Graduate School
David Zeh, Dean
All Candidates for Graduation
Doctoral Degrees
| Name | Graduation Month | Degree | Major | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adeline E. Abam | December | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Andrew J. Ahrendt | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Evaluating the Relationship between Patient Interpersonal Skills and Post Bariatric Surgery Physical and Mental Health Outcomes |
| Ahmed Alhussen | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Seyedmojtaba Alian Amiri | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Accounting For Earthquake Duration In Seismic Evaluation And Design Of Bridges |
| Yazeed Alsubhi | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Atmospheric Science | Numerical Simulation of the Dynamics of Summer Shamal Dust Storms |
| Steven James Anbro | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Behavioral Assessment in Virtual Reality: An Evaluation of Multi-User Simulations in Healthcare Education |
| Oveis Asgari Gashteroodkhani | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Intelligent Protection Schemes for Smart Grids |
| Sima Aznavi | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Intelligent and Cost-Effective Energy Management of Smart Building Equipped with Behind the Meter Energy Storage Systems |
| Khalid Bakhshaliyev | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Processing large-scale Internet topology data to model Autonomous System Networks |
| Laura Barcelos Nomicos | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | The Value Enhancing Effects of Nicotine Across Complex Reinforcers |
| Elif Ecem Bas | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Advances in Nonlinear Computational Substructuring for Real-Time Hybrid Simulation |
| Chowdhury Raihan Bikash | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Development of Chemical Tools to Study Quorum Sensing in Streptococcus mutans |
| Kyle R. Carpenter | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Investigation of temperature distributions and thermal conduction effects in laser-heated plasmas relevant to Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion |
| Kefan Chen | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Materials Science and Engineering | Atomistic Simulation And First Principles Calculation Of Interfacial Energetics Of Galvanized Advanced High Strength Steels |
| David Clark | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Neuroscience | A Functional Dissection of the Larval Drosophila Olfactory Neural Circuit |
| Jordan Daniel Clark | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Childhood Uncertainty and Decision-Making in Adulthood: When Individual Differences in Information Use Reflect Adaptive Responses to the Environment |
| Dylan T. Cliche | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Three-dimensional ray tracing and advanced applications of multi-monochromatic x-ray imaging to high-energy-density implosion core plasmas |
| Duke D. Culbertson | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Formation, Growth, and Interactions of Tension Twins in Magnesium |
| Georgia Dalto | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | A Needs Assessment of Employment Services for People with Serious Mental Illness in Northwestern Nevada |
| Anh Tung Dang | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | Resilient Large-scale Informative Path Planning for Autonomous Robotic Exploration |
| James A. Davis | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | Lipid Flippases in Plants Play Critical Roles in Vegetative Growth and Development & Improving the Emerging Biodiesel Feedstock Camelina Sativa using a Transgenic Approach |
| Robert Eugene del Carlo | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | Steps along the evolutionary trajectories of skeletal muscle voltage-gated sodium channels are guided by biophysical tradeoffs |
| Jana Lynn Elliott | December | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Jovonnie Esquierdo-Leal | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Exploring the Systematic Design of Stimuli in Behavioral Assessment Tools and Their Relation to Hiring Selection |
| Levi W. Evans | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences | The cardioprotective actions of phytochemicals |
| Ming Feng | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | A Distributed Reinforcement Learning based Intelligent Routing and Beamforming Design for Robot-assisted Mobile Ad-hoc Network under Uncertain and Complex Environment |
| Natalie R. Fetto | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Shedding Light on Biological and Ecological Function |
| Jon Eric Fox | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Mineral Resources Engineering | Evaluation of Existing Subsurface Cooling Systems and Development of Energy Efficient (Sustainable) Cooling Systems and Strategies |
| Jacob Samuel Francis | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Multiple Dimensions of Floral Rewards Drive Pollinator Behavior and Pollen Movement |
| Janie A. Funk | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Implementing functional behavior assessment and psychoeducation in a guide dog training organization: An evaluation of the remedial effects on undesired puppy behavior |
| Sharon M. Goldrup | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | The Perfect Storm: K-12 Virtual Education for Students with Disabilities and High Stakes Graduation Requirements |
| Frances Rosario Gonzalez | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | ¡Yo no estoy loca! A behavioral health telenovela style entertainment education video to reduce stigma and increase mental health literacy among Latina adults with limited English proficiency |
| Rita Boyajian Groh | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Political Science | Equal Pay, No Way! Explaining the Labor Market Earnings Gap of Immigrants to the United States |
| Jessica Jenae Grote | December | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Ethan J. Grumstrup | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Economics | Three Essays in Regional Economics |
| Laura Haak | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Evaluating the Sustainability Impacts of Potable Water Reuse in Urban Water Resource Management |
| Anthony Harrington | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | The Role of Quorum Sensing in Interspecies Interactions between Oral Streptococci |
| Zoe A. Haskell | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Statistics and Data Science | Mapping between tree metric spaces and time series: New constructions with applications to limit theorems for branch counts in partial Galton-Watson trees and signal processing. |
| Rachel Lauren Hatch-Ibarra | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Geophysics | Characterization of Recent Earthquake Sequences and Swarms within the Walker Lane Tectonic Region |
| Derrick Hau | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Development of Diagnostic Assays for Melioidosis, Tularemia, Plague and COVID19 |
| Shoeib Heydari | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | |
| Glynnis Delbert Hill | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Judicial Studies | Is Commonwealth v. Walker Helping Judges and Jurors in Pennsylvania Better Understand and Assess Identification Evidence to Determine the Guilt or Innocence of Defendants? |
| Pourya Hoseini | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | A Single-Shot Next Best View Approach Accompanied by a Dual-View Active Vision for Object Recognition Tasks |
| Hamideh Hosseini Safa | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Hydrology | The Energy Budget of Snow-Covered Montane Forests: Observations, Remote Sensing, and Modeling |
| Trevor M. Hutchinson | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Experimental studies of the electrothermal instability using electrically thick, coated metal |
| Jeremy Jean Iratcabal | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Experimental Investigations of Carbon and Titanium Molecular Species in Laser Ablation Plumes |
| Ira Jain | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Virulence Factor Gene Expression in the Group A Streptococcus |
| Leslieanne G. R. Jia | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | A Qualitative Analysis of Students¿ Experience Using Student Loans and Financial Literacy at a Community College |
| Jared Thomas Jones | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Experimental and Analytical Studies of a Two-Span Bridge System with Precast Elements Incorporating Rebar Hinge and Socket Connections |
| Sonu Jose | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Md Kamruzzaman | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Electrical Engineering | Reliability-based Approaches to Quantify Permissible Penetration Level of Electric Vehicles in Power Systems |
| Tatyana Kaplan | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Bridging the Minority Influence Gap: The Roles of Social Identification and Prototypicality |
| James Edward King | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | A Parametric Examination of Stimulus Condition Durations on Resurgence |
| Sergey A. Konyshev | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Geology | Metasedimentary Rock-hosted Au-(Sb-Hg) Deposits within the Stibnite Roof Pendant, Yellow Pine Mining District, Idaho |
| Suyesh Koyu | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Noise-induced Coherent Dynamics of Multilevel Quantum Systems Driven by Incoherent Light: A Case Study of the Three-level V-system |
| Kelly Jo Lau | December | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Yi-Jyun Lin | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Political Science | Identifying Spatiotemporal Effects of Climate on Civil Conflict |
| Jed Locquiao | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | An experiment on texting to nudge the moral reasoning development of preservice teachers |
| Stallar Pierce Lufrano-Jardine | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Making Sense of Adding Environmental Sustainability as a Core Value by a Company with a High Carbon Footprint: A Single Case Study |
| Daniel C. Mayes | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Photoionized Neon Plasma Experiments at Z: Data Processing and Analysis Development |
| St. Everald Anthony McLennon | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Environmental Sciences | Sustainable Agronomic Approaches for Reclaimed Wastewater Utilization: A Focus on Phosphorus Removal, Plant Tissue and Soil Nutrients Retention and Leachate Quality using Biochar and Nitrogen Application Rates under Different Forage Systems |
| Theodor Mathew Meek | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Political Science | A Longitudinal Study of Differential Effects of Corequisite Support on Student Success Metrics Using Regression Analysis and Propensity Score Matching |
| Ajeet K. Milliard | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Geology | Temporal and Spatial Constraints on Sedimentary Rock-Hosted Gold Deposits: Pequop Mountains, Nevada |
| Justin B. Milliard | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Geology | Genetic Links Between Extensional Tectonomagmatism and the Formation of Low Sulfidation Epithermal Au-Ag Deposits: Defining a Mineral System |
| Negar Naeimi | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Experimental Compressive Behavior and Numerical Modeling of Unconfined and Confined Ultra-High Performance Concrete |
| Nyssa Perryman Rayne | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Geography | Do '(Weather) Girls' Just Wanna Have Fun? : Investigating a Sexist, Racist Stereotype in Broadcast Meteorology |
| Christina Peters | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | |
| Danielle Planas | December | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Khaled Pordel | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Hydrogeology | Ecohydrogeology of Owens Valley, California Spring Systems: Relationships between Geochemistry, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, and Microbial Communities |
| Derek J. Reaux | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Anthropology | An Examination of Western Stemmed Tradition Settlement-Subsistence, Territoriality, and Lithic Technological Organization in the Northwestern Great Basin |
| Cody C. Reed | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | |
| Korey M. Reid | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | Dynamics and Energy Exchange of Nonbonded Contacts within Proteins |
| Jessica S. Reimche | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | |
| Celso Ricardo De Oliveira | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Chemistry | 1H-NMR Network Analysis applied to the study of specialized plant metabolites |
| Thomas V. Riecke | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Perturbations & heterogeneity: estimating demographic rates of brant in western Alaska |
| Kathleen D. Rodrigues | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Geology | Development and application of luminescence dating approaches to constrain the timing of tephra deposition and the formation of fluvial landforms |
| Alana Rogne | December | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Samantha S. Romanick | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | Non-histone Protein Acetylation: A Regulatory Role in Cellular Processes of Inflammation, Cellular Metabolism, and Striated Muscle Contraction |
| Kathryn Roose | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | A Behavior Analytic Examination of Social Loafing |
| Allison K. Ruork | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Evaluating the Role of Social Interactions and Shame in Self-Injurious Behaviors using Ecological Momentary Assessment |
| Kristan N. Russell | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Courtesy Stigma: Examining the Collateral Consequences of Sexual Offenses and Subsequent Policy on Partners of Sexual Offenders |
| Liberatus J. Rwebugisa | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | The Empowerment Process: An Examination of the Development of Personal (Psychological) and Interpersonal Empowerment: A Qualitative Case Study Research Using Self-Determination Theory |
| Rick Savage | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning | Multiple Perspectives in United States History: Shifting Perspectives in High School Students |
| Stephanie R. Sawyer | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | The Prevalence and Impact of Burnout, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Other Factors in Predicting Compassion Fatigue |
| Brandee Lynn Shipman | December | Doctor of Nursing Practice | Nursing Practice | |
| Arpith Siddaiah | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Mechanical Engineering | Understanding the Tribocorrosion Behavior of Engineered Surfaces |
| Julie Marie Skutch | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | The Missing Link: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Identity Dysfunction and Suicidality |
| Mustafa Solmaz | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Computer Science and Engineering | |
| Phillip Street | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | |
| Kodi L. Summers | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Materials Science and Engineering | Corrosion Behavior of Potential Structural Materials for Use in Nitrate Salts Based Solar Thermal Power Plants |
| Chevonne Elena Sutter | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Addressing the Experimental Research Gap in the Field of Deafblindness through an Evaluation of the System of Least Prompts for Skill Acquisition |
| Sarah Abby Trescher | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Peer Mentoring in the Dependency Court System: A Process and Outcome Evaluation of the Parents for Parents Program |
| Charles Myers Truettner | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | Variation in the Bimodal Precipitation Regime of Southern Nevada, USA Measured in Tree-Ring Isotopes |
| Sunil Upadhyay | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Physics | Spin coherence and optical properties of alkali-metal atoms in solid parahydrogen |
| Stephanie Vega | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Educational Specialties | Boys Carry HW Name: We Carry the Pride... How Filipina-American College Students View Their Academic Lives |
| Jose Alejandro Villalobos Jr. | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Biochemistry | |
| Jose G. Villalobos | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Social Psychology | Shifts in Validity Perceptions of Minority Confessions: Assessing Evidence Integration in Trials with a Coherence-Based Reasoning Model |
| Aobo Wang | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Measuring the Quality of Arterial Traffic Signal Timing ¿ A Trajectory-based Methodology |
| Zhuqing Wang | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Cellular and Molecular Biology | Functions of X-linked miR-506 family in Reproduction |
| Larissa Lee White | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Public Health | Patterns of Care Associated with Timely and Definitive Diagnosis of Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP) |
| Joseph M. Wilcox | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Education | Mobile Applications and Delivery of Bioinformatics Education in the Postsecondary Introductory Biological Science Classroom |
| Chelsea Wilhite | December | Doctor of Philosophy | Psychology | Systematic Examination of the Additive Effects of Humorous Verbal Stimuli on Cooperative Responding During an Analogue Data Entry Work Task |
| Kathrine E. Wright | August | Doctor of Philosophy | Public Health | Exploring the Cultural Components of Food Security and Its Impacts on Well-Being and Cultural and Ethnic Identity in International and Second-Generation American, Minority College Students |