2002-2003 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 2002 total: 28
Spring 2003 total: 17
Summer 2003 total: 25
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 2002 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Glover | Antoinette Gail | PhD | Humanities | Haynes, Cynthia | The Unreasonable Logic of Western Epistemologies: Rhetoric, Writing and the Affective Domain |
| Fall | 2002 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Tata | Mary Christine | PhD | Humanities | Haynes, Cynthia | A Rhetoric of the Sexual Soul: Feminist Theory and God-Talk in Real/igious Life |
| Fall | 2002 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Cloward | Tim F. | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Turner, Frederick | Vile Things Precious: Variations on the Wild Man Myth |
| Fall | 2002 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Wilkerson | Dale Allen | PhD | History of Ideas | Bambach, Charles | Nietzsche and the Way of Greek Culture and Thought |
| Fall | 2002 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Kulkarni | Sarvesh Shantaram | PhD | Dattatreya, Galigekere D. | Adaptive Load-Balancing Over Multiple Routes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks | |
| Fall | 2002 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Nesargi | Sanket Satish | PhD | Prakash, Ravi | Distributed Approaches to Design Network Services in Rapidly Deployable Wireless Networks | |
| Fall | 2002 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Engineering | Loiko | Konstantin Valeryevich | PhD | Frensley, William R. | Development of ULSI Technologies with Optimized Stresses in Silicon Device Structures | |
| Fall | 2002 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Blau | Patricia Anne | PhD | Thompson, Lucien Tres | Diazepam Tolerance Effects on Vestibular Function Tests Following Repeated Oral Doses | |
| Fall | 2002 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Klausli | Julia Franziska | PhD | Owen, Margaret Tresch | Relations Between Marriage and Parenting for Fathers and Mothers | |
| Fall | 2002 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Moore | Bertrina Lynn | PhD | Underwood, Marion K. | Rural African American Children’s School Adjustment: The Roles of Perceived Caregiver and Peer Acceptance and Caregiver Monitoring | |
| Fall | 2002 | Human Development | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Vachha | Behroze | PhD | Stillman, Robert | Language Differences in Children with Myelomeningocele and Shunted Hydrocephalus | |
| Fall | 2002 | Management | Management Science | Demirhan | Didem | PhD | Raghunathan, Srinivasan/Jacob, Varghese | Information Technology Investment under Declining Information Technology Cost | |
| Fall | 2002 | Management | Management Science | Mashruwala | Raj D. | PhD | Banker, Rajiv D. | The Information Content of Nonfinancial Measures in Management Planning and Control | |
| Fall | 2002 | Management | Management Science | Ruan | Ranran | PhD | Rao, Ram C./Kumar, Nanda | Marketing Competition: Price Promotions and Internet Retailing | |
| Fall | 2002 | Management | Management Science | Yu | Jun | PhD | Bass, Frank M. | Factors Affecting Diffusion Patterns for New Products: An Hierarchical Bayesian Mixture Model | |
| Fall | 2002 | Management | Management Science | Yue | Xiaohang | PhD | Sethi, Suresh/Cakanyildirim, Metin | Emerging Problems in Supply Chain Management | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Clark | Christopher Lee | PhD | Gray, Donald | Thermodynamic and Circular Dichroism Analysis of Phosphorothioate Modified DNA.RNA Hybrids | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Marketon | Melanie Michelle | PhD | Gonzalez, Juan E. | Characterization of Quorum Sensing in Sinorhizobium Meliloti and its Role in Symbiosis | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Sung | Huang-Mo | PhD | Yasbin, Ronald E. | Stationary-Phase Mutagenesis in Bacillus Subtilis | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Upadhyaya | Ashok Belle | PhD | DeJong, Jeff | Identification of a Novel Germ Cell-Specific Protein Related to General Transcription Factor IIA | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Tejada | Frederick Rubio | D.Chem | Sherry, A. Dean | Investigations on the Relaxomeatric Properties of the Macromolecular Conjugates of DOTA-4amp Derivatives | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Hua | Biaolong | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Parsimonious Kirchhoff Depth Migration | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Madiba | Gislain Bolouvi | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Seismic Amplitude Variation with Offset; Its Effects on Weighted Stacking and Its Uses in Characterization of Sandstone and Carbonate Reservoirs | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Szerbiak | Robert Bruce | PhD | McMechan, George A. | Characterization of Fluvial Reservoir Analogs by Modeling and Inversion of Petrophysical and Electrical Properties | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Volesky | John C. | PhD | Stern, Robert J. | Massive Sulfide Deposits of the Wadi Bidah Mineral District, Saudi Arabia: Geologic Control of Mineralization; Remote Sensing and Mineral Exploration; Geochemical Exploration and Petrogenesis | |
| Fall | 2002 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Rusu | Claudiu | PhD | Collins, Carl B. | Study of 178m2Hf(y,y’)178Hf Reaction by Nuclear Spectroscopy Methods | |
| Fall | 2002 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Hall | Shane L. | PhD | Thielemann, Gregory | Design and Implementation of School Choice Policy: A Study of Texas Charter Schools | |
| Fall | 2002 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Kim | Jeong-Dai Kim | PhD | Beron, Kurt J./Seldon, Barry | The Environmental Effect of the North American Foreign Trade Agreement | |
| Spring | 2003 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Deaver | Linda Harris | PhD | History of Ideas | Sobstyl, Edrie/Worsfold, Victor | Toward an Ethic of Care: Women Writing Women |
| Spring | 2003 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Marshall | Michele L. Goley | PhD | History of Ideas | Gossin, Pamela | “The Soule That Sees Things in Their Native Frame”; Katherine Philips and the Poetics of Cultural Engagement |
| Spring | 2003 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Hillyer | Frances Sophia | PhD | Studies in Literature | Michaelson, Patricia | Mrs. Gaskell and Mrs. Stowe: Giving Birth to the Maternal Voice in Literature |
| Spring | 2003 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Hough | Charlotte K. | PhD | Studies in Literature | Nelsen, Robert | Bonheur and Utopia: A Crisis of Humanism |
| Spring | 2003 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Turner, Jr. | John Walton | PhD | Studies in Literature | Haynes, Cynthia | A Rhetoric of Difference; Calling for an Audience-Centered Pedagogy |
| Spring | 2003 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Wu | Yi-ping | PhD | Studies in Literature | Smith, Erin A. | The Construction of Ethnicity in Modern American Literature, 1900-1945: Writing and Reading Ethnic Narratives |
| Spring | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Amis | Alan DeWayne | PhD | Prakash, Ravi | D-Cluster Formation and Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks | |
| Spring | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Subramanian | Narayanan | PhD | Chung, Lawrence | Adaptable Software Architecture Generation Using the NFR Approach | |
| Spring | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Wang | Jianping | PhD | Chen, Biao | QOS Multicast in WDM Networks | |
| Spring | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Engineering | Ruiz | Everardo David | PhD | Tamil, Lakshman S. | Bit Parallel Time-Aligned WDM Optical Communication System | |
| Spring | 2003 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Betourne | Lori Suzanne | PhD | Friel-Patti, Sandy (deceased)/Stillman, Robert D. | Is Specific Reading Disorder Specific to Reading? | |
| Spring | 2003 | Management | International Management Studies | Li | Lei | PhD | Harrison, J. Richard | Multinationality and Performance: Efficiency, Endogeneity and Dynamics | |
| Spring | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Harrod | Albert Carson | PhD | Reitzer, Lawrence J. | Signal Transduction within Nitrogen Regulator I of Escherichia Coli | |
| Spring | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Wen | Jin-Der | PhD | Gray, Donald M. | Selex Selection and Characterization of High-Affinity DNA Sequences Bound by Ff Gene 5 Protein | |
| Spring | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Bourree | Loig Erwan | PhD | Glosser, Robert | Growth and Characterization of Inl-zGaz As Photocathodes for Extended Near Infrared Imaging | |
| Spring | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | O’Malley | Mark R. | PhD | Burgett, William | Testing the Homogeneity and Isotropy of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays for Clues as to Their Origin | |
| Spring | 2003 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | McDonough | Timothy Francis | PhD | Hicks, Donald A. | Modeling Broadband Deployment Controlling for Spatial Dependencies | |
| Summer | 2003 | Arts and Humanities | Humanities | Stephens | Lori Ann | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Nelsen, Robert | A Study of the Literature Grotesque and Motherhood: The Southern Woman’s Search for Love |
| Summer | 2003 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Human Development and Communication Sciences | Gant | John Christopher | PhD | Thompson, Lucien T. | Neuronal Excitability, Learning and Aging in the Rat Hippocampus | |
| Summer | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Du | Donglei | PhD | Chandrasekaran, R. | Multiroute Flow Problem | |
| Summer | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Montgomery | Don | PhD | Raghavachari, Balaji | The Low-Power Optical Network | |
| Summer | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Xiao | Bin | PhD | Sha, Edwin | Efficient Dynamic Algorithms for Networks with Constant Topology Changes | |
| Summer | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Yang | Mei | PhD | Zheng, S.Q. | High Performance Schedulers for Network Switches and Routers | |
| Summer | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Zhuge | Qingfeng | PhD | Sha, Edwin | Timing and Memory Optimization for Embedded Systems | |
| Summer | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Engineering | Siddiqui | Aqeel Ahmed | PhD | Microelectronics | Kiasaleh, Kamran/Prakash, Ravi | Towards Unification of Clustering Mechanisms for Multi-Cluster Mobile AdHoc Networks |
| Summer | 2003 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Engineering | Holman, Jr. | Perry Arthur | PhD | Microelectronics | Frensley, William R. | Design Model of Longitudinal Anisotropic Magnetoresistance of Permalloy Prior to Magnetization Reversal |
| Summer | 2003 | Management | International Management Studies | Chasteen | Larry Hugh | PhD | Hicks, Donald A. | Cluster Formation and Growth Dynamics in a Regional Context | |
| Summer | 2003 | Management | International Management Studies | Ofori-Brobbey | Kwadwo | PhD | Ford, David L. | Contextualizing International Corporate Tax Rates: An Empirical Study of the Determinants of International Corporate Tax Rates | |
| Summer | 2003 | Management | International Management Studies | Valenti | M. Alix | PhD | Harrison, J. Richard | Determinants of Corporate Board Appointments: Power, Symbolism and Social Networks | |
| Summer | 2003 | Management | Management Science | Cavusoglu | Hasan | PhD | Banker, Rajiv D. | The Economics of Information Technology Investments | |
| Summer | 2003 | Management | Management Science | Cavusoglu | Huseyin | PhD | Raghunathan, Srinivasan | The Economics of Information Technology Security | |
| Summer | 2003 | Management | Management Science | Geismar | Harry Neil | PhD | Sriskandarajah, Chelliah | Advanced Problems in Robotic Cell Scheduling: Approximations, Parallel Machines, and Multiple Robots | |
| Summer | 2003 | Management | Management Science | Yilmaz | Hurrem Ugur | PhD | Murthi, B.P.S. | Co-Promotions: The Effect of Usage Situation Schema Structure on Coupon Usage | |
| Summer | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Ross | Christian Allen | PhD | Yasbin, Ronald E. | Analysis of Promoter Activity in Staphylococcus Aureus | |
| Summer | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Luta | Gabriela | PhD | Haines, Donovan | Heterologous Expression of Cholesterol 24S-Hydroxylase, CYP46, in E.Coli | |
| Summer | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Lu | Shaoming | PhD | McMechan, George | Seismic Characteristics of Two Deep-Water Drilling Hazards: Shallow-Water Flow Sands and Gas Hydrate | |
| Summer | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Seida | David Lee | PhD | Applied Mathematics | Turi, Janos | Estimation of Attitude Parameters from Variation in Image Overlap |
| Summer | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Schmegner | Claudia | PhD | Statistics | Baron, Michael | Decision Theoretic Results for Sequentially Planned Procedures |
| Summer | 2003 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematical Sciences | Wang | Jin | PhD | Statistics | Serfling, Robert J. | On Nonparametric Multivariate Scale, Kurtosis, and Tailweight Measures |
| Summer | 2003 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Herrick | Devon Michael | PhD | Seldon, Barry J. | The Internet and Non-Profit Disease Advocacy: An Empirical Analysis | |
| Summer | 2003 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Whitehead | Curtis Alan | PhD | Tracy, Paul E. | A Survival Analysis of the Correlates of Juvenile Recidivism | |
| Summer | 2003 | Social Sciences | Political Economy | Winford II | Clenton G. | PhD | Scotch, Richard | The Academic Outcomes of Visually Impaired Public School Students in Texas |