Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2016
Ilana Marishka Crankshaw, Geology (GEOL) 2016, Analysis of Continuous Multi-Year Baseline Hydrothermal Monitoring Data for the Cascade Range Volcanoes
Kathryn Rae Crofton, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Mom Teaches Tolerance: Breast Milk, Gut Microbes, and the Induction of Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cells
Connor Ryan Dale, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2016, Inattentional Blindness in Early and Middle Childhood
Elizabeth Rae Davis, Geology (GEOL) 2016, A review of the applications of soil science to archaeological fieldwork and a preliminary study of the soils of the Mazi Plain, northwest Attica, Greece
Grace Kelsey Davis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Rhoda the Beautiful: Negotiating Gender and Proper Femininity in Television Sitcoms, Mary Tyler Moore (1970-1977) and Rhoda (1974-1978)
Jlor Mesa Dizon, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The directionality of neural crest migration relies on chemotactic signaling to counterbalance contact inhibition of locomotion
Owen Thomas Duncan, Art History (ARTH) 2016, The Transformation of the Black Square: Constructing a Religious Icon through Revolution.
Claire Edgley, English (ENGL) 2016, The Power of Social Policing: Internalized Discipline in Victorian Heroines
Lily Marie Eisenthal, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Excess and a Radical Feminine Aesthetic in Daisies and Fruit of Paradise
Joshua Ryan Elmore, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Gender, Animacy, and Variable Constraints: An OT Analysis of Leísmo, Loísmo, and Laísmo
Robert Lancaster Emmet, Mathematics (MATH) 2016, Empirical Bayes
Robert Lancaster Emmet, Classics (CLST) 2016, The waters sat down: The Poetics and Politics of Embodied River-Fights in Latin Epic
Brian Noah Engelstein, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Twitter Terrorism: Understanding and Combating The Islamic State's Use of Twitter For Recruitment and Information
Patrick H. England, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Codon Usage Bias: A Not So Silent Mechanism in Regulating Gene Expression
Thomas Rickey Felton, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Junction-Mediated and Regulatory Protein Connects Cellular Adhesion and Protrusion Regulatory Pathways.
Libby Ferris, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Philanthropy and the Great Recession: A Study of Three Generations
Jeremy Adams Fisher, Biology (BIOL) 2016, A Specialist in a Strange Land: The Role of Multi-Species Interactions and Non-Adaptive Mechanisms in Lepidoptera Specialization
Caleb Eisen Flack, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, The Effects of Supplementing the Brain Disease Model of Mental Illness with Non-Dangerousness Information on Public Stigma
Max Flignor, Economics (ECON) 2016, The Impact of MLB Player Injuries on Team Performance and Player Valuation
Natasha Alexis Flowers, Physics (PHYS) 2016, The Origins of the Cosmic Microwave Background
William Keith French, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Media, The Public, & The Westboro Baptist Church
William Fritz, History (HIST) 2016, Castles as Control
Veronica Garcia, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Casa, Home, Leaving
Taylor William Gee, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2016, Identity, Immigration, and Islam: Radicalization in the Twin Cities
Ruiqi Geng, Classics (CLST) 2016, Phalli and Vaginas in the Rites, Jokes, and Obscenities in Plautus' Rudens, Casina, and Bacchides
Grace Elizabeth Gilmore, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, SAD all Winter: The Biological Basis of Seasonal Affective Disorder
Berit Hansen Goodge, Physics (PHYS) 2016, Micro-scale Energy Generation
Samuel Evan Greaves, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The Silent Treatment: The Consequences of Synonymous Codon Selection In Exonic Binding Sites
Nora Johnson Gregor and Jackson Hudgins, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The Church That Jesse Built
Justin Grossman, History (HIST) 2016, The Prioritization of National Security and Local Distrust of Military Institutions in the case of Nomans Land Island, Massachusetts
Anna K.L. Guasco, American Studies (AMST) 2016, From Devil Fish to Friendly Leviathan: Guilty Wildlife Histories and American Gray Whale Ecotourism in Baja
Michael Ettel Archibald Habermann, Economics (ECON) 2016, Executive Compensation Tournaments: Competition Within and Across Corporate Boardrooms
Brandon Michael Hagans, Physics (PHYS) 2016, Spacecraft Propulsion
Carrie Anne Hanson, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2016, Les recherches et les représentations des identités croisées dans Shérazade : 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts de Leïla Sebbar
Russell Anthony Hanson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, No Boundaries
Sara Elizabeth Hastings, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Storm runoff pulses and their effects on phytoplankton community composition and primary productivity in estuaries
Sam Hayward, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, The Role of Language and Culture in the Better Than Average Effect: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between India and the United States
Michael Andrew Heflin, History (HIST) 2016, The Real Eastern Front: A Grassroots View to the Wehrmacht Experience
Theresa M. Heitz, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, We Call Each Other Sister: Melodrama, Ideology, and Women's Bodies in Orphan Black
Jody He, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Need for Speed: The Role of Translational Efficiency in Codon Usage Bias
Clare Zearfoss Hiyama, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2016, Kinship Across the Color Line: conceptions of Race, Racial Identity, and Racial Socialization in Interracial Mother-Daughter Relationships
Michelle Hoge, Chris Nootenboom, and Caroline von Klemperer, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2016, Spatial Optimization in Tallgrass Prairie Restoration: Tradeoffs between Ecosystem Services and Restoration Costs
Emma Frances Hughes, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western
Margaret Seidel Humm, Economics (ECON) 2016, Bringing it Home: Work, Wages, or Both?
Ellis Sweet Johnston, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Sequestration of Plant Metabolites and its Varied Usage by Generalist and Specialist Herbivores
Sarah McCook Jordan, Geology (GEOL) 2016, Strain path and thermal history of quartzite in the deep crust of Andean-style orogenic plateaus: a case study from the Wood Hills, Nevada
Nora Anderson Katz, History (HIST) 2016, Mapping Norumbega: Aesthetics of Barren and Bountiful Landscapes in Samuel de Champlain's New France, 1607-1632
Claire Anne Kelloway, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Cows, Colleges, and Conservation: How Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges managed erosion and promoted biodiversity on their rented agricultural lands
Prasidda Khadka, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Reprogramming of the immune cells by gut microbiota plays an important role in anti-tumor immunity
Madeline Butler King, English (ENGL) 2016, Disclosure
Megan Marie King, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Microbial Metabolites as Messengers: Bifidobacterium uses metabolites to modulate dendritic cell maturation, differentiation, and function with implications to Celiac Disease
Katherine Marie Koza, Philosophy (PHIL) 2016, Secrecy, Self-Determination, and Sacred Lands: Motivating Native American Land Policy Reform Through International Political Philosophy
Robert Dakota Krossa, Economics (ECON) 2016, Skill Spills: A Cross-Skill Group Analysis on Wage Spillovers of Good Jobs
Julia Krumholz, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Lyme Disease Host Frequencies Change in Response to Acorn Masts, Altering Prevalence of Borrelia Burgodorferi in Northeast American Environments
Alexander Richard Kulacki, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Dialectal Variation in German Verb Cluster Ordering
Alexander Richard Kulacki, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Generalists and Specialists in Response to Ecological Disturbance
Adam John Lacroix, Physics (PHYS) 2016, An Analysis of Space Elevator Physics
Valerie Lambert, David Anderson, Dan Hamalainen, Edward Kwiatkowski, and Sam Spaeth, Computer Science (CS) 2016, Slitherlink
Halie M. Langanki, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, An Effective Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Aidan Robin Larse, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Caffeine can increase incidence of musical chills: Interactions with song familiarity
Caroline Anna Lauth, Geology (GEOL) 2016, An Integrated Stratigraphic Analysis of the "Problem" of the Oligocene-Miocene Boundary at Monte Conero, Italy
Jae Eun Lee, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Can Reframing the Label Feminist Reduce its Stigma?
Abhimanyu Lele, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Causes of Individual Foraging Specialization
Ambrin Chi-En Ling, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Basic Needs/Higher Order
Kera Chi-Hwei Ling, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Introspective Bodies
Julia Barritt Lisi, History (HIST) 2016, Wearing the Robes: Gender Performance, Religion, and Power
Tsi Yan Jacqueline Liu, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, My Conversation with Gong-gong (myself)
Nathan Matz Livingston, Chemistry (CHEM) 2016, Editing in the Aminoacyl tRNA-Synthetases
Margaret M. Lloyd, Religion (RELG) 2016, Embodied Sikhism: Sikh Navigation of Prejudice and Identity in Post-9/11 America
Nicoletta Irey LoVerso, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Effects of Social Anxiety on Visual Perspectives in Memory and Episodic Future Thought
de Macedi Khuaten Maaneb, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The role of carbohydrate subtypes in T cell population modification, intestinal epithelial cell tight junction integrity, and autoimmune disease
Lindsey Kirk Main, Economics (ECON) 2016, How Efficient is the Art Market? An Analysis of Art Market Efficiency and its Evolution Across Time in Comparison with the Stock and Housing Markets
Henry Dillon Maler, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, A Small Revolution: Reconstructing A National Identity in Post-Financial Crisis Greek Cinema
Brandon Lamar Marks, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Correlation of Identity Style and Personality with Prosocial Behavior
Philip-Peter Joachim Maxeiner, Geology (GEOL) 2016, The Origin of Cetaceans and Observational Based Lessons
Madison Lee McBride, History (HIST) 2016, "The Circle is Complete': Adoptive Heritage Tourism as a Structure in the International Adoption Complex
Grace McNeely, History (HIST) 2016, Bleeding Beyond the Frame: Understanding the Relationship Between Biblical Battle and Kingship in the Thirteenth-Century Morgan Picture Bible (MS M.638)
Alice Mei, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, He Said, She Said: Exploring Cognitive Processing and Gender in Perceived Influence of Speech
Sarah Miriam Meister, English (ENGL) 2016, How May I Compare this Prison ... unto the World? The Interpretive Value of Prison Shakespeare
Matthew Allen Mensinger, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The Ecological Influences of Semelparous Salmon and Anthropogenic Nutrient Subsidies in Riparian Systems
Ian George Mercer, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Extracting Plato from Platonism: Beyond Good and Evil as a Response to Republic
Anil Tomi Methipara, Economics (ECON) 2016, Income Inequality and Population Health Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Cause for Concern?
Darcy Mishkind, Biology (BIOL) 2016, A Codon of Silence: The effects of synonymous codon optimization and de-optimization on translation
Ilana Joy Mishkin, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Ladino Copular Variation: A Case Study of Seattle Ladino Heritage Speakers
Anya Moradian, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Commissural axons require additional cues that modulate the Netrin pathway and ensure proper guidance
Brent Alexander Murcia and Jacob Thedore Wasserman, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2016, Beefing Up Local Meat Production: Studying Constraints on Local Meat in Southern Minnesota
Christian Paul Nagy, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, In-group facilitation through athletics
Hannah Jean Nayowith, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Being Palestinian, It's a Curse: Non-Activist Women's Perspectives on Palestinian National Liberation
Shaylin Fay Nguyen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The Travelogue Meets The Diary Film in Change of Course
Robert Nieves, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Family Moments
Christopher William Nootenboom, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Whale Falls and the Species-Energy Theory: Dual Resource Pulses that Promote Global Diversity as Evolutionary Stepping Stones
Hallie Ojala-Barrett, Art History (ARTH) 2016, Bernardo Daddi's Triptych at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Fourteenth Century Private Devotion
Robert Otsuka, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, The Transistor
Florence Emily Pollard, Economics (ECON) 2016, The Relationship between Parent and Child Occupational Safety and Health Risk Levels in the African American Community
Jordan Marie Pruszenski, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Examining migratory ungulates as a resource pulse and their effects on the species in their migratory range
Victoria Elisabeth Rachmaninoff, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Proximity
David Clinton Racine, Philosophy (PHIL) 2016, Reconciling Partiality and Impartiality: How Morality Separates Good Partial Reasons from the Bad
Shraddha Raghavan, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Extracellular matrix components play a critical role in the segmental migration of trunk neural crest cells
Caroline Leigh Roberts, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Positive Outcome in Siblings of Children with Developmental Disabilities
Andy Rodgers, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Understanding host shifts in phytophagous insects and their role in diversification
