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Graduated in 2012

 

Melissa M. Terrien, English (ENGL) 2012, Blinded by Prejudice and Unpardonable Arrogance: The Culpable Readers of Pride and Prejudice and Emma

 

Catherine Amelia Clare Townes, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The effects of Conspecificity and familiarity on social learning in cotton-top tamarins (saguinus oedipus)

 

Hannah Casey Trees, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN), Religion (RELG) 2012, The Paradox of Existential Theology: A Critical Analysis of Søren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich

 

David Tullis, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2012, Masked Identity: Reinventing Tradition Through Lágbájá’s Musical Performance

 

Erik Skidmore VanDis, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Zinc-finger nucleases targeted to CCR5: A gene-based therapy to treat HIV-1 infection

 

Angus Anson Vaughan, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Paleomagnetic data from 1.1 Ga Osler Group basalt flows on Simpson Island, Ontario: Evidence for rapid plate motion of Laurentia in the late Mesoproterozoic

 

MacEagon Benjamin Voyce, Music (MUSC) 2012, Postminimalism, Moment Form

 

Lor Vue, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Cues and Personality: How Valid are Using Cues to Judge Someone's Personality?

 

Turner Gambill Wadington, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The effect of β-amyloid injection on different remembered aspects of the Morris Water Maze in rats

 

Katherine Rachel Wahl, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Immunomodulatory Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A promising new treatment approach for type-1 diabetes mellitus

 

Robert Petschek Wakeley, Music (MUSC) 2012, An Analysis of Robert Muczynski's Sonata, op. 14, for Flute and Piano

 

Alex Earl Walker, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Effects of a 1970 restoration planting on soil in the Carleton College Lower Arboretum, Northfield, MN

 

David Paul Walker, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Modulatory Role of the Nucleus Accumbens in Placebo Analgesia

 

Jolene K. Walter, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Power of the Story: How the Way We Talk About Our Experiences Shapes the Way We Remember Them

 

Ari Jacob Warshawsky and Kayla Jo Kramer, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, An Investigation of Why Mere Thoughts of Money Buffer Feelings of Social Exclusion

 

Peter Dulsky Watkins, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Under the Chinese Sun: Convergent Trajectories of Growth in Southeast Asia

 

Molly Ann Watters and Peter James Kerns, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Urban forest inequality: Assessing the distribution of trees and their services across Twin Cities neighborhoods

 

Nick Welna, History (HIST) 2012, Black Mondays: A Turning Point in Memphis's Civil Rights Movement

 

George Robert Wheeler, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The Impacts of Defensive Traits on Plants' Mutualistic Interactions

 

Nina Millicent Whitney, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Geochemical analysis of Tertiary dikes emplaced in the Hrafnfjordur central volcano, northwest Iceland: Implications for dike origin

 

Griffin Arthur Williams, Geology (GEOL) 2012, The effect of annual cover crop growth on soil moisture of a temperate Minnesota Mollisol

 

Johanna Marie Marie Williams, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Cleaning up America [essay] , Uncharted Territories [video]

 

Abby Wills, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Are Funnier People Healthier People? Reviewing the Relationship Between Humor and Health

 

Alex William Wirta, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Myostatin Inhibition: a Potential Target for Attenuating the Effects of Obesity

 

Heather Yang, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Give Me or Else: Power Dynamics in Food Sharing by Tamarin Monkey Breeding Pairs

 

Zheyue Yang, Chemistry (CHEM) 2012, Quantum Tunneling and Its Manifestations in Atomic and Molecular Processes

 

Rochelle Zheng, Linguistics (LING) 2012, The Acquisition of Sound Symbolism in Japanese

 

Tristan Allen Zimmerman, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Ecological Interactions With Ant-Plant Defensive Mutualisms

 

Margaret Mackenzie Mackenzie Zimmer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Self-Reflexivity through Form and Character in "Broken Embraces" [essay], Branded [installation]

Graduated in 2011

 

Katlynn Z. Adkin, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Maternal behavior and the mesolimbic dopamine pathway

 

Sam Althauser, Grace Cooper, Dan Cremons, Sophie Hines, Andrew Hooker, Duncan Olsen, and Samantha Leigh Thompson, Chemistry (CHEM) 2011, The Role of Past Ocean Processes in Abrupt Climate Change: Secrets Held by Deep-Sea Corals and Sediments

 

Adam Anderson, Asian Studies (ASST) 2011, Miko in Japan: Female Shaman Power Lost?

 

Jacob Lee Anderson, Physics (PHYS) 2011, The Physics of Baseball

 

Todd S. Anderson, English (ENGL) 2011, Just Because There's Pieces Doesn't Mean It's a Puzzle

 

Elizabeth Arakaki, Conrad Dean, Steven Holley, Henry Keiter, and Nathan Riemer, Computer Science (CS) 2011, Syncronicity [sic]

 

Zack Paul Armstrong, History (HIST) 2011, Tacitus' and Suetonius' Concern for the Roman Social Hierarchy

 

Edwin A. Avalos, Linguistics (LING) 2011, Nasal Spreading in Theory

 

Ryan Joseph Babbush, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Quantum Molecular Dynamics

 

Ryan Joseph Babbush, Grant Bowen, Kevin Cannady, Martin Granick, and James McMenimen, Chemistry (CHEM) 2011, Surface Charaterization by Raman Spectroscopy

 

Cory Pate Barnes, Michael Phan Knudson, and Thomas William McCauley, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, PDE Solutions and Cauchy-Riemann Geometry

 

Miki Annette Beavis, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Soil Erosion Risk Assessment near Archaeological Sites in Grevena, Northwestern Greece using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and GIS

 

Nathan Dressler Bech, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2011, Virtus and Disciplina in the Roman Army

 

Amy Becker, Lillian Naomi Betke-Brunswick, and Anna Zink, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, Plane partitions

 

Austin Blair Bell, History (HIST) 2011, From Guild Life to Guilded Age: Birmingham, Liverpool, and Urban History at the Dawn of Urban Modernity

 

Lia Carolyn Bendix, French (FREN) 2011, The Decolonization of Education in Mali

 

Andrew Thomas Bergman, Akinboye Ibiyemi Akinwande, Mary Elizabeth Cross, and Veronica Tan, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, Tic-Tac-Toe with a Twist

 

Peter A. Berg, Religion (RELG) 2011, Examining the Knowledge of Ibn al'Arabi

 

Ethan Levitan Bernstein, Spanish (SPAN) 2011, Jewish Identities in the Spanish Civil War

 

Lillian Naomi Betke-Brunswick, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Kinematic modeling of dike deformation near the Husavik-Flatey fault, Flateyjarskagi, Iceland

 

Jinai Adil Bharucha, Political Science (POSC) 2011, Policy Reform in the United States: What Works? A Case Study of Health Care

 

Tim Bielecki, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Male Response to Prostaglandin F2α Components of Female Postovulatory Pheromone in Cyprininae Fish

 

Carter Biewen, Biology (BIOL) 2011, A workout for your cells: Exercise as a means of preventing and treating cancer

 

Narula Bilik, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Laser-Based 3D Printing Technology

 

Mohd Yusoff Jabir Bin, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Felt Misunderstanding and Motivation: Differences between East Asians and European Americans

 

Michael Bonin, Chris Choo, Sara Doyle, Caitlin Dole, Sarah Duane, Jeremy Grevet, and Liz Hecht, Chemistry (CHEM) 2011, A Sweet Biomarker: Asparagine-Linked Glycosylation

 

Anne Lightfoot Boucher, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Analysis of geomorphic evidence for a late Wisconsinan alpine glaciation in the Adirondack High Peaks region, New York

 

Katie Lynn Boudreaux, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Perceptual Categorization in Pigeons: Closed vs Open Geometric Shapes

 

Eric Brenner, Daniel Ehrenberg, Paul Maple Carpenter, Aaron McCarty, and Travis Raines, Computer Science (CS) 2011, HOOT! an optical character recognition system [Project: Text Recognition in Images]

 

Stephanie Lee Brogdon, Studio Art (ARTS) 2011, Untitled

 

Louise Catherine Buckler, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Tiger Woods Effect: An Analysis of Tournament Performance When Competing Against a Superstar

 

Beth Rachel Budnick, Political Science (POSC) 2011, A Door to Opportunity? Comparing Program Design and Outcomes of Three Residential Mobility Policies in the U.S.

 

Sophie Maya Bushwick, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Graphene

 

Elizabeth A. Cannon, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Plug-In Vehicles: The Future of Transportation

 

Javier Caride, Philosophy (PHIL) 2011, An Objective Concern: The Underlying Subjectivity of Foot's Natural Normativity

 

Paul Maple Carpenter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, All Ears

 

Alexander Slocum Carruthers, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock: The Industrial Model of Authorship

 

Walton Chan, Economics (ECON) 2011, What Motivates CEOs to Work Harder for the Shareholders in the IT Industry?

 

Emily Cogsdill, Music (MUSC) 2011, Discussions, Developments, and Reflections on Musical Analytical Techniques for the Study of Rap Music

 

Emily Cogsdill and Emily Snyder, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The effects of laughter on pain tolerance using a cold-pressor task

 

Peter James Cormier, Chemistry (CHEM) 2011, The Glutathionylation of α-Ketoglutarate Dehydrogenase and Mitochondrial Complex I: A Possible means of Redox Regulation within the Mitochondria

 

John Murray Cossette, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The evolutionary impact of range expansion: implications for the study of invasive species

 

Benjamin Lawrence Cotts, Anna Gallagher, Kaz Skubi, Ken Ellis-Guardiola, Alex Schefter, Eric Manley, and Nolly Gibbs, Chemistry (CHEM) 2011, Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H and C-C Activation: How Hydrocarbons Go Boom, Gracefully

 

Gabriel Talbot Davis, Aaron Maurer, and Julie Michelman, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, An Open Problem in the Combinatorics of Macdonald Polynomials

 

John Jerome IV Davis, Chemistry (CHEM) 2011, Solar Hydrogen from Nanostructured Titanium Dioxide Photoelectrochemical Cells

 

Marjorie May Dixon, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Native evolution in response to exotic invasives: a potential check on invasive growth

 

Nathan Vincent Doremus, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Hypersexuality: A Neurobiological Look at Sexual Addiction

 

James Michael Dreese, English (ENGL) 2011, The Incandescent Nooks and Crannies of the Bound or Completely Infinite Universe

 

Nora Murnane Driscoll, Chinese (CHIN) 2011, The Facade of the Cities: Women as allegory in Chinese Film

 

Alexandra Sarah Dunn, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The effects of exercise on the overactive TLR4 signaling associated with obesity-induced insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

 

Sarah G. Durant, French (FREN) 2011, Racaille et République: Le pouvoir du langage aux émeutes françaises

 

Bradley John Eckelmann, Physics (PHYS) 2011, The Problem of Radiation Exposure in Manned Space Missions

 

Marlene K. Edelstein, Religion (RELG) 2011, In Search of Tamar: An Investigation of Feminist Interpretations of 2 Samuel 13

 

Samantha Anne Ellerbeck, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, From Italy to Holland: the Mother's Spectrum

 

Kelley Jane England, American Studies (AMST) 2011, Education through Exploration: A Case Study of Children, Science, and the Environment Culminating in an Alternative Approach to Elementary Education

 

Ellen Huiskamp Esch, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Novelty in Biological Invasion: Disrupting Co-­Evolutionary History

 

Ellen Huiskamp Esch, Kelsea Lanae Dombrovski, and Sydney Lian Weydemeyer, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2011, Motivating Enrollment: Rice County Landowners in the Conservation Reserve Program

 

Alex John Evangelides, Samuel Vaughn Tucker, Mary Ellen Bushman, and Nathan Mark King, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, The Combinatorics of Symmetric Functions: (3 + 1)-free Posets and the Poset Chain Conjecture

 

Kittle Keely Evenson, History (HIST) 2011, Independence Through Immigration?: The Experience of German Women in German Southwest Africa, 1896-1914

 

Hannah Elizabeth Fariss, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Lateral variability in a transgressive systems tract of the Mazomanie Formation at the Boomsite, Stillwater, MN: Evidence for estuarine deposition?

 

Myla Fay, American Studies (AMST) 2011, Paradox in the American Desert: The Salton Sea

 

Mollie Frances Feldman, Philosophy (PHIL) 2011, Continuous Group Identity in a Changing World

 

Stephen Paul Ferber, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Meditation's effect on the brain: A neurobiological analysis

 

Avi B. Fine, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Unconventional and Understudied Benefits of Prayer: Investigating the Effects of Prayer on Attention

 

Matthew S. Fink, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Chinese Policy-Making Through the Lens of Health Care Delivery: Who's in Charge Here?

 

Christian Benjamin Foster, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Human Deception and Cognitive Development with Regard to Theory of Mind

 

David Matthew French, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes: Fuel for Quasars

 

Meghan Niketa Gajare, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment Regulations on Economic Growth in Developing Countries

 

Stefan Garrido-Shaqfeh, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Cocaine's affect on dopamine releasing neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area beyond the "DAT-is-it" theory, with a focus on changes in cellular dynamics and membrane protein makeup.

 

Jacqueline Lee Gauer, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Exploring the Relationship Between Self-Verification and Authenticity in Friendships

 

Theodore Malone Gelderman, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Chronic impacts following oil spills : rethinking ecological disturbance