2014-2015 doctoral degrees awarded
Fall 2014 total: 56
Spring 2015 total: 89
Summer 2015 total: 57
| Semester | Year | School | Department | Last Name | First Name/th> | Degree | Major | Supervising Professor | Dissertation Title | Outside Chair |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | 2014 | Arts and Humanities | Forte | Valeria | PhD | Patterson, David | From Rome to Jerusalem: The Quest for Cosmic Revelation; Jewish Mysticism in The Divine Comedy | Elliott, Euel | ||
| Fall | 2014 | Arts and Humanities | Round | Jillian Diane | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Dufour, Frank/Wilson, Michael L. | Re-Appropriating Meaning: A Queer Response to Heterocentric Representation in Media | Li, Xin (Sherry) | |
| Fall | 2014 | Arts and Humanities | Young | Mary McEntire | PhD | History of Ideas | Soliday, Gerald L./Rosen, Mark S. | Florentine Water Festivals in the Seventeenth Century: The Arno River as a Stage for Medici Propaganda | Worrall, John | |
| Fall | 2014 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Dyer | Nazly Nooriah | PhD | Owen, Margaret Tresch | Mothering Profiles Observed in Low-Income Ethnic Minority Families: Relations to Maternal Depression and Family Risk Factors | Gooch, John | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Cherbonneau | Michael Gage | PhD | Jacobs, Bruce A. | Breaking Down and Boosting Cars: A Qualitative Study of Offender Decision-Making in Auto Theft | Golden, Richard | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Jorgensen | Jensten Cody | PhD | Worrall, John L. | Badges, Bongs, Bookies and Brothels: Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward Vice | Brown, Matthew | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Miller | Brooke | PhD | Morris, Robert G. II | A Test of Self-Control Theory and Social Learning Theory on Cyber Offending | Dufour, Frank | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Qoradi | Mofareh Dhayem | PhD | Dean, Denis J. | GIS-Based Cartographic Design: Development and Evaluation of the Tourism Symbols of the National Park Service (NPS) and Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) | Montgomery, Homer | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Norell | Elizabeth Ann | PhD | Brunell, Thomas L. | Wither the Center? Political Polarization in the United States | Gurun, Umit | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Peniston | Dionne Anna | PhD | Fass, Simon M. | Incarceration and Father-Absence: An Exploration of Fatherhood After Prison | Owen, Margaret | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Senel | Soner | PhD | Battaglio, R. Paul Jr. | Evaluation of a Leadership Training Program by Applying Kirkpatrick’s Four-Level Model: The Case of Turkish Prefect Interns Training and Development Program | Cavusoglu, Huseyin | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Briggs | Scott James | PhD | Hicks, Donald A. | Health Information Technology: Assessing the Impact of Electronic Medical Records in Primary Care | Bensoussan, Alain | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Cass | Alexis Jill | PhD | Berry, Brian J.L. | Financial Knowledge, Fringe Banking and the Near Poor | Wardlaw, Malcolm | |
| Fall | 2014 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Hendon | Corey A. | PhD | Elliott, Euel | Polity Futures: A Fiscal Policy Innovation for Globally-Integrated Communities | Kieschnick, Robert | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Allen | David Ivan | PhD | Daescu, Ovidiu | Kinetic Data Structures for the Optimization of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Plans | Fonseka, John | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Chen | Cong | PhD | Zhang, Kang | High-Level Awareness in Distributed Software Development | Janakiraman, Ganesh | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Erekhinskaya | Tatiana Nikolaevna | PhD | Moldovan, Dan I. | Probabilistic Models for Text Understanding | Xie, Ying | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Feng | Ranran | PhD | Prabhakaran, B. | Does the Sum of Facial Parts Tell More Than the Face? Study of Impacts of Fashion Alterations on Facial Identity | Ratchford, Brian | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Guo | Yibo | PhD | Zheng, S.Q. | Minimizing Memory Access Cost in Embedded Systems | Henderson, Rashaunda | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Mohan | Vishwath R. | PhD | Hamlen, Kevin W. | Source-Free Binary Mutation for Offense and Defense | Menon, Syam | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Parker | Brandon Shane | PhD | Khan, Latifur | Sluicebox: Semi-Supervised Learning for Label Prediction with Concept Evolution and Tracking in Non-Stationary Data Streams | Natarajan, Ramachandran | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Shuai | Liang | PhD | Guo, Xiaohu | Optimal Geometry Partition for Graphics Applications | Cakanyildirim, Metin | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Xu | Wen | PhD | Wu, Weili | Optimal Influence in Social Networks | Kuksov, Dmitri | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Ooi | Hsu Kiang | PhD | Ma, Lan | In Silico Modeling and Simulation Approach to Elucidate P53 and MicroRNA Regulatory Networks | Turi, Janos | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Selvam | Anjan Panneer | PhD | Prasad, Shalini | Design and Prototyping of a Non-Faradaic Impedance Spectroscopy System for Clinical Diagnostics | Cunningham, Austin | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Shoura | Massa | PhD | Levene, Stephen D. | Structual Probing of the Longest-Lived Intermediate in the Cre-Recombination Pathway | Lee, Jiyong | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Bazargani | Negar | PhD | Nosratinia, Aria | Modeling and Estimation of Signals and Artifacts in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography | Chattopadhyay, Bhargab | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Han | Sang Ik | PhD | Fonseka, John P. | Applications of Constrained Turbo Block Convolutional Codes | Glosser, Robert | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Jung | Daewoong | PhD | Lee, Gil S. | Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Sheets for Transparent Conductive Electrode and Gas Sensing | Ramakrishna, Viswanath | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | McDonough | Matthew Kelly | PhD | Fahimi, Babak | A Multi-Port Power Electronics Interface for Battery Powered Electric Vehicles: Application of Inductively Coupled Wireless Power Transfer and Hybrid Energy Storage | Slinker, Jason | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Olorode | Oluleye | PhD | Nourani, Mehrdad | Architectural Techniques for Improving Performance and Reducing Power Consumption in Caches | Farago, Andras | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Sankman | Joseph Alan | PhD | Ma, Dongsheng Brian | Integrated Energy Management for Wireless Sensor Network Applications | Zalila-Wenkstern, Rym | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yuan | Jin | PhD | Torlak, Murat | Analysis of Signal Decoding and Carrier Frequency Recovery in Practical Mimo Communications | Day, Ted | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zhang | Lei | PhD | Li, Yaoyu/Fahimi, Babak | Optimal Power Management of Parking-Lot Electric Vehicle Charging | Biswas, Swati | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Bashir | Imran | PhD | Microelectronics | Balsara, Poras T./Staszewski, Robert B. | A Digitally Controlled Wide-Band Frequency Modulator | Efromovich, Sam |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Chellamuthu | Shanmuganand | PhD | Microelectronics | Banerjee, Bhaskar/ Balsara, Poras T. | 2.4MHZ Wide Duty Cycle Tolerant Automotive Switchmode Voltage Regulator | Song, Qiongxia (Joanne) |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Bernal Ramos | Karla M. | PhD | Chabal, Yves J. | Study of the Initial Surface Reactions in Atomic Layer Deposition of Oxides, Silicides and Nitrides Thin Films on Silicon Substrates | Rodrigues, Fabiano | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Bolivar | Adrian Emmanuel Avendano | PhD | Voit, Walter E. | Integration of Active Devices on Smart Polymers for Neural Interfaces | Zhang, Li | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Cabrera | Wilfredo | PhD | Chabal, Yves J. | Impact of Chemical Surface Preparation on the Atomic Layer Deposition of High-K Dielectrics on III-V Materials | Novak, Bruce | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Caillard | Louis Marie | PhD | Chabal, Yves J./Pluchery, Olivier | Grafted Organic Monolayer for Single Electron Transport and for Quantum Dots Solar Cells | Stern, Robert | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | KC | Santosh | PhD | Cho, Kyeongjae | First-Principles Study of Novel Interfaces for Electronic Device and Energy Storage Applications | Xuan, Zhenyu | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Murphy | John Winter | PhD | Gnade, Bruce E./Quevedo-Lopez, Manuel | Material Evaluation for Large Area Neutron Detectors | Nielsen, Steven | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Qin | Xiaoye | PhD | Wallace, Robert M. | Interface Study of High K Dielectric on Aluminium Gallium Nitride/Gallium Nitride Heterostructure | Minkoff, Susan | |
| Fall | 2014 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Software Engineering | Hill | Thomas L. | PhD | Chung, Lawrence | Confirming and Reconfirming Architectural Decisions: A Goal-Oriented Simulation Approach | Zhao, Feng | |
| Fall | 2014 | Management | Management Science | Ayabakan | Sezgin | PhD | Bardhan, Indranil R./Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric) | Essays on Healthcare Information Technology and Healthcare Outcomes | Yurkovich. Steve | |
| Fall | 2014 | Management | Management Science | Gupta | Varun | PhD | Cakanyildirim, Metin/Sethi, Suresh | Competitive Pricing and Sourcing Problems in Operations Management | Fass, Simon | |
| Fall | 2014 | Management | Management Science | Mo | Jiahui | PhD | Sarkar, Sumit | Essays on Winning Crowdsourcing Contests | Moldovan, Dan | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Fernando | Weerahannadige Shirangi K. | PhD | Sherry, A. Dean | Toward the Design of Slow Water Exchange Paracest Agents for MRI | Reynolds, R. Clay | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Huang | Peishen | PhD | Biewer, Michael C. | Benzodifuran Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics | Ferguson, John | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Magurudeniya | Harsha Dilhan | PhD | Stefan, Mihaela C. | Development of Novel Polymerization Catalytic System | Tadesse, Yonas | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Rainbolt | Elizabeth Ann | PhD | Stefan, Mihaela C. | Development of Thermoresponsive Substituted Poly(Caprolactone)s: Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Drug Encapsulation | Reitzer, Lawrence | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Shilpakar | Prabin | PhD | Oldow, John S./Ferguson, John F. | Assessment of the Uncertainty Budget and Image Resolution of Terrestrial Laser Scans of Geomorphic Surfaces | Smaldone, Ronald | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Giovan | Stefan Michael | PhD | Levene, Stephen D. | Statistical Mechanics of Topologically Constrained DNA and Nucleoprotein Complexes | Sibert, John | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Bykova | Julia Sergeevna | PhD | Zakhidov, Anvar A. | Flexible Superconducting Yarns From Magnesium-Diboride-Coated Carbon Nanotube Sheets | Goeckner, Matthew | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Cornell | Nicholas Ley | PhD | Salamon, Myron B. | Electrophysical Properties of Layered Superconducting Nanostructures: Advance Synthesis and Tuning | Dabkowski, Mieczyslaw | |
| Fall | 2014 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Howard | Austin Ross | PhD | Zakhidov, Anvar A. | Magnetically Modulated Microwave Spectroscopy of Layered and Quasi-2D Superconductors: Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides | Ferraris, John | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Albritton | Lillian | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Marilyn A. Waligore | !Que Viva La Virgen de Guadalupe! Documenting Guadalupan Devotion along the U.S.-Mexico Border | Babak Fahim | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Hufnagle | Donovan | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Matt Bondurant | The Investigative Reader: Documentary Poetics and the Epistolary Narrative | Don Hicks | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Polite | Giraud | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Marilyn A. Waligore | The Crawfish Circuit: An Investigation of the Musical Soundscape of Southwest Louisiana | Dongsheng Ma | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Shao | Wei | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | Fredrik Turner | An Epic of Displacement in the Twentieth Century | Thomas Brunell | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Watkins | Latoya | PhD | Aesthetic Studies | R. Clay Reynolds | Hub City Monologues: A Creative Dissertation | Jennifer Holmes | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Hudson | Jennifer | PhD | History of Ideas | Stephen G. Rabe | Voices of the Cold War: Russo-American Cultural Dynamics and Mutual Perceptions | Richard Scotch | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | McCaa | John | PhD | History of Ideas | Daniel B. Wickberg | Fame, Celebrity & Mass Media in the Digital Age: Daniel Boorstin’s Cultural Decline, or Passport to a Parallel Universe? | Sergey Bereg | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Thorn | Brent | PhD | History of Ideas | Peter K. J. Park | The Convergence of Pietistic Theology and Enlightenment Pedagogy in Moravian Mission Methods on the Colonial American Frontier | Sarah Maxwell | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Henson | George | PhD | Studies in Litrature | Charles Hatfield, Jr. | Translating Sergio Pitol’s The Art of Flight | Varghese Jacob | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Molina | Lourdes | PhD | Studies in Litrature | Charles Hatfield, Jr. | Conflict in LaHabana: Foreign Tyranny and National Revolution in Havana-Centric Cubanidad | Sarah Maxwell | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Vincent | Shelby | PhD | Studies in Litrature | Rainer Schulte | Translating Translators, History, and Memories in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la Tierra | Denis Dean | |
| Spring | 2015 | Arts and Technology | Arts and Technology | Segovia | Sherri | PHD | Frank Dufour | Contributing to a Literacy of the Body in Videogame Interaction | John Wiorkowski | |
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Cain | Sarah Elizabeth | AUD | Andrea Warner-Czyz | |||
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Cokely | Elika | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Elwany | Mohamed | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Fung | Iris Yi Ting | AUD | Jackie Clark | |||
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Griep | Nichole Marie | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Joe | Brent Andrew | AUD | Ross Roeser | |||
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Seligman | Jodi Lillian | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Audiology | Shevelyok | Alexandra | AUD | Carol Cokely | |||
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Banerjee | Anwesha | PhD | Jonathan E. Ploski | The Molecular Basis of Aberrant Emotional Learning in an Animal Model of Autism | Kurt Beron | |
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Chiang | Hsueh-Sheng | PhD | John Hart, Jr. | The Neurophysiological Mechanism of Semantic Object Memory Retrieval | Carlos Aiken | |
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Hu | Wei | PhD | Sven Kroener | Effects of Acamprosate on Attentional Set-Shifting and Cellular Function in the Prefrontal Cortex of Chronic Alcohol-Exposed Mice | Steven Levene | |
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Jeevakumar | Vivekanand | PhD | Sven Kroener | Enduring Changes in Behavioral and Synaptic Transmission in the Prefrontal Cortex Following Developmental NMDA-R Antagosism in Mice | Michael Zhang | |
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Kretz | Donald Raymond | PhD | Daniel C. Krawczyk | Strategies to Reduce Cognitive Bias in Intelligence Analysis: Can Mild Interventions Improve Analytic Judgments? | Michael Biewer | |
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Lovitz | Eric Sean | PhD | Lucien T. Thompson | ß-Adrenergic Modulation of the Amygdala Alters Fear Memory Via Modulation of AHPS in the Hippocampus | Mihaela Stefan | |
| Spring | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Strain | Jeremy Fuller | PhD | John Hart, Jr. | Anatomical Damage and Cognitive Deficits in Herpes Encephalitis | Alice O’Toole | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | Craig | Jessica | PhD | Nicole Leeper-Piquero | The Role of Personality Factors in Predicting Embezzlement, Fraud, and Shoplifting | Weili Wu | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Criminology | El Sayed | Sarah | PhD | Alex Piquero | Differentiating between Moffitt’s Developmental Taxonomy and Silverthorn and Frick’s Delayed-Onset Models of Female Offending | Alp Muharramoglu | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Indriasari | Vini | PhD | Denis J. Dean | Design of a Data Model and Algorithm for Time-Dependent Shortest Paths | John Zweck | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Mendoza Jara | Fernando Jose | PhD | Denis J. Dean/Michael Tiefelsdorf | A Forest Optimization Model to Reduce the Risk of Hurricane Damage in Easter Nicaragua | Juan Gonzales | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Morris | E Scott | PhD | Daniel Griffith | Fractal Volume of an Urban Environment: 3-Dimensional Space Filling of Dallas, Texas | Roger Malina | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Sinha | Parmanand | PhD | Daniel Griffith | Modeling Land Use Change Using Eigenvector Spatial Filtering Specification and Sprawl Measures: A Case Study of Collin County, Texas | Jim Bartlett | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Geospatial Information Science | Zhou | Yuhong | PhD | Fang Qiu | Fusion of Hyperspatial Imagery and Lidar Waveform at the Object Level for Land Cover Classification Using Curve Matching Approaches | Wieslaw Krawcewicz | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Bell | Laura | PhD | Patrick Brandt | Repercussions of Terrorist Assassinations: A Post-Assassination Institutional Analysis, 1970-2012 | Sumit Sarkar | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Political Science | Stobb | Maureen Therese | PhD | Linda Camp Keith | From Rhetoric to Reality: The Role of Domestic Actors in Diffusing International Human Rights Norms | Cihan Muslus | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Blake | Robert S. | PhD | Sheryl L. Skaggs | Health Care Public Reporting and Consumer Hospital Choice: Data Displayed by CMS Upon Discrete Hospital Choices of Texas Residents, 2008-2012 | Tom Linehan | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Burleson | Roxanne Baker | PhD | Sheryl L. Skaggs | District Variations in Student Outcomes: A Case Study of Texas Schools | Lawrence Chung | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Dobson | George Ray | PhD | R. Paul Battaglio, Jr. | Predicting the Probability of Texas Municipalities Outsourcing Human Resources Management Functions | Alice O’Toole | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Lee | Ji Han | PhD | Doug Goodman/Young-joo Lee | More Public Oriented or More Private Oriented? Quasi-Government Employees’ Public Service Motivation by Organizational Factors | U. Subramanian | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Miller | Valerie L. | PhD | Brian J. L. Berry | The State of Water Policy in North Central Texas: Where do We Go from Here? | Jay Dowling | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Hijal-Moghrabi | Imane | PhD | L. Douglas Kiel/ Donald R. Arbuckle | Does the Fiscal Crisis Lead to Innovation in Budgeing? The 2007-2008 Fiscal Crisis and its Influence on Performance-Based Budgeting in the Largest Cities in the U.S. and in Texas | SiQ Zheng | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Royster | Marcene Blakey | PhD | Simon Fass | See Me, Hear Me: Perspectives of African American Men on Providers of Healthcare | Rainer Schulte | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Colter | Cheri | PhD | Brian J. L. Berry/James C. Murdoch | Spatial Inequality and Academic Outcomes: An Analysis of Neighborhood Factors Affecting Student Performance | Nina Baranchuk | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Grover | William Carlos | PhD | Brian J. L. Berry | The Efficacy of Price Control of Address Wartime Inflation | Harold Zhang | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Jia | Ying | PhD | Brian J. L. Berry | Venture Capital in Chinese Economic Growth | Michael Rebello | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Kummer | Adnan | PhD | Lloyd J. Dumas | Essays on Monetary Policy: The Role of Monetary Policy and its Interaction with Macroprudential Policy in Economic and Financial Stability | Austin Cunningham | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Miller | Mary Frances | PhD | Lloyd J. Dumas | Regional Differences in Dairy Supply Response to Price and Policy | Simeon Ntafos | |
| Spring | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Percival | Julie Ellen Burlingame | PhD | Richard K. Scotch | Variation in High School Dropouts and Their Outcomes | Thomas Riccio | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Dsouza | Jennifer Linda | PhD | Vincent Ng | Extracting Time and Space Relations from Natural Language Texas | Daniel Cohen | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Pattuk | Erman | PhD | Murat Kantarcioglu | Enhancing Privacy in Cloud-Based Data Management Services | Patrick Brandt | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Zhai | Xuming | PhD | Ding-Zhu Du/Weili Wu | Inference Problems in Social Networks | Suresh Radhakrishnan | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Ahsen | Mehmet Eren | PhD | Mathukumalli Vidyasager | Feature Selection in Big Data: Theory and Applications to Biology | Larry Ammann | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Moore | Richard | PhD | Leonidas Bleris | Tunable Gene Editing and Control | Mark Lee | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Li | Nanxiang | PhD | Carlos Busso | Modeling of Driver Behavior in Real World Scenarios Using Multiple Noninvasive Sensors | Ken Balkus | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Liu | Gang | PhD | John H. L. Hansen | Advancements in Data Purification Selection and Discriminative Modeling for Robust Language and Speaker Recognition | John Hoffman | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Liu | Kui | PhD | Nasser Kehtarnavaz | Dual-Sensor Approaches for Real-Time Robust Hand Gesture Recognition | Dmitri Rachinsiky | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Liu | Zhidong | PhD | Hoi Lee | Design of Integrated High-Voltage Power Converters and Their Applications in Solid-State LED Lighting Systems | Zalamon Balanav | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Qian | Liuxi | PhD | Dian Zhou | Multi-Start Optimization Based Method for Circuit Performance Robustness Analysis and Design Automation | Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Urrabazo | David | PhD | Lawrence J. Overzet/Mathew J. Goeckner | Ion Induced Electron Emission from Semiconductors: The Effects of Conduction Band Electrons and Surface Density of States | Sam Efromovich | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Xiao | Ying | PhD | Babak Fahimi | Online State of Charge and Temperature Distribution Monitoring in Batteries for Automotive Applications | Rod Heelis | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yun | Yang Hun | PhD | Kenneth K. O | Evaluation of Variable Components and Detectors for Millimeter-Wave Circuits | Anton Malko | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ziaei | Ali | PhD | John H. L. Hansen | Prof-Life-Log: Speech and Speaker Advancements for Massive Naturalistic Audio Streams | John Geissman | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Zou | Yuan | PhD | Roozbeh Jafari | Addressing the Challenges in Signal Quality and Calibration Time of EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface | Lindsay King | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Arreaga Salas | David Eduardo | PhD | Walter E. Voit | Electrode Functionalization of Mechanically Adaptive Neural Intefaces | Fabiano Rodrigues | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Haines | Carter Sebastian | PhD | Ray H. Baughman | Artificial Muscles from Fishing Line and Sewing Thread | Li Zhang | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Simon | Dustin Michael | PhD | Walter E. Voit | Thin-Film Electrodes on Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Substrates | Bruce Novak | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Software Engineering | Al-Zinati | Mohammad Hussein | PhD | Rym Zalila-Wenkstern | Self-Organization in Multi-Agent-Based Simulation Systems and Its Application to Intelligent Transportation Systems | Ray Baughman | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Du | Yingjie | PhD | Hongbing Lu/Xiao Hu Liu | Mechanical Properties Characterization of Lead-Free Solder Bumps and Ultra-Low-K Dielectrics by Nanoindentation | Carlos Busso | |
| Spring | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Mortazavi | Seyedeh Negin | PhD | Fatemeh Hassanipour | Bio-Transport Phenomena in the Human Lactating Breast | Theresa Towner | |
| Spring | 2015 | Management | International Management Studies | Mutlu | Canan | PhD | Mike Peng | Competition, Corruption, and Corporate Governance in Transition Economies | Sheryl Skaggs | |
| Spring | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Mason | Paul | PhD | Harold Zhang/Suresh Radhakrishnan | The Effect of Investment Income Taxes on Acquisitions | Neeraj Mittal | |
| Spring | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Mutlu | Sunay | PhD | Daniel Cohen | Financial Reporting Quality and the Choice of Monitoring Mechanisms in Debt Contracts: Evidence from Borrowing Base Restrictions | Jim Marquart | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Baur | Cary Allen | PhD | Walter E. Voit/Shashank Priya | The Design and Fabrication of Highly Piezoelectric Polymeric Composites and Their Use in Responseive Devices | Kelli Palmer | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Campos | Raymond | PhD | Bruce M. Novak | Structure-Property Relationships of Helical Polycarbodiimides and Nanostructured Siloxanes with Helical Fluoroalkyl Substituents | Richard Golden | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Do | Quyen Ngoc | PhD | A. Dean Sherry | Integrin Targeted Imaging Agents | Dennis Miller | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Munaweera | Munaweera Thanthrige Shanika | PhD | Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr. | Nanoparticles and Nanofiber Composites for Drug Delivery, Cancer Chemoradiotherapy and Other Biological Applications | Rocky Draper | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Wu | Jingbo | PhD | Bruce M. Novak | Novel Synthetic Strategies and Fluorinated Building Blocks for Functional Fluoropolymers | Stephen Spiro | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Geosciences | Sun | Li | PhD | Tom Brikowski | Elemental and Isotopic Study of Lake Texoma, Texas-Oklahoma: Solute Sources, Mixing Dynamic and Metal Cycling | Hyuntae Yoo | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Jafeh | Farzan | PhD | Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski/Zalman I. Balanov | Congruence Principle for Brouwer Degree of Equivariant Maps between Solvable Group Representation Spheres | Yiorgos Makris | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Lv | Yanli | PhD | Wieslaw Krawcewicz | New Equivariant Methods and Applications to Symmetric Differential Equations | Clint Peinhardt | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathimatical Sciences | Zhao | Tian | PhD | Statistics | Michael Baron | Multiple Comparisons n Truncated Group Sequential Experiments with Applications n Clinical Trials | Rashaunda Henderson |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Lal | Piyush Behari | PhD | Larry J. Reitzer | Redundant and Multifunctional Aminotransferases in Escherichia Coli | Warren Goux | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Mallick | Sathi | PhD | Santosh D’Mello | Functional Analysis of SIRT1-Interacting Protein JAZ (ZNF346) in Neurons | Jie Zheng | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Zhao | Xiaoping | PhD | Zhenyu Xuan | Exome-Sequencing Technology and Its Application on Genetic Disease | Larry Overzet | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | De Pedro | Hector Michael Belleza | PhD | Robert Glosser | Optical Absorbance and Fluorescence Characteristics of Burned Rat Skin | Bruce Gnade | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Namasivayam | Harisankar | PhD | Joseph Izen | A Search for Prompt Lepton Jets in the Atlas Detector | Shalini Prasad | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Nathan | Brian Joseph | PhD | David J. Lary | Novel Techniques for Characterization of Hydrocarbon Emission Sources in the Barnett Shale | Naofal AlDhahir | |
| Spring | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Peel | Austin Chandler | PhD | Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki | Investigating Inhomogeneous Szekeres Models and Their Applications to Precision Cosmology | Andrea Fumagalli | |
| Summer | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Kaiser | Angela Marie | PhD | Humanities | Sean Cotter | Speaking Silence: Languages of Color Movement in the Poetry of Georg Trakl and Translation into Dance | Lynne Vieraitis | |
| Summer | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Akrami | Roshanak | PhD | Studies in Literature | Shari Goldberg | “The Sense of a Half-Translated Ode of Hafiz”: Emerson’s Translations of Persian Poetry | Doug Kiel | |
| Summer | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Derdeyn | LeeAnn | PhD | Studies in Literature | Tim Redman | Blindsighted: Alienation and Affirmation in Treatments of Catholicism: The Apophatic and the Kataphatic in T.S. Eliot | Kevin Siqueira | |
| Summer | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Remington | Blake William | PhD | Studies in Literature | Zsuzsanna Ozsvath | Read, Look, Go: Ethics and Dialogue in Holocaust Memorial Texts | Anvar Zakhidov | |
| Summer | 2015 | Arts and Humanities | Yang | Bingfeng | PhD | Studies in Literature | Ming Dong Gu | Conceptualization and Visualization of the Invisible in Westen and Chinese Thought and Literature | John Wiorkowski | |
| Summer | 2015 | Arts and Technology | Kasra | Mona | PhD | Frank O. Dufour | The Digital-Networked Image: Temporality and Post-National #Sociopolitical Expression | Doug Kiel | ||
| Summer | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Rao | Neena Kalipatnapu | PhD | John Hart, Jr. | Neural Correlates of Category by Valence Visual Object Organization in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An FMRI Study | Robert Stillman | |
| Summer | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cognition and Neuroscience | Rieck | Jennifer Rose | PhD | Denise C. Park | Neural Function and White Matter Structure of the Ventral Visual Pathway Across the Adult Lifespan | Robert Stillman | |
| Summer | 2015 | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Psychological Sciences | Hinkley | Sarah B. | PhD | Sharyla C. Holub | Not Just “Skin Deep”: Understanding Cutaneous Body Image in Community and Clinical Samples | Thomas Linehan | |
| Summer | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Economics | Bakshi | Sneha | PhD | Kevin Siqueira | Three Essays on Imperfect Information and Market Pricing | Leonidas Bleris | |
| Summer | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Economics | McKillop | Caitlin N. | PhD | Kurt J. Beron and Tammy Leonard, Co-Chairs | An Examination of the Social and Geographic Determinants of Individual Decision-Making | Ashutosh Prasad | |
| Summer | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Bae | Kwang Bin | PhD | Sheryl L. Skaggs | Three Studies of Human Resources: Insight into Family-Friendly Policies and Gender Diversity | Young Ryu | |
| Summer | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Affairs | Haworth | Julie B. | PhD | Euel Elliott | The Impact of Social Networks on Residentail Water Conservation Drip Irrigation Workshops into the Plano, Texas Area | David Patterson | |
| Summer | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Almuayyad | Osamah A. | PhD | Brian J.L. Berry | Effects of No Child Left Behind on the Performance of Texas Public High Schools | Shelley Lane | |
| Summer | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Oh | Young Joon | PhD | Euel Elliott | Agent-Based Network Modeling for the 2008 Financial Crisis and the Sluggish Recovery | Mieczyslaw Dabkowski | |
| Summer | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Palanisamy | Lokenathan | PhD | Lloyd J. Dumas | Internal Control Financial Reporting and Firm Performance: A Public Policy Evaluation of Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 | Nanda Kumar | |
| Summer | 2015 | Economic, Political and Policy Sciences | Public Policy and Political Economy | Seitzler | Brandon W. | PhD | Jennifer S. Holmes | National and Religious Identity and Political Culture: Southern Baptist Missionaries in Brazil | Gregory Dess | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Pradhan | Lagnajeet | PhD | Hyun-Joo Nam | Insight into Combinatorial Interactions among Cardiac Transcription Factors | Larry Overzet | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Biomedical Engineering | Sethuraman | Deepa | PhD | Hyun-Joo Nam | Development and Evaluation of N-Acetyl-Aspartate as a Lung Cancer Biomarker | Zhenyu Xuan | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Engineering | Monteiro | Savio | PhD | Lakshman S. Tamil and Gopal Gupta, Co-Chairs | An Intelligent Telemedicine Platform with Cognitive Support for Chronic Care Management | Ali Hooshyar | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Rachapalli | Jyothsna | PhD | Bhavani Thuraisingham | Secure RDF Data Management | Srinivasan Raghunathan | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Rozario | Timothy Michael | PhD | Sergey Bereg | Markerless Lung Tumor Tracking Algorithm for Image Guided Radiation Therapy | Sumit Majurndar | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Venugopal | Deepak | PhD | Vibhav Gogate | Scalable Inference Techniques for Markov Logic | Milind Dawande | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Computer Science | Zeng | Junyuan | PhD | Ziqiang Lin | Binary Code Reuse: A Dynamic Analysis Based Approach | Daniel Cohen | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Ahmadi | Muhammad | PhD | Won Nomgoong | Comparator Power Reduction for Low Power Successive Approximation Analog to Digital Convertors | Viswanath Ramakrishna | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Anderson | Christopher Stephen | PhD | Rashanda M. Henderson | Manufacturing Considerations for the Extraction of Complex Permittivity at mm-Wave Frequencies | Syam Menon | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Chukwuma | Ozegbe James | PhD | Babak Fahimi | An Adaptive System for Position-Sensorless Start-Up of Brushless DC Motors Using Online Mutual Voltage Monitoring | Robert Glosser | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Francis | Robert Paul | PhD | Duncan L. MacFarlane | Optical Imaging Through Biological Tissues | John Wiorkowski | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Frank | Aaron L. | PhD | Bhaskar Banarjee and John Hansen, Co-Chairs | A Wide Bandwidth Wide Dynamic Range RF Power Detector for Wireless Base Station and Radar Applications | Yan Cao | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Mehdizadeh | Emad | PhD | Siavash Pourkamali | Application Oriented Batch Fabrication and System Level Integration of Thermal-Piezoresistive and Piezoelectric M/NEMS Resonators. | Phil Anderson | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Naim | Muhammad Ahsan | PhD | John P. Fonseka | Improved Multilevel Coding Schemes | Massimo Fischetti | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Sheibani | Shahrzad | PhD | Bhaskar Banerjee, Chair and Rashaunda M. Henderson, Co-Chair | CMOS Circuits Used in Biomedical and Sub- Terahertz Applications | Dennis Miller | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Yen | Po-Chun | PhD | Hlaing Minn | Enhancements for Spectrum Aggregation and Channelization of Next Generation Wireless Systems | Alvaro Cardenas | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | Kini | Ramnath K. | PhD | Microelectronics | Rashaunda M. Henderson | Mixers for Millimeter Wave and Sub- Terahertz Frequencies | Robert Glosser |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Mechanical Engineering | Jiang | Wenwei | PhD | Dong Qian | Multiscale Methods and Application to Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes | Hlaing Minn | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Materials Science and Engineering | Xi | Yang | PhD | Majid Minary-Jolandon, Chair and Manual Quevedo-Lopez, Co-Chair | Solution Processed Deposition of Large Area Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDS) and Transition Metal Chalcogenides (TMCS) Thin Films and Applications for TFTS | Poras Balsara | |
| Summer | 2015 | Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science | Telecommunications Engineering | Shi | Cheng | PhD | Lakshman S. Tamil | A Mobile Health Platform for Cardiac Arrhythmia and Sleep Apnea Assessment | Ryan McMahan | |
| Summer | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Chen | Wei | PhD | Milind Dawande and Ganesh Janakiraman, Co-Chairs | Essays in Operations Management | Robert Wallace | |
| Summer | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Holcomb | Alex Joseph | PhD | Robert L. Kieschnick, Jr | Essays on Firm Interconnectedness: The Effect of Major Corporate Events on Peer Firms | Hoi Lee | |
| Summer | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Jo | Koren M. | PhD | William M. Cready | Aggregate Earnings: Time-Series Properties and Forecasting Models | Doug Goodman | |
| Summer | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Namin | Aidin Tajzadeh | PhD | Brian T. Ratchford | Essays on Price, Demand and Choice in Fashion and Car Industries | Simon Fass | |
| Summer | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Oh | Jong-Min | PhD | Michael J. Rebello and Robert L. Kieschnick, Co-Chairs | Essays on Managing Intangible Investments: Innovation and Human Capital | Donggyu Sul | |
| Summer | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Pahwa | Parneet | PhD | Nanda S. Kumar and B.P.S. Murthi, Co-Chairs | Essays on Segmentation and Targeting in Online and Offline Markets | Robert Lowry | |
| Summer | 2015 | Management | Management Science | Perera | Sandun Chamara | PhD | Ganesh Janakiraman and Suresh P. Sethi, Co-Chairs | Three Essays on Inventory Management | Susan Minkoff | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Basnayake | Sajani Achalanka | PhD | Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr. | Design and Synthesis of Novel Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFS): Pathways for Encapsulation and Storage Applications | Lucien Thompson | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Chemistry | Mahmood | Samsuddin Faisal | PhD | Duck Joo Yang | Automobile Grade Carbon Fiber Precursor Study: I. Copolymer System and II. Terpolymer System | Lawrence Reitzer | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Elewitz | Zachary | PhD | Tobias Hagge and Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, Co-Chairs | Detection of the Reidemeister 2-Move Via Generalized Polyak Invariants | Kamran Kiasaleh | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Li | Changsong | PhD | Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski and Viswanath Ramakrishna, Co-Chairs | Multiplicative Structure on KBSM of I-Bundle Over a Disk with Three Punctures | Manuel Quevedo-Lopez | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Wang | Shanshan | PhD | Statistics | Robert J. Serfling | Masking and Swamping Robustness of Outlier Detection Procedures | Fabiano Rodrigues |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Wang | Tiansong | PhD | Statistics | Michael Baron | Multi-Sensor Changepoint Detection | William Frensley |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics | Wijesuriya | Uditha | PhD | Statistics | Robert J. Serfling | Exploratory Nonparametric Functional Data Analysis Using the Spatial Depth Approach | Duncan MacFarlane |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Molecular and Cell Biology | Rawat | Varun | PhD | Santosh D’Mello | Role of AP-1 Protein C-FOS in Regulation of Neuronal Survival | Peter Assmann | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Brown | Brian Lewis | PhD | Mark Lee | Electrodynamic Response Properties of Low-Dimensional Conductors | Bruce Novak | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Harrison | William Alan | PhD | David J. Lary | In-Situ Observation of Atmospheric Particulates | Ronald Smaldone | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | McIntosh | Robert Carter | PhD | Phillip C. Anderson | Spectral Distributions of Precipitating Auroral Electrons | George McMechan | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | McWilliams | Marc Allen | PhD | Jason D. Slinker | Kinetics of Charge Transport Through Self-Assembled DNA Monolayers: Influence of DNA Defects and Applications for Biosensing | Matthew Goeckner | |
| Summer | 2015 | Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Physics | Qu | Chunlei | PhD | Chuanwei Zhang | Quantum Phases and Dynamics of Ultracold Atomic Gases with Synthetic Gauge Fields | Nicholas Gans |