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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