Undergraduate students at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) 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 WashU.
BSBA Honors in Management students: Please submit to the BSBA collection.
BFA students should submit to the BFA collection.
WGSS honors papers should be submitted to the WGSS Honors collection.
Theses from 2011
The Influence of Social Cues on Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster Presented, Eliana Weisz, Biology
“God and Posterity Will Show Me Favor”: A Search for the Historical Lady Jane Dudley in Light of Her Later Portrayals, Rachel Wisdom, History, Bachelor of Arts
Comparing the Effects of Invader4 with 1360 on Heterochromatin Targeting, Hao Yang, Biology
Testing the Hygiene Hypothesis: The Role of Bacteria in Promoting Atopy in a Mouse Model of Atopic Dermatitis, Laura Yockey, Biology
Theses from 2010
Red Brigades and Barefoot Doctors: Health Care Without Physicians During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Oliver Kayden Jawitz, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Theses from 1997
The Roman Aqueduct of Tiermes, Spain, MIchael Elkin, Art History and Archaeology, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1991
Exclusion and Optimism: Black Americans Keep Their Eyes on the Education Prize: A Story of School Desegregation in St. Louis, 1954-1980, Barnaby W. Horton, History, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1990
Student Activism on the Washington University Campus, Debbie Altschul, History, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1985
Academic and Political Freedom at Washington University: 1945-1956, Kenneth J. Chandler, History, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1981
Laser Heating and·Temperaturem Easurementin a Diamond Anvil High Pressure Cell, Leslie Sonder, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1980
Planetary Modelling System, Mark Victor Grieshaber, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1979
Accuracy of Pressure Determinations Based on the Ruby Fluorescence Scale, Susan L. Shutt, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Birds of Passage: Student Activism at Washington University, 1965-1972, Daniel Gray Thomas, History, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
The Geology and Petrology of Selected Precambrian Intrusives of Hawn State Park, Ren A. Thompson, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1978
Trace Element Abundances of the Josephine Peridotite Complex: Josephinite Ano Related Rocks, Warren Christopher Day, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Potential Wilderness or Mineral Potential, Kenneth Grush, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Geologyo of an Avon Kimberlite, Claudia Lack, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1977
Recent Shallowwater Ostracods from the Northern Atlantic Coast, Randy J. Mersky, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
An Analysis of the Fresh Water Shell Recovered from Langlier Rock Shelter, Mary Reilly, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
A Model for the Composition of Venus, Janet Shields, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1976
The Planimetric Geometry of Symmetric River Meanders, Ruth DeFries, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1975
A 0.4 To 2.5 mm Spectrometer Design For Remote Sensing of Rock and Soil Compositions, Susan L. Bragg, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
A Model of Wind Erosion of Martian Crater Ejecta Deposits, Stephen R. Elkins, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1973
A Rare Earth Element Study of Some Basalts from the Modoc Quadrangle, California, Charles Stewart Colodby, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Theses from 1972
Some Physical Characteristics of a Small Agricultural Watershed in East-Central Illinois, Ruth Laurence Davis, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Thorium and Uranium Determination of Plutonio Rocks in the St. Francois Mts. Area, William Eggemeyer, Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)