Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2020
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
Molly Sandweiss, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Cracks and Chaos: Finding Meaning in an Infinite Universe
Mikkel Sawyer, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Structural RNA Against the World (of Antibiotic Microbial Resistance): Riboswitches and Ribo- Regulators as Targets for Novel Antibiotic Therapies
Colleen Scallen, Theater Arts (THEA) 2020, 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane: A Comps Production by Colleen Scallen
Colleen Scallen, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, The Only Way Out Is Through: Drama Therapy as a Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
Helen Schuda, Economics (ECON) 2020, Effects of the Green Line and Median Income on Home Prices: A Cross-Sectional Hedonic Analysis for Saint Paul, Minnesota
Anna Shao, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, Transcending the Self and Daemonic Philosophers in Plato’s Symposium
Jordan Shapiro, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Paleoclimate Study of Chub Lake in Eureka, MN: Investigating a Lake and Wetland Transitional System
Cora Showers, Spanish (SPAN) 2020, Leyendo Entre las Líneas: Cómo Distinguir Entre el Amigo y el Enemigo de la Revolución Cubana a Través de la Alfabetización
Milena Silva, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, Cities and Solidarity: The Potential of the Local as a Site for the Provision of Hospitality to Refugees
Joshua Small, History (HIST) 2020, Long-Distance Nationalism: Comparing the Success of Zionism and Pan-Africanism
Abbie Smith, Economics (ECON) 2020, International Reserves in Emerging & Developed Countries: An Analysis of the Effects of Different Types of Financial Crises
Florence Solomon, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Beauty From Ashes
Fares Soufan, Tenzin Kunsang, Elisa Loy, Taylor Yeracaris, and Jackie Chan, Mathematics (MATH) 2020, Guiding Mathematical Discovery: How We Started a Math Circle
Kaylin Steinberg, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Harnessing PD-1 in the Construction of HIV-Specific CAR-T Cells to Induce a Localized “Shock and Kill” of the Latent Viral Reservoir
Sarah Steinke, Linguistics (LING) 2020, A Syntactic Analysis of Focus Concord Constructions in Okinawan and Ikema
Kathleen Stoughton, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, Notions of the Nation: Nationalism and Role Theory
Nina Strand, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Invasive Marine Predators - Why Are There Not More of Them?
Anna Stubbs, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Exploration in Plywood, Paint, and Figures
Kelsey Sullivan, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, High Glycemic Index Diets Negatively Affect Memory: Why Changing School Lunches Can Mitigate Those Effects
Kelsey Sullivan, Spanish (SPAN) 2020, La loca en la casa: Las narradoras femeninas y la tradición literaria en La casa de los espíritus y Delirio
Alexander Swafford, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, Contradictions Between Rhetoric and Reality: Institutional Analysis of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative
Mika Takamori, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Stasis of Unresolved Conflicts Within the Mundane
Allegra Tashjian, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Examining the Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Warming on Soil Redox Potential in a Maryland, USA Tidal Wetland
Anika Thomas, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Asymmetrical Mammary Gland Development: A Genetic Predisposition to Left-Sided Breast Cancer
Charles Tierney, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Characterizing Fracture Spatial Arrangements in Cambrian Sandstone, Wyoming: Application of the Normalized Correlation Count Method
Tam Tieu, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Understanding Stem Memory T Cell Development and Differentiation to Combat HIV
Kevin Tran, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Orphan Methyltransferase CcrM Is an Epigenetic Regulator for Multiple Bacteria
Hannah Uttley, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Role of Microglial Ion Channel P2X7 in Depression
Margriet VanDerwerker, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Role of HLA-A2 CAR T Regulatory Cell Therapy, Foxp3, and CTLA-4 in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Nyx Vazquez, Linguistics (LING) 2020, Minimizing Optimality: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Information Structure
Ezra Ward-Packard, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Reclaiming Cinéma Vérité: Searching for Truth in the Contemporary Documentary Landscape
Justin Noble Webb and Akiko L.H. Williams, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2020, Pioneering Shipping Waste Management at Carleton College: How Individual and Institutional Behaviors Contribute to the Textbook Shipping Waste Stream
Luke Webb, English (ENGL) 2020, Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People and William Shakespeare’s Henry V as Political Critiques of Unrestrained Self Interest
Luke Webb, English (ENGL) 2020, Transversalism in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon: Writing to Right Misconceptions
Ryan Wetzel, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Words Left Behind
Lewis White, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Social Media Addiction: Worthy Of Inclusion In The DSM? A Comprehensive Review
Alex Whitis, Biology (BIOL) 2020, Marine Sessile Animals: Adaptations For Feeding And Implications Of Climate Change
Morgan Whyte, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2020, “We can only do our very best”: Physicians’ Perspectives on Social Determinants of Childhood Asthma in the Emergency Department
Kyra Wilson, Linguistics (LING) 2020, A Cross-Linguistic Overview of Allocutivity and its Syntactic Accounts
Timothy Winter-Nelson, Religion (RELG) 2020, (Dis)Respecting Difference: An Examination of Christian Pluralism
Teddy Wolfe, History (HIST) 2020, The Yellow Fever Transition
Siang Wongrattanapiboon, Economics (ECON) 2020, The Relative Importance of Monetary Transmission Channels in Thailand: Evidence from a FAVAR Model
Siang Wongrattanapiboon and Oscar Smith, Mathematics (MATH) 2020, Homological Algebra
Evan Wright, Biology (BIOL) 2020, The Therapeutic Potential of Kv1.3 Inhibition by PAP-1 for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Yihuang Wu, Economics (ECON) 2020, Post-privatization Performance of Chinese State-owned Enterprises
Su Lance Xiong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Classy or Trashy? “Famous for Being Famous.” Kim Kardashian West and Embodied Celebrity
Kavie Yu and Grisel Vidal Munoz, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, Therapeutic Fasting and Ketogenic Diet for Treating Major Depressive Disorder via the Gut Microbiome
Alex Zhai, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2020, Coarticulatory Influences of Liquid Consonant on Stop Perception in Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
Alex Zhai, Linguistics (LING) 2020, The Dark /l/ Rises: A Markedness Differential Hypothesis Analysis of the Syllable Position Effect on Japanese Speakers’ Production of the English Dark /l/
Fengrui Zhang, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2020, Search
Elizabeth Zhu, Geology (GEOL) 2020, Analysis of the Relationship Between Stresses and Geologic Structures in Central California and Its Implications on the Strength of the San Andreas Fault
Adin Zuck, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2020, The White Immigrant’s Racial Values and Structural Preferences: Case Studies of Rupert Murdoch, Arianna Huffington, Henry Kissinger, and Madeleine Albright
Orlando Zuniga, Kyra Wilson, Will Schwarzer, and Emma Qin, Computer Science (CS) 2020, Bird Transformers: Modifying Bird Images Using Natural Language
Graduated in 2019
Ahmed Abdirahman, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2019, What Is Interaction? Embodied Interaction in Human-Computer Interaction
Nicholas Almonte, Geology (GEOL) 2019, Age and provenance of the Upper Cretaceous Valdez Group turbidites, Northern Prince William Sound, Alaska
