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Hall of Scholars: Past Honoree Pages

An archive of past winners of the CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award, listed by year.

YEAR	AUTHOR	UNIVERSITY	FIELD	TITLE
2008	Thomas Rondeau	Virginia Tech	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Application of Artificial Intelligence to Wireless Communication
	Jessica Horst	University of Iowa	Psychology	Turning Novel Names into Known Names: Understanding Referent Selection and Retention in 24-Month-Old Children and Neural Networks
2007	Christobal Uauy	University of California, Davis	Plant Sciences	Positional Cloning of Gpc-B1, A Wheat Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Senescence and with Pleiotropic Effects on Grain Protein, Zinc and Iron Concentration
	Michael David Chasar	University of Iowa	English	Everyday Reading: U.S. Poeetry and Popular Culture, 1880-1945
2006	Paul Michael Collins	Binghamton University	Social Sciences	Friends of the Supreme Court: Examining the Influence of Interest Groups in the U.S. Supreme Court, 1946-2001
	Katey Marion Walter	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering	Methane Emissions from Lakes in Northeast Siberia and Alaska
2005	Hallem, Elissa Anyon	Yale University	Biology & Life Sciences	The Role of Odorant Receptors in Odor Coding
	Thomas N Sizgorich	University of California, Santa Barbara	Humanities	Monks and Mujahidun: Militant Piety in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
2004	Eric Todd Brown	Princeton University	Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering	“Neural Oscillators and Integrators in the Dynamics of Decision Tasks”
	Pedro C. Magalhaes	Ohio State University	Social Sciences	“The Limits to Judicialization: Legislative Politics and Constitutional Review in the Iberian Democracies”
2003	Li Yu	Ohio State University	Humanities & Fine Arts	“A History of Reading in Late Imperial China,. 1000-1800”
	Tadzia Jean GrandPré	Yale University	Biology & Life Sciences	“Nogo: A Molecular Determinant of Axonal Growth and Regeneration”
2002	Bryan K. Ritchie	Emory University	Social Sciences	“The Political Economy of Technical Intellectual Capital Formation in Southeast Asia”
	Daniel Adam Steck	University of Texas at Austin	Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering	“Quantum Chaos, Transport, and Decoherence in Atom Optics”
2001	Beverly Schwartzberg	University of California, Santa Barbara	Humanities & Fine Arts	“Grass Widows, Barbarians, and Bigamists: Fluid Marriage in Late Nineteenth-Century America”
	Robin Douglas Knight	Princeton University	Biology & Life Sciences	“The Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code”
2000	Barry C. Burden	Ohio State University	Social Sciences	“Candidates’ Positions in Congressional Elections”
	Duiliu-Emanual Diaconescu	Rutgers	Physical Science, Engineering and Mathematics	“D-Branes and Non-Perturbative Dynamics in String Theory”
1999	Matthew Lawrence Albert	Rockefeller University	Biology & Life Sciences	“Resurrecting the Dead: Dendritic Cells Cross-present Aantigen Dervied from Apototoc Cell, and Induce Viral-and Tumor-specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes
	Karen Redrobe Beckman	Princeton University	Humanities & Fine Arts	“Vanishing Women”
1998	Kenneth Tate Andrews	SUNY Stony Brook	Social Sciences	“Freedom is a Constant Struggle: The Dynamics and Consequences of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement”
	Luis Lehner	University of Pittsburgh	Math/Physical Sciences	“Gravitational Radiation from Black Hole Space Times”
1997	Firdaus Dhabhar	Rockefeller University	Biology/Life Sciences	“Stress Induced Enhancement of Antigen-Specific, Cell Mediated Immunity—The Role of Hormones and Leukocyte Trafficking”
	Susan Behrends Frank	University of Iowa	Humanities/Fine Arts	“The Collaborations of Salvador Dali and Luis Bunel”
1996	Alexandra Harmon	University of Washington	Humanities/Fine Arts	“A Different Kind of Indians: Negotiating the Meanings of “Indian” and “Tribe” in the Puget Sound Region, 1820’s – 1970’s”
1995	James Christopher Clemens	University of Texas at Austin	Math/Physical Science/Engineering	“The Origin and Evolution of the White Dwarf Stars”
1994	Stathis Kalyvas	University of Chicago	Social Sciences	“Religious Mobilization and Party Formation: Confessional Parties and the Christian Democratic Phenomenon”
1993	Matthew Peter Anderson	University of Iowa	Biological Sciences	“The Function and Regulation of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator”
1992	James E. Hoch	University of Toronto	Humanities/Fine Arts	“Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period”
1991	Carlos Mastrangelo	University of California, Berkeley	Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering	“Thermal Applications of Microbridges”
1990	Laura L. Stoker	University of Michigan	Social Sciences	Morality and the Study of Political Behavior
1989	Jeffrey M. Werneke	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne	Biological Sciences	“Structure and Expression of Spinacea oleracea L. and Arabidopsis thaliana cDNAs Encoding Ribulosebiphosphate Carboxylase/oxygenase activase”
1988	James I. Porter	University of California, Berkeley	Humanities/Fine Arts	“The Material Sublime: Towards a Reconstruction of a Materialist Critical Discourse and Aesthetics in Antiquity”
1987	Leslie F. Greengard	Yale University	Mathematical/Physical Sciences	“The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems”
1986	James Holston	Yale University	Social Sciences	“The Modernist City: Architecture, Politics, and Society in Brasilia”
1985	Timothy A. Johns	University of Michigan	Biological Sciences	“Chemical ecology of the Aymara of Western Bolivia: Selection for Glycoalkaloids in the Solanum x ajanhuiri Domestication Complex
1984	David R. Lasocki	University of Iowa	Humanities/Fine Arts	“Professional Recorder Players in England, 1540-1740”
1983	Christopher Gudeman	University of Wisconsin		“Microwave Spectroscopy of the Formyl Ion,d the Isoformyl Iion, the Thioformyl Ion and Hydrogen Cyanide”
1982	John R. Merrill	University of Delaware	Social Sciences	“Internal Warfare in Korea, 1948-1950: The Local Setting of the Korean War”
1981	Philip A. Hieter	Johns Hopkins University	Biological Sciences	“Evolution and Expression of Human Immunoglobulin in Light Chain Genes”