Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2017
Sanders Kai McMillan, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Creativity Embodied
Leslie Shuying Mei, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, The Effect of Feedback Presentation on Perceptions of Personality Assessment
Madeleine Merchant, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Group Differences in Audiovisual Integration
Brynna Mering, Wanchen Yao, Sam Neubauer, Marco Dow, Zoe Peterson, and Margaret Crenshaw, Computer Science (CS) 2017, AlgeBar: A Bar Modeling iPad App for Algebra Students and Teachers
Kazia Mermel, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Sex gets hotter: Evolutionary responses of reptile sex determination to climate change
Moses Misplon, Physics (PHYS) 2017, Closing loopholes in experimental Bell tests
Zachary Taylor Montes, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Hallucination as a Response to the Ecological Approach to Perception
Charles Hancock Moore, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Multisensory Illusions in Peripersonal Space Using Tools in Reality and Virtual Reality
Jeanne G. Moua, Biology (BIOL) 2017, M2 Macrophage Polarization and Tumor Invasion: Regulating Anti-Inflammatory NF-kB
Kyle Martin Mou, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Autophagy-mediated aerobic glycolysis in the tumor stroma supports oxidative metabolism in cancer cells: metabolic coupling in the tumor microenvironment
Laura Nakasaka, Studio Art (ARTS) 2017, Gallery
Justin Ross Nathan, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Cardiac Fibroblasts as the Primary Drivers of Cardiac Fibrosis: A Study of Injury-Induced miRNA Dysregulation
Aidan Thomas Murphy Neher, Biology (BIOL) 2017, DNA methylation transformations essential to cocaine action
Amelia Julie Neilson, Biology (BIOL) 2017, The Flux Capacity: A mechanism for PCK-driven glutamine utilization and mTORC1 activation in cancer
Austin Reid Neureiter, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, ADHD: A Cross Cultural Examination of Measured Prevalence
Alexander Christopher Newkirk, Physics (PHYS) 2017, The Evolution of C:The Development of the Modern Understanding of Light Speed
Nicole Alexandra Nipper, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2017, ISIS and al-Qaeda: Understanding and Differentiating Worldviews
Spencer Roman O'Bryan, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Beaver occupation and sediment budget: Panther Brook, Huntington Wildlife Forest, Newcomb, NY
Haley Caldwell Olson, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Detrital zircons from the Yakutat terrane, Alaska: Differentiating the Schist of Nunatak Fiord from the Yakutat Group flysch and mélange.
Rachel Elizabeth Olson, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Factors Contributing to Eating Disorder Prevalence in Post-Communist Czech Republic
Amanda Jin Yu Owensby, Linguistics (LING) 2017, Interpreting [e]: The Reformulation of a Gricean Framework in Understanding Null Categories in Mandarin Chinese
Acer Kaiaina Takeo Pahukoa, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Perceived Differences and Stigma Associated with Gender in Sports
Nayon Park, Chemistry (CHEM) 2017, Designing a Super Material: Sonochemical Functionalization of Graphene
Erin L. Patrick, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Characterization of a calcareous fen in the Cannon River Wilderness Area, Minnesota
Erin L. Patrick, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2017, The Greek δό μ ος‚ as an interpretive model of relational space within the Medea
Stefan Erik Payne-Wardenaar, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Creating Documentary Films in Geology: The Geology of Northfield, Minnesota
Emily Morissa Perlman, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2017, I Am the Flag of Islam: Identity Negotiation Among Somali Muslim Women in Minnesota
Lauren Tolkemitt Pflughoeft, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Salmon migratory adaptation in the Anthropocene
Riley Jacob Phelps, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Choking Under Pressure in Sport and the Ameliorating Effects of Education
Katharine Johanne Picard, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, The Role of Family in the Development and Treatment of Eating Disorders
Koehler Ray Powell, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Born This Way: Transgenerational Epigenetic Transmission of Preconception Stress
Maud Hudson Prineas, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Tumor Destruction Using Immunotherapy
Robbye Devyn Raisher, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Does Music Make You Smarter? The Legacy of the Mozart Effect®
Jackson Friedrich Raynor, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Crosstalk between signaling pathways: A holistic approach to understanding fibrosis
Joshua Kamau Reason, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2017, Incomodando os brancos: Blackness & Urban Space in Salvador da Bahia
Alison Marie Reilly, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2017, The Devil's West
Noriega Alondra Rodriguez, Political Science (POSC) 2017, Power in Positive Advertising? Spanish Political Campaigns Say Sí
Maximilian Dimitrios Rohde, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Characterizing Local Variability in Long-Period Horizontal Tilt Noise
Emily Odessa Ross, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Physical models of a locked-to-creeping transition along a strike-slip fault: Comparison with the San Andreas fault system in central California
Jesse Rothbard, Spanish (SPAN) 2017, Al filo del abismo: Roberto Arlt, Rodolfo Walsh y el género policial argentino
Chloe Heath Rouhandeh, Geology (GEOL) 2017, The effect of coastal storms and hurricanes on two south shore Long Island embayments
Jesse Keen Rubin, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Horizontal Well Production of the Wolfcamp A Package in the Wolfcamp Shale Formation in the Midland Basin
Joshua Bowman Ruebeck, Physics (PHYS) 2017, Quantum Communication, Shannon Theory, and Error Correction
Joshua Bowman Ruebeck, Music (MUSC) 2017, True Story
Adam Alexei Rutkowski, Physics (PHYS) 2017, Physics of Fusion Energy
Leah E. Sacks, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Grain-Scale Methods and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Stimson Formation, Gale Crater, Mars
Zayn Saifullah, Political Science (POSC) 2017, The Effects of Nationalism on Learning in Recurring Crises: Evidence from India's Changing Kashmir Strategy
Anna LeMay Schmiel, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2017, Herding Cats: The Process of Statebuilding and Challenging the Market in the Modern Era
Georgia M. Schmitt, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Causes and cures for psychiatric illness: An examination of microRNA’s role in regulating behavior
Aaron David Schwab, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Effects of grazing and fire on soil carbon and nitrogen in Minnesota tallgrass prairie
Ruyi NA Shen, Ben Lortie Smolinsky Withbroe, Kirsten Alvira Baker, Tom NA Choi, and Will NA Richards, Computer Science (CS) 2017, Where the Rubber Meets the Code: Autonomous Vehicle Development in a Simulated Environment
Kaylee Shiao, Biology (BIOL) 2017, The Role of HOX Genes in Patterning and Development in the Fin-To-Limb Transition
Ryann Elizabeth Shor, Biology (BIOL) 2017, There Will Be Blood: Vascular Mimicry Perpetuates an Aggressive Cancer Phenotype
Lianne Siegel, Melissa Bain, Il Shan Ng, and Caitlin Eichten, Mathematics (MATH) 2017, Estimating the Uncertainty in Temperature Trends Due to Internal Climate Variability
Pombie Silverman, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Dietary Patterns and Self-Harm Risk in Adolescents
Pombie Sarah Camilla Magalhaes Silverman, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Dietary Patterns and Self-Harm Risk In Adolescents
Anna Pauliina Smith, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Effects of Cortical Schemas on Memory Trace Competition
Elizabeth Devin Smith, History (HIST) 2017, Patient People, American Nurses' Battle with Tuberculosis, Gender Dynamics, and Professionalization in Early 20th Century Minnesota
Owen Rourke Solis, Political Science (POSC) 2017, Justice and Punishment: Problematizing Our Reliance on Retribution
Laura Katherine Soter, Philosophy (PHIL) 2017, Implicit Bias, Responsibility, and Criticism
Laura Katherine Soter, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Is Lying Less Wrong in a Foreign Language? Everyday Moral Reasoning and the Moral Foreign Language Effect in the Absence of Outcome Information
Katherine Prothero Sperry, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Ocean warming and receding sea ice drive the changing biogeography of kelps
Perrin Stein, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Evaluation of saturated buffer capacity to attenuate nitrate from agricultural land, Dakota County, MN
Brett Eric Sterk, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Dynamic DNA Methylation as an Essential Epigenetic Regulator of Memory Consolidation
Hettie Kathryn Stern, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2017, Deaf Literacy: Learning to Read English with Strong ASL Skills
Michael John Stoneman, Joseph Feik Adkisson, James David Emery, Alex Davis Griese, Zack Culver Considine, and Danny Joseph Leal, Computer Science (CS) 2017, Fix My Bug
Isabel Sophia Storey, Political Science (POSC) 2017, The Effects of Partisanship on Police Killings of African-American Youth
Eric Bruce Tallman, Economics (ECON) 2017, The Environmental Impact of Single-Use Zoning: A Case Study of the Relationship between the Built Environment and Private-Vehicles in Chandigarh, India
Geraldine Tellbuescher, Biology (BIOL) 2017, The Role of DNA Methylation and Histone Methylation in Addictive Behavior
Melanie Hagen Teruya, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, I told you not to listen! Do warnings decrease the effect of Social Contagion on false memory formation?
Claire Lorane Thallon, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, The Pathophysiology of Alzheimer's in the Entorhinal Cortex: Evidence for an integrative model on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
Ka Thao, Biology (BIOL) 2017, Photodynamic Therapy Induces Immunogenic Cell Death in Cancer Cells
Anna Carrie Thompson, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Vesicle Distribution in Glaciovolcanic Pillow Lava from Undirhlíðar, Southwest Iceland
Kayla Danielle Marie Toney, Studio Art (ARTS) 2017, To Someone I Never Knew/To Someone Who Wants to Learn
Sarah P. Trachtenberg, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2017, “Carving out space to envision a future of shared liberation”: Community-Building and World-Making Around Gender and Sexuality in the Twin Cities
Ethan Joel Trujillo, Ian Kodjovi Kpachavi, and Ria Sekhawat, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Brand Recognition: The Impacts of Fear and Humor
Stephanie Valle and Kelsey Qu, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, The Effect of Attributional Retraining on Self Efficacy for Math Abilities in Middle School Students
Marcus A. van Ginkel, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Cognitive Enhancement Effects of Adrafinil on Spatial Working Memory of Rats
Amrit Kaur Vasdev, Chemistry (CHEM) 2017, Analysis of Activation and Inactivation of TrkB receptor in the Context of Sarcopenia
Robert Joseph Volpendesta, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2017, Licorice Beach
Eric Thomas Walker, Isaac Howard Garfinkle, Dylan Drew Forbes, Mica Mantilla, Kai Pei, and Reilly William Hallstrom, Computer Science (CS) 2017, Personal Puzzle Producer
JordiKai Ka ua aloha nou 'oe o lakea Watanabe-Inouye, Ryan Gorey, Sofia Serrano, Shatian Wang, and Eunjin (Jinny) Cho, Computer Science (CS) 2017, Reading User's Preferences
Martha Lynn Waterfield, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, Do Classic Hallucinogens Have Therapeutic Properties? A Focus on Depression Treatment
Maria Wetzel, Biology (BIOL) 2017, A BCL-2 Family Affair: Apoptotic proteins, metabolism, and chemosensitivity
Sarah Elizabeth Whisler, Psychology (PSYC) 2017, The Beneficial Use of Dog Therapy as a Complementary Non-Traditional Treatment in the Elderly Population
Benjamin Madisen White, Economics (ECON) 2017, Assessing Flood Risk As Sea Levels Rise: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on Flood Zone Risk Discounts In New York City
Benjamin Madisen White, Mathematics (MATH) 2017, The Distribution of the Longest Run of Heads
Rebecca Wiersma, Biology (BIOL) 2017, The role of dynamic DNA methylation in long-term memory consolidation
Olivia Ruth Williams, English (ENGL) 2017, The Art of Imitation: Multivalent Narratives and the Question of Culpability in William Blake's Paradise Lost Illustrations
Renzhi Wu, Grant Terrien, Aidan Holloway-Bidwell, and Lucy Lu, Computer Science (CS) 2017, AccuRate: iPhone Heart Rate Monitor
shun yang and liyang liu, Mathematics (MATH) 2017, Sketch of an analytic proof of the Prime Number Theorem
Wanchen Yao, Economics (ECON) 2017, Analyzing Police Behavior: A VAR Study on Police Budget and Arrest Rate
Erin Elisabeth Young-Dahl, Geology (GEOL) 2017, Comparing instrumentation techniques for microfracture analysis and quantification
Graduated in 2016
Joshua Michael Aarons, Economics (ECON) 2016, Referee Bias: the Presence and Theory of Own-Nationality Favoritism in European Soccer
Besim Ademi, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Chet Patrick Aldrich, Greg Erlandson, Sherry Gu, Haley Hinze, Nayely Martinez, and Ibrahim Rabbani, Computer Science (CS) 2016, Carleton Sesquicentennial Mobile App
Corey Pence Allred, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, The role of anxiety levels in cognitive performance: A study of the emotional Stroop test
Dani Mae Andrusko, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Coming of Age: Morphological maturation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm is dependent on extracellular DNA
Michele Jessica Arima, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Ambivalence
Jessica Hellring Arnell and Alexandra Sophia Jordan Dulles, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, What You Did Not Nose About Olfaction: The Psychobiology of Smell
