1. Name: Melissa Brown. Area: statistical genetics. Thesis Title: The Wright-Fisher Model. Graduation Date: Spring 1995. Last Known Position: Dean and Math Department member at Northeast State Technical Community College.
2. Name: Atif Abuida. Area: complex analysis. Thesis Title: The Location of Zeros of a Polynomial in the Complex Plane. Graduation Date: Fall 1996. Last Known Position: Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Dayton.
3. Name: Coleen Huff. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Packing the Complete Symmetric Digraph with Orientations of a 4-Cycle. Graduation Date: Summer 1996. Last Known Position: Math teacher, Florida.
4. Name: Amy Weems. Area: complex analysis. Thesis Title: L^p Inequalities and Rate of Growth Inequalities for a Polynomial and its Derivative. Graduation Date: Summer 1996. Update: Sadly, Amy died of cancer in the Spring of 1997.
5. Name: Gary Coker. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Decompositions of the Complete Digraph into Orientations of Cycles. Graduation Date: Summer 1996 (from University of Wales, Aberystwyth). Update: Sadly, Gary died of a heart condition in Summer 2013.
6. Name: Sherri Cockerham. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: f-Cyclic Hybrid Triple Systems. Graduation Date: Summer 1997. Last Known Position: Math teacher at Science Hill High School, Johnson City, TN.
7. Name: Will Galliher. Area: differential equations. Thesis Title: On the Oscillations of Solutions of the Lienard Equation. Graduation Date: Fall 1997. Last Known Position: Faculty member at a Virginia Highlands Community College in Virginia.
8. Name: Gene Chapman. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Decompositions of Lambda times the Complete Directed Graph into each of the Orientations of a 4-Cycle. Graduation Date: Spring 1998.
9. Name: Jason Carter. Area: applied probability/applied math. Thesis Title: Some Results on Transition Times in Urn Problems. Graduation Date: Spring 1998. Last Known Position: Working for Blue-Cross Blue-Shield.
10. Name: Benkam Benedict Bobga. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Bicyclic Mixed Triple Systems. Graduation Date: Summer 2005. Last Known Position: Faculty member at a college in Georgia.
11. Name: Rita McFaddin. Area: precollegiate mathematics. Thesis Title: Combinatorics for the Third Grade Classroom. Graduation Date: Summer 2006. Current Position: High school teacher in Virginia.
12. Name: Quan Tran. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Tricyclic Steiner Triple Systems with 1-Rotational Subsystems. Graduation Date: Summer 2007. Last Known Position: Working as a statistician in Florida.
13. Name: Chrysanthus Gwellem. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Decompositions, Packings, and Coverings of Complete Directed Graphs with a 3-Circuit and a Pendant Arc. Graduation Date: Summer 2007.
14. Name: Jan Lewenczuk. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Decomposition, Packings and Coverings of Complete Digraphs with a Transitive-Triple and a Pendant Arc. Graduation Date: Fall 2007. Last Known Position: Faculty member at Northeast State Technical Community College.
15. Name: Melody Cooper. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Packings and Coverings of Various Complete Digraphs with Orientations of a 4-Cycle. Graduation Date: Fall 2007. Last Known Position:Teaching math in West Virginia.
16. Name: Daniel Cantrell. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Cyclic, f-Cyclic, and Bicyclic Decompositions of the Complete Graph into the 4-Cycle with a Pendant Edge. Graduation Date: Spring 2009.
17. Name: Ernest Jum. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: The Last of the Mixed Triple Systems. Graduation Date: Summer 2009.
18. Name: Wesley Surber. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Restricted and Unrestricted Coverings of Complete Bipartite Graphs with Hexagons. Graduation Date: Spring 2013. Last Known Position: Numerical software applications in Nashville, TN.
19. Name: Yan Xia. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Packings and Coverings of Various Complete Graphs with the 4-Cycle with a Pendant Edge. Graduation Date: Summer 2013. Last Known Position: High school math teacher in Oklahoma.
20. Name: Brett Shields. Area: complex analysis. Thesis Title: The Number of Zeros of a Polynomial in a Disk as a Consequence of Restrictions on the Coefficients. Graduation Date: Spring 2014. Last Known Position: Assistant professor at Francis Marion University.
21. Name: Derek Bryant. Area: complex analysis. Thesis Title: The Number of Zeros of a Polynomial in a Disk as a Consequence of Coefficient Inequalities with Multiple Reversals. Graduation Date: Fall 2015. Last Known Position: High school math teacher in Virginia.
22. Name: Chancé Culver. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Decompositions of the Complete Mixed Graph by Mixed Stars. Graduation Date: Summer 2020.
23. Name: Kazeem Kosebinu. Area: design theory/graph theory. Thesis Title: Partially Oriented 6-star Decompositions of Some Complete Mixed Graphs. Graduation Date: Summer 2021.
24. Name: Matthew Gladin. Area: complex analysis. Thesis Title: Finding Bounds of Complex and Quaternionic Eneström-Kakeya Type Polynomials, and Counting the Number of Roots Within a Bound. Graduation Date: Spring 2023.

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