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Graduated in 2011

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

Julio Ignacio Rodriguez, History (HIST) 2011, Resistance under Franco (1959-1975): Exploring the role of Basque clergy and their involvement with Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA)

Hilary Marie Rosenheim, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The role of oxidative stress in the beneficial effects of exercise on Alzheimer's disease

Peter Andros Rose, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Electromagnetic Cloaking

Rachel Anne Rothendler, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2011, Molika Mokeddum: entre tout et entre-deux

Jesse Rothman, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Bending the Arc: Reflections on Justice, Power, and Possibility

Murad Mehmet Salahi, Caleb Giuseppi Santangelo, and Nate Yale, Computer Science (CS) 2011, Robot Tour Guide

Steven Andrew Samborski, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes and the Effects of Exercise on Glucose Uptake in Skeletal Muscle Via the Ampk-Signaling Pathway

Jeffrey Troy Samuels, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2011, Representing Victory: Octavian's Tropaeum at Nikopolis and the Visual Language of Competitive Success

Amanda Miller Savitt and Samantha Ann Baker, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2011, Economic and Ethical Externalities Associated with Electric Vehicles

Richard Scheele, American Studies (AMST) 2011, The American High School: A Negotiation of Power

Samuel Jenkins Scherf, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Feeling Future

Laurel Schmidt, Physics (PHYS) 2011, How many protons does it take to turn on a light bulb?

Lucy Marie Schroeder, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The neural correlates of spiritual and religious experience

Brian Howard Schuster, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Lightsails: Traveling the Cosmic Ocean

Rachel Alisa Schwartz, History (HIST) 2011, A Science of the Social: A Philanthropic Paradigm

Lyssa Alexandra Searcy, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Welcomed as "New" Minnesotans or Framed as Responsible "Others"?: Exploring the Media Framing of Somali Immigrant Health and Wellness in Minnesota between 1996 and 2010

Lingerr Marie Senghor, English (ENGL) 2011, Trapped: Inequality and Imprisonment in the Bronte Canon

Paromita Sen, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Mesolimbic dopamine pathway dysfunction in dietary obesity

Michael John Servis, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Brownian Motion in Astrophysics

Jameson Timothy Siegert, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Callahan

Gabriel Perri Silberblatt, English (ENGL) 2011, Revising, Re-visioning: Italo Calvino and the Politics of Play

Larissa Anne Silverman, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Nicotine and Endocannabinoids: Effects on Short Term Learning and Memory

Larissa Anne Silverman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2011, Playing with Judgment

Max Joseph Silver, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Chair

Colin Mackenzie Sinclair, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Glacial processes and the changing landscape of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum

Rachel Elizabeth Sklar, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Perfect Goulash

Anna Leigh Snyder, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Endogenous cannabinoids: An explanation for the relationship between exercise and addiction

Kelly Soderstrom, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, From Rebel to Statesman: Political Perceptions and Policy Decisions in Ho Chi Minh's Writings and Speeches

Iosif Sorokin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, From the Scroll to the National Language: Linguistic Ideology in the Hebrew Revival

Zoe L. Statman-Weil, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2011, Agroecology in the MST: The fight for sustainability and social justice

Allison Helen Sterling, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, I'm No Longer That Girl: Film Noir's Influence on the Construction of Alternative Girlhood in Veronica Mars

Jane Elizabeth Stitt, Spanish (SPAN) 2011, Yo llegué a la revolución por la vía de la poesía. Tu podrás llegar...a la poesía por la vía de la revolución Roque Dalton y las vías múltiples de la revolución (o, por qué los poetas son tan importantes como los guerrilleros revolucionarios)

Andreas Orson Stoehr, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Gender, Sympathy, and the "Monstrous Hero" in the American Horror Film

Matthew S. Strongin, Physics (PHYS) 2011, The Prospects and Physical Constraints of Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage

Thomas Adam Sullivan, Physics (PHYS) 2011, The Physics of Spacecraft Propulsion

Amy Gin Sun, English (ENGL) 2011, The Man Who Shot Down the Sun

Chen Sun, Economics (ECON) 2011, An Empirical Analysis of the Employment Outcome Differentials between Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans and Non-veterans

Merritt Ann Swain, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The Effects of Sleep Duration on Motor Performance and Mood

Britta Kathryn Swedenborg, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Avian hair cell regeneration and its implications for regaining hearing

Britta Kathryn Swedenborg, Music (MUSC) 2011, The Nielsen Flute Concerto: A Danish Concerto?

Kristina Eiko Taketomo, History (HIST) 2011, Home is Where You Park It: Cold War Caravans and Mobile Domestic Space

Shao Min Tan, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Falling Through Spacetime: A Study of Black Holes

Austin Joseph Taylor, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Disturbance Mediated Shifts in Tropical Rainforest Fire Regimes

William Timothy Treal Taylor, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Rally 'round the relic: archaeological repatriation policy and the diversionary theory of war

Amy S. Teller and Bryce E. Gray, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2011, Praying for Rain: Farmer Vulnerability to Climate Change in Mto Wa Mbu and Lukange Village, Tanzania

Kelly Marie Thomas, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Holy Representations of Themes and Cultural Ideas, Batman!: A close examination of representations of themes and characters in the Batman franchise from 1939 to the present day

Shakita Shavonne Thomas, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, From Access to Success: Social Capital and Posse Scholars

Katya Louise Thronweber, Studio Art (ARTS) 2011, Untitled

Jack Yin Timmons, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The Pitfalls of Inflammation: a review of CRP as a contributing factor to atherosclerosis and the associated benefits of exercise

Colleen Jenny Tjosvold, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, An Institutional Analysis of Factories and Freedom in Dongguan, China

Ian Edward Tonat, History (HIST) 2011, Courts and Culture: Native Americans in New England Courts, 1620-1700

Kate Trenerry, History (HIST) 2011, One Border, Two Walls: Conflict and Conceptualization Along the German-German Border, 1945-1972

Kate Trenerry, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Rephotographing the Iron Curtain

Mateo Felipe Trujillo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, The Sons of the Inheritance: Part 1 - The Will of Fire

Charlotte Catherine Casey Turovsky, Art History (ARTH) 2011, The Intersection of Public Housing and New Urbanism: A Case Study of Heritage Park

Clinton Gerald Ulmer, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The Effect of Post-Training Administration of Alcohol on Memory Consolidation in Rats

Analeisha Marie Vang, Geology (GEOL) 2011, A Pre-Dam Removal Assessment: The Ames Mill Dam, Northfield, MN

Winkle Matthew Thomas Van, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The Alarm Pheromone Signaling Pathway in Ostariophysan Fish

Elliot Anson Vaughan, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Post-Fire Carbon Dynamics in Boreal Forest Soils

Melissa Grace Villars, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Reward Pathway's Connection to Overeating: Implications for Obesity

Anna Wada, History (HIST) 2011, Imagining a Timeless Unity: The Moment of Silence in 1930s Japan

Sasha Waldstein, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The Role of JNK in β-cell Dysfunction and Insulin Resistance: Potential as a Single-Target Multifactorial Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes

Andrew Philip Walters, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Local versus global control of ?13C isotope excursions in the Ordovician (Turinian) Platteville Formation, southeastern Minnesota and eastern Iowa

Rebecca Wang, Economics (ECON) 2011, Remittances and Public Spending on Health: Substitutes or Complements?

Cat Marie Ward, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2011, Sex and Alcohol on Carleton's Campus

Allyson Fawcett Weaver, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Star Gazing: A close look at Olivia de Havilland and star contracts in the height of studio era Hollywood

Alison Elizabeth Wechsler, Linguistics (LING) 2011, Morphological Decomposition in a Second Language: An Experimental Study of Spanish Participles

Jason Richard Weischedel, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement: Evidence across the United States

Joseph Weise, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Effect of Performance Incentive Bonuses: Evidence from Running Backs in the NFL

Hillary Jane Doescher Wiener, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Individual Differences in Advice Seeking