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Graduated in 2011

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

Adrienne Kathleen Wilber, Geology (GEOL) 2011, Late Quaternary climate in the southern foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska based on stable isotope analysis of lake sediment

Christopher Daniel Wilen, Physics (PHYS) 2011, Free Electron Lasers: Imaging the Ultra Small and Ultra Fast

Geoffrey Leuba Williams, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Priming Stigmatized Groups to Change Intellectual Ability

Courtney Elizabeth Wipf, English (ENGL) 2011, Never Break the Chain

Colin John Wixted, History (HIST) 2011, The Pied Piper of Reform: De-Stalinization in the Soviet Union, Hungary, Poland and East Germany in a Comparative Context

Cathleen Dyer Wolf, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2011, Meet Street View: Theorizing Google Street View

David Yamron, History (HIST) 2011, Forged in Fear: the Ku Klux Shadow State in Tennessee, 1867-1869

Ger Yang, Chinese (CHIN) 2011, Exploring the Tao in Chinese Military Strategies: The Art of War, The 36 Strategies, and Red Cliff

Zhe Yang, Economics (ECON) 2011, R&D and Productivity Growth

Roger Eli Yarett, History (HIST) 2011, Politics, Progress, and the End of Time: Evangelical Fundamentalism and the Making of a Political Movement

Philip Langdon Yates, Biology (BIOL) 2011, The differential regulation of alpha-secretase and beta-secretase as a causal mechanism for Alzheimer's disease, and the inhibition of beta-secretase by sterol-linking and membrane-anchoring as a therapeutic treatment

Amanda Rose Yourd, Geology (GEOL) 2011, An examination of the development of Kettleman Hills North Dome, central California using paleomagnetic and map-based analysis

Rachel Zucker, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Extraversion-Targeted Interventions to Promote Exercise: The Low Efficacy of Personality-Congruent Attempts

Graduated in 2010

Lynn Mairead Abe, Religion (RELG) 2010, Who's The Boss?: The Soka Gakkai's Legitimation of Authority in its Sect to Church Transition

William T. Adler, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Auditory Metrical Coordination of Attention on a Visual n-back Task

Elizabeth Hoffman Aeschlimann, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2010, Eliciting Emotion and Affect in Moral Judgment: An Examination of Intention, Personal Force and Personal Relevance

Chrisna Aing, Sarah Halls, and Kiva Oken, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, Using Occupancy Theory and Hierarchical Models to Estimate Otter Population in Southeastern Minnesota

Gina Marie Allen, Economics (ECON) 2010, If You're Healthy and You Know it Clap Your Hands: An Exploration of the Relationship between Self-Rated Happiness and Self-Rated Health

Brett Anthony Amick, Economics (ECON) 2010, Competitive Balance within a Cartel Design: A Case Study on the National Hockey League's Original Six

Chuck Hans Anderson-Weir, Economics (ECON) 2010, How Does the Stock Market React to Corporate Environmental News?

Kristen Lee Asp, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, Imaging Northfield: The Photographic Representation of Place

Shane Auerbach, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2010, Le contexte de la corruption au Mali

Ruth M. Aufderheide, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, When is it Compelling Enough to Act? Mobilization within the Gun Violence Prevention Movement

Sarah Katherine Ball, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Sarah Ball: Studio Art Comps Project - Residents 208-210E. 2nd St. (Crack House), 1868-2010, [untitled]

Salomone Lewis Baquis, History (HIST) 2010, Marketing the Myth: Cold War Propaganda and U.S. Diplomacy, 1945-1959

Cory Pate Barnes, Physics (PHYS) 2010, The Action Principle: An Exlporation into the Mathematical Framework of the Universe

Laura Olivia Barsness, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Not Just Black and White: The Importance of Using Genotype to Assess Melanoma Risk

Lila Battis, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Auntie Clementine's Guide to Fossils: A Children's Book

Laura Kathleen Bazzetta, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Linking River Morphology to Larval Drift of an Endangered Sturgeon

Emma Kathleen Bentley, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Book Objects

Lynsey Michelle Eider Bernfeld, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Keeping the Peace in the Gut: Balancing Tregs and Th17 cells

James Bethune, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Snowpack trends in the contributing region to the Central Valley of California

Jabir Bin Mohd Yusoff, Philosophy (PHIL) 2010, Philosophical intuitions and experimental threats: The coast is clear

Katie Blanchard 2010, Green Except for the Green: Lawncare, Sustainability and Placemaking at Carleton College

Jonathan Robert Blaufuss, Economics (ECON) 2010, Identifying the Effect of Fossil Fuel Reserves on National CO2 Emissions using a Variation of the STIRPAT Model

Susan Purcell Blaylock, Economics (ECON) 2010, Asset Ownership and Health

Philip Richard Blue, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Multiple Types of Resilience: Self-Enhancing Bias and Positive Emotions as Predictors of Ego-Resilience

Grace Elizabeth Boynton, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Neuromelanin and the Role of Pigmentation Genes in Parkinson's Disease

Molly Alice Bresslour, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, When Do We Support Positions Advanced by an Opposing Political Party? The Effects of Political Party Labels on Attitudes

David Brink-Roby, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Fault development in the Cathedral Peak Granodiorite, Sierra Nevada batholith: Evidence for directional emplacement of the Johnson Granite Porphyry

Jessica Petrini Briol, Philosophy (PHIL) 2010, A Right to Education

Claire E. Brookmeyer, Sam Cross-Knorr, Adam Fagin, Alfredo Guzman, Musetta Steinbach, and Lisa Wang, Chemistry (CHEM) 2010, The Midas Touch: Au(I) Catalysts in Organic Synthesis

Elissa Rachel Brown, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Representing Northfield

Grant Buckingham, Amelia Zutz, Kevin Pollock, Leng Sok, Bryan Rosett, Greta Kringle, and Michael Lysonski, Chemistry (CHEM) 2010, Probing the Interface Using Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy

Emma Kathleen Burghardt, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, Notes on Whimsy and Twin Lens

Christopher Daniel Burke, English (ENGL) 2010, Shakespeare's Wise Fools

Kyle Pearson Burkhardt, Economics (ECON) 2010, Racial Discrimination Among Major League Soccer Referees

Lauren Elizabeth Burkhart, Japanese (JAPN) 2010, China Nights and Manchurian Dreams: Pan-Asianism in the Shiki Theater Company's Showa Trilogy

Elizabeth Anne Sheridan Camlin, English (ENGL) 2010, All the Single Ladies: Christina Rossetti's Radical Revisions of "Goblin Market"

Heather Renee Campbell, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2010, Emergent Consciousness: An ant-based explanation of subjective experience

Rebecca Bronwyn Canary-King, History (HIST) 2010, Seizing the Time and Seizing Power: Elaine Brown and Negotiations of Gendered Spaces in the Black Panther Party

Robert Carlton, Economics (ECON) 2010, Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Youth and Young Adults: Economic Complements or Substitutes?

Jonathan Carter, Economics (ECON) 2010, Justifying the NIMBY Argument: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis of Wind Energy's Pricing Effects on Residential House Values

Rose Elia Chahla, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Finding Happiness: Internal and External Determinants of Subjective Well-Being

Andrew Edwin Chambers, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Functional Pottery as Sculptural Object

Anjana Varikottil Chandran, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Oxidated Creatine Kinase as a Potential Drug Target for PARs in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

Moses Rotich Cherono, Economics (ECON) 2010, Quantifying the Economic Value of a Soccer Player: An Econometric Analysis

Erica Rochelle Chesley, Zachary Starer-Stor, and Emma Zhou, Mathematics (MATH) 2010, A Finite Simple Puzzle of Order 44,352,000

Adrian Chow, Tina Cich, Ross Hamilton, Emily Kobernik, Jingjing Ling, and Christopher Staral, Chemistry (CHEM) 2010, Activity-Based Protein Profiling: Fishing in the Sea of Proteins

Chris Clark, Henry Heitzer, Lindsey Madison, Colin Russell, and Laura Sofen, Chemistry (CHEM) 2010, Molecular Catch and Release: Metal-Ligand Coordination Chemistry

Christopher R. Clark, Philosophy (PHIL) 2010, The Debate over Liberal Eugenics

Chelsea Connair Clifford, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Variation in cattle greenhouse gas emissions by feeding regime, as mediated by rumen microbial communities

Andy Fitts Cochrane, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Dome, Why?

Kenneth Wayne Coleman, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2010, For Black Youth Who've Considered Hip-Hop when their Social Realities became too Tough: An Analysis of Contemporary Commercialized Rap Music

Rory F. Collins, History (HIST) 2010, What Culture? Defining National Culture in Tanzania, 1961-1974

Emily Yuko Cousins, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Culture and Legal Change: An Examination of Japan's New Criminal Justice System

Claire Marie Crossett, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Sex Peptide: Agent of Antagonism, Product of Polyandry

Sarah E. Crump, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Paleomagnetic data from the Rinconada fault in central California: Evidence for off-fault deformation

Irene F. Dennison, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Adult Exploration and Secure Base Priming

Lyndon DeSalvo, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2010, First Among the BRICs: Brazil's Necessary Challenging of TRIPs

Lyndon DeSalvo, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Untitled

James Adam Devereux, History (HIST) 2010, Root Out White Chauvinism: Working Class Whiteness and the American Communist Party

Megan Rhiannon Dever-Hansen, Biology (BIOL) 2010, mDia as a novel drug target for cancer metastasis

Eleonore Marie Dixon-Roche, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Ogling the Onlooker