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Graduated in 2013

 

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

 

Henry Rownd, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, You Are There! . . . as a Tessering, Morphing Hyperbody: The Viewer in Contemporary 3D, CGI, and Ridefilm Technologies

 

Wenli Rui, Economics (ECON) 2013, A Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rate Determination in the Chinese Foreign Exchange Market

 

Ruby Leigh Russell, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Preventing and Protecting Against Alzheimer's Disease: An Independent Role for Androgens

 

Ethan Andrew Sagin, Music (MUSC) 2013, Expression and the Affections in Johann Sebastian Bach's ICH HABE GENUG, BWV 82

 

Caroline Rebecca Scheevel, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Determining crustal velocities of the Ruby Mountains, Nevada using local mine blasts

 

Adam Edward Scherling, Economics (ECON) 2013, Tipping the balance of innovation: Who takes advantage of intellectual property rights in developed and developing countries

 

Amelia Bullard Schlossberg, Biology (BIOL) 2013, A Pain In My Astrocytes and Microglia: A Biological Mechanism for Sex Bias in Chronic Neuropathic Pain

 

Johanna Amy Schmidt, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Motivating the Impoverishment: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Deletion Processes in Agreement

 

Andrew Jeffrey Schneider-Adams, Political Science (POSC) 2013, The Benefits of Sports Teams for Cities: Positive Externalities of Stadiums

 

Tyler Clarisse Schuetz, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Examining the paleoenvironment of the Chickaloon Formation, Matanuska Valley, Alaska through Campeloma and Unionoida fossil assemblages

 

Alec Scott, Biology (BIOL) 2013, An Evaluation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus as Drivers of Cyanobacterial Blooms

 

Deborah A. Shapiro, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Morphological Acquisition or: How I Learned to Stop Overregularizing and Love the "Brought"

 

Andrea Marie Simenstad, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Modeling Moral Cognition: Virtue Ethics and Connectionist Architecture

 

Ryan William Skinner, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Imaging the Earth with Synthetic Aperture Radar

 

Danielle Dougnac Smogard, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, The Evolution of International Criminal Justice: A Hybrid Solution is Born

 

Benjamin Geoffrey Southgate, Economics (ECON) 2013, LOOP and the Internet Marketplace

 

Molly Danae Spence, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Arboretum Series

 

Brian Daniel Spisiak, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Architect of Architects: Cartesian Ethics and Platonic Virtue

 

Anna Caitlin Steedman, French (FREN) 2013, L’optique à travers laquelle nous voyons le passé : Le rôle de la mémoire dans La vie et rien d’autre par Bertrand Tavernier et Un long dimanche de fiançailles par Jean-Pierre Jeunet

 

Annie Riggs Steiner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Contemporary College Students' Usage of the Word "Slut" in Relation to the Sexual Double Standard

 

Quinn Yoshie Stewart, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2013, Fashioning Memory through Rhetoric and Medium in the Laudatio Turiae

 

Tony Johnston Stoeri, History (HIST) 2013, Make Him See That We Are French! Napoleonic French Soldiers and the Construction of National Identity

 

Benjamin Adam Strasser, Leo Christopher Olivares, Daoji Huang, and Adam Edward Zweber, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Plane Trees and Shabat Polynomials

 

Jacob Jordan Styburski, English (ENGL) 2013, Lacking the Will to Repent: Bedeviled Freedom in the Satanic Soliloquy

 

Zoe Susanne Suche, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, The Heaviest Burden: Selfhood, Unity, and Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence

 

Anisa Abdi Suleiman, Biology (BIOL) 2013, B3-Adrenergic Receptor Agonists as a Treatment for Obesity by Inducing Thermogenesis in Brown Adipose Tissue

 

Han Jae Sun, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, A test of cognitive and physiological efficacy of binaural beat recordings and brainwave entrainment resulty for the use of i-doser

 

Kana Suzuki, Economics (ECON) 2013, How much more do people value safety? Estimating the impact of the March 2011 Fukushima disasters on residential land prices in Fukushima Prefecture

 

Nana Tanamoto, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The endoplasmic reticulum as a modulator of cellular metabolism: A novel metabolic paradigm for Alzheimer disease

 

Deborah Hui En Tan, Dance (DANC) 2013, Heart of the Matter: A Dance Comps by Deborah Tan

 

Deborah Hui En Tan, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, How Do We Understand Gestures? Lexical representation of emblematic gestures

 

Lisa Taxier, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Estrogen and Progesterone Priming Induces Higher Male Odor Preference Independent of Pubertal Ovarian Hormone Exposure

 

Breanna Jane Tetreault, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The roles of relaxin and hyaluronic acid in the extracellular matrix during cervical ripening, and their control on the timing of parturition

 

Souriya Thao, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy Using MicroRNA-1, -499, -155 for Heart Regeneration

 

Sarah Gardner Thappa, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Taking Sex Bias in Disease to Heart: Female Sex Bias in Cardiovascular Disease and Coronary Heart Disease

 

Scott Anthony Theisen, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Impact of Economic Development on Biodiversity

 

Maxwell Gustav Miller Timm, Economics (ECON) 2013, The impact of Eurasian watermilfoil on residential lakeshore property value in Washington County, MN

 

Richard Tovar, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Come With Me

 

Derek James Turner, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Medical Imaging: X-ray and MRI

 

Daniel Benjamin Ulman, Religion (RELG) 2013, Patrilineal Descent and the Sea Change that Wasn't: An Exploration of its Intricacies, Implications, and Legacy

 

Vaishali Umrikar, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Representations of the Indian Diaspora in Bollywood Films (1995-2012)

 

Stuart John Urback, History (HIST) 2013, A Playful Evolution: The Transformation of Game Theory* in the United States from the 1970s through the 2000s

 

Andrea Vang, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Comets

 

Jeremy Tilton Wadsworth, Economics (ECON) 2013, The 'Border Effect' Between the United States and Canada: The Role of Nominal Exchange Rate Variability in the Creation of Price Level Volatility

 

Elissa Ann Walter, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Species Loss from Nitrogen Deposition in Grasslands: The Differing Environmental Conditions that Cause Competitive-Exclusion-Driven vs. Acidification-Driven Declines in Species Richness

 

Elissa Ann Walter, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, Utilitarianism and the Futility Problem: Can Utilitarianism Serve as a Satisfactory Animal Ethics Framework which Articulates Prominent Human Intuitions?

 

Katharine Hennessy Walton, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Stand Apart

 

Doil Wang, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Lessons of History: U.S. China Policy after the Vietnam War

 

Taylor Ann Want, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Waste Management

 

Taylor Daniel Ward, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Identification of Irisin as a Potential Novel Treatment for Obesity in Humans

 

Kate Trudi Cowan Wiener, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Welding & Weaving: Sculpting Quilts

 

Roy James Wiggins, Matthew James Cusworth Rathkey, and Chelsea Elizabeth Yost, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Polya Urn Models

 

Leah M. Willemin, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Objects and Ritual

 

Deborah Ann Wong, American Studies (AMST) 2013, What We Talk About When We Talk About Diversity: International Student Experiences as Foreigners in the United States

 

Janie Chan Wong, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Tamoxifen Resistance in Breast Cancer: The Search for the Missing Receptor

 

Caitlin Grace Wood, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, White privilege and anti-racist intervention: Developing methods for racial education on a college campus

 

Julian Senuta Wyss, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Muslim Mobilization in Mali: An Examination of Religious Social Movements and Underdevelopment

 

Marika Xydes-­‐Smith, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Role of Chronodisruption in the Development of Type Two Diabetes Mellitus

 

Jessa Lynn Youso, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Can they do it? An Evaluation of Altruistic Behavior in Cotton-top Tamarins

 

Chloe Simha Zelkha, Religion (RELG) 2013, The Space Between: Bridging Difference and Oneness in Jewish Theology

 

David Zelle, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Stein's Paradox and Bayesian Estimation

 

Kenneth Wade Zillig, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Mother Nature in Australia with a Dry Spell: How a Climate Change caused the Australian Megafauna Extinction Event

 

Winnie Belle Zwick, American Studies (AMST) 2013, Conventional Farming, Unconventional Farmers: Reflections on 21st Century Agrarianism from Northfield, MN

Graduated in 2012

 

Ariana Shirin Abadian Heifetz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, Iranian Women in Times of Great Contention: A Comparison of Women's Mobilization in the Iranian Revolution and the 2009 Election Protests