Integrated Comprehensive Exercises (Comps)

The Carleton collection of Comps, Honors Papers, and Prize-Winning Works is a collaboration between academic departments and the library. Students self-submit their work with the guidance of their departments and programs. Descriptive information about each comps, honors paper, or prize-winning project is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of projects is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about the collection, including how to submit and how to request access to the full text of works.

Browse comps and student work by academic department.

Graduated in 2018 2018

Benjamin Nicholas Alexander, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, The Language of Architecture

Saki Amagai, Anirudh Appachar, Sam Diaz de Leon, T.J. Lynch, Isaac Martinez, Katherine Ortell, Paul Peterson, and Sam Purfeerst, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Chemical Evolution: An Exploration into the Origins of Life

Evan Robert Anderson, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Revisability in Text-Based Communication: Turn-Taking and Collaborative Efficiency

Daniel Evan Atkins, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Blood Runs Thicker than Cerebrospinal Fluid: Interactions Between the Vasculature and B1 Stem Cells in the Neurogenic Subventricular Zone

Lisa Au, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Using Nanofibers for PM2.5 Filtration

Leila Omar Awad, Linguistics (LING) 2018, Historical Explorations of the Modern Chinese Passive Construction

Ammar Babar, Claire Tagoe, Robert Lord, Emma Posega, Kilian Roberts, and Nick Spinale, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Coding Without Borders

Gray C. Babbs, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Fractured: Differential Cytokine Signaling in the Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Bone-Bone Marrow Stem Cell Niche

Taylor Moore Barnhill, Religion (RELG) 2018, SallekhanA, Suicide, and Selfhood: Constituting Religious Freedom in a Secular Indian Nation-State

Lori Valesca Barrientos Sanchez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, III. beginning

Estelle Bayer, Martha Durrett, Brendan Friesen, Adam Klein, Bard Swallow, and Sam Wiseman, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Hot Topics: Topic Modeling of Latin Text

Jake N. Bechstein, Economics (ECON) 2018, Consumption in the Age of Rising Student Debt: A Comparison of Student and Non-Student Debt Burdens Effects on Consumption

Sophie Louise Bokor, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, The Synergistic Effect of Unwanted Pregnancy and Low Socioeconomic Status on Adverse Outcomes for Child Health and Psychosocial Development

Griffin Alexander Bolte, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Must Cop

Naomi Borowsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, Transcending Wilderness-Out-There

Liam John Bradney, Economics (ECON) 2018, How Does the Relative Generosity of an Individual to a Third Party Affect Reciprocity in the Trust Game?

Azucena Briones, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Cognitive and Social Motivations for Codeswitching

Damali Nzinga Britton Collman, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2018, When the Stranger is No Longer Imaginary: An Argument for an Ethos of Care

Daniel Deliyannides Brodkin, Linguistics (LING) 2018, Backward Control in Minangkabau

Jeremy Aaron Brog, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Depressive State Personality: A Review of Personality and Depression Literature

Joe Brommel, English (ENGL) 2018, On Reading Pale Fire

Emma Magdalen Bruhl, American Studies (AMST) 2018, Redoubt Falls: Local Impacts of Alaska Native Reparations

Emma Hahn Buechner, Classics (CLST) 2018, The Hidden Sisterhood of Antigone and Ismene: Uncovering Male Anxieties both Onstage and Off in Sohpocles' Antigone

Aidan Warner Burdick, Geology (GEOL) 2018, aleoecological phytolith investigation of anthropogenic vegetation change in Umstead State Park, North Carolina

Maximiliano Aldo Burgess, Physics (PHYS) 2018, The Raman Effect and Raman Spectroscopy

Gabriel Sebastian Bury, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Curvature of Spacetime: the Kerr metric

Roy Lee Cady-Kimble, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Tocqueville and Trump: Democracy Unleashed

Francesca Caracci, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Mediating Role of Silent Synapses in the Incubation of Cocaine Craving

Brandon Allen Carrillo, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, dysphoric

Brandon Allen Carrillo, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Putting the FAKE in FAKE NEWS: The relationship between trust-relevant social priming and judgments of truth

Sandra Elaine Carson, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Hematopoietic Stem Cells Adapt and Survive During Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Ryan Casperson, Economics (ECON) 2018, Soda Taxes: Necessary or Unnecessary?

Adriana Castillo, American Studies (AMST) 2018, Mi Tienda: Finding a Home Away from Home and Cultural Importance Within a Business

Sarina Chaiken, Elianna Frank, Keaton Mertz, and Carl Thomas, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Heavy-atom Quantum Tunneling

Madison Anne Chambers and Christina Marie Sieben, English (ENGL) 2018, Fisher

Avery Cheng, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Functional diversity as a measure for the effects of climate change on ecosystem functioning

Kuan Chen, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, The South Korean Conscription Law: Why Is It Unjust?

Jonathan Brian Chow, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Collected Sounds

Ben Nealon Clark, Mathematics (MATH) 2018, "From Euclid to Poncelet: The Rulers of Geometric Constructions"

Nick Cohen, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2018, Beyond Emergency Measures: Normative Politics after a Sucessful Securitization

Julia K. Connelly, Joey Long, Kevin Kowalewski, Yijun Wang, Nicki Polyakov, and Noah Brackenbury, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Taking the Winter Wellness Challenge Mobile

Donson Jeryco Allen Cook Gallardo, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Neurological Basis for Cocaine Addiction

Ben Corman, Chenxi Sun, Madeline Chosy, Raksha Kandel, Clausell Stokes, Kitty Miao, Olubusayo Bolonduro, Kate Faber, and Jack Buckner, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Earth's Next Top Model: Constraining Uncertainties in the Carbon Cycle

Emily Bliss Cudhea-Pierce and Maryam Hedayati, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Are Transfer Effects in the Cards? Mnemonic training on Speed Cards and its effects on other cognitive tasks

Emily Culver, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, “Every now and then I have to Google community organizing. I mean…am I doing that?”: Unpacking the Process of Social Capital Development in a Local Non-Profit Organization

Lynn Nicole Daniel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Afterimage

Lynn Nicole Daniel, Angel Villa, Yuhao Wan, and Maya Davis Banks, Mathematics (MATH) 2018, Recovering Edge Conductivities in Electrical Networks

Trixie Dao, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2018, The Child as a Consumer: Issues with Child-Directed Advertising

Rebecca Anne DeLand, Classics (CLST) 2018, The Treatment and Reception of a Female Philosopher

Annmarie Delfino, English (ENGL) 2018, Silver Witness

Diana Laura Delgado, Asian Studies (ASST) 2018, Neither a Good Wife nor a Wise Mother: Destabilization of Female Gender Conventions in Japanese Detective Fiction

Ian Carroll Doherty, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Atomic Aggrandizement: Considering the Role of Nuclear Weapons on Inter-State Rivalry and Conflict

Jonas Tyler Donnenfield, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Recent paleoceanographic history of the San Diego margin, California: A benthic foraminiferal perspective

Merrick Thomas Ducharme, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Addiction Related Plastic Mechanisms: A Tale of Shifts in Receptor Permeability

Emma Ruth Duggan, History (HIST) 2018, Looted, Stolen, or Confiscated: The Histories in the Restitution of Nazi Art since the Washington Principles

Michael Beelo Ebako-Hodgson, Economics (ECON) 2018, Bridging the Gap between Tribes: Trust and National identity. The Case of Equatorial Guinea

Abe Eichner, Political Science (POSC) 2018, From Moderates to Militants: Building a Model for Social Movement Organization Tactical Choice on a Moderate-Radical Axis

Nathan John Eisner, Economics (ECON) 2018, The Effect of Knowledge on Testing the Rational Expectations Hypothesis

Katie Li Eppard, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Investigating conservation of number in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) and young children (Homo sapiens) when motivation is increased

Rachel L. Everett, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Stripped Down

Nnenna O. Ezem, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, STEM vs Fem: A Cognitive and Social Approach to Examining the Different Factors Potentially Keeping Black Women Out of STEM Fields

Brandon Bernard Fabel, Economics (ECON) 2018, Pay and Performance in the National Football League: An Analysis of How Contract Type Affects Quarterback and Running Back Salaries

Rebecca Jean Fairchild, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Role of Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation in HIV Infection

Declan Robert Falls, Political Science (POSC) 2018, The Aum Shinrikyo Puzzle: Explaining the Rarity of Chemical Weapons in Terrorist Attacks

Ziyu Fan, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Applications of Nano-structured Lipid Carrier as an Improved Drug Delivery Vehicle in Cosmetic/Dermal Products

Alexa Layne Feeney, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, In The Flesh

Henry Jackson Fisher, Biology (BIOL) 2018, A Novel Mechanism of Eosinophil Recruitment, Activation, and Degranulation During Allergen Exposure in the Lungs and Gut

Anna Marie Flitner, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Examining the Influence of Intervention Programs on Kindergarten Readiness: An Evaluation of Bridges to Kindergarten

Maximilian Foster, Physics (PHYS) 2018, An even briefer history of time

Maximilian Foster, Economics (ECON) 2018, Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: The Economic Effects of Native Country's Religious Composition

Kayla Renae Frank, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Educational Exchange Programs as a Soft Power Strategy: Testing the Relationship between the US and Countries of Foreign Fulbright Alumni Turned Heads of State

Archibald McDermott Fraser, Jerrilyn Goldberg, and Zifeng Wang, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2018, Spatial misallocation of utility-scale renewable energy across Minnesota

Benjamin Stolte Frerichs, Economics (ECON) 2018, The International Impacts of Federal Reserve Unconventional Monetary Policy

Michael William Frett, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Coral-Algal Balance Between Temperature Induced Bleaching, Response, and Resilience

Brendan Austen Layard Friesen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Affinity

Benjamin Gauthier Gagnon, Economics (ECON) 2018, Picking Favorites: A Study on the Effects of Changing Competition Incentive Structure on Gambling Behavior

Rachel Cantrell Gallagher, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, "Hopes, Dreams, but No Plans": Aging Parents of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Vianne Ran Gao, Biology (BIOL) 2018, A different perspective on the intestinal stem cell niche: Gut microbes influence intestinal stem cell proliferation during intestinal regeneration

Madeline Kennedy Garcia, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Mental Spaces I,II,III

Andrew Addison Gerber, Biology (BIOL) 2018, NETosis facilitates the progression of rheumatoid arthritis through the release of PAD4 into synovial fluid

Nathan Kyler Gibes, Economics (ECON) 2018, Diluting Political Influence: The Appointment of Monetary Committee Membership and Inflation

David Carey Goodell, Lindsey Morgan Chavez, Russell Gray Smith, Rachel Marie Moore, and Jack Lincoln Wines, Computer Science (CS) 2018, The Key: Improved Data Management for the Union of Youth

Camille Mary Gordon, Economics (ECON) 2018, Does Foreign Health Aid Affect Health Inequality?

Kevin John Grow, Economics (ECON) 2018, Decisions Based on Receiver Knowledge of Advice: An Extension of the Dictator Game

Anne Hamilton, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Key Considerations in Implementation of Solar Photovoltaics

Megan Amanda Harder, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Petrography and Geothermobarometry of Calc-Silicate Rocks from the Ruby Range, SW Montana

Rachel Anna Harris, History (HIST) 2018, Preserving the Russian Identity: Environmentalism as a Platform for Literary Nationalism in the Village Prose Movement in the Soviet Union

Maurice Edward Hicks, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Lucid Dreaming Therapy as an Effective Cognitive Approach in the Treatment of PTSD

David Guadalupe Higgs, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Plasmonics

Brandon Kaelin Hilliard, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Positron Emission Tomography Ligand Guided Imaging Agents for Tumor Diagnosis and Assessment

Aaron Michael Hockett, Economics (ECON) 2018, All My Ex(Teacher)s Live in Texas: An Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Public School Teacher Turnover

Michael Collins Hoffert, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Predicting the influence of stochastic and deterministic variables on hydrothermal vent communities after eruptions

Paulina Men Min Hoong, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Examining Self-Presentation in Online Dating Using Social Exchange Theory

Liam Thomas Howe, Economics (ECON) 2018, Soccer, Stock Markets, and Investor Reactions: The Effects of World Cup Outcomes on European Financial Markets