Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2012
Linghao Chen, Economics (ECON) 2012, Real Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices
Simone Childs-Walker, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, The Cosmological Argument, or What I Mean When I Say the Word God
John David Christensen, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Regulation of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 (HIF-1) and the Glycolytic Phenotype in Cancers
Julia Hansell Clark, Linguistics (LING) 2012, From discord, find harmony: A new perspective on vowel harmony in Ainu
Mike Aaron Clark, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Induced Plant Responses: Impacts on Arthropod Herbivore Community Composition
Amelia Christine Clement, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Role of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Breast Cancer Stem Cell Development: Implications for Metastasis
Viviane M. Clement, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Ticket to Social Participation: The Marketing of Beauty Products to African American Women, 1955-Â2001
Raphael Bennett Coburn, History (HIST) 2012, Grr... Les Bochs: Restoring the Youth Voice in Occupied France (1940-1944)
Cameron Tucker Combs, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2012, The racial legacy of Brazilian soccer and the construction of a national identity through play
Lee Hannah Conrads, History (HIST) 2012, Quakers Don't Use Exclamation Marks: The Construction of Propriety in 18th Century Quaker Spiritual Autobiography
Michael William Coughlin, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Earth Energy Dynamics
Benjamin Cushing, Erin Anderson, and Acadia Davis, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Watering the Food Desert: A Policy Analysis of Urban Food Access Disparities in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans
Robert Daniels, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: "I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay" Analysis [essay], The Stranger [film]
Robert Daniels, Michael Grinnell, and Mouhamadou Diagne, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Musical Perception in a "Post-Racial" America: Effect of Age and Violence on Perceived Offensiveness of Rap and Country Lyrics
Zachary S. Delpier, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Adolescent Delinquency
Adam Charles Denny, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Geochemistry of the Lower Crescent Formation, Washington, and Reevaluation of Proposed Formation Hypotheses
Clay J. Dewey-Valentine, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Protecting Human Rights and Resisting Dictatorship in Chile: A Study of Moral Pressure from the Catholic Church
Prasit Dhakal, Aman Gupta, and Ben Langfeldt, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Statistical Analyses of Zooplankton Populations in Lakes in Minnesota
Alpha Oumar Diallo, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Les Jeunes Diabétiques de Bamako, Mali: An examination of Self-conception and its Relationship to Social Change
Maxwell Johannes Diddams, Chinese (CHIN) 2012, DON'T PANIC: A Descriptive Translation Studies Analysis of 徐百柯 and 姚向辉's Translations of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Paul Abraham Dimick, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Functional Theories of Mirror Neurons: A Research Based Evaluation
Maegan Lori Mariko Doi, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Training the Mind: How Expectancy-Mediated Conditioning Affects Placebo Analgesia
Ngoc Do, Economics (ECON) 2012, Attention Allocation, Financial Integration and Exchange Rate Volatility as Driving Forces for Home Equity Bias
Kate Elizabeth Dorwart, Religion (RELG) 2012, Bharat Mata ki Jai: M. F. Husain, Hindutva, and the Contest for Modern India
Patrick Thomas Doty, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, The Possibility of Panentheistic Free Will
Sam Robert Ondich Dunnewold, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Before and After Asphalt [essay], The Incredible Owlbear [video]
Louisa Eberle, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Physics of Butterflies
Elise Pamela Erickson, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Transdifferentiation of Adult Cell Types to ?-cells: Therapeutic Potential for Type 1 Diabetes
Megan Christine Erlandson, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Depression and Anxiety as Factors in the Course of Cardiovascular and Heart Disease
William Lief Esbenshade, Economics (ECON) 2012, Choice and Policy Shocks in Minneapolis Public Schools
Lily Evans, American Studies (AMST) 2012, All That Jazz: Filling in American Jazz History with its Unsung Voices
Cory Edward Fauver, Michael William Coughlin, Brian Andrew James, and Jon Anthony Aranda, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Solitons
Rebecca Leah Feldman, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Is 1942 1853?: Increased Cognitive Abilities in Autistic Individuals
Megan Dunleavy Ferre, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Rainsplash Diffusion: Experimental Smoothing of Landscapes
lina Feuerstein, History (HIST) 2012, The Desert a Monastery': The Natural World as Objective Monastic World In Egyptian Anchoritic Asceticism
Taylor JoAnn Even Ffitch, English (ENGL) 2012, This country will rot a man like a corpse: Local place in Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion
Johanna Maren Fierke, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Between a Rock and Un Lugar Duro: A study of Spanish-English bilinguals and language differentiation
Naomi Fine, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, 'Can I Play Too?' Theory of Mind and Peer Group Entry Strategy
Frank Abraham Firke and Abram Zachary Jopp, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Congruence Subgroups and Symmetry in the Poincaré Upper Half-Plane
Philip D. Fonseca, Music (MUSC) 2012, Trading Gangstas for Geezers: Synthesizing Narrative and Altered American Rap Style To Forge a Post-Millennial British Identity
Rachel Alison Foran, Religion (RELG) 2012, Made and Making: The Formation of Somali Muslim Selves in Rural Minnesota
Emily Steen Foster, English (ENGL) 2012, From the Inside Out: A Tavelogue in Poems
Scott Matthew Fox, History (HIST) 2012, The "Howl" of 50,000 Dirt Farmers: Minnesota's "Middle-Class" and Its Embrace of Farmer-Labor Politics, 1926-32
Valerie Kristen Fox, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Exploring Venus
Justin Alexander Freeze, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Sublimation through Subjugation: The Dangerous Freedom of Nietzsche's Political Philosophy
Rebekah Ann Frumkin, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, Caritas ad mundum: Love of the Particular in St. Augustine
Elizabeth Kate Furuya, Asian Studies (ASST) 2012, Exploring the Intersection of art, feminism, and identity in the works of Yayoi Kusama Chiharu Shiota
Laura Jo Garlock 2012, De lo exótico a lo indígena: El ambiente literario alrededor de César Vallejo, y el inicio de una literatura local universal
Dylan Wolf Gessner, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, Fun at the Ballot Box: A Mediational Approach to Predicting Vote Choice
Talia Ranit Goldenberg, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Fragmented Bodies
Haley Mae Golz, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Landscape diversity and natural pest control: Does increased landscape diversity lead to increased pest control in agroecosystems? Landscape diversity and natural pest control: Does increased landscape diversity lead to increased pest control in agroecosystems?
Kiyota Christopher Gomi, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Physics of Baseball
Rachel Elisabeth Gottesman, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Myostatin Inhibition: Potential Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Rebecca Anna Gourevitch and Colin Prescott MacArthur, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Connecting People to Services: A Psychology-Based Marketing Campaign for the LINK Center
Denis Robert Griffis, Jonathan Merrill Garnaas-Holmes, Andrew Freeland, Christopher Becerra, and Tsusa Matsui, Computer Science (CS) 2012, PIG: Packet Inspection Guru
Amanda Marie Grover, Music (MUSC) 2012, Faces New and Old: The Evolution of Five Instruments from the Huqin Family over the Twentieth Century
Erin Nur Gudul, Economics (ECON) 2012, Playing to Win, or Playing Not to Lose? The Prevalence of Loss Aversion at Wimbledon
Lipi Gupta, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Can a Tutoring Intervention Enhance Social Support and Self-Efficacy of At-Risk Adolescents? A Resilience-Framed Case Study in Delhi, India
Emmamarie Catherine Haasl, History (HIST) 2012, Late Medieval Popular Rebellion and Redress in 1553: Religious and Secular Origins in the English Commons
Jonathan Hahn, Rebecca Cordes, and Collin Hazlett, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Visualizing the Hecke Group: Fractions and Wallpaper Symmetry in Hyperbolic Space
Juventina Joan Hahn and Carolyn Hanrahan, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Romantic Relationships and Emerging Social Media
Kevin M. Hallman, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Limit of Moore's Law: Transistor Scaling in the 21st Century
Michael Omar Hanna, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Mindfulness Impact on Empathy: An Examination of Empathy using the Cognitive Theory of Emotion
Emily Jo Hartley, English (ENGL) 2012, I Saw and Do Not Believe: Perspective and the Changing Role of Objectivity in John Steinbeck's Nonfiction
Ben Hellerstein, American Studies (AMST) 2012, Building the Streetcar City: The West Seventh Neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Role of Transportation in Creating Place
Lauren Maria Hickman, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2012, How Cognitive is Cognitive Therapy?
Hannah Louise Hilbert-Wolf, Geology (GEOL) 2012, A U/Pb detrital zircon provenance study of the flysch of the Paleogene Orca Group, Chugach-Prince William Terrane, Alaska
Laura Allison Hockenbury, Geology (GEOL) 2012, The Way of the Arun: Interdependent Intricacies of Stream Chemistry in the Nepal Himalayas
Isaac A. Hodes, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Counting Below the Curve: Combinatorial Proofs of Integral Formulas
Ian Holmen, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Mature IGF-1 precursor isoforms have varying roles in skeletal muscle myogenesis
Camille Monika Hommeyer, English (ENGL) 2012, Language and Representation in Patricia Grace's Novels
Jonathan Scofield Hughes, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: The Happiness of the Katakuris [essay], Iron Mountain [project]
Matthew Robert Hunter, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, What Would You Have Done? Examining the Role of Empathy in Assessments of Responsibility
Irene Gilbert Hussey, Owen Scott McMurtrey, and Amelia Jane Harris, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Buffalo for a Broken Agricultural System: Land-Use Intensity of the Bison Meat Industry from Montana to Indiana
Nicholas Alexander Ickovic, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, What Could Modal Claims Be
Jonathan Sol Isaac, English (ENGL) 2012, Not only what is, but what is possible: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as a Site of Debate
Hannah Neora Blum Jensen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Mistaken Identity? The Fabrication of Truth in The Lady from Shanghai and the Star Image of Rita Hayworth [essay], Last [video]
Anya Elaine Johnson, Adrian Trunzo, Max Rush Lerner, Stephen Thomas Grabowski, and Michael William Groeneman, Computer Science (CS) 2012, IPA: Internet Personal Assistant
Evan Michael Johnson, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Assessment of the Effects of Four Small Bridge Abutments on the Stability of the Banks of the Cannon River in the Cowling Arboretum, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Nicole Ji-Hae Johnson, Classics (CLST) 2012, The Consequences of Self-Sacrifice: Betrayal in the Passion of Perpetua and the Alcestis
Traci Lin Johnson, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Type Ia Supernovae
Erin Michael Jones, Erika Denise Mackin, and Kian Anton Flynn, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Voting Theory and Cake Cutting
YeJi Jun, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Ready, set ... Go!
Leah R. E. Justin-Jinich, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Be Not Ashamed, women...You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
Leah R. E. Justin-Jinich, Asian Studies (ASST) 2012, Ono no Komachi Iconography in Ukiyo-e: Satire, Sex & Social Rebellion
Brian Thomas Kaletka, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Priming Induced Defense Against Herbivory and its Effects on Plant Fitness and Community Composition
Beserat Berhe Kelati, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Political Polarization in the Eritrean Diaspora
Samuel Steven Keller, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Wireless Energy Transfer
Brian Thomas Kempers, Cody Finke, Katherine France, Ernesto Llano, Kenneth Lum, Erik Olson, and Melody Zhou, Chemistry (CHEM) 2012, DNA, I hear you're single: How single-molecule techniques elucidate DNA replication
Peter James Kerns, Religion (RELG) 2012, Voluntary Poverty: Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin's Program for Social Revolution
Angela Hye-Jee Kim, Biology (BIOL) 2012, UCP2 Mediation of the Warburg Effect in Chemoresistant Cancers
Seohyun Kim, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Difficulty of gestalt processing in high functioning vs. low functioning autistic individuals
Davis Tower Kingsley, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Potential Bayesian Improvements to Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology Research
Adriane Sara Kisch-Hancock, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Appearance and credibility: How does one's apparel affect his or her perceived trustworthiness and assigned fine in a criminal setting?
Djem Ulian Kissiov, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Epigenetic Basis of Cocaine Addiction: Chromatin-Mediated Differential Gene Expression in the Dopaminergic Reward Pathway
Rachel Shizue Kittaka, American Studies (AMST) 2012, Teaching Japanese American Incarceration: A Curricular History from 1968 to the Present
Micah Reed Koller, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Fundamentals of Neutron Star Formation, Structure, and Composition
Alexander Samuel Korsunsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Lo autentico y lo moderno y me encantan los dos: Tourism as Tradition in Highland Peru
Minty Kunkel, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The History and Physics of the Point-Contact Transistor
Damir Kurtagic, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, The Compatibility of Islamic Theology and the Democratic Process of Reasoned Discourse
