scallop Mantle Eyes Heterochromatin Peggy St. Jacques Melanie Ann Wilson Functional Neuroimaging of Autobiographical Memory Bayesian Model Uncertainty and Prior Choice with Applications to Genetic Isilay Talay Degirmenci Association Studies Asymptotic Analysis and Performance-based Design of Large Scale Service Sarah Jeanne Evens Wong-Goodrich and Inventory Systems Mechanisms by which Early Nutrition Influences Spatial Memory, Adult Neurogenesis, Wanli Tang and Response to Hippocampal Injury Regulation of Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome to Control M Phase Exit John Patrick Woock Ashley Lauren Taylor Control of Bladder Function by Electrical Stimulation of Pudendal Afferents From Dennis-the-Menace to Billy-the-Kid: The Evolving Social Construction Jessica Lee Wood of Juvenile Offenders in the United States from 1899-2007 Keys to the Past: Building Harpsichords and Feeling History in the Matthew Thiessen Postwar United States Genealogy, Circumcision, and Conversion in Early Judaism and Christianity Catherine Courtney Workman Rachel L. Thomas The Foraging Ecology of the Delacour’s langur (Trachypithecus delacouri) in Time-Scaled Stochastic Input to Biochemical Reaction Networks Van Long Nature Reserve, Vietnam Sally Elizabeth Thompson Kevin Matthew Wright Spatial Patterns in Dryland Vegetation and the Significance of Dispersal, Infiltration Theoretical and Empirical Investigations into Adaptation and Complex Topography Eugenia Ching Wu Rebecca Marie Tippett When Bittersweet is as Good as Sweet: How Emotion Norms Shape Household Debt across the Life Course: An Analysis of the Late Baby Boomers Consumption Choices Bradley Ryan Trick Phillip M. Wu Sons, Seed, and Children of Promise in Galatians: Discerning the Coherence in Electron Correlations and Spin in Asymmetric GaAs Quantum Point Contacts and Paul’s Model of Abrahamic Descent Signatures of Structural Transitions in Hall Effect of FeSe Esther Marie Tristani Cory Robert Wyatt Molecular Recognition in Host-Guest Ionophore-Siderophore Assemblies Development of MR Thermometry Strategies for Hyperthermia of Extremity and Breast Tumors Nicholas Ross Troester Rethinking International Law: Hugo Grotius, Human Rights and Humanitarian Huidong Xu Intervention Dynamics of Electronic Transport in Spatially-extended Systems with Negative Differential Conductivity Jenny Tung Functional and Evolutionary Genetics of a Wild Baboon Population Jie Yang Essays in Corporate Finance: On the Topic of Capital Structure Felicity Mary Turner Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State in Mark Owen Yeisley Nineteenth-Century America The End of Civilizations: The Role of Religion in the Evolution of Subnational Conflict, 1946-2007 Nurgul Beyshenbekovna Ukueva Migration, Remittances and Growth Yongcheng Ying I. Total Syntheses and Biological Studies of Largazole and Brasilibactin A. II. Sandra Viviana Vergara Stereoselective Synthesis of 2,6-Cis- and 2,6-Trans-Piperidines through an Post-transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in Response to Iron Deficiency Organocatalytic Aza-Michael Reaction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Chunjie Zhang Briana Noelle Vogen Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Inkless Soft Lithography: Utilizing Immobilized Enzymes and Small Molecules to Germany around 1800 Pattern Self-Assembled Monolayers via Catalytic Microcontact Printing Xing Zong Marija Vukotić First Study of Three-body Photodisintegration of 3He with Double Polarizations at HIGS Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics Sarah Zubairy Ashwin Ashok Wagadarikar Explaining the Effects of Fiscal Shocks Compressive Spectral and Coherence Imaging
D u k e U n i v e r sit y C omme n ceme n t E x e r cises 14 M a s t e r o f s c i en c e P r es ent ed by Dean David F. B ell S eptemb er 1, 2009 Philip Reid Brown Linda Deng Kathryn Diane Ness Hedlund Kristin Ann Maloney Tian Zhang Mark Andrew Castoro Gianluca Di Muro Jianan Hou Matthew Peter Sayler Zhaobo Zhang Abrita Chakravarty Xin Guo D’Vone Courtez Jackson Ravi Shekhar Minhua Chen Amrita Ramesh Halappanavar Jung Min Lee Minghui Shi Nihshanka Debroy Lehan He Gilbert Randolph Lee IV Nicole Marie Walley Decemb er 30, 2009 Rachel Julia Alfie Insung Hwang Jacob Michael Montgomery Susanna Maria Ricco Gavin William Taylor Jiefu Chen Botao Jia Bjorn Omarsson Casey James Rubin Nobel James Vale Ionut Constandache David Murray Kahler Frederick Owusu-Nimo Arun Mathew Sebastian Jie Xiong Neha Girish Taeha Kim Darshin Shashi Patel Kriti Sharma Huidong Xu Asli Nur Goktug Theodore Clarence Lyman Brian R. Piazza Jennifer Lynn Shore Yi Zhang Da Huang Varun Marupadi Kalyan Edavally Reddy Jay Ketan Shridharani May 16, 2010 Farah Akbar Mark A. Ewing Yang Jiang Carolyn Madeleine Nohejl Dipti Jagdish Talreja Christina Lee Arnaout Bryan Ethan Fleming Erfan Mohammad Karim Chern-Han Ou Yuankai Kenny Tao Hussam Al-Deen Mohammad Ashab Peter James Franklin Kendal Alyson Kernstine Daniel S. Pages Lauren Teresa Tippets Xuan Bao Matthew Stouten Freeman Kyu Hyun Kim Lissette Perez Kai Wang Nedyalko Krasimirov Borisov Poornima Gadamsetty David Scott Kittle Michael Alexander Pierquet Lincoln Jon Webb Natalya Anna Brikner Harishanker Gajendran Lei Kong Baris C. Piyade Kevin Scott Weiss Adam Miles Brooks Yaohuan Gao Wei Kong Shreya Rajkumar Purohit Chia-Lung Wu Harish Chandran Travis Chad Greene Brandon David Le Sushravya Madanapalli Raghunath Jie Xiao Chun-Chi Chang Zhiqiang Gu William Weiham Lee Caroline Lee Ring Shenren Xu Jennifer Amy Chao Kritika Pradeep Gupta Brian Liau Arturas Rozenas Amol Prakash Yadav Andrew Y. Chou Christina Danielle Herring Jae Shik Lim Ami Saheba Il Yang Te-Wei Chu Sara Ashley Hinds Yang Liu Taichiro Sakagama Xiaoyan Yin Stephen Thomas Clark Bang-Ning Hsu Kelly A. McGrady Sara Salahi Yu Zeng Lauren Dinneen Courlas Fang-Yao Hu Deep S. Mehtaji Erich Adler Schnell Liwei Zhang Jacob Hascal Cox, Jr. Samreen Jatana Justin Vincent Migacz Alexandra Nicole Scott XiaoXi Zhang Al-Hafeez Zahir Dhalla Tian Jiang Abhishek Mitra Lee Edward Stunja Master of Arts P r e s e n t e d by Dean David F. B ell S eptemb er 1, 2009 Senem Acar Kirsten Marie Clemens Cherno Omar Kebbeh Evan David Peet Doron Wilfand Sejung Ahn Caroline M. Cozza Alex Herschel Kotch Timothy Daniel Rankin Yael Wilfand Seher Merve Akbas Maria Gabriela Farfan Bertran Chanchal Kumar Deborah Tammy Rho Eric James Wilson Serdar Akbas Christopher Scott Geissler Christina Cherie Leinneweber Teresa Foy Romano Lai Xu Jonas Eduardo Arias Sarah Kennedy Griffin Andrea Meredith Lockhart John Bradley Ross Elaine Yee Rajesh Bansal Junko Hioki Emily Bridget Lynch Timothy John Schwuchow Abdullah Yurekturk Nikki Lynn Boatenhamer Amy Kathleen Hopson Dana Whitfield Mangum Anju Sharma Ahmad Zaki Yusuf Lea Raye Bromell Shinichi Itagaki Amani Nabil McHugh Kilho Song Ryan Palmer Brown Alimamy Kamara Amar Nath Analía Andrea Viola Serap Cansizoglu Oz Alper Kara Dong Hwan Oh Jeremy Lee Ward
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