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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREES
Rachel A.Annunziato
Dissertation Title: Taking Action to Lose
Weight: Toward an Understanding of
Individual Differences
Supervising Professor: Michael R. Lowe
Patrick Auth
Dissertation Title: Assessing the Use of Creative
Problem Solving Skills and Generic Influences
on Learning in Clinical Reasoning by Physician
Assistant Students
Supervising Professor: Fredricka Reisman
Jonathan E.Ayutsede
Dissertation Title: Regeneration of Bombyx
Mori Silk Nanofibers and Nanocomposite
Fibrils by the Electrospinning Process
Supervising Professor: Frank Ko
Lalitkumar Bansal
Dissertation Title: Development of a Fiber Optic
Chemical Sensor for Detection of Toxic Vapors
Supervising Professor: Mahmoud El-Sherif
Barbara Allen Bell
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Crude Oil
Contamination on the Reproduction of
Freshwater Turtles
Supervising Professor: James R. Spotila
Dara Lauren Bellace
Dissertation Title: Predictors of Attrition and
Weight Loss in Obese Treatment-Seeking Males
and Females
Supervising Professor: Michael R. Lowe
Matthew John Bellace
Dissertation Title: Activation of the
Hippocampus During Emotional Memory
Supervising Professor: J.Michael Williams
Luis E. Bermudez
Dissertation Title: Ontomet: Ontology
Metadata Framework
Supervising Professor: Michael Piasecki
Elizabeth Muncey Blunt
Dissertation Title: The Influence of
Pharmaceutical Company Sponsored
Education Programs, Promotions and Gifts on
the Self-reported Prescribing Beliefs and
Practices of the Certified Nurse Practitioner in
Three States
Supervising Professor: Fredricka Reisman
Ellen Moore Boohar
Dissertation Title: Impact of Timing of Alcohol
Use Initiation and Depressed Mood on Risky
Substance Use Among Urban Minority
Adolescents
Supervising Professor: Pamela A. Geller
Juliet G. Brown
Dissertation Title: Supported Housing
Programs for the Homeless Mentally Ill: A
Survival Analysis
Supervising Professor: James D. Herbert
Huiling Chen
Dissertation Title: Prediction of Protein
Structure and Protein-Protein Interaction: a
Bioinformatics Approach
Supervising Professors: Frank Ferrone,
Huan-Xiang Zhou
Lyudmila Chernykh
Dissertation Title: Ultimate Ownership and
Corporate Performance in Russia
Supervising Professors: Samuel H. Szewczyk,
Jacqueline Garner
Sidika Nihal Colakoglu
Dissertation Title: The Relationship between
Career Boundarylesness and Individual Wellbeing:
A Contingency Approach
Supervising Professor: Jeffrey H. Greenhaus
Rebecca Lynn Conboy-Croff
Dissertation Title: The Development of a
Cancer Specific Body Image Inventory
Supervising Professor: Arthur Nezu
Frances Haider Cornelius
Dissertation Title: Handheld Technology and
Nursing Education: Utilization of Handheld
Technology in Development of Clinical
Decision-making in Undergraduate
Nursing Studies
Supervising Professor: Elizabeth L. Haslam
Kia B. Crittenden
Dissertation Title: Comparison of Beliefs and
Attitudes Toward Internalizing Disorders
Relative to Externalizing Disorders in Children
and Adolescents
Supervising Professor: James D. Herbert
Chris J. Dafis
Dissertation Title: An Observability
Formulation for Nonlinear Power Systems
Modeled as Differential Algebraic Systems
Supervising Professor: Chika Nwankpa
Anthony J. DeSimone, Jr.
Dissertation Title: Symmetries and Relaxations
in Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
Supervising Professor: Robert Gilmore
Feng Dong
Dissertation Title: Study of Electrostatic Effects
on Protein Folding and Binding Stability
Supervising Professors: Frank Ferrone,
Huan-Xiang Zhou
Jennifer Anne Nesbitt Fernandez
Dissertation Title: An Evaluation of Brief
Adaptive Inferential Feedback Training:
Assessing the Gains of Training Individuals to
Provide a Specific Type of Social Support
Supervising Professor: Pamela A. Geller
Guglielmo Foffani
Dissertation Title: Neural Strategies of
Temporal Coding for Sensorimotor Processing
Supervising Professor: Karen A. Moxon
Zachary Graham Forbes
Dissertation Title: Magnetizable Implants for
Targeted Drug Delivery
Supervising Professor: Kenneth A. Barbee
Megan Lynne Fritz
Dissertation Title: Students Using Handheld
Computers to Learn Collaboratively in a First
Grade Classroom
Supervising Professor: Elizabeth L. Haslam
Steven A. Galen
Dissertation Title: Path Dependence and
Strength Anisotropy of Mechanical Behavior in
Cold-Compacted Powders
Supervising Professor: Antonios Zavaliangos
Xing Geng
Dissertation Title: Bismaleimide and Cyanate
Ester Based Sequential Interpenetrating
Polymer Networks for High Temperature
Application
Supervising Professor: Giuseppe R. Palmese
Kelly Lynn Gilrain
Dissertation Title: Coping with Bereavement
through the Use of Optimistic Emotional
Disclosure
Supervising Professor: Jacqueline D. Kloss
Manasa V.Gudheti
Dissertation Title: Combined Interaction of
Phospholipase C and Apolipoprotein A-I with
Small Unilamellar Vesicles in the Context of
Gallstone Disease
Supervising Professor: Steven P.Wrenn
Emily Y.Ho
Dissertation Title: Engineering Bioactive
Polymers for the Next Generation of Bone Repair
Supervising Professor: Michele Marcolongo
Xiaobo Hou
Dissertation Title: An Ultra-High Speed All-
Optical Analog-to-Digital Converter
Supervising Professors: Warren A. Rosen,
Afshin S. Daryous
Chunlong Hu
Dissertation Title: Design and Implementation
of Multivariable Cooperative Control and
Failure Accommodation
Supervising Professor: B.C. Chang
Carl William Imhauser
Dissertation Title: The Development and
Evaluation of an Image-Based, Three-
Dimensional and Patient-Specific Dynamic
Model of the Hindfoot
Supervising Professor: Sorin Siegler
Akm Saiful Islam
Dissertation Title: Development of a Web-Based
Modeling System Using Metadata Concepts
and Databases
Supervising Professor: Michael Piasecki
Amitkumar C. Jain
Dissertation Title: Moisture Transport in Paper
and Paper Coatings
Supervising Professor: Richard A. Cairncross
Thomas Frank Juliano
Dissertation Title: Inducing Phase
Transformations Using Depth-Sensing
Indentation
Supervising Professor: Yury Gogotsi
Saif Khalil
Dissertation Title: Deposition and Structural
Formation of 3D Alginate Tissue Scaffolds
Supervising Professor: Wei Sun
Christopher William Kennedy
Dissertation Title: Enabling Technologies for
Robotically-Assisted Sutureless Coronary
Anastomosis
Supervising Professor: Jaydev P. Desai
Yusuf M.Khan
Dissertation Title: Development of a
Polymer/Ceramic Composite Scaffold for Bone
Tissue Engineering
Supervising Professors: Cato T. Laurencin,
Fred D. Allen
Tamara Lynn Klein
Dissertation Title: Differentiating Between
Developmentally Disabled Child Molesters and
Perpetrators of Adult Sexual Molestation Using
Penile Plethysmography
Supervising Professor: Christine M. Nezu
Kathryn Kniele
Dissertation Title: Emotional Expressivity and
Working Memory Capacity
Supervising Professor: Jacqueline D. Kloss
Hoa Le Lam
Dissertation Title: Electrospinning of Single
Wall Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Alinged
Fibrils and Yarns
Supervising Professor: Frank Ko
Ria J. Lee
Dissertation Title: Imagined Versus Actual
Violence: The Role of Cognitions in Predicting
Violence Risk
Supervising Professor: Kirk Heilbrun
David Burton Lenhert
Dissertation Title: The Oxidation of JP-8 and its
Surrogates in the Low and Intermediate
Temperature Regime
Supervising Professor: Nicholas P. Cernansky
Mengjia Li
Dissertation Title: Evaluation of Oxidative
Behavior of Polyolefin Geosynthetics Utilizing
Accelerated Aging Tests Based on Temperature
and Pressure
Supervising Professor: Grace Hsuan
Dohyung Lim
Dissertation Title: Prediction of the Trabecular
Architecture and Its Potential Variation
(Remodeling) on the Glenoid of the
Glenohumeral (GH) Joint
Supervising Professor: Rahamim Seliktar
Rui Lin
Dissertation Title: On Using Diversity to
Improve the Performance of Wireless
Communication Systems
Supervising Professor: Athina Petropulu
Lit-Hsin Loo
Dissertation Title: Identifying Differentially
Expressed Genes in DNA Microarray Data
Supervising Professor: Moshe Kam
Hongyu Luo
Dissertation Title: Free-Standing PMN-PT
Thick Film with Ultrahigh Piezoelectric
Coefficients
Supervising Professor:Wei-Heng Shih,
Wan Y. Shih
Joan Patricia Lussky
Dissertation Title: Bibliometric Patterns in an
Historical Medical Index: Using the Newly
Digitized Index Catalogue of the Library of the
Surgeon General’s Office, United States Army
Supervising Professor: M. Carl Drott
Jason Michael Lyons
Dissertation Title: Melt-electrospinning of
Thermoplastic Polymers: An Experimental and
Theoretical Analysis
Supervising Professor: Frank Ko
Yiming Mao
Dissertation Title: Three-phase Radial Power
Distribution Protection System Design and
Analysis
Supervising Professor: Karen Miu
Stephen A.Mastro
Dissertation Title: Optomechanical Behavior of
Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Sensors
Supervising Professors: Mahmoud El-Sherif,
Frank Ko
Jessica Marie Matthes
Dissertation Title: Auditory Localization as
Revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging
Supervising Professor: J.Michael Williams
Maryellen McClain
Dissertation Title: Trends in Symptom Validity,
Memory and Psychological Test Performance as
Functions of Time and Malingering Rating
Supervising Professor: Douglas L. Chute
Melissa Danielle Mertzman
Dissertation Title: Chirol Microemulsion
Electrokinetic Chromatography
Supervising Professor: Joseph P. Foley
Erik Stephen Nabors
Dissertation Title: Risk and Protective Factors
for Attempted Suicide and Self-Harm in Adults
with a History of Psychiatric Hospitalization
Supervising Professor: Kirk Heilbrun
Nevin N.Naguib
Dissertation Title: Filling and Chemical
Modification of Carbon Nanotubes
Supervising Professor: Yury Gogotsi
Jackie Huong Nguyen
Dissertation Title: Impact of a Problem-Solving
Intervention in College Career Counseling
Supervising Professor: Pamela A. Geller
Amy Diane Orlando
Dissertation Title: The Integration of Learning
Technologies in the Elementary Classroom:
Identifying Teacher Pedagogy and
Classroom Culture
Supervising Professors: Craig Bach,
Sheila R.Vaidya
Douglas A. Osman
Dissertation Title: Relationship Between
Academic Achievement and Miranda Rights
Comprehension and False Confessions
Supervising Professor: Naomi E. Goldstein
Chanin Panjapornpon
Dissertation Title: Design of Nonlinear
Controllers for General Multivariable Processes
Supervising Professor: Masoud Soroush
Michelle Ann Peacock
Dissertation Title: Mental Illness as a Mediator
of Competent Behavior in Persons with Mental
Retardation
Supervising Professor: Christine Maguth Nezu
Guanghui Ping
Dissertation Title: Effects of Confinement and
Macromolecular Crowding on Protein Stability
and Folding Dynamics
Supervising Professor: Jian-Min Yuan
Gwenaelle Proust
Dissertation Title: Indentifying the Complete
Space of Feasible Anisotropic Properties in
Polycrystalline Microstructures
Supervising Professor: Surya Kalidindi
Congling Quan
Dissertation Title: High-Temperature Free-
Radical Polymerization of n-Butyl Acrylate
Supervising Professor: Masoud Soroush
Vijay Immanuel Raman
Dissertation Title: Design of Nanoporous
Polymer Networks Using a Reactive
Encapsulation of Solvent (RES) Technique
Supervising Professor: Giuseppe Palmese
Kristin M. Risi
Dissertation Title: The MBA in Transition:
Factors Driving Curricular Change
Supervising Professor: Sheila R.Vaidya
David A. Ruth
Dissertation Title: An Investigation into the
Need for Co-curricular Student Services for
Distance Education Students
Supervising Professor: Elizabeth L. Haslam
Gary Vincent Scarpello
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Mathematics
Anxiety on the Course and Career Choice
of High School Vocational-Technical
Education Students
Supervising Professor: Sheila R.Vaidya
Michael Ellis Scheuermann
Dissertation Title: Perceptions of
Nontraditional Students and Their Educators
Regarding the Collaborative Teaching and
Learning Mode and the Socialized Expectations
Students Bring form the Workplace into the
Undergraduate Classroom
Supervising Professor: Sheila R.Vaidya
Dawn Marie Schiehser
Dissertation Title: Differentiating Memory
Lateralization in Temporal Lobectomy Patients:
Comparison of the Material-Specific and
Familiarity-Novelty Hypotheses
Supervising Professor: J.Michael Williams
Swaminathan Sethuraman
Dissertation Title: Low Temperature Setting
Polymer-Ceramic Composites for Bone Tissue
Engineering
Supervising Professors: Cato T. Laurencin,
Steven P.Wrenn
Mai M. Sidawi
Dissertation Title: Teaching Science to Eight
Graders and Engaging Them in a Design and
Technology Activity: A Case Study
Supervising Professor: Sheila R.Vaidya
Tanasri Sihabut
Dissertation Title: Sampling Artifacts of
Particular Organic Species and their Effects on
Receptor Modeling Results
Supervising Professors: Stephen McDow,
Sue Kilham
Min Song
Dissertation Title: Robust Knowledge
Extraction over Large Text Collections
Supervising Professor: Il-Yeol Song
Ion Rares Stanciu
Dissertation Title: Designing Visually Served
Tracking to Augment Camera Teleoperators
Supervising Professor: Paul Y. Oh
Jeffrey Gerhard Stoll
Dissertation Title: The Ability of Social
Problem-Solving to Mediate the Relationship
between Breast Cancer Severity and
Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology
Supervising Professor: Christine M. Nezu
Lisa Kathleen Strohman
Dissertation Title: Infant Abduction: Offense
Characteristics,Victim Selection, and
Offender Motivation
Supervising Professor: James D. Herbert
Jian Sun
Dissertation Title: Methodology for Adapting
Rigorous Simulation Programs to Supervisory
Control of Buildings HVAC&R Systems:
Simulation, Calibration and Optimization
Supervising Professor: T. Agami Reddy
Marek Swoboda
Dissertation Title: Implantable Arterial Blood
Pressure Sensor
Supervising Professor: Ryszard M. Lec
Suba Thomas
Dissertation Title: Reconfiguration and
Bifurcation in Flight Controls
Supervising Professor: Harry G. Kwatny
Natalie Vedova-Brook
Dissertation Title: Theoretical Description of
Electron Transport Through Single Molecules:
Developing Design Tools for Molecular
Electronic Devices
Supervising Professor: Karl W. Sohlberg
Bryan P.Wallace
Dissertation Title: The Bioenergetics and
Trophic Ecology of Leatherback Turtles
(Dermochelys coriacea)
Supervising Professor: James Spotila
Sarah Beth Woldoff
Dissertation Title: Reliability of the Global
Assessment of Functioning Scale
Supervising Professor: James D. Herbert
Sarod Bandara Yatawatta
Dissertation Title: Efficient Signal Processing
Techniques for Future Wireless
Communications Systems
Supervising Professor: Athina Petropulu
