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Fall 2020 Grad Stream

Summer and Fall 2020 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

  • Alex Adams
    PHD Political Science
    "Addiction, Attrition, and Visualizations: An Exploration of Online Survey Panels"
  • Hanieh Afkhamiardakani
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Generation of Correlated Dual Frequency Combs with PM Fiber Lasers for High-Precision Metrology"
  • Mohiuddin Ahmad
    PHD Engineering
    "Relating Asphalt Concrete's Pore Structure To Its Durability"
  • Hadeel Al-Essa
    PHD Family and Child Studies
    "Mothers' Satisfaction With Childcare Choices and Its Links to Family Involvement and Community Support"
  • Abdullah Alatawi
    PHD Special Education
    "Factors Related to Retention and Self-Efficacy of Special Education Teachers Working with Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Tabuk-Saudi Arabia: Teachers Interviews"
  • David Amdahl
    PHD Physics
    "Monte Carlo Simulations of Awkward Actions"
  • Godwin Amo-Kwao
    PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
    "Radial Basis Densities and the Density Functional-Based Atom-in-Molecule: Designing Charge-Transfer Potentials"
  • Eduardo Anaya
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Role of ¿¿-Glucan Structure in Dectin-1 Homo- and Hetero-oligomerization in Innate Anti-fungal Immunity"
  • Mohamed Attia Abdelrahman Aref
    PHD Engineering
    "Cognitive Radios for Self-aware and Spectrum-agile Communications over Wideband Spectrum"
  • Justina Avila
    PHD Psychology
    "Intersectionality Between Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity on Cognitive Trajectories and Development of Alzheimer's Disease"
  • Marian Azab
    PHD Sociology
    "Recruitment To, And Consequences Of, High-risk Non-violent Anti-regime Campaigns In Autocratic Societies: The Egyptian Uprising Of 2011"
  • Therese Baca-Radler
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
    "The First-Year Experiences of Students in Remedial Classes at a Research University: Implications for Retention and Support"
  • Dina Barajas
    PHD American Studies
    "DANZANTES AZTECAS y PROMOTORAS TRADICIONALES: THE RITUAL PERFORMANCES AND IDENTITY POLITICS of a MEXICAN AMERICAN CEREMONIAL COMMUNITY"
  • Keiko Beers
    PHD Linguistics
    "Exploring Language Endangerment and Language Change in Tohono O'odham"
  • Bryanne Bellovary
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Relationship Between Orthostatic Stress Response And Acute Mountain Sickness Susceptibility At High Altitude: A Pilot Study"
  • Oleksii Beznosov
    PHD Mathematics
    "From Wave Propagation to Spin Dynamics: Mathematical and Computational Aspects"
  • Manish Bhattarai
    PHD Engineering
    "Integrating Deep Learning and Augmented Reality to Enhance Situational Awareness in Firefighting Environments"
  • Leandra Binder
    PHD English
    "The Ego at an Impasse: Aesthetic Empathy and the Abject d'art in Fin de Siecle Supernatural Fiction the Abject d¿¿¿art in Fin de Si¿¿cle Supernatural Fiction"
  • Loyola Bird
    PHD English
    "A Rhetorical Analysis through American Indian/Indigenous Tribal Leadership: The Rhetorics of Four North American Tribal Leaders"
  • 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"
  • Mercedes Breceda
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Benjamin Burnett
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Fluvial Geomorphic and Hydrologic Evolution and Climate Change Resilience in Young Volcanic Landscapes: Rhyolite Plateau and Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park"
  • Chavez Chavez
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Cecilia Cholka
    PHD Communication
    "Exploratory Study of Communication as a Psychosocial Factor Influencing Safer Sex Experiences Among Individuals Who Identify as Polyamorous"
  • Rohan Choraghe
    PHD Engineering
    "Dectin-1 mediated mechanical force generation in Candida albicans fungal pathogen recognition"
  • Wesley Clary
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Quaternary shelf-slope development in the northern Gulf of Alaska from combined geophysical and geomorphologic analysis"
  • Kel Cook
    PHD Biology
    "Spatio-temporal dynamics of fungal communities and their effects on plants"
  • Priscella Correa
    PHD Nursing
    "Mexican Americans' Perspectives on "Borderline Diabetes" in Amarillo, Texas"
  • Gene Crofts
    PHD Counselor Education
    "The Experience of Being Gender Nonbinary"
  • Badurakada Sunil Santha De Silva
    PHD Nursing
    "The Bystanders' Perspectives on the Provision of Informal Hospital-Based Care to Bedridden Patients with Cancer in Sri Lanka."
  • Cristabelle De Souza
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "The impact of the P72R genotype in modulating the Gain of Function properties of mutant p53 in cancer"
  • Cherie Devore
    PHD Engineering
    "Biogeochemical processes affecting arsenic (As) mobility and bioavailability near abandoned mine wastes"
  • Yuka Doherty
    PHD Sociology
    "Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan"
  • Gangadharan Esakki
    PHD Engineering
    "Adaptive Encoding for Constrained Video Delivery in HEVC, VP9, AV1 and VVC Compression Standards and Adaptation to Video Content"
  • Mohamadreza Fazel
    PHD Physics
    "Bayesian Analysis of Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy Data"
  • Muskan Floren
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "The Impact of CD82 Expressing on Acute Myeloid Leukemia Chemosensitivity and Quiescence"
  • Joseph Flores
    PHD Communication
    "Capitalizing on Language: The Political and Economic (Re)Circulation of a National Imaginary"
  • Cheryl Ford
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "The Impact of Federal, State, and Local Policy on the Pedagogy of ELL Assessment in New Mexico Public Schools"
  • Christopher Frankel
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Cardiorespiratory and Metabolic Responses to Hexagonal Barbell Deadlift Task Performed at an Intensity Corresponding to the Anaerobic Threshold"
  • Marthia Fuller
    PHD American Studies
    "Nubians of Plutonia: Black women in Modern post-apocalyptic and dystopian graphic literature"
  • Selina Garcia
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Role of the Acid Sensing Ion Channel 1a in the Systemic Circulation"
  • Paul Gieri
    PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
    "Plasmon-Induced Color and Photochemistry"
  • Maria de los Angeles Giraldez Elizo
    PHD Educational Linguistics
    "The Effects of Semantic Neighborhood Density on Vocabulary Learning in Spanish as a Second Language and Spanish as Heritage Language"
  • Diksha Gupta
    PHD Computer Science
    "Sybil Defense using Efficient Resource Burning"
  • Kymberly Gustus
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis as a Potential Therapeutic Target in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders"
  • Jesse Hall
    PHD Special Education
    "Through the Funnel: A Critical Policy Analysis of the School-to-Prison Pipeline"
  • Eric Hamke
    PHD Engineering
    "Health Monitoring Using Deep Learning of Acoustic and Speech Signals"
  • Derek Heeger
    PHD Engineering
    "Mesh Networking and Security Applications in LoRa Ad-Hoc Networks"
  • Ryan Heimroth
    PHD Biology
    "Mucosal Immune System of African Lungfish"
  • Michael Hensley
    PHD Economics
    ""Three Chapters on Transportation and its Impact on Employment and Health Visits for Low-Income Adults in the Southwest""
  • Jeffrey Hoffmann
    PHD Communication
    "Farmer’s Place-based Discourse About Water Relations: Ways Of Knowing Water And Multispecies Survival"
  • Ning Hsu
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Ultrashort Pulses and Frequency Combs: Characterizations, Manipulations, and Applications"
  • Ke Huang
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Interaction of Optomechanical Cavities with Acoustic Waves and Oscillators"
  • Kevin Irick
    PHD Engineering
    "Numerical Evaluation of Effective Thermal Response of Heterogeneous Materials"
  • Matthew Irwin
    PHD American Studies
    "(Si ting) Detroit: Vision, and Dispossession in a Midwest Bordertown"
  • Jason Joyner
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Virus-Like Particle-Based Vaccines Induce Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of Staphylococcus aureus Virulence"
  • Christina Juhasz-Wood
    PHD American Studies
    "Contesting Historical Enchantment: Militarized Settler Colonialism and Refugee Resettlement in New Mexico"
  • Khadanand Kc
    PHD Chemistry
    ""Small Molecule Analog Studies of Paramagnetic DMSOR Enzyme Family Intermediates""
  • Johnny Kenton
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Translating Touches: New Approaches For Modeling And Rescuing Executive Function Deficits After Prenatal Alcohol Exposure"
  • Anastasiia Kim
    PHD Statistics
    "Maximum likelihood estimation of species trees and anomaly zone detection using ranked gene trees"
  • Deepak Kunwar
    PHD Chemistry
    "Atom trapping and its role on the nucleation and growth of Pt. nanpaticles."
  • Diane Lacen
    PHD Counselor Education
    "A Multicultural Study of the Experience of Grief Following Involuntary Job Loss"
  • Ann Leming
    PHD Educational Linguistics
    "Reflections on learning, communication, and identity in a hybrid course on language development."
  • Glenda Lewis
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
  • Zidong Li
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "The Combined Effects Of Exercise-induced Muscle Damage And Heat Stress On Acute Kidney Stress And Heat Strain During Subsequent Endurance Exercise"
  • Yi-Ling Lin
    PHD Special Education
    "Parental Perspectives Of Their Involvement In Special Education Among English-speaking Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Families"
  • Maria Livaudais
    PHD Political Science
    "Understanding Attitudes Toward Healthcare Reform: The Roles Of Self-interest, Group Identity And Racial Resentment"
  • Hannah Long
    PHD Communication
    ""Fat is a Queer issue, Too": Complicating Queerness and Body Size in Women's Sexual Orientation and Identity"
  • Gabriela Lopez
    PHD Psychology
    "Sexual Victimization, Mental Health, and Protective Factors among Women with Multiple Marginalized Statuses"
  • Lijun Lu
    PHD Biology
    "Molecular studies on the interactions between Biomphalaria snails and Schistosoma mansoni"
  • 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"
  • Junwei Meng
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "The Development of All Solid-State Optical Cryo-cooler"
  • Lingyao Meng
    PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
    "Synthesis, Self-assembly and High-Pressure Properties of Nanoparticles and Hybrid Nanocomposites"
  • Esmaeil Mobini Souchelmaei
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Radiation balanced fiber lasers and amplifiers"
  • Florencia Monge
    PHD Engineering
    "Photo-Characterization of Selective Luminescent Protein Aggregate Sensors - Oligo-p-Phenylene Oligo-p-Phenylene Ethynylene (OPEs)"
  • Martina Nebbiai
    PHD Latin American Studies
    "Ecuador's new water legal framework (LORHUyA, 2014): An assessment of the first five years of implementation through the lens of plurinationality and campesinos Buen Vivir"
  • Jake Organ
    PHD Economics
    "Chad: Human Fertility, Crop Production And Changing Weather Patterns"
  • Jemima Organ
    PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
    "Motivational Interviewing: A Tool for Servant Leadership"
  • Amanda Parker
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
    "On Love and Treason: Critical White Feminist Thought for Social Justice Praxis"
  • Sangita Paudel
    PHD Chemistry
    "Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes"
  • Melanie Phipps
    PHD Nursing
    "Predictors of Birth Center Sustainability in the United States"
  • Srijana Pokhrel
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "SEXUAL DISMORPHISM IN HOST INNATE RESPONSE TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS: MECHANISMS DRIVING SEX DIFFERENCES IN IMMMUNE CELL FUNCTION AND HOST-DIRECTED INTERVENTIONS Response to Staphylococcus aureus: Mechanisms Driving Sex Differences in Immune Cell Function"
  • Kristen Rahilly
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Diffuse flux and carbon isotope composition of carbon dioxide emitted from Valles caldera, Yellowstone caldera, and southwestern Utah geothermal sites"
  • Dalicia Raymond
    PHD English
    "The Magic Of Love: Love Magic In Medieval Romance"
  • Frances Ricker
    PHD Nursing
    "An Autoethnography of a Registered Nurse Living with Chronic Undiagnosed Illness"
  • Rebecca Rieger
    PHD Psychology
    "Socioeconomic and Neuroanatomic Contributions to Language Performance in Children Born Very Preterm at Preschool and School Age"
  • Behshad Roshanzadeh
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Development and Demonstration of a Pico-Watt Calorimeter for Optical Absorption Spectroscopy"
  • Kellin Rumsey
    PHD Statistics
    "Methods of Uncertainty Quantification for Physical Parameters"
  • Monica Sanchez Barrantes
    PHD Physics
    "Exploring Hidden Structure of the Nearby Universe and the Limits and Capabilities of Two Neutral Hydrogen Surveys"
  • Aditi Sarkar
    PHD Economics
    "The Economic Impact Of Oil And Gas Production In The Permian Basin"
  • Sharon Schaaf
    PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
    "Social Network Centrality, Social Construction of Knowledge, and Nurse Practitioner Competency in Asynchronous Online Discussions Among Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Students"
  • William Schonbein
    PHD Computer Science
    "Intelligent networks for high performance computing"
  • Matthew Schwartz
    PHD Anthropology
    "Sex-differences in age-related diseases."
  • Andrea Scmhidt
    PHD Engineering
    "Theoretical and Experimental Studies of the Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation by Superluminal Polarization Currents"
  • Brandi Seaman
    PHD Psychology
    "The Effects Of Comorbid Mild Traumatic Brain Injruy And Alcohol Use Disorder"
  • Anastassiya Semenova
    PHD Mathematics
    "Numerical Simulations of Nonlinear Waves and Their Stability: Stokes Waves and Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation"
  • Kritika Sen Chakraborty
    PHD Economics
    "Essays on human capital, labor, and gender"
  • Robert Shauger
    PHD Special Education
    "Project-Based Learning Instruction for a Student with Disabilities: Experiences of a Student and Teachers"
  • Disha Shende
    PHD Economics
    "Essays on the Emotional Well-being, Health Insurance Disparities and Health Insurance Markets"
  • Savin Shynu Varghese
    PHD Physics
    "Monitoring the Low Frequency Radio Transient Sky with the Long Wavelength Array"
  • Geneva Smith
    PHD Anthropology
    ""Where the Land Ends": Knowing and Governing the Limits of Argentina's Soy Boom"
  • Andre Spears
    PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
    "Probing the Impacts of Ultra-low Platinum Loadings on Membrane Degradation Mechanisms"
  • Julie Spencer
    PHD Biology
    "Chronic and Acute Respiratory Pathogens: Evolutionary and Epidemiological Characteristics of Tuberculosis, Influenza-like Illness, and COVID-19."
  • Elena Stein
    PHD Psychology
    "Validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder"
  • Nishchay Sule
    PHD Engineering
    "Device-level Predictive Modeling Of Extreme Electromagnetic Interference"
  • Tanupreet Suri
    PHD Counselor Education
    "Online Civic Engagements among College Students: Exploring Well-Being"
  • Jacob Thacker
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Integrated studies of intracontinental deformation in the interior western USA, Cretaceous to Recent"
  • Rajani Thapa Magar
    PHD Chemistry
    "Syntheses and Characterization of photoactive ruthenium and iron polypyridyl complexes"
  • Marina Todeschini
    PHD Spanish & Portuguese
    "Trespassing and Transcending: Newcomer Crossing and Movement in Latina and Latin American Literature"
  • Luis Valbuena Reyes
    PHD Engineering
    "Software Execution under Extreme Electromagnetic Interference"
  • Carmen Adela Velasco Rivera
    PHD Engineering
    "Chemical Interfacial Reactions Affecting The Speciation And Solubility Of Uranium In Organic-rich Environments"
  • Carmen Villalobos
    PHD Engineering
    "The Investigation of Surface Structures on Various Pathogens and Their Interactions with the Human Immune System"
  • Daniel Wakeford
    PHD Engineering
    "A Two-Dimensional Spherical-Polar Multigroup Discrete Ordinates Code for Atmospheric Particle Transport"
  • Samantha Wallace
    PHD Physics
    "Understanding Solar Wind Formation by Identifying the Origins of In Situ Observations"
  • Shu Wang
    PHD Engineering
    "Advanced Parallel Algorithms in Computational Electromagnetics"
  • Victoria Waugh-Reed
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Fishing without a pole: Experiences and insights of adults working to prevent youth suicide in a low income, high risk state"
  • Karen Webb
    PHD Nursing
    "Factors Influencing Rural Women's Physical Activity Behaviors: A Social Ecological Perspective"
  • Jordan Wostbrock
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Triple oxygen isotope compositions of carbonates"
  • Huayu Zheng
    PHD Chemistry
    "Dissecting Regulation Mechanism of Interdomain Electron Transfer in Nitric Oxide Synthases"
  • Tim Zingler
    PHD Linguistics
    "Wordhood issues: Typology and Grammaticalization"

College of Nursing

  • Marcia Cowen
    DNP Nursing
  • Maude May
    DNP Nursing
  • Erica Newfield
    DNP Nursing
  • Mary Perez
    DNP Nursing

College of Pharmacy

  • Xuan Le
    Doctor of Pharmacy

School of Law

  • Jessica Aguirre
    Juris Doctor
  • Jessica Arreola
    Juris Doctor
  • Kristan Burns
    Juris Doctor
  • Aaron Cress
    Juris Doctor
  • Hannah Gutierrez
    Juris Doctor
  • Ian Jump
    Juris Doctor
  • Rachel Kelchner
    Juris Doctor
  • William Lusk-Claiborne
    Juris Doctor
  • Bradley Odegard
    Juris Doctor
  • Morgan Porter
    Juris Doctor
  • David Rhee
    Juris Doctor
  • Dylan Rhinehart
    Juris Doctor
  • Margie Rutledge
    Juris Doctor
  • Taylor Weary
    Juris Doctor

School of Medicine

  • Kayla Caruso
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Zefr Chao
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Madison Fletcher
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Anastasiya Haponyuk
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Siri Krishna Khalsa
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Lauren McMillian
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Priscilla Mendoza
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Aakriti Mishra
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Joseph Sanchez
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Jordan Torres
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Tenzin Yangchen
    Doctor of Medicine