Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Winners
1989 * 1988 * 1987 * 1986 * 1985 * 1984 * 1983 * 1982 * 1981 * 1980 * 1979
Awards for 1989
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| James Mark Boyden |
History |
Carolyn P. Boyd |
The Curve of Fortune: Ruy Gomez de Silva and
the House of Pastrana, 1516-1573 |
August, 1988 |
| Barbara Joan Braden |
Nursing |
Susan E. Pollock |
The Relationship Between Serum Cortisol and
Pressure Sore Formation Among the Elderly Recently
Relocated to a Nursing Home |
December, 1988 |
| Suzanne Louise Hawley |
Astronomy |
David L. Lambert |
An Observational and Theoretical Investigation
of Stellar Flares |
May, 1989 |
Awards for 1988
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Robert Henry Gibson |
Psychology |
Robert L. Helmreich |
Managerial Performance Appraisal: Personality
Correlates of and Sex Differences in Ratings by
Leaders, Peers, and Followers |
December, 1987 |
| Yow-Jian Lin |
Computer Sciences |
Vipin Kumar |
A Parallel Implementation of Logic Programs |
May, 1988 |
| Esther Raizen |
Foreign Language Education |
Aaron Bar-Adon |
Romanization of the Hebrew Script: Ideology,
Attempts, and Failures |
December, 1987 |
Awards for 1987
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Pamela Marie Deiriggi |
Nursing |
Joy H. Penticuff |
The Effects of Waterbed Flotation on Indicators
of Energy Expenditure - Activity Level, Heart Rate,
and Behavioral State in Premature Infants (Theophyline,
Infant Stimulation, Vestibular) |
December, 1986 |
| Robert Frank Schneider |
Management Science and Information Systems |
Darwin Klingman |
New Shortest Path and Network Flow Algorithms
and Their Computational Attributes |
May, 1987 |
| Eileen Carol Sweeney |
Philosophy |
Louis H. Mackey |
Aguinas' Notion of Science: Its Twelfth-century
Roots and Aristotelian Transformation (Hugh of St. Victor, Theology) |
December, 1986 |
Awards for 1986
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Ellen Marie Parker |
Psychology |
Randy L. Diehl |
Auditory Constraints on Phonetic Categorization:
Trading Relations in Speech and Nonspeech (Voice-onset
Time, First-format Frequency) |
December, 1985 |
| James Lorin Rulla |
Mathematics |
Ralph E. Showalter |
A Stefan Problem with Prescribed Convection (Weak Solutions,
Operators in L('I), Integral Solutions) |
December, 1985 |
| Wayne H. Shaw |
Accounting |
J. Richard Dietrich |
Empirical Evidence on the Market Impact of
the Safe Harbor Leasing Law |
August, 1985 |
Awards for 1985
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Bonnie Lynne Greenberg |
Educational Psychology |
Oliver H. Bown |
The Effects of Splitting on the Emotional and
Cognitive Functioning of Alternate Personalities
in Multiple Personality Disorder |
May, 1985 |
| Bradley Wade McIntyre |
Biological Sciences |
William J. Mandy and James P. Allison |
The Murine T Cell Receptor: Identification
and Structural Characterization (Clonotypic, Epitope, Isotypes,
Tumor-specific Antigen) |
August, 1984 |
| Daniel Wayne Mosser |
English |
Ernest N. Kaulbach |
The Cardigan Chaucer Manuscript and the Process
of Fifteenth-century Book Production |
May, 1985 |
Awards for 1984
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Pamela Sanders Autrey |
Management |
Kenneth E. Knight |
Environmental Monitoring, Managerial Industry
Knowledge, and Competitive Position |
December, 1983 |
| Ronald James Buta |
Astronomy |
Gérard H. de Vaucouleurs |
The Structure and Dynamics of Ringed Galaxies |
May, 1984 |
| Margaret Rich Greer |
Spanish and Portuguese |
Stanislav Zimic |
La estatua de Prometeo by Pedro Calderon de
la Barca: A Critical Edition |
August, 1983 |
Awards for 1983
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Janis Bristol Alcorn |
Botany |
Marshall C. Johnston |
Dynamics of Huastec Ethnobotany: Resources,
Resource Perception, and Resource Management in
Teenek Tsabaal, Mexico |
December, 1982 |
| Laura Stern Hitchcock |
Educational Psychology |
Lucia A. Gilbert |
Improving Recovery from Surgery: The Interaction
of Preoperative Interventions, Coping Processes,
and Personality Variables |
August, 1982 |
| Adriaan Cornelis van Oss |
History |
Stanley R. Ross and Richard Graham |
Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala,
1524-1821 |
December, 1982 |
| Deborah Patricia Valentine |
Social Work |
Ronald C. Bounous |
A Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Early Parenthood: Identification
of Factors Associated with Crisis for Primigravidas |
August, 1982 |
Awards for 1982
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| John Richard LeVan, Jr. |
Spanish and Portuguese |
Stanislav Zimic |
From Tradition to Masterpiece: Circe and Calderon |
December, 1981 |
| Cynthia Anne Lengnick-Hall |
Management |
Reuben R. McDaniel |
Policy Framework and Organization Strategy
Influences on Effective Use of Information Flows
in Human Service Task Domains |
December, 1981 |
| Ronald Dean Ransome |
Physics |
Peter J. Riley |
Measurement of the Free Neutron-Proton Analyzing
Power and Spin Transfer Parameters in the Charge
Exchange Region at 790 MeV |
August, 1981 |
Awards for 1981
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Caryl Geppert Emerson |
Comparative Literature |
Sidney Monas |
Boris Godunov and a Poetics of Transposition:
Karamzin, Pushkin, Mussorgsky |
December, 1980 |
| John Steven Hutchinson |
Chemistry |
Robert E. Wyatt |
Quantum Ergodicity in Model Molecular Systems:
A Study of the Wigner Distribution |
May, 1981 |
| Ruth Gail McRoy |
Social Work |
Louis A. Zurcher, Jr. |
A Comparative Study of the Self-concept of
Transracially and Inracially Adopted Black Children |
May, 1981 |
Awards for 1980
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Bruce Harcum Fairchild |
Finance |
William E. Avera |
Estimating the Cost of Equity to Texas Public
Utility Companies |
May, 1980 |
| Carleen Ann Irwin |
Microbiology |
James R. Walker |
Identification, Mapping, Cloning, and Expression
of the Escherichia coli Cell Division Gene, sep |
May, 1980 |
| William Hale Pahlka |
English |
Joseph Malof and Robert Twombly |
Augustinian Verse Theory and the Poetry of
George Herbert |
August, 1979 |
Awards for 1979
| Award
Winner |
Department |
Supervising Professor(s) |
Title of Dissertation |
Degree Date |
| Elizabeth Calvert Fine |
Speech Communication |
Paul Gray |
The Folklore Text: A Performance-centered Approach |
December, 1978 |
| Michael James McCloskey |
Linguistics |
Carl LeRoy Baker |
A Fragment of a Grammar of Modern Irish |
August, 1978 |
| Wojciech Hubert Zurek |
Physics |
William C. Schieve |
Homogeneous Nucleation and Clustering in Vapor-liquid
Phase Transition as an Example of Stochastic Bistability |
May, 1979 |
