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
Enhancing Biological Insights Through Statistical Inferences, Tae-Hwi An
Synthesis, Structure, Spectroscopy, and Reactivity of Azapentadienyl-M-Phosphine Complexes (M = Co, Rh, Ir), Wipark Anutrasakda
The Enhancing Effect of Retrieval on Subsequent Encoding: Understanding Test-Potentiated Learning, Kathleen Marie Arnold
Concentration Coding in the Accessory Olfactory System, Hannah Ada Arnson
Combining Attentional Control and Semantic Memory Retrieval: A Sensitive Marker for Early Stage AD and AD-related Biomarkers in Healthy Older Adults, Andrew Jacob Aschenbrenner
The Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Brain Cortical Folding in a Pedigreed Primate Population, Elizabeth Grace Atkinson
The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930, Mary Stewart Atwell
Organizational Strategic Processing: A Latent Variable Analysis, Priya Banerjee
SNP Interactions in the Genetic Architecture of Blood Pressure, Jacob John Basson
Thermophysical and Structural Measurements of Liquid Metallic Alloys Using Electrostatic Levitation, James Christopher Bendert
Cargo and Carrier Effects of Rapamycin-Loaded Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles, Kristin Page Bibee
Several Problems Concerning Multivariate Functions and Associated Operators, Kelly Ann Bickel
An Investigation into Peripersonal Space Representations in Older Adults, Emily K. Bloesch
An Exploration of the Lives of Young, African American Women with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Sarah Bollinger
The Space to Lead, Mack A. Bradley
The Box C/D SnoRNA U60 Regulates Intracellular Cholesterol Trafficking, Katrina Adelle Brandis
The Development of the Architectural Styles of New France, Jennifer Brazier
Visions of Judicial Review: Theory and Evidence, Benjamin Bricker
The Foreign Ear: Elizabeth Bishop's Proliferal Wit & the Chances of Change, Kelly Barrett Brown
Ladue Found, Charlene S. Bry
Novel Structural and Physiological Functions of High Conductance K+ Channels of the Slo Family, Gonzalo Budelli
Kinetic Resolution of N-Acyl-b-Lactams, b-Lactams, and N-Acyl-Thiolactams using Amidine-Based Catalysts, Valentina Dumitru Bumbu
Galactic Dark Matter, Benjamin Paul Burch
Domestic Political Institutions in U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making, Jeremy Caddel
A Novel G-Quadruplex Binding Protein Determines the Boundaries of Genome Rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila, Christine Marie Carle
Essays in Dynamic Contracts with Costly State Verification and Limited Commitment, Francesco Carli
The Validity of Meta-Perceptions as a Measure of Personality, Erika N. Carlson
Novel Functions of Geminin as a Regulator of Mesodermal and Endodermal Fate Acquisition, Elizabeth A. Caronna
The Natural Variants of the Streptococcus NAD+-glycohydrolase SPN Modulate Divergent Host Cell Signaling Pathways and Death, Sukantha Chandrasekaran
Collaboration, Presence, and Community: The Philip Glass Ensemble in Downtown New York, 1966-1976, David Allen Chapman
Multiple-Target Tracking in Complex Scenarios, Srinivas Phani Kumar Chavali
Mechanics and Modeling of Postnatal Arterial Development in Mouse Models of Varying Elastin, Jeffrey Karl Cheng
Learning with Single View Co-training and Marginalized Dropout, Minmin Chen
Assessing Optic Neuritis in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MR Imaging, Chia-Wen Chiang
Emotion versus Motivation: Probing Dissociable Effects on Cognitive Control Through Task Performance, Pupillometry Methods, and Individual Differences, Kimberly Sarah Chiew
Half-Life, Catherine Chiodo
Antiviral Programs in the Brain, Hyelim Cho
Limit Theorems for Random Billiard Models, Timothy Chumley
The Emotional Logic of Participation in Intergroup Violence, Christopher Bruce Phillips Claassen
Variation in Social Structure, Dispersal, and Genetic Differentiation in Response to Local Habitat Quality in a Metapopulation of the Eastern Collared Lizard, Amy Kathleen Conley
Food for Thought: A Parental Internet-based Intervention to Treat Childhood Obesity in Preschool-aged Children, Jordana Cooperberg
Stains of Grace: Women Writers and the Grotesque Body Politic After Modernism, 1939-1995, Cailin Copan-Kelly
Essays in Corporate Finance, Felipe Cortes
Essays on Dynamic Pricing, Koray Cosguner
Three Papers on the Political Consequences of Oil Prices, Adriana Crespo Tenorio
Urine Trouble: A Molecular and Anatomical Examination of Bladder Pain, Lara Wiley Crock
Optimal Control of Weakly Forced Nonlinear Oscillators, Isuru Sammana Dasanayake
Actomyosin Contractility in Nonmuscle Cells, Nilushi Lakmali Dasanayake
How Institutions Matter for Local Development: Evidence from the Implementation of Decentralization Reform in Albania, Marsela Dauti