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Monica Marin Finance Dr. Gregory R. Niehaus 04/15/2008 4:00pm BA 801-A
Essays on Corporate Finance and Risk Management      Click here for the abstract
Johnathan Garland Munn Economics Douglas Woodward 04/16/2008 11:00am 4th Floor Economics Conf Room
Essays in Regional Competitiveness      Click here for the abstract
Yi-Jing Wu Business Administration Dr. Brad M. Tuttle 04/25/2008 10:30 AM BA 351
Manager's Personal Legal Liability and External Audits of Internal Controls: Are These Regulatory Mechanisms Complements or Substitutes?      Click here for the abstract
Jennifer Rebecca Amos Chemical Engineering Michael A Matthews 04/29/2008 10:00 AM Swearingen 2A31
A Mechanotransduction Study Of Chondrogenesis Using A Novel Tubular Scaffold      Click here for the abstract
Shane David Smith Business Administration Thomas J Madden 04/29/2008 1:00 PM College of Business 583
Understanding Brand Ratings Evaluations: A Look at Instrument Design Format and its Influences on Consumer Processing Styles      Click here for the abstract
Claudia Qian Ma School Psychology Erik Drasgow 05/05/2008 9AM Barnwell
Effects of a parent-implemented intervention on initiating joint attention in children with autism      Click here for the abstract
Diana Camila Urbanek Chemistry Mark A. Berg 05/06/2008 1:00 p.m. GSRC 101
2D-Vibrational Spectroscopy: Development and Testing of a 2D Ultrafast Raman Spectrometer with Time-Frequency Detection      Click here for the abstract
Willie Harold Oglesby Health Promotion, Education, & Behavior Sara J. Corwin 05/06/2008 2:00Pm Hesc 218A
Relationship Between School Perceptions And Health Risk Behaviors Of African American Middle School Youth      Click here for the abstract
Dawn McGahee Compton Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Rhonda Jeffires 05/07/2008 10:00 AM Wardlaw 272
Faith Development in Young Children: A Qualitative Study of Gender Differences      Click here for the abstract
Cynthia Louise James Walters Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Rhonda Jeffries 05/07/2008 1:00 PM Wardlaw 272
The Adult Educator's Impact on Transfer of Learning to the Work Site      Click here for the abstract
Irina L. Anisimova Comparative Literature J. Alexander Ogden 05/08/2008 11:00 A.M Humanities Office Building 919
Imagining the Folk: Authenticity and Modernity in the Texts of Belyi, Larsen, Pil’niak, and Toomer      Click here for the abstract
Tanesha Clarice Osborne Chemistry Dr. Paul R. Thompson 05/08/2008 1:00 pm GSRC 101
Kinetic Characterization Of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 Aids The Development Of Prmt-Selective Bisubstrate Inhibitors      Click here for the abstract
Gregory Wayne Long Music - Chpral Conducting Dr. Larry Wyatt 05/13/2008 11:00 am School of Music, Rm. #123
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: An Anglo-German Musical Synthesis in England During the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century      Click here for the abstract
Pamela Ray Koch Sociology Lala Carr Steelman 05/13/2008 2:30 Sloan 315
Speaking of Discipline: The Nexus between Discipline, Parental Type, Parental Role Strain and Academic Achievement.      Click here for the abstract
Bradley Matthew Battista Geology Camelia Knapp 05/14/2008 1400 Taber Room
Advanced Nonlinear Signal Processing Tools for use with High-Resolution Seismic Reflection & Ground-Penetrating Radar Data      Click here for the abstract
Kruawon Wongpaiboon Curriculum and Instruction Dr. Doyle Stevick 05/15/2008 10 am Museum of Education
A study of International Student Satisfaction with the Academic Environment, Social Environment, and Serives of International Programs for Students Office at the University of South Carolina, Columbia campus      Click here for the abstract
Gurcan Comert Civil and Environmental Engineering Dr. Mecit Cetin 05/16/2008 3:00 PM 300 Main St. C 217
Innovative Applications Of Probe Vehicle Data For System State Estimation And Traffic Signal Control      Click here for the abstract
Dagmar Martha Zuefle English Dr. Keen Butterworth 05/20/2008 10:00 am Welsch Humanities Office Building
The Ebb and Flow of the Disabused Intellect: John Ashbery's Romantic Irony      Click here for the abstract
Cynthia Klubnik School Psychology Scott Ardoin 05/20/2008 3pm Barnwell College
Evaluating a Group Repeated Reading Intervention      Click here for the abstract
Mathew Curtis Schmidtlein Geography Susan L. Cutter 05/22/2008 9:00 AM Callcott Room 228
Spatio-Temporal Changes in the Social Vulnerability of Charleston, South Carolina From 1960 to 2010      Click here for the abstract
Seungbum Hong Geological Sciences Venkat Lakshmi 05/22/2008 11:00am EWS 604
Land and atmosphere interactions using satellite remote sensing and a coupled mesoscale/land surface model      Click here for the abstract
Laura Jean Stroup Geography Dr. William Graf 05/22/2008 1:00 PM Callcott Building, Rm. 228
Climate Change Effects on U.S. Water Resources Management      Click here for the abstract
Carol Vesh Luetzow Special Education Dr. Mitch Yell 05/23/2008 10:00 Wardlaw
A Comparison of Percieved Teacher Efficacy Among Teachers of Students with Emotional Disabilities ased on Alternatve Certification Routes and Traditional Certification Routes in South Carolina      Click here for the abstract
Kristina Erin Weis Epidemiology Angela D. Liese 05/28/2008 3:00 PHRC 223
Comparing Risk-Based and Routine HIV Testing Outcomes between Rural and Urban Residents in South Carolina      Click here for the abstract
Deborah Ann MacPhee Language and Literacy Diane Stephens 05/29/2008 3:00 p. m. Wardlaw 214
The Identities We Teach: An Ethnographic Study of Three Teachers Conceptual and Enacted Identities      Click here for the abstract
Erin Marie Boswell Chemistry Richard D. Adams 05/29/2008 3:30 pm GSRC 101
Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of New Bimetallic Carbonyl Cluster Complexes      Click here for the abstract
Xiaotao Kelvin Liu Business Admin Dr. Robert Leitch 06/02/2008 10:00 a.m. BA Building
Performance Effects Of Targets And Pay-Performance Relations      Click here for the abstract
Samuel David Mash Educational Admin Dr. Michelle Maher 06/04/2008 10:00AM Wardlaw 272
Higher Education Decision Making in the Context of Academic Library Construction Projects      Click here for the abstract
Thomas G Canace Business Admin Dr. Robert A. Leitch 06/06/2008 10AM-12PM BA Building
The Valuation of Innovation: Evidence from the Asset Decapitalization -Redeployment Cycle      Click here for the abstract
Kim C. Smith Mass Communications Dr. Keith Kenney 06/09/2008 2 p.m. CEO Room School of Journalism and Mass Communications
A Grounded Theory analysis of how college students search for health information on the Internet: A Case of HIV/AIDS      Click here for the abstract
Sri Sitharaman Educational Admin Dr. Julie Rotholz 06/11/2008 10:00 AM Wardlaw
Analysis of Faculty Salaries at Historically Black Colleges and Universities      Click here for the abstract
Alessandro Zanazzi Geology Dr. Matthew Kohn 06/17/2008 10:00 AM Taber Room (EWSC 210)
Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology of the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, Central North America      Click here for the abstract
LeKisha Yvonne Edwards Clinical Dr. Jeffrey Schatz 06/18/2008 1:00 p.m. Walsh Conference Room in Barnwell College
Behavioral and Psycho-educational Support for Pain Management in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease      Click here for the abstract
Christopher Damien Rounds History Dr. Lawrence Glickman 06/18/2008 1:00PM Gambrell Hall 430
Ireland for Sale: The Marketing and Consumerism of the Irish-American Identity since 1880      Click here for the abstract
Sara Eye Burrows History Lacy K Ford 06/19/2008 2:00 Gambrell Hall 236
"'Left To Our Fate': South Carolina Women During the Civil War and Reconstruction"      Click here for the abstract
Robert Aman Gardiner Music Performance Cliff Leaman 06/20/2008 10:00am School of Music
Stylistic Evolution Of Jazz Saxophone Performance As Illustrated Through Selected Improvisations By Ten Master Improvisers      Click here for the abstract
Jennifer Lynn Gay Hlth Prom Edu & Bhv Ruth Saunders, PhD 06/23/2008 2:00pm PRC Conference Room, PHRC 1st Floor
Testing Self-Determination Theory and the Roles of the Social and Physical Environments in an Adult Beginning Exerciser Population      Click here for the abstract
Srideep Ganguly Economics Janice Boucher Breuer 06/25/2008 10:00 a.m BA 434B
"Essays on Currency and Financial Market Volatility"      Click here for the abstract
Eve Sullivan Puffer Clinical Jeffrey Schatz 06/25/2008 3:00 Barnwell College, Walsh Conference Room
Somatic growth and cognitive functioning in young children with Sickle Cell Disease      Click here for the abstract
Michael William Fanning Educational Admin Dr. Ken Stevenson 06/30/2008 1:30 p.m. 307 Wardlaw
Privatization of Support Services in South Carolina Public School Districts      Click here for the abstract
Louis Anthony Fayard Business Admin Al Leitch 07/01/2008 9:30 BA Building Room 350
How Incentives and Subjectivity Can Undermine the Use of Balanced Scorecard Performance Measures: An Experimental Investigation      Click here for the abstract
Lorraine S Lee Business Admin William Kettinger 07/01/2008 1:00 PM BA 801-A
The Impact of Information Technology on Organizational Control and Cost Management in the Health Care Context      Click here for the abstract
Anthony R Trimboli Chemistry Stephen L. Morgan 07/01/2008 1:30 pm PSC 104
Evaluation of forensic spectroscopic analyses of weathered, laundered and bloodstained textiles with chemometric methods      Click here for the abstract
Qingjiang Yao Mass Communications Prof. Lowndes F. Stephens 07/01/2008 3:30-5:00 PM CEO Room Coliseum
Exploring the Social Dynamics in the U.S. Democracy: Presidential and Public Opinions about, and Media Coverage of, Environmental Issues      Click here for the abstract
Mariano Toves Mesngon Biological Sciences Deanns S. Smith 07/02/2008 9:30 a.m. CLS 005
The effect of Lis1 on dynein function.      Click here for the abstract
Harry Alton Gates Secondary Education Christine Lotter 07/02/2008 11:00 AM Wardlaw - Dean\'s Conference
Middle School Science Teachers\' Perspectives and Practices of Teaching Through Inquiry      Click here for the abstract
Elizabeth Hope Mizzell Geography Gregory Carbone 07/02/2008 1:00 PM Calcott Room 228
Strategies for Mitigating Drought: Evaluation of Local, State and Federal Drought Indicators      Click here for the abstract
Jennifer Barnes Bowie Political Science Donald R. Songer 07/02/2008 1:30 p.m. 430 Gambrell Hall
Decision Making in the United States Courts of Appeals: Under What Conditions do United States Courts of Appeals Judges Behave Strategically?      Click here for the abstract
Hui Liu Mass Communications Dr. Ran Wei 07/02/2008 4:00 p.m. 3020B Carolina Coliseum
Modeling the Effects of Entertainment Media Use on Individuals’ Materialistic Values and Status Consumption Tendencies among the American College Students      Click here for the abstract
Joseph Richard Herzog Social Work Farber 07/03/2008 11 am Thornwell TBA
Secondary Trauma in Family Members of Combat Veterans      Click here for the abstract
Meng Wu Statistics Brian Habing 07/03/2008 7:00pm LeConte 202
Detect Based Hypothesis Test for Unidimensionality      Click here for the abstract
Hilary Kate Fussell Sisco Mass Communications Lynn M. Zoch 07/07/2008 10 a.m. CEO Room
Crisis in Nonprofit Organizations: A Mixed-Methods Investigation Using Situational Crisis Communication Theory      Click here for the abstract
Jason Allen Bryant Geology Gene Yogodzinski 07/07/2008 10am EWSC 210 (Taber room)
Origin of arc magmas and xenoliths from the Aleutians and Kamchatka      Click here for the abstract
Julie Deann Freelove Hlth Prom Edu & Bhv Ken Watkins 07/07/2008 11:00 AM SPH 109B
The Influence of Aging-expectations and the Neighborhood Environment on Healthy Aging Behaviors in Older Adults      Click here for the abstract
Rickey Alton Maxey Educational Admin Dr. Kenneth Stevenson 07/07/2008 1:30 PM 307 Wardlaw
An Analysis of the Relationships between South Carolina Public High School Size and Student Achievement as Measured by 2007 ACT and SAT Reasoning Test (SAT) Results      Click here for the abstract
Zhongwu Wang Geography Dr. John Jensen 07/08/2008 9:30 AM Callcott 228
An Automatic Region-based Image Segmentation System for Remote Sensing Applications      Click here for the abstract
R David Parker Epidemiology Natalie Colabianchi 07/08/2008 10:00 AM 2 Medical Park, Lower Level
HIV RISK BEHAVIORS AND KNOWLEDGE: ASSOCIATIONS WITH HIV PREVALENCE IN ESTONIA      Click here for the abstract
Jennifer Adair McCausland English Dr. Gieskes 07/08/2008 10:00 am Humanities Office Building 102
Through the Spectacles of Carnival: Moral Re-Vision in Ben Jonson.      Click here for the abstract
Daniel L. Morrell Business Admin M. Audrey Korsgaard 07/08/2008 11:00 am Close-Hipp Building, Room 451
Automaticity in the Workplace: Influences on Counterproductive Behavior      Click here for the abstract
Baron Recardo Davis Counselor Education John McFadden, Ph.D. 07/08/2008 2:00 pm Wardlaw
Perceptions of the Classroom Learning Environment as Seen by African American Students Attending School in the Rural Southeastern United States      Click here for the abstract
Yang-Hwan Lee Mass Communications August E. Grant 07/08/2008 2:30 PM CEO Room, in Coliseum Building
Exploring factors affecting Mobile Commerce Adoption in the United States, Korea, and China: Tests of Theories, Models, and Cultural Differences      Click here for the abstract
Samuel Lucas McMillan Political Science Harvey Starr 07/09/2008 1:00 pm Gambrell 430
Transforming Statecraft: The Involvement of American State Governments and Governors in US Foreign Relations      Click here for the abstract
Joyce Ann Walker Pompey Nursing Practice Dr. Jane Weilert 07/09/2008 1:00 pm College of Nursing Room 405
Quantitative Analysis of Utilization and Access to Primary Health Care Services in A Small Rural Town with Future Implications for Development of A Faith-Based Outreach Primary Care Facility      Click here for the abstract
Laura Lyons Taylor Statistics Dr. Edsel A. Pena 07/09/2008 2:00 PM LeConte 202
Competing Risks in a Recurrent Event Setting      Click here for the abstract
Jonathan Allen Sedberry English Ed Madden 07/09/2008 4:00 PM Welsh Humanities 308
Rupture and Repair: Literature, Genre and the AIDS Epidemic      Click here for the abstract
Alexander Charles McLain Statistics Dr. Edsel Pena 07/09/2008 10 am LeConte 202
Accelerated Testing with Recurrent Events and Some Issues in Marginal Models      Click here for the abstract
Joseph Matthew Ellsworth Chemistry Hanno zur-Loye 07/09/2008 3:00 PM graduate science research center, Irix conference room
Coordination Polymers; hybrid materials composed of organic ligands and transition row metals      Click here for the abstract
Gurcan Comert Civil Engineering Mecit Cetin 07/10/2008 9:00 am 300 Main St. C217
INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF PROBE VEHICLE DATA FOR SYSTEM STATE ESTIMATION AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL      Click here for the abstract
Saran M Looby Clinical Herman Salzberg, Ph.D., ABPP 07/16/2008 9:00am PSC
Parenting Style as Predictor of Attitudes toward Antisocial Behavior      Click here for the abstract
Amber Dawn Phillips Physical Education Judith E Rink 07/18/2008 10:30 Blatt PE Center
LEARNING TO TEACH: CHANGES IN TEACHING SKILLS AND DECISION MAKING PROCESSES RELATED TO THE CONTENT DEVELOPMENT OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS ACROSS TWO METHODS COURSES AND FIELD EXPERIENCES      Click here for the abstract
Kenia Johnson Clinical Jeffrey C. Schatz, Ph.D. 07/18/2008 2:30pm Walsh Conference Room - Barnwell Bldg
The Role of Parent Self-Efficacy and Parenting Behaviors on School Readiness      Click here for the abstract
Eric Philip Green Clinical Bret Kloos 07/21/2008 10:00am Walsh Conference Room, Barnwell College
COMMUNITIES IN TRANSITION: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY OF CHANGING SOCIAL SETTINGS AND INDIVIDUAL, HOUSEHOLD, AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING IN POST-CONFLICT NORTHERN UGANDA      Click here for the abstract
Martha Clarke McConnell Geology Dr. Robert C. Thunell 07/28/2008 10 am EWSC 210
Tropical Climate Variability During Marine Isotope Stage 3: A Multi-Proxy Approach from the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela      Click here for the abstract

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