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Graduated in 2018

 

Aidan Warner Burdick, Geology (GEOL) 2018, aleoecological phytolith investigation of anthropogenic vegetation change in Umstead State Park, North Carolina

 

Maximiliano Aldo Burgess, Physics (PHYS) 2018, The Raman Effect and Raman Spectroscopy

 

Gabriel Sebastian Bury, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Curvature of Spacetime: the Kerr metric

 

Roy Lee Cady-Kimble, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Tocqueville and Trump: Democracy Unleashed

 

Francesca Caracci, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Mediating Role of Silent Synapses in the Incubation of Cocaine Craving

 

Brandon Allen Carrillo, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, dysphoric

 

Brandon Allen Carrillo, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Putting the FAKE in FAKE NEWS: The relationship between trust-relevant social priming and judgments of truth

 

Sandra Elaine Carson, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Hematopoietic Stem Cells Adapt and Survive During Acute Myeloid Leukemia

 

Ryan Casperson, Economics (ECON) 2018, Soda Taxes: Necessary or Unnecessary?

 

Adriana Castillo, American Studies (AMST) 2018, Mi Tienda: Finding a Home Away from Home and Cultural Importance Within a Business

 

Sarina Chaiken, Elianna Frank, Keaton Mertz, and Carl Thomas, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Heavy-atom Quantum Tunneling

 

Madison Anne Chambers and Christina Marie Sieben, English (ENGL) 2018, Fisher

 

Avery Cheng, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Functional diversity as a measure for the effects of climate change on ecosystem functioning

 

Kuan Chen, Philosophy (PHIL) 2018, The South Korean Conscription Law: Why Is It Unjust?

 

Jonathan Brian Chow, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Collected Sounds

 

Ben Nealon Clark, Mathematics (MATH) 2018, "From Euclid to Poncelet: The Rulers of Geometric Constructions"

 

Nick Cohen, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2018, Beyond Emergency Measures: Normative Politics after a Sucessful Securitization

 

Julia K. Connelly, Joey Long, Kevin Kowalewski, Yijun Wang, Nicki Polyakov, and Noah Brackenbury, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Taking the Winter Wellness Challenge Mobile

 

Donson Jeryco Allen Cook Gallardo, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Neurological Basis for Cocaine Addiction

 

Ben Corman, Chenxi Sun, Madeline Chosy, Raksha Kandel, Clausell Stokes, Kitty Miao, Olubusayo Bolonduro, Kate Faber, and Jack Buckner, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Earth's Next Top Model: Constraining Uncertainties in the Carbon Cycle

 

Emily Bliss Cudhea-Pierce and Maryam Hedayati, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Are Transfer Effects in the Cards? Mnemonic training on Speed Cards and its effects on other cognitive tasks

 

Emily Culver, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, “Every now and then I have to Google community organizing. I mean…am I doing that?”: Unpacking the Process of Social Capital Development in a Local Non-Profit Organization

 

Lynn Nicole Daniel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Afterimage

 

Lynn Nicole Daniel, Angel Villa, Yuhao Wan, and Maya Davis Banks, Mathematics (MATH) 2018, Recovering Edge Conductivities in Electrical Networks

 

Trixie Dao, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2018, The Child as a Consumer: Issues with Child-Directed Advertising

 

Rebecca Anne DeLand, Classics (CLST) 2018, The Treatment and Reception of a Female Philosopher

 

Annmarie Delfino, English (ENGL) 2018, Silver Witness

 

Diana Laura Delgado, Asian Studies (ASST) 2018, Neither a Good Wife nor a Wise Mother: Destabilization of Female Gender Conventions in Japanese Detective Fiction

 

Ian Carroll Doherty, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Atomic Aggrandizement: Considering the Role of Nuclear Weapons on Inter-State Rivalry and Conflict

 

Jonas Tyler Donnenfield, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Recent paleoceanographic history of the San Diego margin, California: A benthic foraminiferal perspective

 

Merrick Thomas Ducharme, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Addiction Related Plastic Mechanisms: A Tale of Shifts in Receptor Permeability

 

Emma Ruth Duggan, History (HIST) 2018, Looted, Stolen, or Confiscated: The Histories in the Restitution of Nazi Art since the Washington Principles

 

Michael Beelo Ebako-Hodgson, Economics (ECON) 2018, Bridging the Gap between Tribes: Trust and National identity. The Case of Equatorial Guinea

 

Abe Eichner, Political Science (POSC) 2018, From Moderates to Militants: Building a Model for Social Movement Organization Tactical Choice on a Moderate-Radical Axis

 

Nathan John Eisner, Economics (ECON) 2018, The Effect of Knowledge on Testing the Rational Expectations Hypothesis

 

Katie Li Eppard, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Investigating conservation of number in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) and young children (Homo sapiens) when motivation is increased

 

Rachel L. Everett, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Stripped Down

 

Nnenna O. Ezem, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, STEM vs Fem: A Cognitive and Social Approach to Examining the Different Factors Potentially Keeping Black Women Out of STEM Fields

 

Brandon Bernard Fabel, Economics (ECON) 2018, Pay and Performance in the National Football League: An Analysis of How Contract Type Affects Quarterback and Running Back Salaries

 

Rebecca Jean Fairchild, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Role of Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation in HIV Infection

 

Declan Robert Falls, Political Science (POSC) 2018, The Aum Shinrikyo Puzzle: Explaining the Rarity of Chemical Weapons in Terrorist Attacks

 

Ziyu Fan, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Applications of Nano-structured Lipid Carrier as an Improved Drug Delivery Vehicle in Cosmetic/Dermal Products

 

Alexa Layne Feeney, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, In The Flesh

 

Henry Jackson Fisher, Biology (BIOL) 2018, A Novel Mechanism of Eosinophil Recruitment, Activation, and Degranulation During Allergen Exposure in the Lungs and Gut

 

Anna Marie Flitner, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Examining the Influence of Intervention Programs on Kindergarten Readiness: An Evaluation of Bridges to Kindergarten

 

Maximilian Foster, Physics (PHYS) 2018, An even briefer history of time

 

Maximilian Foster, Economics (ECON) 2018, Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: The Economic Effects of Native Country's Religious Composition

 

Kayla Renae Frank, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Educational Exchange Programs as a Soft Power Strategy: Testing the Relationship between the US and Countries of Foreign Fulbright Alumni Turned Heads of State

 

Archibald McDermott Fraser, Jerrilyn Goldberg, and Zifeng Wang, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2018, Spatial misallocation of utility-scale renewable energy across Minnesota

 

Benjamin Stolte Frerichs, Economics (ECON) 2018, The International Impacts of Federal Reserve Unconventional Monetary Policy

 

Michael William Frett, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Coral-Algal Balance Between Temperature Induced Bleaching, Response, and Resilience

 

Brendan Austen Layard Friesen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Affinity

 

Benjamin Gauthier Gagnon, Economics (ECON) 2018, Picking Favorites: A Study on the Effects of Changing Competition Incentive Structure on Gambling Behavior

 

Rachel Cantrell Gallagher, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2018, "Hopes, Dreams, but No Plans": Aging Parents of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

 

Vianne Ran Gao, Biology (BIOL) 2018, A different perspective on the intestinal stem cell niche: Gut microbes influence intestinal stem cell proliferation during intestinal regeneration

 

Madeline Kennedy Garcia, Studio Art (ARTS) 2018, Mental Spaces I,II,III

 

Andrew Addison Gerber, Biology (BIOL) 2018, NETosis facilitates the progression of rheumatoid arthritis through the release of PAD4 into synovial fluid

 

Nathan Kyler Gibes, Economics (ECON) 2018, Diluting Political Influence: The Appointment of Monetary Committee Membership and Inflation

 

David Carey Goodell, Lindsey Morgan Chavez, Russell Gray Smith, Rachel Marie Moore, and Jack Lincoln Wines, Computer Science (CS) 2018, The Key: Improved Data Management for the Union of Youth

 

Camille Mary Gordon, Economics (ECON) 2018, Does Foreign Health Aid Affect Health Inequality?

 

Kevin John Grow, Economics (ECON) 2018, Decisions Based on Receiver Knowledge of Advice: An Extension of the Dictator Game

 

Anne Hamilton, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Key Considerations in Implementation of Solar Photovoltaics

 

Megan Amanda Harder, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Petrography and Geothermobarometry of Calc-Silicate Rocks from the Ruby Range, SW Montana

 

Rachel Anna Harris, History (HIST) 2018, Preserving the Russian Identity: Environmentalism as a Platform for Literary Nationalism in the Village Prose Movement in the Soviet Union

 

Maurice Edward Hicks, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Lucid Dreaming Therapy as an Effective Cognitive Approach in the Treatment of PTSD

 

David Guadalupe Higgs, Physics (PHYS) 2018, Plasmonics

 

Brandon Kaelin Hilliard, Chemistry (CHEM) 2018, Positron Emission Tomography Ligand Guided Imaging Agents for Tumor Diagnosis and Assessment

 

Aaron Michael Hockett, Economics (ECON) 2018, All My Ex(Teacher)s Live in Texas: An Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Public School Teacher Turnover

 

Michael Collins Hoffert, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Predicting the influence of stochastic and deterministic variables on hydrothermal vent communities after eruptions

 

Paulina Men Min Hoong, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Examining Self-Presentation in Online Dating Using Social Exchange Theory

 

Liam Thomas Howe, Economics (ECON) 2018, Soccer, Stock Markets, and Investor Reactions: The Effects of World Cup Outcomes on European Financial Markets

 

Victor Manuel Huerta, American Studies (AMST) 2018, Echoes of the Law: Madrigal v. Quilligan and the Reproduction of Hierarchy in the Twentieth Century

 

Kevin Hurley, Economics (ECON) 2018, Effort Based on Circumstance: A Study of Prosocial Behavior

 

Marcus Irrthum, Economics (ECON) 2018, Kicking the Soda Pop Tax to the Curb: Why a Soda Pop Tax is the Wrong Policy and an Alternative Policy to Enact

 

Natalie Simone Jacobson, American Studies (AMST) 2018, American Bounty, American Hunger: Bridging the Gap Between Food Abundance and Food Scarcity in Northfield and Faribault, Minnesota

 

Dorrian Jaffe, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, The Effects of Irregular Ghrelin, Leptin, and Dopamine Levels on the Development of Anorexia Nervosa

 

Dorrian Sage Jaffe, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, The Effects of Irregular Ghrelin, Leptin, and Dopamine Levels on the Development of Anorexia Nervosa

 

Sophia Campbell Jenkins, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Schemas and Narrative: The Effect of Stories Read on Stories Told

 

Moliang Jiang, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Iterate Rights Across Particularities: A Cosmopolitan Vision for Refugee Protection

 

Bomi A. Johnson, Political Science (POSC) 2018, Tsai Ing-wen and Park Geun-hye: Female Power and the Shaping of Political Movements in Countries with Confucian Roots

 

Joshua Lee Johnson, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Elucidate Neurological Details on Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia

 

Walker Johnston, Art History (ARTH) 2018, Arts Factories is France: A New Conception of the Role of the Artist in Society

 

Katherine Paige Sheldrick Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2018, MITF: A Transcription Factor Key to Awakening the Dormant Traits of Melanocytes in Melanoma Tumorigenesis

 

Maureen Elaine Kalkowski-Farrand, History (HIST) 2018, Common Law Marriage and Society

 

Audrey J. Kan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, An Interrogation

 

Sophia Takemi Kawamoto, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Invasion Decreases Beta Diversity Despite Initial Differentiation in Freshwater Fish

 

Harrison Keithahn, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, About Face: Explorations in Faceless Photography

 

Lauren Grace Kempton, Psychology (PSYC) 2018, Time to give up on a single animal model of autism spectrum disorder

 

Alyk Russell Kenlan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, I'm Still Laughing

 

Thanda Win Khin, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Traumatic mating as the basis for an evolutionary arms race

 

Belle Kinder, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The Impact of Genetic Diversity on Honey Bee Colony Productivity and Health

 

Michael Oliver Kipp, Holden Wolf Greenberg, Macallan Hardy Brown, Mark Bartholomew Iserloth, and Simon Alexander Bilsky-Rollins, Computer Science (CS) 2018, Shottey

 

Paul Thomas Kirk-Davidoff, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2018, Strip Mall Nickelodeon: The Video Store in Local Context, 1978-2014

 

Bex Kestanbaum Klafter, Amy Andress Roach, and Rafael Guadalupe Soto, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2018, "Searching for Solar: Applying the Path of Least Resistance, a Case Study of Solar Gardens in Farmington and Lakeville, MN"

 

Benjamin J. Kopp, Biology (BIOL) 2018, The role of recently identified crosstalk mechanisms in conferring chemo-resistance to AML stem cells via activation of the NF-кB signaling pathway

 

Konrad Jens Krogstad, Geology (GEOL) 2018, Characterization of corrosion of simulated ancient glasses following variable temperature product consistency tests

 

Mikaela Kropp, Biology (BIOL) 2018, When pyrodiversity promotes biodiversity: Characterizing the mediators of community response to fire

 

Sebastian Lara, Economics (ECON) 2018, Effects of the ACA's Dependent Coverage Mandate on Job Mobility of Young Adults

 

Janis Joy Lee, Biology (BIOL) 2018, Metastasis in breast cancer is mediated by EMT, cancer stem cells, and niche-associated cytokines

 

Nicholas Paul Leeke, Economics (ECON) 2018, Beating the Record: The Effects of Recognition and Competition on Senior Gift Participation Rates at a Liberal Arts College