1988-1989 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 1988 total: 26
Spring 1989 total: 27
Summer 1989 total: 24
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 1988 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Matijevich | Elke | PhD | Studies in Literature | Furst, Lilian R./Ozsvath, Zsuzsanna | The German Zeitroman of the Late Weimar Republic |
| Fall | 1988 | Human Development | Communication Disorders | Sturkie | Cynthia E. | PhD | Friel-Patti, Sandy | Language Acquisition in Deaf Adolescent Girls | |
| Fall | 1988 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Boettcher | Flint Arthur | PhD | Salvi, Richard J. | Forward Masking of Single Neurons in the Cochlear Nucleus | |
| Fall | 1988 | Management | Management Science | El’hagrasey | Galal M. | PhD | Buchholz, Rogene A. | An Analytical Study of the Major Factors Associated with CEO Compensation in Large Manufacturing Corporations | |
| Fall | 1988 | Management | Management Science | Keck | Kay L. Steeples | PhD | Bass, Frank M./Rao, Ram | Consumer Uncertainty of Novel Technologies: Measurement and Implications for Market Entry and Segmentation | |
| Fall | 1988 | Management | Management Science | Parry | Mark Edward | PhD | Bass, Frank M. | The Determinants of Pioneer Entry Advantage: A Reappraisal of the Evidence in Consumer and Industrial Markets | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Colbaugh | Penelope Ann | PhD | Draper, Rockford K. | Mutant Chinese Hamster Cells with Defects in Endocytosis | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Edwards | Eric | PhD | Cell and Molecular Biology | Gray, Donald M. | An Investigation of the Formation of A T and C C Base Pairs in (A+C+T)-Containing DNA Oligomers |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Johnson | Clayton H. | PhD | Cell and Molecular Biology | Marsh, Robert | Identification, Isolation and Partial Characterization of the Tectonins from P. polycephalum |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Allen | David R. | D.Chem | Ferraris, John/Sherry, A. Dean | Synthesis and Characterization of New MRI Contrast Agents: NOTMA and NOTPA | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Lopez | Flavio Chavez | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | A Simplified Synthetic Route to Polyazamacrocycles | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Adeshina | Femi | PhD | Moore, Jr., Joe G. | Organochlorine Compounds in Human Adipose Tissue and Carcinogenic Risk: A Case Study of Chlordane/Heptachlor | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Dougherty | Joel Marcus | PhD | Lanza, Guy R. | Anaerobic Subsurface Soil Microcosms: The Effect of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds on Microbial Communities | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Spitzberg | David Blair | PhD | Fenyves, Ervin J. | Acute Human Exposure to Natural Uranium Hexafluoride – Study of the Sequoyah Fuels Facility Accident | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Watson | Jane Boughton | PhD | Lanza, Guy R. | Distribution of Indicator Bacteria in a Freshwater Beach and Its Relation to Risk of Swimmer Illness | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Sun | Robert S. | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Numerical Simulation and Imaging of Seismic Wavefields | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Yang | Qun | PhD | Pessagno, Jr., Emile A. | Upper Jurassic (Upper Tithonian) Radiolaria from the Taman Formation, East-Central Mexico | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Danesh | Nasser | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Effects of Atomic Motion on Breakup and Propagation of Quadriresonant Laser Pulses | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Davis | Nolan Ray | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | A Langevin Equation Approach to Squeezed States of Light | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Lee | Wei-Min | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Adiabatic Excitation of XF6 | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Reittinger | Peter William | PhD | Collins, Carl B. | Nuclear Frequency Modulation Spectrometer for Mossbauer Studies | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Sinor | Timothy Wayne | PhD | Collins, Carl B. | Observation of Large Scale Nuclear Phase | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Suson | Daniel Jeffrey | PhD | Rindler, Wolfgang | Problems in Modern Cosmology | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Tran | Hung Viet | PhD | Robinson, Ivor | The Geometry of Plane Waves in Spaces of Constant Curvature | |
| Fall | 1988 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Villalobos-Velasco | Jaime | PhD | Glosser, Robert | Production of Palladium-Silver Thin Film Alloys and Measurements of Phase Diagrams of the Pd1-x Agx H System | |
| Fall | 1988 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Smith | Richard Joseph | PhD | Armour, Philip K. | The Privatization of Public Hospitals: The Effects on the Medically Indigent | |
| Spring | 1989 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Keyser | Patsy Kilpatrick | PhD | Worsfold, Victor L. | From Angels to Advocates: The Concept of Virtue in Nursing Ethics from 1870 to 1980 | |
| Spring | 1989 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Badt, Jr. | Sig Harold | PhD | Page, Ivor | Temporal Coherence in Ray Tracing | |
| Spring | 1989 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Sarkar | Shyam Sundar | PhD | Makedon, Fillia | Architecture and Language for a Layered Relational Database | |
| Spring | 1989 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Young | Gilbert H. | PhD | Leung, Joseph Y-T. | Complexity of Minimizing Makespan and Mean Flow Time | |
| Spring | 1989 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Kang | Eunsook K. | PhD | Coleman, J. Michael | Mathematical Modeling of Children’s Self-Perceptions Through Covariance Structure Analysis | |
| Spring | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Higgins | Susan K. | PhD | Bass, Frank M./Rao, Ram C. | An Evaluation of Aggregation Effect in Conditional Logit Estimation of Brand Choice | |
| Spring | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Lindholm | Hal Robert | PhD | Ford, David L. | The Effect of Race and Gender on Supervisor-Subordinate Relationship: An Integrative Dyadic Perspective | |
| Spring | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Pickard | Pamela H. | PhD | Bass, Frank M./Rao, Ram C. | Optimal Estimation of Market Share Models | |
| Spring | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Tang | Yingchan Edwin | PhD | Bass, Frank M./Holak, Susan L. | New Perspective on Competitive Interactions: A Dynamic Warfare Model of the Market Share System | |
| Spring | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Younes-Elfakhani | Said | PhD | Merville, Larry J. | Dividend Policy Puzzle: The Information Effect and a New Version of the Signaling Theory | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Tsaur | Meei-Ling | PhD | Clowes, Royston C. | Transcriptional Regulation of Exotoxin A in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Desmond | William Patrick | PhD | Waller, William T. | Methods for Culturing and Estimating Toxicity with Five Day Old Chironomus Tentans and the Incorporation of the Test into the Ceriodaphnia Dubia Survival and Production Protocol | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Ekisola | Olufayo | PhD | Hill, Brian | Temporal Succession in the Benthic Algal Communities of Two Texas Prairie Streams | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Gardner | Thomas J. | PhD | Hill, Brian | Nutrient and Trace Element Uptake in Perennial and Intermittent Texas Streams | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Haness | Steven Jay | PhD | Warwick, John J. | Structural Characteristics of the Hazard Ranking System and Methods for Its Efficient Implementation | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Henebry | Geoffrey Michael | PhD | Cale, William G. | Assessing Model Reliability Under Parameter Uncertainty: Applications to Ecology and Pharmacokinetics | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Knight | John Timothy | PhD | Waller, Jr., William | Characterization of the Addition of Cerophyl to the Selenastrum Capricornutum Diet of Ceriodaphnia Dubia | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Ramanan | Raghavan | PhD | Crowder, Jerry W. | Optimization of Venturi Scrubber Design and Operating Parameters on the Basis of Cost | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Sutton | Vickie Verbyla | PhD | Moore, Jr., Joe G. | Perceptions of Local Emergency Planning Committee Members Responsibility for Risk Communication and a Proposed Model Risk Communication Program for Local Emergency Planning Committees Under SARA, Title III | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Gaiser | James Eric | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Transverse Isotropic Velocity Estimates from Slowness and Displacement Measurements | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Martinez | Ruben Dario | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Modeling and Linear Inversion of r-p Seismic Data for One-Dimensional Viscoelastic Media | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Mukhopadhyay | Biswajit | PhD | Presnall, Dean C. | Part 1 – Petrology and Geochemistry of Mafic and Ultramafic Xenoliths from the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith; Part 2 – Forsterite-Diopside-Spinel-Liquid Equilibria in the System CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 at 20 KBAR | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Scott, Jr. | Thurman Eugene | PhD | Nielsen, Kent C. | The Effects of Porosity on the Mechanics of Faulting in Sandstones | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Burkey | Ronald Steven | PhD | Cantrell III, Cyrus D. | Low-Ranking Driving in Quantum Systems | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Crenshaw | Michael Evan | PhD | Cantrell III, Cyrus D. | Coherent Sideband Generation and Conical Emission as a Result of Pulse Breakup into Solitary Waves | |
| Spring | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Guthrie, Jr. | John Allan | PhD | Cunningham, A.J. | Measured Temperature Dependences of Ternary Ion-Molecule Association Reactions Yielding N+3, N+4 and (CO)2 | |
| Spring | 1989 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Alozie | Nicholas Okeahialam | PhD | Champagne, Anthony M. | Women and Minorities in the Judiciary: An Empirical Examination of the Causes and Consequences of Distributional Patterns | |
| Summer | 1989 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Hennessee | Hella | PhD | Graff, Harvey/Soliday, Gerald | The Politics of Culture: Theater in Nassau, Germany in the 19th Century, A Study in the Relationship Between Elite and Popular Culture | |
| Summer | 1989 | Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Chern | ShyhJy Eric | PhD | Page, Ivor P. | The Generalized Mutual Exclusion Problem in a Computer System | |
| Summer | 1989 | Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Dingle | Adair D’Arcy | PhD | Sudborough, Ivan Hal | Routing and Embedding Problems in VLSI and Parallel Networks | |
| Summer | 1989 | Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Gewali | Laxmi Prasad | PhD | Ntafos, Simeon | Efficient Algorithms for Path Planning and Visibility Problems | |
| Summer | 1989 | Human Development | Communication Disorders | Kamen | Ruth Saletsky | PhD | Watson, Ben C. | Effects of Long-Term Tracheotomy on Selected Spectral and Temporal Developmental Indices of Speech Production Ability | |
| Summer | 1989 | Human Development | Communication Disorders | Reyes | Belinda Alvarado | PhD | Ulatowska, Hanna K. | Processing of Prepositions in Spanish-Speaking Aphasics: Effects of Semantic Value and Contextual Information | |
| Summer | 1989 | Human Development | Communication Disorders | Warner | Klaran McKusick | PhD | Friel-Patti, Sandy | Conversational Characteristics of Mother-Child Dyadic Interaction Involving Two-Year-Olds whose Histories Differ with Respect to OME Occurrence and Hearing Response Levels | |
| Summer | 1989 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Palmer | Susan Kaye Beck | PhD | Friel-Patti, Sandy | Temperament and Communicative Competence in Early Childhood | |
| Summer | 1989 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Wehmeyer | Michael Lee | PhD | Gotts, Ernest A. | Repetitive Motor Movements in Young Children at Risk for Severe Developmental Delay: Implications for Pathological Stereotypes in Mental Retardation | |
| Summer | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Al-Qatamin | Ahmed Atalla A. | PhD | Buchholz, Rogene A. | An Empirical Study of the Determinants of Corporate Strategic Performance in Large Manufacturing Companies | |
| Summer | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Lakshminarayanan | Sambhavi | PhD | Chandrasekaran, R. | A Rounding Algorithm for Integer Programming and Properties of Hilbert Bases | |
| Summer | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Mukerjee | Prithwis | PhD | Chandrasekaran, R. | Models, Algorithms and Data Structures for Associative Information Systems | |
| Summer | 1989 | Management | Management Science | Zaher | Tarek Saad | PhD | Osborne, Dale K. | The Impact of Reserve-Requirement and Discount-Rate Changes on Banks’ Stock Returns | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Johnson | Kenneth H. | PhD | Gray, Donald M. | CD and Ultraviolet Absorption Studies of RNAs | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Hale | Stephanie J. | D.Chem | Hrncir, Duane C. | Synthesis, Structure and Lewis Acid Adducts of Silicon Alkoxide Macrocycles | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Sink | Ralph Merritt | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Macrocyclic Chelates Containing N and O Donors: Prospects for Use as NMR Shift Agents for Alkali Cations | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Wells | Mark Richard | D.Chem | Melton, Lynn A. | Temperature Measurements of Falling Droplets | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Ghanayem | Mohamed F. | PhD | Netzer, Sharon | Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solutions by Soils | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Torkian | Ayoub V. | PhD | Warwick, John J. | The Impact of Denitrification on In-Stream Dissolved Oxygen Concentration | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Environmental Sciences | Wyman | Bruce Charles | PhD | Lutz, Raymond P. | A Risk Model for Hazardous Material Transportation Spills in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Harry | Dennis Lee | PhD | Ferguson, John F. | Lithospheric Flexure: Applications of Geophysical Inverse Theory and Empirical Studies of Rock Deformation | |
| Summer | 1989 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Igwe | Jerome Okwuchukwu | PhD | Statistics | Odell, Patrick L. | Some Matrix Identities and Orderings Applicable to Combining Multivariate Estimators |
| Summer | 1989 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Formaini | Robert Lewis | PhD | Redlinger, Lawrence J. | Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Science: A Critical Appraisal of Selected Theory, Method and Policy | |
| Summer | 1989 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Hamadah | Muhammad Mumtaz | PhD | Redlinger, Lawrence J. | Impact of Foreign Loans, Grants, Food Aid and Military Aid on Economic Growth in Jordan |