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Graduated in 2013

 

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

 

Sameena Nasim Ahmed, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Cancer-Obesity Link: How Insulin and IGF Stimulate Aerobic Glycolysis through the PI3K Pathway

 

Jacob K. Alcorn, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of Airport Noise A Spatial Investigation into the Relationship between Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's Noise Pollution and Property Values

 

Margaret Rose Alexander, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Role of the Wnt Pathway in Cancer Stem Cell Formation and the Opposing Function of Wnt Antagonists

 

Michael Cohen Alexander, Tanner Martin, and Scarlett Tse, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Counting Moose: A Bayesian Model for Population Estimation

 

Charlotte Jean Alster, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Microbial enzymatic response to reduced precipitation and increased nitrogen in a southern Californian grassland

 

Steve C. Amaefuna, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Understanding the Warburg Effect

 

Benjamin Robert Anderson, Erika Rose Warrick, and Kathleen Marie Storey, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, The Medial Axis and its Applications

 

Dustin James Anderson, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Plasmas and the Sun

 

Casey Jordan Andree, Music (MUSC) 2012, The Trombone Pedagogy of Vladimir Blazhevich

 

Emmaline Jiang Ashley, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Mind over Matter: The Role of the Endogenous Opioid System in Placebo Analgesia

 

Kristofer Erik Asp, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Crystallization History of the Sawbill Lake Intrusion

 

Mihajlo Babovic, Music (MUSC) 2012, From the Practice Room to the Concert Stage: How the Broken Chord Étude Developed in the Early 19th Century

 

Julia Ann Gilbert Baker, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Effects of Priming on Emotional and Identity Recognition in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

 

Colleen Marie Barr, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Soil Erosion

 

Emily Rose Barter, Linguistics (LING) 2012, The Case for a Reanalysis of Case in Sinhala

 

Sean Lu Beckwith, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Chromatin Architecture and Gene Expression: Remodeling and Recruitment in the Gal4 System

 

Nicholas Jordan Bellos, History (HIST) 2012, Crowded Cars, Contested Turf: Race-Making and the Everyday on Chicago Public Transit During World War II

 

Jennifer Beltran, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2012, Femicides in Ciudad Juárez: Why Women? Why Ciudad Juárez?

 

Kellianne Ellen Bennett, Linguistics (LING) 2012, Syntax vs. Pragmatics and Grammaticality Judgments: A Perspective from Korean Honorification

 

Katherine Anne Benson, Chemistry (CHEM) 2012, A New Gold Standard: The Potential of the Gold(III) Porphyrin Structure in the Design of Novel Anticancer Therapies

 

Sarah Frances Berry, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Dendrohydrological δ18O Stable Isotopic Forward Modeling of Carapa Guianensis Tree Ring Cellulose for the Determination of Climate Change Variability in Source Waters

 

Samir Soni Bhala, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Just Enough for the City? The Politics of Economic Development in Richard M. Daley's Chicago

 

Kendall Jennifer Bills, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2012, Living the Theory: Locating the Experiences of Non-profit Workers Striving for Accountability to Youth

 

Alex Brewer and Tanya My Bui, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Dealing with Feelings: Emotional Intelligence and Resident Assistants at Carleton College

 

Arthur Takizo Brown, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Killer Toys for Boys: Violence in Children's Toys

 

Russell Joseph Buehler, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Hilbert's Tenth

 

Josiah Tate Burns, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Sun/Moon in Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun [essay], Shangrila [video]

 

Robin Burrell, Political Science (POSC) 2012, School Desegregation's Future: Contradictions in Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court's Culpability in the Retrenchment of Segregated Schools

 

Hannah Jean Button-Harrison, Music (MUSC) 2012, Freeing the Music [paper], The Sound of Singing [composition/performance]

 

Celia McDonnell Caffery, Classics (CLST) 2012, Justice Betrayed: The Role of the Athenian Assembly in the Aftermath of the Battle of Arginusae

 

Jacob Monir Canfield, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Samantha Back

 

Jacob Monir Canfield, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Simplified Characters Make for Empathetic Audiences

 

Audrey Yang Carlsen, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Why Does My Chicken Taste Purple? - An Exploration of the Neural Basis of Synesthesia

 

Justin Mark Carlson, Music (MUSC) 2012, A Discussion of Form in the Third Movement: Allegro Moderato from the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1929) by Sir William Turner Walton

 

Ross William Cawthon, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Shape of the Universe

 

Benjamin Witte Cerjan, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Snow

 

Austen Caitlin Chase and Sonali Gupta, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Belief in a Just World and Empathy: What Affects Perceptions of Rape Victims?

 

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, 1955-­2001

 

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