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 2015
The Roles of MIST1 and RAB26 in Zymogenic (Chief) Cell Differentiation and Subcellular Organization, Ramon Jin
Structural Evolution, Chemical Order, and Crystallization of Metallic Liquids and Glasses, Mark Johnson
It Begins with You and Me, Sea A Joung
Fame Gone Wild (2015: An Era of Self-Invention), Stephanie E. Kang
Economic Evaluation of a Family-Based Behavioral Weight Loss Maintenance Intervention for Pediatric Obesity, Andrea Ellen Kass
The Role of Myc and AP-1 Transcription Factors in the Development and Function of the Dendritic Cell Lineage, Wumesh K.C.
From New Method to Intraflagellar Transport and Photosynthesis, a Single Molecule Investigation, Jonathan Michael Kessler
The Identification of Alkaloid Pathway Genes from Non-Model Plant Species in the Amaryllidaceae, Matthew B. Kilgore
Genetic Algorithm Based Optimization of Baffle Positions in a Forward Osmosis Draw Channel, James Koch
Development and Evaluation of a Provider Training Program for Family-Based Obesity Treatment, Rachel Pearl Kolko
Topics in Lattice Gauge Theory and Theoretical Physics, Javad Komijani
Investigating Auxin Signaling Through AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR Interactions and Stability, David Korasick
Motor and Cargo Dynamics During Intraflagellar Transport: A Single Molecule Investigation, Anthony Paul Kovacs
Four-Valence Electron Group 14 Reactive Intermediates: Silyliumylidene and Germyliumylidene, Sophia Elaine Koziatek
Art and..., Dayna J. Kriz
Essays on Technology Adoption, Demographics, and Development, Ting-Wei Lai
Guanine Nucleotide Synthesis and The Enteric Nervous System, Jonathan Ian Lake
Eye Contact and Social Anxiety Disorder, Julia Kane Langer
The Attention Abilities and Grey Matter Development of School Aged Children Born Very Preterm, Rachel Emma Lean
In Search of a Lost Effect: Generality of Discrepancy Effects in Memory Paradigms, Ji hae Lee
Essays on Business Partnerships, Jungho Lee
Manipulation of Negative Social Evaluative Fears on Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Behaviors: Does Fear of Social Evaluation Lead to Disordered Eating?, Cheri A. Levinson
Essays on Structural Transformation, Productivity, and Development, Junmin Liao
Cyber-Physical Co-Design of Wireless Control Systems, Bo Li
Relating Neural Dynamics to Olfactory Coding and Behavior, Chao Li
Betting on Empire: A Socio-Cultural History of Gambling in Late-Qing China, En Li
Writing Oneself as a Writer: Intellectual Identity and Moral Agency in Contemporary Chinese Novels, Fang-yu Li
Neural Basis of Functional Connectivity MRI, Jingfeng Li
The Effects of Environmental Support and Age on Visuospatial Rehearsal, Lindsey Lilienthal
Enhanced Magnetism in Dy and Tb at Extreme Pressure, Jinhyuk Lim
The Role of BMP Signaling in Embryonic Limb Development and Postnatal Bone Formation, Joohyun Lim
Application of Machine Learning to Mapping and Simulating Gene Regulatory Networks, Hien-haw Liow
Development of Nanofiber Scaffolds with Controllable Structure and Mineral Content for Tendon-to-Bone Repair, Justin Herrold Lipner
Several Complex Variables, Complex Geometry and Their Applications, Bingyuan Liu
Cell-Size Control in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Dianyi Liu
Essays on Risk Measurement and Fund Separation, Fang Liu
BNIP3 Phosphorylation is a Switch that Regulates Autophagy and Cell Death, Katherine Liu
Essays in Financial Economics, Suying Liu
Essential Roles of Stat3 in Zebrafish Development, Yinzi Liu
Engineering Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Environmental Applications, Wenlu Li
Projected Composition Operators on the Dirichlet Space, Patrick Lopatto
The Intrinsic Apoptotic Cascade in Hematopoiesis and Susceptibility to Therapy-Related Leukemia, Elise Peterson Lu
How Gains and Losses Influence the Brain and Behavior: Relations to Age, Risk for Depression, and Individual Differences, Katherine R. Luking
Hot Fruit, Erinrose Mager
Essays on Executive Turnover, Johan Maharjan
Implications of a Fully Nonlocal Implementation of the Dispersive Optical Model, MohammadHossein Mahzoon
Strategies for increasing the applicability of biological network inference, Ezekiel John Maier
Structure and Function of Cytochrome Containing Electron Transport Chain Proteins from Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria, Erica Lois-Wunderlich Majumder