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  Student Name:   Linn-Gust, Michelle
  College:   College of Education
  Department:   College of Education
  Dissertation Title:  
Rover's Role After a Loss By Death: How People Use Dogs to Help Them Cope.

  Date:  May 13, 2008
  Time:   3:00pm
  Location:   Simpson Hall
  Committee Chair:   Virginia Shipman
  Committee Members:
  • Estella Martinez
  • Steve Adelsheim
  • Barbara McGuire
  

  Student Name:   Kilby, James David
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Anthropology
  Dissertation Title:  
An Investigation of Clovis Caches: Content, Function, and Technological Organization.

  Date:  May 14, 2008
  Time:   12:00 p.m
  Location:   Anth 248
  Committee Chair:   Bruce Huckell
  Committee Members:
  • Lawrence Straus
  • Wirt Wills
  • David Meltzer
  

  Student Name:   Van Hoose, Jonathan E.
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Anthropology
  Dissertation Title:  
Learning Lineages as Reflected in Ceramic Production in Early Historic Northwest New Mexico

  Date:  May 15, 2008
  Time:   1:00pm
  Location:   Anth 248
  Committee Chair:   Ann F. Ramenofsky
  Committee Members:
  • Patricia L. Crown
  • James L. Boone
  • Hector Neff
  

  Student Name:   Lash, Denise
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Psychology
  Dissertation Title:  
Predicting Dietary Behavior change in Overweight and Obese Medical Patients.

  Date:  May 15, 2008
  Time:   11:00 A.M
  Location:   Logan Hall B15
  Committee Chair:   Jane Ellen Smith
  Committee Members:
  • Steve Gangestad
  • Bruce Smith
  • Paul Amrhein
  • Elizabeth Dettmer
  

  Student Name:   Ying, Wenxia
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Mathematics and Statistics
  Dissertation Title:  
Modeling Non-stationary Extremal Events Via Bayesian Method

  Date:  May 15, 2008
  Time:   10:00 A.M
  Location:   Humanities Rm 428
  Committee Chair:   Gabriel Huerta
  Committee Members:
  • Edward Bedrick
  • Michele Guindani
  • Stanly Steinberg
  

  Student Name:   Brown, Earl
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Spanish and Portuguese
  Dissertation Title:  
A Usage-based Account of the Reduction og Syllable-final /s/ in Three Dialects of Spanish

  Date:  May 15, 2008
  Time:   11:00 A.M
  Location:   Ortega Room 335
  Committee Chair:   Rena Torres Cacoullos
  Committee Members:
  • Joan Bybee
  • Caroline Smith
  • J. Clancy Clements
  

  Student Name:   Newberry, Teresa Lynn
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Biology
  Dissertation Title:  
Multi-Scale Temporal Variability of Water Relations in Pinon Pine (Pinus Edulis)

  Date:  May 15, 2008
  Time:   1:00pm
  Location:   Castetter Hall
  Committee Chair:   William T Pockman
  Committee Members:
  • James H Brown
  • David Hanson
  • Steve Leavitt
  

  Student Name:   Cormier, Joel A.
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Health, Exercise, & Sports Sciences
  Dissertation Title:  
Leadership Frame, Goal Orientation, Effectiveness in Intercollegiate Athletics.

  Date:  May 15, 2008
  Time:   10:00 A.M
  Location:   Johnson Center Rm 118
  Committee Chair:   David Scott
  Committee Members:
  • Todd Seidler
  • John Barnes
  • Scott Marley
  

  Student Name:   Zeglin, Lydia H
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Biology
  Dissertation Title:  
Microbial Function and Diversity in Desert Streams.

  Date:  May 15, 2008
  Time:   5:00 pm
  Location:   Castetter Hall
  Committee Chair:   Cliff Dahn
  Committee Members:
  • Critina Vesbach
  • Robert Sinsbaugh
  • Julie Olson
  

  Student Name:   Valdez, Alfred
  College:   College of Education
  Department:   Individual, Family & Community Education
  Dissertation Title:  
Encouraging Mindful Feedback Processing: Computer-Based Instruction in Descriptive Statistics

  Date:  May 16, 2008
  Time:   12:00 p.m
  Location:   Simpson Hall Rm 135
  Committee Chair:   Roxana Moreno
  Committee Members:
  • Jay Parkes
  • Scott Marley
  • Jonathan Brinkerfoff
  

  Student Name:   Babu Laghumavarapu, Ramesh
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Physics and Atronomy
  Dissertation Title:  
InAs/GaAs and GaSb/GaAs Quantum Dot Solar Cells

  Date:  May 19, 2008
  Time:   10:00 A.M
  Location:   Center for High Technology Materials Rm 101
  Committee Chair:   Prof. L.F. Lester
  Committee Members:
  • Prof. D.L. Huffaker
  • Prof. M. Sheik-Bahae
  • Prof. S. Krishna
  

  Student Name:   Jallipalli, Anitha
  College:   College of Arts & Sciences
  Department:   Physics and Atronomy
  Dissertation Title:  
Structural, Electrical Characterization and Simulation of Peridic Misfit Dislocation Arrays

  Date:  May 19, 2008
  Time:   1:30pm
  Location:   Center for High Technology Materials Rm 101
  Committee Chair:   Prof. L.F. Lester
  Committee Members:
  • Prof. D.L. Huffaker
  • Prof. S. Brueck
  • Prof. L.R. Dawson
  • Prof. S. Krishna