Doctoral Dissertation Fellows 2002-03

Hassib Amini
Physics
Electroweak Phase Transition within non-Minimal Supersymmetric Models
Adviser: Arkady Vainshtein

Lisa E. Anderson
Neuroscience
CGRP Receptors Regulate Gene Expression in Primary Afferent Neurons
Adviser: Virginia S. Seybold

Jay D. Aronson
History of Science and Technology
Taming the Hypervariable Witness: The Introduction, Contestation, and Regulation of DNA Typing in Law and Science, 1984-1996
Adviser: John H. Beatty

Mihaela Cardei
Computer and Information Sciences
Algorithms for Optimization Problems in Routing Design and Resource Management in Communication Networks
Adviser: Ding Zhu Du

David M. Carr
Chemical Engineering
Cobalt and Manganese Based Heusler Alloys for Use as Spin Injection Contacts
Adviser: Christopher J. Palmstrom

Kevin A. Cavicchi
Materials Science & Engineering
Diffusion in Block Copolymer Melts
Adviser: Timothy P. Lodge

Reid J. Chesterfield (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Chemical Engineering
Designing Organic Semiconductors: A Case Study Using Oligo-thiophene Derivatives
Adviser: C. Daniel Frisbie

Nina Chichocki
Art History
Tourists and Turkish Bathhouses: The Life Stories of Monuments in a Global Age
Adviser: Catherine E. B. Asher

Douglas R. Cobos
Soil Science
Adaptation, Testing, and Application of Conditional Sampling for Measuring Mercury Vapor Fluxes
Adviser: John M. Baker

Marcela de Leon Gatti
Chemical Engineering
Genomics in Cell Culture Engineering: A Case Study with Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
Adviser: Wei-Shou Hu

Grant D. Erdmann
Mathematics
A Structure-Exploiting Primal-Dual Interior-Point Algorithm for the Discrete Minimax Problem
Adviser: Fadil Santosa

Wayne M. Falk
Aerospace Engineering
Mechanics of Protein Assemblies in Bacteriophage T4
Adviser: Richard D. James

Philip Ford
Music
American Popular Music in the Cold War: The Hip Aesthetic and the Countercultural Idea
Advisers: Michael Cherlin and David A. Grayson

Mathew T. Graham
Physics
The Brancing Ratio of the Chi 0 State of Charmonium to Two Photons
Adviser: Roger Rusack

Gundolf F. Graml
Germanic Studies
Tourism, Space, and National Identity in Austria after 1945
Adviser: Arlene A. Teraoka

Cynthia M. Hale
Forestry
European Earthworm Invasion and Dynamics of Hardwood Forest Understory Communities
Adviser: Lee E. Frelich

Jamon A. Halvaksz
Anthropology
Global Desires, Local Debates: Evaluating Conservation and Development Options in the Wau-Bulolo Valley, Papua New Guinea
Advisers: Kathleen Barlow and David M. Lipset

Kimberley D. Ham
Molecular Veterinary Biosciences
Estrogen and Osteoarthritis in Cynomolgus Macaques
Adviser: Cathy S. Carlson

Luis Hernandez
Physics
Transport in Ultrathin Metal Films at Low Temperatures and High Magnetic Fields Near the Superconductor Insulator Transition
Adviser: Allen Goldman

Janet M. Holdsworth
Educational Policy and Administration
Power, Agendas, and Conflict in a Critical Higher Education Policy Arena: An Examination of Gender-Equity Policy Development in Intercollegiate Athletics in Division I Universities
Adviser: Melissa S. Anderson

Abdel Isakovic (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Physics
Spin Transport in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures
Adviser: Paul A. Crowell

Melinda S. Jackson
Political Science
Who Am I? The Impact of Identity on Political Attitudes and Behavior
Adviser: John L. Sullivan

David Jenemann
Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
Transmissions: Adorno in America 1938-1952
Adviser: Richard D. Leppert

Ping Ji
Pharmaceutics
Middle Ear Distribution Kinetics of Cefdinir in an Acute Otitis Media Model
Adviser: Ronald J. Sawchuk

Andrew L. Knighton
Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
Idle Pursuits: The Limits of Productivity in 19th-Century America
Adviser: Richard D. Leppert

Marcela Kostihova
English
Shakespeare Ltd.: Political Bardolatry in Post-Communist Czech Republic
Adviser: John A. Watkins

Kailash Krishnaswamy
Mechanical Engineering
Passive Bilateral Teleoperation of Multiple Degree of Freedom Hydraulic Machines
Adviser: Perry Y. Li

Gary J. Kunkel
Aerospace Engineering
An Experimental Study of the High-Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layer
Adviser: Ivan Marusic

Yichun Kuo
Linguistics
Shape Saliency in English and Chinese: Implications for Linguistic Forms on Cognition
Adviser: Jeanette K. Gundel

Michael J. Lansing
History
Fixing the West: People, Nature, and Place in U.S. Western History, 1880-1920
Adviser: Sara M. Evans

Dongjun Lee
Mechanical Engineering
Control and Geometry of Mechanical Teleoperators
Adviser: Perry Y. Li

Sharon M. Leon
American Studies
Beyond Birth Control: Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the U.S., 1900-1950
Adviser: Elaine Tyler May

Qiwei Lu (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Materials Science and Engineering
Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) Blends
Adviser: Christopher W. Macosko

Mu Lu
Civil Engineering
Computed Nonlinear Response of Slender Unreinforced Masonry (URM) Walls to Lateral Loads
Advisers: Arturo E. Schultz and Henryk K. Stolarski

Matthew R. Lungerhausen
History
Visual Culture and Nation Building: Photography in Fin-de-Siecle Hungary
Adviser: David F. Good

James E. Lyke
Astrophysics
Classical Novae and their Contribution to Galactic Chemical Evolution
Advisers: Robert D. Gehrz and Charles E. Woodward

Xiaoli Ma
Electrical Engineering
Doubly-Selective Channels: Estimation, Capacity and Space-Time Coding
Adviser: Georgios Giannakis

Paul Magnuson
Curriculum & Instruction
The Interplay Between Minnesota's Accountability System and English Language Learners with Limited Formal Schooling
Adviser: Diane J. Tedick

Catherine H. Majumder
Geophysics
Numerical Studies in Geophysics
Adviser: David A. Yuen

Cecily H. Marcus
Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
Broadsiding History: Cultural Magazines and Intellectual Life During Argentina's Dirty War
Adviser: Timothy A. Brennan

Casey N. McGinnis
Philosophy
Legal Applications of Paraconsistent Logic
Advisers: William H. Hanson and Geoffrey P. Hellman

Malcolm K. McNee
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics
The Arts in Movement: Cultural Politics and Canon Formation in Brazil's Landless Movement (MST)
Adviser: Fernando E. Arenas

Mohamed-Kassim, Ahmad Z.
Aerospace Engineering
Experiments on Drop Impact and Coalescence at a Liquid/Liquid Interface
Adviser: Ellen Longmire

Marissa J. Moorman
History
Rhythm, Resistance and Revolution: A Social History of Music and the Nation, Luanda, Angola,
1956-1989
Adviser: Allen F. Isaacman

Sylvain Nintcheu Fata
Civil Engineering
3D Subterranean Imaging via Elastic Waves
Adviser: Bojan Guzina

Brian L. Olson (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Interaction of the Splicing Factor, Prp40p, with Nuclear Export Proteins
Adviser: Paul G. Siliciano

Jonathan T. Prbila (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology
Characterization of the Roles of ADAP and Fyn in the Regulation of T Cell Chemotaxis
Adviser: Yoji Shimizu

Monica Roberts
Molecular Veterinary Biosciences
Mapping Neuromuscular Diseases in Dogs
Adviser: James R. Mickelson

Amit Ron
Political Science
Ethics and Economic Exchange: the Problem of Justice
Adviser: James F. Farr

Rebecca L. Scherr
English
Syn/aesthetics: Touch, Sound, and Vision in Modern American Literature and Photography
Adviser: Maria Damon

Brian D. Schultz (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Chemical Engineering
In situ Surface, Chemical, and Electrical Characterization of the Interfaces Between Ferromagnetic Metals and Compound Semiconductors Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Adviser: Christopher J. Palmstrom

Hillary C. Sinclair
Psychology
Is Necessity or Ability the Mother of Invention?: Examining Individual and Contextual Influences on the Nature of Self-reinvention
Adviser: Eugene Borgida

Michelle J. Solensky
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Male and Female Control of Paternity in Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus)
Adviser: Karen S. Oberhauser

Paul J. Sonda
Chemical Engineering
The Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics in a Vertical Bridgman Crystal Growth System
Adviser: Prodromos Daoutidis

Gabriel R. Soto
Mathematics
An Integrated Model for Calcium Dynamics in Neurotransmission
Adviser: Hans G. Othmer

Angela K. Spartz
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
Genetic and Molecular Analysis of smu-2, a Gene that Regulates Alternative Splicing in the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans
Advisers: Robert K. Herman and Jocelyn E. Shaw

Jeffrey R. Stevens
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
The Behavioral Ecology of Food Sharing
Adviser: David H. Stephens

Yu Sun
Mechanical Engineering
Microrobotics and Vision-Force Integration for Biomanipulations and Biomembrane Investigation
Advier: Bradley J. Nelson

Ann Towns
Political Science
The International Politics of Women and the State
Adviser: Kathryn A. Sikkink

Karthik Venkataraman (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Chemical Engineering
Short Contact Time Catalytic Wall Reactors
Adviser: Lanny D. Schmidt

Joel D. Wainwright
Geography
Colonizing Belize: Discourses of Agriculture, Development, and Indigeneity
Advisers: Bruce P. Braun and Abdi I. Samatar

Bin Wang
Business Administration
A Multi-Method Analysis of Internet Firm Morphing and Survival
Adviser: Robert J. Kauffman

Yexun Wang (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Structural and Functional Studies of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Human Epithelial and Endothelial Cells
Adviser: Bianca Conti-Fine

Linda D. Wayne
Feminist Studies
Sexualities: From Second to Third Wave Feminism
Adviser: Ellen Messer-Davidow

Allison L. E. Wee
English
Modernism's Trials and Eros: Britain's Home Office v. "Obscene" Literature, 1900-1930
Adviser: Toni A. McNaron

Carmen E. Westerberg
Psychology
Mechanisms Underlying False Recognition: A Neurologically Plausible Model of False Memories
Adviser: Chad J. Marsolek

Anne M. Wolf
History
Juan de Segovia and Western Perspectives on Islam in the Fifteenth Century
Advisers: Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips

Chunhui Wu
Mechanical Engineering
Failure Mechanisms in Multilayered, Viscoelastic Polymer Structures
Adviser: Susan C. Mantell

Junqing Xie
Materials Science and Engineering
MBE Growth and Spin Injection Measurement of Ferromagnetic Alloy Ni2MnIn on III-V Semiconductors
Adviser: Christopher J. Palmstrom

Hongchuan Yang
Electrical Engineering
Markov Chains with Applications to Channel Modeling and Performance Analysis of Wireless Communications
Adviser: Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Jianming Yu
Applied Plant Sciences
Changes in Genetic Variation due to Bottlenecks in Maize Breeding
Adviser: Rex Bernardo

Andrew S. Zalusky (3M Science and Technology Fellow)
Chemistry
Mesoporous Polystyrene Monoliths
Adviser: Marc A. Hillmyer

Li Zhang
Civil Engineering
Reduction of Haloacetic Acids by Iron Metal
Adviser: Raymond M. Hozalski

Jian Zhao
Civil Engineering
Development of EFT for Nonlinear SDOF Systems
Advisers: Catherine W French and Carol K. Shield

Hong Zhu
Mechanical Engineering
Active Control of Acoustic Absorption, Reflection and Transmission
Adviser: Rajesh Rajamani