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Graduated in 2024
Yuv Kataria, Economics (ECON) 2024, The Green Bond Market: A Comparative Analysis
Liam Kennedy, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, The Viability of Classic Psychedelics as a Treatment for Substance Use Disorder: Emerging Evidence
Maya Khesin, Physics (PHYS) 2024, The Physics of Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting
Sung-Hee Kim, Alejandro Gonzalez, Aidan Lee-Gilligan, Peyton Bass, and T'airra Champliss, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Photo Life
Tsion Kirtner, Economics (ECON) 2024, Parents’ Willingness to Pay for Child Adoption: The Effects of Adoption Subsidies on Adoption Costs
Aria Kischner, Hazel DeHarpporte, and Blake Tran, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2024, Effects of a Regenerative Poultry Silvopasture Model on Hazelnut Height and Basal Diameter
Susanna Kisker, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Avian Magnetoreception: The Radical Pair Mechanism
Chris Knapp, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, A Brief Journey Through 3D and Its Many Pairs of Glasses - Then, and Now
Lettu Konshie, Economics (ECON) 2024, How do Household characteristics Impact Children’s Enrollment in Bangladesh?
Esme M. Krohn, History (HIST) 2024, The Shadow of Eugenics at the Faribault State Hospital, 1950-1969
Colin Kroll, Economics (ECON) 2024, Can We Beat the Heat? Assessing Productivity Losses Due to Climate Change
Yuelin Kuang, Physics (PHYS) 2024, The Physics of Topological Insulators
Ian Lacey, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, River Biogeochemistry: Drivers of Stream Metabolism and the Carbon Cycle
Makena Layton, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Gut Microbiome, Leaky Gut and Autoimmunity
Sebastian Lee, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Role of Gut Microbiota in the Pathogenesis of Major Depressive Disorder and Potential Gut-Targeted Antidepressant Therapies
Tosh X.K. Le, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Nuclear Fusion: Always Twenty Years Away? Or Closer Than We Think?
Ammy Lin, Chinese (CHIN) 2024, Constructive Authenticity and National Identity: Exploring Their Interplay in Taiwanese Cuisine
Roderick Z. Liu, Asian Studies (ASST) 2024, Political Messaging in Imperial Chinese Art: Developments from the Northern to Southern Song Dynasty
William Longley, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender
Hsar Sar Lwin, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Go Go
Ren D. Manuel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Painting Punctum
Ren D. Manuel, Art History (ARTH) 2024, Separating the Body of Christ from the Body of a Jewish Man: The Non-circumcision of Christ in Art of the Italian Renaissance
Alice McClain, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Gardening the reef: future-proofing approaches to coral conservation
Douglas Meeker, English (ENGL) 2024, Reorienting the Gay Canon: Spaces and Sexualities in Maurice and Giovanni’s Room
Catherine Merchant, Religion (RELG) 2024, “Escaping the Prison of the Brain:” The Value of Subjectivity and Objectivity in The Varieties of Religious Experience and Neurotheology
Catherine Merchant, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Evaluating Measurement Practices in the Literature on Adverse Childhood Experiences
Ewan Miller, Biology (BIOL) 2024, A Coordinated Effort: The Recruitment of Regulatory T cells Involves Gut Microbes and the Vagus Nerve
Luis Miranda, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Effect of Coronal Mass Ejections on Solar Wind and its Earthly Consequences
Marjorie Mitalski, History (HIST) 2024, Melody and Morality: Rousseau's Music and Philosophy
Anya Mitton-Fry, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Latitude and avian life history strategies
Nicholas Moore, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Schizophrenia and the Human Noncoding Revolution: a New Evolutionary Framework
Ben More, Spanish (SPAN) 2024, "Sweetening the Deal:" Fidel Castro's Rhetoric During Cuba's Ten-Million-Ton Sugar Harvest
Shreya Nair, Biology (BIOL) 2024, A Gut feeling : Understanding the relationship between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the Gut Microbiome and Butyrate
Shreya Nair, A. J. Ristino, Serafín Patiño Jr., Phi Rapacz, Zev Goldhaber-Gordon, and Jack Owens, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Short-Read Sequence Alignment using the Burrows Wheeler Transform
Wanying Na, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Role of VgrG-Associated Effectors in T6SS Structural Assembly, Firing and Interbacterial Competition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Julia Nicholson, English (ENGL) 2024, Dog Park
Kai Oishi, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Anticipating Regrets of Inaction to Promote Happiness and Social Interaction
Kai Oishi, Political Science (POSC) 2024, The American Dream? The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Segregation and Upward Mobility in the US
Lindsay Okindo, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Should Medication-Assisted Treatment Be Integrated into Criminal Justice Systems for Opioid Use Disorder?
Brett Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Reasonably Rural: Non-Narrative in Print
Brett Olson, Art History (ARTH) 2024, “Stephen Varble: Alternative Approaches to the Waste Crisis”
Chris O'Mara, Religion (RELG) 2024, The Enemies Within, and Other Reasons Why I Need My Gun
Arthur Onwumere, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2024, Believe, Advocate and Uplift The Black Maternal Health Crisis in Minnesota’s Hennepin and Ramsey Counties
Evan Orjala, History (HIST) 2024, Human Nature and Consumerism in a Mechanized World: Promoting Outdoor Recreation to Working Minnesotans, 1910-1929.
Alistair Pattison, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, An Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory
Ian Paulson, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Applications of Coherent Macroscopic Wavefunctions in Superconducting Material
Aidan Phinney, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Why Have the Military Bases Remained Open? U.S., Japanese, and Okinawan Relations Since 1991
Collin Preves, English (ENGL) 2024, The Hot Dog Play
Isabel Rameker, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, Filipino American Food Persists: The Power of Food Traditions and Identity in the Filipino American Diaspora
Sophie Rast, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, The Ant Hill
Jack Rizzo, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Possession, Existence, and Multifunctionality: The Case of Vietnamese Có
Emma Roskopf, Economics (ECON) 2024, From Selfies to Resumes: The Impact of Online Privacy Concerns on Unemployment Duration
Emma Roskopf, Lily Haas, Sam Bradie, Andrew Hong, Ian Mortensen, and Varun Saini, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Safety First: The Effects of Hyperparameter Tuning in Safe Reinforcement Learning
Brenna Russell, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Butyrate’s Maintenance of Colonic Homeostasis via PPARγ Activation
Varun Saini, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, An Introduction to the Hyperreals
Christian Schultz, Economics (ECON) 2024, Can Machines Replace Us?
Christian Schultz, English (ENGL) 2024, "This Time is Different" & "The Apocalypse Game"
Emilie Scott, Biology (BIOL) 2024, α-synuclein and neuroinflammation pathology in Parkinson's Disease and Baicalein as an approach to halting disease progression
Ian Scott, Biology (BIOL) 2024, One Fish, Two fish, Hot Fish, Dead Fish: Effects of Temperature and Flow on Pacific Chinook Salmon
Sonia Shah, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Estrogen as a Treatment for Positive, Negative, and General Symptoms Experienced in Women with Schizophrenia
Sammi Sheridan, Helen Moses, Miles Frisch, and Evan Christensen, Statistics (STAT) 2024, Incorporating Nonspatial Policing Information into Spatial Models
Lev Shuster, Adrian Boskovic, Chris Melville, Josh Moore, Thomas Pree, and Sam Johnson-Lacoss, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Explainable AI: Breaking Down the Black Box
Juanita Silva, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Substance Use Disorders Among College Students: Risk Factors and Interventions
Maddie Smith, Art History (ARTH) 2024, El Sueño de La Malinche: A Woman’s Body under Construction
Alyssa Soma, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Psilocybin and MDMA on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Nicholas Spezia-Shwiff, History (HIST) 2024, From Liberators to Conquerors: Luxuria, Geopolitics, and Roman Imperialism in the Greek World, 264–146 BC
Mira Stephens, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Inhibition of Host Protein Synthesis by Legionella pneumophila as a Strategy for Amino Acid Acquisition and Host Cell Cycle Arrest
Marko Stojanovic, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Scout's Pride
Micah Jay Strike, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Water flow as a rescue mechanism for corals during marine heatwaves
Charles Sweat, Economics (ECON) 2024, Greener Firms in the US Automotive Industry: Electric Vehicle Policy & Production
Ahtziry Tinajero, Spanish (SPAN) 2024, Humanizando la historia: La crisis inmobiliaria de España
Blake Tran, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Saving Salmonids: Preparing Southwest Trout for Heat Waves and a Changing Climate
Peter Tu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Follow
Peter Tu, Sky Lu, Yuxin Lin, Jonas Bartels, Alice Cutter, and Sriya Konda, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Panda or Paintbrush? An Exploration of Adversarial Attacks on Image Classifiers
Vasilii Vaganov, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Decoding the Intricacies of Cajal Body Formation: Unveiling the Sequential Cascade of RNA Seeding, Coilin N-Terminal Oligomerization, and Coilin C-Terminal Recruitment
Marycruz S. Valdivia Acosta, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, Amor Eterno en el Autismo; Autistic Upbringing, the Self, and the Prioritization of Love/Care
Isabella Vazquez, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The impact of heatwaves on temperature-dependent sex determination mechanisms in Trachemys scripta elegans
Eli Venetis, Economics (ECON) 2024, Family Income and the Returns to Education: The Effect of Credit Constraints
Eli Venetis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Forgotten Beauty
Mira Verma, Barclay Shove, Leo Qi, Hannah Ku, Angel Garcia-Ramirez, and Parker Walther, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Elucidating the Intricacies of Enzyme Catalysis
Aniketh Vipparla, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Duel of the Fates: Type VI Secretion System versus Biofilm in Acinetobacter baumannii Virulence
Will Vonderlage, History (HIST) 2024, A Polarizing Push: How the 1968 Olympic Protest Efforts Further Fractured the Black Freedom Struggle
An Vong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Home for the Holiday
Aidan Walker, Religion (RELG) 2024, Sacred Storefronts: Responses to the Questions of the American City
Hannah Ward, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, To Be and To Love
Henry J. Weismann, Economics (ECON) 2024, Kids on the Move: Modeling the Impact of Children on Migratory Decision-Making
Anna Weller, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, An Exploration of Risk Factors for Alcohol Use Disorder Among Sexual Minority Communities
Eleanor Weston, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Shoreline and Canoe Watercolors
Alex Wilson, History (HIST) 2024, Those who “Rend Flesh with Wicked Teeth:” Werewolves, Outlawry, and the Natural World in 12th Century Anglo-Norman Literature
Thomas Wolf, Economics (ECON) 2024, Generational Bridges: Exploring the influence of age at adoption on adopted parents’ intergenerational transmission of education
Kevin Xiong, Economics (ECON) 2024, Illiquid Assets Affecting Personal Bankruptcy
Jisoo Yeom, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Deciphering the Role of Phosphorylation in Period2 Using Frequency as a Model
Kimberly Yip, Ashok Khare, and Sydney Nguyen, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Pen-testing
Xingyi Zhang, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Rates of Statistically Significant Findings among Traditionally Published Articles, Preregistered Articles, and Registered Reports
Yichen Zhang, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, Between ren and Community: how does one die with moral value?
Bob Zhu, Economics (ECON) 2024, Just a Small Town with 10 Million People: Urban Agglomeration’s Effects on Labor Productivity in Chinese Cities
Graduated in 2023
Collin Adams, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Multifaceted Role of Codon Usage Bias in Regulating Gene Expression
Luisa Alves Escosteguy, PJ Sangvong, Etienne Richart, Duc Nguyen, and Shirin Sharma, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Wiki Addition Viewer: An extension to add insights to your Wikipedia experience
Evangel Anyiwe, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Justice: Political Structure’s Effect on Sentence Length
Jancyn Appel, Political Science (POSC), Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Equality isn’t the Goal, but the Expectation: An Investigation of the Constitutionality of Racialized Policies through the Lens of Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court Opinions
