Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2024
Martín Escutia, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Deeper Conversation
Liam Etelson, Ed Dowling, and Xingyi Zhang, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Fractals: The Attractors of Iterated Function Systems
Soren Eversoll, English (ENGL) 2024, Minotaur
Alex Falk, Linguistics (LING) 2024, Mixed Structures and Mixed Feelings: The Case of Surzhyk
Nyemade Fallah, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Measurement of Emotion Recognition in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Jon Fernandes, Economics (ECON) 2024, Solving the Unsolvable: An Analysis of the Determinants and Policies Surrounding the Gender Wage Gap
Ian Ferrucci, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Considering Classical Psychedelics in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Luke Floquet, Economics (ECON) 2024, South Koreas dropping fertility rate
Isabel Folger, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2024, The Role of Source Forgetting in Misinformation Acceptance: Insights from Philosophy and Psychology
Isabel Folger and Yichen Zhang, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, The Effects of Immersiveness on the Restorative Impact of Nature Exposure
Emmett Forster, History (HIST) 2024, Bordering on Divine: Mosaic Framing Elements in the Early Middle Ages
Anna Frankel, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2024, To Endure Pain Without Proof: The Invalidation and Erasure of Women’s Chronic Pain Conditions
Teddy Friedman, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, The Characterization of Individual Atmospheric Aerosol Particles: A Review of Methods and Future Goals
Bella Frost, English (ENGL) 2024, A Parable of Reproductive Rights: (Re)reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in Light of Louisa Hall’s Reproduction
Grace Gatewood, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Astronomical Imaging
Katherine Geist, Amanda Khouw, Casey MacVeagh, Frank Sheffield, Caleb Wataoka, and Wanying Na, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Alabugin Group Chemistry Comps
Alex Gibbens, Economics (ECON) 2024, How Does Policy Aligned With ESG Affect A Firm's Ability And The Decisions Process To Implement Renewable Energy.
Sam Gilbert, Religion (RELG) 2024, Humor, Play, and World-Traveling: Acts of Indigenous Self-Recognition in the Contemporary Water Protector Movement
Zachary Glaser, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Voting Systems: Values, Weaknesses, Impossibilities
Zev Goldhaber-Gordon, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Shockingly Static: Models of the Triboelectric Effect in Solids
Alejandro Gonzalez, Sophie Boileau, Hugh Shanno, Grace Hanson, and Ammy Lin, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Binary Quadratic Forms: Properties, Groups, and Ideals
Anna Greenlee, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Future consequences of woody encroachment in U.S. grasslands
Benjamin Griesel, Statistics (STAT) 2024, The Impact of Obstetric Periodontal Therapy and Interactions on Preterm Birth: A Survival Analysis
Josh Grossman, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Sexuality and Perversion in Sion Sono's "Antiporno"
Aaryan Gulati, Economics (ECON) 2024, Striking a Balance: Investigating the Duration of Manufacturing Strikes
Avery Hall, Sophie Boileau, Jeremiah Mensah, Armira Nance, Brie Sloves, Victor Huang, and Muno Siyakurima, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Algorithmic Fairness in Clustering: A Study in Replication
Oryan Hamlin, Economics (ECON) 2024, Sports Finance: Effect of a Unsuccessful Stars on Team Valuation
Han Han, English (ENGL) 2024, A poetics of stillness: Reading displacement and disorientation in Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Empathy by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Grace Hanson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Fluttering and Falling
Katelyn Hemmer, Political Science (POSC) 2024, Sustainable Agriculture as Resistance against a Market Society
Emma Henry, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Are Addictive Behaviors Freely Chosen? Implications for Moral and Legal Responsibility
Adina Holloway, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, A Review of African Americans' Racial Appearance Bias
Andrew Hong, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, An Introduction to Ergodic Theory
Frances Hose, Economics (ECON) 2024, Improving Corporate Sustainability: An Analysis of Emission Reporting Policies
Isabel Hoyt-Niemiec, English (ENGL) 2024, "Slashing Women into the Texts": Women's Resistance through Language in The Handmaid's Tale and Matrix
Cassie Huang, David Pille, Vivianne Soforenko, Jack Nelson, and Katie Munro, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Homogeneous Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol
Scott Hudson, History (HIST) 2024, “50% Pornography, 50% Sentimental Dirt, 100% Poison”: Censoring the Films of Marlene Dietrich in Nazi Germany and the Irish Free State
Abby Ignasiak, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Turn Up the Heat: The Importance of Temperature-Mediated Regulation of fHbp in N. meningitidis
Yusuf Ismail, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Experimental Quantum Computing
Shaheer Jaffar, Economics (ECON) 2024, The Impact of Family Income and Citizenship Status on Individual's SAT Performance.
Byron Jia, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, Exploring Electrochemical Deposition Parameters in Semiconductor Production for Solar Water Splitting
Aleia Johnson, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Losing Her Ground By Standing Her Ground: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Gender Stereotypes within the 2022 Arizona Gubernatorial Election
Lucinda Johnson, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, The Impact of Feminist Movements on Violence Against Women Policy Implementation in Rural Communities
Trevor Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Molecular Pathology and Therapeutic Potential of Autophagy in Alzheimer's Disease
Leo Jordan and Ashley Cohen, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2024, Environmental Communication in Rice County, Minnesota: Channel and Message Framing Preferences
Jelimo Kaitany, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Influence of Symbiodinium Heat Tolerance is Larger than Scleractinia on Coral Holobiont Recovery after Bleaching
Adam Kamp, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, Gender, Labor, and Futurity: Imagining New Paradigms In The Apocalypse
Yuv Kataria, Economics (ECON) 2024, The Green Bond Market: A Comparative Analysis
Liam Kennedy, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, The Viability of Classic Psychedelics as a Treatment for Substance Use Disorder: Emerging Evidence
Maya Khesin, Physics (PHYS) 2024, The Physics of Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting
Sung-Hee Kim, Alejandro Gonzalez, Aidan Lee-Gilligan, Peyton Bass, and T'airra Champliss, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Photo Life
Tsion Kirtner, Economics (ECON) 2024, Parents’ Willingness to Pay for Child Adoption: The Effects of Adoption Subsidies on Adoption Costs
Aria Kischner, Hazel DeHarpporte, and Blake Tran, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2024, Effects of a Regenerative Poultry Silvopasture Model on Hazelnut Height and Basal Diameter
Susanna Kisker, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Avian Magnetoreception: The Radical Pair Mechanism
Chris Knapp, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2024, A Brief Journey Through 3D and Its Many Pairs of Glasses - Then, and Now
Lettu Konshie, Economics (ECON) 2024, How do Household characteristics Impact Children’s Enrollment in Bangladesh?
Esme M. Krohn, History (HIST) 2024, The Shadow of Eugenics at the Faribault State Hospital, 1950-1969
Colin Kroll, Economics (ECON) 2024, Can We Beat the Heat? Assessing Productivity Losses Due to Climate Change
Yuelin Kuang, Physics (PHYS) 2024, The Physics of Topological Insulators
Ian Lacey, Chemistry (CHEM) 2024, River Biogeochemistry: Drivers of Stream Metabolism and the Carbon Cycle
Nicholas Lattal, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The evolutionary implications of adaptive introgression of Neanderthal and Denisovan genes in Eurasian
Makena Layton, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Gut Microbiome, Leaky Gut and Autoimmunity
Sebastian Lee, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Role of Gut Microbiota in the Pathogenesis of Major Depressive Disorder and Potential Gut-Targeted Antidepressant Therapies
Tosh X.K. Le, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Nuclear Fusion: Always Twenty Years Away? Or Closer Than We Think?
Chak Li, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Advisory Influence and Presidential Disposition: Dissecting the Trump Administration's Impact on U.S.-China Trade Policy
Ammy Lin, Chinese (CHIN) 2024, Constructive Authenticity and National Identity: Exploring Their Interplay in Taiwanese Cuisine
Roderick Z. Liu, Asian Studies (ASST) 2024, Political Messaging in Imperial Chinese Art: Developments from the Northern to Southern Song Dynasty
William Longley, Philosophy (PHIL) 2024, The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender
Hsar Sar Lwin, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Go Go
Ren D. Manuel, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Painting Punctum
Ren D. Manuel, Art History (ARTH) 2024, Separating the Body of Christ from the Body of a Jewish Man: The Non-circumcision of Christ in Art of the Italian Renaissance
Catherine Marvin, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Ketamine's Crossroads: A Neurological Journey Through Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety Disorders
Alice McClain, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Gardening the reef: future-proofing approaches to coral conservation
Douglas Meeker, English (ENGL) 2024, Reorienting the Gay Canon: Spaces and Sexualities in Maurice and Giovanni’s Room
Catherine Merchant, Religion (RELG) 2024, “Escaping the Prison of the Brain:” The Value of Subjectivity and Objectivity in The Varieties of Religious Experience and Neurotheology
Catherine Merchant, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Evaluating Measurement Practices in the Literature on Adverse Childhood Experiences
Ewan Miller, Biology (BIOL) 2024, A Coordinated Effort: The Recruitment of Regulatory T cells Involves Gut Microbes and the Vagus Nerve
Luis Miranda, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Effect of Coronal Mass Ejections on Solar Wind and its Earthly Consequences
Marjorie Mitalski, History (HIST) 2024, Melody and Morality: Rousseau's Music and Philosophy
Anya Mitton-Fry, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Latitude and avian life history strategies
Nicholas Moore, Biology (BIOL) 2024, Schizophrenia and the Human Noncoding Revolution: a New Evolutionary Framework
Leon Morduch, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Breaking the Populist Spell: The Impact of Education and Popular Psychologies on Reception of Populist Appeals in the United States
Ben More, Spanish (SPAN) 2024, "Sweetening the Deal:" Fidel Castro's Rhetoric During Cuba's Ten-Million-Ton Sugar Harvest
Shreya Nair, Biology (BIOL) 2024, A Gut feeling : Understanding the relationship between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the Gut Microbiome and Butyrate
Shreya Nair, A. J. Ristino, Serafín Patiño Jr., Phi Rapacz, Zev Goldhaber-Gordon, and Jack Owens, Computer Science (CS) 2024, Short-Read Sequence Alignment using the Burrows Wheeler Transform
Wanying Na, Biology (BIOL) 2024, The Role of VgrG-Associated Effectors in T6SS Structural Assembly, Firing and Interbacterial Competition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Julia Nicholson, English (ENGL) 2024, Dog Park
Kai Oishi, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Anticipating Regrets of Inaction to Promote Happiness and Social Interaction
Kai Oishi, Political Science (POSC) 2024, The American Dream? The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Segregation and Upward Mobility in the US
Lindsay Okindo, Psychology (PSYC) 2024, Should Medication-Assisted Treatment Be Integrated into Criminal Justice Systems for Opioid Use Disorder?
Brett Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2024, Reasonably Rural: Non-Narrative in Print
Brett Olson, Art History (ARTH) 2024, “Stephen Varble: Alternative Approaches to the Waste Crisis”
Chris O'Mara, Religion (RELG) 2024, The Enemies Within, and Other Reasons Why I Need My Gun
Arthur Onwumere, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2024, Believe, Advocate and Uplift The Black Maternal Health Crisis in Minnesota’s Hennepin and Ramsey Counties
Evan Orjala, History (HIST) 2024, Human Nature and Consumerism in a Mechanized World: Promoting Outdoor Recreation to Working Minnesotans, 1910-1929.
Alistair Pattison, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, An Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory
Ian Paulson, Physics (PHYS) 2024, Applications of Coherent Macroscopic Wavefunctions in Superconducting Material
Aidan Phinney, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2024, Why Have the Military Bases Remained Open? U.S., Japanese, and Okinawan Relations Since 1991
Aleksander Prasolov, Music (MUSC) 2024, Composing the End and What Comes After: Death and the Musical Afterlife in Tod und Verklärung and “Im Abendrot”
Collin Preves, English (ENGL) 2024, The Hot Dog Play
