Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2025
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
Shanti Chier, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Debate on Bilingualism and Executive Function: Is There a Cognitive Advantage?
Tyler Chodera, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, What Will Happen Tomorrow, and Associated Vulnerabilities
Ryan Choi, Economics (ECON) 2025, Minnesota’s Marijuana Tax: An Optimization Model
Dorothy Chou, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Predicting Crab Survival: The Impacts of Climate Change on the Competitive Dynamic of Hemigrapsus sanguineus and Carcinus maenas
Kyla Christie, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Methodological Practices in Perceptual Narrowing Research on Speech Perception and Facial Recognition
Ethan Cline, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, The Experience Machine
Ella Collins, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Effects of Social Networking Sites on the Mental Well-being of Adolescents
James Commons, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The World's Fastest Camera: Attosecond Laser Pulses
Amelie Cook, Economics (ECON) 2025, Disparities in Disaster Aid Research: An Applicant-Level Analysis of FEMA Aid Equity after Hurricane Sandy
Caroline Crampton, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Peroxisomal Disruptions at the Lipid Droplet Interface: Implications for Insulin Resistance
Caroline Crampton, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Peroxisomal Disruptions at the Lipid Droplet Interface: Implications for Insulin Resistance
Aaliya Crews, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, A Literature Review of Loneliness in the Elderly
Andrew Dale, Abigail Persell, Cassie Gerard, Coral Outwater, Daniel Chen, Elida Coronado, Jemsy Mathew, Lexi Kingma, Padmini Konidena, Sarah McKinley, and Hiroki Coyle, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Forever Fluorinated: The PFAS Problem
Ella Daniels, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, A Jaguar Eats a Human Eats a Mushroom (& That's Okay With Me)
Aurora Davis, Ben Scott-Lewis, Frankie Saraniti, Isabelle Riley, James Walutes, Katie O'Leary, Margaret Hall, and Sam Chackerian, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Nanoconfined Metal Hydrides as Hydrogen Storage Materials
Micah Day-O'Connell, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Functionalism and Ned Block's Concepts of Consciousness
Micah Day-O'Connell, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physics and Information Theory
Piper Dean, Marc Eidelhoch, Ananth Iyer, and Owen Forman, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Thinning is Winning: Using Data Thinning as an Alternative Approach to Sample Splitting
Jiaying Deng, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, From Striated to Smooth: The Representation of Wandering Flâneuse and Space in Wanda (1970) and Trenque Lauquen (2022)
Shaan Dias, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Communicating Mathematics Comps Profile
Shaan Dias, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer Interferometric Sensor: Detecting Gravitational Waves with Atom Interferometry
Sadie M. DiCarlo, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Effects of Pyrohydrolysis on Trace Element Analyses of Planet-Forming Processes in Chondrites
Lara Dominguez, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Will a Tick in Time Spread Lyme?: The Future Risk Landscape of Lyme Disease in Urban Greenspaces
Luke Drake and Bennet Tefu, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Siamese Neural Networks for Few-Shot Facial Image Recognition
Jenna Drummond, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Role of Alternate Alleles in Instituting Reproductive Isolation in Homoploid Hybrid Speciation
Shira Dubin, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Dynamin-Related Proteins in Apicoplast and Mitochondrial Fission During Plasmodium falciparum Replication
Julia Dunn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, In Need of Transformational Women: Theorizing the Substantive Representation of Women’s Issues by Female Parliamentarians in the Anglophone Caribbean
Ryan Dunn, Music (MUSC) 2025, Guideless
Sofia Durdag, History (HIST) 2025, “I Looked to the Traces Where Love Hides”: The Eternal and the Ephemeral in the Diwan of A’ishah al-Ba'uniyah (d. 922/1517)
Collin Eldridge, Economics (ECON) 2025, Estimating Parameters of the Matching Function for Labor Search
Collin Eldridge, Billy Bratton, Jivana Nagpal, and Christie Song, Statistics (STAT) 2025, A Statistical Analysis of Network Review Data From Goodreads.com
Chris Elliott, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Gridiron Fortunes: Analyzing the NFL Prospects of College Quarterbacks
Ami Endo, Linguistics (LING) 2025, The Semantics of Conditional Evaluative Constructions in Japanese
Albert Ezem Osakwe, Sho Tanaka, Issa Mohamed, and Aidan Khan, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Agent Showdown in Pokemon: A Comparison of Different ML Algorithms in Pokemon Battling
Kate Fair, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Jenny and the Alien
Jocelyn Ferguson, Sara Shallenberger, Ty Folks, and Nathan Streiff, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Bootstrap Gone Wild: Because Your Data Doesn't Play By The Rules
Eva Fischer, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Is ADHD a Universal Disorder or Culture-Bound Syndrome? A Cross Cultural Review
Myles Fisher, History (HIST) 2025, The Ecological Empire: Corporate and State Power in Midcentury Guatemala
Orion Fisher, History (HIST) 2025, The Theatrics of Resistance: Gendering bodies through infrapolitics in post-Soviet Central Asia
Owen Flanagan, History (HIST) 2025, Race to the Market: Neoliberalism and Polarization in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic (1989-1996)
Sebastian Forero Escovar, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Crystallization history of Footwall Gneisses and Plutons of the Paparoa Core Complex, South Island, New Zealand
Dylan Fox-Arnold, Political Science (POSC) 2025, Who Defines the Truth? Populists' Post-Electoral Challenges to Media Independence
Adward Frazier Jr, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Smartphone Inertial Measurement Unit System
Clara Gale, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Provenance of the Kootznahoo Formation using U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology in southeastern Alaska
Raquel Germani, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring Multiple Paternity and Female Choice: A Strategy to Enhance Genetic Diversity and Population Viability
Raquel Germani, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Raising Awareness of Coral Bleaching
Scott Gevurtz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the Journey to Self-Knowledge
Abigail Goff, Religion (RELG) 2025, Relics of Homeland: “Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde” at L’Institut du monde arabe
Cassidy Goldman, American Studies (AMST) 2025, More Than A Milestone: Understanding Religious-Cultural Coming-of-Age Ceremonies in Contemporary America
Graham Gordon, Mika Shiffman, and Jonathan Merchant, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Optimizing Public Transportation Networks with Community Detection Algorithms
Alex Gran, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physics of Superconducting Qubits
Rachel Gregg, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Measuring CO2 flux in enhanced weathering trials in southeastern Minnesota: an evaluation of existing technologies and a proposed optimized model
Markus Gunadi, Cathy Duan, Zoey La, Willow Gu, Charlie Ney, and Kai Weiner, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Serendipitous Exploration of the Carleton Curriculum
Willow Gu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Measuring the Mind’s Muscle: How to Assess the Effectiveness of Kinesthetic Motor Imagery Practice
Malachy Guzman, Elias Tannira, and Anna Center, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Modeling the Precision of Gene Regulation in Drosophila with the Linear Framework
Hannah Hackenmueller, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Re-interpreting borehole breakouts and corresponding lithology from well logs in central California: Implications for stresses near the San Andreas fault system
Youssef Haddad, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Introduction to Photonic Integrated Circuits
Luke Harris, Economics (ECON) 2025, Evaluating Mark-to-Market Taxation of Capital Gains
Edward Hayward, History (HIST) 2025, The Autumn Harvest: Collective Memory and China's 1989 Democracy Movement
Robert Healy, Political Science (POSC); Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, The American Prosperity Fund: How Sovereign Wealth Funds Impact Inequality
Vanessa Heynes, Colin James, Wesley Yang, Arisha Khan, Luha Yang, and Hanane Akeel, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Let's Agree to Agree: Consensus in a Faulty System
Kaori Hirano, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Not So Mindblind Online: Exploring Neurodivergent Empathy through Digital Text-Based Interactions
Claire Holmes, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Operational Definitions and Validity in Expert versus Novice Differences in Athlete Decision-Making
Claire Holmes, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, U & I in the classroom: Leveraging interdisciplinary research in educational technology interface design
Olivia Ho, American Studies (AMST) 2025, 'Good Houses Make Contented Workers': Undermining Ownership, Capital, and Privacy in America
Gerrit Hoving, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Novel Measures of Feedlot Ammonia Emissions: Indirectly through Random Forest Regression on Spectral Data and Directly through Spectral Matched Filter
Mattias Hoz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Is the King of Atlantis Heavier than Tom Brady? Truth-Value Intuitions for Sentences with Existential Presupposition Failure
Graci Huff, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, From Red Handprints to Revitalization: Culturally Significant Approaches to Advocacy for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Linnea Hultman, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Can Neural Network Language Models Demonstrate Linguistic Systematicity?
