Texas Alumn

Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis

Education is the safeguard of democracy

Acknowledgements

This precedes my dissertation:

There are many people to whom I owe my gratitude during my graduate studies. I would like to thank my dissertation committee for all of their support, guidance, and suggestions, both professionally and personally. They have all helped in some way to help me develop as a better person and researcher, defining and solving a wide array of problems and overcoming challenges along the way. I acknowledge Dr. Novoselac for his help with some experiments and for his excitement. I also especially thank Dr. Corsi for much of his guidance while I was forming my dissertation concept. My colleagues have been helpful in asking and answering questions and directing me to resources that I needed. I especially thank Michael Waring and Donghyun Rim.

I am grateful for the funding opportunities that have allowed me to continue my studies and support my family. I benefited from the opportunity to be part of the first cohort of trainees under the National Science Foundation IGERT program for Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering. It helped my professional development and brought me the sense of community that I needed during this time.

Lastly, I must thank my family for their support and encouragement. I thank my parents for their example of tenacity, professional responsibility, work ethic, continued education, and lifelong learning. I have worked many years to better think out of the box and approach problems from different directions. Lastly, but most of all, I am grateful for the support of my wife Becca and the hard work she has put in while finishing her own education, working, and raising our daughter. Riley, I owe my desire to finish this work to you, as you have given me an even greater reason to live and be successful.

Sports Photography

On Saturday, we went to the #3 Big 12 champs Texas volleyball game versus Colorado. Unfortunately, many of the previous games conflict with other committments so we weren't able to go. It was pretty fun. One thing that I noticed is that it is hard to photograph. They ask the crowd to not use flash photography, so that leads to longer exposures to allow enough light into the lense. Fast moving athletes just don't go with slow shutter speeds. There was 1 official photographer taking pictures and I noticed that he had remote control, wireless flashes. Unfair. When he took a picture, all the lights in the gym flashed. It only lasted a fraction of a second, but was noticable if you looked for it. I set a faster shutter speed and took bursts of photos and got 1 (yes 1) photo that took advantage of his flash. Here is outside hitter 6'4" Destinee Hooker serving. She is All-American and awesome (not to mention she is the NCAA high jump champion - 6'2.25").

Done

Today, I met with my advisor to review the revisions to my dissertation that I made due to comments from my committee. He passed off on them, I uploaded my dissertation, and I turned in all the rest of the paperwork. I am now officially done with all the requirements to be Scot Waye, Ph.D (Or Dr. Waye). Hook 'em. Does this shirt make me look fat?