| Name |
Date |
Dissertation |
Program |
Advisor(s) |
| James Nicholas Ambrosino |
MAY 2007 |
"Warfare and Destruction in the Maya Lowlands: Pattern and Process in the Archaeological Record of Yaxuna, Yucatan Mexico" |
Anthropology |
Dr. David Alan Freidel |
| Michelle Marlene Amoruso |
DEC 2006 |
"Re-emerging Infectious Disease and Ethnic Stratification: Dengue Fever in Trinidad and Tobago" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Carolyn F. Sargent |
| Jeffrey Ian Rose |
DEC 2006 |
"Among Arabian Sands: Defining the Paleolithic of Southern Arabia" |
Anthropology |
Dr. Anthony E. Marks |
| Sabine Delannoy |
DEC 2006 |
"Structure-Function Relationship in the Nucleotide-Binding Domains of ABC Transporters" |
Biology |
Dr. Pia D. Vogel |
| Jose Miguel Viana Dias |
DEC 2006 |
"Insights into the Regulation of the Ryanodine Receptor: Differential Effects of Ca**, Mg**, and Pharmacological Agents on ATP Binding" |
Biology |
Dr. Pia D. Vogel |
| Thomas Neal Jetton |
DEC 2006 |
"Trypanosoma Brucei Aurora Kinase-1: Function, Turnover and Potential as a Therapeutic Target" |
Biology |
Dr. Lawrence S. Ruben |
| Jeffrey T. Brimhall |
DEC 2006 |
"Empirical Applications of Corporate Finance and Industrial Organization" |
Economics |
Drs. Jeffrey W. Allen and Daniel J. Slottje |
| Pandej Chintrakarn |
MAY 2007 |
"Essays on Consequences of Economic Integration" |
Economics |
Dr. Daniel Millimet |
| Jeffry Ankur Jacob |
AUG 2006 |
"Essays on Micro-and Macro-Determinants" |
Economics |
Dr. Thomas Osang |
| Faruk Sengul |
AUG 2006 |
"Essays on the Most Favored Nation Clause and the World Trading System" |
Economics |
Dr. Kamal Saggi |
| Le Wang |
AUG 2006 |
"Essays on the Economics of Family" |
Economics |
Dr. Daniel Millimet |
| Liye Zhu |
AUG 2006 |
"Three Essays on the U.S. Health Insurance Market" |
Economics |
Dr. Daniel Millimet |
| Kamil Erkan |
MAY 2007 |
"Post Subduction Thermal Regime of the Western North America and Effects on the Great Valley, Sierra Nevada and Northern Baja-California" |
Geological Sciences |
Dr. David D. Blackwell |
| Paul W. Golden |
MAY 2007 |
"Infrasound Studies and Seismic Station Development" |
Geological Sciences |
Dr. Eugene T. Herrin, Jr. |
| Tae Sung Kim |
AUG 2006 |
"Infrasound Signals from Earthquakes and Other Sources and Upper Crustal and Source Constraints from Seismic Observations of Single-Fired Explosions in SE Arizona" |
Geological Sciences |
Dr. Brian William Stump |
| José A. Ramírez |
MAY 2007 |
"To the Line of Fire, Mexican-Texans!: The Tejano Community and World War I" |
History |
Dr. John R. Chavez |
| Clive G. Siegle |
MAY 2007 |
"Ciboleros! Hispanic Buffalo Hunters on The Southern Plains" |
History |
Dr. Sherry L. Smith |
| Mulugeta Markos |
MAY 2007 |
"Steady Liquid Flow and Liquid-Vapor Interface Shapes in Different Groove Structure in Micro Heat Pipes" |
Mathematics |
Dr. Vladimir Ajaev |
| Marina Angelova Rangelova |
MAY 2007 |
"Error Estimation for Fourth-Order Partial Differential Equations" |
Mathematics |
Dr. Peter K. Moore |
| Tatyana Vladimirovna Savchuk |
DEC 2006 |
"The Multiscale Finite Element Method for Elliptic Problems" |
Mathematics |
Dr. Zhangxin Chen |
| Heather Emma Kitzman |
DEC 2006 |
"The Impact of a Family Intervention on Weight Loss and Diet in Overweight Female Adolescents" |
Psychology |
Robert B. Hampson |
| Mary O'Boyle II |
AUG 2006 |
"Family Factors Associated with Obese Adolescent Girls" |
Psychology |
Dr. Robert B. Hampson |
| David Brockman |
DEC 2006 |
"Turning to Religious Others: Visions and Blindspots in Modern Christian Reflection about Non-Christians" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. Joerg Rieger |
| Kevin Michael Carnahan |
MAY 2007 |
"Sin, Guilt, Justice and War: Paul Ramsey and Reinhold Niebuhr on the Moral Framework for Just War Thought" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. Robin W. Lovin |
| Robert L. Foster |
MAY 2007 |
"Justice Prescribed and Personified: Toward a Biblical Theology of Justice" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. Richard D. Nelson |
| Nina Eva Livesey |
MAY 2007 |
"Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol: Treatments of Circumcision in Philo, Paul And Justin Martyr" |
Religious Studies |
Dr. Jouette M. Bassler |
| Zhongxue Chen |
MAY 2007 |
"Probe-Level Data Analysis for High-Density Oligonucleotide Arrays" |
Statistical Science |
Dr. Monnie McGee |
| Md. Jobayer Hossain |
AUG 2006 |
"Analysis of Nonstationary Time Series with Time Varying Frequencies" |
Statistical Science |
Dr. Wayne A. Woodward |
| Yue Jia |
MAY 2007 |
"Using Sampling Weights in the Estimation of Random Effects Model" |
Statistical Science |
Dr. Lynne Stokes |
| Qihua Lin |
DEC 2006 |
"Bayesian Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Modeling of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data" |
Statistical Science |
Dr. Richard F. Gunst |
| Name |
Date |
Dissertation |
Program |
Advisor |
| Patricia A. Taylor |
DEC 2006 |
"Assessing the Sustainability of Using Stone to Address Coastal Louisiana Wetland Loss in Projects Funded by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act" |
Civil Engineering |
Drs. Roger O. Dickey and Bijan Mohraz |
| Li Ma |
MAY 2007 |
"Usage Based Models for Web Reliability Improvement" |
Computer Science |
Dr. Jeff Tian |
| Yu Meng |
MAY 2007 |
"Deployment of Heterogenous Sensing Devices" |
Computer Science |
Dr. Margaret Holder Dunham |
| Jason Joseph Meyer |
MAY 2007 |
"Novel SRAM-Based FGPA Architectures And Supporting CAD Tools" |
Computer Science |
Dr. Faith Kocan |
| Rabie Abd El-Tawab Ramadan |
MAY 2007 |
"On Deployment of Sensing Devices" |
Computer Science |
Dr. Hesham El-Rewini |
| Nanthi Suthikarnnarunai |
MAY 2007 |
"Improving Transportation Service for the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce" |
Computer Science |
Dr. Eli V. Olinick |
| Gregory Allan Maca |
DEC 2006 |
"Array Signal Parameter Estimation for CDMA Technology (ASPECT)" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Mandyam Dr. Srinath |
| Enwang Zhou |
MAY 2007 |
"Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems and their Application in Short-Term Load Forecasting and Classification Problems" |
Electrical Engineering |
Dr. Alireza Khotanzad |
| Vijay Soundararajan Mythili |
DEC 2006 |
"Thermo-Mechanical and Microstructural Issues in Joining Similar and Dissimilar Metals by Friction Stir Welding" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Radovan Kovacevic |
| Christian Naaktgeboren |
MAY 2007 |
"Vortex Interactions with Porous Media: Experiments and Modelling" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Drs. Paul Krueger and Jose L. Lange |
| Ali Bahadir Olcay |
MAY 2007 |
"Measurement of Ambient Fluid Entertainment and Calculation of Vortex Ring's Impulse during Vortex Ring Formation" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Paul Krueger |
| Cristian Porneala |
DEC 2006 |
"Heat Transfer and Plume Dynamics During Nanosecond Laser Ablation" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. David A. Willis |
| Nuraj Indika Rajapakse |
AUG 2006 |
"Analytical Modeling, Analysis & Robust Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Dynamical Systems by Using Sliding Mode Control (SMC) & Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT)" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Gemunu S. Happawana |
| Eswar Reddy Yarrapareddy |
MAY 2007 |
"Numerical Stimulation and Experimental Investigation of Layer-Based Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Industrial Applications" |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Radovan Kovacevic |
| Qibin Cai |
AUG 2006 |
"Optimization-based Design Tools for W-CDMA Cellular Networks" |
Operations Research |
Dr. Jeffrey L. Kennington |
