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Cornell University does not offer a separate Masters of Science (MS) degree program in the field of Statistics. Applicants interested in obtaining a masters-level degree in statistics should consider applying to Cornell's MPS Program in Applied Statistics.

Choosing a Field of Study

There are many graduate fields of study at Cornell University. The best choice of graduate field in which to pursue a degree depends on your major interests. Statistics is a subject that lies at the interface of theory, applications, and computing. Statisticians must therefore possess a broad spectrum of skills, including expertise in statistical theory, study design, data analysis, probability, computing, and mathematics. Statisticians must also be expert communicators, with the ability to formulate complex research questions in appropriate statistical terms, explain statistical concepts and methods to their collaborators, and assist them in properly communicating their results. If the study of statistics is your major interest then you should seriously consider applying to the Field of Statistics.

There are also several related fields that may fit even better with your interests and career goals. For example, if you are mainly interested in mathematics and computation as they relate to modeling genetics and other biological processes (e.g, protein structure and function, computational neuroscience, biomechanics, population genetics, high throughput genetic scanning), you might consider the Field of Computational Biology . You may wish to consider applying to the Field of Electrical and Computer Engineering if you are interested in the applications of probability and statistics to signal processing, data compression, information theory, and image processing. Those with a background in the social sciences might wish to consider the Field of Industrial and Labor Relations with a major or minor in the subject of Economic and Social Statistics. Strong interest and training in mathematics or probability might lead you to choose the Field of Mathematics . Lastly, if you have a strong mathematics background and an interest in general problem-solving techniques (e.g., optimization and simulation) or applied stochastic processes (e.g., mathematical finance, queuing theory, traffic theory, and inventory theory) you should consider the Field of Operations Research .

Residency Requirements

Students admitted to PhD program must be "in residence" for at least four semesters, although it is generally expected that a PhD will require between 8 and 10 semesters to complete. The chair of your Special Committee awards one residence unit after the satisfactory completion of each semester of full-time study. Fractional units may be awarded for unsatisfactory progress.

Your Advisor and Special Committee

The Director of Graduate Studies is in charge of general issues pertaining to graduate students in the field of Statistics. Upon arrival, a temporary Special Committee is also declared for you, consisting of the Director of Graduate Studies (chair) and two other faculty members in the field of Statistics. This temporary committee shall remain in place until you form your own Special Committee for the purposes of writing your doctoral dissertation. The chair of your Special Committee serves as your primary academic advisor; however, you should always feel free to contact and/or chat with any of the graduate faculty in the field of Statistics.

The formation of a Special Committee for your dissertation research should serve your objective of writing the best possible dissertation. The Graduate School requires that this committee contain at least three members that simultaneously represent a certain combination of subjects and concentrations. The chair of the committee is your principal dissertation advisor and always represents a specified concentration within the subject & field of Statistics. The Graduate School additionally requires PhD students to have at least two minor subjects represented on your special committee. For students in the field of Statistics, these remaining two members must either represent (i) a second concentration within the subject of Statistics, and one external minor subject; or, (ii) two external minor subjects. Each minor advisor must agree to serve on your special committee; as a result, the identification of these minor members should occur at least 6 months prior to your A examination.

Some examples of external minors include Computational Biology, Demography, Computer Science, Economics, Epidemiology, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Operations Research. The declaration of an external minor entails selecting (i) a field other than Statistics in which to minor; (ii) a subject & concentration within the specified field; and, (iii) a minor advisor representing this field/subject/concentration that will work with you in setting the minor requirements. Typically, external minors involve gaining knowledge in 3-5 graduate courses in the specified field/subject, though expectations can vary by field and even by the choice of advisor. While any choice of external minor subject is technically acceptable, the requirement that the minor representative serve on your Special Committee strongly suggests that the ideal choice(s) should share some natural connection with your choice of dissertation topic.

The fields, subjects and concentrations represented on your committee must be officially recognized by the Graduate School ; the Degrees, Subjects & Concentrations tab listed under each field of study provides this information. Information on the concentrations available for committee members chosen to represent the subject of Statistics can be found on the Graduate School webpage . 

Statistics PhD Travel Support

The Department of Statistics and Data Science has established a fund for professional travel for graduate students. The intent of the Department is to encourage travel that enhances the Statistics community at Cornell by providing funding for graduate students in statistics that will be presenting at conferences. Please review the Graduate Student Travel Award Policy website for more information. 

Completion of the PhD Degree

In addition to the specified residency requirements, students must meet all program requirements as outlined in Program Course Requirements and Timetables and Evaluations and Examinations, as well as complete a doctoral dissertation approved by your Special Committee. The target time to PhD completion is between 4 and 5 years; the actual time to completion varies by student.

Students should consult both the Guide to Graduate Study and Code of Legislation of the Graduate Faculty (available at www.gradschool.cornell.edu ) for further information on all academic and procedural matters pertinent to pursuing a graduate degree at Cornell University.

Theses and Dissertations

Note: In most cases, a copy of each thesis or dissertation can be found in  Mann Library .

Doctor of Philosophy

Abbas, Ali, Essays on Public Finance and Development Chen, Ruyu, Essays on Information Technology Adoption among Commercial Firms Rao, Deyu, Essays on Environmental and Urban Economics Si, Shuyang, Empirical Analyses of Food and Energy Economics and Policy in China Wu, Zhouyu, Information Ownership, Valuation, and Exploitation in Digital Markets Xue, Zhe, Essays on Patents and Innovation Disclosure Strategy Yang, Youwei, Emerging Questions in Agricultural Finance

Master of Science

Dai, Bingyan, Impact of Increased Drought Intensity in California on Supply Chain Configuration: Broccoli in the Eastern United States Fu, Zhe, Effect on Consumers’ Willingness to Pay on “Local” Information for Strawberries Gao, Qixiang, Market Attitudes under Uncertainty: What is Priced in the Crude Oil Volatility Risk Premium? Gao, Ya, The Impact of House Demolition on Chinese Households’ Expenditures Gjika, Ina, The Relationship Between Sustainability, Credit Risk and Profitability in Financial Institutions – Evidence From Developing Countries Ha, Chengchen, Dairy Revenue Protection Insurance: Effect on Risk Reduction and Return Hiebert, Allegra Rose Trasolini, Estimating Productivity and the Labor Market Consequences of Minimum Wage Legislation in Indonesia Hu, Anna, Consumer Willingness-to-pay for Concord Grape Juice Treated by High-pressure Processing and Pulsed Electric Field Hu, Xiaoyu, Does performance commitment improve earnings quality? Jia, Jingru, People’s Well-Being and Economic Sector Performance Jung, Jong Min, Do Unionized Firms Have Better Management Practices? Kim, Hannah, Farmer Adoption of Cassava Traits: A Case Study of Improved Varieties in Nigeria Krasnoff, Shayna Marie, Economic Assessment of Farm-to-School Food Purchasing Incentives: The Case of the Buffalo City School District Liang, Luqi, How Partner Type Influences Effectiveness of Symbolic Co-Branding in Cosmetics Industry Ma, Xuqian, Particulate Matter, Micronutrient Supplement, and Early Childhood Development Marman, Olin Benjamin, Macroeconomic Networks and Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis Nguyen, Phuoc Thien Anh, Trade Liberalization and Children’s School-Work Choice: Evidence from Vietnam Paje, Miguel Santos, The Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Association Membership in Albay, Philippines Park, Sangwoo, The effect of weather on travel modes: a Chicago case study Perez, Luis Fernando, An Analysis of the Impact Agricultural Certifications Have on Farmer Incomes- The Case of Columbia Avocado Growers Porter, Samuel Louis, The Role of Soil Properties on Crop Yield Sensitivity to Extreme Temperatures Saiyyad, Kasim Nazir, Does Participation in Two Livelihood Programs Make the Low-Income Households Any Better? Silver, Casey Rebecca, Consumer Perceptions of Various Meats and Meat-Substitutes: A Lab Based Study Song, Jiachen, Impact of Internet Forum Trends and Retail Investors Online Discussions on Stock Price: Analyzing Wallstreetbets Users’ Activities in the 1st & 2nd Quarter of 2021 Su, Xingbang, Corporate Strategy, Earnings Manipulation, and Short Selling Sun, Jialiang, Factors Associated With Price Responsiveness of Concord Grape Growers in New York State Tran, Anh Triet Tam, The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on WTI Crude, Milk, and Agricultural Commodities Wang, Yunran, Farmer’s Choices and Informal Loans in China: Risk-sharing and Personality Effects Wang, Zhongyang, Shifts in Political Environment and Industry Momentum: Evidence from Global Stock Markets Wang, Zihan, Height and Income Effects on Stock Investments in China Xie ,Guanghan, Wallstreetbets and the Madness of Crowds Yu, Zhongling, Assessment of Environmental Kuznets Curves for Industrial Solid Waste in China Zeng, Zijian, Charging Station Location and Electric Vehicle Demand: Evidence from New York State Zhang, Hanlong, Social Media Generic Advertisements and Demand for California Walnuts Zhang, Shenzhe, Individual Differences in Making Intertemporal Choices for Monetary and Food Choice Tasks: Using Drift-Diffusion Model (DDM) Zhang, Tieyue, Estimating the Effects of the Conservation Reserve Program on Water Quality of Agricultural Watersheds in the US Zhang, Xiaoyuan, Does Social Assistance Increase Smoking and Drinking among the Poor? Evidence from the Minimum Living Security System in China Zheng, Linnan, The Impact of Compulsory Lockdown to control the Spread of Covid-19 on Air Pollution-Evidence from 74 Major Cities in China Zhou, Geqing, Facts Behind Food Certifications: Consumer Demand for Organic and Non-GMO Plant-Based Milk Products with Redundant Labeling and Certification Exceptions Zhu, Haolin, Change in Comprehensive Bilateral Trade Cost Under China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Blom, Sylvia Annette, Three essays on the economics of poverty, nutrition, and development Byrne, Anne Teresa, Consumer use of food bank services: questions of timing and value Jodlowski, Margaret,   Three Essays on Agricultural Labor and Risk in the United States Liang, Yuanning, Essays in Environmental, Transportation, and Urban Economics Purevjav, Avralt-Od, Essays on the Environmental and Transportation Economics Rajkumar, Vidya Bharathi, Essay on the Effects of Migration & Remittances on Households in Rural India Sim, Armand Arief, Essays on Consequences and Responses to Economic Shocks Soares Cardoso, Diego, Essays on Carbon and Water Pricing Yang, Lin, Essays on Environmental Challenges and Regulations in China Yeh, Dourong Adeline, Three Essays on Economic Issues Confronting the Fresh Produce Sector

An, Yinuo, Subjective and Objective Risk Perceptions and the Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Insurance: Evidence from an In-the-Field Choice Experiment in Rural China. Bonacquist-Currin, Marley, The Economic Value of Birdwatching: A Meta-Analysis and Summary of Stated Preference Studies Davis, Trent James, Intra-household Perceived Bargaining Power and Agricultural Technology Adoption: A Case Study of Improved Cassava Varieties in NigeriaDong, Siyu, The Myth of Foreign Direct Investment on Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from China, 2000 – 2013 Du, Jiajun, A Vulnerability Index for Priority Targeting of Agricultural Crops with a Changing Climate Fang, Shichao, Informal Lending and Other-Regarding Motives: Further Evidence from Choice Experiment in Rural China Fiechter, Chad Michael, Countercyclical Use of Trade Credit: Evidence from the Northeast Dairy Industry Harrison, Cale Steven, Excess returns or excessive risk? Environmental impact in the age of news overload Havas, Dana Michele, Analyzing Farm Level Practices and Policies for a Financially Viable Sheep Farm Enterprise Using System Dynamics: Focusing on Fiber Production and Marketing He, Yurou, The Efficiency of Agricultural Credit Associations with Loan Losses as Undesirable Outputs Homami, Nima, Assessing Consumer Demand for Intermediate Wheatgrass, A New Sustainable Grain Hu, Xingyi, Meritocracy and Cronyism in the Political Selection System: Evidence from Prefecture-level Cities in China Ju, Ming, The Impact of Natural Disaster Risk on US Municipal Bonds Li, Jinge, Global Evidence of the Effect of Phytoplankton on Fishery Resources Li, Qiyu, An Analysis of Participation and Willingness to Sell of Farmers in an Urban Village Removal Program – A Case Study in Zhoushan, Eastern China Lin, Changlun, Knowledge and Innovation Flows in the Chinese Tech Sector Liu, Shutian, The Relationship Between Gender and Depressive Symptoms in China Liu, Yuwei, Capturing Crop Resilience to Extreme Weather Under Conservation Practices: Evidence From Crop Insurance Indemnities Luo, Xueyun, High-Tech Industrial Development Zone Policy and Firm Innovation Activities: Evidence from China Malinovskaya, Anna, Essays on New Income Opportunities for Disadvantaged Populations in the U.S. Martin, Judith, Food Insecurity Dynamics of Households in the United States Between 2005 – 2017 Mazariegos-Anastassiou, Veronica, Supermarket Expansion and Changing Food Consumption Patterns in Mexico, 1996-2006 Pramanik, Chanchal, A Problem on the Feasibility of Rural Digital Economy Schultz, Alexander John, Crop Insurance’s Impact on Commercial Bank Loan Volumes Sheinberg, Joshua Stephen, To Brand or Not to Brand? An Empirical Analysis of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Hotel Branding Shi, Weilun, The Economics of Agricultural Land Use Conversion and the Conservation Reserve Program Shulman, Ross Everett, Subjective Well-Being, Net Worth, and Savings Modalities Wang, Qian, Public Blockchain Ecosystem and Dapp Adoption Wang, Qinwen, Risk Balancing Behavior of Rural Households in China: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment Wasserman-Olin, Rebecca Danielle, Marketing Decisions of Farmers Via Wholesalers: A Choice Experiment Weis, Carter Scott, Outdated: The Effects of Novel Freshness Indicators on Consumer Likelihood to Waste Food Wu, Haotian, Does Ethanol in Gasoline Affect Air Quality? Evidence from NASCAR Yang, Zou, Customer Satisfaction and Sales Performance in U-pick Operations Ye, Kunkai, Financial Contract’s Structural Shift Evidenced By An Empirical Exploration Of Textual Credit Agreements Yu, Ge, The Impact of Social Media Sentiment on Chinese Stock Market Zhao, Jianqiang, Putting Grocery Food Taxes on the Table: Evidence for Food Security Policy-Makers

Ho, Shuay-Tsyr, Essays on the Economics of Policy and Regulation in Agricultural and Food Markets Korting, Christina Maria,   Essays on Economic Challenges to Renewable Energy Integration Lin, Chia Hua, Essays in Labor and Urban Economics McGranaghan, Matthew,   Essays on the Economics of Attention Qian, Jing, Labor Unions, Corruption, and Electric Vehicles: Three Essays on Applied Microeconomics Vanaja, Shiuli, Essays on the Time Use and Behavioral Patterns of Women’s Access to Household Water in Rural India

Assaranurak, Ithipong, Adaption to Climate Change with Crop Insurance: Case of the US Federal Crop Insurance (1990-2015) Bakshi, Tanya, An Empirical Analysis of Firm-Level Productivity, Perceptions, and Misallocation in the South Asian Region Byambasuren, Tsenguunjav, Indoor Air Quality, Fuel Choice, and Infant Mortality Cao, Chenyang, Does Venture Capital Accelerate the Inventive Activities of Frontier Technologies? New Evidence from Artificial Intelligence Chen, Hongxiao, Capital and Labor Distortions, Firms’ Heterogeneity and Export Behavior Constenla Villoslada, Susana, Development Resilience: A Comparison of Popular Measurement Methods Han, Congyan, Understanding Missing Data in Real-time Pollution Monitoring System in China Ji, Yikuan, Marginal Effect of Road Construction on Traffic Speed: Evidence from New York City Kim, Ejin, Do H-2A Guest Workers Displace Native Farmworkers? Li, Dingyi, The Effects of Pollution on Travel Mode Choice Li, Lingyi, An Ex-ante Economic Evaluation of Patented Rootstocks for Apple Producers in New York State Li, Wei, Do Operators Leverage Their Labor by Hiring Workers? Evidence from Dairy Farms Lian, Fenni, Agriculture Commodity Prices and Loan Losses at a Farm Credit Association: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Analysis Liang, Can, Cost of Capital For Closely Held Non-Publicly Traded Businesses: Empirical Estimation For Dairy Farms Lu, Kefan, Non-family CEO compensation and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese listed family firms Ma, Xiaoxiao, Inequality of Years of Schooling, Stunting, and Intra-Household BMI in China Ma, Zekun, The Stigma of Non-GMO Label on Conventional Unlabeled Alcohol Products Munch, Daniel Matthew, Assessing the Value of Agricultural Cooperative Membership: A Case of Dairy Marketing in the United States Wang, Hexin, An Economic Investigation on Developments in Agricultural Credit During China’s Collective Period: 1950-1984 Wu, Tong, Optimal Moso Bamboo Forest management: A Dynamic Model Wu, Yu, The Impact of Sino-USA Trade War on USA Farm Bankruptcies Xu, Wenzhuo, Does Watching Mukbangs Help You Diet? The Effect of the Mukbang on the Desire to Eat Yalcinkaya, Beril, Customer Preferences in Small Fast-Food Businesses: A Multilevel Approach to Google Reviews Data Yan, Minhao, Sell It Now or Later? A Decision-making Model for Feeder Cattle Selling Yin, Rui, Investor Sentiment and Stock Return: Evidence From China Yu, Shuo, Spotted Wing Drosophila Management in Michigan Blueberry: A Dynamic Structural Model Zheng, Wenxue, Where Does My Time Go?! The Trap of Segregated Time

Gao, Xin, Choices and Preferences at the Individual, Household, and Community Levels Ho, Shuay-Tsyr, Essays on the Economics of Policy and Regulation in Agricultural and Food Markets Jagnani, Maulik Vimalkumar, Essays on Human Capital, Environment, and Development Jerch, Rhiannon Leigh, Essays on the Value of Local Public Goods Park, Seollee, Essays in Development and Nutrition Economics Qian, Jing, Labor Unions, Corruption, and Electric Vehicles: Three Essays on Applied Microeconomics Vemireddy, Vidya Sachita Reddy, Pathways from Agriculture to Nutrition in India: The Role of Women’s Time Trade-Offs and Empowerment

An, Jingyi, The Role of Line of Credit in Mutual Funds Liquidity: Determinants and Implications Assaranurak, Ithipong, Adaptation to Climate Change with Crop Insurance: Case of the US Federal Crop Insurance (1990-2015) Byambasuren, Tsenguunjav, Indoor Air Quality, Fuel Choice, and Infant Mortality Cao, Chenyang,  Does Venture Capital Accelerate the Inventive Activities of Frontier Technologies? New evidence from Artificial Intelligence Cao, Jiacheng, Fear-Based Buying and Investor Confidence: Exploring Mass Shootings Influence on the Stock Return of Firearm Manufacturers in the U.S. Chen, Hongxiao, Capital and Labor Distortions, Firms’ Heterogeneity and Export Behavior Constello Villoslada, Susana, Development Resilience: A Comparison of Popular Measurement Methods Gao, Yawan, Information Effects on Consumers Willingness-to-Buy: The Case of Spotted-Wing-Drosophile-Infested Blueberries Han, Congyan, Understanding Missing Data in Real-Time Pollution Monitoring System in China Kalaitzandonakes, Maria Helen, Mother Knows Best: Understanding Mom Blogs’ Influence on Moms’ Nutrition Beliefs and Habits Li, Dingyi, The Effects of Pollution on Travel Mode Choice Li, Dingyi, An Ex-ante Economic Evaluation of Patented Rootstocks for Apple Producers in New York State Kim, Ejin, Do H-2A Guest Workers Displace Native Farmworkers? Liu, Qi, Heterogeneous Choice in WTP and WTA for Land Rental Arrangement in Rural China: Choice Experiment from the Field Ma, Xiaoxiao, Inequality of Years of Schooling, Stunting, and Intra-Household BMI in China Ma, Zekun, The Stigma Impact of Non-GMO Label on Conventional Unlabeled Alcohol Products Manzo, Angelo Anthony, A Structural Analysis of Global Corn and Soybean Markets from 2006-2017 Meng, Nan, Heterogeneous Choice in the Demand for Agriculture Credit in China: Results from an in-the-Field Choice Experiment Pei, Xinyue, Unfair Inequality Measurement in China and South Africa Schell, Robert Charles, You’re Fat. How’s that my Problem? Predicting the Lifetime 3rd Party Direct Costs of Obesity Among Late Adolescent Minorities with a Race-Specific Age-Related Weight Gain Curve Sun, Mingwei, Heterogeneous Choice in the Demand for Crop Insurance in China: Results from in-the-Field Choice Experiment Wang, Hexin, An Economic Investigation on Developments in Agricultural Credit During China’s Collective Period: 1950-1984 Williams, Kalob James, Using Cocao to Catalyze Development: Productivity Drivers and Technology Adoption Amongst Smallholder Farmers in Montes de Maria Columbia Wu, Tong, Optimal Moso Bamboo Forest Management: A Dynamic Model Xu, Junhong, The Effect of Actual and Perceived Financial Literacy on Financial Behaviors of College Students Xu, Wenzhuo, Does Watching Mukbangs Help You Diet? The effect of the Mukbang on the Desire to Eat Xu, Xinran, The Effect of Portfolio Managers Past Experience on their Performance Yu, Shuo, Spotted Wing Drosophila Management in Michigan Blueberry: A Dynamic Structural Model Zhang, Xiaoxi, Informational Discontinuity in Soybean Futures Price from the 2018-2019 Sino-America Trade War

Debnam, Jakina Rian, Essays on the Role of Social Influence in Behavioral Economics Finseth, Ryan Michael, Essays on the Economics of Conservation Firsin, Oleg, Essays on Factor Mobility and Economic Outcomes Hernandez, Aguilera, Juan Nicolas, Three Essays on the Economics of Sustainable Coffee Systems Knippenberg, Erwin, Shocks, Resilience and Food Security, Essays in Development Economics Li, Yanan, Three Essays on Development and Labor Economics McBride, Linden E, Statistical Learning Applications in Development Economics Otto, Steven Gregory, Essays on Conservation Auctions and Uncertainty in Preferences Wu, Kai,  Three Essays on Capital Markets Xing, Jianwei, Three Essays on The Economic Impact of Fuel Economy Policies

Anderson, Thomas Moylan, A Bioeconomic Model for Evaluating the Role of Conservation Finance in Fisheries Dong, Jiayi, Consumer Willingness-to-Oay for Local Produce: The Case of New York Broccoli Grout, Travis Austin, Are Revenues from Energy Leases Reinvested by U.S. Farms? Evidence from TOTAL Gupta, Prankur, Can Social Marketing be a Tool Towards Improved Nutrition? Lessons from a Field Experiment in India Hiranandani, Komal Surendra, Mismatched Governance: Exploring the Relationship Between Rural and Urban Governance Forms and Urban Development in India Li, Yan, A comparison Between Pert Distribution and Seasonal Arima Model to Forecast Rainfall Pattern Ma, Jidong, The Impact of High-Speed Railway on Firm Entry in China Narang, Anjali Urvashi, The Role of Tastings and Simple Marketing Tools in Children’s Acceptance of Healthy, Plant-based Entrees Olson, Seth Alexander Bullen, Credit Rationing in Kenyan Agricultural Households and Uptake of Risk Contingent Credit: Evidence From the Field Shin, Brian Bennett, On the Optimality of Fishery Moratorium Stephan, Christine, Estimating Technical, Revenue, Allocative, and Profit Efficiencies of Genetic Traits for Dairy Bulls Yu, Bochen, An Indigenous Analysis of the Gradual Information Diffusion Model

Cisse, Jennifer Denno,  Development Resilience Estimation:  Theory and Applications Fan, Xiaoli,  Three Essays on Agribusiness Economics and Management Hirfrfot, Kibrom Tafere, Essays In Development Economics Li, Jie,  Three Essays on Marketing and Consumer Behavior of Ambiguous Products:  The Case of Wine Lei, Lei, Three Essays on the Impact of International Trade Policy on Agricultural Input Markets McCullough, Ellen Bess,  Structural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa:  Agricultural Productivity, Labor Supply, and Occupational Choice Rao, Tanvi,  Essays on Human Capital & Development in India Seok, Young Hwa,  Event Study Analysis of Consumer Behavior:  Evidence from Credit Card Spending in Korea Wang, Yiwei,  Essays on Regulation and Its Impact on Industry and Taxation:  Studies on Café Standards Wu, Di,  Social Media and Asset Prices

Chen, Ruyu, Social Interactions in the Presence of Community Shock Diatta, Dieynab Sidou Faya El Siby,  Shock Metrics for Resilience Analysis:  An Investigation of the Relationship Between Subjective and Objective Indicators Kannan, Suryakumari Samyuktha,  Developing A Multidimensional Framework for the Evaluation of Women’s Self Help Groups Kaur, Ishneet,  FDI-Trade Interlinkages:  Analyzing Impact of Macroeconomic Crises Meng, Qingrun,  Climate Change Impact:  Accounting for Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Responses Across Industries in United States Nasr, Anthony Tanios,  The Interplay of Credit, Savings, and Vulnerability:  A Study of Financial Inclusion in Kenya Nesin, Bourcard,  From the Underground Up:  Bringing Bone Char Fertilizer to Market in Ethiopia Nishi, Irin,  Consumer Willingness to Pay for Local Vegetables Grown in a Controlled Environment:  The Case of Lettuce Rao, Deyu,  Air Pollution, Health Impact and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in China Saputo, Rachel Lauren,  Revisiting the Demand for GMO Products:  Does Information about Food Waste Influence Consumer Preferences? Troendle, Jason Alan,  Economic Impacts of Using Virus-Tested Grapevines Utterback, Matthew Levy,  Investigating Weather Shocks and the Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change in the American Farmland Market Valdes Perez, Joaquin,  Labor, Law, and Informality in Latin America:  Empirical Essays Wang, Jingyuan,  Impact of Economic Growth and Industrial Activities on Air Quality in China:  Evidence from 118 Cities Wang, Xinyang,  Finding Salvation in Food:  Social and Information Influences on the Perception of Food Fads Wheeler, Mary Kate,  The Uncertain Promise of Agriculture:  Two Essays on Climate Change, Agriculture and Nutrition in the Andean Highlands of Peru Womack, Elizabeth Jade,  The Effects of Development Aid as Rents on Violence Wu, Linghui,  Lionfish Derby:  Dynamic Optimization Model of a Fishing Tournament to Control Local Invasive Species Yan, Bingyi,  Crop and Energy Price Links Since 2006:  An Analysis of a Biofuel Policy Framework Yang, Lin,  The Environmental Impact of Metro Expansion on Air Quality in Beijing, China

Bevis, Leah,  Tied to the Land: How Soils Drive Health, Investment, and Productivity in Rural Uganda Choe, Justin J.,  Essays in Innovation and Technology Adoption Gupta, Soumya,  Three Essays on Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages:  Women’s Iron Status and Empowerment in Agriculture in Chandrapur, India Klotz, Richard Lawrence,  Three Essays on the Design and Evaluation of Sector-Level Climate Policies Simons, Andrew Martin,  Essays in Development Economics: Human Capital Accumulation, Social Protection, and Hawthorne Effects Soundararajan, Vidhya,  Essays on the Economics of Labor Market Institutions and Political Economy ​​​​​​​Streletskaya, Nadezhda Andreevna,  Consumer Food Preferences:  Three Essays on Labeling, Anti-Obesity Policies and Social Presence Waxman, Andrew Robert,  Three Essays on the Urban Transportation Networks

Bently, Michael James,  Boomerang Bias:  Examining the Effect of Parental Coresidence on Millennial Financial Behavior ​​​​​​​Carduner, Amy Louise,  Farm Loan Demand Elasticities and the Relationship Between the Farm Credit System and the Commercial Bank Lending Cheng, Ziang,  Agricultural Credit Demand in Republican China, 1929-1933: An Econometric Assessment of John L. Buck’s Household Survey Data Coles, Phillip Scott , Produce Buyer Quality Requirements to Form and Eastern Broccoli Industry ​​​​​​​Kananizadeh, Sogol,  Analysis of Hybrid-Electric Market Penetration in the United States: What Went Wrong? Kim, Hyeik,  Momentum in the Corporate Bond Market: Evidence in Korea Li, Yupeng,  Is the Social Network an Effective Factor When Using Tablet PCs for Learning?  Evidence from a Field Experiment in Chinese Migrant Primary School Miao, Qisiyu,  Memory vs. Momentum – Exploring Momentum Strategies with the Hurst Exponent Oh, Da Yea,  The Welfare Economics of Renewable Electricity Policies in California Pan, Yuanyuan,  The Anti-Corruption Campaign and Catering Industry in China Shen, Yu,  Chinese Labor Earnings, Economic Sectors, and Individual Characteristics from 2010 to 2012 Shi, Kaihang,  The Health Impact of Air Pollution in China: Evidence from Emergency Admissions ​​​​​​​Spini, Pietro Emilio,  The Effect of Carbon Taxation on U.S. Crop Farm Costs Wang, Boya,  Impacts of Vertical Restraints on Output: Evidence from China’s Tobacco Market Yan, Jin,  The Impact of the Minimum Wage Changes on Wages in the Informal and Formal Sector: Evidence from Indonesia Yao, Jixuan,  Testing Implied Volatility Discovery Period Length Assumptions in the Federal Crop Insurance Program ​​​​​​​Zeng, Zhaoyu,  An Empirical Analysis of China’s Electricity Sector Reform and Efficiency

Becker, Dennis,  Hetergeneous Firms, Informality and Trade Liberalization Bell ,  Samuel Dylan,  Valuing Environmental Goods in a Development Context Berazneva, Julia,  Reconciling Food, Energy, and Environmental Outcomes: Three Essays on the Economics of Biomass Management in Western Kenya Garg, Teevrat,  Essays in Environmental and Development Economics Kong , Xianzheng , Technical Patterns and Stochastic Properties of Asset Returns Lu, Hao,  The Economics of Demand Aggregators in Electricity Markets Rusmevichientong, Pimbucha,  Three Essays on the Impacts of Public Policy on Behavioral Health Sharma, Parul,  Corporations, Foreign Portfolio Investment and the Role of Securities Market Regulation Sun, Lin , On the Economics and Pricing of Newly Emerging Bond Varieties: Micro and Macro Effects of Foreign and Catastrophe Bonds Upton, Joanna Beth , Toward Better Meeting the Needs of the Food Insecure: Three Essays on the Theory and Reality of Food Assistance Policies in the Sahel Yan, Jubo,  Essays in Behavioral and Energy Economics

Byerly,   Hilary Joy,  Spatial Patterns of Drought Vulnerability in Rice-Producing Districts of India Carbajal De Nova,   Carolina,  Wages, Gaps and Derived Demand:  The Case of United States and Mexican Production Workers Chen, Pinyi,  Preferential Treatments of State-Owned Enterprises in China Cherry, Marin Elise,  The Feasibility of a Sanitation System Utilizing Biological Pathogen Control:  Evidence from Ethiopia Fang, Peixun , Evaluating Consumer Response to Labels and Packaging in the Market for Baby Foods Hu, Xiao , An Empirical Performance Evaluation of Different Portfolio Allocation Strategies Li, Feifei , Fairness, Reciprocity and Informal Familial Lending in Rural China and India McCullough, Ellen Bess , Non-Thesis Master’s Miller, Alyssa P.,  A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Crop Insurance, Climate Change, and U.S. Corn Acreage Xing, Jianwei,  The Market for Electric Vehicles:  Indirect Network Effects and Policy Impacts

Atallah, Shady , Plant-Level, Spatial, Bioeconomic Models of Plant Disease Diffusion and Control: Grapevine Leafroll Disease Chawanote, Chayanee,  Occupational and Earning Dynamics, The Roles of Wealth and Education in the Rural Non-Farm Economy: Evidence from Thailand and Indonesia Dressler, Jonathan Boyd,  Agricultural Mortgage Portfolio Delinquency Based Economic Capital Estimation Herrera-Almanza, Catalina , Essays on the Economic Transition to Adulthood: Migration, Fertility and Education Decisions Among Young Women in Sub-Sahara Africa Hill, Elaine Lawrence , Three Essays on the Impacts of Unconventional Drilling on Early Life Health Jales, Mario De Queiroz Monteiro , Essays on International Trade: Subsidies, Tariffs and the World Trade Organization Jensen, Nathaniel Duane , Basis Risk, Uptake and Impacts of Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya Jeon, Woo Young , The Impact of Wind Generation, Deferrable Demand, and Utility-Scale Storage on System Costs and Customers? Payments for Electricity Kher, Romi,  Essays on Entrepreneurial Risk Preferences and Career Choices Landry, Joel Reid , Three Essays on Incomplete Climate Policy in a Second-Best World Leard, Benjamin Paul , Essays in Environmental and Energy Economics Lopes, Adrian Anthony , Essays on the Economics of Poaching Qin, Yu , Three Essays on Infrastructure Investment in China Villa, Kira Marie , Three Essays on the Economics of Childhood Development, Human Capital Formation and Psycho-Social Well-Being

Bageant, Elizabeth Rose , Gender Differences in Demand for Index Based Livestock Insurance Baker, Dustin Richard , Spatial Econometric Model of Milk Supply and Demand: Analysis of the Farm Bill Dairy Title Chang, Dizi , An Economic Analysis of Calamities and Conflicts in Rural China: 1929-1933 Chen, Xiu , The Salience of Excise vs. Sales Taxes on Healthy Eating: An Experimental Study He, Jing , China CAFÉ Policy Mix: The Technological Trade-offs and Progress, Compliance Feasibility and Welfare Analysis He, Xiao Yang , The Convergence of Welfare Estimates Employing Travel Cost and Contingent Valuation Method: Evidence from New York State Anglers Kangvonkit, Pensiri,  Do Mutual Fund Managers Go With the Flow? An Examination of Fund Manager’s Response to Capital Control Policies Khan, Muhammad Jawad , Testing the Convergent Validity of Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Methods for Valuing the Recreational Fisheries in New York State Lee, Yu Na,  Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers in the U.S.: Program Participation and Policy Impact McGranaghan, Matthew Francis , Food Purchasing Behavior and Price Interventions: How Taxes and Subsidies Affect Grocery Store Food Choices in a Field Study Qian, Jing , Factors Affecting Feeder Cattle Prices in New York State Rowland D, Haley Melissa , Distribution Channel Choice of Local Food Marketing Firms in New York State Shepherd, Justin Scott , The Complex Structure of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate and Implications for World Biofuel and Grain/Oilseed Prices Song, Liang , The Effectiveness of Market Development Programs for U.S. Dairy Products Spink, Elizabeth M. , The Effect of Recall Bias on Welfare Estimates in a Travel Cost Recreational Demand Model: Evidence from New York State Angler Participation Sun, Yingzong,  A Spatial Econometric Estimation Model for U.S. Farmland Values Tang, Yijia , A Case Study of Price Premiums for Local Foods Uber, Amy Joy , A Household Level Analysis of Poverty and Food Security Characteristics During the 2007 Recession within New York City Wang, Ruitong , Impact of Advertising Content on Food Demand by Overweight and Normal-Weight Individuals Yeh, Dourong Adeline , Supply Chain Impacts of an Increased Vegetable Demand: The Case of Cabbage Zheng, Fengping , Risk, Speculation and China’s Cross-Listing Share Premium Zhu, Pei , Effects of E85 Fueling Stations and State Incentives on Private Flex Fuel Vehicle Demand

Master of Professional Studies

Couch, Amy Joy,  An Examination of Colombia’s Environmental Education Initiative Qu, Yan,  Self-Selection in International Migration and Distribution of Wages – Evidence from China and the United States

Cooper, Kristen Brinley,  Three Essays on Environmental Economics and Human Behavior Drabik, Dusan,  The Market and Environmental Effects of Alternative Biofuel Policies Harou, Aurelie Patricia , Three Essays on Smallholder Welfare: Market Access and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption Ouyang, Yusi,  Three Essays on Inequalities Between Ethnic Minority and Majority Populations in China Taira, Yasushi,  Effect of World Bank’s Traffic Light System on International Financial Flow to Developing Countries Verteramo Chiu, Leslie Javier,  A Risk Analysis of Farmers in Mexico: Prices, Risk Rationing and Conflict

Amatyakul, Wansopin,  The Impact of Menu Labels on Changing Eating Behaviors: An Experimental Study Channa, Hira , Scalability of Remotely Sensed Livestock Insurance in East Africa Kelley, Erin Munro,  Do Risk Preferences Influence the Decision to Adopt New Technologies Lane, Gregory Van Pelt,  Energy Markets in Kenya: The Impacts of Imperfect Markets on Rural Households McAvey, Kevin Casey,  The Impact of State Tax Expenditures on Economic Development and Agricultural Development Outcomes Mulford, Michael Rhode,  Smallholder Market Participation and Welfare Effects: Evidence from the Kenya Dairy Sector Perla, Joseph Michael,  Do Restaurants Cater to Locapours? Using Zagat Survey Data to Examine Factors that Influence Wine List Selection Rao, Tanvi,  The Impact of Community Health Workers on Childhood Immunization: Evidence from India’s ASHA Worker Program Smith II, Bobby Joe,  Identifying Factors Influencing a Hospital’s Decision to Adopt a Farm-to-Hospital Program Yoo, Han Kyul,  The Effects of Renewable Energy Policies on Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project Development Zhao, Tianli,  Economic Modeling of Point-to-Point Source Water Quality Trading in the Upper Passaic Watershed Accounting for Fixed and Variable Costs

Brown, Ryan Emerson,  Quinoa: Food Security, Commoditization, and Environmental Challenges in the Bolivian Altiplano

Cao, Ying , Risk Perception, Judgment and Information Processing: Evidence from Experiments Chen, Xi , Essays on Social Networks: Relative Concerns, Social Interactions, and Unintended Consequences Cho, Jaesung,  Three Essays on the Economics of Dairy Nutrition and Disease Control Lamadrid, Alberto J ., The Welfare Effects of Renewable Energy Integrating into Electricity Markets Lee, Jun , Three Essays on the Economics of Vertical and Spatial Relationships in Specialty Crop Supply Chains: CO2 Emission Policies, Price Transmission and Market Power Mo, Jung Youn,  Economic Analyses of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Carbon Markets, and Temperature-Sensitive Loads Rockmore, Marc Etienne , Three Essays on Conflict, Insecurity, and Livelihoods Taber, John Timothy , Essays on Carbon Abatement and Electricity Markets Tan, Qinwen , Three Essays on Welfare Effects of Government Intervention Vararuth, Sivalai,  Land Use Rights Transaction, Credit Choices, Risk Rationing, and Entrepreneurship Amongst Chinese Farm Households Wongsasutthikul, Paitoon,  Hurst Trading with an Excursion into Fractal Space of Returns

Byrd, Elizabeth Sheryl , Application of the Competitive Storage Model to U.S. Corn Ethanol Policy Chan, Stephanie,  Economic Performance of Organic Cropping Systems for Vegetables in the Northeast Finseth, Ryan Michael,  Cost-Effective Recovery of an Endangered Species: The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Ho, Shuay-Tsyr , Welfare and Nutritional Implications from Changes in Government Expenditures for U.S. Agricultural Export Promotions Kher, Romi,  Do Entrepreneurship Courses Change an Individual’s Attitude Toward New Venture Creation? Results of a Quantitative Assessment of the Cornell Entrepreneurship Program Ricketts, Katie Diane , What is the “Value” in the Value Chain Approach? Smallholder Risk Assessment, Mitigation, and Coping Behavior Among High Value and Conventional Cocoa Chains in Ghana Robb, Fahran Kathaleen Jayme,  U.S. Transportation Sector: The Potential of the Renewable Fuels Standard and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standard to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Gasoline Consumption Wu, D i, Hurst Exponent and the Pricing of Cross-Listed Shares: Empirical Evidence from China’s Stock Market Xu, Xiaolan , What Lenders Think Borrowers Think of Lending and Lenders: A Psychographic Study of Rural Credit Cooperatives in Shandong, China

Kveragas, Anthony J ., A Case Study of Food Service Sustainability of Cornell University Moncada-Brito ,  Alin Nirvana , Renewable Energy in Mexico: Where are We Standing Now and What to Expect for the Future?

Cen, Wei , Essays on CEO Inside Debt Mahathanaseth, Itthipong , Three Essays in Banking Sector of Thailand Nakane, Masato , Changes in Japanese Household Income, Savings, and Consumption Narayanan, Sudha , Contract Farming as Frictional Equilibria: A Theoretical Perspective with Empirical Excursions in India Tanompongphandh, Thanasin , Three Essays on Market Efficiency: Global Price Leadership, Informal Parallel Markets, and Market Microstructures

Atiquzzaman, Fnu , Oil, Capital and Hartwick’s Rule Chua, Hans Walter , Time-Varying Optimal Hedge Ratios for Soybean Meal Trading Cui, Xiaolin , Ownership Structure and Price Disequilibrium Between A and B Shares on China’s Stock Markets Gadsden, Michael Henry , The Economics of Gasoline Regulation: Price Impacts and Consumer Costs of Environmental Air Quality Programs Lee, Wan-Chen , You Taste What You See: Do Organic Labels Bias Taste Perceptions? Li, Jie , Factors Influencing Adoption of Integrated Pest Management Practices in Northeast Greenhouse Ornamentals McLaurin, Megan Kathleen , Applicability of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Index-Based Crop Insurance Design Qin, Yu , Evaluating the Impact of Public Work Schemes on Interregional Movements of Labor: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence from China Rizwan, Maleeha , Evaluating the Impact of the Fruit and Vegetable Dispute Resolution Corporation (DRC) on Fresh Product Trade Among NAFTA Countries Schnitzer Raab, Pascale , Barriers to Children’s Cognitive Achievements: Evidence from Senegal Stenclik, Derek Phillip , Understanding Private Forest Owner Participation in Future Carbon Offset Programs in the Catskills Region: A Contingent Valuation Approach Sun, Lin , The Greater Fools Theory and The Bubbles in Chinese Stock Market: A Behavioral Approach Toor, Mehr Ahmad , Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Pakistan Twum-Barima, Asare , Smallholder Farm Household Labor Allocation and Idiosyncratic Shocks in Southern Ghana Wang, Yiwo , The Effects of Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) Status on the Pricing of Bonds Issued by the Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation (FFCB) White, Corey David , Integrating Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Vehicle-to-Grid Technology into the New York Electricity Market Xavier, Arnold Jeremiah Godfrey , Market Reform and Its Impact on the Price Transmission in the Coffee Supply Chain: A Case Study of Colombia, Ghana and Ivory Coast Xia, Yidi , Can a Milk-to-Feed Price Ratio Futures Contract Help Farmers? A Study Based on New York Dairy Industry Xu, Zhen , Did Cash-for-Clunkers Save Lives? Zhao, Yan , Automatic Patent Classification Using Support Vector Machines and its Applications

Carman, Thomas Conrad , Can Harvest Intervals Determine Efficiency in Modern Portfolio Optimization Models Jidenma, Nmachi , Smart Meter Usage in the United States

Anand, Rahul,  Three Essays on Monetary Policy in Emerging Economies with Financial Frictions Deuss, Annelies, The Economic Impacts of Sugarcane Expansion in Brazil Han, Qian,  Equilibrium Market Prices of Risk Aversion in a Complete Stochastic Volatility Model with Habit Formation: Empirical Risk Aversion from S&P 500 Index Options Maertens, Annemie,  Social Networks, Identity and Economic Behavior: Empirical Evidence from India Michelson, Hope Carolyn , Small Farmers and Big Retail: Trade-Offs and Dynamics of Supplying Supermarkets in Nicaragua Qin, Luyang,  Essays on Information Asymmetry in Equity Market Yang, Xi,  Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: The Gypsy Moth Zhang, Jiahong,  Essays on Innovation and Capital Structure

Hall, Jeffrey Scott,  The Impacts of Agglomeration Economies and Market Access on Firm Growth: An Empirical Assessment of Food and Beverage Manufacturing in New York State Kanter, Christopher Axtell , Does Production Labeling Stigmatize Conventional Milk? Klotz, Richard Lawrence,  The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Consequences of the Renewable Fuel Standard Neyhard, James Harvey,  Analysis of Risk Management Strategies in the Dairy Industry Using Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques Salazar, Gabriela Luisa,  The Elasticity of Demand for Microcredit: A Case Study in the Dominican Republic Weaver, Robert Vance,  Structural and Marketing Changes in U.S. Retailing, 1987-1997, Foundation for the Future Yu, Cao,  An Application of Risk Contingent Credit Applied New York Dairy Farmers with U.S. Options on Class III Milk Futures

Goto, Hideaki,  Three Essays on Labor, Inequality and Poverty Green, Alan Morgan,  The Role of Political Institutions in Economic Development: An Empirical Investigation Kumar, Chandra S.,  Credit Rationing and the Economics of Informal Lending: Theoretical Results and Econometric Inferences Using the Household Surveys from China and India Li, Guohua,  Informed Institutional Trading and News Announcements Ju, Jaeuk,  Transmission Networks and Financial Rights in the New York Electricity Market Mhlanga, Nomathemba,  Three Essays on Financial Markets and Investments in Africa Yao, Yi,  The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Growth, Inequality and Local Governance in Rural China

Luo, Jianchuan,  Optimal Entry and Exit in the Ethanol Industry: A Real Options Analysis with Two Stochastic Variables Norton, Michael Theodore,  Three Topics in Weather Index Insurance Shen, Ning,  Institutional Algorithmic Trading, Statistical Arbitrage and Technical Analysis Villa, Kira Marie,  Nutrition and Dietary Diversity in East African Pastoralist Households: Mental Accounting, Market Failures, and Intrahousehold Allocation Waldman, Kurt Benson,  Ex-ante Impact Evaluation of Livestock Interventions in Crop-Livestock Systems in Northern Afghanistan Williams, Brock Robert,  Revisiting the Trade Complexity and Economic Growth Nexus: Does Trade Composition Matter? Yoon, Sang Won,  Strategic Output and Green Technology Rivalry in a Globalized World: Theory, Empirics and Policy Implication

Belltawn, Burgen Cherie,  Forecasting Emergency Meal Demand for the Food Bank for New York City LeRoux, Matthew Neil,  Marketing Channel Options for Small-Scale Diverse Vegetable and Fruit Producers Shum, Wai Lam William,  Education and Labor Productivity in China: A Factory Level Case Study

Cheng, Mei-Luan,  Essays on Specialty Crop Production and Risk Management in the United States Dillon, Andrew Scott,  Child Labor and Agricultural Production in Northern Mali Gajwani, Kiran,  Essays on Regional Inequality, Decentralization, and Development Hoffmann, Vivian Eliza,  Essays on Poverty Alleviation and Health Promotion in East Africa Kropp, Jaclyn Donna,  Experimental Approaches to Trust-Based Lending: A Comparison Between China and the United States Naschold, Felix,  Four Papers on Structural Household Welfare Dynamics Shawhan, Daniel Lloyd,  Three Essays on Addressing New Challenges for Energy Policy Suter, Jordan Frederick,  Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Water Quality Zhou, Xing,  Informed Trading and Its Implications for Corporate Bond Pricing

Alam, Ghazi,  Trophy Hunting: An Age and Sex Structured Model Ang, Margaret Guat Hee,  A Bioeconomic Analysis of the Pacific Halibut Commercial Fishery in Southcentral Alaska (Regulatory Area 3A) Devlin, Claire Rachel,  The “Thin-Body Ideal” in Advertising Featuring Female Models: What is the Impact on Women’s Eating Behavior of Exposure to Such Advertising? Hou, Janet Ying,  The Inverse Productivity Relationship and Soil Quality: Evidence from Madagascar Kim, Sung Jae Francis,  Equity Market Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy Surprises: An Event Study Using Ultra-High Frequency Data Pasta, Catia,  Familiarity and Consumer Behavior: Origin of the Product and its Influence on Consumer Decision Making Rusmevichientong, Pimbucha,  Two Essays on U.S. Grain Export Promotion Tanompongphandh, Thanasin,  On the Impossibility of Testing Weak-Form-Efficiency of Ultra-High Frequency Stock Prices Videbaek, Steen,  Rates and Reliability: Insights into the New York Electricity Market Wiranto, Wellian,  Reaction of Stock Market to Monetary Policy Surprises

Feldman, Jay Stephan,  A Case Study in Municipal Carbon Abatement Policy

Kolady, Deepthi Elizabeth,  Genetically Engineered Eggplant in India: Three Essays on Adoption, Economic Feasibility, and Varietal Diversity Mutambatsere, Emelly,  Regional Trade and Food Security in Southern Africa: Comparative Advantage, Welfare and Market Efficiency Power, Gabriel John,  A Wavelet-Based Analysis of Commodity Futures Santos, Paulo Jose,  Risk, Growth and Social Networks Shimokawa, Satoru,  Three Essays on the Causes and Consequences of Nutrition Transition in China, 1991-2000 Slaibi, Ahmad Ali,  Three Empirical Studies on the Geopolitics of Petroleum Pricing, Revenue Sharing, and Macroeconomic Implications of Petroleum Revenues on Developing Countries Wang, Shenghui,  Sustainable Development of Biotechnology: Three Essays on Bt Technology Impact, Performance Evaluation and Dynamic Optimization in China

Cho, Jaesung,  Milk Composition and Farm Business Characteristics: SUR Estimation of Production Functions Versus an Output Distance Function Mugoya, Mainza,  The Impact of the Market Information Service on Pricing Efficiency and the Transmission of Prices between Maize Markets in Uganda Nakane, Masato,  An Empirical Analysis of Profits on Dairy Farms with Price Fluctuations Routhe, Christopher Scott,  Simulating the Impacts of Agroterrorism on U.S. Financial Markets and Regional Economic Performance Shee, Apurba,  Commodity Linked Credit: A Risk Management Instrument for the Agrarians in India Shultz, Joseph A.,  A Dynamic Participation Decision Model Applied to the Conservation Security Program on Northeastern United States Dairy Farms Tanaka, Atsuko,  Effects of Anti-Poverty Bias in Aid Allocation: Theory and Empirical Investigation of the Case of Japan Yoneyama, Rena,  The Determinants of the Reduction of Generic Drug Prices Relative to Brand Drug Prices in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Market

Mason, Katherine Bishop,  An Evaluation of Cover Crop Usage in No-Till Organic Agricultural Systems McLean, Taylor Marie,  Aquaculture Development in the Ashanti Region of Ghana: A Capacity Building Strategy for Small-scale Production Reyes, Nidia,  Determinants of Credit Quality: An Analysis for Colombia

Abe, Naoya,  Studies in Resource Economics: Scrap Tire Abatement and Watershed Management for Water Source Protection Bellemare, Marc,  Three Essays on Agrarian Contracts Chang, Hung-Hao,  Economic Analysis of the Interrelationships Among Off-farm Work, Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program, and Farm Productivity of Farm Households in the United States Chavez-Martin del Campo, Juan Carlos,  Three Essays on Poverty Analysis Wang, Dabin,  Price Risk Management by Dairy Farmers

Berg, Andrew Ryan,  Forecasting Natural Gas Prices Using Time Series Models Byma, Justin Paul,  Efficiency of New York Dairy Farms: Exploring the Role of Managerial Ability Chavis, Larry Wilson,  Analysis of the Events that Sustained the Crisis in Indonesia Davidowitz, John Edward,  Direct Sales and Marketing Channels and Their Impact on North American Wineries: Vintages 2001-2003 Enahoro, Dolapo Keshia,  An Assessment of Farm Savings Accounts and the Ability of Farms to Participate Gallardo, Maria Lourdes,  Ethnicity-based Wage Differentials in Ecuador’s Labor Market Johnson, Lacey Ann,  Earnings Determinants for Own-Account Workers in the Urban Informal Economy: The Case of Bogota, Colombia Larsen, Peter Hallick,  An Evaluation of the Sensitivity of U.S. Economic Sectors to Weather Lee, Sam Seob,  Recent Changes in the Korean Retail Sector: An Analysis on the Effects of Customer Satisfaction and Store Image on Sales Performance Maratou, Laoura Maria,  Bargaining Power Impact on Off-Invoice Trade Promotions in U.S. Grocery Retailing Molapisane, Keneilwe Ruth,  Land Degradation in Botswana’s Rural Areas Randriamamonjy, Josee,  The Socioeconomic Correlates of HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Condom Use in Madagascar Roy, Sonali,  The Emerging Economy-Industrial Complex Sado, Yukako,  Potential Cost Savings from Discharge Permit Trading to Meet TMDLs for Phosphorus in the Passaic River Watershed Sakiyama, Tomoyo,  Determinants of Child Health in Rural Nepal: An Empirical Study Taber, John Timothy,  Examining the Effects of Deregulation on Retail Electricity Prices Zhao, Bin,  Familiarity, Convenience, and Money: Spanish and Mexican Silver Coins in China’s Economy

Ingdahl, Oscar Jan,  Analysis of Diversion in the U.S. Grocery Industry Novakovic, Steven Milovan,  A Meta Analysis of Contingent Values for Ground Water Quality

Cai, Xiaobin,  An Evaluation of Investment Incentives for Maintaining System Adequacy in Deregulated Markets for Electricity Hogset, Heidi,  Social Networks and Rural Development: Theory and Applications in the Kenyan Highlands Kotani, Koji,  Three Essays in Environmental Economics Manopiniwes, Chanin,  A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model for Thailand with Financial and Environmental Linkages: The Analyses of Selected Policies Zhang, Ning,  Essays on Market Mechanism and Market Participants’ Bidding Behaviors in Electricity Market

Brian, Jerry Wallace,  New Yorkís Non-Industrial Private Forests: Timber Prices, Property Tax Exemption, and Management Cappers, Peter Andrew,  An Evaluation of Demand Response in New York Stateís Wholesale Electricity Markets Cook, Justin Daniel,  Issues on Disciplining Domestic Support for Agriculture in the WTO Gallegos, Carlos Eduardo,  Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Consumer Prices and Financial Dollarization in Central America Katsumata, Kentaro , An Empirical Analysis of Stanchion and Parlor Milking Costs in New York Dairy Farms: Cost Curve and Cost Function Approaches Kliauga, Erika Madeira,  An Empirical Examination of Tariff Rate Quota Liberalization and the Role of Administration Methods Kobayashi, Rei,  Optimal Management of Antibiotics in U.S. Swine Production Kropp, Jaclyn Donna,  The Economics of Infra-Marginal Subsidies: Exits and Cross-Subsidization Lentz, Erin Coniker,  Targeting Food Aid to Improve Food Security Marenya, Paswel Phiri,  Socio-Economic Factors Affecting the Adoption of Natural Resource Management Practices Among Smallholder Farmers in Western Kenya O’Gorman, Brendan Eckhardt,  An Analysis of Alternative Modes of Entry Into Dairy Farming Pagel, Erica Jean,  Dynamic Patterns of Change in Structure Under Different Support Policy Regimes: An Examination of U.S. Dairy Farming Pomeroy, Amanda M.,  A Dual Burden: Anemia and Obesity in Uzbekistan Pu, Hsien Yun,  The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas: An Application to the Commonwealth of Independent States Severn-Walsh,  Marygold, Adoption Patterns of Genetically Engineered Cotton in Tamil Nadu, India: An Empirical Study Wang, Yu,  The Impact of Generic Advertising on Fluid Milk Demand in New York City: Econometric Approaches Zavale, Helder,  Analysis of the Mozambiqueís Maize Seed Industry: Factors Influencing the Adoption Rates of Improved Seed by Smallholders and Determinants of Smallholdersí Cost Efficiency

Ames, Molly Patricia,  Systems and Conditions Influencing Successful Implementation of a Strategic Business Change in a Family-Owned, Ag-Based Business Dorociak, Christopher,  Wind Energy Development in New York State: Issues for Landowners Inamura, Mitsuhiro,  An Analysis of Wide-Area Manure Distribution Policy in Japan: Spatial and Temporal Trends Kondo, Makoto,  An Examination of the Locally Initiated Agricultural Enhancement and Farmland Protection Programs in New York State Milgrom-Elcott, Liore,  Ecotourism Certification: An Analysis of Ecolabelling as a Means of Sustainable Development

Bishop, Phillip Michael,  Dairy Market Impacts of US Milk Protein Imports and Trade Policy Alternatives Brown, Douglas Ronald,  A Spatiotemporal Model of Forest Cover Dynamics and Household Land Use Decisions by Subsistence Farmers in Southern Cameroon Guvheya, Gibson,  An Empirical Analysis of Smallholder Agricultural Productivity and Economic Efficiency in Zimbabwe: A Contribution to the Ongoing Land Reforms Lee, Tsung-Cheng,  Essays on Trade and Environmental Policies for an Open Economy Lordkipanidze, Nazibrola,  Modeling and Estimation of Long-Memory in Stochastic Volatility: Application to Options on Futures Contracts Lybbert, Travis James,  Technology and Economic Development: Three Essays on Innovation, Pricing, and Technology Adoption Marini, Alessandra,  Three Essays on Economic Determinants of Child Malnutrition Moser, Christine Michelle,  Explaining High Variability in Within Country Outcomes: Three Essays Using Spatially Explicit Data From Madagascar Yoo, Shiyong,  Using Weather Derivatives to Manage Financial Risk in Deregulated Electricity Markets

Comeau, John Paul,  Consumer Preferences, Policy Mechanisms, and the Inverted Environmental Kuznets Curve Gajwani, Kiran,  Decentralization, Openness and State-Level Gains: Theory and Evidence in India Jacquet, Jennifer Linn,  An Economic Analysis of a New Carbon Sequestration Technology Kimura, Takayuki,  An Economic Analysis of Post-Uruguay Round Reforms of Rice Policies in Japan Luong, Quoc Viet,  Investment in Coffee Planting in Vietnam – A Real Option Analysis and Policy Recommendations Mhlanga, Nomathemba,  The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Economic Growth: Evidence from the Region and A Case Study of Zimbabwe Mensah-Dartey, Virgil Nunya,  Strategic Planning/Management of Small Business Development Programs: A Case Study Osterloh, Sharon Mei,  Microfinance in Adverse Environments: The Case of KDA in Kenya Suter, Jordan Frederick,  Incentives and Enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program: An Approach Using Actual Enrollment and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Data Vanderpuye-Orgle, Jacqueline,  Poverty, Spatial Inequality and Polarization: A Multifaceted Analysis of the Impact of Economic Reform in Ghana Vega, Juan Carlos,  The Economic Effects of Pricing Irrigation Water: An Application to the El Angel Watershed Carchi, Ecuador

Chen, Jie,  Macronutrient Consumption Behavior of Chinese Urban One-Child Households Inoue, Seisuke,  An Empirical Analysis of the Minimum Access Rice Import Policy of Japan Lang, Barbara,  From Restaurant Plate to Retail Package Mutalya, Edith,  The Role of Institutions and Infrastructure in the Development of Agricultural Input Markets in Sub Saharan Africa: A Case Study of the Ugandan Seed Industry Piper, Christina Marie,  Direct Marketing Between Restaurants and Farmers: A Comparison of Three Case Studies in the Northeast United States

Gjertsen, Heidi Elisa,  Context-Dependent Design and Performance of Conservation Strategies: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines Mabaya, Edward,  Smallholder Agricultural Markets in Zimbabwe: Organization, Spatial Integration and Equilibrium Messer, Kent Donald,  Willingness to Pay for a Public Good, Habitat Conservation, and Poaching: Three Essays in Environmental Economics Novak, Michael P.,  Agricultural Credit Evaluation Modeling: A Creditworthiness Approach Schmit, Todd Michael,  Generic Dairy Product Advertising: Alternative Econometric Approaches to Demand Estimation and Evaluation Vossler, Christian Allen,  Essays on the Analysis of Economics Experiments with Environmental Applications

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When Warren Hall was dedicated in 1932, Professor George F. Warren and the faculty committee in charge of the celebration distributed a summary of the advanced degrees that had been awarded in farm management, marketing, rural economy, and agricultural economics at Cornell University until that time. A copy of the report was placed in the cornerstone of the building.

In 1999, Emeritus Professor Bernard F. (Bud) Stanton prepared a new report for the field of Agricultural Economics (now called the field of Applied Economics and Management), beginning with the 1932 listing and continuing through August 1999 ( Research Bulletin 2000-01 ). In most cases, a copy of each thesis or dissertation can be found in  Mann Library.

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ECE Graduate Field Handbook

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Ece ph.d. program overview .

The Ph.D. Degree Program in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell prepares students for a successful career in research, development and teaching through vigorous coursework and cutting-edge study. 

Students will work with our world-renowned faculty as they work together to find solutions to some of today’s biggest problems. Whether you’re interested in power and energy, bioelectrical engineering, computer architecture, imaging, nanotechnology, photonics, neuroscience, or computing, you’ll find your home in Cornell ECE. 

Our Ph.D. Program is interdisciplinary, which allows our students to take advantage of a wide variety of research opportunities both in ECE, across both the Ithaca and New York City Tech Campuses. 

• Take advantage of the wide range of research opportunities on our campuses through our multidisciplinary program and study anything from physics to bioscience, from mathematics to economics. 
• Enjoy the flexibility of determining your individualized curriculum in consultation with your Committee Chair / Advisor and Special Committee Membership. 
• Receive advanced training in current technology and engineering design. 
• Virtually all of our Ph.D. students receive full financial support in the form of Fellowships, Graduate Research Assistantships and Teaching Assistantships during throughout their Ph.D. Program. 
• The financial support covers tuition, a stipend and a student health insurance package. This funding is provided through the duration of a student’s Ph.D. Program, providing that they remain in good academic standing, as determined by our Field. 
• A Ph.D. from Cornell ECE will empower you to reach your goals and your potential. Our graduates go on to highly successful careers at universities and colleges and in industry and research settings around the world. 

Research and Study Opportunities 

Ongoing research activities in electrical engineering involve both theory and experimentation, and range from the atomic scale at which solid-state devices are studied to the global dimensions of geophysical plasmas. Projects currently underway concern the properties of materials, the fabrication of devices from these materials, the interconnection of devices to form systems, and the properties of systems, including control systems, computer systems, systems for transmitting power and information, and systems for processing signals and data. 

Foundations of Information, Networks, and Decision Systems 

Communications, networks, cyber-physical systems, energy conversion and power systems, biological and medical systems; coding and information theory, machine learning and statistical inference, adaptive control, image and video processing and compression. 

Computer engineering and robotics 

Computer architecture, computer systems, parallel and distributed processing, cloud computing, embedded systems, and computer networks; VLSI design, hardware verification, CAD, and simulation; robotics, embodied computation, hardware/software co-design, and micro robotics. 

Plasma physics, space science and engineering, and electromagnetics 

Upper atmosphere, ionospheric and magnetospheric science, radar, satellites, and sounding rockets; fusion, solar system, and fundamental plasmas; pulsed power, electron and ion beams, and plasma radiation; plasma fabrication; electromagnetics. 

Solid-state electronics and optoelectronics 

Electronic, magnetic and optoelectronic materials and devices; devices, circuits, and system integration; beyond-CMOS devices and circuits; power electronics; photonics; microwave and millimeter-wave devices and systems; sensors and actuators, micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems. 

Intended Student Learning Outcomes 

The first important goal of the ECE Ph.D. education is to ensure that our graduates can define and solve an important ECE problem. This requires that they apply fundamental ECE knowledge to a novel concept, synthesize useful techniques from relevant areas, and make discovery that impacts society. The graduate Ph.D. should be prepared broadly, not just in the specific area of the dissertation topic, but also for a career on the forefront of knowledge making contributions to engineering applications. 

Effective teamwork and dissemination of research results demand that an ECE Ph.D. master and demonstrate effective communication skills in writing, speaking and public presentations. The Ph.D. candidates are expected to acquire these skills as part of their course work and research projects, and should be involved in generating journal publications and conference presentations for both active learning and knowledge distribution. These communication skills are essential for practicing engineers. Practicing engineers also need to be ethically responsible and understand the social impacts of their work. ECE Ph.D. students are expected to adhere to the highest standards of professional conduct in their research and abide by the IEEE Code Ethics. 

ECE Ph.D. Program Degree Requirements

Residency requirement .

Timeline - There is a One (1) Semester Residency Requirement for all first-year ECE Ph.D. students enrolled at the Cornell Ithaca Campus in their First Semester of Enrollment. 

• All new incoming Students will be required to enroll at the Cornell Ithaca Campus and take courses during their First Semester of Enrollment in the ECE Ph.D. Program. 
• Ph.D. students will initiate their Committee Chair / Advisor Selection Process from the members of the ECE Graduate Field Faculty located at either the Cornell Ithaca Campus, or, the Cornell New York City Tech Campus. 
• Ph.D. students who may choose to work with a Committee Chair / Advisor at the Cornell New York City Tech Campus will be allowed to relocate to New York City as early as the beginning of their Second Semester of Enrollment in the ECE Ph.D. Program. 
• Admitted Ph.D. students may petition to waive the one-semester Ithaca residency requirement, allowing a student to start their Ph.D. program located in NYC and to begin research with a Cornell Tech ECE field member. Students may petition this requirement by submitting this form . Approvals from both a faculty member located at Cornell Tech campus and the Director of Graduate Studies are required.

Course / Credit Hour Requirements

Timeline – To be completed prior to, or during the Third Year of Enrollment; Must be completed prior to the Scheduling of the A Exam 

• All ECE Ph.D. students will be required to enroll in at least Eight (8) Credit Hours of ECE Courses, earning a Letter Grade of a “B” or better. 
• All courses should be at the 5000 Level or Above 
• Students must complete the Eight (8) Credit Hour Course Requirement prior to the completion of their Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) . 
• More detailed information can be found online here . 

Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) – Online “Foundational” Course

Timeline – To be completed before end of first academic year of enrollment 

• The Cornell Graduate School requires that all first-year graduate students complete the Responsible Conduct of Research “Foundational” Course. 
• The Course consists of four modules – authorship, peer review, plagiarism, research misconduct (data falsification, data fabrication, plagiarism). 
• Students are strongly encouraged to complete the course during their first semester; you will be required to complete it before the end of your first year . 

Committee Chair / Advisor Selection 

Timeline – To be completed by End of First Semester of enrollment encouraged ; End of First Academic Year of enrollment required 

• First-year Ph.D. students are strongly encouraged to make their Committee Chair / Advisor selection before the end of their first semester of enrollment; you will be required to do so before the completion of your first year of enrollment. 
• Students may only select an ECE Graduate Field Faculty Member to serve as their Committee Chair / Advisor; no exceptions will be allowed. 
• Students can officially nominate their Committee Chair / Advisor via the student. 
• More detailed information can be found online here as well as on Page 9. 

Qualifying Examination 

Timeline – To be completed by the Fourth Semester of Enrollment. Subject Area Exams are held annually near the end of the Spring Semester, usually in mid-April. 

• All first-year ECE Ph.D. students will be required to participate in a Qualifying Examination (Q Exam). This will generally occur during the Second Semester of enrollment, usually in the spring semester. 
• Each student must pass a total of Two (2) Subject Area Exams. 
• More detailed information regarding the Q Exam format, timing, syllabi and specifics regarding the Subject Area Exams can be found online here as well as on Pages 11 - 13. 

Minor Committee Membership Selection 

Timeline – To be completed by end of Third Semester of Enrollment 

• The Cornell Graduate School requires that all Ph.D. students complete the selection of their Special Committee Membership which will consist of their Advisor / Committee Chair, and Two (2) Minor Committee Members, prior to the end of their Third Semester of Enrollment . 
• Fields of Graduate Study at Cornell. Students may select their Two (2) Minor Committee Members from any of 
• Selection will be done in conjunction with input from your Advisor / Committee Chair. 
• More detailed information on the selection process can be found online here . 
• You will be required to nominate and form your Special Committee Membership (Advisor / Committee Chair, two Minor Members) before the end of your third semester of enrollment . 
• More detailed information can be found on Page 9 - 10. 

Graduate Annual Review (GAR)

Timeline – To be completed by the Fourth Semester of Enrollment in April/May. 

• The ECE Graduate Field Faculty Membership meets annually near the end of the Spring Semester for the Graduate Annual Review (GAR). 
• The purpose of this meeting is to determine if ECE Ph.D. students have made the necessary academic progress in the early part of their Ph.D. Program. 
• Factors determining successful progress will include official nomination of your Advisor / Committee Chair, Course Work Record to date, performance in Research and/or Teaching (if applicable) and performance on the Subject Area Examinations as part of the Q Exam. 
• Results will be provided to students in the form of an official letter from the Field directly following the GAR. 

Timeline – For Students attempting to re-take failed Subject Area Exam(s) from first year, they will participate in a Second GRA near the end of the Fourth Semester in the Second Year of Enrollment in April/May 

Student Progress Review (SPR) 

Timeline – Beginning with the Second Year of Enrollment (generally the Fourth Semester) in May/June; occurs annually during same timeframe to follow each subsequent year 

• Beginning with the second year of graduate study , all research-based degree students (MS, PhD) are required by the Cornell Graduate School to participate annually in the SPR. 
• The SPR is the opportunity for students to have a formal conversation regarding their academic progress and future plans. 
• Students fill out an online form that will include details regarding their recent accomplishments, identifying challenges and setting goals. 
• The Advisor / Committee Chair reviews the document beforehand, and then will formally meet with the student to discuss its contents. 
• The Advisor / Committee Chair will indicate whether the student’s progress has been Excellent, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement, or Unsatisfactory. 
• This will take place annually towards the completion of the Spring Semester. 
• More information can be found online here . 

Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) 

Timeline – To be Scheduled/Completed during the Fifth or Sixth Semester in Third Year of Enrollment 

• The Cornell Graduate School requires that all Ph.D. students must schedule and attempt their Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) prior to the start of their Seventh Semester of enrollment . 
• This is a comprehensive exam that gauges students’ knowledge of their chosen research area and their readiness for independent research. 
• This is an oral examination, administered by the members of the student’s Special Committee. 
• The exam typically begins with a presentation of preliminary research results and future plans by the student. 
• The Special Committee members ask questions on the presentation as well as on general knowledge relevant to the student’s research area(s). 
• In this exam, students are expected to demonstrate broad knowledge in their research area as well as communication and presentation skills. 
• Successful completion of the A Exam may result in the student earning a Non-Thesis Master of Science (MS) degree, providing the student’s Committee Membership deems it appropriate. 
• More information can be found online here as well as on Pages 14 - 15. 

Thesis Defense / B Exam 

Timeline – To be Scheduled/Completed by the Tenth Semester in the Fifth Year of Enrollment 

• The Cornell Graduate School requires that all Ph.D. students must schedule and attempt their B Exam prior to the conclusion of their Fourteenth Semester of enrollment . 
• The main component of the exam is a public presentation of the scholarly content of the Ph.D. dissertation, and is open to the public for dissemination and defense of findings. 
• A successful candidate is expected to clearly demonstrate unique and novel ideas in this presentation, and be able to convey them to an audience of critical experts with a balanced presentation of key findings, and a well written dissertation that will become part of the public record. 
• A pass of the B exam indicates completion of a Ph.D. program and completion of a dissertation with significant scholarly content and impact in the field of study. 
• More information can be found online here as well as on Pages 16 - 17. 

Committee Chair / Advisor Selection, Special Committee Membership and Minor(s) Selection

• All ECE Ph.D. Students are encouraged to make their formal selection of their Committee Chair / Advisor from the members of the ECE Graduate Field Faculty by the end of their first semester of enrollment . 
• All ECE Ph.D. Students are required to make their formal selection of their Committee Chair / Advisor from the members of the ECE Graduate Field Faculty by the end of their first year of enrollment , in order to be considered making the necessary academic progress as determined by the Field. 
• The Committee Chair / Advisor must be a member of the ECE Graduate Field Faculty. 

ECE Ph.D. students must nominate their Advisor / Committee Chair via the student center. 

Special Committee Membership Selection; Selection of Minor Members 

Special Committee Membership will consist of Three (3) Faculty Members. The First will be the Committee Chair / Advisor. The Second Two will be considered the Minor Committee Members of the Committee. 

• The Committee Chair / Advisor must be selected from the ECE Graduate Field Faculty membership 
• The Two Minor Members may be selected from any of the current Cornell Graduate Faculty. 

ECE Ph.D. students must nominate their Committee Chair / Advisor and Minor Committee Members via the student. 

The selection of the Two Minor Members and the completion of the Special Committee Membership nominations must be done no later than the end of the Third Semester of Enrollment . 

It should be noted that a Student’s Special Committee Membership can have more than Three (3) Faculty Members. 

Students may nominate an additional Minor Committee Member if they choose to. 

Faculty Members who are not a part of a Cornell Graduate Field or affiliated with Cornell University may be included as part of the Special Committee as an Ad Hoc Committee Member. The submission of an Ad Hoc Committee Request form to the Cornell Graduate School is required for consideration. 

Choosing a Minor / Selection of Minor Committee Members 

All Ph.D. students at Cornell are required to participate in Two Minors that will be overseen by the Two Minor Members of the Special Committee. They will each represent the Field and its requirements to satisfy the Minor. 

In ECE, many Ph.D. students will opt to nominate an ECE Graduate Field Faculty Member as one of their Minor Members, representing the Field ECE on their Special Committee. (Note, this is not a requirement, but it is fairly common.) 

Satisfying the Minor Requirements 

Since all Ph.D. students are required to have Two (2) Minor Members as part of their Special Committee, which means that the Minor Requirements for each of the Two (2) Graduate Fields of each Minor Member must be specifically satisfied. 

Students will need to inquire from the Faculty Members that they ask to join their Special Committee as Minor Members what their requirements are in order to effectively satisfy the Minor for each of their Graduate Fields. 

There is no level of consistency in the ways that Minor Requirements are to be satisfied. They are “Field specific,” in that they are determined by each individual Graduate Field. Some have very specific requirements that must be adhered so, while others leave the requirements up to the judgement of the Faculty Member themselves. After speaking to the Faculty Member, it is advised to contact the Graduate Field directly as well, in order to be certain. 

In many cases, the Minor Requirements will consist of specific courses that will need to be taken and a particular Letter Grade that must be earned as a result. 

Be aware that the Graduate Field of ECE has no specific Minor Requirements . The Minor Requirements are left up to the individual Faculty Member to determine was is most appropriate in each individual student’s case what should be done to satisfy the Minor. 

Changing Special Committee Membership 

Students may change their Special Committee Membership at any time during their Ph.D. Program. 

• Special Committee Membership changes after the completion of the A Exam will require the Dean’s approval from the Cornell Graduate School. 
• A Student cannot schedule their B Exam within Three (3) Months of making a Special Committee Membership change. 
• Changing the Committee Chair / Advisor should be discussed in advance with the Director of Graduate Studies. 
• It should be noted that any Special Committee Membership changes will require the approval from all Members of the newly formed Committee, including the Committee Chair / Advisor. 
• Any Member of the Special Committee, including the Committee Chair / Advisor, has the right to resign at any time. 

It is the responsibility of the student to reconstitute their Special Committee Membership. Failure on the part of the student to reconstitute their Special Committee will result in them not being permitted to continue to register as a student in the Graduate School. 

More information can be found on the Cornell Graduate School’s web site . 

Examinations

All ECE Ph.D. students must participate and successfully complete a total of Three (3) separate examinations in order to earn their degree in the Field of ECE. 

Guidelines 

The following is a set of guidelines to govern the administration of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Graduate Field’s Qualifying Examination. The purpose of these guidelines is to create a uniform, rigorous standard by which the ECE Graduate Field can assess the qualifications and preparation of students to continue in the ECE Ph.D. Program. 

Format of the Qualifying Examination 

The Qualifying Examination is an assessment of the qualification of incoming graduate students for a graduate program in the Field of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The overall outcome of the Qualifying Examination is determined during the Graduate Annual Review (GAR) by the entire ECE Field Faculty and holistically considers the following components to achieve one of two possible outcomes. 

• Results for a Set of Subject Area Examinations 
• Grades for all Graduate Level Coursework taken at Cornell to date 
• Direct input from the student’s Committee Chair / Advisor describing the student’s Research Progress 
• Direct input from the members of the ECE Graduate Field Faculty describing the student’s Progress and Demeanor as an ECE Ph.D. Student 

Outcomes of the Qualifying Examination 

• PASS – Based on the above points of criteria, the student will have demonstrated the necessary ability and aptitude to continue in the ECE Ph.D. Program. A Pass may be determined by an outcome of “Excellent” or “Satisfactory.” 
• FAIL – Based on the above points of criteria, the student has not demonstrated the necessary ability to effectively continue in the ECE Ph.D. Program. The student will be instructed to meet with the Director of Graduate Studies and his/her Committee Chair / Advisor to discuss the proper course of action. A Fail will be determined by an outcome of “Unsatisfactory.” 

Timing of the Qualifying Examination 

• The student’s Qualifying Examination results will be considering during the Graduate Annual Review (GAR), which usually takes place soon after the Subject Area Examinations are completed. 
• The Qualifying Examination is offered once a year, at the end of the Spring Semester. 
• Students are eligible to participate in the Qualifying Examination at any time during their first Four (4) Semesters of Enrollment of graduate study in the ECE Ph.D. Program. 
• Students must successfully complete the Qualifying Examination by the end of their Fourth Semester of enrollment of graduate study in the ECE Ph.D. Program, in order to remain in good academic standing as determined by the Field of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 

Subject Area Examinations 

Format of the subject area examinations .

• Subject Area Examinations are oral examinations with a duration of 20 – 30 minutes each. 
• Each Subject Area Examination will focus on a specific subject within the ECE Graduate Field. They include the following Eight (8) separate subjects. Random Processes and Probability 
• Computer Architecture 
• Computer Systems 
• Circuits and Devices 
• Solid State and Quantum 
• Electromagnetics and Optics 
• Digital VLSI 
• Linear Systems 
• Each Subject Area Examination will focus on material covered in a reasonable undergraduate curriculum on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Subject Area Examinations will have an associated syllabus to act as a study guide. 
• Subject Area Examinations are administered by a Two (2) Person Committee consisting of ECE Graduate Field Faculty Members acting as examiners that are well-versed in the corresponding subject. 
• The Subject Area Examination Committee of examiners must not include a Student’s Committee Chair / Advisor. 

Subject Area Examination Outcomes 

For each Subject Area Examination, the Subject Area Examination Committee of examiners will render One (1) of Three (3) Possible Outcomes: 

• EXCELLENT – Student has demonstrated an excellent understanding of the corresponding Subject Areas that exceeds the expectations of a reasonable Ph.D. Candidate within the ECE Graduate Field. 
• SATISFACTORY – Student has demonstrated a satisfactory understanding of the corresponding Subject Areas that meets the expectations of a reasonable Ph.D. Candidate within the ECE Graduate Field. 
• UNSATISFACTORY – Student has demonstrated an unsatisfactory understanding of the corresponding Subject Areas that is beneath the expectations of a reasonable Ph.D. Candidate within the ECE Graduate Field. 

The Subject Area Examination Committee of examiners will provide a written review of the student’s performance on the Examination(s) and the justification for the awarded outcome. 

Achieving an outcome of either EXCELLENT or SATISFACTOR Y on Two (2) or more Subject Area Examinations covering at least Two (2) separate Subjects is sufficient to complete the exam criteria of the Qualifying Examination. 

Timing of the Subject Area Examinations 

• Subject Area Examinations are administered annually during a one-week period near the end of the Spring Semester. 
• The scheduled dates of the Subject Area Examinations are determined by the ECE Director of Graduate Studies each year and will be announced in advance. 
• Subject Area Examinations may potentially be administrated at other times due to family, medical emergency or other exceptional circumstances only, as determined by the ECE Director of Graduate Studies. 
• Students are encouraged to take Two (2) Subject Area Examinations on Two (2) Separate Subjects in their first year of enrollment of graduate study in the ECE Ph.D. Program. 

Appeals of Subject Area Examination Results 

• Students may appeal the results of a Subject Area Examination if they believe that an error has been made in their case. 
• The student must file a written appeal to the ECE Director of Graduate Studies within One (1) Week of receiving the results of the Subject Area Examination. 
• The written appeal must be in the form of a formal, signed letter detailing the specific reasons why the student believes the outcome of the Subject Area Examination should be changed. 
• A finalized decision regarding the written appeal will be rendered by the ECE Director of Graduate in consultation with the Graduate Committee. 

Requests for Accommodation for Students with Disabilities 

• In compliance with the Cornell University’s Policy and Equal Access Laws, the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are happy to discuss appropriate academic accommodations that students with disabilities may require in order to participate in the Subject Area Exams as part of the Qualifying Examination. 
• Requests for academic accommodations should occur at least One (1) Month in Advance of the Qualifying Examination and Subject Area Exams, in order to make any and all necessary arrangements. ECE encourages students to register with the student to verify their eligibility for suitable accommodations. 

Please see the Appendix on Pages 25 - 31, for detailed copies of the Subject Area Examination Syllabi. 

All Subject Area Examination Syllabi information is also available online. 

Examinations – Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam)

Overview .

Students are eligible to schedule their A Exam after Two (2) Semesters of Registration have been completed in the ECE Ph.D. Program. 

The A Exam must be taken PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING of a Student’s Seventh Semester of Registration. 

The format of the A Exam is up to the discretion of the student’s Special Committee Membership. In general, it is an oral examination. The student will present the topic that has been chosen to devote their dissertation to. 

Scheduling the Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) 

The student will need to schedule the A Exam at a time that is convenient for both them and their Special Committee Membership. Students are encouraged to complete the scheduling process well in advance of the date of the A Exam itself. 

Reserving a Room for the A Exam 

Once a date and time have been established, the student should reserve a Conference Room where the A Exam will be held. There are conference rooms of varying size available in Phillips Hall, Rhodes Hall and Duffield Hall that can be reserved. Students will need to work with ECE Administrative Staff in order to reserve a conference room. 

Schedule A Examination and Research Compliance Form 

Filling It Out, Obtaining Online Approvals, Submitting the Form 

• The student will need to go online and fill out the Schedule A Examination and Research and Compliance Form . The form can be found on the Graduate School’s Forms page listed under “Exams and Research.” 
• The student will fill out the form completely before submitting for the necessary approvals of their entire Special Committee Membership, the ECE Director of Graduate Studies, and the ECE Assistant Director of M.Eng./Ph.D. Program (listed as “Graduate Field Assistant” on the form). 
• The student will be responsible for obtaining the completion of all required online approvals in order for the form to be submitted to the Graduate School. 
• Once all online approvals have been submitted, an automated email will be sent by the Graduate School confirming the scheduling of the student’s A Exam. 

Deadline for Submission of A Examination and Research Compliance Form 

• The completed Schedule A Examination and Research Compliance Form must be submitted to the Graduate School a minimum of Seven (7) Calendar Days prior to the date of the scheduled A Exam . 
• There are no exceptions to this rule. Late submission of the Schedule A Examination and Research Compliance Form will result in the A Exam having to be re-scheduled. 

Announcement of the A Exam 

The Date, Time and Location of the student’s A Exam will be made public and posted to the ECE Events Calendar . 

Results for Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) Form 

• The student will need to go online and fill out the Results for Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) Form . It can be found on the Graduate School’s Forms page listed under “Exams and Research.” 
• Once all online approvals have been submitted, an automated email will be sent by the Graduate School confirming the receipt of the student’s Results for Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) Form. 

Deadline for Submission of Results for Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) Form 

• The completed Results for Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) Form must be submitted to the Graduate School within Three (3) Business Days of the completion of the A Exam. 
• There are no exceptions to this rule. Late submission of the Results of Admission for Candidacy Examination (A Exam) Form will result in the results of the student’s A Exam not being accepted . 

Master of Science (MS) without Thesis Degree 

All Students who successfully complete their A Exam are eligible to earn a Master of Science (MS) without Thesis Degree. The student may only be awarded the MS degree if their Committee Membership deems it appropriate. 

The student should discuss this option with their Special Committee Membership in advance of participating in their A Exam. 

When the student’s Committee Chair / Advisor submits their online approval for the Results of Admission to Candidacy (A Exam) Form, they should then indicate if the student should be receiving the Non-Thesis MS degree and continuing on in the ECE Ph.D. Program. 

Please be aware that the Graduate School will only award the Non-Thesis MS degree if it is clearly indicated on the Results for the Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) Form. The Graduate School will NOT retroactively award the Non-Thesis MS degree if it was not specifically indicated at the time of the submission of the Results for Admission to Candidacy Examination (A Exam) Form. 

Examinations – Ph.D. Thesis Defense – B Exam

Students are eligible to schedule their B Exam after Six (6) Semesters of registration have been completed in the ECE Ph.D. Program. 

Be aware that the student will be required to be enrolled for a minimum of Two (2) Semesters of registration between their A and B Exams. 

Submission of Thesis Draft to Special Committee Membership 

Prior to Scheduling B Exam: 

• The Graduate School’s policy according to the Code of Legislation states, “A Student must submit a completes draft of the thesis or dissertation to all Members of the Special Committee at least Six (6) Weeks before the Final Examination, unless the Special Committee modifies this requirement.” 
• The student must confirm with their Special Committee Membership after they have reviewed the draft if it is appropriate to move forward with scheduling the B Exam. 

Scheduling the B Exam 

The student will need to schedule the B Exam at a time that is convenient for both them and their Special Committee Membership. 

Reserving a Room for the B Exam 

Once a date and time have been confirmed, the student should reserve a Conference Room where the B Exam will be held. There are Conference Rooms of varying size available in Phillips Hall, Rhodes Hall and Duffield Hall that can be reserved. You will need to work with the ECE Administrative Staff in order reserve a Conference Room. 

Schedule B Examination Form 

The student will need to go online and fill out the Schedule B Examination Form . It can be found on the Graduate School’s Forms page listed under “Exams and Research.” 

• The student will fill out the form completely before submitting it for the necessary approvals of their entire Committee Membership, the ECE Director of Graduate Studies and the ECE Assistant Director of M.Eng./Ph.D. Programs (listed as “Graduate Field Assistant” on the form). 
• The student will be responsible for obtaining the completion of all required online Approvals in order for the form to be submitted to the Graduate School. 
• Once all online Approvals have been submitted, an automated email will be sent by the Graduate School confirming the scheduling of the student’s B Exam. 

Deadline for Submission of Schedule B Examination Form 

The completed Schedule B Examination Form must be submitted to the Graduate School a minimum of Seven (7) Calendar Days prior to the date of the scheduled examination. 

There are no exceptions to this rule. Late submission of the Schedule B Examination Form will result in the examination having to be re-scheduled. 

Announcement of the B Exam 

The Date, Time and Location of the student’s B Exam will be posted on the ECE Events Calendar . 

Results for Final Defense of Ph.D. Degree (B Exam) Form 

Filling Out the Form, Obtaining Online Approvals, Submitting the Form 

• At the conclusion of the B Exam, the student will need to go online and fill out the Results for Final Defense of Ph.D. Degree (B Exam) Form . It can be found on the Graduate School’s Forms page listed under “Exams and Research.” 
• Once all online Approvals have been submitted, an automated email will be sent by the Graduate School confirming the receipt of the student’s Results for Final Defense of Ph.D. Degree (B Exam) Form. 

Deadline for Submission of Results for Final Defense of Ph.D. Degree (B Exam) Form 

The completed Results for Final Defense of Ph.D. Degree (B Exam) Form must be submitted to the Graduate School within Three (3) Days of the completion of the B Exam. 

There are no exceptions to this rule. Late submission of the B Exam Results Form will result in the results of the student’s B Exam not being accepted. 

Suggested Timeline Towards ECE Ph.D. Degree

Students should bookmark and regularly visit the Graduate School’s web page “ Understanding Deadlines and Requirements ” in order to following a definitive timeline towards their graduation.

There are three types of available funding that we offered to applicants who receive admission offers. Each of them include a Full Tuition Fellowship, an Academic Year Stipend and a Student Health Insurance Package. 

Fellowship 

• Admission offers of a Fellowship are generally One (1) or Two (2) Semesters in duration 
• The Fellowship Stipend will be a slightly higher dollar amount for the first year only. 
• While being supported on a Fellowship, you will have no formal obligations such as teaching of research for a specific group. 

Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) 

• An admission offer of a GRA will come directly from a specific ECE Faculty Member who has expressed a specific interest in having the admitted student join their research group upon entering our Ph.D. Program. 
• Incoming GRAs are expected to begin focusing on research in the group of the ECE Faculty Member who has extended the offer or admission. 
• Students are generally supported as GRAs by their Committee Chair / Advisor during the summer session. 

Teaching Assistantship (TA) 

• An admission offer of a TA comes directly from ECE. 
• Incoming TAs are expected to perform the required duties to support the course they will be assigned to which may include: Teaching Recitations, Holding Office Hours, Grading Exams and Homework Assignments, Overseeing Lab Sections 
• Specific TA duties are determined by the Course Instructor of the course they are assigned to. 

ECE Annual Ph.D. Student Awards

Cornell ece outstanding ph.d. thesis research award .

• Awarded annually; Nominations are due by end of the fall semester 
• Students are nominated by their Committee Chair / Advisor 
• Required materials from Students are a CV, Cornell Transcript, Innovative Claims and Major Impacts (describing their research), Thesis Draft or Collection of Research Papers 
• Required materials from Faculty are a Nomination Letter from the Committee Chair / Advisor and two additional supporting Recommendation Letters 
• An Ad Hoc Committee based on the ECE Graduate Committee evaluates all submissions and selects a winner 
• Results are announced by the end of January 
• Winner receives a $3,000.00 cash award and an engraved plaque 

Cornell ECE Outstanding Ph.D. TA Award 

• Awarded annually; Nominations are by in mid-spring semesters 
• Students are nominated by an ECE Course Instructor for a course that they served as a Ph.D. TA for 
• Required materials from the Course Instructor are a completed Nomination Form 
• Required materials from Students are Teaching Philosophy and Major Contribution (describing their teaching style and method), a CV, a Recommendation Letter from a student who was registered in the course that the TA provided support for) 
• Results are announced by late April 

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The Office of Academic and Student Affairs works with graduate faculty and graduate students on academic policy and programs, academic integrity and misconduct, responsible conduct of research, petitions requesting exceptions to graduate school policy as outlines in the Graduate Faculty’s Code of Legislation, and academic progress and students status. The office also offers academic, writing and professional development programs, including proposal/thesis/dissertation writing boot camp, the Productive Writer email (Sign Up), Graduate Write-Ins, Productive Writing workshops, Fellowship Application Writing Workshops and Fellowship Listserv Tips, Productive Fellowship Writer Mailing List, Writing and Publishing Workshop Series, Three Minute Thesis Competition, and the Advising Guide for Research Students. 

The Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE) supports an inclusive and welcoming environment for all graduate and postdoctoral scholars, but especially for those from marginalized communities and/or backgrounds historically excluded from and underrepresented in the academy. OISE supports systemic change and promotes a climate of diversity, belonging, equity, engagement, and achievement, which are integral components of graduate and postdoctoral education. OISE supports scholar success through recruitment, diversity fellowships, mentoring, professional, leadership, and community development programming, and ongoing support. 

Recognizing that health and academic performance are intimately linked, the Office of Graduate Student Life is a source of information, support, and advocacy that creates a more student-centered graduate student life experience. In addition to being a first point of contact for students who are struggling or experiencing any form of distress, the Office of Graduate Student Life serves as a coordinating hub with campus-partners that focus on available online. promoting a healthy and holistic student experience. More information on support is  available online .

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Mutiara Sondjaja (August 2014).  A Quadratic Cone Relaxation-Based Algorithm for Linear Programming . Advisor: James Renegar. Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, New York University, N.Y.

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Fan Zhu (January 2012). Factor Models for Call Price Surface without Static Arbitrage . Advisor: Martin Wells.

2011 Shirshendu Chatterjee (August 2011). Analysis of Four Particle Systems . Advisor: Richard Durrett. Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, City University of New York. 

Xiaofei (Sophia) Liu (May 2011). The Contribution of Trader Interaction to Market Noise . Advisor: Philip Protter. Sub Portfolio Manager, Millennium, New York, N.Y. 

Baldur Magnusson (January 2011). Targeted Therapies: Adaptive Sequential Designs for Subgroup Selection in Clinical Trials . Advisor: Bruce Turnbull. Global Group Head, Early Development Analytics, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.

Matthew Maxwell (May 2011). Approximate Dynamic Programming Policies and Performance Bounds for Ambulance Redeployment . Advisor: Shane Henderson. Operations Research Specialist, SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, N.C. 

Abhimanyu Mitra (May 2011). Three Problems in Quantitative Risk Management . Advisor: Sidney Resnick. Data Scientist, Walmart Global Tech, Mountain View, Calif. 

Yuemeng (Sunny) Sun (August 2011). Price Manipulation with Dark Pools and Multi-Product Separation in Inventory Hedging . Advisor: Peter Jackson. Innofi Consulting Company Ltd., Beijing.

2010 Timothy Carnes (August 2010). Approximation Algorithms Via the Primal-Dual Schema: Applications of the Simple Dual-Ascent Method to Problems from Logistics . Advisor: David Shmoys. Software Engineering Architect, Salesforce, Seattle, Wash. 

Arijit Chakrabarty (May 2010). When is a Truncated Heavy Tail Heavy? . Advisor: Gennady Samorodnitsky. Associate Professor, Statistics and Mathematics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India. 

Jie Chen (August 2010). Lost Sales and Emergency Order Systems Under Stuttering Poisson Demand . Advisor: Peter Jackson. Principle Member, Technical Staff, AT&T Research Lab. 

Alexander Erdelyi (January 2010). Dynamic Programming Decomposition Methods for Capacity Allocation and Network Revenue Management Problems . Advisor: Huseyin Topaloglu. Strategic Credit Risk Modelling, UniCredit Bank, Slovakia. 

Yinan Huang (August 2010). Recursive Bayesian Methods for Sequential Parameter-State Estimation . Advisor: Martin Wells. VP, E-Trading, Goldman Sachs. 

Tuohua Wu (August 2010). Modeling Multi-Period Corporate Defaults: Macro, Contagion and Frailty Effects in Default Clustering . Advisor: Martin Wells. Founding Partner, Private Trading and Fintech Enterprise, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

2009 Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu (August 2009). Solving Ellipsoidal Inclusion and Optimal Experimental Design Problems: Theory and Algorithms . Advisor: Jeremy Todd. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton. 

Bikramjit Das (August 2009). The Conditional Extreme Value Model and Related Topics . Advisor: Sidney Resnick. Associate  Professor, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design. 

Dennis Leventhal (August 2009). Effects of Conditioning on the Convergence of Randomized Optimization Algorithms . Advisor: Adrian S. Lewis. Risk Management, Two Sigma Securities, New York, N.Y.

Chandrashekhar Nagarajan (January 2009). Algorithms for Locating Facilities Under Uncertainties . Advisor: David Williamson. Research Scientist, Facebook, San Francisco, Calif. 

Spyridon Schismenos (August 2009). A Probabilistic Analysis of Low Rank Approximations in Optimization Problems with Ellipsoidal Constraints . Advisors: Shane Henderson and Adrian Lewis. Vice President, J.P. Morgan, Credit Portfolio Group, Singapore.

Stefan Wild (January 2009). Derivative-Free Optimization Algorithms for Computationally Expensive Functions . Advisor: Christine Shoemaker. Senior Computational Mathematician / Deputy Division Director, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory. 

2008 Nikolay Bliznyuk (August 2008). Posterior Approximation by Interpolation for Bayesian Inference in Computationally Expensive Statistical Models . Advisor: David Ruppert. Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida. 

Samuel Ehrlichman (August 2008). Adaptive Stochastic Simulation for Structured Problems . Advisor: Shane Henderson. Quantitative Researcher, Jane Street Capital, New York, N.Y. 

Souvik Ghosh (August 2008). The Effect of Memory on Large Deviations of Moving Average Processes and Infinitely Divisible Processes . Advisor: Gennady Samorodnitsky. Principal Staff Engineer and Scientist, LinkedIn, Mountain View, Calif. 

Gavin Hurley (May 2008). Policies for the Stochastic Inventory Problem with Forecasting . Advisor: Peter Jackson. Head of Digital and Contact Channels, EDF Energy, London, United Kingdom. 

Minbok Kim (May 2008). Consistent Variable Selection Via Adaptive Diagonal Ridge Estimator in Regression Models . Advisor: David Ruppert. Chief Investment Officer, Fount Inc., Seoul, South Korea.

Parthanil Roy (January 2008). Stable Random Fields . Advisor: Gennady Samorodnitsky. Professor, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division, Indian Statistical Institute.

Emmanuel Sharef (August 2008). Nonparametric Frailty Models for Clustered Survival Data . Advisors: David Ruppert and Robert Strawderman. Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management, PIMCO, Newport Beach, Calif. 

Anke van Zuijlen (Zuylen) (August 2008). GOD Does Not Play Dice...And Neither Should Approximation Algorithms . Advisor: David Williamson. Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.

2007 Sumit Kunnumkal (August 2007). Approximate Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Approximation Methods for Inventory Control and Revenue Management . Advisor: Huseyin Topaloglu. Associate Professor, Operations Management, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India. 

Davina Kunvipusilkul (2007). Scheduling chains of jobs with interval-constrained lags on a single machine . Advisor: David B. Shmoys. Deputy Director, Financial Institutions Strategy Department, Bank of Thailand.

Dmitriy Levchenkov (August 2007). Dynamic Strategies: Generation, Properties, and Forecasting Returns . Advisor: Thomas Coleman. Quantitative Research Analyst, Waterfront International Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Jose Pedro Prina Pacheco (2007). Price-driven market equilibria and VCG auctions for a linear economic model . Advisor: Robin Roundy. Professor, School of Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Peter Richtarik (August 2007). Some Algorithms for Large-Scale Linear and Convex Minimization in Relative Scale . Advisor: Michael Todd. Professor, Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Frans Schalekamp (2007). Some results in universal and a priori optimization . Advisor: David B. Shmoys. Senior Lecturer, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University.

Kazuhiro Shimbo (2007). Understanding mathematical models of bubbles in financial markets . Advisor: Philip Protter. CIO,  Quantitative Strategies, Asset Management One USA, New York, N.Y.

Pascal Tomecek (2007). Connections between singular control and optimal switching with applications to reversible investment . Advisor: Xin Guo.Managing Director, CIB Quantitative Research, JP Morgan Chase & Co..

Van-Anh Truong (August 2007). Approximation Methods for Supply Chain Problems . Advisor: Robin Roundy. Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University.

2006 Ugur Tuncay Alparslan (2006). Risk processes driven by stationary stable streams of claims . Advisor: Gennady Samorodnitsky. Lead, Commercial Buildings and Manufacturing Demand Team, U.S. Energy Information Administration, Washington, D.C.

Millie Chu (2006). Robust intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment planning . Advisor: Shane G. Henderson. Analytics Director, Media, T-Mobile, Bellevue, Wash.

Sujin Kim (2006). Adaptive control variates in Monte Carlo simulation . Advisor: Shane G. Henderson. Associate Clinical Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.

Samuel George Steckley (2006). Estimating the density of a conditional expectation . Advisor: Shane G. Henderson. Principal Modeling and Simulation Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Va.

Oguzhan Vicil (2006). Threshold inventory rationing model analysis and optimization . Advisor: Peter Jackson. Adjunct Faculty Member, Industrial Engineering Department, Bikrent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Zhitao Yang (2006). A model and techniques to improve the measurement accuracy of scanning Kelvin probe microscopy . Advisor: Michael Spencer. Portfolio manager, Head of Quantitative Trading Desk, Dijun Capital, Shanghai City, China.

Yuriy A. Zinchenko (2006). The local behavior of the shrink-wrapping algorithm for linear programming . Advisor: James Renegar. Optimization Support Engineer, Gurobi Optimization, Beaverton, Ore.

2005 Retsef Levi (2005). Computing provably near-optimal policies for stochastic inventory control models . Advisors: Robin Roundy and David B. Shmoys. Professor, Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management.

Ranjithkumar Rajagopalan (2005). Algorithms for some clustering problems . Advisor: David B. Shmoys. Programmer, Sucker Punch Productions, Bellevue, Wash.

Joerg Rothenbuehler (2005). Dependence structures beyond copulas: A new model of a multivariate regular varying distribution based on a finitevon Mises-Fisher mixture model . Advisor: Gennady Samorodnitsky. Senior Director, Insurance & Wealth Management Analytics Practice, Merkle, Columbia, Md.

Ayse Deniz Sezer (2005). A theory of filtration shrinkage . Advisor: Philip Protter. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

2004 Aaron Francis Archer (2004). Mechanisms for discrete optimization with rational agents . Advisor: É va Tardos. Research Scientist, Google NYC.

Soumyadip Ghosh (2004). Dependence in stochastic simulation models . Advisor: Shane G. Henderson. Researcher, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

Bharathkumar Rangarajan (2004). Advisor: Michael Jeremy Todd. Research Data Scientist, Facebook.

Rommel Regis (2004). Global optimization of computationally expensive functions using serial and parallel radial basis function algorithms . Advisor: Christine A. Shoemaker. Professor, Department of Mathematics, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pa.

Amar Sapra (2004). On the behavior of price in a supply chain market for capacity . Advisor: Peter Jackson. Professor, Production & Operations Management, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India.

2003 Chek Beng Chua (2003). An algebraic perspective on homogeneous cone programming, and the primal-dual second-order cone approximations algorithm for symmetric cone . Advisor: James Renegar. Associate Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Woonghee Tim Huh (2003). Strategic capacity planning models . Advisor: Robin Roundy. Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, B.C.

Paul Daniel Hyden (2003). Time dilation: Decreasing time to decision with discrete-event simulation . Advisor: Lee Schruben. Information Management and Decision Architectures Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

Trevor Howard Park (2003). A penalized likelihood approach to principal component stabilization . Advisor: David Ruppert. Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.

Feng Zhang (2003). Capacity planning and forecast combination models . Advisor: Robin Roundy. Senior Analyst, Yinshan Petrochemical Works, Hunan, China.

2002 Ganesh Janakiraman (2002). Discrete time inventory models with lost sales and lead times: Theoretical results . Advisor: John A. Muckstadt. Professor, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas.

Vardges Melkonian (2002). Approximation algorithms for network design problems . Advisor: É va Tardos. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

Greta M. Pangborn (2002). A branch-and-cut-price implementation for airline crew scheduling . Advisor: Leslie E. Trotter, Jr. Associate Professor, Computer Science and Information Systems, St. Michael's College, Colchester, Vt.

Catalina Stefanescu (2002). Statistical models and methods for clustered exchangeable binary and survival data . Advisor: Bruce Turnbull. Professor of Management Science, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) Berlin.

2001 Nathan John Edwards (2001). Approximation algorithms for the multi-level facility location problem . Advisor: David B. Shmoys. Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Michael Freimer (2001). Integrating data collection and model analysis in simulation . Advisor: Lee Schruben. Fulfillment Marketplace and Shopping & Delivery Data Science, Instacart, San Francisco, Calif.

James R. Porter (2001). A branch-and-cut-price implementation for airline crew scheduling .

Emre Alper Yildirim (2001). An interior-point perspective on sensitivity analysis in linear programming and semidefinite programming . Advisor: Michael Jeremy Todd. Lecturer, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh.

2000 Metin Cakanyildirim (2000). Capacity expansion under uncertain demand forecasts: With applications to the semiconductor industry . Advisor: Robin O. Roundy. Professor, Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Austin.

Dietrich Chen (2000). Revenue management: Competition, monopoly, and optimization . Advisor: Peter Jackson. Senior Director, Alvarez & Marsal, New York, N.Y.

Pan Chen (2000). Integrating production and transportation scheduling in a make-to-order environment . Advisor: Peter Jackson. Chief Data & Analytics Officer, UNIQLO China, Shanghai City, China.

Raphael Andreas Hauser (2000). On search directions for self-scaled conic programming . Advisor: Michael Jeremy Todd. Associate Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, U.K.

Juan Esteban Pereira (2000). Distribution inventory systems: Lower bounds and a heuristic policy . Advisor: John A. Muckstadt. Chief Design Officer, Robling, Atlanta, Ga.

John W. Staudenmayer (2000). Local polynomial regression in the presence of covariate measurement error: An improved SIMEX estimator . Advisor: David Ruppert. Professor, Department of Mathmatics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.

Michael Wagner (2000). Quasi-Newton algorithms for equality-constrained optimization . Advisor: Michael Jeremy Todd. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati.

1999 Edward W. Chan (1999). Markov chain models for multi-echelon supply chains . Advisor: John A. Muckstadt. Senior Operations Researcher, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif.

Jason Irving Cohen (1999). Markov modeling of the term structure in the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework . Advisor: Robert A. Jarrow. High Frequency Trading Portfolio Manager, New York, N.Y.

Marta Eso (1999). Parallel branch-and-cut for set partitioning . Advisor: Leslie E. Trotter, Jr. Co-Head of Mathematics and Computer Department, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn.

Mark Lawrence Huber (1999). Perfect sampling using bounding chains . Advisor: David B. Shmoys. Fletcher Jones Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif.

Leonid Kopman (1999). A new generic separation routine and its application in a branch and cut algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem . Advisor: Leslie E. Trotter, Jr.

Roberto Malamut (1999). Estimation of multidimensional diffusions from discrete observations for interest rate models . Advisor: David Clay Heath. Quantitative Trader, Queens County, N.Y.

Heinrich Felix Matzinger (1999). Reconstruction of a one dimensional scenery seen along the path of a random walk with holding . Advisor: Harry Kesten. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kevin Daniel Wayne (1999). Generalized maximum flow algorithms . Advisor: É va Tardos. Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Princeton, University.

1998 Kathryn Elizabeth Caggiano (1998). Flow time reduction for multistage cyclic scheduling with multiple, Partially ordered jobs . Advisor: Robert Gary Bland. Professor of Practice & Director, M.Eng. Studies, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University.

Jong Wang Chow (1998). Extensions to the capacitated lot-sizing problem: A Solution Framework . Advisor: John A. Muckstadt.

Fabian Ariel Chudak (1998). Improved approximation algorithms for the uncapacitated facility location problem . Advisor: David B. Shmoys. Senior Researcher, Quantum, Vancouver, B.C.

Semyon Kruglyak (1998). DNA sequencing and modeling repeat sequence evolution . Advisor: Richard Timothy Durrett. Head of Informatics, Element Biosciences, San Diego, Calif.

1997 Victoria Z. Averbukh (1997). Pricing American options using Monte Carlo simulation . Advisor: David Clay Heath. Professor of Practice & Director, M.Eng. Studies, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University.

Lisa Karen Fleischer (1997). Separating maximally violated comb inequalities in planar graphs . Advisor: É va Tardos.

Serkan Hosten (1997). Degrees of Grobner bases of integer programs . Advisor: Bernd Sturmfels. Professor, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University.

James Anton Rappold (1997). Computationally efficient models for capacitated multi-echelon production-distribution systems . Advisor: John A. Muckstadt. Instructor of Operations, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.

1996 Yuri Boykov (1996). Two problems in statistics and mathematical finance . Advisor: David Clay Heath. Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.

Laszlo Lada'nyi (1996). Advisor: Leslie E. Trotter, Jr. Principal Operations Research Specialist, SAS, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

Paul Douglas Martin (1996). A time-oriented approach to computing optimal schedules for the job-shop scheduling problem . Advisor: David B. Shmoys. Managing Partner, Valravn Capital, New York, N.Y.

Johara Shireen Shahabuddin (1996). Structured Trust Region Algorithms for the Minimization of Nonlinear Functions . Advisor: Michael Jeremy Todd. IT Development Manager, ZVerizon Wireless, Dublin, Ohio.

Catalin Starica (1996). A tail empirical approach to the estimation of heavy tails and the extreme value parameter in stationary time series . Advisor: Sidney Ira Resnick. Professor, Institute of Information Management, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Reha Husnu Tütüncü (1996). Infeasible-interior-point methods for linear and convex programming . Advisor: Michael Jeremy Todd. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.

1995 Stuart Alexander Carr (1995). Advisor: John A. Muckstadt. Supply Chain Analyst, STEMCELL Technologies, Burnaby, B.C.

Kathleen Anne Cronin (1995). Advisor: Bruce William Turnbull. Deputy Associate Director, Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md.

Sverker Magnusson (1995). Cutting Stock Problems: Theory and Practice . Advisor: Leslie E. Trotter, Jr. Master Engineer, EHPT, Stockholm, Sweden.

Ranjini Natarajan (1995). Advisor: Bruce William Turnbull. Associate Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

1994 Beth L. Chance (1994). Behavior Characterization and Estimation for General Hierarchical Multivariate Linear Regression Models . Advisor: Martin Timothy Wells. Professor, Statistics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Robert Michael Koca (1994). Probabilistic Models of Biology Concerning Coexistence of Species, Selection Arenas, and Parental Care in Birds . Advisor: David Clay Heath. Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, Md.

Kevin Anthony McShane (1994). Primal-dual Interior Point Algorithms for Linear Programming and the Linear Complementarity Problem . Advisor: Michael Jeremy Todd.

Jean-Didier Opsomer (1994). Optimal Bandwidth Selection for Fitting an Adaptive Model by Local Polynomial Regression . Advisor: David Ruppert. Vice President & Senior Statistical Fellow, Westat, Rockville, Md.

Antonio Pires (1994). Advisor: Narahari Umanath Prubhu.

Theodore Kenneth Ralphs (1994). Parallel Branch and Cut for Vehicle Routing . Advisor: Leslie E. Trotter, Jr. Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.

Rekha Rachel Thomas (1994). Groebner Basis Methods in Integer Programming . Advisor: Bernd Sturmfels. Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

1993 Can Akkan (1993). Advisor: William Laughlin Maxwell. Professor, Sabancı Business Scholl, Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey.

Sharon Filipowski Arroyo (1993). Towards a Computational Complexity Theory that uses Approximate Data and Knowledge . Advisor: James Renegar. Technical Fellow, Boeing, Sammamish, Wash.

Frank Daniel Chance (1993). Advisor: Lee Schruben. President, FebTime, Inc., San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Victoria Chung-Ping Chen (1993). Advisor: David Ruppert. Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.

Ahmet Refik Güllü (1993). Analysis of the Production and Inventory Polocoes under the Martingale Model of Forecast Evolution . Advisor: David Clay Heath. Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul Turkey.

Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço (1993). Algorithms and Computational Experiments for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem . Advisor: David B. Shmoys. Professor, Economics and Business Department, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Levent Tunçel (1993). Asymptotic Behavior of Interior-point Methods . Advisor: Michael Jeremy Todd. Professor, Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.

Gang Zhou (1993). Advisor: David Ruppert.

1992 Kevin James Healy (1992). Advisor: Lee Schruben.

Shmuel Onn (1992). Discrete Geometry, Group Representations and Combinatorial Optimization: an Interplay . Advisor: Leslie E. Trotter, Jr. Professor, Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Uday Sadanand Rao (1992). Multi-stage, identical job cyclic scheduling for repetitive manufacturing . Advisor: Peter Jackson. Professor, Department of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Charles Raymond Sox, Jr. (1992). Modeling and Analysis of Quick Response in Production-Inventory Systems . Advisor: John A. Muckstadt. Associate Dean, Impact & Partnerships / Professor, Operations & Analytics, Department of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems,University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Loon Ching Tang (1992). Advisor: Narahari Umanath Prabhu. Professor, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, National University of Singapore.

Jorge Rafael Vera Andreo (1992). Ill-Posedness in Mathematical Programming and Problem-Solving With Approximate Data . Advisor: James Renegar. Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Physics Ph.D. candidate wins 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition

By | Katya Hrichak , Cornell University Graduate School

“I want you to remember a time when you were in a setting where you felt like you didn’t belong. I want you to remember how you felt in that setting, maybe isolated or out of place, and how much you felt like you wanted to continue going back to that setting—probably not much. These feelings are all too familiar for undergraduate women pursuing their studies in science, and in physics specifically,” began Meagan Sundstrom, a doctoral candidate in physics at the ninth annual Cornell University Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

Alongside seven other finalists, Sundstrom presented her dissertation research in just three minutes on March 20 to a panel of judges and an audience from across campus while additional friends, family, advisors, and lab mates watched online. In the first in-person Cornell 3MT since 2019, presentations were judged by how clearly and compellingly students summarized their research to a general audience, using only one static slide.

Sundstrom’s presentation, “Recognizing and Removing Barriers for Women in Physics,” earned her first place and $1,500. Second place and $1,000 was awarded to information science doctoral student Sterling Williams-Ceci for her presentation, “AI Helps us Write – but at What Cost?”

After nearly 60 in-person and 70 virtual audience members cast their ballots, votes were tallied and the People’s Choice Award and $250 were presented to biomedical and biological sciences doctoral candidate Sharada Gopal for her presentation, “Worming Our Way to a Longer Life.”

This year’s judges included Jane Bunker, director of Cornell University Press; Joe Ellis, director of online degree program development at eCornell; David Lodge, the Francis J. DiSalvo Director of the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability; and Bob Riter, patient advocate for the Cornell Community Cancer Partnership. Organization of the competition and coaching of presenters was provided by the Graduate School Office of Career and Professional Development.

“As grad students, there are a lot of opportunities to give your elevator pitch at conferences and more professional settings to more senior people in your field, and I thought this would be a really cool opportunity for me to try to tailor that pitch to a more general audience—how would I describe my research to my family and friends?—so that was fun,” said Sundstrom.

Being able to “zoom out” and view her topic from a different perspective was also helpful for Sundstrom, who is currently writing her dissertation and appreciates having both formulated a storyline and thought about the broader impacts of her work.

Williams-Ceci similarly enjoyed the chance to speak to a different type of audience than she is used to addressing.

“I hadn’t really had an opportunity in grad school to try communicating to a broad audience, it’s always just to my lab, so I wanted to practice having a chance to really tell a story and not just go through the slides,” she said. “It really helped me know for a fact that I can tell a convincing story about a project that I’ve done.”

Gopal shared that the 3MT was a fun way to combine her longtime artistic interests with her science.

“It seemed like such a fun event. I did a lot of theatre in college so I thought, ‘What can I do artistically here?’ and this seemed like a good mix of my scientific interest and my artistic theatre interests,” she said, adding that she also benefitted from looking at the bigger picture of her work and its impacts.

The 3MT competition was first held in 2008 at the University of Queensland and has since been adopted by over 900 universities in over 85 countries. 3MT challenges research degree students to present a compelling story on their dissertation or thesis and its significance in just three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

Cornell’s Graduate School first hosted a 3MT competition in 2015 and the event has grown steadily since that time. As the winner of Cornell’s competition, Sundstrom will now go on to compete in northeast regional competitions.

“Our Three Minute Thesis final round is a highlight of the year for those of us in the Graduate School—literally we talk about it all year long,” said Kathryn J. Boor, dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education. “We look forward to it because it’s just plain fun, and it’s an opportunity for us to watch and learn from our accomplished and creative graduate researchers.”

“I could not possibly be more proud of the work we saw,” she said.

Read the story on the Cornell University Graduate School website.

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These programs focus on the development of new knowledge through original research and scholarship. Our master’s degree programs are designed for those who wish to obtain further education in a selected field and to develop their ability for critical inquiry, research and teaching. Doctoral programs are designed for individuals who demonstrate the potential to perform original research and scholarship, with a view to various careers requiring a terminal degree, including those in research and teaching. 

• M.A.  (Master of Arts)
• M.S.  (Master of Science)
• M.A./Ph.D.  or  M.S./Ph.D.  (joint Master’s/Doctor of Philosophy)
• M.F.A.  (Master of Fine Arts), Creative Writing
• D.M.A.  (Doctor of Musical Arts) , typically 3 or more years
• J.S.D.  (Doctor of Science of Law)
• Ph.D.  (Doctor of Philosophy)

Graduate School Professional Degrees

In professional degrees, the focus is on projects and coursework. Professional degrees prepare students to practice their profession at an advanced level or to teach the subject matter of their profession. 

• M.F.S. (Master of Food Science) , 1 year
• M.I.L.R.  (Master of Industrial and Labor Relations) , 2 years
• M.L.A.  (Master of Landscape Architecture) , 3 years
• M.P.H  (Master of Public Health) , 1-2 years; part-time option
• Animal Science
• Biological and Environmental Engineering
• Integrative Plant Science
• Global Development
• Landscape Architecture
• Natural Resources and the Environment
• Applied Statistics
• Fiber Science & Apparel Design
• Human Resources (Online)
• ​ Information Science
• Veterinary Medical Sciences , 12 months
• M.R.P.  (Master of Regional Planning) , 2 years

See the fields of study catalog for more information on degree programs offered through the Graduate School. 

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