Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2021
Alex Kucich, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Relating to the River: Fish, Fishers and the Politics of Assemblage in the Cannon River
Zach Kulstad, Biology (BIOL) 2021, PD-1 and Tim-3 Cooperate to Inhibit TCR Signaling in Severely Exhausted CD8+ T Cells
Rie Kurita, Economics (ECON) 2021, Decreasing Tax Evasion: Effective Use of Lying Aversion
Rie Kurita, Catalina Alvarez-Ruiz, Kate Grossman, Ellie Mamantov, and Starr Wang, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Dragon Architect
Margaret Lachman, History (HIST) 2021, Medical Anxieties of the Raj: The British Investigation of Kala-Azar in Colonial India
Olivia Laub, Geology (GEOL) 2021, Reconstructing Devonian Paleotemperature Using the Stable Oxygen Isotope Composition of Bulk Carbonate Rocks
Marcella Lees, History (HIST) 2021, Gerald of Wales and the Invention of Race in the Medieval Celtic Fringe: Gerald’s Irish, Welsh, and Angevin Depictions as They Relate to and Serve His Own Hybridity
Spencer S. Lekki, History (HIST) 2021, Violence and Materiality in the Irish Rising of 1641
Nhan Le, Geology (GEOL) 2021, Using GPlates to Help Refine the Transport History of the Yakutat Block, Alaska
Grace Leslie, Yoshiko Lynch, and Tuomas Sivula, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2021, Climate Migration: Implications of Duluth as a “Climate-Proof City”
Grace Leuchtenberger, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Every Breath (of COVID-19) You Take: Aerosols Driving COVID-19 Superspreader Events
Anna Li, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, On the Development of Implicit Racial Bias: Measurement Variation and Empirical Inconsistencies
Amy Lin, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Porphyromonas gingivalis Induces MyD88- and LPS- Independent Inhibition of PROS1 Anti-Inflammatory Function
Ruofei Li, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Hilbert Space and the Riesz Representation Theorem
Gracie Little, Kaeden Berg, Tony Ngo, and Chris Kitchen, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Digital Divide in Northfield
ZhaoBin Li, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Brownian Motion and Its Applications
Emery Louie and Aubrey Rawles, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Rising to the Occasion: Group Identity and Helping Behavior in a Natural Disaster Context
Jaylin Lowe, Statistics (STAT) 2021, Generalized Additive Models
Ben Lowry, Geology (GEOL) 2021, A Critical Exploration of Introductory Geology Curriculum
Kaela Mali, Biology (BIOL) 2021, ARF We There Yet?: The H. pylori Driven, Subnuclear Translocation of ARF Protein
Ellie Mamantov, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, How Trusting Should We Be of Trust Measurements?
Rebecca Margolis, History (HIST) 2021, Montana’s Indian Education for All Act: Indigenous Survivance in Education Policy
Ishmael Maxwell, Political Science (POSC) 2021, We May Disagree, but We All Love the BJP: Populists' Targeting Strategies on Twitter
Laura McCarron, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Laura McCarron's Studio Art Comps
Rebecca McCartney, American Studies (AMST) 2021, Acting in(to) Utopia: Shifting Power & Resilience to the People
Rebecca McCartney, Music (MUSC) 2021, Better For It: Voicing Loss, For One
Zach McCrary, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Weight
Pierce McDonnell, History (HIST) 2021, Daniel Thomas and the First Tennessee: Seeking National Unity During the Spanish-American War
Pierce Gissler McDonnell and Hiromichi Ueda, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Topology of Partially Ordered Graph Configuration Spaces
Reese McMillan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, Pending
Cara Meyer, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2021, Identity Construction in "Je ne parle pas la langue de mon père" by Leïla Sebbar
Cara Meyer, English (ENGL) 2021, “The terrors of direct experience”: Resolving Trauma in “The Machine Stops” and My Year of Rest and Relaxation; The Role of the Community in Enduring Racial Oppression in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Island
Venecia Mitchell, American Studies (AMST) 2021, In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: The Rise of Charter Schools in New Orleans and its Impact on Black Youth
Spencer Moore, Economics (ECON) 2021, “You get what you pay for”: An Experimental Study on Worker Productivity and Pay Structures
Jack L. Moran, Mathematics (MATH); Statistics (STAT) 2021, Introduction to the Simple Branching Process
Alec Morrissey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Altered Bodies, Shifting Masculinities: Men, Aesthetic Surgery, and the Neoliberal Image
Sasha Mothershead, American Studies (AMST) 2021, Pandemics as Perpetuation, Pandemics as Portal: An Examination of the Complicated Role of State Expansion in Pandemic-Based Movements for Change
Aishee B. Mukherji, Cole Hanson, Jeffrey Boitnott, Eric Odoom, and Yasmeen Awad, Computer Science (CS) 2021, All Our Data Comps: Data Brokerage and Targeted Advertising
Maxime Munyeshyaka, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Uncovering Mechanisms of Oligodendrocytes in Learning and Memory
Andie Nakahira, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Crying Over Spilled Kombucha
Lucy Neumann, Biology (BIOL) 2021, The Applicability of the Costly Signaling Hypothesis and the Index Hypothesis as Adaptive Explanations for Honest Quality Signaling in Carotenoid-Based Male Bird Plumage
Rose Newell, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Fungal and Viral Coinfection: The Impact on Viral Shedding in Bats
Lucy Newman, Biology (BIOL) 2021, R-loop Structures Are Implicated in Epigenetic Dysregulation Characteristic of Trinucleotide Repeat Expansions in Non-Coding Genomic Regions
Freja Olsen, Physics (PHYS) 2021, The Tunguska Event
Maggy Osha, Biology (BIOL) 2021, The Role of Repeat RNA in TriNucleotide Repeat Disease Pathology and Treatment
Lauren Pak, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Active Bystander Intervention in Adolescent Bullying: A Defending Model
Alli Palmbach, Political Science (POSC) 2021, New Political Opinion Leaders: Applying Previously Established News Repertoires to a Liberal Arts College and the American Public
Elizabeth Paulson, History (HIST) 2021, Russian Valkyries, Moscow Amazons, and Martyr-Heroines: Femininity and Terrorism in the Russian Radical Movement of the Nineteenth Century
Zoe Pelletier, Spanish (SPAN) 2021, El efecto del COVID en las ciudades de España y EE. UU.
Alex Poeschla, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Tim-3 Mediates Cytotoxic T Cell Exhaustion in Cancer but Beneficially Maintains Maternal-Fetal Tolerance in Pregnancy
Molly Potter, Statistics (STAT) 2021, Spatial Data Analysis with Applications in Epidemiology
Lizbeth A. Ramirez Gaytan, Linguistics (LING) 2021, Looking at Cross-Language Expressive Gaps in Spanish-English Bilinguals with Varying Linguistics Exposure: Study Proposal and Pilot Study
Lucy Reece, Sophie Schafer, Muyang Shi, and Qianzi Li, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Transient Dynamics in Ecological ODE Models: Plant Population Under Habitat Destruction
Nathaniel E. Reid, History (HIST) 2021, Why They Built the Great Firewall
April Reisenfeld, Philosophy (PHIL) 2021, Rejecting Classical Determinism Through the Non-Physicality of Infinity
April Reisenfeld, Physics (PHYS) 2021, Understanding Randomness in Classical and Quantum Physics
Charlotte Rew, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, Desire Paths
Sophia Rogers, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, You used to say our freckles were angel's kisses
Noah Rosenfield, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2021, Resisting Totalitarianism: A Critical Humanistic Sensibility in the Work of Hannah Arendt and Tzvetan Todorov
Nicholas Rosen, Russian (RUSS) 2021, “You won’t strangle or kill this song:” Intertextuality and Power in the Music of Yanka Dyagileva
Nicholas Rosen and Will Fletcher, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Modular Forms and Number Theory
Thomas Rubino, Biology (BIOL) 2021, An Assessment of the Factors That Modulate Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Chyna Sanders, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, "I Wish I Could Be Seen for the Choice I Make Today" Examination of the Challenge of Reintergration After Incarceration
Laura Savage, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2021, Age and Distraction: A Misunderstanding of Memory
Ben Schnieders, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Critical Factors Predict Whether Evolutionary Rescue Will Occur in Bats and Amphibians Threatened by Novel Fungal Pathogens: Chytridiomycosis and White-nose Syndrome
Claire Schregardus, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Effect of a Strong Type I Interferon Response on Interferon-Stimulated Gene Expression and Viral Persistence in Bats
Anna Schumacher, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Identity and Social Change: Connecting and Expanding Identity-Based Models of Collective Action
Evelyn Scott, Physics (PHYS) 2021, An Introduction to Neutrino Astronomy
Lakshya Seth, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Blimp-1: A Key Transcription Factor in Mediating T cell Response to Persistent Antigen Stimulation
Emma Shedd, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Shifting U.S. Temperate Forests from Ecto- to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Associations: How Will Carbon Stocks Respond?
Muyang Shi, Waleed Iftikhar, Nate Isbell, and Sarah Grier, Statistics (STAT) 2021, Quantile Regression with Applications in Agriculture and Temperature Study
McLain Sidmore, History (HIST) 2021, Imagining the Last Frontier: The Creation and Adaptation of a Frontier Narrative at Alaska's Kennecott Mines, 1911-1938
Nariah-Belle Ulep Sims, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Educational Relationship Reform: Teacher-Student Relationships in a Self-Determination Theory Perspective
Ben Sirulnik, Chemistry (CHEM) 2021, Developments in Biological Nanosensors
Tuomas Sivula, Political Science (POSC) 2021, Subsistence in a Changing World: How Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone Autonomously Adapt to Climate and Social Change
Myranda Sloo, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Healthcare Provider Perspectives on Social Determinants of Health: Maternal Substance Abuse in the U.S. Healthcare System
Risa Stiegler, Linguistics (LING) 2021, Tukted Taku Uƞ He? or, What is Where?: Dakota Wh- or T-Questions and Intervention Effects
Irene Stoutland, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Constructed Nature
Martha Sudderth, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Baby Teeth
Ethan Ta, Chemistry (CHEM) 2021, Exploring Graphene - A Semiconductor for the Future
Raba Tefera, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Role of Constitutive Expression of Type I Interferons and the Effects of Virus Coevolution in Bats
Maria Thurow, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Catching My Breath - Aerosol and Droplet Deposition of SARS-CoV-2 in Lung Tissue
Sean Topel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Studio Art Comps Sean Topel
Shealuck Vang, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Examining Food Motivations in the US: Cross-Cultural Comparisons Between Comfort Food Preferences
Arianna Varela, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2021, Rainbows Emerging From the Clouds of Nostalgia: Queer Miami-Cuban Visibility and Resistance on TikTok
Leo Vithoontien, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Impact of Immigrants on Local Native Wages Across Industries and Prefectures in Japan 2014-2018
Changlan Wang, Statistics (STAT) 2021, Are Personality Traits Universal? Exploration of the Cross-culture Validity of Big Five Personality Traits Using Factor Analysis
Changlan Wang, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Individualistic-Collectivistic Values and Personality as Mediators of Cultural Differences in Emotional Response
Heqing Wang, Geology (GEOL) 2021, A Comparison Between the Geological Histories of Middle-earth and Its Filming Sites in New Zealand
Matthew Watowich, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Chronic Type-I Interferon Stimulation Accelerates Established HIV-1 Infection and Progression to AIDS
Dennis Wei, Geology (GEOL) 2021, Soiled Fashion: Environmental Effects of Leather Production on Soil Health
Ginnie White, German (GERM) 2021, Imagining Germany: Fairy Tales and Nation Building
Ginnie White, Mash Ibtesum, Elizabeth Yim, Max Goldberg, and Meghan Owens, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Carleton Classifieds: A New Way to Buy and Sell at Carleton
Emily Wight, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, A Story Through Scars
Emily Wight, German (GERM) 2021, The Space Between: Gender Nonconformity in Weimar Queer Cinema
Benjamin Wightman, History (HIST) 2021, The Effects of ‘Aṣabiyya and Ethnic Identity on the Politics of the Taifa Kingdoms
Claire Williams, Physics (PHYS) 2021, The Far Future of the Universe
Jayla Williams, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, "Kung Flu": The Harmful Spread of SARS Narratives Towards the Chinese and Chinese American Populations
Carolyn Wood, History (HIST) 2021, Education in the Warsaw Ghetto: Preservation of Humanity, Jewish Identity, and a Better Future
Justin Yamada, Alexis Engel, Matt Stecklow, Luna Yee, Ankit Sanghi, and Danny Maya, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Practicum
