Calendars
Scheduled Defenses
Tuesday April 28, 2026
14:00 EDT Edward Brown - Speech and Hearing Science
"Find Your Voice: A Novel Patient-Centered Stuttering Therapy"
Advisor: Tim Saltuklaroglu
Location: UT Conference Center, 600 Henley Street, Room 115, Knoxville, TN 37996
Tuesday April 28, 2026
13:00 CDT Justin Gerard - Epidemiology
"Patient-Level Instability of LLM-generated Mortality Risk in Acute Pancreatitis"
Advisor: Simonne S Nouer
Wednesday April 29, 2026
10:00 CDT Kevin Lang - Epidemiology
"A Recent Cohort of Colon Injury Patients: Influence of Modern Resuscitation Strategies on the Management of Destructive Colon Injuries"
Advisor: Elizabeth A Tolley
Location: Regional One Trauma Center 2nd Floor Small Auditorium
Note: Meeting ID: 858 1552 0729
Thursday April 30, 2026
12:00 CDT Gage McNeish - Dental Sciences
"The Effect of Common Denture Cleaners on the Surface, Optical and Physical Properties of a 3D-Printed Denture Base Resin Containing Zirconium Oxide Nanoparticles"
Advisor: Antheunis Versluis
Location: Delta Dental of TN Conference Room N452
Thursday April 30, 2026
12:00 CDT Paul Kuta - Dental Sciences
"The Effect of Common Denture Cleaners on the Surface, Optical and Physical Properties of a 3D-Printed Denture Base Resin Containing Zirconium Oxide Nanoparticles"
Advisor: Antheunis Versluis
Location: Delta Dental of TN Conference Room N452
Thursday May 14, 2026
10:00 CDT Lokesh Chinthala - Health Outcomes and Policy Research
"Leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Identification and Governance of AI-Ready Social Isolation Data"
Advisor: Robert L Davis
Note: Meeting agenda
https://docs.zoom.us/agenda/doc/76f35b54-2490-4dc0-93d8-3f3238c3173b?from=addon
Meeting ID: 889 5323 4356 Passcode: 112847
Friday May 15, 2026
12:00 CDT Victoria Hockaday - Dental Sciences
"Effect of Variable vs Constant Taper Design on File Unwinding During MB2 Canal Instrumentation Under Minimally Invasive Shaping Conditions"
Advisor: Antheunis Versluis
Location: Dunn Dental Building, C501 Resident Room
Tuesday May 19, 2026
12:00 CDT Cheyenne Beckelman - Dental Sciences
"Discoloration of Additively Manufactured and Injection Molded Denture Base Acrylic Resins After Submersion in Staining Liquids and Effervescent Cleansers"
Advisor: Angela Gullard
Location: Delta Dental of TN Conference Room N451
Note: Meeting ID: 778 8421 9672, Passcode: LM7aL8
Important Dates
Event times are U.S. Central time zone
- Jul 1, 2025 Fall 2025 term begins
- Aug 8, 2025 deadline for completion of degree requirements for August diploma
- Nov 1, 2025 deadline for oral defense and approval of ETD final content and language for December graduation