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Graduated in 2013

Sam Nelson Espeland Carruthers, Economics (ECON) 2013, Buying the Green: A Hedonic Pricing Analysis of Hybrid Cars in the American Car Market

Sarah Elizabeth Carter, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Flavivirus-induced neuronal chemokine and cytokine signals: the signals’ effects on the immune system and host survival

Nora Kathleen Cassidy, History (HIST) 2013, The Front Page Farm Workers: The Relationship Between the United Farm Workers and the Print Media During the Delano Grape Strike of 1965-1970

Andrew Alan Chael, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Julissa Chavez, Biology (BIOL) 2013, A Molecular Mechanism of Estrogen‐Mediated Sex Bias in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Dylan Cheever, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Sound Symbolism's Role in Everyday Speech and Developing Languages

Julian Ray Childs-Walker, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Humpback Whales and Sharks: An Exploration of Biomimicry

Alexander Kyle Chin, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Organic Electronic Devices

Katherine Logan Claiborne, Economics (ECON) 2013, Coal, Education, and Per Capita Income in Kentucky Counties, 1969-2011

Rebecca Cogbill, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Is there a bed in embedding?: Processing of lexical embedding in multisyllabic words

Jacob Allan Cohn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, A Future Delayed? Ambitions and Obstacles in Modern Brazilian Foreign Policy

Jason Gabriel Cohn, Evan Robert Leibowitz, Eli F. Kamin, Daoji Huang, and Laurel Jeffers Orr, Computer Science (CS) 2013, StikiWikit: What's for you on Wikipedia?

Joseph Seamus Concannon, Religion (RELG) 2013, The Postmodern Re-formation: Mark C. Taylor and the Poetics of A/theology

Anna Helen Coonrod, Economics (ECON) 2013, Financing with the Stars: The Effects of Media on Financial Literacy and Financial Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Allison Cooperman, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Can Feeling Good Make Us Feel Good About Others? Positive Emotions and Their Effects on Negative Attitudes and Stereotype Application Towards Obesity

Cara Raye Coren, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Feeling and Thinking About Genocide: Primary and Secondary Photographic Representations of the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide

Grace Cormier and Melody Zhou, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Influence of Creativity Dimensions on Cognition and Advertising Effectiveness: Application for the Promotion of Pura Vida Healthy Lifestyle Program

Molly Elizabeth Curtiss, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Making Islam the Solution: The Influence of Islam on HIV Prevention and Treatment Programs

Iris Cutler, Art History (ARTH) 2013, Monstrous, Marvelous, Wondrous, and Strange: Humanoid Races and the Other on the Hereford Mappamundi

Jasmine Antonia Cutter, Karlie Linnea Haug, Madeleine Johanna Koski, and Emily Sheriff Rogers, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Sold on Solar? Perceptions of Solar Panels in Grand Canyon National Park: An Analysis of the Implementation of Renewable Energy Technologies in National Parks

Milan William Cvitkovic, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Self-Avoiding Random Walks

Zerrin Dagli, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, [Untitled]

Charles Robert Dale, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Evidence for the fast-­x effect, and faster-­x evolution of gene expression

Jack R. R. Davis, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, I am an Aspiring Actor

Eliza Henderson Dennis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Body Systems

Christopher Dana Densmore and Emily Altschul, Theater Arts (THEA) 2013, Macbeth [a Carleton Theater Arts performance]

Yuvika Diwan, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Decentralize Now, Recentralize Later: Institutional Change, Local Actors and Rural Development

Morgan Kay Dixon, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Antimatter

Cooper Dodds, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, She Found Them in the Woods

Megan Dolezal, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Creating Portraiture as an Act of Reflection and Friendship

Chantal Donahue, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, The influence of culture on recovery rates of schizophrenia: a comparison of sub-Saharan Africa and the West

Elaine Downie, Bee Lee, Brady Still, Adrienne Werth, Alex Lai, David Hanna, and Ted Harmon, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, From RNA to Loren Williams and Beyond: An RNA perspective of cations involvement in the evolution of life

Bridget Mary Doyle, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Zinc
 Finger 
Nucleases:
 The
 Key
 to 
CCR5 
Gene 
Disruption
 and
 Consequent 
HIV 
Eradication

Ellen Elizabeth Drews, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Decline of insect biodiversity due to nitrogen loading in grasslands: reduced plant diversity as a driver of consumer species loss

Peter Duggins, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Dictatorships for Dummies: Understanding Political Dynamics and Decision-Making in Authoritarian Regimes using an Agent-based Computational Model

Peter Duggins, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Physics of Fusion Power

Anne Elizabeth Duncan, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Xylem and Xylella fastidiosa: Understanding Infection and Resistance Through Vascular Tissue Development

Coleman Ray Durkin, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, [Untitled]

Dennis Ea, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Engineering T Cells with Cancer-specific T Cell Receptors: A Zinc-Finger Nuclease-based Therapy for Leukemia

Karen Marie Eash, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Engagement in social learning on a food-retrieval task by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus Oedipus)

Leah Ross Eby, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, You Don't See It How We See It: Somali Women's Perceptions of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Faribault, Minnesota

Daniel Michael Elder, Economics (ECON) 2013, How Has the University of Minnesota's New Stadium Affect Surrounding Housing Values

Brianna Jean Engelson, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Indirect Effects of HIV Tat on Neuronal Apoptosis Through Increased TNF-α Expression: Implications for HIV-Associated Dementia

Madeline Welker Epping, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Regulation of the Ferric Uptake Regulator through Extracellular Cell Wall Iron Storage Drives an Accumulation of Intracellular Iron during the Lag Phase of Staphylococcus aureus

Ellen Margaret Farnham, Thomas George Holmes, Gregory Harris Phillips, and Jonathan Daniel Hillis, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Building retrofits on campus: A case study of the comprehensive costs and benefits of improving energy efficiency at Carleton College

Molly Elizabeth Farry-Thorn, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Pubertal Gonadal Hormone Exposure Influences Paced Mating Behavior in Female Rats

Pedro J. Fernandez, English (ENGL) 2013, Melville's 'livid hieroglyph': the exhaustions of "Pierre"

Sarah Marie Ferrari, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Psychological Differences between Traditional Healing and Western Therapeutic Practices in Africa

Joseph Daniel Fishman and Matthew Benjamin Spevack, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, A White Suit

Gabrielle Keating Flamm, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The crossroad of TLR signaling, interferon induction, and CD8+ T cell priming in the prevention of herpes simplex encephalitis

Monica Lee Fleisher, English (ENGL) 2013, It's Perfectly Normal: Surveillance, Authority, and Virginity Loss Narratives in Young Adult Fiction

Hannah Marie Folz, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Spatial Inquiries

Christopher David Frills, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Lowering the recidivism rates of sex offenders: A legal and cross-cultural analysis of sex crime in the United States and the Czech Republic

Francesca Giovanna Garcia, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Resolving lexical polysemy: "with" corpora & collocations

Maria D. Garcia, Biology (BIOL) 2013, rom WAT to BAT: Regulation of PGC-1alpha as a Potential Therapeutic Approach for the Treatment of Metabolic Diseases

Jessica Meghan Gick, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Using the Present to Decode the Past: Phylogeography Reveals the Origin and Extent of Early Quaternary Migrations Following Deglaciation of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in Extant Pacific Northwestern Mammals

Tyler Randall Goetz, Economics (ECON) 2013, Role of the Border Effect in the Failure of the Law of One Price

Scott Lewis Graber, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Words and Rules, Les Mots et Les Regles: The Dual Mechanism Model of Morphology in French

Brooke Dianne Granowski, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, The diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid

Brooke Dianne Granowski, Religion (RELG) 2013, Wholly Other, Other Holies: Rudolf Otto's Religious Pluralism in Conversation with Contemporary Religious Studies Criticism

Rebecca Lang Greenstein, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The RORA Story: One Gene's Potential to Explain the Sex Bias in Autism

Elise Corinne Gurney, Economics (ECON) 2013, Determining the Impacts of Local Food Movements on Large-Scale Trade Patterns for Agricultural Goods in the United States

Yonas Tensae Hailu, History (HIST) 2013, Charles Haddon Spurgeon: The Formation of a Preacher in 19th Century England

Rafadi Hakim, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Countless Ramayanas: Language and Cosmopolitan Belonging in a South Asian Epic

Kelsey Han, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, How We Make Meaning: The Mental Representation of Concepts in Cognitive Science

Andy Hardt, Pete McNeely, Tung Nguyen Viet Phan, and Justin M. Troyka, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Combinatorial Species and Graph Enumeration

Keenan Thomas Hartert, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Y so Deleterious? The Destructive Evolution of the Mammalian Y Chromosome and its Path to Salvation

Marlena Sara Hartman-Filson, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Perpetuation of Human Homosexuality: A Darwinian Paradox?

Edward Fitzgerald Heckman, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Female Pubertal Timing: Possible interactions in the Kiss1/GPR554 System Leading to Precocious Puberty

Laura Katherine Henry, American Studies (AMST) 2013, I run to be sexy. I run to be strong. : Representations of Gender Difference in American Women's Running Culture

Koua Her, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Silent Freedom

Tamarae Marie Hildebrandt, Linguistics (LING) 2013, An Examination of Turkish Scrambling in Single Wh-phrase Constructions

Tamarae Marie Hildebrandt, German (GERM) 2013, For Better or Worse in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna

Paul Steven Hoffer, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, The China Problem: A Power Transition Analysis of the Rise of China

Devin Walsh Holewinski, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Trojan Horse in Manhattan: The High Line, Post Industrial Mega Projects, and the Neoliberalization of Urban Development

Ian Henry Hollyer, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Sex Specific Organization of Estrogen Receptors and the Sex Bias of Parkinson's Disease

Elizabeth Rachel Holohan, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, 318 East Sixth Street

Rebeca Ann Hulme, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Ruins, Decay, and Identity

Mallika Jayaraman, Daniel Eric Ackerman, Phillip Peter Juda, and Alex Todd Waltz, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Fueling the Future: Impacts of Climate Change and Land Use on the Economic Viability of Second Generation Biofuels

Elliott Gray Johnson, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Adult but Not Pubertal Ovarian Hormones Lead to Elevated Male Partner Preference in the Female Rat

William Christopher Johnston, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Focus, Too, and Conjunction, Too: The Syntax and Semantics of Japanese mo-Coordination

Tabatha Darline Jones, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Commemorating Memory: an Exploration of Connections

Phillip Peter Juda, Economics (ECON) 2013, Are Public Utilities Really Greener?

Satchel M. Kaplan-Allen, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Dollars for Democracy Evaluating the Effectiveness of Democratic-Governance Aid as a US Foreign Policy Strategy

Laura Danielle Karson, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Urban Science Education in the United States: Developing Lesson Plans to Overcome Misconceptions

Sam Edward James Kavanaugh, American Studies (AMST) 2013, The Minneapolis Zombie Pub Crawl: Community in Costume

Daisuke Kenneth Kenneth Kawachi, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Self Sacrifice and Sexuality in the Cinema of Lars Von Treir

Elizabeth Berhe Kelati, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, A Comparative Review of Western Versus African Reactions to Traumatic Events and Treatments for Post Traumatic Stress

Scott Patrick Kelly, Art History (ARTH) 2013, Feininger's Germany, Feininger's New York

Joshua Nathan Kirschenbaum, English (ENGL) 2013, Freak Show Stories

Jonathan Shigeo Kittaka, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Even Alive

Rachael Elizabeth Klehm, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Value-Action Gap in Hybrid Vehicle Purchases: Implications for Restructuring Institutions to Promote Sustainable Consumption

Madeleine Johanna Koski, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Seeing Through a Lens

Stephanie Nicole Kravitz, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Let's Talk About Sex, Baby: The Role of Gonadal Hormones in Bipolar Mood Cycling

Taylor J. LaCasse, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Using a coarse-grained conglomerate to investigate lateral offset along the Leavenworth Fault Zone, North Cascades, Washington

Anton Ledesma and Eduardo Motino, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Pathological gambling as a non-substance based addition: the product of maladaptive learning and pathology of motivation

Edith Elizabeth Elizabeth Lee, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, The Quality of Reality

Fue Lee, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Playing Politics at Sea: Comparative Case Studies of China's Offshore Territorial Disputes

Evan Robert Leibowitz, Linguistics (LING) 2013, The Verbhood of Mandarin ba and its Role in Resultative Constructions

Alice Lee Leno, Economics (ECON) 2013, Sources of Competition among Micro Finance Institutions: Political Institutions and Openness