MS Theses and PhD Dissertations
Listed here are the MS Theses and PhD Dissertations for our graduates. This list includes all graduates since 2007, when the Program first received CAMPEP accreditation. The MS theses and PhD dissertations for graduates prior to 2007 can be found on the .
| Completion Year | Student | Advisor | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Hunter Meyer | Dey | |
| 2026 | Chloe DiTusa | Stathakis | |
| 2026 | Hailey Reaux | McGuffey | |
| 2026 | Olivia Magneson | Kirby | |
| 2026 | Nathan Dobranski | Alexandrian | |
| 2026 | Murtuza Taqi | Dey | |
| 2025 | Purity Bundi | Newhauser | |
| 2025 | Shanice Manning | Solis | |
| 2025 | Morgan Aire | Kirby | |
| 2025 | Carson Matthews | Schneider | |
| 2025 | Maxwell Cole | Newhauser | |
| 2025 | Nousha Afshari | Schneider/Matthews | |
| 2025 | Lam Lay | Solis | |
| 2024 | Rachael Blair | Matthews | |
| 2024 | Richard Lesieur | Fontenot | |
| 2024 | Grant Debevec | Stathakis | |
| 2024 | Hunter Meyer | Dey | |
| 2024 | Hao Zuo | Chancellor/Newhauser | |
| 2024 | Megan Chesal | Chancellor | |
| 2024 | Maryam Naseri | Carmichael | |
| 2024 | Reagan Dugan | Carmichael | |
| 2023 | Lacey Medlock | Dey | |
| 2023 | Sydney Carr | Dey | |
| 2023 | James Crist | Newhauser | |
| 2023 | Bryce Smith | Dey | |
| 2023 | Andrew McGuffey | Hogstrom/Pitcher | |
| 2023 | Kai-Cheng Chuang | Carmichael | |
| 2023 | Jared Taylor | Chancellor | |
| 2023 | Chia-Lung Chien | Zhang | |
| 2023 | Payton Bruckmeier-Stone | Solis | |
| 2022 | Michael McMahon | Chancellor | |
| 2022 | Elizabeth Park | Dey | |
| 2022 | Michael Taylor | Fontenot | |
| 2022 | Charles Zimmerman | Chancellor | |
| 2022 | Ivan Hidrovo Giler | Dey | |
| 2022 | Megan Chesal | Chancellor | |
| 2021 | Joseph Scotto | Pitcher | |
| 2021 | Michelle Lis | Newhauser | |
| 2021 | Ana Dieguez | Matthews | |
| 2021 | Michael Stock | Fontenot | |
| 2020 | James Kavanaugh | Fontenot | |
| 2020 | Stephanie Wang | Carver | |
| 2020 | Andrew McGuffey | Sick | |
| 2020 | Troy Jacobs | Matthews | |
| 2020 | Audrey Copeland | Fontenot | |
| 2020 | Krystal Kirby | Carmichael | |
| 2020 | Phillip Wall | Fontenot | |
| 2020 | Andrew Hastings | Wang | |
| 2020 | Xaodong Zhao | R. Zhang | |
| 2020 | Yibo Xie | R. Zhang | |
| 2020 | Jingzhu Xu | Dey | |
| 2019 | Anthony Davila | Wang | |
| 2019 | Daniel DiMarco | K. Matthews | |
| 2019 | Garrett Otis | Wang | |
| 2019 | Christopher Schneider | Newhauser | |
| 2019 | William Donahue | Newhauser | |
| 2019 | Bethany Broekhoven | K.Matthews | |
| 2019 | Hanif Soysal | Dey | |
| 2019 | Lydia Wilson | Newhauser | |
| 2019 | Cameron Sprowls | Fontenot | |
| 2019 | Amin Hamideh | Wang | |
| 2018 | Narayan Bhusal | Dey | |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Noel Hilliard | Robert | |
| 2018 | Suman Shrestha | Newhauser | |
| 2018 | Addie Barron | Fontenot | |
| 2018 | John W Chapman, PhD | Fontenot | |
| 2018 | Joseph Steiner, PhD | Jia, Guang | |
| 2018 | Paul Ethan Maggi, PhD | K. Matthews | |
| 2017 | John Doiron, MS | Carver | |
| 2017 | Phillip Wall, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2017 | James Kavanaugh, MS | Hogstrom | |
| 2016 | Erin Chambers, MS | Carver | |
| 2016 | Desmond Fernandez, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2016 | David Heins, MS | R. Zhang | |
| 2015 | Andrew Halloran, MS | Newhauser | |
| 2015 | Garrett Pitcher, PhD | Hogstrom | |
| 2015 | Nicholas Petersen, MS | R. Zhang | |
| 2015 | Runyon Colie Woods, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2015 | Hatim Chafi, MS | Jia | |
| 2015 | Ryan Schurr, MS | Jia | |
| 2015 | Anthony Mazza, MS | Vassiliev | |
| 2014 | Derek Freund, MS | R. Zhang | |
| 2014 | David Byrd, MS | Wang | |
| 2014 | Margaret Hernandez, MS | R. Zhang | |
| 2014 | Bart Morris, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2014 | Ben Rusk, MS | Carver | |
| 2014 | Melissa Lamberto, MS | K. Matthews | |
| 2013 | Adam Watts, MS | Gibbons | |
| 2013 | David McLaughlin, MS | Hogstrom | |
| 2013 | Lydia Wilson, MS | Newhauser | |
| 2013 | Kendrick Williams, MS | K. Matthews | |
| 2013 | Jean-Paul Grenier, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2013 | Diane Alvarez, MS | Hogstrom | |
| 2013 | Justin Silkwood, MS | Shikhaliev | |
| 2012 | Charles Wilson IV, MS | Wang | |
| 2012 | Justin LeBlanc, MS | Hogstrom | |
| 2012 | Nels Knutson, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2012 | Jeffrey Kemp, MS | Price | |
| 2012 | Guy Harris, MS | Parker | |
| 2012 | Geoffrey Nichols, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2012 | Ryan Posey, MS | Newhauser | |
| 2012 | John Chapman, MS | Fontenot | Dose Calculation for Proton Beams from a Dielectric Wall Accelerator |
| 2011 | Matthew Roberts, MS | Parker | |
| 2011 | Matthew Sutton, MS | K. Matthews | |
| 2011 | Shannon Fritz, PhD | Shikhaliev | |
| 2011 | Gordon Mancuso, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2011 | Bobby Matthews, MS | Price | |
| 2010 | Catherine Batte, MS | Parker | |
| 2010 | Catherine Talbert, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2010 | Peter Petrek, MS | Shikhaliev | |
| 2010 | Chad Robertson, MS | Price | Prototype Electron Phantom for Radiographic and Radiochromic Film Dosimetry |
| 2009 | Todd Racine, MS | Gibbons | |
| 2009 | John Eley, MS | Hogstrom | |
| 2009 | Olivier Blasi, MS | Fontenot | |
| 2009 | Ricky Hesston, MS | Gibbons | |
| 2009 | Shima Ito, MS | Parker | |
| 2008 | Christopher Welch, MS | K. Matthews | |
| 2008 | Jason Matney, MS | Parker | |
| 2008 | David Perrin, MS | Hogstrom | |
| 2008 | Andrew Morrow, MS | K. Matthews | |
| 2008 | Scott Oves, MS | Hogstrom | |
| 2007 | William Hill, MS | K. Matthews | |
| 2007 | Justin Vinci, MS | Hogstrom | |
| 2007 | Allen Beardmore, MS | Rosen | |
| 2007 | Koren Smith, MS | Gibbons | |
| 2007 | Adam Lackie, MS | K. Matthews | |
| 2006 | Jabari Robinson, MS | ||
| 2006 | Ashenafi Michael Sissay, MS |
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| 2006 | Prashanth Nookala, MS | ||
| 2005 | Kenneth Bernstein, MS | Kenneth Matthews | |
| 2005 | Laurie Anne Kelly, MS | Kenneth Matthews | |
| 2005 | John Michael Jarrett, MS | ||
| 2005 | Prashanth Nookala, MS | Kenneth Matthews | |
| 2004 | Ines-Ana Jurkovic, MS | Oscar Hidalgo-Salvatierra | |
| 2004 | Yuri Ishihara, MS | Steven Bujenovic | |
| 1998 | Angela Stam, MS | Commissioning and Evaluation of the Plato-Brachytherapy Planning System | |
| 1997 | Sharareh Nikbakht, MS | Oscar Hidalgo-Salvatierra | Performing Brachytheraphy Dosimetry on Personal Computers |
| 1996 | James PatelII, MS | An Upright Positional Device and Quality Assurance of the Treatment Planning Computer for the Mantle Field Technique | |
| 1995 | Ali Rashidee, MS | Oscar Hidalgo-Salvatierra | Five-Year Clinical Results and Review of Physics of Prostatic Implantation with Au-198 Seeds and External Irradiation in the Management of Localized Adenocarcinoma |
| 1994 | Charles Rohrmann, MS | Optimized Nodalization Of A Reactor Core Model For Real Time Simulation Applications | |
| 1993 | Charles Aboughantous, MS | John C. Courtney | A Monte Carlo Method In Contribution Response Trasnport |
| 1993 | Jane Runkle, MS | A. B. Doucet | Analytical Model Of The Progression Of Cracking In Fiber-Reinforced Composites |
| 1993 | Roy Hensley, MS | Ashok Srivastava | Radiation Sensitivity Of Spice Model Parameters Of Mosis CMOS Devices |
| 1992 | Hasan Murshed | Oscar Hidalgo-Salvatierra | Heterogeneity Dose Corection: A Dosimetric Analysis Of External Photon Irradiation |
| 1992 | Steven Harrell, MS | Oscar Hidalgo-Salvatierra | Dosimetry Of Small Fields Used In Stereotactic Radiosurgery With 15-MV Photons From A Linear Accelerator |
| 1991 | Jeffrey Kurr, MS | Oscar Hidalgo-Salvatierra | A Study On The 9-MeV Total Skin Electron Therapeutic Technique |
| 1989 | J Sundar, MS | Mark L. Williams | Radiative Transfer In Participating Media With Arrhenius Heat Generation |
| 1989 | Mehdi Asgari, MS | Mark L. Williams | Determination of Neutron and Gamma Flux Distribution In The Pressure Vessel And Cavity Of A Boiling Water Reactor |
| 1989 | Duane McLane, MS | John C. Courtney | A Determination Of Neutron And Gamma Dose Rates Inside The D-Rings At Waterford-3 Pressurized Water Reactor |
| 1988 | Satyajit Nadkarny, MS | Mark L. Williams | Determination Of The Temperature Distribution Due To Neutron And Gamma Heating In A Space-Reactor Shield |
| 1988 | Daniel Van Gent, MS | Ronald M. Knaus | Rare-Earth Soil Horizon Markers To Determine The Short-Term Accretion In Louisiana Marshes |
| 1988 | Mary Haik, MS | John C. Courtney | An Evaluation Of Angular Setup Errors In A New Patient-Isolated Transvaginal Cone System |
| 1987 | Prosonta Chowdhury, MS | Mark L. Williams | Development Of A Three-Dimensional Flux Synthesis Program And Comparison With 3-D Transport Theory Results |
| 1987 | David Heard, MS | William S.Kubricht | The Treatment Of Choroidal Melanoma Using Iridium-192 Eye Plaques |
| 1987 | George Marshall, MS | Mark L. Williams | A Dynamic Analysis Of The Primary System In Experimental Breeder Reactor II |
| 1987 | Mary Bell, MS | William S.Kubricht | An Analysis Of Matchline Dosimetric Problems Associated With A Beamsplitter And Custom Blocks For A Three-Field Technique For Breast Treatment |
| 1986 | Rustom Dubash, MS | A Physics Protocol For Interstitial Irradiation Of Brain Tumors Using Ir-192 | |
| 1986 | Tracie Espenan, MS | William S. Kubricht | Comparison Of Dose Calculation Methods For A Mantle Field In The Radiation Therapy Of Hodgkin's Disease |
| 1986 | Mark Landesman, MS | Mark L. Williams | A Positive Moment Representation For the Angular Fokker-Planck Operator |
| 1985 | Gregory Espenan, MS | Ronald M. Knaus | Determination of Aluminium in Fish Tissue by Instrumental Neutron Activiation Analysis |
| 1985 | William Fontenot, MS | William S. Kubricht | Beam Characteristics Of Contact Cones For Use In Endocavitary Irradiation |
| 1984 | Paul Morakinyo, MS | Mark L. Williams | Calculation Of The Neutron Source Distribution In The Venus PWR Engineering Mock-Up Experiment |
| 1984 | Hosein Zadafshar, MS | Robert C. Mcilhenney | Acoustical Emission Techniques For Detection Of Metallic Loose Parts In A Boiling Water Reactor |
| 1984 | Mohammed Abu-Shehdadeh, MS | Robert C. Mcilhenney | Design of a Facility to Ulitize 600 Ci of Cs-137 |
| 1983 | Howard Brodt, MS | John C. Courtney | A Thermal Hydraulic Analysis Of A Pool-Type Reactor In Natural Circulation |
| 1983 | Carrie White, MS | William S. Kubricht | A Methodological Evaulation Of The Energies In Degraded Electron Beams |
| 1983 | Alan Douglas, MS | William S. Kubricht | Evaluation Of Photon Contamination In Degraded Electron Beams |
| 1983 | John French, MS | John C. Courtney | Atmospheric Dispension Modeling Of Air Entrainable Radioactive Effluent |
| 1983 | Adolf Garcia, MS | John C. Courtney | On The Accuracy Of Material Worth Profile Assumptions In Hypothetical Core Disassembly Analyses |
| 1983 | Robert Smilie, MS | Frank A. Iddings | Gamma Radiation Effects On Ultrasonic Transducers |
| 1982 | Satyendra Kumar, MS | Robert Miles | Comparison Of Fission Product Inventories Computed Using Matrix Exponential And G-Factor Techniques |
| 1981 | Greg Dischler, MS | John C. Courtney | Safety Analysis of a Liquid Radioactive Waste Evaporator |
| 1981 | Leonard Hook, MS | John M. Larkin | Methanogenesis in Marine Sediment of the Mississippi River Delta |
| 1981 | Dale Jones, MS | T. C. Shelton | Hydrogen Embrittlement in FE-S Alloys (Permeation Studies) |
| 1981 | Charley Cheney, MS | Robert C. McIlhenney | Radiological Emergency Response Plan for 蜜桃APP |
| 1981 | Abuelgassem El-Fawaris | Ronald M. Knaus | Monitoring of Radiocesium-137 Movement in an Open Ecosystem Under Natural Conditions |
| 1980 | Kendrick Hagius, MS | Robert C. McIlhenny | A Microcomputer Software System for the Automatic Reduction of Gamma Spectral Data |
| 1980 | Roger Staves, MS | Dudley D. Culley | Chromium and Its Effects on the Growth of Duckweeds |
| 1980 | Charles Willis, MS | W.L. French | Investigation of the Suitability of Peripheral Lymphocyte Mitochondria as an Intrinsic Biological Dosimeter |
| 1980 | Abuelgassem El-Fawaris, MS | Stephen A. Whipple | Red Alder (Alnus rubra Bong.) as a Bioaccumulator of Indium and Dysprosium with and without DTPA |
| 1979 | Joe Burton, MS | R. E. Miles | An Analysis of the Neutral Beam Injector Penetrations in Current Tokamak Fusion Reactor Designs |
| 1979 | Abdelaziz Eljabri, MS | R. E. Miles | Gamma Heating of Grist-2 Test Cluster Pressure Boundaries During Transient Test in the Treat Upgrade Reactor |
| 1978 | Charles Callihan, MS | Edward S. Adler | Voids Measurement in Concrete Using Gamma Ray Backscatter Techniques |
| 1978 | Paul Guill, MS | Mike Momeni | Wind Induced Movement of Radioactive Sands from uranium Tailings Piles |
| 1978 | Craig Greene, MS | John C. Courtney | The Design, Construction, and Operation of a Neutron Activation Analysis Transfer System |
| 1978 | Farhad Dolatshahi, MS | Robert C. McIlhenny | Preparation of Bread-Group Cross Sections for Multiple Transport Calculation-ANISN Computer Code Options |
| 1978 | Grayson Young, MS | Frank A. Iddings | Evaluation of the Output from a Bent-Beam Medical Linear Accelerator |
| 1977 | Amarakoon Dharmaratne, MS | Edward F. Zganjar | Neutron Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Using 252-Cf |
| 1977 | Farzad Rahnema, MS | R. E. Miles | High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor Fuel Failure in the Absence of Core Cooling |
| 1977 | Paul English, MS | John C. Courtney | Design Optimazation for an Active In-Core Nuclear Heat Calorimeter: A Parametric Study |
| 1976 | Orren Williams, MS | Frank A. Iddings | Measurement of and Calibration for Gamma Sectroscopy of Mississippi River Water |
| 1976 | Glenn Keller, MS | Robert C. McIlhenny | The Design and Construction of a Portable Irradiation Facility Using Californium-252 |
| 1976 | Lynn Curry, MS | Ronald M. Knaus | Black Willow (Salix Nigra Marsh.) As A Bioaccumulator of Radioactive Pollutants in a Fresh Water Ecosystem |
| 1975 | John Landry, MS | Frank A. Iddings | The Design and Evaluation of a Preset, Alarming, Electronic Dosimeter |
| 1975 | Russell Kracht, MS | Robert C. McIlhenny | Investigation of the Feasibilitly of Fabricating Special Thermoluminescent |
| 1975 | Calvin Bergeron, MS | John C. Courtney | Response of Thermoluminescent Dosimeters to Californium-252 Neutrons |
| 1975 | Winton Aubert, MS | Howard Larson | Error in Prompt Feedback Reactivity at EBR-II: A Parametric Study |
| 1974 | Edmond Chen, MS | John C. Courtney | Multiparameter Display For A Nuclear Reactor Simulation |
| 1974 | Bruce Durst, MS | Darrell Cutforth | Potential Carryover Of Alpha Contamination To A Reactor By Specimens Handled In A Hot-Cell Environment |
| 1974 | Thomas Greene, MS | Edward Lambermont | Biological Applications of Californium-252: Utilization and Dosimetry Of An Irradiation Facility And Design Of An Irradiation Assembly For Use With Small Biological Targets |
| 1974 | Sudesh Mahajan, MS | Robert McIlhenny | Gamma Dose Rate Improvement In Gases By Electron-Conversion Plates |
| 1974 | Jim Morel, MS | John C. Courtney | A Comparison of Calculated And Measured CF-252 Neutron Spectra |
| 1974 | Calvin Pepper, MS | Frank A. Iddings | In-Place Determination of Cement In Concrete By Activation Analysis |
| 1974 | James Robert, MS | John C. Courtney | Penetration of CF-252 Neutrons Through Laminated Shields |
| 1973 | Ralf Czepluch, MS | Robert McIlhenny | Evaluation Of A Low-Level Radioactive Liquid Waste Gelation Procedure |
| 1973 | Lee Miller, MS | Frank A. Iddings | Design And Use Of A Field Activatio Assembly |
| 1973 | Rodney Rogers, MS | John C. Courtney | Production Of Radioisotopes For Medical And Industrial Uses With Californium-252 |
| 1972 | Ernest Hamilton, MS | Digital Computer Supervision of an Analog Nuclear Power Plant Simulation | |
| 1972 | Michael Pulaski, MS | Frank A. Iddings | Direction of Nuclear Particle Tracks in Film |
| 1972 | Edward Landry, MS | John C. Courtney | Discrete Ordinates Treatment of a Small Subcritical Assembly |
| 1972 | Prabh Singh, MS | M. Sabbaghian | Thermal Stresses in Anisotropic Plates |
| 1972 | Merlin Stansbury, MS | John C. Courtney | Dynamic Simulation of a Pressurized Water Reactor |
| 1972 | Michael Wyatt, MS | John C. Courtney | The Neutron Environment of a Cf-252 Facility |
| 1971 | Arun Bhattacharya, MS | Myron Young | Gamma Spectral Calculations By the Moments Method |
| 1970 | David Kiesel, MS | Frank A. Iddings | Neutron Moderator Designs for a Low Voltage Accelerator |
| 1970 | James Paulsen, MS | Myron Young | A Hybrid Computer Filter for Unfolding Gamma Ray Spectra |
| 1969 | Joseph Bankston, MS | R. C. McIlhenney | The Effects of Gamma Radiation on Thermoluminescent Dosimetry Utilizing Lithium Flouride |
| 1968 | William Ballard, MS | R. C. McIlhenney | The Damage Effects of High Energy |
| 1966 | David Lousteau, MS | Frank A. Iddings | Color Radiogtaphy |
| 1966 | Barry Chernick, MS | Harry Richardson | Neutron Radiography - Utilization of Neutrons |
| 1952 | James Jackson, MS | John Christman | The Effect of Biotin on Acetate Utilization |