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
A tail of two PanCancer projects: Somatic variant identification and driver gene discovery using TCGA, Matthew Hawkins Bailey
Examining the Influence of Financial Well-being on Black Adolescent Socioemotional Outcomes, Andrae Banks
Evaluation of Neurobiological Risk Factors for Alcohol Consumption; Convergent Evidence for Predispositional Effects of Brain Volume, David Baranger
Ernst Blochs utopischer Nietzsche: Von der Tragödien- zur Marxismustheorie, Ursula Beata Baur
Understanding Adolescent Physical Activity in the Early Nutrition Transitioning Country of Haiti, Haley V. Becker
Simulation of Black Hole Inner Accretion Disk-Corona and Optimization of the Hard X-ray Polarimeter, X-Calibur, Banafsheh Beheshtipour
Preventing Extinction of At-Risk Plant Species in a Complex World, Holly Lee Bernardo
Selections from the Seedbed of Cultural Creativity: Where “the Religious” and “the Secular” Converge. or How We Went from Antebellum Post-millennialism to Cold War “Armageddon Theology.”, Mary Bigham-Bartling
Effects of Resistance Exercise on Postprandial Metabolism in Obese Men with Prediabetes, Adam Bittel
Functional and Skeletal Muscle Impairments In Progressive Diabetic CKD, Daniel Bittel
We are a Fantasia: Violence, Belonging, and Potentiality in Transgender Latina Sexual Economies, Andrea Bolivar
Robust Engineering of Dynamic Structures in Complex Networks, Walter Botongo Bomela
Transcriptional Regulation of Dendritic Cell Function, Carlos Briseno
Almost There, Elizabeth Brown
Misassembled Monsters, Jenn Brown
Lattice Scales from Gradient Flow and Chiral Analysis on the MILC Collaboration's HISQ Ensembles, Nathan Joseph Brown
Uncanny Home, Sloan Brunner
Mapping Sterol Binding Sites in Integral Membrane Proteins using Mass Spectrometry, Melissa Marie Budelier
The Essential Roles of the Chromatin Factor Gon4l in Heart Development, Terin Elise Budine
The Role of Bisphosphonates and Osteoblast Lineage Cells in Promoting Osteogenic and Angiogenic Processes Necessary for Bone Repair, Evan Gregory Buettmann
Kinship and Religious Identities in Medieval Central Asia (8th-13th c. CE): Tracing Communities of Mortuary Practice and Biological Affinity, Elissa Anne Bullion
A Mechanism of Antimicrobial Resistance and a Mitigation Strategy, Christopher Bulow
Seismic Structure near the Mariana Trench and Deep Earthquake Triggering in the Tonga Flat Slab, Chen Cai
Algorithmic Trading with Prior Information, Xinyi Cai
Cancer genomics approaches elucidate tumor mutational and microenvironmental landscapes and dynamics, Katie Campbell
Advanced Methods in Comparative Politics: Modeling Without Conditional Independence, David George Carlson
Transformation Through Mortality, Samuel Carpenter
Validation of CFD Simulations for Hypersonic Flow Over a Yawed Cone, Julian Cecil
CD4 T Cell Interaction with Intestinal Microbes under Homeostasis and Inflammation, Jiani Chai
The Mechanical Assessment of Skeletal Tissues using Reference Point Indentation, Andrew Chang
Integration of Local and Regional Regulatory Information in the Human Genome, Hemangi Govind Chaudhari
A Mouse Model of Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann Syndrome reveals a potential link with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cheng Cheng
Index Theory for Invariant Elliptic Operators on Manifolds with Proper Cocompact Group Actions, Gong Cheng
Levels of processing and the parietal memory network, Hung-Yu Chen
Essays on Applied Economics with Machine Learning Approach, Tzai-Shuen Chen
Non-Hermitian Whispering Gallery Mode Optical Microresonators and Their Applications, Weijian Chen
Project Supply Chains and Applied Research, Xingxing Chen
Essays on Macroeconomic Development, Ting Yuen Terry Cheung
Tuning in and Tuning Out: Deliberative Citizenship and Democracy’s Epistemic Potential, Matthew Bryan Chick
Attachment Orientations and Relationship Maintenance in College Friendships, Samuel Chung
Correlated Variability and Adaptation in Orbitofrontal Cortex during Economic Choice, Katherine E. Conen
Host Determinants of Protection and Pathogenesis during Chikungunya Virus Infection, Lindsey Elaine Cook
Large-scale Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Complex Data Structure, Xiaoyu Dai
The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration, Intervention and Faith, Maxine Davis
A Reflection of Lingering in Nature, Xinyue Deng
Biological and behavioral mechanisms underlying childhood physical abuse and age-related disease: Borderline personality pathology and inflammation, Christina Rae Di Iorio
Learning Culture: Cultural Relationship in Masked Lanterns, Yuxuan Ding