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Graduated in 2024

Ren D. Manuel, Art History (ARTH) 2024, Separating the Body of Christ from the Body of a Jewish Man: The Non-circumcision of Christ in Art of the Italian Renaissance

Catherine Marvin, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Ketamine's Crossroads: A Neurological Journey Through Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety Disorders

Alice McClain, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Gardening the reef: future-proofing approaches to coral conservation

Douglas Meeker, English (ENGL) 2024, Reorienting the Gay Canon: Spaces and Sexualities in Maurice and Giovanni’s Room

Catherine Merchant, Religion (RELG) 2024, “Escaping the Prison of the Brain:” The Value of Subjectivity and Objectivity in The Varieties of Religious Experience and Neurotheology

Catherine Merchant, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Evaluating Measurement Practices in the Literature on Adverse Childhood Experiences

Ewan Miller, Biology (BIOL) 2024, A Coordinated Effort: The Recruitment of Regulatory T cells Involves Gut Microbes and the Vagus Nerve

Luis Miranda, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Effect of Coronal Mass Ejections on Solar Wind and its Earthly Consequences

Marjorie Mitalski, History (HIST) 2024, Melody and Morality: Rousseau's Music and Philosophy

Anya Mitton-Fry, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Latitude and avian life history strategies

Nicholas Moore, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Schizophrenia and the Human Noncoding Revolution: a New Evolutionary Framework

Leon Morduch, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Breaking the Populist Spell: The Impact of Education and Popular Psychologies on Reception of Populist Appeals in the United States

Ben More, Spanish (SPAN) 2024, "Sweetening the Deal:" Fidel Castro's Rhetoric During Cuba's Ten-Million-Ton Sugar Harvest

Shreya Nair, Biology (BIOL) 2024, A Gut feeling : Understanding the relationship between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the Gut Microbiome and Butyrate

Shreya Nair, A. J. Ristino, Serafín Patiño Jr., Phi Rapacz, Zev Goldhaber-Gordon, and Jack Owens, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Short-Read Sequence Alignment using the Burrows Wheeler Transform

Wanying Na, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Role of VgrG-Associated Effectors in T6SS Structural Assembly, Firing and Interbacterial Competition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Julia Nicholson, English (ENGL) 2024, Dog Park

Kai Oishi, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Anticipating Regrets of Inaction to Promote Happiness and Social Interaction

Kai Oishi, Political Science (POSC) 2024, The American Dream? The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Segregation and Upward Mobility in the US

Lindsay Okindo, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Should Medication-Assisted Treatment Be Integrated into Criminal Justice Systems for Opioid Use Disorder?

Brett Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Reasonably Rural: Non-Narrative in Print

Brett Olson, Art History (ARTH) 2024, “Stephen Varble: Alternative Approaches to the Waste Crisis”

Chris O'Mara, Religion (RELG) 2024, The Enemies Within, and Other Reasons Why I Need My Gun

Arthur Onwumere, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2024, Believe, Advocate and Uplift The Black Maternal Health Crisis in Minnesota’s Hennepin and Ramsey Counties

Evan Orjala, History (HIST) 2024, Human Nature and Consumerism in a Mechanized World: Promoting Outdoor Recreation to Working Minnesotans, 1910-1929.

Alistair Pattison, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, An Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory

Ian Paulson, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Applications of Coherent Macroscopic Wavefunctions in Superconducting Material

Aidan Phinney, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Why Have the Military Bases Remained Open? U.S., Japanese, and Okinawan Relations Since 1991

Aleksander Prasolov, Music (MUSC) 2024, Composing the End and What Comes After: Death and the Musical Afterlife in Tod und Verklärung and “Im Abendrot”

Collin Preves, English (ENGL) 2024, The Hot Dog Play

Nathan Przybyla, Music (MUSC) 2024, Verspätung

Isabel Rameker, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, Filipino American Food Persists: The Power of Food Traditions and Identity in the Filipino American Diaspora

Sophie Rast, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, The Ant Hill

Jack Rizzo, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Possession, Existence, and Multifunctionality: The Case of Vietnamese Có

Emma Roskopf, Economics (ECON) 2024, From Selfies to Resumes: The Impact of Online Privacy Concerns on Unemployment Duration

Emma Roskopf, Lily Haas, Sam Bradie, Andrew Hong, Ian Mortensen, and Varun Saini, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Safety First: The Effects of Hyperparameter Tuning in Safe Reinforcement Learning

Brenna Russell, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Butyrate’s Maintenance of Colonic Homeostasis via PPARγ Activation

Varun Saini, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, An Introduction to the Hyperreals

Christian Schultz, Economics (ECON) 2024, Can Machines Replace Us?

Christian Schultz, English (ENGL) 2024, "This Time is Different" & "The Apocalypse Game"

Emilie Scott, Biology (BIOL) 2024, α-synuclein and neuroinflammation pathology in Parkinson's Disease and Baicalein as an approach to halting disease progression

Ian Scott, Biology (BIOL) 2024, One Fish, Two fish, Hot Fish, Dead Fish: Effects of Temperature and Flow on Pacific Chinook Salmon

Sonia Shah, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Estrogen as a Treatment for Positive, Negative, and General Symptoms Experienced in Women with Schizophrenia

Sammi Sheridan, Helen Moses, Miles Frisch, and Evan Christensen, Statistics (STAT) 2024, Incorporating Nonspatial Policing Information into Spatial Models

Lev Shuster, Adrian Boskovic, Chris Melville, Josh Moore, Thomas Pree, and Sam Johnson-Lacoss, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Explainable AI: Breaking Down the Black Box

Juanita Silva, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Substance Use Disorders Among College Students: Risk Factors and Interventions

Maddie Smith, Art History (ARTH) 2024, El Sueño de La Malinche: A Woman’s Body under Construction

Alyssa Soma, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Psilocybin and MDMA on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Nicholas Spezia-Shwiff, History (HIST) 2024, From Liberators to Conquerors: Luxuria, Geopolitics, and Roman Imperialism in the Greek World, 264–146 BC

Mira Stephens, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Inhibition of Host Protein Synthesis by Legionella pneumophila as a Strategy for Amino Acid Acquisition and Host Cell Cycle Arrest

Marko Stojanovic, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Scout's Pride

Micah Jay Strike, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Water flow as a rescue mechanism for corals during marine heatwaves

Charles Sweat, Economics (ECON) 2024, Greener Firms in the US Automotive Industry: Electric Vehicle Policy & Production

Ahtziry Tinajero, Spanish (SPAN) 2024, Humanizando la historia: La crisis inmobiliaria de España

Blake Tran, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Saving Salmonids: Preparing Southwest Trout for Heat Waves and a Changing Climate

Peter Tu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Follow

Peter Tu, Sky Lu, Yuxin Lin, Jonas Bartels, Alice Cutter, and Sriya Konda, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Panda or Paintbrush? An Exploration of Adversarial Attacks on Image Classifiers

Vasilii Vaganov, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Decoding the Intricacies of Cajal Body Formation: Unveiling the Sequential Cascade of RNA Seeding, Coilin N-Terminal Oligomerization, and Coilin C-Terminal Recruitment

Marycruz S. Valdivia Acosta, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, Amor Eterno en el Autismo; Autistic Upbringing, the Self, and the Prioritization of Love/Care

Isabella Vazquez, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The impact of heatwaves on temperature-dependent sex determination mechanisms in Trachemys scripta elegans

Eli Venetis, Economics (ECON) 2024, Family Income and the Returns to Education: The Effect of Credit Constraints

Eli Venetis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Forgotten Beauty

Mira Verma, Barclay Shove, Leo Qi, Hannah Ku, Angel Garcia-Ramirez, and Parker Walther, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Elucidating the Intricacies of Enzyme Catalysis

Aniketh Vipparla, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Duel of the Fates: Type VI Secretion System versus Biofilm in Acinetobacter baumannii Virulence

Will Vonderlage, History (HIST) 2024, A Polarizing Push: How the 1968 Olympic Protest Efforts Further Fractured the Black Freedom Struggle

An Vong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Home for the Holiday

Aidan Walker, Religion (RELG) 2024, Sacred Storefronts: Responses to the Questions of the American City

Jackson Walker, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, United States of Karate-do: Building Inclusive Communities in the Martial Arts

Hannah Ward, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, To Be and To Love

Henry J. Weismann, Economics (ECON) 2024, Kids on the Move: Modeling the Impact of Children on Migratory Decision-Making

Anna Weller, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, An Exploration of Risk Factors for Alcohol Use Disorder Among Sexual Minority Communities

Eleanor Weston, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Shoreline and Canoe Watercolors

Alex Wilson, History (HIST) 2024, Those who “Rend Flesh with Wicked Teeth:” Werewolves, Outlawry, and the Natural World in 12th Century Anglo-Norman Literature

Thomas Wolf, Economics (ECON) 2024, Generational Bridges: Exploring the influence of age at adoption on adopted parents’ intergenerational transmission of education

Kevin Xiong, Economics (ECON) 2024, Illiquid Assets Affecting Personal Bankruptcy

Jisoo Yeom, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Deciphering the Role of Phosphorylation in Period2 Using Frequency as a Model

Kimberly Yip, Ashok Khare, and Sydney Nguyen, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Pen-testing

Xingyi Zhang, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Rates of Statistically Significant Findings among Traditionally Published Articles, Preregistered Articles, and Registered Reports

Yichen Zhang, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, Between ren and Community: how does one die with moral value?

Bob Zhu, Economics (ECON) 2024, Just a Small Town with 10 Million People: Urban Agglomeration’s Effects on Labor Productivity in Chinese Cities

Graduated in 2023

Collin Adams, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Multifaceted Role of Codon Usage Bias in Regulating Gene Expression

Luisa Alves Escosteguy, PJ Sangvong, Etienne Richart, Duc Nguyen, and Shirin Sharma, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Wiki Addition Viewer: An extension to add insights to your Wikipedia experience

Evangel Anyiwe, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Justice: Political Structure’s Effect on Sentence Length

Jancyn Appel, Political Science (POSC); Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Equality isn’t the Goal, but the Expectation: An Investigation of the Constitutionality of Racialized Policies through the Lens of Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court Opinions

Kelsie Armstrong, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Acclimation and Fluctuating Temperatures Affect Ecological Performance and Development in Frogs

Laurie Avila, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Tangles, Trips, and Treatment: An Overview and Analysis of the Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelic Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease

Hannah Babcock, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Body and place

Juliana Bachulis, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Phonological Approximation in Computer-Mediated Communication: Governance of Deletion and Lengthening in SMS

Juliana Bachulis, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Xi’s China and Trong’s Vietnam - The Emergence of Populism in the Authoritarian Context

Sophie Baggett, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Alzheimer's Disease: Turning Towards Tau

Avigail Bailon, Dominic Calicdan, and Chloe Truebenbach, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2023, Environmental Justice Curricula in Interdisciplinary Environmental and Sustainability Programs: Examining the Variance of Liberal Arts Undergraduate Institutions that Include Environmental Justice Curricula.

Lucille Baker-Stahl, Geology (GEOL) 2023, The Hidden Falls Member: Lithostratigraphy and Depositional Insights Into the Platteville Formation, Southeastern Minnesota

Maya Bannatyne, Geology (GEOL) 2023, Geochemistry, U/Pb ages, and Hf isotope analyses of plutons in Southeastern Alaska: Implications for the Resurrection plate debate and associated magmatism

Nicolas Bell, Geology (GEOL) 2023, Investigating Environmental Effects on Sediment Trapping and Binding by Microbial Mats

Lillian Berets, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Sharing Our Roots: A Radical Economy of Community Carework

James Berger, Computer Science (CS) 2023, PictaPhone: Using smartphones as Controllers

Aaron Berkowitz, Biology (BIOL) 2023, ApoE-TREM 2 Interaction: An Important Regulator of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis

Raine Bernhard, History (HIST) 2023, “By Virtue of a Bond”: Overseas Familial and Financial Connections between Loyalist Refugees and Americans after the Revolutionary War

Eledon Beyene, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Eledon's Fall Comps

James Bice, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, 3 Phone Calls