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Graduated in 2010

 

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

 

Samuel Kipnis Ritter, History (HIST) 2010, To any which might take the pains to read it over: Authorial Authority in the Seventeenth-Century Sea Jounal of Edward Barlow

 

Andrew Douglas Ritts, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Limnological Analysis of the Groundwater, Biological, and Morphological Factors in Relation to Stratification and Dissolved Oxygen Levels of the North and South Basins of Roosevelt Lake, MN

 

Laura Elizabeth Roach, Biology (BIOL) 2010, Exercise Therapy and Relief of Depressive Symptoms

 

Britni Noelle Robinson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Black Male Identity

 

Andy Rooks, Economics (ECON) 2010, Competition and Consumer Utility: Evidence from the Healthcare Industry

 

Nathaniel Rosenblum, History (HIST) 2010, Social Science and Rights: Destutt de Tracy and the Shaping of a Notion

 

Nathaniel A. Ryan, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Mechanic's Grand Manner

 

Nathaniel A. Ryan, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Microstructures of a deformed kyanite-quartz vein of the Raft River Mountains in northwest Utah

 

Callie Jenna Sand, Physics (PHYS) 2010, The Evolution of a Megastructure: Skyscrapers and the American Way

 

Michael Jared Sanders, Physics (PHYS) 2010, Water Erosion of Topsoil: Fundamental Physical Concepts

 

Emogene Ruth Schilling, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, Abstract Abstract

 

John D. Schlaefer, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Impact of Flex Fuel Technology in Brazil on the Cointegration of São Paulo Consumer Gasoline Prices and Sugar No. 11 Futures Prices

 

Laura O'Sullivan Schlosser, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Effects of Methylphenidate and Environmental Enrichment on Spatial Memory in Rats

 

Meryl Rose Schumacker, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2010, The Square: A Prosocial Educational Television Show for 6-9 Year Old Audiences

 

Allison Clare Schwartz, Studio Art (ARTS) 2010, [Images of sexual dimorphism]

 

Julia Elizabeth Schwarz, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Influence of lithology and climate on spring chemistry in the Upper Deschutes River watershed, Oregon

 

Chelsea Phipps Scott, Physics (PHYS) 2010, Glacier dynamics: Using velocity and temperature profiles to understand climate fluctuations

 

Chelsea Phipps Scott, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Kinematic modeling of deformation in the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus

 

Beth Marie Seraydarian, Political Science (POSC) 2010, Implementation: How Local Expectations, once Dashed in Oakland, are Realized Using the Community Reinvestment Act and Public-Private Partnerships to Address Affordable Housing

 

Mengxi Shen, Chinese (CHIN) 2010, Qi—the psychosomatic component of Chinese medicine—ties between medicine, literature and philosophy

 

Mio Shimma, History (HIST) 2010, Instrumentalization of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: How Three Indonesian Nationalists Promoted Indonesian Independence through Japanese Military Administration, 1942-45

 

Jinho Shin, Biology (BIOL) 2010, MicroRNA's Regulation of the Nodal Pathway

 

Joseph Andrew Sigrin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Distant Relations: The Formation of the Sephardic Imagined Community

 

Katie L. Silbiger, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Evaluating Educational Initiatives for Gifted and Talented Students

 

Joseph Stephen Sjoberg, Economics (ECON) 2010, Cartel Enforcement and Competitive Balance: Evidence from Men's College Basketball

 

Jordan Buchanan Smith, History (HIST) 2010, More Rude and Anticque than 'ere was Sodom: Piracy and the Tavern Community in Port Royal, Jamaica, 1680-1692

 

Karen Elizabeth Spettel, Chemistry (CHEM) 2010, The Evolution of 3D NMR Isotope Labeling Techniques in Determining the 3D Structure of Large Proteins

 

Michael Aaron Stevens, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Only Way You Gonna Take It Is if I'm Dead and Cold: Masculinity and Sexual Assault in Minnesota Prisons

 

Nate Jasper Stewart, Biology (BIOL) 2010, The effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on plant-enemy interactions

 

Laura Elise Stone, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2010, Stereotype Alteration through a Cognitive Dual-Process Lens: Examining Stereotype Knowledge Structures, Stereotyping Processes, and Perspective Taking

 

Stephanie Lauren Strother, English (ENGL) 2010, The Colonization of Representation / The Violence of Self-Deception

 

Jane Eleanor Sturges, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa: An Examination of Political Opportunity Structures

 

Laura Kim Sugerman, Chemistry (CHEM) 2010, Bottled Art: The chemistry of brewing beer

 

Mahima Swarup, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Tectonic evolution of the Menderes massif core complex and Alasehir graben, southwestern Turkey: counter evidence to a rolling-hinge mechanism

 

Smith Stuart Alan Sweeney, Geology (GEOL) 2010, Characterization of two atypical refractory inclusions from separate CV3 chondritic meteorites: Petrogenesis in the early solar system

 

Joseph Karl Swiggum, Physics (PHYS) 2010, Out of Silence: Sound Film Technology of the 1920s

 

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