Content Posted in 2025

A Horizontal Leg Up: Skewed Incidence and Advantage of Horizontal Gene Transfer between Eukaryotic Parasite and Host, Leo Xiao

An Introduction to Integral Equations and their Solution Methods, Stephanie Lee

Ants in the Brain: Mapping Neural Connectivity using Colony Optimization Algorithms, Tanner Carlson, Reed Schubert, and Max Keller

A Survey of Community Detection: Algorithms, Applications, and Beyond!, Aidan Roessler, Tony Ni, Jake Jasmer, and Yang Tan

A Trip Through the Zoo of Infinite Abelian Groups, John Moon-Black, Akash Ganguly, Miles Hoene-Langdon, and Sylvie Dirkswager

BGA Development, Leo Moran, Jonathan Vilms, Ugo Anyaegbunam, and Ethan Cline-Cole

Breaking Hearts: AI Approaches to a Trick-Based Card Game, Elek Thomas, Breanna Lefevers-Scott, Barin Nwike, and Elaina Boyle

Cancer Catalysts: Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer and Genome Integration in Metastasis, Nithin Poreddy

Climate Adaptation in Southeastern Minnesota: Multiscalar Decision-Making and a Case Study of the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum, Mia Beeman-Weber, Geoff Bynum, Tyler Chodera, and Gitanjali Matthes

Communicating Mathematics Comps Profile, Shaan Dias

Computer Vision For Autonomous Driving, Ben Zhao, Nathaniel Li, Julian Tanguma, David Toldeo, Ethan Masadde, and Josh Meier

Crabby Waters: Seasonal Dynamics and Climate Change Impacts on Callinectes Sapidus, Jonathan Nguyen

Crude Consequences: A Comparative Analysis of Oil Spill Impacts on Aerial Versus Submerged Species in Saltmarsh Ecosystems, Daanyal Raja

Disruption of Peroxisomal Function in Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Implications for Enterocyte Formation, Zoe Rose

Evaluating Mark-to-Market Taxation of Capital Gains, Luke Harris

Evaluating Methods for Radio Frequency Based Positioning of Ultimate Frisbee Players, Will Shrestha, Marshall Johnson, Cullen Baker, Selma Vangstein, Bemnet Abebayehu, and Sam Diana

Examining The Role of Seipin and The Lipid Droplet Assembly Factor In Lipid Droplet Biogenesis, Emma Neham

Exploring the different mechanisms by which Candida albicans Enhances Staphylococcus aureus Virulence in Peritonitis and Oral Candidiasis, Quan Nguyen

Exploring the Role of Chlamydia trachomatis as a Co-Factor in HPV-Driven Cervical Cancer, Amanda Ta

Exploring the Role of Ghost Introgression in Species Adaptations, Padmini Konidena

Fair Pay, Fair Play? Examining Gendered Housework Allocation Among Dual-Income Couples, Miriam Chasnov

From Sensory Organelle to Evolutionary Catalyst: The Impact of Primary Cilia and Sonic Hedgehog Signaling on Phenotypic Plasticity, Ellen Johnson

From Striated to Smooth: The Representation of Wandering Flâneuse and Space in Wanda (1970) and Trenque Lauquen (2022), Jiaying Deng

Gene Flow and Bt-Crops: Understanding Potential Ecological Consequences, Allison Audette

Hybridisation and introgression as conservation tactics in the face of anthropogenic environmental change, Katrin Birk

Intervals, C_3 Structure, and Realization in Tournaments, Aaron Banse, Evan Hart, Aidan Jalili, and Yang Tan

Introgression in anthropogenic landscapes: Weighing adaptive and maladaptive outcomes of unintentional and intentional introgression events, Moira Rankin

Investigating the Role of PPAR𝛾 in Peroxisome-Mediated Sebum Production and the Pathophysiology of Acne Vulgaris, Rhusel Rivera

KnoVAClue: A Codenames Clue-Giving AI Agent, Lucas Wharton, Marc Eidelhoch, Blake Jones, and Sam Zacks

Let's Agree to Agree: Consensus in a Faulty System, Vanessa Heynes, Colin James, Wesley Yang, Arisha Khan, Luha Yang, and Hanane Akeel

MamT, a conserved protein in magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), is critical for the effective utilization of iron for growth and maturation of magnetic crystals in magnetosomes and directs the localization of Mms6, Joseph Park

Monkeying Around: Chaos Engineering And Robust Web Services, Ntense Obono, Catherine Bregou, Khizar Qureshi, Angel Ortiz Martinez, Sam Lengel, and Bryan Yang

No Panacea in Monetary Policy: A Policy Brief for the 2025 FOMC Monetary Framework Review, Stephanie Lee

Not Clique-bait: Algorithmic Approaches to the Maximum Clique Problem, Sophia Quinn, Aaron Banse, Brendan Banfield, and Kellen Knop

Optimizing Public Transportation Networks with Community Detection Algorithms, Graham Gordon, Mika Shiffman, and Jonathan Merchant

Peroxisomal Disruptions at the Lipid Droplet Interface: Implications for Insulin Resistance, Caroline Crampton

Quorum Sensing Is Associated with Mechanisms That Cause and Regulate Social Cheating in Microbial Cooperation, Zhanghan Ni

Resurrecting a Bog Dress: A Comparative Approach to Medieval Textile Construction, Ruby Becker and Helen Banta

Role of Beta Cell Cilia in Insulin Exocytosis, Tatjana Truckses Stephens

S. aureus Biofilm Infections: Regulation of Dispersal Through Agr Quorum-Sensing and Therapeutic Challenges, Elizabeth Kniser

Serendipitous Exploration of the Carleton Curriculum, Markus Gunadi, Cathy Duan, Zoey La, Willow Gu, Charlie Ney, and Kai Weiner

‭Sex Differences in Ischemic Stroke:‬ ‭ The Role of 17𝛽-Estradiol and Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Modulating Cell Death‬ ‭, Brian Caplan

Sex Hormones and X Chromosome Inactivation Produce Aberrant T Cell Population Ratios in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Contributing to a Strong Female Bias, Sydney Bieber

Smear slide analysis of lake sediments to evaluate impacts of humans on eight lakes on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Northern Wisconsin, Saheli Patel

Temperature and ocean acidification impacts on the direct versus indirect developing periwinkle snails, Kerrigan Candra

The Invasion, Repression, and Escape of Human Endogenous Retrovirus K and its Implications in Targeted Cancer Therapies, Emily Muenzer

The Long Road: Comparison of Approximation Heuristics for Traveling Salesperson Problem, Artem Yushko, Arthur Viegas Eguia, Daniel Chen, and Miles Hoene-Langdon

The Plastic Predicament: Bisphenol A’s Contribution to Sex Differences Observed in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Elizabeth Madigan

The Role of Climate Change in Shaping Range Shifts and Disease Transmission Dynamics Between Plants and Insects, Caroline Loescher

Thinning is Winning: Using Data Thinning as an Alternative Approach to Sample Splitting, Piper Dean, Marc Eidelhoch, Ananth Iyer, and Owen Forman

Understanding the Lichen Symbiosis in the Age of Genomics, Jens Bartel

Water from the Rock: Scarcity, Efficiency, and Policy Change in Sonoran Desert Agriculture, Elizabeth Rowland, Mitch Porter, and Noah Morris

Wiki Wiki Refresh: Enhancing User Experience on the Makerspace Wiki, Gisele Nelson, Kendra Winhall, Cece Che Tita, Osareme Davis, Eva Cao, and Sameer Sajwani

You Are What Eats You: Understanding the Gut Microbiome’s Relationship with Alzheimer’s Disease, Ben Mazor

Zooming in on the telescoping effect: Mechanisms of female opioid use disorder and the role of estradiol, Han Jing Munson