Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2012
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-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
