Cara Sullivan, a candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Science and Engineering, will be defending her dissertation titled, "ILLUMINATING CORNEAL NERVE INJURY: ANALYSIS OF NEURONAL PHENOTYPES FOLLOWING ACUTE AND CHRONIC CORNEAL NERVE INJURY." For the Zoom link and password, please contact Cara at cara.sullivan@maine.edu.

Tyler Pollock, a candidate for Master of Science in Earth and Climate Sciences, will be defending his thesis titled, "Sulfur isotope composition of sulfides in mafic cumulates, Lesser Antilles arc" Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Tyler at tyler.pollock@maine.edu

Katelyn Parsons, a candidate for Master of Arts in English, will be defending her thesis titled, "Embodying Resilience in the Writing Center: A Study of Tutor Training Handbooks and Videos Through a Rhetorical Genre Studies Lens." Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Katelyn at katelyn.parsons@maine.edu

Holly Leung, a candidate for Master of Science in Food Science and Human Nutrition, will be defending her thesis titled, "Enzyme Applied Rapid-Fermentation and Chef Perspectives of Green Crab Sauce." Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Holly at Holly.Leung@maine.edu

Mohsen Alizadeh Noghani, a candidate for the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, will be defending his thesis titled, “Development of a Novel Haptic Feedback System for Gait Training Applications." For the Zoom link and password, please contact Mohsen at mohsen.alizadeh@maine.edu

Margaret Gautrau, a candidate for Master of Arts in Psychological Sciences, will be defending her thesis titled, "REAL MEN DON’T SEE PAIN" Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Margaret at margaret.gautrau@maine.edu

Sudheera Yaparatne, a candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry, will be defending his dissertation titled, "DEVELOPMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURED TITANIA-INCORPORATED PHOTOCATALYSTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS" Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Sudheera at sudheera.yaparatne@maine.edu

Ann Hill, a candidate for Master of Science in Earth and Climate Sciences, will be defending her thesis titled, “Quantifying Surface Changes on McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica." Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Ann at ann.hill@maine.edu.

Sarah Rubenstein, a candidate for Master of Science in Wildlife Ecology, will be defending his thesis titled, "Energetic impacts of passage delays in migrating adult Atlantic salmon." Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Sarah at sarah.rubenstein@maine.edu

Logan Hess, a candidate for Master of Science in Physics, will be defending his thesis titled, "Luminosity Functions of Galaxy Clusters in the Aquarius and Microscopium Superclusters." Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Logan at logan.hess@maine.edu

Holly Leung, a candidate for Master of Science in Food Science and Human Nutrition, will be defending her thesis titled, "ENZYME APPLIED RAPID-FERMENTATION AND CHEFS PERSPECTIVES OF GREEN CRAB SAUCE" Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Holly at Holly.Leung@maine.edu

Shiyue Zhao, a candidate for the Master of Science in Marine Biology, will be defending her thesis titled, “EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VENTLESS TRAP SURVEY IN CAPTURING SUBLEGAL AMERICAN LOBSTER ABUNDANCE IN THE INSHORE GULF OF MAINE.” For the Zoom link and password, please contact Shiyue at shiyue.zhao@maine.edu.

Travis Wallace, a candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, will be defending his dissertation titled, “OPTIMIZATION OF THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS FOR MARINE AND POWER PLANT APPLICATIONS" For the Zoom link and password, please contact Travis at travis.wallace@mma.edu

Angelica Boeve, a candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology, will be defending her thesis titled, "AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY? DETERMINING THE MECHANISMS LINKING REGULAR SLEEP PATTERNS WITH DAYTIME PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN OLDER ADULTS." Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Angelica at angelica.r.boeve@maine.edu.

Arianne Kryskow, a candidate for Master of Science in Nursing, will be defending her thesis titled, "The Use of Medical Cannabis in Clinical Practice." Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Arianne at arikryskow@gmail.com.

Alexander Revello, a candidate for Master of Science in Computer Science, will be defending his thesis titled, "Counting and Classifying the Seabirds of Maine from Drone Imagery" Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Alexander at alexander.revello@maine.edu

Atheer Oufi, a candidate for Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, will be defending his thesis titled, "COMPUTER MODELING USING THE FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION" Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Atheer at atheer.oufi@maine.edu

Sari Mayhue, a candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, will be defending her thesis titled, "THE INTERSECTION OF EXTRACELLULAR SIGNALING AND STRESS PATHWAYS." Zoom meeting For the Zoom link and password, please contact Sari at sari.mayhue@maine.edu.