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Graduated in 2012

Emmamarie Catherine Haasl, History (HIST) 2012, Late Medieval Popular Rebellion and Redress in 1553: Religious and Secular Origins in the English Commons

Jonathan Hahn, Rebecca Cordes, and Collin Hazlett, Mathematics (MATH) 2012, Visualizing the Hecke Group: Fractions and Wallpaper Symmetry in Hyperbolic Space

Juventina Joan Hahn and Carolyn Hanrahan, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Romantic Relationships and Emerging Social Media

Kevin M. Hallman, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Limit of Moore's Law: Transistor Scaling in the 21st Century

Michael Omar Hanna, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Mindfulness Impact on Empathy: An Examination of Empathy using the Cognitive Theory of Emotion

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