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Charles Jeffrey Vaughan, Bachelor of Music, 1997, Louisiana State University and A&M College; Master of Music, 2006,
Southeastern Louisiana University
Major: Music Education
Dissertation: An Investigation of Band Directors’ Perceptions of Importance of the Most Common Student Teaching Learning Outcomes
to Student Teaching and the First Year Directing a High School Band
Dissertation Chairperson: T. S. Brophy
Dissertation Cochairperson: D. A. Waybright
Gustavo Adolfo Vejarano, Titulo de Ingeniero Electricista, 2005, Universidad del Valle—Colombia; Master of Science,
2009, University of Florida
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dissertation: Stability-Based Topology Control in Wireless Multihop Networks With Reservation-Based Distributed-Scheduling Policies
Dissertation Chairperson: J. Y. McNair
Girish Venkatasubramanian, Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2003, Bharathiar
University—India; Master of Science, 2005, University of Florida
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dissertation: Tag Management Architecture and Policies for Hardware-Managed Translation Lookaside Buffers in Virtualized Platforms
Dissertation Chairperson: R. J. Figueiredo
Manuela De Lima Toccafondo Vieiea, Titulo de Farmaceutica, 1999; Mestre em Ciencias Farmaceuticas, 2006,
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais—Brazil
Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dissertation: Intravenous Microdialysis and Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling as Tools to Evaluate Pharmacokinetics and
Drug-Drug Interactions
Dissertation Chairperson: H. C. Derendorf
Nefertiti Alice Walker, Bachelor of Arts, 2005, Master of Business Administration, 2006, Stetson University—Florida
Major: Health and Human Performance
Dissertation: A Multilevel Perspective to the Underrepresentation of Women in the Male Dominated Sport Workplace: The Case of Men’s
College Basketball
Dissertation Chairperson: M. B. Sagas
Brian Ross Walkup, Bachelor of Science, 2004, Trevecca Nazarene University—Tennessee; Master of Business Administration,
2006, Rollins College—Florida
Major: Business Administration––Finance
Dissertation: Two Essays in Finance
Dissertation Chairperson: M. D. Ryngaert
Dissertation Cochairperson: M. Nimalendran
Timothy Ray Walter, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 2003, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering,
2006, Michigan Technological University
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Dissertation: Characterization of Delamination in 3-D Woven Composites Under Static and Dynamic Loading
Dissertation Chairperson: G. Subhash
Dissertation Cochairperson: B. V. Sankar
Hui Wang, Bachelor of Science, 2003, University of Science and Technology—China
Major: Chemistry
Dissertation: Molecular Engineering of Catalytic Nucleic Acid Probes for Bioanalytical and Biomedical Applications
Dissertation Chairperson: W. Tan
Weixun Wang, Bachelor’s Degree, 2007, Nanjing University—China
Major: Computer Engineering
Dissertation: Energy-Aware Scheduling and Dynamic Reconfiguration in Real-Time Embedded Systems
Dissertation Chairperson: P. Mishra
William Daniel Watson, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, 2005, University of Utah; Master of Science, 2007,
University of Florida
Major: Psychology––Clinical and Health Psychology
Dissertation: Predicting Outcome After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Dissertation Chairperson: S. C. Heaton
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Monica Cecilia Webb, Bachelor of Science in Health Science Education magna cum laude, 2003, University of Florida;
Master of Public Health, 2006, University of North Florida
Major: Health and Human Performance
Dissertation: Specific Sexual Risk Behaviors of College Students and the Role of Alcohol Intoxication in the Intention to Participate
Dissertation Chairperson: W. W. Chen
Ashley Reagan Peake Wellman, Bachelor of Science in Communications, 2004, University of North Florida; Master of
Arts, 2008, University of Florida
Major: Criminology, Law, and Society
Dissertation: Breaking the Ice: Understanding the Experiences of Cold Case Homicide Survivors
Dissertation Chairperson: L. M. Lanza-Kaduce
Dissertation Cochairperson: M. J. Borg
Katharine Westaway, Bachelor of Arts, 1997, Flagler College—Florida; Master of Arts in Journalism, 1998,
Northeastern University—Massachusetts; Master of Arts in English, 2007, University of Miami—Florida
Major: English
Dissertation: Social Justice and the 20
th
Century American Novel
Dissertation Chairperson: A. A. Ongiri
Benjamin Everett Wilkinson, Bachelor of Science in Geomatics, 2004, Master of Science, 2007, University of Florida
Major: Forest Resources and Conservation
Dissertation: Tightly Integrated Sensor-Based Terrestrial LiDAR Georeferencing
Dissertation Chairperson: B. A. Dewitt
Dissertation Cochairperson: A. H. Mohamed
Joseph Andrew Park Wilson, Bachelor of Science in Anthropology summa cum laude, 2000, Kent State University—Ohio;
Master of Arts, 2002, University of London—United Kingdom; Master of Science in Industrial
Archaeology, 2004, Michigan Technological University
Major: Anthropology
Dissertation: Material Cultural Correlates of the Athapaskan Expansion: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Dissertation Chairperson: P. F. Collings
Joseph Dylan Witt, Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, 2003, Hendrix College—Arkansas; Master of Arts, 2006,
University of Florida
Major: Religion
Dissertation: The Faith to Save Mountains: Religion and Resistance to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia
Dissertation Chairperson: B. Taylor
David Isaac Wolinsky, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, 2005, Master of Science, 2007, University of Florida
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dissertation: Design, Implementation, and Applications of Peer-to-Peer Virtual Private Networks From Grids to Social Networks
Dissertation Chairperson: R. J. Figueiredo
Emily Ann Wray, Bachelor of Science cum laude, 2005, Master of Education, 2008, University of Florida
Major: School Psychology
Dissertation: The Relationship Between Pragmatic Language Skills and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents With Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Dissertation Chairperson: J. H. Kranzler
Di Wu, Bachelor of Engineering, 2005, Master of Engineering, 2007, Tsinghua University—China; Master of Science,
2008, Master of Science, 2011, University of Florida
Major: Civil Engineering
Dissertation: Designing More Acceptable and Equitable Congestion Pricing Schemes for Multimodal Transportation Networks
Dissertation Chairperson: Y. Yin
Petros Xanthopoulos, Diploma, 2005, Technical University of Crete—Greece; Master of Science, 2008, University of Florida
Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dissertation: Robust Data Mining Techniques With Application in Biomedicine and Engineering
Dissertation Chairperson: P. M. Pardalos