Doctoral Degrees SUMMER 2010 Mírela Bielde Ph.D. Public Affairs and Policy Attaining a Sustainable Future for Public Higher Education: The Role of Institutional Effectiveness and Resource Dependence Adviser: Craig Shinn Associate Professor of Public Administration *Stephan Edward Brown Ph.D. Urban Studies Navigating the Edges: An Examination of the Relationship between Boundary Spanning, Social Learning, and Partnership Capacity in Water Resource Management Adviser: Vivek Shandas Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning *Amanda Joy Byron Ed.D. Educational Leadership: Curriculum and Instruction Storytelling as Loving Praxis in Critical Peace Education: A Grounded Theory Study of Postsecondary Social Justice Educators Adviser: Ramin Farahmandpur Associate Professor of Education *Martin Cenek Ph.D. Computer Science Information Processing in Two- Dimensional Cellular Automata Adviser: Melanie Mitchell Professor of Computer Science *Thanh Xuan Dang Ph.D. Computer Science Scalable and Efficient Tasking for Dynamic Sensor Networks Adviser: Nirupama Bulusu Assistant Professor of Computer Science *Serap Emil Ph.D. Educational Leadership: Curriculum and Instruction Assessment for Improvement in Higher Education: Faculty Perception of and Participation in Program Assessment Adviser: Christine Cress Professor of Education *Thomas Robert Fielden Ph.D. Mathematical Sciences Modeling Market and Regulatory Mechanisms for Pollution Abatement with Sharp and Random Variables Adviser: Steven Bleiler Professor of Mathematics and Statistics ’Gregory Lloyd Forehand Ph.D. Social Work and Social Research An Investigation of the Relationships between Violence Exposure, Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Adolescent Alcohol Use Adviser: Daniel Coleman Associate Professor of Social Work *Candace Lynn Gossen Ph.D. Environmental Sciences and Resources Deforestation, Drought and Humans: New Discoveries of the Late Quaternary Paleoenvironment of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Adviser: M. A. K. Khalil Professor of Physics Matthew James Hoffman Ph.D. Environmental Sciences and Resources: Geology FPGA Implementation & Acceleration of Building Blocks for Biologically Inspired Computational Models Adviser: Andrew Fountain Professor of Geology and Geography *Thomas Eugene Kane Ed.D. Educational Leadership: Administration Transforming the Soul of Education: Sustainability at the Center of Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools Adviser: Dilafruz Williams Professor of Education *Elise Nicole Lockwood Ph.D. Mathematics Education Student Approaches to Combinatorial Enumeration: The Role of Set-Oriented Thinking Adviser: Karen Marrongelle Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics *Donald Dale Schweitzer Ph.D. Social Work and Social Research Runaway and Homeless Youth: Changing the Discourse by Legitimizing Youth Voice Adviser: Pauline Jivanjee Associate Professor of Social Work *Barbara E. Shields Ph.D. Urban Studies Exploring Sense of Place of Community Gardens in Portland Adviser: Carl Abbott Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Staci Jean Wendt Ph.D. Applied Psychology Self-Efficacy and Drinking with Friends: An Investigation into the Drinking Behaviors of Japanese College Students Adviser: Cynthia Mohr Assistant Professor of Psychology John Thomas Westerman Ph.D. Urban Studies Wherefore by Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Mercy Corps’ Peaceful Communities Initiative in Central Asia Adviser: Sy Adler Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Candidate for summer graduation. 9
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