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Graduated in 2025

Caitlin McWilliams, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Managing Introgression Before Genetic Swamping: Evolutionary Risk and Opportunity in Invasive-Native Hybridization

Arhan Mehta, Economics (ECON) 2025, US Monetary Policy Shocks and Welfare Dynamics in Emerging Market Economies

Cristopher Melo Mejia and Nelson Hernan Serrano, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, From Misdiagnosis to Meaningful Care: Culture and Acculturation in Latino Mental Health

Griffin Momsen-Hudson, Religion (RELG) 2025, “Tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!” Reading the Imprecatory Psalms through the Canonical Approach

John Moon-Black, Akash Ganguly, Miles Hoene-Langdon, and Sylvie Dirkswager, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, A Trip Through the Zoo of Infinite Abelian Groups

Zoe Moore, Russian (RUSS) 2025, The Dark Side of the Festival “Tolstoy”: National Identity and the Manipulation of Leo Tolstoy’s Legacy in Russia

Leo Moran, Jonathan Vilms, Ugo Anyaegbunam, and Ethan Cline-Cole, Computer Science (CS) 2025, BGA Development

Henry Moshfeghi, History (HIST) 2025, Raja Serfoji II of Tanjore: Agency and Innovation in Colonial India

Han Jing Munson, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Zooming in on the telescoping effect: Mechanisms of female opioid use disorder and the role of estradiol

Navya Murahari, Biology (BIOL) 2025, RBM39 Degradation Catalyzed Aberrant Splicing Confers Cellular “Sight” for Human Cancer Immune Response

Jivana Nagpal, Economics (ECON) 2025, Financial Inclusion and Inequality in Perú: Analyzing the Effectiveness of the National Strategy

Kaia Neal, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Glacier Flow Dynamics

Mariam Nechiporuk, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Power and Precision: Bispecific TCR mimic antibodies simultaneously hunt down tumor specific antigens and engage potent T cell mediated killing

Sara Negasi, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Targeting the cGAS-STING pathway to Improve Outcomes in Solid Tumors

Emma Neham, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Examining The Role of Seipin and The Lipid Droplet Assembly Factor In Lipid Droplet Biogenesis

Mays Neiroukh, Tori Shen, Geoffrey Jing, and Barry Han, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Towards Noise-Resilient Few-Shot Learning: Optimizing Prototypes for Glioblastoma Classification

Jyothi Nellakra, Linguistics (LING) 2025, Malayalam Causatives Have Two Layers of Voice: A Present-Tense Reply to Krishnan & Sarma (2023)

Jyothi Nellakra, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The Physics of Speech Production & the Vocal Tract

Gisele Nelson, Kendra Winhall, Cece Che Tita, Osareme Davis, Eva Cao, and Sameer Sajwani, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Wiki Wiki Refresh: Enhancing User Experience on the Makerspace Wiki

Sophia Newmark, Religion (RELG) 2025, Social Justice and Zionism in Liberal American Judaism

Jonathan Nguyen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, As We Were

Jonathan Nguyen, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Crabby Waters: Seasonal Dynamics and Climate Change Impacts on Callinectes Sapidus

Quan Nguyen, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring the different mechanisms by which Candida albicans Enhances Staphylococcus aureus Virulence in Peritonitis and Oral Candidiasis

Zhanghan Ni, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Quorum Sensing Is Associated with Mechanisms That Cause and Regulate Social Cheating in Microbial Cooperation

Tiffan Nyamao, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Targeting XPO1-Mediated Nuclear Export in Multiple Myeloma: Effects on CAR-T Therapy and the Tumor Microenvironment

Ntense Obono, Catherine Bregou, Khizar Qureshi, Angel Ortiz Martinez, Sam Lengel, and Bryan Yang, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Monkeying Around: Chaos Engineering And Robust Web Services

Katherine O'Leary, German (GERM) 2025, Questioning Author(ity): Collaboration and Gender in the Work of Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht

Isaac Orman, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Probing the Quantum World with Ultracold Atoms

Jose Ortega, Biology (BIOL) 2025, From Point A to Point Human: The Journey of H5N1 Towards Sustained Human-to-Human Transmission

Amalia Pappa, History (HIST) 2025, “A Woman Can’t Get Wet Like A Man Can”: Female City Letter Carriers and their (Non)Uniforms in the United States Prior to 1964

Amalia Pappa, American Studies (AMST) 2025, The Cigarette as an Emblem of Coming of Age in Contemporary American Society

Henry Dietrich Paret, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Napambana: Gender and Power in Bongo Fleva Music Videos

Joseph Park, Biology (BIOL) 2025, MamT, a conserved protein in magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), is critical for the effective utilization of iron for growth and maturation of magnetic crystals in magnetosomes and directs the localization of Mms6

Tobias Pasternak, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Evaluating the Effectiveness of SfM Photogrammetry for the Development of 3-D Digital Learning Models of Geologic Outcrops

Saheli Patel, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Smear slide analysis of lake sediments to evaluate impacts of humans on eight lakes on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Northern Wisconsin

Dake Peng, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Integrating Explanations in Spatial Cognition Across Scales

Allison Penn, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Back to Class: How Elite Liberal Arts Colleges Discuss the Value of Their Degrees on Admissions Websites

Ella Peoples, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Global Citizenship for Civic Education

Allen Perales, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Sculpting the Immune Response: Modifying the CAR NK Cell Construct Against the Tumor Microenvironment

Henry Petrini, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Bridging the Gap: Lysosome-Peroxisome Membrane Contacts in Storage Disorders and Neuropathy

Ellen Pickette, Religion (RELG) 2025, “I Used to be Irish Catholic”: George Carlin’s Catholic Comedy, Criticism, and Comic Transcendence

Nithin Poreddy, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Cancer Catalysts: Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer and Genome Integration in Metastasis

Mitch Porter, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2025, Residual Conservation: A Political Ecology of Marine Protected Area Creation in Argentina

Abby Quade, English (ENGL) 2025, "What we've been taught to do with death": Creation and Mortality in Frankenstein, "The Vulture and the Body," and The Cancer Journals

Sofia Quanbeck, Economics (ECON) 2025, Greener Pastures: Balancing Externalities and Market Elasticities to Craft an Optimal Marijuana Tax for Minnesota

Ryan Quinn, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Feynman Path Integrals

Sophia Quinn, Aaron Banse, Brendan Banfield, and Kellen Knop, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Not Clique-bait: Algorithmic Approaches to the Maximum Clique Problem

Xiaoying Qu, Dake Peng, Albert Jing, and Paul Claudel Izabayo, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Reinforcement Learning in Monopoly Through Three Q-learning Variants

Anka Raicevic, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Exploring Electrochemical Deposition Parameters in Semiconductor Production for Solar Water Splitting

Daanyal Raja, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Crude Consequences: A Comparative Analysis of Oil Spill Impacts on Aerial Versus Submerged Species in Saltmarsh Ecosystems

Moira Rankin, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Introgression in anthropogenic landscapes: Weighing adaptive and maladaptive outcomes of unintentional and intentional introgression events

Alexander Rapacz, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Sasha Rapacz Comps, Studio Art

Elinor Rees-Hill, English (ENGL) 2025, The Architecture of Abuse: Physical Space and Systems of Oppression in In the Dream House

Becky Reinhold, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Living the good life without morals: a discussion of the efficacy of guardrails in Alasdair MacIntyre’s ‘quest for the good life’

Edith Reyes Contreras, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Rising Temperatures, Vanishing Forests: The Environmental Drivers of Malaria Transmission

Rhusel Rivera, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Investigating the Role of PPAR�� in Peroxisome-Mediated Sebum Production and the Pathophysiology of Acne Vulgaris

Aidan Roessler, Tony Ni, Jake Jasmer, and Yang Tan, Computer Science (CS) 2025, A Survey of Community Detection: Algorithms, Applications, and Beyond!

Grace Rogers and Elena Prichard, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Sustainability in Higher Education: Architecture and Design in Environmental Interdisciplinary Learning Spaces

Ayanna Rose, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Reimagining the City: From Segregation to Liberation—Black Thought and Radical Pathways in Urban Planning

Ashley Rosenberg, Religion (RELG) 2025, Consuming the Promise of Salvation: The Construction of an Ideal Life by Mary Kay Cosmetics and goop

Zoe Rose, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Disruption of Peroxisomal Function in Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Implications for Enterocyte Formation

Adam J. Rothman, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Take a Second – Make a Second: Modeling the Atomic Transition that Defines the Time Standard

Elizabeth Rowland, Economics (ECON) 2025, Light Rail Transit Station Proximity and Home Values in Houston, Texas: A Spatial Analysis

Elizabeth Rowland, Mitch Porter, and Noah Morris, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Water from the Rock: Scarcity, Efficiency, and Policy Change in Sonoran Desert Agriculture

Lia Salomon, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Quantifying topographic controls on debris flows in residential and heavily trafficked areas on the post-glacial landscape of Prince of Wales Island, southeast Alaska

Jacob Sanders, History (HIST) 2025, Barriers to Collaboration: Challenges of Developing the MBT-70 Main Battle Tank

Melina Sasaki-Uemura, Tianyi Lu, Kunwu Lyu, and Ben Stever-Zeitlin, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Positive Tournaments and Games

Beckett Schafer, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, The Biosynthesis of Cylindrospermopsin: A Potent Toxin Produced by Cyanobacteria

Finley Sebert, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Drift

Max Serota, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Autocratic Radicalization: the Strategic Choices of Autocratic Executives and the Death of Democracy

Mehreen Shahid, Biology (BIOL) 2025, OV-BiTE: Using an Oncolytic Virus to Enhance the Efficacy of T-Cell-Attracting Bispecific Monoclonal Antibodies in Treating Cold Solid Tumors

Maya Shook, American Studies (AMST) 2025, “No house is private”: The Myth of the American Single-Family Home

Will Shrestha, Marshall Johnson, Cullen Baker, Selma Vangstein, Bemnet Abebayehu, and Sam Diana, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Evaluating Methods for Radio Frequency Based Positioning of Ultimate Frisbee Players

Ella Shriner, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Effect of Awe Experienced in Nature on Small-self and Prosocial Behavior

Miriam Shteyman, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Review of Methodological Approaches

Olivia Siebert, Economics (ECON) 2025, A Wealth Tax Proposal

Annanya Sinha, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2025, Beyond Hijra: Politics of Respectability, Identity and Mythmaking in Kolkata’s Transgender Communities

Annanya Sinha, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Gender Affirmed: A Systematic Review of Gender Dysphoria & Mental Health in Transgender People

Katya Sjaastad, Biology (BIOL) 2025, How Do the Fungi Speak to the Trees? The Role of HGT and Small RNA Communication in Enabling the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Austin Skoda, Religion (RELG) 2025, A Messiah Uncaged: Jiddu Krishnamurti and the Rejection of an Orientalist Future

Isaac Smalley, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, A Systematic Review of Visual Competition Effects in the Visual World Paradigm

Ingrid Smith, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Enhancing CAR-T Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors: Overcoming Tumor Microenvironment Challenges with SynNotch Receptors and PD-1 Blockades

Charles Solomon, History (HIST) 2025, Constantine’s Cults: Interconnected Iconographies of Religion and Power in the Roman Empire

David Song, Political Science (POSC) 2025, Beyond The Ballot: How Asian American Identity Shapes Political Participation

Keon Staples, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Offline and Online Racial Discrimination: State of the Research

Henry Stern, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Does That (Dis)Ability Really Affect Your Happiness?

Henry Stier, Music (MUSC) 2025, Vershönerung

Elizabeth H. Swanson, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Assessing Soil Variability in an Enhanced Weathering Context

Amanda Ta, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring the Role of Chlamydia trachomatis as a Co-Factor in HPV-Driven Cervical Cancer

Alex Tananbaum, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Conversations at Saul's

Gabe Tarini, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Can You Really Burn Bones?

Bella Thomas, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Beyond Access: Exploring Food Sovereignty vs Security, Memory, and Cultural Survival for Immigrants in the U.S.

Elek Thomas, Breanna Lefevers-Scott, Barin Nwike, and Elaina Boyle, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Breaking Hearts: AI Approaches to a Trick-Based Card Game

Kate Thomas, Sergio Yap, Adrián Gonzáles, Yeriel Yoon, Spencer Delle Fave, Kate Ulrich, Miles McDermott, and Collin Pearson, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Forging Sustainable C-C Bonds: Development of Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydroacylation

Katharine Tilson, Political Science (POSC) 2025, To Punish or Preserve Learning: The Impact of Federal Title IX Regulations on Campus Disciplinary Proceedings

Sydney Tirschwell, History (HIST) 2025, Brehon Law and Butter-Stealing Witches in Early Modern Ireland

Kevin Tran, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, “Life is a Highway”: Automobility’s Impact on Urban Spaces and Low-Income Communities

Thea Traw, Biology (BIOL) 2025, “Winning” the Crop Battle: Strategic Targeting of Horizontally Transferred Genes in Herbivorous Insects via RNA Interference

Will Troop, Economics (ECON) 2025, A Pigouvian Approach to a Two-Tiered Potency Tax on Marijuana in Minnesota

Tatjana Truckses Stephens, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Role of Beta Cell Cilia in Insulin Exocytosis