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 2013

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

Leigh Elizabeth Carroll, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Paper Mold

Sam Nelson Espeland Carruthers, Economics (ECON) 2013, Buying the Green: A Hedonic Pricing Analysis of Hybrid Cars in the American Car Market

Sarah Elizabeth Carter, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Flavivirus-induced neuronal chemokine and cytokine signals: the signals’ effects on the immune system and host survival

Nora Kathleen Cassidy, History (HIST) 2013, The Front Page Farm Workers: The Relationship Between the United Farm Workers and the Print Media During the Delano Grape Strike of 1965-1970

Andrew Alan Chael, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Julissa Chavez, Biology (BIOL) 2013, A Molecular Mechanism of Estrogen‐Mediated Sex Bias in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Dylan Cheever, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Sound Symbolism's Role in Everyday Speech and Developing Languages

Julian Ray Childs-Walker, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Humpback Whales and Sharks: An Exploration of Biomimicry

Alexander Kyle Chin, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Organic Electronic Devices

Katherine Logan Claiborne, Economics (ECON) 2013, Coal, Education, and Per Capita Income in Kentucky Counties, 1969-2011

Rebecca Cogbill, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Is there a bed in embedding?: Processing of lexical embedding in multisyllabic words

Jacob Allan Cohn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, A Future Delayed? Ambitions and Obstacles in Modern Brazilian Foreign Policy

Jason Gabriel Cohn, Evan Robert Leibowitz, Eli F. Kamin, Daoji Huang, and Laurel Jeffers Orr, Computer Science (CS) 2013, StikiWikit: What's for you on Wikipedia?

Joseph Seamus Concannon, Religion (RELG) 2013, The Postmodern Re-formation: Mark C. Taylor and the Poetics of A/theology

Anna Helen Coonrod, Economics (ECON) 2013, Financing with the Stars: The Effects of Media on Financial Literacy and Financial Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Allison Cooperman, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Can Feeling Good Make Us Feel Good About Others? Positive Emotions and Their Effects on Negative Attitudes and Stereotype Application Towards Obesity

Cara Raye Coren, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Feeling and Thinking About Genocide: Primary and Secondary Photographic Representations of the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide

Grace Cormier and Melody Zhou, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Influence of Creativity Dimensions on Cognition and Advertising Effectiveness: Application for the Promotion of Pura Vida Healthy Lifestyle Program

Molly Elizabeth Curtiss, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Making Islam the Solution: The Influence of Islam on HIV Prevention and Treatment Programs

Iris Cutler, Art History (ARTH) 2013, Monstrous, Marvelous, Wondrous, and Strange: Humanoid Races and the Other on the Hereford Mappamundi

Jasmine Antonia Cutter, Karlie Linnea Haug, Madeleine Johanna Koski, and Emily Sheriff Rogers, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Sold on Solar? Perceptions of Solar Panels in Grand Canyon National Park: An Analysis of the Implementation of Renewable Energy Technologies in National Parks

Milan William Cvitkovic, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Self-Avoiding Random Walks

Zerrin Dagli, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, [Untitled]

Charles Robert Dale, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Evidence for the fast-­x effect, and faster-­x evolution of gene expression

Jack R. R. Davis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, I am an Aspiring Actor

Eliza Henderson Dennis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Body Systems

Christopher Dana Densmore and Emily Altschul, Theater Arts (THEA) 2013, Macbeth [a Carleton Theater Arts performance]

Yuvika Diwan, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Decentralize Now, Recentralize Later: Institutional Change, Local Actors and Rural Development

Morgan Kay Dixon, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Antimatter

Cooper Dodds, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, She Found Them in the Woods

Megan Dolezal, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Creating Portraiture as an Act of Reflection and Friendship

Chantal Donahue, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, The influence of culture on recovery rates of schizophrenia: a comparison of sub-Saharan Africa and the West

Elaine Downie, Bee Lee, Brady Still, Adrienne Werth, Alex Lai, David Hanna, and Ted Harmon, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, From RNA to Loren Williams and Beyond: An RNA perspective of cations involvement in the evolution of life

Bridget Mary Doyle, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Zinc
 Finger 
Nucleases:
 The
 Key
 to 
CCR5 
Gene 
Disruption
 and
 Consequent 
HIV 
Eradication

Ellen Elizabeth Drews, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Decline of insect biodiversity due to nitrogen loading in grasslands: reduced plant diversity as a driver of consumer species loss

Peter Duggins, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Dictatorships for Dummies: Understanding Political Dynamics and Decision-Making in Authoritarian Regimes using an Agent-based Computational Model

Peter Duggins, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Physics of Fusion Power

Anne Elizabeth Duncan, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Xylem and Xylella fastidiosa: Understanding Infection and Resistance Through Vascular Tissue Development

Coleman Ray Durkin, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, [Untitled]

Dennis Ea, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Engineering T Cells with Cancer-specific T Cell Receptors: A Zinc-Finger Nuclease-based Therapy for Leukemia

Karen Marie Eash, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Engagement in social learning on a food-retrieval task by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus Oedipus)

Leah Ross Eby, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, You Don't See It How We See It: Somali Women's Perceptions of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Faribault, Minnesota

Daniel Michael Elder, Economics (ECON) 2013, How Has the University of Minnesota's New Stadium Affect Surrounding Housing Values

Brianna Jean Engelson, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Indirect Effects of HIV Tat on Neuronal Apoptosis Through Increased TNF-α Expression: Implications for HIV-Associated Dementia

Madeline Welker Epping, Biology (BIOL) 2013, 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

Ellen Margaret Farnham, Thomas George Holmes, Gregory Harris Phillips, and Jonathan Daniel Hillis, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Building retrofits on campus: A case study of the comprehensive costs and benefits of improving energy efficiency at Carleton College

Molly Elizabeth Farry-Thorn, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Pubertal Gonadal Hormone Exposure Influences Paced Mating Behavior in Female Rats

Pedro J. Fernandez, English (ENGL) 2013, Melville's 'livid hieroglyph': the exhaustions of "Pierre"

Sarah Marie Ferrari, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Psychological Differences between Traditional Healing and Western Therapeutic Practices in Africa

Joseph Daniel Fishman and Matthew Benjamin Spevack, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, A White Suit

Gabrielle Keating Flamm, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The crossroad of TLR signaling, interferon induction, and CD8+ T cell priming in the prevention of herpes simplex encephalitis

Monica Lee Fleisher, English (ENGL) 2013, It's Perfectly Normal: Surveillance, Authority, and Virginity Loss Narratives in Young Adult Fiction

Hannah Marie Folz, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Spatial Inquiries

Christopher David Frills, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Lowering the recidivism rates of sex offenders: A legal and cross-cultural analysis of sex crime in the United States and the Czech Republic

Francesca Giovanna Garcia, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Resolving lexical polysemy: "with" corpora & collocations

Maria D. Garcia, Biology (BIOL) 2013, rom WAT to BAT: Regulation of PGC-1alpha as a Potential Therapeutic Approach for the Treatment of Metabolic Diseases

Jessica Meghan Gick, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Using the Present to Decode the Past: Phylogeography Reveals the Origin and Extent of Early Quaternary Migrations Following Deglaciation of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Extant Pacific Northwestern Mammals

Tyler Randall Goetz, Economics (ECON) 2013, Role of the Border Effect in the Failure of the Law of One Price

Scott Lewis Graber, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Words and Rules, Les Mots et Les Regles: The Dual Mechanism Model of Morphology in French

Brooke Dianne Granowski, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, The diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid

Brooke Dianne Granowski, Religion (RELG) 2013, Wholly Other, Other Holies: Rudolf Otto's Religious Pluralism in Conversation with Contemporary Religious Studies Criticism

Rebecca Lang Greenstein, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The RORA Story: One Gene's Potential to Explain the Sex Bias in Autism

Elise Corinne Gurney, Economics (ECON) 2013, Determining the Impacts of Local Food Movements on Large-Scale Trade Patterns for Agricultural Goods in the United States

Yonas Tensae Hailu, History (HIST) 2013, Charles Haddon Spurgeon: The Formation of a Preacher in 19th Century England

Rafadi Hakim, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Countless Ramayanas: Language and Cosmopolitan Belonging in a South Asian Epic

Kelsey Han, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, How We Make Meaning: The Mental Representation of Concepts in Cognitive Science

Andy Hardt, Pete McNeely, Tung Nguyen Viet Phan, and Justin M. Troyka, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Combinatorial Species and Graph Enumeration

Keenan Thomas Hartert, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Y so Deleterious? The Destructive Evolution of the Mammalian Y Chromosome and its Path to Salvation