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DEFENSE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mary Z. Brennan, a doctoral student in Anthropology, will be defending her dissertation "Sense of Place: Reconstructing Community through Archeology, Oral History, and GIS" on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in the Arkansas Archeological Survey Conference Room, 2475 N. Hatch Avenue. The public is invited to attend.

Carolyn B. Hoppe, a doctoral student in Rehabilitation, will be defending her dissertation "Evaluation of the Dynamics of Desire for Community Re-integration among Nursing Home Residents with Chronic Illness and Disability" on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. in the Graduate Education Building, Room 115. The public is invited to attend.

Susan Grisham, a doctoral student in Chemistry, will be defending her dissertation "Design and Synthesis of Functional Dendron-Nanocrystals" on Monday, November 23, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. in the Chemistry Building, Room 105. The public is invited to attend.

Ingrid Arinez, a doctoral student in Public Policy, will be defending her dissertation "Developing a Quality of Life Index at a County level: Quality of Life Index for Arkansas Counties (QLAC)" on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. in the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service Building in Little Rock, Room 206. The public is invited to attend.

Tamilselvi Marutharaj, a doctoral student in Chemistry, will be defending her dissertation "Synthesis and Charactersation of Strongly Oxidizing Ru (II) Dimers" on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in the Chemistry Building, Room 224. The public is invited to attend.

Peter Horevaj, a doctoral student in Plant Science, will be defending his dissertation "Resistance in Winter Wheat to Fusarium Head Blight" on Monday, November 30, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. at the Rosen Center, Room 201. The public is invited to attend.

Haibin Wu, a doctoral student in Physics, will be defending his dissertation "Nonlinear optical spectra with inhomogeneously-broadened multi-level atoms in an optical cavity" on Monday, November 30, 2009 at 9:45 a.m. in the physics Building, Room 134. The public is invited to attend.

Tarek M. Said, a doctoral student in Electrical Engineering, will be defending his dissertation "Modeling the effective dielectric properties of breast fat tissue" on Monday, November 30, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. at 700 Research Center Blvd., Arlie Fisher Research Exposition, Room 3211. The public is invited to attend.

Shannon Erickson, a doctoral student in Psychology, will be defending her dissertation "The Effect of Affective Priming on Facial Affect recognition Patterns Among Psychopaths" on Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. in Memorial Hall, Room 130. The public is invited to attend.

Jamilah M. Hashemi, a doctoral student in Food Science, will be defending her dissertation "The Prevalence of Obesity among Children Aged 7 to 11 Years in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and Their Parents' Awareness of this Problem" on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. in the Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences Building, Room B111. The public is invited to attend.

Andrew Williams, a doctoral student in Chemistry, will be defending his dissertation "Synthesis and Characterization of Chromium(III) and Other Metal Complexes formed by Reaction with a Hexadentate Polypyridine Ligand" on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. in the Chemistry Building, Room 105. The public is invited to attend.

Doug Hutchings, a doctoral student in Microelectronics-Photonics , will be defending his dissertation "Design, Fabrication and Testing of Broadband MEMS Antennas" on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in the Bell Engineering Building, Room 3212 (Electrical Engineering Conference Room). The public in invited to attend.

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