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Other Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation
2005

Nominee Department Supervising Professor(s) Title of Dissertation Degree Date
Margaret Elizabeth Batchelor Biological Sciences Norma Fowler The Balance Between Positive and Negative Interactions in a Savanna December, 2004
James Otto Blanchette Biomedical Engineering Nicholas A. Peppas Cellular and Molecular Evaluation of Oral Delivery Systems for Chemotherapeutic Agents May, 2004
Michael Thomas Conway Journalism Don Heider The Visualizers:  A Reassessment of Television's News Pioneers August, 2004
Kristine Renee Ehrich Marketing Julie R. Irwin Willful Ignorance:  The Avoidance of Ethical Attribute Information May, 2004
Matthew Lyall Evans Philosophy Stephen A. White and David Sosa The Authority of Pleasure and Pain:  Moral Psychology in Plato's Philebus August, 2004
Rhonda Leann Evans Case Government John Higley The Politics and Law of Anglo-American Antidiscrimination Regimes, 1945-1995 December, 2004
William Friedman Fagelson American Studies Robert H. Abzug and Thomas G. Schatz "Nervous Out of the Service":  1940s American Cinema, World War II Veteran Readjustment, and Postwar Masculinity May, 2004
Brian Christopher Gunter Aerospace Engineering Byron Tapley Computational Methods and Processing Strategies for Estimating Earth's Gravity Field December, 2004
Tracy Chapman Hamilton Art History Joan A. Holladay Pleasure, Politics, and Piety:  The Artistic Patronage of Marie de Brabant

December, 2004

Jeremiah Wayne Hanes Biochemistry Kenneth A. Johnson The Role of the Human Mitochondrial Polymerase in the Toxicity of Nucleoside Analogs and Aging December, 2004
Tobias Hanrath Chemical Engineering Brian A. Korgel Germanium Nanowires:  Synthesis, Characterization, and Utilization December, 2004
Sunghwan Jung Physics Harry L. Swinney and P. J. Morrison Statistics of Turbulence in a Rapidly Rotating System May, 2005
Jin Seok Kim Social Work A. James Schwab Neighborhood Effects on the Etiology of Child Maltreatment:  A Multilevel Study August, 2004
Tara Catherine LaForce Petroleum Engineering Russell T. Johns Mathematics of Partially Miscible Three-phase Flow May, 2005
Michael Drew LaMar Mathematics Jack Xin Human Acoustics:  From Vocal Chords to Inner Ear May, 2005
Susan Claudia Lepselter Folklore and Public Culture Kathleen Stewart The Flight of the Ordinary:  Narrative, Poetics, Power and UFOs in the American Uncanny May, 2005
Yu Liu Pharmacy   Regulation and Function of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex - 2 Tumor Suppressor in Renal Cell Carcinoma May, 2004
Meghan Kathleen McGlohen-Wills Educational Psychology Hua-Hua Chang The Application of Cognitive Diagnosis and Computerized Adaptive Testing to a Large-scale Assessment May, 2004
Richard Matthias Mehl Psychology James W. Pennebaker

The Sounds of Social Life:  Exploring Students' Daily Social Environments and Natural Conversations

May, 2004
Anjum Shagufta Mukadam Astronomy Don Winget Ensemble Characteristics of the ZZ Ceti stars August, 2004
Jörg Oestreich Zoology Harold H. Zakon From Neural Mechanisms to Ecology:  A Neuroethological Approach to a Novel Form of Memory December, 2004
Sangho Park Electrical and Computer Engineering J. K. Aggarwal A Hierarchical Graphical Model for Recognizing Human Actions and Interactions in Video

May, 2004

Amy Eileen Peebles Linguistics Keith Walters Sexual and spiritual identity transformation among ex-gays and ex-ex-gays:  Narrating a new self December, 2004
Alisa Hayley Perren Radio-TV-Film Thomas Schatz Deregulation, Integration and a New Era of Media Conglomerates:  The Case of Fox, 1985-1995 August, 2004
Manjula Rajendran Chemistry Andrew Ellington Nucleic acid based reagentless optical biosensors August, 2004
Julie Ann Sievers English William Scheick and Katherine M. Arens Evidence of Wonders:  Writing American Identity in the Early Modern Transatlantic World August, 2004
Ithai Stern Management Andrew D. Henderson and Alison Davis-Blake The Joint-Venture Paradox:  Parent-firm Characteristics, Social Cues, and Joint Venture Performance May, 2005
Victor Vaughan Symonds Botany Alan M. Lloyd Genetic analyses of natural variation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana:  neutral marker, quantitative genetic, and population genetic approaches December, 2004
Joel Aaron Tropp Computational and Applied Mathematics Anna C. Gilbert and Inderjit Dhillon Topics in Sparse Approximation August, 2004
John William Troutman History Neil Foley "Indian Blues":  American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1890-1935 August, 2004
Mehmet Bengü Uluengin Community and Regional Planning Jeffrey M. Chusid Preservation under the Crescent and Star:  Using New Sources for Examining the Historic Development of the Balat District in Istanbul and its Meanings for Historic Preservation December, 2004
Rebecca Jane Waggett Marine Science Edward J. Buskey Ecological, Biomechanical and Neurological Correlates of Escape Behavior in Calanoid Copepods May, 2005
Anthony Karl Webster Anthropology Joel Sherzer Navajo Poetry, Linguistic Ideology, and Identity:  The Case of an Emergent Literary Tradition May, 2004
Marcel Andrew Widzisz Classics Thomas K. Hubbard Ritual and Civic Temporalities in Greek Tragedy May, 2005
Elizabeth Maxfield Wildsmith Sociology R. Kelly Raley Non-Marital Fertility Among Mexican American Women:  Exploring the Role of Social Context December, 2004
Argentina Roscoe Wortham Curriculum and Instruction Stuart Reifel Paternal Involvement in the Education of Children:  How Fathers Communicated with their Sons about the Value of Education May, 2005
Choongho Yu Mechanical Engineering Li Shi Nanomaterials Characterization and Bio-chemical Sensing Using Microfabricated Devices August, 2004