Oral Defense Announcements

Fall 2026 Candidates for Graduation

Doctoral Graduate Oral Defense Announcement Table
Date & Time / Location Candidate & Dissertation Title
6/6 at 8:30am
236 ABH
Donald E. Seitz
Commission Impossible: Real Estate Agents and the Struggle to Free the 6% from the Iron Cage
6/8 at 1:00pm
108 ABH
Remote
Mark Franz
The Greatest Spreadsheet Ever Told: The Need for a Better Understanding of User-Developed Applications
7/30 at 10:00am
103 Benton Hall
Jeremy Howard
Examining the Navigation and Spatial Cognitive Abilities and Limitations in Bombus Bumblebees
8/29 at 8:30am
Remote
Dennis Pellegrini
Understanding the Impact of AI Orientation on Firm Financial Performance: The Interplay of Innovation Intensity and Data Governance
9/4 at 8:00am
235 Benton Hall
Kristen M. Rosamond
Interactions Between the Gut Microbiome and Immune System During Early Development in Wild Birds
9/16 at 9:00am
Remote
Delton Chase Hudgens
A Survey Experiment on Perceived Fairness of AI, Human, and Human–AI Workload Allocation Decisions in HRM
10/23 at 1:00pm
B428
Mark John Eissler, Jr.
Synthesis and Structure-Property Analysis of Group V Single Molecule Magnets
10/26 at 9:00am
235 Benton Hall
Taiwo Iromini
Understanding the Mechanism of Soxrs-mediated Downregulation of Invasion Genes and Salicylate-induced Membrane Cyclopropanation in Salmonella
10/28 at 1:00pm
103 ABH
Jeffrey Promnitz
Governable Advantage: Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Regulated Affordable Multifamily Housing
10/29 at 2:00pm
Remote
Andrea Carolina Trigueros Avalos
Disease, Immune Diversity, and Population Genomics in Two Introduced Sparrows
10/29 at 3:30pm
Remote
Everett Ray Walden, Jr.
Returns on U.S. Index and Bond Futures During the European Market Opening and FOMC Announcements
11/18 at 10:00am
Remote
Mark Christian
The Effectuation Ceiling: Boundary Conditions of Entrepreneurial Decision Logic in Small Business AI Integration