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 2016
Improving Radiation Therapy Through Motion Tracking, Hanlin Wan
On the Black Earth, Paige M. Webb
Spectral Properties of Fractional Quantum Hall Hamiltonians, Amila Weerasinghe
The Science of the Concrete: A 21st Century Bricoleur, Julie Weinberger
Seismic Studies of the Tonga Subduction Zone and the Lau Back-arc Basin, Songqiao Wei
Investigating the Life-cycle of Photosystem II Using Mass Spectrometry, Daniel Avram Weisz
Neural Dynamics Tracking Subjective Cognitive Effort, John Andrew Westbrook
Well-Ordered Social Science, Gregory John Whitfield
Making Sense of Singletons: The N-of-One Problem in Human Genetics, Amy B. Wilfert
The Non-Masticatory Use of the Anterior Teeth Among Late Pleistocene Humans, John Charles Willman
A Transactional Model and Platform for Designing and Implementing Reactive Systems, Justin Ross Wilson
Pleasure in the Past: Queer Nostalgia in the Gay American Century, Elisabeth Windle
Overlook, Christina Wood Martinez
Cyclotron Production and Biomedical Imaging Applications of the PET Isotope Manganese-52, Andrew Lake Wooten
Development of a One-Equation Eddy Viscosity Turbulence Model for Application to Complex Turbulent Flows, Timothy Wray
Ongoing and Visually-Evoked Cortical Activity Measured Across Multiple Spatial Scales, Nathaniel Caleb Wright
Fluorescence Imaging of Cortical Calcium Dynamics: A Tool for Visualizing Mouse Brain Functions, Connections, and Networks, Patrick William Wright
Structure and Dynamics of a Small Multidrug Resistance Transporter, EmrE, Chao Wu
Essays on Theories of Social Influence, Jiemai Wu
Issues on Managing Supply Yield and Commodity Price Risks in Global Supply Chains, Guang Xiao
Discovery and Functional Implication of Genetic Alterations Associated with Clonal Hematopoietic Expansion, Mingchao Xie
The Human ARF Tumor Suppressor Regulates Drosha Nucleolar Localization and rRNA Processing Activity, Sree Chandana Sridhar Yaddanapudi
Explicit bases of motives over number fields with application to Feynman integrals, Yu Yang
Essays on Human Capital, Health, and Development, Yao Yao
Applied Computer Vision and Medical Innovation of Photoacoustic Tomography, Cheng-Hung Yeh
The Rare Birds Leopold and Loeb, Julia Yost
Application of Genomic Technologies to Study Infertility, Nicholas Rui Yuan Ho
Mechanism of Calcium-dependent Chloride Channel Activation by the Secreted Regulator CLCA1, Zeynep Yurtsever
Role of Mitochondria Biogenesis and Dynamics Regulating Osteoclast-mediated Bone Resorption, Rong Zeng
Engineering Cre Recombinase for Genome Engineering, Chi Zhang
Essays on Inflation Targeting and Credit Markets, Jundong Zhang
Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Management: Theory and Applications, Renyu Zhang
Novel contrasts in photoacoustic tomography, Ruiying Zhang
Gene Association Mapping in the Era of Next-Generation Sequencing and Systems Biology, Tianxiao Zhang
Lesion identification and the effect of lesion on motor mapping after stroke, Ruixi Zhou
Double Alternating Minimization (DAM) for Phase Retrieval in the Presence of Poisson Noise and Pixelation, Weimin Zhou
Translational Photoacoustic Tomography, Yong Zhou
Lead Poisoning in United States Children, Zeren Zhou
A Library of Infectious Hepatitis C Viruses with Mutations in the E2 Gene Reveals Antibody Escape and Growth Adaptive Mutations, Adam Joseph Zuiani
A Social Network Analysis of Active Transportation Policy Networks, Marissa Zwald
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Disabling Modernity: Disability and Sexuality in British Literature, Film and Culture, 1880-1939, Courtney J. Andree
Bodies in Transgression: Exploring Same-Sex Relations in Contemporary Francophone Caribbean Literature, Andia Augustin-Billy
Assessment of Real-World Upper Limb Activity in Adults with Chronic Stroke, Ryan Bailey