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 2009
Making Metal and Semiconductor Contacts on Alkanethiolate Self-assembled Monolayer Adsorbed on Au, Peng Lu
Solar Wind Helium, Neon, And Argon In Genesis Aluminum Collectors, Jennifer Mabry
The Role of Astrocyte Activation in Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis, Shannon Macauley-Rambach
Training And Transfer Of Attentional Control In Older Adulthood, Anna MacKay-Brandt
Beyond the Observable: Examining Self-Reported Well-Being in People with Dementia, Wingyun Mak
Discounting of Delayed and Probabilistic Rewards by Women with and without Binge Eating Disorder, Jamie Manwaring
The Development of Architectural Office Specialization as Evidenced by Professional Journals, 1890-1920, Elyse McBride
Subversive Frontiers: Space, Gender and Literature in Colonial Latin America, Kate Alicia McCarthy-Gilmore
Who Uses Community-Based Youth Shelters? An Inter-Group And Intra-Group Analysis, Jennifer McClendon
Getting Out of Wonderland: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, and Anne Sexton, Jessica McCort
El empalme de fronteras y los procesos de identificación como métodos para la articulación de subjetividades fronterizas, Leticia McDoniel
Investigations into the Ulnar Response to Mechanical Stimuli Activating Lamellar and Woven Bone Formation, Jennifer McKenzie
Aggregation & Localization of a Disease-Associated Prion Protein (PrP) Mutant, Andrea Rhonda Medrano
‘This’ Is Not ‘Love’: A Cognitive Assessment of the Lyrics and Translations of Jalāl al-Din Rūmī's Ghazal #1919 from the Divān-i Shams, Matthew Miller
A Role for the Ecdysone Response Gene E93 in Imaginaling Patterning during Metamorphosis, Xiaochun Mou
Optical Measurements in Gas-Liquid Stirred Tanks, Sean Mueller
Structural RNA Homology Search and Alignment Using Covariance Models, Eric Nawrocki
Zeolites for Cleaner Processes: Alkylation of isobutane and n-butene, Subramanya Nayak
Cortical Components of Retrieval, Steven Michael Nelson
Factors Affecting Size and Swelling of Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogel Microspheres Formed in Aqueous Sodium Sulfate Solutions, Michael Nichols
Historical and Geographic Context for the Evolution of Climate Niche Breadth in Temperate Plants, Brad Oberle
French Accompanied Keyboard Music (1738-1760): A Study of Texture and Style Mixture, Nga-Hean Ong
Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Robert Patterson
Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859, Noelle Paulson
Networking Mechanisms for Delay-Sensitive Applications, Maxim Podlesny
Understanding Political Involvement Among Disadvantaged Adolescents, Suzanne Pritzker
Symbols and Symptoms: Adult Learners in Welsh Language Revitalization, Jennifer Anne Quincey
Identification and Characterization of a Xylosylphosphotransferase of Cryptococcus neoformans, Morgann Reilly
Expression Analysis and Stem Cell Engineering, Cara Rieger
Age Differences in Prospective Memory: An Examination of the Role of Fluctuations in Executive Control, Shannon Robertson
An Analysis Of Sustainable Economic Development Initiatives: Why Aid Organizations Should Focus On Helping Women, Andrea Rooks
Inclining the Beam: Marcel Proust in the Light of William James, Marilyn M. Sachs
The Birth of Liberalism: The Making of Liberal Political Thought in Spain, France, and England, 1808-1823, Alberto Sahagun
Flap Endonuclease 1 ensures telomere replication and stability, Abhishek Saharia
Ensemble Support Vector Machine Models of Radiation-Induced Lung Injury Risk, Todd Schiller
The Effect of Limb Movement on the Lumbopelvic Region in People with Low Back Pain, Sara Scholtes
Batf regulates previously unknown AP-1 target genes to control TH17 differentiation, Barbara Schraml
Sleeping to Remember: Spontaneous Retrieval of Prospective Memories Across Sleep and Wake Delays, Michael Scullin
The Mechanisms And Roles Of Feedback Loops For Visual Processing, Jing Shao
Role And Regulation Of ESCRT-III In Multivesiculr Body Biogenesis, Soomin Shim
Evaluation of PBR in Breast Cancer, Stephany Shockley
Oxygen-Enhanced Combustion: Theory and Applications, Scott Skeen
Role Of ICT In Revolutionary Movements Of The Former Soviet Union, And Why There Are No Roses, Oranges, Or Tulips, In Russia, Andrei Skurtu