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PhD Graduates

2009-2010 : Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Angela C. Berry August 2009 An Investigation of the Relationship Between Fear of Negative Evaluaiton and Bulimic Psychopathology Psychology Jasper A.J. Smits
Michael P. Bletzer August 2009 'Pueblos Without Names': A Case Study of Piro Settlement in Early Colonial New Mexico Anthropology Michael A. Adler
Sofia Chabysheva August 2009 A Nonperturbative Calculation of the Electron's Anomalous Magnetic Moment Physics Kent J. Hornbostel
Christina Anna Dekany August 2009 Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Reaction-Diffusion Equations in Two Space Dimensions Mathematics Peter Moore
Jill Carol Klentzman August 2009 Vicous Flow, Evaporation, and Phase Explosion in Thin Liquid Films: Mathematics Vladimir Ajaev
Christina C. Paulson August 2009 Analysis of C.Elegans Genes Required for Maintaining Intestinal Lumen Morphology and Ingested Drug Resistance Molecular Cell Biology James Waddle
Chinwon Rim August 2009 Synthetic Approaches to Multidentate Thioether and Pyridyl Ligands Chemistry David Son
Christiana Julia Rissing August 2009 Synthetic Approaches to New Multidentate Pyridyl Ligands and Sulfur-Containing Organosilicon Dendrimers Chemistry David Son
Jennifer Ann Tarin August 2009 Analysis of Shell Models in Relation to a New Self-Similarity Theory of the Inertial Range in Isotropic Homogenous Turbulence Mathematics Mogens Melander
Andrew Vogt August 2009 Macromolecular Design Via Combinations of Controlled Radical Polymerization Techniques and Click Chemistry Chemistry Brent S. Sumerlin
Olivia Farr December 2009 Ritual, Process, and Continuity in the Late to Terminal Classic Transition: Investigations at Struture M13-1 of El Peru-Waka Anthropology David Freidel
Azeddine Kasmi December 2009 Searches for Continuum and Resonant Production of Z Boson Pairs Using the Atlas Detector Physics Robert Kehoe
Helen McLure December 2009 I suppose You Think Strange the Murder of Women and Children': The American Culutre of Collective Violence, 1652-1930 History Sherry Smith
Timothy Myers December 2009 Late Jurassic Paleoclimate of Europe and Africa Geology Louis Jacobs
Jane Patterson December 2009 Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in First Corinthians and Philippians Religious Studies Victor Furnish
Mark Tarpley December 2009 Between Martyrdom and Christendom: A Consideration of Family and Public Life in the Thought of Gregory of Nazianzus Religious Studies Robin Lovin
Oleg Volkov December 2009 Structure of the Bacterial F-ATPase b-Subunit Dimer Biology Pia Vogel
Brian Andrews May 2010 Folsom Adaptive Systems in the Upper Grunnison Basin, Colorado: An Analysis of the Mountaineer Site Anthropology David Meltzer
Jennifer Cheatham May 2010 Practicing Independent Reading with Decodable Texts: A Comparison Study of Texts with Second Graders. Education Jill Allor
Kristen Corey May 2010 Enough for Everyone to Eat: Food, Health and the Construction of Risk in Rarotonga Anthropology Victoria Lockwood
Ronald Dearing May 2010 Rate of Return Analysis: Project Balance Implications, A New Class of Iterations, and Project Selection EMISD Richard Helgason
George Diaz May 2010 Contrabandista Communities: States and Smugglers in the Lower Rio Grande Borderlands, 1848-1945 History Benjamin Johnson
Daniel Griswold May 2010 Perichoretic Eternality: God's Relationship to Time in Karl Barth's 'Church Dogmatics Religious Studies Charles Wood
Andrew Hardin May 2010 Semiparametric Simulation of Affymetrix Gene Expression Microarrays Statistics Monnie McGee
Jian Hu May 2010 Essays on Financial Markets Using Copula Models Economics Thomas Fomby
Jong Min Kim May 2010 Essays on the Signaling Approach to the Asymmetric Information in a Mutual Fund Market Economics Santanu Roy
Hyo Myong Lim May 2010 The Portrait of God in Saul's Rise and Rejection Religious Studies Richard Nelson
Kenneth Loyer May 2010 Spirit of Love: The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life in Thomas Aquinas and John Wesley Religious Studies Bruce Marshall
Jodie Lyon-Baldwin May 2010 Women, Work, and Reinhold Niebuhr: A Feminist Understanding of Sin Religious Studies Robin Lovin
Elizabeth McClellan May 2010 Improving Statistical Methods in Biological Pathway Analysis Statistics Monnie McGee
Jonathan Mitchell May 2010 Synchronous and Asynchronous Oscillations in a Model for Antigenically Varying Malaria, Including the Effects of Constant and State-Dependent Delay Mathematics Thomas Carr
Iranga Nagasinghe May 2010 Computing Principal Eigenvectors of Large Web Graphs: Algorithms and Accelerations Related to Pagerank and Hits Mathematics Yunkai Zhou
Derek Neve May 2010 Saving Human Knowledge: Contributions of John Henry Newman Towards a Fallibilist Epistemology of Theology Religious Studies William Abraham
Heather Oglevie May 2010 Perfect Through Suffering: The Sanctification of the Son of Man Religious Studies William Abraham
Joel O'Hair May 2010 Multidimensional Signal Detection in the Presence of Correlated Noise with Application to Brain Imaging Statistics Wayne Woodward
David Rex Galindo May 2010 Propaganda Fide: Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain History Peter Bakewell, David Weber
Jayjit Roy May 2010 Empirical Essays in International Trade Economics Daniel Millimet
David Stowell May 2010 Computing Eigensolutions for Singular Sturm-Liouville Problems in Photonics Mathematics Johannes Tausch
Mark Teasdale May 2010 Pure America Evangelism: The Understanding and Practice of Evangelism in the Home Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1920 Religious Studies Ted Campbell
Narongchai Thitinanpong May 2010 Three Essays on Applied Time Series Analysis for Financial Markets and Fiscal Policies Economics Thomas Fomby
Stephanie Thomas May 2010 Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Upper Permian and Lower Paleosols, NW China: Implicatons for Environmental Change Across the End-Permian Life Crisis Geology Neil Tabor
Carl Trovall May 2010 An Analysis of the Political and Moral Implications of 'Mestizaje" for Michael Walzer's Conception of Community in the United States Religious Studies Robin Lovin
Beverly Weiser May 2010 Examining the Synergistic Relationship of Encoding and Decoding Instruction and its Effect on First Graders Struggling with Reading. Education Patricia Mathes

2009-2010 : School of Engineering & Applied Science

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor
Osama Ahmed Elsafadi August 2009 Integrated Process-Design, Planning, and Stochastic-System Optimization EMIS Richard S. Barr
Ahmed Elsayed Mohamed Hassan August 2009 A Modeling Framework for Airlines Competition Analysis: Application to the U.S. Domestic Network ENCE Khaled F. Abdelghany
Nathan Robert Huntoon August 2009 Applications of Frustrated Total Internal Reflection for Short Interaction Length Devices in Photonic Integrated Circuits Electrical Marc Christensen
Fan-Rong Kong August 2009 Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow and Mechanical Behavior in Laser- Based Material Processing Technologies Mechanical Radovan Kovacevic
Ying Wan August 2009 A Study of Polymer/Semiconductor Leaky-Mode Grating-Assisted Directional Couplers Electrical Jerome K. Butler
Wickham Chen December 2009 Design and Implementation of a Large-N Digital to Frequency Converter Based Frequency Multiplier Electrical Engineering Ping Gui
Satyendra Datla December 2009 Design and Validation of Quaternary Arithmetic Circuits Computer Science Engineering Mitchell Thornton
Aleksandra Dimitrovska December 2009 Mitigation Strategies of Tin (Sn) Whisker Growth Mechanical Engineering Radovan Kovacevic
Abdeslam Elahmadi December 2009 Modeling, Capacity, and Equalization of Fiber Optic Communications Electrical Engineering Dinesh Rajan, Mandyam Srinath
Ehsan Foroozmehr December 2009 Thermo-Kinetic And-Structural Modeling and Experimental Investigations of Laser Powder Deposition Process Mechanical Engineering Radovan Kovacevic
Rouzbeh Sarrafi December 2009 Surface Treatment of Metals by Variable-Polarity Arc: Mechanisms and Applications of Cathodic Processes in Welding, Cladding and Surface Texturing Mechanical Engineering Radovan Kovacevic
Noha El-Yamany May 2010 Faithful Quality Representation and Robust Multi-Frame Reconstruction of High-Resolution Images Electrical Engineering Scott Douglas
Wael Kdouh May 2010 On the Power Management of Multi-Core Processors With Network on CHIP Computer Science Engineering Mitchell Thornton, Hesham El-Rewini
Chanam Lee May 2010 Microstrip Antenna With a Height Discontinuity (MAHD) Electrical Engineering Choon Lee
Yong Peng May 2010 Cognition and Cooperation in Wireless Multi-User Gaussian Networks Electrical Engineering Dinesh Rajan