The Carleton collection of Comps, Honors Papers, and Prize-Winning Works is a collaboration between academic departments and the library. Students self-submit their work with the guidance of their departments and programs. Descriptive information about each comps, honors paper, or prize-winning project is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of projects is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about the collection, including how to submit and how to request access to the full text of works.

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Graduated in 2022

Natalie Lafferty, American Studies (AMST) 2022, The Monster of Mental Illness: The Representation of Mary Todd Lincoln’s Mental Health in American Culture

Nghi Lam, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Alternative splicing: determinative role of cis elements and trans factors in disease and therapy

Kate Lanier, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Climate Change and the Framing Effect

Bethany Lazo, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Mind the Gender Gap: Examining Measurement of Violence Risk in Women

Grace Lee, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, The Extra(Ordinary)

Serena Lee, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Disturbance Amplifies Predator Pressure: An Analysis of Predators in Restoration Projects

Siena Leone-Getten, American Studies (AMST) 2022, American Individualism: White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and the Curtailing of American Democracy

Alec Leonetti, Biology (BIOL) 2022, The Evolution of the Role of Cilia in Asymmetric Left-Right Axis Patterning

Zachary J. Lewis, Biology (BIOL) 2022, The transcription factor Bach2 drives memory B cell differentiation from the germinal center as a result of low-affinity B cell receptor signaling.

Gabriel Lobet, Geology (GEOL) 2022, Soil Properties of Prairie Creek Wildlife Management Area in Rice County, MN: The Influence of Land Use History and Prairie Restoration

Carly Lo, Biology (BIOL) 2022, An Explosion of Aquatic Life: A Comparative Evaluation of the Impact of Wildfires on Freshwater and Marine Phytoplankton Communities

Jeremiah Mackin-Alonzi, Karryn Leake, Sagal Ahmed, and Henry Farnsworth, Statistics (STAT) 2022, Survival Analysis: An Application with Censored Head and Neck Cancer Data

Hannah MacLeod, Elias Franzen, Ella Stack, and Abigail Sutcliffe, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2022, "A new normal": the rise of Anthropocene rhetoric in local news media coverage of wildfire

Manjari Majumdar, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Bike Dream

Jeep Maneenoi, Geology (GEOL) 2022, Investigating the potential factors behind microplastics distribution along the beaches in Southern California

Nothando N. Mangena, Biology (BIOL) 2022, In malaria, Interferon gamma induced T-bet expression increases B cell affinity but reduces their capacity to clear infection

Sydney Marsh, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Therapeutic Application for Cis and Trans Splicing Mutations

Jacob Martens, David Krakaur, and Bryan Boehnke, Mathematics (MATH) 2022, Seeking Lines Using Resultants and More: Statistics on Cubic Surfaces Over Finite Fields

Carl Marvin, Economics (ECON) 2022, Evaluating the Paycheck Fairness Act: Do Not Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Good

Carl Marvin, Political Science (POSC) 2022, The Best of Both Worlds: Making the Most of the Middle Ground Between the US and China

Elizabeth McCrea, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Debiasing the Influence of the Hindsight Bias and Anchoring Effect on Juror Decision Making

Katherine McFerrin, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Genomic Signatures of Virulence: The Effects of Pathogenicity Islands on Pathogen Fitness

Brooke McKelvey, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Roots

Christopher McTaggart, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Sardines

Ashley Mei, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2022, Encrypted: A Study on Reactions to Anti-Asian Sentiment

Ben Mellin, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Faunal Biodiversity and Pyrodiversity in Western North American Forests: Flaws in the Current Literature

Elie Mer, Chemistry (CHEM) 2022, Serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography as a tool for the characterization of protein structure and dynamics

Ayasa Michii, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Alternative Splicing in Development, Aging, and Diseases

Miyuki Mihira, History (HIST) 2022, Pluralizing History and Silence of Hibakusha: Operations of Stigmatized Identities and Memories of Nagasaki Buraku

Colleen Milligan, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Restoring Patchy Coniferous Forests through Prescribed Fires and Thinning Efforts to Better Prepare Them for the Effects of Climate Change

Ella Milliken, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Unique E. globulous Chemistry in Eucalypt Forests Influences Abnormal PyOM Production in Response to Fire Severity

Arya Misra, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, I HOPE YOU REMEMBER THIS MOMENT

Kristin Miyagi, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2022, Conflict and Hope for a Better Life: Transformative Gender Roles and Women’s Economic Empowerment During the Syrian Civil War

Yuto Miyazawa, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Quantum teleportation and its experimental realization

Emmanuel Morales, Economics (ECON) 2022, Understanding Remittances: How the 2008 Financial Crisis Affected the Impact of Remittances

Ayaka Moriyama, Physics (PHYS) 2022, The Physics of Plasma Gasification with Plasma Arc

Ayaka Moriyama, Dance (DANC) 2022, ψ( )

Myat Thant Sin Naing, Economics (ECON) 2022, Social Institutions and Economic Growth

Sarah Nakamoto, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, The Immunological Effects of Music Therapy

Adam Nakasaka, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Revisited

Jordan Navarro, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, Effect of Religiosity on the Conjunction Fallacy

Jordan Navarro, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, The Liar Paradox: Considering Fuzzy Logic and Trivalent Truth Conditions

Chi Nguyen, David Chae, John Groos, Xander Roti, and Sabrine Shanaa, Mathematics (MATH) 2022, A Modern Take on the Proof of Jacobi's Four-Square Theorem

Adam N. Nik, Molly Kammann, Jack Rybarczyk, and Sue He, Computer Science (CS) 2022, Scenify: Using AI to Generate Scenic Walking Paths

Katherine Nowak, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Optogenetics as a Means to Improve Human Perception

Katherine Oda, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Boldly Going, But Should We?: The Next Generation of Extremely Large Telescopes

Win Wen Ooi, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “We Believe in Intercultural rather than Multicultural”: Negotiating Place-based, National, and Global Cultural Imaginations

Folasade Orepo, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Rhythm Of Life

Mark Paine, Biology (BIOL) 2022, A Comparison of the Ciliary Mechanisms and Genetic Mutations Underlying Situs Inversus and Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

Daria Palenova, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Physics of Neural Signals

Ben Perry, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Figure Gestures in India Ink

Jackson Piccirillo, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus Improves Plant Health, Productivity, and Tolerance to Environmental Stress By Influencing Plant Physiology, Soil Ecological Interactions, and Soil Structure Engineering

Allegra Pihlaja, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, "Special Water": Water as Community in Wisconsin's Chequamegon Bay

Noah Pinkney, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Quantum Biology, Photosynthesis, and Resonance Energy Transfer

Noah Pinkney, Shira Julie, and Elliot Heyman, Mathematics (MATH) 2022, Algebraic Topology and Discrete Morse Theory for Finite Spaces

Kellan Pinson, Economics (ECON) 2022, Regulating The Retail Investor

Logan Plasch, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Physics of Nuclear Fusion Reactors

Colette Pollard, Nathan Hayes-Rich, Dominic Enriquez, and Emily Schulenberg, Statistics (STAT) 2022, COVID-19 Incidence Rate in Minnesota: A Bayesian Spatial Analysis

Zoe Poolos, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, Existing Somewhere in Between: Examining Experiences of Non-Binary Athletes on Collegiate Sports Teams

Clara Posner, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Therapeutic Trips: Efficacy of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

Isak Poulsen, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Fire-Induced Evolutionary Traits and How They Will Fare Against Short-Interval, High-Intensity Fires

Phoebe Pugh, History (HIST) 2022, Rights of Reason : Newspapers and Public Discourse on American Women’s Roles in a Post-Revolutionary World

Ali Purdum, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, The Tic-Reducing Effect of Music on Tourette's Syndrome

Shaw Qin, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, What Makes Bilinguals Different from Monolinguals? A Systematic Review of Language Background Measurement in the Bilingual Cognitive Advantage Literature

Tyrone Quigley, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, Seeing the Figure

Declan Ramirez, Geology (GEOL) 2022, A Quantitative Survey of Sphaeriid Abundances within Spring Creek Habitats, Northfield, MN

Javier Ramirez, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Quantifying Interpretation Bias in Social Anxiety Research

Paul Ready, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Pancreatic cancer as a ciliopathy: the role of primary cilia in driving and suppressing tumorigenesis and metastasis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas

Cecelia Ringrose, Music (MUSC) 2022, The Blank Slate

Bridger Rives, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Measurement, Manipulation, and Reclassification of the Anchoring Effect

Anna Roberts, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Optogenetic and Chemogenetic Approaches to Studying Neural Circuitry and Therapeutic Mechanisms in Parkinson's Disease

Jevon Robinson, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Exploring the Viral-Cilia Interface

Maya Rogers, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Understanding the Role of Anticipated Regret and Risk Perception in Vaccine Decision Making

Cas Roland, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, Hear Hoofbeats, See Zebras: The Role of Disability, Scrutiny, and Community in the Construction of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Adam Ross, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Conduction, Electron Energies, and Correlated Electron Materials

Lucas Sass, Linguistics (LING) 2022, Checking Out Particle Verbs: A comparative Analysis of World Englishes

Owen Schuster, History (HIST) 2022, Upholding Continuity and Rejecting Change: The Role of Church History in Marsilius of Padua's Defensor pacis

Eesha Shah, Economics (ECON) 2022, Investment in Secondary Education Combats Income Inequality for Low and Middle Income Countries While Preserving Growth

Mohammed Mehdi Shahid, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Spinning Pixels: The Physics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Becky Shapiro, Economics (ECON) 2022, Morality and Salary: are laborers willing to take a pay cut to do work in line with their philosophy?

Yicheng Shen, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2022, Justified Cause? Assessing the Humanitarian Outcomes of U.S. Foreign Aid and Intervention Since the Cold War

Yicheng Shen, Jacob Flignor, Karen Wang, and Libby Nachreiner, Statistics (STAT) 2022, Behind the Smoke: An Extreme Value Analysis of Air Pollution in Minnesota

Julia Shirley, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2022, Cognitively Bounded Morality: How Cognitive Limits Could Impact Moral Decisions

Yueheng Shi, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Physics of Laser Cooling

Mattison Shreero, Geology (GEOL) 2022, An Exploration in Geologic Interpretation: Increasing Accessibility of Geologic Information in Badlands National Park and Buffalo Gap National Grassland

Mattison Shreero, Studio Art (ARTS) 2022, The Museum of Cosmic Warning

Jacob Small, Economics (ECON) 2022, Remittances as a Replacement for Government Transfer Programs: A Mexican Case Study

Cassandra Smith, Geology (GEOL) 2022, Effects of Anisotropy on Borehole Breakout Direction: A Physical Modeling Approach

Celine Smith, Geology (GEOL) 2022, Investigating the effects of bedding anisotropy on borehole breakouts in the San Joaquin Valley and their implications for the frictional strength of the San Andreas Fault

Madi Smith, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Ayahuasca: Is It More than Just a Trip?

Renée Smith, Anna Zheng, Zach DiNardo, Lauren Way, Annabella Strathman, Tonny Aton, and Molly Kammann, Chemistry (CHEM) 2022, Chemistry in silico: Modeling Complex Bio-organic Synthesis Using Computational Chemistry

Leah R. Snidman, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Interactions Between Insects and Other Organisms Impact Grassland Ecosystems and Restoration Efforts

Minneh Song, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Moving Away from Psychiatric Misdiagnosis in Immigrants and Refugees: An Exploration of Risk Factors and Solutions

Abbey Stockwell, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2022, “Why am I Still Being Punished?”: The Ear Hustle Podcast and Understanding Success, Barriers, and Life after Prison

Elliot Stork, German (GERM) 2022, Die Ablehnung der öffentlichen Machtstrukturen durch Geschlechtsausdruck: Charlotte von Mahlsdorfs Leben in der DDR

Elliot Stork, Linguistics (LING) 2022, How Does the World Englishes Paradigm Influence Convergence Rates in Speakers of Midwestern English? An Experimental Analysis

Kara Sun, Ada Wright, and Astrid Steiner-Manning, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2022, Objections and Ideologies Surrounding the Development of Affordable Housing on Local Greenspace: A Case Study of the Kraewood Development Project

Will Taft, Physics (PHYS) 2022, A Survey of Nuclear Engineering (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Atomic Power)

Hisui Takeda, Music (MUSC) 2022, Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448 and Informed Performance Practice

Hisui Takeda, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, The Effects of Cultural Differences Between East Asia and the West on Social Anxiety