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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