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PhD Graduates

2000-2001 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
James W. Kendrick MAY 2001 "Archaeological Studies in the Lowry Area: An Examination of Great House Development in Southwest Colorado" Anthropology Dr. Michael Adler
Beverly Jill Smith MAY 2001 "Church and State: AIDS in Rural Kenya" Anthropology Dr. Carolyn Sargent
Patricia Lopez DEC 2000 "Transport Via Actin or Tubulin Depending on Respiratory State of Mitochondria" Biological Sciences Dr. Diane Gambill
Nathalie Sumien Signol DEC 2000 "Vitamin E Supplementation Effects on Different Aging Aspects in Mice" Biological Sciences Dr. William Orr
Indro Dasgupta DEC 2000 "Essays on the Impact of Globalization on Relative Wages" Economics Dr. Thomas Osang
Indranil Ghosh DEC 2000 "Essays on Mechanism Design" Economics Dr. Rajat Deb
David C. Dimminnie AUG 2000 "Slow Passage Through Homoclinic Orbits Associated with the Unfolding of a Saddle-Center Bifurcation" Mathematics Dr. Richard Haberman
Valeria Antohe MAY 2001 "Computational Algorithms for Hamiltonian Systems" Mathematics Dr. Ian Gladwell
Qiaoyuan Jiang MAY 2001 "Characteristic Finite Element Methods for Degenerate Parabolic Problems and their Application to Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media" Mathematics Dr. Zhangxin (John) Chen
Vitaliy Fadeyev AUG 2000 "Production of Pseudoscalar Charmonia in B Meson Decays" Physics Dr. Ryszard A. Stroynowski
Michael D. Crow AUG 2000 "Physiological and Health Effects of Writing About Stress" Psychology Dr. Laura A. King
Siobhan Andrews Maize AUG 2000 "Pediatric Pain: Meta-analysis and Comparative Study of Psychological Interventions" Psychology Dr. Ephrem Fernandez
William David Barta MAY 2001 "Mortality Salience, Sexual Permissiveness, and Prospective Infidelity Across the Life-Span" Psychology Dr. Diane Berry
Elizabeth Harper MAY 2001 "Reducing Treatment-Related Anxiety in Cancer Patients: Comparison of Psychological Interventions" Psychology Dr. Marjorie Woodruff
Susan Hornstein MAY 2001 "Memory for Action Events: The Effect of Re-enactment During Retrieval and Enactment on Source Discrimination" Psychology Dr. Neil Mulligan
Gayla Paschall MAY 2001 "Olfactory-Mediated Fear-Potentiated Startle" Psychology Dr. Alan Brown
Frederick David Aquino DEC 2000 "Communities of Informed Judgement: The Significance of John Henry Newman's Notion of the Illative Sense for Issues in Theological Prolegomena" Religious Studies Dr. William Abraham
John Havea DEC 2000 "Keep Your Vow: A Transtextual Reading of Numbers 30" Religious Studies Dr. Danna Nolan Fewell
Euikyoo Lee MAY 2001 "Bayesian Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Models with Application to the Modeling of Hanford Site Tritium Concentrations" Statistical Science Dr. Richard Gunst

2000-2001 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Krishnan G. Indiradevi AUG 2000 "Design and Validation of Authentication Systems" Computer Engineering Dr. Sukumaran Nair
Yu Wang AUG 2000 "Mobility and Quality of Service Support in Packet-switched Mobile Data Networks" Computer Science Dr. Weidong Chen
Yongqiao Xiao DEC 2000 "Online Adaptive Data Mining for Large Databases" Computer Science Dr. Margaret Dunham
Cheng Shan MAY 2001 "Guaranteed Quality of Service for VBR Traffic" Computer Science Dr. Weidong Chen
Haydar Bilhan DEC 2000 "A CMOS Current Mode Pipelined Analog to Digital Conversion" Electrical Engineering Dr. W. Milton Gosney
Cheng I. Chung AUG 2000 "Hand Written Digit Recognition Using Combination of Neural Network Classifiers" Electrical Engineering Dr. Alireza Khotanzad
Chao Kan DEC 2000 "Moment-Based Invariant Character Recognition Using Global and Local Information" Electrical Engineering Dr. Mandyam Srinath
Justin Ridge DEC 2000 "Smoothed Descriptions: Joint Encoder-Decoder Design for Robust Multi-Channel Transmission of Images" Electrical Engineering Dr. Jerry Gibson
Hassan El-Ragal MAY 2001 "Forecasting with Combination of Artificial Neural Networks" Electrical Engineering Dr. Alireza Khotanzad
Raymond Samaniego MAY 2001 "Range and Doppler Alignment in High Resolution Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Overlapped Subapertures" Electrical Engineering Dr. Mandyam Srinath
Ali Farmehr DEC 2000 "Design Strategies for Both Survivable and Non Survivable Personal Communication Networks" Engineering Management Dr. Jeff Kennington
Michael E. Hopper AUG 2000 "US Air Force Acquisition of Commercial Aircraft: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis" Engineering Management Dr. Richard Helgason
Mohammed H. Rahman DEC 2000 "Optimization-Based Methods to Design Ring Covers for Telecommunications Networks" Engineering Management Dr. Jeff Kennington
William David Bell MAY 2001 "Quality and Productivity Comparisons of Object-Oriented and Cleanroom Software Developments" Engineering Management Dr. Jeffery Kennington
Ionut Cristian Popescu DEC 2000 "An Unmapped Eulerian-Langrangian Approach to Modelling Coupled Fluid-Solid Motion" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Peter Raad
Cuneyt Yilmaz DEC 2000 "Solving Multi-Impact Problems Using Impulse Transmission Ratio" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Marko Labudovic MAY 2001 "Laser Surface Modification of Titanium Alloys" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Radovan Kovacevic
Karen Lewis MAY 2001 "Preprocessing Algorithms for Generalized Networks: Theory and an Empirical Analysis" Operations Research Dr. Jeffery Kennington