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
Defining Motor Neuron-Enriched microRNAs Reveals Novel Biomarkers and Genetic Causes of Motor Neuron Disease and Uncovers New Mechanisms of Glial Dysfunction in ALS, Mariah Lawler Hoye
In Vivo Vascular Imaging with Photoacoustic Microscopy, Hsun-Chia Hsu
Multi-omics Portraits of Cancer, Kuan-Lin Huang
You'll Never Love Me, Luther Hughes
Modeling the Bioactivation and Subsequent Reactivity of Drugs, Tyler Brian Hughes
Sequence analysis methods for the design of cancer vaccines that target tumor-specific mutant antigens (neoantigens), Jasreet Hundal
Identification of Bhlhe40 and Irg1 as essential regulators of the inflammatory response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Jeremy Peter Huynh
Biological and Psychological Factors Contributing to the Development and Course of Low Back Pain in Prolonged Standing, Ching-Ting Hwang
Development of Social Exclusion Detection: Behavioral and Physiological Correlates, Hyesung Grace Hwang
The Role of Personality in the Development of Health Disparities during Late-mid Life, Juliette Mcclendon Iacovino
The splice is not right: splice-site-creating mutations in cancer genomes, Reyka Glencora Jayasinghe
Seltsame Worte, seltsamer Wahn? Erzählstimme und Geschlecht in Ingeborg Bachmanns Malina (1971), Caroline Jebens
Essays on Economic Growth, Minhyeon Jeong
Electroless Nickel Plating and Spark Plasma Sintering of nano ZrO2 for Mechanical Property Enhancement, Kunlong Jia
Multifunctional Nanocomposites based on Bacterial Cellulose, Qisheng Jiang
Multifunctional Nanocomposites based on Bacterial Cellulose, Qisheng Jiang
Exploring Fatty Acid Metabolism for the Biosynthesis of Non-Natural Chemicals, Wen Jiang
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