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Brian Christopher Brantley (August) ............................................Houston, TX<br />
Mass Communication<br />
Dissertation: Sports Coverage in Black and White: A Content<br />
Analysis <strong>of</strong> Newspaper Coverage <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
Baseball.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Gary A. Copeland<br />
Amy Ellen Broeseker .....................................................................Birmingham<br />
Educational Research<br />
Dissertation: Spirituality and Moral Development in Pharmacy<br />
Students.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Stephen J. Thoma<br />
Christopher Scott Brown (August) ......................................... Greenwood, MS<br />
Physics<br />
Dissertation: <strong>The</strong>rmal Stability <strong>of</strong> High Anisotropy Cobalt<br />
Based Perpendicular Magnetic Thin Films.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. J. W. Harrell<br />
Biao Cai .............................................................................. Hunan, P.R. China<br />
Applied Statistics<br />
Dissertation: Evaluation <strong>of</strong> Gini’s Mean Difference, Mean<br />
Deviation, and Quasi-Range as Estimators <strong>of</strong><br />
Sigma for the Performance <strong>of</strong> Shewhart X-Bar<br />
Control Charts.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Subhabrata Chakraborti<br />
Ping Chen ..............................................................................Zhoushan, China<br />
Chemical Engineering<br />
Dissertation: Remote Nitrogen Plasma Treatment <strong>of</strong> Hafnium<br />
Based Dielectrics for Next Generation CMOS<br />
Devices.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Tonya M. Klein<br />
Brandon N. Cline (August) ............................................................ Thomasville<br />
Finance<br />
Dissertation: Three Essays on Executive Compensation.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Brooks<br />
Elizabeth Anne Davis ...................................................................... Northport<br />
English<br />
Dissertation: Monstress: Re[Flexions] through the Virtual<br />
Looking Glass on the Hyperglyphics <strong>of</strong> Fairy<br />
Tales and the Network <strong>of</strong> the Text.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Elizabeth A. Meese<br />
Melvin D. Davis ..................................................................................Sheffield<br />
History<br />
Dissertation: Collecting Hispania: Archer Huntington's Quest<br />
to Develop Hispanic Collections in the United<br />
States.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Helen Delpar<br />
Michael Fernando Dillon .........................................................Quito, Ecuador<br />
Romance Languages: Spanish<br />
Dissertation: El Cine ecuatoriano de la década de los noventa:<br />
momento clave de inclusión, dentro del canon<br />
cinematográfico latinoamericano.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Aida Toledo<br />
Lili Dong (August) ...................................................... Changchun, P.R. China<br />
Electrical Engineering<br />
Dissertation: Adaptive Control System for a Vibrational<br />
MEMS Gyroscope with Time-Varying Rotation<br />
Rates.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Leland<br />
Gregory Scott Drury (August) ..................................................... Louisville, KY<br />
Psychology<br />
Dissertation: A Parallel Distributed Processing Model <strong>of</strong><br />
Unconscious Priming.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Mark R. Klinger<br />
Sydney B. Duncan ........................................................................... Northport<br />
Instructional Leadership<br />
Dissertation: Student Perceptions in Learning in First-Year<br />
English Composition Courses in a Wireless<br />
Laptop Classroom.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Margaret L. Rice<br />
David Irving Durham III (August) ...................................................Tuscaloosa<br />
History<br />
Dissertation: Henry Washington Hiilliard: A Story <strong>of</strong> Plebeians<br />
and Patricians.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. George C. Rable<br />
Amy Dawn Eades ...................................................................... New Berlin, IL<br />
Health Education Promotion<br />
Dissertation: Development <strong>of</strong> an Instrument to Assess how<br />
One Copes with Stress and Emotions Using<br />
Food as it Relates to Obesity: Eating and Appraisal<br />
Due to Emotions and Stress (EADES)<br />
Questionnaire.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Olivia Kendrick<br />
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Lucas Alberto Falco .......................................................... Cordoba, Argentina<br />
Chemical Engineering<br />
Dissertation: Chemical Vapor Deposition <strong>of</strong> Magnetic Oxide<br />
Semiconductors for Spintronic Applications.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Tonya M. Klein<br />
Lisa Dawn Ferguson (August) ..............................................Tompkinsville, KY<br />
English<br />
Dissertation: Men, Women, and Masculinity in Vietnam War<br />
Literature: A Study <strong>of</strong> Major Works by Larry<br />
Heinemann and Tim O'Brien.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Philip Beidler<br />
Ignatius Kwateng Fosu ..........................................................................Hoover<br />
Mass Communication<br />
Dissertation: Effect <strong>of</strong> Varving Levels <strong>of</strong> Risk Information on<br />
the Perceived Credibility <strong>of</strong> Prescription Drug<br />
Advertising: <strong>The</strong> Role <strong>of</strong> Need-For-Cognition,<br />
Involvement, and Dogmatism.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Jennings Bryant<br />
Kelly Brooks Friery ......................................................................... Jacksonville<br />
Human Performance<br />
Dissertation: Long-Term Impact <strong>of</strong> Athletic Participation on<br />
Physical Capabilities.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Phillip A. Bishop<br />
Kenneth Allen Gafford (August) ...................................................Birmingham<br />
Secondary Education<br />
Dissertation: Assessing Instructor Intervention upon the<br />
Perceptions, Attitudes, and Anxieties <strong>of</strong> Community<br />
College Biology Students Toward<br />
Cooperative Learning.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Dennis Sunal<br />
Indre Gajdosikiene ................................................................Vilnius, Lithuania<br />
Social Work<br />
Dissertation: Understanding People in Poverty: A Study <strong>of</strong><br />
Cultural Consensus Among Social Workers and<br />
General Population Members in Lithuania.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Lucinda L. R<strong>of</strong>f<br />
Patricia S. Gensemer ......................................................................Birmingham<br />
Secondary Education<br />
Dissertation: A Qualitative Study <strong>of</strong> Science Education in<br />
Nursing School: Narratives <strong>of</strong> Hispanic Female<br />
Nurses' Sense <strong>of</strong> Identity and Participation in<br />
Science Learning.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Sharon E. Nichols<br />
Linda Carol Golson (August) ............................................................ Southside<br />
Elementary Education<br />
Dissertation: Taking the Pulse: Exploring Effective Elementary<br />
Writing Instruction in Schools Across the State<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Alabama</strong>.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Carol A. Donovan<br />
Jie Gong ...........................................................................................P.R. China<br />
Materials Science<br />
Dissertation: Electrochemical Synthesis <strong>of</strong> Magnetic Nanostructures<br />
Using Anodic Aluminum Oxide<br />
Templates.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Giovanni Zangari<br />
Minqing Gong (August) .........................................................Gui Yang, China<br />
Mathematics<br />
Dissertation: Waiting Time in a Combined FCFS and STF<br />
Queue.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. P. Patrick Wang<br />
Jin He ................................................................................................Tuscaloosa<br />
Physics<br />
Dissertation: A Re-examination <strong>of</strong> Galaxy Patterns.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Ronald Buta<br />
Celeste Harris Hill ............................................................................Tuscaloosa<br />
Educational Psychology<br />
Dissertation: Adjustments Among College Students Experienceing<br />
Parental Divorce as Young Adults.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Stephen J. Thoma<br />
Shenavia Wilkerson Howell ...................................................................Linden<br />
Metallurgical Materials Engineering<br />
Dissertation: Characterization <strong>of</strong> the Susceptability <strong>of</strong> Heat-<br />
Affected Zoan Grain Boundaries to Liquidation<br />
in Inconel 718.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. Viola L. Ac<strong>of</strong>f<br />
Guosheng Huang .............................................................. Beijing, P.R. China<br />
Engineering Science and Mechanics<br />
Dissertation: Dynamic Simulation <strong>of</strong> A MEMS-Technology<br />
Gyroscope.<br />
Dissertation Director: Dr. John E. Jackson
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