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
Seeds as Artifacts of Communities of Practice: The Domestication of Erect Knotweed in Eastern North America, Natalie Graham Mueller
Intimate Partner Violence among South Asian Women in the United States: Prevalence and Help-Seeking Behaviors, Vithya Murugan
All the Things We Never Talked About: Memoir of a Pastor's Daughter, Katharine Grace Nakaue
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Control of Integrative Processes in Neural Systems, Anirban Nandi
Mechanobiology of Epithelial Clusters in ECMs of Diverse Mechanical Properties, Samila Nasrollahi
What Makes a Happy Relationship? Distinguishing the Associations Between Partner Similarity (Personality Similarity and Value Similarity) and Relationship Quality, Phuong Linh Nguyen
PET/MR imaging of hypoxic atherosclerotic plaque using 64Cu-ATSM, Xingyu Nie
The Development and Characterization of New Models of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection, Valerie Phoebe O'brien
Novel Insights into Yersiniabactin Biosynthesis in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Shannon Ileen Ohlemacher
Coexistence of Confamilial, Folivorous Indriids, Propithecus diadema and Indri indri, at Betampona Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar, Lana Kerker Oliver
Environmentalism and the Music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Karen Olson
The Nets of Style: Shaping Modernist Literary Narrative, Kelly Lynn Oman
The Role of Histidine Rich Protein II in Cerebral Malaria, Priya Pal
Topics in QCD at Nonzero Temperature and Density, Kamal Pangeni
Sorption of Metals onto Natural Sediments and Engineered Iron Oxide Nanoparticles, Zezhen Pan
Connectivity Bounds and S-Partitions for Triangulated Manifolds, Alexandru Ilarian Papiu
DNA Replication Challenges: Telomeres and R loops, Shankar Parajuli
Somatosensory Map Following Stimulation of Rat Sciatic Nerve Using Polyimide Microfabricated Sieve Electrodes, Juan Sebastian Pardo
Temporal and Causal Dynamics between the Economy and Presidents, Taeyong Park
Multi-Scale Studies to Develop a Holistic Understanding of Solid Fuel Combustion at Residential Scale, Sameer Patel
Mechanisms and Regulation of Resection in DNA Damage Response, Sharad C. Paudyal
Sins of the Father: An Investigation into Judgments and Processes Involved in Within-family Tainting, Stephanie Allison Peak
Development and Validation for a Mobile Speech-in-Noise Audiometric Task, Tommy Peng
Flesh and Blood, Clayton Petras
The Last Unkillable Thing, Emily Pittinos
Identification and Characterization of an Interferon Stimulated Gene That Restricts Alphavirus Infection and Pathogenesis, Subhajit Poddar
Model and World: Generalizing the Ontic Conception of Scientific Explanation, Mark Povich
Underwater Celestial Navigation Using the Polarization of Light Fields, Samuel Bear Powell
Transitional Care for Older Adults with Dementia: Variation Across Patients and Providers, Patricia Prusaczyk
Metabolic regulation of CD8 T cell functions in the tumor microenvironment, Jing Qiu
Teleterrestrial: The Universe of Technological and Natural Scenes, Nat Rainer
Reconstruction Algorithms for Novel Joint Imaging Techniques in PET, Homayoon Ranjbar
Structured Illumination Diffuse Optical Tomography for Mouse Brain Imaging, Matthew Reisman
Troubling Truth in the Auchinleck Manuscript, Amy Elizabeth Reynolds
Meaning in Perception: Metaphor in Figurative Sculpture, Tommy Riefe
Antiviral Nucleoside Inhibitors of Leishmania RNA Virus 1: Discovery and Mechanism, John Isaac Robinson
Identification of Novel Variants Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease Using Quantitative Traits, Yuetiva Karenina Robles
DoDo Rose: The Radiant Twin, Edo Rosenblith
Adaptive Strategies in a Slow-Motion Apocalypse, Allana Ross
A Generalized Biophysical Model of Transcription Factor Binding Specificity and Its Application on High-Throughput SELEX Data, Shuxiang Ruan
Determining the Molecular Mechanisms of Huntington’s Disease through Multi-Scale Modeling, Kiersten Ruff
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Mononuclear Palladium Complexes Bearing Nitrogen and Carbon-Donor Ligands, Nicholas Patrick Ruhs
Two-component Hydrogel as Biomimetic Vitreous Substitutes, Sruthi Santhanam