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 2021
Control Flow Integrity for Real-time Embedded Systems, Yuqian Huo
Antecedent and Consequence of Flux in Coordination Caused by Team Membership Change, Taejin Hwang
Demystifying the Penny Valley Files, Austin Ickes
Midfoot and Ankle Movement Dysfunction in People with Diabetes Mellitus and Peripheral Neuropathy, Hyo Jung Jeong
Essays in Corporate Finance and Machine Learning, Manish Jha
Optimizing Biomaterials for iPSC-Derived Engineered Heart Tissue Models, Huanzhu Jiang
Mass Spectrometry-Based Protein Footprinting: High-Throughput MALDI Platform and Large Protein Complexes of BAF, Ruidong Jiang
Essays in Financial Accounting, Yanrong Jia
Retinal Ganglion Cells Underlying Visual Perception and Predation in Mice, Keith Patrick Johnson
Method Development for Enhancing Sensitivity of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Structural Studies of PKC-Drug Interactions, Patrick Terrence Judge
Etv2/Myct1 axis in the regulation of tumor angiogenesis and anti-tumor immunity, Ashraf Ul Kabir
Cancer Epigenome Reprogramming, Jennifer Ann Karlow
Copper-mediated Regulation of a Traditional Iron Uptake System in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli., George Lwanga Katumba
Understanding and Improving Adult Stem Cells for Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Dakota Katz
Quantitative Characterization of Microbial Ecologies in Dysbiosis and Infection, Eric Keen
Essays on Human Capital Investment, Dohun Kim
A History of Flowers, Katrina Knebel
The Role of Excited States in Determining β-lactamase Function and Bacterial Fitness, Catherine Rae Knoverek
Influence of Aging and Cerebrovascular Disease on Neuroimaging Measures of Alzheimer Disease, Lauren Nicole Koenig
Theory, Design and Implementation of Energy-Efficient Biotelemetry using Ultrasound Imaging, Sri Harsha Kondapalli
Betwixt and Between: A Treatise on Madness in Literature, Film, and Art, Ed Koslin
Modeling Semantic Structure and Spreading Activation in Retrieval Tasks, Abhilasha Ashok Kumar
Fantastical Creatures: Folklore, Fact, and Fantasy, Leah Kurth
Clear Adjustment: Status Self-Concept Clarity and Emotion Regulation, Isidro Landa
Nanoscale Enhancement of Photosensitized Radionuclide Stimulated Therapy, Daniel Douglas Lane
Gut Reactions: Quantitative Predictions of the Responses of Human Gut Microbiota to Medical Interventions, Amy Elizabeth Langdon
Art and Empathy: Self Discovery in a Dark Forest, Younser Lee
Photoacoustic imaging of colorectal cancer and ovarian cancer, Xiandong Leng
Fire Escape, Cora Lewis
Stem Cell Models to Study the Regulation of Human Cortical Development and Its Disruption in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Emily Megan Alexandra Lewis
Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention, Erin Lewis
Identify Genetic and Epigenetic Abnormalities Associated with Therapeutic Vulnerability in Human Cancers, Wen-Wei Liang
Predicting Patient Outcomes with Machine Learning for Diverse Health Data, Dingwen Li
Deceptively Ingratiating Shapes: The Feminist Politics of Popular Genre in Twentieth-Century British Fiction, Grace Lillard
Multiprincipal Element Alloy Development via High-throughput Experiments, Mu Li
Paleo-Environmental Pollution of the Bronze Production during the Shang Period at Anyang, Henan Province, China, Yi-Ling Lin
Essays on Machine Learning in Finance, Hongyi Liu
Text Adjuncts and Comprehension with University Level Second Language Readers, Huan Liu
Regulation of transcription factor binding specificity: from binding motifs to local DNA context, Jiayue Liu
Regularized Coordinate-based Neural Representation Learning for Optical Tomography, Renhao Liu
Neighborhood Form and Social Cohesion: What Can We Learn Before and During Social Distancing, Wei Liu
Plasmonically-enhanced DNA-RNA hybrid-based Bioassay for Amplification-free Quantification of SARS-CoV-2, Yuxiong Liu
Vestibulospinal circuit in the larval zebrafish, Zhikai Liu
Type I Interferon Regulation of Chikungunya Virus Pathogenesis, Marissa Christine Locke
Regulation, Architecture, and Function of the Type VI Secretion System of Acinetobacter baumannii, Juvenal Lopez