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Graduated in 2026

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

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

Noah Reid, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Elusive Exosomes: Relationship of Exosomal PD-L1 and KRAS-MEK on Immune Suppression

Luke Sugalski, Economics (ECON) 2026, Taxing the 0.01%

Graduated in 2025

Naema Abdi, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Spread and Acceptance of Misinformation: Why is it so Easy to Believe And Share Fake News?

Sara Abraha, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Understanding the Hsp90 Landscape in Breast Cancer: Domain-Specific Inhibition

Marcos Acero, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Quantum Sensors and the Evolution of Quantum Measurement

Kara Achilles, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Susceptibility to Substance Use Disorder and Mood Disorders in Females with Congenital‬ ‭ Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Result of Organizational Effects of Prenatal Androgens‬ ‭

Tim Adams, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Sunflowers: The Visual Experience of Beauty in Nature vs. Two-Dimensional Art

Lily Akre, Religion (RELG) 2025, The Sensuality of Suffering: Love in Julian of Norwich and James Baldwin

Jordan Appelbaum, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Beyond Surface Antigens: The Rise of Bispecific TCRm-ADCs in Cancer Immunotherapy

Morgan Arnold, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Sex Differences in the HPA axis: A Cause of the Gender Depression Gap in Women

Paige Arnold, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Blank Spaces: Negotiating Remembrance with Holocaust Memorials

Jacob Aronson, Troy Osborn, Tori Shen, and Kai Zhang, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Exploring Resampling-Based Methods for Parameter Estimation on Simulated Multilevel Data

Surina Arora, Economics (ECON) 2025, Microcredit as a Public Health Initiative: Studying the Effects of Access to Microcredit on Women’s Health in India

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

Helen Banta, Classics (CLST) 2025, You'll Never Get Away from The Sound of the Woman that Loves You: Women’s Scenes of Recognition in the Odyssey

Adriel Barham, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Adriel Barham Comps

Kieran Barker, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Making AI Make Sense: Biological Normativity as a Criterion for Intelligence

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

Eden Bergene, Economics (ECON) 2025, Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Innovation in Big Pharma

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

Amanda Black, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Thorium-based Fuel as the Future of Nuclear Energy

Mariko Bolton, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Ghosts

Max Borden, Biology (BIOL) 2025, RuBisC-No! Designing Protein-Cage-Based Metabolons to Move Synthetic Carbon Fixation Systems in vivo

Theo Borowski, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, A Lack of Pluralism: How Christian Nationalism Imminently Threatens Democracy

Theo Borowski, Religion (RELG) 2025, Jewish Jurisprudence: How editing divinity improves humanity’s perfection

Albert Bosler, History (HIST) 2025, Roger II as a Italo-Norman Trailblazer

James Bowers, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Identity and Volition

James Bowers and Nhi Luong, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Communicating Mathematics Portfolio

Laura J. Boyd and Lily M. Vargo, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Triple Threat: Introducing a Three-Pronged Interaction Between Hormones, the Gut Microbiome, and Postpartum Depression Pathogenesis

Claire Boyle, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Geothermobarometry of Metamorphic Rocks Associated with the Sanak-Baranof Plutonic Belt in the Chugach-Prince William Terrane, Southern Alaska

Quinn Brannan, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Seeing the Unseen: Signal Processing and Electronic Beam Steering in RADAR

Piper Brown, Linguistics (LING) 2025, Every Mandarin Sentence is Not Surface Scope: Evidence for Inverse Scope in Mandarin Adverbials

Ezra Buonopane, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Interactions between Limestone, Shale, and Sandstone Aggregates and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)

Marco Caba-Acevedo, History (HIST) 2025, Chimalpahin and the Christian Mexico City

Megan Cablk, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Exploring the Relationship Between Memory Decline and Neural Loss in Aging Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

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

Gwen Casey, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Mitigating Methane Emissions From Digestate Composting

Eugene Chang, Economics (ECON) 2025, Optimal Marijuana Taxation in Minnesota

Martha Chan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Asymmetrical Horizontal Gene Transfer Between Parasites and Hosts: Evolutionary Constraints and Functional Implications

Miriam Chasnov, Economics (ECON) 2025, Fair Pay, Fair Play? Examining Gendered Housework Allocation Among Dual-Income Couples

Shanti Chier, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Debate on Bilingualism and Executive Function: Is There a Cognitive Advantage?

Tyler Chodera, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, What Will Happen Tomorrow, and Associated Vulnerabilities

Ryan Choi, Economics (ECON) 2025, Minnesota’s Marijuana Tax: An Optimization Model

Dorothy Chou, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Predicting Crab Survival: The Impacts of Climate Change on the Competitive Dynamic of Hemigrapsus sanguineus and Carcinus maenas

Kyla Christie, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Methodological Practices in Perceptual Narrowing Research on Speech Perception and Facial Recognition

Ethan Cline, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, The Experience Machine

Ella Collins, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Effects of Social Networking Sites on the Mental Well-being of Adolescents

James Commons, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The World's Fastest Camera: Attosecond Laser Pulses

Amelie Cook, Economics (ECON) 2025, Disparities in Disaster Aid Research: An Applicant-Level Analysis of FEMA Aid Equity after Hurricane Sandy

Caroline Crampton, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Peroxisomal Disruptions at the Lipid Droplet Interface: Implications for Insulin Resistance

Andrew Dale, Abigail Persell, Cassie Gerard, Coral Outwater, Daniel Chen, Elida Coronado, Jemsy Mathew, Lexi Kingma, Padmini Konidena, Sarah McKinley, and Hiroki Coyle, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Forever Fluorinated: The PFAS Problem

Ella Daniels, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, A Jaguar Eats a Human Eats a Mushroom (& That's Okay With Me)

Micah Day-O'Connell, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Functionalism and Ned Block's Concepts of Consciousness

Micah Day-O'Connell, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physics and Information Theory

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

Shaan Dias, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer Interferometric Sensor: Detecting Gravitational Waves with Atom Interferometry

Sadie M. DiCarlo, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Effects of Pyrohydrolysis on Trace Element Analyses of Planet-Forming Processes in Chondrites

Lara Dominguez, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Will a Tick in Time Spread Lyme?: The Future Risk Landscape of Lyme Disease in Urban Greenspaces

Luke Drake and Bennet Tefu, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Siamese Neural Networks for Few-Shot Facial Image Recognition

Jenna Drummond, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Role of Alternate Alleles in Instituting Reproductive Isolation in Homoploid Hybrid Speciation

Shira Dubin, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Dynamin-Related Proteins in Apicoplast and Mitochondrial Fission During Plasmodium falciparum Replication

Julia Dunn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, In Need of Transformational Women: Theorizing the Substantive Representation of Women’s Issues by Female Parliamentarians in the Anglophone Caribbean

Sofia Durdag, History (HIST) 2025, “I Looked to the Traces Where Love Hides”: The Eternal and the Ephemeral in the Diwan of A’ishah al-Ba'uniyah (d. 922/1517)

Collin Eldridge, Economics (ECON) 2025, Estimating Parameters of the Matching Function for Labor Search

Collin Eldridge, Billy Bratton, Jivana Nagpal, and Christie Song, Statistics (STAT) 2025, A Statistical Analysis of Network Review Data From Goodreads.com

Chris Elliott, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Gridiron Fortunes: Analyzing the NFL Prospects of College Quarterbacks

Ami Endo, Linguistics (LING) 2025, The Semantics of Conditional Evaluative Constructions in Japanese

Kate Fair, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Jenny and the Alien

Eva Fischer, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Is ADHD a Universal Disorder or Culture-Bound Syndrome? A Cross Cultural Review

Myles Fisher, History (HIST) 2025, The Ecological Empire: Corporate and State Power in Midcentury Guatemala

Orion Fisher, History (HIST) 2025, The Theatrics of Resistance: Gendering bodies through infrapolitics in post-Soviet Central Asia

Owen Flanagan, History (HIST) 2025, Race to the Market: Neoliberalism and Polarization in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic (1989-1996)

Sebastian Forero Escovar, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Crystallization history of Footwall Gneisses and Plutons of the Paparoa Core Complex, South Island, New Zealand

Dylan Fox-Arnold, Political Science (POSC) 2025, Who Defines the Truth? Populists' Post-Electoral Challenges to Media Independence

Clara Gale, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Provenance of the Kootznahoo Formation using U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology in southeastern Alaska

Raquel Germani, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring Multiple Paternity and Female Choice: A Strategy to Enhance Genetic Diversity and Population Viability

Raquel Germani, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Raising Awareness of Coral Bleaching

Abigail Goff, Religion (RELG) 2025, Relics of Homeland: “Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde” at L’Institut du monde arabe

Cassidy Goldman, American Studies (AMST) 2025, More Than A Milestone: Understanding Religious-Cultural Coming-of-Age Ceremonies in Contemporary America

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

Rachel Gregg, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Measuring CO2 flux in enhanced weathering trials in southeastern Minnesota: an evaluation of existing technologies and a proposed optimized model

Markus Gunadi, Cathy Duan, Zoey La, Willow Gu, Charlie Ney, and Kai Weiner, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Serendipitous Exploration of the Carleton Curriculum

Malachy Guzman, Elias Tannira, and Anna Center, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Modeling the Precision of Gene Regulation in Drosophila with the Linear Framework