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Graduated in 2022

 

Talia Williams, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Ciliary Intraflagellar Transport in Embryonic Craniofacial Patterning

 

Dylan Willick, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Chaos and Synchronization: An Unlikely Pair

 

Georgia Wilson, Religion (RELG) 2022, Performing Agency: Juanita Bynum, Neo-Pentecostalism, and Black Female Sexuality

 

Sam Wingfield, English (ENGL) 2022, "Before I am, I was": Narrating Time in Angle of Repose

 

Lea Winston, History (HIST) 2022, Removing Madrid’s Equestrian Statue of Franco: A Study of Spanish Collective Memory and Amnesia

 

McKenna Wirth, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Horses and Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy as Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Veterans

 

Jeffrey Witney, Linguistics (LING) 2022, Could You Might Tell Me What You Think: An Experiment in Double Modal Orderings

 

Aidan Wolff-King, Philosophy (PHIL) 2022, When Are You Going to Hug Me? And Other Questions Men Should Ask Their Friends

 

Eric Wright, Economics (ECON) 2022, Heterogeneous Effects of Commuter Rail Lines on Housing Prices

 

Xinyan Xiang, Physics (PHYS) 2022, Spin Glasses

 

Xavier Xiong, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Exploration of the Effect of CRISPR-Cas Systems on Horizontal Gene Transfer: A Cost and Benefit Analysis

 

Jahmaine Renzo Ocampo Yambing, Geology (GEOL) 2022, Greenhouse Constraints on the Inorganic Carbon Sequestration Potential of Enhanced Silicate Weathering in Agriculture

 

Louis Ye, Economics (ECON) 2022, AN ECONOMIC CASE FOR REGULATION ON MEME STOCKS

 

Mathew Zappa, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Impacts of Fire on Fluvial Macroinvertebrates; The Effects of Resource and Habitat Shifts

 

Mary Zhang, Biology (BIOL) 2022, Toolkits for Controlling Microbial Consortia

 

Juanito Zhang Yang and Owen Barnett, Mathematics (MATH) 2022, Introduction to Lie Algebras

 

Charlotte Zinda, Psychology (PSYC) 2022, Where Words Fail, Music Speaks: Improvisational Music Therapy as a Social Skills Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Graduated in 2021

 

Sarah Allaben, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Complex Interactions between the Coral Holobiont and Environmental Stressors Necessitate a New Paradigm of Disease Research

 

Will Altaweel, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, How Should We Practice Gratitude?: A Systematic Review of Variability among Gratitude Interventions

 

Kano Amagai, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Bats Exhibit Suppressed Inflammation Upon Viral Infection Due to Flight-Induced Oxidative Stress

 

Sam Anderson, Geology (GEOL) 2021, Plowed Under: Geoarchaeological Afterlives of Urban Renewal in Southwest, Washington, DC

 

Isabel Arevalo, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Pain as Transformation: Healing in the Body

 

Jessalyn Ayars, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Evaluating the Mechanisms of the Dilution Effect Hypothesis of Pathogen Prevalence for Hantavirus, Leptospirosis, and Lyme Disease

 

Katherine Babbit, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Black on Duty: A Study of Black Police Officers Navigating the Era of Black Lives Matter

 

Louisa Ballinger, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, "Tetherball" Pilot

 

Izzy B. Bascom-Anderson Ms., Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, “We laugh more than we cry”: Interviews with older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic

 

Julia Baumgarte, Geology (GEOL) 2021, Statistics on Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Ellipsoids: a Case Study from the Tjörnes Fracture Zone

 

Nicole Binder, Will Fletcher, Yuting Su, Eliot Huh, and Logan Peters, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Decrypting Cryptographic Algorithms

 

Gianmarco Bommarito, Marcella Manivel, Bo Peng, and Marguerite Shaya, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Bernoulli Numbers and the Class Groups of Cyclotomic Fields

 

Sonja Borgmann, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2021, Reframing Gender in War: Syria through the eyes of Arab Women Journalists

 

Eleanor Boyer, Religion (RELG) 2021, Stories of Identity: Devadasis and Bharata Natyam

 

Asha Bozicevich, Biology (BIOL) 2021, The Positive Feedback Loop between IL-10 Production, STAT3 Activation, BLIMP-1 Expression, and T cell Exhaustion

 

Grace Brindle, History (HIST) 2021, Between Fascism and Democracy: The Allied Occupation of Sicily

 

Travis Brown, Marko Jurkovich, Vincent Gu, and Andrew Vance, Statistics (STAT) 2021, Predicting COVID-19 Using SIR Models

 

Maddie Bryant, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2021, "Partisan Spillover and the Political Frames of Super Bowl Advertisements After the 2016 Election"

 

Melanie Bullock, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Bridging California’s Digital Divide: How Bay Area Stakeholder’s Reactions to Unequal Internet Access Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Display Their Capital

 

Judi Bush, James Craig, John Sherer, Matthew Stritzel, Kate Sweeney, and Harry Tian, Computer Science (CS) 2021, You Wouldn’t DDoS an Election: Security, Integrity and Availability in Electronic Voting

 

Charles Bushman, Physics (PHYS) 2021, Physical Reservoir Computing for Classification of Temporal Data

 

Hugo Caplow, Economics (ECON) 2021, Exploring the Gender Dimensions of Remittances Through a Intra-Household Bargaining Based Approach: The Case of the Philippines

 

Lydia Chau, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, On Dealing with the Aftermath

 

Alex Chertoff, History (HIST) 2021, Occupation and Opportunity: Nice and its Jews during the Holocaust

 

Brevin A. Clark, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Small Change, Big Impact - the Role of a Four Amino Acid Addition to the S1/S2 Site of SARS-CoV-2

 

Daniel Clipper, Statistics (STAT) 2021, Lighting the Lamp: Calculating Individual Contribution in Hockey

 

Josephine Conn, Biology (BIOL) 2021, It's Batty! The Unique Antiviral Response of Type-I Interferons in Bats

 

Allison Corlett, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Firing and Wiring: Neural Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory are Supported by BDNF via Microbiota Supplementation

 

Gregor Dairaghi, Physics (PHYS) 2021, Graphene-Based Smartphone Technologies

 

Maris Daleo, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Black and White Patterns Deter Biting Flies: An Analysis of Zebras and Related Ungulates

 

Maris Daleo, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Victims of Humanity

 

Lily Danna, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2021, Dopamine and Motivation in Schools: Implementing Teaching Methods that Increase Dopamine Release and Motivation in Grades 6-12

 

Evan Michael David, Ian Klein, Benjamin Colby Richardson, and Sameer Swarup, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Northcott’s Theorem: An Adventure in Preperiodic Points of Rational Functions

 

Nina Denne, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Key Epigenetic & Transcriptional Factors Regulating T Cell Exhaustion Indicate Exhausted CD8+ T cells Cluster Into 4 Distinct Subsets

 

Claire Dettelbach, Art History (ARTH) 2021, Ecstatic Exhaustion: Ignatian Spirituality and Orazio Gentileschi's Paintings of Saint Francis in Ecstasy

 

Brittany Dominguez, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, From the Classroom to the Kitchen: COVID-19, Social and Cultural Capital, and Schooling

 

Danielle Dudley, Biology (BIOL) 2021, SARS-CoV-2 Induced Cytokine Storm Inhibits mTOR Function in CD8+ T cells

 

Eliana Durnbaugh, Dance (DANC) 2021, Gathering Place

 

Eliana Durnbaugh, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Mood – Modifying Microbes: Bacterial Production of Anti-Inflammatory Tryptophan Indoles Link Probiotic Use and Reduced Depression

 

Kate Engel, Biology (BIOL) 2021, A Mechanistic Approach to PD-1 Metabolic Restriction of CD8 T Cell Fate and Function

 

Andrew Fitch, Bat-Orgil Batjargal, Daniel Kleber, and Alvin Bierley, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Evolvers of Catan

 

Tyrell Floyd, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Penjamonial

 

Aaron L. Forman, History (HIST) 2021, Far Apart but Never Closer: Diasporic Unity in Twelfth-Century Jewish Travel Literature

 

Elizabeth Franchot, Economics (ECON) 2021, Age and Negative Framing: Pitting Influences of Altruism Against Each Other

 

Elizabeth Franchot, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Influence of Dark Personalities on Interpersonal Relationships: A Systematic Review

 

Kyle Fraser-Mines, Physics (PHYS) 2021, The Causes and Effects of the Carrington Event

 

Beatriz Furtado, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Studio Art Comps Project

 

Ricardo Garcia, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Información y Desinformación: The Latine Understanding of Charter Schools in Southern Texas

 

Victor Garcia, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, Agua de Limón

 

Ben George, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Genomic and Epigenetic Variance in HPV16 Affect Viral Carcinogenicity and Cervical Cancer Outcomes

 

Anli Gerbino, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Kimchi and Calamari or Tofu and Pizza?: A Content Analysis of the Asian American Adoptee Experience in Children’s Books

 

Will Gleason, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2021, Tirailleur Sénégalais, Chasseur Mandingue: la Mémoire Postcoloniale et l'Épopée de Malamine Camara

 

Conor Gormally, Economics (ECON) 2021, Does Framing Impact the Power of Social Information on Charitable Giving?

 

Annaliese Gould, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2021, Depictions and Narratives of Religious Women in Post-Revolution Iranian Propaganda

 

Emma Greenlee, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Invasive Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Alter Biogeochemical Cycling in Native Ecosystems

 

Sarah Grier, Economics (ECON) 2021, Valuing Maternal Health in the Economic Analysis of Maternity Leave

 

Charles R. Grogan-Kaylor, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Tensors, differential forms, and computer graphics

 

Anna Grove, Linguistics (LING) 2021, Pedagogical Methods of Indigenous Language Revitalization and Second Language Acquisition in Dakotah

 

Claire Guang, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, What Is It about the Sound of Music?: Experimental Variability in Music and Cognition Research

 

Glenn Peter Gullickson IV, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Cephalopod Crypsis: The Production of Camouflage Patterns in Response to Photoreception in the Eyes and Skin

 

Cindy Guo, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Economic Case for Paid Family Leave: A Policy Paper with a Focus on Child Outcomes

 

Justin Hahn, Silas Monahan, Erik Carlson, and Owen Szafran, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Carleton Energy Database and Analytics

 

Nia Harris, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Impact of Changes in the Federal Funds Rate on Stock Returns: Portfolios Sorted by Size and Book-to-Market Equity Ratio

 

Karah Haug, Andrew Farias, and Jack Schill, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2021, Cows, Colleges, and COVID: A Single Case Study into Northfield’s Climate Action Plan Implementation During the 2020 Pandemic

 

Cedar Heffelfinger, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Mending

 

Tessa Heggie, Linguistics (LING) 2021, So (‘What’): A Review of Two WH-scope Marking Analyses as Applied to Vlach Romani and Hungarian

 

Isabella Hembre Conditt, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, “What Am I Really?”: Narratives of Race, Self, and Authenticity in Genetic Ancestry Test Unboxing YouTube Videos by Black/African American and White American Creators

 

Sarah Hussain, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Intersection of Gender Norms and Intra-Household Bargaining Power: Evidence from Garment Workers in Bangladesh

 

Mash Ibtesum, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Irradiance

 

Waleed Iftikhar, Economics (ECON) 2021, Democracies and Dictatorships: Variance in the Impact of IMF Adjustment Programs across Different Regime Types

 

Emma Ismail, Linguistics (LING) 2021, A Minimalist Approach to Causative Structures in Dakota

 

Alec Jacobson, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Spike Mutations in B.1.1.7 and Other SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Modify Viral Pathogenicity and Interfere with Antibody Neutralization

 

Erin Jenson, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Tracking Transmission of Measles Virus by Sequencing Various Regions of the Genome

 

Brennan Johnson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Dreaming, Dying

 

Jack Johnson, Economics (ECON) 2021, Shrinking the Tax Gap: Combining Research on Tax Evasion and Lying Aversion

 

Marko Jurkovich, Economics (ECON) 2021, The Effect of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment on Immigrant Income in Spain

 

Marcella Jurotich, German (GERM) 2021, Unrealized Dreams: The Impossibility of Traversing Boundaries in "Die größere Hoffnung"

 

Helen Keithahn, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Tolerating Viruses Right Off the Bat: The Unique Innate Immune Response in Bats

 

Allison Kim, Cole DiIanni, Katharine Münger, Maya Murphy, and Nathaniel Reid, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Keystroke Dynamics for Usable Passwords

 

Eugenia Korobova and Matthew Zacharski, Statistics (STAT) 2021, A Network Analysis of Twitter Discourse About the Death of George Floyd

 

Emma Korosei, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Bean Fish

 

Emma Korosei, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Steaks Versus Salads: Gender, Humor, and Culture in a Restaurant Kitchen

 

Oren Kotz, Geology (GEOL) 2021, Erosion Response to the 2018 Carr Fire in Northern California