This collection compiles theses and dissertations from all schools and departments at Washington University in St. Louis. Public access policies vary by school.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2026

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Incorporating Pectic Glycans into Microbiome-Directed Therapeutic Foods for Childhood Undernutrition, Marie Crane

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Exactly solving one-dimensional models for the fractional quantum Hall effect, Joseph R. Cruise

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A Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) Pipeline for Investigating Brain-Wide Hemodynamics During Torpor-Like Hypothermia, Owen J. Culver

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Dissecting MS4A4A Function in Microglia and its Role in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis, Emma Pascal Danhash

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Investigation of Mineral Formation and Alteration in Hydrous Systems, Henry Dawson

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Memory Representations in Cortico-Hippocampal Systems, Angelique Ibanez Delarazan

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Turning Resistance into Compliance: Strategic Communication Under Public Distrust, Weiye Deng

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Beginning the Shift from Laboratory to Everyday Life with Diffuse Optical Tomography, Hannah DeVore

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Design and engineering of renewable, multifunctional biomaterials for sustainability, Puneet Singh Dhatt

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Engaging Communities with Data Science: Designs for Marginalized Populations, Alex DiChristofano

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Investigating Tumor-stromal Interactions that Drive Breast Cancer Angiogenesis and Metastasis, Alessandra DiMauro

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From Bench to Bedside: Unraveling the Role of SARM1 in Chronic Human Neurodegenerative Disease, Caitlin Dingwall

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The Function and Regulation of LAIR1 and LAIR2 in Inflammation and Staphylococcus aureus Infection, Hannah Dorando

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Compositional Analysis of Complex Biopolymer Matrices using Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Kathy Duong

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Development of Cell-Free DNA and Immune Cell Liquid Biopsies to Stratify Risk of Disease Progression and Treatment Toxicity, Noah Earland

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Data-driven Staging of Neurodegenerative Pathology Related to Alzheimer’s Disease, Thomas Earnest

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Reconciliation: An Auditory Exploration of Redemptive Suffering, Emily Eid

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Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Reprogramming During Breast Cancer Progression Promotes Myeloid-Biased Hematopoiesis, Emily Maria Eul

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University Experiments: Interdisciplinarity in Contemporary American Campus Forms, Laura Evers

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More Than Participation: Parent Engagement as a Pathway to Family Resilience in Autism Care, Cao Fang

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Advancing High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography for Visual Semantic Encoding and Decoding in Naturalistic Settings, Wiete Fehner

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Towards Modern Graph Learning: from Graph Neural Networks to Large Language Models, Jiarui Feng

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Lateral Habenula and Dorsal Raphe Neurons Signal Value Computations in Multi-Attribute Decision-Making, Yang-Yang Feng

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Creativity Recoded: Computer Technologies and Chinese Literary Writing in the Digital Age (1980s-2010s), Zihan Feng

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Dissociable Effects of Prospective Gains and Losses on Recognition Sensitivity: Evidence from Feedback Manipulations and Drift Diffusion Modeling, Gizem Filiz

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Retinal Circuits for Pupil Control: Neural Mechanisms, Visual Functions, and Capacity for Plasticity, Michael John Fitzpatrick

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Rereading Religion in Mexican American Literature (1872–1972), Sara Flores

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Aspartic Protease Inhibition as an Anti-Malarial Strategy, Katherine Lillie Floyd

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Alive in Translation, Shiyao Fu

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Apoptotic cells as a physiological source of β-alanine to modulate MrgprD-expressing sensory neurons, Sofia L. Gasperino

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Development and Flight of Stratospheric Missions for Hard X-Ray Polarimetry and Hard X-Ray Spectroscopy, Ephraim Gau

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Characterizing Negative Academic Experiences, Danae M. Gaytan

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Becoming International: Aesthetics, Development, and the Croissant Index, Zoe Dearborn Geyman

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Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Computational Image Analysis and Personalized Medicine in Neuro-Oncology, Soumyendu Sekhar Ghosh

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Conducting Granular Hydrogels: Coupling Dynamic Mechanical Properties, Microporosity, and Bioelectronic Interfaces, Anna Pauline Goestenkors

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The Translator-Function: Transmedial Agency in the Circulation of Francophone Graphic Literature, Ryan Christopher Gomez

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Quantum Sensing with Solid-State Spin Defects: From the Atomically Thin Platform to Correlated Matter Under Extreme Conditions, Ruotian Gong

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Three Essays on Demand and Distribution, Alejandro Gonzalez

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Toward Vehicle-Agnostic Driving Signatures for Cognitive Impairment Prediction from Naturalistic Driving Data, Aadarsha Gopala Reddy

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Transient Polarization and Dendrite Initiation Dynamics in Solid-State Electrolytes, Rajeev Kumar Gopal

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“We try to act so progressive”: A Multivariate and Interpretive Methods Study Examining Equity, Racialization and Interrelated Systems of Oppression and Privilege within HIV Service Organizations, Gregory Joseph Gross

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Integrating New Technologies in Platform Service Operations, Qiaowen Guo

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Adaptive Component Expansion in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization: Theory and Applications, Youdong Guo

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Elucidating the Coordinated Role of Histone Modifications on the Establishment and Regulation of a Neuronal-specific Methylome, Nicole Hamagami

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Neighborhood Opportunity and the Futures of Children: Evidence from a Fragmented Region, Christopher Hamilton

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Deciphering the Rules of Odor-Driven Learning in the Fruit Fly Olfactory System, Cole B. Hanan

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Advancing Photoacoustic Microscopy for Neurovascular Imaging, Jiaxiao Han

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Opportunistic Breast Cancer Detection with Photon-Counting CT: A Quantitative Pilot Study of Reconstruction-Dependent Image Quality, Graham Hannon

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The Last Generalists, Rebecca Hanssens-Reed

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Development of High-speed Parallel Optical Coherence Tomography based on Photonic Integrated Circuits, Senyue Hao