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
Diamond Coated Wire Cutting of Solar Si Ingots: New Insights Using Raman Microspectroscopy, Junting Yang
Humans Integrate Monetary and Liquid Incentives to Motivate Cognitive Task Performance, Debbie Yee
Polarization Sensor Design for Biomedical Applications, Timothy York
Data Structures and Algorithms for Scalable NDN Forwarding, Haowei Yuan
Genetic and Cellular Studies of The Podocyte in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, Haiyang Yu
Essays on Macroeconomics, Emircan Yurdagul
Investigating the Complexity of Impact Crater Ejecta, Michael Raymond Zanetti
Two Essays on Management of Multiple Delivery Channels in the Digital Era, Fan Zhang
Development and Application of Mass Spectrometry-Based Biophysical Approaches, Ying Zhang
Transcriptional Gene Regulation in Microbes: A Game of Positioning and Induction, Zheng Zuo
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Geometry and Photometry of Outdoor Webcams, Austin Abrams
Evidential Modern Political Authority, Nathan Adams
Novel Role of CHK2 in the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Apoptosis Pathway, Anurag Agarwal
Herederos de la libertad: criminalización, liderazgo y escritura de afro-descendientes en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba, Maria Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles
Representations of Memory in Texts by Turkish-German Authors, Jocelyn Maree Aksin
The Role of GRA7, a Component in the ROP18 Protein Complex, in Toxoplasma gondii, Aditi Alaganan
Spatial Navigation in Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease, Samantha Lynn Allison
Genetic and Epigenetic Determinants of Transcription in the Divergent Eukaryote Leishmania major, Britta Anderson
Failsafe Mechanisms Coordinate Cell Division and the Initiation of DNA Replication in Bacteria, Heidi Ann Arjes
Making Sense of Unexpected Preferences, Gordon Alexander Arsenoff
Essays on Endogenous Property Rights, Jan Auerbach
Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in American Painting, 1880-1940, Matthew Karl Bailey
Art that Demonstrates: Action and Contemplation, David J. Baker
A "Living Political Dialect": The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse, Barbara Ann Barrow
Genetic Architecture of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy, Ruteja A. Barve
Modulating Amyloid Beta Clearance by Altering Cellular and Whole Brain Apolipoprotein E Metabolism, Jacob Martin Basak
Hanafi Legal Theory and Hadith: A Study of the Deobandi Attempts at "Rectifying" the Image of the Hanafi School, Aamir Bashir
We Were Alway United, Except When We Were Not: Bivocal Memory and Georgia's Geopolitical Dilemma, Nino Batiashvili
Defining the Peripheral and Thymic Niche of Regulatory T Cells, Jhoanne Lynne Bautista
PUMA and BIM Are Required for Oncogene Inactivation-Induced Apoptosis and Anoikis, Gregory Bean
Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel, Jennifer Tate Becker
Dynamic Responses at the Barrier Epithelium, Katherine Beebe
Axonal Damage in Repetitive Concussive Traumatic Brain Injury: Characterization and Contributing Factors, Rachel Bennett
Oxygen Polarography in the Awake Macaque: Bridging BOLD fMRI and Electrophysiology, William Joseph Bentley
Political Infertility: Treatment as Resistance in Israel/Palestine, Elizabeth Berk
Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria for Photosynthetic Production of Drop-In Liquid Fuels, Bertram Michael Berla
Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Carbon Dioxide Utilization and Storage in Enhanced Gas Recovery and Enhanced Geothermal Systems, James H. Biagi
Government Dependency Theory: Public Services, Banking Crisis, and the Likelihood of Protests, Titus Bickel