1990-1991 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 1990 total: 23
Spring 1991 total: 15
Summer 1991 total: 35
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 1990 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Duke | Betty L. | PhD | Kratz, Dennis | Translation as Criticism: A Study of Catullus in English | |
| Fall | 1990 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Fulton | Annette Bandeen | PhD | Bartlett, James C./Rupert, Allen L. | Mirror Image Discrimination and Dyslexia: An Electrophysiological Approach | |
| Fall | 1990 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Logan | Susan Bates | PhD | Bower, Thomas G.R. | Outcome of Near-Drowning Victims Discharged As Neurologically Intact | |
| Fall | 1990 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Ramanan | Janaki | PhD | Moore, Bert S. | Children’s Pretend Play with Mothers and Subsequent Social Skills with Peers | |
| Fall | 1990 | Management | Management Science | Gengler | Charles Edward | PhD | Reynolds, Thomas | The Architecture of Advertising Strategy: A Structural Perspective on Persuasive Communications | |
| Fall | 1990 | Management | Management Science | Jordan | Herrell Glyn | PhD | Bhagat, Rabi S. | An Empirical Examination of Texas Employment Commission Outplacement Services | |
| Fall | 1990 | Management | Management Science | Mishra | Chandrasekhar | PhD | Osborne, Dale K. | Deposit Guarantee Nonperformance, Bank Insurance Fund and Private Reinsurance for a Vulnerable Deposit Insurer | |
| Fall | 1990 | Management | Management Science | Padmanabhan | V. | PhD | Bass, Frank M./Rao, Ram C. | Issues in Pricing Theory | |
| Fall | 1990 | Management | Management Science | Wang | Xinshu | PhD | Chen, Yu-Min | Forecasting the Demand for Pennsylvania Residential Electricity – Bootstrap Method | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Shu | Hsiao-Hsueh | PhD | Martin, Nancy C./Miller, Dennis L. | Identification and Expression of Yeast Mitochondrial RNase P RNA Genes | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Wang | Ru Hung | PhD | Draper, Rockford K. | Fluid Phase Endocytosis in Wild-Type and Mutant Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Dzou | Leon I.P. | PhD | Mitterer, Richard M. | Quantitative Study of Biomarkers in Coals and Vitrinite Concentrates of Different Maturity and a Geochemical Study of Oils and Condensates from K Field, Offshore Taiwan | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Grace | Eugenie Faust | PhD | Soegaard, Kristian | Quantitative Modeling of Bed Thickness Variation and Cyclicity within Storm-Dominated Siliciclastic Shelf Sequences | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Zhu | Xianhuai | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Tomographic Inversion and Poroelastic Modeling for Reservoir Characterization | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Feistel | Robert F. | PhD | Ammann, Larry P. | Robust Singular-Value Decomposition | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Gautam | Shiva Prasad | PhD | Statistics | Kimeldorf, George | Applications of the t, T-Squared and F Statistics to Ordinal Categorical Data |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Wildenhain | Kenneth Raymond | PhD | Hooshyar, M.A. | Inversion Techniques for Wave Velocity and Density in an Elastic Medium with Horizontal Homogeneity | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Badakhshan | Alireza | PhD | Glosser, Robert | Photoreflectance Study of Doped GaAs, Beyond the Band Gap | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Glesener III | John William | PhD | Cunningham, Austin J. | The Growth, Doping and Characterization of a-C:H Films | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Glosson | Clyde Allen | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | An Investigation of the Factorization of the Third-Order One-Time Correlation Function for Three Related Model Potentials | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Hademenos | George James | PhD | Fenyves, Ervin J. | Conceptual Design of a Collimator System in Spect Using Monte Carlo Simulations | |
| Fall | 1990 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Juengerman | Eric Matthew | PhD | Collins, Carl B. | Characterization of Laser Plasma Deposited Amorphous Diamond Films | |
| Fall | 1990 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Anyanwu | C. Lenard | PhD | Dumas, Lloyd J. | The Impact of Arms Production on Industrial Development: A Statistical Analysis of the LDCs | |
| Spring | 1991 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Erickson | Steven C. | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Corrigan, Robert W. | The Drama of Dispossession in Selected Plays of Six Major American Playwrights |
| Spring | 1991 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Kirk | James | PhD | Channell, David | Organicism as Reenchantment: Whitehead, Prigogine and Barth | |
| Spring | 1991 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Panovski | Naum | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Corrigan, Robert W. | Director’s Theatre: The Role of the Director in the Twentieth Century Theatre |
| Spring | 1991 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Goss | Michael E. | PhD | Page, Ivor P. | Techniques for Increased Realism in Visual Simulation | |
| Spring | 1991 | Management | Management Science | Trivedi | Minakshi Kishore | PhD | Bass, Frank M./Rao, Ram C. | A Theoretical and Empirical Framework for the Analysis of Stochastic Choice and Variety Seeking | |
| Spring | 1991 | Management | Management Science | Pradmanabhan | V. | PhD | Bass, Frank M./Rao, Ram C. | Issues in Pricing Theory | |
| Spring | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Chiang | Chuen-Sheue | PhD | Bremer, Hans | Control of pBR322 Plasmid Replication in Vivo | |
| Spring | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Tedin | Karsten John | PhD | Bremer, Hans | Interaction of Guanosine Tetraphosphate and E. coli RNA Polymerase | |
| Spring | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Hanlon | Thomas Reynolds | D.Chem | Melton, Lynn A. | Exciplex Fluorescence Thermometry of Falling Hexadecane Droplets | |
| Spring | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Kuan | Kah Tiong | D.Chem | Goux, Warren J. | Enzymatic Synthesis of 13C-Labeled Fructose-I, 6-Bisphosphate from Simple Three-Carbon Precursors | |
| Spring | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Wu | Chia-Hsin Charlie | PhD | Mitterer, Richard A. | Depositional Environments and Source Rock Investigations of the Oligocene to Middle Miocene Deposits in the Ardjuna Basin, Offshore Northwest Java, Indonesia | |
| Spring | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Crain | David James | PhD | Heelis, Roderick A. | Electrical Coupling Between the E and F Regions and its Effect on Low-Latitude Electrodynamic Drifts Produced by the Atmosphere Dynamo | |
| Spring | 1991 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Kim | Heja | PhD | Berry, Brian J.L. | Long-Wave Rhythms: The British Case | |
| Spring | 1991 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Lee | Si Gyoung | PhD | Hicks, Donald A. | Regional Income and Employment Effects of Federal Contract Research and Development Spending in U.S. Metropolitan Areas | |
| Spring | 1991 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Pann | Czi-Ching Judy | PhD | Hicks, Donald A. | The Structural and Spatial Evolution of U.S. Telecommunications Equipment Industry Prior to Court-Ordered Divestiture | |
| Summer | 1991 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Bennett | Alma | PhD | Corrigan, Robert W. | Orpheus in the Twentieth Century: Myth as Iconic and Iconoclastic Power | |
| Summer | 1991 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Cong | Bin | PhD | Sudborough, Ivan Hal | Optimum Simulation Among Parallel Computer Networks | |
| Summer | 1991 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | David | Jill Peavy | PhD | Makedon, Fillia | A.V.T., An Algorithm Visualization Tool for V.L.S.I. Layout Design | |
| Summer | 1991 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Haralambides | James | PhD | Makedon, Fillia | Graph Algorithms with Applications to VLSI and Optical Computing | |
| Summer | 1991 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Madhavapeddy | Seshagiri Rao | PhD | Sudborough, I. Hal | Routing and Graph Embedding Problems on Parallel Interconnection Networks | |
| Summer | 1991 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Simvonis | Adonios | PhD | Makedon, Fillia | Packet Routing Problems on Mesh Connected Machines and High Resolution Layouts | |
| Summer | 1991 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Tragoudas | Spyros | PhD | Makedon, Fillia | Circuit Partitioning with Applications | |
| Summer | 1991 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | McBride | Sterling Eduard | PhD | Westel, Jr., Grover C. | Application of Scanning Tunneling Microscope Technology to Characterization and Lithography | |
| Summer | 1991 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Kaye | Cynthia Diane | PhD | Coleman, J. Michael | Do Low-Accepted Children Benefit from Having Friends? A Study of Self Versus Others’ Perspectives of Socioemotional Adjustment and Quality of Friendship | |
| Summer | 1991 | Management | International Management Studies | Chung | Kyoon Jo | PhD | Guisinger, Stephen E. | The Distribution Patterns of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment: Sensitivity of Locational and Policy Variables by Dynamic Features of International Investments | |
| Summer | 1991 | Management | International Management Studies | He | Xiaohong | PhD | Guisinger, Stephen E. | International Tax Trends and Competition: Tax Sensitivity of U.S. Foreign Investment Abroad | |
| Summer | 1991 | Management | Management Science | Armstrong | Marcia | PhD | Bass, Frank | Retail Response to Trade Promotion: An Incremental Analysis of Forward Buying and Retail Promotion | |
| Summer | 1991 | Management | Management Science | Bhadury | Joyendu | PhD | Chandrasekaran, R. | Geometric Optimization Problems | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Bohlin | Raymond Gene | PhD | Breen, Gail | Complementation of a Defect in Complex I of the Mammalian Electron Transport Chain by DNA-Mediated GNE Transfer | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Chaudry | Ghulam Jilani | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Draper, Rockford K. | Genetically Engineered Variants of Exotoxin A Impaired in Receptor Binding and Construction of Hybrid Toxins |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Hernandez | Victor James | PhD | Bremer, Hans | Isolation and Investigations of Escherichia Coli Strains Defective in Guanosine Tetraphosphate Synthetase II | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Huh | Chang-Goo | PhD | Marsh, Robert C. | cDNA Cloning of Tectonins I and II, Major Nuclear Matrix Proteins of Physarum Polycophalum | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Rutledge | Elizabeth A. | PhD | Draper, Rockford K. | Characterization of the Transferrin Receptor | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Brzostowski | Matthew Adam | PhD | McMechan, George A. | 3-D Tomography | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Farek | Monica Marie | PhD | Longoria, Jose F. | Regional Stratigraphy and Tectonic Implications of La Chona Quadrangle, Sierra Madre Oriental, Northeast Mexico | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Fisher | Elizabeth Anne | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Application of Seismic Processing Techniques to Ice and Ground Penetrating Radar Data | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Hull | Donna Meyerhoff | PhD | Pessagno, Jr., Emile A. | Upper Jurassic Radiolarian Biostratigraphy of the Lower Member of the Taman Formation, East-Central Mexico and of Volcanopelagic Strata Overlying the Coast Range Ophiolite, Stanley Mountain, Southern California Coast Ranges | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Walter | Michael J. | PhD | Presnall, Dean C. | The Melting Behavior of Simplified Lherzolite in the System CaO-MgO-Al2O3SiO2-Na2O from 5 to 35 Kilobars: Applications to the Generation of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Ribera | Leslie Ann | PhD | Applied Mathematics | Van Ness, John | Robust Regression for Non-Gaussian Models |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Xu | Zhigang | PhD | Applied Mathematics | Hunt, L.R. | Input-Output Linearization |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Qin | Ming Qian | PhD | Statistics | Ammann, L.P. | The Asymptotic Properties of Bayesian Nonparametric Estimates for Tolerance Curves |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Carroll | James J. | PhD | Collins, Carl B. | Excitation and Deexcitation of Selected Nuclear Isomers Through (y,y’) Reactions | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | DiMarco | Steven Francis | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Coherent Propagation Phenomena in Electronic Raman and Three-Level Ladder Systems | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Garner | Stephen Troy | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Coherent Pulse Propagation and Quantum Interference Effects in Multiple-Photon Excitation of Multiple-Level Band Systems | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Hsia | Kangmin | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Flow-Field Theory of Laser-Pulse Self-Focusing | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Kronmiller | David Lee | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Quantum Localization and Manifestations of Chaos in Model Polyatomic Systems | |
| Summer | 1991 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Milsted, Jr. | Carl Stephen | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Vector Beam Propagation Using Hertz Vectors | |
| Summer | 1991 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Guseh | James Sawalla | PhD | Berry, Brian J.L. | Government Size and Economic Growth: A Political Economy Framework | |
| Summer | 1991 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Nuckols | Danny Lee | PhD | Redlinger, Lawrence J. | Implementation Conflict in Social Service Programs: The Case of the Job Training Partnership Act | |
| Summer | 1991 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Rotwein | Suzanne | PhD | Redlinger, Lawrence J. | The Medicalization of Alzheimer’s Disease: Processes and Consequences |