Summer and Fall 2018 doctoral and terminal degrees
The following list is based on information gathered from the Banner database. Given the number of graduates and evolving status of many prospective graduates' degree status, mistakes and omissions may have occurred. Being listed or not here has no bearing on a student's official graduation status.
Graduate Programs
- Anees Abrol
PHD Engineering
"Frameworks To Investigate Robustness And Disease Characterization/prediction Utility Of Time-varying Functional Connectivity State Profiles Of The Human Brain At Rest" - Andrea Aiello
EDD Educational Leadership
"What factors influence Catholic parents' choice of school(s) for their child(ren)." - Katherine Alexander
PHD English
"Enough of Thought, Philosopher! Emily Bronte's Interrogations of Death" - Ayesha Arefin
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering - Robert Bailey
PHD Psychology
"Development Of The Pain Response Style Inventory: A New Measure For Examining Ambivalence Toward Engaging In Behavioral Treatments For Chronic Pain" - Prakash Basnet
PHD Chemistry
"Development Of Copper-catalyzed Suzuki-miyaura Coupling Using Alkylboron Reagents And Nickel-catalyzed Alkene Dicarbofunctionalization Reactions" - Ian Beaver
PHD Computer Science
"Automatic Conversation Review for Intelligent Virtual Assistants" - Behsan Behzadi
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Novel Compact Narrow-linewidth Mid-Infrared Lasers for Sensing Applications" - Umesh Bhattarai
PHD Chemistry
"Developing more specific miRNA biogenesis inhibitors to get effective regulation of miRNAs" - Genevieve Birren
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"An Analysis Of The Results Of Court Of Arbitration For Sports Doping Awards Involving Athletes Between 1994 And 2008" - Richard Blakeley
PHD Engineering
"Development of The University of New Mexico Spectrometer for High-Resolution Fission Product Yield Data" - Kelsey Bourbeau
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Effects Of Home-based High-intensity Interval Training Versus Continuous Walking On Cognition In Overweight And Obese Women" - Daniel Briggs
PHD Philosophy
"Body and Time: The Temporality of Human Embodiment" - Bryn Campbell
PHD Spanish & Portuguese
"Revealing Silences: The Representation Of Black Identity In Hispanic Afro-caribbean Autobiographical And Biographical Writing" - Joseph Castillo
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Niemann-Pick C1, its connection to obesity, and its impact on human evolution" - Jose Castro Sotomayor
PHD Communication
"Translating Global Nature: Territoriality, Environmental Discourses, And Ecocultural Identities" - Adrian Chapman
PHD Physics
"Localization and Scrambling of Quantum Information with Applications to Quantum Computation and Thermodynamics" - Nikan Chavoshi
PHD Computer Science
"Mining Temporal Activity Patterns On Social Media" - Yechuan Chen
PHD Engineering
"Rate-determining Step And Active Sites Probing For Platinum-group-metal Free Cathode Catalyst In Fuel Cell" - Sue Coates
PHD Org Learn & Instruct Tech
"Pre-Boomer Students On Campus: An exploratory study of how students born before 1946 experience the youth-oriented campus culture at UNM" - Cyler Conrad
PHD Anthropology
"Mainland Southeast Asia in the Longue Duree: A Zooarchaeological Test of the "Broad Spectrum Revolution" in Northern Thailand" - Benjamin Cowen
PHD Engineering
"Radiation Effects in Metal Oxides and Carbides" - Pankaz Das
PHD Engineering
"Optimizing Interconnectivity among Networks under Attacks" - Donatella Davanzo
PHD American Studies
"Tangiblity and Symbolism Along Historic Highway 66 in Albuquerque" - Jacqueline DeLora
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Developing droplet-based 3D cell culture methods to enable investigations of the chemical tumor microenvironment" - Yuka Doherty
PHD Sociology
"Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan" - Melissa Eaton
PHD Psychology
"Maternal sexuality during lacation: The influence of breastfeeding recency and relationship quality" - Kurt Escobar
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Autophagy is stimulated by acute high intesity interval exercise in human skeletal muscle and electrical pulse stimulation in C2C12 myotubes in vitro" - Aurora Fabry Wood
PHD Engineering
"Compartmentalization of DNA-Based Molecular Computing Elements Using Lipid Bilayers" - Hasan Faisal
PHD Engineering
"Understanding Asphalt Concrete Aging Using Nanoindentation" - Farzin Farzam
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"High-Throughput Automated Multi-Target Super-resolution Imaging" - Bethaney Fehrenkamp
PHD Biology
"Investigations on the Role of the Immune System In Mammary Development And Maternal Immunity In the Marsupial, Monodelphis domestica" - Frank Fencl
PHD Engineering
"Acoustofluidics And Soft Materials Interfaces For Biomedical Applications" - Kuan Feng
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"comprehensive Sequencing with Surface Tagmentation Based Technology" - Angelina Flores-Montoya
PHD Nursing
"Resident and Facility Factors Associated with Rehospitalization from Skilled Nursing Facilities" - Jeanine Forsythe
PHD Counselor Education
"Teaching Problem Solving Therapy to Alleviate Depression and Anxiety: A Focus on Caregivers for Intellectually Disabled Adults Who Reside in a Community Setting" - Moneeb Genedy
PHD Engineering
"An Engineered Fit-For-Purpose Polymer Nanocomposite Seal for Wellbores" - Noha Ghali
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"International Muslim Students within a Globalized Educational Context" - Robert Giebitz
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Learning Statistics through Guided Block Play: A Pre-curriculum in Statistical Literacy" - Patricia Gilman
PHD Nursing
"Relationships Between Aprn State Practice Authority, Perceived Autonomy, Professionalism, And Interprofessional Team Function Among A National Sample Of Aprns In The U.s." - David Gomez
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Analizing Social Construction of Knowledge and Social Networks in Online Discussion Forums in Spanish" - Elmer Gonzalez
PHD Educational Psychology
"Perceptions And Clinical Applications Of Feedback Type In Dental Hygiene" - Angelina Gonzalez-Aller
PHD Political Science
"The Legislative Recycling Bin: A Reevaluation of the Policy Process" - Levi Gray
PHD Biology
"Understanding patterns of diversity and evolution of mainland Anolis lizards" - Jonathan Gross
PHD Physics
"Weak measurements for quantum characterization and control" - Samuel Gutierrez
PHD Computer Science
"Adaptive Parallelism for Coupled, Multithreaded Message-Passing Programs" - Kylee Hagler
PHD Psychology
"Drinking Norms and College Student Alcohol Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" - Sami Hamdi
PHD Educational Linguistics
"ii The Impact of Ideology on Lexical Borrowing in Arabic: A Synergy of Corpus Linguistics and CDA" - Nathan Harrison
EDD Educational Leadership
"The Pedagogical Impacts of the Common Core State Standards on Elementary Mathematics Teachers of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing" - Laura Hirrel
PHD Linguistics
"Cyclic Gestures and Multimodal Symbolic Assemblies: An Argument for Symbolic Complexity in Gesture" - Elizabeth Holguin
PHD Nursing
"Adaptations Made To Evidence-based Public Health Programs In Low- To- Middle- Income Countries: A Concept Mapping Analysis" - Mark Holland
PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
"Refining models of crustal growth and evolution in southwestern Laurentia with paired U-Pb and Lu-Hf analyses of igneous and detrital zircon" - Lauren Holzberg
Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
"Playing Sports in College: Understanding the Factors that Influence the College Choice Process for High School Student-Athletes" - Yasir Hussain
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Pakistani English Language Teachers' Preparedness: An Investigation Of Ideological Meaning-making In Higher Education Institutions In Pakistan" - Rebecca Izzo-Manymules
PHD Educational Psychology
"American Indian Student Motivation at a Tribal College" - George Jacob
PHD Special Education
"The Support Needs of First Generation Immigrant Families with Sons and Daughters with Disabilities" - Amirhosein Jafari
PHD Engineering
"A Decision-Making Framework for the Selection of Sustainable Alternatives for Energy-Retrofits" - Brad Jeffrey
PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
"Widespread, prolonged microbial limestone deposition and large, rapid sulfur isotope excursions: a new perspective on the Early Triassic from the western U.S." - Geoffrey Jenkins
PHD Engineering
"Carrier Lifetime vs. Proton Radiation in Prototype III-V and II-VI Space-based Infrared Detectors" - Patrick Johnson
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
"Scalable, biofunctional, ultra-stable nano- bio- composite materials containing living cells nano- bio- composite materials containing living cells" - Edward Jolie
PHD Anthropology
"Sociocultural Diversity in the Prehispanic Southwest: Learning, Weaving and Identity in the Chaco Regional System, A.D. 850-1150" - Beth Jones
EDD Educational Leadership
"A Case Study of the Characteristics for Successful First Time Passing of the National PHysical Therapy Exam in The University of New Mexico Doctor of Physical Therapy 2012-2017 Cohorts" - Thomas Jones
PHD Computer Science
"Criticality Assessments for Improving Algorithmic Robustness Algorithmic Robustness" - Eric Karikari
PHD Communication
"Negotiating Culture in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Organizational Discourse in Ghana" - Yuliana Kenfield
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Decolonial Gestures of Andean Bilingual College Students Promoting Quechua: Community-Based Participatory Research with Photovoice" - Akshay Kharat
PHD Pharmaceutical Science
"Assessing The Impact Of Prescription Opioid Use Versus No Use On Adherence To Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (copd) Maintenance Medications, Copd Exacerbations And Total Healthcare Costs" - Behnam Kheyraddini Mousavi
PHD Engineering
"Selected Applications of Silicon Nanopillar Arrays." - Megan Kirouac
PHD Psychology
"Exploring Clinically Useful Definitions Of Treatment Success For Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder" - Martina Laidemitt
PHD Biology
"Revealing biotic diversity: How do complex environments influence human schistosomiasis in a hyperendemic area?" - Justin Larsen
PHD English
"Material Culture in the Religious Narratives of the Old English Exeter Book" - Linh Le
PHD Physics
"Development of Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters and Paramagnetic Alloys of Ag and Er for Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy" - Wenjing Liu
PHD Engineering
"Multirate Frequency Transformations: Wideband AM-FM Demodulation with Applications to Signal Processing and Communications" - Darren Luke
PHD Engineering
"Elevated Temperature Progressive Damage and Failure of Duplex Stainless Steel" - Christopher Luna
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHALLENGE COURSES AND THE and the Self-Efficacy of First-Generation College Students" - Lei Ma
PHD Physics
"Neutrino Flavor Conversions in Dense Media" - Kasra Manavi
PHD Computer Science
"Multi-Resolution Analysis of Large Molecular Structures and Interactions" - Abdulaziz Masoud
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"The Effect of Sodium Bicarbonate on Acute Kidney Injury Markers During Physical Work in the Heat" - James McCormick
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"The effect of acute aerobic exercise and rapamycin treatment on autophagy and the heat shock response in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of prediabetics" - Glen McDermott
PHD Economics
"Essays on the Social Determinants of Health and Public Health Policy" - Mindy McEntee
PHD Psychology
"Implicit and explicit attitudes toward physical appearance among recurrent and non-binge eating college women" - Christopher McLouth
PHD Psychology
"Analysis of Covariance, with Heterogeneity of Regression and a Random Covariate" - Carolyn McSherry
PHD American Studies
"The Territorial Politics of the New York Botanical Garden, 1891-1912" - Rosa Munoz
PHD Psychology
"Evaluating Qualitative Differences in Drink Refusal Training and Posttreatment Outcomes in Women in Individual Alcohol Treatment" - Chantell Murphy
PHD Engineering
"Investigating the Electrodeposition of Plutonium and Curium for Safeguarding the Electrorefiner" - Jon Nachtigal
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Laterality in the Power Five and Group of Five Conferences in Women's College Softball" - Vangee Nez
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Dine Epistemology: Sa'ah Naaghai Bik'eh Hozhoon Teachings" - Alexis Padilla
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Race, Disability and the Possibilities of Radical Agency: Toward a Political Philosophy of Decolonial Critical Hermeneutics in Latinx DisCrit" - Alfredo Palacios
PHD Counselor Education
"A Phenomenological Study of a Combined Mindfulness and Social-and-Emotional Learning Intervention as Delivered by a Counselor-Consultant to Early-Childhood Educators" - Xuyuan Pan
PHD Engineering
"A Narrow-wall Complementary-split-ring Slotted Waveguide Antenna for High-power-microwave Applications" - Krupa Patel
PHD Philosophy
"Epistemological Disjunctivism: An Analysis and A Critique" - Sangita Paudel
PHD Chemistry
"Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes" - Janeth Pena
PHD Biology
"Hemocyanin-like 1 Protein, Unique To Planorbid Snails, Supports Reproductive Output Of Biomphalaria Glabrata, Vector Of Schistosomiasis" - Jennifer Pena
PHD Special Education
"Teaching Evidence-Based Practices to Teachers" - Matthew Peterson
PHD Computer Science
"Interpretating Uncertainty Quantification for Times Series" - Kristina Piorkowski
PHD Economics
"Understanding and Modifying Health Behaviors" - Amir Poorfakhraei
PHD Engineering
"Exposure Assessment of Citizens to Traffic Related Air Pollutants in a Long Range Transportation Plan" - Abraham Puthuvana Vinod
PHD Engineering
"Scalable Stochastic Reachability: Theory, Computation, and Control" - Xiaodong Qi
PHD Physics
"Dispersive quantum interfaces with atoms and nanophotonic waveguides" - Huan Ran
PHD Communication
"International news agencies in the era of global communications: CCTV's contra-flow and the factors that influence U.S. media's selection of news about China" - Arman Rashidi
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Carrier dynamics in high-speed III-nitride light-emitting diodes for visible-light communication" - Abigail Reese
PHD Nursing
"Trying to Cover the Sun with Your Thumb: A Critical Ethnography of Maternity Care Provision in Rural Northern New Mexico." - Jason Ren
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Improve the low energy sensitivity of the HAWC Observatory" - Abigail Robertson
PHD English
"Holy Body, Holy Place: The Veneration of St. Swithun, from the Old Minster to Winchester Cathedral" - Charles Robinson
PHD Psychology
"Neural and Behavioral Associations of Drinking and Empathic Processing" - Carlos Rodriguez
PHD Psychology
"The effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the resting state functional connectivity of the adolescent brain" - Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa
PHD Psychology
"Psychological Factors and the Relation Between Neighborhood Conditions and Latino Health: A Mixed Methods Study" - Corey Roos
PHD Psychology
"Evaluation of a Rolling Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention Group in a Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Setting: Short-Term Effectiveness and Processes of Change" - Soumi Roy Chowdhury
PHD Economics
"An Analysis of Socio- Economic Consequences of Cancer in Nepal" - Joaquin Rubalcaba
PHD Economics
"Expanding the Economic Approach to Public Policy: An Analysis of Health and Labor Market Outcomes" - Floren Rubio
PHD Engineering
"Sonomechanical Enhanced Sparging Techniques for Advanced Reactor Applications" - Matthew Rush
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
"Chemically Modified Monolayer Surfaces Influence Valvular Interstitial Cell Attachment and Differentiation for Heart Valve Tissue Engineering" - Ciaran Ryan-Anderson
PHD Physics
"Quantum Algorithms, Architecture, and Error Correction" - Andres Sabogal
PHD Linguistics
"The Variable Expression of Transitive Subject and Possesor" - Chelsea Saito-Reis
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"The Tetraspanin CD82 Regulates Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fitness and Bone Marrow Retention" - Emanuel Salazar Cavazos
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Studying EGFR signaling through single molecule imaging and computational modeling" - Veronica Salinas
PHD Economics
"Essays on the Factors that Contribute to Body Mass Index by Race and Ethnicity" - Damien Sanchez
PHD Org Learn & Instruct Tech - Melissa Sanchez
PHD Biology
"Towards A Better Understanding Of The Effects Of Praziquantel On The Interaction Between The Helminth Parasite Schistosoma Mansoni And Its Murine Host" - Aditi Sarkar
PHD Economics
"The Economic Impact Of Oil And Gas Production In The Permian Basin" - Mark Scherbarth
PHD Engineering
"Engineering Viscoelastic Behavior of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites with Nanoparticles for Controlling Passive Deployment of Aerospace Structures" - Travis Scholten
PHD Physics
"Towards Scalable Characterization of Noisy, Intermediate-Scale Quantum Information Processors" - Lindsay Scott
PHD Communication
"Kenyan Youths' Experiences of Intercultural Conflict: Negotiating Context, Intersectionalities, and Agency" - Kritika Sen Chakraborty
PHD Economics
"Essays on human capital, labor, and gender" - Ali Sepahi
PHD Biology
"From olfaction to immunity:Characterization of nasal immunity in bony fish" - Sayyed Shah
PHD Communication
"Health is an Achoot Beat: Factors Influencing Pakistani Journalists' Coverage of Polio Vaccination" - Dimitry Shevchenko
PHD Philosophy
"Theories of Reflection in Indian Philosophy and Jacques Lacan" - Amir Shirkhorshidian
PHD Engineering
"Tunneling in Si MOS nanostructures" - Bijay Shrestha
PHD Chemistry
"Catalytic Functionalization of Organoaluminum Reagents and Olefins by Cross-Coupling with Nickel and Copper" - Kiyoko Simmons
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Effect of Undergraduate Research Programs on Retention of Hispanic Students" - Eric Smith
PHD Biology
"Avian Thermoregulation in the Heat: Resting Metabolism, Evaporative Cooling and Limits on Activity in Sonoran Desert Birds" - Amanda Stanfield
PHD Biology
"Linking Climate Change and Mortality in Pinon-Juniper Woodlands, from Leaf to Ecosystem" - Elena Stein
PHD Psychology
"Validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder" - Victor Stone
PHD Engineering
"Frequency Domain Decomposition of Digital Video Containing Multiple Moving Objects" - Samantha Stutz
PHD Biology
"The fate of xylem-transported CO2 in plants" - Helen Tafoya
PHD Counselor Education
"Experiences Of Western Clinical Practice And Traditional Mexican American Healing When The Provider Is The Same Person" - Zahra Taghipour
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Vertical Transport Study of III-V Type-II Superlattices Superlattices" - Surendra Thapa
PHD Chemistry
"Copper Catalyzed Direct and Tandem Couplings, and Mechanistic Studies" - Rajani Thapa Magar
PHD Chemistry
"Syntheses and Characterization of photoactive ruthenium and iron polypyridyl complexes" - Hien Thi Tran
PHD Linguistics
"Conceptual Structures of Vietnamese Emotions" - Belinda Vicuna Tellez
PHD Psychology
"Religiosity/Spirituality and Cancer Risk Assessment for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Latina and Non-Latina Women in New Mexico" - Jessica Weber
PHD Biology
"Genomic signatures of adaptive evolution." - Yongyi Wei
PHD Chemistry
"Development of Functional Chemical Probes for the Study of Viscosity, Fe(II), and Ferroptosis and Photo-triggered Drug Delivery" - Justin Whetten
PHD Economics
"Water and healthcare access disparities: Impacts on health, wealth and education." - Channell Wilson-Segura
EDD Educational Leadership
"Drop In or Drop Out: A Case Study on the Effects of Academic Track Placement, and Levels of Student Skill and Will, on Successful Ninth-Grade Completion" - Mariah Wood
PHD Nursing
"Analyzing the Medical Definition of Death in Criminal Homicide Prosecution" - Karen Wright
PHD Biology
"The Evolution of Diet Breadth in Melissodes Bees (Apidae:Eucerini)" - Hao Yan
PHD Chemistry
"Regulating Mirna Biogenesis By Small Molecules" - Yuming Zhang
PHD Engineering
"Intelligent Computational Transportation" - Zhen Zhang
PHD Chemistry
"Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Structurally Diverse Poly(chalcogenylene vinylene)s" - Handong Zheng
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Regulation of Pathogenic CD4+ T Helper Lymphocytes in Inflammatory Diseases"
College of Nursing
- Connie Smith-Fassler
DNP Nursing
College of Pharmacy
- Chinhui Dang
Doctor of Pharmacy - Teera Sujithamrak
Doctor of Pharmacy - Samana Tasnim
Doctor of Pharmacy - Miguel Zizumbo
Doctor of Pharmacy
School of Law
- Zoila Alvarez Hernandez
Juris Doctor - Jon Anderson
Juris Doctor - Valentina Basile
Juris Doctor - Elizabeth Bates
Juris Doctor - Mamie Belgrave
Juris Doctor - Janine Caller
Juris Doctor - Ernestine Chaco
Juris Doctor - Anthony Chavez
Juris Doctor - Robert Gandara
Juris Doctor - Catherine Gonzalez
Juris Doctor - Christopher Green
Juris Doctor - Gary Lasky
Juris Doctor - Amanda Laupheimer
Juris Doctor - Anthony Maestas
Juris Doctor - Travis Miller
Juris Doctor - Derek Sanchez
Juris Doctor - Ryan Vetter
Juris Doctor
School of Medicine
- Malia Ashley
Doctor of Medicine - Jeanette Atencio
Doctor of Medicine - Stephanie Briones
Doctor of Medicine - Natalie Guerrero
Doctor of Medicine - Iric Guthrie
Doctor of Medicine - Aaron Marks
Doctor of Medicine - Robert Mercer
Doctor of Medicine - Kriti Mishra
Doctor of Medicine - Eric Rightley
Doctor of Medicine - Chloe Sharp
Doctor of Medicine - Kelley Stewart
Doctor of Medicine - Gregory Ziomek
Doctor of Medicine