| PhD Recipients, by Year and Topic of Interest |
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| 2011 - 2015 |
| Jeff Coughlin | 2012 | Fundamental Parameters of Exoplanets and their Host Stars |
| Jillian Bornak | 2012 | A New Approach to Modeling Dust Emission in Classical Novae |
| Sean Lindsay | 2012 | Discrete Dipole Approximation Model of Crystalline Forsterite |
| James Stockton | 2011 | Pamela: Results on Electron and Positron Spectra in Cosmic Rays |
| Mike Sussman | 2011 | Modeling Seasonal Change on Uranus with the EPIC GCM |
| Paul Strycker | 2011 | Studies of Jovian Atmospheric Structure and Coloring Agents using Hyperspectral Imaging |
| Jessica Evans | 2011 | MgII Quasar Absorption Line Systems as a Probe of Galaxy Structural and Kinematic Evolution |
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| 2006 - 2010 |
| Randy Carlson | 2010 | Spatial and Seasonal Variations in Saturn's Haze and Vertical Phosphine Distribution at 3 microns from 2005 to 2010 |
| Jim Norwood | 2010 | The Vertical Structure of the Uranian Atmosphere Near Equinox as Modeled with Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Observations |
| Douglas Hoffman | 2009 | Automated Variable Star Classification Using the Northern Sky Variability Survey |
| Ashley Ruiter | 2009 | White Dwarfs in Close Binaries: Gravitational Waves, X-rays, and Type Ia Supernova Progenitors |
| Ryan Campbell | 2008 | Phase-Resolved Cyclotron Spectroscopy of Polars |
| Brandon Lawton | 2008 | Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Damped Lyman-Alpha and Starburst Galaxies |
| Glenn Kacprzak | 2008 | The Morphological, Kinematic, and Halo Gas Properties of MgII Absorption Selected Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift |
| Daniel Ceverino-Rodriguez | 2008 | Numerical Models of the Formation of Galaxies in an Expanding Universe |
| Carrie Anderson | 2006 | Aerosol Vertical Structure in Earth-Analog Atmospheres |
| Steven Nelli | 2006 | Sensitivities of a Coupled Dust and Water Cycle on Mars |
| Erica Voges | 2006 | The Ionization Sources of the Diffuse Ionized Gas in Nearby Disk Galaxies |
| Bhasker Moorthy | 2006 | Bulges of Spiral Galaxies: Stellar Populations, Structure, Kinematics, and Dynamics |
| Don Lubowich | 2006 | The Galactic Deuterium Distribution |
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| 2001 - 2005 |
| Melinda Kahre | 2005 | The Martian Dust Cycle and the Evolution of Surface Dust Resevoirs |
| Joe Helmboldt | 2005 | Star Formation at the Extreme Ends of the Hubble Sequence |
| Peregrine McGehee | 2005 | Magnetospheric Accretion in Substellar Objects |
| Takafumi Temma | 2004 | Vertical Structure Modeling of Saturn with High-Spectral Resolution Imaging |
| Octavio Valenzuela | 2003 | The Dynamics of Disk Galaxies as a Test for the Structure of Dark Matter Halos |
| Bob Zavala | 2003 | A View through Faraday's Fog: Parsec Scale Rotation Measures in AGN |
| Tom Stephens | 2003 | Design and Operation of the Wide-Angle Air Cherenkov Telescope Array |
| Jason Peterson | 2003 | Characteristics of Radio Halos, Cosmic Ray Electron Propagation, and the Warm Ionized Medium as determined through Observations of Radio Synchrotron Emission from the Milky Way and Edge-on Spiral Galaxies |
| Denise Stephens | 2002 | 1 to 4 micron Photometry and the Near-Infrared Classification of L and T Dwarfs |
| Chris Gelino | 2002 | A Multi-Wavelength Search for Photometric Variability in L Dwarfs |
| Neal Miller | 2001 | A Radio Perspective on Galaxy Evolution in the Cluster Environment |
| Salman Hameed | 2001 | Massive Star Formation in Early-Type Spirals |
| Dawn Gelino | 2001 | Modeling Infrared Ellipsoidal Variations: Determining the Masses of Black Holes |
| Christopher Garasi | 2001 | Magnetic Fields and the Cluster Cooling Flow Hypothesis |
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| 1996 - 2000 |
| Matthew Templeton | 2000 | An Observational and Theoretical Study of High-Amplitude Delta Scuti Stars |
| Elizabeth Rizza | 2000 | The Environments of Rich, Intermediate Redshift Abell Clusters: A Multi-Wavelength Approach |
| Andrey Kravtsov | 2000 | High-Resolution Simulations of Structure Formation in the Universe |
| Nichole King | 2000 | Luminous Blue Variables and Related High Mass Evolved Stars in M31 and Their Surprising Environments |
| Charles Hoopes | 2000 | The Properties and Ionization Sources of Diffuse Ionized Gas in Spiral Galaxies |
| Mark Bliton | 2000 | The Environments of Poor Clusters of Galaxies |
| David Thilker | 1999 | Massive Stars and Expanding Shells within the Violent Interstellar Medium |
| Matthew Carlson | 1999 | Young Globular Clusters in Interacting Galaxies |
| Amy Simon | 1998 | The Time-Dependent Nature of Winds, Reflectivity and Weather Systems on Jupiter |
| Bruce Greenawalt | 1998 | Diffuse Ionized Gas in Nearby Spiral Galaxies |
| Charles Walter | 1997 | Properties of the Uranian Atmosphere as Revealed by Optical and Infrared Imaging |
| Percy Gómez | 1997 | A Study of the Dynamics and Substructure of a Sample of Nearby Abell Clusters of Galaxies |
| Nancy Chanover | 1997 | Temporal Variations in the Vertical Structure of Jupiter's Atmosphere |
| Kevin Marvel | 1996 | The Circumstellar Environment of Evolved Stars as Revealed by Studies of Circumstellar Water Masers |
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| 1991 - 1995 |
| Kurt Roettiger | 1995 | Numerical Simulations and the Observational Consequences of Merging Clusters of Galaxies |
| Jason Pinkney | 1995 | The Dynamics of Galaxy Clusters Containing Wide-Angle Tailed Radio Sources |
| Pedro Sada | 1993 | Temporal Variations in the Circumstellar Shell IRC+10216 |
| Tamara Payne | 1993 | A Multiwavelength Study of Solar Ellerman Bombs |
| Robert Donahue | 1993 | Surface Differential Rotation in a Sample of Cool Dwarf Stars |
| Sylvia Baggett | 1993 | The Box/Peanut Phenomenon in Disk Galaxies |
| Alan Hale | 1992 | Orbital Coplanarity in Solar-Type Binary Systems: Implications for Planetary System Formation and Detection |
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| 1986 - 1990 |
| Thomas Little | 1990 | Search for Regularities in the Atmosphere of Jupiter |
| David Kuehn | 1990 | A Study of the Temporal Behavior of the Vertical Structure of Jupiter's Atmosphere |
| Chris Barnet | 1990 | Saturn's Seasonal Winds and Temperature: The Effect of the Ring System on the Troposphere and Stratosphere |
| Tom Hockey | 1988 | A Historical Interpretation of the Study of the Visible Cloud Morphology on the Planet Jupiter: 1610 - 1878 |
| Andrea Dobson | 1987 | Activity-Rotation Relations for Lower Main Sequence Stars |
| Wayne Baggett | 1987 | A Study of Environmental Influences on the Structure of Spiral Galaxy Disks |
| Kaz Sekiguchi | 1986 | The Initial Mass Function of Starburst Galaxies |
| John Hakkila | 1986 | Statistical Properties of Barium Stars |
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| 1981 - 1985 |
| Randy Olson | 1985 | The Morphology of the Planetary Nebula NGC3242 |
| John Lambert | 1985 | Occultation and Lightcurve Analysis: The Figure of 2 Pallas |
| Julian Christou | 1985 | Seeing Effects and Their Calibration for Astronomical Speckle Interferometry Observations |
| Dan Boice | 1985 | The Neutral Sodium D_2 Line in Late-Type Stars |
| Hunt Guitar | 1984 | Analysis of Motions of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and White Ovals |
| Rob Suggs | 1983 | Temporal Albedo Variations in Saturn's Atmosphere |
| Roger Davis | 1983 | A High Dispersion Spectral Analysis of Three Pre-Main Sequence Stars |
| John Keady | 1982 | The Circumstellar Envelope of IRC+10216 |
| Dave Bruning | 1981 | The Applicability of the Fourier Convolution Theorem to the Analysis of Late-Type Stellar Spectra |
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| 1976 - 1980 |
| Jack Drummond | 1980 | A Photometric Investigation of Possible Binary Occurrence in the Central Stars of Seventeen Planetary Nebula |
| Ed Tedesco | 1979 | A Photometric Investigation of the Colors, Shapes, and Spin Rates of Hirayama Family Asteroids |
| Tim Schneeberger | 1977 | Balmer Emission Lines in T Tauri-like Decelerating Flows |
| Harold Reitsema | 1977 | Quantitative Spectral Classification of Solar-type Stars and the Sun |
| Adrian Herzog | 1977 | An Analysis of Numerical Integration Techniques for the Modeling of Open Galactic Clusters |
| Dennis Dawson | 1977 | A Photoelectric Investigation of the Physical Nature of RV Tauri Variables |
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| 1971 - 1975 |
| Dennis Hollars | 1975 | An Observational and Theoretical Investigation of Calcium II H and K Emission in Yellow Supergiants and Classical Cepheids |
| Tom Pauls | 1974 | Radio Observations of HII Regions in the Galactic Center |
| Brad Smith | 1972 | Observations of Atmospheric Limb Darkening in the Visual Continuum and an Analysis of Multiple Scattering in the Atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn |
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| MS Recipients, by Year and Topic of Interest |
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| 2011 - 2015 |
| Leland Wehland | 2012 | The Selection, Mounting, and Integration of an Infrared Photon-Counting APD Module for J-Band Astronomical Photometry on the NMSU HSP |
| Mark Gleed | 2012 | Merging Rates of Large Galactic Halos: Comparing Observations and Cosmological Simulations |
| Jacqueline McCleary | 2011 | Kinematic and Photometric Decompositions of Observed and Simulated Disk Galaxies: Theoretical and Observational Prodictions |
| David Teal | 2011 | Martian Middle-Latitude Stationary Waves as Manifested in MRO MCS Retrieved Temperature Data |
| 2006 - 2010 |
| Mary Jo Clark | 2010 | The Search for Orphan Optical Afterglows from Gamma-ray Bursts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II: Supernova Survey |
| Roberto Avila | 2009 | Metallicity Gradients in the Stellar Populations of M33 |
| Jiehae Choi | 2009 | Multi-Longslit Spectroscopy for Kinematic Studies |
| Allison Widhalm | 2008 | Gas Dynamics in the Milky Way Galaxy |
| Linghong Hu | 2008 | Numerical Models of Galaxy Formation |
| Tanya Tavenner | 2006 | Cloud Tracking of Venus' Lower Cloud Deck |
| Pey-Lian Lim | 2006 | Hi-Res Spectroscopy of a Hipparcos Sample within 100 parsecs |
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| 2001 - 2005 |
| Sarah Giandoni | 2005 | Absorption Lines and Galaxies toward PKS 0312-77 |
| Sarah Bates | 2005 | New M31 Globular Clusters derived from the SDSS |
| Carla Adams | 2004 | Extremes of Galaxy Evolution: Tracing Star Formation in Local Spiral Galaxies |
| Heather Bogue | 2003 | Determining the Component Masses of Cataclysmic Variables |
| Mayrita Vitvitska | 2003 | The Origin of Angular Momentum in Dark Matter Halos |
| Mark Blackmon | 2003 | Seasonal Variations in Dust Flux in the Martian Polar Regions |
| Hector Noriega | 2003 | Population gradients in WLM |
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| 1996 - 2000 |
| Nathaniel Paust | 2000 | The Star Formation History of the Local Milky Way |
| Vanessa Galarza | 1999 | Spectrophotometry of HII Regions, Diffuse Ionized Gas, and Supernova Remnants in M31: The Transition from Photoionization to Shock Ionization |
| Marla Geha | 1998 | HST/WFPC2 Observations of Stellar Populations in the LMC Field |
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| 1991 - 1995 |
| Susan Lederer | 1995 | Consequences of Albedo Feature Pseudoperiodicities for Jovian Seismology |
| Lyle Huber | 1995 | Zonal (East-West) Winds and Cloud Morphology in Jupiter's Atmosphere |
| Christina Heikkila | 1995 | ... |
| Bryant Heikkila | 1995 | Far-Infrared and Radio Continuum Spatial Correlations in Ten Nearby Spiral Galaxies |
| Stephen Doe | 1994 | ROSAT Observations of Five Poor Galaxy Clusters with Extended Radio Sources |
| Brian Kooiman | 1993 | Two-Point Angular Correlation Function for the Green Bank 4.85 Ghz Radio Sky Survey |
| Jason Kendall | 1993 | The Effect of Time-Varying Density Fields on Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: A New Formulation |
| James Dean | 1993 | A Study of Box and Peanut Galaxies in the Infrared |
| Warren Hack | 1992 | Stellar Internal Motions Within the Orion Nebula Region |
| David Brown | 1992 | An Investigation of the Radio and X-ray Properties of Southern Rich Clusters of Galaxies |
| Kenneth Swanson | 1991 | Spatial and High Speed Characteristics of the Los Alamos Ranicon Detector |
| William McDaid | 1991 | A Chemical Analysis of the HR1614 Group: Is it a Supercluster? |
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| 1986 - 1990 |
| Steve Berrick | 1990 | ... |
| John Crain | 1986 | Positions of 127 Hyads and 6-cm Observations of 320 Hyads |
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| 1981 - 1985 |
| William Ryan | 1985 | Considerations of the Effects of Quantum Gravity on Friedmann-Robertson-Walker-Type Universes |
| Eileen Ryan | 1985 | Interstellar Extinction and the Assumption of Heterogeneous Dust Grains |
| Barry Rishel | 1985 | ... |
| Scarlet Ayres | 1985 | ... |
| Suzanne Hammond-Jacobi | 1981 | ... |
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| 1976 - 1980 |
| Pete Brewton | 1979 | ... |
| Gary Garwood | 1979 | ... |
| Robert Hill | 1979 | An Investigation of the Blue Straggler Problem |
| Steve Horan | 1979 | A Survey of the Hyades for Delta Scuti Variables |
| Steven Solomon | 1979 | The Development of an Automated PDS Photographic Photometry System and its Application to the Galactic Cluster M11 |