Beginning in 2009 (for degrees awarded in August, 2009) all theses and dissertations completed at Washington University were required to be submitted in electronic form. Print submissions are no longer accepted. Dissertations are submitted directly in electronic form to UMI / Proquest Dissertation Services. Master’s theses are locally submitted in electronic form directly into the Washington University Open Scholarship Repository. Please contact your academic department document for information on the preparation and formatting requirements of the thesis itself.
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Understanding the Relationship Between Hosts and their Microbiome, Boahemaa Adu-Oppong
Essays on Firms and Human Behavior, Nicolas Aguelakakis
Consuming Bodies: Countercultural Citizens of Mexican Capitalism in the 20th Century, Ivan Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
New Ventures in Amidine-Based Catalyst Design, Nicholas Alan Ahlemeyer
Phenomenal Marks, Ruptured Spaces, Relearning Language, Crossing Cultures, Meelee Ahn
Knowledge Driven Approaches and Machine Learning Improve the Identification of Clinically Relevant Somatic Mutations in Cancer Genomics, Benjamin John Ainscough
Distraction and Community: The Magic of Playtime, Heather Alfaro
Developing a spatial navigation screening tool for preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, Samantha Lynn Allison
Evaluating a Targeted, Universal Middle School Program for Childhood Overweight and Obesity: StayingFit, Myra Altman
Quizzing and Restudy Dynamics in a TST Paradigm: The (Null) Effect of Feedback and the (Significant) Effects of Metacognition, Francis Anderson
The Impact of Delay on Retrieval Success in the Parietal Memory Network, Nathan Anderson
Michelangelo Moving Time, James Philip Anno
A 2-D Analysis of Strains at the Interface Between the Brain and the Skull, Kashyap Arcot
Mechanism of Gene Regulation by Coding PolyA Tracks, Laura Lea Arthur
GOD BLESS THE WHOLE WORLD NO EXCEPTIONS, Claire Askew
Prosaic (dis)appearance, Waller H. Austin
For One Drop of Blood: Virginity, Sexual Norms and Medical Processes in Hymenoplasty Consultations in the Netherlands, Sherria Ayuandini
Characterization of Structural Dynamics of the Human Head using Magnetic Resonance Elastography, Andrew Arun Badachhape
Flexible Plasmonic Sensing Substrates and their application in Explosive Sensing, Justin Bae and Srikanth Singamaneni
Transcriptional Regulatory Elements in the Bidirectional Promoter Region of Cyanothece 51142 Nif Cluster, Andrea Balassy
Developing Girls, Developing Economies: A Transnational History of the Girls’ Rights Movement in Nairobi, 1975 – Present, Sarah Bellows-Blakely
Genetic and Biological Studies on Solanum Plants: Insights into the Leaf Wax Alkane Paleoclimate Proxy, Amanda Lorraine Dorothy Bender
To Laugh or Cry: Examining Intergroup Attitudes through Humor, Katlin Bentley
Super Pixel Diffuse Optical Tomography, Karla Michelle Bergonzi
Die Verzauberung der Welt - eine Studie zur transgressiven Sakralität an Beispielen der zeitgenössischen Serienkultur, Christine Bernshaus
How Do Environmental Changes and Shared Cultural Experiences Impact the Health of Indigenous Peoples in South Louisiana?, Shanondora M. Billiot
Participation in Governance and Well-Being in the Yukon Flats, Jessica Charlene Black
Feasibility Testing of a Complex Intervention for Motor and Activity Limitations in Persons with Stroke, Anna Boone
Native Roots and Foreign Grafts: The Spiritual Quest of Uchimura Kanzō, Christopher Andrew Born
Mitochondrial damage accumulation in oocytes – a potential link between maternal obesity and increased cardiometabolic disease risk in offspring., Anna Louise Boudoures
The Role of RNA Interference in the Control of Leishmania RNA virus 1 Infection, Erin Acino Brettmann
Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate Through Metabolic Programming, Michael Buck
Satan's Beach Surf Them Webs 666, Shawn Burkard
Synthesis, characterization, and biological activity of spherical nucleic acid (SNA) constructs for cancer therapy and imaging, Colin Calabrese
Neurogenetics of the Externalizing Spectrum, Caitlin E. Carey
Contemplation of a Place, Slow and Constant, Colton R. Carter
Quantitative profiling of cooperative transcription factors pairing on hundreds of sequences in parallel, Yiming Chang
Crossing Upstream, Rachel Chapman
Bringing Raised Fists to a Gun Fight: Exploring the Strategic Choice & Persistence of Violent Dissent over Civil Resistance, Ambreen Chaudhri
Essays on Development, Growth, and Human Capital, Wan-Jung Cheng
Regulation of Early Zebrafish Embryogenesis by Calcium Signaling and Dachsous1b Cadherin, Jiakun Chen
Exploring Host-Virus Interactions in Caenorhabditis Nematodes, Kevin Chen
Market Risk Management for Financial Institutions Based on GARCH Family Models, Qiandi Chen
Population Genomics of a Baboon Hybrid Zone in Zambia, Kenneth Lyu Chiou
Better Off Dead: Suicide in Plato's Philosophy, Anna Christensen
Folk Epistemology of Factual, Political, and Religious Beliefs, John Christner
Beyond the Chicago School: Literature, Gender, and Modernist Sociology in America, 1892-1930, Claire Marie Class