Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2012
Emily Jo Hartley, English (ENGL) 2012, I Saw and Do Not Believe: Perspective and the Changing Role of Objectivity in John Steinbeck's Nonfiction
Ben Hellerstein, American Studies (AMST) 2012, Building the Streetcar City: The West Seventh Neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Role of Transportation in Creating Place
Lauren Maria Hickman, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2012, How Cognitive is Cognitive Therapy?
Hannah Louise Hilbert-Wolf, Geology (GEOL) 2012, A U/Pb detrital zircon provenance study of the flysch of the Paleogene Orca Group, Chugach-Prince William Terrane, Alaska
Laura Allison Hockenbury, Geology (GEOL) 2012, The Way of the Arun: Interdependent Intricacies of Stream Chemistry in the Nepal Himalayas
Isaac A. Hodes, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Counting Below the Curve: Combinatorial Proofs of Integral Formulas
Ian Holmen, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Mature IGF-1 precursor isoforms have varying roles in skeletal muscle myogenesis
Camille Monika Hommeyer, English (ENGL) 2012, Language and Representation in Patricia Grace's Novels
Jonathan Scofield Hughes, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: The Happiness of the Katakuris [essay], Iron Mountain [project]
Matthew Robert Hunter, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, What Would You Have Done? Examining the Role of Empathy in Assessments of Responsibility
Irene Gilbert Hussey, Owen Scott McMurtrey, and Amelia Jane Harris, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Buffalo for a Broken Agricultural System: Land-Use Intensity of the Bison Meat Industry from Montana to Indiana
Nicholas Alexander Ickovic, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, What Could Modal Claims Be
Jonathan Sol Isaac, English (ENGL) 2012, Not only what is, but what is possible: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as a Site of Debate
Hannah Neora Blum Jensen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Mistaken Identity? The Fabrication of Truth in The Lady from Shanghai and the Star Image of Rita Hayworth [essay], Last [video]
Anya Elaine Johnson, Adrian Trunzo, Max Rush Lerner, Stephen Thomas Grabowski, and Michael William Groeneman, Computer Science (CS) 2012, IPA: Internet Personal Assistant
Evan Michael Johnson, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Assessment of the Effects of Four Small Bridge Abutments on the Stability of the Banks of the Cannon River in the Cowling Arboretum, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Nicole Ji-Hae Johnson, Classics (CLST) 2012, The Consequences of Self-Sacrifice: Betrayal in the Passion of Perpetua and the Alcestis
Traci Lin Johnson, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Type Ia Supernovae
Erin Michael Jones, Erika Denise Mackin, and Kian Anton Flynn, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Voting Theory and Cake Cutting
YeJi Jun, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Ready, set ... Go!
Leah R. E. Justin-Jinich, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Be Not Ashamed, women...You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
Leah R. E. Justin-Jinich, Asian Studies (ASST) 2012, Ono no Komachi Iconography in Ukiyo-e: Satire, Sex & Social Rebellion
Brian Thomas Kaletka, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Priming Induced Defense Against Herbivory and its Effects on Plant Fitness and Community Composition
Beserat Berhe Kelati, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Political Polarization in the Eritrean Diaspora
Samuel Steven Keller, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Wireless Energy Transfer
Brian Thomas Kempers, Cody Finke, Katherine France, Ernesto Llano, Kenneth Lum, Erik Olson, and Melody Zhou, Chemistry (CHEM) 2012, DNA, I hear you're single: How single-molecule techniques elucidate DNA replication
Peter James Kerns, Religion (RELG) 2012, Voluntary Poverty: Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin's Program for Social Revolution
Angela Hye-Jee Kim, Biology (BIOL) 2012, UCP2 Mediation of the Warburg Effect in Chemoresistant Cancers
Seohyun Kim, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Difficulty of gestalt processing in high functioning vs. low functioning autistic individuals
Davis Tower Kingsley, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Potential Bayesian Improvements to Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology Research
Adriane Sara Kisch-Hancock, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Appearance and credibility: How does one's apparel affect his or her perceived trustworthiness and assigned fine in a criminal setting?
Djem Ulian Kissiov, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Epigenetic Basis of Cocaine Addiction: Chromatin-Mediated Differential Gene Expression in the Dopaminergic Reward Pathway
Rachel Shizue Kittaka, American Studies (AMST) 2012, Teaching Japanese American Incarceration: A Curricular History from 1968 to the Present
Micah Reed Koller, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Fundamentals of Neutron Star Formation, Structure, and Composition
Alexander Samuel Korsunsky, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Lo autentico y lo moderno y me encantan los dos: Tourism as Tradition in Highland Peru
Minty Kunkel, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The History and Physics of the Point-Contact Transistor
Damir Kurtagic, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, The Compatibility of Islamic Theology and the Democratic Process of Reasoned Discourse
Clara Frances Labadie, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Magic and Imagination at Play in Formal Gardens
William Henderson Ladner, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Expectation-Driven Placebo Analgesia
Gnagna Lam, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of School Quality on House Values
Sylvie Mei-Cheong Lam, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Eating Beauty: An exploration of eating disorders through ceramic vessels
Julia Anne Larson, Linguistics (LING) 2012, SignWriting for American Sign Language: From Phoneme to Poem
Chelsea Elizabeth Lau, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Good Things Come to Those Who Expect Them: Neurobiological mechanisms of placebo analgesia
Katarina Diehl Lazo, English (ENGL) 2012, Adaptation/Interpretation: Lois Lowry's The Giver on Stage
Kyle Morgan Leichter, Physics (PHYS) 2012, Advanced Prosthetics
Jonathan Marshall Lien, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of a Rule Change on the Strategies of NFL Return Teams
Min Yao Lim, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Physics of Food & Cooking: A Discourse on Three Courses
Nancy Kay Liu, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Heart of Cell Regeneration
Amelia Marie Llorens, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2012, Beyond Bodies: Responding to Disability and Difference
Paulina Lopez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, This Is How You Remind Me, Of What I Really Am
Hannah C. Lucal, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Recognizing: Repetition for Reflection on Gender-Based Violence
Elizabeth Anne Lundstrom, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Variations in hydrothermal chloride flux in the area of ongoing uplift west of South Sister volcano, Oregon
Kristin Kay Lunz, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Painting and Animation: A combination of mediums
Dana Brieger Mackey, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Multicultural Tokenism: The Strategic Marketing of Urban Diversity in the Cultural Tourism Industry
Colin Jared Mahaffey, History (HIST) 2012, A Still Small Voice: The Importance of Silence in John Climacus's Ladder of Divine Ascent
Anne Isabel Mark, History (HIST) 2012, Edward VI, The Forgotten Defender: Reclaiming the Religious Authority of the Last Tudor King
Casey Tova Markenson, English (ENGL) 2012, Fall, Falling, Fallen: Suspending 9/11 Through Literature
Sarah Rebecca Marks, Geology (GEOL) 2012, A potential terrane boundary within the Wyoming Province along the Yellowstone River shear zone in northern Yellowstone National Park, USA
Matthew Christopher Matsunaga, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Adeno-associated viral vectors: turning agents of disease into agents of healing in hemophilia B
Jessica Lynn McCormick, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, A Review of Cognitive Biases in Individuals with Disordered Eating Patterns
Ailsa Elizabeth Caroline McCulloch, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Using a Natural Tidal Slug to Determine the Hydraulic Conductivity of Wetland Soils in the Palo Alto Baylands, San Francisco Bay
Kellan David McLemore, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Effects of Climate Change on the Role Bark Beetles Play in the Carbon Cycle
Anne Edith Metcalf, English (ENGL) 2012, “Threat’ning the World:” The Achievement of Subversion through Speech and Structure in Three Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Laura Rose Michel, History (HIST) 2012, 'Unhappy Children of Iniquity': The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in the Anglo-Atlantic World
Caroline Aurelia Rosenfeld Millington, History (HIST) 2012, I Have Not Written As I Felt Like I Should: Late 19th-Century Mormon Eschatology and the Construction of Identity in Daily Narrative
Robert L. Mills, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
William Robert Moritz, Economics (ECON) 2012, Age and Performance on the PGA Tour
James Lu Morrissey, Chinese (CHIN) 2012, Issues Affecting Modern Chinese Youth: Globalization as Depicted in Five Chinese Films
Amy Strauss Murdoch, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Do Immediate Contextual Cues Affect Ways of Knowing?
Kristine Nachbor, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Manipulation of gene expression: controlling dopaminergic neuronal reward pathways through optogenetic regulation
Elizabeth Reines Nachman, Hannah Rose Heavenrich, and Ryan Raymond Noe, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Valuing the ecosystem services of low-input, high-diversity prairie as a biofuel feedstock in southern Minnesota
Daniel Isaac Nathan, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Is L8r A Word? Semantic Priming In Electronic Communication Shortcuts
Ava Therese Litton Navasero, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The chicken or the egg, which came first? Insulin resistance and mitochondrial dysfunction in Type II diabetes induce skeletal muscle atrophy.
Raymond R. Nelson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Dominant Ideologies of the Puerto Rican Nation: Locating blackness and racism on the island
Gwendolyn Marie Neumeister, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Hozho Nahasdlii: Beauty Has Come Again--An Examination of Dine Cultural Knowledge and Definitions of Preservation on the Navajo Nation Today
Hai Hoang Ngo, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, The Relationship Theory & Finally Valuable Relationships: A Discussion on Love and its Reasons
Molly Claire Nichols, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Neural Foundations for Sensory Processing Abnormalities in Autism: The Weak Central Coherence Account versus the Intense World Theory
Kayla Rose Nygaard, Biology (BIOL) 2012, From dam to pup: The epigenetic modification of maternal care across generations
True Overholt and David Weidner Williams, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Cultural and economic components of the country of origin effect: Advertisement evaluations for goods and services among multicultural individuals
Veronica Leigh Pena, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Effect of 17 beta-estradiol on an Object Recognition Task in Alzheimer's Induced Rats
Mallory Catherine Pernell, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Effects of Stigma on Individuals With Schizophrenia
Emily Brook Petroff, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Physics of the Interstellar Medium
Susan Pham, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Altered Calcium Homeostasis is Responsible for Non-Normal Aging and Dementia
Patrick Philley, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of Professional Sports Franchise Relocations on Local Employment
Sarah Jane Pinkham, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, Duties to Ecosystems
Samantha Elizabeth Pivetz, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2012, Privileged Executions: The Vestal Interment Ritual in Ancient Rome
Kaitlin Elena Elena Randolph, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS Comps 2012: A Carefully Conceived Sunrise (essay), One Bench (video)
Elise Paige Rasmussen, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Revitalizing a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Is Social Organization Possible?
Daniel John Read, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Between Tigers and People: The Political Ecology of Protectionist Conservation in the Melghat Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India
Arielle Rose Rebek, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Home
Robin Sarah Reich, History (HIST) 2012, There is no contagion, there is no evil portent: Arabic Responses to Plague and Contagion in the Fourteenth Century
Diedre Faye Reitz, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Critically examining our understanding of cancer metabolism: Evidence for the reverse Warburg effect?
Tasha Wei Rhoads, Owen Donald Alldritt, and Danny Mills Forman, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Choosing Luck: The Effects of Luck and Choice on Performance
Kathleen Hagan Roberts, Classics (CLST) 2012, Cybele Rocks: The Elemental Nature of the Anatolian Mother Goddess
Elena Patrice Rosenberg-Carlson and Emily Bliss Houser, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Modeling Food Security in Kenya: Interactions Between Neoliberal Policy Reforms, Environmental Factors, and Food Security
Kelsey Elizabeth Ross, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Coral reefs and algal states: phase shifts and feedbacks in a changing world
Theodore Isaac Rostow, Political Science (POSC) 2012, A Task without Anger: On-the-Ground Learning and Counterinsurgency
James Rothschild, Religion (RELG) 2012, Mount Moriah Revisited: In search of a viable contemporary Jewish ethical reading of the Akedah
Lily J. Sacharow, History (HIST) 2012, Contingent Liberty: Congressional Unanimity in the Making of the Declaration of Independence
Noah B. Sapse, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Unplanned Obsolescence
