Ph.D. Recipients
The HHP department has awarded 28 Ph.D.'s since 2001, below is a list of all Ph.D. recipients since 2001, their advisors and their dissertation titles.
2012
- Whitney Breslin, "Systemic Inflammation and Obesity-Related Disease Risk Factors In Mexican-American Children"
Advisor: Brian McFarlin - Katie Carpenter, "Effects of the Consumption of a High-Fat Meal on Consectutive Days on Immune Cells and Inflammatory Biomarkers"
Advisor: Brian McFarlin - Vladimir Ivkovic, "Effects of Tactile Cueing on Functional Movement Modulation in Parkinson’s Disease"
Advisor: William Paloski - Amir Pourmoghaddam, "SYNERGOS: An Index for Quantifying Multiple Muscle Activation"
Advisor: Charles Layne - Meghan Everett, "Characterization of Muscle Blood Flow and Cardiovascular Response during Traditional Resistance or Low Load Blood Flow Restricted Resistance Exercise: Acute Responses and Training Adaptations during Human Limb Suspension"
Advisor: Daniel O'Connor
2011
- Kelley Strohacker, "Acute Changes in Peripheral Blood Monocytes Following a High-Fat Meal With or Without Moderate-Intensity Cycling in Young Adults With Differing Levels of Body Fat"
Advisor: Brian McFarlin
2010
- Kristen M. McAlexander, "Correspondence of Directly and Indirectly Measured Built Environment Attributes and Physical Activity Adoption Among African American and Hispanic or Latina Women"
Advisor: Rebecca Lee - Augusto X. Rodriguez
Advisor: Norma Olvera - Penny L. Wilson, "Relationship Between Dietary Habits and Binge Eating Symptoms in African American and Hispanic or Latina Women"
Advisor: Rebecca Lee
2008
- Melissa M. Scott-Pandorf, "Locomotion Stability in Simulated Martian Gravity: Insights on the Effects of Added Weight and Load Location"
Advisor: Max Kurz - Lindsay C. Edwards, "Neurophysiological responses to whole body vibration"
Advisor: Charles Layne - Fred L. Miller III, "Defining exercise adherence and its determinants ; the TIGER study"
Advisor: Daniel O'Connor/Andrew Jackson
2007
- Jeremy J. Houser, "Does Enhanced Somatosensory Input Influence Postural Sway?"
Advisor: Charles Layne - Alexander T. Hutchison, "The Effect of Accupuncture on Natural Killer Cell Response to Exercise"
Advisor: Brian McFarlin
2006
- Heidi Y. Perkins, "Achievement Goals and Fear of Failure as Predictors of Stage of Change for Physical Activity"
Advisor: Dale Pease - Andrew F. Abercromby, "Neuromuscular and biodynamic responses to whole-body vibration training"
Advisor: Charles Layne - Dean O. Culpepper, "Cortical Activity of Mood State Depressed Individuals While Viewing Slides From a Reversal Theory Perspective"
Advisor: Dale Pease
2005
- Katharine E. Forth, "The neuromuscular responses to context-specific foot stimulation"
Advisor: Charles Layne
2004
- Stephanie Jevas, "Burnout in Texas Division 4A and 5A High School Athletic Trainers From a Reversal Theory Perspective"
Advisor: Dale Pease - Ryan K. Zapalac, "Construction and Validation of the Metamotivational Sport Indentification Scale (MSIS)"
Advisor: Dale Pease - Daniel C. Hughes, "Physical Activity and Stress in Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors"
Advisor: Dale Pease/Mary Naus-Watters
2003
- Juan Gualberto Cremades Nogues, "Concurrent Validity and Reliability of Lower and Upper Alpha Activites as Measures of Imagery Ability"
Advisor: Dale Pease - Jay T. Lee, "Factor Analysis of a Cross-Sectional Survey of Exercise Metamotivations Based on Reversal Theory Constructs"
Advisor: Dale Pease
2002
- Mitzi Laughlin, "Effect of the Ace Gene and Physical Activity on the Risk of CHD and Left Ventricular Mass"
Advisor: Andrew Jackson - Mary Francis Baxter, "Effect of dynamic foot pressure on neuromuscular activation"
Advisor: Charles Layne - Daniel O'Connor, "A Comparison of Scaling Methods for Psychophysical Ratings of Acute Musculoskeletal Pain"
Advisor: Andrew Jackson
2001
- Liette Marie Bellerive-Ocker, "Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Eating Attitudes Test"
Advisor: James Zhang - Evangelia Delikanaki-Skaribas, "The Role of Sampling Duration on Basal Metabolic Rate Measurement Error"
Advisor: Andrew Jackson
