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Graduated in 2014

Milana Lauren Socha, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Complexities of Aging Mussels from the Cannon River

Angel Solis, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Binding NEMO: Analyzing the Role of Ubiquitin in NF-κB Activation by TNFɑ

R. Cameron Stahl, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Gut Microbiota Contribute to the Regulation of Cellular Inflammation in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Anxiety/Depression: A review of current literature.

Joe Forrest Steigmeyer, English (ENGL) 2014, Finding Coherence in a Disjointed Reality: The First-Person Portrayal of Dementia in Contemporary Fiction

Maria Carson Sterrett, Biology (BIOL) 2014, IT's A GUT FEELING: Analyzing the "balancing act" between cell-cell and cell-ECM adhesions during Enteric Neural Crest Cell migration

David Ascher Stillerman, Economics (ECON) 2014, Punishment Past the Cell: An Analysis of Employment and Earnings of Ex-Offenders

Isaama Marian Stoll, Religion (RELG) 2014, Choosing Not to Be Chosen: Reconceptualizing Jewish Chosenness in Modernity

Helen King Strnad, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, The potential for cannabinoids to provide neuroprotection against microglia-­mediated neurotoxicity

Helen King Strnad, Spanish (SPAN) 2014, Un encuentro con el mal: el poder revelador del género policial

Evan Samuel Summers, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, The Roots of Development: Positive Peace

Yan Sun, Mathematics (MATH) 2014, Fourier Analysis in Hilbert Space and An Introduction to Abstract Linear Operator Theory

Yan Sun, Physics (PHYS) 2014, Nuclear Fusion

Kaopuanani Nani O Kao Sutton, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Exploration of Groundwater Resources in Mauna Kea, Island of Hawaii

Leia Weikam Swanson, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Semaphorins and Cardiac Neural Crest Cell Migration: A Role in Targeting the Outflow Tract and Normal Outflow Tract Septation in the Developing Heart.

Kelsey Rose Swyter, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The effect of malarial co-infection on mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the placenta

Kayla Yuen Yee Tam, English (ENGL) 2014, Women as Satellites: Androcentrism and Misogyny in Huxley and Orwell's Dystopias

Jackson Tears, Physics (PHYS) 2014, The Colliding Universe

Tiantian Teng, Economics (ECON) 2014, The impact of national debt on economic growth

Elayne Patrice Teska, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Psychotherapeutic Treatments for ADHD: Analysis of Parental Perceptions for Parent Behavior Training

Mikiko Tokuhira, Studio Art (ARTS) 2014, [Untitled]

Michael Paul Tolan, Classics (CLST) 2014, Beyond Fury: Representations of Monstrosity in Statius' Thebaid

Yuki Tominaga, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, The Power of Public Opinion and Renewables Policy in Japan

Hannah Arnold Tremblay, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The effect of pollinator loss on plant species diversity in nested and non- nested plant-pollinator interaction networks

Julius F. Tsai, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, A Review of The Methods For Reducing The Effects of Stereotype Threat In The Classroom

Hannah Marie Tuggle, Art History (ARTH) 2014, The Art of Liminality: Displacement, Identity, and Resistance in the work of Ana Mendieta, Mona Hatoum, and Berni Searle

Pachee Vang, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, Perception of Hmong Identity: From Rural Hmong Village (Tharn Thong) to the City of Chiang Mai

Mo Vue, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, The Land of Opportunity: An Exploration of Recent Refugees' Educational Experiences in Minnesota

Laura Rose Wadleigh, Physics (PHYS) 2014, Information Theory in Physics

Chelsea Anna Wagner, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Paleomagnetic constraints on the location of a fossil spreading ridge in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus

Malia Wagner, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2014, The Food Served to Us Was Very Familiar: Food, Gender, and Identity in Manzanar Incarceration Camp

Sarah Ann Walz, English (ENGL) 2014, Pauses

Huaiyu Wang, Economics (ECON) 2014, To Work or Not to Work: That is the question. An Intergenerational Approach to Female Labor Market Behavior

Cameron Joseph Webb, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Distribution and geologic analysis of the indoor geohazard of radon gas in Clark County, Washington

Winona Weindling, Political Science (POSC) 2014, School Choice as a Method of Reducing the Achievement Gap: Comparing the Effectiveness of Desegregation Programs and Charter Schools

Matt Weinstein, American Studies (AMST) 2014, Strength through Love: Utilizing syncretism and pluralism to build broad political consensus

Canaan Ashely West, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Losing a Friend in Adolescence

Reid Mahlon Whitaker, Alissa Severson, Aaron Buckley, Kate Richards, Scott Laurence Erickson, Ben Truax, and Emma Helen Southgate, Chemistry (CHEM) 2014, Started From the Genome Now We're Here: Functional Annotation of Enzymes

Hannah White, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Picture Start

Bettina Sarah Wiesenthal, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Facebook Use in Relation to Life Satisfaction and Mindfulness: Is Facebook Distracting Us from Life's Everyday Perks?

Madison S. Willert, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Coral to Macroalgae: Phase Shifts Facilitated by Algal and Anthropogenic Stressors

Daniela Megan Williams-Condor, Spanish (SPAN) 2014, Narrando lo inimaginable, lo indecible: Encuentros con lo abyecto en las narrativas centroamericanas de posguerra

Claire Mariah Wilson, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Forest ecosystem carbon dynamics following the loss of a tree species

Erin Hillary Wilson, Computer Science (CS), Biology (BIOL) 2014, A benchmark standard for predicting the gene targets of chemical perturbants

Christopher Andrew Wong, Philosophy (PHIL) 2014, Health Care is not a Human Right: The Principle of Non-Interference and Alternative Rights to Health Care

Jessica Wu, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Gut microbiota and Autism: The role of propionic acid in inflammation and intestinal permeability

Kia X. Yang and Daniel Motta, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Examining the Effects of Expectancy Confirmation and Stereotype Threat on Student Academic Performance

Shanna Xue Yang, Biology (BIOL) 2014, You Are What Eat You: Gut Microbes In Diet-Induced Obesity

Kyohei Yazawa, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Nietzsche's God: Questions Concerning Values in Nietzsche's Philosophy

Mignote Yirdaw and Zainab Wadia, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Examining Theory of Mind in the Context of Sharing Behaviors in Three-to-Five-Year-Old Children

Eleanor W. Youngblood, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Plant physiological responses to altered nitrogen availability

Cody James Young, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Federal Bailout of General Motors and Chrysler Fails to Improve Housing Prices in Proximate Municipal Economies

Janghun Yun, Political Science (POSC) 2014, ¿Qué es el Kirchnerismo?: Interpreting Political Economy of Kirchnerismo (2003- 2013) Based on Elements of Contemporary Populism

Evia Lee Zack, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Elements of Intentional Communication in Cotton-Top Tamarin Calling Behavior

Kaiyue Zhou, Studio Art (ARTS) 2014, The Light Series

Joshua Edward Zoellmer, Geology (GEOL) 2014, An evaluation of EO-1 Hyperion data in mapping surficial geology near Loiyangalani, Northern Kenya

Graduated in 2013

Michelle Abecasis, Art History (ARTH) 2013, Freedom in the Land of Hitler: Art Under Exile in the Nazi Regime

David Matthew Abel, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, Toward the Defense of Hypercomputation

Natalie Helene Abshez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Comprehensive Project

Matthew Charles Adams, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Flipping Bits and Spinning Disks: The Physics of Computer Memory

Matthew Charles Adams, Michael David Domingues, Rhys William Lindmark, Michael Jacob Reardon, Tung Nguyen Viet Phan, and Alexander Willis Voorhees, Computer Science (CS) 2013, PyLearn: A Python Interpreter for Beginners

Emily Erickson Ager, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Gluttony goes (anti)viral: Neuronal autophagy as a noncytolytic mechanism for viral clearance during neurotropic viral infection

Hye Mi Ahn, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Hegemonic Bullying: Pursuit of Bilateral Immunity Agreements

Lauren Ann Alexander, Religion (RELG) 2013, Talk of Rites and Talk of Rights: Circumcision, Freedom, and the Difficulty of Human Rights Discourse

Sarah Katharine Allan, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Estrogen, Testosterone, and Bone Health: Challenging Perceived Sex Biases in Osteoporosis

Benjamin Avi Altshuler, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, The Puzzle Puzzle: A Cross-disciplinary Approach

Priscilla A. Amofa Sr., Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Effects of Neuropeptide S on Spatial Learning and Memory in Rats

Erik Quirk Anderson, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Understanding Negative Agenda Power and Political Parties in the Legislative Process

Kelly Sue Anderson, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Prepubertally ovariectomized rats display a conditioned place preference for paced mating

Kristin Rose Andrykovich, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Regulation of Proliferation in Colorectal Cancer and Lesion Regeneration by Wnt-Hippo Crosstalk

Akemi Kushida Arzouman, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Gender differentiation in activation of thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue through sex hormones

Beth Ashinsky, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The endoplasmic reticulum stress response to type I procollagen misfolding in osteogenesis imperfecta

Jaymes D. Awbrey, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Flipping the Switch: The Mechanism for Trophic Shifts in Estuaries Due to Anthropogenic Nutrient Loading and Nutrient Cycling in Coastal Wetlands and the Effects of Anthropogenic Nutrient Loading

Andrew Alexander Bacon, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Paternal Age Effect and Selfish Selection in The Male Germ Line

Kelson Dhugal Bain, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Scenes from "The Realm of Re-purpose"

Alice Woodward Barber, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Re-Evaluating the Role of Dosage Compensation in X-Chromosome Inactivation

Julia M. Bargmann, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Architecture, Light, Space

Richard Barraza, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Watercolor Portraits

Kim Bauer, Tyler Bechtel, William Gagne-Maynard, Erik Klontz, Kenichi Miyamoto, John Mullaney, and Katherine Ratliff, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Eric Anslyn Group Comps in Chemistry

Christopher David David Baur, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Arb Sonics

Benjamin Raymond Bedore, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Behavioral Effects Of Early Intervention For Children From Low- Income Households

Danielle Alyssa Bennon, Sophia Catherine Davis, and Michael Mandelkorn, Russian (RUSS) 2013, Translation and Exploration: Buryat Cultural History through the Lense of Geser

Gilah Benson-Tilsen, Economics (ECON) 2013, Air Quality and Health Outcomes in Washington State

Gilah Benson-Tilsen, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Imaginary Animals

Thomas H. Birren, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Petrology of the Nickel Lake Macrodike: Implications for Exploration of Magmatic Ni-Cu Sulfide Deposits, Duluth Complex, Minnesota

Joseph W. Boerma, Meredith A. Borden, Anna C. Brezny, Daniel E. DeRosha, Christian E. Padilla, and Nicholas C. Wright, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, One Word: Polymers. The Development of Ruthenium-Based Catalysts for Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization

Jennifer Sara Borchardt, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Zinc Fingered Nucleases: A Novel Approach for Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria Research and Treatment

Colin Pablo Borsh, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Pleistocene's massive hairy landscapers: Megaherbivore grassland maintenance and the disappearance of the mammoth steppe

Megan Elizabeth Brant, Courtney Elizabeth Halbach, Lindsay Leigh Guthrie, and Rose Cobb Cherneff, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Extension in the 21st Century: Promoting Regenerative Agricultural Practices Using the Diffusion of Innovations Theory

Lara J. Brenner, Hannah Joy M. Wirshing, and Claire Z. McFadden, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, The American Lawn: Examining Our Cultural Commitment to an Energy-Intensive Institution

Emma Jane Brobeck, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2013, Manipulating Ulysses: Ovid as Exilic Exemplum in Tristia 1.5 and 5.5

Linnea Monroe Bullion, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, ... AND FOR A MOMENT, TIME STOPS

Cooper Drew Buss, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Future of an Opiate Illusion: A Theory Based Empirical Analysis of Secularization

Jordan Anthony Butler and Caleb Alan Hyde, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, The Effects of Priming on Racial Prejudice in a Group Setting

Arden Porto Caffrey, Biology (BIOL) 2013, How HIV Crosses and Destabilizes the Blood Brain Barrier: The mechanisms of the HIV protein Tat

Thomas Cai, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Neuronal Death Mechanisms Induced by Viral Protein Secreted from Cells of Monocyte Lineage

Anna Kristin Callahan, Asian Studies (ASST) 2013, Simla: Deconstruction of a City and its Social Body

Tom A. Callister, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Spacecraft Propulsion

Joshua Christian Campbell, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Engineering the Eradication of HIV: Inhibiting Viral Entry Using Zinc Finger Nucleases

Charlie Carbery, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of a Congestion Charge on Public Cycle Hires: A London Case Study

Allison Christine Cardiel, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Photocatalytic Water Treatment and Remediation with TiO2