Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2024
Katelyn Hemmer, Political Science (POSC) 2024, Sustainable Agriculture as Resistance against a Market Society
Emma Henry, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Are Addictive Behaviors Freely Chosen? Implications for Moral and Legal Responsibility
Adina Holloway, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, A Review of African Americans' Racial Appearance Bias
Andrew Hong, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, An Introduction to Ergodic Theory
Frances Hose, Economics (ECON) 2024, Improving Corporate Sustainability: An Analysis of Emission Reporting Policies
Isabel Hoyt-Niemiec, English (ENGL) 2024, "Slashing Women into the Texts": Women's Resistance through Language in The Handmaid's Tale and Matrix
Cassie Huang, David Pille, Vivianne Soforenko, Jack Nelson, and Katie Munro, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Homogeneous Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol
Scott Hudson, History (HIST) 2024, “50% Pornography, 50% Sentimental Dirt, 100% Poison”: Censoring the Films of Marlene Dietrich in Nazi Germany and the Irish Free State
Abby Ignasiak, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Turn Up the Heat: The Importance of Temperature-Mediated Regulation of fHbp in N. meningitidis
Yusuf Ismail, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Experimental Quantum Computing
Shaheer Jaffar, Economics (ECON) 2024, The Impact of Family Income and Citizenship Status on Individual's SAT Performance.
Byron Jia, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Exploring Electrochemical Deposition Parameters in Semiconductor Production for Solar Water Splitting
Aleia Johnson, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Losing Her Ground By Standing Her Ground: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Gender Stereotypes within the 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial Election
Lucinda Johnson, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, The Impact of Feminist Movements on Violence Against Women Policy Implementation in Rural Communities
Trevor Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Molecular Pathology and Therapeutic Potential of Autophagy in Alzheimer's Disease
Leo Jordan and Ashley Cohen, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2024, Environmental Communication in Rice County, Minnesota: Channel and Message Framing Preferences
Jelimo Kaitany, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Influence of Symbiodinium Heat Tolerance is Larger than Scleractinia on Coral Holobiont Recovery after Bleaching
Adam Kamp, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Gender, Labor, and Futurity: Imagining New Paradigms In The Apocalypse
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
Nicholas Lattal, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The evolutionary implications of adaptive introgression of Neanderthal and Denisovan genes in Eurasian
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?
Chak Li, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Advisory Influence and Presidential Disposition: Dissecting the Trump Administration's Impact on U.S.-China Trade Policy
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
Catherine Marvin, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Ketamine's Crossroads: A Neurological Journey Through Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety Disorders
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
Leon Morduch, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Breaking the Populist Spell: The Impact of Education and Popular Psychologies on Reception of Populist Appeals in the United States
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
Aleksander Prasolov, Music (MUSC) 2024, Composing the End and What Comes After: Death and the Musical Afterlife in Tod und Verklärung and “Im Abendrot”
Collin Preves, English (ENGL) 2024, The Hot Dog Play
Nathan Przybyla, Music (MUSC) 2024, Verspätung
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
