Doctoral Dissertation Fellows 2009-10
Naheed Aaftaab
Anthropology
Urban Change, Middle-Class Culture and IT Industry in Hyderabad, India
Adviser: Gloria Raheja
Irma Arteaga
Applied Economics
Long-Term Effects of Preschool Participation on Adult Outcomes: The Case of the Child-Parent Center Preschool Program
Adviser: Judy Temple
Katherine Bauer
Epidemiology
The Family Environment and Adolescent Girls` Weight, Physical Activity and Dietary Intake: Implications for Obesity Prevention Programs
Adviser: Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Lorelle Berkeley
Natural Resources Science & Management
The Influence of Habitat, Female Preference and Male Behavior on Male Territory Selection in Ruffed Grouse: A Test of Habitat Selection Theory
Adviser: Ralph Gutierrez
John Bienapfl
Plant Pathology
Fusarium and Phytopthora Species Associated with Root Rot of Soybean (Glycine Max)
Advisers: Dean Malvick & James Percich
Adam Boies
Mechanical Engineering
Study of Photoinduced Chemical Vapor Deposition Coating of Nanoparticles.
Adviser: Steven Girshick
Dan Bolintineanu
Chemical Engineering
The Mechanism of Action of Protegrin Antimicrobial Peptides
Advisers: Yiannis Kaznessis & H. Ted Davis
Michael Borich
Rehabilitation Sciences
Enhancement of Learning: Does Sleep Benefit Motor Skill Memory Consolidation?
Adviser: Teresa Kimberley
Timothy Boyer
Environmental Health
Quantitative Measurement and Spatial Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Load in Agricultural Samples
Adviser: Randall Singer
Rachel Brummel
Conservation Biology
Burning Boundaries in Wildland Fire Planning and Policy: Collaborative Governance, Social Learning, and the Environment in the United States and Australia.
Adviser: Kristen Nelson
Jesse Bucher
History
The Body of Steve Biko in South African History
Advisers: Allen Isaacman & Tamara Giles-Vernick
Christine Cardinal
Chemical Engineering
Design of Particulate Coating Microstructure During Drying
Adviser: Lorraine Francis
Jeremy Chacon
Entomology
Biotic Interference of a Classical Biological Control Agent of the Soybean Aphid
Adviser: George Heimpel
Leonardo Chamorro
Civil Engineering
Surface Heterogeneity Effects on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: Parameterizations and Applications to Wind Energy
Adviser: Fernando Porte-Agel
Aditi Chandra
Art History
The Production of Monuments and the Politics of Heritage: Archaeology, Tourism and Delhi`s Islamic Architecture
Adviser: Catherine Asher
Yu-Yun Chang
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
The Regulation of Drosophila Atg1/Atg13 Complex and PKA in Autophagy
Adviser: Thomas Neufeld
Jie Chen
Computer Science
Linear Algebra Techniques for Effective Data Mining
Adviser: Yousef Saad
Kuan-Ming Chen
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Structural Study of HIV-1 Virus Restriction Factor:APOBEC3G
Adviser: Hiroshi Matsuo
Xi Chen
Physics
Theories of Spin Transport and Applications
Adviser: Randall Victora
Frank Cichocki
Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology
Mechanisms of Epigenetic Regulation of Killer Immunoglobulin Receptor Gene Expression in Developing Human Natural Killer Cells
Adviser: Jeffrey Miller
Nathan Clough
Geography
Dissent in the City: The Spatial Politics of Contemporary American Protest Events
Adviser: Helga Leitner
Sara Cohen
English
Medical Screening: Illness, Cyber-bodies, and Digital Death in 21st Century Visual Culture
Advisers: Paula Rabinowitz & Siobhan Craig
Genya Dana
Conservation Biology
Stakeholder Involvement in Environmental Risk Analysis: A Case Study of GMO Monitoring in South Africa.
Adviser: Anne Kapuscinski
Logan Dancey
Political Science
Scandals, Ethics, and Process Responsiveness in Congress
Adviser: Paul Goren
Stacy Danov
Educational Psychology
Using Functional Analysis Methodology to Evaluate Neuroleptic Medication Effecs on Positively and Negatively Reinforced Severe Problem Behavior
Adviser: Frank Symons
Jovana Davidovic
Philosophy
The Foundation of Justice: A Normative Analysis of the Institution of International Law
Adviser: Michelle Mason
Michael Davies
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Elucidating the Molecular Mechanism of Glucose-stimulated ChREBP Activity
Adviser: Howard Towle
Grace Deason
Psychology
The Psychological and Socio-Political Consequences of Maternal Appeals in Politics
Advisers: Eugene Borgida & Christopher Federico
Kerry Ebert
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
A Comparison Between Nonlinguistic Cognitive Processing Treatment and Traditional Language Treatment for Bilingual Children with Primary Language Impairment
Adviser: Kathryn Kohnert
Heather Flowers
Anthropology
Shifting Shapes and Shaping Self: Social Identity, Animal Art, and Mortuary Ritual in Early Medieval Northwest Europe
Adviser: Peter Wells
Sara Franck
Art History
A State of Refinement: New Ways of Viewing Hellenistic Architecture in the Peloponnese
Adviser: Frederick Cooper
Janice Frias
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
Investigations into the Mechanism of Microbial Olefin Biosynthesis
Adviser: Lawrence Wackett
Molly Gage
English
The Past`s Paper Trail
Adviser: Paula Rabinowitz
Qi Gao
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Evolution of Eddies and Packets in Turbulent Boundary
Adviser: Ellen Longmire
Shencheng Ge
Chemistry
Real-Time Electroanalytical Measurement of Single Platelet Exocytosis
Adviser: Christy Haynes
Philip Grace
History
Providers and Educators:The Theory and Practice of Fatherhood in Late Medieval Basel
Adviser: Ruth Karras
Siddika Guzey
Education, Curriculum & Instruction
Science, Technology, and Pedagogy: Exploring Secondary Science Teachers` Effective Uses of Technology
Advisers: Gillian Roehrig & Fred Finley
Anna Henderson
Geology
Climate Change, Water Supplies, and Forest Cover Near the Headwaters of the Colorado River over the past 11,000 Years
Advisers: Bryan Shuman & Emi Ito
Burak Himmetoglu
Physics
Resolving Cosmic Microwave Background Anomalies
Adviser: Marco Peloso
Mark Hoffman
Political Science
Rethinking the Politics of Immigration
Advisers: Raymond Duvall & Lisa Disch
Beth Holbrook
Water Resources Science
Spatial Variability of Zooplankton-fish Interactions in Freshwater Lake Ecosystems
Advisers: Donn Branstrator & Thomas Hrabik
Zachary Holman
Mechanical Engineering
Germanium Nanocrystal Solar Cells
Adviser: Uwe Kortshagen
Caley Horan
History
Actuarial Age: The Rise of Insurance and Risk Management in Post-WWII America
Advisers: Elaine May & Lary May
Julie Hughes
Kinesiology
The Relationships Among Physical Activity, Body Composition, Hormonal Status and Bone Strength in Older Men with Osteoporosis
Adviser: Moira Petit
Mazhar Islam
Business Administration
Effect of Competition on Technology Innovation and Project Performance in Start-Ups: Evidence from Biopharmaceutical Clinical Trials
Adviser: Myles Shaver
Vijay Deep Ivaturi
Social, Administrative, & Clinical Pharmacy
Development of an Intranasal Diazepam Delivery System for the Treatment of Seizure Emergencies
Adviser: James Cloyd
Phebe Jatau
Education, Curriculum & Instruction
Schooling and What it Means: The Experiences of Five Young Kaduna State Women
Adviser: Timothy Lensmire
Yeonbo Jeong
Feminist Studies
Transnational Biomedical Technologies & Gendered Body: Reproductive Tissue Donation for Stem Cell Research in South Korea
Advisers: Susan Craddock & Jacquelyn Zita
Brad Jones
Materials Science and Engineering
Nanoporous Materials and Nanostructured Composites from Polymeric Bicontinuous Microemulsions
Adviser: Timothy Lodge
Preeti Joshi
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
Molecular Analysis of Histone Methylation in Polycomb Gene Silencing
Adviser: Jeffrey Simon
Vivek Kalihari
Materials Science and Engineering
A New Materials Characterization Technique: Transverse Shear Microscopy for Imaging Crystallite Orientation in Organic Thin Films
Adviser: C.D. Frisbie
Jin Woong Kang
Sociology
Understanding the Dynamics of State Power in North Korea
Adviser: Michael Goldman
Daniel King
Geology
Melt Segregation and Shear Localization during Deformation of Partially Molten Rocks
Adviser: David Kohlstedt
Xiaoxiao Kong
Biostatistics
Statistical Methods in Genome Sequence Analysis
Adviser: Cavan Reilly
Rachael Kulick
Sociology
Home Birth Does not Occur Naturally:
An Ethnography of Contemporary Maternity Care in the United States and the Netherlands
Advisers: Phyllis Moen & Kathleen Hull
Nabil Laachi
Chemical Engineering
Analytical Approaches to Microscale Transport of DNA in Confined Geometries
Adviser: Kevin Dorfman
Catherine Lee
Food Science
The Role of Salivary Proteins and Changes in Lubricity in the Mechanism of Astringency
Adviser: Zata Vickers
Ji Li
Physics
Laser Spectroscopy of Protein Interactions in Cardiac Calcium Regulation
Adviser: David Thomas
Pei Li
Biostatistics
Nonparametric Hierarchical Modeling for Spatial Boundary Analysis
Adviser: Sudipto Banerjee
Nathan Lindquist
Electrical Engineering
Metallic Nano-Structures and Surface Plasmon Resonance for Optical Biosensing
Adviser: Sang-Hyun Oh
Chun Liu
Chemistry
Multicompartment Micelles from Block Terpolymers in Selective Solvent
Advisers: Timothy Lodge & Marc Hillmyer
Wei Liu
Statistics
Distinguishing Between Parametric and Nonparametric Regression Scenarios With a Consistent Model Selection Procedure
Adviser: Yuhong Yang
Sara Loss
Linguistics
Iron Range English Reflexives
Adviser: Hooi Soh
Katie Maerzke
Chemistry
Monte Carlo Simulations of Polymer-Solvent Mixtures and Microheterogeneous Fluids
Adviser: Ilja Siepmann
Julie Markant
Child Psychology
The Role of Selective Attention and Individual Differences in Infant Learning
Adviser: Kathleen Thomas
Kelly McDonough
Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures & Linguistics
Reading and Writing: Tracing the Nahuatl Intellectual Tradition
Adviser: Nicholas Spadaccini
Eli Meyerhoff
Political Science
Dropout or Pushed Out? A Political Theory of School Non-Completion
Advisers: Scott Abernathy & Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo
Catherine Micek
Mathematics
Volume Transitions in Gels with Biomedical Applications: Finite Elements and Elasticity
Adviser: Carme Calderer
Ireen Mudeka
History
Gender in Foreign Migration: The Case of Nyasa Women in Southern Rhodesia; 1940-1980
Advisers: Allen Isaacman & Tamara Giles-Vernick
Christoph Mueller
Economics
Robust Implementation in Extensive Form Mechanisms
Adviser: Kim Sau Chung
Joseph Mueller
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Optimal Trajectory Planning for High-Altitude Airships in the Presence of Uncertainty
Adviser: Yiyuan Zhao
Anusree Mukherjee
Chemistry
Bio-inspired Iron Complexes for Shape-Selective Hydrocarbon Oxidations
Adviser: Lawrence Que
Saravanapriah Nadarajan
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
Control of Oocyte Growth and its Coordination with Oocyte Meiotic Maturation
Adviser: David Greenstein
Timothy O`Brien
Music
Women, Furniture, and Ornaments: The Commodification and Redistribution of Female Muslim Slave Musicians in Medieval Al-Andalus
Adviser: Kelley Harness
Serkay Olmez
Physics
Gravitational Radiation from Nonabelian Cosmic Strings
Adviser: Mikhail Shifman
Aaron Overland
Neuroscience
Mechanism and Utility of Spinal Adrenergic-Opioid Analgesic Synergy
Advisers: George Wilcox & Carolyn Fairbanks
Erica Owen
Political Science
An Informational Theory of the Democratic Politics of Foreign Investment
Adviser: John Freeman
Tsung-Yi Pan
History
Constructing Tiananmen Square as a Site of Memory: National Salvation, Revolutionary Tradition, and Political Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
Adviser: Ann Waltner
Gaurav Pandey
Computer Science
Data Mining Techniques for Enhancing Protein Function Prediction
Adviser: Vipin Kumar
Marc Parent
Neuroscience
Functional Reorganization of Brain Circuitry in Prefrontal Cortex by Stress
Adviser: LiLian Yuan
James Pasternak
Germanic Studies
Dissonant Voices in 19th-century German Medievalism
Adviser: James Parente
SooJin Pate
American Studies
Yellow Desire and the Discursive Origins of Korean Adoption
Advisers: Roderick Ferguson & Jigna Desai
Vishard Ragoonanan
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanisms and Modeling of Dehydration-Induced Damage to the Cell Membrane
Adviser: Alptekin Aksan
William Ratcliff
Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Maintaining Cooperation in the Legume/Rhizobium Mutualism
Adviser: Robert Denison
Laurie Richmond
Conservation Biology
Knowledge and Power in the Commons: Scientific and Alaska Native Community Narratives of a Changing Pacific Halibut Fishery
Advisers: George Spangler & Tamara Giles-Vernick
Kevin Riordan
English
Dying Words and the Mechanics of Haunted Reading
Adviser: John Mowitt
Erin Roche
Conservation Biology
Survival and Population Structure in the Endangered Great Lakes Piping Plover
Adviser: Francesca Cuthbert
Walter Rusin
Mathematics
Minimal Blow-up Solutions for Navier-Stokes Equations in Critical Spaces
Adviser: Vladimir Sverak
Rajes Sau
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Devising Control Strategies for Jets in Crossflow Using Direct Numerical Simulation
Adviser: Krishnan Mahesh
Sharin Schroeder
English
Non-consensus Realties: Fantasy and the Child in Victorian Religious Debates
Adviser: Brian Goldberg
Lei Shi
Chemistry
Application of Computational Techniques to Study the Structure and Dynamics of Membrane Proteins
Adviser: Gianluigi Veglia
Jonathan Slaght
Natural Resources Science & Management
Management and Conservation Implications of Blakiston`s Fish Owl (Ketupa blakistoni) Resource Selection in Primorye, Russia
Adviser: Ralph Gutierrez
Seohee Son
Family Social Science
Divorce Policy and the Well-Being of Divorced Parents and Their Children in Korea
Adviser: Kathryn Rettig
Robert St. Clair
French
Childish Silence: Infancy as Site of Power and Metaphor in French Literature, 1851-1881
Adviser: Maria Brewer
Nicholas Stanley
Mechanical Engineering
The Fate of Airborne Nanoparticles Released From a Leak in a Nanoparticle Production Process Into a Simulated Workplace Environment
Adviser: Thomas Kuehn
Derek Stevens
Chemical Engineering
Nanostructure Control for the Improvement of Organic Solar Cells
Advisers: C.D. Frisbie & Marc Hillmyer
Henry Streby
Natural Resources Science & Management
Survival and Habitat Use of Post-fledging Forest-nesting Songbirds in Managed Northern Hardwood-coniferous Forests of Northern Minnesota
Adviser: David Andersen
Kartik Subramanian
Chemical Engineering
Engineering Pluripotent Stem Cells for Fabricating Biomimetic Liver-like Tissue
Advisers: Wei-Shou Hu & Catherine Verfaillie
Susan Swanson
Art History
The Work of the Magi: Adoration Imagery and Visions of Globalization in Early Modern Europe
Adviser: Michael Gaudio
William Tisdale
Chemical Engineering
Dynamics of Electron Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Advisers: Eray Aydil & Xiaoyang Zhu
Brian Tochterman
History
An Anatomy of Urbicide: New York's Decline in Postwar Popular Culture, 1945-1980
Adviser: Kevin Murphy
Joseph Tompkins
Comparative Literature
Mellifluous Terror: The Discourse of Music in Horror Cinema
Adviser: Richard Leppert
Schuyler Tsuda
Music
Interferences for Strings, Percussion, and Built Instruments
Adviser: Doug Geers
Tsz Ki Martin Tsui
Water Resources Science
Mercury Bioaccumulation and Methylation in Stream Ecosystems
Adviser: Jacques Finlay
Paolo Valentini
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Atomistic Studies of Catalysis Models for Gas-Surface Interactions in Hypersonic Flows
Adviser: Graham Candler
Kristyn VanderWaal Mills
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics
The Function of Tubby Proteins in the Flagella of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii
Adviser: Mary Porter
Anne Wallen
Germanic Studies
The Philosophic Game: Masked Balls in 18th-century Danish and German Culture
Adviser: Rembert Hueser
Shun Wang
Physics
Investigating the Orientational Order in Liquid Crystals
Adviser: Cheng-Cher Huang
Michael Weinreich
Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology
Cell-autonomous and Nonautonomous Gene Regulation by Kruppel-like Factor 2 (KLF2) in T Cells
Adviser: Kristin Hogquist
Daniel Weisz
Astrophysics
The Impact of Star Formation on the Evolution of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
Adviser: Evan Skillman
Qiang Xiong
Biomedical Engineering
A Novel Dual-delivery System for Stem Cell Therapy in Ischemic Heart Disease and its Myocardial Bioenergetic Benefits Examined by In Vivo 31-P NMR Spectroscopy
Adviser: Jianyi Zhang
Han Yuan
Biomedical Engineering
Functional Imaging of Rhythmic Brain Activity
Adviser: Bin He
Weiyi Zhang
Mathematics
Symplectic Geometry though Complex Geometry
Adviser: Tian-Jun Li
Past Doctoral Dissertation Fellows
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