Honoring Our Graduating Doctoral Students, Advisors, Family & Friends

Spring 2012

Joel Bryant, Ed.D. Educational Leadership

Barbara Ferguson, Ph.D. Health Services Research

Ziqing Yu, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering

Ozalle Toms, Ph.D. Special Education

While pursuing her doctorate degree, Ozalle worked part-time as a graduate assistant on the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) grant at UNC Charlotte. She studied under many wonderful professors in the Special Education and Child and Family Development Departments, specializing in culturally responsive instruction and behavior management of at-risk students. She has accepted a tenure-track faculty position with the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she will be preparing future special educators.

Cristina Baciu, Ph.D. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Thank you …for mentoring,

Christopher Lowder, Ed.D. Educational Leadership

Angela Colistra, Ph.D. Counseling

Katherine Stover, Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction

Currently a graduate assistant at UNCC, she teaches undergraduate courses in reading and

writing pedagogy and has published articles about

literacy teaching and literacy coaching in

journals such as The Reading Teacher and The

Middle School Journal. She is receiving her doctorate

in Curriculum and Instruction in Urban

Literacy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

under the direction of Dr. Brian T. Kissel and Dr.

Karen D. Wood. Dr. Stover will be an Assistant

Professor of Literacy Instruction at Furman

University in Greenville, SC in the fall of 2012.

Tarra Ellis, Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction

Pilar Zuber, Ph.D. Health Services Research

Andrea Murphy, Ph.D. Biology

…for supporting,

Jared Lau, Ph.D. Counseling

Elizabeth Delmelle, Ph.D. Geography and Urban Regional Analysis

Joshua Eyer Ph.D. Health Psychology

Clifford Afam, Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction

Clifford C. Afam, immigrated to the U.S. 20 years ago from Nigeria. He earned a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing at UNC Charlotte, a Master of Science in Nursing Education UNC Greensboro and his Ph.D. UNC Charlotte. Clifford is married to Doris Afam with two children Valerie and Emmitt. Special thanks to Dr. Charles Hutchison, dissertation chair for his guidance.

Rita Bagwe, Ph.D. Biology

Melissa Hudson, Ph.D. Special Education

…for encouraging,

Zhaochun Meng, Ph.D. Infrastructure and Environmental Systems

Samantha Furr, Ph.D. Biology

Wenwen Dou, Ph.D. Computing and Information Systems

Wenwen Dou earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Caroline at Charlotte. Her research interests include visual analytics and human computer interaction. In particular, she is interested in the area of visual text analysis. After graduation, she will continue her research on using interactive visual means to summarize and analyze vast amounts of unstructured textual information.

Theresa Kascsak, Ph.D. Counseling

Zhiliang Pan, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering

Linman Sun, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics

…for guiding,

Serhat Tozburun, Ph.D. Optical Science and Engineering

Wenyi Shao, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

Wenyi Shao joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNC Charlotte in the fall 2008. His research is in electromagnetism and microwave imaging. The two most important people during his pursuing a Ph.D. were his wife and his advisor. His wife is also a Ph.D. student in the same department at UNC Charlotte, and she will be graduating next fall. Wenyi is going to continue his research career after graduation.

Victor Mack, Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction

Sarah Khan, Ph.D. Computing and Information Systems

Bingduo Yang, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics

…and for making it all possible.

Kashif Sharif, Ph.D. Computing and Information Systems

April Spivack, Ph.D. Organizational Science

Xiaoran Wu, Ph.D. Computing and Information Systems

Constantine Steinberg, Ph.D. Applied Mathematics

YiMing Zheng, Ph.D. Information Technology

Welcome to our community of scholars.

Congratulations!