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
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
Force Generation, Polymerization Dynamics and Nucleation of Actin Filaments, Ruizhe Wang
Essays on Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions, Wei Wang
BTB-ZF Regulators of Long-Term Antibody Responses, Yinan Wang
Mechanisms of High Zinc Tolerance, Sensing, and Homeostasis in C. elegans, Kurt Warnhoff
Single-chain RANKL Provides Insights into RANK Receptor Oligomerization and a Novel Approach to Osteoclast Inhibition, Julia Therese Warren
Essays on the Size Distribution of Cities, Hiroki Watanabe
Photometric Investigations of Lunar Landing Sites and Silicic Regions using LRO Narrow Angle Camera Images, Ryan Nicole Watkins
Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration, Dana Watt
System integration and performance study of MicroInsert-II PET system, Shouyi Wei
Relationships between Age and White Matter Integrity in Children with Phenylketonuria, Erika M. Wesonga
Labor Force Participation and Crime among Serious and Violent Former Prisoners, Nora Ellen Wikoff
Sustained Dual Drug Delivery of Anti-Inhibitory Molecules for Spinal Cord Injury Treatment, Thomas Wilems
Methodologies of the Creatively Maladjusted, Michael A. Williams
The U1A/U2B"/SNF Family of RNA Binding Proteins: Evolution of RNA Binding Specificity and Contributions of Heterotropic Linkage to snRNP Protein Partitioning, Sandra Gisela Williams
Probing Mechanical Forces in Flagella by Manipulation of Media Viscosity and Axonemal Structure, Kate Wilson
Paradigmatic Self-Deception, David Stephen Winchell
Application-Specific Memory Subsystems, Joseph George Wingbermuehle
Art, Labor, & the Absent Worker., Austin R. Wolf
Retinoids and Mitochondrial Effects on Enteric Nervous System Development, Structure, and Function, Elizabeth Copeland Wright-Jin
Copper and Zinc Oxide Composite Nanostructures for Solar Energy Harvesting, Fei Wu