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DISSERTATION PRIZE WINNERS

Allan P. Colburn Prize in Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, Operations Research and Engineering)
2007 Xiaoyi Li
Computational Study of Fluid Particles: Dynamics of Drops, Rheology of Emulsions and Mechanics of Biological Cells
Kausik Sarkar, Adviser
Mechanical Engineering
2006 Ashish Mhadeshwar
A Hierarchical Multiscale Approach for Predictive Microkinetic Modeling of Hydrogen Production
Dionisios G. Vlachos, Adviser
Chemical Engineering
2005 Yinbo Li
Nonlinear Signal Processing in the Complex Domain and Higher Dimensions
Gonzalo R. Arce, Adviser
Electrical and Computer Engineering
2004 Erik Todd Thostenson
Carbon Nanotube--Reinforced Composites: Processing, Characterization and Modeling
Tsu-Wei Chou, Adviser
Material Science and Engineering
2003 Malgorzata Steinder
Probalistic Inference for Diagnosing Service Failures in Communication Systems
Adarshpal S. Sethi, Adviser
Computer and Information Sciences
2002 Amadeu K. Sum
Applications of AB INITIO and Molecular Simulation Methods
Stanley I. Sandler, Adviser
Chemical Engineering
2001 James William Medlin
Structure and Reactivity of Oxametallacycle Intermediates on Silver Surfaces:
A Combined Experimental/Theortical Approach
Mark A. Barteau, Adviser
Chemical Engineering
2000 Sean L. Rommel
SI-Based Tunnel Diodes for Integrated Circuit Applications
Paul A. Berger, Adviser
Electrical Engineering

George Herbert Ryden Prize in Social Sciences (Economics, Education, Environmental and Energy Policy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Affairs and Family Studies)
2007 Thomas B. Street
Submerged Historical and Archeological Resources: A Study of the Conflict and Interface Between United States Cultural Resource Law and Policy and International Governance Measures
Gerard J. Mangone, Adviser
Marine Studies
2006 Brian Monahan
Media, Public Drama, and the Making of "9/11"
Joel Best, Adviser
Sociology
2005 Katherine Harback
Airport Takeoff and Landing Queues, Air Carrier Self-Imposed Congestion, and the Internalization Debate
Joseph I. Daniel, Adviser
Economics
2004 Christine Saliba
Pricing Behavior and Equilibrium Price Dispersion in Online Markets
Michael A. Arnold, Co-Adviser
Rene Sandretto, Co-Adviser
Economics
2003 Paige Whaley Eager
From Population Control to Reproductive Rights: Tracing the Process of Normative
Change in Global Population Policy
Gretchen M. Bauer, Adviser
Political Science
2002 David F. Solan
International Norms and the Policy Process in Mexican Environmental Planning
Daniel M. Green, Adviser
Political Science and International Relations
2001 Jessie B. Manuta
Negotiating the Political Economy of Dispossession and Commodification: Reclaiming and Regenerating the Ancestral Domains of the Lumad of Mindanao, Southern Philippines
John Byrne, Adviser
Urban Affairs and Public Policy
2000 Robert Gossweiler
Court Disparity and Discretionary Practices in Drug-Related Cases under U.S. Sentencing
Frank Scarpitti, Adviser
Sociology

Wilburn Owen Sypherd Prize in Humanities (Art History, English, History and Linguistics)
2007 Adrian Rafael Duran
IL Fronte Nuovo Delle Arti: Realism and Abstraction in Italian Painting at the Dawn of the Cold War, 1944-50
Ann Eden Gibson, Adviser
Art History
2006 Kathleen Ellen Newell
What We Talk About When We Talk About Adaptation
Thomas M. Leitch, Adviser
English
2005 Cheryl Wilson
Choreography and Counterpoint: Dance and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Women's Writing
Margaret D. Stetz, Co-Adviser
Maria H. Frawley, Co-Adviser
English
2004 Ann Kirschner
"God Visited My Slumber": The Intersection of Dreams, Religion, and Society, 1770-1830
Christine L. Heyrmann, Adviser
History
2003 Susan Buck
"The Aiken-Rhett House: A Comparative Architectural Paint Study
Joyce Hill Stoner, Adviser
Art Conservation
2002 Alecia P. Long
"The Great Southern Babylon": Sexuality, Race, and Reform in New Orleans, 1865-1920
Peter R. Kolchin, Adviser
History
2001 Anna V. Andrzejewski
Architecture and the Ideology of Surveillance in Modern America, 1850-1950
Bernard L. Herman, Adviser
Art History
2000 Patrick C. Collier
Newspapers at Modernism's Great Divide
Bonnie Kime Scott, Adviser
English

Theodore Wolf Prize in Physical and Life Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Biological Sciences, Geology, Marine Studies, Climatology and Agricultural Sciences)
2007 V. Nefer Senoguz
Aspects of Inflationary Models and Unification
Qaisar Shafi, Adviser
Physics
2006 Rex R. Malmstrom
Contributions of Abundant Bacterial Groups to the Flux of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Ocean
David Kirchman, Adviser
Marine Studies
2005 Erin Brachman
Regulation of Targeted Gene Repair by DNA Replication
Eric B. Kmiec, Adviser
Biology
2004 Alston Jude Misquitta
A Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory Based on Density Functional Description of Monomers
Krzysztof Szalewicz, Adviser
Physics
2003 James Dyer
Advanced Approaches for Modeling Trace Metal Sorption in Aqueous Systems
Donald L. Sparks, Adviser
Plant and Soil Sciences
2002 Derrick J. Swinton
Single-Molecule Probing of Adsorption to Heterogeneous Interfaces
Mary J. Wirth, Adviser
Chemistry and Biochemistry
2001 Jun Ding
Stuart A. Binder-Macleod, Adviser
Mathematical Models That Predict Muscle Isometric Forces and Fatigue
Biomechanics and Movement Science
2000 Christopher J. Matocha
Reactivity of Manganese Oxide Minerals with Soil Organic Matter and Lead
Donald L. Sparks, Adviser
Plant and Soil SCiences