| Name |
Date |
Dissertation |
Program |
Advisor(s) |
| Risa Cybele Diemond Arbolino |
AUG 2001 |
"Agricultural Strategies and Labor Organization: An Ethnohistoric Approach to the Study of Prehistoric Farming Systems in the Taos Area of Northern New Mexico" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Michael Adler |
| Timothy John Benner |
DEC 2001 |
"Issues in the Measurement and Definition of Poverty: An Example from the Rural Phillipines" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Ben Wallace |
| Russell T. Gould |
MAY 2002 |
"Logic and the Analysis of Function in Historical Archaeology" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Lewis Binford |
| David Harold Jurney |
DEC 2001 |
"Diaspora of the Alabama and Koasati Indians Across Southeastern North America" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Garth Sampson |
| Joseph Miller |
MAY 2002 |
"A Macroarchaeological Examination of the New Mexico Archaic with Implications for the Transition to Food Protection" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Lewis Binford |
| Katherine Rae Nelson |
DEC 2001 |
"The Container Complex: Ethnographic and Environmental Patterning" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Fred Wendorf |
| Christine Skipper |
DEC 2001 |
"To Deserve One Another's Confidence: An Historical Ethnography of Company, Community and Deindustrialization in an Alabama Town" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Caroline Brettell |
| Julie C. Long |
AUG 2001 |
"Membrane Topology of the A Subunit of Escherichia Coli F1F0 ATP Synthase with Characterization of First Cytoplasmic Loop" |
Biological Sciences |
Dr. Steven Vik |
| Di Zhang |
DEC 2001 |
"The Helix Packing of Subunit A of the F1Fo Atpase as Studied by Protease Activity of 1, 10-Phenanthroline-Copper" |
Biological Sciences |
Dr. Steven Vik |
| Hiranya Kumar Nath |
MAY 2002 |
"Essays on the Behavior of Prices" |
Economics |
Dr. Nathan Balke |
| Rebecca Rose Ghent |
MAY 2002 |
"An Analysis of Tectonic Structures in Venusian Crustal Plateau: Structure, Kinematics, and Numerical Modeling" |
Geological Sciences |
Dr. Vicki Hansen |
| Jason James Head |
MAY 2002 |
"Reptile Paleontology of the Siwalik Group (Miocene of Pakistan): Correlation of a Rich Fossil Record to Environmental Histories" |
Geological Sciences |
Dr. Louis Jacobs |
| Ilya V. Narsky |
AUG 2001 |
"Rare Leptonic Decays of the D Meson and Tau Lepton" |
Physics |
Dr. Ryszard A. Stroynowski |
| Yurii Yurevich Maravin |
MAY 2002 |
"Search for CP Violation in Tau Lepton Decays" |
Physics |
Dr. Ryszard A. Stroynowski |
| Camille Rene Patterson |
DEC 2001 |
"The Pursuit of Happiness Above All Else: A Critique of Mood Management" |
Psychology |
Dr. Laura King |
| Anne Vahala Ellis |
MAY 2002 |
"Relationship Between Adoptive Family Competence and Emotional Functioning of Adopted Children" |
Psychology |
Dr. Robert Hampson |
| Michael D. Burkett |
MAY 2002 |
"St. Ambrose's Theology of Integrity" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. William Babcock |
| Pavel Leonid Gavrilyuk |
DEC 2001 |
"Divine Suffering/Impassibility in Patristic Theology with Special Reference to Cyril of Alexandria's Doctrine of the Incarnation" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. William Babcock |
| Donna C. Yarri |
MAY 2002 |
"The Ethics of Animal Experimentation: A Critical Analysis and Constructive Christian Proposal" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. Charles Curran |
| Jian Han |
DEC 2001 |
"Genetic Linkage Analysis of Bivariate Traits Using Identity by Descent Data from Sib-pairs" |
Statistical Science |
Dr. Rudy Guerra |
| Name |
Date |
Dissertation |
Program |
Advisor(s) |
| Tae Hwan Oh |
DEC 2001 |
"Reliability and QOS in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks" |
Applied Science |
Dr. Thomas M. Chen |
| Mihai Surdeanu |
AUG 2001 |
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Computer Science & Engineering |
Dr. Dan Moldovan |
| Lee Dobson McFearin |
MAY 2002 |
"A p-Bit Model of Binary Floating Point Division and Square Root with Emphasis on External Rounding Boundaries" |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Dr. David Matula |
| Rada Flavia Mihalcea |
DEC 2001 |
"Turning Implicit Knowledge into Explicit Knowledge via Word Semantics: A Model for Information Retrieval" |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Dr. Dan Moldovan |
| Alexandru M. Pasca |
DEC 2001 |
"High-Performance, Open-Domain Question Answering from Large Text Collections" |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Dr. Sanda Harabagiu |
| Vasile Rus |
MAY 2002 |
"Logic Forms for WordNet Glosses" |
Computer Science & Engineering |
Dr. Dan Moldovan |
| Mohmoud Almasri |
DEC 2001 |
"Micromachined Semiconducting YBaCuO IR and FIR Detectors" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Donald Butler |
| Nuditha Vibhavie Amarasinghe |
DEC 2001 |
"Random Telegraph Signals in Submicron MOSFETs" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Zeynep Celik-Butler |
| Ahmed Ibrahim Elarabawy |
MAY 2002 |
"OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Applications" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Someshwar Gupta |
| Orlando J. Hernandez |
MAY 2002 |
"Color Image Retrieval Using Multispectral Random Field Texture Model and Color Content Features" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Alireza Khotanzad |
| Chung-Jen Kuo |
DEC 2001 |
"Signal Subspace-based Speech Enhancement" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Carlos Davila |
| Mohamed Fouad Madkour |
DEC 2001 |
"W-CDMA for Wireless Multimedia Applications" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Someshwar Gupta |
| Nermin Abdelkader Mohamed |
MAY 2002 |
"Advanced Combined antenna Arrays and Multi-User Detection Wireless CDMA Receivers in Multipath Channels" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. James G. Dunham |
| Sandra Selmic |
MAY 2002 |
"Multiple Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers Emitting at Wavelengths of 1310 nm and 1550 nm" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Gary Evans |
| Jian Wang |
DEC 2001 |
"Erasure-robust CELP Speech Coding and Concealment" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Jerry Gibson |
| Mihai Burzo |
DEC 2001 |
"Transient Thermoreflectance Measurements of the Thermal Properties of Metallized Thin-Film Electronics Materials" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Peter Raad |
