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Graduated in 2015

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 Díaz'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

Mitchell Robert Campbell, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, From Antipathy to Acceptance: The Process of Overcoming Internalized Homophobia

Adrian Charles Carpenter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Recoil

Sanchez Elizabeth Castillo, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, The Effect of Taste on Supertasters' Moral Judgments

Michael Aaron Chappell, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Labor Market Effects of National Health Insurance: Evidence from Singapore

Phoebe Lynn Chastain, American Studies (AMST) 2014, Save the Orphans: An Examination of Media Response to Operation Babylift, April 1975

Loren Rae Cherry, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Assumed Common Ground in the Language of Advertisements

Yuna Lee Choi, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Schizophrenia Pathophysiology a Product of NMDA Receptor and GABA Interneuron Dysregulation in the Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus

Lauren Kathleen Chuin-Wei Chow, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2014, Use What You Already Know: Positive Language Transfer in Adolescent Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners

Catherine Ann Christenson, Geology (GEOL) 2014, A Site History and Soil Contamination Source Study in the Area of 5th and 7th Streets and Washington and Water Streets, Northfield, MN

Claire Cocroft, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Musical Experience and the Shared Syntactic Integration Resource Hypothesis

Sylvie Nguyen Cohen, Biology (BIOL) 2014, mTORC1 as a Nutrient-Dependent Regulator of Autophagy in Mammalian Cells

Zoe Katarina Cohen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, A Few Weeks Ago When I Was Younger

Anderson Richard Cole, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Provenance analyses of siliciclastic dikes and Paleozoic formations near Colorado Springs, CO using detrital zircon U/Pb ages

Kelsey Christina Cox, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Do Leaders Really Matter: Understanding Leaders' Impact on World Stability Using an Agent Based Model

Charlies Scott Cross, Religion (RELG) 2014, Will the Revolution Be "Spiritual?" Occupy, Spirituality, and Social Change

Giancarlo Salvatore Danno, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, ... Del Fuego: Razing Cthulu

Sophia Catherine Davis, Peter Danforth Briggs, Hilary Curtis Marshall, and Huaiyu Wang, Mathematics (MATH) 2014, Measuring the Mississippi

Tony Carlos Daza, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Depression: A pro-inflammatory cytokine response to commensal bacteria

James Thomas Dibb, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Mammalian target of rapamycin signaling pathway in advanced hormone receptor positive breast cancer

Scott Steven Dossa, Physics (PHYS) 2014, Interpretations of Gravity

Annie Borg Doubleday, Political Science (POSC) 2014, The Impact of News Source on Public Perception of the Affordable Care Act: An Examination of the Format, Framing, and Delivery of Primary News Sources

Jeffrey Andrew Dsida, Economics (ECON) 2014, Spend it Like Beckham

Courtney Ruth Dufford, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Polycentric Flood Governance: A Case Study of the Greater Northfield Action Arena

Polly Garfield Durant, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Peer Interactions Throughout Development in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome

Qwilleran Chapin Duvall, Studio Art (ARTS) 2014, The Stories Our Bodies Tell

Emily Catherine Epperson, French (FREN) 2014, « Une province, et beaucoup d’avantage » : Rome et la création d’un espace poétique français chez du Bellay

Joshua Estes, Economics (ECON) 2014, Does Scoring Matter? The Effects of Scoring on Team Revenue and and Player Salaries in the NBA

Emily Jean Luebker Fairfax, Physics (PHYS) 2014, Flying Behind Enemy Lines: Stealth Aircraft Technology of the U.S. Military

Olivia Marie Fantini, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2014, Miley Cyrus has taught me that people think acting overtly sexual incites disrespect and violence Examining the Failings of High School Sexual Violence Prevention Education in the United States

Brianna Audrey Farley, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Womb of requirement: The role of placental hormones in myometrial activation

Max Felderman and Nona Schamus, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Some Nights Are Better

Gillian Fitz, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Every time we touch: Cell-to-cell contact allows BMP signaling to establish primordial germ cells in embryos

Felicity Flesher, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, COLT

Nicole Althea Forner, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Effects of Exercise Intensity on Explicit Memory and Implicit Memory

Brendan Haughie Fowl, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Too much of a good thing: chronic activation of mTOR-1 complex leads to the development of obesity and Type-2 diabetes mellitus

Diana Mary Fraser, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2014, Mainstreamed Marginals: A New Cycle in Romantic Comedy & "The Little Things"

Molly Rachel Gallop, Biology (BIOL) 2014, A Gut Response: The Influence of Diet and Gut Microbes on Fat Storage

Julia Elise Gamache, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Impact of Gut Microbiota on Memeory Through Cholecystokinin (CCK)

John Rybeck Garlow, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Grain shape and microtexture analysis to interpret provenance and transport history of Upper Mississippi Valley Cambrian - Ordovican supermature quartz arenites

Daniel A. Geiger, Economics (ECON) 2014, An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between the New York Yankees World Series Performance and U.S. Equity Markets

Simon Thomas Ginet, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, From Habit to Practice: Exploring the Mind-Body Habitus of the Student

Casey Hansen Goodge, Daniel Isaac Barter, Benito Gregor Ramirez, Adan Fabian Nunez, and David Andrew Himelick, Computer Science (CS) 2014, Broad Phase Collision Detection

Katherine Brooks Goodyear, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2014, What Does "Home" Mean? A comparative study of the undergraduate experiences of transitioning and repatriating Third Culture Kids

Chase James Gottschalk, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The role of PDK1 activation in the Warburg effect and apoptosis evasion under hypoxia and nutrient deprivation

Jesse David Gourevitch, Madison Jean Halloran, Henry Merton Peyronnin, and Maggie Marie Sullivan, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2014, Applying the Analytical Hierarchy Process to Small Dam Management: A Case Study of the Ames Mill Dam, Northfield,MN

Will A. Gray, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Emilean Self-Sufficiency, Or, Rousseau's Education of Cosmopolitan Love

George Adam Jacob Guenthner, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Changes in Pollinator Diversity Reduce Insular System Resilience

Jacob Daniel Hamalian, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Relief to Reconstruction: Mapping Disaster Response Funding

Dorae Diamond Hankin, Studio Art (ARTS) 2014, Untitled

Taylor Carl Hanson, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Impact of Contracts and Guaranteed Money on Production in the NBA

Hannah Catherine Happ, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Common sensing: the role of class-3 semaphorin/neuropilin signaling in trunk neural crest cells and metastatic tumor cells

Katrina Ann Harper, Rachel Ann Ewing, Samuel Ihlenfeldt, and David Stillerman, Mathematics (MATH) 2014, Predictors of Alcohol Use for College Students: A Social Network Approach

Mary Reagan Harvey, Geology (GEOL) 2014, A Geochemical analysis of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Molly Ann Hemes, English (ENGL) 2014, Children of the Troubles: The Portrayal of Fragmented Identity and Experience in Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction

Marina Kathryn Herrera-Heintz, History (HIST) 2014, Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet and the Abdication of Edward VIII

Nicholas Henry Herringer, Physics (PHYS) 2014, The Physics of Photography

Anthony Hill-Abercrombie, Yuanbo Wang, and Liz Wilson, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2014, Languages of Legitimacy: Understanding Nonpoint Source Pollution in the Cannon River Watershed Through Methodological Complementing

Naozumi Hiranuma, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The Early Evolutionary Origin of Spliceosomes

Jacob Scott Hoerger, Russian (RUSS) 2014, Hamlet. Act 0

Jacob Scott Hoerger, Political Science (POSC) 2014, The Structure of Bacon's Scientific Revolution

Margaret Constance Holladay, Religion (RELG) 2014, God is Not a God of Confusion: Language Comprehension and Experience of God at a Haitian Immigrant Baptist Church

Drew Farrington Holmen, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The Origin of Tubulin

Michael C. Holter, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Pluripotency and differentiation: A look at a potential iPSC-derived motor neuron treatment for familial ALS

Michael Knutson Hovick, Economics (ECON) 2014, Examining the Flight-to-Quality Phenomenon in Europe during the Global Financial Crisis

Jessica Huang, Biology (BIOL) 2014, The Gut-Brain-Enteric Microbiota Axis from an Ecological Perspective: The Role of Microbiota Biodiversity in Immune Functioning and its Implications in Chronic Inflammatory Disorders

Cassandra Bryce Iroz, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Escaping a nutrient deprived environment: mTOR-dependent pathways involved in cancer metastasis

Kayla Elizabeth Berge Jackson, Religion (RELG) 2014, You Are What You Eat: Exploring the Construction of a Black Social Body through Elijah Muhammad's Prescribed Rituals of Consumption

Matt Barnes Jaquette, Zoe Frances Craig, Colleen Louise Stewart, and Jia Yang, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2014, Wading through the Muddy Floodwaters: Social Vulnerability to Flooding in Northfield, MN, a Case Study

Gwendolyn Jenkins, Sebastian Bouknight, and Lauren Young, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2014, Historic Preservation on an Industrial Riverfront: Local Perspectives of Minneapolis's Upper Harbor Terminal

Rachel Elizabeth Johnson, Geology (GEOL) 2014, Delta Progradation in a Flood Control Reservoir: A Case Study from Littleville Lake, Huntington, MA

Nicholas Robert Jones, Noah Carnahan, Marcus Huderle, Zach Wood-Doughty, Tony Tran, and Cole Stephan, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2014, Plagiarism Detection

Jonathan Geoffrey Kagan-Kans, History (HIST) 2014, THE ‘GOOD’ NAZI: SS-Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski and the Role of Morality in the Holocaust