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
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
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