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2011 Ph.D. Graduates!

Amir Babak Aazami“The Geometry of Gravitational Lensing: Magnification

Relations, Observables, and Kerr Black Holes.“ (Mathematics) Arlie O. Petters, Advisor. May 2011.

Margaret B. Adam“The Perfect Hope: More Than We Can Ask or Imagine.“

(Religion) Mary M. Fulkerson, Advisor. May 2011.

Ignacio Adriasola Munoz“Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in

Post-Anpo Japan (1960-1970)." (Art, Art History & Visual Studies) Gennifer Weisenfeld, Advisor. May 2011.

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Katherine Marie Aird“Role of X-Linked Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein in

Therapeutic Resistance of Inflammatory Breast Cancer Cells." (Pathology) Gayathri Devi, Advisor. September 2010.

Arnak Aleksanyan“Wide-Dynamic Range Continuous-Time ∆∑ A/D Converter for

Low-Power Energy Scavenging Applications ." (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Martin Brooke, Advisor. May 2011.

Jeffrey Wayne Allen“Application of Metamaterials to the Optimization of Smart

Antenna Systems." (Electrical and Computer Engineering) David R. Smith, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!

Brian James Altman“Autophagy in Metabolism, Cell Death, and Leukemogenesis.”

(Molecular Cancer Biology) Jeffrey Rathmell, Advisor. May 2011.

Elliott Lee Anenberg“Essays on Housing Market Search and Dynamics."

(Economics) Patrick Bayer, Advisor. May 2011.

Mari Jean Armstrong-Hough“Imperial Splenda: Globalization, Culture, and Type 2

Diabetes in the U.S. and Japan." (Sociology) Suzanne Shanahan, Advisor. May 2011.

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Gustavo Arriaga“Of Mice, Birds, and Men: The Mouse Ultrasonic Song System

and Vocal Behavior." (Neurobiology) Erich D. Jarvis, Advisor. May 2011.

Luka Arsenjuk “Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter."

(Literature) Fredric R. Jameson, Advisor. December 2010.

Ali Aslam“Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics." (Political

Science) J. Peter Euben, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Nazli Avdan“States’ Pursuit of Sovereignty in a Globalized Security

Context: Controlling International Human Mobility." (Political Science) Christopher F. Gelpi, Advisor. September 2010.

Jennifer M. Ayers“Physical Oceanographic Controls on Biological Production

and Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Flux in the North Pacific." (Earth and Ocean Sciences) M. Susan Lozier, Advisor. May 2011.

Nima Badie“The Roles of Realistic Cardiac Structure in Conduction and

Conduction Block: Studies of Novel Micropatterned Cardiac Cell Cultures" (Biomedical Engineering) Nenad Bursac, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Patrick G. Badolato“Executive Team Financial Expertise and the Influence on

Financial Reporting." (Business Administration) Katherine Schipper, Advisor. December 2010.

Meredith Ann Barrett“Understanding Environmental and Anthropogenic Drivers of

Lemur Health in Madagascar: The Importance of a One Health Perspective." (Ecology) Anne D. Yoder, Advisor. May 2011.

Joanna M. Barros“Re-membering Identities: Terror, Exile and Rebirth in

Hispanic Film and Literature.” (Romance Studies) Francisco J. Hernandez Adrian, Advisor. September 2010.

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Christoph Bauner“Essays on Mechanism Choice and Auctions." (Economics)

Andrew Sweeting, Advisor. May 2011.

Mora Jada Beauchamp-Byrd“Hogarth’s Progress: ‘Modern Moral Subjects’ in the Work of

David Hockney, Lubiana Himid and Paula Rego." (Art, Art History & Visual Studies) Richard J. Powell, Advisor. May 2011.

Adar Ben-Eliyahu“The Regulatory Capacities of Motivational Constructs: An

Examination of Academic Motivation and Self-Regulation Toward Academic Success in Favorite and Least Favorite Classes.“ (Psychology and Neuroscience) Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Advisor. May 2011.

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Weining Bian“Tissue Engineering of a Differentiated Skeletal Muscle

Construct with Controllable Structure and Function." (Biomedical Engineering) Nenad Bursac, Advisor. May 2011.

Rhema Hyacinth Bjorkland“An Assessment of Sea Turtle, Marine Mammal and Seabird

Bycatch in the Wider Caribbean Region." (Environment) Larry B. Crowder, Advisor. May 2011.

Richard Robert Bouchard“Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse-Driven Shear Wave

Velocimetry in Cardiac Tissue." (Biomedical Engineering) Gregg E. Trahey, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

James Ethan Bourke“The Politics of Incommensurability: A Value Pluralist

Approach to Liberalism and Democracy." (Political Science) Thomas A. Spragens, Advisor. May 2011.

Matthew Michael Bowen"A Spectral Deferred Correction Method for Solving the

Cardiac Two Current Model." (Mathematics) David G. Schaeffer, Advisor. May 2011.

Kimberly Anne Bowler“’It is Not in a Day That a Man Abandons His Morals and

Habits’: The Arab Bureau, Land Policy, and the Doineau Trial in French Algeria, 1830-1870.” (History) William M. Reddy, Advisor. May 2011.

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Lea Raye Bromell“Neighborhood Influence on Health among Black and White

Adults." (Psychology and Neuroscience) Keith E. Whitfield and Linda M. Burton, Advisors. May 2011.

Abigail Leigh Brown“Competing RNA Structures and Their Effects on HDV

Antigenomic RNA Self-cleavage and mRNA Processing." (Genetics and Genomics) Michael Been, Advisor. December 2010.

Billyde Brown“Growth, Characterization, and Modification of Vertically

Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films for Use as a Neural Stimulation Electrode." (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Jeffrey T. Glass, Advisor.  December 2010.

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Zachary Steven Brown“The Economics of Malaria Vector Control." (Environment)

Randall A. Kramer, Advisor.  May 2011.

Marisa Rae Buchakjian“Metabolic Regulation of Caspase-2." (Molecular Cancer

Biology) Sally A. Kornbluth, Advisor. May 2011.

David A. Bulkin“Functional Mapping of the Macaque Inferior Colliculus."

(Neurobiology) Jennifer M. Groh, Advisor. December 2010.

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Dylan Orion Burge“Evolution of Edaphic Ecology in Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae)."

(Biology) Paul S. Manos, Advisor. May 2011.

Rebekah Ann Burroway“Structural Violence and Child Health: A Multi-Level Analysis

of Development, Gender, Inequality, and Democracy in Developing Countries." (Sociology) David Brady and Linda K. George, Advisors.  May 2011.

Curt Jacob Butera“’The Land of the Fine Triremes’: Naval Identity and Polis

Imaginary in 5th Century Athens.” (Classical Studies) Shelia Dillon, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!

Edmond John Byrnes III“Examination of the Molecular Epidemiology, Expansion,

Population Structure, and Virulence of the Emerging Fungal Pathogen, Cyptoccoccus gattii in the United States." (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Joseph Heitman, Advisor. December 2010.

Xin Cai“A Serial Bitstream Processor for Smart Sensor Systems.”

(Electrical and Computer Engineering) Martin Brooke, Advisor. September 2010.

Derek Wilson Cain “Regulating Emergency Granulopoiesis.” (Immunology)

Garnett Kelsoe, Advisor. December 2010.

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Christopher Lee Capp“The Biochemical Characterization of Drosophila

melanogaster RecQ4 Helicase.” (Biochemistry) Tao-shih Hsieh, Advisor. May 2011.

David Andrew Carlson II“New Approaches to Studying Non-Covalent Molecular

Interactions in Nano-Confined Environments.” (Chemistry) Eric J. Toone, Advisor. September 2010.

Natalie Michelle Carnes“Senses of Beauty.” (Religion) Stanley Hauerwas, Advisor.

May 2011.

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Andrew Mascia Carton“A Theory, Measure, and Empirical Test of Subgroups in Work

Teams.” (Business Administration) Jonathon N. Cummings and Richard P. Larrick, Advisors. May 2011.

Avishek Chakraborty“Modeling Point Patterns, Measurement Error and Abundance

for Exploring Species Distributions.” (Statistical Science) Alan E. Gelfand, Advisor. September 2010.

Vivide Tuan Chyan Chang“Exploiting Optical Contrasts for Cervical Precancer Diagnosis

via Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy.” (Biomedical Engineering) Nimmi Ramanujam, Advisor. December 2010.

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Vorakarn Chanyavanich“Knowledge-based IMRT Treatment Planning for Prostate

Cancer.” (Medical Physics) Joseph Y. Lo and Shiva K. Das, Advisors. May 2011.

Thomas Mackey Chappell“Coevolution of the Ipomoea-Coleosporium Natural Plant-

Fungus Pathosystem.” (Biology) Mark D. Rausher, Advisor. September 2010.

Haojun Chen “Inference of Low-Dimensional Latent Structure in High-

Dimensional Data.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Advisor. May 2011.

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Jiefu Chen“A Hybrid Spectral-Element / Finite-Element Time-Domain

Method for Multiscale Electromagnetic Simulations.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Qing H. Liu, Advisor. December 2010.

Shiuan-Yeh Chen“Control of Surface Plasmon Substrates and Analysis of Near

field Structure.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Anne A. Lazarides and David R. Smith, Advisors. May 2011.

Vincent Bin-Han Chen “Building Better Backbones: Visualizations, Analyses, and

Tools for Higher Quality Macromolecular Structure Models.” (Biochemistry) David C. Richardson and Jane S. Richardson, Advisors. December 2010.

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Wai Ming Anthony Cheng“Investigation of Chondroprotective Mechanisms of Selenium.”

(Pathology) Virginia Byers Kraus, Advisor. December 2010.

Mariana Ingrid Chuck“The Function of LAT in T Cell Activation and Autoimmunity.”

(Immunology) Weiguo Zhang, Advisor. September 2010.

Elizabeth Trilby Cirulli“Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Baseline Cognitive

Ability and Cognitive Response to Topiramate.” (Genetics and Genomics) David B. Goldstein, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!

Bryan William Clark“Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Adaptation to PAHs in

Fundulus heteroclitus.” (Environment) Richard T. Di Giulio, Advisor. September 2010.

John Alldredge Clithero“Neuroeconomics of Reward Information and Motivation.”

(Economics) Scott Huettel, Advisor. May 2011.

Jeffrey Michael Coles“Cartilage Lubrication and Joint Protection by the

Glycoprotein PRG4 Studied on the Microscale.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Stefan Zauscher, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!

Jonathan Louis Coloff“Akt, Glucose Metabolism, and the Bcl-2 Family.”

(Pharmacology) Jeffrey Rathmell, Advisor. December 2010.

Ionut Constandache“Sensor-Assisted Mobile Phone Localization.” (Computer

Science) Romit Roy Choudhury, Advisor. May 2011.

Jonah Cool “Vascular Influence during Patterning and Differentiation of

the Gonad.” (Cell Biology) Blanche Capel, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!

Benjamin Rudolf Crawford“SuperConductors: Handbook for a New Democratic Music.”

(Music) Stephen Jaffe, Advisor. May 2011.

Sarah Elizabeth Crider“Platinum(II) Species and their Coordination to Amino Acids

and Methioine Motifs.” (Chemistry) Katherine J. Franz, Advisor. September 2010.

Matthew James Crow“Molecular Imaging and Sensing using Plasmonic

Nanoparticles.” (Biomedical Engineering) Adam Wax, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!

Spencer Johnson Cutler“Evaluation of a Dedicated SPECT-CT Mammotomography

System for Quantitative Hybrid Breast Imaging.” (Biomedical Engineering) Martin P. Tornai, Advisor. December 2010.

Keisha Monique Cutright“Out of Control: When and Why Consumers Yearn for

Boundaries.” (Business Administration) James R. Bettman and Gavan J. Fitzsimons, Advisors. May 2011.

Simon Wilton Davis“The Science of Senescence: Functional and Structural Factors

in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Roberto Cabeza, Advisor. May 2011.

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Gustaaf Gregoire de Ridder“Cell-Surface GRP78 and its Antibodies: Pathologic and

Therapeutic Roles in Cancer.” (Pathology) Salvatore V. Pizzo, Advisor. May 2011.

Patrick Dean DeArmond “Mass Spectrometry-Based Strategies for Multiplexed

Analyses of Protein-Ligand Binding Interactions. “ (Chemistry) Michael C. Fitzgerald, Advisor. May 2011.

Nasser Soliman Demir“Extraction of Hot QCD Matter Transport Coefficients

utilizing Microscopic Transport Theory.” (Physics) Steffem A. Bass, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!

Ryan Christopher Denniston“Causes and Impacts of Institutional and Structural Variation:

Globalization in the Tobacco and Pork Industries.” (Sociology) Gary Gereffi, Advisor. September 2010.

Amrika Deonarine“Sources and Biogeochemical Transformation of Mercury in

Aquatic Ecosystems.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Heileen Hsu-Kim, Advisor. May 2011.

Alan Thomas Dibb“Pediatric Head and Neck Dynamic Response: A

Computational Study.” (Biomedical Engineering) Barry S. Myers, Advisor. May 2011.

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Marina Grace Dickens“Masked Metal Chelators of Variable Denticity to Prevent

Oxidative Stress.” (Chemistry) Katherine J. Franz, Advisor. September 2010. 

David John DiLillo“B Lymphocyte Effector Functions in Health and Disease.”

(Immunology) Thomas F. Tedder, Advisor. December 2010.

Ashish Nikhil Doshi“Computer Model of Mechanisms Underlying Dynamic

Electrocardiographic T-wave Changes.” (Biomedical Engineering) Salim F. Idriss, Advisor. May 2011.

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Alexis DeHaven Dunkle“The Roles of the Bcl-2 Family Proteins in T Lymphocyte

Development and Homeostasis.” (Immunology) You-Wen He, Advisor. May 2011.

Matthew Lucas Eaton“Chromatin Determinants of the Eukaryotic DNA Replication

Program.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) David M. MacAlpine, Advisor. May 2011.

Jordan Kaelin Eccles“Impacts of Geological Variability on Carbon Storage

Potential.” (Earth and Ocean Sciences) Lincoln Pratson, Advisor. May 2011.

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Nelita Trotman Elliott“Analysis of the Transport Behavior of Escherichia Coli in a

Novel Three-Dimensional In Vitro Tumor Model.” (Biomedical Engineering) Fan Yuan, Advisor. December 2010.

Brian Andrew Emmenegger“The Role of FGF Signaling during Granule Neuron Precursor

Development and Tumorigenesis.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Robert J. Wechsler-Reya, Advisor. December 2010.

William Edward English“Social Thought and Social Change: Methodological Dilemmas

at the Intersection of Science and Ethics.” (Political Science) Michael Munger, Advisor. September 2010.

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Zachary Thomas Erwin“Uneven Modernities, Uneven Masculinities: Manliness and the

Galician Hinterland in the Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1882-1896).” (Romance Studies) Stephanie Sieburth, Advisor. December 2010.

Andrea Nicole Eslick“The Memorial Consequences of Retellings and Their

Underlying Cognitive Mechanisms: The Role of Selective Rehearsal and Connections to Autobiographical Memory. “ (Psychology and Neuroscience) Elizabeth Marsh, Advisor. May 2011.

Christine Elissa Eyler“Cancer Stem Cells in Brain Tumors: Identification of Critical

Biological Effectors.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Jeremy N. Rich, Advisor. September 2010.

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Hongxia Fang“Design-for-Testability and Diagnosis Methods to Target

Unmodeled Defects in Integrated Circuits and Multi-Chip Boards.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Advisor. May 2011.

 John Desmond Finan“The Effect of Osmotic Stress on the Structure and Properties

of the Cell Nucleus.” (Biomedical Engineering) Farshid Guilak, Advisor. September 2010.

Keisha Monique Findley“Evolution of the Mating-Type Locus and Insights into Sexual

Reproduction in the Cryptococcus Species Complex.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Joseph Heitman, Advisor. September 2010.

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Carrie R. Fleming“Interactions Between Environmental Factors and Polycyclic

Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Developing Fish: Molecular and Developmental Implications.” (Environment) Richard T. Di Giulio, Advisor. December 2010.

Arietta Elise Fleming-Davies“The Ecology of Sharing Mutualists: Consequences for Plant

Performance and Population Dynamics.” (Biology) William F. Morris, Advisor. December 2010.

Andrew Thomas Foerster“Essays on Markov-Switching Dynamic Stochastic General

Equilibrium Models.” (Economics) Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez, Advisor. May 2011.

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Randall Thomas Ford“Sexual Selection in Mantled Howling Monkeys (Alouatta

palliata), with an Emphasis on the Role of Female Mate Choice.” (Evolutionary Anthropology) Kenneth Glander, Advisor. December 2010. 

Arthur Mitchell Fraas"’They Have Travailed Into a Wrong Latitude:’ The Laws of

England, Indian Settlements, and the British Imperial Constitution 1726-1773.” (History) Edward Balleisen, Advisor. May 2011.

Steven Michael Frenk“The Role of Religious Congregations in the Mental Health Care

System.” (Sociology) Linda K. George, Advisor. May 2011.

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Matthew Patrick Gallagher“Contra-Trait Effort and Trait Stability: A Self-Regulatory

Personality Process.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Rick H. Hoyle, Advisor. September 2010.

Maria Eugenia Genoni“Essays in Development Economics.” (Economics) Duncan

Thomas, Advisor. May 2011.

Oliver Gjoneski“Multi-Variable Period Polynomials Associated to Cusp

Forms.” (Mathematics) Leslie D. Saper, Advisor. May 2011.

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Ryan Alan Goldhahn“Waveguide Invariant Active Sonar Target Detection and Depth

Classification in Shallow Water.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Jeffrey Krolik, Advisor. September 2010.

Karen Christine Gonzalez Rice“Enduring Belief: Performance, Trauma, Religion.” (Art, Art

History & Visual Studies) Kristine Stiles, Advisor. September 2010.

Sathya Gopalakrishnan“Shifting Shorelines: Combining Economics and

Geomorphology in Beach Management.” (Environment) Martin D. Smith, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Claire Lee Gordy“Regulation of Myeloid Cell Survival and Homeostasis by c-

FLIP.” (Immunology) You-Wen He, Advisor. May 2011.

 

Molly Kathleen Gregas“Development of Plasmonics-active Nanoconstructs for

Targeting, Tracking, and Delivery in Single Cells.” (Biomedical Engineering) Tuan Vo-Dinh, Advisor. December 2010.

Mingyu Guo“Computationally Feasible Approaches to Automated

Mechanism Design. ‘ (Computer Science) Vincent Conitzer, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Suryanarayanan Gurumurthi“Frameworks for Planning Collaborative Supply Chain

Programs.” (Business Administration) Paul Zipkin, Advisor. May 2011.

Paul Richard Hahn“Probability Models for Targeted Borrowing of Information. “

(Statistical Science) Sayan Mukherjee, Advisor. May 2011.

Adam Andis Haile“Imagined Democracy: Material Publishing, War, and the

Emergence of Democratic Thinking in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, 1855-1867.” (English) Priscilla Wald, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!

Feng Han“Midlatitude D Region Variations Measured from Broadband

Radio Atmospherics.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Steven A. Cummer, Advisor. May 2011.

Nora Hanagan“Responsibility and Democratic Rule.” (Political Science)

Thomas A. Spragens, Advisor. May 2011.

Wyatt Hugh Hartman“Microbial Phosphorus Cycling and Community Assembly in

Wetland Soils and Beyond.” (Environment) Curtis J. Richardson, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!

Michael Alan Hast“Structural Biochemistry and Inhibition of CaaX Protein

Prenyltransferases from Human Pathogens.” (Biochemistry) Lorena S. Beese, Advisor. December 2010.

Jesse Guite Hastings“Evaluating Conservation International's Marine Management

Area Science Program.” (Environment) Michael K. Orbach, Advisor. May 2011.

Paula Pears Hastings“Dreams of a Tropical Canada: Race, Nation, and Canadian

Aspirations in the Caribbean Basin, 1883-1919.” (History) John Herd Thompson, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Aubrey Rae HB“Persistent Cohomology Operations.” (Mathematics) John Harer,

Advisor. May 2011.

Matthew Joseph Heaton“Kernel Averaged Predictors for Space and Space-Time Processes.”

(Statistical Science) Alan E. Gelfand, Advisor. May 2011.

Christine Charlotte Ogilvie Hendren“Framing and Assessing Environmental Risks of Nanomaterials.”

(Civil and Environmental Engineering) Mark Wiesner, Advisor. December 2010.

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Seth Steward Henshaw“An Investigation of the Isovector Giant Quadrupole

Resonance in 209Bi using Polarized Compton Scattering.” (Physics) Henry R. Weller, Advisor. December 2010.

Carl Dean Herickhoff“Ultrasound Catheter Transducers for Intracranial Brain

Imaging and Therapy.” (Biomedical Engineering) Stephen W. Smith, Advisor. May 2011.

Mark Alexander Higgins“Geological Control of Floristic Composition in Amazonian

Forests.” (Ecology) John Terborgh, Advisor. September 2010.

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Aurel Hizmaj“Essays on Urban and Labor Economics.” (Economics)

Patrick J. Bayer, Advisor. May 2011.

Brendan Paul Hodkinson“A Phylogenetic, Ecological, and Functional Characterization

of Non-Photobiont Bacteria in the Lichen Microbiome. “ (Biology) Francois M. Lutzoni, Advisor. May 2011.

Amanda Jane Lind Hoertz“Studies of Ramoplanin Biosynthesis in Actinoplanes ATCC

33076.” (Chemistry) Dewey G. McCafferty, Advisor. December 2010.

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Thomas Matthew Holl“The Influence of B-cell Tolerance on Humoral Immunity to

HIV-1.” (Immunology) Garnett Kelsoe, Advisor. September 2010.

Robin Hopkins“The Evolution and Genetics of Reinforcement in Phlox

drummondii.” (Biology) Mark D. Rausher, Advisor. December 2010.

Ye Hou“Synthesis, Functionalization and Application of Few-Walled

Carbon Nanotubes.” (Chemistry) Jie Liu, Advisor. September 2010.

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Christina Marie Li Hsu“Three-Dimensional Computerized Breast Phantom Based on

Empirical Data.” (Biomedical Engineering) James T. Dobbins, III, Advisor. December 2010.

Rainbo Chilana Kuhr Hultman“The Role of Gαz in Neuron Development and CNS Biology.”

(Biochemistry) Patrick J. Casey, Advisor. May 2011.

Lynne Marie Hyman “Development of Fluorescent Iron and Copper Sensors

Activated by Hydrogen Peroxide or Ultraviolet Light.” (Chemistry) Katherine J. Franz, Advisor. May 2011.

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Justin Edmonds Izzo“Citizens of a Genre: Forms, Fields and Practices of

Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Ethnographic Fiction.” (Literature) Michael Hardt and Alice Kaplan, Advisors. May 2011.

Jason Alexander Jackson“Molecular Approaches to Estimating Soil Fungal Diversity

and Community Shifts in Response to Land-Use Change.” (Ecology) Daniel deB. Richter and Rytas J. Vilgalys, Advisors. September 2010.

Jonathan Webster James“Essays on Dynamic Behavior in Labor Markets.” (Economics)

Peter Arcidiacono, Advisor. May 2011.

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Elizabeth Rose Jenista“Development of Novel Physical Methods to Enhance Contrast

and Sensitivity in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” (Chemistry) Warren S. Warren, Advisor. September 2010. 

Michael Joseph Jenista“Dynamical Principles in Switching Networks.”

(Mathematics) John Harer, Advisor. December 2010.

Angela Roberta Jockheck-Clark“Mechanisms of Molecular Chaperone Surface Binding and

Endocytosis: Insights into the Molecular Basis for GRP94 Immune Function.” (Cell Biology) Christopher V. Nicchitta, Advisor. September 2010.

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Nicole Verteree Johnson“Using Genome-wide Approaches to Characterize the

Relationship Between Genomic Variation and Disease: A Case Study in Oligodendroglioma and Staphylococcus arueus.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Lindsay G. Cowell, Advisor. September 2010.

Ine Jorgensen“The Chlamydia trachomatis Protease CPAF Regulates Secreted

Bacterial Effectors and Host Proteins Essential to Virulence.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Raphael H. Valdivia, Advisor. May 2011.

David Murray Kahler“Pulsed Pumping Scheme for Improved Pump-and-Treat

Groundwater Remediation.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Zbigniew J. Kabala, Advisor. May 2011.

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Do Hyuk Kang“Measurement and Modeling of Snow Physical Properties.” (Civil

and Environmental Engineering) Ana P. Barros, Advisor. December 2010.

Amanda Clare Kasper“I. Studies Towards the Synthesis of Manassantins A and B and

Analogues. II. Efforts Towards a FRET-Based Assay to Characterize Palmitoylation of Src Kinases III. Synthesis of Oxepanes via Organocatalytic Oxa-Michael Reactions.” (Chemistry) Jiyong Hong, Advisor. December 2010.

Yukiko Kato“Color, Hygiene, and Body Politics: French Neo-Impressionist

Theories of Vision and Volition, 1870-1905.” (Art, Art History & Visual Studies) Mark Antliff, Advisor. December 2010.

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Mara Catherine Kaufman“We Are from Before, Yes, but We Are New: Autonomy, Territory,

and the Production of New Subjects of Self-government in Zapatismo.” (Cultural Anthropology) Orin Starn and Charles Piot, Advisors. December 2010.

Catherine Lewis Kenedi“Fractures, Faults, and Hydrothermal Systems of Puna, Hawaii,

and Montserrat, Lesser Antilles.” (Earth and Ocean Sciences) Emily Klein and Peter Malin, Advisors. December 2010.

Scott Joseph Kennedy“Stiffness Calibration of Atomic Force Microscopy Probes under

Heavy Fluid Loading.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Robert L. Clark and Daniel G. Cole, Advisors. December 2010.

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Breanna Lynn Kerchner“The Viability of David Lewis's Theory of Humean

Supervenience.” (Philosophy) David H. Sanford, Advisor. May 2011.

Firas Abdallah Khasawneh“Stability Analysis of Time Delay Systems using Spectral

Element Method.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Brian Mann, Advisor. December 2010. 

John Robert Kiess“When War is Our Daily Bread: Congo, Theology, and the

Ethics of Contemporary Conflict.” (Religion) Stanley Hauerwas, Advisor. May 2011.

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Jong Wook Kim“Integrative Analysis of the Myc and E2F Pathways Reveal the

Roles for microRNAs in Cell Fate Control.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Joseph R. Nevins, Advisor. May 2011.

Min Kyu Kim“Design and Characterization of Protein-Based Building Blocks

for Self-Assembled Nano-Structured Biomaterials.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Piotr E. Marszalek, Advisor. May 2011.

Tae Bong Kim“Essays on Macroeconomics in Mixed Frequency Estimations.”

(Economics) Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Advisor. May 2011.

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Yong Sung Kim“Design with Constructal Theory: Steam Generators, Turbines

and Heat Exchangers.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Adrian Bejan and Sylvie Lorente, Advisors. September 2010.

Caroline Amy Kita“Jacob Struggling with the Angel: Siegfried Lipiner, Gustav

Mahler, and the Search For Aesthetic-Religious Redemption in Fin-de-siècle Vienna.” (German Studies) Bryan Gilliam, Advisor. May 2011.

Jeffrey Thomas Klein“The Neurophysiology of Social Decision Making.”

(Neurobiology) Michael Platt, Advisor. December 2010.

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Mary Leslie Knight“Sympathy for the Devil: Volatile Masculinities in Recent

German and American Literatures.” (German Studies) William C. Donahue, Advisor. May 2011.

Caleb Wayne Knoernschild“Scalable Optical MEMS Technology for Quantum Information

Processing.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Jungsang Kim, Advisor. May 2011.

Michelle Renae Koerner “The Uses of Literature: Gilles Deleuze's American Rhizome.”

(Literature) Kenneth Surin and Priscilla Wald, Advisors. September 2010.

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Hrisavgi Demetrios Kondilis-Mangum“The Role of Epigenetics in Regulating V(D)J Recombination and

Allelic Exclusion.” (Immunology) Michael S. Krangel, Advisor. May 2011.

Anu Koshal“Wittgenstein and Nietzsche: Two Critics of Philosophy.”

(Literature) Toril Moi, Advisor. September 2010.

Kalyani Krishnamurthy“Spectral Image Processing Theory and Methods: Reconstruction,

Target Detection, and Fundamental Performance Bounds.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Rebecca M. Willett, Advisor. May 2011.

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Heather Garren LaBreche“Genomic Signatures of Disease and Environmental Exposure

in the Peripheral Blood.” (Genetics and Genomics) Joseph R. Nevins, Advisor. May 2011.

Meagan Green Labunski“Friars in the City: Mendicant Architecture and Pious Practice

in Medieval Verona, c. 1220-c. 1375.” (Art, Art History & Visual Studies) Caroline Bruzelius, Advisor. December 2010.

George Tsz-Kwan Lam“The Persistence of Smoke: Opera in One Act, Libretto by John

Justice.” (Music) Scott Lindroth, Advisor. May 2011.

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Mau-Kwong George Lam“The Graph Cases of the Riemannian Positive Mass and Penrose

Inequality in All Dimensions.” (Mathematics) Hubert L. Bray, Advisor. May 2011.

Curtis James Layton“Analysis and Redesign of Protein-Protein Interactions: A Hotspot-

Centric View.” (Biochemistry) Homme Hellinga, Advisor. December 2010.

Seok Jin Lee“Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Calcium/calmodulin-dependent

Kinase II in Single Dendritic Spines during Synaptic Plasticity.” (Neurobiology) Ryohei Yasuda, Advisor. May 2011.

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Whasil Lee“Nanomechanics of Ankyrin Repeat Proteins.” (Mechanical

Engineering and Materials Science) Piotr E. Marszalek, Advisor. May 2011.

Jeremy Michael Lenhardt“Mechanisms, Dynamics and Applications of Mechanically-

Induced Reactions.” (Chemistry) Stephen Craig, Advisor. May 2011.

William Edward Lento“Activation of Developmental Signaling Pathways in

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Regeneration.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Tannishtha Reya, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Peng Li“Fluctuation Effects in One-Dimensional Superconducting

Nanowires.” (Physics) Albert M. Chang, Advisor. December 2010.

I-Chien Liao“Advanced Fibrous Scaffold Engineering for Controlled Delivery

and Regenerative Medicine Applications.” (Biomedical Engineering) Kam W. Leong, Advisor. September 2010.

Yun Lin“Spectral Integral Method and Spectral Element Method DDM

for Electromagnetic Field Analysis.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Qing H. Liu, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!

Anna Victoria Little“Estimating the Intrinsic Dimension of High-Dimensional

Data Sets: A Multiscale, Geometric Approach.” (Mathematics) Mauro Maggioni, Advisor. May 2011.

Lin Luan“Chip Scale Integrated Optical Sensing Systems with Digital

Microfluidic Systems.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Nan M. Jokerst, Advisor. September 2010. 

Kristian C. Lum“Bayesian Spatial Quantile Regression.” (Statistical Science)

Alan E. Gelfand, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Scott Jordan Lustig“Essays in Institutional Economics.” (Economics) Charles

Becker, Advisor. May 2011.

Brian Daniel Lutz“Understanding Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on

Element Cycling in Temperate Forest Watersheds.” (Ecology) Emily S. Bernhardt, Advisor. May 2011.

Priti Madhav“Development and Optimization of a Dedicated Dual-Modality

SPECT-CT System for Improved Breast Lesion Diagnosis.” (Biomedical Engineering) Martin P. Tornai, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Michael David Malinzak“Experimental Analyses of the Relationship between Semicircular

Canal Morphology and Locomotor Head Rotations in Primates.” (Evolutionary Anthropology) Richard F. Kay, Advisor. September 2010.

Heather Alison Mallory“The Nouvelle Cuisine Revolution: Expressions of National

Anxieties and Aspirations in French Culinary Discourse 1969 – 1996.” (Romance Studies) Michael Hardt and Linda Orr, Advisors. May 2011.

Ashley Anne Manzoor“Drug Delivery and Anti-vascular Effects of Temperature Sensitive

Liposomal Doxorubicin.” (Medical Physics) Mark W. Dewhirst, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!

Philippe Robert Marguet“Molecular Bioengineering: From Protein Stability to

Population Suicide.” (Biochemistry) Homme Hellinga and Lingchong You, Advisors. December 2010.

Heather Pace Marshall"’It Means Something These Days to be a Marine’: Image,

Identity, and Mission in the Marine Corps, 1861-1918.” (History) Alex Roland, Advisor. September 2010.

Erika Vivian Martinez“Essays on the Impact of School Accountability.” (Economics)

Patrick Bayer, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!

Emily Ferguson Mason“Glucose Metabolism and p53 in Leukemia.” (Molecular Cancer

Biology) Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Advisor. May 2011.

Jacqueline Marie Maurer “Four-Dimensional Imaging of Respiratory Motion in the

Radiotherapy Treatment Room using a Gantry Mounted Flat Panel Imaging Device.” (Medical Physics) Fang-Fang Yin, Advisor. September 2010.

Vinicius Diniz Mayrink“Factor Models to Describe Linear and Non-linear Structure in High

Dimensional Gene Expression Data.” (Statistical Science) Joseph E. Lucas, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!

Matthew K. McElwee“Toxicogenomic Responses to Inorganic and Organic Mercury

in Caenorhabditis elegans.” (Environment) Jonathan H. Freedman and Richard DiGiulio, Advisors. December 2010.

Anna E. Nousek McGregor“The Cost of Locomotion in North Atlantic Right Whales

Eubalaena glacialis.” (Marine Science and Conservation) Douglas P. Nowacek, Advisor. December 2010.

Luke Christopher McSpadden“Electrical Interactions between Unexcitable Cells and

Cardiomyocytes.” (Biomedical Engineering) Nenad Bursac, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!

Stacy Renee Chiles Millon“Metabolic Exogenous Contrast Agents for use in Breast Cancer

Detection and Therapy Monitoring.” (Biomedical Engineering) Nirmala Ramanujam, Advisor. December 2010.

Eui Jung Moon“The Role of Hypoxia-inducible Factor-1 in Hyperthermia-induced

Tumor Reoxygenation and Therapy Resistance.” (Pathology) Mark W. Dewhirst, Advisor. September 2010.

Neelanjan Mukherjee“Principles of HuR-RNA Targeting, Interaction Dynamics, and

Functional Outcomes.” (Genetics and Genomics) Jack Keene, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!

Steven Carmen Munger“A Systems-level View of Mammalian Sex Determination.”

(Genetics and Genomics) Blanche Capel, Advisor. September 2010.

Justin Riley Murfin“Essays in Financial Intermediation.” (Business

Administration) Manju Puri, Advisor. September 2010.

Kelly Nicole Nobles“Phosphorylation Bar Codes Induce Distinct Conformations

and Functionalities of β-Arrestin.” (Biochemistry) Robert J. Lefkowitz, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!Kimberly Ann Novick“Reducing Uncertainty in The Biosphere-Atmsophere Exchange of

Trace Gases.” (Environment) Gabriel Katul, Advisor. September 2010.

Patricia Lynne Novy“The Role of CD4+T cells in the CD8+T cell Response to Vaccinia

Viral Infection.” (Immunology) Yiping Yang, Advisor. December 2010.

Michael Dennis Nowak“A Molecular Phylogenetic Study of Historical Biogeography and

the Evolution of Self-Incompatibility RNases in Indian Ocean Coffea (Rubiaceae).” (Biology) Anne D. Yoder, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!Claire Berger O’Dea“Coastal Plain Pond Vegetation Patterns: Tracking Changes

across Space and Time.” (Ecology) Norman L. Christensen, Advisor. December 2010.

Joseph Emmanuel O'Doherty“Brain-Machine-Brain Interface.” (Biomedical Engineering)

Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, Advisor. May 2011.

Anne Therese O'Neil-Henry“Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac,

Paul de Kock and Zola.” (Romance Studies) David F. Bell, III, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Firat Oruc“Minor Measures: The Plebeian Aesthetics of World Literature

in the Twentieth Century.” (Literature) Fredric R. Jameson and Ranjana Khanna Advisors. September 2010.

Balint Istvan Otvos“The Role of Angiopoietin-2 in Signaling Through the

Endothelial Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Tie1.” (Pathology) Christopher D. Kontos, Advisor. September 2010.

Sheryl Overmyer“The Wayfarer's Way and Two Texts for the Journey: The

Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman.” (Religion) Stanley Hauerwas, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!Frederick Owusu-Nimo“Investigating Linkages between Engineering and Petrophysical

Properties of Unconsolidated Geomaterials and their Geoelectrical Parameters.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Fred Boadu, Advisor. May 2011.

Sabarni Palit “Thin Film Edge Emitting Lasers and Polymer Waveguides

Integrated on Silicon.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering). Nan M. Jokerst, Advisor. December 2010.

Damon Burns Palmer“Regulating Finance: Expert Cognitive Frameworks, Adaptive

Learning, and Interests in Financial Regulatory Change.” (Political Science) Herbert Kitschelt and Karen Remmer, Advisors. September 2010.

Congratulations!Claudia Leonor Peñaloza Chacin“Towards Sustainable Harvest of Sideneck River Turtles

(Podocnemis spp.) in the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela.” (Environment) Larry B. Crowder, Advisor. September 2010.

Brent Andrae Perdue“Measurements of the Absolute Cross Section of the Three-body

Photodisintegration of Helium-3 between E[gamma] = 11.4 MeV and 14.7 MeV at HIGS.” (Physics) Henry R. Weller, Advisor. September 2010.

Kristy Lynn Perez“Investigating Quality and Quantification of Functional Breast

Images with a Dedicated SPECT-CT System.” (Medical Physics) Martin P. Tornai, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Janelle Elise Phelps“Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy Characterization for

Extraction of Tissue Physiological Parameters.” (Biomedical Engineering) Nirmala Ramanujam, Advisor. September 2010.

Christina Marie Powers“Developmental Neurotoxicity of Silver and Silver Nanoparticles

Modeled In Vitro and In Vivo.” (Pharmacology) Theodore Slotkin, Advisor. December 2010.

Jillian Leah Powers“Going Away to Find Home: A Comparative Study of

Heritage/Homeland Tourism.” (Sociology) Suzanne Shanahan, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Nujin Prasertsom“Endogenous Growth, Trade, and the Environment.”

(Economics) Pietro Peretto, Advisor. May 2011.

Eugenia Christine Tsamis Prescott“The Contributions of Histones H3 and H4 to Gene Regulation in

Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A Closer Look at Sum1 Repression and Sum1-1 Silencing.” (Biochemistry) Laura N. Rusche, Advisor. May 2011.

Xin Qian“Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-

inclusive Pion Electro-production on a Transversely Polarized 3He Target.” (Physics) Haiyan Gao, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!Mahir Haroon Rabbi“Nanomechanics of Nucleic Acid Structures Investigated with

AFM Based Force Spectroscopy.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Piotr Marszalek, Advisor. December 2010.

Andrew Michael Ravanelli“Characterization of the Actin Nucleator Cordon-bleu in

Zebrafish.” (Cell Biology) John Klingensmith, Advisor. December 2010.

Jacob Aaron Carliner Remes “Cities of Comrades: Urban Disasters and the Formation of the

North American Progressive State.” (History) Gunther Peck, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!Ho Kyung Rho“A Systems Level Analysis of the Transcription Factor FoxN2/3

and FGF Signal Transduction in Sea Urchin Larval Skeleton Development and Body Axis Formation.” (Biology) David R. McClay, Advisor. May 2011.

Deborah Lee Rickard“Multiphase, Multicomponent Systems: Divalent Ionic Surfactant

Phases and Single-Particle Engineering of Protein and Polymer Glasses.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) David Needham, Advisor. May 2011.

Joshua Westly Robinson“Modeling Time-Varying Networks with Applications to Neural

Flow and Genetic Regulation.” (Computer Science) Alexander J. Hartemink, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Beatriz Eugenia Rodriguez-Balanta“Realism, Race and Citizenship: Four Moments in the Making of

the Black Body, Colombia and Brazil, 1853 – 1907.” (Romance Studies) Esther Gabara, Advisor. December 2010.

Jeffrey Scott Rogers“Localization of Dynamic Acoustic Sources with a Maneuverable

Array.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Jeffrey Krolik, Advisor. September 2010.

Justin Robert Roper“On-board Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

(SPECT) for Biological Target Localization.” (Medical Physics) Fang-Fang Yin and James E. Bowsher, Advisors. September 2010.

Congratulations!Arya Roy“Towards A Stability Condition on the Quintic Threefold.”

(Mathematics) Paul S. Aspinwall, Advisor. September 2010.

Jeffrey Tyler Rubino“Characterization of Metal Binding Peptides Derived from

Copper Trafficking Proteins.” (Chemistry) Katherine J. Franz, Advisor. September 2010.

Anoop Sadanandan“Why do States Decentralize? The Politics of Decentralization.”

(Political Science) Donald L. Horowitz, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Michiru Sakane“Essays in International Business Cycles.” (Economics) A.

Craig Burnside, Advisor. May 2011.

Rawad Awni Saleh“Experimental Investigation of Thermodynamic and Kinetic

Properties of Semi-volatile Organic Aerosols.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Andrey Khlystov, Advisor. December 2010.

Carl Frederick Salk“Will the Timing of Temperate Deciduous Trees' Budburst and

Leaf Senescence Keep up with a Warming Climate?” (Biology) James S. Clark, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Luz-Adriana Samper“Do the Clothes Make the Man? How Gaps Between Current

and Ideal Self Goals Shape Product-Related Perceptions and Behavior.” (Business Administration) James R. Bettman and Mary Frances Luce, Advisors. May 2011.

Ana Maria SanchezThe Development and Function of Memory Regulatory T Cells.”

(Immunology) Yiping Yang, Advisor. December 2010.

Jessica Sanders“Stable Embedded Grid Techniques in Computational

Mechanics.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Tod Laursen, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Scott Jeffrey Sauer“Direct Carbon--Carbon Bond Formation through Reductive Soft-

Enolization of α-Halothioesters and the Total Synthesis of (+)-Mefloquine.” (Chemistry) Don M. Coltart, Advisor. May 2011.

Kevin O'Neil Saunders“The Elucidation of the Mechanisms of CD8+ T Cell-Mediated

Suppression of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Replication.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Georgia D. Tomaras, Advisor. September 2010.

Jessica Marie Sautter“Trajectories of Social Role Occupancy and Health: An Intra-

Individual Analysis of Role Enhancement, Strain, and Context.” (Sociology) Linda K. George and Kenneth C. Land, Advisors. September 2010.

Congratulations!Ashley King Scheu“What Can Philosophical Literature Do? The Case of Simone

de Beauvoir.” (Romance Studies) Toril Moi, Advisor. May 2011.

Scott Lee Schwartz“Bayesian Mixture Modeling Approaches for Intermediate

Variables and Causal Inference.” (Statistical Science) Fan Li and Jerome P. Reiter, Advisors. September 2010.

Hernan Daniel Seoane “Essays in the Macroeconomics of Emerging Countries.”

(Economics) Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Mariam Lucila Sharaf“Exploring Therapeutic Applications and Immunogenicity of

Boranophosphate-modified RNA: siRNA and RNA Aptamers.” (Chemistry) Barbara Ramsay Shaw, Advisor. May 2011.

Minghui Shi“Bayesian Sparse Learning for High Dimensional Data.”

(Statistical Science) David B. Dunson, Advisor. May 2011.

Bomin Shim“Finding Meaning in the Dementia Caregiving Relationship.”

(Nursing) Linda L. Davis, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Prabhakar Shrestha“Characterization of Pre-Monsoon Aerosol and Aerosol-Cloud-

Rainfall Interactions in Central Nepal.” (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Ana P. Barros, Advisor. May 2011.

Samuel Gregory Slee “Developing Scalable Abilities for Self-Reconfigurable Robots.”

(Computer Science) John Reif, Advisor. December 2010.

Kyle Richard Smith“The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious

Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity.” (Religion) Lucas Van Rompay and Elizabeth Clark, Advisors. May 2011.

Congratulations!Patrick Josey Smith“Aerobic Exercise, Diet, and Neurocognition among Individuals

with High Blood Pressure.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) James A. Blumenthal, Advisor. September 2010.

Adam Christopher Sokolow“Biophysical Investigation of Cell Oscillations and Cell Ingression

in Tissue Dynamics.” (Physics) Glenn S. Edwards, Advisor. May 2011.

H B Soumya“Information as an Environmental Policy Instrument: Examining

Household Response to Arsenic in Tube-Well Water in Araihazar, Bangladesh.” (Environment) Lori S. Bennear, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Stephen Bentley Sours“Eucharist and Anthropology: Seeking Convergence on

Eucharistic Sacrifice between Catholics and Methodists.” (Religion) Geoffrey Wainwright and Reinhard Hϋtter, Advisors. May 2011.

Fredrika Justesen Spencer“Product Portfolio and Brand Extension Effects of Innovation: A

Diversification Perspective on Innovation's Ability to Achieve New Value.” (Business Administration) William Mitchell and Richard Staelin, Advisors. December 2010.

Elisheba Spiller“Vehicles, Gasoline and Public Transportation.” (Economics)

Christopher Timmins and Andrew Sweeting, Advisors. May 2011.

Congratulations!Stephen Andrew Spiller“Limited Means and What I Can't Buy: Resource Constraints

and Resource Use Accessibility Drive Opportunity Cost Consideration.” (Business Administration) John G. Lynch and Dan Ariely, Advisors. May 2011.

Ashley Lauren St. John“Cellular Trafficking and Activation within Lymph Nodes:

Contributions to Immunity and Pathogenic or Therapeutic Implications.” (Immunology) Soman Abraham, Advisor. September 2010.

Corina Maria Stan“The Art of Distances or, A Morality for the Everyday.”

(Literature) Toril Moi, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Samuel Curtis Stanton“Nonlinear Electroelastic Dynamical Systems for Inertial

Power Generation.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Brian P. Mann, Advisor. May 2011.

Laurie Sherie Stevison“Causes and Consequences of Recombination Rate Variation

in Drosophila.” (Biology) Mohamed A. Noor, Advisor. May 2011.

John David Stroncek“Use of Human Blood-Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells to

Improve the Performance of Vascular Grafts.” (Biomedical Engineering) William M. Reichert, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Jonathan Tsu-Wei Su“Mass Transfer in Multi-Phase Single Particle Systems.”

(Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) David Needham, Advisor. May 2011.

Elizabeth Ballard Sudduth“Effects of Urbanization on Stream Ecosystem Functions.”

(Ecology) Emily S. Bernhardt, Advisor. May 2011.

Timothy Elisha Sweeney“Toll-like Receptor (TLR) Signaling and Differential Activation

of PGC Family Genes in a Mouse Model of Staphylococcus aureus Sepsis.” (Pathology) Claude A. Piantadosi, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!Bela Szemely“Essays in Macroeconomics.” (Economics) Adriano A.

Rampini and Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez, Advisors. May 2011.

Alexandra Tabova“Essays in International Macroeconomics.” (Economics) A.

Craig Burnside, Advisor. May 2011.

Cheemeng Tan“Bistability, Synthetic Biology, and Antibiotic Treatment. “

(Biomedical Engineering) Lingchong You, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Lingling Tang“Subwavelength-scale Light Localization in Complete Photonic

Bandgap Materials.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Tomoyuki Yoshie, Advisor. September 2010.

Yuankai Kenny Tao“Development of Coherence-Gated and Resolution-Multiplexed

Optical Imaging Systems.” (Biomedical Engineering) Joseph A. Izatt, Advisor. September 2010.

Emily Michelle Tarsis“New Methods for the α-Functionalization of Thioesters and

Activated Hydrazones and an Application toward the Total Synthesis of Apratoxin D.” (Chemistry) Don M. Coltart, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Gavin William Taylor“Feature Selection for Value Function Approximation.”

(Computer Science) Ronald Parr, Advisor. May 2011.

Alberto Mokak Teguia“Stochastic Microlensing: Mathematical Theory and

Applications.” (Mathematics) Arlie O. Petters, Advisor. May 2011.

Andrew Stephen Thomas“A Novel Approach to Quantitative 3D Optical Imaging:

Applications in Dosimetry and Biophysics.” (Medical Physics) Mark Oldham, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Patricia April Thomas“Social Engagement, Limitations, and Mortality in Late Life.”

(Sociology) Linda K. George, Advisor. September 2010.

Afton L. Thompson“Mode of Adjuvant Action of the Nasally Delivered Cytokine

Interleukin 1 Alpha.” (Pathology) Herman F. Staats, Advisor. May 2011.

Aaron Christopher Thornburg“Imagining Irelands: Migration, Media, and Locality in

Modern Day Dublin. “ (Cultural Anthropology) Naomi Quinn, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Lesley H. Thorne“Seabird Foraging in Dynamic Oceanographic Features.”

(Ecology) Andrew Read, Advisor. December 2010.

Mark Pettiss Toles“Transitional Care in a Nursing Home.” (Nursing) Ruth A.

Anderson, Advisor. May 2011.

Anthony Gene Tost“Machine Poetics: Pound, Stein and the Modernist

Imagination.” (English) Priscilla Wald, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Leigh Plunkett Tost“The Psychology of Legitimacy: Implications for Organizational

Leadership and Change.” (Business Administration) Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, Advisor. September 2010.

Mary Turnipseed“Re-imagining the Public Trust Doctrine to Conserve U.S.

Ocean Ecosystems.” (Ecology) Larry B. Crowder and Raphael D. Sagarin, Advisors. May 2011.

Justin Sage Mattias Valasek“Essays in Political Economy.” (Economics) Rachel E.

Kranton, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Vinod Venkatraman“Strategic Variability in Risky Choice: Mechanisms and

Implications for Neuroanatomy of Cognitive Control.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Scott A. Huettel, Advisor. May 2011.

David Stewart Vinson“Radium Isotope Geochemistry in Groundwater Systems:

Variations along Salinity and Redox Gradients.” (Earth and Ocean Sciences) Avner Vengosh, Advisor. May 2011.

Robert Wheeler Walters“The Role of Poly(A)-binding Protein in microRNA-mediated

Repression.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Matthias Gromeier, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Bei Wang“Separating Features from Noise with Persistence and

Statistics.” (Computer Science) Herbert Edelsbrunner, Advisor. September 2010.

Chunping Wang“Non-parametric Bayesian Learning with Incomplete Data.”

(Electrical and Computer Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Advisor. December 2010.

Rui Wang“Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Convergent Complex Traits

Based on Molecular Homoplasy.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Erich D. Jarvis, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Yucai Emily Wang“Essays on Dynamic Demand Estimation.” (Economics) Andrew

Sweeting, Advisor. May 2011.

Laura Aline Ward“Philosophical Allurements: Education and Argument in Ancient

Philosophy.” (Classical Studies) J. Peter Euben, Advisor. May 2011.

Marianne Eileen Wardle“Naked and Unashamed: A Study of the Aphrodite Anadyomene in

the Greco-Roman World.” (Art, Art History & Visual Studies) Sheila Dillon, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Casey Rachel Wasserman“Disruption and DisFunktion: Locating a Funk Sensorium in

Twentieth Century African American Literature.” (English) Karla Holloway, Advisor. May 2011.

Todd Steven Wasson“Modeling Multi-factor Binding of the Genome.”

(Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Alexander J. Hartemink, Advisor. May 2011.

Andrea Cherese Watkins“On Absolute Continuity for Stochastic Partial Differential

Equations and an Averaging Principle for a Queueing Network.” (Mathematics) Jonathan Mattingly and Otis Jennings, Advisors. September 2010.

Congratulations!Candis S. Watts“Black Mosaic: Expanding Contours of Black Identity and Black

Politics.” (Political Science) Kerry L. Haynie, Advisor. May 2011.

 Paul William Weber“Probabilistic Modeling of Decompression Sickness, Comparative

Hydrodynamics of Cetacean Flippers, Optimization of CT/MRI Protocols and Evaluation of Modified Angiocatheters: Engineering Methods Applied to a Diverse Assemblage of Projects.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Laurens E. Howle, Advisor. September 2010.

Kris A. Weberg“Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Modernism: State, Self and Style in

Four Authors.” (English) Michael Valdez Moses, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Whitney Elizabeth Welsh“Unthinkable: Mathematics and the Rise of the West.”

(Sociology) Suzanne Shanahan, Advisor. May 2011.

Erin Marie Wilfong“Thermodynamic Basis of Additivity in Ligand Binding: Matrix

Metalloproteinase-3.” (Chemistry) Eric J. Toone, Advisor. May 2011.

Jason Robert Wilson“On Computing Smooth, Singular, and Nearly Singular

Integrals on Implicitly Defined Surfaces.” (Mathematics) J. Thomas Beale, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!Joshua Mark Wilson“Parameterizing Image Quality of TOF versus Non-TOF PET as

a Function of Body Size.” (Medical Physics) Timothy G. Turkington, Advisor. May 2011.

Maria Letizia Wise“Phenotypic and Genetic Diversity in the Sea Urchin

Lytechinus Variegatus.” (Ecology) Daniel Rittschof, Advisor. May 2011.

Allison K. Wisecup“Do We Have Consensus?: Examining the Sources of

Systematic Variation in Cultural Identity Meanings.” (Sociology) Lynn Smith-Lovin, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Amorn Wongsarnpigoon“Computational Modeling of Epidural Cortical Stimulation: Design,

Analysis, and Experimental Evaluation.” (Biomedical Engineering) Warren M. Grill, Advisor. May 2011.

Lawrence Kent Wood“Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Copper Homeostasis.” (Genetics and

Genomics) Dennis J. Thiele, Advisor. December 2010.

Jenette Wood Crowley“Mormon Polygamy and the Construction of American Citizenship,

1852-1910. (History) Sarah Deutsch, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Lei Xie“Assortment Planning with Inventory Considerations in Supply

Chains.” (Business Administration) Fernando Bernstein and Gϋrhan Kök, Advisors. September 2010.

Hongxia Yang“Nonparametric Bayes Models for High-Dimensional and Sparse

Data.” (Statistical Science) David Dunson, Advisor. December 2010.

Linyun Wu Yang“How Stereotypes Shape Consumer Behavior.” (Business

Administration) Tanya Chartrand and Gavan Fitzsimons, Advisors. September 2010.

Congratulations!Liu Yang“Application of Game Theory Analysis in Epidemiology and

Service Management.” (Business Administration) Peng Sun and Francis de Véricourt, Advisors. September 2010.

Akira Vincent Yatsuhashi “In the Bird Cage of the Muses: Archiving, Erudition, and

Empire in Ptolemaic Egypt.” (Classical Studies) Peter H. Burian, Advisor. September 2010.

Ken Daigoro Yokoyama“Studies into Location-specific cis-Regulatory Motifs.”

(Biology) Gregory A. Wray, Advisor. September 2010.

Congratulations!Reed F. Young“Modeling, Simulation, and Characterization of Distributed

Multi-agent Systems.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Devendra P. Garg, Advisor. May 2011.

Mengqing Yuan“3D Microwave Imaging through Full Wave Methods for

Heterogenous Media.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Qing H. Liu, Advisor. May 2011.

Xiancheng Zeng“Multiscale Simulations of Biomolecules in Condensed Phase:

From Solutions to Proteins.” (Chemistry) Weitao Yang, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Guoxian Zhang“An Integrated Online Path Planning and Control Approach for

Robotic Sensor Networks.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Silvia Ferrari, Advisor. September 2010.

Ji Zhang“The Adaptive Response of Endothelial Cells to Shear Stress

Alteration.” (Biomedical Engineering) Morton H. Friedman, Advisor. September 2010.

Yang Zhao“Unified Design and Optimization Tools for Digital Microfluidic

Biochips.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Advisor. May 2011.

Congratulations!Hui Zheng“Medicalization as a Rising Rational Myth: Population Health

Implications, Reproduction, and Public Response.” (Sociology) Linda K. George and Kenneth C. Land, Advisors. May 2011.

Lixian Zhong“Neuronal and Molecular Basis of Nociception and

Thermosensation in Drosophila melanogaster.” (Pharmacology) W. Daniel Tracey, Advisor. May 2011.

Tao Zhou“Shielded Metal Waveguides with Uniform Electric Field

Distributions.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) William T. Joines, Advisor. December 2010.

Congratulations!Xiang Zhou“Function of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Class III in the

Nervous System.” (Neurobiology) Fan Wang, Advisor. September 2010.

 

Joshua Willem Ziel“Roles for UNC-6/Netrin Signaling during Cell Invasion in C.

Elegans.” (Biology) David R. Sherwood, Advisor. May 2011.

Ioanna A. Zlateva“The Labor of Writing in the Pastoral Genre: Philip Sidney's

Arcadia through John Milton's Paradise Lost.” (English) Maureen Quillingan, Advisor. September 2010.

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