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Graduated in 2025

Quinn Brannan, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Seeing the Unseen: Signal Processing and Electronic Beam Steering in RADAR

Piper Brown, Linguistics (LING) 2025, Every Mandarin Sentence is Not Surface Scope: Evidence for Inverse Scope in Mandarin Adverbials

Ruairi Brown, Biology (BIOL) 2025, A Surfeit of Stressors: The Effects of Ocean Acidification, Hypoxic Waters, and Increasing Ocean Temperatures on Metacarcinus magister

Ezra Buonopane, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Interactions between Limestone, Shale, and Sandstone Aggregates and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)

Marco Caba-Acevedo, History (HIST) 2025, Chimalpahin and the Christian Mexico City

Megan Cablk, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Exploring the Relationship Between Memory Decline and Neural Loss in Aging Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)

Taylor Canas, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, QUEENIE

Kerrigan Candra, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Temperature and ocean acidification impacts on the direct versus indirect developing periwinkle snails

Kristoff Cao, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Lie Groups of Symmetry and Their Application in Solving ODEs

Brian Caplan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, ‭Sex Differences in Ischemic Stroke:‬ ‭ The Role of 17��-Estradiol and Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Modulating Cell Death‬ ‭

Michael Carey, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Understanding the ATP-Mediated CFTR Gating Mechanism Using Biophysical Chemical Techniques

James Carlson, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Theories Beyond Theory Theory: Eco-Enactive Perspectives on Autism

Tanner Carlson, Reed Schubert, and Max Keller, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Ants in the Brain: Mapping Neural Connectivity using Colony Optimization Algorithms

Gwen Casey, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Mitigating Methane Emissions From Digestate Composting

Ryan Cechini, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Respect Paternalism

Eugene Chang, Economics (ECON) 2025, Optimal Marijuana Taxation in Minnesota

Martha Chan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Asymmetrical Horizontal Gene Transfer Between Parasites and Hosts: Evolutionary Constraints and Functional Implications

Miriam Chasnov, Economics (ECON) 2025, Fair Pay, Fair Play? Examining Gendered Housework Allocation Among Dual-Income Couples

Shanti Chier, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Debate on Bilingualism and Executive Function: Is There a Cognitive Advantage?

Tyler Chodera, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, What Will Happen Tomorrow, and Associated Vulnerabilities

Ryan Choi, Economics (ECON) 2025, Minnesota’s Marijuana Tax: An Optimization Model

Dorothy Chou, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Predicting Crab Survival: The Impacts of Climate Change on the Competitive Dynamic of Hemigrapsus sanguineus and Carcinus maenas

Kyla Christie, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Methodological Practices in Perceptual Narrowing Research on Speech Perception and Facial Recognition

Ethan Cline, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, The Experience Machine

Ella Collins, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Effects of Social Networking Sites on the Mental Well-being of Adolescents

James Commons, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The World's Fastest Camera: Attosecond Laser Pulses

Amelie Cook, Economics (ECON) 2025, Disparities in Disaster Aid Research: An Applicant-Level Analysis of FEMA Aid Equity after Hurricane Sandy

Caroline Crampton, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Peroxisomal Disruptions at the Lipid Droplet Interface: Implications for Insulin Resistance

Caroline Crampton, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Peroxisomal Disruptions at the Lipid Droplet Interface: Implications for Insulin Resistance

Aaliya Crews, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, A Literature Review of Loneliness in the Elderly

Andrew Dale, Abigail Persell, Cassie Gerard, Coral Outwater, Daniel Chen, Elida Coronado, Jemsy Mathew, Lexi Kingma, Padmini Konidena, Sarah McKinley, and Hiroki Coyle, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Forever Fluorinated: The PFAS Problem

Ella Daniels, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, A Jaguar Eats a Human Eats a Mushroom (& That's Okay With Me)

Aurora Davis, Ben Scott-Lewis, Frankie Saraniti, Isabelle Riley, James Walutes, Katie O'Leary, Margaret Hall, and Sam Chackerian, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Nanoconfined Metal Hydrides as Hydrogen Storage Materials

Micah Day-O'Connell, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Functionalism and Ned Block's Concepts of Consciousness

Micah Day-O'Connell, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physics and Information Theory

Piper Dean, Marc Eidelhoch, Ananth Iyer, and Owen Forman, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Thinning is Winning: Using Data Thinning as an Alternative Approach to Sample Splitting

Jiaying Deng, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, From Striated to Smooth: The Representation of Wandering Flâneuse and Space in Wanda (1970) and Trenque Lauquen (2022)

Shaan Dias, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Communicating Mathematics Comps Profile

Shaan Dias, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer Interferometric Sensor: Detecting Gravitational Waves with Atom Interferometry

Sadie M. DiCarlo, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Effects of Pyrohydrolysis on Trace Element Analyses of Planet-Forming Processes in Chondrites

Lara Dominguez, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Will a Tick in Time Spread Lyme?: The Future Risk Landscape of Lyme Disease in Urban Greenspaces

Luke Drake and Bennet Tefu, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Siamese Neural Networks for Few-Shot Facial Image Recognition

Jenna Drummond, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Role of Alternate Alleles in Instituting Reproductive Isolation in Homoploid Hybrid Speciation

Shira Dubin, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Dynamin-Related Proteins in Apicoplast and Mitochondrial Fission During Plasmodium falciparum Replication

Julia Dunn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, In Need of Transformational Women: Theorizing the Substantive Representation of Women’s Issues by Female Parliamentarians in the Anglophone Caribbean

Ryan Dunn, Music (MUSC) 2025, Guideless

Sofia Durdag, History (HIST) 2025, “I Looked to the Traces Where Love Hides”: The Eternal and the Ephemeral in the Diwan of A’ishah al-Ba'uniyah (d. 922/1517)

Collin Eldridge, Economics (ECON) 2025, Estimating Parameters of the Matching Function for Labor Search

Collin Eldridge, Billy Bratton, Jivana Nagpal, and Christie Song, Statistics (STAT) 2025, A Statistical Analysis of Network Review Data From Goodreads.com

Chris Elliott, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Gridiron Fortunes: Analyzing the NFL Prospects of College Quarterbacks

Ami Endo, Linguistics (LING) 2025, The Semantics of Conditional Evaluative Constructions in Japanese

Albert Ezem Osakwe, Sho Tanaka, Issa Mohamed, and Aidan Khan, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Agent Showdown in Pokemon: A Comparison of Different ML Algorithms in Pokemon Battling

Kate Fair, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Jenny and the Alien

Jocelyn Ferguson, Sara Shallenberger, Ty Folks, and Nathan Streiff, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Bootstrap Gone Wild: Because Your Data Doesn't Play By The Rules

Eva Fischer, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Is ADHD a Universal Disorder or Culture-Bound Syndrome? A Cross Cultural Review

Myles Fisher, History (HIST) 2025, The Ecological Empire: Corporate and State Power in Midcentury Guatemala

Orion Fisher, History (HIST) 2025, The Theatrics of Resistance: Gendering bodies through infrapolitics in post-Soviet Central Asia

Owen Flanagan, History (HIST) 2025, Race to the Market: Neoliberalism and Polarization in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic (1989-1996)

Sebastian Forero Escovar, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Crystallization history of Footwall Gneisses and Plutons of the Paparoa Core Complex, South Island, New Zealand

Dylan Fox-Arnold, Political Science (POSC) 2025, Who Defines the Truth? Populists' Post-Electoral Challenges to Media Independence

Adward Frazier Jr, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Smartphone Inertial Measurement Unit System

Clara Gale, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Provenance of the Kootznahoo Formation using U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology in southeastern Alaska

Raquel Germani, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring Multiple Paternity and Female Choice: A Strategy to Enhance Genetic Diversity and Population Viability

Raquel Germani, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Raising Awareness of Coral Bleaching

Scott Gevurtz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the Journey to Self-Knowledge

Abigail Goff, Religion (RELG) 2025, Relics of Homeland: “Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde” at L’Institut du monde arabe

Cassidy Goldman, American Studies (AMST) 2025, More Than A Milestone: Understanding Religious-Cultural Coming-of-Age Ceremonies in Contemporary America

Graham Gordon, Mika Shiffman, and Jonathan Merchant, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Optimizing Public Transportation Networks with Community Detection Algorithms

Alex Gran, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physics of Superconducting Qubits

Rachel Gregg, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Measuring CO2 flux in enhanced weathering trials in southeastern Minnesota: an evaluation of existing technologies and a proposed optimized model

Markus Gunadi, Cathy Duan, Zoey La, Willow Gu, Charlie Ney, and Kai Weiner, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Serendipitous Exploration of the Carleton Curriculum

Willow Gu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Measuring the Mind’s Muscle: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Kinesthetic Motor Imagery Practice

Malachy Guzman, Elias Tannira, and Anna Center, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Modeling the Precision of Gene Regulation in Drosophila with the Linear Framework

Hannah Hackenmueller, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Re-interpreting borehole breakouts and corresponding lithology from well logs in central California: Implications for stresses near the San Andreas fault system

Youssef Haddad, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Introduction to Photonic Integrated Circuits

Luke Harris, Economics (ECON) 2025, Evaluating Mark-to-Market Taxation of Capital Gains

Edward Hayward, History (HIST) 2025, The Autumn Harvest: Collective Memory and China's 1989 Democracy Movement

Robert Healy, Political Science (POSC); Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, The American Prosperity Fund: How Sovereign Wealth Funds Impact Inequality

Vanessa Heynes, Colin James, Wesley Yang, Arisha Khan, Luha Yang, and Hanane Akeel, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Let's Agree to Agree: Consensus in a Faulty System

Kaori Hirano, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Not So Mindblind Online: Exploring Neurodivergent Empathy through Digital Text-Based Interactions

Claire Holmes, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Operational Definitions and Validity in Expert versus Novice Differences in Athlete Decision-Making

Claire Holmes, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, U & I in the classroom: Leveraging interdisciplinary research in educational technology interface design

Olivia Ho, American Studies (AMST) 2025, 'Good Houses Make Contented Workers': Undermining Ownership, Capital, and Privacy in America

Gerrit Hoving, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Novel Measures of Feedlot Ammonia Emissions: Indirectly through Random Forest Regression on Spectral Data and Directly through Spectral Matched Filter

Mattias Hoz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Is the King of Atlantis Heavier than Tom Brady? Truth-Value Intuitions for Sentences with Existential Presupposition Failure

Graci Huff, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, From Red Handprints to Revitalization: Culturally Significant Approaches to Advocacy for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Linnea Hultman, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Can Neural Network Language Models Demonstrate Linguistic Systematicity?

Etta Humes, Economics (ECON) 2025, An Analysis and Proposal for Wealth Taxes in the United States

Etta Humes, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Foreign Lobbying in US politics by Middle Eastern States 2015-2015

Mia Iram, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, "My Feminism Can't be Divided": Advocating for Feminist Peace in Kosovo and Palestine-Israel

Echols Iyengunmwena, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Revolutionizing Opioid Addiction Treatment: Longitudinal Study Exploring the Promise of Ibogaine

Maya Jable, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, From Object to Agent: How Does Objectification Become Embodied and What Can We Do About It?

Gavyn Jensen-Schneider, Economics (ECON) 2025, National Problem, Localized Solutions: Local Policy Changes to Increase Housing Affordability

Ellen Johnson, Biology (BIOL) 2025, From Sensory Organelle to Evolutionary Catalyst: The Impact of Primary Cilia and Sonic Hedgehog Signaling on Phenotypic Plasticity

Ellen Johnson, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Various Uses of Polymeric Nanoparticles in Treating, Detecting and Preventing Bovine Mastitis

Marshall D. Johnson, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Sub-angstrom Analysis of 2D Materials Utilizing Electron Ptychography

Lily Johnston, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Cultural Foundations of Harmony: A Psychological Exploration of Authority, Conformity and Cooperation in China’s Collectivist Society

Lily Johnston, Chinese (CHIN) 2025, The Family Plan or Lack Thereof: A Cultural Study of Post-One-Child Policy China

Nzingha Joseph, Elena Parkerson, and David Thurston, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Diamonds in the Rough: Counting Diamonds in Tournaments

Gabriel Kaplan, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Precipitation and groundwater: Increasing sensitivity of deep aquifers in Minnesota