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Graduated in 2013
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
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CCR5 
Gene 
Disruption
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 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
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
