Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2015
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
Kathryn Emily Richards, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Cancer's Sweet Tooth: The Role of O-GlcNAcylation in the Metabolic Reprogramming of Cancer Cells
Zachary Walter Richmond, Linguistics (LING) 2015, Appealing to a Higher Projection: Determining the Possibility of a Unified Analysis of Algonquian Relative Clauses
Tenzin Rigden, Physics (PHYS) 2015, Physics of Non-Volatile Digital Data Storage Technologies
Samantha Suzanne Rix, Economics (ECON) 2015, Messing with Motivation
Haley Marina Ryan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, b l v t
Lauren M. Salberg, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Assessing Floating Treatment Wetlands (FTWs) as a Best Management Practice to Remove Nitrates in Constructed Lakes in Northfield, MN
William Spencer Salon, Economics (ECON) 2015, Productividad y NAFTA: A Comparative Analysis of Mexico's Maquiladora Industry
Victoria Dianne Sanchez, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2015, Sex, Respectability, and Candy: The New Limits of Normativity in Queer El Paso, Texas
Rachel Julia Schuh, Economics (ECON) 2015, Are Good Neighbors Good Insurance? The Role of Social Capital in Informal Mutual Insurance
Emily Sarah Semaya, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Building a Better Valve: Endothelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Tissue-Engineered Heart Valves
Katherine Anne Shaffer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2015, Informed but Not Consenting: The Construction and Negotiation of Embodied Knowledge Among Vaccine Refusers in Minnesota
Erica Kimberly Sheline, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Examining Phosphate Precipitation: Impact of Biological Nucleation Sites on the Precipitation of Fluorapatite Crystals as Liesegang Bands in a Double-Diffusion Setup
Jay Shen, History (HIST) 2015, Shades of Gray: An Examination of Joan Morgan's Hip Hop Feminism and Black Female Rappers' Connections with It
Sofia Shrestha, Biology (BIOL) 2015, The role of natural killer cell receptor NKG2D and its ligands in tumor surveillance and receptor mediated anti-tumor immunotherapy
Runze Si, Chemistry (CHEM) 2015, Synthesis, Purification and Characterization of Coordination Polymer Made with [Ni(acacCN)2(H2O)2-2H2O and AgBF4
Dimitri Smirnoff, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Trans-Differentiation of Skeletal Muscle into Electrocytes: Innervation Is a Driver of Phenotypic Plasticity via a Notch Pathway
Shaun Demoy Stewart, Biology (BIOL) 2015, NK Cells and Adaptive Immunity: A look at NK cell modulation of T-cells
Rebecca Anne Stimson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, The Showrunner: Hannibal and the Question of Television Authorship
Katherine Anne Strong, Spanish (SPAN) 2015, Hija luchadora de Cuauhtémoc: Un análisis teórico del rol de la mujer en la Revolución
Nami Sumida, Jordy Cammarota, Kan Wang, and John Lee, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, Measuring Fractal Sets
Lindsay Nicole Szper, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2015, The Writer's Power and the Translator's Challenge: A New Translation of Sartre's "The Wall"
Caitlin Mary Throne, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Helicopter Effect: Parental Participation's Impact on Academic Achievement in India
Devint Martin Tomson-Moylan, Economics (ECON) 2015, Content Villagers and Unhappy Urbanites: Exploring the Rural-Urban Happiness Divide
Phuoc Tien Tran, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Connecting Genotypes and Immune Regulations through the Licensing Effect of Natural Killer Cells
Alexander John Trautman, Larkin Flodin, Avery Johnson, Maraki Ketema, Will Schifeling, and Abby Lewis, Computer Science (CS) 2015, Planet: A Spatial and Temporal Task Planner
Chun-Che Tseng, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Reversing tumor microenvironment induced natural killer cell exhaustion via T cell immunoglobulin mucin molecule 3
Skylar Masuko Tsutsui, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Audviovisual Speech Integration and Cultural Differences in Gaze Aversion
Raina van Duym, American Studies (AMST) 2015, Duck for Turkey Day: Immigrant Celebration of Thanksgiving and Assimilation in the United States
Jackson Vanfleet-Brown, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Plant dynamics and soils influencing ecological restoration of Potentilla hickmanii at Rancho Corral de Tierra, San Mateo County, California
Abraham Villarreal, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Temporal and Spatial Mismatch by Anthropogenic Climate Change
Elizabeth Thessalon Walcott, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Psychology of Psychopathy: a five week course
Zachary William Walsh, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, A Property of the Number Six
Ken Wang, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Diary, Fragments, Eulogy
Shenlun Wang, Economics (ECON) 2015, Examining the effect of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Act on Bank Risks and Derivatives Risks
Shuchao Wang, Economics (ECON) 2015, To hoard, or not to hoard? Motives for reserve accumulation and its long-run economic consequences
Marina M. Watowich, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Complexities of elevated atmospheric CO2 effects on marine predator-prey dynamics
Ashanti Raheem Wavy-Soldier, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Voice
Ben David Wedin, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Cyclic electron flow is a crucial component in maintaining photosynthetic efficiency in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Taylor Katharine Wells, Biology (BIOL) 2015, The role of monocyte-derived macrophages in central nervous system regeneration
Kiera Bridget Wilhelm, Christian Abel Olivares, Isabel Zhen Han, Aurapat Ngamnithiporn, Mary Eleanor Wootton, Tamara Damjanac, and Katie Emma Blise, Chemistry (CHEM) 2015, Picking Up Good Vibes: Following Structural Dynamics of Fibril Aggregation with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
Claire Hannah Willeck, Economics (ECON) 2015, Is Education the Key to Happiness? An Examination of the Impact of Educational Attainment on Female Life Satisfaction
Claire Hannah Willeck, Political Science (POSC) 2015, State Funding for Public Schools: An Examination of Public School Funding Formulas on Racial Academic Achievement Gaps
Chavonn Williams, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Is Poetry A Therapeutic Tool To Heal Survivors of Sexual and In Partner Violence?
Christopher Todd Williams, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Kickin It With Big J
Christopher Gorman Winter, Physics (PHYS) 2015, A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS: Particle Detectors at the Large Hadron Collider
Eric Timothy Wittenburg, Philosophy (PHIL) 2015, Vagueness and Fuzzy Logic
Rachel Womack, Biology (BIOL) 2015, The roles of endothermy and the tribosphenic molar in the ecological diversification of mammals: Potential key innovations
Austen Roxanne Yeager, Philosophy (PHIL) 2015, Memory Enhancement and Emotional Authenticity
Robert Sanford Yeagle, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, España Reimagined
Robert Sanford Yeagle, History (HIST) 2015, Guiding Light: How the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 Changed the History of Electricity in the United States
Jocelyn Meredith York, Biology (BIOL) 2015, How and when does organic farming affect pollinator diversity?
Kathy Yu, Crystal Lai, and Benjamin Russell, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, A solution to the arithmetic problem of finding a number which, divided by given numbers, leaves behind given remainders [translated from the original Latin by Carleton math students]
Yue Zhang, Economics (ECON) 2015, Payment Method on Spending: The Impact of Payment Transparency on Consumer Behavior
Anna Zimmer, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Weapons of natural killers: the role of KIRs and their cognate ligands in progression to AIDS
Graduated in 2014
Sakr Hanan Abo, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The End is Just the Beginning: The Ubiquitin Proteasome System and the Transcription of Estrogen Receptor Alpha
Daniel Alabi, Mikenna Everett, Jonathan Ahn, Will Martin, Carissa Knipe, and Carlton Keedy, Computer Science (CS) 2014, Simba: Simulating a BikeShare Network
Sarah Ostergren Alexander, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Using field and laboratory data to characterize deformation in the outside corner of a ridge-transform intersection in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus
Stephanie Allen, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Stress-Induced Diet Preferences and Associated Microbial Changes
Adit Bipin Alreja, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Gut Microbiota Influence Systemic Inflammation And Eating Behavior Associated With Obesity
Amber Gelena Armstrong, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The role of mTOR signaling and ER stress in the development of type 2 diabetes in obese individuals
Madeline Long Arnold, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The UPS, Autophagy, or Both: Tau Degradation Pathways and the Role of p62 in Alzheimer's Disease
Kaitlin Kuehn Bagley, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Insulin-like growth factor 1, mammalian target of rapamycin, and the system A amino acid transporters: possible treatment targets for intrauterine growth restriction
Julia Gaebe Bakker-Arkema, Molly Elizabeth Bostrom, Julia Edith Greenwald, Kevin Lynch Johnson, Lucas Alexander Morrill, Brandon James Taitt, and Conor Chase Lynch, Chemistry (CHEM) 2014, We're so F'd: Poly- and Per-Fluorinated Alkyl Substances in the Environment
Jared J. Beck, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Phylogenetic community structure and the functioning of ecosystems
Mary Dahlman Begley, American Studies (AMST) 2014, Wake Up, It's Over: Punk in American Culture Today
Marcos Ernesto Beltran, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Tool-Use and Functionality in Cotton-Top Tamarins
Jeffrey Jordan Berg, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2014, A Bat and a Ball and a Ballot: Proposing a Cognitive Foundation for Partisan Ambivalence
William Henry Biagi, Spanish (SPAN) 2014, The Poetics of Javier Pérez Andújar
Emily A. Boghossian, English (ENGL) 2014, Slouching Towards Zeitoun: Narrative Nonfiction From Joan Didion and the New Journalists to Dave Eggers and the Millennials
Trey Aaron Brademan, Sakr Hanan Abo, Michelle Dano Yuen, and Benjamin Kibort Breen, Mathematics (MATH) 2014, abcd...EFG - Ideal Behavior in Fields Relating to Iterated Polynomials
Eleanor Marta Brown, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Empathy Deficits in Psychopathy, ASD, and Schizophrenia: Implications for Empathy Functioning and Structure
Peter Scripps Brown, Chinese (CHIN) 2014, Consistency or Confusion: The Aftermath of Simplified Chinese Characters
Ross Jeffrey Brown, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The Puzzle of Primary Plastids
Adrienne Keith Bruder, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The Role of Increased Placental Expression of Soluble Fms-like Tyrosine Kinase-1 (sFlt-1) in Preeclampsia
Anschel Kaufman Burk, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, Breaking the Silence: A Critique of the Union Organizing Model by Migrant Farmworkers in North Carolina
Patrick Kevin Burke, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Why Don't We Elect One of Our Own? Somali and Hmong Civic Engagement in Electoral Politics in the Twin Cities
Isaac Artin Burns and Simon Emilio Lansberg-Rodriguez, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Out Of Commission
Holly Ruth Buttrey, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2014, Hip Hop in Cuba: The Underground Sphere for Expressive Youth
Elizabeth Leona Callen, English (ENGL) 2014, (Re)imagining History: Memory as a Challenge to Hegemonic Histories in Sandra Cisneros Caramelo and Junot DiÌaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Emilia Lucia Calma, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Health Care Provision in Sierra Leone: Answering the trend toward centralization
Andrew Glen Campbell, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Give Me Freedom, or Give Me Death: The Role of Violent vs. Non-Violent Tactics in Separatist Movements
