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Graduated in 2018

 

Arthur Richard Chaput McCray, Physics (PHYS) 2018, The Physics of Ice

 

Anna R. McGinn, Religion (RELG) 2018, William James, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Religious Freedom: The Twelve Steps as an American Religious Movement

 

David Cheng McKinley, Economics (ECON) 2018, Isolating Discrimination in the Sexual Orientation Wage Gap

 

Kevin Mei, Economics (ECON) 2018, Urbanization, Knowledge Spillovers, and Economic Growth: An Analysis of U.S. Cities from 2005 to 2016

 

Daihui Meng, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, On Happiness: A Conversation Between Daoism and Existentialism

 

Daihui Meng, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Untitled

 

Lauren Esther Michael, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Using ground penetrating radar (GPR) to image the Bald Spot: A test of concept for the use of GPR in Carleton geology classes

 

Dustin Tobias Michels, Carolyn Ryan, Jack Lightbody, Jonathan Bisila, Kiya Govek, and Zephyr Lucas, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Unified Energy System: What's the Point?

 

Julia Zieve Miller, History (HIST) 2018, "Simplicity for the Sake of Equality": Reform German-Jewish Death Practices in 19th Century Boston

 

Sarah Min, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Adult SVZ Niche Signals Drive NSC Maintenance and Neuronal Differentiation

 

Mallory Laura Mintz, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Tracing Sediment Source Response to Water Infrastructure Development and Management in Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Montana

 

Kelcie Malia Molina, Linguistics (LING) 2018, Tawkin Enikain at Sku: An Examination of Hawaiʻi Creole English in an Academic Setting

 

Tyrone Moore-Perez, Religion (RELG) 2018, Anime, Manga, and "Religion" in Modern Japan

 

Avinash Moorthy, Economics (ECON) 2018, Do Students Benefit from an Extra Year of High School? A Study of Ontario's Removal of Grade 13

 

Adam Gabriel Moreno-Mendelson, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Sister Morphine: Treating Adolescent Opioid Addiction

 

Theo James Morris and Peixuan Ouyang, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Analog of the Between

 

Aidan Francis Mullan, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, My Group is Better Than Yours: Perception of Personality and Character Differences Under Minimal Groups

 

Nina Emily Muller, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Resilience Through Dog Ownership and its Applications

 

Anna Nachbor, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Diseased Environment of the Cystic Fibrosis Lung: The Interplay of Lung Health, the Microbiome, and Chronic Settlers

 

Micah Jazz Nacht, Ju Yun Kim, Daniel William Mayer, Adam Avery Tigar, Lazar Radomir Zamurovic, and Xingfan Xia, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Tree Discovery: Applying Machine Learning to Determine Document Relevancy

 

Avery Laurel Naughton, History (HIST) 2018, Conservation Portrayed in Black and White: The Smithsonian's National Zoo's Representation and Use of the Giant Panda as a Symbol

 

Alyssa Nicole Neidhart, Economics (ECON) 2018, Does Female Labor Force Participation Impact Total Factor Productivity? A Time-Series Analysis of the United States between 1950 and 2014

 

Heidi Neidhart, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Nuptial gift-giving induces sexual conflict in insects

 

Olivia Marie Nyberg, Religion (RELG) 2018, Women in Pain: How Narratives of Pain and Sacrifice Complicate the Debate over the Catholic Provision of Obstetrical Care

 

Sarah Naomi Ohashi, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Role of Neutrophil Elastase and Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in the Progression of Cancer

 

Tyler J. O'Keefe, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Effects of Fe-P co-limitation of N2-fixation on Trichodesmium physiology in the oligotrophic ocean and the implications of global change phenomena on this biochemical balance

 

Timothy K. Oliver, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Gender and Partner Type Have Significant Effects on Theory of Planned Behavior Variables Regarding Condom Use

 

Alex John Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Folds and Facets: The Functional Form

 

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