Events

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Janet Antwi TITLE: IFRU VEG CART: A PILOT STUDY OF A MOBILE PRODUCE DELIVERY PROGRAM AND FOOD INSECURITY AMONG STUDENTS AT AN HBCU ABSTRACT: Food insecurity and inadequate fruit and vegetable (F/V) consumption remain major public health concerns among students in college, especially those attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), where [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Jennifer Quinlan TITLE: ASSESSING RURAL FOOD ACCESS IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS USING THE NUTRITION ENVIRONMENT MEASURES SURVEY ABSTRACT: Food insecurity remains a significant public health concern in the United States, with Texas reporting one of the highest rates of food insecurity in the nation. Residents of rural low-income and low-access (LI/LA) communities often [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Janet Antwi TITLE: EXPLORING THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG METABOLIC HEALTH, DIETARY QUALITY, LIFESTYLE FACTORS, AND ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES IN ADULTS WITH OBESITY ABSTRACT: Obesity impacts more than 40% of adults in the United States and is connected to a heightened risk of metabolic disorders, heart conditions, and type 2 diabetes. The relationships among metabolic [...]

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 emerging [...]

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; Conner, [...]

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 often [...]