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Graduated in 2013

 

Eric William Leppink, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Depression and the negative feedback loop: What happens when our support systems are not supportive?

 

Dania RL Lerman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Friends: Fall 2012

 

Ellen Claire Levine, English (ENGL) 2013, What's the Point? The Purpose of Storytelling in Plato, Milton, Douglass, and Rushdie and Madness! Physical and Emotional Readings in The Blindfold and The Master and Margarita

 

Sofia Cordova Levinson, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Use of Experimenter Body Orientation by Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in a Choice Task

 

Erin Marie Lewis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Patterning on Wood Fired Ceramics

 

Fay Xiao Li, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effects of Oil Price Shocks on Domestic Oil Firms and Alternative Energy Firms: an Event Study of the Persian Gulf War

 

Fay Xiao Li, Elicia Cousins, Marianna Zapanta, and Claire Karban, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2013, Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk, Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience

 

Jens Richard Lillehei, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of Corruption and Government Institutions on the Size of Microfinance

 

Kyung Soo Liu, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Korean Vowel Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Account

 

Yurui Liu, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Balassa-Samuelson Effect and Cross-Regional Labor Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe

 

Alexandra Long, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in the Intestinal Epithelium: A New Model for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

 

Erin Ramirez Lopez, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Sex-Brain Plasticity: Altering the Theory of Permanence

 

Marisa Luck, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Friend or foe? Regulatory T cells in viral infections of the CNS

 

Veronica Elaine Lynn, Jack Mullaney, Rebecca Gelles, Ian Heinzman, Alex Kuntz, and Donny Mellstrom, Computer Science (CS) 2013, Angry Words: An Automated Crossword Solver

 

Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Generalized Cantor Sets: The Size and The Contents

 

Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada, Economics (ECON) 2013, Resource Discovery Announcements: The Pre-Dutch-Disease Syndrome

 

Dhilhan Umayanga Marasinghe, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Biology of a Sexy Chromosome: Implications of syntenic mapping on the evolution of sex chromosomes

 

Barbara Marchevsky, Economics (ECON) 2013, State of New York, et. al. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: An Event Analysis of Impact on the Nuclear Industry

 

Kyle Samuel Markwalter, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2013, And He Walks with Me: Scripture and Recall in the Confessions

 

Kyle Samuel Samuel Markwalter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Fathers of Cinema: Catholicism in Capra, Scorsese, and Coppola

 

Daniel Pierce Pierce McAlister, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Zeke's Quest

 

Michael James McClellan, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Synthesis of Co(en)3 and Co(diNOsar): Improving an Undergraduate Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

 

David Risberg McNeil, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, The Mirror of Nonexistence: Evaluating Lucretius's Symmetry Argument

 

Schuyler Van Antwerp Metcalf, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Geochemsitry of Twin Sisters Creek dike swarm, Fort Bayard, New Mexico: Evidence for low angle subduction of the Farallon plate during the Laramide Orogeny

 

Adam Michael Miller, Economics (ECON) 2013, Are There Any Economic Benefits To Drinking? A Macro Study of Alcohol's Effects on Education, Income, and Life Expectancy

 

David Roger Miller, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Vision

 

Claire Angela Milsted, Biology (BIOL) 2014, Biotic and Abiotic Factors Influence Phosphorus Limitation in Tropical Forests

 

Elliot Griffith Mitchell, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Of Death and Democracy: Mortality Salience Effects in the 2012 Presidential Election

 

Anna Morrison, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Mapping Black Identity: An Examination of the African American Cultural Landscape in Detroit

 

Jessica Francine Morrison, Theater Arts (THEA) 2013, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

 

Megan Whitney Morrison, Spanish (SPAN) 2013, “Sólo lo que imaginamos es posible”: El arte de Francisco de Goya y Miguel Brieva

 

Megan Whitney Morrison, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, True Adventure Discovery

 

Madeline C. Muzzi, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, The Place of Craft

 

Patrick Nalepka, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Us or Just You and Me? An Empirical Approach to Understand (Shared) Intentions in Joint Action

 

Megan Joy Anne Narvey, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Corrosion Processes and Conservation Strategies for Metals in Historic Shipwrecks

 

Katie Stevenson Neher, English (ENGL) 2013, Incorporate in Rome: Political Embodiment and Weaponized Femininity in Shakespeare

 

Laura Jessica Nelson, Japanese (JAPN) 2013, Mobile Suit Gundam and the Changes in the Japanese Family System: How Robots Reflect Japanese Society

 

Raymond Ngu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Looking Forward to Looking Back: The Future of Anthropology as Presented in Introductory College Textbooks Past and Present

 

Sarah Louise Nielsen, Biology (BIOL) 2013, A NO/RyRs/CaMKII signal transduction pathway may be responsible for phase delay during photic entrainment of the circadian clock

 

Arju Ragde Nishimura, Religion (RELG) 2013, A Kaleidoscope of Liliths: The World's First Woman and Her Dance with Tradition

 

Erika Margaret Ohles, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Making Marks to Transform the "Everyday"

 

Adriana Orland, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Investigation of the MeCP2 Gene: Rett's Syndrome as a Model for Autism?

 

Laurel Jeffers Orr and Xin Chen, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Elliptic Functions and Modular Forms

 

Evan Philip Osborne, Chemistry (CHEM) 2013, Environmental Trace Analysis: Investigating Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products with Tandem Mass Spectrometry

 

Rachel Elizabeth Osofsky, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The First Three Minutes of the Universe

 

Yansong Pang, Megan Mary Bakkens, Cassie Mullen, and Wenli Rui, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, The Effect of Spinning Machine Speed on Performance of Yarn

 

Yansong Pang, Jeweletter Johnson, and Meiyuzi Gao, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, The Effects of Extraversion on Group Performance in Cooperative and Competitive Memory Tasks

 

Ashley Rose Paquin, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Autism Spectrum Disorders and the Psychological Extreme Male Brain: An Exploration of Biological Mechanisms

 

Lauren Elizabeth Partch, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Neuroscience of Free Will

 

Andrew Thomas Peters, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Take a Chance on /d/: Mexican Spanish Spirantization and Probability in Optimality Theory

 

Gabrielle Marie Peterson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Antiques -- Oil Object Paintings

 

Charlotte Rose Pfeifer, Physics (PHYS) 2013, The Physics of Spider Webs

 

Holly Helen Phares, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Making the Leap

 

Jennifer Sophie Piela, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Exploring relationships between climate and topography using 10Be cosmogenic nuclide- derived erosion rates and stream long profiles in the Western Ghats, India

 

Carin Michelle Postal, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Development as Gender Equality: Fitting Women into the Discourse of Incentives and Processes of Tanzanian Development

 

Kathryn Powell, Religion (RELG) 2013, A Radically Traditional Approach: Using Dorothy Day and the Mystical Body of Christ to Redefine Tradition

 

Sarah Frances Price, English (ENGL) 2013, The Lord of the Sagas: Tolkien's Tom Bombadil and his relation to the Icelandic Sagas

 

Lucy Essumanba Essumanba Quagraine, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, Ghana For Real, the Familiar, Unfamiliar Place

 

Sana Rafiq, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Beyond Homo Economicus - Analyzing the Role of Communication in Cooperation

 

Sana Rafiq, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of Microfinance on Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Rural Thailand

 

Matthew James Cusworth Rathkey, Music (MUSC) 2013, An Examination of the Musical Character of Anat Cohen

 

Sarah Krafft Rempel, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Circadian Clock Regulation of Dopamine in the Ventral Tegmental Area

 

Brian Harrison Rhodes, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Advantages of the Use of TAL Effector Nucleases Over Zinc Finger Nucleases in the Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease

 

Anne O. Richardson, American Studies (AMST) 2013, ... A Moment That is Mine, While I'm in Between... : Female Adolescent Identity Development in America's Suburbs

 

Samuel Koehnline Rosenberg, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The Role of Melanopsin-Containing Cells in Mammals: Pupillary Light Response, Photoentrainment of the Circadian Cycle, and Implications for Disease

 

Charles Michael Rosenthal, History (HIST) 2013, Black and White Cultural Heritages in the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad, 1934-1975

 

Aurora C. Roth, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Ice Fishing for Neutrinos: The Physics of Neutrino Telescopes

 

Henry Rownd, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, You Are There! . . . as a Tessering, Morphing Hyperbody: The Viewer in Contemporary 3D, CGI, and Ridefilm Technologies

 

Wenli Rui, Economics (ECON) 2013, A Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rate Determination in the Chinese Foreign Exchange Market

 

Ruby Leigh Russell, Biology (BIOL) 2013, Preventing and Protecting Against Alzheimer's Disease: An Independent Role for Androgens

 

Ethan Andrew Sagin, Music (MUSC) 2013, Expression and the Affections in Johann Sebastian Bach's ICH HABE GENUG, BWV 82

 

Caroline Rebecca Scheevel, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Determining crustal velocities of the Ruby Mountains, Nevada using local mine blasts

 

Adam Edward Scherling, Economics (ECON) 2013, Tipping the balance of innovation: Who takes advantage of intellectual property rights in developed and developing countries

 

Amelia Bullard Schlossberg, Biology (BIOL) 2013, A Pain In My Astrocytes and Microglia: A Biological Mechanism for Sex Bias in Chronic Neuropathic Pain

 

Johanna Amy Schmidt, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Motivating the Impoverishment: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Deletion Processes in Agreement

 

Andrew Jeffrey Schneider-Adams, Political Science (POSC) 2013, The Benefits of Sports Teams for Cities: Positive Externalities of Stadiums

 

Tyler Clarisse Schuetz, Geology (GEOL) 2013, Examining the paleoenvironment of the Chickaloon Formation, Matanuska Valley, Alaska through Campeloma and Unionoida fossil assemblages

 

Alec Scott, Biology (BIOL) 2013, An Evaluation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus as Drivers of Cyanobacterial Blooms

 

Deborah A. Shapiro, Linguistics (LING) 2013, Morphological Acquisition or: How I Learned to Stop Overregularizing and Love the "Brought"

 

Andrea Marie Simenstad, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2013, Modeling Moral Cognition: Virtue Ethics and Connectionist Architecture

 

Ryan William Skinner, Physics (PHYS) 2013, Imaging the Earth with Synthetic Aperture Radar

 

Danielle Dougnac Smogard, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, The Evolution of International Criminal Justice: A Hybrid Solution is Born

 

Benjamin Geoffrey Southgate, Economics (ECON) 2013, LOOP and the Internet Marketplace

 

Molly Danae Spence, Studio Art (ARTS) 2013, Arboretum Series

 

Brian Daniel Spisiak, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Architect of Architects: Cartesian Ethics and Platonic Virtue

 

Anna Caitlin Steedman, French (FREN) 2013, L’optique à travers laquelle nous voyons le passé : Le rôle de la mémoire dans La vie et rien d’autre par Bertrand Tavernier et Un long dimanche de fiançailles par Jean-Pierre Jeunet

 

Annie Riggs Steiner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2013, Contemporary College Students' Usage of the Word "Slut" in Relation to the Sexual Double Standard

 

Quinn Yoshie Stewart, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2013, Fashioning Memory through Rhetoric and Medium in the Laudatio Turiae

 

Tony Johnston Stoeri, History (HIST) 2013, Make Him See That We Are French! Napoleonic French Soldiers and the Construction of National Identity

 

Benjamin Adam Strasser, Leo Christopher Olivares, Daoji Huang, and Adam Edward Zweber, Mathematics (MATH) 2013, Plane Trees and Shabat Polynomials

 

Jacob Jordan Styburski, English (ENGL) 2013, Lacking the Will to Repent: Bedeviled Freedom in the Satanic Soliloquy

 

Zoe Susanne Suche, Philosophy (PHIL) 2013, The Heaviest Burden: Selfhood, Unity, and Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence

 

Anisa Abdi Suleiman, Biology (BIOL) 2013, B3-Adrenergic Receptor Agonists as a Treatment for Obesity by Inducing Thermogenesis in Brown Adipose Tissue

 

Han Jae Sun, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, A test of cognitive and physiological efficacy of binaural beat recordings and brainwave entrainment resulty for the use of i-doser

 

Kana Suzuki, Economics (ECON) 2013, How much more do people value safety? Estimating the impact of the March 2011 Fukushima disasters on residential land prices in Fukushima Prefecture

 

Nana Tanamoto, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The endoplasmic reticulum as a modulator of cellular metabolism: A novel metabolic paradigm for Alzheimer disease

 

Deborah Hui En Tan, Dance (DANC) 2013, Heart of the Matter: A Dance Comps by Deborah Tan

 

Deborah Hui En Tan, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, How Do We Understand Gestures? Lexical representation of emblematic gestures

 

Lisa Taxier, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Estrogen and Progesterone Priming Induces Higher Male Odor Preference Independent of Pubertal Ovarian Hormone Exposure

 

Breanna Jane Tetreault, Biology (BIOL) 2013, The roles of relaxin and hyaluronic acid in the extracellular matrix during cervical ripening, and their control on the timing of parturition