Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2025
Stephanie Lee, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, An Introduction to Integral Equations and their Solution Methods
Stephanie Lee, Economics (ECON) 2025, No Panacea in Monetary Policy: A Policy Brief for the 2025 FOMC Monetary Framework Review
Breanna A. Lefevers-Scott, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Mass Hysteria: A New Case?
Linnea Lentfer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Hunting for Home: Placemaking Through the Deer Harvest in Non-Indigenous Northern Southeast Alaskan Communities
Sophia Lenzer, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Adolescent Stress Influences Organization of Sex-Specific Neuroendocrine Mechanisms and Female Sexual Functioning in Adulthood
Alberto Leon, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Ghosts in the Runway: Hauntology through the works of Demna Gvasalia
Rebecca Lerdau, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Climate Change and Anuran Reproductive Response
Aiden Lesneski, Alice Mongane, Ananth Iyer, Annika Stewart, Audrey Parrott, Ben Schneider, Lizzet Solache Salgado, Quan Nguyen, and Waadaa Daka, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Bobby Arora (NYU) Comps Group: Designing Synthetic Peptidomimetics to Inhibit Protein-Protein Interactions
Oliver J. Licht, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Unraveling the Physics Behind Digital Photography
Jason Lin, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, No Exit, No Excuses: Sartre, Authenticity, and the Weight of Existence
Caroline Loescher, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Role of Climate Change in Shaping Range Shifts and Disease Transmission Dynamics Between Plants and Insects
Eliza Lox, American Studies (AMST) 2025, From the Pioneers to #VanLife: Domesticity and Manifest Destiny in American Nomadism
Josephine MacDonald, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Landscapes of Peril: How Fear of Predators and Parasites Shapes Disease Risk
Kyle Machalec, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Neurodegeneration and Lipid Droplets: From Metabolic Buffer to Cellular Burden
Elizabeth Madigan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Plastic Predicament: Bisphenol A’s Contribution to Sex Differences Observed in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Anja Madsen, History (HIST) 2025, Space: The Final Frontier?: An Exploration of Frontier Themes in Space Science Fiction Films of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
Kaija Maier, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Kaija Maier Comps
Malvika Malhotra and Sofia Santamaria Germani, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Sex Differences in Brain Activation Patterns and Strategies during Cognitive Tasks of Verbal Fluency and Spatial Rotation
Grace Malooly, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Lake Affects
Grace Malooly, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Head and the HRT: The Psychological Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopausal Women
Talia R. Marash, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Moving Beyond Compliance: A Three-Pronged Approach to Strengthening the Clery Act and Its Implementation
Christopher Maring, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The Physics of Cooling: Techniques, Purposes, and Phenomena Near Absolute Zero
Abby Marks, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Copper Resistance and Its Role in Antibiotic Resistance Spillover from Manure
Zoe Marquis, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Linguistic Reform as Activism: Performative or Pragmatic
Ben Mazor, Biology (BIOL) 2025, You Are What Eats You: Understanding the Gut Microbiome’s Relationship with Alzheimer’s Disease
Eva Mazzola, History (HIST) 2025, Sex and the City: Female Building Patronage in the Forum of Pompeii
George McAdams, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Anxiety’s Influence on Persuasibility: An Integrative Review
Sophie McManus, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Shadowless: Mechanisms of persistence in the symbiosis between Vibrio fischeri and Euprymna scolopes
Caitlin McWilliams, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Managing Introgression Before Genetic Swamping: Evolutionary Risk and Opportunity in Invasive-Native Hybridization
Arhan Mehta, Economics (ECON) 2025, US Monetary Policy Shocks and Welfare Dynamics in Emerging Market Economies
Cristopher Melo Mejia and Nelson Hernan Serrano, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, From Misdiagnosis to Meaningful Care: Culture and Acculturation in Latino Mental Health
Griffin Momsen-Hudson, Religion (RELG) 2025, “Tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!” Reading the Imprecatory Psalms through the Canonical Approach
John Moon-Black, Akash Ganguly, Miles Hoene-Langdon, and Sylvie Dirkswager, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, A Trip Through the Zoo of Infinite Abelian Groups
Zoe Moore, Russian (RUSS) 2025, The Dark Side of the Festival “Tolstoy”: National Identity and the Manipulation of Leo Tolstoy’s Legacy in Russia
Leo Moran, Jonathan Vilms, Ugo Anyaegbunam, and Ethan Cline-Cole, Computer Science (CS) 2025, BGA Development
Henry Moshfeghi, History (HIST) 2025, Raja Serfoji II of Tanjore: Agency and Innovation in Colonial India
Han Jing Munson, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Zooming in on the telescoping effect: Mechanisms of female opioid use disorder and the role of estradiol
Navya Murahari, Biology (BIOL) 2025, RBM39 Degradation Catalyzed Aberrant Splicing Confers Cellular “Sight” for Human Cancer Immune Response
Jivana Nagpal, Economics (ECON) 2025, Financial Inclusion and Inequality in Perú: Analyzing the Effectiveness of the National Strategy
Kaia Neal, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Glacier Flow Dynamics
Mariam Nechiporuk, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Power and Precision: Bispecific TCR mimic antibodies simultaneously hunt down tumor specific antigens and engage potent T cell mediated killing
Sara Negasi, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Targeting the cGAS-STING pathway to Improve Outcomes in Solid Tumors
Emma Neham, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Examining The Role of Seipin and The Lipid Droplet Assembly Factor In Lipid Droplet Biogenesis
Mays Neiroukh, Tori Shen, Geoffrey Jing, and Barry Han, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Towards Noise-Resilient Few-Shot Learning: Optimizing Prototypes for Glioblastoma Classification
Jyothi Nellakra, Linguistics (LING) 2025, Malayalam Causatives Have Two Layers of Voice: A Present-Tense Reply to Krishnan & Sarma (2023)
Jyothi Nellakra, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The Physics of Speech Production & the Vocal Tract
Gisele Nelson, Kendra Winhall, Cece Che Tita, Osareme Davis, Eva Cao, and Sameer Sajwani, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Wiki Wiki Refresh: Enhancing User Experience on the Makerspace Wiki
Sophia Newmark, Religion (RELG) 2025, Social Justice and Zionism in Liberal American Judaism
Jonathan Nguyen, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, As We Were
Jonathan Nguyen, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Crabby Waters: Seasonal Dynamics and Climate Change Impacts on Callinectes Sapidus
Quan Nguyen, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Exploring the different mechanisms by which Candida albicans Enhances Staphylococcus aureus Virulence in Peritonitis and Oral Candidiasis
Zhanghan Ni, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Quorum Sensing Is Associated with Mechanisms That Cause and Regulate Social Cheating in Microbial Cooperation
Tiffan Nyamao, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Targeting XPO1-Mediated Nuclear Export in Multiple Myeloma: Effects on CAR-T Therapy and the Tumor Microenvironment
Ntense Obono, Catherine Bregou, Khizar Qureshi, Angel Ortiz Martinez, Sam Lengel, and Bryan Yang, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Monkeying Around: Chaos Engineering And Robust Web Services
Katherine O'Leary, German (GERM) 2025, Questioning Author(ity): Collaboration and Gender in the Work of Elisabeth Hauptmann and Bertolt Brecht
Isaac Orman, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Probing the Quantum World with Ultracold Atoms
Jose Ortega, Biology (BIOL) 2025, From Point A to Point Human: The Journey of H5N1 Towards Sustained Human-to-Human Transmission
Amalia Pappa, History (HIST) 2025, “A Woman Can’t Get Wet Like A Man Can”: Female City Letter Carriers and their (Non)Uniforms in the United States Prior to 1964
Amalia Pappa, American Studies (AMST) 2025, The Cigarette as an Emblem of Coming of Age in Contemporary American Society
Henry Dietrich Paret, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Napambana: Gender and Power in Bongo Fleva Music Videos
Joseph Park, Biology (BIOL) 2025, MamT, a conserved protein in magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), is critical for the effective utilization of iron for growth and maturation of magnetic crystals in magnetosomes and directs the localization of Mms6
Tobias Pasternak, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Evaluating the Effectiveness of SfM Photogrammetry for the Development of 3-D Digital Learning Models of Geologic Outcrops
Saheli Patel, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Smear slide analysis of lake sediments to evaluate impacts of humans on eight lakes on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Northern Wisconsin
Dake Peng, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Integrating Explanations in Spatial Cognition Across Scales
Allison Penn, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Back to Class: How Elite Liberal Arts Colleges Discuss the Value of Their Degrees on Admissions Websites
Ella Peoples, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Global Citizenship for Civic Education
Allen Perales, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Sculpting the Immune Response: Modifying the CAR NK Cell Construct Against the Tumor Microenvironment
Henry Petrini, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Bridging the Gap: Lysosome-Peroxisome Membrane Contacts in Storage Disorders and Neuropathy
Ellen Pickette, Religion (RELG) 2025, “I Used to be Irish Catholic”: George Carlin’s Catholic Comedy, Criticism, and Comic Transcendence
Nithin Poreddy, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Cancer Catalysts: Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Horizontal Gene Transfer and Genome Integration in Metastasis
Mitch Porter, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2025, Residual Conservation: A Political Ecology of Marine Protected Area Creation in Argentina
Abby Quade, English (ENGL) 2025, "What we've been taught to do with death": Creation and Mortality in Frankenstein, "The Vulture and the Body," and The Cancer Journals
Sofia Quanbeck, Economics (ECON) 2025, Greener Pastures: Balancing Externalities and Market Elasticities to Craft an Optimal Marijuana Tax for Minnesota
Ryan Quinn, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Feynman Path Integrals
Sophia Quinn, Aaron Banse, Brendan Banfield, and Kellen Knop, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Not Clique-bait: Algorithmic Approaches to the Maximum Clique Problem
Xiaoying Qu, Dake Peng, Albert Jing, and Paul Claudel Izabayo, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Reinforcement Learning in Monopoly Through Three Q-learning Variants
Anka Raicevic, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Exploring Electrochemical Deposition Parameters in Semiconductor Production for Solar Water Splitting
Daanyal Raja, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Crude Consequences: A Comparative Analysis of Oil Spill Impacts on Aerial Versus Submerged Species in Saltmarsh Ecosystems
Moira Rankin, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Introgression in anthropogenic landscapes: Weighing adaptive and maladaptive outcomes of unintentional and intentional introgression events
Alexander Rapacz, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Sasha Rapacz Comps, Studio Art
Elinor Rees-Hill, English (ENGL) 2025, The Architecture of Abuse: Physical Space and Systems of Oppression in In the Dream House
Becky Reinhold, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Living the good life without morals: a discussion of the efficacy of guardrails in Alasdair MacIntyre’s ‘quest for the good life’
Edith Reyes Contreras, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Rising Temperatures, Vanishing Forests: The Environmental Drivers of Malaria Transmission
Rhusel Rivera, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Investigating the Role of PPAR�� in Peroxisome-Mediated Sebum Production and the Pathophysiology of Acne Vulgaris
Aidan Roessler, Tony Ni, Jake Jasmer, and Yang Tan, Computer Science (CS) 2025, A Survey of Community Detection: Algorithms, Applications, and Beyond!
Grace Rogers and Elena Prichard, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Sustainability in Higher Education: Architecture and Design in Environmental Interdisciplinary Learning Spaces
Ayanna Rose, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2025, Reimagining the City: From Segregation to Liberation—Black Thought and Radical Pathways in Urban Planning
Ashley Rosenberg, Religion (RELG) 2025, Consuming the Promise of Salvation: The Construction of an Ideal Life by Mary Kay Cosmetics and goop
Zoe Rose, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Disruption of Peroxisomal Function in Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Implications for Enterocyte Formation
Adam J. Rothman, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Take a Second – Make a Second: Modeling the Atomic Transition that Defines the Time Standard
Elizabeth Rowland, Economics (ECON) 2025, Light Rail Transit Station Proximity and Home Values in Houston, Texas: A Spatial Analysis
Elizabeth Rowland, Mitch Porter, and Noah Morris, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Water from the Rock: Scarcity, Efficiency, and Policy Change in Sonoran Desert Agriculture
Lia Salomon, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Quantifying topographic controls on debris flows in residential and heavily trafficked areas on the post-glacial landscape of Prince of Wales Island, southeast Alaska
Jacob Sanders, History (HIST) 2025, Barriers to Collaboration: Challenges of Developing the MBT-70 Main Battle Tank
Melina Sasaki-Uemura, Tianyi Lu, Kunwu Lyu, and Ben Stever-Zeitlin, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Positive Tournaments and Games
Beckett Schafer, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, The Biosynthesis of Cylindrospermopsin: A Potent Toxin Produced by Cyanobacteria
Finley Sebert, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Drift
Max Serota, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, Autocratic Radicalization: the Strategic Choices of Autocratic Executives and the Death of Democracy
Mehreen Shahid, Biology (BIOL) 2025, OV-BiTE: Using an Oncolytic Virus to Enhance the Efficacy of T-Cell-Attracting Bispecific Monoclonal Antibodies in Treating Cold Solid Tumors
Maya Shook, American Studies (AMST) 2025, “No house is private”: The Myth of the American Single-Family Home
