Integrated Comprehensive Exercises (Comps)

The Carleton collection of Comps, Honors Papers, and Prize-Winning Works is a collaboration between academic departments and the library. Students self-submit their work with the guidance of their departments and programs. Descriptive information about each comps, honors paper, or prize-winning project is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of projects is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about the collection, including how to submit and how to request access to the full text of works.

Browse comps and student work by academic department.

Graduated in 2015 2015

Anthony Lamar Harris, Biology (BIOL) 2015, An Increase from the Normal Homeostatic Temperature of Photorhabdus asymbiotica Induces Weakened Virulence Capabilities

Charlotte Ruth Harris, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Made From Paste

Graeme Harten, Economics (ECON) 2015, Foreign Currency Exposure: An Analysis of the 2014 Yuan Depreciation in China

Graeme Harten, Asian Studies (ASST) 2015, The Propaganda of Business: Changes in Language from Liberation to Liberalization in the P.R.C.

Yasir Adan Hassan, Religion (RELG) 2015, Qur’an Schools: Agents of Embodiment, Rhetorical Training, and Pedagogical Preservation

Zachary David Heinrich, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Educational Interventions for Preschoolers in Poverty: A Literature Review & A Proposed Optimal Model

Claire Marie Helsel, Economics (ECON) 2015, GIPSIs, Tramps, and Thieves: Perception and Bias as Additional Causes of the Euro-Periphery Sovereign Debt Crises

Emily Jo Hillmer, Biology (BIOL) 2015, The Role of Aberrantly Glycosylated MUC1 in Mechanisms of Breast Cancer Metastasis

Soren Isabel Hope, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Naked Internet Men

Emily Houlihan, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Age constraints of Mid-Continent Rift sedimentary rocks in Northern Minnesota using paleomagnetic analysis

Helena M. Howard, Linguistics (LING) 2015, Syllables? Sign me up! Defining and motivating the syllable in American Sign Language

Benjamin Chung-Yu Huang, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Effects of Eurozone Membership on Sovereign Bond Yield Spreads for European Union Member States after the Global Financial Crisis

Andrew Hwang, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, Processing Fluency in Website Navigation

Connor Shane Jackson, Political Science (POSC) 2015, Rectifying Individualistic Models of Justice: Uniting Distinct Paradigms of Individual Perception and Institutional Perspective

Sarah Hena Jang, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Biases in Suspect Lineups: The Prototype Effect in Face Recognition

Ross James Jennings, Physics (PHYS) 2015, The Formation of Planets

Avery Lowell Johnson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Finger Drawing

Stacey Rae Grace Johnson and Sophia Taylor Roman, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, In the Mind of a Criminal: A Seminar Development on the Psychological Factors Behind Criminal Behavior

Hannah Elizabeth Jones, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Sleep Study

Jabari Coleman Jones, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Assessing the Role of Turbulence in the Entrainment of an Individual Gravel Particle

Melody Paz Judilla, Physics (PHYS) 2015, Explosions in Space: Core-Collapse Supernovae

Kyle John Kasten, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Variation in corridor habitat requirements between predator and prey species

Charles Omar Kaufman, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Burn severity effects on hill-slope soil characteristics and local variation four years after the Fourmile Fire, Boulder County, Colorado

Jake Daniel Kramer, Economics (ECON) 2015, Production offshoring's impact on a common pool resource: an analysis of Germany and Russia

Stephen Erwin Kuenstner, Physics (PHYS) 2015, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Ellen Louise Palmer Kwan, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, In Between

Kaylin Catherine Land, History (HIST) 2015, Soviet Motherhood in the Gulag, Lived and Remembered

Anna Oleta Redberg Larson, Sarah Townsend Lukins, and Laurel Elizabeth Goldner, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2015, Eating Off the Land: Cultural and institutional influences on ecological outcomes of Hmong gardens in Saint Paul, MN

Hanna Lee, Taylor Mayhall, and Robert Olney, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2015, A Sustainability Assessment of St. Paul Using LEED-EN

Zoe Levin, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Young Adults' Pornography Consumption: Is there an Association with Sexual Behavior Preferences and Sexual Expectations?

Ben Emery Levy, Physics (PHYS) 2015, Thunderstorms, Lightning, and Lightning Strikes on Aircraft

Abby Lewis, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Instant Messaging: Can different turn-taking methods improve communication?

Jessica Marie Link, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Effects of Niacin in an Animal Model of Schizophrenia: Apomorphine-Induced Behaviors in Rats Chronically Treated with Haloperidol

Shiou-Yuh Lin, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Dosage Compensation through X Chromosome Inactivation

Jonathon Liou, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Reimagining the Disney Melodrama

Jonathon Liou, Sam Watson, Alex Calamaro, Karen Halls, and Yawen Chen, Computer Science (CS) 2015, 3D Scanning on the Cheap

Jacqueline M. Lombard, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Monumental and Minuscule

Jacky Lu, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Got Guts to be a Killer? The Role of Natural Killer Cells in Gut Mucosal Immunity

Chloe Marie Mark, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Moment of Impact

Noah Mason, Biology (BIOL) 2015, The Role of Epigenetics in Ventricular Septal Defects

Elisabeth Anne Massey, Biology (BIOL) 2015, This Is Tau We Do It: The Role of Tau O-GlcNAcylation in Alzheimer's Disease

Emiri Matsuda, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Killing the Messenger: NK cell editing of APCs as a therapeutic target for MS

Callum Laird McCulloch, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Timing of Proterozoic deformation of the Needle Mountains, Colorado: using U/Pb isotope geochronology to unravel the Yavapai Orogeny

Claire Elizabeth McDonald, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Mammalian Solutions to an Xistential Problem: Dosage Compensation in Eutherians and Marsupials

Katherine Chandler McLellan, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Timing of the Fluvial Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Bighorn Basin, northwest Wyoming, USA

Tanner Austin McNamara, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Hands-On Neuroscience: Teaching Content, Critical Thinking, and Communication

Vivian McNaughton, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Trevor & Janeson's Cool Learnings: Sherlock Holmes Through The Ages

Shail Maharshi Mehta, Physics (PHYS) 2015, An Analysis of the Physical Principles Underlying Limb Prosthetics and Associated Control Mechanisms

Lucy Miller, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Nature, Mind

Sarah Anne Milstein, Linguistics (LING) 2015, To be or not to be, that is the copula

Kelsey Wynne Moede, Economics (ECON) 2015, Economic motivations in self-presentation strategies: an experiment on how online dating affects the presence of deception

III Frank Rudolph Molinek, Geology (GEOL) 2015, etrital zircon U/Pb ages and provenance study of the Paleocene to Miocene Tofino basin sedimentary sequence, Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Marina Kubisch Montgomery, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2015, African States and an Emerging World Order

Leslie Steltz Moore, History (HIST) 2015, Illustrating Women's Roles in the Civil War: An Analysis of Popular Illustrated Magazines' Female Propaganda and Its Impact on Northern Middle-Class Women

Yer Moua, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Mus Pw Tuag Tes Tuag Taws: Sleep Experiences as Predictors of Sleep Paralysis of Hmong College Students

Eleanor Beatrice Munger, Art History (ARTH) 2015, Creating the Melancholic Artist

Eleanor Beatrice Munger, Wanqi Yu, Rebecca Morelle Velazquez, Shant Raffi Douzdjian, Joe Willenborg, and Ahna Weeks, Chemistry (CHEM) 2015, How do Proteins Fold?

Leah Nelson, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Evaluating a method of thermal infrared remote sensing of sub-debris ice ablation: Emmons Glacier, Mount Rainier, Washington

Terese M. Nelson, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Paternal imprinting plays a key role in embryonic X chromosome regulation differences between mammalian infraclasses

Binh Duc Nguyen, Chemistry (CHEM) 2015, The Development of Organic Polymer Solar Cells

Robert Asher Olney, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Growth Wall of China: A Study of Provincial Fertility, Mortality, and Income

Johanna Maren Hjelle Olsen, Linguistics (LING) 2015, Sarcasm Detection Using Grice's Maxims

Sarah Drage Olson, English (ENGL) 2015, Woeful Woman's Tragedy: Sibling Incest, the Family, and Female Agency in Jacobean Drama

Victoria Rae Ostenso, American Studies (AMST) 2015, Healthy Food y La Comida Saludable: Perspectives on Healthy Eating from Mexican Immigrant Women in the Borderlands

Richard Jordan Palacios, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, un(masc)ing desire: navigating gender desire on gay social media

Scarlet Park, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, What Triggers Activity-Based Anorexia? An Investigation of the Interaction between Diet Restriction and Activity and the Necessity of Gonadal Hormones

Jayne Herta Pasternak, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Geophysical explorations: a case study of two archaeological sites in Grevena, Greece: Aghios Giorgios Aghia Varvara and Itea Panaghia/Profitis Ilias

Corina Dominga Perez, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Controls on Trophic Status of Freshwater Systems

Anna Persmark, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2015, Aquí hablamos un poco más de la autonomía de la vagina: The Rhetoric of Women's Rights and Health from NGOs in Highland Chiapas

Andrew Davis Polasky, Physics (PHYS) 2015, The Physics of Weather Prediction

Cassandra Athena Prenn-Vasilakis, Jamie Laura Harrison, and Ingrid Freganse Lyons, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2015, Seeing Biodiversity: Exploring the factors that influence perception

Alyssa Christine Puritz, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Changes in foraging patterns due to urbanization affect reproductive success in terrestrial vertebrates

Alyssa Christine Puritz, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, The cross-sensitization of the dopaminergic system by sex and amphetamine in female rats

Carolyn Raithel, Physics (PHYS) 2015, The Astrophysics of Cosmic Rays

Jeremy Spencer Randolph-Flagg, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Remote Sensing of Water Isotopes to Detect Transpiration: An Initial Investigation in the Amazon and central Siberia

John MacVeagh Raynolds, Biology (BIOL) 2015, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Green Fish, Orange Fish: The Significance of 3 Evolutionary Factors on Rapid Diversification in Fish

Hannah Jane Reed, American Studies (AMST) 2015, In Defense of Babies: Framing the Family Cap in American Welfare Reform

Ian R. B. Reeves, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Assessment of Two Stormwater Retention Ponds in the Spring Creek Watershed, Northfield, MN: Flood Mitigation Capabilities and Sedimentological History

Julia Anne Reich, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Microbial response to nitrogen deposition, invasive species presence, and flooding in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain, La Crosse, WI

Lucas Reppe, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Stordahl Church

Theodore Spring Retzloff, Economics (ECON) 2015, Be Careful What You Wish For: Competition, Profit Orientation, and Repayment Crisis in Microfinance

David Reiss Reynolds, Economics (ECON) 2015, An Examination of Health Savings Accounts' Effect on the Utilization of Healthcare

Brendan Macklin Richard, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Lucrecia Martel: An Accusatory Cinema