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
Processing of Exogenous Hen Egg-White Lysozyme for Presentation on Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I and II Molecules, Roger Belizaire
The Performance of Art: Picasso, Léger, and Modern Dance, 1917-1925, Amanda Holly Beresford
Epistemic Vigilance: The Error Management of Source Memory and Belief, Brian Bergstrom
New Methods for the Construction and Characterization of Molecules on an Addressable Array, Bo Bi
American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism, Katherine Mary Bloomquist
The Role of the Intestinal Microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Seth Bloom
From Myth to Meth: Viewing the American Small Town Through the Lens of Psychoanalytica Fantasy, Christopher Boehm
Contracting and Procurement Mechanisms in Supply Chain: Applications with New Complexities, Ehsan Bolandifar
Knowing More than We Can Tell: People Are Aware of their Biased Self-Perceptions, Kathryn Leigh Bollich
Analysis of the Navier--Stokes-αβ equations, Joshua John Brady
The Feeding Ecology of Yucatán Black Howler Monkeys (Alouatta pigra) in Mangrove Forest, Tabasco, Mexico, LeAndra Luecke Bridgeman
Movement Function Follows Spatial Form: Coordinate System Implications for Online Visual Feedback Control of the Hand, Justin Brooks
Mediating War in Early Modern German Prose, Patrick Brugh
Innocence Abroad: The Construction and Marketing of an American Artistic Identity in Paris, 1880-1910, Emily C. Burns
The Human Cytomegalovirus Protein pUL21a Binds to and Degrades Cyclin A via the Proteasome, Nicolas Caffarelli
The Role of Meis1 in Hematopoietic Development, Mi Cai
Microstructure of Systems with Competition, Saurish Chakrabarty
The Functional Consequences and Therapeutic Potential of Iron Uptake-Associated Systems in Escherichia coli, Kaveri S. Chaturvedi
Taspase1 is a Non-oncogene Mediator of Tumorigenesis and Maintenance, David Chen
From Bacteria to Human: Biophysical Studies of Inward Rectifying Potassium Channels, Wayland Cheng
Evolution and Regulation of Polymyxin B Resistance in Enteric Bacteria, Huiwen Deborah Chen
A Ranksum Statistics Based Framework to Decipher Transcription Regulation, Iuan-bor Chen
Determining the Roles that DICER1 and Noncoding RNAs Play in Endometrial Tumorigenesis, Katherine Chiappinelli
A Molecular Rheostat Coupling Cell Size to Nutrient Availability in Bacteria, Anchun Chien
Effects of Ownership Intuitions on Allocations in the Dictator Game, John Christner
Identification of Deleterious and Disease Alleles in a General Population and Preterm Labor Patients, Sung Gook Chun
Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Brain: from Phantom to Mouse to Man, Erik Clayton
Shape Optimization of Hydrofoils, William Cocke
Interstitial-Scale Modeling of Packed-Bed Reactors, Daniel Parks Combest
History as Myth and Memory: Bassani, Ginzburg, Levi, and the Re-membering of Fascism, Erika Conti
Identification of Novel Fluid Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease, Rebecca Craig-Schapiro
Evolution of the Musical Novel in George Sand, Marie d'Agoult and Marie Krysinska, Arline Elizabeth Cravens
Mechanisms Mediating Adaptive Presynaptic Muting Induction, Devon Christine Crawford
Evolution and Ecology During Domestication in the Neotropical Fruit Tree, Byrsonima crassifolia (Malpighiaceae), Genevieve Kerry Marie Croft
Characterization of Rac GTPase Function in the Osteoclast, Monica Croke
Another River, Luke Cumberland
The Convergence of Metabolism and Virulence Factor Regulation on Streptococcus pyogenes Pathogenesis, Zachary Thomas Cusumano
Investigation of the Structure of Alkyne Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold and the Development of Matrix-Enhanced Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Methods, Jennifer Dertinger
Image Deconvolution Techniques for Single Molecule Studies, Michael C. DeSantis
The Role of Autophagy and IL-17 in Bone Resorption, Carl DeSelm
Quotients of Subgroup Lattices of Finite Abelian p-groups, Marina Dombrovskaya
Joint Functions of METT-10 and Dynein in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germ Line, Maia Dorsett
Las Representaciones Literarias de Cuatro Pecados en Algunas Obras Ibéricas de la Edad Media, Boncho Dragiyski
Judicial Reforms and the Electoral Connection, Amanda Driscoll
Mechanisms of Induction and Maintenance of Constitutive Ptgs2 Expression in Colonic Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Monica Drylewicz
Ipsum Esse: A Novel, John Christopher Dupuy
Essays on the Impact of Commitment on Bargaining and Efficiency, Rohan Dutta
Cell Signaling Components of the Drosophila Circadian Pacemaker, Laura B. Duvall
Participating in Public: Female Patronage and Economic Prominence at Hellenistic Priene, Ashley Eckhardt
Assessing Social and Communication Networks and Knowledge of the 2010 Affordable Care Act in a Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Population, Katherine S. Eddens