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Graduated in 2025
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
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
