Congratulations Doctoral Graduates
Fall 2020 Doctoral Graduates
Archived Semesters
Doctor of Philosophy
Business Administration
Jing Chen
Dissertation Title: The Augmenting Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Marketing Performance
Dissertation Chair: Gary Frankwick, Ph.D.
Biological Sciences-Pathobiology
Karla Parra
Dissertation Title: Evaluation of CTLA-4 Blockade Therapy with Metronomic Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Preclinical Breast Cancer
Dissertation Chair: Giulio Francia, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Renato Aguilera, Ph.D.
Paloma A. Valenzuela
Dissertation Title: Preclinical Models of Metastatic Disease
Dissertation Chair: Giulio Francia, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering
Xia Huang
Dissertation Title: Image Analysis for Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Superresolution Localization Microscopy
Dissertation Chair: Wei Qian, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Bill Tseng, Ph.D.
Chemistry
Josue Rolando Aguilar Calderon
Dissertation Title: Low-Valent Synthons of Titanium: Investigations on Structure-reactivity Relationships
Dissertation Chair: Skye Fortier, Ph.D.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dominic L. DeSantis
Dissertation Title: Movement Ecology of a Cryptic Ambush Predator: Integrative Radio Telemetry and Tri-axial Accelerometry to Evaluate Spatial Strategies and Activity Patterns by Western Diamond-backed Strategies Rattlesnakes (Crotalus Atrox)
Dissertation Chair: Jerry Johnson, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Amy Wagler, Ph.D.
Mariana Vargas Medrano
Dissertation Title: Recent Changes in the Zooplankton Communities of Arctic Tundra Ponds in Response to Warmer Temperatures and Nutrient Enrichment
Dissertation Chair: Vanessa Lougheed, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Ana C. Cram
Dissertation Title: A Coupled Modeling Framework for Allocation Design in Land-use and Land-cover Changes to Optimize Biofuel Feedstock Production
Dissertation Chair: Jose Espiritu-Nolasco, Ph.D.
Psychology
Jennifer Margaret Blush
Dissertation Title: Cross-Language Sense Priming
Dissertation Chair: Ana Schwartz, Ph.D.
Rodolfo Jesus Flores Garcia
Dissertation Title: Examination of Sex Differences and the Role of Ovarian Hormones in Modulating Nicotine Withdrawal in Rats
Dissertation Chair: Laura O’Dell, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Ian Mendez, Ph.D.
Karly Meillyn Schleicher
Dissertation Title: Cross-language Activation Integration of Concepts in Text Passages
Dissertation Chair: Ana Schwartz, Ph.D.
Doctor of Education
Educational Leadership and Administration
Lucas Endicott
Dissertation Title: Innovation in Higher Education: Three Sites in Haiti
Dissertation Chair: Rodolfo Rincones, Ph.D.
Jeffrey Yoichi Kuroiwa
Dissertation Title: An Examination of the Professional Quality of U.S. College Mental Health Counselors: Using the Professional Quality of Life Scale to Measure Compassion, Satisfaction, Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress
Dissertation Chair: Eduardo Arellano, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
Biomedical Engineering
Aleli Campbell
Dissertation Title: Bioprinted MCF7 Breast Cancer Cells, an in vitro Model for Drug Discovery
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Boland, Ph.D.
Biosciences
Jose Carlos Cano
Dissertation Title: Shining Light on an Amygdala – Brainstem Connection Important for Attention Processing
Dissertation Chair: Michael Kenney, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Karine Fenelon, Ph.D.
Mengtao Xing
Dissertation Title: The Role of p62/IMP2 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression
Dissertation Chair: Jianying Zhang, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Giulio Francia, Ph.D.
Borderlands History
Carolina Monsivais
Dissertation Title: Skirting the Law: Women in Vice during Prohibition in the Rio Grande Valley, 1900 – 1953
Dissertation Chair: Samuel Brunk, Ph.D.
Daniel Santana
Dissertation Title: Indigenous Masculinities and the Tarascan Borderlands in Sixteenth-Century Michoacán
Dissertation Chair: Ignacio Martinez, Ph.D.
Chemistry
Nancy Rodriguez Lopez
Dissertation Title: Study of Multielectron Redox Chemistry in Bimetallic Complexes and Metal-Free Macrocycles
Dissertation Chair: Dino Villagran, Ph.D.
Civil Engineering
Mayra Consuelo Chavez
Dissertation Title: Assessing spatiotemporal Exposures to Transportation Pollutants in Near-Road Communities using AERMOD
Dissertation Chair: Wen-Whai Li, Ph.D.
Okan Gurbuz
Dissertation Title: Decision Support Tools for Parking Management on University Campuses
Dissertation Chair: Ruey Long Cheu, Ph.D.
Computational Science
Khodeza Begum
Dissertation Title: GPCR-PEnDB: A Database of Protein Sequences and Derived Features to Facilitate Prediction and Classification of G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Dissertation Chair: Ming-Ying Leung, Ph.D.
Computer Science
Diego Aguirre
Dissertation Title: A Novel Set of Weight Initialization Techniques for Modern Deep Learning Architectures
Dissertation Chair: Olac Fuentes, Ph.D.
Roberto Camacho Barranco
Dissertation Title: Time-Reflective Text Representations for Semantic Evolution Tracking and Trend Analytics
Dissertation Chair: M. Shahriar Hossain, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Monika Akbar, Ph.D.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jose Alfredo Rivas, Jr.
Dissertation Title: Dust Storms and the Dispersal of Aquatic Invertebrates in the Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion
Dissertation Chair: Elizabeth Walsh, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Thomas Gill, Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Eric Galvan
Dissertation Title: Energy Management and Control of Smart Power Distribution Systems
Dissertation Chair: Paras Mandal, Ph.D.
Shaimum Shahriar
Dissertation Title: Material Characterization of Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites using Various Deposition Techniques for Planar Perovskite Solar Cell
Dissertation Chair: Deidra Hodges, Ph.D.
Rossana Villegas
Dissertation Title: A Data Mining Assessment of the Transmission and Distribution Systems Under Natural Disasters using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques in a Knowledge Discovery Framework
Dissertation Chair: Patricia A. Nava, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Antara Badhan
Dissertation Title: CFD DEM Analysis of a Dry Powder Inhaler
Dissertation Chair: Vinod Kumar, Ph.D.
Geological Sciences
Labdan Nijr Alqahtani
Dissertation Title: Mineral Exploration Investigation in the Northern Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico
Dissertation Chair: Philip Goodell, Ph.D.
Claire Henry Bailey
Dissertation Title: Fluvial Interactions of the Jurassic Morrison Formation with the Gypsum Valley Salt Diapir, CO
Dissertation Chair: Richard Langford, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Katherine Giles, Ph.D.
Rachelle Kernen
Dissertation Title: Origin and Characterization of Intrasalt Non-Halite Lithologies of the Neoproterozoic Patawarta Diapir, Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Dissertation Chair: Katherine Giles, Ph.D.
Lorraine Marie Negron
Dissertation Title: Petrophysical and Geostatistical Analysis of Round Top Mtn Rhyolite in Sierra Blanca, West TX using Electron Probe Micro-Analyzer, EPMA and ArcGIS
Dissertation Chair: Nicholas Pingitore, Ph.D.
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Isabel Katharina Latz
Dissertation Title: Associations between Perceptions of U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policies, Physical Health, Psychological Distress, and Healthcare Utilization
Dissertation Chair: Mark Lusk, Ph.D.
Materials Science and Engineering
Shweta Anil Kumar
Dissertation Title: Exploration and Optimization of Biomaterials and Cells Required for the Fabrication of a “Cardiac Patch”
Dissertation Chair: Binata Joddar, Ph.D.
Aurelio Paez
Dissertation Title: Nonlinear Optics for Materials Fabrication and Medical Instrumentation
Dissertation Chair: Chunqiang Li, Ph.D.
Bing Yu
Dissertation Title: Processing-Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Engineering Steels
Dissertation Chair: Devesh Misra, Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Jaclyn Mona Mejia
Dissertation Title: Development of an Ionic Green Monopropellant 1 Newton Thruster for Small Satellite Application
Dissertation Chair: Ahsan Choudhuri, Ph.D.
Alejandro Andre Vazquez
Dissertation Title: Development of an Iridium-Ceramic Substrate Catalyst Bed for the Decomposition of Ionic Liquid Green Monopropellants
Dissertation Chair: Ahsan Choudhuri, Ph.D.
Rhetoric and Composition
Maria Isela Maier
Dissertation Title: Using Spanish in English Language paces: Identifying Bilingual Composition Students' Translanguaging Practices
Dissertation Chair: Kate Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
Teaching, Learning and Culture
Mariana Alvidrez
Dissertation Title: From Mistakes, We Learn: Variations in Teacher Dis/Position toward Errors in Mathematics Classrooms
Dissertation Chair: Mourat Tchoshanov, Ph.D.
Diana Minerva Camberos Rangel
Dissertation Title: Analyzing Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical, and Content
Dissertation Chair: William Robertson, Ph.D.
Isaac Martinez Sr.
Dissertation Title: Critial Political Correctness in the Era of Properness
Dissertation Chair: Josefina Tinajero, Ph.D.
Hilda Y. Sotelo
Dissertation Title: Utilizando escritura critica para deconstruir la opresión femenina
Dissertation Chair: Josefina Tinajero, Ph.D.
Emiliano Villarreal
Dissertation Title: Narcoculture as Cultural Capital for Latinx Youth Identity Work: An Online Ethnography
Dissertation Chair: Katherine Mortimer, Ph.D.
Doctor of Physical Therapy
Lisa Janice Soule
Doctor of Education
Educational Leadership and Administration
Christian Corrales
Dissertation Title: Brokering Social Ties: A Qualitative Case Study on how a Four-Year Hispanic Serving Institution Brokers Social Capital for First-Generation Latinx, on-campus Student Employees
Dissertation Chair: Jesus Cisneros, Ph.D.
Ignacio Estorga III
Dissertation Title: Principal’s Perceptions of their Preparedness to Lead Inclusive School for Students with Disabilities: An Action Research Study of a Principal Preparation Program on the U.S. Mexico Border
Dissertation Chair: Rodolfo Rincones, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Beverly Calvo, Ph.D.
Edmond David Martinez
Dissertation Title: The Development of a Principal’s Conceptual Framework within an Early College High School
Dissertation Chair: Maria Teresa Cortez, Ed.D.
Co-Chair: Rodolfo Rincones, Ph.D.
Luis Jaime Mendez
Dissertation Title: Familia First! A Qualitative Study on the Impact of Latinx First-Generation College Students’ Degree Completion on their Family in a U.S./Mexico Border Community
Dissertation Chair: Jesus Cisneros, Ph.D.
Jovita Simon
Dissertation Title: To Intervene or no to Intervene: A Qualitative Study on Combatting Sexual Violence through Bystander Intervention in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Dissertation Chair: Jesus Cisneros, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Arturo Olivarez, Ph.D.
Marianne Arzadon Torales
Dissertation Title: Secondary Student Perceptions of School Climate Elements and Self-Reported Academic Self-Efficacy as Factors of School Climate Improvement
Dissertation Chair: Arturo Olivarez, Ph.D.
Susana Ana Villalobos
Dissertation Title: Substance Abuse Among 7th – 9th Grade Adolescents: The Role of Peers, Access and Environment as Motivating Risk Factors in the Probability of Use
Dissertation Chair: Angus Mungal, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Arturo Olivarez, Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
Biomedical Engineering
Pradeep Kumar Bolla
Dissertation Title: Formulation Strategies to Enhance Solubility and Permeability of Small Molecules for Drug Delivery Applications
Dissertation Chair: Jwala Renukuntla, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Thomas Boland, Ph.D.
Isaac Giovanni Deaguero
Dissertation Title: To or Through the Skin: Disease Specific Delivery of Therapeutics
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Boland, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Md. Nurunnabl, Ph.D.
Gilberto Henao-Pabon
Dissertation Title: A New Application to Electron Transfers from Glucose Oxidase Enzyme and Aminophenyl Boronic Acid and Cofactor Redox Reactions onto Zero-Length Cross-Linked Cellulose Platforms, for the Quantitative Determination of Glucose and Glycated
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Boland, Ph.D.
Carlos Serna III
Dissertation Title: Formulation of Protein-Based Nanoparticles as Vehicles for Drug Delivery
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Boland, Ph.D.
Luis Horacio Solis
Dissertation Title: In Vitro Characterization of Thermal Inkjet Bioprinted Cells
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Boland, Ph.D.
Biosciences
Chenoa Dara Arico
Dissertation Title: Elucidating the regulatory mechanisms for the cholesterol catabolic pathway transcriptional repressor KSTR in mycobacterium tuberculosis
Dissertation Chair: Hugues Ouellet, Ph.D.
Alice Elaine Hernandez
Dissertation Title: Single Amino Acid Substitution V666G in the JH2 of JAK1
Dissertation Chair: Robert Kirken, Ph.D.
Nasim Karimi Hosseini
Dissertation Title: Isolation and Characterization of X-Gal Containing Extracelular Vesicles (EVs) from Three Major Genotypes of Trypanosoma Cruzi: Potential Biomarkers of Chagas Disease
Dissertation Chair: Igor Almeida, Ph.D.
Ashley Bryan Lopez
Dissertation Title: Glycine Transporter 2: Structure, Pharmacology, and Evolution
Dissertation Chair: Manuel Miranda-Arango, Ph.D.
Maria Tays Mendes
Dissertation Title: Expression and Functional Sialome of Triatomines Insect Vectors of Chagas Disease
Dissertation Chair: Igor Almeida, Ph.D.
Uriel Ortega Rodriguez
Dissertation Title: Molecular and Functional Characterization of Alpha Galactosyl Epitopes in Trypanosoma Cruzi
Dissertation Chair: Igor Almeida, Ph.D.
Susana Portillo
Dissertation Title: Alpha-Gal-containing Neoglycoproteins as Biomarkers and Vaccines for Chagas Disease
Dissertation Chair: Igor Almeida, Ph.D.
Borderlands History
Kevin Thomas Guay
Dissertation Title: Trials of Belonging: Indigenous Peoples’ Struggle with Law Power
Dissertation Chair: Jeffrey Shepherd, Ph.D.
Ian Anson Lee
Dissertation Title: The Manliness to Defend Themselves: Race and Civilian/Indigenous Warfare in New Mexico, 1598-1898
Dissertation Chair: Jeffrey Shepherd, Ph.D.
Gene Thomas Morales
Dissertation Title: Mi Feria es Su Feria: How Mexican Americans Created the 1968 San Antonio HemisFair
Dissertation Chair: Yolanda Chavez-Leyva, Ph.D.
Maria Guadalupe Vallejo
Dissertation Title: On the Rio Grande: A Struggle for Land and Citizenship in San Vicente del Llano Grande. 1749-1930
Dissertation Chair: Jeffrey Shepherd, Ph.D.
Business Administration
Michael Enoch Abrokwah
Dissertation Title: Weathering the Storm: Natural Disasters and Executive Compensation
Dissertation Chair: Hendrik Devos, Ph.D.
Jangho Gil
Dissertation Title: Proprietary Costs of Financial Reporting, Country-Level Attributes, and Financial Statement Comparability
Dissertation Chair: Giorgio Gotti, Ph.D.
Tahsina Haque Simu
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
Dissertation Chair: Hendrik Devos, Ph.D.
Farid Jahantab
Dissertation Title: A Social Network Perspective of Employee Overqualification to Outcomes Relationships in Workgroups
Dissertation Chair: Prajya Vidyarthi, Ph.D.
Clifford Kyle Jones
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Local Media Reductions on Firm Information Environment and Asset Pricing
Dissertation Chair: Oscar Varela, Ph.D.
Kingshuk Saha
Dissertation Title: Achieving Effectiveness in U.S. Public Organizations through Ability-Enhancing and Opportunity-Enhancing HPWPs (Soft HR)
Dissertation Chair: Richard Posthuma, Ph.D.
Emmanuel Joseph Sequeira
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Spillover Effects of Whistleblowing on Peer Firms
Dissertation Chair: Zuobao Wei, Ph.D.
Qifeng Wu
Dissertation Title: Managerial Entrenchment and Financial Statement Comparability
Dissertation Chair: Giorgio Gotti, Ph.D.
Fuzhao Zhou
Dissertation Title: The Deterrence Effect of Whistleblowing on Peer Firms’ Financial Reporting Decisions
Dissertation Chair: David Folsom, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Giorgio Gotti, Ph.D.
Yuyun Zhou
Dissertation Title: Target Accounting Quality and Merger Consideration Design
Dissertation Chair: Richard Carrizosa, Ph.D.
Chemistry
Reagan Scott Turley
Dissertation Title: Spectroscopic Techniques to Characterize and Develop Sensing Methods for Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Water
Dissertation Chair: Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Ph.D.
Qian Wang
Dissertation Title: Structure Basis for Regio and Stereo Selective Epoxidation Reaction in Polyether Biosynthesis
Dissertation Chair: Chu-Young Kim, Ph.D.
Civil Engineering
Nancy Aguirre
Dissertation Title: Development of a Numerical Simulation Tool for Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements
Dissertation Chair: Cesar Carrasco, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Soheil Nazarian, Ph.D.
Mojtaba Asadi
Dissertation Title: Assessment of Hydraulic and Structural Behavior of Inundated Pavements
Dissertation Chair: Soheil Nazarian, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Cesar Carrasco, Ph.D.
Aria Fathi
Dissertation Title: Extracting Mechanical Properties of Compacted Geomaterials Using Intelligent Compaction Technology
Dissertation Chair: Soheil Nazarian, Ph.D.
Johanes Sombo Makahaube
Dissertation Title: Performance measure methodology of project management practices in local government agencies
Dissertation Chair: Carlos Chang, Ph.D.
Joanne Michelle Moyer
Dissertation Title: Past and Future Trajectories of Energy Consumption to Urbanization Trends Using Landsat Imagery and the Markov-CA Model: A Case Study of El Paso, Texas
Dissertation Chair: Adeeba Raheem, Ph.D.
Abbasali Taghavighalesari
Dissertation Title: Development of a Framework for the Calibration of RPAS, a 3D Finite Element Analysis Tool for Rigid Pavements
Dissertation Chair: Cesar Carrasco, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Soheil Nazarian, Ph.D.
Computational Science
Fredrick Ayivor
Dissertation Title: Prediction and Classification of G Protein-Coupled Receptors Using Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms
Dissertation Chair: Ming-Ying Leung, Ph.D.
Md Al Masum Bhuiyan
Dissertation Title: Estimation of Stochastic Volatility for High Frequency Data in Finance and Geophysics
Dissertation Chair: Maria Mariani, Ph.D.
Osei Kofi Tweneboah
Dissertation Title: Stochastic Differential Equation Applied to High Frequency Data Arising in Geophysics and other Disciplines
Dissertation Chair: Maria Mariani, Ph.D.
Computer Science
Anjon Basak
Dissertation Title: Abstraction techniques in security games with underlying network S
Dissertation Chair: Christopher Kiekintveld, Ph.D.
Moinul Morshed Porag Chowdhury
Dissertation Title: Autonomous Trading Strategies for Dynamic Markets
Dissertation Chair: Christopher Kiekintveld, Ph.D.
Anthony Manuel Ortiz Cepeda
Dissertation Title: Deep Learning for Optical Imagery: Algorithms and Applications
Dissertation Chair: Olac Fuentes, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Christopher Kiekintveld, Ph.D.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
James David Emerson
Dissertation Title: Behavioral Ecology of a Desert Ambush Predator: Assessing Movement Patterns, Habitat and Microhabitat Use, and Innate Feeding Response of (crotalus ornatus)
Dissertation Chair: Jerry Johnson, Ph.D.
Jennifer Christine Ramos-Chavez
Dissertation Title: Novel Tools for Community Based Assessment and Monitoring of Forest Phenology Response to Environmental Variability and Change in the Tropics
Dissertation Chair: Vanessa Lougheed, Ph.D.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Christopher Michael Aguilar
Dissertation Title: Early Detection of Asthma via Enhanced Resolution of Small Airways Using Ultra Low Frequency impulse Oscilometry
Dissertation Chair: Rodrigo Romero, Ph.D.
Jesus Javier Gutierrez
Dissertation Title: Independent and Simultaneous Control of Electromagnetic Wave Properties in Self-Collimating Photonic Crystals using Spatial Variance
Dissertation Chair: Raymond Rumpf, Ph.D.
Griselda Valdepenas Acosta
Dissertation Title: Towards Analytical Techniques for Systems Engineering Applications
Dissertation Chair: Eric Smith, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Vladik Kreinovich, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Eahsan Shahriary
Dissertation Title: Partitioning variation in vegetation and landscape functionality in arid land biosphere
Dissertation Chair: Thomas Gill, Ph.D.
Kerri Jean Smith
Dissertation Title: An integrative approach to elucidate metapopulation structure and habitat use of the Sowerby's beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens)
Dissertation Chair: Markus Peterson, Ph.D.
Geological Sciences
Victor Higareda Garcia
Dissertation Title: Uranium series dating and geochemistry of fault zone precipitated secondary carbonates: Insights into paleo fluid sources, tectonics, and climate in the Rio Grande rift
Dissertation Chair: Ma Lin, Ph.D.
Sandra Angelica Hardy
Dissertation Title: Geophysical Investigations of the San Andreas Fault
Dissertation Chair: Aaron Velasco, Ph.D.
Claire Henry Bailey
Dissertation Title: Fluvial Interactions of the Jurassic Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation with the Gypsum Valley Salt Diapir, CO
Dissertation Chair: Richard Langford, Ph.D.
James Edward Rutkofske
Dissertation Title: Exploring the geology of the Chicago Pass, CA, using ultra‐modern and emerging technologies
Dissertation Chair: Terry Pavlis, Ph.D.
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Ahmed Bilkhayr Shaeban Alarabi
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Waterpipe/Hookah on Platelet Function and Impact of Inhibition of GBy Subunits on Hemostasis and Thrombogenesis
Dissertation Chair: Fadi Khasawneh, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Fatima Alshbool, Ph.D.
Daniel Alberto Conde
Dissertation Title: Association of a Repetitive Manual Task on Inflammatory Biomarker Expression, Heart Rate Variability and Rating of Perceived Exertion
Dissertation Chair: Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, Ph.D.
Samuel Montalvo
Dissertation Title: Effects of Different Stretching Protocols on Isokinetic Strength and Vertical Jump Performance
Dissertation Chair: Sandor Dorgo, Ph.D.
Francisco Javier Morales Acuna
Dissertation Title: Boxing Training Effects on Cardiovascular Risk, Quality of Life, Endothelial Functions, and Blood Flow Patterns in Elevated Blood Pressure or Stage 1 Hypertension Individuals
Dissertation Chair: Alvaro Gurovich, PT, Ph.D.
Fabricio Saucedo Jr.
Dissertation Title: Effects of a 6-Week Controlled Whole-Body Vibration Program on Reducing Falls Risk among Healthy Older Adults
Dissertation Chair: Jeffrey Eggleston, Ph.D.
Irma Yolanda Torres-Catanach
Dissertation Title: Development and Validation of the Perinatal Mental Health Literacy Scale among Latinas
Dissertation Chair: Christina Sobin, Ph.D.
Materials Science and Engineering
Fabian Armando Alvarez Primo
Dissertation Title: Fabrication, development and characterization of HiPCo SWCNT - alginate hydrogel composite
Dissertation Chair: Binata Joddar, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Shailendra Varma, Ph.D.
Swadipta Roy
Dissertation Title: Structural, Chemical and Electronic Properties of Transition Metal Doped Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3)
Dissertation Chair: Ramana Chintalapalle, Ph.D.
Mechanical Engineering
Jason Richard Adams
Dissertation Title: Generation and Evaluation of Lattice Structure for Heat Transfer within Rocket Cooling Channels
Dissertation Chair: Ahsan Choudhuri, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Jack Chessa, Ph.D.
Anil Krishna Battu
Dissertation Title: Structure-Property-Performance Evaluation of Refractory Metal Incorporated Ga2O3
Dissertation Chair: Ramana Chintalapalle, Ph.D.
Luis Angel Chavez
Dissertation Title: Additive manufacturing of engineered material systems for energy applications
Chair: Yirong Lin, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: David Espalin, Ph.D.
Alan Alberto Esparza Hernandez
Dissertation Title: Thermoanalytical studies on the decomposition of energetic ionic liquids
Chair: Evgeny Shafirovich, Ph.D.
Md. Amzad Hossain
Dissertation Title: Laser Diagnostics of Compressible and High-Intensity Premixed Methane-Air Combustion inside a Backward Facing Step Combustor Using High-Repetition Rate CH-PLIF and PIV
Dissertation Chair: Ahsan Choudhuri, Ph.D.
Luis Fernando Rodriguez
Dissertation Title: Machine Learning Analysis to Characterize Phase Variations in Laser Propagation through Deep Turbulence
Dissertation Chair: Vinod Kumar, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Rao Gudimetla, Ph.D.
Luis Rodriguez Sanchez
Dissertation Title: Machine Learning Analysis to Characterize Phase Variations in Laser Propagation Through Deep Turbulence
Dissertation Chair: Vinod Kumar, Ph.D.
Rene Alberto Valenzuela Najera
Dissertation Title: Rendezvous and Soft-Landing on a Near-Earth Asteroid
Dissertation Chair: Angel Flores-Abad, Ph.D.
Co-Chair: Louis Everett, Ph.D.
Psychology
Juliana De Almeida Cardoso
Dissertation Title: A mixed methods approach among Latina patients in the emergency department: Gender roles, HIV risk behaviors and HIV risk perceptions
Dissertation Chair: Craig Field, Ph.D.
Bryan Cruz
Dissertation Title: Insulin restores the neurochemical effects of nicotine in meso limbic pathway of diabetic rats
Dissertation Chair: Laura O’Dell, Ph.D.
Francisco Javier Flores Ramirez
Dissertation Title: The long-term effects of fluoxetine exposure in adolescence on adult anxiety in female C57BC/6 mice
Dissertation Chair: Sergio Iniguez, Ph.D.
Erica Landrau-Cribbs
Dissertation Title: Testing a culturally tailored intervention to promote HPV vaccination intentions in Latina young adults
Dissertation Chair: Lawrence Cohn, Ph.D.
Justin Loren Magee
Dissertation Title: Development of the report scales for investigative interviews and interrogations, observer version (RS31-O)
Dissertation Chair: James Wood, Ph.D.
Dylan Keith Richards
Dissertation Title: Further psychometric evaluation of the treatment self-regulation questionnaire for assessing motivations for responsible drinking: A test of self-determination theory
Dissertation Chair: Craig Field, Ph.D.
Rhetoric and Composition
Brenda R. Gallardo
Dissertation Title: Writing Inside and Outside the Rhetoric of Containment: An Analysis of Pedagogical Writing Strategies in Secondary and Post-Secondary Education
Dissertation Chair: Maggy Smith, Ph.D.
Ruby Pappoe
Dissertation Title: Ingo Websites, Image Circulation, and Visual Representations of Development in African Countries: Exploring Local Perceptions
Dissertation Chair: Kate Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
Ronald D. Straight
Dissertation: Virtual Agency: Pragmatic Remixed Pedagogies and their Impact on the Virtual Composition Classroom
Dissertation Chair: Beth Brunk-Chavez, Ph.D.
Teaching, Learning and Culture
Annabell Sahr
Dissertation Title: Translanguaging Practices of Multilingual Learners in the German as a Foreign Language Classroom
Dissertation Chair: Timothy Cashman, Ph.D.
Carmen Milagros Seda
Dissertation Title: Thinking Through Children: Proposing Theory for Doing Critical Content Analysis of Multicultural Children’s Literature
Dissertation Chair: Char Ullman, Ph.D.
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Monnie Esther Adereti
Freddie Jawardo Caldwell
Zoe Nicole Collette
Amanda Charlene French
Sylvia Elena Martinez
Stefanie Mcfelt-Williams
Brenda Sugey Nunez
Jennifer Nwaogu
Kathra A. Wickam
Angela Michelle Wooley
Doctor of Physical Therapy
Mark Agholor
Haley Jo Bruns
Robert Buentello
Cole Mitchell Calder
Leticia De Jesus
Michael Brandon Durling
Mayra Alejandra Flores
Emilia Gallegos
Nathan Lee Garrido
Ashley Gomez
Marlene Yvette Gomez
Liliana Gonzalez
Madison Green
Christian Ibe
James Pierre Laclede
Andres Martinez
Kalynn McKee
Jesus Javier Medrano
Alexandria Danielle Molinar-Washington
Cynthia Kristel Montenegro
Arron Glenn Pierce
Janette Virginia Rivera
Marisol Sanchez
Klarissa Lynn Sosa
Marco Antonio Suriano
Joshua Eric Torres
Jon Michael Tye
Delfina Vasquez
Evelyn Villarreal
Nathan Thomas Wagner