Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2012
Clara Frances Labadie, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Magic and Imagination at Play in Formal Gardens
William Henderson Ladner, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Expectation-Driven Placebo Analgesia
Gnagna Lam, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of School Quality on House Values
Sylvie Mei-Cheong Lam, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Eating Beauty: An exploration of eating disorders through ceramic vessels
Julia Anne Larson, Linguistics (LING) 2012, SignWriting for American Sign Language: From Phoneme to Poem
Chelsea Elizabeth Lau, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Good Things Come to Those Who Expect Them: Neurobiological mechanisms of placebo analgesia
Katarina Diehl Lazo, English (ENGL) 2012, Adaptation/Interpretation: Lois Lowry's The Giver on Stage
Kyle Morgan Leichter, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Advanced Prosthetics
Jonathan Marshall Lien, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of a Rule Change on the Strategies of NFL Return Teams
Min Yao Lim, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Physics of Food & Cooking: A Discourse on Three Courses
Nancy Kay Liu, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Heart of Cell Regeneration
Amelia Marie Llorens, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2012, Beyond Bodies: Responding to Disability and Difference
Paulina Lopez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, This Is How You Remind Me, Of What I Really Am
Hannah C. Lucal, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Recognizing: Repetition for Reflection on Gender-Based Violence
Elizabeth Anne Lundstrom, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Variations in hydrothermal chloride flux in the area of ongoing uplift west of South Sister volcano, Oregon
Kristin Kay Lunz, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Painting and Animation: A combination of mediums
Dana Brieger Mackey, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Multicultural Tokenism: The Strategic Marketing of Urban Diversity in the Cultural Tourism Industry
Colin Jared Mahaffey, History (HIST) 2012, A Still Small Voice: The Importance of Silence in John Climacus's Ladder of Divine Ascent
Anne Isabel Mark, History (HIST) 2012, Edward VI, The Forgotten Defender: Reclaiming the Religious Authority of the Last Tudor King
Casey Tova Markenson, English (ENGL) 2012, Fall, Falling, Fallen: Suspending 9/11 Through Literature
Sarah Rebecca Marks, Geology (GEOL) 2012, A potential terrane boundary within the Wyoming Province along the Yellowstone River shear zone in northern Yellowstone National Park, USA
Matthew Christopher Matsunaga, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Adeno-associated viral vectors: turning agents of disease into agents of healing in hemophilia B
Jessica Lynn McCormick, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, A Review of Cognitive Biases in Individuals with Disordered Eating Patterns
Ailsa Elizabeth Caroline McCulloch, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Using a Natural Tidal Slug to Determine the Hydraulic Conductivity of Wetland Soils in the Palo Alto Baylands, San Francisco Bay
Kellan David McLemore, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Effects of Climate Change on the Role Bark Beetles Play in the Carbon Cycle
Anne Edith Metcalf, English (ENGL) 2012, “Threat’ning the World:” The Achievement of Subversion through Speech and Structure in Three Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Laura Rose Michel, History (HIST) 2012, 'Unhappy Children of Iniquity': The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in the Anglo-Atlantic World
Caroline Aurelia Rosenfeld Millington, History (HIST) 2012, I Have Not Written As I Felt Like I Should: Late 19th-Century Mormon Eschatology and the Construction of Identity in Daily Narrative
Robert L. Mills, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
William Robert Moritz, Economics (ECON) 2012, Age and Performance on the PGA Tour
James Lu Morrissey, Chinese (CHIN) 2012, Issues Affecting Modern Chinese Youth: Globalization as Depicted in Five Chinese Films
Amy Strauss Murdoch, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Do Immediate Contextual Cues Affect Ways of Knowing?
Kristine Nachbor, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Manipulation of gene expression: controlling dopaminergic neuronal reward pathways through optogenetic regulation
Elizabeth Reines Nachman, Hannah Rose Heavenrich, and Ryan Raymond Noe, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Valuing the ecosystem services of low-input, high-diversity prairie as a biofuel feedstock in southern Minnesota
Daniel Isaac Nathan, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Is L8r A Word? Semantic Priming In Electronic Communication Shortcuts
Ava Therese Litton Navasero, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The chicken or the egg, which came first? Insulin resistance and mitochondrial dysfunction in Type II diabetes induce skeletal muscle atrophy.
Raymond R. Nelson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Dominant Ideologies of the Puerto Rican Nation: Locating blackness and racism on the island
Gwendolyn Marie Neumeister, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Hozho Nahasdlii: Beauty Has Come Again--An Examination of Dine Cultural Knowledge and Definitions of Preservation on the Navajo Nation Today
Hai Hoang Ngo, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, The Relationship Theory & Finally Valuable Relationships: A Discussion on Love and its Reasons
Molly Claire Nichols, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Neural Foundations for Sensory Processing Abnormalities in Autism: The Weak Central Coherence Account versus the Intense World Theory
Kayla Rose Nygaard, Biology (BIOL) 2012, From dam to pup: The epigenetic modification of maternal care across generations
True Overholt and David Weidner Williams, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Cultural and economic components of the country of origin effect: Advertisement evaluations for goods and services among multicultural individuals
Veronica Leigh Pena, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Effect of 17 beta-estradiol on an Object Recognition Task in Alzheimer's Induced Rats
Mallory Catherine Pernell, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Effects of Stigma on Individuals With Schizophrenia
Emily Brook Petroff, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Physics of the Interstellar Medium
Susan Pham, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Altered Calcium Homeostasis is Responsible for Non-Normal Aging and Dementia
Patrick Philley, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of Professional Sports Franchise Relocations on Local Employment
Sarah Jane Pinkham, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, Duties to Ecosystems
Samantha Elizabeth Pivetz, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2012, Privileged Executions: The Vestal Interment Ritual in Ancient Rome
Kaitlin Elena Elena Randolph, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS Comps 2012: A Carefully Conceived Sunrise (essay), One Bench (video)
Elise Paige Rasmussen, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Revitalizing a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Is Social Organization Possible?
Daniel John Read, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Between Tigers and People: The Political Ecology of Protectionist Conservation in the Melghat Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India
Arielle Rose Rebek, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Home
Robin Sarah Reich, History (HIST) 2012, There is no contagion, there is no evil portent: Arabic Responses to Plague and Contagion in the Fourteenth Century
Diedre Faye Reitz, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Critically examining our understanding of cancer metabolism: Evidence for the reverse Warburg effect?
Tasha Wei Rhoads, Owen Donald Alldritt, and Danny Mills Forman, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Choosing Luck: The Effects of Luck and Choice on Performance
Kathleen Hagan Roberts, Classics (CLST) 2012, Cybele Rocks: The Elemental Nature of the Anatolian Mother Goddess
Elena Patrice Rosenberg-Carlson and Emily Bliss Houser, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Modeling Food Security in Kenya: Interactions Between Neoliberal Policy Reforms, Environmental Factors, and Food Security
Kelsey Elizabeth Ross, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Coral reefs and algal states: phase shifts and feedbacks in a changing world
Theodore Isaac Rostow, Political Science (POSC) 2012, A Task without Anger: On-the-Ground Learning and Counterinsurgency
James Rothschild, Religion (RELG) 2012, Mount Moriah Revisited: In search of a viable contemporary Jewish ethical reading of the Akedah
Lily J. Sacharow, History (HIST) 2012, Contingent Liberty: Congressional Unanimity in the Making of the Declaration of Independence
Noah B. Sapse, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Unplanned Obsolescence
Hiroki Sato, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Japanese Pacifism as a Complex Multidimensional Notion: Analysis of Japanese Pacifism and Article 9 using Theories of War and Peace
Peter Scheuermann, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Metamorphic Petrology and Structural Geology of the Granite Peak Screen, Western Idaho Shear Zone, Cascade, Idaho
Lily Hayles Schieber, French (FREN) 2012, Comment protéger le français ? La Lutte entre réforme et tradition en France dans les années 1980 et 1990
Peter Allen Schlesinger, History (HIST) 2012, The "Best Traditions of the Sea?": Contested Heroism in the Manchester Guardian's Reporting on the RMS Titanic
Sarah Catherine Cederberg Schlotter, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Making of Wootz Steel and Damascus Blades
Kathryn Elizabeth Mall Schmidt, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, The Complexity of Basic Needs and Its Application in Latin America
Vaughn Alexander Schmid, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Looking at Viral and Non-Viral Vectors in Gene Therapy: A Description and Comparison
Graham William Schneider, Religion (RELG) 2012, Go West, Young Buddha: Chögyam Trungpa, Skillful Means, and Spiritual Authority in Modern America
Daniel Victor Schroeder, Colin James Howald, Andy Bouchard, and Daniel Solow, Computer Science (CS) 2012, Translation by Numbers: Statistical Methods for Machine Translation
Han Seongwu, Asian Studies (ASST) 2012, Manga for Young Men Going Global, Transnational Readership of Kingdom
Aleksandr Phillip Sharma, Music (MUSC) 2012, Musique Noir:An Analysis of Musical Expressive Genres
Ally Shaw and Emily Winer, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Low-Income Latinos in the United States: Dietary Habits and The Health Belief Model
Danny Smith, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Cannon River Project
Karl Snyder, Linguistics (LING) 2012, Russian Default Stress and the Effect of Lexically Weak Roots
Benjamin Reeves Somogyi, History (HIST) 2012, 'Naš Narod:' The Development of Milošević and Tuđman's Nationalist Rhetoric
Alexandra Caitlin Staab, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2012, Constantine's Conversion: Betrayal at the Hands of the Biographers
David Lawrence Steefel-Moore and Anushka Rajesh Patel, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Gestalt Processing in Autistic Adolescents
Alexander Macneil Stevens, Chinese (CHIN) 2012, Fallen City, Fallen Women, Fallen Masks: Zhang Ailing, The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the Aestheticism of Disaster
Christine Jaclyn Stewart, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Rise and Demise -- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors in the Diversifications of Dinosaurs and Mammals
Zach Walker Stewart, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Eolian and Subaqueous Sedimentary Structures of the Devils Island Sandstone, Sand Island, Wisconsin (U.S.A.)
Kathryn Diane Stinebaugh, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Deconstructing Attitudes towards Smoking: Exploring the Underlying Components of Explicit and Implicit Attitudes
Johara Suleiman and Elizabeth Giraud, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Predictors of Negative Cross-Group Attitudes between Somali Immigrants and Native Born Americans
Anna Lynn Lynn Swanson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Mono No Aware // Awareness: Perception of the Ephemeral in Bill Viola's Hatsu-yume [essay], when you wish upon a star [film]
Emily Lauren Sykes, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Testosterone Action on Skeletal Muscle: Declining Testosterone Levels in Elderly Males Contribute to Sarcopenia
Jane Madeleine Tandler, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2012, Ordering Disorganization Syndrome: Modeling Schizophrenic Language
Melissa M. Terrien, English (ENGL) 2012, Blinded by Prejudice and Unpardonable Arrogance: The Culpable Readers of Pride and Prejudice and Emma
Catherine Amelia Clare Townes, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The effects of Conspecificity and familiarity on social learning in cotton-top tamarins (saguinus oedipus)
Hannah Casey Trees, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN), Religion (RELG) 2012, The Paradox of Existential Theology: A Critical Analysis of Søren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich
David Tullis, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2012, Masked Identity: Reinventing Tradition Through Lágbájá’s Musical Performance
Erik Skidmore VanDis, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Zinc-finger nucleases targeted to CCR5: A gene-based therapy to treat HIV-1 infection
Angus Anson Vaughan, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Paleomagnetic data from 1.1 Ga Osler Group basalt flows on Simpson Island, Ontario: Evidence for rapid plate motion of Laurentia in the late Mesoproterozoic
MacEagon Benjamin Voyce, Music (MUSC) 2012, Postminimalism, Moment Form
Lor Vue, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Cues and Personality: How Valid are Using Cues to Judge Someone's Personality?
Turner Gambill Wadington, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The effect of β-amyloid injection on different remembered aspects of the Morris Water Maze in rats
Katherine Rachel Wahl, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Immunomodulatory Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A promising new treatment approach for type-1 diabetes mellitus
Robert Petschek Wakeley, Music (MUSC) 2012, An Analysis of Robert Muczynski's Sonata, op. 14, for Flute and Piano
Alex Earl Walker, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Effects of a 1970 restoration planting on soil in the Carleton College Lower Arboretum, Northfield, MN
