Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2023
Will Feng, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Epstein-Barr Virus uses MicroRNAs as part of its Strategy for Host Immune Evasion
Will Feng, Alex Rowell, Allison Teichman, Ethan Li, Gavin Hazen, Helen Jin-Lee, Michaela Polley, Tommy Lisko, and Tony Qiang, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, A Gold Star Approach: Using Gold Nanostars as a Drug Delivery Vehicle for Cancer Treatment
Ryan Flanagan, Political Science (POSC) 2023, The Olympic 'City of Exception' and the Subversion of Pluralism: Observing Convergence between Beijing and Rio de Janeiro
Will Fleming, Economics (ECON) 2023, How Does Zoning Impact Affordable Housing? What Can Be Done To Better Achieve Affordable Housing Goals?
Connor Flinn, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Assessing the Combined Impacts of Anthropocene Stressors and Atmospheric/Geographic Features on Global Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) Aggregations
Emma Freedman, Political Science (POSC) 2023, #Academic: The Legal Struggle to Apply Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech to Digital Scholarship
Allie Fridkin, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Phenological mismatch and specialist pollinators: a comparison of current hypotheses and case studies
Dana Fried, French (FREN); French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2023, Dissimulation et résistance de La bataille d’Alger et Papicha
Dana Fried, Chinese (CHIN) 2023, One King, Two Swords, Three Heads: Lu Xun’s “Forging Swords” in Translation
Molly Furlong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Stupid Little Place
Alex Gallin, Economics (ECON) 2023, Does the Federal Reserve Have an Advantage When Forecasting Housing Data?
Maia Li Garby, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems: An Analysis of Soil Carbon Storage, Sequestration, and Respiration
Thomas Gatewood, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Epstein-Barr Viral Proteins EBNA1 and vIL-10 Facilitate Immune Evasion by Supporting a Latent-Lytic Cycle of Infection
Fiona Gillen, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, “Life is Like a Video Game:” The Impact of Violent Media on Moral Development
Sam Gloss, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effect of Parental Leave Policy on Children's Outcomes and Reommendations for Optimization with respect to Childhood Development
Darius Goodman, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Quality of Life from Being Pro-Life: Analyzing the Impact of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade on the Economic Lives of Black Women
Eve Gorman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Gorman Studio Arts Comps Fall 2022
Andrew Gorordo, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Anxieties of Being: Politics, Violence, and Group Identity
Anna Halladay, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Negotiation of Sexist Norms in the Music of the Lunachicks: A Musicological Approach
Keaton J. Hall, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Has Swiping Become Too Casual? Relationship Between Dating App Usage & High-Risk Behaviors
Faith Hanshaw, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Balancing the Autonomic Regulation of Metabolism in Diving Mammals During Voluntary Dives
Elliot Hanson, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Genomic Plasticity in Prokaryotes and its Benefits in Dynamic Environments
Joshua S. Hanson-Kaplan, Physics (PHYS) 2023, The Higgs Boson, a Portal to the Dark Sector?
Greta Hardy-Mittell, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2023, La Compañía as (Extr)activist Archival Literature
Bailey Harmon, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Viral Inhibition of MHC I Pathways: Essential for Enhanced Efficacy of Oncolytic Virotherapy
Abdisalan Hawadle, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Sponge Microbial Response to Thermal Stress and Ocean Acidification is Species-Specific
Sophia Heidebrecht, English (ENGL) 2023, “Teeming with blasphemy”: Robin Hood, Joseph Ritson, & the Radical History of the Ballad
Ella Hein, Wenlai Han, Hala Soliman, Alek Rabago, Rainey Tilley, Leah Stroebell, Elijah Shore, and Vasilii Vaganov, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, A Greener Oxidation: Aminoxyl Mediated Electrocatalysis
McKenzie Henson, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Breaking Down the Distinction Between Noun Incorporation and Pseudo Noun Incorporation: An Examination of Ket
Anna Hepler, English (ENGL) 2023, "We'll Hear That Song Again": (Re)interpreting Shakespeare's Music for the Contemporary Stage
Sam Hiken, Osip Surdutovich, Lee Camp, and Jimmy Lin, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, From Data to Donuts: Efficient Computation of Persistent Homology
Kenta Hikino and Kairah Foster, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2023, Live or Die: Survival Strategies of Organizations Promoting Clean Cooking
Emily Hirshman, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Canine Aggression & the Brain: How Neuroplasticity Could Be Used to Understand & Treat Aggressive Dogs
Naomi Hochman, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Juvenile Offenders
Henry Holcomb, Simran Kadam, Jane Zeman, and Francine Legba, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2023, Environmental Art: Reflections of America's Ecological Consciousness
Bjorn Holtey, Political Science (POSC); Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Considering the Court: A Content Analysis of Online News Coverage of the Supreme Court and the Overturning of Roe v. Wade
Hana Horiuchi, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, It's What They Call the Rise & Fall
Lillian Horne, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, "Wonder is Wonderful": How Children Give Us License to See Nature Differently
Elise Hudson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, The Feminine Grotesque
Kristin Hultgren, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Evaluating Prosocial Behaviors: Outcomes, Measurements, & Future Directions
Chiamaka Ifedi, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, A Social Intuitionist Perspective On Morality And Persuasion
Kyosuke Imai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Remembering
Christian Irons, Political Science (POSC) 2023, Brexit Voting Inconsistencies Throughout the Celtic Fringe: Analyzing the Interplay of Pro-Brexit Populist Movements With Devolved British Systems of Multi-Level Governance
Claire James, Biology (BIOL) 2023, An Un-Bear-ably Incredible Phenomenon: Atrophy Prevention via IGF-1/Akt Signaling Pathway in Skeletal Muscle of Hibernating Bears
Connor Jansen, Religion (RELG) 2023, The Five Treasures of the Great Snow: Misconceptions of Buddhist Sacred Landscape in Sikkim, India
Ben Jeweler, Economics (ECON) 2023, Wind Turbines and Property Values: Disamenity Costs in New Brunswick, Canada
Caroline Jimenez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Altered Perceptions
Tatiana Jimenez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Humans and Nature
Teagan Johnson, Elijah Jones, Samuel Koehnline Rosenberg, and Ton Meesena, Statistics (STAT) 2023, Classification Models for Statistical Graphics
Anika Jones, History (HIST) 2023, The 1921 March Action: Ongoing Negotiations Between Russian and German Communist Leadership and their Relation to Power in the Comintern
Chloe Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Impacts of Arctic Warming on Vegetation and Migratory Caribou (Rangifer tarandus): The Case for Ecological Mismatch
Elijah Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Role of Climate Change and Microbial Communities in Increased Coral Reef Disease Prevalence
Diana Kachman, English (ENGL) 2023, "Your Loud Self, Your Loud Eyes, and Your Loud Guilt: Race and Representation in Fairview" and "Environmental Justice and Nature’s Healing in Through the Arc of the Rainforest and “The Lament of Swordy Well”"
Maya Kalmus, Economics (ECON) 2023, Gender Bias in Promotion Rates in the United States
Connor Kelly, Economics (ECON) 2023, The effects of Microfinance on poverty in Central Ghana
Maggie Kerwin, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Investigating the Role of the Alternative Splicing Isoform SRSF1-3 in Promoting Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Mediated Somatic Hypermutation
Nadia Khayat, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Impact of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Food Web: Low pH Alters Marine Invertebrate Behavior via Chemical Cue Reception Impairment and Drives Predation Rate
Katherine Kimball, History (HIST) 2023, Reflections in the Water: Placing Salt Lake Valley's Warm Springs in History
Samuel Kim, Statistics (STAT) 2023, Using Statistical Classification Methods to Predict Hits Using Statcast
Hannah Klein, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Uncensored Trans Desire: Overt Sexuality and Trans Identities in Contemporary Music
Aya Klos, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Evolution of the early nitrogen cycle in the face of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE): How transition metal abundances influenced the evolution of the modern nitrogen cycle
Elise Knutsen, Physics (PHYS) 2023, The Physics of Non-Volatile Solid State Memory
Falagbenne Kombate, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Place-Based Identities and Political Party Preferences: Urban and Rural Place Identities in Electorate Party Preferences & Federal Welfare Spending Attitudes
Joella Lai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Abstraction of Movement
Gabriela Lazo, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Baby (Not Quite) Sign Language: A Comparative Analysis of ASL and Baby Sign Language Complexity and Ideologies
Bryan Le, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Microbial Warfare in the Permafrost Front: How Direct & Indirect Competition Influence Bacterial Composition in Thawing Permafrost
Brad Lee, Economics (ECON) 2023, Local Zoning Laws: The Cause or The Cure to The Affordable Housing Crisis
Elise Lehman, Economics (ECON) 2023, Improving the Economic Position of American Women Through a Nationally Protected Abortion and Contraception Policy
Aashutosha Lele, Biology (BIOL) 2023, MicroRNAs Aid in Herpes Virus Latency: a Strategy for Immune Evasion
Olivia Lentz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Between God and Evil
Rhys Lewis, Economics (ECON) 2023, Does the Median Income of a Locality Have an Effect on the Degree to which its Food Needs are Addressed? Evidence from the Washington DC Area
Bowen Li, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, Magnus's Freiheitssatz: A lively introduction to Combinatorial Group Theory
Katrina Li, Cathy Guang, Matthew Smith-Erb, and Emanuel Linton, Computer Science (CS) 2023, Social Bot Detection
Amanda Lilienfeld, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Psychedelics as Rapid Relief for Psychiatric Symptoms in Terminal Palliative Care Patients
Felix Lion, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, Quantum Mechanical Treatment of Spin-1/2 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Emily Litton, Henrie Friesen, Alia Babinet, Wenlai Han, Viktor Chekhovoi, and Kelly McGucken, Computer Science (CS) 2023, GeoDE: An Interactive Web Tool for Carleton's Geothermal Data
Shannon Liu, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, Generalization of Attention and Working Memory Skills from Cognition Training Games by Elderly Clients: Does Lumosity Really Work?
Walt Li, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Measuring Multidimensional Meaning in Life
Arianna Lone, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Dots & Loops
Emma Long, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Early Snowmelt and Phenological Mismatch Between Migratory Birds and Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Arctic and Alpine Environments
Maddy LoRusso, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Do dogs have an evolved and inherent advantage for social thinking? A test of cooperation between dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and humans (Homo sapiens)
Aliza Louis, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Bringing The Support Where it is Needed: Generalizability of the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools for Minority Youth
Amber Lozoya, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Hidden Failures: Mass Incarceration, U.S. Prisons, and its Effect on Reentry and Recidivism
Julia Luljak, English (ENGL) 2023, Allied with the Land: Recreating the Midwestern Woman in My Ántonia and A Thousand Acres
Emily Luna, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Untitled (family portrait collage)
Yumo Lu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Where Does the Train Go?
Kelly Lyons, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy as Treatment for Children with Social Anxiety Disorder
Emma MacArthur, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, If You're Not Reading This, Are Unicorns Real? The Truth Conditions of Indicative Conditionals with False Antecedents
Emma MacArthur, Classical Languages (CLAS) 2023, The Minds of Ghosts in Homer's Underworld
Riley Madsen, English (ENGL) 2023, “From the Point of View of Future History, This Kind, We’ll Be Invisible”: Approaches to History in Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Kalju Maegi, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Negotiating Worlds: The Reconstruction of Racial Identity in the Twin Cities' Somali Diasporic Community
Lane Maitland, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, Error Processing for Linear Block Codes
Lane Maitland, Statistics (STAT) 2023, The Effect of Elevated Carbon Dioxide Levels on Plant Mass: A Meta-Analysis
Sachit Mallya, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Impact of the Type of Loan Borrowed on Intrahousehold Financial Decision-Making: An Insight Into Female Entrepreneurship in India
Astrid Malter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, The Sixth Borough
Nicole Marsh, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Striking Out
Jack Mathieu, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, An Electrochemical Investigation of the Nonaqueous Copper Oxide Depositional System
Jack Mathieu, Geology (GEOL) 2023, Remote Sensing and Isotopic Analysis of Potential Zones of Groundwater Discharge in the Carleton College Arboretum
Maxwell, Religion (RELG) 2023, The Self, Spiritual Warfare, and Deliverance in the Work of Frank and Ida Mae Hammond
Clara Mayfield, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Impact of Methanogens on Climate Change: Improving our Understanding of Methanogenesis in Thawing Permafrost
