Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2016
Jack Christopher Turzillo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2016, Hunk
Erika Tyagi, Economics (ECON) 2016, The Effect of Mega-Events on Housing Prices: The 2012 London Summer Olympic
Emma Katherine Vinella-Brusher and Joseph Philip Haase, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2016, Assessing Urban Habitat Connectivity: Using Circuit Theory to Model Blanding's Turtle Movement
Jack Anthony Violetta, Economics (ECON) 2016, Entry-Level Productivity and Compensation: A Comparison between the National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association
Lindsey Kay Walters, History (HIST) 2016, Confronting the History of Slavery: Seeking Retrospective Justice at Harvard and Brown
Lindsey Kay Walters, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2016, Obruni! Obruni!: African American Experiences in Ghana and the Politics of Diaspora
Gail J. Waltz, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Synonymous Codon Use: Effects on Ribosome Speed, Protein Folding, and Protein Function
Jessica Kate Weaver, Economics (ECON) 2016, Does the ACA Break Down Barriers to Self-Employment? A Predictive Model to Measure an Individual's Probability of Being Self-Employed in the Years 2008-2015
Lindsey Catherine Weber, Chemistry (CHEM) 2016, HIV-1 Entry Inhibitors: A Review of Structure-Based Drug Design Targeting the Conserved Hydrophobic Pocket of gp41
Lindsey Catherine Weber, History (HIST) 2016, Magic, Midwives, and the Grapevine: Negotiating Women's Healthcare in 18th-Century Colonial Mexico
Ryan David Wegner, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Periodic Cicadas as a Resource Pulse
Dylan Meyer Wells, Economics (ECON) 2016, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Emerging and Frontier Economies
Alexander Coffin Welna, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, How Students' Drinking Choices Impact Perceptions of their Gendered and Socially Desirable Traits in College
Laura Elinor Westneat, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Psychological Profiling of Criminal Psychopaths: An Investigation into the Relationship between Behavior and Personality
Samuel West, Biology (BIOL) 2016, The roll of the cytokine CXCL12 and its receptor CXCR4 in the metastasis of tumor cells in breast cancer
Mason Fobes White, Physics (PHYS) 2016, The Physics of Self-Driving Cars
Samuel William White, Biology (BIOL) 2016, Maintenance of DUOX-pathway Homeostasis in the Drosophila Gut
Forrest Faix Williams, Geology (GEOL) 2016, Rainfall-Influenced Turbidity and Nutrient Fluxes in Rice and Heath Creeks
Florence Chi Hang Wong, Studio Art (ARTS) 2016, Humanimals
Chielon Scott Yang, Jonathan Green, Kiley Maki, Austin Infante Lane, Dean Knetzger, and Charles Eyermann, Computer Science (CS) 2016, Self-Driving Comps
Xue Yang, Art History (ARTH) 2016, Plurality of Chinese Modern Art
Richard Michael Yeker, Biology (BIOL) 2016, ROS/RNS impair sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release and decrease calcium sensitivity to induce skeletal muscle fatigue
SeungJoon Yoo, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Skills-Mismatch in Republic of Korea: Consequences of Unbalanced Skills Among College Graduates on Growing Youth Unemployment
Jianxiong Yu, Economics (ECON) 2016, Country Risk During the Great Recession: Does Financial Development Matter?
Joyce Yu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2016, Neuroprosthetics: Reconnecting with the World
Jessica Zhou, Psychology (PSYC) 2016, Neuroplasticity of Addiction
Jordan Michael Zoellmer, Physics (PHYS) 2016, The Global Position System: An Introduction to the Background and Physics
Graduated in 2015
Zoe Yvette Abdel-Moneim, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Emotional Armor
Shamis M. Adam, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Antiviral Immunity: Interactions between Inhibitory Killer-Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors and MHC-I Molecules in HIV Infection
Jae Ahn, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Canonical and Non-Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathways Regulate Dendritic Morphogenesis and Synaptogenesis in Hippocampal Neurons
Dilara Akgunduz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2015, Indecision 101: Exploring the Effects of Cultural Fractionalization in the New Middle East on Foreign Policy Behavior
Laura Christine Arneson, Biology (BIOL) 2015, From Burger to Tumor: The Role of Diet-Derived Glycans in Cancer
Lilly Athamanah, American Studies (AMST) 2015, Ride Like the Wind: Divvy Bike Share's Function as Sustainable Mass Transit or Tourist Attraction in the City of Chicago
Nolan Baker, Economics (ECON) 2015, Can Students Be Motivated to Work Harder? Examining the Impact of Compensation Schemes on Test Performance
Nathan Daniel Bamberger, Devon Shipman Manber, and Nimita Iyer, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, Emergence of Synchrony in Pulse-Coupled Neurons
Hillary Kraemer Barbetta, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Exploring and enhancing the regenerative potential of the mammalian heart through exogenous cardiomyocyte differentiation and transplantation
Emily Natanya Dorothy Bauer, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, The Evolution of Narrative Cognition
Anders James Berglund, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Examining Possible Source Calderas for the Arikareean Tuffs of Western Nebraska Using Major Element Biotite Geochemistry
Francina Raye Block, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Clearwater
Charles Alexander Bloom, Maria Elisabeth Kjellstrand, and Kathryn Rebecca Leys, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2015, Applying an Actor-Oriented Approach to Ecological Restoration: A Case Study of Coldwater Spring
Carl Bou Mansour, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, Radical Testimony: An Exploration of Radical Embodiment and Credulous Testimony
Sara Elizabeth Brooks, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Pile
Emily Virginia Buckner, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Making Connections in Human-dominated Landscapes: The Ecological Role of Subsidies in Recipient Systems
Seana Ellen Buzbee, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Mitigating Power of Socioeconomics: Alleviating Malnutrition's Effect on Cognitive Development in Developing Countries
Seana Ellen Buzbee, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, The Process of Time
Colette Celichowski, Biology (BIOL) 2015, The Great Xscape: How and Why Genes Escape Inactivation on the Eutherian Xi
Brian Isaac Charous, Physics (PHYS) 2015, The Physics and Design of Antennas
Michelle Chen, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2015, To Afford or Not to Afford: Does the Digital Environment Have Affordances?
Ruisu Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2015, N-ε-carboxymethyl-lysine (CML) binds to the receptor for AGE (RAGE) and activates multiple pathways that lead to the development of atherosclerosis complications in diabetes patients
Worthy Mbuza Cho, Economics (ECON) 2015, Institutions and Foreign Direct Invest during the 2007 to 2009 Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Developing World
Dane Liles Christensen, Economics (ECON) 2015, Transmission of Macroeconomic Shocks Within The European Union: An Analysis of Fiscal Imbalances and Spillover Effects
Kate Alison Cieslowski, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder: A Case for Inclusion in the DSM
Rachel Clark, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2015, Feminist Theories & Dance Histories In Collective Search of Female Subjectivity
Louis David Cohen, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Dosage Compensation Models in C. elegans compared to those in D. melanogaster
Laura Legendre Colbran, Biology (BIOL) 2015, An Exiting Existence: mechanisms of mammalian sex chromosome inactivation
Wenyue College, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Multiple pathways are required for hypoxia-induced autophagy - a survival mechanism of cancer cells
Alison Carol Coogan, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Nephron segmentation and its application in advancing regenerative therapies for kidney disease
Daniel David Cook, Biology (BIOL) 2015, 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
Kirstin Kim Cook, Chemistry (CHEM) 2015, Elucidating NCX Function from Structure
Camille C. Coonrod, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Untitled
Hannah Marit Curtiss, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Aberrant O-Mannose Initiated Glycosylation of ?-Dystroglycan Underlies Congenital Muscular Dystrophies
Leigh Dairaghi, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Mechanisms of mammalian dosage compensation: X-chromosome inactivation and reactivation
Sonja Sharon Stacey Dangler, Spanish (SPAN) 2015, Nadie es inocente, De noche vienes: Género y clase en Elena Poniatowska
Carly Anne Davidson, Political Science (POSC) 2015, Beyond Benghazi: Understanding the American Response to Attacks Against US Diplomatic Facilities
Jan Aldrich Larsen Dela Paz Dela Cruz, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Role of Expectations: Effects of Terrorist Campaigns Versus Isolated Terrorist Attacks on Economic Growth in South East Asia
Kathy Dooley, Arnaud Kpachavi, and Eli Skinner, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2015, The Impact of Land Use Change on Lake Phosphorus Concentrations in Dakota County, MN
Connor Pierce Einarsen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, ARIADNE
Paul Issara Elbow, Economics (ECON) 2015, What was the impact of the Great Recession on worker groups in Thailand? A closer look at unemployment during the global financial crisis.
Sarah Marcellina Ellis, Economics (ECON) 2015, Do Nice Guys Actually Finish Last? Determinants of Game Attendance in the National Basketball Association
Louis Enriquez-Sarano, Economics (ECON) 2015, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY
Jhernie Ho'onani Punahele Evangelista, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Haku: A Short Experimental Documentary
Luke McCoy Fairchild, Geology (GEOL) 2015, High temperature emplacement of clastic breccia dikes and implications for the development and magnetization of impact craters
Claire Marie Ferguson, English (ENGL) 2015, Crossing Meridians: Conceptualizing Foreignness in Omeros, Invierno, and M. Butterfly and "Dismantling the Angel of the House: Writing Back to Conventional Notions of Victorian Womanhood" (2 papers)
John Alexander Ficklin, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Predation in the City
Larkin Hafer Flodin, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, The Unsolvability of the Word Problem
Annie Flynn, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, [Annie Flyn: Comps Work]
Ella McGrane Fox, Religion (RELG) 2015, Eve & Pandora: Comparing Gender Dynamics in Punished Worlds
Grace Fremont, English (ENGL) 2015, Of Here and Everywhere: The Poetic Geography of Shakespeare's Travelers
Stella Jean Fritzell, Classics (CLST) 2015, Divine Associations: Arion in Iconography
Brit Kamara Fryer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, trans·ience
Lily Rose Gage, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Effects of human-mediated habitat change on parasite prevalence and transmission
Sam Garbrecht, Economics (ECON) 2015, Constraints on Healthy Eating Habits Among Low-Income Families: An Analysis of Time-Cost Effects
Rebecca Ryan Giles, History (HIST) 2015, Rogue Runaways and Wanton Women: Conceptualizing Colonial American Advertisements as Sites of Patriarchal Dominance
Charles Thomas Gillmer, American Studies (AMST) 2015, I'd rather drink a beer than win father of the year: The Satire of Fatherhood in The Simpsons
Matt Godfrey, Will Salon, Preston Carlisle, and Wenth Wang, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, Spatial Economics through a Mathematical Lens: City Structure and the Breakdown of General Equilibrium
William Edward Grimm, Geology (GEOL) 2015, A tectonic and provenance study of the Chugach-Prince William terrane, Alaska, with specific focus on the Paleogene Orca Group, Using U-Pb dating of detrital zircons
Sophie Alexandra Guterl, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, The potential for progesterone to protect against cocaine-primed relapse in females
Alexandra Nicole Guy, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Mechanisms behind the disintegration of the midline epithelial seam in palatogenesis and implications for cleft palate
Alison Elizabeth Hall, Biology (BIOL) 2015, Ecosystem and Community Consequences of Size Selective Fishing
Anthony Lamar Harris, Biology (BIOL) 2015, An Increase from the Normal Homeostatic Temperature of Photorhabdus asymbiotica Induces Weakened Virulence Capabilities
Charlotte Ruth Harris, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2015, Made From Paste
Graeme Harten, Economics (ECON) 2015, Foreign Currency Exposure: An Analysis of the 2014 Yuan Depreciation in China
Graeme Harten, Asian Studies (ASST) 2015, The Propaganda of Business: Changes in Language from Liberation to Liberalization in the P.R.C.
Yasir Adan Hassan, Religion (RELG) 2015, Qur’an Schools: Agents of Embodiment, Rhetorical Training, and Pedagogical Preservation
Zachary David Heinrich, Psychology (PSYC) 2015, Educational Interventions for Preschoolers in Poverty: A Literature Review & A Proposed Optimal Model
Claire Marie Helsel, Economics (ECON) 2015, GIPSIs, Tramps, and Thieves: Perception and Bias as Additional Causes of the Euro-Periphery Sovereign Debt Crises
Emily Jo Hillmer, Biology (BIOL) 2015, The Role of Aberrantly Glycosylated MUC1 in Mechanisms of Breast Cancer Metastasis
Soren Isabel Hope, Studio Art (ARTS) 2015, Naked Internet Men
Emily Houlihan, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Age constraints of Mid-Continent Rift sedimentary rocks in Northern Minnesota using paleomagnetic analysis
Helena M. Howard, Linguistics (LING) 2015, Syllables? Sign me up! Defining and motivating the syllable in American Sign Language
