Calendars
Scheduled Defenses
Wednesday July 15, 2026
9:00 EDT Tanzida Zaman - Speech and Hearing Science
"The Processing of Prosody and Syntax in the Developing Brain: fNIRS Evidence for Frontal-Temporal Language Network Dynamics"
Advisor: Devin Casenhiser
Location: UT Conference Center, 600 Henley Street Room 140, Knoxville, TN 37996
Note: Meeting ID: 844 1796 9004 Passcode: 342731
Friday July 24, 2026
9:00 CDT Mohammad Naim - Health Outcomes and Policy Research
"Association of de novo Lipid-lowering Therapies with HDL Cholesterol Levels, Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes, and the Cholesterol-mediated Effects among US Veterans with Chronic Kidney Disease"
Advisor: Csaba P Kovesdy
Location: Nephrology Conference Room B-227, Coleman Building, 956 Court Avenue, Memphis, TN
Note: Meeting ID: 819 3058 4662 Passcode: 086938
Tuesday September 1, 2026
11:30 CDT Jennifer Dolgoff - Nursing Science
"Ethical, Theoretical, Methodological, and Research Insights Informing Adolescents’ Asthma Self-management"
Advisor: Mona N Wicks
Note: Meeting ID: 875 8205 5273 Passcode: 995711
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