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
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
The Asymmetry Thesis: Pleasure and Pain's Radically Different Contributions To Well-Being, Adam Joseph Shriver
Perfectionism, Negative Affect, Anxiety, and Self-evaluations for Brief Tasks, Erik Shumaker
Edith Wharton: Vision and Perception in Her Short Stories, Jill Sneider
Revenge and Its Implications: Literati Discourse of Justice in Late Qing and Modern Chinese Fiction, Yoojin Soh
"You Are So Beautiful... To Me": Romantic Partners' Insight Into Others' Perceptions, Brittany Solomon
Video-Rate Fluorescence Molecular Tomography for Hand-held and Multimodal Molecular Imaging, Metasebya Solomon
Modeling Surfaces from Volume Data Using Nonparallel Contours, Ross Taylor Sowell
Racial Identity and Religiosity: An Examination of Well-Being in Middle Aged African Americans, Christie Spence
Investigation of Combinatorial Gene Regulation in Saccharomyces Species, Aaron Taras Spivak
CD2AP Regulates The Migration of Plasmacytoid and Conventional Dendritic Cells and CD2AP Involvement in Amyloid Precursor Protein Trafficking is Linked to Neuronal Toxicity, Subhashini Srivatsan
Risk and Protective Factors for Bullying Victimization among Sexual Minority Youths, Paul Sterzing
Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production, Livia Katherine Stone
Type B Presentation from HEL Protein in the Context of Inflammation, Beverly Strong
Identification of Viral Determinants of Murine Norovirus Pathogenesis, David Strong
Increased Stability and Complexity of Glycol-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers and their Use in Supported Lipid Bilayers, Matthew Kyle Strulson
Genetic and Molecular Analyses of Laminin-521 in the Kidney Glomerular Basement Membrane, Jung Hee Suh
Young Children's Understanding of the Relationship Between Conventionality and Communication, Kathleen R. Sullivan
The New England Pain Society, Kerin Sulock
The Empire Question: How the South African War, 1899-1902, Shaped Americans' Reactions to U.S. Imperialism, Jennifer Ann Sutton
Understanding the Relations among Episodic Memory, Associative Learning, and Fluid Intelligence in Younger and Older Adults, Elaine Marie Tamez
The Nosological Status of Loss of Control over Eating in Children, Kelly Theim
Time-Dependent Studies of High-Energy Radiation from Blazars, Sarah Elizabeth Thibadeau
Piers Plowman, Legal Authority and the Law of Subject Status., Victoria Thomas
Fast Neuronal Imaging using Objective Coupled Planar Illumination Microscopy, Diwakar Turaga
Reading Gender in Late Nineteenth-Century Young Adult Literature, Nancy Lorene Twilley
Propulsion By Sinusoidal Locomotion: A Motion Inspired By Caenorhabditis Elegans, Xialing Ulrich
The Role of ERK in Sleep and Synaptic Plasticity in Drosophila Melanogaster, William Martin Vanderheyden
Discounting of Hypothetical Monetary Outcomes that are Both Delayed and Probabilistic, Ariana Mae Vanderveldt
Functional Interactions Between Par-1b Protein Kinase and RNF41 E3 Ubiquitin Ligase, Katherine Terese Vega
Organization of the Streptococcal ExPortal and its Interaction with Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides, Luis Alberto Vega
Fashioning Women Under Totalitarian Regimes: "New Women" of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, Victoria Vygodskaia Rust
Silencing Through Heterochromatin Formation: The Role of Piwi in Transposon Targeting, Hsiming Wang
Three-Dimensional Photoacoustic Computed Tomography: Imaging Models and Reconstruction Algorithms, Kun Wang
A Two-Sided Entry Model under Manufacturer and Retailer Contracts, Li Wang
Wasp Ode, Ran Wang
Micro-imaging of the Mouse Lung via MRI, Wei Wang