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Computational Geometry
Less is more. More’s less. Some is more than emptiness. Count them, more or less. Hayim Shaul Tel-Aviv University Title: Range Searching: Emptiness, Reporting and Approximate Counting Given a set of...
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Imagining tunes almost like really hearing decomposable Rebecca Schaefer Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Thesis title: Measuring the mind’s ear: EEG of music imagery The focus of this...
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Differential Geometry
Singularly round somewhere spherical, elsewhere principally free Steven Broad Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN My work on differential geometry and dynamical systems, specifically geometric...
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Arithmetic Geometry
An elliptic curve. Does N divide its order? Let’s work out the odds. Everett W. Howe Center for Communications Research, La Jolla Dissertation: Elliptic curves and ordinary abelian varieties over...
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Microbial Ecology
Methylmercaptan, the smell of Life arising, ignorants say “stinks”. Kai Finster Aarhus University, Denmark The title of my thesis that I completed in spring 1993 was “The transformation of reduced...
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Materials Chemistry
Growing new tissue Cells need a scaffold for growth PHEMA can be used Stefan Paterson University of Western Australia Thesis Title: “The synthesis of PHEMA-based materials for tissue engineering...
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Soil Science
Alkaline, salty; Plants hate bauxite residue. Soil, it must become. Talitha Santini University of Western Australia Thesis title: ‘A pedogenic treatment for bauxite residue mud’ My PhD aimed to...
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Environmental Microbiology
Deep within the Earth oil degrades to tarry mess and some methane gas Ian Head Newcastle University This relates to a project called Bacchus which examined various aspects of in-reservoir crude oil...
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Creative Writing
Fictional Cubs team: A short story collection. Those don’t make a dime. Shannon Bartlett Kizer Chapman University, California I wrote a collection of ten linked short stories called Just a Bit Outside....
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Education
Training lacks vision Young Marines require more Ignorance is bliss Jennifer Stephens Walden University Dissertation Title: The Adult Student Learning Experience: A Mixed-Methods Investigation in a...
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Psychology
Black or white faces MJ says it don’t matter But it does matter Shannon Elliott University of Western Sydney My thesis focused on facial recognition of African American and Anglo-Saxon faces. Research...
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Political Science
I eat my popcorn But do I taste sweet freedom? Or Uncle Sam’s pit? Eva Buzo University of New South Wales My thesis looked at the relationship between Hollywood and Washington, and how film influences...
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Civil Engineering
Engineers Design Students, they don’t understand Grading helps them learn Thomas F.C. Woodhall Queen’s University at Kingston Dissertation title: Redesigning Assessment: The design and implementation...
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Educational Psychology
Sometimes learning hurts; Employ some self-compassion, Achievement improves. Jaimie Krause The University of Texas at Austin Dissertation title: “Everybody Fails Sometimes: Exploring Relations Between...
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Intelligence Studies
So, officially Canada and the UK Kept different secrets Ann Rogers Lancaster University Dissertation title: “Secretive states: a comparison of the Official Secrets Acts of Canada and Great Britain.”...
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Marine Science
Who, What, When, Where, Why and sometimes How. Answer these for a Ph.D. Jessica Luo University of Miami A lot of my research is describing previously undescribed phenomenon or organisms using new...
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Computer Science
Ain’t a ‘puter safe, And ain’t a bot can’t be caught, Is network secure? Chet Langin Southern Illinois University Carbondale Dissertation title: “A SOM+ Diagnostic System for Network Intrusion...
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History
Perón sent workers to spread social change abroad it did not work Ernesto Semán New York University Dissertation title: “Ambassadors of the Working Class: Peronist Worker Attachés, Cold War Liberalism...
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Media and Communications
If I’m ABD Does that mean that I cannot Finish this poem Sarah Kamens European Graduate School Like many ABDs, I’m suspended in pre-dissertation limbo, convinced I’ll never finish.
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Dissertation Haiku needs a new proprietor
As you can see from the lack of posts in 2012, Dissertation Haiku’s creator Drew doesn’t have time for a lot of extracurricular activity these days. In lieu of letting the blog die, I’d like to pass it...
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