Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2010
Elizabeth Tan and Claire E. Brookmeyer, Dance (DANC) 2010, BASTE
Margaret Rose Taylor, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Modification of the Lignin Biosynthetic Pathway to Reduce Biomass Recalcitrance in the Production of Cellulosic Ethanol
Anne Elizabeth Triest, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, The Way that Can Be Told: Examining Popular Western Books on Daoism
Katherine Cannon Turnage, Chemistry (CHEM) 2010, Copper Binding to Aß42 and Alzheimer's Disease
Derek Vang, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Serotonin Modulates our Decision Making in Gambling
Mikaela Lee Van Sistine, Linguistics (LING) 2010, Pragmatic Particles in Colloquial Malaysian English: Description and Analysis in a Politeness Theory Framework
Ezra Velazquez, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, TownFork
Allison R. Vitkus, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Microfossil fauna from the Blue Earth Siltstone of the Lower Ordovician Prairie du Chien Group, Minnesota, USA
Colin Michael Wakeham, Biology (BIOL) 2010, The role of acetylcholine in rapid eye movement sleep
Julia Marjory Walther, Art History (ARTH) 2010, Out with the Obi, in with the Bustle: Japan's Transition to Western Costume in Meiji Woodblock Prints
Janae D. Walton-Green, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, Untitled: A Documentary
Sibo Wang, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Reconstructions of Late Ordovician crinoids and bryozoans from the Decorah Shale, Upper Mississippi Valley
Alexandra Molitor Waters, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Bits and Pieces
Alexandra Molitor Waters, Spanish (SPAN) 2010, La voz emancipada: Testimonios de un descubrimiento en la España contemporánea
Elizabeth Jane Weimer, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, Institutions and Place: A Study of Corn Ethanol Production in Southern Minnesota
Julia M. Weisman, French (FREN) 2010, Témoin à la barre: La France face à son amnésie collective dans "Muriel, ou le temps d’un retour" et "Caché"
Monica Ann Welke, Art History (ARTH) 2010, Rewriting Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio as a Case Study for Historic Preservation
Trent Ward Wells, Political Science (POSC) 2010, Because We Said So! An Analysis of Public Opinion's Effects on Foreign Policy
Ashley Brittany Wentworth, Biology (BIOL) 2010, The unexpected evolution of extreme polyandry in Apis: Unique means of minimizing costs and maximizing benefits
William August White, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Family Feud: The Intersection of Polyandry, Viviparity, and Speciation
Spenser Drew Williamson, Economics (ECON) 2010, The effect contract position has on player performance in the NFL.
Sophie Gabrielle Williams, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Soil microbial biomass and respiration dynamics in a 14 year chronosequence of restored tallgrass prairie
Peter Richard Wilton, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Selfish Genetic Elements and the Evolution of Polyandry
Laura Akilah Treneir Woodland, Asian Studies (ASST) 2010, Orthographic Selection and Japan: Social Implications of Script Selection in Japanese Magazine Advertisements
Meghan Frances Wood, Biology (BIOL) 2010, The function of Nod2 in the recognition and regulation of microbes in the gut and the relationship between Nod2 and the pathogenesis of Crohn's Ddisease
Brianne M. Wooldridge, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, The Relationships of Positive Psychology: Specifically Personality and Social Interactions with Happiness
Naomi Kathleen Yoder, History (HIST) 2010, Scripture, Sexuality, and Society: Women and Authority among sixteenth-century Anabaptists
Allan Zhang, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, The Sustainability and Resilience of Indigenous Communities
Xiaozhou Zhu, Economics (ECON) 2010, Goals and Gains:The Impact of the World Cup Tournaments on National Stock Markets
Benjamin Zivan, Chinese (CHIN) 2010, Alphabetizing Chinese: Enlightened Reform or Misguided Idealism?
Amanda Sue Zoch, English (ENGL) 2010, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage: The comitragic nature of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello
Graduated in 2009
Britta Anderson, Spanish (SPAN) 2009, Dumbo en Santiago: Los productos globales y las crisis de identidad en Las peliculas de mi vida de Alberto Fuguet.
Elsass Kirke Anderson, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Hydraulic conductivity of Pliocene & Pleistocene sediments in the San Diego Bay subsurface
Jonathan Aronson, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Overhauser magnetometer survey of Midcontinent Rift accomodation zone in southeastern Minnesota and implications for subsurface structure
Benjamin Barclay, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Mixing oil and blood: oil vulnerability an propensity for militarized conflict after the Cold War
Elliot Bartis, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Physics and applications of pyroelectricity
Hal Baseman, Economics (ECON) 2009, Testing the effects of European monetary union on stock market interdependence using econometric analysis
Kane M. Bechstein, Economics (ECON) 2009, There's no wrong choice : personalizing incentives to maximize motivation
Anna Biewen, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2009, La loi Lonetti et ses dfauts: la politique de l'euthanasie en France
Sam Birnbaum, Economics (ECON) 2009, Have housing prices become more sensitive to the interest rate?
Ifrah M. Biyoow, Economics (ECON) 2009, Intrahousehold bargaining and decision-making : the case of Kagera, Tanzania
Lauren Blacik, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, We are them and then is now: the unique presentation of the past at U.S. World Heritage Sites
Andrew BoddySpargo, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, An embedded market approach to Chile's neoliberal transition
Elizabeth Bonawitz, History (HIST) 2009, An honest Englishman of good plain sense and meaning? Or a "robust true-born Briton"?: English constructions of Englishness, Britishness, and Scottishness, 1690-1740
Colin Bottles, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Political bosses or publics: who rules in democracy?
Robert Bradley, Economics (ECON) 2009, Paired risk preferences
Laura Bramley, English (ENGL) 2009, Nonsensical stories : morality, imagination and empowerment in Victorian fairy tales
Rosalind Brayfield, Linguistics (LING) 2009, Daa gweyn Aa gweyn: questions and foci in the Belizean Creole
Hannah L. Breckbill, Aparna Dua, Luke B. Hankins, and Robert W. Trettin, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Challenge Math -- 2nd grade
Thomas Brenner, Physics (PHYS) 2009, The fundamentals of solar cells
Nick Brom, Michael Henneberry, Frederick Kieley, Daniel Mammel, Juan Medrano, Andrew Olson, and Robert Schmitz, Chemistry (CHEM) 2009, Interfacial electron transfer at semiconductor-liquid junctions: implications for powering the planet
Emily Brosius, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, "You are normal" : negotiating personhood within an adult day program for older adults with dementia
Adam Brown, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The weakest link: bilingual lexical access and the orthographic size congruity effect
Sasha Houston Brown, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Reproductive conquest and the seizure of life : a biopolitical analysis of government sponsored sterilization among native American women
Mikael Brucker, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Designing appropriate technology for the developing world
Kathryn Buckner, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Timing development: a new approach to ANWR
Kort Butler, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Preliminary seismic refraction survey of the Cannon River Wilderness Park
Hannah Campbell Gustafson, Religion (RELG) 2009, A comparison of ecofeminist theologies in context: Rosemary Radford Ruether of the United States and Ivone Gebara of Brazil
Karen Campbell, Economics (ECON) 2009, Entitlement's influence on economic behavior : evidence from dictator and ultimatum games
Nick Cesarek, Economics (ECON) 2009, Estimating the demand for education
Matthew Cole, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Political evil and the limits of liberal theory
Lauren Colwell, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Evidence for differential Louisville and Emperor-Hawaiian mantle plume motion based on 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Tiffany F. Cox, Geology (GEOL) 2009, June 2006 seismic swarm and dike emplacement beneath the Michoacan-Guanajuato volcanic field, Mexico
Tiffany F. Cox, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Molten rock: a perspective on magma genesis, magma chamber dynamics, and the effects of crystallization
Michelle K. Deeter, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Non-state actors and their effect on policy in China
John Delehanty, Religion (RELG) 2009, Metro-evangelization: faiths, religion, and social capital in American metropolitan politics
Frank M. Dolce, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, How can I read this title? The contributions of pre-lexical and sub-lexical pathways to Chinese word recognition
Katelyn Donisch, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Using gain-framed messaging to change attitudes toward menstruation and menstrual suppression
Lacey Dorman, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Goal urgency versus goal importance: which goals do people pursue and which goals lead to satisfaction?
Aparna Dua, Economics (ECON) 2009, How does mother's education affect child health : evidence from India
Andrea Duron, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, I like boys, I like sports : gender performance among female athletes
Lisa Dyson, Asian Studies (ASST) 2009, Chinese history, Uyghur identity: Chinese history education and the place for Uyghurness in modern China
Erin Feehan-Nelson, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The effects of divisive primaries on national elections
Masha Finn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, The intelligence failure of the Yom Kippur War: how structural faults of intelligence communities intensify psychological perils of analysis
Marissa Fischer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Egbe aya efutoo mbia (The hawk never gets lost in its journey to other lands) : brain drain, transnationalism, and the migration of the Nigerian Igbo
Timothy Foran, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Reforming an ineffective community: how organization theory can rebuild the U.S. intelligence apparatus
Aaron Fricke, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Precambrian geologic history of the Gravelly Range, southwest Montana
Lukas Fried, Physics (PHYS) 2009, The sun and its spots
Christa Frintner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Gender imbalance of fields despite equal opportunity : gender and higher education decision-making processes at Carleton College
Lisa Gaetjens, Spanish (SPAN) 2009, El uso de la revisin mtica en Seora de la miel por Fanny Buitrago
Michelle Gajewski, Economics (ECON) 2009, Are you considered eligible for health? Medicaid and its effect on state-level aggregate health measured by infant mortality rate and mortality rate
Michelle Gajewski, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Religious doctrine with a new court: what effect will a new justice have on religion in America?
Christopher Gardner, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Economic growth and success in Sub-Saharan Africa: is politico-economic realignment enough?
Thea Garon, History (HIST) 2009, Media censorship and control, the Argentine press campaign during the Malvinas War
Kenneth Geiger, Chinese (CHIN) 2009, Jia Zhangke's The world and Still life
Kenneth Geiger, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Re-made in the USA: the journey of film from Asia to Hollywood
Peter Gill, History (HIST) 2009, The politics of land reform in Nepal, 1950-1964
Charlotte Goodrich, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Beyond nation-state paradigms : globalization and classic sociological theory
David E. Guild, Michael A. Sawi, Tyler L. Thorsen, Emma R. Turetsky, and Erik W. Ulberg, Computer Science (CS) 2009, Of bits and bots: the digital adventures of Alice
Rebecca Hahn, English (ENGL) 2009, Beastly desires, rational souls: women writers transforming femininity
Hope Harvey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Insisting on integration : Jefferson County, Kentucky
Sarah Hashmall, Religion (RELG) 2009, The Bhikkhuni debate in Sri Lanka
Mary A. Henke-Haney, Geology (GEOL) 2009, From formation to faucet: groundwater in Southeast Minnesota
Yusi He, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, A review of current estrogen research: implications and future directions
Theodore J. Hickey, Economics (ECON) 2009, Are we sensitive to cost? Exploring the healthcare market given price distortions
Temara Holt, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2009, Learning, performing, and embodying respectability in an all girls African American Catholic school
Hannah Hosotani, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Health politics: learning from state models to create national health care reform
Juliana Houston, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Exercise and stress reduction: testing a theory of arousal attribution
Marlea Iiams, Physics (PHYS) 2009, The physics of woodwinds
Sam Kalar, Economics (ECON) 2009, Exploring stock market bubble phenomena : an adaptation of the classic Keynesian beauty contest
