Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2009
Reid Merriman, Economics (ECON) 2009, The determinants of demand for dental healthcare
Amy Mixa, Economics (ECON) 2009, Determining the ideal smoking ban for the United States : a quantitative analysis of workplace, restaurant, and bar bans
Carolyn Morales, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Taking the time to care : Hallmark cards and the commodification of time
Samantha Morin, Economics (ECON) 2009, Business cycles and health : how the level of development of a country affects the relationship between the strength of its economy and the health of its population
William Morrison, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Strategic economic incentives in counterinsurgency efficacy
William Mueller, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Energetics of a hovering hummingbird
Laura Myers, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Selective attention in bilingual students: a comparison of skills in both languages
Nicholas Netland, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, American media in Iraq and the influences of Vietnam
Elizabeth Nguyen, African/African American Studies (AFAM) 2009, Alternatives in dialogue and race
Khanh Nguyen, Economics (ECON) 2009, The effect of monetary policy and openness to trade on total factor productivity : a cross-country analysis
Blake Nicholson, Economics (ECON) 2009, The college wage premium : changing skills and market returns
Arata Niizuma, Economics (ECON) 2009, Children as an investment for parents : a study on intergenerational transfer in Malaysia
Hannah Oken-Berg, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The Five-Factor model and food choices: personality and the foods we eat
John Olmsted, History (HIST) 2009, Poverty, the pulpit, and the polis: John Chrysostom's sermons on wealth and poverty
Amanda Otero, Religion (RELG) 2009, Guadalupe: devotion, identity, and power
Andrew Park, Economics (ECON) 2009, The internet and differences in state unemployment from 1998-2003
Paul Imon Pedtke, Economics (ECON) 2009, Construction investment, interest rates, GDP, and the S&P 500
Martha Perez, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Dissociative symptoms, episodic memory, and a neurological basis for childhood trauma
Alexander Persaud, History (HIST) 2009, Rodney, history, and the dialectic: rethinking Walter Rodney's Marxist methodology
Sabrina M. Peterson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The Islamist movement in Saudi Arabia : an interaction of structure and culture
Robert J. Phillips, Economics (ECON) 2009, Determining the predictive power of economic and financial indicators in the US stock market
Jared P. Plotz, Economics (ECON) 2009, Reevaluating the effect of futures positions on the direction of natural gas price movements
Jeffrey Potempa, Economics (ECON) 2009, Private and public third-party punishment in a public good game
Jerome C. Potter, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Telepop: a subjective composite of twentieth century American popular culture and history
Chelsea Lyn Prax, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2009, Criminels: la presse et les homosexuels au Mali
Erica Prochaska, History (HIST) 2009, The imperial world of Verrier Elwin
Myles Radtke, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Breaking reciprocity: prospect theory and the EC-121 crisis and Black September
Reza Rahnema, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Violent religious movements: exploring the factors and the elements leading to violence
Steven Ramey, Economics (ECON) 2009, The effects of declining home equity on household consumption patterns : new evidence from 2006-2008
Sarojini Rao, Economics (ECON) 2009, Do vegetable and fishpond technologies impact investment in human capital? Evidence from rural Bangladesh
Bedrich Rios, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Web design: type and layout
Lucy Robson, History (HIST) 2009, Reading past the label: exploring Second World War evacuation in Britain through the child's perspective
Sara L. Rothwell, Music (MUSC) 2009, The compositional techniques of Luigi Dallapiccola's twelve-tone music
Sara L. Rothwell, Physics (PHYS) 2009, The quantum effects of light
Evan Rowe, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Out of the "jungle": the rise of the American county as regional power-player
Jacob O. Schak, Economics (ECON) 2009, The dynamic effects of changes in business and income taxes on output : evidence from American fiscal policy
Taylor Schieck, History (HIST) 2009, Merovingian kings and bishops: relationship of reciprocity
John D. Schlaefer, Chinese (CHIN) 2009, Madness in contemporary Chinese literature: a case study of Lu Xun's use of madness carried out through contemporary Chinese writers
David Schmidt, History (HIST) 2009, Ecology, nature and the national parks : redefining the relationship between science and the national park service
Alex Sciuto, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Pathway to change: a model of the evolution of the Federal Reserve system
Laura Shatzer, Religion (RELG) 2009, Missional, incarnational, communal: an emerging church ecclesiology
Natalie Sheneman, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Faith, community, and independence: a comparative study of religion and organizational structure in the Tibetan and Uyghur nationalist movements
Mio Shimma, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Merging civilizations: the emergence of Islamic democracy in Indonesia and Turkey
Lisa Short, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, The modification of melodrama in Tyler Perry's films
Maija Sipola, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Geomorphologic and anthropogenic impacts on artifact distribution within the Mugello Valley, Tuscany, Italy
Don Smith, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Students for sale : how YOU can take our money
Ryan Andrew Smith, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Semantic externalism and Quine's indeterminacy of translation
Ryan Andrew Smith and Yuan Tian, Mathematics (MATH) 2009, Analytic proof of the prime number theorem
Nathan Stephens, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Come be citizens with the rest of us : Ecuadorian selves and indigenous others in Ecuadorian constitutional law
Kathryn Stroud, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2009, Cue type and biasing verb presence: factors influencing false memory development in pseudo-jurors
Danielle Sumita, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, When commercial interests reclaim racketeering
Kristin Sweeney, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Characterization of a partitioned section of the Hoh Serh Fault: Mongolian Altai
Andrew Tatge, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2009, Police states in film and Foucault's Panopticon: negotiating spiritual and physical
Kaarin Taylor, Economics (ECON) 2009, Trade and the environment : the effects of trade liberalization on seven measures of environmental quality
Ryan Terrien, Physics (PHYS) 2009, Fringe science: optical astronomical interferometry
Eirik S. Thoen, Economics (ECON) 2009, Seeking an optimal health care system : an empirical investigation in the context of cost and longevity
Yuan Tian, Economics (ECON) 2009, State mandates on health insurance and moral hazard : the case of diabetes
Lena Tjosvold, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, What's in a name: does your name affect memory for positive and/or negative narrative?
Julian Tokarev, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, What you think is what you get: the effects of affective orientation on incidental learning of words are dependent on item valence and evaluator orientation
Gene Uenishi, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Stereotype threat and social facilitation: how both affect math performance among white males
Ariel VandeVoorde, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Transforming education for social change : student experiences grounding academic civic engagement in social theory
Phillip Varela, Geology (GEOL) 2009, New evidence for reconstructing the marine faunal assemblage of the Decorah formation (southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa, USA): a qualitative survey of microfossils.
Dominic Vendell, History (HIST) 2009, Feeding the body, feeding the soul: Swami Vivekananda, religious universality, and social welfare in an Anglo-American imperial world, 1893-1897
Elizabeth Webb, Geology (GEOL) 2009, Re-mapping the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami inundation in the Banda Aceh region with attention to probable sea level rise
Hannah Weinstein, Philosophy (PHIL) 2009, Identifying with your country : an argument for immigrants' cultural rights in liberal democracies
W. Patrick Whitehead, Economics (ECON) 2009, Exchange rate volatility and bilateral trade flows : evidence from the group of three
Andrew Widmer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Differential social behavior development in the mouse as a result of nicotine- or codeine- influenced juvenile social environment
Katrina Wood, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The strategic management and structural organization of working memory distinct roles for D1 and D2 dopamine receptors
Mena Xiong, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The cloak of assimilation: the Chinese in Thailand
Gao Yang, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The effects of partial sleep deprivation on adaptation to anxiety
Andrew Ziller, Economics (ECON) 2009, Trust, reciprocity, and fairness : an ultimatum-trust experiment
Graduated in 2008
Andrew Joseph Lauer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2008, Some films are better than others: Lyman H. Howe, cultural capital and bringing the world to Northfield, MN
Annelise Lawson, Theater Arts (THEA) 2008, Edward Albee's "Seascape"
Graduated in 2005
Ruby Becker, History (HIST) 2005, Beyond the Spinning Eve: Women’s Participation in the Late Medieval English Wool Trade
Drew Dara-Abrams, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2005, Architecture of Mind and World: How Urban Form Influences Spatial Cognition
John M. Floberg, Physics (PHYS) 2005, The physics of boron neutron capture therapy: an emerging and innovative treatment for glioblastoma and melanoma
Kira Grogg, Physics (PHYS) 2005, Harvesting the Wind: The Physics of Wind Turbines
Alanna McLeod, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2005, ”Putting the Baby Down”: The Role of Physical Proximity in Mother-Infant Vocal Communication
Graduated in 2004
David J. Auerbach, Geology (GEOL) 2004, The Steptoean Positive Isotopic Carbon Excursion (SPICE) in siliciclastic facies of the Upper Mississippi Valley: Implications for mass extinction and sea level change in the Upper Cambrian
Joseph Durham, Physics (PHYS) 2004, Feedback Control
Josep Graly, Geology (GEOL) 2004, An Intrusive Complex in the Khövsgöl Ulaanbadrakhin Terrane, southeastern Mongolia
Bess Koffman, Geology (GEOL) 2004, Molecular phylogenetic analysis of a bacterial mat community, Le Grotte di Frasassi, Italy
Sarah Margoles, Geology (GEOL) 2004, Terrestrial carbon storage and sedimentation in the Coon Creek Watershed, Wisconsin
Leah Morgan, Geology (GEOL) 2004, Molecular Evidence for Microbially-Mediated Sulfur Cycling in the Deep Subsurface of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa
