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Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation
1996
| Nominee | Department | Supervising Professor(s) | Title of Dissertation | Degree Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Vianna Alfred | Educational Administration | Ann K. Brooks | Outsiders Within: The Professional Development History of Black Tenured Female Faculty in the White Research Academy | December, 1995 |
| Brenda Lee Bacon | Social Work | Kathryn G. Wambach | Systemic Effects of Sexual Abuse Survivors' Group Therapy: Survivors, Male Partners, and the Couple Relationship | December, 1995 |
| Rajan Bhalla | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Hao Ling | Fast Algorithms for Signature Prediction, Image Formation and Scattering Center Extraction Using the Shooting-and-Bouncing Ray Technique | May, 1996 |
| William Beeland Carlton | Mechanical Engineering | John Wesley Barnes | A Tabu Search Approach to the General Vehicle Routing Problem | December, 1995 |
| Lyren Chiu | Nursing | Beverly A. Hall | Spirituality of Women Living with Breast Cancer in Taiwan: A Phenomenological Study | May, 1996 |
| Alejandro Clocchiatti | Astronomy | John Craig Wheeler | Transition Type Supernovae | August, 1995 |
| Jorge Arturo Cobb | Computer Sciences | Mohamed G. Gouda | Flow Theory and the Analysis of Timed-flow Protocols | May, 1996 |
| Sanjit Kumar Das | Chemical Engineering | Mukul M. Sharma and Robert S. Schechter | Adhesion and Detachment of Particles from Surfaces: A Fundamental Study | May, 1996 |
| Judith Rachel Edgington | Science Education | James P. Barufaldi | Teachers and Scientists: A Study of Their Concepts, Views, and Epistemologies in Classical Mechanics | December, 1995 |
| Jose Luis Escobar Valderrama | Pharmacy | Robert S. Pearlman | A General Model for the Treatment of Solute-solvent Interactions | May, 1996 |
| Marc A. Fagelson | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Craig A. Champlin | Distortion-product Otoacoustic Emissions and Auditory Filter Shape | December, 1995 |
| Aaron Andrew Fox | Anthropology | Steven Feld | Out the Country: Language, Music, Feeling, and Sociability in American Rural Working-class Culture | August, 1995 |
| Robert Joseph Frosch | Civil Engineering | James O. Jirsa | Seismic Rehabilitation Using Precast Infill Walls | May, 1996 |
| Ioannis Gasparis | Mathematics | Haskell P. Rosenthal | Quotients of C(K) Spaces | December, 1995 |
| Hongxing Ge | Geological Sciences | Sharon Mosher and Martin P. A. Jackson | Kinematics and Dynamics of Salt Tectonics in the Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado: Field Observations and Scaled Modeling | May, 1996 |
| Andrew Duane Henderson | Management | Alison Davis-Blake and David B. Jemison | Uniqueness vs. Conformance: The Role of Technology Strategy in Coping with Highly Disruptive Episodes | May, 1996 |
| Barbara Carlile Holmes | Educational Psychology | Diane L. Schallert | Negotiation of Meaning in Physician-patient Communication During Cancer Treatment | May, 1996 |
| Patrick Ernest Hopkins | Accounting | D. Eric Hirst | The Effect of Financial Statement Classification of Mandatorily Redeemable Preferred Stock on Financial Analysts' Stock Price Judgments: An Experimental Analysis | December, 1995 |
| David Carl Jurbergs | Chemistry | John T. McDevitt |
Wavelength-selective Optical Detectors Based on Molecular Material/High-temperature Superconductor Structures |
May, 1996 |
| Dorothy Annette Kozlowski | Psychology | Timothy J. Schallert | Use-dependent Neuroanatomical Events and Recovery of Function after Brain Injury: Windows of Opportunity and of Vulnerability | December, 1995 |
| Hendrik Kraay | History | Richard Graham | Soldiers, Officers, and Society: The Army in Bahia, Brazil, 1808-1889 | August, 1995 |
| Mei-ling Lee | Foreign Language Education | Janet K. Swaffar | The Effects of Narrow Reading on EFL Learners' Comprehension of Expository Texts | May, 1996 |
| Elizabeth McQuerry | Government | Lawrence S. Graham | Economic Liberalization in Brazil: Business Responses and Changing Patterns of Behavior | December, 1995 |
| Fatima Azia Merchant | Biomedical Engineering | Kenneth R. Diller | In vivo Analysis of the vascular Engrowth in Transplanted Pancreatic Islets Using Multidimensional Microscopic Images | August, 1995 |
| Melanie Bowman Nicholson | Spanish and Portuguese | Naomi E. Lindstrom and Enrique H. Fierro | Occultism, Gnosticism, and Feminine Archetype in the Poetry of Olga Orozco | August, 1995 |
| Barbara Joan Phillips | Advertising | Patricia A. Stout | Consumer Interpretation of Complex Advertising Images and the Impact of Verbal Anchoring on Consumer Response | May, 1996 |
| Jonathan Hayes Pinter | Marine Science | Peter Thomas | Studies on a Novel Progestogen Receptor in the Ovary of the Spotted Seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus | August, 1995 |
| Esther Maeve Quantrill | English | Michael B. Winship and Jane Marcus | Anthological Politics: Poetry and British Culture, 1860-1914 | December, 1995 |
| Eugene Grant Rohrbaugh, II | Linguistics | Manfred Krifka | Scalar Interpretation in Deontic Speech Acts | December, 1995 |
| Richard David Spener | Sociology | Bryan R. Roberts | Entrepreneurship and Small-scale Enterprise in the Texas Border Region: A Sociocultural Perspective | December, 1995 |
| George Grayson Wagstaff | Music | Robert J. Snow | Music for the Dead: Polyphonic Settings in the Officium and Missa pro Defunctis by Spanish and Latin American Composers Before 1630 | August, 1995 |
| Kenton Todd Wilkinson | Radio-TV-Film | Emile G. McAnany | Where Culture, Language, and Communication Converge: The Latin American Cultural-linguistic Television Market | December, 1995 |
| Elizabeth Anne Yeager | Curriculum and Instruction | Ozro L. Davis, Jr. | Alice Miel's Contribution to the Curriculum Field | August, 1995 |
| John David Zuern | Comparative Literature | Katherine M. Arens | Imaginary Emergencies: Conversion, Hysteria, and the Body in Narratives of Masculine Development | May, 1996 |