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 Simulation Study of Bipower and Thresholded Realized Variations for High-Frequency Data, Zheng Xu
Idealist or Strategist? Isamu Noguchi in the Early 1940s, Qianran Yang
Individual Differences in Discounting Delayed Gains, Delayed Losses, and Probabilistic Losses, Yu-Hua Yeh
It's pink and nice but we are done with it, Taylor Elizabeth Yocom
Functions of the Novel Molecule LysMD3 in Mice and Flies, Christine Chieko Yokoyama
Finite Element Optimization of a Mechanical Device for Connecting Dissimilar Materials, Eric Yoon
A Recombinant Virus and Reporter Mouse System to Study Chronic Chikungunya Virus Pathogenesis, Alissa Roxanne Young
Discovering Rare Hematopoietic Clones Harboring Leukemia-Associated Mutations Using Error-Corrected Sequencing, Andrew Lee Young
Into Action, William Youngblood
Across the Line (Mapping the Margins), Jon Young
Lost & Found, Ronald Young
Biosensing by “Growing” Antennas and Error-correcting Codes, Mingquan Yuan
Distributed Quantile Regression Analysis and a Group Variable Selection Method, Liqun Yu
Transcriptional Signatures of Host Susceptibility in Urinary Tract Infections, Lu Yu
Variable selection via Lasso with high-dimensional proteomic data, Hongxuan Zhai
Inventing a Moralist Self: The Moral Experiences of Drug Users in China's State-run Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program, Chaoxiong Zhang
The Role of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Classical Dendritic Cells in the Maintenance and Regulation of the Bone Marrow Niche, Jingzhu Zhang
Preschool Children's Knowledge and Use of Their Writing System, Lan Zhang
Forward Electrophysiological Modeling and Inverse Problem for Uterine Contractions during Pregnancy, Mengxue Zhang
Basis Vector Model Method for Proton Stopping Power Estimation using Dual-Energy Computed Tomography, Shuangyue Zhang
Development and Application of Rotation and Curvature Correction to Wray-Agarwal Turbulence Model, Xiao Zhang
Essays on Entrepreneurship, Yvonne (Yinghong) Zhang
Modeling of Swimming Cells from Nano-Scale to Micro-Scale, Yicheng Zhao
Self-powered Time-Keeping and Time-of-Occurrence Sensing, Liang Zhou
Essays on Macroeconomics and Economic Development, Lijun Zhu
NMR Studies of Metal Hydrides in Carbon Scaffolds, Hongyang Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Brain Enriched microRNAs Open the Neurogenic Potential of Adult Human Fibroblasts, Daniel Gene Abernathy
Understanding the Relationship Between Hosts and their Microbiome, Boahemaa Adu-Oppong
Essays on Firms and Human Behavior, Nicolas Aguelakakis
Consuming Bodies: Countercultural Citizens of Mexican Capitalism in the 20th Century, Ivan Eusebio Aguirre Darancou
New Ventures in Amidine-Based Catalyst Design, Nicholas Alan Ahlemeyer
Phenomenal Marks, Ruptured Spaces, Relearning Language, Crossing Cultures, Meelee Ahn
Knowledge Driven Approaches and Machine Learning Improve the Identification of Clinically Relevant Somatic Mutations in Cancer Genomics, Benjamin John Ainscough
Distraction and Community: The Magic of Playtime, Heather Alfaro
Developing a spatial navigation screening tool for preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, Samantha Lynn Allison
Evaluating a Targeted, Universal Middle School Program for Childhood Overweight and Obesity: StayingFit, Myra Altman
Quizzing and Restudy Dynamics in a TST Paradigm: The (Null) Effect of Feedback and the (Significant) Effects of Metacognition, Francis Anderson
The Impact of Delay on Retrieval Success in the Parietal Memory Network, Nathan Anderson
Michelangelo Moving Time, James Philip Anno
A 2-D Analysis of Strains at the Interface Between the Brain and the Skull, Kashyap Arcot
Mechanism of Gene Regulation by Coding PolyA Tracks, Laura Lea Arthur
GOD BLESS THE WHOLE WORLD NO EXCEPTIONS, Claire Askew
Prosaic (dis)appearance, Waller H. Austin
For One Drop of Blood: Virginity, Sexual Norms and Medical Processes in Hymenoplasty Consultations in the Netherlands, Sherria Ayuandini
Characterization of Structural Dynamics of the Human Head using Magnetic Resonance Elastography, Andrew Arun Badachhape