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Congratulations
2010 Ph.D. Graduates!
Abayomi Alexander Adigun“Adenylyl Cyclase Cell Signaling as a Target and Underlying
Mechanism for Persistent Effects of Early-Life Organophosphate Exposure.” (Pharmacology) Theodore A. Slotkin, Advisor. May 2010.
Sara Jennifer Becker“Longitudinal Association between Frequency of Substance
Use and Quality of Life among Adolescents Receiving a Brief Outpatient Intervention.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) John F. Curry, Advisor. September 2009.
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Stephanie Helena Best“Experiential Avoidance in Chronic Tic Disorders: An Online
Survey and Pilot Treatment Study Using Habit Reversal and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) John F. Curry, Advisor. September 2009.
Merrill Jay Birdno“Analyzing the Mechanisms of Action of Thalamic Deep Brain
Stimulation: Computational and Clinical Studies.” (Biomedical Engineering) Warren M. Grill, Advisor. September 2009.
Twyla Michelle Blickley“The Toxicological Effects of Engineered Nanoparticles,
Quantum Dots, in Estuarine Fish.” (Environment) Daniel Rittschof and Patricia D. McClellan-Green, Advisors. May 2010.
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Jeremy Nathan Block“NMR Structure Improvement: A Structural Bioinformatics &
Visualization Approach.” (Biochemistry) David C. Richardson and Jane S. Richardson, Advisors. May 2010.
Martha Grier Bomar “Ubiquitin Recognition by Ubiquitin-Binding Domains in Y-
Family DNA Polymerases.” (Biochemistry) Pei Zhou, Advisor. December 2009.
Gregory Michael Bonito “Systematics and Ecology of Truffles (Tuber).” (Biology)
Rytas Vilgalys, Advisor. December 2009.
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Bradley Allen Bower“Functional Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
Imaging.” (Biomedical Engineering) Joseph A. Izatt, Advisor. September 2009.
Fred Allison Bower, III“Technology Impacts of CMOS Scaling on Microprocessor
Core Design for Hard-Fault Tolerance in Single-Core Applications and Optimized Throughput in Throughput-Oriented Chip Multiprocessors.” (Computer Science) Daniel Sorin, Advisor. May 2010.
Catherine Christiane Bowler“Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel.”
(Religion) Grant Wacker, Advisor. May 2010.
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Alan P. Boyle“Studies on Human Chromatin using High-Throughput DNaseI
Sequencing.”(Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Terrence S. Furey, Advisor. December 2009.
Samuel Loren Brady“Development of Radiochromic Film for Spatially Quantitative
Dosimetric Analysis of Indirect Ionizing Radiation Fields.” (Medical Physics) Terry Toshizumi, Advisor. May 2010.
Melissa Ann Brown“Umbilical Cord Blood Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells:
Isolation, Characterization, and Adhesion Potential In Vitro and In Vivo.” (Biomedical Engineering) George Truskey, Advisor. September 2009.
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Lisa Ann Scott Carnell“Delivering Electrical and Mechanical Stimuli through
Bioactive Fibers for Stem Cell Tissue Engineering.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Kam W. Leong and Robert L. Clark, Advisors. December 2009.
Phillip Martin Carter“Speaking Subjects: Language, Subject Formation, and the
Crisis of Identity.” (English) Walt Wolfram and Ronald Butters, Advisors. December 2009.
Debby Pei-Shan Chang“Mechanical and Tribological Study of a Stimulus Responsive
Hydrogel, pNIPAAm, and a Mucinous Glycoprotein, Lubricin.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Stefan Zauscher, Advisor. September 2009.
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Julia Ling-Yu Chen“Cellular Responses to Lactic Acidosis in Human Cancers.”
(Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Jen-Tsan Chi, Advisor. May 2010.
Wei Chen“A Measurement of the Differential Cross Section for the
Reaction γ n → Π {-} p from Deuterium.” (Physics) Haiyan Gao, Advisor. May 2010.
Ruey-Kuang Cheng“Neural Coding Strategies in Cortico-Striatal Circuits
Subserving Interval Timing.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Warren H. Meck, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Patrick Ilukol Chiyo”Socio-ecology and Behavior of Crop Raiding Elephants in the
Amboseli Ecosystem.” (Biology ) Susan C. Alberts, Advisor. May 2010.
Katie Lynnann Ciesienski “Design of Photocage Ligands for Light-Activated Changes in
Coordination of d-block Transition Metals. “ (Chemistry) Katherine J. Franz, Advisor. May 2010.
Howard Jason Conyers“The Effect of Wing Damage on Aeroelastic Behavior.”
(Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Earl H. Dowell and Kenneth C. Hall, Advisors. September 2009.
Congratulations!
Matthew Simon Cook“Hijacking Germ Cells for Cancer: Examining a 'Dead End' in
Male Germ Cell Development.” (Cell Biology) Blanche Capel, Advisor. May 2010.
Dominic Joseph Crotty“Development of an Integrated SPECT-CmT Dedicated Breast
Imaging System Incorporating Novel Data Acquisition and Patient Bed Designs.” (Biomedical Engineering) Martin P. Tornai, Advisor. May 2010.
Chad Howard Custer“A Nonlinear Harmonic Balance Solver for an Implicit CFD
Code: OVERFLOW 2.” (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Earl H. Dowell and Jeffrey P. Thomas, Advisors. September 2009.
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Laura Mary Custer“Functional Analysis of the Cordon-bleu Protein in Mouse.”
(Cell Biology) John Klingensmith, Advisor. December 2009.
Shu Dai “Bifurcations in the Echebarria-Karma Modulation Equation
for Cardiac Alternans in One Dimension.” (Mathematics) David G. Schaeffer, Advisor. September 2009.
Earl Brigham Daniels“Credible Commitments, Credible Threats, and
Environmental Policy.” (Environment) Jim Salzman and Erika Weinthal, Advisors. May 2010.
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Michael Zachary Darnell“Spawning Biology of Female Blue Crabs, Callinectes
sapidus.” (Ecology) Daniel Rittschof, Advisor. December 2009.
Radhika Das“Identification of Novel Imprinted Domains in the Therian
Lineage,” (Genetics and Genomics) Randy L. Jirtle, Advisor. May 2010.
Charles Joseph Del Dotto“Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism,
and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964.” (English) John M. Clum, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Sandeepa Dey“Mouse Pheromone Receptors: The Molecular Basis of Surface
Trafficking and Ligand Selectivity.” (Biochemistry) Hiroaki Matsunami and Robert J. Leflowitz, Advisors. December 2009.
Scott William Dianis“Harmonic Source Wavefront Correction For Ultrasound
Imaging.” (Biomedical Engineering) Olaf T. von Ramm, Advisor. May 2010.
Sinziana Dorobantu“Political Competition and the Regulation of Foreign Direct
Investment.” (Political Science) Karen L. Remmer, Advisor. May 2010.
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Dahlia Doughty ShentonPharmacological Targeting of the Mitochondrial Phosphatase
PTPMT1 (Biochemistry) Patrick J. Casey, Advisor. September 2009.
Sara Kathleen Doyle“Scaling Patterns and Ecological Correlates of Postcranial
Skeletal Robusticity in Canis and Ursus: Implications for Human Evolution.” (Evolutionary Anthropology) Daniel O. Schmitt, Advisor. December 2009.
Songyun Duan“Simplifying System Management Through Automated
Forecasting, Diagnosis, and Configuration Tuning.” (Computer Science) Shivnath Babu, Advisor. May 2010.
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Laura Ann Dyer“The Role of Sonic Hedgehog in Outflow Tract Development.”
(Cell Biology) Margaret L. Kirby, Advisor. September 2009.
Chadwick Lee Eggleston"See and Read All These Words": The Concept of the Written
in the Book of Jeremiah.” (Religion) Ellen F. Davis, Advisor. December 2009.
Andrew Griffin Ekblad“Effects of Mindfulness Training on Emotion Regulation and
Attention.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Clive J. Robins, Advisor. September 2009.
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Erdem Serkan Erdoğan“Efficient Test Methods for RF Transceivers. “ (Electrical and
Computer Engineering) Martin A. Brooke and Sule Osev, Advisors. May 2010.
Marie-Joelle Estrada“Testing the Romantic Construal Model: The Impact of
Personalization, Specialness, and Value in Evaluating Romantic Actions.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Mark R. Leary, Advisor. May 2010.
Angelo Marsiglia Fasolo“Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy for Small Open and
Emerging Economies.” (Economics) Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Lisa K. Fazio“Understanding the Hypercorrection Effect: Why High-
Confidence Errors are More Likely to be Corrected.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Elizabeth Marsh, Advisor. May 2010.
Christy A. Fernandez“Computational Spectral Microscopy and Compressive
Millimeter-wave Holography.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) David J. Brady, Advisor. May 2010.
David Cunningham Fink“Divided by Faith: The Protestant Doctrine of Justification and
the Confessionalization of Biblical Exegesis.” (Religion) David C. Steinmetz, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Alisha Marie Gaines“Spectacles of American Liberalism: Narratives of Racial Im/posture.”
(English) Maurice O. Wallace, Advisor. September 2009.
Christopher Lee Gilchrist“The Effects of Extracellular Matrix Mechanics and Composition on
the Behaviors of Nucleus Pulposus Cells from the Intervertebral Disc.” (Biomedical Engineering) Lori A. Setton, Advisor. December 2009.
Simone Colette Gray“Spatial Modeling of Measurement Error in Exposure to Air Pollution.
“ (Statistical Science) Alan Gelfand, Advisor. May 2010.
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs"We Can Learn To Mother Ourselves": The Queer Survival of Black
Feminism.” (English) Maurice O. Wallace, Advisor. May 2010.
Bethany Janna Haalboom“Encounters with Conservation and Development in Suriname:
How Indigenous Peoples are trying to Make Things 'Right' through Scalar Politics, Identity Framing, and Hybrid Governance Arrangements.” (Environment) Lisa Campbell, Advisor. September 2009.
Kathryn Louise Haas“Copper at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: New Insights
into hCtr1 Function and the Role of Histidine in Human Cellular Copper Acquisition.” (Chemistry) Katherine Franz, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Deborah Lee Hall“Outgroup Similarity as Cognitive Dissonance: An
Investigation of the Turncoat Effect.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Wendy Wood, Advisor. May 2010.
James Michael Harrington“Physicochemical Characterization of Chelation and
Transport of Iron by Low Molecular Weight Chelators.” (Chemistry) Alvin L. Crumbliss, Advisor. May 2010.
Giles Burgess Harrison-Conwill“Inhabiting the City: Citizenship and Democracy in Caracas.”
(Cultural Anthropology) Deborah A. Thomas and Orin Starn, Advisors. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Jeffrey John Headd“Analysis and Error Correction in Structures of Macromolecular
Interiors and Interfaces.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Jane S. Richardson, Advisor. December 2009.
Nathan Kyran Hensley “Forms of Empire: Law, Violence, and the Poetics of Victorian
Power.” (English) Kathy A. Psomiades, Advisor. September 2009.
Michelle Heather Hersh“The Role of Seedling Pathogens in Temperate Forest
Dynamics.” (Ecology) James S. Clark and Rytas Vilgalys, Advisors. September 2009.
Congratulations!
Elizabeth Byrd Holmberg“A New Approach for Complex Problem Solving: The Independent
Systems Dynamics Elicitation Method. “ (Psychology and Neuroscience) Phil Costanzo and Blair Sheppard, Advisors. May 2010.
Sarah Rapisardo Horn“Regulation of Mitochondrial Dynamics during Apoptosis and the
Cell Cycle.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Sally Kornbluth, Advisor. May 2010.
Hisani Nzinga Annie Horne“The Role of the Myelin and Lymphocyte Protein (MAL) in Breast
and Ovarian Cancer.” (Pathology) Jeffrey R. Marks, Advisor. May 2010.
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Deanna Lynne Howarth“Characterization of Fxr Alpha in Medaka and its
Involvement in Hepatobiliary Injury.” (Environment) David E. Hinton, Advisor. September 2009.
Gabriel Philip Howles-Banerji“Active Staining for In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Microscopy
of the Mouse Brain.” (Biomedical Engineering) G. Allan Johnson, Advisor. May 2010.
Chia-Yu Hsu“Fan Jing.” (Music) Stephen Jaffee, Advisor. December 2009.
Congratulations!
Jing Huang“Coherent Structures in Land-Atmosphere Interaction.” (Civil and
Environmental Engineering) John Albertson, Advisor. May 2010.
Marjorie Letitia Hubbard“The Effect of Structural Microheterogeneity on the Initiation and
Propagation of Ectopic Activity in Cardiac Tissue.” (Biomedical Engineering) Craig S. Henriquez, Advisor. May 2010.
Katherine Conlon Hutchinson“Parental Adjustment: An Examination of Caregivers of Pediatric
Cancer Survivors.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Melanie J. Bonner, Advisor. September 2009.
Congratulations!
Richard Yi-Jen Hwang“Circuitry and Genes of Larval Nociception in Drosophila
melanogaster.” (Neurobiology) W. Daniel Tracey, Advisor. September 2009.
Brian O'Neal Ingram“Biochemical Characterization of Lipid A Modification Enzymes
from Rhizobium leguminosarum and Rhizobium etli. “ (Biochemistry) Christian R. H. Raetz, Advisor. May 2010.
Rebecca Elizabeth Ingram“Spain on the Table: Cookbooks, Women, and Modernization,
1905-1933.” (Romance Studies) Stephanie Sieburth, Advisor. December 2009.
Congratulations!
Katelin Patricia Isaacs“Women's Retirement Insecurity across U.S. Birth Cohorts.”
(Sociology) Angela O'Rand, Advisor. May 2010.
Sarah Ruth Jacobs“The Role of Glucose Metabolism in T Cell Stimulation and
Homeostasis.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Advisor. September 2009.
Patrick Jagoda“Network Aesthetics: American Fictions in the Culture of
Interconnection.” (English) Priscilla Wald, Advisor. May 2010.
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Jeffrey Loren Jauregui“Mass Estimates, Conformal Techniques, and Singularities in
General Relativity.” (Mathematics) Hubert L. Bray, Advisor. May 2010.
Justin Warren Jaworski“Nonlinear Aeroelastic Analysis of Flexible High Aspect Ratio
Wings including Correlation with Experiment (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) Earl H. Dowell, Advisor. December 2009.
Chunlin Ji“Advances in Bayesian Modelling and Computation: Spatio-
Temporal Processes, Model Assessment and Adaptive MCMC.” (Statistical Science) Mike West, Advisor. December 2009.
Congratulations!
Hongsheng Jiang“The Paris Commune in Shanghai: The Masses, the State, and
Dynamics of ‘Continuous Revolution’.” (Literature) Michael Hardt, Advisor. May 2010.
Cong Jin“Particulate Allergens Potentiate Allergic Asthma through
Sustained IgE Mediated Mast Cell Activation.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Soman N. Abraham, Advisor. May 2010.
Carrie Elizabeth Johnson“Understanding the Cellular Response to Cytosolic Cytochrome
c.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Sally Kornbluth, Advisor. May 2010.
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Charles Richard Jonassaint“The Influence of the Serotonin Transporter Gene and
Environmental Pathogens on Self-esteem during Adolescence and Early Adulthood.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Redford Williams, Advisor. September 2009.
James Adlai Joseph“Precision Measurement of the Sound Velocity in an Ultracold
Fermi Gas Through the BEC-BCS Crossover.” (Physics) John E. Thomas, Advisor. May 2010.
Roxolana Oresta Kashuba“Bayesian Methods to Characterize Uncertainty in Predictive
Modeling of the Effect of Urbanization on Aquatic Ecosystems.” (Environment) Kenneth Reckhow, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Shannon Elizabeth Kelley“Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld,
1579 – 1621.” (English) Maureen Quilligan and Laurie Shannon, Advisors. September 2009.
Megan Fuller Kendellen“Distinct Functions of POT1 at Telomeres.” (Pharmacology)
Christopher M. Counter, Advisor. September 2009.
Sehoon Keum“Genetic Modifiers in Response to Ischemia.” (Genetics and
Genomics) Douglas A. Marchuk, Advisor. May 2010.
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Anna Luise Keyte“The Development of Limbs and Somites in the Opossum,
Monodelphis domestica: a Study of Heterochrony, Heterotopy and the Origins of Neonatal Adaptation. ‘ (Biology) Kathleen Smith, Advisor. May 2010.
Mary Frances Kidd“Double-Beta Decay of 150 Nd to Excited Final States.”
(Physics) Werner Tornow, Advisor. May 2010.
Hyun-Seok Kim“Measurement and Modeling of Radiation and Water Fluxes
in Plantation Forests.” (Environment) Ram Oren, Advisor. December 2009.
Congratulations!
Koonyong Kim“The Spatial Unconscious of Global America: A Cartography of
Contemporary Social Space and Cultural Form.” (English) Fredric Jameson, Advisor. May 2010.
James Robert Knowles“Love, Labor, Liturgy: Languages of Service in Late Medieval
England.” (English) Fiona Somerset, Advisor. December 2009.
Mark Philip Kolba“Information-Based Sensor Management for Static Target
Detection Using Real and Simulated Data” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Leslie M. Collins, Advisor. September 2009.
Congratulations!
Christian Anton Kunder“Interactions of Mast Cells with the Lymphatic System:
Delivery of Peripheral Signals to Lymph Nodes by Mast Cell-Derived Particles.” (Pathology) Soman Abraham, Advisor. September 2009.
Nathan Brion Kundtz“Advances in Complex Electromagnetic Media.” (Physics)
David R. Smith, Advisor. December 2009.
Madhumita Lahiri“Beautiful Infidels: Romance, Internationalism, and
Mistranslation.” (English) Ranjana Khanna, Advisor. May 2010.
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Bonnie E. Lai“Reduction of HIV-virion Transport for Prevention of HIV
Transmission.” (Biomedical Engineering) David F. Katz, Advisor. May 2010.
Ariel Bybee Laughton“Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of
Ambrose of Milan.” (Religion) Elizabeth A. Clark, Advisor. May 2010.
Gregory Woodae Lee“Figural Reading in the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Dialogue
with Augustine and Calvin.” (Religion) Geoffrey Wainwright, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Jason Dole Lee“Role of the Type III TGF-beta Receptor Cytoplasmic Domain
in Breast Cancer Progression.” (Pharmacology) Gerald Blobe, Advisor. December 2009.
Ming-Whey Christine Lee“Critical Realism: An Ethical Approach to Global Politics.”
(Political Science) J. Peter Euben and Christopher Gelpi, Advisors. December 2009.
Phoebe S. Lee“The Mechanism of Mitotic Recombination in Yeast.”
(Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Thomas Petes, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Tae Jun Lee“Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Networks: Cell Cycle Entry
and Bacterial Infection.” (Biomedical Engineering) Lingchong You, Advisor. May 2010.
Yoonsung Lee“Regulation of Progenitor Cell Proliferation During Zebrafish
Fin Regeneration.” (Cell Biology) Kenneth D. Poss, Advisor. September 2009.
Jingbo Li“Coordinated Analysis of Sprites with High Speed Images and
Remote Electromagnetic Fields.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering). Steven A. Cummer, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Xiang Li“Radiation Dose and Diagnostic Accuracy in Pediatric
Computed Tomography.” (Medical Physics) Ehsan Samei, Advisor. May 2010.
Zheng Li“Non-linear Adaptive Bayesian Filtering for Brain Machine
Interfaces.” (Computer Science) Craig S. Henriquez, Advisor. May 2010.
Klaus LibertusObject-Directed Action Experiences and their Effect on
Cognitive and Social Development.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Amy Needham and Amy Joh, Advisors. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Melissa-Evelyn Libertus“Behavioral and Electrophysiological Markers of Number
Sense in Infancy and Adulthood.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Elizabeth M. Brannon, Advisor. May 2010.
Thomas Middleton Limbert“Timepiece.” (Music) Stephen Jaffe, Advisor. May 2010.
Treva Blaine Lindsey“Configuring Modernities: New Negro Womanhood in the
Nation's Capital, 1890-1940.” (History) Laura Edwards, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Alexander Carl Loney“Narrative Revenge and the Poetics of Justice in the Odyssey: A
Study on ‘Tisis’.“ (Classical Studies) José M. González, Advisor. May 2010.
David Bryant Lowry“Integrating Genetics, Geography, and Local Adaptation to
Understand Ecotype Formation in the Yellow Monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus.” (Genetics and Genomics) John Willis, Advisor. May 2010.
Jie Lu“Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and
Transformed Governance in Rural China.” (Political Science) Tianjian Shi, Advisor. September 2009.
Congratulations!
Andrés Carlos Luco“Desire and the Rationality of Virtue.” (Philosophy) Owen
Flanagan and David Wong, Advisor. December 2009.
Simon Lunagomez“A Geometric Approach for Inference on Graphical Models. “
(Statistical Science) Sayan Mukherjee and Robert L. Wolpert, Advisors. September 2009.
Patrick John Lynch“Establishment and Regulation of Silenced Chromatin in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” (Biochemistry) Laura Rusche, Advisor. September 2009.
Congratulations!
Kai Mao“Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Supervised Dimension
Reduction and Regression.” (Statistical Science) Shayan Mukherjee, Advisor. December 2009.
Vincent Chi Ann Mao“The Thermo-Mechanical Dynamics of DNA Self-Assembled
Nanostructures.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Christopher L. Dwyer, Advisor. May 2010.
Nathan Douglas Martin“Social Class and Elite University Education: A Bourdieusian
Analysis.” (Sociology) Kenneth I. Spenner, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Jennifer Ashley Martinez“The Innate Immune Response to Vaccinia Viral Infection.”
(Immunology) Yiping Yang, Advisor. May 2010.
Jason Christopher Maynard“Identification of Essential Functions of GRP94 in Metazoan
Growth Control and Epithelial Homeostasis.” (Cell Biology) Christopher Nicchitta, Advisor. December 2009.
Jennifer L. McCulley“Tel1p and Mec1p Regulate Chromosome Segregation and
Chromosome Rearrangements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” (Pharmacology) Thomas Petes, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Ian Robert McDonald“Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American
Electorate.” (Political Science) John H. Aldrich, Advisor. December 2009.
David Wallace McIvor“Mourning in America: Racial Trauma and the Democratic
Work of Mourning.” (Political Science) J. Peter Euben, Advisor. May 2010.
Thomas Patrick McNicholas“Structure and Morphology Control in Carbon Nanomaterials
for Nanoelectronics and Hydrogen Storage.” (Chemistry) Jie Liu, Advisor. December 2009.
Congratulations!
Thomas A. McWatters III“Religious Conviction, Respect, and the Doctrine of Restraint in
the Exclusionist-Inclusionist Debate. “ (Philosophy) Martin P. Golding, Advisor. May 2010.
Janet Hart Melonakos“A Paradoxical Role for PTEN in the Cellular Response to
Hypoxia.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Christopher D. Kontos, Advisor. May 2010.
Louis Eugene Metzger IV“Characterization of Peripheral-Membrane Enzymes Required
for Lipid A Biosynthesis in Gram-Negative Bacteria. “ (Biochemistry) Christian R. Raetz, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
John David Miles“The Afterlives of King Philip's War: Negotiating War and
Identity in Early America. “ (English) Priscilla Wald, Advisor. December 2009.
Colin Douglas Miller“The Practice of the Body of Christ: Human Agency in Pauline
Theology after MacIntyre.” (Religion) Douglas Campbell and Stanley Hauerwas, Advisors. May 2010.
Heather Sue Mitchell“’Dost Thou Speak Like a King?': Enacting Tyranny on the
Early English Stage.” (English) Sarah Beckwith, Advisor. December 2009.
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David McCheyne Moffitt“A New and Living Way: Atonement and the Logic of
Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews.” (Religion) Richard B. Hays, Advisor. May 2010.
Nicole L. T. Moore“Adolescent Response to THC: Greater Learning Impairment
and Lesser Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Desensitization in Adolescents than Adults.” (Pharmacology) Cynthia M. Kuhn, Advisor. September 2009.
Emily Victoria Moran“Seed Dispersal, Gene Flow, and Hybridization in Red Oak. ‘
(Biology) James S. Clark, Advisor. May 2010.
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Jennifer Lee Morse“Farm Fields to Wetlands: Biogeochemical Consequences of Re-
Flooding in Coastal Plain Agricultural Lands. “ (Ecology) Emily S. Bernhardt and Curtis J. Richardson, Advisors. May 2010.
Kenneth Darrel Morton, Jr.“Bayesian Techniques for Adaptive Acoustic Surveillance.”
(Electrical and Computer Engineering) Leslie Collins, Advisor. May 2010.
Benjamin Mudrak“Secretion and Lipopolysaccharide Binding of Heat-Labile
Enterotoxin.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Margarethe Kuehn, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Sarah Victoria Mudrak“Studies of Spontaneous Oxidative and Frameshift Mutagenesis
in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. “ (Genetics and Genomics) Sue Jinks-Robertson, Advisor. May 2010.
Supriya Shaunak Munshaw“Computational Methods to Study Diversification in Pathogens,
and Invertebrate and Vertebrate Immune Systems.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Thomas Kepler, Advisor. May 2010.
Tamisha Dawn Navarro“Virgin Capital: Foreign Investment and Local Stratification in
the US Virgin Islands.” (Cultural Anthropology) Charles Piot, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Samantha Astrid Noel“Carnival is Woman!: Gender, Performance, and Visual Culture
in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival.” (Art, Art History and Visual Studies) Richard Powell, Advisor. December 2009.
Paul Andrew O'Keefe“The Situational Adaptiveness of Implicit Theories of Intelligence
and Achievement Goal Orientations. ‘ (Psychology and Neuroscience) James Y. Shah, Advisor. September 2009.
Joshua Samuel Osterberg“Ecotoxicology of Natural and Anthropogenic Extreme
Environments.” (Ecology) Daniel Rittschof, Advisor. May 2010.
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John William Paisley“Machine Learning with Dirichlet and Beta Process Priors:
Theory and Applications.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Lawrence Carin, Advisor. May 2010.
Roberto Pancrazi“Essays on Macroeconomics in the Frequency Domain.”
(Economics) A. Craig Burnside, Advisor. May 2010.
Prachi Pandit“Non-Cartesian MR Microscopy for Cancer Imaging in Small
Animals.” (Biomedical Engineering) G. Allan Johnson, Advisor. May 2010.
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Janaina Hernandez Pantoja“Neuronal Correlates of Reward Contingency in the Rat
Thalamocortical System.” (Neurobiology) Miguel Nicolelis, Advisor. December 2009.
Claire Jarvis Parker Siburt“Thermodynamic Investigations of Metalloproteins: Metal as
Probe and Protein as Probe.” (Chemistry) Alvin L. Crumbliss, Advisor. May 2010.
Amanda Baumann Parrish“Regulation of Apoptosis Following Mitochondrial
Cytochrome c Release. “ (Molecular Cancer Biology) Sally Kornbluth, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Elizabeth A. Pascoe“Tired of Prejudice: The Self-Regulatory Effect of Discrimination
on Health-Related Behaviors.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Laura Smart Richman, Advisor. September 2009.
Margaret Elizabeth Peloso“Adapting to Rising Sea Levels.” (Environment) Michael K.
Orbach, Advisor. May 2010.
Kristen Elizabeth Pleil“Region-specific Mechanisms of Estrogen and Age on Neuronal
Ensemble Activity during Spatial Navigation.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Christina L. Williams, Advisor. May 2010.
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Kevin Michael Preuss“The Role of Threshold Size in Insect Metamorphosis and Body
Size Regulation.” (Biology) H. Frederik Nijhout, Advisor. May 2010.
James Aaron Qiu“Structure-Function Studies in Sulfite Oxidase with Altered
Active Sites.” (Biochemistry) K. V. Rajagopalan, Advisor. September 2009.
Elizabeth Ann Rach“The Spatial and Temporal Regulatory Code of Transcription
Initiation in Drosophila melanogaster.” (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics) Uwe Ohler, Advisor. May 2010.
Congratulations!
Daniel Ray Radiloff“Functional Analysis of Trefoil Factors 1 and 3 in
Tumorigenesis.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Xiao-Fan Wang, Advisor. December 2009.
Caroline Rhim“Stretch-Induced Effects on MicroRNA Expression and
Exogenous MicroRNA Delivery in Differentiating Skeletal Myoblasts.” (Biomedical Engineering) George A. Truskey, Advisor. September 2009.
James Robert Rigby
“Intermittency and Irreversibility in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System. ‘ (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Amilcare Porporato, Advisor. December 2009.
Congratulations!
Richard William Roberts“Maternally Inherited Peptides Are Strain Specific
Chemosignals That Activate a New Candidate Class of Vomeronasal Chemosensory Receptor.” (Genetics and Genomics) Hiroaki Matsunami, Advisor. December 2009.
Bianca Christel Robinson“American Realities, Diasporic Dreams: Pursuing Happiness,
Love, and Girlfriendship in Jamaica.” (Cultural Anthropology) Lee D. Baker, Advisor. September 2009.
Bogdan Florin Romanescu“Cost-effective Designs for Supporting Correct Execution and
Scalable Performance in Many-core Processors.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Daniel J. Sorin, Advisor. May 2010.
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Christina Celeste Rush“Disordered Eating and Binge Drinking among College
Students.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) John F. Curry, Advisor. September 2009.
Adesoji Sajuyigbe“Electromagnetic Metamaterials for Antenna Applications.”
(Electrical and Computer Engineering) David R. Smith, Advisor. May 2010.
Joel Alden Schlosser“Engaging Socrates.” (Political Science) J. Peter Euben,
Advisor. December 2009.
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Suzanne N. Schneider“Coons, Queers, and ‘Human Curiosities’: White Fantasies of
Black Masculinity, 1840-1915.” (English) Maurice Wallace, Advisor. May 2010.
Amy B. SchultingThe Kindergarten Home Visit Project: A Kindergarten
Transition Intervention Study.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Kenneth Dodge, Advisor. May 2010.
October Michael Sessions“Dengue Virus Host Factors.” (Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology) Mariano Garcia-Blanco, Advisor. September 2009.
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Amanda J. Sheets“Cha-Cha-Cha: Variable Adhesive Activity of the Haemophilus
Cryptic Genospecies Trimeric Autotransporter Cha.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Joseph St. Geme III, Advisor. December 2009.
Alexander A. Shestopalov“Chemical Reactions and Self-Assembly in Nano-Confined
Environments: The Development of New Catalytic Microcontact Printing Techniques and Multicomponent Inorganic Janus Particles.” (Chemistry) Eric J. Toone, Advisor. December 2009.
Woochoel Shin“The Company that You Keep: When to Buy a Competitor's
Keyword.” (Business Administration) Preyas S. Desai and Richard Staelin, Advisors. May 2010.
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Laura Anne Simmons Kovacs“Defining Roles for Cyclin Dependent Kinases and a
Transcriptional Oscillator in the Organization of Cell-Cycle Events.” (Genetics and Genomics) Steven B. Haase, Advisor. December 2009.
Andrew Joseph Simnick“Affinity-Modulation Drug Delivery Using Thermosensitive
Elastin-Like Polypeptide Block Copolymers.” (Biomedical Engineering) Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor. May 2010.
Michael Sirivianos“Toward Trustworthy Distributed Systems by Means of Social
Trust.” (Computer Science) Xiaowei Yang, Advisor. May 2010.
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David S. Siroky“Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent
Conflict.” (Political Science) Donald L. Horowitz, Advisor. September 2009.
Jesse David Slone“Analysis of the Drosophila Sugar Receptor Genes.” (Genetics
and Genomics) Hubert Amrein, Advisor. December 2009.
Lijun Song“Your Body Knows Who You Know: Social Capital and Health
Inequality.” (Sociology) Nan Lin and Linda K. George, Advisors. September 2009.
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Daniel Isaac Speiser“The Form and Function of Scallop Mantle Eyes.” (Biology)
Sönke Johnsen, Advisor. May 2010.
Peggy L. St. Jacques“Functional Neuroimaging of Autobiographical Memory.”
(Psychology and Neuroscience) David C. Rubin and Roberto E. Cabeza, Advisors. May 2010.
Ronald Worth Sutherland“The Effects of Urbanization on Reptiles and Amphibians in
the Sandhills Region of North Carolina.” (Environment) John Terborgh, Advisor. September 2009.
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Isilay Talay Degirmenci“Asymptotic Analysis and Performance-based Design of Large
Scale Service and Inventory Systems.” (Business Administration) Otis B. Jennings, Advisor. May 2010.
Wanli Tang“Regulation of Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome to
Control M Phase Exit.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Sally Kornbluth, Advisor. May 2010.
Maria Elisa Tanner“Recording Information into DNA.” (Mechanical Engineering
and Materials Science) Jonathan M. Protz, Advisor. September 2009.
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Ashley Lauren Taylor“From Dennis-the-Menace to Billy-the-Kid: The Evolving Social
Construction of Juvenile Offenders in the United States from 1899-2007. (Sociology) Suzanne Shanahan and Kenneth Land, Advisors. May 2010.
Matthew Thiessen“Genealogy, Circumcision, and Conversion in Early Judaism
and Christianity.” (Religion) Joel Marcus, Advisor. May 2010.
Rachel L. Thomas“Time-Scaled Stochastic Input to Biochemical Reaction
Networks.” (Mathematics) Michael C. Reed and Jonathan C. Mattingly, Advisors. May 2010.
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Sally Elizabeth Thompson“Spatial Patterns in Dryland Vegetation and the Significance of
Dispersal, Infiltration and Complex Topography.” (Environment) Gabriel Katul, Advisor. May 2010.
Rebecca Marie Tippett“Household Debt Across the Life Course: An Analysis of the Late
Baby Boomers.” (Sociology) Angela M. O'Rand, Advisor. May 2010.
Bradley Ryan Trick“Sons, Seed, and Children of Promise in Galatians: Discerning the
Coherence in Paul's Model of Abrahamic Descent.” (Religion) Richard B. Hays, Advisor. May 2010.
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Esther Marie Tristani“Molecular Recognition in Host-Guest Ionophore-Siderophore
Assemblies.” (Chemistry) Alvin L. Crumbliss, Advisor. May 2010.
Nicholas Ross Troester“Rethinking International Law: Hugo Grotius, Human Rights
and Humanitarian Intervention. “ (Political Science) Ruth W. Grant, Advisor. May 2010.
Yi-Hsin Erica Tsai“Host constraints on the Post-glacial Migration History of the
Parasitic Plant, Epifagus virginiana.” (Biology) Paul S. Manos, Advisor. December 2009.
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Felicity Mary Turner“Narrating Infanticide: Constructing the Modern Gendered State
in Nineteenth-Century America. “(History) Laura F. Edwards, Advisor. May 2010.
Nurgul Beyshenbekovna Ukueva“Migration, Remittances and Growth.” (Economics) Pietro
Peretto, Advisor. May 2010.
Sandra Viviana Vergara“Post-transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in Response
to Iron Deficiency in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.”(Genetics and Genomics) Dennis Thiele, Advisor. May 2010.
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Giulia Vico“Hydrologic Controls on Vegetation: From Leaf to Landscape.”
(Civil and Environmental Engineering) Amilcare Porporato, Advisor. September 2009.
Mark Joseph Vignola“The Phospholipase cPLA2 Regulates the Expression of Type I
Intereferons and Intracellular Immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis.” (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) Raphael Valdivia, Advisor. December 2009.
Briana Noelle Vogen“Inkless Soft Lithography: Utilizing Immobilized Enzymes and
Small Molecules to Pattern Self-Assembled Monolayers Via Catalytic Microcontact Printing.” (Chemistry) Eric J. Toone, Advisor. May 2010.
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Marija Vukotić“Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics.” (Economics) A. Craig
Burnside, Advisor. May 2010.
Hilary Erin Wade“Multimodal Regulation of Gene Transcription by
Progestins.” (Molecular Cancer Biology) Donald McDonnell, Advisor. December 2009.
Ashwin Ashok Wagadarikar“Compressive Spectral and Coherence Imaging.” (Electrical
and Computer Engineering) David Brady, Advisor. May 2010.
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Heather Anne Wake“Modeling, Fabrication, and Test of a CMOS Integrated Circuit
Platform for Electrophoretic Control of On-Chip Heterogeneous Fluids: Toward Particle Separation on a Custom CMOS Chip.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Martin Brooke, Advisor. December 2009.
Hao Wang“Bayesian Multi- and Matrix-variate Modelling: Graphical
Models and Time Series.” (Statistical Science) Mike West, Advisor. May 2010.
Shilyh J. Warren"Real Politics and Feminist Documentaries: Re-Visioning
Seventies Film Feminisms.“ (Literature) Ranjana Khanna and Jane Gaines, Advisors. May 2010.
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Graham Meldahl West“A Covalent Modification Technique for Protein-Ligand Binding
Analysis Using Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics Platforms.” (Chemistry) Michael C. Fitzgerald, Advisor. December 2009.
Bayly Simpson Wheeler“The Role of Genomic Sequence in the Spatial and Temporal
Propagation of Heterochromatin.” (Genetics and Genomics) Huntington F. Willard, Advisor. May 2010.
Melanie Ann Wilson“Bayesian Model Uncertainty and Prior Choice with Applications
to Genetic Association Studies.” (Statistical Science) Edwin S. Iversen and Merlise A. Clyde, Advisors. May 2010.
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Michael Brett Wilson“The Qur’an after Babel: Translating and Printing the Qur’an in
Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey.” (Religion) Bruce Lawrence, Advisor. September 2009.
Sarah Jeanne Evens Wong-Goodrich“Mechanisms by Which Early Nutrition Influences Spatial
Memory, Adult Neurogenesis, and Response to Hippocampal Injury.” (Psychology and Neuroscience) Christina L. Williams, Advisor. May 2010.
John Patrick Woock“Control of Bladder Function by Electrical Stimulation of
Pudendal Afferents.” (Biomedical Engineering) Warren Grill, Advisor. May 2010.
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Jessica Lee Wood“Keys to the Past: Building Harpsichords and Feeling History
in the Postwar United States. “ (Music) Louise Meintjes, Advisor. May 2010.
Jennifer Ann Woodruff“Learning to Listen, Learning to Be: African-American Girls
and Hip-Hop at a Durham, NC Boys and Girls Club. “ (Music) Louise Meintjes, Advisor. December 2009.
Catherine Courtney Workman“The Foraging Ecology of the Delacour's langur
(Trachypithecus delacouri) in Van Long Nature Reserve, Vietnam.” (Evolutionary Anthropology) Kenneth Glander, Advisor. May 2010.
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Kevin Matthew Wright“Theoretical and Empirical Investigations into Adaptation.”
(Biology) John H. Willis and Mark D. Rausher, Advisors. May 2010.
Eugenia Ching Wu“When Bittersweet is as Good as Sweet: How Emotion Norms
Shape Consumption Choices.” (Business Administration) Gavan J. Fitzsimons and Mary Frances Luce, Advisors. May 2010.
Phillip M. Wu“Electron Correlations and Spin in Asymmetric GaAs Quantum
Point Contacts and Signatures of Structural Transitions in Hall Effect of FeSe.” (Physics) Albert M. Chang, Advisor. May 2010.
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Cory Robert Wyatt“Development of MR Thermometry Strategies for Hyperthermia
of Extremity and Breast Tumors.” (Biomedical Engineering) James R. MacFall, Advisor. May 2010
Huidong Xu“Dynamics of Electronic Transport in Spatially-extended
Systems with Negative Differential Conductivity.” (Physics) Stephen W. Teitsworth, Advisor. May 2010.
Jie Yang“Essays in Corporate Finance: On the Topic of Capital
Structure.” (Business Administration) John R. Graham, Advisor. May 2010.
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Gang Ye“PSTD Method for Thermoacoustic Tomography (TAT) and
Related Experimental Investigation.” (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Qing H. Liu, Advisor. September 2009.
Mark Owen Yeisley“The End of Civilizations: The Role of Religion in the Evolution of
Subnational Conflict, 1946-2007.” (Political Science) Joseph Grieco, Advisor. May 2010.
Yongcheng Ying“I. Total Syntheses and Biological Studies of Largazole and
Brasilibactin A. II. Stereoselective Synthesis of 2,6-Cis- and 2,6-Trans-Piperidines through an Organocatalytic Aza-Michael Reaction.” (Chemistry) Jiyong Hong, Advisor. May 2010.
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Liang Zhai“Imaging and Characterizing Human Prostates Using
Acoustic Radiation Force.” (Biomedical Engineering) Kathryn R. Nightingale, Advisor. December 2009.
Chunjie Zhang“Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-
Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800. “ (German Studies) Jonathan Hess, Advisor. May 2010.
Hao Zhang“Forebrain Acetylcholine in Action: Dynamic Activities and
Modulation on Target Areas.” (Neurobiology) Miguel Nicolelis, Advisor. December 2009.
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Mingtao Zhao“Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography System Development for In Vivo Ophthalmic Imaging.” (Biomedical Engineering) Joseph A. Izatt, Advisor. December 2009.
Xiumei Zhu“Essays on Knowledge Intensive Groups.” (Business Administration) Jonathon N. Cummings, Advisor. September 2009.
Xing Zong“First Study of Three-body Photodisintegration of 3He with Double Polarizations at HIGS.”(Physics) Haiyan Gao, Advisor. May 2010.
Sarah Zubairy“Explaining the Effects of Fiscal Shocks.” (Economics) Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Barbara Rossi, Advisors. May 2010.
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