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PhD Graduates

2004-2005 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Grace Bascope MAY 2005 "The Household Ecology of Disease Transmission: Childhood Illness in a Yucatan Maya Community" Anthropology Dr. Carolyn F. Sargent
Hilary Chester MAY 2005 "Early Agriculture in the Mongollon (AD200-1200): Material Manifestations of Labor Organization and Agricultural Intensification" Anthropology Dr. Michael A. Adler
Jeremy Kulisheck MAY 2005 "Change on the Jemez Plateau, A.D. 1200 to 1700: The Effects of Spanish Contact and Conquest" Anthropology Dr. Michael A. Adler
Jason LaBelle MAY 2005 "Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Variability During the Early Holocene of the Central Plains of North America" Anthropology Dr. David J. Meltzer
Sangeeta Ganti MAY 2005 "Conformational Changes in the Epsilon Subunit of the E Coli F1F0 APT Synthase" Biology Dr. Steven Vik
Leena Prabhudesai MAY 2005 "Gamma-Glutamatecysteine in Drosophila Melanogaster and Drosphila S2 Cells" Biology Dr. William C. Orr
Khawaja Saeed Abdullah Al-Mamun July 2005 "The Essays on Cigarette Addiction, Taxation, and Health" Economics Dr. Per G. Fredriksson
Georgi Kalchev AUG 2005 "Essays in Corporate Governance: Liability Insurance, Shareholder Litigation and Litigation Announcements" Economics Dr. Thomas Fomby
Qin Wang AUG 2005 "Three Essays on Credit Spreads" Economics Dr. Nathan Balke
James Wollscheid MAY 2005 "Essays of Political Economy on Environmental Policy" Economics Dr. Per G. Fredriksson
Sara McKenna AUG 2005 "Infasound Wave Propagation Over Near-Regional and Tele-Infrasonic Distances" Geological Sciences Dr. Brian William Stump
Petru Negraru MAY 2005 "Investigation on Air to Ground Coupled Waves and Other Geophysical Studies" Geological Sciences Dr. Eugene Thorton Herrin
Amy Meschke DEC 2004 "The Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1750-1846" History Dr. David Weber
Zhongxiao Wang AUG 2005 "Parallel Computation for Reservoir Thermal Simulation: An Overlapping Domain Decomposition Approach" Mathematics Dr. Zhangxin Chen
Lynne Fitzhugh AUG 2005 "Spontaneous Writing Sample Comparisons of Normal and Learning Disabled Upper Elementary School Students" Psychology Dr. Curtis W. McIntyre
Heather McMinn DEC 2004 "Assessment of the College Preparatory Program: A Retention Study and Prediction Model for College Admission 1995-2003" Psychology Dr. Curtis W. McIntyre
Michael Greene DEC 2004 "Working Our Way Out of Poverty: Toward an Ethic of Employment Assurance" Religious Studies Dr. Robin W. Lovin
Cynthia Moore MAY 2005 "Grounded Hebrew Semantics: A New Inductive Method for Linguistic Meaning With Special Focus on the Hebrew Terms ..." Religious Studies Dr. Richard D. Nelson
G. Wilkes DEC 2004 "An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Christian Belief" Religious Studies Dr. William J. Abraham
Kornel Zathureczky DEC 2004 "Moltmann Through the Messianic Philosophy of Walter Benjamin: Staying with the Negative" Religious Studies Dr. William J. Abraham
Liangang Liu DEC 2004 "Spectral Analysis With Time-Varying Frequency" Statistical Science Dr. Wayne A. Woodward
Liansheng Tang MAY 2005 "Undercoverage of Wavelet-based Resampling Confidence Intervals and a Parametric Spatial Bootstrap" Statistical Science Dr. William R. Shucany
Yan Zhong DEC 2004 "Analysis of Time-Varying Frequency Exponential Chirp Process Through Exponential Time Transformation" Statistical Science Dr. Wayne A. Woodward

2004-2005 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Alexandru Fit-Florea AUG 2005 "Extending Hardware Support For Arithmetic Modulo 2k" Computer Science Dr. David W. Matula
David De Schweinitz MAY 2005 "Low-Cost 360-Degree Switched Beam Scanner" Electrical Engineering Dr. Choon S. Lee
Hanem Eladly DEC 2004 "Enhancing the Support of Multi-Hopping in IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Networks" Electrical Engineering Dr. Thomas M. Chen
Tao He AUG 2005 "Blind Deconvolution of Backscattered Ultrasound Using Sparse Sensor Arrays" Electrical Engineering Dr. Carlos E. Davila
Martin Kinyua DEC 2004 "Continuous Digital Background Auto-Calibration for High Accuracy Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Conversion" Electrical Engineering Dr. William M. Gosney
Jiang Yue MAY 2005 "Detection and Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communications" Electrical Engineering Dr. Jerry D. Gibson
Ivan Charamisinau DEC 2004 "Analysis and Design of a Red Laser Light Delivery System for Use in Photodynamic Therapy" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Gemunu S. Happawana
Chang Chen DEC 2004 "Thermomechanical Modeling of Friction Stir Welding by Finite Element Method" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Radovan Kovacevic
Michael Jahadi MAY 2005 "Methodology for Predicting the Effect of Changes in the Load Spectrum on Fatigue Life Predictions and Inspection Intervals" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Paul F. Packman
Vasfi Gunhan Kaytaz AUG 2005 "A New Simulation Model of Coupled Electro-Thermal Performance for Mosfet Devices" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Peter Raad
Payam Khashaee DEC 2004 "Energy-Based Seismic Design and Damage Assessment for Structures" Mechanical Engineering Dr. Bijan Mohraz