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 2018
In Search of Shangri-La: (Anti-)Utopian Representations of China’s Frontiers in the Post-Mao Era, Hao Jin
Marburg Virus is Not Ebola Virus: Biochemical and Structural Insights into Mechanisms of Immune Evasion, Britney Johnson
The Role of Fibrillin-1 in Eye Development and Disease, Wendell Brooks Jones
Fashioning Florence: Portraiture and Civic Identity in the Mid-Sixteenth Century, Stephanie Ariela Kaplan
Development and Evaluation of Biocompatible Engineered Nanoparticles for Use in Ophthalmology, Bedia Begum Karakocak
A high-content screen identifies HSP90 as a component of axon injury signaling, Scott Karney-Grobe
Acetylation Profiles of Histone and Non-Histone Proteins in Breast Cancer, Alla Karpova
Mitochondrial Proteostasis and Hypoxic Injury, Daniel Martin Kaufman
Tau Prion Strains Induce Distinct Pathological Phenotypes In Vivo, Sarah Kaufman
Aerosol Routes for Synthesis of Materials for Solar Energy Applications, Shalinee Kavadiya
Early-Stage Design Space Exploration Tool for Neural Network Inference Accelerators, Liu Ke
Integrated Epigenomic Studies of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Shamika Ketkar
Reading Polemic as Confessional: ‘Alī al-Ṭabarī’s Critique of Christianity, Jake Kildoo
Towards Engineering Advanced Nanomaterials: Elucidating Fundamental Particle Behavior in Water and Critical Sorption Dynamics, Changwoo Kim
Mechanisms of Calcium Phosphate Mineralization on Biological Interfaces and their Engineering Applications, Doyoon Kim
Direct Democracy and Political Engagement of the Marginalized, Jeong Hyun Kim
Unspooling of Experience into Space: Diary Projects, Jinhee Kim
Completing Cooperative Task by Utilizing EEG-based Brain Computer Interface, Jongwoon Kim
The Role of H2afy in Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis, Sanghyun Kim
Essays on Educational Choices, Sie Won Kim
Grammar and Variation: Understanding How cis-Regulatory Information is Encoded in Mammalian Genomes, Dana Michele King
Essays in Knowledge Transfer, Leonardo Mayer Kluppel
Wild Primates in Documentary Films: Biodiversity, Behavior, and Pedagogical Applications, Crystal Marie Riley Koenig
Allocating Interventions Based on Counterfactual Predictions: A Case Study on Homelessness Services, Amanda R. Kube
Women’s Erotic Desires and Perspectives on Marriage in Sappho’s Epithalamia and H.D.’s Hymen, Amanda Kubic
Lexical Retrieval Inhibition from Semantically Related Retrieval Primes, Abhilasha Ashok Kumar
Discerning Drivers of Cancer: Computational Approaches to Somatic Exome Sequencing Data, Runjun Kumar
Generalized Non-Inferential Approach to Modeling Restricted Discrete Choice for the Case of The Spatial Random Utility, Elena Labzina
Numerical Simulation of a High Strain Rate Biaxial Compression Apparatus, Michael Lagieski
Controlling the Oxygen Microenvironment: The Role of HIF-1α in Early Tumor Progression, Sandra Lam
Emotion Regulation Variability and Adjustment Among College Students, Isidro Landa
Viral MHC Class I Evasion Affects Anti-viral T Cell Development and Responses, Elvin James Lauron
The Ugly Sequestosome1:the role of p62/SQSTM1 in autophagy and multisystem proteinopathy, Eugene Lee
Lysyl Oxidase Mutations in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection, Vivian Lee
Versatile and dynamic gene regulation using synthetic non-coding RNAs, Young Je Lee
Loss of TREM2-dependent microgliosis in mouse models of amyloid-beta and tau pathologies reveal juxtaposed roles for reactive microglia in Alzheimerճ disease, Cheryl Elizabeth Grace Leyns
Neural Mechanisms of Drosophila Circadian Rhythms, Xitong Liang
Synthesis and Integration of Oligoviologens into Hydrogel Actuators, Kevin Liles
“Home Sweet Home”: Displacement and Belonging in Post-1960s Diasporic Chinese Literature, Melody Yunzi Li
Masculine Narratives of Failure and Nostalgia in British Fiction 1865-1928, Heidi Hyun-Jin Lim
Regulators on Higher Chow Groups, Muxi Li
Modeling and Analyzing Neural Dynamics and Information Processing over Multiple Time Scales, Sensen Liu
Computation of Achievable Rate in Pattern Recognition System, Yu Liu
Emotion Differentiation Moderates the Effects of Rumination on Depression: A Longitudinal Study, Yunjing Liu
Bayesian Classification Methods for Bat Call Identification, Zhongmao Liu
Genetic Basis of Thermal Divergence in Saccharomyces species, Xueying C. Li