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All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

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 2023 2023

Adversarial Patch Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms, Peizhen Tong

A Mega-Study of Stereotypes and Attitudes Toward Nationality Groups in the United States, Ayse Selin Toprakkiran

The Tell-Tale Liver, Donna Vatnick and Donna Vatnick

Data-Driven Approaches to System Analysis and Control Design, Minh Vu

Essays in Behavioral Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Higher Purpose, Kingsley Wabara

The Vices of Virtues: Making Room for Moral Testimony in the Life of the Virtuous Person, Maria Waggoner

Real-time Analysis of Aerosol Size Distributions with the Fast Integrated Mobility Spectrometer (FIMS), Daisy Wang

Examination of the Role of Peer Effect on Board Diversity Among US-Listed Companies, Liyang Wang

Essays on Firm Performance and Founders, Ming Zhu Wang

Supply Chain Management under Technology Innovation and Pandemic, Xiaoyu Wang

Discounting of Delayed and Probabilistic Outcomes Across the Adult Lifespan, Haoran Wan

Climate Change and Farmer Mental Health: A Participatory and Systems-Based Approach, Christopher Weatherly

Novel Microfluidic Devices to Model the Interactions Between Lymphatics and Breast Cancer, Jade Weber

Music and Mind Games: Disability and Genre in the Psychonauts Series, Sophia Wetzel

Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?, Erin Williams

Modeling Variability in Personality Development: Quantifying, Explaining, and Examining the Predictive Utility of Person-Specific Variance Around Personality Trajectories, Amanda Jo Wright

Memristive behavior and its applications in different materials., Mingyang Wu

Flame Assisted Additive Manufacturing for the Synthesis of High-Temperature Materials, Chang Xia

Consistent Across Situations? A Person Specific Approach to Examining a Long-standing Paradox., Muchen Xi

Estimating and Detecting Slow-Wave Events in EEG Signals, Zhenghao Xiong

Lepton Flavor Violation and Lepton Flavor Universality Violation: Opportunity for New Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Fang Xu

Development of a Metal Droplet Generator for Studying Impact Dynamics, Xitong Xu

On the Value of Operational Flexibility in Anheuser Busch InBev’s Trailer Loading and Shipment Problem: Data-Driven Approaches and Reinforcement Learning, Yunsi Yang

Every Rock Has a Soul, Karen Yung

Refund Psychology, Tianjiao Yu

Examining Immigrant Experiences in Asset Building: Implications for Asset-Based Policies, Yingying Zeng

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE LEGISLATIVE MODELS OF INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW IN BIG DATA CREDIT REPORTING ACROSS THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE UNITED STATES, AND CHINA: THE LEGAL ROADMAP AND REGULATORY LANDSCAPE, Ge Zhang

Times of Uncertainty: The Psychological and Behavioral Impact of Employment Uncertainty on Furloughed Workers and the Moderating Effect of Work Orientation, Jack Haoyue Zhang

Mirror Position Detection in a Catoptric Surface, Run Zhang

Essays on Customer Relationship Management, Nan Zhao

Design of Human Serum Albumin and Adenovirus Conjugation via Catcher/Tag Molecular Glue, Peijie Zhao

PathFormer: Interpretable and Powerful Graph Transformer for Gene Network Analysis, Qihang Zhao, Zehao Dong, Muhan Zhang, Philip Payne, Michael Province, Carlos Cruchaga, Tianyu Zhao, Yixin Chen, and Fuhai Li

Design of Microwave Superconducting Resonators for Materials Characterization, Xinyi Zhao

Synthesis and Characterization of Sodium Cathode Materials, He Zhou

Dual Color Optogenetic Control for Analyzing Cardiac Function in Drosophila, Jiantao Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Effects of NMDA Antagonism on Neuronal Activity and Neurovascular Coupling in Non-Human Primate Cortex, Benjamin Thomas Acland

Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Heterogeneities in Particulate Intercalation Electrodes, Shubham Agrawal

The interchange of State and Religion Relationship, and the Corresponding Impact on Conforming with Freedom of Religion under the United Nations’ Jurisprudence: A Comparison between the French, the United States, and the Saudi Arabian legal systems., Ahmed Aljenaedel

System shock: Using -omics data to characterize biological remodeling in the microbiome, resistome, and transcriptome of bacteria, Winston Eugene Anthony

The Relationship Between Inflammation, Metabolism and Oxidative Stress in Chondrocytes: Drivers of Osteoarthritic Changes, Manoj Arra

La Cultura Que No Cambia, Karina Arreola-Gutierrez

Protecting Native Motherhood: A Longitudinal Investigation of Interpersonal Violence Among Alaska Native Women, Autumn Asher

Tissue Resident Macrophages Drive Fibrosis During Pancreas Inflammatory Injury and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, John Baer

Role of ligand architecture on collective cell invasion, Amrit Bagchi

Tell It Slant: Investigating the Engagement, Discourse, and Popularity of Data Visualization in Online Communities, Emma Baker

Electronic, Optical, and Thermal Probes of the Layered Mott Insulator α-RuCl3 in the Atomically Thin Limit, Jesse Balgley

The Wizard's Alphabet Book: Illustration as Counter-Environment to the Digital World, Stephen Barany

A Nonconforming Finite Element Method for the 2D Vector Laplacian, Mary Barker

Validation, Categorizing, and Prediction of Upper Limb Outcomes after Stroke, Jessica Barth

Literary Decadence and Critical Decay, Kevin David Beverage