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Graduated in 2016

Brandon Michael Hagans, Physics (PHYS) 2016, Spacecraft Propulsion

Carrie Anne Hanson, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2016, Les recherches et les représentations des identités croisées dans Shérazade : 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts de Leïla Sebbar

Russell Anthony Hanson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, No Boundaries

Sara Elizabeth Hastings, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Storm runoff pulses and their effects on phytoplankton community composition and primary productivity in estuaries

Sam Hayward, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, The Role of Language and Culture in the Better Than Average Effect: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between India and the United States

Michael Andrew Heflin, History (HIST) 2016, The Real Eastern Front: A Grassroots View to the Wehrmacht Experience

Theresa M. Heitz, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, We Call Each Other Sister: Melodrama, Ideology, and Women's Bodies in Orphan Black

Jody He, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Need for Speed: The Role of Translational Efficiency in Codon Usage Bias

Clare Zearfoss Hiyama, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2016, Kinship Across the Color Line: conceptions of Race, Racial Identity, and Racial Socialization in Interracial Mother-Daughter Relationships

Michelle Hoge, Chris Nootenboom, and Caroline von Klemperer, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2016, Spatial Optimization in Tallgrass Prairie Restoration: Tradeoffs between Ecosystem Services and Restoration Costs

Emma Frances Hughes, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The New Global West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist Western

Margaret Seidel Humm, Economics (ECON) 2016, Bringing it Home: Work, Wages, or Both?

Ellis Sweet Johnston, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Sequestration of Plant Metabolites and its Varied Usage by Generalist and Specialist Herbivores

Sarah McCook Jordan, Geology (GEOL) 2016, Strain path and thermal history of quartzite in the deep crust of Andean-style orogenic plateaus: a case study from the Wood Hills, Nevada

Nora Anderson Katz, History (HIST) 2016, Mapping Norumbega: Aesthetics of Barren and Bountiful Landscapes in Samuel de Champlain's New France, 1607-1632

Claire Anne Kelloway, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Cows, Colleges, and Conservation: How Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges managed erosion and promoted biodiversity on their rented agricultural lands

Prasidda Khadka, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Reprogramming of the immune cells by gut microbiota plays an important role in anti-tumor immunity

Madeline Butler King, English (ENGL) 2016, Disclosure

Megan Marie King, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Microbial Metabolites as Messengers: Bifidobacterium uses metabolites to modulate dendritic cell maturation, differentiation, and function with implications to Celiac Disease

Katherine Marie Koza, Philosophy (PHIL) 2016, Secrecy, Self-Determination, and Sacred Lands: Motivating Native American Land Policy Reform Through International Political Philosophy

Robert Dakota Krossa, Economics (ECON) 2016, Skill Spills: A Cross-Skill Group Analysis on Wage Spillovers of Good Jobs

Julia Krumholz, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Lyme Disease Host Frequencies Change in Response to Acorn Masts, Altering Prevalence of Borrelia Burgodorferi in Northeast American Environments

Alexander Richard Kulacki, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Dialectal Variation in German Verb Cluster Ordering

Alexander Richard Kulacki, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Generalists and Specialists in Response to Ecological Disturbance

Adam John Lacroix, Physics (PHYS) 2016, An Analysis of Space Elevator Physics

Valerie Lambert, David Anderson, Dan Hamalainen, Edward Kwiatkowski, and Sam Spaeth, Computer Science (CS) 2016, Slitherlink

Halie M. Langanki, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, An Effective Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Aidan Robin Larse, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Caffeine can increase incidence of musical chills: Interactions with song familiarity

Caroline Anna Lauth, Geology (GEOL) 2016, An Integrated Stratigraphic Analysis of the "Problem" of the Oligocene-Miocene Boundary at Monte Conero, Italy

Jae Eun Lee, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Can Reframing the Label Feminist Reduce its Stigma?

Abhimanyu Lele, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Causes of Individual Foraging Specialization

Ambrin Chi-En Ling, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Basic Needs/Higher Order

Kera Chi-Hwei Ling, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Introspective Bodies

Julia Barritt Lisi, History (HIST) 2016, Wearing the Robes: Gender Performance, Religion, and Power

Tsi Yan Jacqueline Liu, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, My Conversation with Gong-gong (myself)

Nathan Matz Livingston, Chemistry (CHEM) 2016, Editing in the Aminoacyl tRNA-Synthetases

Margaret M. Lloyd, Religion (RELG) 2016, Embodied Sikhism: Sikh Navigation of Prejudice and Identity in Post-9/11 America

Nicoletta Irey LoVerso, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Effects of Social Anxiety on Visual Perspectives in Memory and Episodic Future Thought

de Macedi Khuaten Maaneb, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The role of carbohydrate subtypes in T cell population modification, intestinal epithelial cell tight junction integrity, and autoimmune disease

Lindsey Kirk Main, Economics (ECON) 2016, How Efficient is the Art Market? An Analysis of Art Market Efficiency and its Evolution Across Time in Comparison with the Stock and Housing Markets

Henry Dillon Maler, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, A Small Revolution: Reconstructing A National Identity in Post-Financial Crisis Greek Cinema

Brandon Lamar Marks, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Correlation of Identity Style and Personality with Prosocial Behavior

Philip-Peter Joachim Maxeiner, Geology (GEOL) 2016, The Origin of Cetaceans and Observational Based Lessons

Madison Lee McBride, History (HIST) 2016, "The Circle is Complete': Adoptive Heritage Tourism as a Structure in the International Adoption Complex

Grace McNeely, History (HIST) 2016, Bleeding Beyond the Frame: Understanding the Relationship Between Biblical Battle and Kingship in the Thirteenth-Century Morgan Picture Bible (MS M.638)

Alice Mei, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, He Said, She Said: Exploring Cognitive Processing and Gender in Perceived Influence of Speech

Sarah Miriam Meister, English (ENGL) 2016, How May I Compare this Prison ... unto the World? The Interpretive Value of Prison Shakespeare

Matthew Allen Mensinger, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The Ecological Influences of Semelparous Salmon and Anthropogenic Nutrient Subsidies in Riparian Systems

Ian George Mercer, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Extracting Plato from Platonism: Beyond Good and Evil as a Response to Republic

Anil Tomi Methipara, Economics (ECON) 2016, Income Inequality and Population Health Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Cause for Concern?

Darcy Mishkind, Biology (BIOL) 2016, A Codon of Silence: The effects of synonymous codon optimization and de-optimization on translation

Ilana Joy Mishkin, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Ladino Copular Variation: A Case Study of Seattle Ladino Heritage Speakers

Anya Moradian, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Commissural axons require additional cues that modulate the Netrin pathway and ensure proper guidance

Brent Alexander Murcia and Jacob Thedore Wasserman, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2016, Beefing Up Local Meat Production: Studying Constraints on Local Meat in Southern Minnesota

Christian Paul Nagy, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, In-group facilitation through athletics

Hannah Jean Nayowith, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Being Palestinian, It's a Curse: Non-Activist Women's Perspectives on Palestinian National Liberation

Shaylin Fay Nguyen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, The Travelogue Meets The Diary Film in Change of Course

Robert Nieves, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Family Moments

Christopher William Nootenboom, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Whale Falls and the Species-Energy Theory: Dual Resource Pulses that Promote Global Diversity as Evolutionary Stepping Stones

Hallie Ojala-Barrett, Art History (ARTH) 2016, Bernardo Daddi's Triptych at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Fourteenth Century Private Devotion

Robert Otsuka, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, The Transistor

Florence Emily Pollard, Economics (ECON) 2016, The Relationship between Parent and Child Occupational Safety and Health Risk Levels in the African American Community

Jordan Marie Pruszenski, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Examining migratory ungulates as a resource pulse and their effects on the species in their migratory range

Victoria Elisabeth Rachmaninoff, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Proximity

David Clinton Racine, Philosophy (PHIL) 2016, Reconciling Partiality and Impartiality: How Morality Separates Good Partial Reasons from the Bad

Shraddha Raghavan, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Extracellular matrix components play a critical role in the segmental migration of trunk neural crest cells

Caroline Leigh Roberts, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Positive Outcome in Siblings of Children with Developmental Disabilities

Andy Rodgers, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Understanding host shifts in phytophagous insects and their role in diversification

Sofia Aidee Rosales Juarez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, detached

Emma Adrienne Rossby, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2016, Du mythe vers la réalité : Perceptions de la désillusion chez Baudelaire

Emma Adrienne Rossby, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Sub-State Nationalism and Social Welfare Policy in Belgium: Unravelling Flemish and Walloon Narratives of Institutional Reform

Zach Franklin Rubin, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Visual Search in Cotton-top Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) and College Students

Emma Louise Russ, Economics (ECON) 2016, Higher Standards for Female Coaches: Gender Discrimination in Division I Women's College Basketball

Aaron W. Sala and Vincent DeZutti, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Cornered

Brittany Salazar, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Effect of gut microbiome on TH17 cell activation and Toll-like receptor signaling in rheumatoid arthritis development

Samantha Rose Saltzman, English (ENGL) 2016, Do, Boatman, Do: Christina Rossetti's Case for Granting Power and Autonomy to Girls

Hannah Elizabeth Sanchez, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Unapologetically Me

Roberto Stephen Sande, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The Netrin-1/DCC/ERK Pathway and its Effects on Axonal Branching

Grace Marie Sassana, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Feeding Our Immune Systems: Microbiota-Derived Short Chain Fatty Acids Regulate Colonic Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cell Generation

Berit Hendrickson Schurke, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, et stille friluftsliv

Tamar Shirit Segev, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, An Exploration of Bodies within Space and Time

Cameron Meyer Shorb, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Factors regulating invasive plant responses to resource pulses

Bing Shui, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Gastric Cancer Metastasis: Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Promoted By Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts

Reilly Anne Simon, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2016, The Perfect Storm: The Role of Military Decision-Making in the Success or Failure of Arab Spring Democratization Movements

Annie Adele Sinner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Navigating the Liminally-Classed Self: First Generation, Low-Income Carleton College Students' Reflections on the Impact of Class

Moira Smith, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, How do we look at bodies?

Ximou Song, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Synonymous Codon Bias in Translational Elongation and Protein Folding

Dana Wells Spencer, Linguistics (LING) 2016, Il y a des problèmes ici: An analysis of current theories of preposition stranding through the lens of Canadian French

Emily Jo Spoden, Political Science (POSC) 2016, The Making of an Undocu-Friendly State: Partisanship and Issue Framing in the Passage of Post-Secondary Education Benefits for Undocumented Students in Minnesota and Wisconsin

Abigail Peterson Star, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, A Study of Light and Trees

Nathaniel Allen Strauss, Physics (PHYS) 2016, The Thermodynamics of Black Holes: Energy and Quantum Mechanics in Spacetime

Christopher Ely Sundquist, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Commensal Communication: An Examination of the Bacteroides fragilis Polysaccharide A Dependent Immunosuppressive Pathway

Emma Rose Sunog, English (ENGL) 2016, Secrets

Rui Su, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Striking the Impossible Balance: How College Students Imagine Juggling Career, Marriage, and Parenthood in the Future

Erwin Daniel-Saah Swaray, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Influence of an Odor's Emotional Salience when Acting as a Retrieval Cue for Episodic Memory

Sarah Hui Ying Tan, Theater Arts (THEA) 2016, Perpetrators

Melanie Suzanne Taub, Economics (ECON) 2016, Who Pays for the ACA? The Differences in Compensation between Public and Private Sector Workers

Hayden Phillip Tornabene, Physics (PHYS) 2016, Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry: Why is there something and not nothing?

Wing Hei Agnes Tse, Economics (ECON) 2016, Educational Mismatch, Wage Levels, and Wage Growth: A longitudinal analysis of the U.S. labor market

Wing Hei Agnes Tse, Music (MUSC) 2016, The Crystallization of the Song Cycle: from An die ferne Geliebte to Frauenliebe und Leben