The Effect of Modeling Error on Damage Detection in the ℓ1-Norm Sensitivity Method

Defense: May 14, 2026, 2:00 p.m., Innovation E325 Conference Room

Advisor: Eric M. Hernandez

Degree: Master of Science

Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Participant-Level Predictors of Engagement with a Smartphone-Based Interpretation Bias Intervention

Defense: May 12, 2026, 3:00 p.m., Dewey Hall 238

Advisor: Shari Steinman

Degree: Master of Arts

Department: Psychology

Chaucer’s “Sliding Tactics”: How the Canterbury Tales and Its Pilgrims Reimagine Textual “Kynde”

Defense: May 11, 2026, 2:00 p.m., Votey 205

Advisor: Jennifer Sisk

Degree: Master of Arts

Department: English

Disease Resistance Mechanisms in Hygienic Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera): Understanding Innate and Social Immunity Against Nosema Spp., an Adult Bee Pathogen

Defense: May 7, 2026, 12:00 p.m., James M. Jeffords Hall 234

Advisors: Samantha Alger, Ph.D. & Yolanda Chen, Ph.D.

Degree: Master of Science

Department: Plant and Soil Science

“Remembir of this Worlde Unstable”: Games as Models of the Social and Natural World in Arthurian Romance

Defense: May 5, 2026, 12:00 p.m., Old Mill 414

Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Sisk

Degree: Master of Arts

Department: English

“An Intermingling of Efforts“: Psychological Warfare, Mkultra, and the Career of Colonel James L. Monroe

Defense: April 30, 2026, 2:00 p.m., Waterman 427A

Advisor: Andrew N. Buchanan

Degree: Master of Arts

Department: History