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PhD Graduates

Summer 2010 - Doctor of Philosophy

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
James William Cooley III August 2010 Empirical Essays on Partisan Differences in Stock Market Returns Economics Nathan Balke
Kun Zou August 2010 Clustering Raw Distributions of Intensities from Affymetrix Gene Expression Microarrays in Order to Evaluate Statistical Preprocessing Methods Statistics Monnie McGee
Ming Li August 2010 Stimuli-Reponse Polymer-Protein Conjugates Prepared by Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization Chemistry Brent Sumerlin
Sanjeev Kumar August 2010 Exploration into the Roles of Culture and Geography in Economics Economics Daniel Millimet

December 2010 - Ph.D. Graduates

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor
Abdulaziz Bahha December 2010 An Emergency Software System for Quick Response Computer Science Stephen Szygenda
Sandeep Banerjee December 2010 Stable Isotope Constraints on Global Cycles Geology Robert Gregory
Ilteris Derici December 2010 Random Geometric Graphs, Their Properties and Applications on the Plane, Sphere, and Torus Computer Science David Matula
Fan Hu December 2010 Sample Size Estimation With Nonparametric Methods for One Sample Location Tests Under Clustered Data Statistics William Schucany
Wei Huang December 2010 Investigation of Sensing, Monitoring and Control Issues in Welding Processes Mechanical Engineering Radovan Kovacevic
Rao Kotamarti December 2010 Quasi Alignment Methods for Molecular Sequence Analysis Computer Science Margaret Dunham
Chad Lawler December 2010 A Disaster Tolerant Cloud Computing Model as A Disaster Survival Methodology Applied Science Engineering Stephen Szygenda, Mitchell Thornton
Matthew Leahy December 2010 An Examination of College Students' Receptiveness to Alcohol-Related Information and Advice Psychology Ernest Jouriles
Hongmei Li December 2010 Enantioselective Reduction by Natural/Engineered Enzymes and Synthesis of Smart Polymer-Protein Bioconjugats Via Raft Chemistry Brent Sumerlin
Yichen Li December 2010 Development of a Neutrino Tracking Detector Using Gas Electron Multiplier Avalanche Light Production in Neon Physics Ryszard Stroynowski
Eduardo Moralez December 2010 From Tejano to Latino in Indiana: The Evolving Class and Ethnic Identity of Mexican Migrants to the the Great Lakes, 1900-2000 History John Chavez
Ali Moslemi December 2010 Propulsive Efficiency of a Biomorphic Pulsed-jet Underwater Vehicle Mechanical Engineering Paul Krueger
Charles Nicholson December 2010 Time-Space Fixed-Charge Network Flow Problems Operations Research Jeffery Kennington
Reza Rahdar December 2010 A Systems Engineering Methodology For the Mitigation of NLOS Effect in Mobile Station Location Estimation Applied Science Engineering Jerrell Stracener
John Robbins December 2010 Investigating Holocene Climate Change on the Northern Channel Islands and Cretaceous Mosasaur Ecology Using Stable Isotopes Geology Robert Gregory
Soundarapandian Santhanakrishnan December 2010 Thermo-Kinetic Modeling and Experimental Investigations of Laser Surface Modification Processes by Using High Power Direct Diode Laser Mechanical Engineering Radovan Kovacevic
Timothy Woods December 2010 System Engineering the Mission Critical Software Release Decision Applied Science Engineering Mitchell Thornton
Kevin Zummo December 2010 A Methodology for the Integration of Design Teams for the evelopment of Complex Systems Applied Science Engineering Khaled Abdelghany

May 2011 - Ph.D. Graduates

Name Date Dissertation Program Advisor(s)
Timothy Bowman May 2011 Blood Oranges: Citriculture, Colonialism, and the Making of Anglo-American Identity in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Borderlands During the Twentieth Century History Benjamin Johnson
Adele Caruth May 2011 Ascertaining Ancestry From the Femur Anthropology Ronald Wetherington
Diana Easton May 2011 ADBP, a Novel Approach to Business Process Design in a Regulated Industry Applied Science Engineering Mitchell Thornton
Metin Eren May 2011 Behavioral Adaptations of Late Pleistocene Human Colonizers in the North American Lower Great Lakes Region Anthropology David Meltzer
Hamideh Etemadnia May 2011 Towards An Autonomic Architecture for Real-Time Traffic Management in Congested Urban Transportation Networks Civil Engineering Khaled Abdelghany
Michael Fisher May 2011 The Dialogocial Construction of Tibetan-Ness: Narratives of Tibetan Identity and Memory Anthropology Robert Kemper
Shivappa Gadag May 2011 Studying the Mechanism of Micromachining by Short Pulse Laser Mechanical Engineering Radovan Kovacevic
Yasser Ghanbari May 2011 Feature Extraction and Classification of Neural Waveforms in Extracellular Single-Electrode, Stereotrode, and Tetrode Recordings Electrical Engineering Panagiotis Papamichalis
Mohamed Gharib May 2011 Theory of Multiple Impacts and Its Application to Energy Absorption and Attenuation of Shock Induced Vibrations Mechanical Engineering Yildirim Hurmuzlu
Ayfer Gurun May 2011 Essays on Antidumping and Import Penetration Economics Kamal Saggi
James Haney May 2011 Analyzing Time Series with Time-Varying Frequency Behavior and Conditional Heteroskedasticity Statistics Henry Gray, Wayne Woodward
Mohammad Hendijanifard May 2011 Novel Laser-Induced Pressure Measurement Technique and Laser-Induced Mass Removal Model Mechanical Engineering David Willis
Chen-Wei Huang May 2011 An Instant-Switching Delta-Sigma Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer with Adjustable Duty Cycles and 6-12 GHZ Wideband LC VCO Electrical Engineering Ping Gui
Richard James May 2011 Strategic Outsourcing for Manufacturing Firms Engineering Management Eli Olinick
Levent Kaan May 2011 The Vanpool Assignment Problem: Analysis and Optimization Operations Research Eli Olinick
James Kennell May 2011 The Senses and Suffering: Medical Knowledge, Spirit, Possession, and Vaccination Programs in AJA Anthropology Caroline Brettell
Marlyn Kingsley May 2011 Formulation and Benefit Analysis of Optimization Models for Network Recovery Design Computer Science Richard Barr
Simon Mak May 2011 Improving Investment Performance of Venture Financing Utilizing Bayesian Fundamentals Applied Science Engineering Stephen Szygenda
Samantha Martin May 2011 Hepatitis C is Like a Cold; HIV is Their Life: Perceptions of Risk and the Experience of HIV and Hepatitis C among the Pascua Yaqui Anthropology Carolyn Smith-Morris
Meredith Minister May 2011 Critical Theories of Emodiment and Trinitarian Theologies: Mapping a Trajectory for Theological Responsibility in the Pursuit of Embodied Justice Religious Studies Karen Baker-Fletcher
Faith Nibbs May 2011 Refugeehood and Belonging: Processes, Intersections and Agency in Two Hmong Resettlement Communities Anthropology Caroline Brettell
Justin Nichols May 2011 The Effects of Vehicle Configuration on Performance of Pulsed Jet Propulsion Mechanical Engineering Paul Krueger
Jonathan Pagliaro May 2011 Rethinking Thinking: An Ecologically Based Consideration of Contextual Diversity in Late Classic Ceramic Assemblages from the Upper Belize River Area, Belize Anthropology David Freidel
Brenna Rivas May 2011 Vocabulary Development through Shared Readings: The Potential Role of Explicit Instruction and Supplemental Multimedia in the Preschool ELL Classroom. EDUD Paige Ware
Aditi Roy May 2011 Essays on Intrahousehold Allocation and Child Health Economics Daniel Millimet
John Seebach May 2011 El Despoblado: Folsom and Late Paleoindian Occupation of Trans-Pecos, Texas Anthropology David Meltzer
Aditi Sengupta May 2011 Essays on Environmental Policies and Industrial Organization Economics Santanu Roy
Ali Tavakoli Targhi May 2011 Gravity Powered Locomotion and Active Control of a Family Tree of Robotic Mechanisms Mechanical Engineering Yildirim Hurmuzlu
John Taylor-Montoya May 2011 Cultural Transmission and Artifact Evolution During the Paleoindian Period on the Southern Great Plains of North America Anthropology David Meltzer
Mahesh Thakur May 2011 Stabilization Temperature of the Archean Cratons: Implication for Thermal Regime, Secular Variation of Surface Heat Flow and Lithospheric Thickness in Precambrian Terrians Geology David Blackwell
Xinyu Wang May 2011 Algorithmic Enhancements for Computing the Frame of a Finitely Generated Bounded Polyhedron Operations Research Richard Helgason