Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2009
Jonathan Aronson, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Overhauser magnetometer survey of Midcontinent Rift accomodation zone in southeastern Minnesota and implications for subsurface structure
Benjamin Barclay, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Mixing oil and blood: oil vulnerability an propensity for militarized conflict after the Cold War
Elliot Bartis, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Physics and applications of pyroelectricity
Hal Baseman, Economics (ECON) 2009, Testing the effects of European monetary union on stock market interdependence using econometric analysis
Kane M. Bechstein, Economics (ECON) 2009, There's no wrong choice : personalizing incentives to maximize motivation
Anna Biewen, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2009, La loi Lonetti et ses dfauts: la politique de l'euthanasie en France
Sam Birnbaum, Economics (ECON) 2009, Have housing prices become more sensitive to the interest rate?
Ifrah M. Biyoow, Economics (ECON) 2009, Intrahousehold bargaining and decision-making : the case of Kagera, Tanzania
Lauren Blacik, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, We are them and then is now: the unique presentation of the past at U.S. World Heritage Sites
Andrew BoddySpargo, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, An embedded market approach to Chile's neoliberal transition
Elizabeth Bonawitz, History (HIST) 2009, An honest Englishman of good plain sense and meaning? Or a "robust true-born Briton"?: English constructions of Englishness, Britishness, and Scottishness, 1690-1740
Colin Bottles, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Political bosses or publics: who rules in democracy?
Robert Bradley, Economics (ECON) 2009, Paired risk preferences
Laura Bramley, English (ENGL) 2009, Nonsensical stories : morality, imagination and empowerment in Victorian fairy tales
Rosalind Brayfield, Linguistics (LING) 2009, Daa gweyn Aa gweyn: questions and foci in the Belizean Creole
Hannah L. Breckbill, Aparna Dua, Luke B. Hankins, and Robert W. Trettin, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Challenge Math -- 2nd grade
Thomas Brenner, Physics (PHYS) 2009, The fundamentals of solar cells
Nick Brom, Michael Henneberry, Frederick Kieley, Daniel Mammel, Juan Medrano, Andrew Olson, and Robert Schmitz, Chemistry (CHEM) 2009, Interfacial electron transfer at semiconductor-liquid junctions: implications for powering the planet
Emily Brosius, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, "You are normal" : negotiating personhood within an adult day program for older adults with dementia
Adam Brown, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The weakest link: bilingual lexical access and the orthographic size congruity effect
Sasha Houston Brown, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Reproductive conquest and the seizure of life : a biopolitical analysis of government sponsored sterilization among native American women
Mikael Brucker, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Designing appropriate technology for the developing world
Kathryn Buckner, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Timing development: a new approach to ANWR
Kort Butler, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Preliminary seismic refraction survey of the Cannon River Wilderness Park
Hannah Campbell Gustafson, Religion (RELG) 2009, A comparison of ecofeminist theologies in context: Rosemary Radford Ruether of the United States and Ivone Gebara of Brazil
Karen Campbell, Economics (ECON) 2009, Entitlement's influence on economic behavior : evidence from dictator and ultimatum games
Nick Cesarek, Economics (ECON) 2009, Estimating the demand for education
Matthew Cole, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Political evil and the limits of liberal theory
Lauren Colwell, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Evidence for differential Louisville and Emperor-Hawaiian mantle plume motion based on 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Tiffany F. Cox, Geology (GEOL) 2009, June 2006 seismic swarm and dike emplacement beneath the Michoacan-Guanajuato volcanic field, Mexico
Tiffany F. Cox, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Molten rock: a perspective on magma genesis, magma chamber dynamics, and the effects of crystallization
Michelle K. Deeter, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Non-state actors and their effect on policy in China
John Delehanty, Religion (RELG) 2009, Metro-evangelization: faiths, religion, and social capital in American metropolitan politics
Frank M. Dolce, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, How can I read this title? The contributions of pre-lexical and sub-lexical pathways to Chinese word recognition
Katelyn Donisch, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Using gain-framed messaging to change attitudes toward menstruation and menstrual suppression
Lacey Dorman, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Goal urgency versus goal importance: which goals do people pursue and which goals lead to satisfaction?
Aparna Dua, Economics (ECON) 2009, How does mother's education affect child health : evidence from India
Andrea Duron, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, I like boys, I like sports : gender performance among female athletes
Lisa Dyson, Asian Studies (ASST) 2009, Chinese history, Uyghur identity: Chinese history education and the place for Uyghurness in modern China
Erin Feehan-Nelson, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The effects of divisive primaries on national elections
Masha Finn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, The intelligence failure of the Yom Kippur War: how structural faults of intelligence communities intensify psychological perils of analysis
Marissa Fischer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Egbe aya efutoo mbia (The hawk never gets lost in its journey to other lands) : brain drain, transnationalism, and the migration of the Nigerian Igbo
Timothy Foran, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Reforming an ineffective community: how organization theory can rebuild the U.S. intelligence apparatus
Aaron Fricke, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Precambrian geologic history of the Gravelly Range, southwest Montana
Lukas Fried, Physics (PHYS) 2009, The sun and its spots
Christa Frintner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Gender imbalance of fields despite equal opportunity : gender and higher education decision-making processes at Carleton College
Lisa Gaetjens, Spanish (SPAN) 2009, El uso de la revisin mtica en Seora de la miel por Fanny Buitrago
Michelle Gajewski, Economics (ECON) 2009, Are you considered eligible for health? Medicaid and its effect on state-level aggregate health measured by infant mortality rate and mortality rate
Michelle Gajewski, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Religious doctrine with a new court: what effect will a new justice have on religion in America?
Christopher Gardner, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Economic growth and success in Sub-Saharan Africa: is politico-economic realignment enough?
Thea Garon, History (HIST) 2009, Media censorship and control, the Argentine press campaign during the Malvinas War
Kenneth Geiger, Chinese (CHIN) 2009, Jia Zhangke's The world and Still life
Kenneth Geiger, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Re-made in the USA: the journey of film from Asia to Hollywood
Peter Gill, History (HIST) 2009, The politics of land reform in Nepal, 1950-1964
Charlotte Goodrich, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Beyond nation-state paradigms : globalization and classic sociological theory
David E. Guild, Michael A. Sawi, Tyler L. Thorsen, Emma R. Turetsky, and Erik W. Ulberg, Computer Science (CS) 2009, Of bits and bots: the digital adventures of Alice
Rebecca Hahn, English (ENGL) 2009, Beastly desires, rational souls: women writers transforming femininity
Hope Harvey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Insisting on integration : Jefferson County, Kentucky
Sarah Hashmall, Religion (RELG) 2009, The Bhikkhuni debate in Sri Lanka
Mary A. Henke-Haney, Geology (GEOL) 2009, From formation to faucet: groundwater in Southeast Minnesota
Yusi He, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, A review of current estrogen research: implications and future directions
Theodore J. Hickey, Economics (ECON) 2009, Are we sensitive to cost? Exploring the healthcare market given price distortions
Temara Holt, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2009, Learning, performing, and embodying respectability in an all girls African American Catholic school
Hannah Hosotani, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Health politics: learning from state models to create national health care reform
Juliana Houston, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Exercise and stress reduction: testing a theory of arousal attribution
Marlea Iiams, Physics (PHYS) 2009, The physics of woodwinds
Sam Kalar, Economics (ECON) 2009, Exploring stock market bubble phenomena : an adaptation of the classic Keynesian beauty contest
Timothy D. Kane, Economics (ECON) 2009, The moral hazard of mental health parity legislation
Aaron Kaufman, Economics (ECON) 2009, Can lifestyle predict health care expenditures? Creating a forecasting model using lifestyle risk factors
Tyler Keating, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Nuclear power: basic principles and future directions
Kevin Kensler, Russian (RUSS) 2009, Aleksandr Vampilov's Last summer in Chulimsk: beyond the bounds of Chekhov
Michael Kern, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Dangerous liaisons: dual transitions and institutional transfer in eastern Germany
Christina Knudson, Edward Kuhn, and Bassirou Sarr, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, A Bayesian spatial temporal model of ozone
Seong-chang Koh, Economics (ECON) 2009, Change in effect of wage penalty for obese Americans
Rodney Kuhl, Economics (ECON) 2009, The causes of the obesity epidemic in the United States
Heung Jin Kwon, Economics (ECON) 2009, An experimental test of the generalized Anglo-Dutch auction
Amalia Lam, History (HIST) 2009, Founded on reason and choice: Moors, mastiffs, and establishing "Britishness" through marriage in the periodical literature of the northern British Colonies
Justin LaMont, Geology (GEOL) 2009, A survey of throughgoing fractures in Upper Ordovician carbonate rocks, Goodhue County, Minnesota
Annelise Lawson, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, To burn out or fade away: the effects of the peak/end rule on prospective assessments of life quality
Alexander Leedom, Classics (CLST) 2009, The Greco-Latin Negro: a postcolonial reading of The Golden Ass
Yong Kwon Lee, Economics (ECON) 2009, Portfolios diversification and the determinants of bilateral investment flow
Thuy Le, Economics (ECON) 2009, Wrinkles in fiscal policy: an examination of the effects of aging demographics on public expenditures and revenues
Dylan Scott Linet, Geology (GEOL) 2009, The Spring Creek project series: two geology projects to be taught at the introductory level
Emily Litwin, History (HIST) 2009, Nationalism, feminism, and the women of Ireland's Revolutionary Period
David Lonoff and Daniel McDonald, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Bijective proofs: a comprehensive exercise
Megan C. Lynn, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2009, L'anorexie comme un probleme social en France
Erinrose Mager, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Importance of the contextual framework when addressing kitsch objects and why this framework validates kitsch aesthetically and socially
Caitlin Magnusson, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, The animated feature film: encoding and decoding across cultures
Nora Mahlberg, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, A demand to be made whole : a critical examination of environmental justice movement theory and uranium contamination on the Navajo Reservation
Ayesha Mahmud, Economics (ECON) 2009, Health impact of microcredit programs : does microcredit participation have a positive impact on health-seeking behavior?
Jason Malashevich, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The great value of human intelligence
Michelle Margoles, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The "Saint Louis-ism" of Mame Coumba Bang : a gendered perspective of changing perceptions and observances of a river goddess in Saint Louis, Senegal
Jessica Marks, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Using major, minor, and trace element geochemistry of melt inclusions to study magma dynamics and evolution at Augustine Volcano, Alaska
Theodore Marschall, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Superstates: Bose-Einstein condensation in the states of matter
Michael Martin, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, An inconvenient solution? An economic and political analysis of global warming policy
Brian Mason, Russian (RUSS) 2009, Oligarkhi: the development of a new cultural concept in post-Soviet Russia
Melissa Mayer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The interactive effects of alcohol cues, alcohol outcome expectancies, and motives fulfillment on hostile impression formation
Yael Mayer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, An evaluation of remedial education programs using cognitive research
Caitlin McMurtry, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The relationship of housing type, isolation, and hopelessness to involvement in risk behaviors among adolescents in low income neighborhoods
Nicholas Merkelson, Religion (RELG) 2009, Ritual ecstasy and the shamans of prehistory: an archaeological approach to the study of religion
