Undergraduate students at Washington University in St. Louis are encouraged to participate in research. These opportunities are organized through the Office of Undergraduate Research or through department-specific honors courses. This collection contains senior research papers or honors theses from across disciplines at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Theses from 2024
Anticipated Belonging in College: An Intervention to Increase College Access, Danika Strayhorn, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 2023
The Juris Master: A Proposal for Reducing Excessive Public Defender Caseloads, Blake Comeaux, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
"I'm Scared to Come Out of My Shell": Contraceptive Care for Migrants in St. Louis, Julie Deleger, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
"I'm Fat as Fuck:" Fat Black Women's Self-Perception and Modes of Resistance, Savannah Henderson, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Rethinking the "Unusual Type": Black Queer Women and the Spatial Politics of Belonging in Twentieth Century America, Olivia N. Kerr, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Identification of a Pseudomonas syringae Mutant with an Altered Response to Auxin, Joseph Kim, Bachelor of Science
The Quantitative Microanalysis Explorer: Introducing web-based visualization for optical, electron, and quantitative x-ray maps for studying lunar samples, Angelina Minocha, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Sampling in Hip-Hop - Creative Genius or a Total Flop: The Aesthetics’ Preservation and Continuity of a Black Musical Tradition, Jennifer Olabode, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Resistance/Refusal of Violence in the Neoliberal City: Black LGBTQ+ Communities in Chicago and New York (1989 – present), Marc Ridgell, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
The Would-Chuck Construction, Grace Teuscher, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
The Distribution of Tone in Shanghainese Monosyllables: An Optimality Theory Approach, Jamie Xu, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 2022
Speechless: Understanding the Manufacture of Omission in an Effort Toward a More Responsible Ethnography, sophie goldstein, Bachelor of Science
Investing Green to Become More Green: An Analysis of Whether S&P 100 Companies are Decreasing their Carbon Footprint Proportional to their Liquidity, Ashley Hendler and Ethan Hunter, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Dataset Evaluation for Data Trading Using Expected Loss and Homomorphic Encryption, Minsung Joo, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Do Chief Executive Officers with Higher Compensation Assume More Innovative Risk Within Their Firms? Unearthing the Relationship Between Chief Executive Officer Compensation and Firm Innovation Levels: An Analysis of S&P 500 Companies, Hailey Kleban and Abhay Bhandari, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
“That’s what hospice is supposed to do”: How U.S. hospice care staff bridge philosophy and institutions, Morgan Alexa Leff, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Factors Determining Attraction of Neurodivergent Applicants to Organizations, Barri Levitt, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA)
"Nothing but the Son of a Black Woman": Anti-Blackness, Gender Dynamics, and Muslim Communities of Memphis, Zari Muhammad, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Alimentary Politics and Algorithms: The Spread of Information about “Healthy” Eating and Diet on TikTok, Sara Pierce, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Understanding Chinese Public Opinion on Foreign Aid, Hanxiong Yan, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 2021
Development of a Diamond Defect Quantum Sensing Platform for Probing Novel Quantum Magnetic Phases, Jeffrey Ahlers, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Land Consolidation and Registration in Kenya: Landlessness and Threats to Nation Building, Ellen Bresnick, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Allure of the Supernatural: South Korean Realities and the French Interest in The Private Lives of Plants and The Vegetarian [L’Attrait du surnaturel : les réalités sud-coréennes et l’intérêt des Français pour La Vie rêvée des plantes et La Végétarienne], Adelaide Choi, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Mineralogy of Aeolian Deposits in Gale Crater, Mars: The Bagnold Dunes to Glen Torridon, Eleanor Moreland, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Picky Eating in Children: Associations with IQ and Executive Functioning, Ara Nazmiyal, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
"Yeah I'm Still That Bitch, but Now I'm Feelin' Like the Man": How Black Women Rappers Queer Masculinity in Hip Hop, Efua Osei, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Radical Support: Understanding Doula Work as Resistance to Routinized Violence, Arianna Parkhideh, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
A Vanguard at the Intersections: Black Girls and the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School, Logan Phillips, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Explanatory Necropolitics: Physicians’ Perspectives on Compliance, Culture, and Competence in the Management of Chronic Disease, Rithvik Ramesh, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
The St. Louis Legacy: Understanding Racial Disparities in Health and the Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Black Americans, Helen Stephens, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Individuality and Autochthony in Kenya's Coastal Landscape, Julia Stewart, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Modular Neural Network and Clustering using Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging (DBSI) metrics improves Prostate Cancer Grading, Anthony Wu, Bachelor of Science
A Phonological Analysis of the Word-Borrowing Process in Volapük, Yutong Zhang, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 2020
Conceiving Freedom: An Analysis of Black Motherhood in Twentieth Century American Black Women's Novels, Amanda Everett, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Bolstering Hyde’s Basic French Conversations I & II as a Resource for Missouri French Dialect Learning, Henry Greenstein, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
A Generative Approach to Oscan Syntax: Towards an Analysis of the Conditional Construction, Jennifer McLish, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Black Delilahs: Black Female Sexuality and Resistance in Progressive Era New York City, Kayla J. Smith, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
“the Depth Within:” Black Women, Creative Media & the Aesthetics of Interiority, Taylor Smith, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 2019
In a Child's Place: Centering Black Girlhood in Black Feminisms through the Bildungsroman, Taylor L. Bailey, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Toward Devices for Exploring PT-symmetry in Electronic Transport of Graphene, Michael Carovillano, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Studies of Nucleation and Glass Formation in Metallic Liquids, Ryan Chang, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
"Can I work with your group?" Assessing Preferences Among the Washington University in St. Louis Undergraduate Community Towards International Students in Classroom Group Formation, Marisa Ippolito, Aneesha Bandarpalle, and Hank Michalski, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA)
The Casualties of U.S. Grand Strategy: Korean Exclusion from the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Pacific Pact, Syrus Jin, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Ticket to Abide: The Role of Implicit Bias in Chicago Parking Ticket Distribution, Annelise Morgan and Ryan Farhat-Sabet
The Effects of Oklahoma's Universal Preschool Policy on Long-Term Educational Outcomes for Students, Betsy Morgan and Madison Stoecker, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA)
Real-time RFI Mitigation in Radio Astronomy, Emily Ramey, Nick Joslyn, Richard Prestage, Michael Lam, Luke Hawkins, Tim Blattner, and Mark Whitehead, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
A War of Words: The Circulation and Interpretation of Taiping Depositions, Jordan Weinstock, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Investigating Supernova Remnant Kinetics using 1420 MHz HI Hyperfine Emission, Nathan Whitsett, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 2018
Seeing Shadows: FBI Surveillance, Gender, and Black Women Activists, Kiara Sample, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)