Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2021
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
Alex Kucich, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Relating to the River: Fish, Fishers and the Politics of Assemblage in the Cannon River
Zach Kulstad, Biology (BIOL) 2021, PD-1 and Tim-3 Cooperate to Inhibit TCR Signaling in Severely Exhausted CD8+ T Cells
Rie Kurita, Economics (ECON) 2021, Decreasing Tax Evasion: Effective Use of Lying Aversion
Rie Kurita, Catalina Alvarez-Ruiz, Kate Grossman, Ellie Mamantov, and Starr Wang, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Dragon Architect
Margaret Lachman, History (HIST) 2021, Medical Anxieties of the Raj: The British Investigation of Kala-Azar in Colonial India
Olivia Laub, Geology (GEOL) 2021, Reconstructing Devonian Paleotemperature Using the Stable Oxygen Isotope Composition of Bulk Carbonate Rocks
Marcella Lees, History (HIST) 2021, Gerald of Wales and the Invention of Race in the Medieval Celtic Fringe: Gerald’s Irish, Welsh, and Angevin Depictions as They Relate to and Serve His Own Hybridity
Spencer S. Lekki, History (HIST) 2021, Violence and Materiality in the Irish Rising of 1641
Nhan Le, Geology (GEOL) 2021, Using GPlates to Help Refine the Transport History of the Yakutat Block, Alaska
Grace Leslie, Yoshiko Lynch, and Tuomas Sivula, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2021, Climate Migration: Implications of Duluth as a “Climate-Proof City”
Grace Leuchtenberger, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Every Breath (of COVID-19) You Take: Aerosols Driving COVID-19 Superspreader Events
Anna Li, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, On the Development of Implicit Racial Bias: Measurement Variation and Empirical Inconsistencies
Amy Lin, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Porphyromonas gingivalis Induces MyD88- and LPS- Independent Inhibition of PROS1 Anti-Inflammatory Function
Ruofei Li, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Hilbert Space and the Riesz Representation Theorem
Gracie Little, Kaeden Berg, Tony Ngo, and Chris Kitchen, Computer Science (CS) 2021, Digital Divide in Northfield
ZhaoBin Li, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Brownian Motion and Its Applications
Emery Louie and Aubrey Rawles, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Rising to the Occasion: Group Identity and Helping Behavior in a Natural Disaster Context
Jaylin Lowe, Statistics (STAT) 2021, Generalized Additive Models
Ben Lowry, Geology (GEOL) 2021, A Critical Exploration of Introductory Geology Curriculum
Kaela Mali, Biology (BIOL) 2021, ARF We There Yet?: The H. pylori Driven, Subnuclear Translocation of ARF Protein
Ellie Mamantov, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, How Trusting Should We Be of Trust Measurements?
Rebecca Margolis, History (HIST) 2021, Montana’s Indian Education for All Act: Indigenous Survivance in Education Policy
Ishmael Maxwell, Political Science (POSC) 2021, We May Disagree, but We All Love the BJP: Populists' Targeting Strategies on Twitter
Laura McCarron, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Laura McCarron's Studio Art Comps
Rebecca McCartney, American Studies (AMST) 2021, Acting in(to) Utopia: Shifting Power & Resilience to the People
Rebecca McCartney, Music (MUSC) 2021, Better For It: Voicing Loss, For One
Zach McCrary, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Weight
Pierce McDonnell, History (HIST) 2021, Daniel Thomas and the First Tennessee: Seeking National Unity During the Spanish-American War
Pierce Gissler McDonnell and Hiromichi Ueda, Mathematics (MATH) 2021, Topology of Partially Ordered Graph Configuration Spaces
Reese McMillan, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2021, Pending
Cara Meyer, French and Francophone Studies (FREN) 2021, Identity Construction in "Je ne parle pas la langue de mon père" by Leïla Sebbar
Cara Meyer, English (ENGL) 2021, “The terrors of direct experience”: Resolving Trauma in “The Machine Stops” and My Year of Rest and Relaxation; The Role of the Community in Enduring Racial Oppression in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Island
Venecia Mitchell, American Studies (AMST) 2021, In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: The Rise of Charter Schools in New Orleans and its Impact on Black Youth
Spencer Moore, Economics (ECON) 2021, “You get what you pay for”: An Experimental Study on Worker Productivity and Pay Structures
Jack L. Moran, Mathematics (MATH); Statistics (STAT) 2021, Introduction to the Simple Branching Process
Alec Morrissey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2021, Altered Bodies, Shifting Masculinities: Men, Aesthetic Surgery, and the Neoliberal Image
Sasha Mothershead, American Studies (AMST) 2021, Pandemics as Perpetuation, Pandemics as Portal: An Examination of the Complicated Role of State Expansion in Pandemic-Based Movements for Change
Aishee B. Mukherji, Cole Hanson, Jeffrey Boitnott, Eric Odoom, and Yasmeen Awad, Computer Science (CS) 2021, All Our Data Comps: Data Brokerage and Targeted Advertising
Maxime Munyeshyaka, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Uncovering Mechanisms of Oligodendrocytes in Learning and Memory
Andie Nakahira, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, Crying Over Spilled Kombucha
Lucy Neumann, Biology (BIOL) 2021, The Applicability of the Costly Signaling Hypothesis and the Index Hypothesis as Adaptive Explanations for Honest Quality Signaling in Carotenoid-Based Male Bird Plumage
Rose Newell, Biology (BIOL) 2021, Fungal and Viral Coinfection: The Impact on Viral Shedding in Bats
Lucy Newman, Biology (BIOL) 2021, R-loop Structures Are Implicated in Epigenetic Dysregulation Characteristic of Trinucleotide Repeat Expansions in Non-Coding Genomic Regions
Freja Olsen, Physics (PHYS) 2021, The Tunguska Event
Maggy Osha, Biology (BIOL) 2021, The Role of Repeat RNA in TriNucleotide Repeat Disease Pathology and Treatment
Lauren Pak, Psychology (PSYC) 2021, Active Bystander Intervention in Adolescent Bullying: A Defending Model
Alli Palmbach, Political Science (POSC) 2021, New Political Opinion Leaders: Applying Previously Established News Repertoires to a Liberal Arts College and the American Public
Elizabeth Paulson, History (HIST) 2021, Russian Valkyries, Moscow Amazons, and Martyr-Heroines: Femininity and Terrorism in the Russian Radical Movement of the Nineteenth Century
Zoe Pelletier, Spanish (SPAN) 2021, El efecto del COVID en las ciudades de España y EE. UU.
