Integrated Comprehensive Exercises (Comps)

The Carleton collection of Comps, Honors Papers, and Prize-Winning Works is a collaboration between academic departments and the library. Students self-submit their work with the guidance of their departments and programs. Descriptive information about each comps, honors paper, or prize-winning project is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of projects is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about the collection, including how to submit and how to request access to the full text of works.

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Edith Reyes Contreras, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Rising Temperatures, Vanishing Forests: The Environmental Drivers of Malaria Transmission

Rhusel Rivera, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Investigating the Role of PPAR�� in Peroxisome-Mediated Sebum Production and the Pathophysiology of Acne Vulgaris

Aidan Roessler, Tony Ni, Jake Jasmer, and Yang Tan, Computer Science (CS) 2025, A Survey of Community Detection: Algorithms, Applications, and Beyond!

Grace Rogers and Elena Prichard, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Sustainability in Higher Education: Architecture and Design in Environmental Interdisciplinary Learning Spaces

Ayanna Rose, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Reimagining the City: From Segregation to Liberation—Black Thought and Radical Pathways in Urban Planning

Ashley Rosenberg, Religion (RELG) 2025, Consuming the Promise of Salvation: The Construction of an Ideal Life by Mary Kay Cosmetics and goop

Zoe Rose, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Disruption of Peroxisomal Function in Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Implications for Enterocyte Formation

Adam J. Rothman, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Take a Second – Make a Second: Modeling the Atomic Transition that Defines the Time Standard

Elizabeth Rowland, Economics (ECON) 2025, Light Rail Transit Station Proximity and Home Values in Houston, Texas: A Spatial Analysis

Elizabeth Rowland, Mitch Porter, and Noah Morris, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Water from the Rock: Scarcity, Efficiency, and Policy Change in Sonoran Desert Agriculture

Lia Salomon, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Quantifying topographic controls on debris flows in residential and heavily trafficked areas on the post-glacial landscape of Prince of Wales Island, southeast Alaska

Jacob Sanders, History (HIST) 2025, Barriers to Collaboration: Challenges of Developing the MBT-70 Main Battle Tank

Melina Sasaki-Uemura, Tianyi Lu, Kunwu Lyu, and Ben Stever-Zeitlin, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Positive Tournaments and Games

Beckett Schafer, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, The Biosynthesis of Cylindrospermopsin: A Potent Toxin Produced by Cyanobacteria

Finley Sebert, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Drift

Max Serota, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Autocratic Radicalization: the Strategic Choices of Autocratic Executives and the Death of Democracy

Mehreen Shahid, Biology (BIOL) 2025, OV-BiTE: Using an Oncolytic Virus to Enhance the Efficacy of T-Cell-Attracting Bispecific Monoclonal Antibodies in Treating Cold Solid Tumors

Maya Shook, American Studies (AMST) 2025, “No house is private”: The Myth of the American Single-Family Home

Will Shrestha, Marshall Johnson, Cullen Baker, Selma Vangstein, Bemnet Abebayehu, and Sam Diana, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Evaluating Methods for Radio Frequency Based Positioning of Ultimate Frisbee Players

Ella Shriner, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Effect of Awe Experienced in Nature on Small-self and Prosocial Behavior

Miriam Shteyman, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Review of Methodological Approaches

Olivia Siebert, Economics (ECON) 2025, A Wealth Tax Proposal

Annanya Sinha, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2025, Beyond Hijra: Politics of Respectability, Identity and Mythmaking in Kolkata’s Transgender Communities

Annanya Sinha, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Gender Affirmed: A Systematic Review of Gender Dysphoria & Mental Health in Transgender People

Katya Sjaastad, Biology (BIOL) 2025, How Do the Fungi Speak to the Trees? The Role of HGT and Small RNA Communication in Enabling the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Austin Skoda, Religion (RELG) 2025, A Messiah Uncaged: Jiddu Krishnamurti and the Rejection of an Orientalist Future

Isaac Smalley, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, A Systematic Review of Visual Competition Effects in the Visual World Paradigm

Ingrid Smith, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Enhancing CAR-T Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors: Overcoming Tumor Microenvironment Challenges with SynNotch Receptors and PD-1 Blockades

Charles Solomon, History (HIST) 2025, Constantine’s Cults: Interconnected Iconographies of Religion and Power in the Roman Empire

David Song, Political Science (POSC) 2025, Beyond The Ballot: How Asian American Identity Shapes Political Participation

Keon Staples, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Offline and Online Racial Discrimination: State of the Research

Henry Stern, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Does That (Dis)Ability Really Affect Your Happiness?

Henry Stier, Music (MUSC) 2025, Vershönerung

Elizabeth H. Swanson, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Assessing Soil Variability in an Enhanced Weathering Context

Amanda Ta, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring the Role of Chlamydia trachomatis as a Co-Factor in HPV-Driven Cervical Cancer

Alex Tananbaum, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Conversations at Saul's

Gabe Tarini, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Can You Really Burn Bones?

Bella Thomas, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Beyond Access: Exploring Food Sovereignty vs Security, Memory, and Cultural Survival for Immigrants in the U.S.

Elek Thomas, Breanna Lefevers-Scott, Barin Nwike, and Elaina Boyle, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Breaking Hearts: AI Approaches to a Trick-Based Card Game

Kate Thomas, Sergio Yap, Adrián Gonzáles, Yeriel Yoon, Spencer Delle Fave, Kate Ulrich, Miles McDermott, and Collin Pearson, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Forging Sustainable C-C Bonds: Development of Rhodium-Catalyzed Hydroacylation

Katharine Tilson, Political Science (POSC) 2025, To Punish or Preserve Learning: The Impact of Federal Title IX Regulations on Campus Disciplinary Proceedings

Sydney Tirschwell, History (HIST) 2025, Brehon Law and Butter-Stealing Witches in Early Modern Ireland

Kevin Tran, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, “Life is a Highway”: Automobility’s Impact on Urban Spaces and Low-Income Communities

Thea Traw, Biology (BIOL) 2025, “Winning” the Crop Battle: Strategic Targeting of Horizontally Transferred Genes in Herbivorous Insects via RNA Interference

Will Troop, Economics (ECON) 2025, A Pigouvian Approach to a Two-Tiered Potency Tax on Marijuana in Minnesota

Tatjana Truckses Stephens, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Role of Beta Cell Cilia in Insulin Exocytosis

Ethan Tun, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Genuine Options and the Problem of Self-Fulfilling Beliefs

Josiah Tusler, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Remnants of Stars Past - The Formation of Supernova Remnants

Semma Twining, Maggie Votruba, Margo Lewis, and Arisha Khan, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Statistical Models for Exploring the Impact of Examiner Variability and Response Category Options in Forensic

Anna Ursin, Special Major 2025, Perpetuation of Pelvic Pain Shame through Clinical and Social Spheres: A Case Study in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Celia Vander Ploeg Fallon, German (GERM) 2025, Make Techno Not Friends: Friendship in the Posthuman World of Emma Braslavsky’s “Ich bin dein Mensch: Ein Liebeslied”

Selma N. Vangstein, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Hawking Radiation

Arthur Viegas Eguia, Colin W. Brown, Yishu Cao, and Geoffrey Jing, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Using Network Statistics to Analyze Amazon Movie Reviews

Abbi Vosen, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Mind Place

Georgia Walker, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Gender Identity and Gender Incongruence in Children: A Review of Measurement and Data Collection Practices

Emerald Wang, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Influence of Life Stressors on Cognitive Decline in a NW Monkey Model of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Noel Wang, Physics (PHYS) 2025, En-lightning Ideas: The Physics of a Thunderstorm

Yanmiao Wang, Asian Studies (ASST) 2025, A Taste of Twilight: The Uncanny in Kōya Hijiri as Perfected Art

Yanmiao Wang, Religion (RELG) 2025, Power in Forms: Politics of Devotion and Display in Late Heian Japanese Decorated Sūtras

Amelia Watt, English (ENGL) 2025, "Such Edifices Are Notoriously Fragile": Reclaiming Female Agency in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Alias Grace

Lucas Wharton, Economics (ECON) 2025, Measuring the Effect of Digital Transformation on the Contemporary United States Labor Force

Lucas Wharton, Marc Eidelhoch, Blake Jones, and Sam Zacks, Computer Science (CS) 2025, KnoVAClue: A Codenames Clue-Giving AI Agent

Ethan Whiteaker, Music (MUSC) 2025, To What End Shall Love Conquer? Liebestode in Tristan and Isolde, Salome, and Bluebeard’s Castle

Ella Wiegman, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Turning Up the Heat: Targeting the Unfolded Protein Response in Dendritic Cells to Improve T-Cell Infiltration and Antitumor Function in Ovarian Cancer

Casey Wiener, English (ENGL) 2025, Colloquium Comps: 'The Double Domination of Gender Roles and Capitalism in Machinal and Giovanni’s Room' and 'Singing Whose Body Electric? The Hypocritical Rhetoric of Written on the Body and “I Sing the Body Electric”'

Nayeli Williams, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Psychology of the Polls: How Social Forces Shape Voting Behaviors

Sofia A. Woodruff, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Untitled

Sequoia Wyckoff, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Communicating Mathematics

Sequoia Wyckoff, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, SET and Functional Pottery

Leo Xiao, Biology (BIOL) 2025, A Horizontal Leg Up: Skewed Incidence and Advantage of Horizontal Gene Transfer between Eukaryotic Parasite and Host

Eric Yuan, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Bringing Representation Home: The Case for Casework

Artem Yushko, Arthur Viegas Eguia, Daniel Chen, and Miles Hoene-Langdon, Computer Science (CS) 2025, The Long Road: Comparison of Approximation Heuristics for Traveling Salesperson Problem

Fukun Zhang, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Will the Sun Rise in the East Tomorrow? Exploring the Role of Implicit Prior Knowledge in Causal Inductive Reasoning

Kai Zhang, Economics (ECON) 2025, Macroeconomic Drivers of Sectoral Volatility: Evidence from GARCH-Family Models

Sean Zhang, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Effect of Film Thickness and Structure on the Photoelectrochemical Performance of Cr-, Al-, and Fe-Oxide Semiconductor Films

Sean Zhang, Fukun Zhang, and Arhan Mehta, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Modeling Life, Energy, and Thought with Differential Equations

Sherry Zhang, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Exploring Elliptic Curve Cryptography in Blockchain Security

Ben Zhao, Nathaniel Li, Julian Tanguma, David Toledo, Ethan Masadde, and Josh Meier, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Computer Vision For Autonomous Driving

Aaron Zivsak, American Studies (AMST) 2025, Homes Away from Home: The Use of Alternative Homemaking Strategies by Migrants in America