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 2017
Flexible Plasmonic Sensing Substrates and their application in Explosive Sensing, Justin Bae and Srikanth Singamaneni
Transcriptional Regulatory Elements in the Bidirectional Promoter Region of Cyanothece 51142 Nif Cluster, Andrea Balassy
Developing Girls, Developing Economies: A Transnational History of the Girls’ Rights Movement in Nairobi, 1975 – Present, Sarah Bellows-Blakely
Genetic and Biological Studies on Solanum Plants: Insights into the Leaf Wax Alkane Paleoclimate Proxy, Amanda Lorraine Dorothy Bender
To Laugh or Cry: Examining Intergroup Attitudes through Humor, Katlin Bentley
Super Pixel Diffuse Optical Tomography, Karla Michelle Bergonzi
Die Verzauberung der Welt - eine Studie zur transgressiven Sakralität an Beispielen der zeitgenössischen Serienkultur, Christine Bernshaus
How Do Environmental Changes and Shared Cultural Experiences Impact the Health of Indigenous Peoples in South Louisiana?, Shanondora M. Billiot
Participation in Governance and Well-Being in the Yukon Flats, Jessica Charlene Black
Feasibility Testing of a Complex Intervention for Motor and Activity Limitations in Persons with Stroke, Anna Boone
Native Roots and Foreign Grafts: The Spiritual Quest of Uchimura Kanzō, Christopher Andrew Born
Mitochondrial damage accumulation in oocytes – a potential link between maternal obesity and increased cardiometabolic disease risk in offspring., Anna Louise Boudoures
The Role of RNA Interference in the Control of Leishmania RNA virus 1 Infection, Erin Acino Brettmann
Mitochondrial Dynamics Controls T Cell Fate Through Metabolic Programming, Michael Buck
Satan's Beach Surf Them Webs 666, Shawn Burkard
Synthesis, characterization, and biological activity of spherical nucleic acid (SNA) constructs for cancer therapy and imaging, Colin Calabrese
Neurogenetics of the Externalizing Spectrum, Caitlin E. Carey
Contemplation of a Place, Slow and Constant, Colton R. Carter
Quantitative profiling of cooperative transcription factors pairing on hundreds of sequences in parallel, Yiming Chang
Crossing Upstream, Rachel Chapman
Bringing Raised Fists to a Gun Fight: Exploring the Strategic Choice & Persistence of Violent Dissent over Civil Resistance, Ambreen Chaudhri
Essays on Development, Growth, and Human Capital, Wan-Jung Cheng
Regulation of Early Zebrafish Embryogenesis by Calcium Signaling and Dachsous1b Cadherin, Jiakun Chen
Exploring Host-Virus Interactions in Caenorhabditis Nematodes, Kevin Chen
Market Risk Management for Financial Institutions Based on GARCH Family Models, Qiandi Chen
Population Genomics of a Baboon Hybrid Zone in Zambia, Kenneth Lyu Chiou
Better Off Dead: Suicide in Plato's Philosophy, Anna Christensen
Folk Epistemology of Factual, Political, and Religious Beliefs, John Christner
Beyond the Chicago School: Literature, Gender, and Modernist Sociology in America, 1892-1930, Claire Marie Class
Comparison of the Bi-Directional Performance of Micro-Channel Sieve and Thin-Film TIME Peripheral Nerve Interfaces, Robert Coker
Efficiently and Transparently Maintaining High SIMD Occupancy in the Presence of Wavefront Irregularity, Stephen V. Cole
Effects of Regolith Properties on UV/VIS Spectra and Implications for Lunar Remote Sensing, Ecaterina Ioana Coman
Fighting Domestic Terrorism: Art's Role in Social Activism, jonathan cornell
Regulation of gene expression by RNA binding proteins and microRNAs, Kyle Cottrell
Particle Enrichment in Longitudinal Standing Bulk Acoustic Wave Microfluidics, Mingyang Cui
What is Opposition Good For?, Betul Demirkaya
Numerical Study of the Aerodynamics of DLR-F6 Wing-Body in Unbounded Flow Field and in Ground Effect, Ning Deng
Characterization of ZIP genes responsible for zinc homeostasis in C. elegans, Nicholas Dietrich
Conjoint Audiogram Estimation via Gaussian Process Classification, James DiLorenzo
Efficient Geometric Approaches for Mining Protein Structure from Cryo-EM Density Maps, Hang Dou
Whistle While You Hum, Ryan Doyle
The Hierophant and The High Priestess, Sara Duff
Numerical Drag Prediction of NASA Common Research Models Using Different Turbulence Models, Pan Du
Healthcare vs. Hawkishness: The Divergent Effects of Affect on Context-Driven Shifts in Attitudes, Fade Rimon Eadeh
Is There a Higher-Order Mechanism that Explains Performance Across Prediction Tasks?, Michelle Lisa Eisenberg
Hepatic Ketogenesis as a Novel Regulator of Liver Metabolism and Injury, Baris Can Ercal