Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2020
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
Caroline Kern-Allely, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Inclusion of the Landscape of Fear and Mesopredator Release in a Trophic Cascade Model to Predict Effects of Apex Predator Extirpation
Jin Kim, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Gehenna, or, a map of love and death
Rebekah Kissel, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: GABA Mediated Neuroendocrine Origins
Ben Koppel, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Effect of Local Elementary School “Quality” on Housing Value
Cecilia Kryzda, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Expanded Form, Enhanced Body: Cyborg as Multimedia Metaphor in the Oeuvres of Janelle Monáe and Björk
Oleksandr Kyrysyuk, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Boolean Logic-Gated CAR T Cells with TCR Mimic Recognition Overcome Critical Antigen Targeting Barrier in Solid Tumors
Russell Lack, History (HIST) 2020, Close to Home: Suburbanization, Residential Segregation, and Jewish-Black Relations in St. Louis Park and North Minneapolis, MN
Dillon Lanier, Cameron Kline-Sharpe, Kellen Dorchen, Carlos Garcia, Javin White, and Emilee Fulton, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System
Chris Lasch, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, The Piraiba
Cece Lasley, English (ENGL) 2020, “Double, Double, toil and trouble?” The Multiplicitous Nature of the Weird Sisters and its Effects on Culpability in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Anna Lauriello, History (HIST) 2020, The Pox and the Strangling Angel: Anti-Vaccination in Philadelphia
Emma Lederer, Biology (BIOL) 2020, CD28 CAR Regulatory T cells Prevent Graft Rejection and Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Danielle Lewis, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, You Can Make Money Too: The Audience and Messages of Personal Finance Books
Joe Lewis, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Pleistocene Megafauna Extinction: Combining Prehistoric Data with Modern Experiments to Determine the Impact on Vegetation
Clara Liang, American Studies (AMST) 2020, “A Church Without Walls”: Glide Memorial (Methodist) Church and Postsecular Potential in Urban Religion
Jean Liang, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Digital Figure Studies
Grace Liao, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, “We Are Not Secondary Citizens”: Conceiving a Parallel Social World Outside the Secondary Food Economy
Sarah Lieberman, American Studies (AMST) 2020, The Basel Effect: Global Art World Impacts on Local Neighborhood Culture in Wynwood, Miami
Joe Liesman, Jared Kannel, and Nasra Mohamed, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2020, Plastic Art and Activism: How Artists are Taking on Plastic Pollution
Brendon Lin, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Oxygen and Temperature May Be Able to Predict Size-based Responses to Global Warming in Polar Waters
Jonas Lindholm, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, A Caring Ethos for a World of Global Risk: Living in the Age of Climate Change
Lawrence Lin, Physics (PHYS) 2020, The Physics of Star Trek
Colin Liphart, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Interactions Between Microglia and Tau in an Aging Primate Model
Eve Liu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, Symbols of Differentiation: Configuring Chineseness in Haute Cuisine and Couture
Nicola Lowry and Mariah Casmey, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2020, Looking Back to Look Ahead: Providing Temporal Context for the Spare or Share Debate Using Land Use Change and Bird Populations
Carlos Lua Pineda, Economics (ECON) 2020, Analyzing the Combination Effect of Corruption and Administration Type on Education
Heather Luedke and Emma Thomley, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2020, A Comparative Study of Climate Action Plans in Liberal Arts Colleges: Planning Processes, Climate Action Strategies, and Implementation Techniques
Jason Maier, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, The Brilliance of Resilience: Understanding and Measuring It
Alina Maki, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Comparing Lies by Size, Medium, and Perspective
Noah Marcel, Chemistry (CHEM) 2020, Memristors as Synapse in Neuromorphic Computers
Anesu Masakura, Economics (ECON) 2020, Investigating the Interaction Effects of Social Polarization and Institutional Quality on Economic Growth
Ross Matican, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, The Buyback Boom: New York Times Coverage of Stock Repurchasing Programs in the New Economy
Ian McCarthy, Chemistry (CHEM) 2020, Electron Bifurcation
Michael McClurg, Physics (PHYS) 2020, Modeling the Galactic Spiral Structure
Mo McConnell, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Nakano
Elise McIlhaney, History (HIST) 2020, Witches, Wells, and Demons: Popular Perspectives of the Scottish Witch-Hunt
Quinn McVeigh, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Complex Interplay of MicroRNAs and N6-methyladenosine Modifications for Precise Control of Messenger RNA Levels
Tanvi Mehta, Biology (BIOL) 2020, A Twisted Gut: Understanding Left-Right Asymmetry in Gut Morphogenesis
Cameron Meikle, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Alternative Roles for m6A Modifications During Flaviviridae Infection
Fletcher Metz, Biology (BIOL) 2020, A Bispecific CD8+ CAR-T Cell Therapy Optimized for Persistence, Exhaustion Resistance, Immunity from HIV, and Prevention of HIV Immune Escape
Ada Meyer, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Impacts of Microplastics on Particle Flux and the Biological Pump in a Warming Ocean
Sam Miles, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, The Presence of Absence
Junyi Min, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Majulah Singapura
Kirby Mitchell, Jackie Chan, James Gardner, and Junyi Min, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Analyzing Collaborative Documentation of the Hong Kong Protests on Wikipedia
Keenan Moore, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Plastic Pollutants: Bisphenol A and Its Effects on Male Fertility
Adela Mu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, In-Between Worlds: International Faculty at Minnesotan Liberal Arts Colleges
John Mullan, Josh Oettinger, Tresa Xavier, Danielle Eisen, and Sophia Maymudes, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Carleton Classifieds
Sarah Newsham, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Predicted Increase in Phytoplankton Abundance due to Climate Change: Importance of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Controls
Kate Nootenboom, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Measuring Deformation Band Orientations in the Etchegoin Sandstone: Implications for the Stress Field in Central California and the Accuracy of Emerging Orientation Measuring Technology
Peter Ohashi, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Environmental Kuznet's Curve: What About Those Other Gasses?
Evelyn O'Neil, History (HIST) 2020, Deathworlds in Kenya
Emika Otsuka, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, Beyond Contested Wartime History in East Asia: The Logic of Nationalism and The Potential for Cosmopolitan Memory
Fin Ouweleen, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Plumage Problem: Presence of Bird Display Is Affected by Selective Pressures from Parasitization and Predation
Chris Padilla, Andy Younkins, Charlie Broadbent, Oscar Smith, Sam Chen, and Kate Finstuen-Magro, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Network Analysis Algorithms for Disease Gene Prioritization
Henry Pearson, Jessie Baskauf, Bryan Richter, Miriam Gorra, Toni Eidmann, and Gabe Brookman, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Six Alternatives to Squinting Really Hard: A Comparison of Image Segmentation Algorithms
Annalise Peebles, Biology (BIOL) 2020, From Surface Water to Sediment: How Warming Temperatures Influence the Deposition of Microplastics in Marine and Freshwater Systems
Lily Peters, Linguistics (LING) 2020, The Role of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in L2 Japanese Lexical Attrition
Conrad Phelan, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Cytoskeleton Is the Decisive Factor in C-Looping in the Chick Heart
Colin Pi, Economics (ECON) 2020, Who Wants Microloans? Dynamics of Demand for Microfinance Loans with Different Occupational Forms
Maya Powell, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Branching Corals Are Disproportionately Susceptible to Ocean Acidification Based on Diffusive Boundary Layer Variation
Maya Powell, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Repeated Refrains of Nature
Olivia Powell, Asian Studies (ASST) 2020, Changing Conceptions of Masculinity in Imperial China
Olivia Powell, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, Modeling the Impact of Systemic Shocks on the Radicalization Process
Maddy Prins, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, All The Firsts
Margaret Anne Puzak, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Building a Quercus macrocarpa (Bur Oak) Tree Ring Network to Reconstruct Historical Climate and Address the Issue of Forest Mortality in Nerstrand Big Woods State Park
Daniel Quintero, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Disruption of CSF Glymphatic Flow after Anti-AQP4 Antibody and Bumetanide Injection
Peter Richieri, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Molecular to Organismal Chirality; a Possible Blueprint for Establishing Left-Right Asymmetry in the Bilateria
Katherine Rigney, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Effects of Vessel Noise on Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops sp.): Energetic Costs and Budgeting
Brian Rivera, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Indole Be All: E. coli Indole Production in Response to Stress
Daamir Robinson, Linguistics (LING) 2020, Morphological Variation in Turkic Languages
David Roizin, Economics (ECON) 2020, Is Inclusionary Zoning Right for Minneapolis? Theory and Evidence for a Growing City
Caleb Rosen, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Effects of the Wairarapa and Hikurangi Eddies on Chlorophyll Fluorescence off the East Coast of New Zealand
Kate Rosenfeld, Religion (RELG) 2020, iBelieve: Religiously Infused Consumerism in Apple's "Think Different" Campaign
Nathan Rowley, Kelsey Krantz, Thais Del Rosario, and Eric Stadelman, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Benchmarking SQL and NoSQL Database Systems: Baking a New Enchilada
Andrew Roy, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Effect of Airbnb Density on Housing Prices in San Francisco
B.J. Ryan, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2020, California Transfronteriza: Dependency and Integration in the San Diego-Tijuana Borderlands
Elizabeth Sachs, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2020, Expressions of Non-Binary Identities in Montréal
Amie Salem, Political Science (POSC) 2020, Development as Freedom, A Case Study: Examining Rwanda's Development Status Using Sen's Development Framework
