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The=20 Graduate School is proud to announce the = recipients of=20 the 2006 Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation = Awards.=20 This is an annual award to recognize exemplary=20 scholarship that demonstrates high potential = impact on=20 their field. Nominations from faculty mentors = come to=20 the Graduate School where they are reviewed by a = faculty=20 committee.
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The 2006 winners for = the=20 Outstanding Dissertation Award = are:

=95Ismail Guvenc, Ph.D., = Electrical=20 Engineering
=93Towards Practical Design of = Impulse Radio=20 Ultrawideband Systems: Parameter Estimation and = Adaptation,=20 Interference Mitigation, and Performance = Analysis=94
Major=20 Professor: Huseyin Arslan, Ph.D.

=95 Jung = Kwak, Ph.D.,=20 Aging Studies
=93Predictors and Outcomes of = Hospice Use=20 among Medicare and Medicaid Dual-Eligible Nursing Home = Residents in Florida: A Comparison of Non-Hispanic = Blacks and=20 Non-Hispanic Whites =93
Co-Major Professors: David = Chiriboga,=20 Ph.D.; William Haley, Ph.D.

=95 Scott Edwin = Lewis,=20 Ph.D., Chemistry
=93An Evaluation of = Pedagogical Reform=20 Designed for College Chemistry Teaching with Large=20 Classes=94
Major Professor: Jennifer Lewis, = Ph.D.

=95=20 Christopher Mann, Ph.D., Applied=20 Physics
=93Quantitative Biological Microscopy = by Digital=20 Holography=94
Major Professor: Myung K. Kim,=20 Ph.D.

The 2006 = winners for the=20 Outstanding Thesis Award are:

=95 Matthew K. Beekman,=20 Physics
=93Synthesis and Characterization of = Type II=20 Silicon and Germanium Clathrates=94
Major = Professor: George=20 S. Nolas, Ph.D.

=95 Liza Oliver, Art=20 History
=93Vision and Disease in the Napoleonic = Description de l=92Egypte (1809-1828): The Constraints = of French=20 Intellectual Imperialism and the Roots of Egyptian=20 Self-Definition=94
Major Professor: Elisabeth A. = Fraser,=20 Ph.D.

Please join the Graduate School in=20 congratulating these scholars on their high academic=20 achievement.