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
Intrinsic Brain Activity: Concept, Techniques, Application, Dongyang Zhang
DNA and Peptide Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Biological Imaging and Transfection, Ziyan Zhang
Computational Study of Small Noncoding RNAs and Their Functions, Xuefeng Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
'If We Govern Ourselves, Whose Son is to Govern Us?': Youth, Independence and the 1960s in Lesotho, John Aerni-Flessner
Examining the Relationship Between Fact Learning and Higher Order Learning via Retrieval Practice, Pooja Agarwal
Great Power Rivalry In The Caucasus and Greater Caspian Region: 1991-2011., Arif Ahmadov
Motion-Based Video Games for Stroke Rehabilitation with Reduced Compensatory Motions, Gazihan Alankus
The Design, Construction, And Operation Of A Two-Photon Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope, Benjamin Alexander
Inelastic Seismic Response Of Reinforced Concrete Buildings With Floor Diaphragm Openings, Mohamed Al Harash
Atrial Arrhythmogenic Substrates: The Role of Structure and Molecular Remodeling, Christina Ambrosi
Spontaneous Recognition Memory Measured by Performance in a Memory Stroop Paradigm, Benjamin Anderson
Quantitative Perfusion-Sensitive Mri Phantoms, Jeff Anderson
The roles of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide in circadian entrainment of suprachiasmatic nucleus, Sungwon An
Mechanisms of Observed Neuroprotection of Dopaminergic Neurons in Wallerian Degeneration Slow (WldS) Mice, Jo Ann Antenor-Dorsey
Emotion-Cognition Interaction in Schizophrenia: Effects of Emotional Interference on Working Memory, Alan Anticevic
Night Deposits, Ekaterina Apekina
Lustmord and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria (1873-1932), Amber Aragon-Yoshida
Response Monitoring During Typical Development, Gabriel Araujo
El amor despues del amor. Narrativas del abandono amoroso en la Argentina poscrisis de 2001, Julio Ariza
Personal Cognition and the Affect Regulation Process: Affect Reactivity, Affect Regulation Ability, and Responses to Cognitive Errors., Adam Augustine
Wayward Sons: Civil Litigation and the Family in Nineteenth-Century China, John Bandy
Addressing Each Other: Reciprocal Relationships in American Fan Letters, Courtney Alice Bates
Integrity, Identity, and Why Moral Exemplars Do What Is Right, David Bauman
The Psycho-Economic Model of Ecstasy Consumption and Related Consequences: A multi-site study with community samples, Arbi Ben Abdallah
Mechanisms of Brain Region-Specific Amyloid-beta Deposition, Adam Bero
Speling "Successful" Sucesfuly: Statistical Learning in Spelling, Siti Syuhada Binte Faizal
Studies in Magnetism and Superconductivity under Extreme Pressure, Wenli Bi
Coalitions and Incumbency Advantage in Mexico, Samuel Bonilla Licea
Wind, Wave, and Generative Metaphor in Greek, Hans Bork
Isotopic and Elemental Compositions of Stardust and Protosolar Dust Grains in Primitive Meteorites, Maitrayee Bose
Faust: Ein Bildungsdrama, Florian Breitkopf
Disability: A Normative Evaluation, Jeffrey M. Brown
Granzyme Expression and Function in Effector and Regulatory T cells, Sheng Feng Cai
From Gwoka Modénn to Jazz Ka: Music, Nationalism, and Creolization in Guadeloupe, Jerome Camal
Redox Homeostasis in Cyanobacteria, Jeffrey Cameron
The Accuracy of Initial Trust Judgments, Rachel Campagna
The Economic Organization of Early Camelid Pastoralism in the Andean Highlands of Bolivia, José Capriles Flores
Clinical Interpretation of Novel Copy Number Variations, Clifton Carey
The Role of Apolipoprotein E Concentration and Isoform in Amyloid-beta Metabolism In Vivo, Joseph Castellano
Visual Processing in Subcortical and Cortical Circuits, Matthew S. Caudill
Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921, Christine Cavalier
MHC Class I-Dependent Acquisition and Maintenance of Natural Killer Cell Function, Julie Chase
Sworn Siblings in Sanyan Stories, Daowen Chen
The Georgian Crisis and U.S.-Russian Relations, Ekaterina Chertkova
Three Essays in Macroeconomics, Kyoung Jin Choi
Protein-DNA Recognition Models for the Homeodomain and C2H2 Zinc Finger Transcription Factor Families, Ryan Christensen