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 2009
Characterization of the Roles of Rab5 Isoforms in Endocytic Membrane Traffic and Cell Migration, Pin-I Chen
Computational Analysis of Functional Imaging in the Primary Auditory Cortex, Thomas Chen
In Vivo Development of Zebrafish Retinal Ganglion Cell Dendritic Patterns, Jung-Hwan Choi
Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues, Rumyana Cholakova
Silence and the Borrowed Voices of Women in "Skeletons of Men (Otoko no hone: 男の骨)", Sohyun Chun
An energy Economic Model for Electricity Generation In the United States, Lee Chusak
Financial Crisis and Future Securities Regulation, Mark Collins
An Investigation of Acetobacter aceti N5-Carboxyaminoimidazole Ribonucleotide Mutase and Its purE-purK Operon, Charles Constantine
John Locke on Obligation: Sensation, Reflection, and the Natural Duty to Consent, Emily Crookston
Uropathogenic E. coli Employ a Conserved Intracellular Infection Pathway that can be Inhibited by Novel Anti-Virulence Therapeutics, Corinne Cusumano
Effects of Bilateral Eye Movements and Shifts of Attention on Recognition Memory in Younger and Older Adults, Carolyn Lisa Dufault
Mammalian Postcranial Evolution and Primate Extinction in the Middle Eocene of North America, Rachel Dunn
Mechanisms of Feedback in the Visual System, Adam Eggebrecht
Modeling And Identification Of Differentially Regulated Genes Using Transcriptomics And Proteomics Data, Thanura Elvitigala
A Decent Living Out of Our Work: Black Women's Labor Activisim in St. Louis, 1929-45, Keona Katrice Ervin
Geoarchaeology of the Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik Sites, Dalmatia, Croatia, Cynthia Fadem
Accurate Docking is Achieved by Decoupling Systematic Sampling from Scoring, Jianwen Feng
Structually diverse Cu-64-labeled RGD peptide conjugates for PET imaging of αvβ3 expression, Ashley Fiamengo
Identification and Characterization of Novel Astroviruses, Stacy Finkbeiner
Adaptive Middleware for Resource-Constrained Mobile Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks, Chien-Liang Fok
Representaciones e imaginarios sobre la pobreza: Villa miseria y subjetividad en la literatura argentina del siglo XX y XXI, Maria Forcadell
Improving the Cathode Conditions by Pressurizing and Carbon Dioxide Addition to Enhance the Practicality of MFC Treatment of Wastewater, Jeffrey Fornero
In the Voices of Men, Beasts, and Gods: Unmasking the Abject Persona in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, Lee Friederich
A General Modeling Framework for Cost Benefit Analysis of Remanufacturing, Niloufar Ghoreishi
Backscatter and Attenuation Characterization of Ventricular Myocardium, Allyson Gibson
The Changing Face of Arab-Islamic Terror: 1936 - 2008, Andrew Glauberg
Scheduling Policy Design using Stochastic Dynamic Programming, Robert Glaubius
Systemic Levels of G-CSF and IL-6 Determine the Angiogenic Potential of Bone Marrow Resident Monocytes, Alyssa Gregory
Design And Evaluation of Flexibility-Based Structural Damage Localization Using Wireless Sensor Networks, Weijun Guo
A Framework for Temperature Imaging using the Change in Backscattered Ultrasonic Signals, Yuzheng Guo
Isotopic Studies of Presolar SiC and Oxide Grains as Probes of Stellar Nucleosynthesis and the Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy, Frank Gyngard
Genetic and Biochemical Properties of Arabidopsis RNA Polymerases IV and V, Jeremy Haag
Argentine Tango as Therapy for Parkinson Disease, Madeleine Eve Hackney
Meta-analysis for functions of heterogeneous multivariate effect sizes, Adam Hafdahl
Performing "This England": Cycles of Shakespeare's English Histories in the Postwar Era, Anita Hagerman
Filling Essential Laminations, Michael Hamm
HIV-1 Envelope-Induced Signaling Mediates Actin Cytoskeleton Rearrangements Necessary for Fusion and Entry, Brooke Harmon
Reducing Energy Demand in Commercial Buildings: Balancing Convection and Radiant Cooling, Andrew Harris
Exploring the Potential of Aging Network Services to Improve Depression Care, Leslie Hasche
Geologic Setting of the Phoenix Lander Mission Landing Site, Tabatha Heet
Connections between Floer-type invariants and Morse-type invariants of Legendrian knots., Michael Henry
Sumbawan Obstetrics: The Social Construction of Obstetrical Practice in Rural Indonesia, Vanessa Hildebrand
An Alternate Antiquity: The Etruscans in Renaissance Florence and Rome, Caroline Susan Hillard
Temporal Discounting: A comparison of adjusting-amount and adjusting-delay procedures, Daniel Holt
Aerosol Filtration And Separation, Tachih Hsiao
Discovery of a Novel Metalloregular Family: Structure/Function Studies of E. Coli Rcnr, Jeffrey Iwig