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
Westward Expansion — The Final Journey From Maine to California: An Illustrated Thesis, James Schiele
Counseling Training for Audiology Students: Using Standardized Patients, Catherine Schroy
Habitat Size Mediates the Effects of Environmental Factors on Species Richness, Matthew Scott Schuler
Presence-at-hand, Eric Lyle Schultz
Understanding Escherichia coli Urinary Tract Infection: A Niche Perspective, Drew Joel Schwartz
The Role of Affect, Personality, and Intelligence in Negotiation, Sudeep Sharma
Light Controlling at Subwavelength Scales in Nanophotonic Systems: Physics and Applications, Yuecheng Shen
Escherichia coli Iron Acquisition Paradigms and Host Responses in the Human Urinary Milieu, Robin Reid Shields-Cutler
Clairvoyant Learning: The Strangeness of Playing Games, Jeremy Shipley
Kinematic Modeling of the Determinants of Diastolic Function, Leonid Shmuylovich
Dissecting Intracellular Signaling and Affective Behavior Using Optically Active GPCRs, Edward Ryszard Siuda
A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Structure-Dynamics Relationships of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses, Ryan Joseph Soklaski
The Knowledge of Others' Perceptions (KOP) Model: Practical Accuracy Among the Well-Acquainted, Brittany C. Solomon
Not in the Lightning, Emmeline Solomon
Identifying the Functions of ILC3 in Intestinal Immunity, Christina Song
Mitochondrial Dynamism and Mitochondrial Quality Control in the Heart, Moshi Song
Validation and Use of an Induced-Pain Paradigm to Investigate Risk Factors for Low Back Pain Development during Prolonged Standing, Christopher J. Sorensen
A Conversation to Hold | The Intimacy of Performance, Kellie Spano
Urban Herders: An Archaeological and Isotopic Investigation into the Roles of Mobility and Subsistence Specialization in an Iron Age Urban Center in Mali, Abigail Chipps Stone
Synthesis, Structure, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity of Azapentadienyl-Ruthenium-Phosphine Complexes, Meghan Leigh Stouffer
Social Networking Website Use and Eating Pathology: Relations, Moderators, and Motivation to Improve, Michelle S. St. Paul
Impaired Gut Microbial Community Development in Undernourished Children, Sathish Subramanian
Reduced Object-based Grouping in the Near-hand Space, Jihyun Suh
Tests as Catalysts for Subsequent Learning, Victor W. Sungkhasettee
Integration of Alignment and Phylogeny in the Whole-Genome Era, Hongtao Sun
Optimal Battery Operations and Design Considering Capacity Fade Mechanisms, Bharatkumar Suthar
Michelangelo and Pope Paul III, 1534-49: Patronage, Collaboration and Construction of Identity in Renaissance Rome, Erin Christine Sutherland
Stage, Body, Text: Beckett's And Weiss's Theaters Of Embodiment, Nicholas Tamarkin
Discrete and Continuous Sparse Recovery Methods and Their Applications, Zhao Tan
Flap Endonuclease 1 Promotes Telomere Replication and Stability by Distinct Mechanisms on the Leading and Lagging Strands, Daniel Cole Teasley
Strawfoot, A Novella and Stories, Aaron T. Teel
Parent Involvement in Education and College Planning for African American High School Students, Jennifer Threlfall
Physical Activity and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Obese Pregnant Women, Rachel Ann Tinius
Automating Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning by using Hierarchical Optimization, Paras Babu Tiwari
The Role of Trauma and Mental Health Problems in the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Sarah Myers Tlapek
Excessive Complement Activation Due to Genetic Haploinsufficiency of Regulators in Multiple Human Diseases, Michael Triebwasser
Transmission Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistance Genes Between Human-associated and Environmental Microbial Communities, Pablo Tsukayama
The Politics of the American Policymaking System, Ian R. Turner
The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss, Corey Lee Twitchell
Screening Protein Ligand Interactions Using Microelectrode Arrays, Sakshi Uppal
Mechanisms Underlying Memory Deficits Following West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease, Michael John Vasek
Essays on Firm Strategies and Market Outcomes, Brady Thomas Vaughan
A Gnotobiotic Mouse Model for Studying the Effect of Human Gut Community Ecology on a Pathobiont, Bacteroides fragilis, Vitas Wagner
Diffusion Processes, Metric Graphs and Boundary Value Problems for Reaction Diffusion Systems, Matt Wallace
Interfacial Chemistry of Trace Elements at Mineral Surfaces in Engineered Water Systems, Lin Wang