Events

Understanding the TDDP Process via Zoom Wednesday, July 22nd   6:30pm Meeting ID: 935 6245 2337 Passcode: 085818 https://pvpanther.zoom.us/j/93562452337?pwd=TCUCRsEaakwa6zHimml2QcmFClw317.1

Understanding APA and Using a Reference Management System via Zoom Wednesday, July 22nd   7:30pm Meeting ID: 997 6188 3727 Passcode: 387212 https://pvpanther.zoom.us/j/99761883727?pwd=FoNkERVcHLSAc6LsnagjzhvZzejE0q.1

Understanding the TDDP Process via Zoom Thursday, July 23rd   6:30pm Meeting ID: 956 2869 2233 Passcode: 092958 https://pvpanther.zoom.us/j/95628692233?pwd=IVqn89XZSJirf3ZvanLQKlxpNxgllr.1

Understanding IEEE Thursday, July 23rd    7:30pm Meeting ID: 993 7465 1117 Passcode: 282918 https://pvpanther.zoom.us/j/99374651117?pwd=Jzg4diFUuAIQNchgHMkcwdhXhefVwE.1

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Temilola Salami COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR: Dr. Stacie DeFreitas TITLE: RACIALIZED SURVEILLANCE AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH: A SERIAL MODERATED MEDIATION MODEL OF POLICE CONTACT, EMOTIONAL RESPONSE, AND TRAUMA SYMPTOMS ABSTRACT: Introduction: This study examined the psychological implications of adolescent police contact using a serial moderated mediation framework grounded in Critical Race Theory, Vile [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Annamalai Annamalai TITLE: DEEP LEARNING-BASED SIDE-CHANNEL EVALUATION ACROSS CLASSICAL AND POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHIC IMPLEMENTATIONS ABSTRACT: A cryptographic algorithm that is mathematically secure can still be broken since its hardware implementation leaks secret information through power consumption or electromagnetic emission. These vulnerabilities are applicable to widely deployed classical encryption schemes as well as [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Temilola Salami TITLE: MORE THAN A MOVEMENT: THE MENTAL HEALTH TOLL OF ACTIVISM AND THE SHIELD OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AT HBCUs ABSTRACT: Student activism has historically contributed to sociopolitical change, with college campuses serving as important contexts for civic engagement and identity development (Ballard et al., 2024; Cabrera et al., 2017; [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Stella Smith TITLE: BEYOND BORDERS: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF STUDY ABROAD AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON BELONGING, MOTIVATION, AND DEGREE PROGRESSION ABSTRACT: This qualitative phenomenological study explored how students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) described their study abroad experiences and how those experiences influenced their academic motivation and persistence toward degree [...]

OMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Patricia Miller COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR: Dr. Pamela Barber-Freeman TITLE: DETERMINING IF A BENEFIT RELATIONSHIP EXISTS BETWEEN BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES PARTNERSHIPS THROUGHOUT THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY ABSTRACT: The goal of this quantitative study was to determine if a benefit relationship existed, based on enrollment data, between HBCUs and colleges [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lin Li COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR: Dr. Lijun Qian TITLE: EFFECTIVE TRAFFIC ROUTING UNDER DISASTROUS EVENTS THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING ABSTRACT: Disastrous events such as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods routinely disrupt transportation networks, preventing emergency response, evacuation, and the delivery of critical supplies. Conventional optimization-based routing methods offer strong theoretical guarantees but cannot scale and [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Noushin Ghaffari TITLE: COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL PRIORITIZATION OF CANDIDATE BACTERIAL TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS FROM LARGE-SCALE GENOMIC DATASETS ABSTRACT: Transposable elements are mobile DNA sequences that contribute to bacterial genome variation, gene disruption, and genome rearrangement. Large-scale computational tools can identify thousands of candidate insertion sequences and related transposable elements, but these outputs [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Yuebing Liu TITLE: WHY THEY STAY: CAREER DEVELOPMENT, PERSONAL GROWTH, AND THE RETENTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION GENERAL STAFF ABSTRACT: Higher education general staff (HEGS) are critical to the operational continuity and institutional success of U.S. colleges and universities, yet their retention remains a persistent challenge. While faculty development has received sustained [...]