Theses from 2017
August 1973, Melanie L. Whithaus
Soldier, Officer, Citizen: Applying Just War Theory to Police Use of Force, Benjamin N. Wisniewski
Theses from 2016
Forgetting and the Value of Social Information, Benjamin James Abts
Modification and Utilization of Nanoporous Gold for Loading and Release of Drugs, Ibtisam Mohammed Al-badri
Horrendous Evils and the Problem of Representation, William Bell
Same in the Sea and Other Stories, Mary Grace Buckley
Death with Dignity: The Legislative Wave of the Future, Justin M. Downey
Humberto: The Fire Next Time, John David Fournie
A Spatial Analysis of Non-Emergency Requests for Service & Violent Crime in St. Louis, Missouri, Alysson Leigh Gatens
Learning From Ferguson: African American Attitudes Towards Community Policing in Saint Louis, David Graham
Daughters of Basheera, Jessica Hayes
Cultural Detente: John le Carré from the Cold to the Thaw, Leah Nicole Huesing
Nectar bats and their flowers across cloud forests of Ecuador and the effect of artificial nectar feeders, Nora Rossana Maguina Conde
A Review of Evolution, Behavior, and Vision with an Experimental Evolution Study on Color Vision in Drosophila melanogaster, Mellissa Ann Marcus
Aggression Dynamics and Hormone Fluctuations in Black and White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia variegata), Alicia N. Marty
Ideal Patriots: The Boy Scouts of America as Propaganda during the First World War, David W. Murphy
Learning to Communicate with Humans, Daniel Musgrave
Unconscious Lineage, Elizabeth Arlene Neale-Oestreicher
It’s All in Your Head: A Solution to the Problem of Object Coincidence, Graham Louis Renz
Investigating Specimen Preparation and Characterization Methods of Semiconductor Material, Jamie Roberts
Predicting Choices in Bumblebees (Bombus impatiens): Learning Rules and The Two-Armed Bandit, Isabel Lucia Rojas-Ferrer
The Primary Volatile Composition of Comet C/2012 K1 (PanSTARRS), Nathaniel Xavier Roth
Urmson's Art, Tyler Ryan
Tax Reform: The Push for Consumption Taxes in Kansas and Missouri, Brent Albert Simmonds
Heteronormativity and the Ideal Family, Ashton R. Snider
From Poetry to Pedagogy: Exploring the Intersections of Disability Studies and Feminist Theories, Lauren Terbrock
How Training and Development can increase African American women into leadership, Kenya Thomas
"We Talked About the Light", Victoria Isabella Walls
Theses from 2015
Discovery and Metabolic Engineering of Steroid Alkaloid Biosynthetic Genes from (Veratrum californicum), Megan M. Augustin
Hate Speech and the Status of Prisoners, Logan Richard Baseley
Adaptive Preferences Are Not Irrational, Sarah Beach
Can Contested Primaries and Turnout in Primaries Reduce Corruption and Rent-Seeking?, Derek Beiter
How Real is Reality? : An Examination of Perceived Realism and Permissive Sexual Attitudes in Relation to Reality Dating Shows, Margaret E. Bennett
JAM Tomorrow, Tim Glenn Boothe
Is Natural Normativity True Normativity?, Amy Lawson Broadway
Lives We Tell Ourselves, Cameron M. Burson
Uncomfortable Bedfellows: Locke and the Libertarian Theory of Property, Garrett Dimond
Media Audiences’ Engagement with Social Issues: A content analysis of online daily newspaper articles and audience comments, Jessica Edgar
Everything I Love Restored, matthew freeman
Neural Chimeras in the Huber-Braun Model with Abrams-Strogatz and Kuramoto Coupling Schemes, Tera Ashley Glaze
When All Else Failed, Jennifer Goldring
Autobiography of Heavy Water, Candise Whitley Henson
The role of abiotic and biotic factors in limiting Piper abundance and distribution in a lowland Costa Rican wet forest, Haydee Hernandez-Yanez
Morphology and Characterization of Abscission Zone Development and its Role in Domestication in Setaria viridis and Setaria italica, John Gerard Hodge
Darkness of Draws, Catherine Louise Howl
Inherent Problems With Nuclear Deterrence And The Need Of Disarmament, Hiromi Ishikawa
The Scientific and Theological Superiority of Divine Timelessness, David Christian Justice
Leaf-cutter Ant (Atta cephalotes) Behavioral Ecology of Folivory in a Mixed-use Guyanan Lowland Rainforest, Elizabeth Brianne Karslake
Effects of Invasive Lonicera maackii on Bat Activity via Changes in Vegetation Structure and Food Resources, Iwona Kuczynska
The Instability of "The Law of Peoples" and a Suggested Remedy, Lavender McKittrick-Sweitzer
Factors Influencing Asiatic Oak Weevil Interactions with Native Ecosystem Engineers Over Time, Daniel Rothschild O'Brien
Four Domains of Knowledge in Education, Justin Tyler Ormsby
The role of Philornis downsi in avian disease transmission in the Galápagos Islands, Courtney Lauren Pike
The Chorus of 302, Marisol Ramirez
Riot and Ruckus: Nationalism on Stage in the Early Modernist Theater of the Futurists and Ballets Russes, 1909-1914, Ashley DiAnn Ray
How to Fail College, Rafal L. Redlinski
Psychology's Ontology as Antinomy, Kevin Rice
Tense and Truthmaking: Addressing the Problem of Tense After the Ontological Turn, Elliott Risch
Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jeff Sjerven
Environmental and density-dependent modulation of type III secretion system genes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000, Jennifer Louise Stauber
Two Indexical Theories of Names, Costigan Thomas
Missing Things, Matthew Paul Vivian
Latin on the Walls, Kent Walker
A Letter to the Universe, Stacey Leanne Walker
Theses from 2014
Comparing Perspectives on Cause and Reason in Intentional Action: Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention and Donald Davidson's "Actions, Reasons and Causes", Victoria White Berger
Rules and Habits, Andrew Ross Bramman
Recasting the Darwinian Dilemma, Abram L. Brummett
Dead Girls Don't Like Horses, Christy Callahan
Lessons in Betrayal, Donald Quentin Counts
Harmless Stories, David Wraith Dandridge
The Reliability and Nature of Philosophical Intuitions, Matthew Allen DeStefano
Transformation or Revival: St. Louis Culture Before and After the Great Fire of 1849, Daron Patrick Dierkes
Traps in Plain Sight, Nathan Garrett Doyle
Galapagos Mosquitoes as Avian Disease Vectors, Daniel Anthony Hartman
Advertising, Hook Up, Public Radio, Yoga, Ryan William Krull
To Merge Them In the Start of Superior Journeys: Community Identity, Education, and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights in North Webster, Missouri, 1865 - 1952, Lara Katherine Kuehling
Phylogenetic patterns of rarity in a regional species pool of tropical trees, MARIA ISABEL LOZA
New Developments or More of the Same? A Historical, Sociological, and Political Look at Missouri's Sex Offender Laws from 1995 to 2013, Robert MacKenzie
Terms and Conditions, Megan Emily McCormack
Rape, Lynching, and Mythmaking in Missouri, 1804-1933, Jessica LeKay McCulley
“Una Isla Caribeña Sobrepoblada”: Luis Muñoz Marín’s overpopulation discourse, 1922-1948, Luimil Mishette Negrón-Pérez
Those Who Breathe Once, Kasey Ryan Perkins
Purloined Sperm, Victim-Blaming, and Procreative Asymmetry: A Critique of Christine Overall’s Analysis of Prospective Parent Disagreement, Jordan Gabriel Potter
The Politics of Environmental Regulations: What Happened to Market Based Regulations?, Eugene Paul Schmittgens Jr
Eagles Circle the Drum, Mark Shaw
We Got the Memo That Conformity Was Bad: Stories and Novel Chapters, Chin Tina Shen
On The Necessary Connection Between Law and Ethics: The Ethical Content of Law, Michael D. Sigler
Bridging the Mississippi: A History of the Rivalry between Suspension and Arch Modes of Engineering, Kurt Timmerman
The Sages and Philosophers: Reevaluating the Interaction Between Ancient Israel and Greece, Mike Tolliver
Shrimp, Jason Nicholas Vasser
Love Stories, Timothy Wombles
the New Relevance: Motives behind YouTube Use, Xinchen Xu
Theses from 2013
Enhancement of Antibiotics and Nucleic Acids by Novel Synthetic Compounds, Jason Lee Atkins
The Rational Authority of Morality: Reason Internalism and Negative Duties, Kyle Stewart Barrett
Matter, Spirit, and Cosmogony: The Context and Meaning of Thomas Vaughan’s Alchemical Vitalism, Adam Heinrich Borrego
Advanced Statistical Analysis of the Pupil Project Program, Erin Marie Brooks
Effects of nest and nest site characteristics on Humboldt penguins’ breeding success at Punta San Juan, Peru: Implications for conservation, Alonso Joaquin Bussalleu
Order Out of Chaos: The Growth of Botanical Science in Nineteenth Century St. Louis, Nuala F. Caomhánach
Secondhand Blues, Dennis Michael Davis