| Name |
Date |
Dissertation |
Program |
Advisor(s) |
| Robert Joseph Graff |
DEC 2005 |
"HIV Prevention in Dallas, Texas" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Carolyn F. Sargent |
| Susan Blanche Harper-Bisso |
DEC 2005 |
"Negotiating Gender Identity and Social Identity in an American Neopagan Community" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Caroline B. Brettell |
| Pei-Lin Yu |
MAY 2006 |
"Pit Cooking and Intensification of Subsistence in the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Lewis R. Binford |
| Tripelo Michael Cooper |
DEC 2005 |
"Overexpression of Thioredoxin-2 in Drosophila Melanogaster and Calorie Restriction/Nutrient Variation in Musca Domestica to Modulate the Aging Process" |
Biology |
Dr. William C. Orr |
| Robert Rafgotovitch Ishmukhametov |
MAY 2006 |
"Isolation and Functional Studies of Subunit aMutants of the E. Coli F*F*APT Synthase" |
Biology |
Dr. Steven B. Vik |
| Khawaja Saeed Abdullah-Al Mamun |
AUG 2005 |
"Three essays on Cigarette Addiction, Taxation, and Health" |
Economics |
Dr. Per Fredriksson |
| Trevor Creed Collier |
MAY 2006 |
"Essays on the Economics of Education" |
Economics |
Dr. Daniel Millimet |
| George Dimitrov Kalchev |
AUG 2005 |
"Essays in Corporate Governance: Liability Insurance, Shareholder Litigation and Litigation Announcements" |
Economics |
Dr. Thomas B. Fomby |
| Jayanta Sarkar |
MAY 2006 |
"Essays on the Endogenous Lifetime, Economic Growth and Income Inequality" |
Economics |
Dr. Thomas Osang |
| Qin Wang |
AUG 2005 |
"Three essays on Credit Spreads" |
Economics |
Dr. Nathan Balke |
| Sara Mihan House McKenna |
AUG 2005 |
"Infrasound Wave Propagation Over Near-Regional and Tele-Infrasonic Distances" |
Geological Sciences |
Dr. Brian William Stump |
| Jimmy Lawrence Bryan, Jr. |
MAY 2006 |
"The American Elsewhere: Adventurism and Manliness in the Age of Expansion: 1815-1848" |
History |
Drs. Sherry L. Smith and David J. Weber |
| Francis Xavier Galán |
MAY 2006 |
"Last Soldiers: First Pioneers: The Los Adaes Border Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1721-1779" |
History |
Dr. David J. Weber |
| Bonnie Maria Martin |
MAY 2006 |
"'To Have and to Hold ...' Human Collateral: Mortgaging Slaves to Build Virginia and South Carolina" |
History |
Dr. David J. Weber |
| Hilary Smith Riser |
DEC 2005 |
"Computational Methods for Singularly Perturbed Two Point Boundary Problems" |
Mathematics |
Dr. Ian Gladwell |
| Zhongxiao Wang |
AUG 2005 |
"Parallel Computation for Reservoir Thermal Stimulation: An Overlapping Domain Decomposition Approach" |
Mathematics |
Dr. Zhangxin Chen |
| Liang Lu |
DEC 2005 |
"A New Analysis Strategy to Search for New Particles at the LHC" |
Physics |
Dr. Youngshen Gao |
| Lynne Pyle Fitzhugh |
AUG 2005 |
"Spontaneous Writing Sample Comparisons of Normal and Learning Disabled Upper Elementary School Students" |
Psychology |
Dr. Curtis W. McIntyre |
| Sharon Lynn Baker |
MAY 2006 |
"By Grace?: An 'Economy' of Atonement" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. Bruce D. Marshall |
| Janet Marcy Jerrow |
DEC 2005 |
"Arguing with God in the Wake of the Golden Calf Episode: The Rabbis Read Exodus 32" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. John C. Holbert |
| Gwang-Seok Oh |
DEC 2005 |
"John Wesley's Ecclesiology: A Study in Its Sources and Development" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. William J. Abraham |
| Mark Edward Powell |
DEC 2005 |
"Papal Infallibility as Religious Epistemology: Manning, Newman, Dulles, and Küng" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. William J. Abraham |
| David Farrell Watson III |
DEC 2005 |
"Honor Among Christians: A Reassessment of the 'Messianic Secret' " |
Religious Studies |
Dr. Jouette Bassler |
| Kangxia Gu |
MAY 2006 |
"Testing the Rates of Poisson Distribution" |
Statistical Science |
Drs. H.K. Tony Ng and William R. Shucany |
| Name |
Date |
Dissertation |
Program |
Advisor(s) |
| Susan Gene Vandiver |
MAY 2006 |
"Systems Engineering Approach to Model and Analyze the Performance of Containerized Shipping and Its Interdependencies with the United States Critical Infrastructure" |
Applied Science |
Dr. Jerrell T. Stracener |
| Lun Li |
MAY 2006 |
"Integrated Techniques for the Formal Verification and Validation of Digital Systems" |
Computer Engineering |
Dr. Mitchell A. Thornton |
| Jahanzeb Faizan |
DEC 2005 |
"Introducing Reliability and Load Balancing In Mobile IPV6 Based Networks" |
Computer Science |
Dr. Hesham El-Rewini |
| Alexandru Fit-Florea |
AUG 2005 |
"Extending Hardware Support for Arithmetic Modulo 2k" |
Computer Science |
Dr. David W. Matula |
| Padmaraj M.V. Nair |
MAY 2006 |
"Quality of Service in Metro Ethernet" |
Computer Science |
Dr. Sukumaran Nair |
| Tao He |
AUG 2005 |
"Blind Deconvolution of Backscattered Ultrasound Using Sparse Sensor Arrays" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Carlos E. Davila |
| Gokhan Ozgur |
DEC 2005 |
"Application of the Resonant-Layer Effect to Integrated Isolators and Other Photonic Components" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Gary A. Evans |
| Manjunath Somayaji |
MAY 2006 |
"Enhancement of Form Factor and Light Collection in Computational Imaging Systems Through Wavefront Coding Techniques" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Marc Christensen |
| Bo Wei |
DEC 2005 |
"Voice Communications Over Two-Hop Tandem Networks" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Mandyam Dr. Srinath |
| Susan Lynn Wilson |
DEC 2005 |
"High Power Grating-Outcoupled Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Laser" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Gary A. Evans |
| Rajeev Dwivedi |
MAY 2006 |
"Process Planning for Rapid Manufacturing of Parts with Complex Geometries and Functionally Graded Composition" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Radovan Kovacevic |
| Vicentiu Grosu |
DEC 2005 |
"Heat Transfer Analysis of Nanosecond Laser-Induced Forward Transfer" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. David A. Willis |
| Vasfi Gunhan Kaytaz |
AUG 2005 |
"A New Simulation Model Coupled Electro-Thermal Performance for Mosfet Devices" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Peter E. Raad |
| Dechao Lin |
MAY 2006 |
"Development of Lead-Free Solders Reinforced With Nanoparticles" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Radovan Kovacevic |
| Srdja Zekovic |
MAY 2006 |
"Numerical Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Laser-Based Direct Metal Deposition Phenomena" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Radovan Kovacevic |
| Giray Arif Birkan |
MAY 2006 |
"Design Procedures and Restoration Schemes For Backbone Transport Networks: Optimization-Based Models, Heuristic Algorithms, and Unavailability Computations" |
Operations Research |
Dr. Jeffery Kennington |
