The Graduate School
Other Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding
Dissertation
1985
| Nominee | Department | Supervising Professor(s) | Title of Dissertation | Degree Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natalino Camilleri | Electrical Engineering | Tatsuo Itoh | A Multiplying Slot Array (Quasi-optics, Doublers, Harmonic-generators, Power-combining, Active Antennas) | May, 1985 |
| Patricia Gail Conway | Social Work | Martha S. Williams | A Model of Job Facet Satisfaction (Age, Organizational Design, Gender, Public Employees, Ethnicity) | May, 1985 |
| Kathleen Ann Copeland | Curriculum and Instruction | Julie Mae Jensen | The Effect of Writing upon Good and Poor Writers' Learning from Prose (Reading, Composition) | August, 1984 |
| Mark L. Damen | Classics | Douglass S. Parker | The Comedy of Diphilos Sinopeus in Plautus, Terence, and Athenaeus | May, 1985 |
| Ramon Favela | Art History | Linda D. Henderson | Rivera Cubista: A Critical Study of the Early Career of Diego Rivera, 1989-1921 | August, 1984 |
| Priscilla Elise (MacRae) Gilliam | Physical and Health Education | Waneen Wyrick Spirduso | The Effects of Aging on Reactive Capacity and Nigrostriatal Dopamine Function (Reaction Time, Basal Ganglia, Animals, Dopamine Receptor Binding, Brain Biochemistry) | December, 1984 |
| Carol Ann Holden | Nursing | Mary E. Walker | A Study of the Effects of Relaxation with Guided Imagery on Psychophysiological Stress Factors Mediating Surgical Wound Healing | May, 1985 |
| Thomas Merill Kiehne | Mechanical Engineering | Ronald D. Matthews and Dennis E. Wilson | Development of an Eight-step Kinetics Mechanism for Propane and Its Application in a Transient, Thin Gap, Engine Model | May, 1985 |
| Susan Ellen Koch | Speech Communication | Larry D. Browning | The Political Negotiated Order of Computer Implementation Planning (Organization, Systems Design, Social Reality, Information Systems) | December, 1984 |
| Richard J. Mawhorter, Jr. | Physics | Manfred Fink | Electron Scattering Studies of Gas Phase Molecular Structure at High Temperature (Diffraction, Alkali Halides, Chlorides, Vibrational Averaging, Cross Sections) | May, 1985 |
| Sandi Michele de Oliveira Medeiros | Foreign Language Education | John G. Baugh, Jr. | A Model of Address Form Negotiation, A Sociolinguistic Study of Continental Portuguese (Interpersonal, Portugal, Foreign, Cognitive, Language) | May, 1985 |
| Phillip Allen Metzger | Library and Information Science | Donald G. Davis, Jr. | Publishing and the Book Trade in Austin, Texas, 1870-1920 | August, 1984 |
| Kazuyuki Miyagiwa | Economics | Leslie S. F. Young | Essays on International Capital Mobility and Commercial Policies | May, 1985 |
| David Martin Myers, Jr. | Radio-TV-Film | Heather E. Hudson | Putting It On the Line: The Evolution of Home Computer Networks (Diffusion, Innovation, New Technology) | August, 1984 |
| Linda Virginia Nyquist | Psychology | Janet T. Spence | The Effects of Gender-based Expectancies on Social Information Gathering and Social Judgments (Sex Stereotypes) | December, 1984 |
| Marshall Rick Roderick | Philosophy | Douglas M. Kellner | The Justification of Criticism in the Social Theory of Jurgen Habermas: An Investigation of the Presuppositions of Critical Social Theory | August, 1984 |
| Hal Karl Rothman | American Civilization | William H. Goetzman | Protected by a Gold Fence with Diamond Tips: A Cultural History of the American National Monuments | May, 1985 |
| Waheed Uddin | Civil Engineering | Alvin H. Meyer | A Structural Evaluation Methodology for Pavements Based on Dynamic Deflections (Modules, Subgrade, Dynaflect, Nondestructive, Falling Weight) | December, 1984 |
| Katherine Vickers Unruh | Spanish and Portuguese | Merlin H. Forster | The Avant-garde in Peru: Literary Aesthetics and Cultural Nationalism |
August, 1984 |
| Robert Allen Wooster | History | John Edward Sunder | The Military and United States Indian Policy, 1865-1903 (West, Army, Reconstruction, Gilded Age) | May, 1985 |