Integrated Comprehensive Exercises (Comps)

The Carleton collection of Comps, Honors Papers, and Prize-Winning Works is a collaboration between academic departments and the library. Students self-submit their work with the guidance of their departments and programs. Descriptive information about each comps, honors paper, or prize-winning project is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of projects is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about the collection, including how to submit and how to request access to the full text of works.

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Maya Keeney, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Senior Art Comps

Maya Keeney, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, True Colors: Exploring Performance and the Authentic Self

Max Keller, Reed Schubert, and Tanner Carlson, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Ants in the Brain: Mapping Neural Connectivity using Colony Optimization Algorithms

Zaria Kelly, Classics (CLST) 2025, The Hunter or The Hunted?: The Ambiguity of Power in Vase Paintings of Pederastic Relationships

Collin Kelso, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Figuring out What Works: Reviewing the Advantages, Disadvantages, and Effectiveness of Passive Enhanced Weathering Settings and Feedstocks

Ethan Kinsella, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Urban Affordances: A Comparative Study of Venturi/Scott Brown's Strip and Jacobs's "Sidewalk Ballet"

Lazuli Kleinhans, Aadi Akyianu, and Essy Ingram, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Linux Privilege Escalation and Vulnerability Exploit Script (linPEVES)

Hannah Knapp, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Demystifying PMS and Mood: A Systematic Review of Measurement Practices

Elizabeth Kniser, Biology (BIOL) 2025, S. aureus Biofilm Infections: Regulation of Dispersal Through Agr Quorum-Sensing and Therapeutic Challenges

Arthur Koenig, English (ENGL) 2025, When “Cairo Was Like Europe”: The Politics of Egypt’s Cosmopolitan Memory in Waguih Ghali’s Beer in the Snooker Club and Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building

Padmini Konidena, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring the Role of Ghost Introgression in Species Adaptations

Amberly Kroha, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Microstructural analysis and kinematic determinations of deformation bands from Parkfield, California: Implications for stress along the San Andreas fault

Ezra Kucur, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Climate Challenges in the Intertidal Zone: Pisaster ochraceus’ Response to Sea Star Wasting Disease

Holly Lake, English (ENGL) 2025, Both Sides of Closure

Natalie Lang, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Construction of a Landfill in a Sand Tank Physical Model

Jeremiah Lanzillo, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Groundwater Interaction and Surface Water Impacts on the Ground- Coupled Geothermal Heat Exchanger at Carleton College

Joshua Kaden Lecuyer, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Hypergolic Ionic Liquids

David Lee, Economics (ECON) 2025, Optimizing Recreational Marijuana Tax Policy In Minnesota

Stephanie Lee, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, An Introduction to Integral Equations and their Solution Methods

Stephanie Lee, Economics (ECON) 2025, No Panacea in Monetary Policy: A Policy Brief for the 2025 FOMC Monetary Framework Review

Breanna A. Lefevers-Scott, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Mass Hysteria: A New Case?

Linnea Lentfer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Hunting for Home: Placemaking Through the Deer Harvest in Non-Indigenous Northern Southeast Alaskan Communities

Sophia Lenzer, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Adolescent Stress Influences Organization of Sex-Specific Neuroendocrine Mechanisms and Female Sexual Functioning in Adulthood

Alberto Leon, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Ghosts in the Runway: Hauntology through the works of Demna Gvasalia

Rebecca Lerdau, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Climate Change and Anuran Reproductive Response

Aiden Lesneski, Alice Mongane, Ananth Iyer, Annika Stewart, Audrey Parrott, Ben Schneider, Lizzet Solache Salgado, Quan Nguyen, and Waadaa Daka, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Bobby Arora (NYU) Comps Group: Designing Synthetic Peptidomimetics to Inhibit Protein-Protein Interactions

Oliver J. Licht, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Unraveling the Physics Behind Digital Photography

Jason Lin, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, No Exit, No Excuses: Sartre, Authenticity, and the Weight of Existence

Caroline Loescher, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Role of Climate Change in Shaping Range Shifts and Disease Transmission Dynamics Between Plants and Insects

Eliza Lox, American Studies (AMST) 2025, From the Pioneers to #VanLife: Domesticity and Manifest Destiny in American Nomadism

Josephine MacDonald, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Landscapes of Peril: How Fear of Predators and Parasites Shapes Disease Risk

Kyle Machalec, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Neurodegeneration and Lipid Droplets: From Metabolic Buffer to Cellular Burden

Elizabeth Madigan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Plastic Predicament: Bisphenol A’s Contribution to Sex Differences Observed in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Anja Madsen, History (HIST) 2025, Space: The Final Frontier?: An Exploration of Frontier Themes in Space Science Fiction Films of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries

Kaija Maier, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Kaija Maier Comps

Malvika Malhotra and Sofia Santamaria Germani, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Sex Differences in Brain Activation Patterns and Strategies during Cognitive Tasks of Verbal Fluency and Spatial Rotation

Grace Malooly, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Lake Affects

Grace Malooly, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Head and the HRT: The Psychological Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopausal Women

Talia R. Marash, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Moving Beyond Compliance: A Three-Pronged Approach to Strengthening the Clery Act and Its Implementation

Christopher Maring, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The Physics of Cooling: Techniques, Purposes, and Phenomena Near Absolute Zero

Abby Marks, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Copper Resistance and Its Role in Antibiotic Resistance Spillover from Manure

Zoe Marquis, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Linguistic Reform as Activism: Performative or Pragmatic

Ben Mazor, Biology (BIOL) 2025, You Are What Eats You: Understanding the Gut Microbiome’s Relationship with Alzheimer’s Disease

Eva Mazzola, History (HIST) 2025, Sex and the City: Female Building Patronage in the Forum of Pompeii

George McAdams, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Anxiety’s Influence on Persuasibility: An Integrative Review

Sophie McManus, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Shadowless: Mechanisms of persistence in the symbiosis between Vibrio fischeri and Euprymna scolopes

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