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Spring 2024 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

  • 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"
  • Yuka Doherty
    PHD Sociology
    "Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan"
  • 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"
  • Sangita Paudel
    PHD Chemistry
    "Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes"
  • Aditi Sarkar
    PHD Economics
    "The Economic Impact Of Oil And Gas Production In The Permian Basin"
  • Kritika Sen Chakraborty
    PHD Economics
    "Essays on human capital, labor, and gender"
  • Elena Stein
    PHD Psychology
    "Validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder"
  • Rajani Thapa Magar
    PHD Chemistry
    "Syntheses and Characterization of photoactive ruthenium and iron polypyridyl complexes"

School of Engineering

  • Andre Chavez
    PHD Engineering
    "Engineering Composite Gridlines for Improved Solar Module Reliability"
  • Andisheh Dadashi
    PHD Computer Science
    "Evolution in Complex Systems: A Computational Perspective"
  • Rubel Das
    PHD Engineering
    "Wind Farm Optimization And Analysis Of Complex Wake Structures"
  • Rowdy Davis
    PHD Engineering
    "Improving Criticality Safety Benchmark Coverage by Developing a Benchmark Evaluation of the UNM AGN-201M Reactor"
  • Mary Louise Gucik
    PHD Engineering
    "Electrodeposition of Gadolinium Metal Thin Films for Neutron Phase Contrast Imaging"
  • Md Amanul Hasan
    PHD Engineering
    "Multi-Physics-Based Crack Modeling of Asphalt Concrete"
  • Harsh Kumar
    PHD Engineering
    "ML/AI Enabled Intelligent Next Generation Autonomous Network System: Network Performance Enhancement and Management"
  • Sajay Krishnan Paruthiyil
    PHD Engineering
    "Fault Location in DC Microgrids using Traveling Waves."
  • Jean-Elie Pierre
    PHD Engineering
    "Securing The Skies: Safety-Constrained Decentralized Multi-UAV Coordination With Deep Reinforcement Learning"
  • Sheng Zhong
    PHD Computer Science
    "Online Temporal Data Mining and Learning: Pursuing Enhanced Efficiency and Robust Algorithms"

College of Education & Human Sciences

  • Elizabeth Berton Reilly
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
    "The Wyandot Of Anderdon Nation Meaning-Making, Constructing, And Affirming Their Tribal Identities Through Archiving Historical Documents"
  • Lynda Cruz
    PHD Family and Child Studies
    "Academic Stress and Pro-Social Outcomes: The Role of Maternal Support"
  • Magdalena Dathe
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
    "The language to Labor: Critical Narratives of Latina Women Speaking Up about ESL"
  • Sean Fullerton
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Investigating Software App Use in Secondary Physical Education"
  • Christopher Gunnare
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "A Phenomenological Study of Cognitive Dissonance in College Classroom Settings."
  • Andy Lim
    PHD Educational Linguistics
    "A Multiple Case Study of ASL Mentoring for the Field of Interpreting"
  • Vincent Mays
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "From Newark to Navajo: An Autoethnography of a "Cultural Outsider""
  • Shannon McCoy-Hayes
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Women Doctoral Students In Computer Science: Nevertheless, They Persist"
  • Brigid Ovitt
    PHD Special Education
    "Dialogue Journals in Assessment of Student Writing"
  • Kenneth Salazar
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Teacher Leadership and Principal Turnover in Elementary Schools: A Deductive Mixed Methods Multiple Case Study"
  • Ophelia Sanchez
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Indigenous Leadership: Leading The Journey So Others Follow"
  • Heidi Sanders
    PHD Family and Child Studies
    "Mindfulness and Harsh Parenting: The Indirect Role of Maternal Stress"
  • Jessica Smith
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "The Physiological and Perceptual Responses to Continuous- and Interval-based High-Intensity Functional Training"
  • Martin Vasquez
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Exploring Ethnically Diverse Teacher Socialization"
  • Hafiz Yar
    PHD Educational Linguistics
    "A Study of Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching Academic Writing in Pakistani Universities"
  • Danielle Yepa Gunderson
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Indigenous Land Acknowledgement, Learning Spaces, and Sacred Places as Factors for Native American First-Year Students in Higher Education"

College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences

  • Sara Dominguez
    PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
    "Teacher-Implemented Scaffolding"
  • Monica Dorame
    PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
    "Native American Women Leadership in Higher Education"
  • Amber Gallup
    PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
    "The development of identity, self-efficacy, and persistence intentions among frontline healthcare apprentices"

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Christopher Anderson
    PHD Biology
    "The descent of Anolis: assemblages, convergence, and ecomorphological evolution"
  • Elisabeth Baker
    PHD Spanish & Portuguese
    "Overregularization Of Irregular Spanish Verbal Morphology: The Cases Of 2sg Preterit And Irregular Past Participles"
  • Jason Barton
    PHD Philosophy
    "A Hegelian Theory of Divine Revelation"
  • Kalila Bohsali
    PHD English
    "The Reading Rooms: Harnessing Reading for Pleasure for the Literature Classroom"
  • Owen Davis
    PHD Mathematics
    "Mathematically Rigorous Deep Learning Paradigms for Data-Driven Scientific Modeling"
  • Birendra Dhanasingham
    PHD Physics
    "A New Effective Gravitational Lensing Approach to Constrain Dark Matter"
  • Claire Doherty
    PHD Biology
    "New Insights into T Lymphocyte-Mediated Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii"
  • Tia Donaldson
    PHD Psychology
    "The Effects Of Acute And Chronic Ethanol Exposure On Mouse Spontaneous Spatial Behaviors"
  • Luis Gamboa
    PHD Spanish & Portuguese
    "Muertos made in Mexico: Necrocapitalismo en la cultura mexicana"
  • Monica Goncalves Garcia
    PHD Psychology
    "Neurobiology of Human Navigation Strategies in the virtual Morris Water Task"
  • Zonnie Gorman
    PHD History
    "The First Twenty-Nine: A Microhistory of the Original Pilot Group of Navajo Code Talkers"
  • Caitlin Grann
    PHD American Studies
    "The Lying Woman: Avant-Garde Collaboration in Jo Harvey Allen's Alt-Country"
  • Kyle Henke
    PHD Mathematics
    "Analysis and Computation of Constrained Sparse Coding on Emerging non-von Neumann Devices"
  • Fatih Ince
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "MBE Growth of Sb based alloys using interfacial misfit arrays for MWIR devices"
  • Steven Kostelecky
    PHD History
    "History In The Present Tense: News And History On The Radio 1924-1944"
  • Machienvee Lammey
    PHD Sociology
    ""Everyone Got to Eat My Tears": Racialized Emotions, Mentoring Experiences, and the Political and Ethical Commitments of Women of Color Graduate Students in STEM"
  • Tongtong Li
    PHD Chemistry
    "Exploring the Complex Landscape of Proteins: From Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Peptidomimetics through Computational Approaches"
  • Anupam Mitra
    PHD Physics
    "Entanglement with neutral atoms in the simulation of nonequilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional spin models"
  • Emily Moes
    PHD Anthropology
    "Sensitive developmental windows in craniofacial and dental fluctuating asymmetry"
  • Easwar Anand Narayanan
    PHD Physics
    "A Precise Measurement of the Lifetime of B-mesons, Measurement of CP-violation Parameters of Bs-mesons, the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC, and Development of Silicon Detectors for Future Particle Physics Experiments"
  • Anthony Peavy
    PHD Communication
    "Racialized Masculinities in Professional Basketball: Utilizing Mixedness to Challenge Commonplace Black/White Media Discourses About NBA Players"
  • Sarah Poiani
    PHD Mathematics
    "On Properties of Pair Operations"
  • Ceara Purcell
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Paleoecology of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway and Gulf Coastal Plain"
  • Elizabeth Sabbath
    PHD Sociology
    "Welfare As We Know It Now: Examination of State-Level Effects of Welfare Expenditure and Policy Restrictiveness on Crime and Group-Specific Arrests Over Twenty-Four Years Following Reform"
  • Mahtab Shafiei
    PHD Political Science
    "The Effects of UN Missions on the Number of Deaths During Armed Conflict"
  • Shenghan Song
    PHD Chemistry
    "Molecular Dynamics Insights Into The Structural Behavior And Interactions Of Complex Biological Systems"
  • Melanie Sonntag
    PHD Political Science
    "Comparative Analysis of Sexual Harassment Policy and Implementation"
  • Amy Stevens
    PHD Chemistry
    "Investigating the structural ensemble and dynamic interactions of Protein Interacting with C-Kinase 1 (PICK1) using computational tools"
  • Sivaprasad Thattupurackal Omanakuttan
    PHD Physics
    "Quantum Computation Using Large Spin Qudits"
  • Joshua Williams
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Unboxing the Complicated Near Term Climatic and Geomorphic History of Mars."
  • Andrew Zhao
    PHD Physics
    "Learning, Optimizing, and Simulating Fermions with Quantum Computers"

School of Medicine

  • Samuel Abbanat
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Luke Beauchamp
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Rabeya Bilkis
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Functional analysis of chromatin remodeler CSB in PARP1/2-mediated oxidative DNA lesion repair."
  • Sage Galloway
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Tanner Geisler
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Kenidee Hatler
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Aubry Hershberger
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Henry Madsen
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Alisia Montoya
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Marisa Phillips
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Natalie Pinkowski
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "The Role of Spreading Depolarizations in Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries"
  • Cody Pisz
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Katarina Rasinski
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Chelsea Rizk
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Lauren Rupp
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Gabrielle Sanchez
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Oliver Schultz
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Stephen Schultz
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Jake Theis
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Katia Velasquez
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Margaret Walker
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Matthew Weinstein
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Joel Whitney
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Grady Woodul
    Doctor of Physical Therapy

College of Nursing

  • Angela Bachicha
    DNP Nursing
  • Shawnadine Becenti
    DNP Nursing
  • Tony Hume
    DNP Nursing
  • Cynthia Johnson
    DNP Nursing
  • Mariah Megli
    DNP Nursing
  • Angelina Rodriguez
    DNP Nursing
  • Danyelle Romero
    DNP Nursing
  • Jessica Spurrier
    DNP Nursing
  • Melissa Wyaco
    DNP Nursing

College of Pharmacy

  • Ethan Alvarado
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Brooke Aston
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Abed Ayesh
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Robert Baca
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Alyssa Barnes
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Brianna Bustretsky
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Heather Cabos
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Jade Denninger
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Simon Do
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Jessica Duong
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Makhaila Esquibel
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Maraya Esquibel
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Cesar Garay
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Siem Goitom
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Leslie Gonzales
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Jennica Granger
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Kirstin Green
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Ronnie Griego
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Hannah Haynes
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Nawasa Iamsen
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Casey Karler
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Nada Kherbik
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Savannah King
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Andrianna Lane
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Janalee Livingston
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Marissa Martinez
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • David McChesney
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Kendall McKenzie
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Kathryn McNeil
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Kaydee Mego
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Denise Mendoza
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Bria Nelson-Sanderson
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Michael Neville
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Helen Ngo
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Lisa Nguyen
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Angela Nickens
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Fariba Nikookar Dashtmiani
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Nick Olivas
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Venessa Padilla
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Merissa Perea
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Mostafa Qasemi
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Sara Roach
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Tessa Rogers
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Roman Romero
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Zachary Romero
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Annajita Rubio
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Atif Samadi
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Tomanda Sandoval
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Jade Tran
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Bobby Trujillo
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Alyssa Valdez
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Arianna Werley
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Isaiah Young
    Doctor of Pharmacy

School of Law

  • Ibrahim Al-Gahmi
    Juris Doctor
  • Noah Allaire
    Juris Doctor
  • Camilla Allison
    Juris Doctor
  • Alex Alvarado
    Juris Doctor
  • Griffin Arellano
    Juris Doctor
  • Alia Attallah
    Juris Doctor
  • Daniel Berenger-Russell
    Juris Doctor
  • Oona Bjornstad
    Juris Doctor
  • Joseph Brakenhoff
    Juris Doctor
  • Sophia Bunch
    Juris Doctor
  • Alyx Callison Leshem
    Juris Doctor
  • Randy Carrillo
    Juris Doctor
  • Alexandria Charney
    Juris Doctor
  • Abigayle Christiansen
    Juris Doctor
  • Henry Chynoweth
    Juris Doctor
  • Melanie Coffing
    Juris Doctor
  • Parker Connolly
    Juris Doctor
  • Andrew Corbell
    Juris Doctor
  • Jessica Cothern
    Juris Doctor
  • Jess Czajkowski
    Juris Doctor
  • Madeline D'Arezzo
    Juris Doctor
  • Shannel Daniels
    Juris Doctor
  • Thomas Davis
    Juris Doctor
  • Shaniya Decker
    Juris Doctor
  • Courtney Denker
    Juris Doctor
  • Valerie DiBernardo
    Juris Doctor
  • Lauren Earls
    Juris Doctor
  • Lana Elledge
    Juris Doctor
  • Daniel Goodwin
    Juris Doctor
  • Alondra Granados-Diaz
    Juris Doctor
  • Ricardo Guadarrama
    Juris Doctor
  • Diego Guerrerortiz
    Juris Doctor
  • Kristin Guin
    Juris Doctor
  • Fetsum Habtemariam
    Juris Doctor
  • Jack Hart
    Juris Doctor
  • Paul Havern
    Juris Doctor
  • Kevin Hedrich
    Juris Doctor
  • Laura Ingersol
    Juris Doctor
  • Jocelyn Jarrett
    Juris Doctor
  • Ryleigh Johnson
    Juris Doctor
  • Kameron Kennedy
    Juris Doctor
  • Thomas Kennedy
    Juris Doctor
  • Sundesh Khalsa
    Juris Doctor
  • Grace Kienzle
    Juris Doctor
  • Justin Lauriano
    Juris Doctor
  • Natalia Listwan
    Juris Doctor
  • Isabelle Lopez
    Juris Doctor
  • Abigail Lutz
    Juris Doctor
  • Brenda Macias Lopez
    Juris Doctor
  • Maggie Maestas
    Juris Doctor
  • Sabrina Martinez
    Juris Doctor
  • Xaveria Mayerhofer
    Juris Doctor
  • Colman McCanna
    Juris Doctor
  • Alan Mena
    Juris Doctor
  • Annalisa Miller
    Juris Doctor
  • Chance Mitchell
    Juris Doctor
  • Isabella Montoya
    Juris Doctor
  • Jacqueline Munro-Vahey
    Juris Doctor
  • Seve Naranjo
    Juris Doctor
  • Rebecca Needhammer
    Juris Doctor
  • Julia Oliver
    Juris Doctor
  • Mikayla Ortega-Speight
    Juris Doctor
  • Elena Papadakos
    Juris Doctor
  • Kayd Patterson
    Juris Doctor
  • Mary Helen Pavlides
    Juris Doctor
  • Bethany Peterson
    Juris Doctor
  • Morgan Pettit
    Juris Doctor
  • Isaac Pushkin
    Juris Doctor
  • Miguel Quintana
    Juris Doctor
  • Sophie Rane
    Juris Doctor
  • Maxwell Reidys
    Juris Doctor
  • Michelle Reitz
    Juris Doctor
  • Logan Rice
    Juris Doctor
  • Krista Russell
    Juris Doctor
  • Serafina Seluja
    Juris Doctor
  • Aaron Sharratt
    Juris Doctor
  • Justin Starr
    Juris Doctor
  • Hannah Stephens
    Juris Doctor
  • Logan Stokes
    Juris Doctor
  • Christa Street
    Juris Doctor
  • Augustin Ternoir
    Juris Doctor
  • Hunter Thomas
    Juris Doctor
  • Devrim Tiryaki
    Juris Doctor
  • Maria Trujillo
    Juris Doctor
  • Nicholas Valdez
    Juris Doctor
  • Sage Wagner
    Juris Doctor
  • Holly Watson
    Juris Doctor
  • Pauline Wayland
    Juris Doctor
  • Aaron Whiteley
    Juris Doctor
  • Matt Whitworth
    Juris Doctor
  • Connor Woods
    Juris Doctor
  • Kristin Woodworth
    Juris Doctor
  • Tory Works
    Juris Doctor

School of Medicine

  • Lucas Akes
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Danielle Alaouieh
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Michael Apostol
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Brenna Banwarth-Kuhn
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Ashlynn Black
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Anurag Borah
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Chantel Clark
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Tegan Clarke
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Van Cochran
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Amanda Collar
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Jonathon Cordova
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Lydia Crooks
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Lizeth Cueto
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Kristen Cummings
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Michael Delahoussaye
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Alexandra Do
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Flora Feiluola
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Angela Feng
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Andres Flores
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Tessa Flores
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Emily Funsten
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Devon Garland
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Desna Ghatalia
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Rikki Hall
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Emily Hong
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Veronica Hutchison
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Priyanka Jain
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Johnathan Jensen
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Scott Jun
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Sean Kaisler
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Madison Kajder
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Alexander Kassicieh
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Arash Kheyraddini Mousavi
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Jessica Larsen
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Eric Leung
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Remy Link
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Erica Logue
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Austin Lucero
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Lucas Maestas
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Kevin Martinez
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Alison McWhorter Anderson
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Pachely Mendivil Aguayo
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Marisa Michealson
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Michael Miera
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Cody Moezzi
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Florencia Monge
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Alycia Montgomery
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Gaelan Montoya
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Addi Moya
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Monica Moya Balasch
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Ashley Newman
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Hoang Nguyen
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Oluwaseun Oyeku
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Johann Pacheco
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Chris Paiz
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Talia Passarelli
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Juhee Patel
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Keisha Patel
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Mikayla Pulliam
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Marco Ramos
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Dante Rangel
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Glenn Ratmeyer
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Mueez Rehman
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Anna Reviere
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Marshall Reviere
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Bailey Rivera
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Alexander Robles
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Bethany Sanchez
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Jacob Sanchez
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Payton Sandoval-Eddy
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Joseph Sena
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Grace Thompson
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Joshua Thurgood
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Jacob Torres
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Samantha Trujillo
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Danielle Turner
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Virva Walkington
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Jordan West
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Avalon Yi
    Doctor of Medicine