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All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This collection compiles theses and dissertations from all schools and departments at Washington University in St. Louis. Public access policies vary by school.

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Good, the Bad, and the In-Between: A Study of Moral Agency, Nicholas Schuster

Encumbered by Stage Fright Or I’m Not Sure Why I Did That, Chris Scott

Coupled Inflow and Structural Dynamics of Rotors with Time Delays and Adjoint Variables, Cory Andrew Seidel

Forms of Foreignness: The Racialization of Language in Contemporary Diasporic American Literatures, Ena Selimovic

Studies of Maximum Supercooling and Stirring in Levitated Liquid Metallic Alloys, Mark Edward Sellers

Examining the Impact of Police Shooting on Non-Political Civic Engagement over Time, Min Hee Seo

Three Essays on Citizen-Initiated Service Requests and Responses from Municipal Governments, Min Hee Seo

Development and Application of Elliptic Blending Lag k-omega SST Standard and Wall-Distance-Free Turbulence Model, Wenjie Shang

Ultrafine Particle-Particle and Particle-Ion Interactions in Aerosol Reactors, Girish Sharma

Separating Signal from Noise in High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography, Arefeh Sherafati

Specificity of SSB binding to its Interacting Proteins and Multiple Allosteric Effects of SSB C-terminal Tail on Assembly and DNA Binding of E. coli RecOR Proteins, Min Kyung Shinn

Quantification of white matter pathologies by a novel diffusion MRI technique, Chunyu Song

Regulation and Function of TREM2-dependent Pathways in Neurodegeneration, Wilbur Madison Song

Bumpy Road Ahead: Overcoming DNA Replication Obstacles One Barrier at a Time, Melanie Anne Sparks

A Different Approach to Endpoint Weak-type Estimates for Calder̟n-Zygmund Operators, Cody B. Stockdale

Peer-Led Team Learning in Calculus-Based Introductory Physics: Implementation and Evaluation, Siera Maia Stoen

New Physics with Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos, Yicong Sui

CFD Analysis of a Wind Turbine Airfoil with Flap, Heyou Tan

CFD Analysis of a Wind Turbine Airfoil with Flap, heyou tan

First-Principles Investigation of Doping and Alloying of β-Ga2O3, Ben Tattersfield

Neighborhood Poverty As an Independent Predictor of Brain Volume and Cognitive Performance in Children, Rita Lynn Taylor

Larvae, Irina Teveleva

Essays on Institutions Governing Marriage and Outcomes over the Life Cycle, Sounak Thakur

Mechanisms of Cross-Presentation by cDC1s, Derek James Theisen

Gundogs: A Year in England’s Far North, Sidney Tilghman

Does interpersonal impairment affect prediction of others’ behavior?: An investigation using a modified Prisoner’s Dilemma task, Natasha April Tonge

Census, Map, Museum, Brian Tran

Ultrasound guided Diffuse Optical Tomography for Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Algorithm Development, K M Shihab Uddin

Growth of Small Particles in Nonequilibrium Plasmas, Necip Berker Üner

Sustaining the Republic: The Power of Political Prints by Honoré Daumier, Édouard Manet, André Gill, and Alfred Le Petit, Maxime Valsamas

Thermophysical Properties and Phase Transformations in Metallic Liquids and Silicate Glasses, Daniel Christian Van Hoesen

Gender- und Genrekonfigurationen in Irmgard Keuns "Das kunstseidene Mädchen", Anna Vasilev

“Managing Errors” in the Perception of Workplace Social Networks: The Case of Workplace Cooperation, Patrizia Vecchi

Epigenetic and Signaling Pathways Regulating the Maintenance of CD8 T Cell Identity and Function, Daniel Verbaro

Essays on Growth, Development, and Human Capital, Juan Ignacio Vizcaino

Exploring Usage of Web Resources Through a Model of API Learning, Finn Voichick

Joint Estimation of Attenuation and Scatter for Tomographic Imaging with the Broken Ray Transform, Michael Ray Walker

Vulnerable Agents: Ugandan Children's Experiences with HIV Rehabilitation and Reintegration, Colleen Walsh Lang

SuperTIGER Elemental Abundances for the Charge Range $41 \leq Z \leq 56$, Nathan Elliot Walsh

Development, Validation, and Application of Electromyometrial Imaging (EMMI) to Noninvasively Image Uterine Contractions, Hui Wang

Bayesian Posterior Inference and LAN for L̩vy Models Under High-frequency Data, Qi Wang

Predicate Informed Syntax-Guidance for Semantic Role Labeling, Sijia Wang

Influence of Separator Surface Charge on the Nucleation and Penetration Dynamics of Metal Electrodes in Concentrated Electrolytes, Sikuang Wang

A Thesis on the Interactions between Lead Pipe Scales and Dissolved Silica from the Addition of Sodium Silicate as a Corrosion Inhibitor, Ziqi Wang

Engineering Natural Competence into the Fast-growing Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus UTEX 2973, Kristen Elizabeth Wendt

Development of an in vitro Culture System for Cryptosporidium parvum, Georgia Wilke

Safekeeping: Slavery, Capitalism, and the Carceral State in Washington, D.C., 1830-1863, Brandon Wilson

“White Skin by Color, French Canadian by Métissage: Heredity knows no color”, Paula Y. Wilson

Lifestyle Behaviors and Racial Differences in Dementia, Roger Wong

Chemistry of Nanoscale Solids and Organic Matter in Sustainable Water Management Systems, Xuanhao Wu