1998-1999 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 1998 total: 18
Spring 1999 total: 15
Summer 1999 total: 27
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 1998 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Chrasta | Michael James | PhD | History of Ideas | Chandler, Joan M. | Jesus People to Promise Keepers: A Revival Sequence and its Effect on Late 20th Century Evangelical Ideas of Masculinity |
| Fall | 1998 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Korioth | Johnelle Lillian | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | A Computational Analysis of Stacked Blumlein Pulse Generators | |
| Fall | 1998 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Penciu | Cristian | PhD | MacFarlane, Duncan | A Volumetric Three-Dimensional Display Based on Integrated Waveguides | |
| Fall | 1998 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Kaye | Kelley Lynn | PhD | Bower, Thomas G.R. | Cross-Modal Matching in Human Newborns | |
| Fall | 1998 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Kim | Sook Kyung | PhD | Coleman, J. Michael | Causal Attribution and Collective Identity Among Ethnic and Racial Minority Children and Adolescents | |
| Fall | 1998 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | MacAlpine | Michelle Lewis | PhD | Granott, Nira | Play in Autism: The Power of Microdevelopment | |
| Fall | 1998 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Tao | Rongrong | PhD | Buhrmester, Duane | Loneliness in Early Adolescence | |
| Fall | 1998 | Management | International Management Studies | Boggs | David J. | PhD | Brittain, Jack/Nehrt, Chadwick C. | Do the First Last? An Analysis of Timing, Ownership and Value-Chain Effects on International Subsidiary Survival | |
| Fall | 1998 | Management | International Management Studies | Goines | John Timothy | PhD | Harrison, J. Richard | Institutional Constraints and Opportunities: An Examination of Domestic and Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions of Large Manufacturing Firms in Europe (1985-1994) | |
| Fall | 1998 | Management | Management Science | Kaplan | Marilyn Rose | PhD | Harrison, J. Richard | Interorganizational Cooperation: A Multitheoretical Perspective of Joint Ventures | |
| Fall | 1998 | Management | Management Science | Wierschem | David Charles | PhD | Lutz, Raymond P./Kalvenes, Joakim | User Interaction Effects on Computing Technology Allocation | |
| Fall | 1998 | Management | Management Science | Won | Chaehwan | PhD | Merville, Larry J. | An Option Theoretic Analysis of Closed-End Funds: International vs. Domestic | |
| Fall | 1998 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Hudson | Robert Tod | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Draper, Rockford K. | Control of Coatomer Binding to Golgi Membranes: Role of Copi in Membrane Traffic |
| Fall | 1998 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Mottahedeh | Jack | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Marsh, Robert C. | Transglutaminase and Its Substrates in Physarum Polycephalum |
| Fall | 1998 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Kriel | Bryan G. | D.Chem | Caldwell, Richard A./Goux, Warren | The Photoannulation of 4, 4-Dimethylcyclohex-2-En-1-One to 1, 1-Diphenylethylene: The Triplet State Exciplex That Wasn’t | |
| Fall | 1998 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Ortega | Andrey A. | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Seismic Modeling in Fractured Media with Applications to Multicomponent Multiazimuth Seismic Data from Southwest Venezuela | |
| Fall | 1998 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Zhou | Hongbo | PhD | McMechan, George A. | 3D Seismic Depth Migration | |
| Fall | 1998 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Jacobs | Steven N. | PhD | Farkas, George | The Effects of Family Structure and Fathering Time on Child Behavior Problems and Reading Deficits | |
| Spring | 1999 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | O’Leary | Brian Eugene | PhD | Argyros, Alexander | Michel Colin’s Generative Semiology: A Post-Metzian Phase of Linguistics in Film Theory | |
| Spring | 1999 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Colpi | Mary Jane | PhD | History of Ideas | Sobstyl, Edrie | Who Are Those Guys? Toward an Understanding of Male Sexual Violence Against Women |
| Spring | 1999 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Setterlund | Samuel L. | PhD | Studies in Literature | Ozsvath, Zsuzsanna | Complex Irony and the Quest for the Self in Four Twentieth-Century Novels |
| Spring | 1999 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Veerasamy | Jeyakesavan | PhD | Raghavachari, Balaji | Approximation Algorithms for Postman Problems | |
| Spring | 1999 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Kashefi | Feraydoun | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Rapidly Training Device for Fiber Optic Neural Network | |
| Spring | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Nejtek | Vicki Allene | PhD | Moore, Bert S. | Salivary Cortisol Levels Indicate Emotional-Arousal-Stress Magnitude After Viewing High and Low Emotion Events: Can Salivary Cortisol Levels Also be Related to Memory for the Events? | |
| Spring | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Krishnan | Uma | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Miller, Dennis L. | Evolution of RNA Editing Sites in Mitochondria of the Myxomycota |
| Spring | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Chow | Jimmy Tai-Nin | D.Chem | Goux, Warren J. | Chemical Characterization of the Immunomodulating Component of Aloe Vera | |
| Spring | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Olivos | Hernando Juan | D.Chem | Caldwell, Richard A. | Evidence of the Effect of the Oxygen Lone Pair on the Spin Orbit Coupling of Hydroxy Biradicals | |
| Spring | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Lee | Dongho | PhD | Carpenter, Scott J. | Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Marine Calcareous Algae: Implications for Calcification, Metabolism and Carbon Cycling in Shallow Marine Environments | |
| Spring | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Brazauskas | Vytaras | PhD | Serfling, Robert | Robust and Nonparametric Statistical Methods for Pareto Distribution Tail Index Estimation, with Actuarial Science Applications | |
| Spring | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Blum | Ira Kenneth | PhD | Izen, Joseph M. | Measurement of Inclusive Charm Cross Sections at 4.03 and 4.14 GeV in e+ e Annihilation | |
| Spring | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Sheldon | Paul M. | PhD | Rindler, Wolfgang | Analysis of Raman Lasing Without Inversion | |
| Spring | 1999 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Park | Hyo C. | PhD | Vijverberg, Wim P.M. | Economic and Sociological Determinants of Migration | |
| Spring | 1999 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Sutaria | Vinod B. | PhD | Hicks, Donald A. | The Dynamics of New Firm Formation: The Case of the Texas Manufacturing Sector, 1976-1991 | |
| Summer | 1999 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Bissett | LaRell | PhD | Studies in Literature | Schulte, Rainer | Indigenous Mexican and Native American Novelists: A Comparative Stylistic Study of Their Worldviews |
| Summer | 1999 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Bass | Douglas William | PhD | Sudborough, Ivan Hal | Improving the Uses of Some Existing Interconnection Networks | |
| Summer | 1999 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Song | Yeong-Tae | PhD | Huynh, Dung T. | Forward Dynamic Slicing Software Systems | |
| Summer | 1999 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Li | Yisong | PhD | Tamil, Lakshman S. | Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers: A Finite Difference Time Domain Technique | |
| Summer | 1999 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Manoj | Kanagalu R. | PhD | Tamil, Lakshman S. | Coverage Estimation for Mobile Cellular Networks from Signal Strength Measurements | |
| Summer | 1999 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Raghothaman | Balaji Badide | PhD | Linebarger, Darel A. | Low Rank Transform Domain and Mixed Domain Adaptive Filtering | |
| Summer | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Edelman | Betty-Gene | PhD | Abdi, Herve | Placing Faces: Evidence from a Pixel-based Face Space and Human Performance for the Effects of Typicality, Race and Gender | |
| Summer | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Kern | Janet Kinnear | PhD | Cauller, Lawrence J. | The Effectiveness of N, N-Dimethylglycene in Autism/PDD | |
| Summer | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Vaughn | Angela Beth | PhD | Owen, Margaret T. | The Dynamics of Coparenting in Family Interactions | |
| Summer | 1999 | Management | International Management Studies | Phene | Anupama | PhD | Guisinger, Stephen | Climbing the Ladders of Competence: The Evolution of Technological Capabilities in MNE Subsidiaries | |
| Summer | 1999 | Management | Management Science | Dewan | Tarun M.S. | PhD | Bass, Frank M. | Essays in Marketing | |
| Summer | 1999 | Management | Management Science | Dobbs | Michael E. | PhD | Harrison, J. Richard | The Organization of Professional Sports Leagues: Mortality and Founding Rates, 1871-1997 | |
| Summer | 1999 | Management | Management Science | Soni | Samit Suren | PhD | Pirkul, Hasan | Designing Survivable Telecommunication Networks | |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Hu | Tonghuan | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Draper, Rockford K. | Membrane Traffic and Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Exotoxin A |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Lee | Ju-Seog | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Burr, John G. | Cloning of Novel Human and Mouse cDNAS Encoding Substrates of the SRC Tyrosine Kinase |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Nika | Joseph Richard | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Hannig, Ernest M. | Characterization of the eIF-2 Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Reaction |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Rippel | Scott Alan | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Hannig, Ernest M. | Analysis of eIF-2 and Its Role in Delivery of the MET-tRNAiMet to the Correct Translational Start Site |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Somerville | Greg Alan | PhD | Molecular and Cell Biology | Reitzer, Lawrence J. | Aconitase and the Environmental Signals that Control Virulence Factor Synthesis in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Chavez | Medardo Robert | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | A New Route to Macrocyclic-Based Phosphonate Acyloxymethyl Esters: Synthesis, Cell and Heart Loading and 31P NMR | |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Wu | Kuangcong | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | Synthesis and Characterization of Macrocyclic Ligands with Extended Amide Side Arms and Their Lanthanide Complexes | |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Sun | Chih-Hsien | PhD | Stern, Robert J. | Geochemical and Isotopic Studies of Arc Volcanism | |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Al-Kuhaili | Mohammad Faiyad | PhD | Glosser, Robert | Electroreflectance of Gallium Nitride and Aluminum Gallium Nitride | |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | MacAlevey | Paul Joseph | PhD | Robinson, Ivor | Approximate Solutions and Symmetries of Einstein’s Vacuum Field Equations in the Twisting, Type N Case | |
| Summer | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Venkatraman | Sarita | PhD | Heelis, Roderick A. | Nighttime Behavior of the Equatorial Topside Ionosphere | |
| Summer | 1999 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Juhn | Nancy Hae-Ran Lee | PhD | Hoch, Irving | Differential Impact of Housing Size Class on Housing Sale Prices Dallas County 1980-1996 | |
| Summer | 1999 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Lykens | Kristine Ann | PhD | Jargowsky, Paul A. | Child Health Status in the United States and Medicaid Expansions 1986-1990 | |
| Summer | 1999 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | O’Brien | Daniel Michael | PhD | Kain, John F. | Three Essays on Early Academic Achievement of Minority and Disadvantaged Students |