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All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This collection compiles theses and dissertations from all schools and departments at Washington University in St. Louis. Public access policies vary by school.

Theses/Dissertations from 2025 2025

Synthesis of Well-defined Acrylamide-based Polymers and Related Materials for Water Treatment and the Fabrication of Carbon Fiber, Tarryn Trick

The Role of IL-33 in Itch, Anna M. Trier

Exploring Social Connectedness Through The Perspectives Of Latina Adolescents At Risk For Suicide, Their Families, And Providers In The Life Is Precious Program, Daniela Tuda

Cortical Functional Organization in Early Childhood, Jiaxin Tu

Constitutional limitations and the rule of law: an Indian perspective, Sankalp Tyagi

A Dissertation on Belonging in Occupational Therapy Education with Students from Historically Minoritized Identities, Quinn P. Tyminski

Computational Dissection of Innate Immune Cell States: Tissue-Driven Heterogeneity Across Human Development, Alina Ulezko Antonova

Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect, Roy Uptain

Direct and Indirect Factors Render LPS Essential to Gram-negative Bacterial Physiology, Ryan Adam Valdez

ADVICE FROM THE PURPLEMAKERS, Marc-Anthony Valle

The State Made Desire: Eroticism and Fetish Racecraft in Argentine LGBT Tourism, Zeles Vargas

Mitochondria Transfer-based Therapy for the Mitochondrial Disease Leigh Syndrome, Stella Varnum

Reputational Effects of Backchannel Communications: Gender and Fourth-Party Perceptions of Workplace Gossip, Aditi Vashist

Investigating the effects of maternal separation on the locus coeruleus and negative affective behaviors in adulthood, Chayla Rene Vazquez

Investigating the interplay of genetic factors and viral infections in type 1 diabetes pathogenesis, Daniel Andre Veronese-Paniagua

Efficient packaging of HIV-1 genomes via recognition of its adenosine-rich content by a heterologous RNA-binding domain, Hung Ryan Vuong

The Blacker the Berry: Food Environments and Intake associated with Perinatal Depression and Secondary Breastfeeding Outcomes among Black Americans in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, Najjuwah S. Walden

Acquisition Algorithms for Protein Mass Spectrometry and Their Application to Clinical Proteomics, Nathan Wamsley

Essays in Supply Behavior in Sharing Economy, Chong Bo Wang

Topological and Optical Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials, Haonan Wang

Interference Management For Next-Generation Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, Jie Wang

Advancing Precision Treatment of Multiple Myeloma with Single-Cell and Spatial Immune Profiling, Julia Wang

Transforming CO2 into Value-Added Products: Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Solid Carbon Materials, Kaiying Wang

Molecular Dynamics and Computational Predictions of T-cell Activation, Sean J. Wang

Interfacial Mineralization in Energy and Environmental Systems, Ying Wang

Dominant tree species as a driver of forest herb community assembly: The peculiar case of pawpaw (Asimina triloba), Anna Wassel

Partially Supervised Reinforcement Learning for GPS-Denied Navigation, Ethan Weilheimer

Proteogenomic Analysis to Inform Causal Gene Prioritization for Human Disease, Daniel Western

Time-Resolved Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopic Interrogation of Intramolecular Reaction Coordinates, Valerie Winkler

Hot Girls Don't Worry About Copyright: Trans/Formative Works and the Femmage Lifestyle, Czeslawa Wojtkowski

The Constellation of American Voters: Understanding Americans Who Live In and Out of American Municipalities, Jordan Duffin Wong

Landscape For The Lost, Qiushi Xiang

Titanium-Cerium Redox Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Electrical Energy Storage, Jing Xie

Functional Devices Based on Freestanding 2D Materials, Shijue Xu

Integrating Large Language Models and Single-Cell Omics Analysis for Target Discovery in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Zixi Xu

Mass Spectrometry-Based Probing of Nucleic Acid and Protein Higher-Order Structures: From UV-Induced G-Quadruplex Crosslinking to mRNA Footprinting and ApoE4 Footprinting, Hsin-Chieh Yang

Relationships between Household Economic Distress and Child Mental Health: Determinants, Mechanisms, and Interventions, Yuanyuan Yang

Training Safety Control Filters Using High-dimensional and Un-labeled Data, Yuxuan Yang

Senescent Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Mediate Immunosuppression and Promote Breast Cancer Progression, Jiayu Ye

Computational Dead Time Correction in Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM), Yidan Yin

Selenium Removal by Iron Electrocoagulation: Effects of Water Chemistry, Operating Conditions, and Post-treatment Processes, Yihang Yuan

Untimely Epics: The Tradition of Changqing-style Poetry in Late Qing and Republican China (1870s–1920s), Huanyu Yue

Simplicity from complexity: Sensing high-dimensional fluctuations via regulatory network, optimality in allocating cellular resources, and recovering functional groups via data-driven methods, Fang Yu

Expansion Limits of Meshed Split-Thickness Skin Grafts, Haomin Yu

Analyzing Sleep Staging and Cognitive Transitions Using fMRl Time Series Analysis, Qingwen Zeng

Functional Characterization of ABCC8 Mutations Potentially Linked to the Transition from Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia to Diabetes, Hao Zhang

Learning-based MRI Reconstruction Method with Coil Sensitivity Estimation and Prior Adaptation, Haoyu Zhang

Leveraging arginine catabolism to treat metabolic complications, Yiming Zhang

Investigating the Genetics and Genomics of Vein of Galen Malformations, Shujuan Zhao

Supporting Programmers Answering the Hard-To-Answer Questions Through the Use of Large Language Models, Haixin Zhou