Recent Graduates

BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREES AWARDED IN APRIL 2007

Aaron R. Boalick

French & Italian Languages & Literatures and Hispanic Languages & Literatures

"Bildung Blocks: Problematic Masculinities in Stendhal"

Thesis Advisor: Todd W. Reeser, Department of French & Italian Languages & Literatures, School of Arts and Sciences

Jesse T. DiLaura

Politics and Philosophy and History

"'A Qualified Socialism': Socialist Thought and the Legacy of John Stuart Mill "

Thesis Advisor: Leslie Hammond, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences

Kristen E. DiLemmo

English Literature and Classics

"'The Spirit of Beauty': Classical Aesthetics and Ethics in Oscar Wilde's Critical Essays and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'"

Thesis Advisor: Philip Smith, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences

Rebecca J. Hess

Rehabilitation Science

"Measuring Skill in Walking of Older Adults: Validity and Responsiveness of the Figure 8 Walk"

Thesis Advisor: Jessie VanSwearningen, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

William E. Klieber

History & Philosophy of Science and Computer Engineering

"Numerical Simulations of Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media by Discontinuous Galerkin Methods"

Thesis Advisor: Beatrice Riviere, Department of Mathematics, School of Arts and Sciences

Joanna E. McKee

Nursing

"Barriers to Quality Medical Care for Mexican Immigrants in Pittsburgh"

Thesis Advisor: Richard Henker, Department of Acute/Tertiary Care, School of Nursing

Avishy Moshenberg

Politics and Philosophy and Economics

"Deliberation: Is It Worth Talking About? A Look at Government Deliberation Preceding Operation Iraqi Freedom"

Thesis Advisor: Lance G. Hampton, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Kathleen M. O'Malley

Classics, Philosophy, and Psychology

"Depression and Hemoglobin A1c as Mediated by Self Efficacy in People with Type 2 Diabetes"

Thesis Advisor: Mary Ann Sevick, Center for Research in Health Care, School of Medicine

Victoria R. Ries

Rehabilitation Science

"Postoperative Cardiothoracic Transplantation Quality of Life: Improved or Not?"

Thesis Advisor: Margo B. Holm, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Michael J. Sechler

Politics and Philosophy, Economics, and Psychology

"New Wine, Old Bottles: The Battle over Bracton in Stuart England, 1642-1651"

Thesis Advisor: Janelle Greenberg, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences

Lauren H. Shuck

Psychology and Anthropology

"What's Mine is Mine and What's Yours is Mine: Sharing and Self-Other Understanding in Toddlers"

Thesis Advisor: Celia Brownell, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences

Courtney J. Smith

Psychology and Economics

"Faster Isn't Necessarily Better: The Role of Individual Differences in Processing Words with Multiple Meanings"

Thesis Advisor: Natasha Tokowicz, Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences

William E. Uspal

Engineering Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy

"Control of Budded Domains in Multicomonent Bilayer Membranes"

Thesis Advisor: Anna C. Balazs, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, School of Engineering