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Graduated in 2010

 

Mark William Hagemann, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Assessment of potential seasonal climate signals preserved in a late Pleistocene stalagmite from central Texas

 

Jinhee Ha, History (HIST) 2010, (Uni)Forming Nazi Girls: Fashion as indoctrinization in the Bund deutscher Mädel

 

Austin R. Hall, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, The Eye

 

Tigan Michelle Harrison, Russian (RUSS) 2010, Battle of the Cold War Spies: A comparison of the espionage genre in literary and cinematic works within British and Russian cultures

 

Ben P. Haynor, Physics (PHYS) 2010, Limits on the Computational Power of Nature

 

Anna Katelore Heinzerling, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Adult Attachment and Standards for Best Friends and Romantic Partners

 

Addie Laura Honeycutt, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Lessons in Pretending: Scaffolding Theory of Mind and Perspective Taking through Pretend Play

 

Jaebeom Hong, Economics (ECON) 2010, How Do Asian Players' Salaries Differ from Other Players in Major League Baseball?

 

Adelle Housker, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, What Causes Proofreading Errors?

 

Megan Enderlin Howard, Biology (BIOL) 2010, G protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1 and membrane metalloproteinases as a novel target for breast cancer treatment

 

Lauren Elizabeth Howell, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Characterizing shallow intrasedimentary faults using magnetic depth estimation methods: Preliminary results of a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey at the San Luis Basin, south-central Colorado

 

Erika Marie Huckestein, History (HIST) 2010, I'll Never Change. I'll Always Wear Green: New Representations of Erin in Irish Nationalist Political Cartoons, 1900-1921

 

Donald Ryan Hultstrand, History (HIST) 2010, Robespierre Remembered

 

Richard Jae Kyung Hwang, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Murine X Inactivation Involves Polycomb Proteins Targeted by Noncoding RNA

 

Tomoki Isogai, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, Differences Between Single and Several Complex Variable Analysis

 

Jon Bradly Jacobs, Music (MUSC) 2010, Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Tarrega School

 

William Z. Jacobson, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Liquefaction features in Cantorian-Ordovician boundary strata of southeastern Minnesota: evidence for paleoseismicity in the cratonic interior?

 

Saaniya Jairath, Economics (ECON) 2010, An empirical cross-country Analysis of the Impact of International Trade on Environmental Quality

 

Colin Vinson Jenks, Biology (BIOL) 2010, The role of microRNA-206 in skeletal muscle development

 

Dan Jasper Jensen, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Patient-Focused Research: The History, Problems, and Benefits of Implementing Outcome Tracking Systems in Psychotherapy

 

Chantel Vantrice Johnson, History (HIST) 2010, Power to the People! Black Panthers from the Illinois Chapter Helping the Community

 

Kristen Johnson, Liliana Dominguez, and Chasya Hill, Theater Arts (THEA) 2010, Eleemosynary

 

Clare Kirkpatrick Jones, English (ENGL) 2010, This Precarious City: The Construction of a Colonial Urban Landscape in the Poetry of Joy Harjo

 

Katherine Blair Jones, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, The Call of the Wild: Discrimination of Music and Monkey Calls in Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys

 

Kaitlin Meredith Justin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Fuertes y Adelante: Music and National Crisis in 1970's Chile

 

Daniel Frank Kagan-Kans, Philosophy (PHIL) 2010, The Role of Science Fiction and Contingency in Decision-Making

 

Rita Nabh Kanagat, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Music and Anxiety: A Study

 

Samuel A. Kanner, Physics (PHYS) 2010, Current Issues Facing the Wave Energy Industry

 

Samuel A. Kanner, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Using Low and High Frequency Subbottom Surveys to Locate Cretaceous and Quaternary Sediments in Block Island Sound: an Analysis to Estimate the Cost of an Offshore Wind Farm

 

Rose Simone Greenwald Kantor, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Advances in the photochemical and metabolic manipulation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for hydrogen fuel production

 

Andrew Conrad Kaplan, History (HIST) 2010, Martha's Vineyard in the 1970's: A Critique of Modern Environmentalism and a Model for Land Use in the United States

 

George Randolph Kennedy, Archaeology (Special major) 2010, The United States of America and the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

 

Kailyn Elizabeth Kent, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Narrative Drawing

 

Ariana Beth Kiener, American Studies (AMST) 2010, Latino Students in Northfield: Toward a Better Future in America

 

Chase Edward Kimball, Economics (ECON) 2010, Seasonal and Weekend Effects on Drug and Alcohol Abuse

 

Kyungmin Kim, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Cognitive Intervention Addressing Gambling Related Irrational Beliefs

 

Kyungmin Kim, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Impact of Expenditure Cap on Competitive Balance in Formula One Racing

 

Laura Christine Knutson, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2010, Le rap des années quatre-vingt-dix : Sons abstraits, tensions réelles

 

Irene Joan Koplinka-Loehr, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Untitled

 

Jhanna Kosicki, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Relationship Series: an exploration of human interactions.

 

Jennifer Krafft, Linguistics (LING) 2010, Syntactic Category Influence and Irregularity in Rendaku

 

Bittu Kri, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Extrapolation of Contemporary Photography

 

Sonya Krishnan, Biology (BIOL) 2010, MicroRNA-1 and microRNA-133: key regulators in cardiogenesis and adult heart maintenance

 

Brian Lambert, Economics (ECON) 2010, How does Positive and Negative Framing Affect Sustainability Decisions at the Firm Level for Negative Public Goods Games?

 

William Owen Latham, History (HIST) 2010, A Study of Working-Class Disunity: "Disorganized" Labor and the Outcome of Oakland's 1946 General Strike

 

Zun-Ho Lee, Economics (ECON) 2010, Asian Dust Stocks?: A Myth Created by the Media

 

Johanna Levy, Art History (ARTH) 2010, Antonio Sant'Elia and the Image of the City

 

Jun Li, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Portraits

 

Daniel Matthew Lindvall, Economics (ECON) 2010, Estimating the Value of Water in the High Plains Aquifer

 

Esther Kai-Jim Liu, Biology (BIOL) 2010, MC1R RHC Variants and the Risk for Malignant Melanoma

 

Anna Katrin Losacano, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2010, Telenovelas and the Story of the Nation: Cultural Significance, Scholarly Approaches and Content Analysis of Mexico's Cuidado Con el Angel

 

Eva Maria Luderowski, Biology (BIOL) 2010, microRNA-124 regulates vertebrate neuronal development

 

Kathryn Elizabeth Malecek, Biology (BIOL) 2010, The Forgotten Phenotype: Long Noncoding RNAs Direct Cell Identity and Modulate Behavior

 

John Michael Mawhorter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, A Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter Designed For Social Play

 

Andrew Corby McClung, Physics (PHYS) 2010, Information, irreversibility, and the thermodynamics of computation

 

Katherine Stucky McDonald, Art History (ARTH) 2010, Brilliant Sensation: The Rise of the Young British Artists and Their Brand

 

Kevin Patrick McGrath, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, Developments in Counterinsurgency: Modeling the Surge

 

Megan Kathryn McMahon, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2010, Autochthony in Imperial Rome: Earth, Birth, and Empire

 

Heather Anne McPherson, English (ENGL) 2010, Making Terrors of Trifles: Violence in "The Rape of the Lock" and Othello

 

Heather Anne McPherson, English (ENGL) 2010, Women as Objects of Exchange in the "Man of Law's Tale" and Venus

 

Ian William Merkel, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2010, Fily Dabo Sissoko: Un Humaniste victime de la Révolution

 

Anne Marie Merrill, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Internal and External Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice Against Overweight Individuals

 

Steven Andrew Merry, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Relative Efficiency of Medicaid Programs in America

 

Megan Emily Mileusnic, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Wage Effects of Obesity in the U.S. Labor Market: Are Obese Paid Less Because of Health Insurance?

 

Megan Rose Mitchell, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Why are some Hymenoptera queens so promiscuous? Investigating the evolution of polyandry in super-polyandrous army ants and honeybees

 

Stephanie Moberg, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Academic applications of adolescent attachment relationships

 

Zachary Philip Montes, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Field and microstrucural observations of granulite facies rocks, Hamilton Downs, Mt. Hay Block, central Australia

 

Anna Jolene Mork, Physics (PHYS) 2010, Molecular Electronics: Exploring the Limits of Small

 

Anna Jolene Mork, Chemistry (CHEM) 2010, Organic Photovoltaics: The Chemistry of Carbon-based Solar Cells

 

Avery Morrow, Religion (RELG) 2010, Patriotism, Secularism, and the Invention of State Shinto: D.C. Holtom's Representations of Japan

 

Jennifer Katherine Morse, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, AZ Highways Series

 

Elizabeth Musz, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Not All Modifiers Are Created Equal: Evidence for Differential Processing of Modal Verbs in Advertising Text

 

Charlotte Grace Muzzi, English (ENGL) 2010, Poems from the North and West

 

Santhi Nalla, Biology (BIOL) 2010, The Overexpression of the Noncoding RNA H19 in Cancer Alters Many Cellular Processes

 

Jordan Michael Warner Narvey, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, John McCain as John Wayne: The Influence of the War Film Genre's Evolution

 

Peter Nelson, Erik Ruggles, James Sheridan, Samuel Vaughn Tucker, and Kei Kubo, Computer Science (CS) 2010, Netflix Prize

 

Meagan S. Nishi, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Experiments on Retention and Recall

 

Joshua Michael O'Brien, History (HIST) 2010, Locating Authority in Carolingian Debates on Image Veneration c.825: The Case of Agobard of Lyon's De picturis et imaginibus

 

Mary Kitty O'Connell, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, A Visual Analysis of Gender through Architectural Form

 

Anne Frances O'Gara, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, New Family Transitions: Considering Dissolution in a New Era of Family Formation

 

Erika Ohashi, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Probiotic-induced class-switch recombination of allergen-specific B cells to IgA may prevent IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reactions

 

Jacqueline Elaine Oman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, A Pantry for Memories

 

Elizabeth Christine Otto, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, From Projector to Pen: Six Case Studies in the Design of Illustrated Film Posters

 

Zachary David Palchick, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Vertebrate Limb Development and the Emerging Role of MircroRNAs

 

Rebecca Jane Palmer, Biology (BIOL) 2010, MiR-206 and Skeletal Muscle Development

 

Anupama Parameswaran, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Cysteine String Protein α, a putative drug target for treatment of congenital Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus

 

Winston Kyungwoo Park, Economics (ECON) 2010, Serving Under Pressure

 

Becky Jean Patrias, Matthew Bernard Cordes, Beatrice Burlingame White, and Zheng Zhu, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, Shadows of the Cantor Set

 

Katherine Alexis Perry, Physics (PHYS) 2010, Superfluid Helium-3

 

Samantha Kristine Peterson, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Another Potential Excuse: The Role of Parental Authority in Students' Procrastination

 

Allison Pfeiffer, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Effects of soil disturbance on aggregation and mineral-associated carbon and nitrogen storage

 

Matthew Charles Kern Pieh, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Dietary Soy Phytoestrogens Alter Sexual Behaviors in Male Rats

 

Joanna Rose Plotz, American Studies (AMST) 2010, Read at Your Own Risk! Tracing Adolescent and Parent Reception of Judy Blume's "Forever," 1975 to the Present

 

Alexander Nicholas Popper, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, When Hawks Cry: Party, Politics, and Paradox in Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy

 

Jean Louise Porter, Biology (BIOL) 2010, The Contribution of Methane Producing Archaea to the Obesity Epidemic

 

Reza Rahnema, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Determinants of Aggregate Health Care Expenditure: the Role of Institutional Factors

 

Mahesh Badeti Rao, Biology (BIOL) 2010, MicroRNA-124 is a key regulator of neurogenesis

 

Nicole Elizabeth Reich, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Methodological Issues of Teaching Scientific Reasoning Skills to Elementary Students: Inconsistent Definitions and Insufficient Participant Detail

 

Katherine Richey, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Slurs and Stereotypes: Automatic Stereotype Activation in Non-Insulting Contexts

 

Julia Ariel Rindler, American Studies (AMST) 2010, Playing with American Identity: Margins and Mainstreams in American Girl's Construction of Nationality