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Graduated in 2025
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
Graduated in 2024
Nada Abdalla, Economics (ECON) 2024, Cash Transfers in Korea: Is This the Best Policy to Increase Fertility?
Victoria Aguado, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Muggins
Noorah Aldaghlas, Economics (ECON) 2024, Who Called the Stork and Where Did it Fly? Women's Empowerment and Fertility
Noorah Aldaghlas, Natalie Bax, Jasmine Choi, Elena Ea, and Augustus Williams, Statistics (STAT) 2024, Beyond the Average: Exploring the Relationship Between Income Inequality and the Mortality Distribution of US Counties using Quantile Regression
Spencer Alvey, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, The Mathematics of Compressed Sensing
Ryan Antrim, Economics (ECON) 2024, Bridging Gaps and Building Equity: The Role of the Paycheck Fairness Act in Addressing Gender-Based Wage Disparities
Evan Arch, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Topological Quantum Computing
Aryan Arora, Economics (ECON) 2024, A Date with Destiny: Relative Age Effects in High School and Beyond
Aryan Arora, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Beyond Arrow: Revealing True Preferences
Mem Awad, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Crafting Engaging Lessons: Integrating Manipulatives and Demonstrations in High School Algebra
Conor Babcock O'Neill, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Human-Accelerated Regions (HARs) & Schizophrenia: Evidence for a Genetic Driver and Recent Negative Selection
Mauricio Badillo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Bardo
Audrey BadjouenDzouabet, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, “Even the Loudest Black Girls are Silenced in Schools”: Black Girlhood, The School-to-Confinement Pathway, & Reimagining Education
Jonah-Kai Baker, Religion (RELG) 2024, Un-Orthodox Icons: Adaptations of the Byzantine Iconographic Tradition in the Contemporary Christian West
Adrian Balvuena, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, BOYS IN THE SUN
Matt Banovetz, Economics (ECON) 2024, Bank Bailouts Costs and Benefits Analysis
Alana Berger, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Quenching Radiationless Relaxation: Towards Understanding and Controlling the Charge Processes that Lead to Efficient Organic Solar Cells
Nicholas Berry, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2024, A Neurophenomenal Inquiry Into The Nature of Mind
Esmeralda Bessor-Foreman, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Late Shift
Brian Best, Economics (ECON) 2024, Searching for Sophistication: Negative Amortization in Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Jack Bettner, Economics (ECON) 2024, Understanding and Attacking The Gender Wage Gap With Specificity
Mary Blanchard, Physics (PHYS) 2024, How Do We Understand Magnetism?
Margaret Blaney, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Autoimmune and Disease-Specific Susceptibility Tradeoffs of Protective Pathogen-Driven Selection
Malachy Bloom, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Cosmic Inflation
Ariana Borlak, Devin Lewis, and Charles Roslansky, Computer Science (CS) 2024, The Pipeline to Root: A Hackable Machine
Neenah Bosman, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Childhood Maltreatment: Outcomes and Measurement Variations
Henry Bowman, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Here Comes the Sun: An Overview of Semiconductor Photovoltaics
Tehmi Bozicevich, Economics (ECON) 2024, Sisterhood and Scholarship: Impact of Sibling Gender on Women's College Major Choice
Paloma Bravo, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Intestinal Epithelial Cells Expressing Toll-like-Receptors Communicate with T Regulatory Cells by Shaping the Commensal Microbial Community to Promote Gut Homeostasis
Quinn Buhman, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, From Polanyi to the Plow: Theorizing Market Struggles and Opportunities in the Rural Landscape
Kevin Bui, Aaron Bronstone, Riaz Kelly, AJ LeSure, and Daniel Linder, Computer Science (CS) 2024, How Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis Articulate (Mis)Representation in Written Media
Thien Bui, Annelise Sokolow, and Erin Watson, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Avoiding Atlantis's Fate
Kate Burton, Biology (BIOL) 2024, A New Immune System Danger Signal: Virally Induced Celiac Disease
Eve Butler, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, "Is there anything else I can do for you?": Investigating Gender Scripts in Heterosex among College-Aged Women in Monogamous Relationships
Huanchen Cai, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You: A Systematic Review of Perceived Discrimination and Intraminority Intergroup Relations
Corrina Callahan, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Geothermal Energy
Nathan A. Campbell, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Rush Week
Bee Candelaria, Classics (CLST) 2024, The Economy of Elegy: Abjection and the Fiction of the Mutuus Amor in Propertius' Elegy 4.5
John Carragher, Statistics (STAT) 2024, An Introduction to Spatial Statistics Clustering Methods
John Carragher, Economics (ECON) 2024, Bank Bailouts: A Trade-Off Analysis
Benjamin Chamberlain, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Nurture and Neuroimaging: Integrating Neurodevelopmental Changes Associated with Childhood Trauma and Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Treatment
T'airra Champliss, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2024, Cultivating Healing Within: Spirituality, Self-Love, and Personal Empowerment for Black Women, Femmes, and Non-Binary Folks
Amy Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Targeting proteins in the midgut of mosquitoes to prevent transmission of the malaria parasite
Mollie Choo, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Developing a Gradient Representation Using Stochastic Harmonic Grammar Model Tools
Luisa F. Cichowski, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, Seeing “A Landscape of Genocide:” Decolonial Aesthesis and the Aesthetics of Agricultural Landscapes
Arden Clauss, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Metal-Organic Frameworks for Single-Atom Heterogeneous Photocatalysis
Margaret Clauss, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Spilling the Beans on Idioms: A Syntactic Journey
Rosemary Colima, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, A Culture of Complicity: Gender Norms, Government Inaction, and the Crisis of Feminicide in México
Olivia Corbo, Economics (ECON) 2024, From Social Class to Preschool Class: The Effect of Parental Socioeconomic Status on Early Childhood Development in Ireland
Natalia Crimmel, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Differential Regulation: Brains, Behavior and Disease
Nancy Cullen, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Dreaming Girl, Bouncing Boy: Sex Differences in Executive Functioning in ADHD
Nancy Cullen, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, The Relational Self: Rethinking the Contribution of Care Ethicists
Ella Cunningham, English (ENGL) 2024, Myth, Movement, and Reimagining the Anthropocenic Future
Vanessa Czerniecki, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Disordered Flanking Regions of Viral Short Linear Motifs potentially enhance Antibody Recognition
Maika Danford, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Getting an ansā: The development and usage of English loanwords in Japanese
Elena D'Avanzo, Evan Lauer, and Kenton Young, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, MCM Searching for Submersibles
Sonya Davidson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, “With Women in Every Way”: Minnesotan Nurse-Midwives’ Identities and Perceptions as Abortion Providers
Margaret De Fer, History (HIST) 2024, Rethinking Narrative Identity: Jewish Assimilation Through a Fictional Lens
Seven Delgado, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Familia Descocida
Clayton Dippold, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Legacy Admissions and the Perpetuation of Racial Hierarchies
Rowan Dong, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Whales: The Physics of Underwater Life
Ed Dowling, Economics (ECON) 2024, Evaluating the Efficacy of the Paycheck Fairness Act of the 118th Congress in Eliminating the Sex Wage Gap
Sophie Draper, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Early Evolution of Homo sapiens: Origins From a Weakly Structured Stem
Skylar Duru, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Ketamine and Tetris: Combining PTSD Treatment Methods
Sigrid Edstrom, Religion (RELG) 2024, Eric Metaxas' Portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The American Evangelical
Sigrid Edstrom, Religion (RELG) 2024, Eric Metaxas' Portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The American Evangelical
Cecilia Ehrlichman, Batmend Batsaikhan, Mary Blanchard, Andreas Miller, Petrichor Park, and Hugh Shanno, Computer Science (CS) 2024, The Match: An ILP Application
