Recent Graduate Student Ph.D. Dissertation Titles

2009

Sara S. Jarvis
Adviser: James Pawelczyk
Dissertation title: The Study of Sex Differences in the Regulation of Orthostatic Blood Pressure: The Role of the Splanchnic Circulation
Miranda Patrick Kaye
Adviser: R. Scott Kretchmar
Dissertation title: The Development and Validation of an Interpersonal Measure of Unsportspersonlike Behavior
Pratik K. Mutha
Adviser: Robert L. Sainburg
Dissertation title: Goal-Dependent Modulation of Reflex Responses during Movement

2008

Michael J. Duffey
Adviser: John H. Challis
Dissertation title: A Biomechanical Analysis of the Bench Press
Douglas McLaughlin
Adviser: R. Scott Kretchmar
Dissertation title: Reinventing the Wheel: On Games and the Good Life
Alessander Dos Santos
Adviser: Mark L. Latash
Dissertation title: Multi-Muscle Coordination in Postural Tasks
Sydney Y. Schaeffer
Adviser: Robert L. Sainburg
Dissertation title: Ipsilesional Motor Performance following Stroke: Evidence for Motor Lateralization
Greggory Twietmeyer
Adviser: R. Scott Kretchmar
Dissertation title: Embodying Kinesis: How Aristotle and Polanyi Reshape the Philosophy of Kinesiology
Wei Zhang
Adviser: Mark L. Latash
Dissertation title: The Control of Rotational Hand Actions by Multi-Digit Synergies
Beth Alice Parker
Adviser: David N. Proctor
Dissertation title: Age and Sex Differences in Local Vasodilation and Exercise Hyperemia
Jeremy Douglas Smith
Adviser: Philip E. Martin
Dissertation title: Effects of ProsDissertation Inertia on the Mechanics and Energetics of Amputee Locomotion
Halla Bjorg Olafsdottir
Adviser: Mark L. Latash
Dissertation title: Age Related Differences in Multi-Digit Coordination
Lindsey Baker
Adviser: W. Larry Kenney
Dissertation title: Fluid and Sodium Balance during Exercise in Special Populations
Kelly Dougherty
Adviser: W. Larry Kenney
Dissertation title: Thermoregulation and Fluid Balance in Children Exercising in the Heat

2007

Jody Renee Preische
Adviser: William E. Buckley
Dissertation title: Determining Return-to-Play Predictors following Non-Season Ending Injuries
Siang Lee Hong
Adviser: Karl M. Newell
Dissertation title: Entropy Compensation in Human Motor Adaption
Samantha Lee Winter
Adviser: John H. Challis
Dissertation title: The In Vivo Expression of the Force-Length Relationship and Its Effect on Sustained Isometric Force
Lacy Alexander Holowatz
Adviser: W. Larry Kenney
Dissertation title: Reflex Cutaenous Vasodilation: Influences of Primary Human Aging and Hypertensive Vascular Pathology
Jonathan N. Metzler
Adviser: David Conroy
Dissertation title: The Significance of Locus-of-Esteem Enhancement in Pride-Based Assessment of the Need for Achievement
James G.W. Thompson
Adviser: Semyon M. Slobounov
Dissertation title: Concussions in Sport: Investigation of Assessment Measures and Functional Deficits
Kunlin Wei
Adviser: Dagmar Sternad
Dissertation title: Stability and Variability in a Rhythmic Task: Behavioral Data and Dynamic Models

2006

Peter M. Hopsicker
Adviser: R. Scott Kretchmar
Dissertation title: In Search of the Ride: Cycling as Improvisational Behavior
Kimberlee Jordan
Adviser: Karl M. Newell
Dissertation title: Variability and Long Range Correlations in Human Walking and Running
Jennifer M. Medina
Adviser: Jay Hertel
Dissertation title: The Effects of Gender and Lower Extremity Alignment on the Kinematics of Three Functional Tasks
James D. Nendel
Adviser: Mark S. Dyreson
Dissertation title: Duke Kahanamoku--Twentieth Century Hawaiian Monarch: The Values and Contributions to Hawaiian Culture from Hawaii's Sporting Legend

2005

Pamela Haibach
Adviser: Karl M. Newell
Dissertation title: Optical Flow and Postural Control in Young and Elderly Adults Using Virtual Reality
Timothy Elcombe
Adviser: R. Scott Kretchmar
Dissertation title: Overcoming Marginalization and Insignificance: A Pragmatic Critique and Reconstruction of Sport Philosophy
Andrew Fauth
Adviser: Neil A. Sharkey
Dissertation title: Anatomically Based Investigations of Total Ankle Arthroplasty
Fan Gao
Adviser: Vladimir Zatsiorsky
Dissertation title: Prehension Synergies: Static and Dynamic Examinations
Tricia Hubbard
Adviser: Jay Hertel and Craig E. Denegar
Dissertation title: Contributing Factors to Chronic Ankle Instability
Shih-Chiun Lai
Adviser: Karl M. Newell
Dissertation title: Information Theory, Entropy and Movement Variability
Matthew Moran
Adviser: Stephen J. Piazza
Dissertation title: Computational and Experimental Assessment of Total Knee Replacement Motion
Jacob Sosnoff
Adviser: Karl M. Newell
Dissertation title: Aging, Noise and Visual Motor Processing
Stephen S. Streator
Adviser: William E. Buckley
Dissertation title: An Outcomes Analysis of a Sports Medicine Approach to Prevent and Manage Work-Related Injuries
Luzita Vela
Adviser: Craig E. Denegar
Dissertation title: The Disability in the Physically Active Scale: The Psychometrics of and Outcome Scale for Musculoskeletal Injuries
Hong Yu
Adviser: Dagmar Sternad
Dissertation title: Rhythmic Timing in Human Movements: Behavioral Data, A Model, and fMRI
Jae Shim
Adviser: Vladimir Zatsiorsky
Dissertation title: Rotational equilibrium control in multi-digit human prehension