Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2023
Chiamaka Ifedi, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, A Social Intuitionist Perspective On Morality And Persuasion
Kyosuke Imai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Remembering
Christian Irons, Political Science (POSC) 2023, Brexit Voting Inconsistencies Throughout the Celtic Fringe: Analyzing the Interplay of Pro-Brexit Populist Movements With Devolved British Systems of Multi-Level Governance
Claire James, Biology (BIOL) 2023, An Un-Bear-ably Incredible Phenomenon: Atrophy Prevention via IGF-1/Akt Signaling Pathway in Skeletal Muscle of Hibernating Bears
Connor Jansen, Religion (RELG) 2023, The Five Treasures of the Great Snow: Misconceptions of Buddhist Sacred Landscape in Sikkim, India
Ben Jeweler, Economics (ECON) 2023, Wind Turbines and Property Values: Disamenity Costs in New Brunswick, Canada
Caroline Jimenez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Altered Perceptions
Tatiana Jimenez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Humans and Nature
Teagan Johnson, Elijah Jones, Samuel Koehnline Rosenberg, and Ton Meesena, Statistics (STAT) 2023, Classification Models for Statistical Graphics
Anika Jones, History (HIST) 2023, The 1921 March Action: Ongoing Negotiations Between Russian and German Communist Leadership and their Relation to Power in the Comintern
Chloe Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Impacts of Arctic Warming on Vegetation and Migratory Caribou (Rangifer tarandus): The Case for Ecological Mismatch
Elijah Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Role of Climate Change and Microbial Communities in Increased Coral Reef Disease Prevalence
Diana Kachman, English (ENGL) 2023, "Your Loud Self, Your Loud Eyes, and Your Loud Guilt: Race and Representation in Fairview" and "Environmental Justice and Nature’s Healing in Through the Arc of the Rainforest and “The Lament of Swordy Well”"
Maya Kalmus, Economics (ECON) 2023, Gender Bias in Promotion Rates in the United States
Connor Kelly, Economics (ECON) 2023, The effects of Microfinance on poverty in Central Ghana
Maggie Kerwin, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Investigating the Role of the Alternative Splicing Isoform SRSF1-3 in Promoting Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Mediated Somatic Hypermutation
Nadia Khayat, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Impact of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Food Web: Low pH Alters Marine Invertebrate Behavior via Chemical Cue Reception Impairment and Drives Predation Rate
Katherine Kimball, History (HIST) 2023, Reflections in the Water: Placing Salt Lake Valley's Warm Springs in History
Samuel Kim, Statistics (STAT) 2023, Using Statistical Classification Methods to Predict Hits Using Statcast
Hannah Klein, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Uncensored Trans Desire: Overt Sexuality and Trans Identities in Contemporary Music
Aya Klos, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Evolution of the early nitrogen cycle in the face of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE): How transition metal abundances influenced the evolution of the modern nitrogen cycle
Elise Knutsen, Physics (PHYS) 2023, The Physics of Non-Volatile Solid State Memory
Falagbenne Kombate, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Place-Based Identities and Political Party Preferences: Urban and Rural Place Identities in Electorate Party Preferences & Federal Welfare Spending Attitudes
Joella Lai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Abstraction of Movement
Gabriela Lazo, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Baby (Not Quite) Sign Language: A Comparative Analysis of ASL and Baby Sign Language Complexity and Ideologies
Bryan Le, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Microbial Warfare in the Permafrost Front: How Direct & Indirect Competition Influence Bacterial Composition in Thawing Permafrost
Brad Lee, Economics (ECON) 2023, Local Zoning Laws: The Cause or The Cure to The Affordable Housing Crisis
Elise Lehman, Economics (ECON) 2023, Improving the Economic Position of American Women Through a Nationally Protected Abortion and Contraception Policy
Aashutosha Lele, Biology (BIOL) 2023, MicroRNAs Aid in Herpes Virus Latency: a Strategy for Immune Evasion
Olivia Lentz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Between God and Evil
Rhys Lewis, Economics (ECON) 2023, Does the Median Income of a Locality Have an Effect on the Degree to which its Food Needs are Addressed? Evidence from the Washington DC Area
Bowen Li, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, Magnus's Freiheitssatz: A lively introduction to Combinatorial Group Theory
Katrina Li, Cathy Guang, Matthew Smith-Erb, and Emanuel Linton, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Social Bot Detection
Amanda Lilienfeld, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Psychedelics as Rapid Relief for Psychiatric Symptoms in Terminal Palliative Care Patients
Felix Lion, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, Quantum Mechanical Treatment of Spin-1/2 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Emily Litton, Henrie Friesen, Alia Babinet, Wenlai Han, Viktor Chekhovoi, and Kelly McGucken, Computer Science (CS) 2023, GeoDE: An Interactive Web Tool for Carleton's Geothermal Data
Shannon Liu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, Generalization of Attention and Working Memory Skills from Cognition Training Games by Elderly Clients: Does Lumosity Really Work?
Walt Li, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Measuring Multidimensional Meaning in Life
Arianna Lone, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Dots & Loops
Emma Long, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Early Snowmelt and Phenological Mismatch Between Migratory Birds and Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Arctic and Alpine Environments
Maddy LoRusso, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Do dogs have an evolved and inherent advantage for social thinking? A test of cooperation between dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and humans (Homo sapiens)
Aliza Louis, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Bringing The Support Where it is Needed: Generalizability of the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools for Minority Youth
Amber Lozoya, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Hidden Failures: Mass Incarceration, U.S. Prisons, and its Effect on Reentry and Recidivism
Julia Luljak, English (ENGL) 2023, Allied with the Land: Recreating the Midwestern Woman in My Ántonia and A Thousand Acres
Emily Luna, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Untitled (family portrait collage)
Yumo Lu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Where Does the Train Go?
Kelly Lyons, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy as Treatment for Children with Social Anxiety Disorder
Emma MacArthur, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, If You're Not Reading This, Are Unicorns Real? The Truth Conditions of Indicative Conditionals with False Antecedents
Emma MacArthur, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2023, The Minds of Ghosts in Homer's Underworld
Riley Madsen, English (ENGL) 2023, “From the Point of View of Future History, This Kind, We’ll Be Invisible”: Approaches to History in Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Kalju Maegi, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Negotiating Worlds: The Reconstruction of Racial Identity in the Twin Cities' Somali Diasporic Community
Lane Maitland, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, Error Processing for Linear Block Codes
Lane Maitland, Statistics (STAT) 2023, The Effect of Elevated Carbon Dioxide Levels on Plant Mass: A Meta-Analysis
Sachit Mallya, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Impact of the Type of Loan Borrowed on Intrahousehold Financial Decision-Making: An Insight Into Female Entrepreneurship in India
Astrid Malter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, The Sixth Borough
Nicole Marsh, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Striking Out
Jack Mathieu, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, An Electrochemical Investigation of the Nonaqueous Copper Oxide Depositional System
Jack Mathieu, Geology (GEOL) 2023, Remote Sensing and Isotopic Analysis of Potential Zones of Groundwater Discharge in the Carleton College Arboretum
Maxwell, Religion (RELG) 2023, The Self, Spiritual Warfare, and Deliverance in the Work of Frank and Ida Mae Hammond
Clara Mayfield, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Impact of Methanogens on Climate Change: Improving our Understanding of Methanogenesis in Thawing Permafrost
Sam McCarthy, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Microbial degradation of PET plastic
Nadia McPherson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Deconstructing Nostalgic Configurations of Home: The German (Anti)Heimat Film
Sidra Michael, Art History (ARTH) 2023, Inventing a “Self”: An Exploration of the Self-Portraiture of Nicolas Poussin and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Suad Mohamed, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Impacts of Increasing Drought on the Functioning and Stability of the Grassland Soil Microbiome
Rylyn Monahan, Art History (ARTH) 2023, War, Art and Memory: The Tensions between Historical Accuracy and Mythmaking in the Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama
Sydney Mone, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effect of a Country’s Healthcare System on their Population’s COVID-19 Attitudes and Outcomes
Elena Morales-Grahl, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Vital Role of Microglia and Astrocytes in Synaptic Loss and Disruption in Alzheimer’s Disease
Noah L. Mueller, Tatiana Jimenez, Connor Grayzel, Ellie Vandel, Eledon Beyene, Meredith Klay, Michael Berler, Seraphel Grosser, and Weiland Wang, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, Detecting Diseases: Three Remarkable Biosensors
Anwesha Mukherji, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Impact of Climate Change on Juvenile Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar) Freshwater and Marine Juvenile Development
Charlotte Nahley, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Importance of F. prausnitzii and Butyrate Production in the Development of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Rehana Naik Olson, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Neuroplasticity, Sleep, and Recovery in the Adult Visual Cortex
Sam Nelson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, when the weather has been above freezing for a week I am going to buy baba ghanoush
Liora Newman, History (HIST) 2023, "We Have No Intention of Creating Another Chicago:" A Tactical Comparison of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Protests and Mayday 1971
Jake Oberg, Classics (CLST) 2023, Empowerment, Reversal, and Reunion: Examining Three Relationships in Supergiant Games' Hades
Brett Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Reasonably Rural: Non-Narrative in Print
Beck Page, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Role of Zoning in the Affordable Housing Crisis
Kanishk Pandey, Physics (PHYS) 2023, Exploring the Images of the James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 Billion Time Machine
Madeleine Parr, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Mothers and Monsters: Nationalism, Religious Extremism and Gender Norms
Kayla Passino, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, Beyond Learning Styles: Applying Cognitive Science in the Classroom
Cate Patterson, Biology (BIOL) 2023, All a-bat the UPRER: A Cellular Stress Response in Hibernating Bats
Georgia Paulig, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Literature Review and Analysis of Psychometric Properties
Sophie Perfetto, English (ENGL) 2023, Anthropocene
Astrid Petropoulos, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The “D”ebate: The Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Periodontal Disease
Ben Pham, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Influenza A mRNA splicing disrupts host mRNA splicing
Kevin Phung, Economics (ECON) 2023, How does the Federal Open Market Committee’s Press Conference affect various asset returns: A Machine Learning Approach
Michaela Polley, Rachel Ziems, Riley Madsen, Isaac Fried, Tia Ahmed, Michael Dreger, Andrea Ramos, and Raine Bernhard, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, Unpacking Algebra: 98 Lessons with Applications
Olivia Potter, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2023, Subjectivity of Success: Mexico's Prospera Program
Isabella Pozzi, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Role of Microglia and Tau in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology
Sophia Prichard, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Not So Silent: The influence of codon usage bias on gene expression
Sophia M. Quast, History (HIST) 2023, State-making and Abortion in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
Tyler Quitmeyer, Biology (BIOL) 2023, SRSF1 Enhances Splice Site Recognition through an ESE-Independent Mechanism
Joe Radinsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Getting Off: Uses and Expectations of Pornography Among LGBTQ+ College Students
Utsha Rai, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Subjective Nature of Optimality in Biology: Exploring Codon Usage Bias
Trent Ramirez, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Boric Effect: An Analysis on the Impact of Political Events on Chilean Stock Returns
Lora Randa, Biology (BIOL) 2023, [4Fe-3S] Clusters Mediate Oxygen Tolerance in [NiFe] Hydrogenases
Eleanor Reinhold, English (ENGL) 2023, "Equal As We Are": Female Self Worth in Pamela and Jane Eyre
Gabrielle Lindy Reynaga, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Novel Pharmacotherapies for Female Sexual Assault Survivors with PTSD Could Aid Research on Female Sexual Dysfunction
Scout Riley, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Valley Fever
Rhesel Rivera, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Upregulation of the UPR Signaling Pathway via IRE1⍺-XBP1 Splicing Favors ZIKV Infection and Maternal-Fetal ZIKV Transmission
Daven Rock, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Zika Virus Induced Downregulation of Tight Junctions and the Extracellular Matrix Disrupts Intercellular Integrity and Enhances Transplacental Pathogenesis
