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Graduated in 2018

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

Kharmen Bharucha, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Dendritic Cells: Crucial Mediators of Chemotherapy Response and Resistance

Gabrielle Bierlein-De La Rosa, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Increased Fos Expression in the Right Prefrontal Infralimbic Subregion of Sexually Experienced Female Rats

Sam Blackburn, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Controls on Microbial Respiration in the Sandy Beach Face at Cape Henlopen, DE

Daniel Max Black, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Pair Bonding and Romantic Love are Driven by Parallel Reward Areas but Differ in Recruitment of Cortical and other Sub-Cortical Areas

Pete C. Boerma, Geology (GEOL) 2017, The Formation of Basaltic Amygdules in the North Shore Volcanics Group

Kyra Bornong, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Development of Boulder Beach Facies Models and Characterization of the Depositional Environment of the Mill Street Conglomerate at Taylors Falls, Minnesota, U.S.A.

Samuel Boswell, Ryan Saeta, Tore Banta, Alex Mathson, Aditya Subramanian, and Charlie Enriquez-Sarano, Computer Science (CS) 2017, Making Your Advisor Obsolete: A Dialogue System

Danae Bowen, Jackie Dowling, Owen Freed, Dylan Saline, Mike Trenerry, and Seth Waag-Swift, Chemistry (CHEM) 2017, Dyes and Dots: The Chemistry of Harvesting Sustainable Energy

Alexandra Lee Braiedy, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Abiotic drivers of regime shifts in shallow benthic polar communities

Claire Anne Branigin, Biology (BIOL) 2017, The Consequences of Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Use for the Invasibility of the Gut Microbiome

Allison Anna Brown, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, The Comorbidity of Psychopathy and Substance Abuse Disorder

Hunter Emmet Brown, Studio Art (ARTS) 2017, f = (c/2)((n/L)^2+(m/W)^2+(p/H)^2)^(1/2) Hz (Resonance)

Samuel Hunter Brown, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Environmental Stress and a Model for Epigenetic Inheritance

Violet Aurora Brown, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, More Than Meets the Ear: Contributions of Vision to Spoken Word Recognition

Peter Anthony Bruno, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2017, The Role of Globalization in Latin America's Social Policy Expansion: Evaluating the Linkages of the Compensation Hypothesis in Argentina and Costa Rica

Jocelene Caballero, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Exploring Prejudice Reduction Models: How effective is Intergroup Contact in Reducing Prejudice in School Children?

Margaret Mary Carragher, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2017, My Big, Fat, (Expensive) American Wedding: Insights from wedding industry content

Felicity Renate Baxter Carroll, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Is Specialization a Dead End? Effects of Specialization on Evolutionary Success

Cynthia Chang, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Role of p300/CBP Histoneacetyltransferase Activity in Long Term Memory Formation of the Hippocampus

Amy Chen, Chemistry (CHEM) 2017, Modifications and Properties of Catechol-Functionalized Self-Healing Polymers

Gabriella Sophia Chen, Chemistry (CHEM) 2017, Understanding the Mechanisms by which phosphorylation of Site 1 of PDH-E1 and an adjacent Tyr272 residue promotes the Warburg Effect in Cancer cells

Sijin Chen, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Tactical Deception in Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

Sanjay Nathan Field Chepuri, Physics (PHYS) 2017, The Cosmic Microwave Background

Lisa Cheung, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Activation of SREBPs induce de novo lipogenesis to support tumorigenesis in cancer cells

Rachel Stephanie Cheung, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Expansion of the Outer Subventricular Zone in the Neocortex: aRG Differentiation & bRG Proliferation