1994-1995 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 1994 total: 23
Spring 1995 total: 25
Summer 1995 total: 24
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 1994 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Stilwell | John Quincy | PhD | History of Ideas | Graff, Harvey J. | Just Conversation: The Rhetoric of Justice in Post-World War II America |
| Fall | 1994 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | del Corral | Irene | PhD | Studies in Literature | Schulte, Rainer | The Translator’s Interpretative Perspectives: The Challenges of Translating Hector Aguilar Camin’s Novel Morir en el Golfo |
| Fall | 1994 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Fudge | Gerald Lothair | PhD | Linebarger, Darel A. | Robust Calibrated Adaptive Beamforming for Wideband Signals in Non-Ideal Conditions | |
| Fall | 1994 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Lai | Che-Hsi | PhD | MacFarlane, Duncan | Modified Veterbi Decoders for Joint Data Detection and Timing Recovery of Convolutionally Encoded PPM and OPPM Optical Signals | |
| Fall | 1994 | Management | International Management Studies | Shi | Yuwei | PhD | Brittain, Jack | Interorganizational Relationship Structuration and Dissolution: A Study of Strategic Alliances in Semiconductor Start-Up Manufacturing | |
| Fall | 1994 | Management | Management Science | Achal | Lakshmi | PhD | Rao, Ram C. | Product Line and Price Dynamics Under Uncertainty and Entry | |
| Fall | 1994 | Management | Management Science | Chen | Cheng-Yuan | PhD | Osborne, Dale K. | Optimal Capital Requirements for Insured Banks | |
| Fall | 1994 | Management | Management Science | Vakratsas | Demetrios | PhD | Bass, Frank M. | Effects of Deals on Purchase Acceleration: An Investigation of Heterogeneity Issues | |
| Fall | 1994 | Management | Management Science | Westberg | Steven | PhD | Reynolds, Thomas J. | Understanding Corporate Image: Implications for Communication Strategy | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Wang | Si-Qing | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Miller, Dennis L. | Editing of Mitochondrial Cytochrome b mRNA in Physarum Polycephalum |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Subramanian | Venkatraman | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | Synthesis and Characterization of 1,4,7 Triazacyclononane Phenolate Ligands and Their Gadolinium Complexes | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Balde | Mamadou | PhD | Aiken, Carlos L.V. | Vertical Control by GPS Satellite Surveying Rapid Methods and High Resolution Local Geoid Computation: Applications To High Accuracy Mapping and Geophysical Data Acquisition | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Rajasekaran | Sara | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Wave-Equation Based Pre-Stack Processing for 2-D Seismic Data | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Hartung | Ferenc | PhD | Applied Mathematics | Turi, Janos | On Classes of Functional Differential Equations with State-Dependent Delays |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Balog | Stephen N. | PhD | Fenyves, Ervin J. | Energy Spectrum of a Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Hassler | John C. | PhD | Englund, John C. | The Effect of Diffraction on the Stability of a Class of Raman Lasers | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Hudson | Cheri | PhD | Chaney, Roy C. | Measurement of the Energy Resolution of a X-Y Plastic Scintillating Fiber Detector Coupled to Position Sensitive Photo Multiplier Tubes | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Johnson | Norman Porter | PhD | Fenyves, Ervin J. | Discovering Invisible Higgs Bosons at the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Lowery | W. Bruce | PhD | Izen, Joseph | Direct Measurement of B(D[Subscript S]–>[Phi Sign] [Phi Sign] | |
| Fall | 1994 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Osterman | Gregory Ben | PhD | Heelis, Roderick A. | A Modeling Study of Intermediate Layers in the Midlatitude Ionosphere | |
| Fall | 1994 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Chulkatabbha | Pornchanok | PhD | Murdoch, James | Spatial Dependence in Dallas Sales Tax Revenues | |
| Fall | 1994 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Onwujuba | Christie Chilo | PhD | Berry, Brian J.L. | Family Type Differentiation and Residential Choice | |
| Fall | 1994 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Tibandebage | Paula Andrew | PhD | Farkas, George | In Search of Improved Women’s Status in Tanzania: Determinants at the Household Level | |
| Spring | 1995 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Methenitis | Marian A. | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Stott, Deborah | More Than Mirrors: Portraits of Children in Renaissance Italy |
| Spring | 1995 | Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Lu | Ying-Cherng | PhD | Chou, Jack | High Precision Algorithm for Robot Hand-Eye Calibration: Quaternion Formulations and Least-Squares Solution | |
| Spring | 1995 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Byrd | Kathryn Susan | PhD | Bartlett, James C. | Configural Encoding and Inversion Effects in Recognition of Unfamiliar Faces from Early Childhood to Late Adulthood | |
| Spring | 1995 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Clark | Jackie Leah | PhD | Moushegian, George | Interaural Time Effects on the Frequency-Following Response | |
| Spring | 1995 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Spence | William Tippah Ken | PhD | Ulatowska, Hanna K. | Causal Cohesion and Narrative Processing: The Role of Causal Relationships in Discourse Comprehension | |
| Spring | 1995 | Management | Management Science | Chen | Gongmeng | PhD | Merville, Larry J. | An Empirical Examination of the Indirect Costs of Financial Distress | |
| Spring | 1995 | Management | Management Science | Chern | Ching-Chin | PhD | Yang, Ping | Lot-Sizing Problems in an Imperfect Production System | |
| Spring | 1995 | Management | Management Science | Held | Richard Edgar | PhD | Day, Theodore E. | Contrarian Stock Returns and Latent Factors | |
| Spring | 1995 | Management | Management Science | Huang | Jennifer Shu-Chen | PhD | Chandrasekaran, R. | On Multicommodity Flows | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Lease | Richard Avrom | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Yee, Thomas W. | Priming of msDNA |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Mark | Barbara Ann | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Gray, Donald M. | Circular Dichroism Characterization of Three Mutants of the Gene 5 Protein of Bacteriophage fd-Y26F, Y34F and Y41F |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Murray | Keith Daniel | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Bremer, Hans | Control of spoT-Dependent ppGpp Synthesis and Degradation in Escherichia Coli |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Nguyen | Hao | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Burr, John G. | Altered Anti-Ptyr Immunoreactivity of an Avian 63-KDA Tyrosine Phosphoprotein in Whole Cell Lysates Versus Cytoskeleton Preparations |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Zhang | Xiangyang | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Bremer, Hans | Role of ppGpp and Fis in the Control of Ribosome Synthesis and Growth in Bacteria |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Smith | Houston Stephen | D.Chem | Goux, Warren | Self Assembly of Brain Sphingolipids into Fibers Resembling the Paired Helical Filaments (PHF) Found in Alzheimer’s Disease Brains | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Graham | Jamie Maurine | PhD | Pessagno, Jr., Emile A. | Lithostratigraphy, Microfacies Analysis and Foraminiferal Biostrat of the Santonian-Lower Campanian Strata in the Trans-Pecos Region, West Texas | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Kelly | Steve | PhD | McMechan, George | Advanced Analysis for Estimation of Seismic Statics and Anisotropy | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Ozdenvar | Turgut | PhD | McMechan, George | Implementation and Applications of Pseudo-spectral Solutions of Seismic Wave Equations | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Rajasekaran | Sara | PhD | McMechan, George | Wave-equation Based Prestack Processing for 2-D Seismic Data | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Yoon | Kwi-Hyon | PhD | McMechan, George | 3-D Finite-Difference Simulation of Elastic Wave Propagation for Borehole Refraction, Earthquake and Whole Earth Applications | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Crawford, Jr. | Isom Lawrence | PhD | Applied Mathematics | Hunt, L.R. | Multivariable Nonlinear System Realization |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Mathunjwa | Mduduzi Magidzigidzi | PhD | Cunningham, Austin J. | Kinetic Scheme of the Four Lowest Lying Excited States of Krypton | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Stevens | Patrick Duane | PhD | Glosser, Robert | Optical Characterization and Photoluminescence Study of Porous Silicon | |
| Spring | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Taylor | Michael David | PhD | Wetsel, Grover | Scanned Investigation of Nanoprobe Induced Lateral Quantization in Near-Surface Semiconductor Heterostructures | |
| Spring | 1995 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Kihneman | Nancy Jean | PhD | Hanson, Royce | Implementation Analysis in Compensatory Education – A Case Study of the Reading One-One Structured Tutoring Program | |
| Summer | 1995 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Sloan | Sharon W. | PhD | Schulte, Rainer | Pathways to Interpretation: Translation and Hypermedia | |
| Summer | 1995 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Grigar | Dene M. | PhD | Studies in Literature | Kratz, Dennis M. | Penelopeia: The Making of Penelope in Homer’s Story and Beyond |
| Summer | 1995 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Schimelpfenig | Sharla Jan | PhD | Studies in Literature | Ozsvath, Zsuzsanna | The Kitchen, the Bedroom and the Garden: Domestic and Aesthetic Crises in the Nineteenth-Century Novel |
| Summer | 1995 | Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Shi | Jianxu | PhD | Fonseka, John P. | Design and Analysis of Survivable Telecommunications Networks | |
| Summer | 1995 | Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Tatum | Jimmy Alan | PhD | MacFarlane, Duncan | Ultrafast Characteristics of InGaP/InGaAIP Semiconductor Lasers and Amplifiers | |
| Summer | 1995 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Needleman | Alyssa Robin | PhD | Crandell, Carl C. | Linguistic Factors in Speech Perception for Listeners with Normal Hearing and Sensorineural Hearing Loss | |
| Summer | 1995 | Management | Management Science | Srinivasan | Subhashi | PhD | Rao, Ram C. | Managerial Issues in Franchising: Flexibility Coordination and Control | |
| Summer | 1995 | Management | Management Science | Wang | ZiShun | PhD | Chandrasekaran, Ramaswamy | Pairwise Exchange Rearrangement Problems | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Henderson | Cheryl Renee | D.Chem | Ferraris, John P. | Electrochromic Devices Based on Organic Conducting Polymers | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Subramanian | Venkatraman | D.Chem | Sherry, A.D. | Synthesis and Characterization of 1,4,7 Triazacyclononane Phenolate Ligands and Their Gadolinium Complexes | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Torres | Diego Alberto | D.Chem | Ferraris, John P. | Synthesis and Characterization of Semiconducting Polymer Derivatives of Cyclopenta (2,1-b;4,3-b’) Dithiophen-4-One | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Gudfinnsson | Gudmundur Heidar | PhD | Presnall, Dean C. | Melt Generation in the System CaO-MgO-A12-O3-SiO2 at 24 to 34 kbar and the System CaO-MgO-A12-O3-SiO2 FeO at 7 to 28 kbar | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Lee | Jongman | PhD | Stern, Robert J. | Forty Million Years of Magmatic Evolution in the Mariana Arc: The Tephra Glass Record | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Miller | Nathaniel Ross | PhD | Mitterer, Richard M. | Lithostratigraphic Signal Evaluation of the Miocene Monterey Formation, South Elwood Offshore Field, California | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Reilly II | James Francis | PhD | Mitterer, Richard M. | Geological Controls on the Distribution of Chemosynthetic Communities in the Gulf of Mexico | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Yang | Jiangdong | PhD | Statistics | Van Ness, John W. | Robust Discriminant Analysis |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Saleh | Abdul-Basit Ali | PhD | Glosser, Robert | Photoreflectance Studies of Zn-DOPED AlxGa1-xAs at the E1 Transition Energy | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Strozewski | Ann Michele | PhD | Englund, John C. | Stability Properties of Correlated Emission Lasers | |
| Summer | 1995 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Strozewski | Kirk James | PhD | Wetsel, Grover C. | Nanoscale Electric-Field Initiated Material Transfer | |
| Summer | 1995 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Adams | Michelle Janssen | PhD | Tracy, Paul E. | Youth in Crisis: An Examination of Adverse Factors Affecting Children’s Cognitive and Behavioral/Emotional Development Children Ages 10-16 | |
| Summer | 1995 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Bray | Ella Jean | PhD | Hanson, Royce | The Perot Paradox: Citizen Politics in a Partisan World An Analysis at the Grassroots | |
| Summer | 1995 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Ellis | Margaret Elizabeth | PhD | Stewart, Jr., Joseph | Judicial Assumptions of Remedial Law: An Empirical Analysis of the Single-Member District Remedy for Voting Rights Act Violations | |
| Summer | 1995 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Mitra | Aparna | PhD | Farkas, George/Hoch, Irving J. | The Effects of Firm and Industry Structures on Black/White Wage Inequality in the U.S. Economy – 1988 | |
| Summer | 1995 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Thomas | Clark David | PhD | Stewart, Jr., Joseph | The Politics of Agenda Control: From Teacher Pay to No Pass-No Play |