Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2020
Daniel Alexander, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Optimizing CAR T Cell Signaling Domains to Modify Metabolism and Increase Efficacy Against Neuroblastoma
Evan Allgood, English (ENGL) 2020, This Body, Unbound
Iris Arbogast, Economics (ECON) 2020, A “Slippery Slope” to Higher Labor Supply Inequality in Mexico, Indonesia, and Brazil
Alleana Austin, English (ENGL) 2020, Freedom, Sexuality, and Rebellion in the Coquette and “We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?” And Pretended Purity and Mixed Heritage in A Man of the People and “The True Born Englishman”
Nof Babajide, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Incidence of Autism in Response to Changes in Brain Asymmetry
Nicholas Baer, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Role of Ion Channels in ATP-Induced Microglial Chemotaxis
Marshall Basson, Physics (PHYS) 2020, Physics of a Classic Rock Album
Noam Benkler, Economics (ECON) 2020, Do Biometric Smartcards Help the Neediest Most?
Henry Bensen, Economics (ECON) 2020, Is the Democrat versus Republican Macroeconomic Performance Gap Explainable?
Halle Beshouri, History (HIST) 2020, Constructing Communism: Khrushchev's Housing Program and a New Communist Contract
Grace Betz, Physics (PHYS) 2020, The Physics of Spacecraft: The Ascension
Eric Biddulph-West, Physics (PHYS) 2020, A Hypothetical Concentrating Solar Dish Engine for Energy Autonomous Communities
Liam Bidwell, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Green and Red: Losing Meat and Keeping Men
Adam Bigelow, Economics (ECON) 2020, Non-Western Technology Intensity of Use and Long Run Productivity Gains
Stan Birdsong, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Effects of Habenular Nuclei Asymmetry on Behavior
Madeline Birnbaum, English (ENGL) 2020, “The Most Unexpected of Interpretations”: Expanding Narrative Possibilities of the Northern Irish Troubles in Anna Burns’ Milkman
Caroline Boroughs, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Initiation of Parturition in Humans
Am Bovornvirakit, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Cascading Effects of Intraguild Predation and Refugia on Animal Behavior
Ruthie Boyd, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Imagining a Sense of Place in the Mist of Old and New: The Role of Timeless Nostalgia in Monte Verde's Changing Landscape
Jacob Bransky, Geology (GEOL) 2020, An Inventory and Baseline Study of Alpine Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems at Buffalo Pass in Routt National Forest, Colorado
Julia Braulick, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Why Plants Become Invasive: Enemy Release, Resource Availability, and Herbivore Preferences
Max Bremer, Paul Butterfield, and Nathaniel Macarthur-Warner, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Code Retrieval and Summarization
Anders Bruihler, Ari Conati, Sebastian Kimberk, and David White, Computer Science (CS) 2020, LosCat: A Tool for Source Code Monitoring
Kanin Bunajinda, Economics (ECON) 2020, Consumption Smoothing in Russia: An Achievement of Mutual Insurance, or a Byproduct of Savings and Loans
Seth Calvin, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Ebb and Flow
Joey Caradimitropoulo, Economics (ECON) 2020, Toward a World of Cost Efficiency: The Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Human Labor Demand
Alex Cardenas, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Mood Induction Procedures: Extreme Variability and Recommendations
Michael Carlsen, Economics (ECON) 2020, Whether Weather Affects Growth: A Panel Analysis of Quarterly Weather Anomalies and U.S. GDP
Ana Carretero, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Most Livable City in America: Investigating the Value of Green Open Space in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Joey Castaneda, Geology (GEOL) 2020, What Percent of Can, Won’t? A Look Into the Function of a Saturated Buffer in Southwest Minnesota, Its Hydraulic Properties, and Implications for Midwestern Farmers
Christian Cavan, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Reduced Age and Premature Juvenile Salmon Migration Impacts a Decrease in Adult Size
Tyler A. Chang, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Emergence of Hierarchical Syntax in Neural Machine Translation
Tyler A. Chang, Mathematics (MATH) 2020, Topology of Second Order Tensor Fields
Katie Chavez, Bryan Kim, Jay Na, Aaron Prentice, Jin Ruan, and J. Liralyn Smith, Statistics (MAST) 2020, Respondent Driven Sampling
Celeste Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Role of β-NGF in Induced Ovulation in Camelids
Sam Chen, Marietta Geist, Alex Kiral, and Brody Lynch, Mathematics (MATH) 2020, Fermat's Last Theorem: Kummer's Special Case
Ben Chesler, Economics (ECON) 2020, Industrial Revolutions: Fourth Verse Same as the First? A Brave New World of Unknowns
Cecily Choy, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Role of Autoimmunity in Primary Ovarian Insufficiency: A Proposed Mechanism of Attack
Darryl Colcol, Biology (BIOL) 2020, KV1.3: An Ionic Driving Force for Neural Degradation
Joey Cook-Gallardo, Japanese (JAPN) 2020, The Hikikomori Phenomenon: A Road to Peace and Destruction
Vicente Cortes, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Return of the Luddites: Labor Market Implications of Projected Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Bea Crow, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Studio Comps
Ingrid Dai, Economics (ECON) 2020, Eliminating Homelessness: An Evaluation of the Minneapolis 2040 Plan
Quincy D'Alessio, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Sugar High: An Analysis of Excessive Sugar Intake in an Addiction Framework
Kathleen Danielson, English (ENGL) 2020, At This Time a Queen Shall Be Burned
Avery Davis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Trans Utopias
Thais Del Rosario Hernandez, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Role of Asymmetry in Epithalamic Structures on Psychiatric Disorders
Sergio R. Demara, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Altar for a Future Love
Naseem Dillman, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, When the Nature of 'Nature' Is Inconsistent: Evaluating the Natural Environment in Attention Restoration Theory
Kyle Duplessis, Chemistry (CHEM) 2020, Effects of Quantum Tunneling on Low Temperature Reactivity in Astrochemical Contexts
Hannah Eglinton, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Regulating Antigen Stimulation to Improve Memory Formation and Mitigate Exhaustion in CAR T Cells
Jithran Ekanayake, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Preliminary Model for a Biomimetic Space Radiation Shield
Estee Emlen, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Helminth Parasites and Allergens Initiate Type 2 Immune Responses by Inducing IL-25 and IL-33 Signaling to Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells
Madeleine Emmons, Isabel Olson, Sahil Chhugani, Justin Washington, and Liam Sullivan, Computer Science (CS) 2020, The Key Comps 2020
Maria Fairchild, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Redox or Detox? The Role of the Ladderane Lipid Membrane in Anammox Metabolism
Julia Felderman, Geology (GEOL) 2020, A Search for Impact Glass in the Sirius Formation, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
Emma Ferrer, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Mechanisms for Modulating Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS) after Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Therapy
Lydia Field, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, Identifying Threat: A Quantitative Study of the Influence of Identity on National Security Threat Perception in American Public Opinion
River Fiocco, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Measurement of the Gender Minority Stress Model in Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth
Jonah Fisher, Political Science (POSC) 2020, To Be Taken Seriously, but Not Literally: An Analysis of Memes as a Unique Form of Political Humor and Expression on Social Media
Jonah Fisher, Narun Raman, Nathaniel Sauerberg, and Addison Partida-Vasquez, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Revisionist History: Predicting Wikipedia Article Quality With Edit Histories
Jen Fonder, Political Science (POSC) 2020, The Tribal Sovereignty Doctrine and the State of Indigeneity in the United States
Rachel Freeman-Cook, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, "I just go cry in the car if I have to...it's just one of those things:" Prison Doulas, Emotional Labor, and the Personal Costs of Care
Alexander Frieden, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Abstract Visual Pre-Cue Improves Reaction Time to a Syllabic Differentiation Task
Phil Gagnon, Economics (ECON) 2020, Does Airbnb Presence Increase Rental Values? Evidence from Portland, Oregon Neighborhoods
David Galambos, Biology (BIOL) 2020, RNA Transcripts Assemble Nuclear Bodies That Regulate Chromatin Organization and Transcription Machinery
Sharan Ganjam, Economics (ECON) 2020, Minneapolis 2040: An Incomplete Roadmap to Housing Supply and Affordability?
Sharan Ganjam, Physics (PHYS) 2020, Quantum Dots: Bridging Classical Chaos and Quantum Mechanics
Celeste Gaughan, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, I Want To Show You Something
Emma Gautier, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2020, Nowness: A Space for the Unfolding of Queer Politics
Marietta Geist, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, A Ring
Malik Gibson, Economics (ECON) 2020, First Among “Equals:” An Analysis of Gendered Differential Human Capital Investments by Parents in India
Emma Goidel, Philosophy (PHIL) 2020, Reconstituting the Relational-Self: The Multitudes of Harms on Victims/Survivors in the Aftermath of Sexual Assault
Seth Greengo, Biology (BIOL) 2020, N-6-Methyladenosine Promotes HIV Replication through Its Interactions with Host YTHDF Proteins
Zane Grinde, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Anoka
Madeline Hagar and Caroline Hall, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2020, Reaching Carbon Neutrality: An Analysis of Higher Education Institutions' Approaches to Mitigating Scope 3 Emissions
Peter Hagstrom, Economics (ECON) 2020, Artificial Intelligence and the Displacement of High-Skilled Labor
Josh Hauser, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Wingbeat Frequency Negatively Correlates with Flexural Stiffness to Mitigate Damage in Birds with Rapid Wingbeats
Erica Helgerud, English (ENGL) 2020, Creating Community: Synthesizing the Black Experience of America Through Literature AND Pieces of Skin or Palm Tree Heartbeats: Immigrants and Sex in The Lonely Londoners and “We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?”
Abby Hirshman, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Using Drug Treatments for Opiate Use Disorder to Treat Binge Eating Disorder
Abby H. Hirshman, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Using Drug Treatments for Opiate Use Disorder to Treat Binge Eating Disorder
Augustus Holley, Asian Studies (ASST) 2020, Nányīn as “Living Fossil:” Uses of the Past in Nányīn Discourse
Oskar Houck, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Effect of Light Rail Network Expansion on Single-Family Homes in St. Paul, MN
Adam Hruby, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Is This Canon? Both Replicative and Oncogene-Induced Cellular Senescence Activate the Canonical NF-κB Pathway, but Only Oncogene-Induced Senescence Activates the Noncanonical NF-κB Pathway
Tyler Hruby, History (HIST) 2020, Global yet Local: Karatani Kōjin’s The Structure of World History as a Response to Japanese Socialist History
Tyler Hruby, Philosophy (PHIL) 2020, Mediating the Procreation Asymmetry Through the Distinction Between Existent and Potential People
Berit Hudson-Rasmussen, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Evaluating Two Critical Zone Hypotheses Using Active Source Seismic Refraction in Antelope Valley, California
Natalie Hummel, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Statistical Analysis of Small Structures in Rotated Crustal Blocks Near the Husavik-Flatey Fault, Northern Iceland
Emily (Pilot) Irwin, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Play Among the Stars
Ann Isaacs, Physics (PHYS) 2020, Gamma Ray Bursts: Phenomenology and Origins
Jacob Isaacs, English (ENGL) 2020, The Kings of Nowhere: Challenging Place and Identity Boundaries in NW and There There
Christopher Jabbarpour, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Destabilization of Fish Schooling Behavior Due to a Changing Climate
Abby Jackson, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Allogeneic DAP12-based CAR NK Cells as an Anti-HIV Immunotherapy to Target the Latent Viral Reservoir
Zane Johann, Economics (ECON) 2020, Health, Subjective Well-Being, and Development: An Analysis of the Effect of Development Level on How Health Impacts Life Satisfaction
Daniel Johnson, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Engineering Safety Switches to Manage the Toxicities of CAR T Cell Therapy
Todd Johnson, Adam Kral, Aaron Li, and Justin Soll, Mathematics (MATH) 2020, Pathologies of the Axiom of Choice
Graham Kaegi, Art History (ARTH) 2020, Sustainable Critical Regionalism: Rick Joy and Ethical Architecture
Katerina Katakalides, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Navigating Global Beauty Standards: Natural Hair and National Representation
Kamran Kelly, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Driving Out Autoimmunity: Generating a CAR T Regulatory Cell Against Multiple Sclerosis
Hannah Kennicott, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Confirming Diurnal Oscillations and Scrutinizing the Potential Circadian Rhythm of the Gut Microbiome
