Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2026
Emily Muenzer, Biology (BIOL) 2026, The Invasion, Repression, and Escape of Human Endogenous Retrovirus K and its Implications in Targeted Cancer Therapies
Malcolm Parnall, Physics (PHYS) 2026, The Plasma Display Panel
Graduated in 2025
Jacob Aronson, Troy Osborn, Tori Shen, and Kai Zhang, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Exploring Resampling-Based Methods for Parameter Estimation on Simulated Multilevel Data
Amelia Asfaw, Economics (ECON) 2025, Assessing the Feasibility of a Wealth Tax in the United States
Allison Audette, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Gene Flow and Bt-Crops: Understanding Potential Ecological Consequences
Brendan Banfield, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physical Reservoir Computing
Aaron Banse, Evan Hart, Aidan Jalili, and Yang Tan, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Intervals, C_3 Structure, and Realization in Tournaments
Jens Bartel, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Understanding the Lichen Symbiosis in the Age of Genomics
Mia Beeman-Weber, Geoff Bynum, Tyler Chodera, and Gitanjali Matthes, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Climate Adaptation in Southeastern Minnesota: Multiscalar Decision-Making and a Case Study of the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum
Annie Bergmann, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, The Longest Night
Sydney Bieber, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Sex Hormones and X Chromosome Inactivation Produce Aberrant T Cell Population Ratios in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Contributing to a Strong Female Bias
Katrin Birk, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Explorations of Life (Through the Forms of Those Less Loved)
Katrin Birk, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Hybridisation and introgression as conservation tactics in the face of anthropogenic environmental change
Mariko Bolton, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Ghosts
Marco Caba-Acevedo, History (HIST) 2025, Chimalpahin and the Christian Mexico City
Taylor Canas, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, QUEENIE
Kerrigan Candra, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Temperature and ocean acidification impacts on the direct versus indirect developing periwinkle snails
Brian Caplan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Sex Differences in Ischemic Stroke: The Role of 17𝛽-Estradiol and Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Modulating Cell Death
Michael Carey, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Understanding the ATP-Mediated CFTR Gating Mechanism Using Biophysical Chemical Techniques
Tanner Carlson, Reed Schubert, and Max Keller, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Ants in the Brain: Mapping Neural Connectivity using Colony Optimization Algorithms
Miriam Chasnov, Economics (ECON) 2025, Fair Pay, Fair Play? Examining Gendered Housework Allocation Among Dual-Income Couples
Ethan Cline, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, The Experience Machine
James Commons, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The World's Fastest Camera: Attosecond Laser Pulses
Caroline Crampton, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Peroxisomal Disruptions at the Lipid Droplet Interface: Implications for Insulin Resistance
Piper Dean, Marc Eidelhoch, Ananth Iyer, and Owen Forman, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Thinning is Winning: Using Data Thinning as an Alternative Approach to Sample Splitting
Jiaying Deng, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, From Striated to Smooth: The Representation of Wandering Flâneuse and Space in Wanda (1970) and Trenque Lauquen (2022)
Shaan Dias, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Communicating Mathematics Comps Profile
Luke Drake and Bennet Tefu, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Siamese Neural Networks for Few-Shot Facial Image Recognition
Kate Fair, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Jenny and the Alien
Raquel Germani, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring Multiple Paternity and Female Choice: A Strategy to Enhance Genetic Diversity and Population Viability
Graham Gordon, Mika Shiffman, and Jonathan Merchant, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Optimizing Public Transportation Networks with Community Detection Algorithms
Alex Gran, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physics of Superconducting Qubits
Markus Gunadi, Cathy Duan, Zoey La, Willow Gu, Charlie Ney, and Kai Weiner, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Serendipitous Exploration of the Carleton Curriculum
Luke Harris, Economics (ECON) 2025, Evaluating Mark-to-Market Taxation of Capital Gains
Vanessa Heynes, Colin James, Wesley Yang, Arisha Khan, Luha Yang, and Hanane Akeel, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Let's Agree to Agree: Consensus in a Faulty System
Ellen Johnson, Biology (BIOL) 2025, From Sensory Organelle to Evolutionary Catalyst: The Impact of Primary Cilia and Sonic Hedgehog Signaling on Phenotypic Plasticity
Maya Keeney, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, True Colors: Exploring Performance and the Authentic Self
Elizabeth Kniser, Biology (BIOL) 2025, S. aureus Biofilm Infections: Regulation of Dispersal Through Agr Quorum-Sensing and Therapeutic Challenges
Padmini Konidena, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring the Role of Ghost Introgression in Species Adaptations
Stephanie Lee, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, An Introduction to Integral Equations and their Solution Methods
Stephanie Lee, Economics (ECON) 2025, No Panacea in Monetary Policy: A Policy Brief for the 2025 FOMC Monetary Framework Review
Caroline Loescher, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Role of Climate Change in Shaping Range Shifts and Disease Transmission Dynamics Between Plants and Insects
Elizabeth Madigan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Plastic Predicament: Bisphenol A’s Contribution to Sex Differences Observed in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Ben Mazor, Biology (BIOL) 2025, You Are What Eats You: Understanding the Gut Microbiome’s Relationship with Alzheimer’s Disease
John Moon-Black, Akash Ganguly, Miles Hoene-Langdon, and Sylvie Dirkswager, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, A Trip Through the Zoo of Infinite Abelian Groups
Leo Moran, Jonathan Vilms, Ugo Anyaegbunam, and Ethan Cline-Cole, Computer Science (CS) 2025, BGA Development
Han Jing Munson, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Zooming in on the telescoping effect: Mechanisms of female opioid use disorder and the role of estradiol
Navya Murahari, Biology (BIOL) 2025, RBM39 Degradation Catalyzed Aberrant Splicing Confers Cellular “Sight” for Human Cancer Immune Response
Kaia Neal, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Glacier Flow Dynamics
Emma Neham, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Examining The Role of Seipin and The Lipid Droplet Assembly Factor In Lipid Droplet Biogenesis
Mays Neiroukh, Tori Shen, Geoffrey Jing, and Barry Han, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Towards Noise-Resilient Few-Shot Learning: Optimizing Prototypes for Glioblastoma Classification
Gisele Nelson, Kendra Winhall, Cece Che Tita, Osareme Davis, Eva Cao, and Sameer Sajwani, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Wiki Wiki Refresh: Enhancing User Experience on the Makerspace Wiki
Jonathan Nguyen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, As We Were
Jonathan Nguyen, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Crabby Waters: Seasonal Dynamics and Climate Change Impacts on Callinectes Sapidus
Quan Nguyen, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring the different mechanisms by which Candida albicans Enhances Staphylococcus aureus Virulence in Peritonitis and Oral Candidiasis
Zhanghan Ni, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Quorum Sensing Is Associated with Mechanisms That Cause and Regulate Social Cheating in Microbial Cooperation
Ntense Obono, Catherine Bregou, Khizar Qureshi, Angel Ortiz Martinez, Sam Lengel, and Bryan Yang, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Monkeying Around: Chaos Engineering And Robust Web Services
Joseph Park, Biology (BIOL) 2025, 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
Saheli Patel, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Smear slide analysis of lake sediments to evaluate impacts of humans on eight lakes on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Northern Wisconsin
Nithin Poreddy, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Cancer Catalysts: Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer and Genome Integration in Metastasis
Sophia Quinn, Aaron Banse, Brendan Banfield, and Kellen Knop, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Not Clique-bait: Algorithmic Approaches to the Maximum Clique Problem
Xiaoying Qu, Dake Peng, Albert Jing, and Paul Claudel Izabayo, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Reinforcement Learning in Monopoly Through Three Q-learning Variants
Daanyal Raja, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Crude Consequences: A Comparative Analysis of Oil Spill Impacts on Aerial Versus Submerged Species in Saltmarsh Ecosystems
Moira Rankin, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Introgression in anthropogenic landscapes: Weighing adaptive and maladaptive outcomes of unintentional and intentional introgression events
Rhusel Rivera, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Investigating the Role of PPAR𝛾 in Peroxisome-Mediated Sebum Production and the Pathophysiology of Acne Vulgaris
Aidan Roessler, Tony Ni, Jake Jasmer, and Yang Tan, Computer Science (CS) 2025, A Survey of Community Detection: Algorithms, Applications, and Beyond!
Zoe Rose, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Disruption of Peroxisomal Function in Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Implications for Enterocyte Formation
Elizabeth Rowland, Mitch Porter, and Noah Morris, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Water from the Rock: Scarcity, Efficiency, and Policy Change in Sonoran Desert Agriculture
Finley Sebert, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Drift
Will Shrestha, Marshall Johnson, Cullen Baker, Selma Vangstein, Bemnet Abebayehu, and Sam Diana, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Evaluating Methods for Radio Frequency Based Positioning of Ultimate Frisbee Players
Amanda Ta, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring the Role of Chlamydia trachomatis as a Co-Factor in HPV-Driven Cervical Cancer
Gabe Tarini, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Can You Really Burn Bones?
Elek Thomas, Breanna Lefevers-Scott, Barin Nwike, and Elaina Boyle, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Breaking Hearts: AI Approaches to a Trick-Based Card Game
Tatjana Truckses Stephens, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Role of Beta Cell Cilia in Insulin Exocytosis
Anna Ursin, Special Major 2025, Perpetuation of Pelvic Pain Shame through Clinical and Social Spheres: A Case Study in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Abbi Vosen, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Mind Place
Lucas Wharton, Marc Eidelhoch, Blake Jones, and Sam Zacks, Computer Science (CS) 2025, KnoVAClue: A Codenames Clue-Giving AI Agent
Leo Xiao, Biology (BIOL) 2025, A Horizontal Leg Up: Skewed Incidence and Advantage of Horizontal Gene Transfer between Eukaryotic Parasite and Host
Artem Yushko, Arthur Viegas Eguia, Daniel Chen, and Miles Hoene-Langdon, Computer Science (CS) 2025, The Long Road: Comparison of Approximation Heuristics for Traveling Salesperson Problem
Kai Zhang, Economics (ECON) 2025, Macroeconomic Drivers of Sectoral Volatility: Evidence from GARCH-Family Models
Ben Zhao, Nathaniel Li, Julian Tanguma, David Toledo, Ethan Masadde, and Josh Meier, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Computer Vision For Autonomous Driving
Graduated in 2024
Nada Abdalla, Economics (ECON) 2024, Cash Transfers in Korea: Is This the Best Policy to Increase Fertility?
Victoria Aguado, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Muggins
Noorah Aldaghlas, Economics (ECON) 2024, Who Called the Stork and Where Did it Fly? Women's Empowerment and Fertility
Noorah Aldaghlas, Natalie Bax, Jasmine Choi, Elena Ea, and Augustus Williams, Statistics (STAT) 2024, Beyond the Average: Exploring the Relationship Between Income Inequality and the Mortality Distribution of US Counties using Quantile Regression
Spencer Alvey, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, The Mathematics of Compressed Sensing
Ryan Antrim, Economics (ECON) 2024, Bridging Gaps and Building Equity: The Role of the Paycheck Fairness Act in Addressing Gender-Based Wage Disparities
Evan Arch, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Topological Quantum Computing
Aryan Arora, Economics (ECON) 2024, A Date with Destiny: Relative Age Effects in High School and Beyond
Aryan Arora, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Beyond Arrow: Revealing True Preferences
Mem Awad, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Crafting Engaging Lessons: Integrating Manipulatives and Demonstrations in High School Algebra
Conor Babcock O'Neill, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Human-Accelerated Regions (HARs) & Schizophrenia: Evidence for a Genetic Driver and Recent Negative Selection
Mauricio Badillo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Bardo
Audrey BadjouenDzouabet, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, “Even the Loudest Black Girls are Silenced in Schools”: Black Girlhood, The School-to-Confinement Pathway, & Reimagining Education
Jonah-Kai Baker, Religion (RELG) 2024, Un-Orthodox Icons: Adaptations of the Byzantine Iconographic Tradition in the Contemporary Christian West
Adrian Balvuena, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, BOYS IN THE SUN
Matt Banovetz, Economics (ECON) 2024, Bank Bailouts Costs and Benefits Analysis
Alana Berger, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Quenching Radiationless Relaxation: Towards Understanding and Controlling the Charge Processes that Lead to Efficient Organic Solar Cells
Nicholas Berry, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2024, A Neurophenomenal Inquiry Into The Nature of Mind
Esmeralda Bessor-Foreman, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Late Shift
