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
Genomic Approaches for Pathway Identification in Regenerating Sensory Epithelia of the Inner Ear, David Alvarado
Electrocorticographic Neural Correlates of Arm Movements and Associated Goal Orientation in Humans, Nicholas Anderson
El arte de la resistencia: música, literatura y tradición oral en la región andina desde el período pre moderno hasta el siglo XVII, Catalina Andrango-Walker
The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700, Matthew Augustine
Engineering the Optical Properties of Gold Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications, Leslie Au
Fear and Death in Plato, Emily Austin
Discovery Of Inactive E* Conformations In Thrombin And Other Vitamin K- Dependent Clotting Proteases, Alaji Bah
Swell to Great, Amy Baily
Source Memory in Social Contexts, Bianca Basten
Numerical Drag Reduction Studies on Generic Truck, Miles Bellman
The evolution and regulation of DNA-binding by the nickel-dependent transcription factor NikR, Erin Benanti
Nature and Environment in Nineteenth-Century Austrian Literature, Bartell Berg
Essays on the Role of Law in Judicial Decision Making, Ryan Black
Associative Memory Processes in Schizophrenia, Aaron Bonner-Jackson
Exploring Protein-Ligand Interaction with Rotamer-Library Based Refinement Tools, Kenneth Borrelli
Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy, Christina Boyd
Computational and Experimental Investigation of Allosteric Communication in the Transcriptional Regulator NikR, Michael Bradley
Functional Neuroanatomy of Working Memory as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia, Shefali Brahmbhatt
The Non-Coding RNA gadd7 is a Feed-Forward Regulator of Oxidative Stress, Rita Thomas Brookheart
Quality of Life and Affect across the Adult Lifespan, Patrick Brown
An Electrically Compensated Trap for Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry: Investigation and Charaxterization, Adam Matthew Brustkern
Using repeated testing and variable encoding to promote transfer of learning, Andrew Butler
Integrated Genomics Of Susceptiblity To Therapy-Related Leukemia, Patrick Cahan
Design and Synthesis of Nanomaterials for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering, Fuel Cell Technology, and Photonics, Pedro Camargo
Immune Receptor Targeting by Orthopoxvirus MHC Class I-like Protein, Jessica Ann Campbell
Laser Doppler Vibrometry Measures of Physiological Function: Evaluation of Biometric Capabilities, Mei Chen
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
An Institutional Approach to Monetary Policy: Comparative Legal Perspectives in Central Banking, Hong Kyoon Cho
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