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
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
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Severity, Dissociation, and Perceived Social Support Predict Performance on Event Processing and Memory Tasks, Michelle Eisenberg
The Phenotypic Effects of Non-Neutral Sequence Evolution in FZF1 and ZRT1, Elizabeth Engle
Seismic Array Analysis of Core-Diffracted Waves and Microseisms, Garrett Gene Euler
Individual Differences in Function Learning as They Relate to the Learning of Conceptual Information, Cynthia Fadler
Development and Application of Fluxomics Tools for Analyzing Metabolisms in Non-Model Microorganisms, Xueyang Feng
Dynamic Deformation and Mechanical Properties of Brain Tissue, Yuan Feng
Role of the Secreted Kinase ROP18 in Toxoplasma gondii Pathogenesis, Sarah Fentress
Mechanisms of Early Brain Morphogenesis, Benjamen Filas
Effective 1D Language for Fractional Quantum Hall States, John Flavin
Minimum Jerk Trajectory Planning for Trajectory Constrained Redundant Robots, Philip Freeman
Reading Your Own Mind: Dynamic Visualization of Real-Time Neural Signals, Zachary V. Freudenburg
Trace Element Cycling during Iron(II)-activated Recrystallization of Iron(III) Oxide Minerals, Andrew Frierdich
Essays on Evolutionary Game Theory and its Applications, Shota Fujishima
The Role of Loneliness and Life Events: Comparing Avoidant and Borderline Personality Features and Their Relation to Depression, Janine Galione
Calcium cycling disturbances and arrhythmogenesis, Namit Gaur
Investigation of Genes Important to the Zymogenic Lineage in Mammalian Gastric Mucosa, Jessica Harrison Geahlen
Castelnuovo-Mumford Regularity of General Rational Curves on Hypersurfaces., Sara Gharahbeigi
Activation of SIRT1 by an N-terminal Regulatory Domain, Fiorella Ghisays
The Role of Snail Homolog 1 in Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation, Jennifer Gill
Separating Component Signals of Episodic Simulation Using a Catch Trial Design, Adrian W. Gilmore
Perceived Alcohol Stigma and Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders, Joseph Edwin Glass
Adaptive MIMO Radar for Target Detection, Estimation, and Tracking, Sandeep Gogineni
Edle Einfalt, stille Größe. Winckelmann und seine Rezeption durch Schiller und Goethe, Christian Gohlke
Functional Synonymous SNVs: Novel Methodology and Framework for Identification, Keryn Gold