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.

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Graduated in 2019 2019

Olivia Sterling-Maisel, Psychology (PSYC) 2019, Narcissism in Organizational Contexts: Do You Want Narcissists in Your Workplace?

Sam Stevenson, Physics (PHYS) 2019, X-Wings and Movement: An Exploration of Modern and Near-Future Interstellar Propulsion

Emma Stewart, Biology (BIOL) 2019, Mechanisms of microbiota-host crosstalk: how microbial short chain fatty acids influence host lipid metabolism and adiposity

Dan Sullivan, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2019, An Economy of Belonging: Transnational Exchange within the Cameroonian Diaspora

Jonas Sun, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, Be Thy Sight

Justine Szafran, Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, Ink Wash Documentation

Julian Szieff, Biology (BIOL) 2019, Repression of GABA Inhibition from Parvalbumin Containing Basket Cells in the Prefrontal Cortex as an Epigenetic Model for Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia

Maddie Talamantes, Biology (BIOL) 2019, Improving homing-based gene drives in Anopheles to prevent the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum

Sandra M. Taylor, Psychology (PSYC) 2019, Monitoring Mental Health Through The Use of Mobile Sensoring of Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability

Allan Thekkepeedika, Economics (ECON) 2019, Novelty in the America Invents Act: The Impact of First-to-File on Innovation

Adam Throne, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2019, Beyond the Water’s Edge: Understanding the Impact of Public Pressure upon the Composition of United States Foreign Policy Decisions (1993 – 2004)

Elaine Tian, Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, Anatomize, Atomize, Me

Chris Tordi, Eva Grench, Alex Davis, Ethan Cassel-Mace, Hannah Barnstone, and Miaoye Que, Computer Science (CS) 2019, Harnessing Carleton's Forgotten Data: Energy Analytics for Improved Campus Sustainability

Max L. Trostel, Physics (PHYS) 2019, Predicting the Weather: The Physics of Earth’s Atmosphere

Zachary Trottier, Biology (BIOL) 2019, Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction Following Sleep Disturbance: Neurophysiological Mechanisms and Their Implications For Cardiovascular Function

Diana Tyutyunnyk, Biology (BIOL) 2019, The LINC is the Link: A New Hypothesis for Laminopathies

Valerie Umscheid, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2019, Academic Self-Concept, Theory of Intelligence, and Overconfidence in Late Elementary School

Byron Valenzuela, Economics (ECON) 2019, The Impact of Property Rights Protections for Women on Economic Growth

Anna Viner, Psychology (PSYC) 2019, The Importance of Replication as Applied to the Milgram Studies

Andrew Wallace-Jackson, Biology (BIOL) 2019, GIT Th17 Cells and HIV: A Balance Between Supporting Viral Success and Combatting Disease Progression

Abby Walling, Biology (BIOL) 2019, DNA Methylation is a Dynamic Process Necessary for Creating and Storing Persistent yet Adaptable Memories

Sara Wall, Geology (GEOL) 2019, Characterization of a Runoff-initiated Post-fire Debris Flow in the Western Cascades, Oregon: Implications for high severity fire in the Pacific Northwest

Elyse Wanzenried, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2019, Evolving Equality: Gender Quotas, Female Parliamentary Representation, and Peace

Sarah Ward, Geology (GEOL) 2019, Textural Characteristics of Pumice from a Postglacial Plinian Eruption at Laguna del Maule, Southern Chile: Implications for Magma Ascent Dynamics

Julia Wellisch, Psychology (PSYC) 2019, Understand and Preventing Vicarious Trauma in Counseling Professionals

Lena Elisabeth White, Psychology (PSYC) 2019, Never Forget, Never Again: Effects of Historical Victimization on Jewish Attitudes Towards the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Patrick Wigent, Art History (ARTH) 2019, Towards A Network Aesthetics: The Power of Art in a Neoliberal Age

Lucas Winter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2019, Visitor

Ana Beatriz Yanes Martinez, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2019, (De)Constructing Salvadoreñidad: Digital Counterpublics as Spaces of Transnational Identity and Community Building

Amanda Zeilinger, Studio Art (ARTS) 2019, Closeness Generator

Amanda Zeilinger, Art History (ARTH) 2019, Watching You, Watching Me: the intersection of legality and ethics In Arne Svenson’s 2013 series “The Neighbors”

Graduated in 2018 2018

Wisdom Akpan, Brittany Brookner, Byun Ben, Isaac Donnell, Lydia Hanson, Hiroshi Nakajima, Austin Rae, Malu Suresh, and Aditya Vaze, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Engineering Life: Exploring Novel Applications of Directed Evolution

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