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
Structural Mechanism of Orthopoxvirus Sabotage of MHCI Antigen Presentation, William Howard McCoy IV
Generating High Purity Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Cell Populations for Transplantation Following Spinal Cord Injury, Dylan A. McCreedy
Modernist Orientalisms: Klee, Matisse, and North Africa, c. 1906-1930, Sarah Ann McGavran
Boy with Thorn, Rickey Laurentiis McGhee
Characterization of Human Gut Microbiota Dynamics Using Model Communities in Gnotobiotic Mice, Nathaniel Patrick McNulty
Well and Other Stories, Gwyneth A. Merner
Gravitational Waves and Inspiraling Compact Binaries in Alternative Theories of Gravity, Saeed Mirshekari
Ideal Optimum Performance of Propellers, Lifting Rotors and Wind Turbines, Ramin Modarres
Midcentury Planning in San Juan, Puerto Rico: Rexford Guy Tugwell, Henry Klumb, and Design for "Modernization", Linda Levin Moreen
Frequent False Hearing by Older Adults: The Effects of Predictive Context in Speech Perception, John Ryan Morton
The Influence of Diet on the Mammalian Gut Microbiome, Brian David Muegge
The Curse of Windfall Income: How Foreign Aid and Natural Resource Dependence Constrains Growth, Adams Bailey Nager
Testing Promote Transfer with Authentic Educational Materials, Khuyen Nguyen
Changes in Marriage, Fertility, and Female Labor Participation in the Twentieth Century, Wung Lik Ng
Novel Mechanisms of G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Andrea Nichols
Polarization Imaging Sensors in Advanced Feature CMOS Technologies, Raphael Njoroge Njuguna
Improving Radiotherapy Targeting for Cancer Treatment Through Space and Time, Camille Noel
Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Progenitors in Murine Autoimmune Arthritis, Kwadwo Asare Oduro Jr.
Allele-Specific Effects of U2AF1 Mutations on Alternative Splicing, Theresa Okeyo-Owuor
Three Papers on Electoral Geography, Santiago Olivella
Winning the Waiting Game: Senatorial Delay in Executive Nominations, Ian Ostrander
Preschoolers' Differentation of Writing and Drawing: Comparisions of US and Chinese Children, Shoko Otake
Aerosol Filtration -- Agglomerate Particle Filtration and Particle Deposition Uniformity, Qisheg Ou
Design-Space Optimization of Streaming Applications, Shobana Padmanabhan
Volatization of Extraterrestrial Materials as Determined by Zinc Isotopic Analysis, Randal Christopher Paniello
Phospho-regulation of the Wnt/β-cat Pathway by VEGFR-1, Mei-Hsiu Pan
Essays on Nonlinearities and Structural Breaks in the Relationships between Macroeconomic Variables, Irina B. Panovska
The Nutrition Transition in Colombia: Underweight, Overweight and the Dual Burden of Malnutrition, Diana Celmira Parra Perez
Dealing with Death: On the Consequences of Loss on Relationship Appraisal, Stephanie Allison Peak
Modernist Frequencies: Literature, Music, Philosophy, May Peckham
Heterocycle-Amide Isosteres: Application in the Development of Receptor-Based Imaging Agents for PET, Xin Peng
Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography, Heidi L. Pennington
The Politics of Compensation for Expropriation, Noel Pereyra-Johnston
The Strategic Significance of Afghanistan: Geopolitics, the Trans-Afghan Pipeline, and the Struggle for Eurasia, Faisel Ahmed Pervaiz
Biomechanical and Neural Factors Associated with Gait Dysfunction and Freezing in People with Parkinson Disease, Daniel Peterson
Shape Correspondence for Biological Applications, Ly Phan
The Paradox of Obstruction: Agenda Power Under Open Rules in the U.S. Senate, Christopher Pope
Explaining Subnational Variation in Voter Coordination and Party Entry in Electoral Competition, Joshua David Potter
Disturbing Muses: Gender, Technology and Resistance in Mexican Avant-Garde Cultures, Sara Anne Potter
The Effects of Invasive Plants on Biodiversity Across Spatial Scales, Kristin Irene Powell
Personality Pathology, Health-related Stress, and General Functioning in Later Adulthood, Abigail D. Powers
Intersectional Discrimination in Employment: A Comparative Analysis of the United States of America, Canada, and the European Union, Panthip Pruksacholavit
On the (Co)Homology of Non-Commutative Toroidal Orbifold, Safdar Quddus
I Saw the Soul in Everyday Clothes and Stories, Ross Young Rader
Capacity Fade Analysis and Model Based Optimization of Lithium-ion Batteries, Venkatasailanathan Ramadesigan
The Genomic Regulatory Architecture of Avian Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration, Nicole Ann Renaud
Glucosensing, Hypoglycemia, and the Brain, Candace Reno