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2009

Christina Graves under Prof. Jack Graver. Dissertation Title: On the Structure of Reliability Polynomials. Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Tyler. Tyler, Texas.

Stephen Graves under Prof. Mark Watkins. Dissertation Title: Growth of Tessellations. Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Tyler. Tyler, Texas.

Yao Lu under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: Fast Multiscale Integral Equation Methods for Image Restoration. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Adam McCaffery under Prof. Mark Watkins. Dissertation Title: Structure of Infinitely-Ended, Edge-Transitive Planar Maps and Their Petrie Walks. Ellicott City, MD.

Guohui Song under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: Approximation of Kernel Matrices and Its Applications. Visiting Assistant Professor, Illnois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL.

Haizhang Zhang under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: Sampling with Reproducing Kernels. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

2008

Francis Nzuki under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Investigating African American Students' Identity and Agency in a Mathematics and Graphing Calculator Environment at a Low-SES School. Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ.

Patrick Kimani under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Calculus Students' Understandings of the concepts of Function Transformation, Function Composition, Function Inverse and the Relationships among the Three Concepts. California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California.

Weixing Cai under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Multiple decision rules for equivalence among k populations and their applications in signal processing, clinical trials and classification. Tenue-track Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. (Deceased July 2008)

Dong Mao under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title: Biological Time Series Classification VIA Reproducing Kernels and Sample Entropy. Post-Doc, Michigan State University

Tomasz Adamowicz under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: On the geometry of p-harmonic mappings. Post-Doc, University of Cincinnati.

2007

David S. Dickerson under Prof. Helen Doerr. Dissertation Title: High School Mathematics Teachers' Understandings of the Purposes of Mathematical Proof. SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, NY.

Allen Pelley under Prof. Mark Kleiner. Dissertation Title: Representations of a Valued Quiver, the Lattice of Admissible Sequences, and the Weyl Group of a Kac-Moody Algebra. Post-Doc, Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Dale William Struble under Prof. Yuesheng Xu Dissertation title: Wavelets on Manifolds and Multiscale Reproducing Kernel Hilber Spaces. Analysis/Numerical Analysis. Currently 2008: Working on Technical Analysis of financial data. Schonfeld, LLC, New York, NY

2006

Philip Joseph Lynn under Prof. Steven Diaz. Dissertation Title: Deformations of Plane Curve Singularities of Constant Class. WW KNowledge Management, Hewlett-Packard, Nashua, NH.

Leah C. Bridgers under Prof. Helen M. Doerr. Dissertation Title: Conceptions of Continuity: An Investigation of High School Calculus Teachers and Their Students. SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY.

Bulent Cetinkaya under Prof. Joanna Masinglia. Dissertation Title: Recollected Changes in Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs and Practices: Perceptions and Psychological Type Preferences. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Nihat Gogus under Prof. Evgeny Poletsky. Dissertation title: Continuity of Plurisubharmonic and Perron-Bremermann Envelopes. Teaching Post Doc. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

Yunchuan Gao under Prof. Yuesheng Xu. Dissertation Title:Muti-category Support vector Machines. Orchard Asset Management, Toronto, Ontaraio Canada.

Elena Mihaela Buzianu under Prof. Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Selection Procedures for Binomial Populations. University of North Florida, Mathematics and Statistics Dept. Jacksonville, FL.

Wei Ning under Prof. Hyune-Ju Kim. Dissertation title: A New Approach for Interactions in Two-way ANOVA Models. Bowling Green State University, Math and Statistics Dept. Bowling Green, OH.

2005

Sebastian Burciu under Prof. Declan Quinn. Dissertation Title: . Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest

Markus Reitenbach under Prof. Mark Kleiner. Dissertation title: A Homological Approach to Differentiation Algorithms and Dimensions for Representations of Partially Ordered Sets. Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado

2004

Thomas John under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Selection Procedures for Lognoreal Populations. Marketing Sciences group, Knowledge System & research Inc. Syracuse, NY.

J. Travis Lee under Prof. Steven Diaz. Dissertation title:An Extension of the Thom-Porteous Formula to a Certain Class of Coherent Sheaves.

2003

Lynn Carlson under Prof. Helen Doerr. Dissertation Title: Secondary teacher understanding of probability and sampling in context. SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY.

Jean Hallagan under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Teacher's models of student responses to middle school algebraic tasks. SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

Uma Subramanian under Prof. Tadeuz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title:Biting convergence of null-Lagrangians. Chennai India.

2002

Linda Rollin under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Selection and Testing Designs for Selecting One Among K Normal Populations, Provided it is Better Than a Standard. Biostatistician, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Instititute, Wallingford, CT

Helene Tyler under Prof. Mark Kleiner. Dissertation Title: (+)- Admissible Sequences and the Preprojective Component. Assistant Professor, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY

Jennifer Bruce under Prof. Mark Watkins. Dissertation Title: Bilinski Diagrams and Geodesics in 1-ended Planar Maps. Assistant Professor, Maryville College, Maryville, TN

2001

Angeles Dominguez under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: College Students' Understanding of the Concept of Variable. Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

Fozia Qazi under Prof. Philip Griffin. Dissertation Title: Limit Laws of Modulus Trimmed SumsAssistant Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St Mary's, MD.

Rapti de Silva under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Improving Teachers' Learning and Teaching of Mathematics: A Critical Ethnography of a Sri Lankan Program. California State University, Chico,Chico, CA

2000

Jill Wiesner under Prof. Douglas R. Anderson. Dissertation Title: A Boundedly Controlled Finiteness Obstruction. Guilford College, Greensboro, NC

Susana Davidenko under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Learning Mathematics in English: ESL and Non-ESL Students' Perspectives. SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, NY

Andra J. Myers under Prof. Helen Doerr. Dissertation Title: Understanding the Mathematics Perceptions of Postsecondary Mathematics Instructors and Students with Learning Disabilities. Wellwood Middle School, Fayetteville, NY

1999

Raymond DeCampo under Prof. Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Extending the Beltrami Equation into Higher Dimensions. Applied Theory, Syracuse, NY.

James Kenneth Duah-Agyeman under Prof. Patricia Tinto. Dissertation Title: Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Understanding of Mathematical Functions. Office of Multicultural Affairs, Syracuse University.

Kevin Ferland under Prof. Guance Lewis Dissertation Title: On the RO(G)-graded Equivariant Ordinary Cohomology of Generalized G-cell Complexes for G=ZP. Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA.

Thomas Pfaff under Prof. J. Theodore Cox. Dissertation Title: A Mean Field Model for Species Abundance Assistant Professor, University of Wisconson Superior.

Max Tran under Prof. Uday Banerjee. Dissertation Title: Finite Element Spectral Approximation OhioLINK, Columbus Ohio

Joseph S. Tripp under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Changes in Students' Conceptions of Mathematics and Mathematics Learning During Participation in a Reformed-based Developmental Mathematics Course. Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

1998

Abdulsalam A. Almannaei under Prof. T. Iwaniec.Dissertation Title: A Study of Degenerate Elliptic Partial Differential Equations. University of Bahrain.

Matthew Boelkins under Prof. L. J. Lardy. Dissertation Title: On the Spectral Radius of Positive Operators. Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI.

1997

William Hardin under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Comparing Four Different Approaches to Teaching Limits. College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY

Preety Nigam under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Visualization in Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics: A Multicase Study of Teachers' Perceptions and Practices. SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

1996

Leonard Budney under Prof. Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Regularity of A-harmonic Forms. A computer company in Pittsburgh.

Halil I. Celik under Prof. Evgeny Poletsky .Dissertation Title: Pointwise Singularities of Plurisubharmonic Functions. Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Yachen Lin under Prof. Chung Chen. Dissertation Title: Feed-forward Neural Networks-Learning Algorithim, Statistical Properties, and Applications. Programmer/Analyst at SCB Computer Technology, Inc.

Colleen K. McGraw under Prof. Louis Heifetz. Dissertation Title: Exploring the Mathematical Paths Students Follow in High School and College. Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA

Lakshmi Modali under Prof. Steven Diaz. Dissertation Title: A Uniform Property for Finite Set of Points in Projective Space. Assistant at University of Maine, Farmington, Maine.

Mary K. Porter under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: The Effects of Writing to Learn Mathematics on Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Ability in Introductory College Calculus. St. Mary's College, South Bend, IN.

John M. Trimboli under Prof. Louis Heifetz. Dissertation Title: A Journey Through Numeracy: Correlates of Mathematical Success at the Collegiate Level. Macon State College, Macon, GA.

1995

Nkechi Madonna Agwu under Prof. Howard Johnson. Dissertation Title: Using a Computer Laboratory Setting (CLS) to Teach College Calculus. CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

Hani Q. Khoury under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Exploring Perspectives about Mathematics within the Cultural Context of a College Algebra Class at a Community College: A Case Study. Mercer University, Mercer, GA

Ewa Anna Prus-Wisniowska (deceased Aug. 1995) under Prof. Joanna Masingila. Dissertation Title: Cognitive, Metacognitive, and Social Aspects of Mathematical Proof with Respect to Calculus. University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.

Franciszek Prus-Wisniowska under Prof. Daniel Waterman. Dissertation Title: General Properties of Functions of Bounded Lambda-variations. University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.

Jun-Lue Zhang under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: An Intgrated Approach to Some Ranking & Selection Problems. Assistant Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA.

1994

Laura Trasher Bernhofen under Prof. Pinyuen Chen. Dissertation Title: Procedures for Selecting the Best Experimental Treatment with Comparison to a Control. Assistant Professor at Clark University, Worchester, MA

Qazi M Dawood under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: First-order Elliptic Operators on the Complex Plane. Assistant Professor in Saudi Arabia

May Hamdan under Prof. Karl Barth. Dissertation Title: On the Asymptotic Values of Analytic Functions in the Unit Disk. Assistant Professor at Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.

Shashidhar Jagadeeshan under Prof. Mark Kleiner. Dissertation Title: Stable Artin Algebras. Currently teaching mathematics in India

Pamela B. Pierce under Prof. Daniel Waterman. Dissertation Title: On the Preservation of Certain Properties of Functions Under Composition. Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH

JeanAnn Riordan under Prof. Howard Johnson. Dissertation Title: Effect of Persistence Time on Learner Achievement.

1993

Peter C. Brown under Prof. Dan Zacharia. Dissertation Title: Non-Split Extensions over Hereditary Artin Algebras of Finite Representation Type. Senior Staff Programmer at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Wei Chen under Prof. Wu-Teh Hsiang. Dissertation Title: Cohomogeneity-two G-Invariant Minimal Submanifolds, Minimal Cones and the Bernstein Problem. Software Engineer at AT&T, G.I.S, Dreyden, NY

Joseph G. Gaskin under Prof. John Lindberg. Dissertation Title: Singly-generated closed subalgebras of the Banach Algebra of Twice Continuously differentiable functions in a Closed Interval. Assistant Professor at SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY.

Chad Scott under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Lp Theory of Differential Forms on Manifolds. Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wisconson Superior, Superior, WI

Hualing Xing under Prof. Daniel Waterman. Dissertation Title: Interpolating Polynomials Convergence, Approximation and the Magnitude of Coefficients He is employed in Industry.

1991

Amita Agarwal under Prof. Mehrotra. Dissertation Title: Asymptotic Properties of Regression Estimates for Invariate and Multivariate Normal Distribution Under Type I Censoring.

Samer S. Habre under Prof. Tadeusz Iwaniec. Dissertation Title: Second-Order Linear Elliptic Systems on the Complex Plane. Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon.

Murali K. Ranganathan under Prof. Jacques Lewin, 1991 Dissertation Title: Endomorphism Rings of Non free, Stably Free Ideals.Assistant Professor, Barton College, Wilson, NC

Nunzio Paul Schembari under Prof. Daniel Waterman. Dissertation Title: Functions of generalized Bounded Variation, Generalized Absolute Continuity and Applications to Fourier Series.Assistant Professor at East Stroudsberg University of Pennsylvania

1990

Vivian Anderson under Prof. Sharon Senk. Dissertation Title: Women in Engineering Programs: A Qualitative Study. Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

Michael J. Enos under Prof. Troutman. Dissertation Title: Angular Momentum Optimization of Rigid Body Trajectories.

Vincent E. Fatica under Prof. Graver. Dissertation Title: On Edge-Critical Graphs and the Notion of Vortex Independence in Graphs. Part Time Assistant Professor at Syracuse University

Robert Kantrowitz under Prof. John Lindberg. Dissertation Title: Homomorphisms into Banach Algebras of Continuous Vector-Valued Functions. Assistant Professor, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

Carolyn Novak Rouviere under Prof. H. Johnson. Dissertation Title: A Study to Determine Possible Trends Between Students' Problems and Sucesses and Instructors' and Teaching Assistants' Usage Levels and Concerns Stages Implementing Calculators into Class.

Patricia Tinto under Prof. Sharon Senk. Dissertation Title: Students' Views on Learning Proof in High School Geometry: An Analytic-Inductive Approach. School of Education, Syracuse University

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