Dissertation Announcements
  Student Name:   Atwood, Thomas
  College:   School of Engineering
  Department:   Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Dissertation Title:  
RF Channel Characterization for Cognitive Radio Using Support Vector Machines

  Date:  November 09, 2009
  Time:   9:00 am
  Location:   ECE Rm 118
  Committee Chair:   Dr. Christos G. Christodoulou
  Committee Members:
  • Dr. Manuel Martinez Ramon
  • Dr. Mark Gilmore
  • Dr. Pedro Embid
  • Dr. Sudharman Jayaweera
  

  Student Name:   Serna, Rudolfo
  College:   College of Arts and Sciences
  Department:   English
  Dissertation Title:  
Story of Tierra Psycho

  Date:  November 09, 2009
  Time:   1:00 pm
  Location:   Humanities 324
  Committee Chair:   Julie Shigekuni
  Committee Members:
  • Kirsten Buick
  • Jerome Shea
  • Julie Mars
  

  Student Name:   Brennan, Sean
  College:   School of Engineering
  Department:   Computer Science
  Dissertation Title:  
Reconfiguring Middleware Architectures for Large Scale Sensor Networks

  Date:  November 10, 2009
  Time:   9:30 am
  Location:   FEC 141
  Committee Chair:   Arthur Maccabe
  Committee Members:
  • Wendo He
  • Sudharman Jayaweara
  • Michael Cai
  

  Student Name:   Costantine, Joseph
  College:   School of Engineering
  Department:   Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Dissertation Title:  
Design, Optimization and Analysis of Reconfigurable Antennas

  Date:  November 10, 2009
  Time:   N/A
  Location:   ECE Rm 118
  Committee Chair:   Dr. Christos G. Christodoulou
  Committee Members:
  • Dr. Chaoki Abdallah
  • Dr. Mark Gilmore
  • Dr. Dimitris Anagnostou
  

  Student Name:   Cook, Terry
  College:   College of Education
  Department:   Educational Leadership
  Dissertation Title:  
Persistence Characteristics of Provisional Students

  Date:  November 11, 2009
  Time:   1:00 pm
  Location:   TEC 201
  Committee Chair:   Dr. Carolyn J. Wood
  Committee Members:
  • Dr. Arlie Woodrum
  • Dr. Bruce Noll
  • Dr. Bernadette montoya
  • Dr. Jozi DeLeon
  

  Student Name:   Snow, Jessica
  College:   Health Sciences
  Department:   Biomedical Sciences
  Dissertation Title:  
Pulmonary Vasoconstrictor Reactivity Following Intermittent Hypoxia

  Date:  November 11, 2009
  Time:   9:00 am
  Location:   Dominici Center Rm 3010
  Committee Chair:   Thomas Resta, Ph.D
  Committee Members:
  • Benjimen Walker, Ph.D
  • Nancy Kanagy, Ph.D
  • Mary Walker, Ph.d
  

  Student Name:   Boat, Christopher
  College:   College of Arts and Sciences
  Department:   English
  Dissertation Title:  
The Paper Haired God

  Date:  November 12, 2009
  Time:   12:00 pm
  Location:   Humanities 324
  Committee Chair:   Julie Shigekuni
  Committee Members:
  • Dan Mueller
  • Lorie Brau
  • May-Lee Chai
  

  Student Name:   Klassen, Diane
  College:   College of Education
  Department:   Educational Leadership
  Dissertation Title:  
Adoption of Distance Education Innovvations in a Rural Community College: A Longitudinal Study

  Date:  November 30, 2009
  Time:   1:00 pm
  Location:   TEC 201
  Committee Chair:   Dr. Charlotte Gunawardena
  Committee Members:
  • Dr. Arlie Woodrum
  • Dr. Patricia Boverie
  • Dr. Dennis Roark
  

  Student Name:   Puglia, Michael
  College:   Health Sciences
  Department:   Biomedical Sciences
  Dissertation Title:  
Acute and Chronic Effects of Ethonol During the 3rd Trimester of Human Pregnancy

  Date:  December 14, 2009
  Time:   N/A
  Location:   BMSB 303
  Committee Chair:   Fernando Valeuzuela M.D., Ph.D.
  Committee Members:
  • Bill Shuttleworth Ph.D.
  • Don Partridge Ph.D.
  • Wolf Mueller M.D., Ph.D.