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Doctoral Dissertation Fellows 2007-08
Sayeed Abbas
Chemical Engineering
Formation of Superlattices in Mixtures of Block Copolymer Micelles
Adviser: Timothy Lodge
Omar Abdul Aziz
Civil Engineering
Ecohydrology of a Unit River Ecosystem: Self-Organization, Scaling, and Critical Responses of Stream Health Indicators to Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers
Advisers: John Gulliver and Bruce Wilson
Joanna Abrams
Neuroscience
A role for Brain Benzamil-blockable Channels in the Regulation of Arterial Pressure
Adviser: John Osborn
Allison Adrian
Music
"A Mighty Fortress" Far from Lake Wobegon: The Music of Minnesota's Newest Lutherans
Adviser: Mirjana Lausevic
Ali Ahmadi Motlagh
Civil Engineering
Application of Cross-Flow Hollow-Fiber Membrane Fabrics in Water and Wastewater Treatment
Advisers: Michael Semmens and Timothy LaPara
Curtis Anderson
Mechanical Engineering
Co-deposition of Nanoparticles into Amporphous Silicon Thin Films for Seed-Nucleated Recrystallization
Adviser: Uwe Kortshagen
Jason Arnold
Political Science
The Distribution of Political Information in Democracies: Causes and Consequences
Adviser: David Samuels
Crystal Austin
Astrophysics
Analytic and Numerical Studies of Dark Matter Halos` Properties and Evolution
Adviser: Liliya Williams
Letitia Basford
Education, Curriculum & Instruction
From Mainstream to East African Charter: Somali Students` Experiences in Schools
Adviser: Martha Bigelow
Brian Batell
Physics
Localized Gauge Fields in a Slice of anti-de Sitter Space and Holography
Adviser: Tony Gherghetta
Peter Battaglia
Psychology
Probabilistic Sensorimotor Processing
Advisers: Paul Schrater and Daniel Kersten
Lisa Blee
History
Framing Chief Leschi: Memory, Justice, and American Empire in Nisqually History
Advisers: Kevin Murphy and Jean O'Brien
Paul Boswell
Chemistry
Novel Ionophore-Based Sensor Design with Perfluorinated Matrixes for Enhanced Robustness and Selectivity
Adviser: Philippe Buhlmann
Marilea Bramer
Philosophy
Taking Relationships Seriously: Personal Relationships and Kantian Moral Theory
Advisers: Sarah Holtman and Michelle Mason
Michiko Buchanan
Linguistics
Ellipsis Involving Verbs in Japanese
Advisers: Jeanette Gundel and Hooi Ling Soh
Erika Busse
Sociology
Transnational Peruvian Families: Mediators of Gender Ideology and Practices and Ethnic Identity
Advisers: Elizabeth Boyle and Douglas Hartmann
Carey Campbell
Music
To Play or not to Play: the Soloist`s Expected Contribution during Tutti Sections of the Late 18th-Century Concerto
Adviser: David Grayson
Erik Carlson
Neuroscience
Effects of Genetic and Dietary Iron Deficiency in the Developing Hippocampus
Adviser: Michael Georgieff
Christopher Chapp
Political Science
Holier than thy Opponent? Religious Rhetoric and Political Preferences in Presidential Campaigns
Adviser: James Druckman
Jungkyu Choi
Chemical Engineering
Fabrication, Characterization, and Application of Zeolite Inorganic Membranes
Adviser: Michael Tsaptsis
Cigdem Cidam
Political Science
Political Friendship and Democratic Moments of Popular Action
Adviser: Mary Dietz
Anne Cooper
Conservation Biology, Fisheries & Aquatic Biology
Identifying Socially and Ecologically Relevant Risks Posed by Genetically Modified Fish: A Methodology for Measuring Key Effects on Native Species Using the Framework of Ecological Risk Assessment
Adviser: Anne Kapucinski
Meggan Craft
Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Viral Transmission Dynamics among Serengeti Carnivores
Adviser: Craig Packer
Yue Cui
Biostatistics
Smoothing Analysis of Variance and Extending the Definition of Degrees of Freedom
Adviser: James Hodges
Sabrina Curran
Anthropology
Hominin Paleoecology and Cervid Ecomorphology
Adviser: Martha Tappen
Paul Dauenhauer
Chemical Engineering
Millisecond Catalytic Processing of Biomass
Adviser: Lanny Schmidt
Nathan De Jager
Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Multiple Scale Dynamics of the Moose-Forest-Soil Ecosystem at Isle Royale National Park, Michigan U.S.A.
Adviser: John Pastor
Jennifer Dechaine
Plant Biological Sciences
Adaptive Significance and Genetics of Maternal Effects in Competitive Environments
Adviser: Cynthia Weinig
Veronica Descotte
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
The Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP) Signaling in the Vertebrate Nervous System
Adviser: Michael O'Connor
Shyeilla Dhuria
Pharmaceutics
Effect of Vasoconstrictors on Intranasal Delivery of Hypocretin-1 (Orexin-A) to the Central Nervous System
Adviser: Willian Frey II
Katherine Dick
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
Molecular and Genetic Characterization of SCA5
Adviser: Laura Ranum
Sherry Enzler
Natural Resources Science and Management
The Role of Law in Developing Structures and Processes to Protect Ecosystems within Watersheds
Adviser: Dorothy Anderson
Amy Fisher
History of Science & Technology
An Arc Across Fields of Study: Electricity Between Physics and Chemistry (1789-1839)
Adviser: Alan Shapiro
Thomas Fountain
Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
"A Matter of Perception": Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Visual Practices of Anatomy Laboratory Education
Adviser: Mary Schuster
Tederson Galvan
Entomology
Phenology, Feeding Behavior, and Management of the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle in Wine Grapes
Adviser: William Hutchison
Anthony Gamble
Conservation Biology, Fisheries & Aquatic Biology
Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Evolution of Geckos of the World
Adviser: Andrew Simons
Shankar Ghosh
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Direct Numerical Simulation of the Thermal Effects of Plasmas on Turbulent Flows
Adviser: Krishnan Mahesh
Elizaveta Gordeliy
Civil Engineering
Modeling of Diffusion Processes in Nonhomogeneous Media
Advisers: Steven Crouch and Sofia Mogilevskaya
Stacia Gordon
Geology
Crustal Flow: Investigations into the Rates and Effects of Rheologically Weak Continental Crust
Advisers: Donna Whitney and Christian Teyssier
Rahul Gupta
Biomedical Engineering
Neural Basis of Motor Learning and Consolidation
Adviser: James Ashe
Anna Gybina
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Effect of Copper Deficiency on Energy Metabolism of Rodent Brain
Adviser: Joseph Prohaska
Michael Hallberg
Mechanical Engineering
The Dynamics of Globally Unstable Jets: Frequency Selection and Nonlinear Mode Interactions
Adviser: Paul Strykowski
Susan Hawthorne
Philosophy
The ADHD Paradigm in Medicine, Science and Society: Its Legitimization--and Its Critique
Adviser: Helen Longino
William Hedgcock
Business Administration
Essays on the Neural Basis of Consumer Choice
Adviser: Akshay Rao
Henriet Hendriks
Political Science
Hitting the Battleground Running: The Effects of Geographic Targeting on American Politics
Adviser: John Sullivan
Heather Hlavka
Sociology
When Discourse Becomes Disclosure: Children`s Meaning Making of Sexual Abuse
Advisers: Christopher Uggen and Ross Macmillian
Tao Hu
Physics
How Proteins Search for their Targets on DNA
Adviser: Boris Shklovskii
Marc Jensen
Music
Sounding the Empty Spaces
Adviser: Alex Lubet
Adam Johnson
Neuroscience
Learning and Memory in the Rodent Hippocampus: Electrophysiology, Modeling and Behavior
Adviser: A. David Redish
Alicia Johnson
Statistics
Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian Hierarchical Models
Advisers: Galin Jones and Glen Meeden
Pui-Fong Kan
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Novel Word Learning in Sequential Bilingual Children
Adviser: Kathryn Kohnert
Susan Kang
Political Science
Workers in the International Legal Order: Protecting Labor Rights Within the Global Economy
Adviser: Kathryn Sikkink
Anne Kern
Education, Curriculum & Instruction
Novice Teacher Action: Exploring Secondary Science Teacher`s Action Through Practical Reasoning
Adviser: Gillian Roehrig
Jonneke Koomen
Political Science
Between the Global and the Local: Women and Gender as Global Governance
Adviser: Raymond Duvall
Seth Kruckenberg
Geology
From Diatexite to Detachment: Structural Petrology and Kinematic Analysis of Migmatite Domes in Core Complexes
Advisers: Christian Teyssier and Donna Whitney
Michael Lee
Communication Studies
Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made a Movement
Adviser: Kirt Wilson
Moosung Lee
Educational Policy and Administration
Academic Success Patterns of African American Working Class Students: A Social Network Approach
Adviser: Michael Paige
Joanlise Leon
Epidemiology
Gene Expression Profiling of Multiple Autoimmune Diseases
Adviser: Kathy Moser
Chenguang Liu
Biomedical Engineering
Noninvasive Imaging of Cardiac Activation by Means of a Heart Electrophysiological Model
Adviser: Bin He
Lisong Liu
History
Mobility, Community, and Identity: Chinese Migration to the U.S. and Transnational Citizenship, 1978-Present
Advisers: Barbara Welke and Erika Lee
Marie Lopez del Puerto
Physics
Real-Space Pseudopotential Calculations of the Ground-State and Excited-State Properties of Molecules and Clusters
Adviser: James Chelikowsky
Donna MacDuff
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Regulators of Activation-Induced Deaminase in Antibody Gene Diversification and Transposon Restriction
Adviser: Reuben Harris
Venugopal Maddipati
Art History
Building, Dwelling, Thinking Gandhi: Towards an Ethical Architecture in India
Adviser: Catherine Asher
Jan Makowski
Electrical Engineering
Nanomechanical Tuning of Electron States
Adviser: Joseph Talghader
Christine Manganaro
History of Medicine and the Biological Sciences
A Racial Paradise as a Human Laboratory: Racial Research in Hawaii, 1890-1945
Advisers: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and John Eyler
Amber Martin
Child Psychology
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Spatial Language in Deaf and Hearing Children
Adviser: Maria Sera
Rachel Mason Dentinger
History of Science & Technology
The Nature of Defense: Coevolutionary Studies and the Evolution of "Natural Insecticides," 1959-1980
Adviser: Mark Borello
Molly McCue
Comparative & Molecular Biosciences
The Prevalence and Genetic Basis for Polysaccaride Storage Myopathy
Advisers: Stephanie Valberg and James Mickelson
Kari McGee
Chemistry
Synthesis of Luminescent Transition Metal Coordination Compounds for use as in Electronic Devices and Environmental Sensors
Adviser: Kent Mann
Luis Morera
History
Royal Ceremonies in Late Medieval Spain, c. 1350-1516
Adviser: William Phillips, Jr.
Anasatsios Mourikis
Computer Science
Characterization and Optimization of the Accuracy of Mobile Robot Localization
Adviser: Stergios Roumeliotis
Munyaradzi Munochiveyi
History
Rhodesia`s Gulags: A History of Imprisonment, Detention and Confinement during Zimbabwe`s Liberation Struggle, 1960-1980
Advisers: Allen Isaacman and Tamara Giles-Vernick
Polly Myers
History
Shop Traditions: Constructing and Maintaining the Boeing Family at the Boeing Company
Advisers: Sara Evans and Tracy Deutsch
Masako Nakamura
History
War Brides of the Pacific War: Marriage, Race, Migration, and Postwar U.S. Occupation of Japan
Advisers: Erika Lee and Elaine Tyler May
Rajyashree Narayanareddy
Geography
Spectres of Waste in India`s `Silicon Valley`: The Underside of Bangalore`s Hi-Tech Economy
Advisers: Vinay Gidwani and Eric Sheppard
Jaromir Nosal
Economics
Optimal Currency Areas: A Business Cycle Approach
Advisers: Patrick Kehoe and V.V. Chari
Pablo Olivera Firpo
Plant Pathology
Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity of Sharon Goatgrass (Aegilops Sharonensis) and Genetics of Resistance to Wheat Fungal Diseases
Adviser: Brian Steffenson
Juan Padrino Inciarte
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Topics in Viscous Potential Flow of Two-Phase Systems
Adviser: Daniel Joseph
Bongsoo Park
American Studies
Intimate Encounters, Imperial Frontiers: Sex and the Stateless GI Babies in South Korea and the U.S., 1953-1965
Advisers: Lary May and Hiromi Mizuno
Kelly Paulson
Conservation Biology, Fisheries & Aquatic Biology
Risk Assessment of Transgenic Fish: Model Predictions in Different Environments
Adviser: Anne Kapucinski
Becky Peterson
English
Clothes Reading: Modernist Women Theorizing Material, Theorizing Otherness
Adviser: Paula Rabinowitz
Jonathon Peterson
Mathematics
Quenched Limiting Distributions for a One-dimensional Random Walk in a Random Environment
Adviser: Ofer Zeitouni
Colin Plank
Geology
The Stratigraphic Signature of Drought in Small Lake Basins as Revealed by a Comparison of Modern, Late, and Mid-Holocene Sediments
Advisers: Bryan Shuman and Emi Ito
Jian Qin
Materials Science and Engineering
Analysis of Block Copolymer Phase Behavior by Self-Consistent Field and Fluctuating Field Theories
Advisers: David Morse and Frank Bates
Neeraj Rai
Chemical Physics
Molecular Simulation of Organic Solids: Crystal Structure Prediction, Stability and Screening of Polymorphs and Hydrates
Adviser: J. Ilja Siepmann
Kartik Raj
Political Science
Movement and Detention: Migration and Terror in Contemporary Societies of Control
Adviser: Raymond Duvall
Pradeep Ramanthan
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
Is Metamemory Implicit? Relationships Between Implicit Memory and Metamemory in Individuals With and Without Traumatic Brain Injury
Adviser: Mary Kennedy
Salome Rebello
Nutrition
Soy Isoflavones: Metabolism, Distribution and Effects on Prostatic Protein Expression
Adviser: Mindy Kurzer
Annett Richter
Music
Fiddles, Harmonicas, and Banjos: Thomas Hart Benton and his Role in Constructing Popular Notions of American Folk Music and Musicians
Advisers: Peter Mercer-Taylor and Karal Ann Marling
Desiree Robertson
Entomology
A Taxonomic and Systematic Revision of the Caddisfly Subfamily Protoptilinae (Insecta: Trichoptera: Glossosomatidae)
Adviser: Ralph Holzenthal
Gina Rumore
History of Science & Technology
Carving out a Place for Science: Ecology and Glaciology in Glacier Bay, Alaska, 1878-1958
Advisers: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Mark Borello
Pearl Sandick
Physics
An Analysis of Discovery Prospects for sub-GUT Supersymmetry Models
Adviser: Keith Olive
Cassandra Scharber
Education, Curriculum & Instruction
Online Book Clubs for the Net Generation
Advisers: Joan Hughes and David O'Brien
April Schumacher
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Dissecting the Mechansism of Human APOBEC3G-Mediated Restriction of Endogenous Retroelements
Adviser: Reuben Harris
Lindsey Simms
Comparative Literature
Postcolonial Automobility: West Africa and the Road to Globalization
Adviser: Timothy Brennan
Cory Stockwell
Comparative Literature
"Open Secrets": Violence, Secrecy, and the Question of Community
Adviser: Thomas Pepper
Balram Suman
Chemical Engineering
Continuum and Molecular Level Modeling of Interfacial Dynamics: Dendrimer Adsorption and Thin Film Instabilities
Adviser: Satish Kumar
Stoyan Tchaprazov
English
The British Empre Revisited Through the Lens of the Eastern Question
Adviser: Andrew Elfenbein
Adriana Telias Rabinovich
Applied Plant Sciences
Studies on Apple Peel Color Regulation
Adviser: Emily Hoover
Andrew Urban
History
An Intimate World: Race, Migration, and Chinese and Irish Domestic Servants in the late-Nineteenth Century United States
Adviser: Erika Lee
Balint Vanek
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Dynamics and Control of High-Speed Supercavitating Vehicles
Adviser: Gary Balas
Ramji Venkatasubramanian
Mechanical Engineering
Multiscale Thermobiomechanics of Arteries
Adviser: John Bischof
Zhiyong Wang
Chemistry
Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Porous Nanocomposites and Materials with Hierarchical Porosity
Adviser: Andreas Stein
Elizabeth Weixel
English
The Forest and Social Change in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1700
Adviser: John Watkins
Michelle Wieland
Conservation Biology, Fisheries & Aquatic Biology
Oil, Villagers and a Congolese National Park: Incorporating Social, Historical, & Economic Factors into Conservation
Advisers: Tamara Giles-Vernick and Todd Arnold
Aaron Windel
History
Governing Community: Anthropology, Education, and Cooperation in British Colonial Africa
Adviser: Anna Clark
Petter Woll
Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology
Lympho-Hematopoietic Development from Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Adviser: Dan Kaufman
Bin Wu
Physics
Fluorescence Cumulant Analysis in Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy
Adviser: Joachim Mueller
Jianying Yang
Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology
The Role of Interleukin-2 Receptor in Regulatory T Cell Development
Adviser: Michael Farrar
Hossein Zare
Electrical Engineering
Information Integration and Regulatory Sequence Analysis to Study Gene Regulation
Advisers: Mostafa Kaveh and Arkady Khodursky
Maria Zavialova
English
Translating Color: Theory and Practice of Translation in a Global Setting
Adviser: Paula Rabinowitz
Siyi Zhang
Medicinal Chemistry
Investigation of DNA Adducts of Carcinogenic Aldehydes: Potential Biomarkers for Tobacco Smoking Related Cancers
Adviser: Stephen Hecht
Wenliang Zhang
Mathematics
Lyubeznik Numbers
Adviser: Gennady Lyubeznik
Jianfeng Zhu
Anthropology
Winning the Competition at the Start Line: Chinese Modernity, Reproduction and the Desire for "High Quality" Population
Adviser: Karen-Sue Taussig
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