2008 ESE…

                                                       2008 ESE Student Defense Schedule
DATE                 NAME                             TYPE                                               TITLE                                  ADVISOR
JANUARY
 7      Brian Pachkowski          Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Functional Studies of Accessory Factors Associated with Base       Swenberg
                                                                             Excision Repair
MARCH
 7      Alex Carll                MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   A Rat Model of Heart Failure Induced by Isoproterenol and/or          Ball
                                                                             High Salt Diet to Examine the Effects of Particulate Matter
                                                                             Inhalation
 25     Kenneth W. Fent           Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Quantitative Monitoring and Statistical Modeling of Dermal and   Nylander-French
                                                                             Inhalation Exposure to Monomeric and Polymeric 1,6-
                                                                             Hexamethylene Diisocyanates During Automotive Spray
                                                                             Painting
 28     Treavor H. Boyer          Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Removal of Natural Organic Matter by Anion Exchange:                 Singer
                                                                             Multiscale Experimentation and Mathematical Modeling
APRIL
 1      Matthew Martin            Master's Thesis Final Oral Defense         Classification of Chemicals Based on Structured Toxicity             Rusyn
                                                                             Information
 2      G. Christopher Wedding    Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Understanding Sustainability in Real Estate: A Focus on          Crawford-Brown
                                                                             Measuring and Communicating Success in Brownfield
                                                                             Redevelopment and Green Building
 16     Adrienne Cizek            MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Comparing the Partitioning Behavior of Giardia and                 Characklis
                                                                             Cryptosporidium with that of Indicator Organisms in
                                                                             Stormwater Runoff
 18     Jennifer Cannon           Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Capsid properties contributing to Norovirus persistence in            Vinje
                                                                             humans
 18     Patrick Craig             MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Methyl-donor Enrichment Attenuates Alcohol-induced Liver             Rusyn
                                                                             Injury: Mechanisms of Protective Action
 24     Pamela K. Ross            MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Time-course Comparison of Xenobiotic Activators of CAR and           Rusyn
                                                                             PPAR-alpha in Mouse Liver
 25     Erik Michael Andersen     MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Improved Recovery of Multiple Microbial Indictor Organisms          Simmons
                                                                             from Source and Treated Drinking Waters by Optimized
                                                                             Hydraulic Modification to Hollow-fiber Ultrafilters
MAY
 5      Kate Bronstein            Master's Thesis Final Oral Defense         Jordan Lake, We Need to Talk . . . You Might Have a Drug            Weinberg
                                                                             Problem: A Case Study of Antibiotic Occurrence in a Drinking
                                                                             Water Reservoir Impacted by Wastewater Discharge

 5      Matthew Stiegel           MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   A Comparison of Indoor Fungal Spore Concentrations                    Flynn
                                                                             between Naturally Ventilated and Mechanically Ventilated
                                                                             Dormitories at Duke University
 5      Xiangyu Fan               Master's Thesis Final Oral Defense         Simulation study of surfactant phase behaviors in Brine Base          Miller
                                                                             Remediation Technology
 6      Daniel Anderson           MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Application of a Lung Deposition Model to Fiber Data from        Nylander-French
                                                                             Three North Carolina Asbestos Textile Plants
 9      Cassandra Ruth O'Lenick   Master's Thesis Final Oral Defense         Effects of in vitro Exposure of Human Respiratory Epithelial         Jeffries
                                                                             Cells to Formaldehyde
 12     Lisa Casanova             Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Survival and Transmission of Coronaviruses in the Healthcare         Sobsey
                                                                             Environment
 12     Susan Hsu                 MSEE Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Effect of Natural Organic Matter on Lime Softening and               Singer
                                                                             Removal of Bromide and Dissolved Organic Matter Using Ion
                                                                             Exchange: Two Applications of Magnetic Ion Exchange
 12     Rachel Hulkower           MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Inactivation of Surrogate Coronaviruses on Hard Surfaces by          Sobsey
                                                                             Healthcare Disinfectants
 21     Kat Galloway              Master's Thesis Final Oral Defense         New Particle Formation in a Realistic Daytime Urban                 Kamens
                                                                             Atmosphere: SO2/NOx/O3/Hydrocarbon Air Mixtures
                                                    2008 ESE Student Defense Schedule
DATE                NAME                           TYPE                                               TITLE                              ADVISOR
MAY
 28    Byron C. Kominek        MSEE Technical Report Final Oral Defense   A Technical and Economic Feasibility Study of Using a Small-     Aitken
                                                                          Scale Anaerobic Digester for Energy Production from
                                                                          Cafeteria Food Waste at a Local North Carolina School
 29    Casey Caldwell          MSEE Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Considerations of risk tolerance in developing probability-    Characklis
                                                                          based inter-utility transfer agreements
JUNE
 11    Benjamin A. Aiken       MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Sustainability Assessment of the Biosand Filter in Bonao,       Sobsey
                                                                          Dominican Republic
 12    Tina S. Lusk            MSPH Technical Report Final Oral Defense   Comparison of E. coli methods for detection in water: the       Sobsey
                                                                          effects of incubation time and temperature
 26    Angela D. Coulliette    Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Characterization of fecal contamination in the Newport River     Noble
                                                                          Estuary (North Carolina, USA)
JULY
 3     Stephanie D. Friedman   Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Rapid Molecular Detection of Male-specific Coliphages as a      Sobsey
                                                                          Tool for Determining Sanitary Quality and Source of Fecal
                                                                          Pollution in Recreational Waters
 16    Rick Johnston           Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Chemical Interactions Between Iron and Arsenic in Water         Singer
 17    Jon Russell Sobus       Doctoral Dissertation Final Oral Defense   Comparing Urinary Biomarkers of Exposure to Polycyclic         Rappaport
                                                                          Aromatic Hydrocarbons
 30    Juneil Lee              Master's Thesis Final Oral Defense         Modeling groundwater for the coastal plain region of North       Miller
                                                                          Carolina