Week of Events
Monday, July 13, 2026
No events on this day.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
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July 14, 2026 -Jasmine Major Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, July 14, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
Jasmine Major Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, July 14, 2026 @ 10:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Stacie Defreitas TITLE: DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING AN ADLERIAN PLAY THERAPY K-5TH MENTAL HEALTH CURRICULUM USING QUALITATIVE METHODS ABSTRACT: In the United States, 33% of students exhibit internalizing or externalizing behaviors in academic settings. These behaviors can impact student engagement and performance by disrupting affected students’ and their classmates’ ability to tend to [...]
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
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Thursday, July 16, 2026
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July 16, 2026 -Joulvous Drake Doctoral Project Defense, Thursday, July 16, 2026 @ 11:00 am Central Time
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July 16, 2026 -LLMs, Text2SQL, Knowledge Distillation, Information Extraction
Joulvous Drake Doctoral Project Defense, Thursday, July 16, 2026 @ 11:00 am Central Time
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Chloe Gaines TITLE: UTILIZATION OF AN ON-SITE PRIMARY CARE CLINIC - AN EVALUATION ABSTRACT: Employers are increasingly incorporating on-site primary care clinics into their workplace health strategies to improve access to timely care, reduce absenteeism, support chronic disease management, and lower healthcare-related costs. Yet, despite the demonstrated organizational and health benefits, [...]
LLMs, Text2SQL, Knowledge Distillation, Information Extraction
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Xishuang Dong TITLE: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION ABSTRACT: Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged with remarkable capabilities in understanding, generating, and contextualizing natural language. These capabilities have significantly advanced information extraction (IE), enabling the extraction of meaningful information from both unstructured and structured data. This dissertation investigates two important [...]
Friday, July 17, 2026
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Sunday, July 19, 2026
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