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 2012
Locomotor Control In Parkinson Disease, Marie E. McNeely
Exploring the Role of Wolbachia Endobacteria in the Biology of Filarial Nematode Parasites, Samantha McNulty
Development & Testing of Novel Atmospheric Chemistry Technologies, Peter Johnson Mellott
Key Factors in Drosophila Melanogaster HP1a Partner Binding, Deanna Lynn Mendez
Characterization of the ARF Tumor Suppressor's Checkpoint Response to Hyper-Growth Stimuli, Alexander Philip Miceli
Characterization of Complement C3 Dysregulation Predisposing to Two Human Disease States, Elizabeth Miller
Mitofusin 2 Regulated Transport of Mitochondria is Necessary for Axonal Integrity, Albert Misko
Strategic Communication Games: Theory and Applications, Shintaro Miura
Properties of Pathogenic Insulin Reactive T Cells That Escape Selection in Autoimmune Diabetes, James F. Mohan
Allosteric Modulation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 as a Treatment for Pain, Michael Montana
Electrophysiologically Distinct Subpopulations of Murine Nociceptive Neurons as Revealed by a Genetic RET Reporter, Maria Elena Patricia Morales
The Automation of Electrophysiological Experiments and Data Analysis, David Morton
Psychotropic Medication Use in Older Foster Youth: A Focus on Racial Differences, Sarah Carter Narendorf
Women War Correspondents and the Battles They Overcame to Succeed, Angela Ness
Billiard Markov Operators and Second-Order Differential Operators, Jasmine Ng
Phase Structure of Gauge Theories on R3 X S1, Hiromichi Nishimura
Molecular Dissection of IA Channels in Cortical Pyramidal Neurons, Aaron Norris
When Women Matter: The Relationship Between Women's Presence and Policy Representation in Western European States, Diana Z. O'Brien
The Establishment and Regulation of Melanocyte Stem Cells in Zebrafish, Thomas O'Reilly-Pol
Geodynamic Interpretations of Global Topography and Gravity on Venus and Mars, Christopher Orth
Reenactment Season and Other Poems, Heather Overby
Three Essays in Comparative Political Economy, Ugur Ozdemir
Charles Sheeler's "Practical Manifestations": Painting and Design in the 1930s, Jennifer Padgett
The Physiological Effects of Phycobilisome Antenna Modification on the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Lawrence Edward Page
Natural Killer Cell Recruitment and Activation Following Orthopoxviral Infection, Melissa Anne Pak-Wittel
Essays in Health, Innovation and Labor, Nicholas Winsor Papageorge
Abysmal Concerns, Daniels Frank Parseliti
Changing Perceptions of China in 1930s America, Erin Pattison
Picturing the Text: Illustrated Editions of Marlitt, Raabe, and Storm in the Age of the Industrial Book: (1857-90), Shane D. Peterson
Essence and Ontology, Jan Plate
Vilém Flusser's Media Philosophy: Tracing the Digital in Nature through Art, Anne Popiel
Phylogeny and Evolution of Phemeranthus (Montiaceae) in North American Xeric Habitats, Taina Price
Arabidopsis thaliana Adenosine 5'-Phosphosulfate Kinase: Structure, Function and Regulation, Geoffrey Ravilious
Anodic Electrochemistry: Curtin-Hammett Control, New Reaction Development, and the Use of Solar Power, Alison Marie Redden
Novel Roles for A-Type Lamins in Maintaining Genomic Stability, Abena Redwood
Adrift in Paris: Marc Chagall and the Negotiation of Identity through Painting, 1911-1914, Aliya Reich
Emerging Artists: An Ethnography of High Art in Higher Education, Eric Scott Repice
Untitled Novel, Emily Robbins
The Constructive Trace Theory of Memory, Sarah Kathleen Robins
Novel Sequence-Based Method for Identifying Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Prokaryotic Genomes, Gurmukh Sahota
The Masque and its Afterlives: Spectacle and Heroic Action in Stuart England, Amy Sattler
Regulation of Metabolic Stress-Induced snoRNAs, Benjamin Steel Scruggs
Targets of Heterochromatin Assembly in Drosophila melanogaster, Monica F. Sentmanat
Ranging Behavior, Group Cohesiveness, and Patch Use in Northern Bearded Sakis (Chiropotes sagulatus) in Guyana, Christopher Shaffer
Characterization of Martian Surfaces using Mechanical and Spectrophotometric Models, Amy Shaw
Analysis of DIE5 and LIA5 reveals the importance of DNA repair in programmed DNA rearrangement of Tetrahymena thermophila, Wan-Yi: Annie) Shieh
The Roles of PHR and DLK in Axon Development and Post-Injury Responses, Jung Eun Shin