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Graduated in 2009

 

Christina Knudson, Edward Kuhn, and Bassirou Sarr, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, A Bayesian spatial temporal model of ozone

 

Seong-chang Koh, Economics (ECON) 2009, Change in effect of wage penalty for obese Americans

 

Rodney Kuhl, Economics (ECON) 2009, The causes of the obesity epidemic in the United States

 

Heung Jin Kwon, Economics (ECON) 2009, An experimental test of the generalized Anglo-Dutch auction

 

Amalia Lam, History (HIST) 2009, Founded on reason and choice: Moors, mastiffs, and establishing "Britishness" through marriage in the periodical literature of the northern British Colonies

 

Justin LaMont, Geology (GEOL) 2009, A survey of throughgoing fractures in Upper Ordovician carbonate rocks, Goodhue County, Minnesota

 

Annelise Lawson, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, To burn out or fade away: the effects of the peak/end rule on prospective assessments of life quality

 

Alexander Leedom, Classics (CLST) 2009, The Greco-Latin Negro: a postcolonial reading of The Golden Ass

 

Yong Kwon Lee, Economics (ECON) 2009, Portfolios diversification and the determinants of bilateral investment flow

 

Thuy Le, Economics (ECON) 2009, Wrinkles in fiscal policy: an examination of the effects of aging demographics on public expenditures and revenues

 

Dylan Scott Linet, Geology (GEOL) 2009, The Spring Creek project series: two geology projects to be taught at the introductory level

 

Emily Litwin, History (HIST) 2009, Nationalism, feminism, and the women of Ireland's Revolutionary Period

 

David Lonoff and Daniel McDonald, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Bijective proofs: a comprehensive exercise

 

Megan C. Lynn, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2009, L'anorexie comme un probleme social en France

 

Erinrose Mager, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Importance of the contextual framework when addressing kitsch objects and why this framework validates kitsch aesthetically and socially

 

Caitlin Magnusson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, The animated feature film: encoding and decoding across cultures

 

Nora Mahlberg, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, A demand to be made whole : a critical examination of environmental justice movement theory and uranium contamination on the Navajo Reservation

 

Ayesha Mahmud, Economics (ECON) 2009, Health impact of microcredit programs : does microcredit participation have a positive impact on health-seeking behavior?

 

Jason Malashevich, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The great value of human intelligence

 

Michelle Margoles, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The "Saint Louis-ism" of Mame Coumba Bang : a gendered perspective of changing perceptions and observances of a river goddess in Saint Louis, Senegal

 

Jessica Marks, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Using major, minor, and trace element geochemistry of melt inclusions to study magma dynamics and evolution at Augustine Volcano, Alaska

 

Theodore Marschall, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Superstates: Bose-Einstein condensation in the states of matter

 

Michael Martin, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, An inconvenient solution? An economic and political analysis of global warming policy

 

Brian Mason, Russian (RUSS) 2009, Oligarkhi: the development of a new cultural concept in post-Soviet Russia

 

Melissa Mayer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The interactive effects of alcohol cues, alcohol outcome expectancies, and motives fulfillment on hostile impression formation

 

Yael Mayer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, An evaluation of remedial education programs using cognitive research

 

Caitlin McMurtry, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The relationship of housing type, isolation, and hopelessness to involvement in risk behaviors among adolescents in low income neighborhoods

 

Nicholas Merkelson, Religion (RELG) 2009, Ritual ecstasy and the shamans of prehistory: an archaeological approach to the study of religion

 

Reid Merriman, Economics (ECON) 2009, The determinants of demand for dental healthcare

 

Amy Mixa, Economics (ECON) 2009, Determining the ideal smoking ban for the United States : a quantitative analysis of workplace, restaurant, and bar bans

 

Carolyn Morales, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Taking the time to care : Hallmark cards and the commodification of time

 

Samantha Morin, Economics (ECON) 2009, Business cycles and health : how the level of development of a country affects the relationship between the strength of its economy and the health of its population

 

William Morrison, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Strategic economic incentives in counterinsurgency efficacy

 

William Mueller, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Energetics of a hovering hummingbird

 

Laura Myers, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Selective attention in bilingual students: a comparison of skills in both languages

 

Nicholas Netland, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, American media in Iraq and the influences of Vietnam

 

Elizabeth Nguyen, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2009, Alternatives in dialogue and race

 

Khanh Nguyen, Economics (ECON) 2009, The effect of monetary policy and openness to trade on total factor productivity : a cross-country analysis

 

Blake Nicholson, Economics (ECON) 2009, The college wage premium : changing skills and market returns

 

Arata Niizuma, Economics (ECON) 2009, Children as an investment for parents : a study on intergenerational transfer in Malaysia

 

Hannah Oken-Berg, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The Five-Factor model and food choices: personality and the foods we eat

 

John Olmsted, History (HIST) 2009, Poverty, the pulpit, and the polis: John Chrysostom's sermons on wealth and poverty

 

Amanda Otero, Religion (RELG) 2009, Guadalupe: devotion, identity, and power

 

Andrew Park, Economics (ECON) 2009, The internet and differences in state unemployment from 1998-2003

 

Paul Imon Pedtke, Economics (ECON) 2009, Construction investment, interest rates, GDP, and the S&P 500

 

Martha Perez, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Dissociative symptoms, episodic memory, and a neurological basis for childhood trauma

 

Alexander Persaud, History (HIST) 2009, Rodney, history, and the dialectic: rethinking Walter Rodney's Marxist methodology

 

Sabrina M. Peterson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The Islamist movement in Saudi Arabia : an interaction of structure and culture

 

Robert J. Phillips, Economics (ECON) 2009, Determining the predictive power of economic and financial indicators in the US stock market

 

Jared P. Plotz, Economics (ECON) 2009, Reevaluating the effect of futures positions on the direction of natural gas price movements

 

Jeffrey Potempa, Economics (ECON) 2009, Private and public third-party punishment in a public good game

 

Jerome C. Potter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Telepop: a subjective composite of twentieth century American popular culture and history

 

Chelsea Lyn Prax, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2009, Criminels: la presse et les homosexuels au Mali

 

Erica Prochaska, History (HIST) 2009, The imperial world of Verrier Elwin

 

Myles Radtke, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Breaking reciprocity: prospect theory and the EC-121 crisis and Black September

 

Reza Rahnema, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Violent religious movements: exploring the factors and the elements leading to violence

 

Steven Ramey, Economics (ECON) 2009, The effects of declining home equity on household consumption patterns : new evidence from 2006-2008

 

Sarojini Rao, Economics (ECON) 2009, Do vegetable and fishpond technologies impact investment in human capital? Evidence from rural Bangladesh

 

Bedrich Rios, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Web design: type and layout

 

Lucy Robson, History (HIST) 2009, Reading past the label: exploring Second World War evacuation in Britain through the child's perspective

 

Sara L. Rothwell, Music (MUSC) 2009, The compositional techniques of Luigi Dallapiccola's twelve-tone music

 

Sara L. Rothwell, Physics (PHYS) 2009, The quantum effects of light

 

Evan Rowe, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Out of the "jungle": the rise of the American county as regional power-player

 

Jacob O. Schak, Economics (ECON) 2009, The dynamic effects of changes in business and income taxes on output : evidence from American fiscal policy

 

Taylor Schieck, History (HIST) 2009, Merovingian kings and bishops: relationship of reciprocity

 

John D. Schlaefer, Chinese (CHIN) 2009, Madness in contemporary Chinese literature: a case study of Lu Xun's use of madness carried out through contemporary Chinese writers

 

David Schmidt, History (HIST) 2009, Ecology, nature and the national parks : redefining the relationship between science and the national park service

 

Alex Sciuto, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Pathway to change: a model of the evolution of the Federal Reserve system

 

Laura Shatzer, Religion (RELG) 2009, Missional, incarnational, communal: an emerging church ecclesiology

 

Natalie Sheneman, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Faith, community, and independence: a comparative study of religion and organizational structure in the Tibetan and Uyghur nationalist movements

 

Mio Shimma, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Merging civilizations: the emergence of Islamic democracy in Indonesia and Turkey

 

Lisa Short, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, The modification of melodrama in Tyler Perry's films

 

Maija Sipola, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Geomorphologic and anthropogenic impacts on artifact distribution within the Mugello Valley, Tuscany, Italy

 

Don Smith, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Students for sale : how YOU can take our money

 

Ryan Andrew Smith, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Semantic externalism and Quine's indeterminacy of translation

 

Ryan Andrew Smith and Yuan Tian, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Analytic proof of the prime number theorem

 

Nathan Stephens, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Come be citizens with the rest of us : Ecuadorian selves and indigenous others in Ecuadorian constitutional law

 

Kathryn Stroud, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2009, Cue type and biasing verb presence: factors influencing false memory development in pseudo-jurors

 

Danielle Sumita, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, When commercial interests reclaim racketeering

 

Kristin Sweeney, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Characterization of a partitioned section of the Hoh Serh Fault: Mongolian Altai

 

Andrew Tatge, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Police states in film and Foucault's Panopticon: negotiating spiritual and physical

 

Kaarin Taylor, Economics (ECON) 2009, Trade and the environment : the effects of trade liberalization on seven measures of environmental quality

 

Ryan Terrien, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Fringe science: optical astronomical interferometry

 

Eirik S. Thoen, Economics (ECON) 2009, Seeking an optimal health care system : an empirical investigation in the context of cost and longevity

 

Yuan Tian, Economics (ECON) 2009, State mandates on health insurance and moral hazard : the case of diabetes

 

Lena Tjosvold, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, What's in a name: does your name affect memory for positive and/or negative narrative?

 

Julian Tokarev, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, What you think is what you get: the effects of affective orientation on incidental learning of words are dependent on item valence and evaluator orientation

 

Gene Uenishi, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Stereotype threat and social facilitation: how both affect math performance among white males

 

Ariel VandeVoorde, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Transforming education for social change : student experiences grounding academic civic engagement in social theory

 

Phillip Varela, Geology (GEOL) 2009, New evidence for reconstructing the marine faunal assemblage of the Decorah formation (southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa, USA): a qualitative survey of microfossils.

 

Dominic Vendell, History (HIST) 2009, Feeding the body, feeding the soul: Swami Vivekananda, religious universality, and social welfare in an Anglo-American imperial world, 1893-1897

 

Elizabeth Webb, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Re-mapping the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami inundation in the Banda Aceh region with attention to probable sea level rise

 

Hannah Weinstein, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Identifying with your country : an argument for immigrants' cultural rights in liberal democracies

 

W. Patrick Whitehead, Economics (ECON) 2009, Exchange rate volatility and bilateral trade flows : evidence from the group of three

 

Andrew Widmer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Differential social behavior development in the mouse as a result of nicotine- or codeine- influenced juvenile social environment

 

Katrina Wood, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The strategic management and structural organization of working memory distinct roles for D1 and D2 dopamine receptors

 

Mena Xiong, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The cloak of assimilation: the Chinese in Thailand

 

Gao Yang, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The effects of partial sleep deprivation on adaptation to anxiety

 

Andrew Ziller, Economics (ECON) 2009, Trust, reciprocity, and fairness : an ultimatum-trust experiment

Graduated in 2008

 

Andrew Joseph Lauer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2008, Some films are better than others: Lyman H. Howe, cultural capital and bringing the world to Northfield, MN