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.

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Graduated in 2016

Jessica Zhou, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Neuroplasticity of Addiction

Jordan Michael Zoellmer, Physics (PHYS) 2016, The Global Position System: An Introduction to the Background and Physics

Graduated in 2015

Zoe Yvette Abdel-Moneim, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Emotional Armor

Shamis M. Adam, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Antiviral Immunity: Interactions between Inhibitory Killer-Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors and MHC-I Molecules in HIV Infection

Jae Ahn, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Canonical and Non-Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathways Regulate Dendritic Morphogenesis and Synaptogenesis in Hippocampal Neurons

Dilara Akgunduz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2015, Indecision 101: Exploring the Effects of Cultural Fractionalization in the New Middle East on Foreign Policy Behavior

Laura Christine Arneson, Biology (BIOL) 2015, From Burger to Tumor: The Role of Diet-Derived Glycans in Cancer

Lilly Athamanah, American Studies (AMST) 2015, Ride Like the Wind: Divvy Bike Share's Function as Sustainable Mass Transit or Tourist Attraction in the City of Chicago

Nolan Baker, Economics (ECON) 2015, Can Students Be Motivated to Work Harder? Examining the Impact of Compensation Schemes on Test Performance

Nathan Daniel Bamberger, Devon Shipman Manber, and Nimita Iyer, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, Emergence of Synchrony in Pulse-Coupled Neurons

Hillary Kraemer Barbetta, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Exploring and enhancing the regenerative potential of the mammalian heart through exogenous cardiomyocyte differentiation and transplantation

Emily Natanya Dorothy Bauer, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, The Evolution of Narrative Cognition

Anders James Berglund, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Examining Possible Source Calderas for the Arikareean Tuffs of Western Nebraska Using Major Element Biotite Geochemistry

Francina Raye Block, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Clearwater

Charles Alexander Bloom, Maria Elisabeth Kjellstrand, and Kathryn Rebecca Leys, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2015, Applying an Actor-Oriented Approach to Ecological Restoration: A Case Study of Coldwater Spring

Carl Bou Mansour, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, Radical Testimony: An Exploration of Radical Embodiment and Credulous Testimony

Sara Elizabeth Brooks, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Pile

Emily Virginia Buckner, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Making Connections in Human-dominated Landscapes: The Ecological Role of Subsidies in Recipient Systems

Seana Ellen Buzbee, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Mitigating Power of Socioeconomics: Alleviating Malnutrition's Effect on Cognitive Development in Developing Countries

Seana Ellen Buzbee, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, The Process of Time

Colette Celichowski, Biology (BIOL) 2015, The Great Xscape: How and Why Genes Escape Inactivation on the Eutherian Xi

Brian Isaac Charous, Physics (PHYS) 2015, The Physics and Design of Antennas

Michelle Chen, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, To Afford or Not to Afford: Does the Digital Environment Have Affordances?

Ruisu Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2015, N-ε-carboxymethyl-lysine (CML) binds to the receptor for AGE (RAGE) and activates multiple pathways that lead to the development of atherosclerosis complications in diabetes patients

Worthy Mbuza Cho, Economics (ECON) 2015, Institutions and Foreign Direct Invest during the 2007 to 2009 Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Developing World

Dane Liles Christensen, Economics (ECON) 2015, Transmission of Macroeconomic Shocks Within The European Union: An Analysis of Fiscal Imbalances and Spillover Effects

Kate Alison Cieslowski, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder: A Case for Inclusion in the DSM

Rachel Clark, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2015, Feminist Theories & Dance Histories In Collective Search of Female Subjectivity

Louis David Cohen, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Dosage Compensation Models in C. elegans compared to those in D. melanogaster

Laura Legendre Colbran, Biology (BIOL) 2015, An Exiting Existence: mechanisms of mammalian sex chromosome inactivation

Wenyue College, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Multiple pathways are required for hypoxia-induced autophagy - a survival mechanism of cancer cells

Alison Carol Coogan, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Nephron segmentation and its application in advancing regenerative therapies for kidney disease

Daniel David Cook, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Regulation of the Ferric Uptake Regulator through Extracellular Cell Wall Iron Storage Drives an Accumulation of Intracellular Iron during the Lag Phase of Staphylococcus aureus

Kirstin Kim Cook, Chemistry (CHEM) 2015, Elucidating NCX Function from Structure

Camille C. Coonrod, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Untitled

Hannah Marit Curtiss, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Aberrant O-Mannose Initiated Glycosylation of ?-Dystroglycan Underlies Congenital Muscular Dystrophies

Leigh Dairaghi, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Mechanisms of mammalian dosage compensation: X-chromosome inactivation and reactivation

Sonja Sharon Stacey Dangler, Spanish (SPAN) 2015, Nadie es inocente, De noche vienes: Género y clase en Elena Poniatowska

Carly Anne Davidson, Political Science (POSC) 2015, Beyond Benghazi: Understanding the American Response to Attacks Against US Diplomatic Facilities

Jan Aldrich Larsen Dela Paz Dela Cruz, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Role of Expectations: Effects of Terrorist Campaigns Versus Isolated Terrorist Attacks on Economic Growth in South East Asia

Kathy Dooley, Arnaud Kpachavi, and Eli Skinner, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2015, The Impact of Land Use Change on Lake Phosphorus Concentrations in Dakota County, MN

Connor Pierce Einarsen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, ARIADNE

Paul Issara Elbow, Economics (ECON) 2015, What was the impact of the Great Recession on worker groups in Thailand? A closer look at unemployment during the global financial crisis.

Sarah Marcellina Ellis, Economics (ECON) 2015, Do Nice Guys Actually Finish Last? Determinants of Game Attendance in the National Basketball Association

Louis Enriquez-Sarano, Economics (ECON) 2015, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY

Jhernie Ho'onani Punahele Evangelista, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Haku: A Short Experimental Documentary

Luke McCoy Fairchild, Geology (GEOL) 2015, High temperature emplacement of clastic breccia dikes and implications for the development and magnetization of impact craters

Claire Marie Ferguson, English (ENGL) 2015, Crossing Meridians: Conceptualizing Foreignness in Omeros, Invierno, and M. Butterfly and "Dismantling the Angel of the House: Writing Back to Conventional Notions of Victorian Womanhood" (2 papers)

John Alexander Ficklin, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Predation in the City

Larkin Hafer Flodin, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, The Unsolvability of the Word Problem

Annie Flynn, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, [Annie Flyn: Comps Work]

Ella McGrane Fox, Religion (RELG) 2015, Eve & Pandora: Comparing Gender Dynamics in Punished Worlds

Grace Fremont, English (ENGL) 2015, Of Here and Everywhere: The Poetic Geography of Shakespeare's Travelers

Stella Jean Fritzell, Classics (CLST) 2015, Divine Associations: Arion in Iconography

Brit Kamara Fryer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, trans·ience

Lily Rose Gage, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Effects of human-mediated habitat change on parasite prevalence and transmission

Sam Garbrecht, Economics (ECON) 2015, Constraints on Healthy Eating Habits Among Low-Income Families: An Analysis of Time-Cost Effects

Rebecca Ryan Giles, History (HIST) 2015, Rogue Runaways and Wanton Women: Conceptualizing Colonial American Advertisements as Sites of Patriarchal Dominance

Charles Thomas Gillmer, American Studies (AMST) 2015, I'd rather drink a beer than win father of the year: The Satire of Fatherhood in The Simpsons

Matt Godfrey, Will Salon, Preston Carlisle, and Wenth Wang, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, Spatial Economics through a Mathematical Lens: City Structure and the Breakdown of General Equilibrium

William Edward Grimm, Geology (GEOL) 2015, A tectonic and provenance study of the Chugach-Prince William terrane, Alaska, with specific focus on the Paleogene Orca Group, Using U-Pb dating of detrital zircons

Sophie Alexandra Guterl, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, The potential for progesterone to protect against cocaine-primed relapse in females

Alexandra Nicole Guy, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Mechanisms behind the disintegration of the midline epithelial seam in palatogenesis and implications for cleft palate

Alison Elizabeth Hall, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Ecosystem and Community Consequences of Size Selective Fishing

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