Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2023
Yoonho Choi, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, Producing Semiconductors Suitable for Water Splitting with Metal Nitrates
Thomas Chown, Economics (ECON) 2023, How Economies Recover from the Shocks of War
Sophia Chuen, Linguistics (LING) 2023, The Role of Affect and Social Bias in Perception and Language Attitudes towards Chinese-accented English
Jackson Cleveland, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, PHAding Away - Marine Biodegradable Polymers and the Potential of PHAs
Annabel Cohen, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Keeping the Faith: Being Jewish in Officially Christian Academic Spheres
Canute Collins, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Behavioral Torpor Regulation of the Little Brown Bat
Justin Crawmer, Biology (BIOL) 2023, SRSF1 is an Oncoprotein and is a Key Regulator of Bcl-x Alternative Splicing in Lung Cancer
Isaac Crown, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Who is living in my father's house?
Cassie Cunniff, Diaraye Diallo, Beck Woollen, and Zia NoiseCat, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2023, Watering the West: An Exploratory Case Study of Indigenous Water Rights in the Colorado River Basin
John Daley, History (HIST) 2023, Block Communities Inc.: Less than helpful hands during the War on Poverty.
Thang Dao, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Anthropogenic Noise Modulation of the Avian Gut Microbiome Drives Phenotypic Differentiation Between Urban and Rural Environments.
Charles Davison, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, A Cross Cultural Comparison of Trauma Symptoms
Nicolo Del Negro, Art History (ARTH) 2023, Peggy Guggenheim Matron of Modernism: How Friends, Money, Love, and Luck Forged an Art Collection
Nicolo Del Negro, History (HIST) 2023, “To Centralize, or not to Centralize–that is the Question:” Evaluating the Changes Proposed in the 1963 NYC Charter
Aisha Dem, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, Navigating Space on The Cultural Identity Spectrum: How Second Generation Gambians Form and Express Identity in Minnesota
Helen Desta, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Evaluating the Measurement of Sense of Belonging in Schools
Maya Donovan, Economics (ECON) 2023, Choosing Living & Care Arrangements: Informal Care Receipt and the Decision to Enter a Nursing Home
Maya Donovan, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Extending Loving Attention to Strangers
Charlotte Drake, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Impact of Landlord Type on Housing Insecurity: Evidence from Corporate and Individual Owners in the New York City Rental Housing Market
Adela Dujsikova, Biology (BIOL) 2023, SRSF1 and SRSF3 regulate the crosstalk between apoptosis and autophagy through interactions with Bcl-x and BECN1.
Aarnie Dushime, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effect of the Liberalization of African Airline Markets on the Development of African Economies
Charles Dvergsten, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Ineffective Erythropoiesis and Anemia in Myelodysplastic Syndrome with Ringed Sideroblasts: The Role of SF3B1 Mutation
Noah Eckersley, Classics (CLST) 2023, Athena and Democracy in the Eumenides and the Ajax
Alyssa Ehrhardt, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Interactions Between Copper Dysregulation and Biological Markers of Alzheimer's Disease
Kaylin Eliza Engerman, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Large-Scale Consequences of Ecological Mismatch between Bark Beetles and Their Host Trees
David Espinoza, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Mi Vecina, La Llorona
Abraham Faber, Political Science (POSC) 2023, Who Defends Democracies in Crisis? Discerning How Groups Advocating Electoral Reform React to Democratic Backsliding
Sebastian Fallon, Physics (PHYS) 2023, The Anomalous Zeeman Effect
Grace Farwell, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Third Language Acquisition: Investigating the Roles of L2 Proficiency, The Typological Primacy Model, and the L2 Status Factor Model on German Vowel Perception in L1 English, L2 French Individuals
Max Felland, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Calcium Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease: A view on NMDA receptors and Calcium Homeostasis Modulator Proteins
Will Feng, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Epstein-Barr Virus uses MicroRNAs as part of its Strategy for Host Immune Evasion
Will Feng, Alex Rowell, Allison Teichman, Ethan Li, Gavin Hazen, Helen Jin-Lee, Michaela Polley, Tommy Lisko, and Tony Qiang, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, A Gold Star Approach: Using Gold Nanostars as a Drug Delivery Vehicle for Cancer Treatment
Ryan Flanagan, Political Science (POSC) 2023, The Olympic 'City of Exception' and the Subversion of Pluralism: Observing Convergence between Beijing and Rio de Janeiro
Will Fleming, Economics (ECON) 2023, How Does Zoning Impact Affordable Housing? What Can Be Done To Better Achieve Affordable Housing Goals?
Connor Flinn, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Assessing the Combined Impacts of Anthropocene Stressors and Atmospheric/Geographic Features on Global Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) Aggregations
Emma Freedman, Political Science (POSC) 2023, #Academic: The Legal Struggle to Apply Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech to Digital Scholarship
Allie Fridkin, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Phenological mismatch and specialist pollinators: a comparison of current hypotheses and case studies
Dana Fried, French (FREN); French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2023, Dissimulation et résistance de La bataille d’Alger et Papicha
Dana Fried, Chinese (CHIN) 2023, One King, Two Swords, Three Heads: Lu Xun’s “Forging Swords” in Translation
Molly Furlong, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2023, Stupid Little Place
Alex Gallin, Economics (ECON) 2023, Does the Federal Reserve Have an Advantage When Forecasting Housing Data?
Maia Li Garby, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems: An Analysis of Soil Carbon Storage, Sequestration, and Respiration
Thomas Gatewood, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Epstein-Barr Viral Proteins EBNA1 and vIL-10 Facilitate Immune Evasion by Supporting a Latent-Lytic Cycle of Infection
Fiona Gillen, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, “Life is Like a Video Game:” The Impact of Violent Media on Moral Development
Sam Gloss, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Effect of Parental Leave Policy on Children's Outcomes and Reommendations for Optimization with respect to Childhood Development
Darius Goodman, Economics (ECON) 2023, The Quality of Life from Being Pro-Life: Analyzing the Impact of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade on the Economic Lives of Black Women
Eve Gorman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Gorman Studio Arts Comps Fall 2022
Andrew Gorordo, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Anxieties of Being: Politics, Violence, and Group Identity
Anna Halladay, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Negotiation of Sexist Norms in the Music of the Lunachicks: A Musicological Approach
Keaton J. Hall, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Has Swiping Become Too Casual? Relationship Between Dating App Usage & High-Risk Behaviors
Faith Hanshaw, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Balancing the Autonomic Regulation of Metabolism in Diving Mammals During Voluntary Dives
Elliot Hanson, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Genomic Plasticity in Prokaryotes and its Benefits in Dynamic Environments
Joshua S. Hanson-Kaplan, Physics (PHYS) 2023, The Higgs Boson, a Portal to the Dark Sector?
Greta Hardy-Mittell, Latin American Studies (LTAM) 2023, La Compañía as (Extr)activist Archival Literature
Bailey Harmon, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Viral Inhibition of MHC I Pathways: Essential for Enhanced Efficacy of Oncolytic Virotherapy
Abdisalan Hawadle, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Sponge Microbial Response to Thermal Stress and Ocean Acidification is Species-Specific
Sophia Heidebrecht, English (ENGL) 2023, “Teeming with blasphemy”: Robin Hood, Joseph Ritson, & the Radical History of the Ballad
Ella Hein, Wenlai Han, Hala Soliman, Alek Rabago, Rainey Tilley, Leah Stroebell, Elijah Shore, and Vasilii Vaganov, Chemistry (CHEM) 2023, A Greener Oxidation: Aminoxyl Mediated Electrocatalysis
McKenzie Henson, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Breaking Down the Distinction Between Noun Incorporation and Pseudo Noun Incorporation: An Examination of Ket
Anna Hepler, English (ENGL) 2023, "We'll Hear That Song Again": (Re)interpreting Shakespeare's Music for the Contemporary Stage
Sam Hiken, Osip Surdutovich, Lee Camp, and Jimmy Lin, Mathematics (MATH) 2023, From Data to Donuts: Efficient Computation of Persistent Homology
Kenta Hikino and Kairah Foster, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2023, Live or Die: Survival Strategies of Organizations Promoting Clean Cooking
Emily Hirshman, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Canine Aggression & the Brain: How Neuroplasticity Could Be Used to Understand & Treat Aggressive Dogs
Naomi Hochman, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Juvenile Offenders
Henry Holcomb, Simran Kadam, Jane Zeman, and Francine Legba, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2023, Environmental Art: Reflections of America's Ecological Consciousness
Bjorn Holtey, Political Science (POSC); Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Considering the Court: A Content Analysis of Online News Coverage of the Supreme Court and the Overturning of Roe v. Wade
Hana Horiuchi, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, It's What They Call the Rise & Fall
Lillian Horne, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2023, "Wonder is Wonderful": How Children Give Us License to See Nature Differently
Elise Hudson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, The Feminine Grotesque
Kristin Hultgren, Psychology (PSYC) 2023, Evaluating Prosocial Behaviors: Outcomes, Measurements, & Future Directions
Chiamaka Ifedi, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2023, A Social Intuitionist Perspective On Morality And Persuasion
Kyosuke Imai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Remembering
Christian Irons, Political Science (POSC) 2023, Brexit Voting Inconsistencies Throughout the Celtic Fringe: Analyzing the Interplay of Pro-Brexit Populist Movements With Devolved British Systems of Multi-Level Governance
Claire James, Biology (BIOL) 2023, An Un-Bear-ably Incredible Phenomenon: Atrophy Prevention via IGF-1/Akt Signaling Pathway in Skeletal Muscle of Hibernating Bears
Connor Jansen, Religion (RELG) 2023, The Five Treasures of the Great Snow: Misconceptions of Buddhist Sacred Landscape in Sikkim, India
Ben Jeweler, Economics (ECON) 2023, Wind Turbines and Property Values: Disamenity Costs in New Brunswick, Canada
Caroline Jimenez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Altered Perceptions
Tatiana Jimenez, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Humans and Nature
Teagan Johnson, Elijah Jones, Samuel Koehnline Rosenberg, and Ton Meesena, Statistics (STAT) 2023, Classification Models for Statistical Graphics
Anika Jones, History (HIST) 2023, The 1921 March Action: Ongoing Negotiations Between Russian and German Communist Leadership and their Relation to Power in the Comintern
Chloe Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Impacts of Arctic Warming on Vegetation and Migratory Caribou (Rangifer tarandus): The Case for Ecological Mismatch
Elijah Jones, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Role of Climate Change and Microbial Communities in Increased Coral Reef Disease Prevalence
Diana Kachman, English (ENGL) 2023, "Your Loud Self, Your Loud Eyes, and Your Loud Guilt: Race and Representation in Fairview" and "Environmental Justice and Nature’s Healing in Through the Arc of the Rainforest and “The Lament of Swordy Well”"
Maya Kalmus, Economics (ECON) 2023, Gender Bias in Promotion Rates in the United States
Connor Kelly, Economics (ECON) 2023, The effects of Microfinance on poverty in Central Ghana
Maggie Kerwin, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Investigating the Role of the Alternative Splicing Isoform SRSF1-3 in Promoting Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Mediated Somatic Hypermutation
Nadia Khayat, Biology (BIOL) 2023, The Impact of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Food Web: Low pH Alters Marine Invertebrate Behavior via Chemical Cue Reception Impairment and Drives Predation Rate
Katherine Kimball, History (HIST) 2023, Reflections in the Water: Placing Salt Lake Valley's Warm Springs in History
Samuel Kim, Statistics (STAT) 2023, Using Statistical Classification Methods to Predict Hits Using Statcast
Hannah Klein, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Uncensored Trans Desire: Overt Sexuality and Trans Identities in Contemporary Music
Aya Klos, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Evolution of the early nitrogen cycle in the face of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE): How transition metal abundances influenced the evolution of the modern nitrogen cycle
Elise Knutsen, Physics (PHYS) 2023, The Physics of Non-Volatile Solid State Memory
Falagbenne Kombate, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2023, Place-Based Identities and Political Party Preferences: Urban and Rural Place Identities in Electorate Party Preferences & Federal Welfare Spending Attitudes
Joella Lai, Studio Art (ARTS) 2023, Abstraction of Movement
Gabriela Lazo, Linguistics (LING) 2023, Baby (Not Quite) Sign Language: A Comparative Analysis of ASL and Baby Sign Language Complexity and Ideologies
Bryan Le, Biology (BIOL) 2023, Microbial Warfare in the Permafrost Front: How Direct & Indirect Competition Influence Bacterial Composition in Thawing Permafrost
Brad Lee, Economics (ECON) 2023, Local Zoning Laws: The Cause or The Cure to The Affordable Housing Crisis
Elise Lehman, Economics (ECON) 2023, Improving the Economic Position of American Women Through a Nationally Protected Abortion and Contraception Policy
Aashutosha Lele, Biology (BIOL) 2023, MicroRNAs Aid in Herpes Virus Latency: a Strategy for Immune Evasion
Olivia Lentz, Philosophy (PHIL) 2023, Between God and Evil
