22001133 As a culminating experience for the master’s degree program, the thesis attests to the

highest level of the student’s academic, scholarly, and creative abilities. Each student works

under the guidance of a faculty thesis chair and committee. The resulting thesis is viewed with

pride as a reflection of the scholarly promise of the student and a commitment to excellence for

the university. This spring 2013 semester, 96 students completed theses in areas as varied and

original as the students themselves. What follows is a complete list of spring 2013 thesis

publications by college/school and some research highlights.

~Quinn Zweigle studied the peel and inner

structure of cassava, sweet potatoes and sugar

beets for the creation of a biomass material

index. ~

thesis review

Animal Science

Kensuke Shimada Growth and Health Performance Evaluation of Calves Fed Tannins (Chair: Jon Robison)

Food Science and Nutrition

Quinn Zweigle Classifying Selected Root Crops for Biomass Through Proximate

Analysis and High Pressure Liquid Chromotography (Chair: Dennis Ferris)

Plant Science

Joy Noelle Hollingsworth Growth, Development, and Pest Population Dynamics in Conservation Cotton Cropping Systems

in the San Joaquin Valley (Chair: Anil Shrestha)

Viticulture and Enology

Jennifer Barak HPLC Retention Thermodynamics of Grape and Wine Tannins (Chair: James Kennedy)

David Langone Efficacy of Pheromone Mating Disruption for Vine Mealybug

Control (Chair: Kaan Kurtural)

SPRING hhttttpp::////wwwwww..ccssuuffrreessnnoo..eedduu//ggrraaddssttuuddiieess//tthheessiiss

JORDAN COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY

Jorge Ramirez-Perez Analysis of Rot on Zinfandel and Chardonnay Wine Grapes in the San Joaquin Valley (Chair: Roy Thornton)

Art

Christopher Salamat Resistance, Assimilation, and the Building of the

Filipino Republic: Architecture of Arcadio and Juan

Arellano (Chair: A. Sameh El Kharbawy)

Communication

Christian Angelich Financial Speak: Unmasking the Criminal Discourse of Wall Street (Chair: Kevin Ayotte)

Julissa González A Qualitative Communication Study of AB 540 Latina

University Students: Performing Gender and

Citizenship with Academic Contexts (Chair: Shane Moreman)

Stephanie Hartzell Developing an Understanding of Mentoring Programs

for Incarcerated Youth (Chair: Kevin Ayotte)

Jennifer Zenovich Gender Roles of Montenegrin Women: A Feminist Communication Ethnography in Post-

Communist Montenegro (Chair: Shane Moreman)

Creative Writing—Master of Fine Arts

Erin Alvarez Central Valley Chicana, ¿Y Que? (Chair: John Hales)

Cameron Aveson Hang Fire (Chair: Tim Skeen)

Liza Butler-Aveson Tongue Tied (Chair: John Hales)

Brian Dunlap Amongst Waves (Chair: Alex Espinoza)

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

~Laura Bergstrom proposes that through

open discourse in English studies about

practices and decisions in the classroom, the

field can provide the literacy practices

necessary for student success within

academic institutions and for healthy

participation in a democratic nation.~

Carole Firstman Origins of the Universe and What It All

Means: A Memoir (Chair: John Hales)

Sarah Harian Suck out the Poison (Chair: Randa Jarrar)

Melanie Kachadoorian Jumping In (Chair: John Hales)

Gavin McCall After Honolulu: A Novel (Chair: Randa Jarrar)

Yinka Reed-Nolan An Attempt to Tip the Scales (Chair: John Hales)

Rolando Paez An Experiment in Disorder (Chair: Alex Espinoza)

Anders Peterson Beasts and Burdens Short Stories (Chair: Alex Espinoza)

Farooz Rather The Last Candle and Other Stories (Chair: Alex Espinoza)

Murleen Ray Inheritance (Chair: Timothy Skeen)

Leela Sannyasin Incident with the Dog Catcher (Chair: Connie Hales)

Leslie Santikian Help From Anyone (Chair: Randa Jarrar)

Brandi Spaethe En Route (Chair: Connie Hales)

Shane Velez Left Out: Essays on Suburbia (Chair: Steven Church)

Sally Vogl Restless Leg Syndrome (Chair: John Hales)

Jacqueline Williams Connection, and Other Essays (Chair: John Hales)

English

Nicholas Andrews Texts of Protest: Perspectives on Suffering in the Book of Job

and the Popol Vuh (Chair: Steve Adisasmito-Smith)

Kristin Baer The Dandy in Earnest: Oscar Wilde’s Spiritual Aestheticism (Chair: Ruth Jenkins)

Laura Bergstrom Revising English: Literacy, Democracy, and Practice (Chair: Richard Hansen)

~The purpose of Miriam’s study was to

read Eaton’s life narrative as a type of

borderland text where racist ideology is

simultaneously upheld and broken down

through complex shifting discourses.~

~Melanie’s thesis analyzes the effectiveness of

sentence frames as an instructional practice for

vocabulary development.~

Kelly Clifton Saving Adam, Saving Eve: Construction of the Fallen Woman in Eighteenth and Nineteenth

Century English Novels (Chair: Ruth Jenkins)

Miriam Fernandez The Borderland Narrative: Cross Identity

Discourse and Rhetoric in Winnifred Eaton’s Me (Chair: Ruth Jenkins)

Martha Martinez Ell Writing Identity: Cultural and Linguistic

Influences in the Writing Classroom (Chair: Virginia Crisco)

Linguistics

Majed Alzhrani Stressless Heavy Syllables Affect Main Stress Perception of Saudi Learners of English (Chair: Chris Golston)

Dina Bailey Learning the Phonology of ASL by L2 Hearing Adult Learners (Chair: Jidong Chen)

Phuong Dang Domain-Initial Articulatory Strenthening in Recursive Prosodic

Words (Chair: Chris Golston)

Melanie Halstead The Effect of Structured Oral Sentence Frames on Receptive and Productive Vocabulary

Development (Chair: Ellen Lipp)

Ryan Rhodes Clausal Architecture of Chukchansi Yokuts (Chair: Brian Agbayani)

Emmanuel Uwambayinema Science Teachers’ Challenges Implementing Rwanda’s

English as a Medium of Instruction Policy: A Case Study

of Nyarugenge District Rural Secondary Schools (Chair: Ellen Lipp)

Mass Communication and Journalism

Brian Cortes Asian American Youtubers: Portraying a New

Generation in New Media (Chair: Kelley McCoy)

Sara Zakarian Education and Social Media: An Examination of

Facebook, Twitter and Youtube in K-12 Education (Chair: Kelley McCoy)

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Susana Vargas Rizo La Desestabilización de la Jerarquía Masculina en las Novelas de

María de Zayas (Chair: Ted Bergman)

Hipólito Ortiz Tello Rayuela Y La Disonancia De La Modernidad (Chair: Debbie María Avila)

Civil Engineering

David Hartman Seismic Responses of MSE Walls Using Accelerated

Alternative Backfill Materials with Tire Derived

Aggregates (TDA) and Lightweight Aggregates (LWA) (Chair: Ming Xiao)

Martin Ledezma Improved Shake Table Tests on the Seismic

Performance of Slurry Walls (Chair: Ming Xiao)

Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies

Allison Cole Use of Concurrent Treatment in Phonological Treatment and Across-Phoneme Generalization (Chair: Steven Skelton)

LYLES COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

~Patrick Heckroth analyzes the benefits of

specific imagery practices in extinguishing any

perceived visiting team disadvantage.~

~Whitney examines two case studies to compare the effectiveness of traditional

discrete trial training and DTT embedded in storybook reading for teaching

irregular past tense verbs to children with expressive language disorders.~

Evonne Winter The Efficacy of Behavior Momentum in Evoking Non-

Echolalic Responses in Children with Autism (Chair: Christine Maul)

Whitney Zumstein Discrete Trial Training With and Without Storybook Stimuli: A

Comparison of Efficacy in Treating Children’s Expressive Language Disorders (Chair: Christine Maul)

Kinesiology

Lindsey Brown Profiling the Personal Identities, Goal Orientations, and Perceived Abilities of African American

Male College Student-Athletes (Chair: Dawn Lewis)

Kevin Dames The Effect of Barefoot and Shod Treadmill Running on Fatigue of the

Plantar Flexors (Chair: Jacobo Morales)

Patrick Heckroth Extinguishing Visiting Teams’ Disadvantage: Use of the PETTLEP

Imagery Model to Improve

Sport Performance (Chair: Dawn Lewis)

Taylor Masten Heat Illness Preparedness in California Interscholastic Federation Central Section Secondary

School Athletics (Chair: Scott Sailor)

Arthur Montejano Evaluation of the Impact of a Brief Intervention on

Perceptions of Collective Efficacy in Club Sport Teams (Chair: Jenelle Gilbert)

Public Health

Brittany Chambers Preterm Births and Low-Birth Weight Among Adolescents in the San Joaquin Valley: Testing the

Double Jeopardy Hypothesis (Chair: Helda Pinzon-Perez)

~Miriam Ceballos’ thesis strives to identify

machismo perceptions of not only Latino men but

men of diverse cultures, based on their life

experiences with females and family roles.~

~Stephanie’s work attempts to address the lack of research

focusing on rural school conditions and pupil personnel

service professionals working in rural school settings.~

Alida Espinoza Assessing Differences in Food Security Status Among College Students Enrolled at a Public

California State University Campus (Chair: Helda Pinzon-Perez)

Susie Rico-Vasquez Perceptions of Coaches in Regards to Use of the Real-Time

Air Advisory Network in Fresno, California (Chair: Helda Pinzon-Perez)

Social Work Education

Miriam Ceballos Machismo: A Culturally Constructed Concept (Chair: Jane Middleton)

Sinthia Esquivel Developing an Understanding of Mentoring

Programs for Incarcerated Youth (Chair: Donna Hardina)

Amy Leffingwell The Nature of Personality Disorder Discharge Policy in the

United States Military as of September 11, 2001 (Chair: Betty Garcia)

Crystal Segura The Mental Health Effects of Prolonged Stress in the Lives of

AB540 Students (Chair: Donna Hardina)

Janna Tassop Treatment and Substance Abuse Counselor Characteristics Valued by

Clients (Chair: Betty Garcia)

Pai Tshiab Vang A Phenomenological Study of Hmong Women’s Experience with

Forced Marriage in the Hmong Culture (Chair: Kris Clarke)

Stephanie Voth Experiences of Pupil Personnel Service Professionals in Rural School Settings (Chair: Donna Hardina)

~Imelda’s study seeks to measure the success rate of

Latino/a students in redesigned courses and the

experiences of faculty who redesigned their course.~

~The goal of Vanessa Tucker’s study was to evaluate the population dynamics

of small nocturnal mammals and the occurrence of medium to large mammals

at Naval Air Station Lemoore.~

Counseling, Special Education, and Rehabilitation

Faith Lee Academic Characteristics of 2009 First-Time Freshmen

Hmong College Students at a Western University (Chair: Sarah Lam)

Educational Research and Administration

Imelda Dudley Increasing Latina/o Student Success: Assessing

the Impact of Course Redesign on Students and

Faculty at California State University, Fresno

(Chair: Juan Carlos González)

Biology

Darius Khorshidchehr Three-Dimensional Escape Trajectories in Larval Fish (Chair: Ulrike Muller)

Amy Krisch Bioassessment of the San Joaquin River: Implications for

Chinook Salmon Habitat Restoration (Chair: Brian Tsukimura)

Jaclyn Stogbauer Host Preference of Macrocentrus Ancylivorus Between Grapholita Molesta and Homoeosoma

Electellum (Chair: Paul Crosbie)

Vanessa Tucker Mammalian Biodiversity Survey and Population Dynamics at Naval Air Station Lemoore (Chair: Paul Crosbie)

Chemistry

Bret Wood Electrothermal-Vaporization-Deposition for Synthesis

of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles (Chair: Kin Ng)

KREMEN SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

~Emmanuel’s thesis strives to determine any relationships

between the variables of weapon identification, level of confidence

in identifying weapons, and amount of exposure to weapons in the

media as they apply to criminal court proceedings.~

Maria Woodcock Efficiency of Common Extractions for Methamphetamine and Pseudoephedrine in Forensic Drug

Analysis (Chair: Eric Person)

Geology

Jerrod Lessel New Thermobarometers for Martian Igneous Rocks (Chair: Keith Putirka)

Nobuaki Masutsubo Diverse Metamorphic Trajectories, Imbricated Ocean Plate Stratigraphy, and Fault Rocks, Yuba

River Area, Feather River Ultramafic Belt, California (Chair: John Wakabayashi)

Physics

Navid Rad Improving Cross-Section Calculations in Atlas Simulation Packages:

APPLGRID and NLOJET (Chair: Yongsheng Gao)

Dillon Trelawny The 2012 Outburst of the Soft X-Ray Transient/Black

(Chair: Frederick Ringwald)

Psychology

Emmanuel Alcala Effects of Weapon Exposure on

Confidence in Weapon

Identification (Chair: Matthew Sharps)

Ryanne Amomonpon The Effect of Within-Stimulus Prompting on Training for

Audiovisual Integration (Chair: Lorin Lachs)

David Banse Influencing Attitudes of Older Adults Towards Accepting

Meditation as a Treatment for Illness (Chair: Constance Jones)

Kellee Chi A Parametric Analysis of the Effects of Olfactory Exposures on Food Consumption in Humans (Chair: Marianne Jackson)

~Janell’s study looked at students’ beliefs about the effects of

multi-tasking on academic work and their beliefs about their

ability to multitask compared to their peers.~

Victoria Forsythe The Effects of Graduated Exposure, Feedback, and Goal Setting on Public Speaking Anxiety (Chair: Marianne Jackson)

Gina Gavrilis Evaluating IPAD Technology as an Augmentative and

Alternative Communication Device and Its Effects on Vocal

Communication Skills (Chair: Amanda Adams)

Alixandra Germino Evaluating the Effects of TAGteach on the Rate of Learn

Units Delivered to Students by Behavioral Therapists in a

Center Based Program (Chair: Amanda Adams)

School Psychology (Ed.S.)

Janell Brown How College Student Beliefs About Multitasking Relate to Long-Term Academic Performance (Chair: Paul Price)

Mayra Diaz Children’s Physical Attractiveness and Facial Expression as a

Determinant of Competence (Chair: Jean Ritter)

Diana Gonzalez The Effects of English Language Proficiency on English

Language Learners’ Self-Efficacy and Academic

Achievement (Chair: Lorin Lachs)

Stephanie Hastrup Self-Esteem and Delinquency as Predictors of Educational Expectations, Educational Attainment,

and the Educational Expectations-Attainment Gap (Chair: Marilyn Wilson)

Kimberly Kilgore Evaluating the Effects of the Know More Peer-Education

Program on Relationship Abuse (Chair: Marilyn Wilson)

Hillary Merrick Cultural Differences in Positive Academic Illusions in

American College Students (Chair: Paul Price)

~William’s thesis explores the history behind the policies of the economic

strategy known as the Chilean Miracle and strives to determine who should

be deemed responsible for the success of said economic model, which is such

a crucial influence on the economy of modern Latin America.~

David Nomicos Using Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills Scores to Predict California Language

Development Levels for English Language Learners (Chair: Marilyn Wilson)

Amanda Ulrich Parent-Child Conflict and Academic Engagement for

Hmong American Adolescents (Chair: Hong Ni)

Criminology

Donna Snow Sex Offender Violation Status: An Individual-Level and Contextual-Level Analysis (Chair: Toni Dupont-Morales)

History

William Mask The Great Chilean Recovery: Assigning Responsibility for the Chilean Miracle(s) (Chair: William Skuban)

Political Science

Megan Bailey The Environmental Efficacy of the European Union Emissions

Trading System (Chair: Mark Somma)

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES