1996-1997 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 1996 total: 17
Spring 1997 total: 19
Summer 1997 total: 11
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 1996 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Kolani | Ruth | PhD | Studies in Literature | Perl, Jeffrey M. | The Secret Agent: An Ethical-Stylistic Study of Agency and the Rhetoric of Dissociation in Narrative |
| Fall | 1996 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Papakostas | Achilleas Ioannis | PhD | Tollis, Ioannis G. | Information Visualization: Orthogonal Drawings of Graphs | |
| Fall | 1996 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Zhao | Yi | PhD | Truemper, Klaus | Intelligent Text Processing | |
| Fall | 1996 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Atkins | Deborah Hammond | PhD | Moore, Bert S./Bartlett, James C. | Cognitive Effects of Negative Affect Associated with Menstrual Cycle | |
| Fall | 1996 | Management | International Management Studies | Chen | Rongxin | PhD | Brittain, Jack W. | The Impact of Firm Capability on Alliance Formation: An Analysis of U.S. Semiconductor Start-up Firms | |
| Fall | 1996 | Management | International Management Studies | Loree | David Wayne | PhD | Brittain, Jack W. | Stranger in a Strange Land: Market Signals, Organizational Embeddedness and Firm Survival in the Global Integrated Circuit Industry | |
| Fall | 1996 | Management | International Management Studies | Thornberry | Jon Barton | PhD | Brittain, Jack W. | Organizations and Collective Action: A Comparative Analysis of R&D Consortia in the Microelectronics Industry | |
| Fall | 1996 | Management | Management Science | Vudali | Madhusudhan | PhD | Niu, Shun-Chen | Performance Analysis of Two Classes of Polling Models | |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Erickson | Floyd Lester | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Hannig, Ernest M. | Functional Analysis of eIF-2y and its Interactions with Ligands and eIF-2B |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Schneider | Barbara Lee | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Reitzer, Lawrence J. | Degradation of Aspartate and Arginine by Escherichia Coli |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Makos | Janice D. | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | Lithographic Performance and Application of i-Line and DUV Photoresists for Advanced Integrated Circuit Technology | |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Smith | Derek L. | D.Chem | Hoffman, John H. | Semiconductor Gas Purity and Process Characterization by FT-ICR | |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Jenkins | Thomas E. | PhD | Carter, James L. | Tellurium and Other Elements as Geochemical Guides to Gold, Silver and Telluride Vein Deposits, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado | |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Liao | Qingbo | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Seismic Viscoacoustic Modeling and Inversion | |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Ma | Hong | PhD | Carter, James L. | Aspects of Tungsten-Gold Association at the Tungsten District, Boulder County, Colorado | |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Murphy | Craig Walter | PhD | Applied Mathematics | Turi, Janos | Diophantine Equations and the Direction-of-Arrival Problem for Phase Interferometers |
| Fall | 1996 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Turner | Brian Neil | PhD | Rindler, Wolfgang A. | Numerical Study of Colliding Null-Source Plane-Fronted Gravitational Waves | |
| Spring | 1997 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Tullock | Samuel K. | PhD | History of Ideas | Soliday, Gerald | The Transformation of American Fundamentalism: The Life and Career of John Franklyn Norris |
| Spring | 1997 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Harris | Miriam Kalman | PhD | Studies in Literature | Redman, Tim | Claire Myers Owens: Life, Work, Art 1896-1983 |
| Spring | 1997 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Kuenzer | Kathleen Ann | PhD | Studies in Literature | Schulte, Rainer | The Language of the Surrealist Manifestoes: An Expansion of Aesthetics and Stylistic Expressivity |
| Spring | 1997 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Tang | Xuefei | PhD | van der Ziel, Jan P. | Characterization of Gain-Guided GaAs Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers | |
| Spring | 1997 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Johnson | Julene Kay | PhD | Ulatowska, Hanna K. | Music Cognition in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type | |
| Spring | 1997 | Management | Management Science | Kanagal | Nagasimha Balakrishna | PhD | Bass, Frank M. | Long Run Equilibrium and Its Impact on Brand Choice and Market Share Analysis | |
| Spring | 1997 | Management | Management Science | Hayes-Yelken | Suzanne | PhD | Merville, Larry J. | An Empirical Examination of Mutual Funds | |
| Spring | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Liang | Sung-Tzu | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Miller, Dennis | Transcriptional Control of the spc Operon of Ribosomal Proteins in Escherichia coli |
| Spring | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Ye | Hongzhuan | PhD | Soegaard, Kristian | Sequence Stratigraphy of the Difunta Group in the Parras-LaPopa Foreland Basin, and Tectonic Evolution of the Sierra Madre Oriental, NE Mexico | |
| Spring | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Weng | Yi-Hua | PhD | Presnall, Dean C. | Liquidus Phase Relations for the Model Basaltic Tetrahedron Diopside-Anorthite-Forsterite-Quartz in the System CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 at 5GPA | |
| Spring | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Zhang | Jie | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Imaging of Salt and Subsalt Structures Using Turning Waves and Tomography | |
| Spring | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Zeng | Guoping | PhD | Applied Mathematics | Hunt, Louis R. | Nonlinear Observers for Output Tracking |
| Spring | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Mason | Mark Leroy | PhD | Chaney, Roy C. | Energy Band Structure of the (GaAs)1 – (A1As) 1 Crystal by the Method of Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals | |
| Spring | 1997 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Chen | Yong-Sheng Ruth | PhD | Vijverberg. Wim P.M. | The Relative Productive Efficiency of Township-Village-Enterprises in Mainland China | |
| Spring | 1997 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Choi | Byung-Rok | PhD | Berry, Brian J.L. | High-Technology Development in Regional Economic Growth: Policy Implications of Dynamic Externalities | |
| Spring | 1997 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Gamble | Janet Lynn | PhD | Murdoch, James C. | Ambient Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in North Central Texas, 1990-1994: A Time Series Analysis | |
| Spring | 1997 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Kelleher | David Scott | PhD | Murdoch, James C. | The International Provision of Global Public Goods The Case of Ozone Layer Preservation | |
| Spring | 1997 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Roof | Gregory Randall | PhD | Elliott, Euel | The Political Economy of Alcohol: College Student Demand and Public Policy | |
| Spring | 1997 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Kim | Yeong Seok | PhD | Berry, Brian J.L. | Reappraisal of the Convergence Hypothesis from the Perspective of Endogenous Growth Theory | |
| Summer | 1997 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Progler | Christopher John | PhD | Byrne, Dale M. | Optimizing Aberrations in High Performance Lenses: Accounting for Diffraction, Coherence and Object | |
| Summer | 1997 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Aldridge | Michelle Anne | PhD | Stillman, Robert D. | Aspects of Vowel Perception in Newborns and Adults | |
| Summer | 1997 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Jackson | Mark Edward | PhD | Cauller, Lawrence J. | Dynamics of Reciprocal Corticocortical Connections in the Somatosensory Cortex of the Rat: Electrophysiology and Computational Modeling | |
| Summer | 1997 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Li | Hui-Fang | PhD | Cauller, Lawrence J. | Mechanisms of Acetylcholine Modulation of Layer II/III Cell Excitability and Synaptic Transmission in Rat Somatosensory Neocortex | |
| Summer | 1997 | Management | Management Science | Lunney | James Edward | PhD | Harrison, Richard J. | Corporate Director Turnover in Large Corporations | |
| Summer | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Yang | Xiaofeng | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Reitzer, Lawrence J. | Domain-Domain Interactions of the Prokaryotic Enhancer-Binding Protein NR1 (NTRC) in E. Coli |
| Summer | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Meng | Xiangying | PhD | Pessagno, Jr., Emile A. | Radiolarian Biostratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Strata of the San Pedro Del Gallo Terrane, North-Central Mexico and the Lower Cretaceous Strata of the Nooksack Group, Nooksack Terrane, Northwestern Washington | |
| Summer | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Borovina | Dan B. Lucretiu | PhD | Collins, Carl B. | Stacked Blumlein Devices Generating High-Power, Nanosecond-Wide Electrical Pulses | |
| Summer | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Dostalik, Jr. | William Wesley | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Nonlinear Index-Enhancement and Laser Propagation in a Four-Level Raman Driven System | |
| Summer | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Kim | Byung-Kyu | PhD | Izen, Joseph M. | Direct Measurement of B(Ds+-OIX) | |
| Summer | 1997 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Standifird | John Douglas | PhD | Izen, Joseph M. | Direct Measurement of the Pseudoscalar Decay Constant fDs |