Annual Best Dissertation Award Recipients
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Every April the Office of Graduate Studies at UT Dallas honors one graduate from each school who completed the best dissertation in the previous 12 months as determined by the respective faculty committee. The winning students have all completed their doctoral degrees. “The doctoral dissertation is an original, substantial piece of creative research that represents a lot of hard work,” said Dr. Marion Underwood, dean of graduate studies and Ashbel Smith Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. The students honored represent the "best of the best."
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Viral Tool Development for Investigations of Learning and Memory
(2018-08)Developing new viral tools to investigate biological and behavioral phenomena is important to push neuroscience research to new avenues that were once limited by expensive and time consuming transgenic and knockout rodent ... -
Seeking Refuge: Analysis of Deterrence Policies and Formal Rights
(2018-05)Over the last twenty-five years, convergence towards deterrence policies has increased in both traditional and new asylum granting countries. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the rapid increase in the number of people ... -
Prediction of Individualized Risk of Contralateral Breast Cancer
(2018-05)Women diagnosed with cancer in one breast are increasingly choosing to remove their other unaffected (contralateral) breast through a surgery called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) to reduce the risk of ... -
Testing the Dark Sector Versus Modified Gravity Models in Cosmology
(2018-08)This dissertation studies cosmological and astrophysical tests of gravity theories and the dark sectors. We focus on three tests. All of them are promising for future observations. The first test is about tensor-mode ... -
Identifying Differences in the Neural Correlates Underlying Semantic and Syntactic Development
(2018-05)Language comprehension requires millisecond level processing of semantic and syntactic information, yet children seem to integrate and comprehend all of this information with relative ease. Although this is done effortlessly, ... -
Novel Sensing Approaches towards Ultimate MEMS Sensors
(2018-05)Within the past few decades, several micro and nano-electromechanical (MEMS and NEMS) accelerometers, magnetometers and vibration sensors utilizing various actuation and sensing mechanisms have been developed and demonstrated. ... -
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science: Mahendralal Sircar and His Science, Morality, and Nationalism
(2018-05)Mahendralal Sircar (1833 – 1904) is known as a prominent homeopathic doctor and the founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) in 1876, but scholars rarely refer to his role in promoting ... -
What Drives Online Citizen Journalism in Malaysia? A Reasoned Action Model Approach
(2017-12)Citizen journalism is a global phenomenon that manifests in a variety of ways, depending on the political environment and extent of media freedoms. In Malaysia, it appears that citizen journalism has, over the past twenty ... -
Fabrication of Polylactide Nanocomposite Filament Using Melt Extrusion and Filament Characterization for 3D Printing
(2017-05)Fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology uses thermoplastic filament for layer by layer fabrication of objects. To make functional objects with desired properties, composite filaments are required in the FDM. In this ... -
Multi-Platform Search-Based Advertising
(2017-05)This dissertation studies three problems in the context of multi-platform search-based advertising. “Search-based advertising” refers to the type of advertising that is initiated by a customer’s search activity. It includes, ...
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