The Graduate School
Other Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding
Dissertation
1990
| Nominee | Department | Supervising Professor(s) | Title of Dissertation | Degree Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Rayborn Blankenbaker | Mathematics | William Beckner | Fourier Analysis on the Sierpinski Gasket | May, 1990 |
| Lynn Matthew Burlbaw | Curriculum and Instruction | Ozro L. Davis, Jr. | Hollis Leland Caswell's Contributions to the Development of the Curriculum Field | August, 1989 |
| Glenna Sue Cannon | Special Education | Keith D. Turner | Essential Teaching Competencies for General and Special Educators Collaborating to Educate Mildly Handicapped Students in General Classrooms | August, 1989 |
| Corey Patrick Carbonara | Radio-TV-Film | George Kozmetsky and Thomas B. Schatz | A Historical Perspective of Management, Technology, and Innovation in the American Television Industry | December, 1989 |
| Betty Francine R. Carraro | American Civilization | William H. Goetzmann | A Regionalist Rediscovered: A Biography of Jerry Bywaters | August, 1989 |
| Patrick Joseph Conge | Government | Robert Harrison Wagner | Revolution as a Source of International War | August, 1989 |
| Dana Alan Cope | Anthropology | Claud A. Bramblett | Systematic Variation in Cercopithecus Dental Samples | August, 1989 |
| Bridget Anne Drinka | Linguistics | Edgar C. Polome | The Sigmatic Aorist in Indo-European: Evidence for the Space-time Hypothesis | May, 1990 |
| William Earl French | History | Alan S. Knight and Nettie L. Benson | Peaceful and Working People: The Inculcation of the Capitalist Work Ethic in a Mexican Mining District (Hidalgo District, Chihuahua, 1880-1920) | May, 1990 |
| Sang Hoon Kim | Advertising | Patricia A. Stout | The Effectiveness of 15-second TV Commercials: An Experimental Study | May, 1990 |
| Manuel Laguna-Castillo | Mechanical Engineering | John Wesley Barnes | The Application of Heuristic Methods and Artificial Intelligence to a Class of Production Scheduling Problems | May, 1990 |
| Paul Allen Miller | Comparative Literature | Wayne A. Rebhorn, Jr. and Carl A. Rubino/Jean-Pierre B. Cauvin | Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness | August, 1989 |
| Martha Jane Edwards Myers | Management Science and Information Systems | Eleanor W. Jordan | An Examination of Motivation in the Information Systems Profession | August, 1989 |
| Claude Oliver Proctor, Jr. | Foreign Language Studies | Aaron Bar-Adon | A Model for Classification of Errors and Evaluation of Translation Quality in a Russian-English Machine Translation System | May, 1990 |
| Frank Proschan | Anthropology | Joel F. Sherzer | Kmhmu Verbal Art in America: The Poetics of Kmhmu Verse | December, 1989 |
| Paul Dennis Schreuders | Biomedical Engineering | Kenneth R. Diller | Development and Application of a Kinetic Model for Multicomponent Diffusion in Biological Systems | December, 1989 |
| Ambuj Kumar Singh | Computer Sciences | Mohamed G. Gouda and Jayadev Misra | Ranking in Distributed Systems | December, 1989 |
| Evelyn Ann Stiner | Nursing | Patricia C. (Kay) Avant and Eleanor L. M. Crowder | Trends in Ethical and Moral Issues in Nursing, 1900-1985 | December, 1989 |
| John Douglas Swann | Pharmacy | Daniel Acosta, Jr. | Role of Calcium and Reactive Oxygen Species in the Nephrotoxicity of Gentamicin: An in vitro Study with Primary Cultures of Rat Renal Cortical Epithelial Cells |
December, 1989 |
| Douglas Alexander Swartz | Physics | John Craig Wheeler | Modelling Late-time Atmospheres of Supernovae | August, 1989 |
| Xiaoyang Zhu | Chemistry | John M. White | Hydrogen-hydrogen, Carbon-hydrogen, and Oxygen-oxygen Bond Cleavage on Metal (nickel, platinum) Surfaces | December, 1989 |