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 2013
Kinetic Resolution of N-Acyl-b-Lactams, b-Lactams, and N-Acyl-Thiolactams using Amidine-Based Catalysts, Valentina Dumitru Bumbu
Galactic Dark Matter, Benjamin Paul Burch
Domestic Political Institutions in U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making, Jeremy Caddel
A Novel G-Quadruplex Binding Protein Determines the Boundaries of Genome Rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila, Christine Marie Carle
Essays in Dynamic Contracts with Costly State Verification and Limited Commitment, Francesco Carli
The Validity of Meta-Perceptions as a Measure of Personality, Erika N. Carlson
Novel Functions of Geminin as a Regulator of Mesodermal and Endodermal Fate Acquisition, Elizabeth A. Caronna
The Natural Variants of the Streptococcus NAD+-glycohydrolase SPN Modulate Divergent Host Cell Signaling Pathways and Death, Sukantha Chandrasekaran
Collaboration, Presence, and Community: The Philip Glass Ensemble in Downtown New York, 1966-1976, David Allen Chapman
Multiple-Target Tracking in Complex Scenarios, Srinivas Phani Kumar Chavali
Mechanics and Modeling of Postnatal Arterial Development in Mouse Models of Varying Elastin, Jeffrey Karl Cheng
Learning with Single View Co-training and Marginalized Dropout, Minmin Chen
Assessing Optic Neuritis in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MR Imaging, Chia-Wen Chiang
Emotion versus Motivation: Probing Dissociable Effects on Cognitive Control Through Task Performance, Pupillometry Methods, and Individual Differences, Kimberly Sarah Chiew
Half-Life, Catherine Chiodo
Antiviral Programs in the Brain, Hyelim Cho
Limit Theorems for Random Billiard Models, Timothy Chumley
The Emotional Logic of Participation in Intergroup Violence, Christopher Bruce Phillips Claassen
Variation in Social Structure, Dispersal, and Genetic Differentiation in Response to Local Habitat Quality in a Metapopulation of the Eastern Collared Lizard, Amy Kathleen Conley
Food for Thought: A Parental Internet-based Intervention to Treat Childhood Obesity in Preschool-aged Children, Jordana Cooperberg
Stains of Grace: Women Writers and the Grotesque Body Politic After Modernism, 1939-1995, Cailin Copan-Kelly
Essays in Corporate Finance, Felipe Cortes
Essays on Dynamic Pricing, Koray Cosguner
Three Papers on the Political Consequences of Oil Prices, Adriana Crespo Tenorio
Urine Trouble: A Molecular and Anatomical Examination of Bladder Pain, Lara Wiley Crock
Optimal Control of Weakly Forced Nonlinear Oscillators, Isuru Sammana Dasanayake
Actomyosin Contractility in Nonmuscle Cells, Nilushi Lakmali Dasanayake
How Institutions Matter for Local Development: Evidence from the Implementation of Decentralization Reform in Albania, Marsela Dauti
Four Generated Rank 2 Arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay Vector Bundles on General Sextic Surfaces, Wei Deng
Active Flow Control of Subsonic Flow in an Adverse Pressure Gradient Using Synthetic Jets and Passive Micro Flow Control Devices, Michael E. Denn
The Design, Construction, and Implementation of an Electrostatic Levitation Facility for Neutron Scattering Studies of Liquids, Kevin Sebastian Derendorf
Inconstant Stoics: Heroic Selfhood in the Eighteenth-Century Moral Imagination, Anna Deters
The Effect of Age-related Declines in Inhibitory Control on Audiovisual Speech Intelligibility, Avanti Dey
The Processing of Amyloid Precursor Protein in the Central Nervous System of Humans and Rhesus Macaques, Justyna Anna Dobrowolska
Engineering poly(ethylene glycol) nanogel coatings: Developments in achieving ultralow protein adsorption and applications as substrates for stem cell culture, Casey Douglas Donahoe
Task Properties Affecting the Cingulo-Opercular Network, Joseph Dubis
Mutations in the Chaperone Hsp104 Differentially Propagate Yeast Prions, Jennifer Elizabeth Dulle
Towards a Greater Understanding of the Antecedents of Dehumanization: A Contempt-Dehumanization Framework, Fade Rimon Eadeh
The Function of CARMIL1 in Migrating Cells, Marc Edwards
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Hassan Faghani Dermi
Novel Women at Novels' Ends: The Architecture of Singleness in American Fiction, 1880-1929, Katherine Alice Fama
Intermediate Level Mechanisms Supporting Face Perception, Eric J. Feczko
A Rigorous Solution for Finite-State Inflow throughout the Flowfield, Zhongyang Fei
Moving Targets: Meanings of Mobility in Metropolitan Nairobi, Meghan Elizabeth Ference
Optimization of Induced-Power from Dynamic Inflow Theory with Realistic Constraints, Chad File
Development of Optimization Models for the Set Behavior and Compressive Strength of Sodium Activated Geopolymer Pastes, Brian Albert Fillenwarth
The Monumental Province: Asia and the Temples of the Roman Empire, Andrew Findley
Numerical Simulation of Separated and Secondary Flows in Diffusing S-Ducts for Air Breathing Propulsion, Colin James Fiola