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PhD Graduates

1999-2000 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Francisco Almeida MAY 2000 "The Terminal Gravettian of Portuguese Estremadura: Technological Variability of the Lithic Industries" Anthropology Dr. Anthony Marks
Michael Rober Bever MAY 2000 "Paleoindian Lithic Technology and Landscape Use in Late Pleistocene Alaska: A Study of the Mesa Complex" Anthropology Dr. David Meltzer
Sandra Weinstein Bever DEC 1999 "Migration, Household Economy, and Gender: A Comparative Study of Households in a Rural Yucatec Maya Community" Anthropology Dr. Victoria Lockwood
Lisa Henry DEC 1999 "The Reconstruction and Revitalization of Tahitian Healing" Anthropology Dr. Carolyn Sargent
Marvin Douglas Henry MAY 2000 "Embodied Violence: War and Relief Along the Sierra Leone Border" Anthropology Dr. Carolyn Sargent
Susan M. Racine MAY 2000 "How It Go Look? Beauty, History, and Commodity in the Caribbean" Anthropology Dr. Caroline Brettell
Travis Stanton MAY 2000 "Heterachy, Hierarchy and the Emergence of the Northern Lowland Maya: A Study of Complexity at Yaxuna, Yucatan, Mexico" Anthropology Dr. David Freidel
Stuart John Fowler AUG 1999 "Three Essays on Estimation and Control in the Neoclassical Growth Model" Economics Dr. Nathan Balke
Vladimir Liahkovitch AUG 1999 "Fluid-Rock Interaction Fossil and Modern: The Paleozoic Trinity Complex and East Texas Formation Waters" Geological Sciences Dr. Robert Gregory
Elizabeth Gomani DEC 1999 "Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Sediments of Northern Malawi, Africa" Geological Sciences Dr. Louis Jacobs
Ashley Lowry Conklin MAY 2000 "Assessment of the College Preparatory Program: 1995-1998" Psychology Dr. Curt McIntyre
Lois Glasgow DEC 1999 "A Comparison of Broad and Narrow Personality Traits in the Prediction of Job Performance" Psychology Dr. Margery Hatch
Jo Meier DEC 1999 "The Effect of Writing About Emotional Aspects of Infertility" Psychology Dr. Laura King
Eleanor Herndon Munson MAY 2000 "Delinquency Subtypes and Offenses" Psychology Dr. Curt McIntyre
Janet M. Ossman MAY 2000 "Inhibition, ADHD, and Negative Charged Priming" Psychology Dr. Neil Mulligan
Peter W. Agnew DEC 1999 "Religion and the Social Order in a Twentieth-Century City: Six Dallas Leaders" Religious Studies Dr. Edwin Sylvest
Charles E. Gutenson MAY 2000 "The Being and Nature of God in the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg" Religious Studies Dr. William Abraham
Robert Christopher Heard MAY 2000 "Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity and Ethnic Identity in Genesis 12-36" Religious Studies Dr. Danna Fewell
Martha Vail Myre MAY 2000 "The Speeches of Elihu in the Book of Job: Reading the First Reader" Religious Studies Dr. William J.A. Power
Lisa Anne Unterseher MAY 2000 "The Mark of Cain and the Jews: Augustine's Theology of Jews and Judaism" Religious Studies Dr. William Babcock
Carol Etzel DEC 1999 "Meta-Analysis for Genetic Linkage Studies" Statistical Science Dr. Rudy Guerra
Jo Kang Kuo DEC 1999 "Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci with Extreme Discordant Sib Pairs: Sampling Considerations Using Bivariate Data" Statistical Science Dr. Rudy Guerra
Jeffrey Scott Pitblado MAY 2000 "Estimating Partially Variable Bandwidths in Local Linear Regression Using an Information Criterion" Statistical Science Dr. William Schucany

1999-2000 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Rick L. Wise MAY 2000 "Low-Temperature Epitaxial Silicon Deposition Process with Reduced Arsenic Autodoping Using Clustered HF Pre-Clean" Applied Science Dr. Edward Forest
Cristina Iordache AUG 1999 "Rounding Standards and Interpolative Algorithms for Reciprocal, Division, Square Root and Square Root Reciprocal" Computer Engineering Dr. David Matula
George A. Deprez MAY 2000 "A Distributed Fault Management Framework for Multi-Layered Networks" Computer Science Dr. Sukumaran Nair
Mihaela Iridon AUG 1999 "Regular Triangulated Toroidal Graphs with Applications in Cellular and Interconnection Networks" Computer Science Dr. David Matula
Arnel Periquet DEC 1999 "A Reflective Model and Meta-Level Architecture for Mobile Component Design" Computer Science Dr. Dan Moldovan
Qun Ren MAY 2000 "Semantic Caching in Mobile Computing" Computer Science Dr. Margaret Dunham
Guang Wan DEC 1999 "Network Delivery of Packet-Based Multi-Services in Wireless Communications Networks" Computer Science Dr. Weidong Chen
Pi Wei Chen MAY 2000 "Leaky-Wave Microstrip Antenna and Electrically Small Microstrip Antenna" Electrical Engineering Dr. Choon Sae Lee
Alaa Eldin Y. El Sherif MAY 2000 "Mosfet Modeling for RF Analog Circuit CAD" Electrical Engineering Dr. Ken Ashley
William Thomas Jennings MAY 2000 "Modulo Arithmetic Systems and Key Escrow" Electrical Engineering Dr. Jim Dunham
Mona Kathryn Whitley Howard MAY 2000 "Integration and Management of a Non-Traditional Educational Degree Program Using Conjoint Analysis" Engineering Management Dr. Marion Sobol
Razvan Bidoae MAY 2000 "Interaction of Free Surface Flow with Solid Obstacles and Porous Media" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Peter Raad
Vladimir Koulich MAY 1999 "Heat and Mass Diffusion in Microscale: Fractals, Brownian Motions and Fractional Calculus" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Jose Lage
Cuneyt Yilmaz MAY 2000 "Solving Multi-Impact Problems Using Impulse Transmission Ratio" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Mark W. Lewis MAY 2000 "Spare Capacity Planning for Telecommunications Networks: Models and Algorithms" Operations Research Dr. Jeffery Kennington