Spring 2023 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
- Zahra Abedi
PHD Engineering
"Modeling And Characterization Of Cmos Logic Gates Under Large Signal Rf Injection" - Monica Asencio Pimentel
PHD Special Education
"Experiences And Perspectives Of Parents Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder In Lima-peru" - Celine Ayala
PHD Sociology
"The "Afro in Afrolatinidad": Examining Afrolatinx Experiences of Blackness Through an Afrolatin Critical Theory of Race" - Jonathan Bainbridge
PHD Physics
"An Optically Pumped Comagnetometer for High-sensitivity RF detection without Magnetic Shielding" - Len Beke
PHD Spanish & Portuguese
"The Manito Topos Project: Place naming and Toponymic Silencing in the Sierras of northern Nuevo Mexico and southern Colorado" - Gabriella Bellissimo
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"The Effects Of Unsupervised Bodyweight Interval Training In Adults With Obesity" - 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" - Madison Bourgois
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Jens Brewer
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Alexander Byrd
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Sandra Leonor Cabrera Moreno
PHD Educational Linguistics
"Reading as a Social Practice: Using Retrospective Miscue Analysis to Understand Kichwa-Spanish Bilinguals' Meaning Construction" - Jorge Iván Canales Verdial
PHD Engineering
"Energy-efficient Memristor-based Neuromorphic Computing Circuits And Systems For Radiation Detection Applications" - Ryeora Choe
PHD Sociology
"Mental Health in Transnational Contexts: Reconsidering Conceptualizations, Coping Strategies, and Racism through the Narratives of Refugees Resettled in the United States." - Sunnie Clahchischiligi
PHD English
"The Value of Storytelling Through Digital Family Narratives: A Case Study of a Dine Storyteller" - Violette Cloud
PHD Psychology
"Mental Distress Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness in a Criminal Legal Setting: A Secondary Data Analysis of the McArthur Mental Health Court Study Data" - Brigit Connolly
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Todd Cronkhite
PHD English
"Menetekel: Ishmael's Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom" - Austin Daniel
PHD Physics
"The quantum computational utility of symmetry-protected topological order: From near-term advantages to universal measurement-based quantum computing" - Yuka Doherty
PHD Sociology
"Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan" - Jancoba Dorley
PHD Engineering
"Physical And Stochiometric Controls On Nutrient Uptake And Ecosystem Respiration In Contrasting Sites" - Jeremy Ducharme
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Exercise and Its Regulation of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Expression and Intracellular Signaling" - Alan Duong
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Cassidy Ellis
PHD Communication
"Saved Babies, Dead Doctors: Settler Colonial Anxiety and Strategic Rhetorics of/in the Anti-Abortion Cultural Narrative" - Rachel Ely
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Dylan Feichko
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Francesca Foley
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Shiyue Gao
PHD Chemistry
"Synthesis, Characterization And Spectroscopic Studies Of Novel Donor-acceptor Complexes" - Seyyed Ali Ghorashi Khalil Abadi
PHD Engineering
"Effective utilization of battery-supercapacitor hybrid energy storage systems in DC nano-grids" - Marni Goldberg
EDD Educational Leadership
"A Phenomenological Study of Collegiate Recovery Leadership" - Joseph Hall-Patton
PHD History
""Great Excitement": Violent Incorporations of the American Southwest" - Gregor Hamilton
PHD Biology
"Ecological impacts of invasive crayfish in a naive riparian system" - Leah Hardesty
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Reconnaissance: Relationship Between Social Presence And Knoweldge Construction In Second Life" - Aubrey Harris
PHD Engineering
"Hydraulic Modeling and Environmental Flows to Inform Ecological Models" - Martha Hawthorne
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Christine Hidalgo
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Nafis Irtija
PHD Engineering
"Energy-efficient Operation and Performance Optimization in Computing Systems" - Rahul Jaiswal
PHD Engineering
"Machine learning based prediction models for silicon heterojunction solar cell optimization" - Venkatesh Jatla
PHD Engineering
"Long-term Human Video Activity Quantification in Collaborative Learning Environments" - Angelica Jimenez
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Jesse Kaczmarski
PHD Economics
"Essays on the Economics of Grid Modernization" - Siri Gurunam Khalsa
PHD Nursing
"It Is What It Is... Enduring the Never-Ending: The Lived Experiences of Parenting Adult Children with Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities" - Seema Khattri Bhandari
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Effect of Ligase I deficiency on the replication fork and chromatin" - Hamed Kookhaee
PHD Chemistry
"Mechanism of Plasmon-Driven Photochemical Reactions" - Praveen Kumar
PHD Computer Science
"Machine Learning Methods for Computational Phenotyping Using Patient Healthcare Data with Noisy Labels" - Hamzah Kuriri
PHD Educational Linguistics
"Pragmatic Elements In Efl Learners' Request E-mails To Teachers: A Study Of Learners' Communicative Success" - Aurindro Lahiri
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Veronica Lane
PHD Educational Psychology
"Academic Self-Efficacy in College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic" - Marcel Lebow
PHD Philosophy
"Of a Different Mind: The Early Schelling and Problems in the Philosophy of Mind" - Gabriel Lovato
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Adriana Lucero
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Teachers perceptions, practices, and needs toward inclusion in Physical Education" - Fahimeh Maghsoodi
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
"Antimicrobial Activity and Mechanism of Amyloid Proteins and Synthetic Conjugated Polyelectrolytes" - Ryan Martinez
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Samuel Martinez
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Emily Mason
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"SELF-EFFICACY INFLUENCES OF PRE-SERVICE PHYSICAL EDUCATION (PE) TEACHERS WHO INSTRUCT STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES (SWDs)" - 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" - Elizabeth Matthews
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Rachel Meiklejohn
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"School Voices: An Exploration of Early Career Teachers' Narratives of Student Voice and Dialogic Practices" - Micaela Morosin
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Carrie Mulderink
PHD Communication
"The Intersection of Racism and Ableism in Disability Support Services" - Jasmyn Olivas
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Kasim Ortiz
PHD Sociology
"The Gayborhood Was Never Here For Some of Us! Health Consequences of Racialized Exclusion among Sexual Minorities across the Lifecourse" - Nana Osei Fordjour
PHD Communication
"Socially Mediated Self-Presentation, Image-Construction, and Twitter: A Multimodal Analysis of Vice Presidents Across a Continental Divide" - Aaron Overacker
PHD Engineering
"Material Reliability for a Molten Chloride Salt System" - Sangita Paudel
PHD Chemistry
"Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes" - Ana Perea
EDD Educational Leadership
"Perceptions of Bullying in a Public Charter School" - Amanda Platzbecker
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Troy Powell
PHD Engineering
"Theory, Simulation, and Experiments on a Magnetically Insulated Transmission Line Terminated by a Bremsstrahlung Diode" - Divya Prakash
PHD Engineering
"Reconfiguration-Driven Assembly of Inorganic Nanomembranes" - Shawn Priore
PHD Engineering
"Chance Constrained Stochastic Optimal Control of Discrete Time Linear Stochastic Systems with Applications in Multi-satellite Operations" - Adam Reynolds
PHD Anthropology
"Human Diversity in Molecular Sexual Dimorphism and Gender Disparities in Health" - Bobbi Riedel
PHD Engineering
"Understanding the Behavior of Upper Subcritical Limit Calculations" - Marley Russell
PHD Psychology
"Trait Sadism In Bdsm Practitioners And Non-practitioners" - Derek Salas
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Fisayo Sangoleye
PHD Engineering
"Smart Energy Harvesting for Internet of Things Networks" - Aditi Sarkar
PHD Economics
"The Economic Impact Of Oil And Gas Production In The Permian Basin" - Denis Schulz
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Exploring the Perceptions of Mattering among Doctoral Students, Physical Education Teachers, and Faculty Members" - David Scieszka
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Neuroinflammatory and Metabolomic Temporal Dynamics from Inhaled Wildfire Smoke with Attenuation via Pharmacological Intervention" - Kritika Sen Chakraborty
PHD Economics
"Essays on human capital, labor, and gender" - Wenjing Shi
PHD Engineering
"Long-term Human Participation Detection Using A Dynamic Scene Analysis Model" - Kevin Shipman
PHD Engineering
"Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Plasma Sheath Effects on a Whistler Wave Electric Dipole Antenna Operating in the Magnetosphere" - Aimee Shrock
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Yaser Silani
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Femtotesla Magnetometry and Nanoscale Imaging with Color Centers in Diamond" - Alexandria Skidmore
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Samuel Slezak
PHD Physics
"Rigorous Analysis of Markov Processes with Applications to Quantum Information" - Eric Small
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Defining the Role of Core Histones in Cellular Quiescence." - Jillian Stafford
PHD Chemistry
"Toward the Yeast Surface Display of Microviridin B" - Elena Stein
PHD Psychology
"Validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder" - Zsofia Szoke
PHD Anthropology
"The Lithium Economy: Bolivia's "new" Resource And Its Role In Revolutionary Politics" - Sofia Tarabrina
PHD English
"From Peer Review To Peer Conference: Increasing Collaboration In Asynchrounous And Synchronous Computer-mediated Modes In A Technical And Professional Communication Class" - Rajani Thapa Magar
PHD Chemistry
"Syntheses and Characterization of photoactive ruthenium and iron polypyridyl complexes" - Adam Thorpe
PHD Engineering
"Data-Driven Stochastic Optimal Control Using Hilbert Space Embeddings of Distributions" - Nadine Torres
EDD Educational Leadership
"A Phenomenological Study Of The Lived Experiences Of New Mexico Charter Leaders Through The Covid-19 Pandemic" - Fatima van Hattum
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels" - Kristal Vigil
Doctor of Physical Therapy - John Wagner
PHD Political Science
"The Rise of Agenda Diversity in America: Its Cause and Consequences" - Daewon Yoon
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"International Student-Athletes' Unique Challenges: Collegiate Coaches' Facilitation of Social Capital and Servant Leadership"
College of Nursing
- Alanna Dancis
DNP Nursing - Tolulope Fijabi
DNP Nursing - Rebekah French
DNP Nursing - Lisa Hendle
DNP Nursing - Melinda Mata
DNP Nursing - Adelia Perea
DNP Nursing
College of Pharmacy
- Zinah Al Shamari
Doctor of Pharmacy - Haya Albazzaz
Doctor of Pharmacy - Damon Alvarez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jonathan Arnett
Doctor of Pharmacy - Brad Beckmann
Doctor of Pharmacy - Xochitl Benitez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Kayla Burnett
Doctor of Pharmacy - Danielle Chavez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jovena Cleary
Doctor of Pharmacy - Lily Doan
Doctor of Pharmacy - Andy Doose
Doctor of Pharmacy - Elise Drummond
Doctor of Pharmacy - Elizabeth Estrada
Doctor of Pharmacy - Charlotte Flory
Doctor of Pharmacy - Simone Foy
Doctor of Pharmacy - Sarah Glover
Doctor of Pharmacy - Neil Goel
Doctor of Pharmacy - Pamela Gonzales
Doctor of Pharmacy - Vani Goundar
Doctor of Pharmacy - Rylie Grier
Doctor of Pharmacy - Maya Haynes
Doctor of Pharmacy - Courtney Hern
Doctor of Pharmacy - Brandy Hernandez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Dnae Heyborne
Doctor of Pharmacy - Brandan Ho
Doctor of Pharmacy - Devin Horinek
Doctor of Pharmacy - Erena Hovhannisyan Romero
Doctor of Pharmacy - Tyler Howse
Doctor of Pharmacy - Emily Hudson
Doctor of Pharmacy - Stephanie Igharoro
Doctor of Pharmacy - Sierra Jaramillo
Doctor of Pharmacy - Taylor Jojola
Doctor of Pharmacy - Ryan Kelly-Romero
Doctor of Pharmacy - Lydia Krumwiede
Doctor of Pharmacy - Peter Le
Doctor of Pharmacy - Ryan Lopez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Delfina Lozoya
Doctor of Pharmacy - Yennhi Mai
Doctor of Pharmacy - Bianca Maier
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jordan-Nicho Manno
Doctor of Pharmacy - Chung-Man Mok
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jose Montanez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Ahmed Muhyi
Doctor of Pharmacy - Nicole Murtagh
Doctor of Pharmacy - William Nguyen
Doctor of Pharmacy - Sarah Nihart
Doctor of Pharmacy - Sajni Patel
Doctor of Pharmacy - Lauren Perez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Onnica Pino
Doctor of Pharmacy - Danielle Rael
Doctor of Pharmacy - Larissa Razo
Doctor of Pharmacy - Emily Riggs
Doctor of Pharmacy - Colton Robertson
Doctor of Pharmacy - Elisa Robinson
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jared Rocco
Doctor of Pharmacy - Desirae Rodriguez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Elyas Samadi
Doctor of Pharmacy - Eden Santistevan
Doctor of Pharmacy - Noah Santistevan
Doctor of Pharmacy - Micaela Seazzu
Doctor of Pharmacy - Mahya Shojaee
Doctor of Pharmacy - Devin Signs
Doctor of Pharmacy - Parisa Soltanifar
Doctor of Pharmacy - Edson Tarango
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jose Tello Cordoba
Doctor of Pharmacy - Gladys Theiler
Doctor of Pharmacy - Eleazar Torres
Doctor of Pharmacy - Nathan Vasquez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Hao Vo
Doctor of Pharmacy
School of Law
- Akram Aijala
Juris Doctor - Blade Allen
Juris Doctor - Alyssa Aragon
Juris Doctor - Angelica Aragon
Juris Doctor - Timothy Baker
Juris Doctor - Cody Barnes
Juris Doctor - Mark Blosser
Juris Doctor - Chase Bodine
Juris Doctor - Alma Buena
Juris Doctor - Nina Chester
Juris Doctor - Josh Choman
Juris Doctor - Annika Cleveland
Juris Doctor - Rachel Cochran
Juris Doctor - Andrew Conticelli
Juris Doctor - Alexandria Dabney
Juris Doctor - Tea Davidson
Juris Doctor - Kristin Dearth
Juris Doctor - Shawn Degener
Juris Doctor - Katelyn Dickensheets
Juris Doctor - William Dunn
Juris Doctor - Brittany Dutton-Leyda
Juris Doctor - Karla Esparza
Juris Doctor - Erin Fitz-Gerald
Juris Doctor - Justin French
Juris Doctor - Brandon Gonzales
Juris Doctor - Shylah Gonzalez
Juris Doctor - Zach Grant
Juris Doctor - Emilee Greenhouse
Juris Doctor - Elisabeth Gutierrez
Juris Doctor - William Hancock
Juris Doctor - Preston Hollis
Juris Doctor - Alexandra Honican
Juris Doctor - Jamshed Jehangir
Juris Doctor - Emmalee Johnston
Juris Doctor - Oyuki Komiyama
Juris Doctor - Stuart Lee
Juris Doctor - Peyton Linthicum
Juris Doctor - Rhys Llewellyn
Juris Doctor - Sheyla Lopez
Juris Doctor - Joseph Lotz
Juris Doctor - Victoria Lovato
Juris Doctor - Yoselin Martin
Juris Doctor - Agustin Martinez
Juris Doctor - Alicianna Martinez
Juris Doctor - Jacquii Martinez
Juris Doctor - Mark Moreno
Juris Doctor - Brandon Moya
Juris Doctor - Farrakhan Muhammad
Juris Doctor - Barbara Ogushi Rivera
Juris Doctor - Tristian Ortiz
Juris Doctor - Rebekah Peoble
Juris Doctor - Atherton Phleger
Juris Doctor - Gabriel Remer
Juris Doctor - Isadora Renner
Juris Doctor - Malik Rifi Saidi
Juris Doctor - Fernando Rios
Juris Doctor - Katelyn Rogers
Juris Doctor - Kylie Rosabal
Juris Doctor - Barbara Ryan
Juris Doctor - Alexis Salas
Juris Doctor - Molly Samsell
Juris Doctor - Liberty Sanborn
Juris Doctor - Ryan Sanchez
Juris Doctor - Hannah Shotwell
Juris Doctor - Oliver Stephanz
Juris Doctor - Randy Summers
Juris Doctor - Katherine Tara
Juris Doctor - Carson Thornton Gonzalez
Juris Doctor - Luke Tingey
Juris Doctor - Hannah Tompkins
Juris Doctor - Cheyenne Trujillo
Juris Doctor - Marcos Trujillo
Juris Doctor - Irving Valadez
Juris Doctor - Claudia Velasquez
Juris Doctor - Jeffrey Vescovi
Juris Doctor - Deanna Warren
Juris Doctor - Annie Watts
Juris Doctor - Gretchen Wendlandt
Juris Doctor - Kimberly Weston
Juris Doctor - Christian White
Juris Doctor - Brooke Wiggins
Juris Doctor - Sky Willard
Juris Doctor - Cooper Williams
Juris Doctor - Kali Wilson
Juris Doctor - Brian Yardman-Frank
Juris Doctor
School of Medicine
- Welly Agate
Doctor of Medicine - Malik Alqawasmi
Doctor of Medicine - Jawaher Assed
Doctor of Medicine - Dominik Astorga
Doctor of Medicine - Andrewe Baca
Doctor of Medicine - Erika Baca
Doctor of Medicine - Katrina Baca
Doctor of Medicine - Kristen Baca
Doctor of Medicine - Matthew Barela
Doctor of Medicine - Christian Barr
Doctor of Medicine - Samuel Bayliss
Doctor of Medicine - Jessica Benally
Doctor of Medicine - Molly Biggs
Doctor of Medicine - Sandra Boettcher
Doctor of Medicine - Promise Bood
Doctor of Medicine - Dorothy Bowers Wu
Doctor of Medicine - Madeline Brown
Doctor of Medicine - Nathan Butters
Doctor of Medicine - Lionel Candelaria
Doctor of Medicine - Kimberly Chapman-Natewa
Doctor of Medicine - Donovan Chase The Bear
Doctor of Medicine - Mia Coleman
Doctor of Medicine - Ana D'Agrosa
Doctor of Medicine - Robert DeBurlo
Doctor of Medicine - Alicia DeLeon-Dowd
Doctor of Medicine - Qi Dong
Doctor of Medicine - Morgan Edwards-Fligner
Doctor of Medicine - Luis Espino
Doctor of Medicine - River Fine
Doctor of Medicine - Ashley Fitzgerald
Doctor of Medicine - Kathryne Foos
Doctor of Medicine - Evan Fuchs
Doctor of Medicine - Joaquin Garcia
Doctor of Medicine - Michaela Granados
Doctor of Medicine - Xiaoshan Guo
Doctor of Medicine - Evan Harris
Doctor of Medicine - Emma Hart
Doctor of Medicine - Rachel Hassler
Doctor of Medicine - Morgan Haynes
Doctor of Medicine - Adriana Herrera
Doctor of Medicine - Krista Houmpheng
Doctor of Medicine - Hannah Howse
Doctor of Medicine - Connie Hu
Doctor of Medicine - Ariel Hurwitz
Doctor of Medicine - Fahad Hussain
Doctor of Medicine - Imran Kassam
Doctor of Medicine - Adam Keaster
Doctor of Medicine - Tk King
Doctor of Medicine - Christina Kurnik
Doctor of Medicine - Sageline Labaze
Doctor of Medicine - Hernan Lebensohn
Doctor of Medicine - Jennifer Ledezma Dominguez
Doctor of Medicine - Tess Lemon
Doctor of Medicine - Matthew Lucero
Doctor of Medicine - Lauren Mercer
Doctor of Medicine - Jessica Nelson
Doctor of Medicine - RayLee Otero-Bell
Doctor of Medicine - Brandon Painter
Doctor of Medicine - Samantha Paltrow-Krulwich
Doctor of Medicine - Andrew Pierce
Doctor of Medicine - John Powell
Doctor of Medicine - Alyse Raboff
Doctor of Medicine - Larimar Rodriguez
Doctor of Medicine - Korazon Romero
Doctor of Medicine - Rachel Ruckman
Doctor of Medicine - Savannah Salazar
Doctor of Medicine - Yoda Shimada
Doctor of Medicine - Floyd Silva
Doctor of Medicine - Kyree Sky
Doctor of Medicine - Ali Smith-Fassler
Doctor of Medicine - Benjamin Spangler
Doctor of Medicine - Kaleb Stevens
Doctor of Medicine - Ariana Thompson
Doctor of Medicine - Luis Trillo
Doctor of Medicine - Alexis Trujillo
Doctor of Medicine - Taska van Swol
Doctor of Medicine - Samantha Varela
Doctor of Medicine - Joshua Vasquez
Doctor of Medicine - Devan Vidrine
Doctor of Medicine - Shana Vorenberg
Doctor of Medicine - Lucia Vulcan
Doctor of Medicine - Christopher Welch
Doctor of Medicine - Victor Wu
Doctor of Medicine - Carrie Anne Zografos
Doctor of Medicine