Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2026
Leonardo Hess, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Did Morals Go Dark with the Enlightenment? The Practice of Moral Relativism and its Effect on Moral Behavior
Leonardo Hess, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Rousseau's Solution to Selfishness: The Necessity of Shared Moral Frameworks to Counteract Anti-Social Self-Interest
Elizabeth Hiatt, Biology (BIOL) 2026, HOTAIR lncRNA regulation of miRNA34-a/Bcl-2 axis in Intervertebral Disk Degeneration as a Potential Therapeutic Target
Zach Hill, Economics (ECON) 2026, The Altruism Investment Game
Griffin Hintze, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Vertebrate Scavengers Mediate Carrion Resource Fluxes Through Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems
Haochen Hu, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, The Asian American Tragedy: Within and Without
Leo Hu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Sissyphus
Margaret Hu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, Going Steady: Interweaving Individual and Community in the Experience of Parkinson’s Disease
Margaret Hu, Biology (BIOL) 2026, “You’re too sweet for me”: roles of N-glycosylation in SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion and implications for Long COVID
Winston Ingalls, English (ENGL) 2026, “Terrorized in Its Authority”: Re-Writing the Canon in Wide Sargasso Sea and James
Isabel Intrater, Political Science (POSC); Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Where is the World Headed? Xi Jinping Offers Chinese Wisdom: A Critical Examination of the Tianxia System and its Role in Chinese Foreign Policy
Isabel Intrater, Amelia Lawlor, Henry Wolters, and Natalie Tatar, Mathematics (MATH) 2026, Block by Block (Chain): Constructing Bitcoin through Digital Signatures, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and Hash Functions
Samuel W. Iribe, Geology (GEOL) 2026, Braided knowledge of geomorphology in Aotearoa, New Zealand: A scoping review of the confluence between mātauranga Māori and the study of geomorphology
Yoel Izaguirre, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Nos Fuimos
Alan James, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Relationship-Based Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Analysis of a New Dimension of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms
Andrew Jamison, Economics (ECON) 2026, Does Price Matter?: A Laboratory Analysis of a Low-Cost Snack Market
Kaylah Janis, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Hammering Out The Physics: A Physical View of Metalsmithing
Annabel Jay, Geology (GEOL) 2026, Locating Laurentia: A paleomagnetic study of geography and climate 1.4 billion years ago
Eleanor Johnson, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Energy, Efficiency, and Lasers in the Immune System
Parker Johnson, History (HIST) 2026, Alexander, the Pilgrim King: Refractions of a Classical Legacy in Byzantine and Islamic History
Owen Jones, Economics (ECON) 2026, Smelt vs. Sowing: The Impact of Environmental Protection on Californian Agriculture
Aurora Juarez, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Necrophagous Insects, Volatile Organic Compounds, and Microbes Interact on Carrion, Shaping Succession and Resource Use
Eunseo Jung, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Is Serial Killing Addictive? An Evaluation of Overlap between Addictive Disorders and Serial Killing
Eunseo Jung, Biology (BIOL) 2026, LncRNA MALAT1 Modulation of the NF-κB pathway Leads to Proinflammatory Microglia and Neuroprotective Astrocytes: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Therapeutic Intervention
Nathan Kallin, Physics (PHYS) 2026, A Nervous Breakdown
Fatima Kamara, Religion (RELG) 2026, Abused by the Husband, Sanctioned by the Community, Silenced by the State: How U.S. Law Disavows Polygyny and Overlooks Black Muslim Women
Fatima Kamara, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Failing to Protect: UN Security Council Intervention and Humanitarian Costs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lauren Kim, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2026, The Law as an Embodied Practice and Implications on Decision-Making
Max Kingston, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Acoustics in Concert Hall Design
Klara A. Kjome Fischer, Geology (GEOL) 2026, Deformation features of the Mt. Simon Sandstone in the Pine Bend Impact Structure, Inver Grove Heights, MN, USA
Palmy Klangsathorn, Rachel Azan, Daniel Lumbu, and Jeremy Gautama, Computer Science (CS) 2026, YARA: How to Detect Malware in Files and Websites
Jeffrey Kong, Alyssa Alvarez, Caroline Gans, and Ryosuke Mega, Statistics (STAT) 2026, Spatio-temporal Analysis of Positive Influenza Cases Across the United States in 2016
Manoka Kozaki, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Strategic Aid: U.S. Foreign Aid Allocation and Its Alignment with Presidential Foreign Policy Priorities, 1981–2024
Jordan Kramer, Economics (ECON) 2026, Separating Risk and Ambiguity Attitudes: An Experimental Test of Risk-Weighted Ambiguity-Resolved Utility
Jordan Kramer, Economics (ECON) 2026, Separating Risk and Ambiguity Attitudes: An Experimental Test of Risk-Weighted Ambiguity-Resolved Utility
Kat Kresse, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Relaxin and ACL Injury Risk: Menstrual Hormone Remodels Collagen in Female ACL Ligament
Nora Kushner, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, How Anti-Colonial Movements Internationalize: Institutional Pathways to Legitimacy in Algeria and Kenya
Eric Lail, Philosophy (PHIL) 2026, Cognitive Enhancement and the Ethics of Authenticity
Anna Larson-Cheng, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, In Gratitude
Alex Lattal, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Phonon-Photon Interactions: The Story of Lattice Vibrations in Dielectric Materials
Amelia Lawlor, Economics (ECON) 2026, The Impact of Over-the-Counter Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Outcomes
Anastasia Leffel, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Anti-viral Effects of Increased ACE2 on Exosome Surfaces in Response to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Viral Counter-strategies
Eva Leikikh, Physics (PHYS) 2026, External Beam Radiation Therapy: From Beam Generation to Cancer Treatment
Sophia Lesser, Economics (ECON) 2026, Evaluating Policy Measures to Boost the U.S. Fertility Rate
Leon Liang, Kritika Pandit, Anika Rajbhandary, and Lucas Schattenmann, Computer Science (CS) 2026, The Art of Compression: JPEG and JPEG 2000 on Multispectral Satellite Imaging
Joyce Li, Economics (ECON) 2026, Tax Policy and Risk Exposure: Household Portfolio Adjustments to Arizona’s Capital Gains Policy Change
Lanmeng Li, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Application of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Care: Can it Replace Therapists?
Yunan Liu, Physics (PHYS) 2026, The Journey to the Higgs Boson: The Theoretical Origin and the Discovery
Bianca Lott, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Trapped-Charge Dating of Pottery
Cynthia Lu, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Studio Art Comps
Grace Lyons, Economics (ECON) 2026, Balancing Stability and Effectiveness: Teacher Compensation Strategies for Public Schools
Adam Mahabir, Physics (PHYS) 2026, How Do Submarines Stay Stable, Sustainable and Stealthy
Peter Marshall, English (ENGL) 2026, "He Must not Float Unwept": Putting the Unburied Body to Rest in "Lycidas," The Burial at Thebes, and Home Fire
Edy Maso, James Zhang, and Lydia Bacigalupo, Statistics (STAT) 2026, Observed and Altered: Modeling the Hawthorne Effect in Forensic Examiners' Decision-Making
Erin Mattingly, Religion (RELG) 2026, Sensing Belonging: Community Formation for Indonesian Muslims in the Netherlands
Sage McCann, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Biological Effects of Childhood Maltreatment: The HPA Axis, Epigenetics, Inflammation, and Neurobiological Alterations
Heidi J. Mckim, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, The Inner Workings of the Individual
Declan Miller, Geology (GEOL) 2026, Porewater Cation Concentrations from Soil Saturation Extracts Constrain Carbon Dioxide Removal for Enhanced Weathering
Hannah Mngodo, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Feeding on the Dead: Hyenas, Carrion, and the Ecology of Disease Suppression
Abdulrahman Mohamed, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, The Populist Divergence: Variation in Anti-Establishment Orientations in Latin America
Zoe Morton, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Investigating Skeletal Edits to Pyridine
Isaac Mouacheupao, Economics (ECON) 2026, Paying Teachers, Not Just Test Scores
Demetrios Moutsatsos, Daniel Nykamp, Aimee Yuan, and Eric Zhou, Mathematics (MATH) 2026, Sieves
Emily Muenzer, Biology (BIOL) 2026, The Invasion, Repression, and Escape of Human Endogenous Retrovirus K and its Implications in Targeted Cancer Therapies
Olivia Nicol, Biology (BIOL) 2026, This or That: Exploring Neuromodulatory and Neuroendocrine Control Over Behavioral Prioritization in Caenorhabditis elegans
Narjis Nusaibah, Economics (ECON) 2026, Autonomy Preferences and Career Sorting Among Undergraduates
Daniel Nykamp, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Graphene: Mechanical, Electrical, and Thermal All-Star
Lydia Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Grounded
Katherine Opria, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Epstein-Barr Virus-Encoded Circular RNAs CircRPMS1 & CircBART_2.2 Respectively Promote Immune Escape via miRNA Sponging and Regulating PD-L1
Victoria Owusu, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Examining the Regulatory Role of CircPVT1 and Hsa_circ_0023404 Within the Hippo Pathway and its Associated Cancers
Natasha Paez, Biology (BIOL) 2026, circAPC Suppresses Canonical Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Malcolm Parnall, Physics (PHYS) 2026, The Plasma Display Panel
Fitch Perkins, Classics (CLST) 2026, The Father-Son Relationship in Declamation and Tragedy
Lily Petersen, History (HIST) 2026, “I Thought We Were Mates, You Rotten Sods!”: Reactions to Discrimination and Resistance to Sectarianism in the Deaf Community of Northern Ireland during the Troubles
Livi Peters, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Seeing Through the Lens of Physics
Zaeda Peter, Economics (ECON) 2026, Human Development and Sovereignty in the Caribbean
Alek Pochan, Religion (RELG) 2026, Listening for the Real Thing: A Liberal Protestant Folk Singing Tradition
Harrison Redfern, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Balancing on the High Wire: The Physics of Generation and Stability in Electrical Power Grids
Malia Reeg, Geology (GEOL) 2026, Assessing the Role of Lithology on Major Ion Signatures of Driftless Area Springs
Noah Reid, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Elusive Exosomes: Relationship of Exosomal PD-L1 and KRAS-MEK on Immune Suppression
Brady Rivkin, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2026, Ambiguous Phoneme Identification in Background Noise
Veronica Ross, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Seafood as a Primary Source of Concern for Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substance Exposure in Humans
Ayana Sakamoto, Special Major 2026, Reimagining the Sacred in Naomi: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō's Artistic Sublime
Ayana Sakamoto, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Theranostic Applications of Gold Nanoparticles in Cancer Treatment
Cecilia Samadani, English (ENGL) 2026, The Leopard
Josh Sampson, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Inositol Hexakisphosphate Plays a Role in the Activation of NRC2
Shanti Satran, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Personality and Chronic Pain: How Who You Are Shapes How You Cope
Gavin Saxer, Physics (PHYS) 2026, The Quantum Future of Computing
Jacob Schaefer, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Making Crystal Math
Elana Schwartz, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Traumatic Stress Among Social Workers and First Responders
Andrew Sellers, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Synthesis of Microfracture and Growth-Factor-Loaded Hydrogel Scaffolding Techniques: One Possible Future for Osteoarthritis Treatment
Jerry Shang, Asian Studies (ASST) 2026, Beyond the Battlefield: The Significance of Japanese Sugoroku Games in Homefront Mobilization and Manipulation from 1930–1945
Jerry Baoling Shang, History (HIST) 2026, Cartography as Conversion: Examining Time and Space in Matteo Ricci’s 17th-Century Map Kunyu Wanguo Quantu
Joella Shearer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Moon Dreams
Charles Shemwell, Economics (ECON) 2026, Conditional Convergence in the Eurozone and West African Economic Monetary Union
Omar Sierra, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Rock You Like a Hurricane
Matthew Sigmond, Allie Hopper, Katherine Baker, Cuong Chi Tran, and Jonathan Woodall, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Guiding the Gobsmacked: Bridging the Digital Literacy Gap with Scaffolded Tech Support
Sonia Sobel, Physics (PHYS) 2026, The Red Carpet: Bringing the Stars Home with Fusion Energy
Esme Song, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Integration and Co-treatment of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors with Pseudorabies Oncolytic Virus to Improve Anti-tumor Efficacy
Ryan Son, Gavin Saxer, and Jared Arroyo Ruiz, Computer Science (CS) 2026, From Bases to Bits: An Analysis of Early DNA Compression Algorithms
