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Other Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation
2000

Nominee Department Supervising Professor(s) Title of Dissertation Degree Date
Jeremy Michael Beer Psychology Joseph M. Horn The Influence of Rearing Order on Personality:  Data from Biological and Adoptive Siblings May, 2000
Naresh Chandra Bhavaraju Biomedical Engineering Jonathan W. Valvano Heat Transfer Modeling During Radiofrequency Cardiac Ablation in Swine Myocardium May, 2000
Bradley Cordell Bolen Music Elliott M. Antokoletz and Nancy Garrett Stravinsky's "Petroushka":  A Unified Theory of Harmonic Progression (Igor Stravinsky) May, 2000
Naima Boussofara-Omar Foreign Language Education S. Keith Walters and Peter F. Abboud Arabic Diglossic Switching in Tunisia:  An Application of Myers-Scotton's MLF Model May, 1999
Barbara Ann Burton Anthropology Pauline Turner Strong and Melbourne Tapper Telling Survival Stories:  Trauma, Violence, Family and Everyday Life in an American Community May, 1999
Amy Olivier Calvin Nursing Joy Hinson Penticuff Hemodialysis Patients and End-of-Life Medical Treatment Decisions:  A Theory of Personal Preservation May, 2000
Chong-Nuen Chu Computer Sciences Martin D. F. Wong Efficient and Optimal Solutions for Interconnect Optimization August, 1999
John Robert Jerome Eyck Germanic Studies Katherine M. Arens The Tragedy of Sentimentalism and Politics in Enlightenment Europe (The Netherlands, Rhijnvis Feith, Nicholas Rowe, Christoph Martin Wieland, Baculard d'Arnaud, August Niemeyer, Germany, France) December, 1999
Jeffrey Brian Fish Classics David Armstrong Philodemus, "De bono rege secundum, Homerum":  A Critical Text with Commentary (cols. 21-39) December, 1999
Nicole Renee Harlan Materials Science and Engineering David L. Bourell Titanium Processing Using Selective Laser Sintering December, 1999
Calla Jacobson Folklore James B. Brow and Steven Feld Sociable Poetics:  Representing and Interpreting Culture and Difference in Nepal's Middle Hills December, 1999
Karen Ann Russell King American Studies Robert H. Abzug Surviving Modernity:  Jewishness, Fieldwork, and the Roots of American Anthropology in the XXth Century (Franz Boaz) May, 2000
Harold Lawrence Langfur History Richard Graham The Forbidden Lands:  Frontier Settlers, Slaves, and Indians in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1760-1830 August, 1999
Xiusheng Shepard Liu Philosophy David Braybrooke The Place of Humanity in Ethics:  Combined Insights from Mencius and Hume (David Hume) December, 1999
Vera Ann Loopez Educational Psychology Edmund T. Emmer and Deborah J. Tharinger Adolescent Male Offenders' Cognitions and Emotions:  A Grounded Theory Study of Delinquent Crime Contexts August, 1999
Joseph David Masters Mathematics Alan W. Reid Lengths and Homology of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds May, 1999
Susan Jen Pedersen Curriculum and Instruction Min Liu Cognitive Modeling During Problem-based Learning:  The Effects of a Hypermedia Expert Tool May, 2000
Joy Coursey Phillips Educational Administration Lonnie H. Wagstaff Interprofessional Collaboration for Low-income and Immigrant Families:  A Case Study May, 1999
Juanita Ruth Sundberg Geography Gregory W. Knapp

Conservation Encounters:  NGOs, Local People, and Changing Cultural Landscapes (Guatemala)

May, 1999