Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2011
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-ÂEvolutionary 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
Caroline Giese, Art History (ARTH) 2011, Herman Methesisu: An Artist with an Agenda
Jennifer Marie Goetz, Physics (PHYS) 2011, The Ocean in Motion: Circulation, Mixing and Climate
Zaira Gonzalez, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Rewarding Voters Through Welfare Transfers in Mexico and Brazil
Glenn Padell Greenberg, Music (MUSC) 2011, The Use of Sonata Form in the Chamber Piano Concerto
Stephanie Diana Guerrero and Rachel Simon, Theater Arts (THEA) 2011, Late: a cowboy song
Megan E. Hafner, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Beyond the Hype: Thoughts on Food in Northfield, Minnesota
Zoe Elizabeth Harris, History (HIST) 2011, Communities in the Ether: Depression Era Radio and the American Homemaker
Claire Joanna Hartung, French (FREN) 2011, De l'immigration et l'exil à l'écriture: l'écrivain comme porte-parole à travers les oeuvres de Ken Bugul, Fatou Diome, et Calixthe Beyala
Hannah Leigh Hayes, Biology (BIOL) 2011, BDNF: An Exercise-Induced Biochemical Mechanism for Mitigating Alzheimer's Disease
Alexander Ken Heid, Studio Art (ARTS) 2011, The Laboratory for Collaborative Exploration
David Abadian Heifetz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Harnessing a Necessary Evil: A Polanyian Examination of the Crises of 1873 and 2008
Erin Jones Heydinger, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The Impact of Drought on Mangrove Trophic Structures
Claire Elizabeth Hill, Art History (ARTH) 2011, Primitivism: The Influence of African Art on The French and German Avant-Gardes
Trevor Lundeen Hill, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Mobilization in the Wake of Environmental Disaster
Nicholas Donald Holschuh, Geology (GEOL) 2011, An Analysis of Tsunami Sensitivity to Fault Plane Orientation Using a Rapid Linear Model
Nicholas Donald Holschuh, Economics (ECON) 2011, A Systematic Analysis of Potential Leading Indicators in the United States through Vector Autoregression
Daniel Lorand Hoppe, Music (MUSC) 2011, Benjamin Britten's Fuga and Ciaccona From Second Suite for Unaccompanied Cello Op.80 Two examples of a twentieth century composer's use of Baroque compositional forms
Nicholas Xavier Hud, Political Science (POSC) 2011, The Incorporation of Sandy Springs, An American City
Sungwook Hwang, Economics (ECON) 2011, Leaving Classrooms for a More Employable Future
Rose Hyson, Asian Studies (ASST) 2011, Shaping Shangri-la: NGOs and Guided Cultural Change in the Land of Snows
Kiera Kelly Jaffin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Voices on Facebook: Privacy, Connectivity and Presentation of the Self
Elizabeth Susan Jarrett, Biology (BIOL) 2011, PGC-1α Mediates Exercise-Induced Relief of Peripheral Arterial Disease
Jonathan Gustin Jenkins, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Rapping for the World : Reggaeton Rising
Aaron Maurer Josephus, History (HIST) 2011, The Theory and Practice of Subterfuge in Byzantine Strategy: Alexius' Use of Deceit in War
Galen Christopher Kast and Elizabeth Low, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Advertising and the ELM: An integrative approach to the dual-process model and its application to the promotion of "Go! Northfield"
Robert Ehrman Kaye, History (HIST) 2011, Bonneville Dam in the Media: Hopes and Fears in the Pacific Northwest
Hana Rose Kazunas, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The Evolution of Increased Competitive Ability (EICA): a proposal for invasive species success
Emily Nicklawskyk Kelly, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Cultivating Community in a Post-Industrial World: The Role of Community in Community Supported Agriculture
Taimur Ali Khan, Economics (ECON) 2011, Cointegration of International Stock Markets: An Investigation of Diversification Opportunities
Rebecca Elizabeth Kilman, Art History (ARTH) 2011, Light from the East: Louis Comfort Tiffany's Stained-glass Windows
Geun Hee Kim, Chemistry (CHEM) 2011, Bioapplications of Carbon Nanotube
Sung Hyo Kim, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Tokyo Drifter(film analysis), Absence and Imagination(research paper)
Morgan Victoria King, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2011, Blood Sacrifice and Competitive Identity Creation
Alex Hand Kinsey, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Flexible Electronics
Carter Washburn Kittleson, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Dysregulation of Dopamine in the Mesolimbic Reward Circuit: A Possible Link between Food Addiction and Obesity
James A. Klein, Classics (CLST) 2011, Are You Mad? Competition in Seneca's Hercules Furens
Hunter Elizabeth Knight, History (HIST) 2011, The Times Demand the Sacrifice of Our Convictions: Childhood Changed in World War I France
Michael Phan Knudson, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Solar Cell Function and Efficiency Considerations
Neil Kevin Kolstad, Economics (ECON) 2011, Foreign Aid and Economic Growth: Bilateral and Multilateral Aid Unconstrained
David Edward Kornfeld, Music (MUSC) 2011, Gilgamesh from a Third Stream Perspective
Elly Kuhlman, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Beyond Homework Help: An examination of the role of youth and programming in Faribault
Margaret Kathleen Kutcher, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, What is the effect of gender on judging? A Meta-synthesis of Inconclusive Empirical Evidence
Khant Khant Kyaw 2011, Framing Perspectives: Calibrating the Parallax of Development through Participatory Photography
Sally Joan Larkins, English (ENGL) 2011, Bogged Down: Intersections of Past and Present Violence in the Bog Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Kyungwon Lee, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Posttranscriptional Regulation of RNA-Binding Hu Proteins in Association with Neuronal Development
Madelyn F. Lenhard, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Exercise Regulates Astrocytes and Allows for Neuronal Remyelination and Symptom Mitigation in Multiple Sclerosis
Daniel Henry Victor Wharton Lessin, History (HIST) 2011, Revolutionary Declarations: A Comparative Study of Dunmore and Clinton's Emancipation Proclamations
Grace Elizabeth Lewis, Linguistics (LING) 2011, The Role of Language Discrimination in Mutual Exclusivity as shown by 2-yr-old Simultaneous Bilinguals
Katharine Marie Lindquist, Economics (ECON) 2011, Horizontal Educational Inequalities and Civil Conflict: The nexus of ethnicity, inequality, and violent conflict
William Grant Lindsley, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Ethics of Placebo Use for the Clinical Treatment of Pain
Qi Li, Chen Sun, and Jeremy Grevet, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, DNA Recombination: Looking at a Biological Process through the Lens of Knot Theory
Tadayoshi King Littleton, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Interindividual Vulnerability: Understanding Basal Differences in Addiction
Chang Liu, Economics (ECON) 2011, Commodity Prices Movements Forecasting: Time Series Analysis with Macroeconomic and Financial Factors
Jeremiah John Mondragon Locquiao, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Development of the mammalian auditory sensory epithelium: Insight on hair cell regeneration
Kelly Rachel Lovett, Political Science (POSC) 2011, Institutional Design and Economic Growth: The Relationship between Bureaucracy and Economic Performance in a Global Economy
Hillary Creagh Lyons, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Hybrid Invasion: The role of multiple introductions and hybridization in the evolution of invasiveness
Nathan Kenneth Lysne, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Branching Out, On the relationship between physics and biology as investigated through trees
Nora Claire Elizabeth Maddy, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Mammalian Hair Cell Regeneration: Possible Therapeutic Techniques for the Inner Ear
Katherine Sarah Madison, History (HIST) 2011, News from America: Extracts and Trans-Atlantic British Community in London, 1773-1776
Inara Makhmudova, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Benefits of Immigration: Juggling American and Soviet Identities
Jeffrey M. Maneval, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The Norepinephrine Precursor L-threo-DOPS Does Not Attenuate Cognitive Deficits in a Rat Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Kathryn Laurel Markle, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Art and Artifact: Museum Presentation of African Objects and African Cultures
Joseph John Marren, Political Science (POSC) 2011, What Personality Is Best Suited to the Modern Presidency?
Hunter Lenon Martin, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Autism and the reward pathway
Robert Orion Martin, Asian Studies (ASST) 2011, Food Marketing Systems in Yangon: The Unexpected Success of the Supermarket Model
Jeremiah John McIntyre, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2011, This Is Sparta? The Reinvention of Ritual at Artemis Orthia
Andrew Kazuki McLamore, Studio Art (ARTS) 2011, Untitled
Sahil Mehra, Economics (ECON) 2011, An empirical analysis of the impact of membership in regional trading agreements on economic development
Chloe Alexandra Meisner, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Binge eating disorder, obesity, and the dopamine reward pathway
Alice Southworth Melton, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2011, Foreign Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Eastern and Western Approaches and What Can Be Learned From Them
Andrew Douglas Mering, Christopher Daniel Wilen, Celine Annabelle Yeh, and Hang Thi Viet Nguyen, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, Dynamics of Pulse-Coupled Integrate-and-Fire Oscillators
Megan Milligan, Emily Kao, and Ben Sullender, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2011, Where Livelihood and Wildlife Collide: The Effectiveness of the Fortress Conservation Paradigm in Tarangire National Park
Lauren Joy Millikan, English (ENGL) 2011, Curiouser and Curiouser: The Internet as a Medium for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Chapters 5, 6, and 7)
Courtney Warden Morris, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Agro-Food Dispute Participation: A Bleak Outlook for Agricultural Trade Liberalization?
Morgan Calvin Moy, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Alzheimer's Disease: Is Combination Therapy Currently the Best Treatment?
