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| Student Name | Major | Chair Name | Date, Time, Location | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHO, YEJIN | LINGUISTICS | Erk, Katrin E | AUGUST 6, 2026; 7:00 AM TO 9:00 AM; RLP 4.422 | UNDERSTANDING WORD MEANING THROUGH SCENES |
| FRANKLIN, JOSEPH L | PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES | Liu, Hung-Wen | AUGUST 6, 2026; 10:00 AM TO 12:00 PM; PHR 4.114 | INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS OF DESOSAMINE AND LADDERANE FATTY ACIDS |
| BRANDENBURG, BILLY | AEROSPACE ENGINEERING | Russell, Ryan P | AUGUST 7, 2026; 9:30AM; ASE 2.202 | DETERMINISTIC PATH-FINDING TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIPLE GRAVITY ASSIST TRAJECTORIES |
| FREGOSO OCAMPO, RODRIGO | BIOCHEMISTRY | Taylor, David W | AUGUST 7, 2026; 4:30-5:30PM CT; NHB 1.720 | UNDERSTANDING AND ENGINEERING COMPACT CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS |
| STEWART, KRISTEN | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING | Neptune, Richard R | AUGUST 7, 2026; 11:00AM; ETC 4.150 | AN EXPLORATION OF HIP EXOSKELETON ASSISTANCE STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE WALKING PERFORMANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS POST-STROKE |
| DUGGAL, ISHAAN | PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES | Peppas, Nicholas A | AUGUST 10, 2026; 11:00 AM TO 12:00 PM; BME 3.204 SEMINAR ROOM | ENGINEERING BIOMATERIALS TOWARDS PULSATILE DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS |
| MENCEL, MARSHAL | CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | Bittner, George D | AUGUST 10, 2026; 1:00PM CT; WEL 2.246 | CELLULAR, MOLECULAR, AND BIOPHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL PLASMALEMMAL REPAIR IN EUKARYOTES |
| BENWAY-TREJO, CAITLIN MARIE | MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING | Manthiram, Arumugam | AUGUST 11, 2026; 12:00 PM TO 1:00 PM; GLT 2.102 | STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF ALUMINUM FOIL ANODES IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES |
| JARIWALA, AKSHIT | AEROSPACE ENGINEERING | Goldstein, David B, Bakolas, Efstathios | AUGUST 11, 2026; 10:00AM CT; ASE 2.202 | STEERING COHERENT STRUCTURES: PHYSICS-AWARE PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF BOUNDARY-LAYER SEPARATION |
| ROY, ADITYA | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING | Ben-Yakar, Adela | AUGUST 11, 2026; 12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM; ETC 5.224 | OPTOTHERMAL INTERACTIONS AT THE LASER-TISSUE INTERFACE IN TWO-PHOTON BRAIN IMAGING |