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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.
The Dynamic Response and Damage Evolution of High-Strength Concrete , Mohamed Abbas
Fragmented Bodies , Lauren Careese Alexander
A Genetic Screen to Identify Cell-Specific Inhibitors of Microexon Splicing in the unc-13 Transcript in C. elegans , Saad Ali
I. Degradable Polymers and Networks Based on Furan-Maleimide Diels-Alder Reactions of Silyl Ether Derivatives and Maleimides, and II. The Michael Addition of Amines to 1,3,5-Triacryloylhexahydro-1,3,5-Triazine (TAT) as a Synthetic Route to Novel Chelating Agents , Reyad Alkhazalah
Statistical Approaches For The Early Detection Of Colorectal Cancer Using Longitudinal Biomarkers , Emily Berry
Social Support and Wellbeing Among Latinx Latter-day Saints in Dallas, Texas , Elizabeth Bingham Thomas
SCREEN FOR BENEFICIAL GENETIC AND CHEMICAL MODIFIERS IN DROSOPHILA MODELS OF ALS AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY , Will Bonderer
Experiments on Employer-Employee Relationships , Hang Chen
Moral Agency in Flux: Rohingya Refugees Envisioning and Establishing a “Good Life” in Dallas, Texas , Nusaiba Chowdhury
Hollywoodlandia: Celebrity Women, Movie Culture, And American Public Womanhood, 1916-1950 , Skye Cranney
Participation in the Martyred Christ: Augustine of Hippo on Martyrdom and Martyr Veneration , Matthew Esquivel
THREE ESSAYS IN MACROECONOMICS , Yunlong Fan
Testing the Effect of Autonomy-Supportive Instructions During Yoga on Autonomy, Competence, and Affective Response , Bree Geary
The Patterns and Structures of Information Technology Departments in Higher Education , Curt Herridge
Generation, Dynamics, and Interaction of Quartic Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Laser Systems , Sabrina Hetzel
Bayesian Variational Inference in Keyword Identification and Multiple Instance Classification , Yaofang Hu
Comparative Study On Rocking Dynamics And Energy Dissipation Of Rigid Bodies: A Microscale Framework , Idowu [email protected]
Transport of Multi-Phase Multi-Component Fluids in the Shallow Subsurface Influenced by Soil and Surface Boundary Conditions: Experimental and Numerical Study with Application to Natural Gas Leakage , Navodi Jayarathne
Investigation of Surface Motion with Soft Alginate Microrobots at Low Reynolds Numbers , Gokhan Kararsiz
Numerical Investigation Of Particle Dampers As Structural Response Modifiers , Mehrdad Karimipetanlar
Discrete Element Method Investigation Of The Dynamic And Seismic Response Of Embedded Geotechnical Systems , Ahmed Khamiss and Usama El Shamy
Blind Evaluation Framework for Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning , Hunjae Lee
Essays on Economic Geography , Da Li
Constraints on Solar Axions Using the Profile Likelihood Ratio Method with the SuperCDMS Experiments , Shilun Liu
INTEGRATION OF MACHINE LEARNING AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL CALCULATIONS FOR DE NOVO DRUG DESIGN , Ayesh Madushanka Mahamada Kalapuwage
Salt & Sand: Deep History in the Permian Basin , Austin Miller
College Students’ Recent Dating Violence Experiences and Reactions to a Campus Bystander Intervention Program for Preventing Dating Violence , Jamie Nguyen
Dissecting The Tissue-Specific Contributions To Seizures, Cardiorespiratory Dysfunction, And Sudden Death In The Kv1.1 Mouse Model Of Epilepsy Using Conditional Knockout Approaches , Kelsey Paulhus
Essays on the Application and Improvement of the Geographical Economics Models to Policy Analysis: The Case of Road Infrastructure in Central America , Ignacio Penagos
The Tissue-Specific Role of smn-1 in C. elegans , Lindsey Philips
Beyond the Horizon: Exploring Anomaly Detection Potentials with Federated Learning and Hybrid Transformers in Spacecraft Telemetry , JUAN RODRIGUEZ
“It’s Hard to Quantify Community Togetherness”: Exploring The Evolution Of Data Science Practices And Uncovering Critical Tensions , Marc Sager
Accounting for the Gift: Theology and Ethics in Accounting , Daniel Sebastian
Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Texas , Timothy Seiter
Neuro-Symbolic Commonsense Reasoning with Resistance to Data Poisoning: A First-Order Logic and Sub-Symbolic Embeddings Framework , Bryce Shurts and King-Ip Lin
Predicting Biomolecular Properties and Interactions Using Numerical, Statistical and Machine Learning Methods , Elyssa Sliheet
The Layers of A Mixture of Prints Representing the Events that Happened in 1713: Trompe-l'oeil, the Paris Print Market, and the War of the Spanish Succession , Chloe Smith
Radical Explorations Of Radical Empiricism: William James’s Transmissive Theory Of Mind In The Context Of Visionary Experience , Rita Spellman
Intelligent Resource Allocation for SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks through Reinforcement Learning , Jing Su
Stress-Induced Oxytocin Reactivity as a Predictor of Daily Support Seeking After Stress , Cecile Sunahara
UAV-X Communication: Empirical Characterization and Performance Optimization , Muhammad Hashir Syed
Unveiling the Nexus of Cellular Quality Control: Exploring the Interplay Between Ribosome-Associated Protein Quality Control and Mitochondrial Quality Control Pathways , Foozhan Tahmasebinia
The Chemistry of Heavy Elements: Probing Relativistic Chemical Bonding , Barbara Maria Teixeira Costa Peluzo
School Leaders Supporting Undocumented Asian and Black Students , Lorena Tule-Romain
Texas Gothic , Taryn Uribe Turner
Deformation Mapping and Modeling of the Aleutian Volcanoes with InSAR and Numerical Models , Jiahui Wang
Queerform/ing , Matthew Solon-Lee Weimer
A 1.1GS/s 12-bit single-channel pipelined-SAR ADC with an improved CDAC implementation and adaptive interstage redundancy , Xianshan Wen
Text and Commentary: Jewish Identity in Beryl Korot's Video Art , Emma Woods
The Geology And Geochemistry Of The Western Iron Ore Group Greenstone Belt, Singhbhum Craton, Eastern India , JORDAN WRIGHT
Computational Study of Protein Dynamics and Allostery through Molecular Modeling and Machine Learning , Sian Xiao
Supporting Service Composition through Service Usage-based Recommendation , Xihao Xie
Global Fits In The Supersymmetric Georgi-Machacek Model , Yingnan Xu
Tools for Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation , Xin Yang
Bayesian and Deep Generative Modeling in Immunology , Yuqiu Yang
Mixed Reality Simulations and Teacher Practice: Exploring Teacher Candidates’ Writing Instruction and Pedagogical Reasoning , Murphy K. Young
Toward Improved Shared Micromobility Implementation: A Data-Driven Approach to Overcome Challenges and Explore Next-Generation Acceptance , Myriam Zakhem
Exploring Literacy and Translanguaging Practices to Support Palestinian Children and Their Families in the Diaspora , Mai Zaru
Wireless Power Transfer Using Cavity with Height Discontinuities , Linsheng Zhang
Advancing Coupled Cluster Methods: Tensor Factorization And Analytic Gradient Implementation , Tingting Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Assessment and Sourcing of Heavy Metal Contamination of Middle East Semi-Enclosed Marine Environs Via Near-Shore Sediment Analysis , Abdullah Alnasser
Examining the Association Between Social Anxiety and Social Cognition on Daily Interpersonal Stress , Talha Alvi
End to End Routing Algorithms in Arbitrary Networks , Nada Alzaben
An Undocumented Economy: Side Hustles, Gigs, Swap Meets, and Migration in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, 1917-2000 , Jonathan Angulo
Development of Bayesian Hierarchical Methods involving Meta-Analysis , Jackson Barth
Surviving the Lions’ Den: Preparing Statistics Graduate Students for Their Roles as Educators , Rachael N. Becker
Electromagnetically Actuated Modular Robots with Controlled Self-Assembly and On-Demand Disassembly , Anuruddha Bhattacharjee
Three Essays in Household Economics , Kristina Bishop
Optimizing Tumor Xenograft Experiments Using Bayesian Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Modelling and Reinforcement Learning , Mary Lena Bleile
The Geography of Altithermal Subsistence Adaptations on the North American Great Plains , Ryan Breslawski
Grammatical Triples Extraction for the Distant Reading of Textual Corpora , Stephanie Buongiorno and Stephanie Buongiorno
The Investigation of Singlet Fission from the Perspective of Hierarchy of Pure States (HOPS) , Tao (James) Chen
Visualized Algorithm Engineering on Two Graph Partitioning Problems , Zizhen Chen
Eudaimonist Exemplarism and Saints , Brian C. Clark
Experimental and Computational Characterization of GaN and Si Power Devices and the Development of Their Generalized Reduced Models , Yubo Cui
Photonic Sensors Based on Integrated Ring Resonators , Jaime Da Silva
Educating a Denomination: Albert C. Outler and American Theological Education, 1925 - 1974 , Lane Davis
Transport Mechanisms in Electrochemical Immunoassay Biosensors with Applications to SARSCOV-2 Neutralizing Antibody Detection , Mohammad Karim Dehghan Manshadi
A Mechanics-based Analytical Solution for Restrained Beams with Application to Progressive Collapse Behavior , Leven Deputy
Eco-Interoception: What plants, fungi and protista have taught my body , Sara Riley Dotterer
A Comparison of Confidence Intervals in State Space Models , Jinyu Du
Climate-Driven Changes in Water Quality by Physiographic Region: A Case Study of Taos County, New Mexico , Michaela Eamma
Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education in an Urban Texas School District , Bethany Edwards
Modified Dominator Algorithm For Strategic Placement Of Resources For Enterprise Security , Stacey Elliott
Essays On Political Economy And Behavior , Seth Emblem
“Þer watz mete, þer watz myrþe, þer watz much ioye”: The Manipulative Sotilte of Middle English Romance , Kelly Evans
Viscous Thin-film Models of Nanoscale Self-organization Under Ion Bombardment , Tyler Evans
Whiteness at the Dressing Table: Race, Gender, and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century France and the French Caribbean , Danielle Ezor
"Prodigals of Traitors: American POWs during the Korean War, Brainwashing, and National Security" , Brett Fearer
Adaptive Multirate Infinitesimal Time Integration , Alex Fish
Essays on the Political Economy of Religion , Samuel Fleming
Study Of Radiation Effects In Gan-Based Devices , Han Gao
A Longitudinal Investigation of Positive Biases and Psychological Functioning During theCoronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic , Tricia Gower
The Hospitality of Doubt , Ian Grieve
Deep Learning Applications For Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies , Eric Guzman
Practical Implementation of the Immersed Interface Method with Triangular Meshes for 3D Rigid Solids in a Fluid Flow , Norah Hakami
Microscale Chemical Manipulation and Imaging Using Photoactive Molecules and Light , Uroob Haris
Examining the Mediating Role of CO2 in Symptom Change During Capnometry-Assisted Respiratory Training (CART) Using a Transdiagnostic Sample , Anni Hasratian
Effect of Surface Fluid Entrapment in a Laminar Flat Plate Boundary Layer , Abigail Hays
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Ana Girard is a Ph.D. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space, and Culture program at Southern Methodist University. She received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Houston. She graduated with honors and double majored in Art History and Spanish at the University of Houston. Girard has held the Samuel H. Kress post-graduate interpretive fellowship and two curatorial fellowships at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Menil Collection. She has also served as a short-term research assistant to past mentors and private collectors. Girard’s primary research focus is the visual and material culture of the Early Modern Hispanic World, particularly emphasizing transatlantic histories, religious art and indigenous participation in the global Renaissance-Baroque. Girard is interested in intersections between European, Viceregal, and pre-Hispanic artisanship and worldmaking. She is passionate about artworks and artifacts that have traveled across cultural, aesthetic and religious boundaries.
Arvin Maghsoudlou
Arvin Maghsoudlou is a doctoral candidate in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program in Art History at Southern Methodist University and a 2021-22 Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Arvin comes from Iran, where he received an undergraduate degree from the University of Tehran and a master's degree in Islamic Archaeology from the University of Mazandaran. He specializes in the art of late antique western Asia and the Iranian world, particularly during the Sasanian and early Islamic periods. With an emphasis on materiality and object agency, Arvin's dissertation investigates the transcultural reception of Sasanian silver vessels across Eurasia and their long-term impact on the aesthetic sensibilities of the later periods. Maghsoudlou's research has received multiple awards and recognitions, including the Fellowship in History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship at the National Museum of Asian Art, and the Alessandra Comini International Fellowship for Art History Studies.
Chloe Smith
Chloe Smith is a first year in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture M.A. program in Art history. In 2020, she received a B.A. in art history and a B.A. in studio art with a concentration in Printmaking from Louisiana State University. As an Undergraduate her work was exhibited in It’s a Print Thing at Nichols College in 2021, Layers at LSU in 2022 and has her work presented at the LSU Discover Day in 2021 and 2022. Her current research interests include contemporary American printmaking within the sphere of contemporary Native American Artists.
Christine Burger
Christine Burger is a Ph.D. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program in art history at SMU. She received her B.A. in art history from University of Zurich in Switzerland and her M.A. in both Arts and Culture and Media Studies from Leiden University.
Before coming to SMU, Burger worked for eight years in museums in Switzerland and in Texas. She was an Assistant Curator at Fondation Beyeler in Basel, where she worked on exhibitions such Jean Dubuffet. Metamorphoses of Landscape (2015), Balthus (2018), and The Young Picasso. Blue and Rose Period (2019). Most recently, she was the Curatorial Research Assistant for European Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), where she supported the Senior Curator of European Art with Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris (2021) and Van Gogh and the Olive Groves (2021). She also curated the exhibition Picassos Muses: Between Inspiration and Obsession (2023) at the DMA. Additionally, Burger also works on independent curatorial projects and is a co-founder of the Basel-based networking group for female-identifying art workers FAM. She has been published in exhibition catalogues on Jean Dubuffet, Balthus, Picasso and Juan Gris.
In her research, Burger is interested in a global approach to modern and contemporary art, the archive, as well as death and mourning.
Emma Woods is a first-year student in the art history’s RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture M.A. program. She graduated summa cum laude with her B.A. in religious studies and a minor in Jewish studies from Southern Methodist University in 2019. As an undergraduate, she had an internship at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum during their institutional transition and studied language in France, art history in Spain, and human rights in California. Her research concentrates on intersectional feminism in contemporary art with particular interest in domesticity and domiciles, collectives and collaboration, and nontraditional art media.
Erin Wilson
Erin Wilson is a Ph.D. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program in art history at SMU. She received her M.A. in art history from the University of South Florida and her B.S. in arts administration from the University of Tampa. In her master’s thesis, An Alternative Ancien Régime? Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun in Russia, Wilson examined the artist’s professional experiences as a French émigré. An article based on this research titled “Drafting an Image of Success: The Russian Patronage of Émigré Élisabeth Louise Vigée Lebrun” is forthcoming.
Recently, Wilson served as Associate Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, FL. While there she developed numerous exhibitions, including Explore the Vaults: Images Private and Public, c. 1500-1800 (2022-2023) and Defining Lines, the Prints and Drawings of Maxime Lalanne (2022) . Her research interests remain centered on French painting of the long eighteenth century.
Gabriela Paiva de Toledo
Gabriela Paiva de Toledo: Gabriela Paiva de Toledo is a Ph.D. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space, and Culture at Southern Methodist University. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Campinas (Brazil), in History with an Art History minor, in 2015, and her Master of Arts degree in Art History from the same institution in 2017. Her current research focuses on the relations between ecology and Contemporary Art produced in and about Brazil. She is a member of the Curatorial Minds Lab, a project of the SMU Pollock Gallery and Hawn Gallery. She is currently (2021-2022) a curatorial fellow at The Warehouse, Dallas, assisting in the organization of the exhibition "Tender Objects: Emotion and Sensation after Minimalism," and acting as liaison between The Warehouse and the SMU art history department. Contact information: [email protected] .
Jean Marie Christensen
Jean Marie Christensen is a doctoral candidate in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture Ph.D. program in art history at SMU. She received her B.A. in history with an art history minor from Oklahoma State University in 2015 and her M.A. in European history from The University of Tulsa in 2017. Her research examines Tudor and Stuart portraiture through the theories of the king's two bodies and the body politic to analyze the construction of authority through the representation of the royal body. Her research also focuses on ideas of body image, family and dynasty, and the monarch’s place within court culture in early modern Britain. [email protected]
Jennifer Laffick
Kelsey Rozema
Kelsey Rozema is a PhD student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture Ph.D. Program in Art History. She received her masters in art history from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She is interested in the displays of both agency and oppression in eighteenth-century Spanish portraiture.
Laura Martin
Laura Martin is a Ph.D. student in Art History at SMU, studying the art of the early modern Hispanic world. She received her master’s degree in art history at SMU in 2023, and before that worked as a secondary history teacher. Martin's research interests center on religious art in Spain and Latin America. Her research explores how religious images served as conduits for the divine, taking seriously their power within the early modern imaginary. Her work also investigates how early modern conceptions of gender-impacted faith and how those ideas translated into visual rhetoric.
Libby Bush is a first-year M.A. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program. She received her B.A. from Baylor University with honors in 2023. She recently completed an undergraduate thesis discussing religious imagery in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and Early Christianity. During her time as an undergraduate, she interned at the Nasher Sculpture Center and Laura Rathe Fine Art in the Dallas Design District. Her current research interests include religion and cultural exchange in the Ancient Near East.
Lin Zhang is a first-year M.A. student in the Art History program. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from Hubei Minzu University in 2014 and her first M.A. in Art History from the University of Sussex in 2021. Zhang’s M.A. thesis focused on the relationship between documentary photography and power and its political ideology expression through the lens. Her current research concentrates on Asia contemporary art, particularly the relationship between archival art, family albums, individual and collective memory, and identity.
Lindsey Reynolds
Lindsey Reynolds is a Ph.D. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program in art history at SMU. She received her B.A. in art history, with a certificate in museum studies, from The University of Texas at Austin in 2018 and her M.A. in art history from the University of Houston in 2021. Her M.A. thesis examined a selection of contemporary artists of Latin American and Middle Eastern descent who remediate archival resources in their work to recontextualize their national and cultural histories. Reynolds has held fellowship positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston; and FotoFest, Houston. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked at the Texas Commission on the Arts as a program assistant. Her current research interests focus on modern and contemporary art from Latin America, the Middle East, and their diasporas, emphasizing its relationship to global art markets.
Maria Bastos-Stanek
Maria Bastos-Stanek is a Ph.D. student of Latin American art. Bastos-Stanek earned her B.A. in the history of art and architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and M.A. in the history of art and architecture from Tufts University. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazilian art and visual culture. Her research focuses on the connections between art and the history of science and technology, the culture of war, and political and economic philosophy.
Natalia Lopez
Natalia Lopez is an M.A. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program. She received her B.S. in Integrative Studies from the University of North Texas, focusing on topics in sociology, art history and communications. Her research interests include the visual culture in Latin America during the twentieth century.
R. Arvid Nelsen
Arvid Nelsen is a Ph.D. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture in Art History. He received his B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and M.A.s in classics and in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Nelsen is currently the rare books and manuscripts librarian at SMU’s Bridwell Library, having come to Dallas from the University of Minnesota, where he served as curator and archivist for the Charles Babbage Institute. He is a former E. Ph. Goldschmidt Fellow at Rare Book School and former section chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Nelsen is the author of “Race and Computing: The Problem of Sources, the Potential of Prosopography, and the Lesson of Ebony Magazine” ( IEEE Annals of the History of Computing , v. 39, no. 1, Jan-Mar 2017) and “Concern for the ‘Disadvantaged’: ACM’s Role in Training and Education for Communities of Color (1958-1975)” (in Communities of Computing: Computer Science and Society in the ACM, New York: Morgan & Claypool, 2017). His interests include the intersection of art, technology, and society; global modernism; and modernism in print.
Rebecca Dunnegan
Rebecca Dunnegan is a Ph.D. student in the RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program in art history at SMU. She received her B.A. in art history fromColgate University. A former intern in Education at the Kimbell Art Museum in 2017,she is glad to return to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.Before beginning graduate study at SMU, Dunnegan worked as a Curatorial Assistantat The Frick Collection in New York. While there, she undertook research on a widerange of subjects in European art history. She is interested in late eighteenth-through early nineteenth-century French art, particularly painting, porcelain, andother decorative arts. She plans to focus on political transitions and representationsof imperial power
Sophia Salinas
Sophia Salinas (she/her) is an art history Ph.D. student in Southern Methodist University’s RASC/a: Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture program. She received her B.A. in art history and B.B.A. in general business from SMU. Her senior honors thesis, Cyber Touch: The Body and Transgression in Cyberfeminist Art Practices , examines feminist theories of embodiment and technology in relation to the digital interactive art of VNS Matrix, Prema Murthy, Linda Dement, and Shu Lea Cheang, arguing that Cyberfeminist art advanced the concept of “cyber touch” or touch which transcends the digital barrier. Her research interests include feminist and queer art, digital and time-based media art, and transnational artists. Salinas is the curator of On—n—On: Ciara Elle Bryant in Conversation with Octavia Butler (2022). During her senior year she served as the 2020-2021 AAMD Undergraduate Intern in Museum Education at the Meadows Museum. In 2023, Salinas served as a Havner Curatorial Intern for the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, working with both the Arts Management Department and the Contemporary Curatorial team to facilitate the conservation, loan and display of the permanent collection. Since 2022, Salinas has served as an Exhibition Intern at The Warehouse in Dallas, TX, assisting in the research and didactics for For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 (February 2 - June 29, 2024).
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C) Senior Thesis
I am interested in supervising senior theses. The senior thesis, which takes two terms to complete (Term 1: Proposal 30%; Term 2: Thesis and Oral Defence 70%) gives students an excellent insight into how to conduct an independent research project. I thoroughly recommend it to those who aim for a postgraduate degree because the senior thesis will provide you with useful generic skills how to conduct a two-term research project and will also give you an idea whether you enjoy the research process. I welcome any topics broadly falling into the fields of history, international politics, Southeast Asian Studies, but I am open to research projects in related fields.
Procedure : Students are advised to approach faculty members at least six weeks before BOSS 1 to secure the faculty’s agreement to supervise them. Two weeks before BOSS 1, the completed application form needs to be submitted to the School of Social Sciences admin office for approval.
Read about how a Senior Thesis helped recent alumna Rashimah Binte Raja to get straight into a Business Ph.D. programme at NUS, thus bypassing the Masters level (page 22 of the 2nd issue of Socscistan ; you may also access the page directly here ) .
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Undergraduate Research
We strongly encourage undergraduate students to engage in research projects to supplement their curriculum. There are many benefits to the student. Real-world experience confronting and solving genuinely new problems provides an excellent preparation for life after SMU. Introduction to some of the techniques and state-of-the-art technologies used in a research environment prepares a student for a variety of career paths. Projects leading to publication bring a valuable distinction to a student's resume in today's competitive world. Pursuing an undergraduate research project reinforces material gleaned from coursework and may provide valuable feedback on the kind of career a student favors. And lastly, SMU's undergraduate research program provides several very interesting projects in particle physics, applied physics, astrophysics and physics pedagogy.
Theoretical Physics Fundamental Particles Applied Physics Astrophysics Physics Pedagogy How Undergraduate Research Works
Theoretical Physics:
The study of modern physics are not possible without sophosticated calculation techniques. These techniques often have a very general structure, but then are quite useful in specific fields of research, such as particle physics. One of our projects involving such techniques explores the efficiency of various methods for integration of mathematical functions depending on a large number of real variables. Fast and accurate algorithms for multi-dimensional integration are essential for many applications in high-energy physics and other scientific areas. In this effort, notions essential for the completion of this project are introduced on the example of the well-known Battleship game. The concept of Monte-Carlo sampling and integration is explained. Then the relevance of these notions is explored in the context of realistic multi-dimensional integration calculations. More details can be obtained at here or contact Prof. Pavel Nadolsky.
Fundamental Particles:
The majority of the visible matter in the universe is composed of subatomic protons and neutrons, which are in turn comprised of quarks. Although quarks were hypothesized over 40 years ago, there remains considerable mystery about what determines the properties of these particles. One of the key questions concerns the origin of their mass. One quark, discovered in 1995 and named 'top', has such unusual properties that it is currently viewed to hold important clues to this important question. Precisely measuring this quark's mass appears to tell us quite a bit about the way in which mass is 'created' at the level of fundamental physics. Using data from the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron accelerator, SMU physicists work to measure the top quark mass. The ability to measure this mass well rests primarily with how well the energies of the 'daughter' particles it decays to can be measured in the detector. Undergraduate Brad Stanley participated in this research by measuring this energy 'resolution' for daughter particles called neutrinos. The basic methodology for the top mass measurement is complete, and undergraduates can contribute by studying how to apply it to the increasing data sample from D0. Students with basic statistics or C++ programming experience are especially encouraged to apply. More information can be found here or contact Prof. Bob Kehoe.
Evidence supports the idea that a majority of the matter in the universe is in the form of a yet unseen component, termed dark matter. "Dark scalars' are proposed particles that may allow interactions between dark matter and normal matter. Undergraduate Landon Banister is currently engaged in undergraduate research on the BaBar Experiment, supported by the SMU URA program. He is searching for dark scalars by developing an event selection for dark scalar candidates in the BaBar dataset, and will also develop a means to extract any signature of dark scalars from the data. He presented his progress to the BaBar Collaboration at the April BaBar Physics Workshop in Cincinnati, OH. More information can be obtained here or by contacting Prof. Steve Sekula.
Applied Physics:
Our experimental high energy program provides other bases for research of applied techniques. For instance, undergraduate Matthew Rispoli is currently engaged in undergraduate research utilizing the BaBar Experiment, supported by the SMU URA program. He is developing new data-driven methods for imaging the BaBar Experiment. Beginning with hands-on study of photon conversions, and moving now to nuclear and atomic processes which can help pinpoint the location of material in the experiment, Matthew's work is an ongoing effort to innovate and create new imaging techniques. He presented his work at the April BaBar Physics Workshop in Cincinnati, OH. More information can be obtained by contacting Prof. Steve Sekula.
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Physics pedagogy:.
Development of novel tools to improve instruction in the physics classroom can also be pursued by SMU undergraduates. In the Spring of 2008, physics major Ken Ueda built Chua's circuit to demonstrate chaos in the classroom. The project is a robust operational amplifier realization of Chua's circuit which relies on an effective negative resistor for its necessary non-linearity. This circuit is designed to be built with readily available electronics components. Ken ordered the parts, constructed the circuit, and packaged it in a compact self-contained battery-powered enclosure for use as a classroom demonstration with an oscilloscope. Ken's original contribution was to add an audio amplifier chip, a speaker, and a volume control potentiometer so that an audience could hear the repeated period doubling characteristic of chaos while viewing the same phenomenon on the oscilloscope. The chaotic region where the oscilloscope trace is a fractal strange attractor sounds much like the autobaud noise from a FAX machine. In the midst of the chaos, the defining period-three is both strikingly visible and audible. In the Summer of 2008, Ken participated in the eighth annual week-long Quarknet Workshop held at SMU Physics and sponsored by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for twenty local high school science teachers. The "make and take" project was the chaos circuit with sound that Ken redesigned. Ken assisted the teachers with the construction of their own circuits. Ken continues his efforts this year with development of course demonstrations to model a nuclear chain reaction and debug a vacuum cannon. More information resides here or contact Dr. Randy Scalise.
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Last Thursday, July 25, the Office of Engaged Learning hosted a Three Minute “Thesis” competition. 25 presentations in under 2 hours! This was the culminating event of the Summer Research Intensive and Data Science for Social Good programs.
Along with their research and other activities, students in the programs participated in a 7-week professional development workshop series with Dr. Adam Scott Neal (Program Manager, OEL). They worked through various ways of presenting their research, their experience, and their stories (e.g., presentations, resumes, and elevator pitches).
Students in these programs are all working on faculty research projects, so their presentations needed to give an overview of the project as well as their individual role—and why the research matters.
- 1st place: Sana Omar & Simran Waraich (faculty mentor: Dr. Peng Tao , Chemistry)
- 2nd place: Paul Rowe (faculty mentor: Dr. Austin Baldwin , Psychology)
- 3rd place: Ritney Coleman & Jacob Gareis (faculty mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Wheaton-Páramo , Economics)
- Alisha Bailey (Assistant Director, OEL)
- Adreana Julander (Director, Altshuler Learning Enhancement Center)
- Stephen Fashoro (Media Relations Manager, Development and External Affairs)
- Ramón García (Undergraduate Success Librarian)
- Matthew Nadler (Associate Director, Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility)
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The Senior Thesis is a 1-term course which is equivalent to 1 course unit. It includes a presentation of the research paper supervised by a faculty member in the School who is an expert in the relevant research area and examined by an Examiner, who is another faculty member in SMU, together with the Supervisor.
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Last Thursday, July 25, the Office of Engaged Learning hosted a Three Minute "Thesis" competition. 25 presentations in under 2 hours! This was the culminating event of the Summer Research Intensive and Data Science for Social Good programs.. Along with their research and other activities, students in the programs participated in a 7-week professional development workshop series with Dr ...
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