Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2023
Hannah Babcock, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Body and place
Eledon Beyene, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Eledon's Fall Comps
Anders Brodnax, Economics (ECON) 2023, How the Paycheck Fairness Act Would Reduce the Gender Wage Gap
Robin Cheatham, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Reflection On Self
Jared Chen, Thomas Zeng, Teagan Johnson, and Nathan Hedgecock, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Replication of "Counterfactual Fairness in Text Classification through Robustness"
Ryan Flanagan, Political Science (POSC) 2023, The Olympic 'City of Exception' and the Subversion of Pluralism: Observing Convergence between Beijing and Rio de Janeiro
Eve Gorman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Gorman Studio Arts Comps Fall 2022
Christian Irons, Political Science (POSC) 2023, Brexit Voting Inconsistencies Throughout the Celtic Fringe: Analyzing the Interplay of Pro-Brexit Populist Movements With Devolved British Systems of Multi-Level Governance
Connor Kelly, Economics (ECON) 2023, The effects of Microfinance on poverty in Central Ghana
Samuel Kim, Statistics (MAST) 2023, Using Statistical Classification Methods to Predict Hits Using Statcast
Joella Lai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Abstraction of Movement
Katrina Li, Cathy Guang, Matthew Smith-Erb, and Emanuel Linton, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Social Bot Detection
Arianna Lone, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Dots & Loops
Emily Luna, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Untitled (family portrait collage)
Kalju Maegi, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Negotiating Worlds: The Reconstruction of Racial Identity in the Twin Cities' Somali Diasporic Community
Lane Maitland, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, Error Processing for Linear Block Codes
Kelsea Turner, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, WILD Pilot
Magdalena Worman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Empty White Space
Daisuke Yamada, Yilong Song, and Antonio Marino, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Replicating "Image-Adaptive GAN Based Reconstruction"
Zhihan Yang, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, An Introduction to Markov and Hidden Markov Models with Applications
Darryl York III, Angela Ellis, Aishwarya Varma, and Aldo Polanco, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Debasing Word Embeddings
Graduated in 2022
David Ahrens, Biology (BIOL) 2022, A Tale of Many Mutations: The Role of Primary Cilia-Localized ARL13B in Joubert Syndrome
David Ahrens, Chinese (CHIN) 2022, Un|readable art: Xu Bing's Conceptions of Text Beyond Culture
Eva C. Airoldi, Oliver A. Calder, Tom S. Patterson, Antonia L. Ritter, and Rebekah I. Stein, Mathematics (MATH) 2022, Applications of Ensemble Analysis to Gerrymandering in Minnesota and Texas
Awurama Akyianu, Bella Bettner, Max Gjertson, Miah Kline, Stephen Lavey, Diana Rodriguez, Ananya Shah, David Wilson, and Emma Wrigley, Chemistry (CHEM) 2022, A Journey Through the HIV Life Cycle: Understanding the Vital RNA-Protein Interactions
Michael Albrecht, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Lou
Kristin Albright, Hashir Safdar, Fabricio Rua-Sanchez, Rudra Subramanian, and Will Gershman, Computer Science (CS) 2022, Monitoring Network Traffic on Mobile Devices
Hank Aldridge, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Terrytop Hill
Carmel Al-Sheikh, Biology (BIOL) 2022, The Organization of Cilia in the Embryo and Its Role in Laterality of the Body
Luis Alvarez, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Serotonergic Psychedelics: An Emerging Mode of Treatment for Substance Addiction
Isabel Anderson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Grief Group
Yaidelice Antunez, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Does Race Matter? The Role of Patient-Provider Ethnic and Racial Concordance on the Working Alliance, Patient-Centered Communication, and Perceived Interpersonal Sensitivity
Eli Arbogast, Biology (BIOL) 2022, The Complex Web of the Soil Microbiome: Current Research on Soil Microbiota and Their Implications for Plant-Soil Feedbacks and Ecosystem Restoration
Jake Armstrong, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, Judy's Duty:Evaluating Popular Theories on the Convergence of Utilitarianism and Partialism
Daniel Ashurst, Art History (ARTH) 2022, Stabilizing Mountains, Numinous Rivers: Reclusive Shanshui at the Song Court
Alexander P. Battist, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Cis- and Trans-Acting Mutations to Retinal Genes Interrupt Alternative Splicing Mechanisms Causing Ocular Dystrophies
William Bausch, Political Science (POSC) 2022, Analyzing Variation in US NATO Policy: A Role Theory Approach to the Clinton and Trump Administrations
Anne Bensen, Political Science (POSC) 2022, #SheikhJarrah: Gendered Modes of Palestinian Digital Resistance Amid Violent Ethnic Displacement
Ephraim Benson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Deadbeat
Cassidy Bins, English (ENGL) 2022, Rewriting Womanhood: Duplicity in Pamela and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Alison Block, Ben Brewster, Neil Givens, Colby King, Tali Kottler, Melissa Tan, Samihat Rahman, and Inger Shelton, Chemistry (CHEM) 2022, ChemCam on Curiosity: Probing an Ancient Martian Lake using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Rachel Block, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Beyond Clinical Orientation and Between Cultures: Factors That Affect the Therapeutic Alliance
Walter Boero, Economics (ECON) 2022, Mergers in the U.S. Airline Industry: How are Wages and Employment Affected at the Occupation Level?
Jakob Boeye, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, Compromise and Possibility: Tabletop Role-playing Games as a Utopian Interaction Ritual Chain
Jakob Boeye, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Letting their Voices Flow: Creating Enhanced Therapeutic Dialogue in BIPOC Adolescents through Hip Hop Therapy
Lydia Boyum, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Heterogeneity is Essential: Wildfire and Habitat Selection in North American Forests
Anna Bridgeman, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Human Development and Cancer Show Parallels in Alternative Splicing
Athena Brooks, Biology (BIOL) 2022, IRF4 as a Central Transcription Factor Determining Long Lived Plasma Cell Fate in the Germinal Center
Palina Buchanan, American Studies (AMST) 2022, Buchanans in the Pacific Northwest: Constructing Scottish Settler Belonging and Innocence Through Selective Family Oral Histories
Isabella Chaffee, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, Bounded Morality: To What Degree Are Moral Judgments Similar to Non-Moral Judgments?
Henry Chapman, Soren DeHaan, Iain McCay, and Carl Tankersley, Mathematics (MATH) 2022, A Long and Winding Road: A Foray into Planar Metric Graphs
Garrett Chappell, Biology (BIOL) 2022, The Role of Blimp-1 in the Metabolism and Resulting Longevity of Long-lived Plasma Cells
Allen Cheng, Biology (BIOL) 2022, BLIMP-1 is an Essential Master Regulator of the Metabolic Shift from Naïve B-Cell to Plasma Cell
Gengyi (Rebecca) Chen, Economics (ECON) 2022, Prolonged Pollution Days in China: How Does Air Pollution Duration Affect Subjective Well-Being (SWB)?
Gengyi (Rebecca) Chen and Theresa S. Chen, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2022, Evaluating Natural Climate Solutions as a Tool to Reduce Carbon Emissions and Reduce Climate Impacts: a Case Study at Carleton College
Egan Choi, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Current research on IL-13 shows potential of personalized treatments
Caitlin Chu, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, The Effects of Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences on the Development of Sleep Disorders
Kevin Clelland, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Radiative Cooling
Leander Cohen, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2022, Progress or Power Grab? Gender Reform and Protest Masculinity in the Saudi-Iran Proxy Conflict
Nicole Collins, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, To Live Outside of Pop You Must Be Honest: Queer Space-Making, Care, and (Re)appropriation in Hyperpop
Mika Cooney, Ben Hafner, Shelby Johnson, and Sean Lee, Mathematics (MATH) 2022, The Effect of Habitat Fragmentation on Plant Communities in a Spatially-Implicit Grassland Model
Kenya Cooper, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2022, Anti-radicalism and Governmental Surveillance in the Cold War and the War on Terror
Eloise Cowan, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Fate, It’ s About the T Cells You Connect With: Fate Determination of Germinal Center Memory B Cells
Lucy Cui, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Bcl6 Regulates Expressions of Transcription Factors Blimp1, Irf4 and Bach2 Leading to Naïve B Cell Fate Decision
Lucy Cui, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Paper Ring
Reed Culverwell, Geology (GEOL) 2022, Physical Modeling of a Creeping-to-Locked Transition in Strike-Slip Fault Behavior: Implications for Off-Fault Deformation in the San Andreas Fault System, Central California
Marco Cunha, Economics (ECON) 2022, The Economic Case For Regulating Retail Investment
Bennie Dai, Biology (BIOL) 2022, CD28-Mediated Survival in Long-Lived Plasma Cells
Maia Danks, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Animal-based seed dispersal increases seedling establishment and species richness in tropical forest restoration
Maia Danks, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Making Connections Through Functional Design
Satya Das, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Mutations in the ciliary proteins, polycystin-1 and polycystin-2, inhibit the function of renal primary cilia and promote cystogenesis
Vinicius d'Avila, Economics (ECON) 2022, The Effects of Airport Privatizations on Brazilian Airports’ On-Time Performance
Leif Dawson, Physics (PHYS) 2022, The Physics of Rivers as Energetic and Material Conduits
Andi Delgado, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Size-Selective Predation in Kelp Forest Trophic Cascades and Their Effects on Marine Protected Areas
Jennifer Delgado, Geology (GEOL) 2022, Re-Rooting Watershed Management in Indigenous Knowledge: Seeking a New Collaborative Water Planning Method for the Amah Mutusn Tribal Band
Lucas Demetriades, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Sustainable Energy at Carleton College
Kiran Digavalli, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Improving Airliner Efficiency Through Aerodynamic, Thermodynamic, and Metallurgical Design
Lydia DiIulio, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Mutations in IFT-B Proteins IFT52, IFT81, and IFT88 Cause Human Skeletal Ciliopathies by Disrupting Hedgehog Signaling through Alterations to the Structure of the Cilium
Jimena Dominguez, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Effects of multi-species interactions and trophic dynamic on declining kelp forest abundance and the implications for future ecosystem restorations
Larry Donahue, Physics (PHYS) 2022, The Modern Baseball Pitch: A Physical Perspective
Edwin Driver, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2022, Rioting For Change: Effectiveness of Violent Protest in Sparking Policy Reform
Emma Dubinsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “Always Remember That Population Risk Is Not Individual Risk”: Providers’ Perspectives on Barriers to PrEP Care in Women
Helen Du, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Gate-Based Quantum Computing: Theory and Physical Realization
Paige Ehresmann, Economics (ECON) 2022, One Currency, Nineteen Economies: An Exploration of Euro Area Countries’ Responses to Shared Monetary Policy
Katrina Jane Eichel and Klara Gabriela Heuchert, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2022, Striking a Balance with Wolves in the Last Best Place: How Cultural Heritage, Land Ethics, and Science Shape Perceptions of Wolves in Montana
Seth Eislund, History (HIST) 2022, Ideological Syncretism in the 13th Handschar Division: Nazi Germany, Bosnian Muslims, and the Second World War
Avital (Tali) Emlen, Geology (GEOL) 2022, Cannon River streamflow reconstruction using riparian silver maple growth: Analyzing the efficacy of silver maple in dendrohydrology
Keyra English, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Keep Walking
Gabrielle Evans, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Multi-Discipliniary Physical Analysis of Glass-Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, Taking Pole Vaulting to New Heights
Pinchen Fan, Physics (PHYS) 2022, The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
Elizabeth Farr, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Comparing the Role of Cis- and Trans-Acting Factors in Regulating Alternative Splicing and Their Contribution to Human Disease
Eve Farrell, Biology (BIOL) 2022, The complex roles of plant-soil feedbacks in promoting and maintaining biodiversity in native grassland restoration attempts
Lydia Fick, Physics (PHYS) 2022, The Physics of Snakes
Risa M. Fines, Mathematics (MATH) 2022, Dirichlet’s Theorem on the infinitude of primes in arithmetic progressions and the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity
Brie Forster, Biology (BIOL) 2022, The Utility of Trans-splicing as a Treatment for Genetic Disease
Rebecca Fox, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, “My Achy Breaky Heart”: The Impact of Culture on Somatization
Rebecca Fox, Maanya Goenka, Emilia Katari, Seth Romanenko, and Kuo Wang, Computer Science (CS) 2022, Usable Passwords Comps Winter/Spring 2022 (Do Emojis Make Better Passwords?)
Paula Frankl, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, An Unstable Foundation: The Difficulties of Measuring the Predictive Value of Child Adversity Assessments
Elias Franzen, History (HIST) 2022, Pollution, Public Health, and Parks: Examining turn-of-the-century urban environmental thought along Alewife Brook (1870-1930)
Maddie Fry, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “Bringing a Friend Along”: Experiences of Philanthropy and Community Life Among the Donors of a Rural Non-profit
