1999-2000 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 1999 total: 18
Spring 2000 total: 26
Summer 2000 total: 20
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 1999 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Sorensen | Rodger Dale | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Turner, Frederick | Alchemy, Nature and Time in “Pericles” and “The Winter’s Tale” |
| Fall | 1999 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Iriarte | Fabian Osvaldo | PhD | Studies in Literature | Schulte, Rainer | Cross-Cultural Transfer of Poetics and Aesthetics: Anthologies of Latin American Poetry in English Translation Published in the United States from WWII to the 1990’s |
| Fall | 1999 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Rogers | Karen Keeter | PhD | Studies in Literature | Kratz, Dennis | Responses to Restriction and Confinement in Selected Plays by Women Dramatists of the English-Speaking Theatre: The Susan Smith Blackburn First-Prize-Winning Plays From 1980-1981 Through 1985-1986 as Barometers of the Period and of the Genre |
| Fall | 1999 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Landolsi | Taha | PhD | Tamil, Lakshman S. | Applications of Wavelet Transforms to Optical Fiber Communications Networks | |
| Fall | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Moncrieff | Deborah Watkins | PhD | Jerger, James | Dichotic Listening and Hemispheric Lateralization in Dyslexic Children | |
| Fall | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Paul | Kush | PhD | Cauller, Lawrence J. | Thalamocortical “Chaoscillations”: Electrophysiology, Modeling and Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis | |
| Fall | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Piat | Frederic Georges P. | PhD | Dowling, W. Jay | Artist: Adaptive Resonance Theory for the Internalization of the Structure of Tonality | |
| Fall | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Wolfe | Susan M. | PhD | Buhrmester, Duane | Parent-Adolescent Relationships and Self-Governance in Adolescence | |
| Fall | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Worthen | MaryLou Fair | PhD | Buhrmester, Duane | The Role of Empathy in Adolescent Friendship | |
| Fall | 1999 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Yin | Jiahong | PhD | Buhrmester, Duane | Parental Management of Peer Relationships During Adolescence: Strategies, Correlates and Effects | |
| Fall | 1999 | Management | Management Science | Hong | Sungchul | PhD | Ryu, Young/Jacob, Varghese | Facilitating Electronic Commerce; Auction, Negotiation and Filtering | |
| Fall | 1999 | Management | Management Science | Myers | Chris Anthony | PhD | Bass, Frank M. | An Investigation into Preference: A Multidimensional Construct | |
| Fall | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Washmon-Kriel | Lisa Lynn | D.Chem | Balkus, Jr., Kenneth J. | Immobilization of Bioactive Molecules into Mesoporous Molecular Sieves and the Preparation of Oriented MAPO-39 Membranes | |
| Fall | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Holloway | Jeanne W. | PhD | Pessagno, Jr., Emile A. | Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of the Austin Chalk from San Antonio West to the Anacacho Mountains | |
| Fall | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Boehme | Jeffrey Lenn | PhD | Ferraris, John P. | Tailoring the Observed Color of Electrochromic Devices Through the Use of Laminates, Patterns and Discrete Electrochromes | |
| Fall | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Chen | Jingqiu | PhD | Ferraris, John P. | Optical Properties of Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon Films | |
| Fall | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Turner IV | William H. | PhD | Rindler, Wolfgang | Numerical Study of the General-Relativistic Gravitational Collapse of a Perfect Fluid | |
| Fall | 1999 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Vassilieva | Olga I. | PhD | Chaney, Roy C. | Monte Carlo Simulation to Optimize the Design of an URA Coded Aperture Collimator | |
| Spring | 2000 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Pagan | Darlene Marie | PhD | Nelsen, Robert S. | Translating the Foreign in Multicultural Literatures | |
| Spring | 2000 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Hotz | Frederick Donald | PhD | History of Ideas | Bambach, Charles R. | Nietzsche’s Unmodern History of Philosophy |
| Spring | 2000 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Gilmore | Margaret Bragg | PhD | Studies in Literature | Nelsen, Robert S. | The Grotesque, The Historical and the Cultural as Reflected in Seven Major Latin American Writers of the Twentieth Century |
| Spring | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Farahi | R.H. | PhD | Wetsel, Grover C. | Characterization of Nanoscale Features Using Apertureless Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy and Development of a Prototype Commercial Ink-Jet Analysis Instrument | |
| Spring | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ge | An | PhD | Tamil, Lakshman S. | Optical Packet Switching Nodes and Networks | |
| Spring | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Kim | Hyun Chin | PhD | Tamil, Lakshman S. | Transmission Issues in Regional and Metropolitan Area Networks | |
| Spring | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Kleber | Jennifer Lynn | PhD | Overzet, Lawrence J. | The Formation of Ion-Ion Plasmas | |
| Spring | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Qaddoura | Emad A. | PhD | Tamil, Lakshman S. | Enhanced TCP for Wireless Local Area Network | |
| Spring | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Epling | Gerald Arthur | PhD | Bartlett, James C. | The Roles of Relational Processing and Item-Specific Processing in Remembering and Knowing Faces | |
| Spring | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Hibbard | David Russell | PhD | Buhrmester, Duane | The Influence of Two Dimensions of Competitiveness on Achievement, Adjustment and Interpersonal Relationships Among High School Seniors | |
| Spring | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | McDonnell | Susan Marty | PhD | Friel-Patti, Sandy | Patterns of Change in Maternal/Child Discourse Behaviors Across Repeated Storybook Readings | |
| Spring | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Olness | Gloria Streit | PhD | Ulatowska, Hanna | Expression of Narrative Main-Point Inferences in Adults: A Developmental Perspective | |
| Spring | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Pawlowski | Karen Sue | PhD | Cauller, Lawrence J. | The Identification and Distribution of Macromolecules in Normal Guinea Pig Inner Ear Fluids | |
| Spring | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Thierry | Karen Lillian | PhD | Spence, Melanie J. | Source-Monitoring Effects on Child Witness Suggestibility | |
| Spring | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Wacholtz | Elaine Hlavinka | PhD | Moore, Bert S. | The Influence of Spousal Responsiveness on Early Outcome After Surgery | |
| Spring | 2000 | Management | Management Science | Gylys | Victoria Ann | PhD | Bass, Frank M. | Identification of Adoption Takeoff and the Influence of Exogenous Variables | |
| Spring | 2000 | Management | Management Science | Wang | Yi | PhD | Xu, Yexiao/Day, Theodore E. | An Investigation of Equity Mutual Fund Underperformance | |
| Spring | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Tsen | Hua | PhD | Levene, Stephen D. | Structure and Flexibility of Adenosine-Tract DNA in Supercoiled Domains | |
| Spring | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Stokes, Jr. | Harold Wayne | D.Chem | Pantano, Paul | Ruthenium-Based Luminescence Imaging Fiber Chemical Sensors | |
| Spring | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Varadarajan | Deepta | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | Analysis of TCA Cycle Pathways and the Disposition of Cycle Intermediates in Isolated Rat Heart Mitochondria by 13C-NMR | |
| Spring | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Chen | Zhenwu | PhD | Serfling, Robert | Trimmed and Winsorized M- and Z- Estimators, with Applications to Robust Estimation in neural Network Models | |
| Spring | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Ramirez-Perez | Filemon | PhD | Serfling, Robert | Contributions to Shot Noise on Cluster Processes With Cluster Marks | |
| Spring | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Vassiliev | Andrei V. | PhD | Fenyves, Ervin J. | Optimization of CMS Endcap Muon Electronics for Major Physics Goals at LHC | |
| Spring | 2000 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Frank | Mark William | PhD | Seldon, Barry J. | The Impact of Rate-of-Return Regulation on Technological Innovation | |
| Spring | 2000 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Loubert | Linda M. | PhD | Murdoch, James C. | The Political Economy of Public School Finance | |
| Spring | 2000 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Ramseyer | Matthew John | PhD | Redlinger, Lawrence J. | Financing Higher Education in the 1990’s: The Case of the South Texas Border Initiative | |
| Summer | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Al-Mubaid | Hisham Mahmoud | PhD | Truemper, Klaus | Identifying Inadvertent Semantic Errors in English Texts | |
| Summer | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Hollenbeck | Dawn | PhD | Cantrell, Cyrus D. | Dynamics of a Fiberoptic Raman Amplifier | |
| Summer | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Teipen | Brian Thomas | PhD | MacFarlane, Duncan | Modulation Transfer Function and Three-Dimensional Shape Measurement Using Pseudo-Random Structured Light | |
| Summer | 2000 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yang | Hua | PhD | Frensley, William R. | Full Bandstructure Modeling of Quantum Well Infrared Photo-Detectors | |
| Summer | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Rampy | Bill Alan | PhD | Coleman, J. Michael | Dimensional Complexity of the EEG and Lateralization of Stroke | |
| Summer | 2000 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Scheifele | Andrew C. | PhD | Cauller, Lawrence J. | Response of the Ventral Tegmental Area to Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex or Nucleus Accumbens Shell in Anesthetized and Freely Moving Awake Rats | |
| Summer | 2000 | Management | International Management Studies | Mileski | Joan Patricia | PhD | Guisinger, Stephen E. | Strategic Groups of Countries: An Empirical Study of Government Policies Toward Foreign Direct Investment and Their Convergence Over Time | |
| Summer | 2000 | Management | Management Science | Pena | Jorge | PhD | Bass, Frank M. | Effect of Promotions on Market Share and Consumption in Stationary Markets | |
| Summer | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Biology | Lee | Sang Hyun | PhD | DeJong, Jeff | Eukaryotic Transcriptional Regulation: Studies on the Expression of Drug Metabolizing Enzymes and a Tissue-Specific General Transcription Factor | |
| Summer | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Burgess | Shawn C. | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | Novel Applications of 13C Indirect Detection NMR to Metabollic Tracer Studies in Small Tissue Samples | |
| Summer | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Li | Lin | D.Chem | Ferraris, John P. | Performance Study of Electrochemical Capacitors Based on Poly (3-Phenyltheophene) Derivatives | |
| Summer | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Li | Xiaodong | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | Synthesis, NMR and Relaxometric Studies of New DOTP-like Lanthanide (III) Complexes Containing a Hydrophobic Substituent on One Phosphonate Side Arm | |
| Summer | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Adriansyah | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Seismic Avo Analysis and Interpretation: Application to Carbonate and Clastic Reservoirs in the Northwest Java Basin, Indonesia | ||
| Summer | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Ramos-Martinez | Jaime | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Full Wavefield Seismic Modeling and Source Parameter Inversion in 3-D Viscoelastic, Anisotropic Media | |
| Summer | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Wagner | John Barclay | PhD | Bhattacharya, Janok/Soegaard, Kristian | Interaction and Effects of Allocyclic Processes on the Statal and Sedimentological Expression of Depositional Systems: An Example from the Bolivian Sub-Andean Foreland Basin | |
| Summer | 2000 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Hebert | Joseph Ellis | PhD | Cunningham, Austin J. | Development of a Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer | |
| Summer | 2000 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Hanson | Yaw Baah | PhD | Murdoch, James C./Anselin, Luc | Air Quality Valuation from Hedonic Models: Applications of Recent Estimation Techniques | |
| Summer | 2000 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | MacDonald | Stuart Thomas | PhD | Seldon, Barry J. | An Analysis of the Efficacy of the Texas and Oklahoma Unitization Statutes | |
| Summer | 2000 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Stein | Morris Aaron | PhD | Scotch, Richard K. | The Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas A Case Study in New Institutional Theory | |
| Summer | 2000 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Wang | Ding-Ming | PhD | Tracy, Paul E. | Vote Selling Regimes and Electoral Behavior: (A Case Study of 1996 Taiwan Presidential Election) |