Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2026
Ruby Spector, Hans Anderson, Ben Pennell, Per Johnson, Zev Charlson, Charlie Krajc, Eleanor Hebard, and Sophia Morse-deBrier, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, What a Cluster!: An Analysis of Three Radical SAM Enzymes
Sophie Stein, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Riding the Red Line: Structural Forces and the Racialization of Urban Space in Chicago
Jacob Stern, Economics (ECON) 2026, Sovereign Debt Crises: IMF Conditionality as a Commitment Device
Lloyd Stohler, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2026, Neurotypical - Problematically Definitionless
Luke Sugalski, Economics (ECON) 2026, Taxing the 0.01%
Shiqi Sun, Lucy Zhang, and Omar Alsaad, Mathematics (MATH) 2026, The Upside Down: Exploring the Astral Plane of Hyperbolic Geometry Through Wormholes
Anna Sytenkova, Linguistics (LING) 2026, L1 phonology shaping L2 vowel reduction in Russian learners’ interlanguage
Ben Szeto, Economics (ECON) 2026, Impacts of Medicaid Expansion for Low-income, Obese Americans under the ACA Insights from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Arielle Szycher, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Mind the Gap: A Proposed GOMAFU-ERBB4 Pathway for Reduced Cognition in Schizophrenia
Misaki Taniguchi, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Increasing Fungal-derived Microbial Necromass Carbon is Important in Promoting the Accumulation of Soil Carbon in Agricultural Soils
Lola Taraday, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, A Rhetoric of Rescue and Retreat: Gendered Justifications for War and Withdrawal in United States Afghanistan Policy
Ian Tarter, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2026, Having Fun: Beyond Predictive Processing in Play
Julia Tassava, History (HIST) 2026, Immured Women and 'Precarious Femininity': Gender and Control in a Renaissance Italian Convent
Natalie Tatar, Classics (CLST) 2026, Signum Fatale: The Transtextual Resonance of the Palladium in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Perri Thompson, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Strengths, Limitations, and Complementarity of Airborne eDNA on Conventional Biodiversity Study Methods
Stella Thompson, Maddy Brown, Ella Visconti, Cameron Richardson, Alex Wcislo, and Daniel Estrada, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Quick to Order, Quick to Deliver: Providing Mobile Access to Sexual Health Supplies
Franklin Tokioka, Political Science (POSC) 2026, Whose Burden? Legal Responsibility for Student Mental Health on College Campuses
Nicholas Toole, Economics (ECON) 2026, Teacher Compensation and Student Performance: A Policy Recommendation
Alison Trackman, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Waveforms and Wavefunctions: The Navigational Capabilities of Bats and Birds Through a Physical Lens
Hadley Twichell, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Genes on the Move: What Ancient DNA Tells Us about Human Migration and the Spread of Food Production Strategies in the Ancient World
Sara Typrin, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Following the Hunga Tonga Tsunami: From Deep Ocean to Upper Atmosphere
Sam Ullman, Geology (GEOL) 2026, Evaluating the Fluxing Performance of two Commercial Domestic Pumices in Midrange Clay Bodies
Jacob Ventura, Economics (ECON) 2026, Weathering or Worsening the Storm? The Effect of Risk Transfer Intensity on Insurer Equity Responses to Natural Disasters
Jacob Ventura, Rye Storrs, and Logan Woodmancy, Statistics (STAT) 2026, Comparing College Football Rankings and Predicting Game Outcomes with Data-Driven Modeling
Nicholas Q. Vlahos-Sten, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Our Little Block Universe
Alexis Wallace, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, Blueprints for Framing Activism: What We Can Learn From The Carletonian (1966-1972) About Social Movement Recruitment
Nathan Wang, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Insight into the Diverse Applications of Guar Gum
Sara Wang, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2026, The Club as Threshold: Liminality and Queer Belonging in Contemporary Shanghai
Dean Watkins, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Examining and Comparing the Variety of Therapeutic Techniques for Survivors of Sexual Violence: A Review
Lucie Wolf, Rui Shen, Justin Vaughn, and Evelyn Xie, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Region-of-Interest Medical Image Compression with JPEG, JPEG2000, SPIHT
Henry Wolters, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics: The Physics Behind Josephson Junctions
Lily S. Wong, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Re-Imagined Communities: Inclusive Nationalism’s Challenges, Successes, and Lessons: A Case Study Analysis of Bolivia & Singapore
Zachary Wu, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Home
Chloe Xufeng, Emma Zhang, Auiannce Euwing, and Zubeyda Shute, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Civic Engagement in Algorithmic Choices
Daniel Yan, Economics (ECON) 2026, Exploring the Impact of Chicago’s 606 Greenway on Gentrification
Nadia Yang, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2026, Cognitive Distortions and Bad Habits: Why Both Matter in Intimate Partner Violence
Andrew Yeh, Economics (ECON) 2026, Mediums of Money in the Dictator Game
Changwoo Yu, Lee Li, and Nathan Parker, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Don’t Open that Can of Worms: How Robert Morris took down the early internet
Hope Yu, History (HIST) 2026, Spun Through Teeth and Time: Realities of Textile Labor for Koryŏ Women, c. 1100-1392
Naomi Zeidenberg and Sophia Bastian, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2026, Trees and Plantings for a Climate-Resilient Northfield
James Zhang and Nia Terry, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2026, Mapping Hotspots for Climate Resilience Action in Northfield
Owen Zhang, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Molecular Vibration
Austin Zhu, Biology (BIOL) 2026, How Cancer Talks in Circles: circRNA Communication Shapes EMT in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Catherine Zons, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Poorly Made Machine
Graduated in 2025
Naema Abdi, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Spread and Acceptance of Misinformation: Why is it so Easy to Believe And Share Fake News?
Sara Abraha, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Understanding the Hsp90 Landscape in Breast Cancer: Domain-Specific Inhibition
Marcos Acero, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Quantum Sensors and the Evolution of Quantum Measurement
Kara Achilles, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Susceptibility to Substance Use Disorder and Mood Disorders in Females with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Result of Organizational Effects of Prenatal Androgens
Tim Adams, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Sunflowers: The Visual Experience of Beauty in Nature vs. Two-Dimensional Art
Lily Akre, Religion (RELG) 2025, The Sensuality of Suffering: Love in Julian of Norwich and James Baldwin
Jordan Appelbaum, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Beyond Surface Antigens: The Rise of Bispecific TCRm-ADCs in Cancer Immunotherapy
Morgan Arnold, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Sex Differences in the HPA axis: A Cause of the Gender Depression Gap in Women
Paige Arnold, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Blank Spaces: Negotiating Remembrance with Holocaust Memorials
Jacob Aronson, Troy Osborn, Tori Shen, and Kai Zhang, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Exploring Resampling-Based Methods for Parameter Estimation on Simulated Multilevel Data
Surina Arora, Economics (ECON) 2025, Microcredit as a Public Health Initiative: Studying the Effects of Access to Microcredit on Women’s Health in India
Loren Arzayus, Economics (ECON) 2025, Wealth Taxes and its Unintended Consequences: Why Taxing the Wealthy is Not Efficient in Closing the Wealth Inequality Gap
Amelia Asfaw, Economics (ECON) 2025, Assessing the Feasibility of a Wealth Tax in the United States
Allison Audette, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Gene Flow and Bt-Crops: Understanding Potential Ecological Consequences
Brendan Banfield, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physical Reservoir Computing
Aaron Banse, Evan Hart, Aidan Jalili, and Yang Tan, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Intervals, C_3 Structure, and Realization in Tournaments
Helen Banta, Classics (CLST) 2025, You'll Never Get Away from The Sound of the Woman that Loves You: Women’s Scenes of Recognition in the Odyssey
Adriel Barham, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Adriel Barham Comps
Jesse Barker, English (ENGL) 2025, "A Phrase Men can Pass from Hand to Mouth:" Self-Reference and Creole Language in Derek Walcott's Poetry
Kieran Barker, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Making AI Make Sense: Biological Normativity as a Criterion for Intelligence
Jens Bartel, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Understanding the Lichen Symbiosis in the Age of Genomics
Mia Beeman-Weber, Geoff Bynum, Tyler Chodera, and Gitanjali Matthes, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Climate Adaptation in Southeastern Minnesota: Multiscalar Decision-Making and a Case Study of the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum
Eden Bergene, Economics (ECON) 2025, Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Innovation in Big Pharma
Annie Bergmann, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, The Longest Night
Sanjiv Bhogaraju, Economics (ECON) 2025, Wealth Taxation and Economic Inequality: Balancing Equity and Growth
Sydney Bieber, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Sex Hormones and X Chromosome Inactivation Produce Aberrant T Cell Population Ratios in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Contributing to a Strong Female Bias
Katrin Birk, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Explorations of Life (Through the Forms of Those Less Loved)
Katrin Birk, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Hybridisation and introgression as conservation tactics in the face of anthropogenic environmental change
Amanda Black, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Thorium-based Fuel as the Future of Nuclear Energy
Mariko Bolton, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Ghosts
Max Borden, Biology (BIOL) 2025, RuBisC-No! Designing Protein-Cage-Based Metabolons to Move Synthetic Carbon Fixation Systems in vivo
Theo Borowski, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, A Lack of Pluralism: How Christian Nationalism Imminently Threatens Democracy
Theo Borowski, Religion (RELG) 2025, Jewish Jurisprudence: How editing divinity improves humanity’s perfection
Albert Bosler, History (HIST) 2025, Roger II as a Italo-Norman Trailblazer
James Bowers, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Identity and Volition
James Bowers and Nhi Luong, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Communicating Mathematics Portfolio
Laura J. Boyd and Lily M. Vargo, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Triple Threat: Introducing a Three-Pronged Interaction Between Hormones, the Gut Microbiome, and Postpartum Depression Pathogenesis
Claire Boyle, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Geothermobarometry of Metamorphic Rocks Associated with the Sanak-Baranof Plutonic Belt in the Chugach-Prince William Terrane, Southern Alaska
Quinn Brannan, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Seeing the Unseen: Signal Processing and Electronic Beam Steering in RADAR
Piper Brown, Linguistics (LING) 2025, Every Mandarin Sentence is Not Surface Scope: Evidence for Inverse Scope in Mandarin Adverbials
Ruairi Brown, Biology (BIOL) 2025, A Surfeit of Stressors: The Effects of Ocean Acidification, Hypoxic Waters, and Increasing Ocean Temperatures on Metacarcinus magister
Ezra Buonopane, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Interactions between Limestone, Shale, and Sandstone Aggregates and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)
Marco Caba-Acevedo, History (HIST) 2025, Chimalpahin and the Christian Mexico City
Megan Cablk, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Exploring the Relationship Between Memory Decline and Neural Loss in Aging Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
Taylor Canas, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, QUEENIE
Kerrigan Candra, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Temperature and ocean acidification impacts on the direct versus indirect developing periwinkle snails
Kristoff Cao, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Lie Groups of Symmetry and Their Application in Solving ODEs
Brian Caplan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Sex Differences in Ischemic Stroke: The Role of 17��-Estradiol and Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Modulating Cell Death
Michael Carey, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Understanding the ATP-Mediated CFTR Gating Mechanism Using Biophysical Chemical Techniques
James Carlson, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Theories Beyond Theory Theory: Eco-Enactive Perspectives on Autism
Tanner Carlson, Reed Schubert, and Max Keller, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Ants in the Brain: Mapping Neural Connectivity using Colony Optimization Algorithms
Gwen Casey, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Mitigating Methane Emissions From Digestate Composting
Ryan Cechini, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Respect Paternalism
Eugene Chang, Economics (ECON) 2025, Optimal Marijuana Taxation in Minnesota
Martha Chan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Asymmetrical Horizontal Gene Transfer Between Parasites and Hosts: Evolutionary Constraints and Functional Implications
Miriam Chasnov, Economics (ECON) 2025, Fair Pay, Fair Play? Examining Gendered Housework Allocation Among Dual-Income Couples
