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Graduated in 2011
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
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
