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 2020
Relations of Reproduction: Men, Masculinities, and Pregnancy in Dakar, Senegal, Richard Powis
Experimental Constraints on Igneous Iron Isotopic Fractionation and Diffusion, Kelsey Brianne Prissel
Elucidating the Effect of Myopathy-Causing Mutations and Second-Site Suppressors on Client Processing by J-Domain Proteins, Melanie Y. Pullen
A Performance Analysis of Hardware-assisted Security Technologies, Wenjie Qiu
Application of Photoacoustic Imaging in Understanding Tissue Remodeling, Yuan Qu
Signaling Mechanisms in Adaptive Immunity, Saravanan Raju
Testing Assumptions on the Relationship between Humans and their Environment: Case Studies from Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, Caitlin Gail Rankin
Applying Bayesian Techniques to the Optimization of Parameterized Quantum Circuits, Arthur Rattew
Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Cerebellar Development and Function, Naveen C. Reddy
These Are the Words, Kathleen Rice-Guter
Landesque Capital and Community Organization in a Maya Economic Center: A Case Study at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala, Alexander Ernesto Rivas
Expressive Vocabulary Development in Very Young Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Amanda Mcnamara Rudge
The Social Dynamics of Antibiotic Use in a Large American Medical Complex, Katharina Rynkiewich
The Always and Never Seen, Linnea Ryshke
Deviant Form: American Literary Exiles, Logical Contradiction, and Postmodernism, Michael Sanders
Spectroscopic Investigations of Excited Charge Carriers in II-VI Nanoparticles, William Matthew Sanderson
Genetic and Functional Characterization of Novel Host Factors Regulating Virus Infection in Caenorhabditis elegans, Luis Enrique Sandoval
Protean Caves and Cyrenean Grottos: The Subterranean World of Vergil's Fourth Georgic, Kirby Schoephoerster
The Ins and Outs of Plautus' Mostellaria: Representing Internal and External Space on and around the Plautine Stage, Henry Schott
CFD modeling of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Arrays using Actuator Cylinder Theory, Cory Schovanec
Vocational expectations from adolescence to early adulthood: An integrative exploration of their formation, consistency, change, and predictive value, Leah Hope Schultz
Understanding emerging biomarkers and lifestyle factors in aging and Alzheimer disease, Stephanie Schultz
The Good, the Bad, and the In-Between: A Study of Moral Agency, Nicholas Schuster
Encumbered by Stage Fright Or I’m Not Sure Why I Did That, Chris Scott
Forms of Foreignness: The Racialization of Language in Contemporary Diasporic American Literatures, Ena Selimovic
Studies of Maximum Supercooling and Stirring in Levitated Liquid Metallic Alloys, Mark Edward Sellers
Examining the Impact of Police Shooting on Non-Political Civic Engagement over Time, Min Hee Seo
Three Essays on Citizen-Initiated Service Requests and Responses from Municipal Governments, Min Hee Seo
Development and Application of Elliptic Blending Lag k-omega SST Standard and Wall-Distance-Free Turbulence Model, Wenjie Shang
Ultrafine Particle-Particle and Particle-Ion Interactions in Aerosol Reactors, Girish Sharma
Separating Signal from Noise in High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography, Arefeh Sherafati
Quantification of white matter pathologies by a novel diffusion MRI technique, Chunyu Song
Regulation and Function of TREM2-dependent Pathways in Neurodegeneration, Wilbur Madison Song
Bumpy Road Ahead: Overcoming DNA Replication Obstacles One Barrier at a Time, Melanie Anne Sparks
A Different Approach to Endpoint Weak-type Estimates for Calder̟n-Zygmund Operators, Cody B. Stockdale
Peer-Led Team Learning in Calculus-Based Introductory Physics: Implementation and Evaluation, Siera Maia Stoen
New Physics with Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos, Yicong Sui
CFD Analysis of a Wind Turbine Airfoil with Flap, heyou tan
CFD Analysis of a Wind Turbine Airfoil with Flap, Heyou Tan
First-Principles Investigation of Doping and Alloying of β-Ga2O3, Ben Tattersfield
Neighborhood Poverty As an Independent Predictor of Brain Volume and Cognitive Performance in Children, Rita Lynn Taylor
Larvae, Irina Teveleva
Essays on Institutions Governing Marriage and Outcomes over the Life Cycle, Sounak Thakur
Mechanisms of Cross-Presentation by cDC1s, Derek James Theisen
Gundogs: A Year in England’s Far North, Sidney Tilghman
Census, Map, Museum, Brian Tran
Ultrasound guided Diffuse Optical Tomography for Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Algorithm Development, K M Shihab Uddin
Growth of Small Particles in Nonequilibrium Plasmas, Necip Berker Üner