Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2018
Peycen Ouyang, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Untitled
Helen Anne Paglia, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, ΔFosB/FosB expression in the ventromedial hypothalamus as an indicator of the rewarding aspects of olfactory/auditory cues of mating in sexually naïve female rats
Guillermo Julian Palmer, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Peacekeeping and the Keeping of Peace
Chris Wesley Parsons, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Reconstructing the History of the Proliferation of Genes involved in the Biological Nitrogen Cycle
Grant Stephen Patronik, Economics (ECON) 2018, ECB Monetary Policy Under the Rotational Voting Scheme: Do National Biases Exist?
Kira Patterson, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The role of intersecting Yap and Beta-catenin pathways on the maturation of cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells
Victoria Cragg Peterson, Economics (ECON) 2018, Woman Against Woman: An Experimental Approach to Single-Gender Competitive Performance
Kelsey T. Plank and Wendy Lo, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Conceptual Pacts: Optimizing the Spectrum of Flexibility for Effective Communication
Abby Greene Polk, Religion (RELG) 2018, The Divine Feminine on Earth: A Comparison of Two Contemporary AvatAras of the Goddess
Abigail Greene Polk, Religion (RELG) 2018, The Divine Feminine on Earth: A Comparison of Two Contemporary AvatAras of the Goddess
Laudie Rose Soltero Porter, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, "Though this be madness, yet this is method in 't" The role of dialectic shifting in the comprehension of Shakespearean verse
Naomi River Price-Lazarus, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2018, Resisting Precarity: How "At-Risk" Youth Embody, Perform, and Contest their Ascribed Identities
Walter Dirk Pugil, Japanese (JAPN) 2018, The Invisible Japanese: Buraku Identity and Education in "Education, Discrimination, and I"
Margot Saranna Radding, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, Pawns of a Public Health System: Actors and Authority in North Indian Prenatal Care
Laura Joan Rafferty, Economics (ECON) 2018, Can Bad Unemployment News Be Good for Stocks? A Sectoral Analysis of the Stock Market's Reaction to Unemployment Rate Announcements
Adante Ratzlaff, Kerim Celik, Chelsea Ying, Charlie Anderson, Teddy Willard, and Lucy Wu, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Prairie 2: A Digital Toolkit for Historians
Gina Marie Ray, Economics (ECON) 2018, The Effects of Social History on Beliefs of Reciprocity in the Trust Game
Flora S. Richey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, Paradox in Akademia: Senses of Place in the Cowling Arboretum
Miguel Rincon Cervantes, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Estrogen Levels of the Female Reproductive Tract are Positively Correlated with Stability of the Vaginal Microbiome and Lactobacillus Abundance
Tyler Joseph Rolland, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Patterning of the Developing Neural Tube Due to Interactions of Sonic Hedgehog and the Gli Family Zinc Finger
Henry Alexander Rook, Physics (PHYS) 2018, The Space Cable
Kayla Rose Rudess, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Bloom Where You're Planted
Andrew Herbert Ruvkun, Economics (ECON) 2018, Measuring the Contributions of Transportation Infrastructure to Economic Growth in the 21st Century
Mary Ann Savoye, English (ENGL) 2018, Islands and Memories, Place and Grief
Chenoa Schatzki-McClain, Economics (ECON) 2018, Making it Work: the Added Worker Effect and the Labor Supply of Wives in Urban Indonesia
Noah von Schulthess Scheer, Art History (ARTH) 2018, The Micrographic Art of Emanuel Listnau
Soren Weigt Schlassa, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, Rational Induction: A Reply to Goodman
John William Scott, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Josephson Junctions: From Physics to Functions
Preethiya Sekar, Biology (BIOL) 2018, A Time-Dependent Synergistic Mechanism of Id1+ Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Mobilization to the Premetastatic Niche
Abigail Sharer, Spanish (SPAN) 2018, Examinando la expulsión: contando la historia subyacente de los moriscos en España durante los siglos XV y XVI
Abigail Sharer, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Exercising Effectiveness: Examining the Relationship Between Exercise, Self-Efficacy, and Anxiety
Jonah Krammer Shaw, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Radiative transfer in the earth-atmosphere-space system
Abigail Lucille Sheldon, Linguistics (LING) 2018, Semantic Motivations and Consequences of Scrambling in Japanese
Alexandra Shin, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Undercover Agents of Addiction: How Drugs of Abuse Alter Silent Synapses in the Nucleus Accumbens
Camden Allan Shireman Sikes, Xi Chen, Maryam Hedayati, Aman Panda, Duo Tao, and Tegan Ellen Wilson, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Does the Net Work? Computationally Modeling Differences in the Mental Lexicon
Lucy Thorne Soule, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Neural Crest Migration: The Push and Pull Of Collective Movement
Lia Yili Spencer, Biology (BIOL) 2018, TGF-β’s Role in the Development of Endometriosis
Sylvie Elizabeth Stanback, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Jewelry comps
Emma Jeannette Starr, Classics (CLST) 2018, Women's Participation in the Public Sphere: an Examination of the Epistolary Evidence
Molly Bimao Steinberg, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, The Untold Stories of Chinese Adoptees: Experiencing Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in the United States
Mark Dailey Steitz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, Parkour and Freerunning Philosophy: How the way we move influences our relationship with our environment
Lucy Kepford Stevens, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, In My Pocket
Kaya Seneca Stitzhal, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Groundwater Contribution to Cowling Arboretum Wetlands
Rebecca Akado Stover, Religion (RELG) 2018, The Process of Soteriological Ontology Through the Hermeneutics of Nāgārjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakārikā
Kendra L. Strode, Physics (PHYS) 2018, The CMS Detector at the LHC: Physics of the detector
Avery Angell Swearer, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The role of miR-133a and RARβ2 in salamander axonal regeneration after spinal cord injury and theurupeutic implications for mammalian recovery
Lydia Duchatellier Norris Symchych, History (HIST) 2018, Irradiated Bodies: Hibakusha & Radiation Stigma in Post-War Japan from 1945 to the 1980s
Claire H. Tan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, The State of Captivity
Duo Tao, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Determining the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe by Observing Type Ia Supernovae
Eric Cullen Taylor, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Intralocus Sexual Conflict and the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism
Terence W. Taylor, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Shattered Memories
Jepheny Paajyi Thao, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Anti-inflammatory Roles of Neutrophils in Gout
Elaina Grace Thomas, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Effects of dispersal ability and spatial scale on niche and neutral processes
Eliza May Thomas, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Bank stability of Spring Creek, Northfield, Minnesota, between 1999 and 2017: A comprehensive analysis of natural bank recovery after substantial flooding
Alison Kate Tilson, Economics (ECON) 2018, It's a Man's World: How the Gender Wage Gap Impacts Economic Growth
Madeline Topf, Biology (BIOL) 2018, A high-fiber diet-associated gut microbiota protects against obesity
Martha Torstenson, Rebecca Deland, Jon Gillespie, and Killian Roberts, Mathematics (MATH) 2018, Shadows of the Cantor Set (II)
Steve Muhammad Toure, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Media Representation: Effects on Perception of Women and Gendered Performances
Juan Sebastian Tovar Montanez, Political Science (POSC) 2018, The Effects of a National Embrace of Africanness on Afro-Descendant Communities in Latin America: A Study of Brazil and Colombia
Katie Olsen Tritschler, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Learning in Two Languages: Examining Language Allocation Practices in Immersive Primary Education
Allison S. Tucker, American Studies (AMST) 2018, So Far from Community: Concerts, Collaborative Consumption, and the Commodification of Community
Alperen Turrkol, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Remembering Ads: Relationship between Types of Recall and Effectiveness of Advertisements
Danielle Briana Vasiliev, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Neutrophil NETs: Crucial Mediators of Deep Vein Thrombosis
Sabrina Ellena Velasco, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, The Link Between the Brain-Gut Axis and Depression via Tryptophan Metabolism and Microbes
Benjamin William Votroubek, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Secessionary Movements, Too Weak to Succeed: An Examination of Secessionary Theory and its Applications, as it Pertains to Iraqi Kurdistan
Michael Vue, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Txiv Neeb - Shaman
Sarah B. Waldfogel, Economics (ECON) 2018, Avoiding the Bunching Effect: Evidence from the Lab
Alexander Theodore Walker, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, On Christmas Morning I Woke Up to a Blizzard
Emma Fierro Wallace, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, 30 Chickens
Preston Rivers Wallin, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Analysis of spring hydrology using temperature and isotope data at the Caribou River in Lake County, Minnesota
Zixuan Wang, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, "Knowing Beyond the Socio-historical and the Collective": A Critical Analysis of Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice
Emma Lee Nesbitt Westbrook, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest
Emma Lee Nesbitt Westbrook, Art History (ARTH) 2018, Disparate Truths: An examination of the ethics of political art
Andrew Liebenstein Wheeler, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Membrane Permeability and the Origin of Cellular Life
Caroline McConnell Wheeler, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Statistical Inference in College Students and Cotton-Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
Sara White, Religion (RELG) 2018, Confronting Black Suffering, Resisting Systemic Violence: An Anabaptist Theology of Racial Justice
Catharine McCurdy Williams, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Intuit
Issa Sylvan Wilson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Critique, Collect, Connect
Tegan Ellen Wilson, Mathematics (MATH) 2018, Electrical Networks and Applications in Mathematical Theory
Kadin William Woolever and Willa Freidl Gruver, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2018, Rice County Farmers & the Conservation Reserve Program: Comparing Congressional & Local Perspectives
Andrew Thomas Lawrence Woosnam, Olivia Carwen Phillips, John William Kennelly, Martin Richard Green, Veronica Child, and Jesse Jerome Pierre Bolton, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Carleton Energy Mobile App
Solomon Blake Yanuck, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Exercise Induces Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation in a Platelet-Dependent Manner
Alexander James Yeagle, Economics (ECON) 2018, Google Search Trends and the S&P 500: A Behavioral Explanation of Inefficient Markets
Will Daniel Yetvin, American Studies (AMST) 2018, The Organization Formerly Known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society: HIAS' Organizational Development and the Invention of Jewish American Tradition
Anne Sophie Zanger, Linguistics (LING) 2018, All of Our [dʌdz] in a Row: Individual Differences in the Effects of Intervening Vowels on Consonant Assimilation
Eddy Zaragoza, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Fra,le
Miko Nathaniel Zeldes-Roth, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Jewishness and Zionism, Justice and Forgiveness: Approaching Binationalism in Israel/Palestine
Jia Zhang, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, The Palladium Mediated Aromatic-Trifluoromethylation Reactions
Christine Zheng, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Life in the Stuff of Dreams Project
Elizabeth Zheng, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Re-Poopulating the Gut: Why Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is a more effective treatment of Clostridium difficile infections
Arielle Liang Zuaro, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Sudden Arrival
Arielle Liang Zuaro, Religion (RELG) 2018, Saints Alive: Devotion and Destruction Through Kinetic Sculpture
Graduated in 2017
Kennyi Aouad, Reina Desrouleaux, Teddy Donnell, Clare Leahy, Calvin Phan, Eli Ruffer, and Emily Tonogai, Chemistry (CHEM) 2017, Breaking News: X-ray Crystallography Catches Metalloenzymes in Action!
Gillian Margaret Applegate, Religion (RELG) 2017, Buddhists Who Kill: Buddhist War Ethics in Sri Lanka
Josephine Li Arcuri, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Why are lakes expanding in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain?
Moriah Rebecca Arnold, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Matrix metalloproteinase dysregulation during various stages of neuronal development leads to Autism Spectrum Disorder phenotypes via integrin α/β and BDNF signaling pathways
Lauren Azuma, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Examining the evolution of insecticide resistance in Bacillus thuringiensis crops and a recommendation for delaying resistance
Peter Alexander Barron, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Monitoring the Fate of Artificial Reefs: Using Hydrographic Methods to Examine Degradation and Movement
Andrew Benjamin Bernstein, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Antioxidants are not the Cure: Glutathione-mediated Redox Homeostasis Promotes Cancer Initiation and Survival
Serena Rose Bernthal-Jones, Economics (ECON) 2017, Does Female Labor Force Participation Affect Fertility? A Time Series-Analysis of Sweden between 1974 and 2014
