| Nominee |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Karl William Brown |
History |
Mary Neuburger |
Regulating Bodies: Everyday Crime and Popular Resistance in Communist Hungary, 1948-1956 |
December, 2007 |
| Hsing-Mei Chen |
Nursing |
Angela P. Clark |
Health--Related Quality of Life and Sleep Disorders in Taiwanese People with Heart Failure |
May, 2007 |
| Matthew Cranston Cowperthwaite |
Cell and Molecular Biology |
Lauren Ancel Meyers |
Mutation: Lessons from RNA Models |
May, 2007 |
| Pascal Denis |
Linguistics |
Jason Baldridge |
New Learning Models for Robust Reference Resolution |
December, 2007 |
| Carolina Andrea Flores |
Public Affairs |
Robert H. Wilson |
Residential Segregation and the Geography of Opportunities: A Spatial Analysis of Heterogeneity and Spillovers in Education |
May, 2008 |
| Kimberly Ann Francis |
Sociology |
Mark C. Stafford |
Gender Differences in Delinquency and Health Risk Behaviors: A Test of General Strain Theory |
December, 2007 |
| Lisa Renee Grimm Narvaez |
Psychology |
Arthur B. Markman |
Stereotype Threat Reinterpreted as a Regulatory Fit |
December, 2007 |
| Kimberly Ann Hamlin |
American Studies |
Robert Abzug |
Beyond Adam's Rib: How Darwinian Evolutionary Theory Redefined Gender and Influenced American Feminist Thought, 1870-1920 |
August, 2007 |
| Lee Wallace Holt |
Germanic Studies |
Sabine Hake |
Mountains, Mountaineering and Modernity: A Cultural History of German and Austrian Mountaineering, 1900-1945 |
May, 2008 |
| Jui-En Edward Hsu |
Neuroscience |
Theresa A. Jones |
Experience-dependent Neuroplasticity in the Perilesion Cortex after Focal Cortical Infarcts in Rats |
December, 2007 |
| Andrew Dike Hughes |
Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Eric V. Anslyn |
Experimental Contributions to the Theory and Application of Molecular Recognition |
May, 2008 |
| Ajay Manohar Joshi |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Lizy K. John |
Constructing Adaptable and Scalable Synthetic Benchmarks for Microprocessor Performance Evaluation |
December, 2007 |
| Shweta Bansal Khandelwal |
Computational and Applied Mathematics |
Lauren Ance Meyers |
Ecology of Infectious Diseases with Contact Networks and Percolation Theory |
May, 2008 |
| Agnes Kim |
Astronomy |
Don E. Winget |
Probing exotic Physics with Pulsating White Dwarfs |
May, 2007 |
| Benjamin Paul Kramer |
Curriculum and Instruction |
Randy Bomer |
Examining Hybrid Spaces for Newcomer English Language Learners: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Email Exchanges with Business Professionals |
August, 2007 |
| Tracy A. Lupher |
Philosophy |
Frederick M. Kronz |
The Philosophical Significance of Unitarily Inequivalent Representations in Quantum Field Theory |
May, 2008 |
| John Scott McCartney |
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering |
Jorge G. Zornberg |
Determination of the Hydraulic Characteristics of Unsaturated Soils using a Centrifuge Permeameter |
August, 2007 |
| Dave Alan Miller |
Pharmacy |
Robert O. Williams and James McGinity |
Improved Oral Absorption of Poorly Water-Soluble Drugs by Advanced Solid Dispersion Systems |
December, 2007 |
| Tatiana Nikolova-Houston |
Information Studies |
Philip Doty and Don Davis |
Margins and Marginality: Marginalia and Colophons in South Slavic Manuscripts during the Ottoman Period (1393-1878) |
May, 2008 |
| Donald E. Owens, III |
Chemical Engineering |
Nicholas Peppas |
Thermally-responsive Polymer Nanoparticles and Nanoshells as Intelligent Therapeutic Systems |
December, 2007 |
| Rachel Ann Page |
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior |
Michael J. Ryan |
Foraging Flexibility in the Frog-Eating Bat, Trachops cirrhosus |
May, 2008 |
| Anup Rao |
Computer Sciences |
David I. Zuckerman |
Randomness Extractors for Independent Sources and Applications |
May, 2007 |
| Dustin Ray Reinert |
Mechanical Engineering |
Steven Biegalski and Erich Schneider |
Investigation of Stochastic Radiation Transport Methods in Random Heterogeneous Mixtures |
May, 2008 |
| Kristen Dawn Rudisill |
Asian Cultures and Languages |
Martha Selby |
Brahmin Humor: Channai's Sabha Theater and the Creation of Middle-Class Indian Taste from the 1950s to the Present |
December, 2007 |
| Daniel Edward Seward |
English |
Marjorie Woods and Linda Ferreira-Buckley |
Civic Voice in Elizabethan Parliamentary Oratory: The Rhetoric and Composition of Speeches Delivered at Westminster in 1566 |
May, 2008 |
| Christopher William Tubbs |
Marine Science |
Peter Thomas |
Mechanisms of Progestin-Stimulated Sperm Hypermotility in Two Teleosts: the Atlantic Croaker (Micropongonias undulatus) and the Southern Flounder (Platylicthys lethigstomata) |
August, 2007 |
| Yaroslav A. Urzhumov |
Physics |
Gennady Shvets |
Sub-wavelength Electromagnetic Phenomena in Plasmonic and Polaritonic Nanostructures: From Optical Magnetism to Super-resolution |
December, 2007 |
| Zhenghua Ye |
Advertising |
Isabella Cunningham |
An Exploratory Study of Search Advertising in China |
May, 2007 |
