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
Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 for Gene Editing-based Gene Therapy of Hemophilia B, Calvin Stephens
Innovative Line Extensions Can Revitalize the Choice of a Brand’s Pre-Existing Products, Brittney L. Stephenson
Exercise Engagement and Longitudinal Change in Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers, Regional Brain Structure, and Cognitive Functioning, Marta Stojanovic
Just Don't Do It!: A Comparison of Strategies for Reducing Commission Errors in Older and Younger Adults, Emily Streeper
Pull the Lever to Earn Money: Approach and Avoidance Movements in Value-Driven Attentional Capture, Jihyun Suh
The Costs of a Big Brain: How Region Scaling and Energetic Costs Influence Brain Size Evolution in Weakly Electric African Fishes (Mormyridae), Kimberley Varunee Sukhum
The Passing Light: A Memoir, Sylvia Sukop
Electrocorticographic Representations of Semantic Information in the Human Cortex, Nicholas Szrama
Essays in Asset Pricing, Xiaoxiao Tang
Parodies of Qing: Ironic Voices in Romantic Chuanqi Plays, Yanbing Tan
Splitting Hairs: The Creation and Dissolution of Boundaries in Thirteenth-Century French Literature, Cassidy Devon Thompson
Mathematical Models of Innate Immune Cell Signaling Networks Using Protein Phosphorylation Patterns, Allison Anne Throm
Development and Function of Retinal Ganglion Cell Circuits, Nai-Wen Tien
Pretzelhead & Other Stories, Robin Tripp
Astrocytes Regulate Daily Rhythms in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN) and Behavior, Chak Foon Tso
Iconic Works: How Catholicism Shaped Eighteenth-Century English Fiction, Margaret Louise Tucker
Parsing the Blues: What Depression Reveals About the Life Well-Lived, Ian Tully
Altered Egos: Counter-Histories in Twentieth-Century British Biographical Fictions, Merrill Elizabeth Turner
Nonparametric Estimation of Time Series Volatility Model Estimation, Teng Tu
Dualities, Topological Properties, and Degeneracies of Classical and Quantum Lattice Models, Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Vaezi
Molecular Mediators of Acute and Chronic Itch in Mouse and Human Sensory Neurons, Manouela Valtcheva
Literarische Filmsimulation: Heinrich Eduard Jacobs medienphilosophische Filmästhetik in "Blut und Zelluloid", Paula Vosse
The Role of Obesity and Dietary Fatty Acid Content in Regulating Humeral Bone and Cartilage Homeostasis, Lauren Votava
Writing Churches: Race and Religion in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Hannah Wakefield
Statistical Performance Analysis of Sparse Linear Arrays, Mianzhi Wang
Inference and Control of Dynamic Ensemble and Networked Systems, Shuo Wang
Joint Model for Phase and Amplitude Variation in Functional Data, Tian Wang
Statistical Analysis of Short-time Option Prices Based on a Levy Model, Weiliang Wang
Essays on Financial and Monetary Economics, Xi Wang
Density Estimation Using Nonparametric Bayesian Methods, Yanyi Wang
Application of metabolic modeling and machine learning for investigating microbial systems, Ni Wan
Inferring Intent from Interaction with Visualization, Ran Wan
If My Grandmother Had Wheels She'd Be A Trolley Car: The Accumulation of Objects, Encounters and The Passage of Time, Sara Weininger
Kinetic Modeling of RNA Folding and Allostery, Robb Welty
Brain-Computer Interfaces using Electrocorticography and Surface Stimulation, Jesse Wheeler
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Arteriovenous Graft Configurations, Dillon Williams
Militainment, Riley Williams
Dying Worlds: Environment, Ecology, and Empire in British Literature 1878-1919, Susanna Williams
Washington Park Cemetery: The History and Legacies of a Sacred Space, Terri Williams
An Evaluation of Proposed and Current Cardiovascular Stent Design Approaches to Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease, Alexander Wirtz
Developing Photoacoustic Tomography Devices for Translational Medicine and Basic Science Research, Tsz Wai Wong
“There is no care here”: The Conflictual Ethics of Kin and Bureaucratic Care in Botswana, Arielle Justine Wright
The Direction into the Village, Jenny Wu
Frontotemporal Dementia Knowledge Scale: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties, Matthew Wynn
KCNQ1/KCNE1 Interaction in the Cardiac IKs Channel and its Physiological Consequences, Jiajing Xu
Deep learning analysis of limit order book, xin xu