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Graduated in 2027

George L. Wening, Physics (PHYS) 2027, Physics of Snow and Avalanche Dynamics

Graduated in 2026

Feraidon AbdulRahimzai, Beshir Said, and John Hurtubise, Computer Science (CS) 2026, DDoS Comps - Winter 2026

Yahnee Acklin, Special Major 2026, Reclaiming Agency: The Impact of Black Power on Self-Determination and Ethnic Nationalism

Kamran Ahmed, Economics (ECON) 2026, Paper Gold? The Effect of Dollarization on Sovereign Spreads During Interest Rate Surprises

Eli Allen, Economics (ECON) 2026, Beyond the Beef: An Event Study of the 2003 BSE Announcement

Ava Amthauer, Chloe Simanek, Ryan Choi, and Jamal Omosun, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Embedding Social and Civic Responsibility into Introduction to Computer Science

Reese Anderson, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2026, Modelling Complexity: Developing an Interactive Taxonomy of Mind

Ben Ansbacher, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Noether’s Theorem, Symmetries & Conservation Laws

Gideon Antwi, Cynthia Lu, Andres Bracho Valles, Charlie Ding, and Helana Solomon, Computer Science (CS) 2026, AI Companion in CS257

Maria Anzalone, Economics (ECON) 2026, Paid Maternity Leave and Women’s Well-Being: Evaluating Family and Labor Market Outcomes for Women in the U.S

Luca Araujo, Indy Lyness, Joshua Lee, and Jiale Wan, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Transformer Zoo: A Comprehensive Analysis of Transform Coding in Image Compression

Julia Bartlett, Economics (ECON) 2026, Affirmative Action and Female Self-Employment in New York State Government Contracting

Florence Basile, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, How the Kiwi Lost its Wings

Junyoung Benjegerdes, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, The Paradox of Authentic Food: Deconstructing Authenticity, Power, and Identity in Second-Generation Korean American Foodways

Ryan Bernstein, English (ENGL) 2026, Suburban Nights

Ryan Bernstein and Nativ Berkovitz-Rave, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Crumhorn at the Function

Theo Bester, Economics (ECON) 2026, Prix Sans Frontières: A Dynamic Analysis of Border Policy and Violations of Purchasing Power Parity in the Schengen Area, 2000-2025

London Bettman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, London Bettman Studio Art Comps

London Bettman, Floris Irakoze, Shalim Montes Hernandez, and Mustafe Osman, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Ethics in Data Structures: Graphs & Stacks, Queues, and Heaps

Luke Bisio, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Gravitomagnetism and NASA’s Gravity Probe B Experiment

Oliver P. Black-Johnston, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Untitled (Birds and Concrete)

Savanna Blair, Biology (BIOL) 2026, From Degradation to Dissemination: How Zika Virus Repurposes Autophagy for Transplacental Transmission

Alice Bonnevie-Rothrock, Biology (BIOL) 2026, You think you know a (fun)guy: What CERK1-type receptor-like kinases reveal about the blurred line between symbiotic and pathogenic plant-fungal interactions

Ryder Bravmann, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Maeve

Abigail Burbery, Biology (BIOL) 2026, "Hidden in Plain Sight": Zika Virus Hijacks Exosomes for Deceptive Infection and v-miRNA Transport

Lilian Burrows, History (HIST) 2026, Inuit Art at Carleton: How Collectors and the Museum Define Authenticity

Jacob Bushee, Economics (ECON) 2026, Risk, Ambiguity, and Credibility: Does New Information Make Us Better or Worse Off?

Peter Calabrese, Emily Muenzer, Narjis Nusaibah, Rocío Avila, Aaron Lobsenz, Jack Rivkin, Madeline Tabora, Irene Tang, and Austin Zhu, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Using MS2 Viral Capsids as Targeted Drug Delivery Mechanism

Daniel Casper, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Overstimulation

Ryan Chang, Economics (ECON) 2026, Examining the Effects of Academic Stress and Pressure Related to the College Entrance Exam on Students’ Welfare in South Korea

Kaitlyn Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2026, The Integrated Functions of the NLR Sw-5b

Selina Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2026, lncRNA Tug1 Contributes to Parkinson’s Disease Through Disruption of PINK1/Parkin Mitophagy and Activation of the BAK/BAX Apoptotic Pathway

Carolyn Chinatti, Physics (PHYS) 2026, What Happens When You Turn It Up To Eleven: The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Upgrade

Joanne Chung, Economics (ECON) 2026, Unconditional Income and Parental Behavior: Evidence from the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit

Sam Chutkow, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Circular RNA ciRS-7 as a Central Regulator of Proteostasis and Amyloidogenic Processing in Alzheimer’s Disease

Will Clausman, History (HIST) 2026, The “Outside Agitators” of the Iron Range: Understanding Newspaper Perceptions of Labor Action During the 1916 Mesabi Strike

Suwannee Conroy-Baarsch, Political Science (POSC) 2026, "¿Quién gobierna? No sé si importa" : Democratic Decline and Resilience in Argentine Youth

Adiana Contreras, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Mommet

Caroline Cooper, History (HIST) 2026, Becoming Wives or Deviants: Postwar Conservatism and the Medicalization of Same-Sex Attraction at Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Wellesley Colleges in Mid-Century America

Emmy Coyle, Huckleberry Friedman, Indy Lyness, and Leo Wolf, Mathematics (MATH) 2026, Lattices R Us

Dylann Cullinane, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Ethical Prevention and Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in Cancer Patients

Jack Curtis, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Beyond The Sound Barrier

Ella L. Curtis-Revelle, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Neuromodulation in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: A Comparison of Efficacy and Mechanisms

Theo Demetriades, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Information is Physical: The Physics of Information Theory and Computing

Charles Dickey, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Viral Proteins Interact with Plant Host Immune Regulators to Promote a Balanced Relationship to Prolong Infection at a Lower Immune Response

Ruby Dirks, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, “Even the Dead Trees are Home to Birds”: Forest Mortality as a Catalyst for Resilience and Possibility in Telluride’s Changing Landscape

Sylvia Dixon, History (HIST) 2026, Ireland’s Nursing Nuns: Imperial Authority and Social Welfare in the Nineteenth-Century Limerick Workhouse

Cameron Dolbow, Economics (ECON) 2026, The Price of Performance

Camilla Donald, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Skills-Based Interventions to Prevent Addiction in Youth With Low Socioeconomic Status

Janet Duong, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Tear me apart

Dylan Evans, Economics (ECON) 2026, Addressing Debt Dilution in Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Debt Ceilings and Covenants Mechanisms for IMF Supported Governments

Ben Eveland, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Magnetic Relaxation in Inorganic Molecular Solids

Sivan Faruqui, Economics (ECON) 2026, Lying Behavior and Inequality: An Experimental Analysis of Payoff-Driven Dishonesty

Miah Francis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Still Lives Alive

Isabel Gable, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, A Case Study on Religion and Spirituality Across the Life Course in Northfield, Minnesota

Brynn Gaebe, History (HIST) 2026, "Where Women with Disabilities are Learning to Write for Each Other": Community, Disability, Feminism, and Womyn's Braille Press

Yinan Gao, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions via Triplet States: Mechanistic Insights

Jason Garcia, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Comps Project

Juan Garcia, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, The Faults and Promises of Canon Formation in Latine Sociology

Christine Gichimu, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Modulation of Interferon Pathways: Coordinated Type I IFN Suppression and Type III IFN Sustenance for Chronic HCV Persistence

Charlotte Gingo, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, Producing, sustaining, and experiencing illegality

Clark Gibson Glymph, Ronan Hacker, Jane Parson, and Nicholas Vlahos-Sten, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Ethics in Programming Languages

Maxima Gomez-Palmer, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Vital Vultures: Avian Scavengers Mitigate the Pathogenic Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors

Adrián González, Biology (BIOL) 2026, All Too Well (The Innate Version): Maladaptive Macrophage Reprogramming by SARS-CoV-2

Abigail Gooch, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Measles Evasion of Interferon Can Have Dire Consequences for Secondary Infections

Seth Grauer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, “Natural” Gentrification?: The Role of Social Inequality and Natural Disasters in Gentrification and Urban Resilience

Eleanor Gullickson, History (HIST) 2026, Mother Knows Best: African American Women Who Taught About Sexual Health (1883-1916)

Ashlyn Haigh, Economics (ECON) 2026, The Economics of America’s Fertility Decline: Why a $5,000 Baby Bonus Is Not Enough

Abdul Rahim Hamid, Lyn Chen, Hildegard Gangolf, and Katrina Ostrom, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Show Us Your Secrets: Malware As Art

Sofia Jane Hanna, Economics (ECON) 2026, Disaster Aid or Aid Disaster? Evaluating inequalities in federal assistance following Hurricane Helene

Sofia Jane Hanna, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2026, Prédatrice ou proie ? Symbolisme animal et dynamiques relationnelles dans Syngué Sabour

Katelyn Harder, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, America’s Fastest Growing “Unhealthy Commodity” Industry: How Institutions Influence Casino Problem Gambling Prevention and Treatment

Katelyn Harder, German (GERM) 2026, Immigration and Integration in Germany: Perspectives on Assimilation in Samer Tannous and Gerd Hachmöller’s Lebt ein Syrer in Rotenburg (Wümme)

Io Harris, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Impacts of Vertebrate Scavenger Decline on Plant Community Composition

Jackie Harris, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Mechanisms of Crustal Deformation: How Rocks Accommodate Stress and Strain

Leonardo Hess, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Did Morals Go Dark with the Enlightenment? The Practice of Moral Relativism and its Effect on Moral Behavior

Leonardo Hess, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Rousseau's Solution to Selfishness: The Necessity of Shared Moral Frameworks to Counteract Anti-Social Self-Interest

Elizabeth Hiatt, Biology (BIOL) 2026, HOTAIR lncRNA regulation of miRNA34-a/Bcl-2 axis in Intervertebral Disk Degeneration as a Potential Therapeutic Target

Griffin Hintze, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Vertebrate Scavengers Mediate Carrion Resource Fluxes Through Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

Leo Hu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Sissyphus

Margaret Hu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, Going Steady: Interweaving Individual and Community in the Experience of Parkinson’s Disease

Winston Ingalls, English (ENGL) 2026, “Terrorized in Its Authority”: Re-Writing the Canon in Wide Sargasso Sea and James

Isabel Intrater, Political Science (POSC); Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Where is the World Headed? Xi Jinping Offers Chinese Wisdom: A Critical Examination of the Tianxia System and its Role in Chinese Foreign Policy

Isabel Intrater, Amelia Lawlor, Henry Wolters, and Natalie Tatar, Mathematics (MATH) 2026, Block by Block (Chain): Constructing Bitcoin through Digital Signatures, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and Hash Functions

Yoel Izaguirre, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Nos Fuimos

Andrew Jamison, Economics (ECON) 2026, Does Price Matter?: A Laboratory Analysis of a Low-Cost Snack Market

Kaylah Janis, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Hammering Out The Physics: A Physical View of Metalsmithing

Eleanor Johnson, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Energy, Efficiency, and Lasers in the Immune System

Parker Johnson, History (HIST) 2026, Alexander, the Pilgrim King: Refractions of a Classical Legacy in Byzantine and Islamic History

Aurora Juarez, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Necrophagous Insects, Volatile Organic Compounds, and Microbes Interact on Carrion, Shaping Succession and Resource Use

Nathan Kallin, Physics (PHYS) 2026, A Nervous Breakdown

Fatima Kamara, Religion (RELG) 2026, Abused by the Husband, Sanctioned by the Community, Silenced by the State: How U.S. Law Disavows Polygyny and Overlooks Black Muslim Women

Fatima Kamara, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Failing to Protect: UN Security Council Intervention and Humanitarian Costs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Max Kingston, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Acoustics in Concert Hall Design

Klara A. Kjome Fischer, Geology (GEOL) 2026, Deformation features of the Mt. Simon Sandstone in the Pine Bend Impact Structure, Inver Grove Heights, MN, USA

Palmy Klangsathorn, Rachel Azan, Daniel Lumbu, and Jeremy Gautama, Computer Science (CS) 2026, YARA: How to Detect Malware in Files and Websites

Manoka Kozaki, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Strategic Aid: U.S. Foreign Aid Allocation and Its Alignment with Presidential Foreign Policy Priorities, 1981–2024

Kat Kresse, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Relaxin and ACL Injury Risk: Menstrual Hormone Remodels Collagen in Female ACL Ligament

Nora Kushner, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, How Anti-Colonial Movements Internationalize: Institutional Pathways to Legitimacy in Algeria and Kenya

Anna Larson-Cheng, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, In Gratitude