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Graduated in 2013

Marlena Sara Hartman-Filson, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Perpetuation of Human Homosexuality: A Darwinian Paradox?

Edward Fitzgerald Heckman, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Female Pubertal Timing: Possible interactions in the Kiss1/GPR554 System Leading to Precocious Puberty

Laura Katherine Henry, American Studies (AMST) 2013, I run to be sexy. I run to be strong. : Representations of Gender Difference in American Women's Running Culture

Koua Her, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Silent Freedom

Tamarae Marie Hildebrandt, Linguistics (LING) 2013, An Examination of Turkish Scrambling in Single Wh-phrase Constructions

Tamarae Marie Hildebrandt, German (GERM) 2013, For Better or Worse in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna

Paul Steven Hoffer, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, The China Problem: A Power Transition Analysis of the Rise of China

Devin Walsh Holewinski, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Trojan Horse in Manhattan: The High Line, Post Industrial Mega Projects, and the Neoliberalization of Urban Development

Ian Henry Hollyer, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Sex Specific Organization of Estrogen Receptors and the Sex Bias of Parkinson's Disease

Elizabeth Rachel Holohan, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, 318 East Sixth Street

Rebeca Ann Hulme, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Ruins, Decay, and Identity

Mallika Jayaraman, Daniel Eric Ackerman, Phillip Peter Juda, and Alex Todd Waltz, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Fueling the Future: Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use on the Economic Viability of Second Generation Biofuels

Elliott Gray Johnson, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Adult but Not Pubertal Ovarian Hormones Lead to Elevated Male Partner Preference in the Female Rat

William Christopher Johnston, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Focus, Too, and Conjunction, Too: The Syntax and Semantics of Japanese mo-Coordination

Tabatha Darline Jones, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Commemorating Memory: an Exploration of Connections

Phillip Peter Juda, Economics (ECON) 2013, Are Public Utilities Really Greener?

Satchel M. Kaplan-Allen, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Dollars for Democracy Evaluating the Effectiveness of Democratic-Governance Aid as a US Foreign Policy Strategy

Laura Danielle Karson, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Urban Science Education in the United States: Developing Lesson Plans to Overcome Misconceptions

Sam Edward James Kavanaugh, American Studies (AMST) 2013, The Minneapolis Zombie Pub Crawl: Community in Costume

Daisuke Kenneth Kenneth Kawachi, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Self Sacrifice and Sexuality in the Cinema of Lars Von Treir

Elizabeth Berhe Kelati, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, A Comparative Review of Western Versus African Reactions to Traumatic Events and Treatments for Post Traumatic Stress

Scott Patrick Kelly, Art History (ARTH) 2013, Feininger's Germany, Feininger's New York

Joshua Nathan Kirschenbaum, English (ENGL) 2013, Freak Show Stories

Jonathan Shigeo Kittaka, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Even Alive

Rachael Elizabeth Klehm, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Value-Action Gap in Hybrid Vehicle Purchases: Implications for Restructuring Institutions to Promote Sustainable Consumption

Madeleine Johanna Koski, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Seeing Through a Lens

Stephanie Nicole Kravitz, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Let's Talk About Sex, Baby: The Role of Gonadal Hormones in Bipolar Mood Cycling

Taylor J. LaCasse, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Using a coarse-grained conglomerate to investigate lateral offset along the Leavenworth Fault Zone, North Cascades, Washington

Anton Ledesma and Eduardo Motino, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Pathological gambling as a non-substance based addition: the product of maladaptive learning and pathology of motivation

Edith Elizabeth Elizabeth Lee, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, The Quality of Reality

Fue Lee, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Playing Politics at Sea: Comparative Case Studies of China's Offshore Territorial Disputes

Evan Robert Leibowitz, Linguistics (LING) 2013, The Verbhood of Mandarin ba and its Role in Resultative Constructions

Alice Lee Leno, Economics (ECON) 2013, Sources of Competition among Micro Finance Institutions: Political Institutions and Openness

Eric William Leppink, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Depression and the negative feedback loop: What happens when our support systems are not supportive?

Dania RL Lerman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Friends: Fall 2012

Ellen Claire Levine, English (ENGL) 2013, What's the Point? The Purpose of Storytelling in Plato, Milton, Douglass, and Rushdie and Madness! Physical and Emotional Readings in The Blindfold and The Master and Margarita

Sofia Cordova Levinson, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Use of Experimenter Body Orientation by Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in a Choice Task

Erin Marie Lewis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Patterning on Wood Fired Ceramics

Fay Xiao Li, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effects of Oil Price Shocks on Domestic Oil Firms and Alternative Energy Firms: an Event Study of the Persian Gulf War

Fay Xiao Li, Elicia Cousins, Marianna Zapanta, and Claire Karban, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk, Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience

Jens Richard Lillehei, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of Corruption and Government Institutions on the Size of Microfinance

Kyung Soo Liu, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Korean Vowel Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Account

Yurui Liu, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Balassa-Samuelson Effect and Cross-Regional Labor Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe

Alexandra Long, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in the Intestinal Epithelium: A New Model for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Erin Ramirez Lopez, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Sex-Brain Plasticity: Altering the Theory of Permanence

Marisa Luck, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Friend or foe? Regulatory T cells in viral infections of the CNS

Veronica Elaine Lynn, Jack Mullaney, Rebecca Gelles, Ian Heinzman, Alex Kuntz, and Donny Mellstrom, Computer Science (CS) 2013, Angry Words: An Automated Crossword Solver

Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Generalized Cantor Sets: The Size and The Contents

Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada, Economics (ECON) 2013, Resource Discovery Announcements: The Pre-Dutch-Disease Syndrome

Dhilhan Umayanga Marasinghe, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Biology of a Sexy Chromosome: Implications of syntenic mapping on the evolution of sex chromosomes

Barbara Marchevsky, Economics (ECON) 2013, State of New York, et. al. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: An Event Analysis of Impact on the Nuclear Industry

Kyle Samuel Markwalter, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2013, And He Walks with Me: Scripture and Recall in the Confessions

Kyle Samuel Samuel Markwalter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Fathers of Cinema: Catholicism in Capra, Scorsese, and Coppola

Daniel Pierce Pierce McAlister, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Zeke's Quest

Michael James McClellan, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Synthesis of Co(en)3 and Co(diNOsar): Improving an Undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

David Risberg McNeil, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, The Mirror of Nonexistence: Evaluating Lucretius's Symmetry Argument

Schuyler Van Antwerp Metcalf, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Geochemsitry of Twin Sisters Creek dike swarm, Fort Bayard, New Mexico: Evidence for low angle subduction of the Farallon plate during the Laramide Orogeny

Adam Michael Miller, Economics (ECON) 2013, Are There Any Economic Benefits To Drinking? A Macro Study of Alcohol's Effects on Education, Income, and Life Expectancy

David Roger Miller, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Vision

Claire Angela Milsted, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influence Phosphorus Limitation in Tropical Forests

Elliot Griffith Mitchell, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Of Death and Democracy: Mortality Salience Effects in the 2012 Presidential Election

Anna Morrison, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Mapping Black Identity: An Examination of the African American Cultural Landscape in Detroit

Jessica Francine Morrison, Theater Arts (THEA) 2013, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

Megan Whitney Morrison, Spanish (SPAN) 2013, “Sólo lo que imaginamos es posible”: El arte de Francisco de Goya y Miguel Brieva

Megan Whitney Morrison, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, True Adventure Discovery

Madeline C. Muzzi, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, The Place of Craft

Patrick Nalepka, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Us or Just You and Me? An Empirical Approach to Understand (Shared) Intentions in Joint Action

Megan Joy Anne Narvey, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Corrosion Processes and Conservation Strategies for Metals in Historic Shipwrecks

Katie Stevenson Neher, English (ENGL) 2013, Incorporate in Rome: Political Embodiment and Weaponized Femininity in Shakespeare

Laura Jessica Nelson, Japanese (JAPN) 2013, Mobile Suit Gundam and the Changes in the Japanese Family System: How Robots Reflect Japanese Society

Raymond Ngu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Looking Forward to Looking Back: The Future of Anthropology as Presented in Introductory College Textbooks Past and Present

Sarah Louise Nielsen, Biology (BIOL) 2013, A NO/RyRs/CaMKII signal transduction pathway may be responsible for phase delay during photic entrainment of the circadian clock

Arju Ragde Nishimura, Religion (RELG) 2013, A Kaleidoscope of Liliths: The World's First Woman and Her Dance with Tradition

Erika Margaret Ohles, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Making Marks to Transform the "Everyday"

Adriana Orland, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Investigation of the MeCP2 Gene: Rett's Syndrome as a Model for Autism?

Laurel Jeffers Orr and Xin Chen, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Elliptic Functions and Modular Forms

Evan Philip Osborne, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Environmental Trace Analysis: Investigating Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products with Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Rachel Elizabeth Osofsky, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The First Three Minutes of the Universe

Yansong Pang, Megan Mary Bakkens, Cassie Mullen, and Wenli Rui, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, The Effect of Spinning Machine Speed on Performance of Yarn

Yansong Pang, Jeweletter Johnson, and Meiyuzi Gao, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, The Effects of Extraversion on Group Performance in Cooperative and Competitive Memory Tasks

Ashley Rose Paquin, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Psychological Extreme Male Brain: An Exploration of Biological Mechanisms

Lauren Elizabeth Partch, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Neuroscience of Free Will

Andrew Thomas Peters, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Take a Chance on /d/: Mexican Spanish Spirantization and Probability in Optimality Theory

Gabrielle Marie Peterson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Antiques -- Oil Object Paintings

Charlotte Rose Pfeifer, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Spider Webs

Holly Helen Phares, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Making the Leap

Jennifer Sophie Piela, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Exploring relationships between climate and topography using 10Be cosmogenic nuclide- derived erosion rates and stream long profiles in the Western Ghats, India

Carin Michelle Postal, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Development as Gender Equality: Fitting Women into the Discourse of Incentives and Processes of Tanzanian Development

Kathryn Powell, Religion (RELG) 2013, A Radically Traditional Approach: Using Dorothy Day and the Mystical Body of Christ to Redefine Tradition

Sarah Frances Price, English (ENGL) 2013, The Lord of the Sagas: Tolkien's Tom Bombadil and his relation to the Icelandic Sagas

Lucy Essumanba Essumanba Quagraine, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Ghana For Real, the Familiar, Unfamiliar Place

Sana Rafiq, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Beyond Homo Economicus - Analyzing the Role of Communication in Cooperation

Sana Rafiq, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of Microfinance on Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Rural Thailand

Matthew James Cusworth Rathkey, Music (MUSC) 2013, An Examination of the Musical Character of Anat Cohen

Sarah Krafft Rempel, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Circadian Clock Regulation of Dopamine in the Ventral Tegmental Area

Brian Harrison Rhodes, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Advantages of the Use of TAL Effector Nucleases Over Zinc Finger Nucleases in the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease

Anne O. Richardson, American Studies (AMST) 2013, ... A Moment That is Mine, While I'm in Between... : Female Adolescent Identity Development in America's Suburbs

Samuel Koehnline Rosenberg, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Role of Melanopsin-Containing Cells in Mammals: Pupillary Light Response, Photoentrainment of the Circadian Cycle, and Implications for Disease

Charles Michael Rosenthal, History (HIST) 2013, Black and White Cultural Heritages in the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad, 1934-1975

Aurora C. Roth, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Ice Fishing for Neutrinos: The Physics of Neutrino Telescopes