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
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
Reorganizing Bankrupt Companies: Comparing the Alternatives Under Saudi Arabian and American Bankruptcy Law, Ahmad Aljwair
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
Truth, Knowledge, and the Value of False Belief in Plato, Nicholas Ryan Baima
Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Temporal Pattern Recognition, Christa Ann Baker
Optimization of Blalock-Taussig Shunt and Anastomotic Geometry for Vascular Access Fistula Using a Genetic Algorithm, Guangyu Bao
The Heart of Whiteness: Interracial Marriage and White Masculinity in American Fiction, 1830-1905, Lauren M. W. Barbeau
Murals, Montage, Modernism: Public Art in the United States Between the Wars, Clara Barnhart
The Role of RNA Helicase DHX9 in Breast Cancer, Kathleen Christie Baysac
Alternative Histories: Imagining Ancient Britain on the London Stage, 1560-1642, Meredith Anne Beales
Online Modeling and Tuning of Parallel Stream Processing Systems, Jonathan Curtis Beard
Rural Primary Health Care Providers' Response to Intimate Partner Violence and Survivors' Perceptions of Helpfulness, Annah Bender
K-Ras, but Not H-Ras or N-Ras, Hyperactivation Regulates Brain Neural Stem Cell Proliferation in a Raf/Rb-dependent Manner, R. Hugh F. Bender
Essays in Modeling the Consumer Choice Process, Taylor Bentley
Understanding the Fitness Effects of Cis-Regulatory Evolution: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches, Andrew C. Bergen
Thermophysical Properties and Structural Evolution of Supercooled Metallic Liquids, Matthew Blodgett
Identification of FGF14 as an Essential Regulatory Subunit of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels, Marie Alana Kozel Bosch
Graphs with Eigenvalues of High Multiplicity, Casey Boyett
Ion Selectivity and Allostery in the NaK Channel, Joshua B. Brettmann
The MLL Family of Histone Methyltransferases Plays Important Roles in Retinal Development, Diana Schorry Brightman
Using the Encoding Specificity Principle to Assess the Nature of the Secondary Memory Component of Working Memory, Dung Chi Bui
Human Ipsilateral Motor Physiology and Neuroprosthetic Applications in Chronic Stroke, David Thomas Bundy
The Neutralization and Disempowerment of Women in Intimate Partner Violence Law in Neoliberal Legislations: A Comparative Analysis of the American and Chilean Experiences, Silvana Andrea Del Valle Bustos
Genetic Factors that Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Janet Elizabeth Cady
The Comic Grotesque: Troubling the Body Politic in American Graphic Satire from World War I to the Great Depression, Bryna Rae Campbell