Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2012
Kristine Nachbor, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Manipulation of gene expression: controlling dopaminergic neuronal reward pathways through optogenetic regulation
Elizabeth Reines Nachman, Hannah Rose Heavenrich, and Ryan Raymond Noe, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Valuing the ecosystem services of low-input, high-diversity prairie as a biofuel feedstock in southern Minnesota
Daniel Isaac Nathan, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Is L8r A Word? Semantic Priming In Electronic Communication Shortcuts
Ava Therese Litton Navasero, Biology (BIOL) 2012, The chicken or the egg, which came first? Insulin resistance and mitochondrial dysfunction in Type II diabetes induce skeletal muscle atrophy.
Raymond R. Nelson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Dominant Ideologies of the Puerto Rican Nation: Locating blackness and racism on the island
Gwendolyn Marie Neumeister, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Hozho Nahasdlii: Beauty Has Come Again--An Examination of Dine Cultural Knowledge and Definitions of Preservation on the Navajo Nation Today
Hai Hoang Ngo, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, The Relationship Theory & Finally Valuable Relationships: A Discussion on Love and its Reasons
Molly Claire Nichols, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Neural Foundations for Sensory Processing Abnormalities in Autism: The Weak Central Coherence Account versus the Intense World Theory
Kayla Rose Nygaard, Biology (BIOL) 2012, From dam to pup: The epigenetic modification of maternal care across generations
True Overholt and David Weidner Williams, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Cultural and economic components of the country of origin effect: Advertisement evaluations for goods and services among multicultural individuals
Veronica Leigh Pena, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Effect of 17 beta-estradiol on an Object Recognition Task in Alzheimer's Induced Rats
Mallory Catherine Pernell, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Effects of Stigma on Individuals With Schizophrenia
Emily Brook Petroff, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Physics of the Interstellar Medium
Susan Pham, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Altered Calcium Homeostasis is Responsible for Non-Normal Aging and Dementia
Patrick Philley, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of Professional Sports Franchise Relocations on Local Employment
Sarah Jane Pinkham, Philosophy (PHIL) 2012, Duties to Ecosystems
Samantha Elizabeth Pivetz, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2012, Privileged Executions: The Vestal Interment Ritual in Ancient Rome
Kaitlin Elena Elena Randolph, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS Comps 2012: A Carefully Conceived Sunrise (essay), One Bench (video)
Elise Paige Rasmussen, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Revitalizing a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Is Social Organization Possible?
Daniel John Read, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Between Tigers and People: The Political Ecology of Protectionist Conservation in the Melghat Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India
Arielle Rose Rebek, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Home
Robin Sarah Reich, History (HIST) 2012, There is no contagion, there is no evil portent: Arabic Responses to Plague and Contagion in the Fourteenth Century
Diedre Faye Reitz, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Critically examining our understanding of cancer metabolism: Evidence for the reverse Warburg effect?
Tasha Wei Rhoads, Owen Donald Alldritt, and Danny Mills Forman, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Choosing Luck: The Effects of Luck and Choice on Performance
Kathleen Hagan Roberts, Classics (CLST) 2012, Cybele Rocks: The Elemental Nature of the Anatolian Mother Goddess
Elena Patrice Rosenberg-Carlson and Emily Bliss Houser, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2012, Modeling Food Security in Kenya: Interactions Between Neoliberal Policy Reforms, Environmental Factors, and Food Security
Kelsey Elizabeth Ross, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Coral reefs and algal states: phase shifts and feedbacks in a changing world
Theodore Isaac Rostow, Political Science (POSC) 2012, A Task without Anger: On-the-Ground Learning and Counterinsurgency
James Rothschild, Religion (RELG) 2012, Mount Moriah Revisited: In search of a viable contemporary Jewish ethical reading of the Akedah
Lily J. Sacharow, History (HIST) 2012, Contingent Liberty: Congressional Unanimity in the Making of the Declaration of Independence
Noah B. Sapse, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Unplanned Obsolescence
Hiroki Sato, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Japanese Pacifism as a Complex Multidimensional Notion: Analysis of Japanese Pacifism and Article 9 using Theories of War and Peace
Peter Scheuermann, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Metamorphic Petrology and Structural Geology of the Granite Peak Screen, Western Idaho Shear Zone, Cascade, Idaho
Lily Hayles Schieber, French (FREN) 2012, Comment protéger le français ? La Lutte entre réforme et tradition en France dans les années 1980 et 1990
Peter Allen Schlesinger, History (HIST) 2012, The "Best Traditions of the Sea?": Contested Heroism in the Manchester Guardian's Reporting on the RMS Titanic
Sarah Catherine Cederberg Schlotter, Physics (PHYS) 2012, The Making of Wootz Steel and Damascus Blades
Kathryn Elizabeth Mall Schmidt, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, The Complexity of Basic Needs and Its Application in Latin America
Vaughn Alexander Schmid, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Looking at Viral and Non-Viral Vectors in Gene Therapy: A Description and Comparison
Graham William Schneider, Religion (RELG) 2012, Go West, Young Buddha: Chögyam Trungpa, Skillful Means, and Spiritual Authority in Modern America
Daniel Victor Schroeder, Colin James Howald, Andy Bouchard, and Daniel Solow, Computer Science (CS) 2012, Translation by Numbers: Statistical Methods for Machine Translation
Han Seongwu, Asian Studies (ASST) 2012, Manga for Young Men Going Global, Transnational Readership of Kingdom
Aleksandr Phillip Sharma, Music (MUSC) 2012, Musique Noir:An Analysis of Musical Expressive Genres
Ally Shaw and Emily Winer, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Low-Income Latinos in the United States: Dietary Habits and The Health Belief Model
Danny Smith, Studio Art (ARTS) 2012, Cannon River Project
Karl Snyder, Linguistics (LING) 2012, Russian Default Stress and the Effect of Lexically Weak Roots
Benjamin Reeves Somogyi, History (HIST) 2012, 'Naš Narod:' The Development of Milošević and Tuđman's Nationalist Rhetoric
Alexandra Caitlin Staab, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2012, Constantine's Conversion: Betrayal at the Hands of the Biographers
David Lawrence Steefel-Moore and Anushka Rajesh Patel, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Gestalt Processing in Autistic Adolescents
Alexander Macneil Stevens, Chinese (CHIN) 2012, Fallen City, Fallen Women, Fallen Masks: Zhang Ailing, The Dream of the Red Chamber, and the Aestheticism of Disaster
Christine Jaclyn Stewart, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Rise and Demise -- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors in the Diversifications of Dinosaurs and Mammals
Zach Walker Stewart, Geology (GEOL) 2012, Eolian and Subaqueous Sedimentary Structures of the Devils Island Sandstone, Sand Island, Wisconsin (U.S.A.)
Kathryn Diane Stinebaugh, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Deconstructing Attitudes towards Smoking: Exploring the Underlying Components of Explicit and Implicit Attitudes
Johara Suleiman and Elizabeth Giraud, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Predictors of Negative Cross-Group Attitudes between Somali Immigrants and Native Born Americans
Anna Lynn Lynn Swanson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2012, CAMS comps 2012: Mono No Aware // Awareness: Perception of the Ephemeral in Bill Viola's Hatsu-yume [essay], when you wish upon a star [film]
Emily Lauren Sykes, Biology (BIOL) 2012, Testosterone Action on Skeletal Muscle: Declining Testosterone Levels in Elderly Males Contribute to Sarcopenia
Jane Madeleine Tandler, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2012, Ordering Disorganization Syndrome: Modeling Schizophrenic Language
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
