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Graduated in 2011

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?

Timothy James Mulso, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Drink Responsibly

James Martin Munson and Elizabeth Collins-Wildman, Mathematics (MATH) 2011, Munshi's Theorem: Zero Places and Infinite Spaces

Kilian Pac Murphy, Political Science (POSC) 2011, Rethinking Why Democracies Lose Small Wars: Barbarism, "Hearts and Minds" and US Policy Failures in Afghanistan

Claire Elizabeth Murray, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Planetary Nebulae: A Study of Morphology

Logan Deen Nash, History (HIST) 2011, Middle-class castle: Modernism, gentrification, and urban space at London's Barbican Estate

Graham Haines Nelson, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Personality and Coping Behaviors in Response to the Breakup of Dating Relationships

Lenesia Leann Nelson, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The Ventral Striatum and the Reward Pathway

Alice Caroline Newman, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Using small-scale structures as a tool for understanding regional deformation: A study of deformation bands and faults at Kettleman Hills, California

Anna Hare Newman, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The gene regulatory model of floral induction in Arabidopsis thaliana: distinct pathways or interconnected web?

Hang Thi Viet Nguyen, Economics (ECON) 2011, Stock Returns and Expected Inflation: Measurement of Expected Inflation and the Evolution of the Relationship over Time

Masaru Konishi Nobu, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Recovery from terrestrial oil spills: the damage, soil microbial oil degradation, and plant revegetation

Masaru Konishi Nobu, Geology (GEOL) 2011, The euxinic zone anaerobic phototrophic microbial ecology of meromictic Green Lake as an analogue for Proterozoic ocean microbial ecology

Tenzin Nordon, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Understanding Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein and Its Importance in Propagating Fragile X Syndrome

Robin Sachi Okimoto, Japanese (JAPN) 2011, Lessons of Fantasy: The Hero's Journey in Ogiwara Noriko's Fūjin Hishō (The Secret Texts of the Wind Spirit)

Mark Bradeen Olson, History (HIST) 2011, Incorporating Play, Reinforcing Class: "Recreational Upbuilding" and the Popularity and Perceptions of American Vacation Schools, 1880-1910

Tyler Palin, Economics (ECON) 2011, Forecasting the U.S. Unemployment Rate: The Impact of Stock Market Volatility

Benjamin H. Parks, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Metamorphic Petrology of Archean Metapelites and Ironstones in the Garnet Hill Area, Yellowstone National Park, USA

Mary C. Paulette, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Changing the Channel: Televison's Effects on Educational Attitudes in Catatao, Honduras

Sarah Margaret Prather, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Awakening Youth to Le Developpement: Formally Educated Togolese and their Home Associations

Victor Julio Ramirez, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Investigating the neuroanatomical pathology of schizophrenia: using correlate models of dreaming and drug-induced psychosis

Noah Gabriel Randolph-Flagg, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Variations in Heat Advected from Devils Kitchen Fumarolic Area, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, 1922-2010

Eric Nathaniel Reich, Political Science (POSC) 2011, In Search of the Moral Engagement behind Nietzsche‘s Critique of Morality: Truthfulness (Wahrhaftigkeit) and Honesty (Redlichkeit)

Julia Diane Reid, American Studies (AMST) 2011, Miscegenation on Trial: To Kill a Mockingbird and the Doctrine of Interracial Intimacy

Katharine Ilsa Richardson, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Multiculturalism in Public Institutions: The Case Study of Deaf Immigrants and the Utilization of Health Care Services in the Twin Cities

Henry Patrick Roberts, Studio Art (ARTS) 2011, Untitled