Ph.D. Alumni Directory
2025
Mina Shokrollahi Ardekani | Understanding Expert and Stakeholder Perspectives for Designing Autism-Supportive Outpatient Waiting Environments
Sara Eslamzadeh Billie | Nature Playscape: Investigating Children’s Play Behavior and Environmental Affordances in a School Playground
Soomin Kim | User Perceptions on Health: Three Cases of Senior-Friendly Cities
Jie Kong | Exploring the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Nocturnal Urban Landscapes: A Case Study
Arielle Spencer | An Investigation Of Design Processes And Their Effects On Accessibility In Narrative Themed Environments
Russell Stall | Integrating Applied History and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Into City Planning Practice
Swati Goel | Environmental Barriers and Facilitators to Family-Centered Rounds in Pediatric Critical Care Settings
2023
Saeideh Sobhaninia | The Relationship Between Community Rebounding After a Sequence of Environmental Disasters and Social Cohesion in Puerto Rico
Farnaz Kamyab | A Social-Ecological Systems Inquiry for Understanding Environmental Change In Los Angeles Outer-Ring Suburbs
Jiang Dong | Influence of Access to Public Parks on Mortality Among Older Adults in the United States
Rieta Drinkwine | Public Libraries As Thirdspaces for Community Participation in the Informational Society
Xiaowei Li | A Mixed-Method Study on the Walkability of Streets in Hospital-Anchored Neighborhoods
Xiwei Shen | Conceptualizing Technology in Landscape Architecture (TLA) For the 21st Century
Anastasia Maurina | Developing Design Guidelines of Deployable Bamboo Scissors-Like Arch Structures: For Structural Performance, Flexibility, and Constructability
2022
Qingqing Sun | Design, Integration, and Evaluation of IoT-Based Electrochromic Building Envelopes for Visual Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Arup Bhattachayra | Airborne Contaminant Dispersal in Critical Built Environments
Marchell L. Magxaka | Overcoming Provision Challenges and Barriers to Affordable Housing Development in Small Towns of South Carolina
2021
Robert Dawson Coffey | The Community of Inquiry Effect on Learning for an Online Course
Roxana Jafarifiroozabadi | The Impact of Daylight and Window Views on Health and Recovery: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Patients with Heart Disease in a Cardiac ICU
Rutali Joshi | Impact of workstation enclosure and visual exposure on interruptions, collaboration and auditory environment during emergency physician handoffs
Shaobo Li | A Critical Evaluation of China’s Thirteenth Five-Year Plans (2016-2020) for Economic and Social Development
2020
Alexia Nikyema Goulwendin | Barriers to the Adoption of Green Building Materials and Technologies in Developing Countries: The Case of Burkina Faso
2019
Herminia S. Machry | Exploring the Design of Single-Family Room NICUs: The Impact of the Built Environment on Family Engagement
Ying Zhou | The Impact of Transportation Disadvantage on Healthcare Access
Laurel L. Bartlett | Visitor Impact at Historic Sites: An Assessment of the Influence of Usage, Interpretation, and Management on Material Degradation
Jermaine Durham | The U.S. Foreclosure Crisis and Racial Change in the American South
Christopher W. Kiss | The Influence of Windows on Surgeons’ Stress
Pai Liu | Culturally Sensitive Care Environment and Chinese Wellbeing: Investigating Senior Centers Designed for Chinese Elders in the United States
Nyoman Dewi Pebryani | Culturally Specific Shape Grammar: preservation of Geringsing
textile patterns through computational modeling and ethnography
2018
Will Lewis | Role of the Physical Environment on Team-Based Primary Care in the Military Health System
Jessica Fernandez | Building Bridges, Blurring Boundaries
Maryam Hamidpour | Development and Evaluation of a Comparison-Based Control Strategy of Electrochromic Glazing for the Management of Visual Comfort and Energy Consumption
Deborah Franqui | Examining Child and Parent Anxiety During the Ambulatory Surgical Process: A Comparison of Using the Induction Room vs. Operating Room for Anesthetic Induction
Mostafa Waleed | Computational Investigation of the Morphological Design Dimensions of Historic Hexagonal-Based Islamic Geometric Patterns
2017
Krista Evans | Integrating Tiny Houses into the American Urban Fabric: A Comparative Case Study of Land Use Policy Change in the Carolinas
Mostafa Hashem | Computational Investigation of the Morphological Design Dimensions of Historic Hexagonal-Based Islamic Geometric Patterns
Mellone F. Long | Planning in the Face of Ethics
Yang Song | Landscape Manipulatives: A Study of Math Gardens and Learning
Outcomes in Middle School Mathematics Education Research
Nixon Wonotto | Integrating Parametric Structural Analysis and Optimization in the
Architectural Schematic Design Phase
Tao Guan | Income Inequality, Soaring-up Housing Price and Housing Overdevelopment
2015
Valerie Lynn Hammett | Risk Analysis and Disaster Recovery: A Florida LIHTC Case Study
Courtney Grunninger | Beyond Aesthetics: Fostering Place Attachment through the Design
Regulatory Process
George Schaffer | The LIT ROOM: Design, Implementation and evaluation of a Multi-Media, Architectural-Robotics Embedded Installation in a Public Library for Augmenting Children's Interactive Picturebook Read-Alouds
Arash Soleimani | CyberPLAYce: A Cyber-Physical-Spatial Learning Environment Promoting Personal and Computational Expression for Elementary Students
Shan Jiang | Encouraging Engagement with Therapeutic Landscapes: Using Transparent
Spaces to Optimize Stress Reduction in Urban Health Facilities
2014
John Ridout | Rebuilding Social Organization in Low-income Neighborhoods:
The Influence of Habitat for Humanity
Deborah Franqui | Pathways Toward Assessing the Quality of Ambulatory Care Clinics
Noel Carpenter | Comparison of the Design-Bid-Build and Construction Manager at Risk
Project Delivery Methods Utilized for the Construction of Public Schools
Melanie Duffey | Hybrid Spaces: Users' Perceptions of Digitally Mediated Public Space
Niraj Poudel | Towards the Development of Performance Based Guidelines for Using
Phase Change Materials in Lightweight Buildings
2013
Joe Manganelli | Designing Complex, Interactive, Architectural Systems with CIAS-DM:
A Model-Based, Human-Centered, Design and Analysis Methodology
David Payne | Charleston Contradictions: A Case Study Of Historic Preservation
Theories AND Policies
Erik Simon | Public Participation in Brownfield Redevelopment: The Role of Public
Participation in State Administered Voluntary Cleanup Programs
Anthony Threatt | Design and Evaluation of a Nonverbal Communication Platform Between
Assistive Robots and Their Users
Brooklyn Wynveen | Attaining Sustainable Behavior among Non-Environmentally-Motivated
Individuals: A Formative Experiment
2012
Pemille Christensen | Key Strategies of Sustainable Real Estate Decision-Making in the
United States: A Delphi Study of the Stakeholders
Bruce Cole | Building Social Infrastructure Through Public-Private Partnerships:
The Case of Student Housing in Public Higher Education
Paul Duggan | Removing Gourna: A study of participation in the relocation of
El Gourna, Egypt
David B. Hueber | The Changing Face of the Game and Golf’s Built Environment
John Ridout | Marketing Fuel Economy Standards in an Automobile Dependent Society:
An Analysis of Consumer-Oriented, Industry-Produced Advertising Material
2011
Noah Billig | Turkish Informal Housing Settlements as a Typology for Modern Generative
Processes in Urban Design
Tarek Mokhtar | Monumental-IT: A “Robotic-Wiki” Monument for Embodied Interaction in the Information World
Geary Robinson | Disaster Preparedness For University/Community Transit Systems
2010
2009
Henrique Houayek | The Animated Work Environment: A Vision for Working Life in a Digital Society
Ole Sleipness | Exploring How Residential Communities in the Rural Southern Appalachian Mountains are Branded as Green: A Qualitative Analysis
Ellen Vincent | The Therapeutic Benefits of Nature Images on Health
Jeremy Wells | Attachment to the Physical Age of Urban Residential Neighborhoods: A Comparative Case Study of Historic Charleston and I'On
