Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Graduated in 2026
Yinan Gao, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions via Triplet States: Mechanistic Insights
Emily Muenzer, Biology (BIOL) 2026, The Invasion, Repression, and Escape of Human Endogenous Retrovirus K and its Implications in Targeted Cancer Therapies
Malcolm Parnall, Physics (PHYS) 2026, The Plasma Display Panel
Noah Reid, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Elusive Exosomes: Relationship of Exosomal PD-L1 and KRAS-MEK on Immune Suppression
Luke Sugalski, Economics (ECON) 2026, Taxing the 0.01%
Graduated in 2025
Naema Abdi, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Spread and Acceptance of Misinformation: Why is it so Easy to Believe And Share Fake News?
Sara Abraha, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Understanding the Hsp90 Landscape in Breast Cancer: Domain-Specific Inhibition
Marcos Acero, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Quantum Sensors and the Evolution of Quantum Measurement
Kara Achilles, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Susceptibility to Substance Use Disorder and Mood Disorders in Females with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Result of Organizational Effects of Prenatal Androgens
Tim Adams, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Sunflowers: The Visual Experience of Beauty in Nature vs. Two-Dimensional Art
Lily Akre, Religion (RELG) 2025, The Sensuality of Suffering: Love in Julian of Norwich and James Baldwin
Jordan Appelbaum, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Beyond Surface Antigens: The Rise of Bispecific TCRm-ADCs in Cancer Immunotherapy
Morgan Arnold, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Sex Differences in the HPA axis: A Cause of the Gender Depression Gap in Women
Paige Arnold, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Blank Spaces: Negotiating Remembrance with Holocaust Memorials
Jacob Aronson, Troy Osborn, Tori Shen, and Kai Zhang, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Exploring Resampling-Based Methods for Parameter Estimation on Simulated Multilevel Data
Surina Arora, Economics (ECON) 2025, Microcredit as a Public Health Initiative: Studying the Effects of Access to Microcredit on Women’s Health in India
Loren Arzayus, Economics (ECON) 2025, Wealth Taxes and its Unintended Consequences: Why Taxing the Wealthy is Not Efficient in Closing the Wealth Inequality Gap
Amelia Asfaw, Economics (ECON) 2025, Assessing the Feasibility of a Wealth Tax in the United States
Allison Audette, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Gene Flow and Bt-Crops: Understanding Potential Ecological Consequences
Brendan Banfield, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physical Reservoir Computing
Aaron Banse, Evan Hart, Aidan Jalili, and Yang Tan, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Intervals, C_3 Structure, and Realization in Tournaments
Helen Banta, Classics (CLST) 2025, You'll Never Get Away from The Sound of the Woman that Loves You: Women’s Scenes of Recognition in the Odyssey
Adriel Barham, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Adriel Barham Comps
Jesse Barker, English (ENGL) 2025, "A Phrase Men can Pass from Hand to Mouth:" Self-Reference and Creole Language in Derek Walcott's Poetry
Kieran Barker, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Making AI Make Sense: Biological Normativity as a Criterion for Intelligence
Jens Bartel, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Understanding the Lichen Symbiosis in the Age of Genomics
Mia Beeman-Weber, Geoff Bynum, Tyler Chodera, and Gitanjali Matthes, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2025, Climate Adaptation in Southeastern Minnesota: Multiscalar Decision-Making and a Case Study of the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum
Eden Bergene, Economics (ECON) 2025, Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Innovation in Big Pharma
Annie Bergmann, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, The Longest Night
Sanjiv Bhogaraju, Economics (ECON) 2025, Wealth Taxation and Economic Inequality: Balancing Equity and Growth
Sydney Bieber, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Sex Hormones and X Chromosome Inactivation Produce Aberrant T Cell Population Ratios in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Contributing to a Strong Female Bias
Katrin Birk, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Explorations of Life (Through the Forms of Those Less Loved)
Katrin Birk, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Hybridisation and introgression as conservation tactics in the face of anthropogenic environmental change
Amanda Black, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Thorium-based Fuel as the Future of Nuclear Energy
Mariko Bolton, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, Ghosts
Max Borden, Biology (BIOL) 2025, RuBisC-No! Designing Protein-Cage-Based Metabolons to Move Synthetic Carbon Fixation Systems in vivo
Theo Borowski, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, A Lack of Pluralism: How Christian Nationalism Imminently Threatens Democracy
Theo Borowski, Religion (RELG) 2025, Jewish Jurisprudence: How editing divinity improves humanity’s perfection
Albert Bosler, History (HIST) 2025, Roger II as a Italo-Norman Trailblazer
James Bowers, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Identity and Volition
James Bowers and Nhi Luong, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Communicating Mathematics Portfolio
Laura J. Boyd and Lily M. Vargo, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Triple Threat: Introducing a Three-Pronged Interaction Between Hormones, the Gut Microbiome, and Postpartum Depression Pathogenesis
Claire Boyle, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Geothermobarometry of Metamorphic Rocks Associated with the Sanak-Baranof Plutonic Belt in the Chugach-Prince William Terrane, Southern Alaska
Quinn Brannan, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Seeing the Unseen: Signal Processing and Electronic Beam Steering in RADAR
Piper Brown, Linguistics (LING) 2025, Every Mandarin Sentence is Not Surface Scope: Evidence for Inverse Scope in Mandarin Adverbials
Ruairi Brown, Biology (BIOL) 2025, A Surfeit of Stressors: The Effects of Ocean Acidification, Hypoxic Waters, and Increasing Ocean Temperatures on Metacarcinus magister
Ezra Buonopane, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Interactions between Limestone, Shale, and Sandstone Aggregates and Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)
Marco Caba-Acevedo, History (HIST) 2025, Chimalpahin and the Christian Mexico City
Megan Cablk, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Exploring the Relationship Between Memory Decline and Neural Loss in Aging Cotton Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)
Taylor Canas, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, QUEENIE
Kerrigan Candra, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Temperature and ocean acidification impacts on the direct versus indirect developing periwinkle snails
Kristoff Cao, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Lie Groups of Symmetry and Their Application in Solving ODEs
Brian Caplan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Sex Differences in Ischemic Stroke: The Role of 17𝛽-Estradiol and Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Modulating Cell Death
Michael Carey, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Understanding the ATP-Mediated CFTR Gating Mechanism Using Biophysical Chemical Techniques
James Carlson, Cognitive Science (CGSC) 2025, Theories Beyond Theory Theory: Eco-Enactive Perspectives on Autism
Tanner Carlson, Reed Schubert, and Max Keller, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Ants in the Brain: Mapping Neural Connectivity using Colony Optimization Algorithms
Gwen Casey, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Mitigating Methane Emissions From Digestate Composting
Ryan Cechini, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Respect Paternalism
Eugene Chang, Economics (ECON) 2025, Optimal Marijuana Taxation in Minnesota
Martha Chan, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Asymmetrical Horizontal Gene Transfer Between Parasites and Hosts: Evolutionary Constraints and Functional Implications
Miriam Chasnov, Economics (ECON) 2025, Fair Pay, Fair Play? Examining Gendered Housework Allocation Among Dual-Income Couples
Shanti Chier, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Debate on Bilingualism and Executive Function: Is There a Cognitive Advantage?
Tyler Chodera, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, What Will Happen Tomorrow, and Associated Vulnerabilities
Ryan Choi, Economics (ECON) 2025, Minnesota’s Marijuana Tax: An Optimization Model
Dorothy Chou, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Predicting Crab Survival: The Impacts of Climate Change on the Competitive Dynamic of Hemigrapsus sanguineus and Carcinus maenas
Kyla Christie, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Methodological Practices in Perceptual Narrowing Research on Speech Perception and Facial Recognition
Ethan Cline, Studio Art (ARTS) 2025, The Experience Machine
Ella Collins, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, The Effects of Social Networking Sites on the Mental Well-being of Adolescents
James Commons, Physics (PHYS) 2025, The World's Fastest Camera: Attosecond Laser Pulses
Amelie Cook, Economics (ECON) 2025, Disparities in Disaster Aid Research: An Applicant-Level Analysis of FEMA Aid Equity after Hurricane Sandy
Caroline Crampton, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Peroxisomal Disruptions at the Lipid Droplet Interface: Implications for Insulin Resistance
Aaliya Crews, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, A Literature Review of Loneliness in the Elderly
Andrew Dale, Abigail Persell, Cassie Gerard, Coral Outwater, Daniel Chen, Elida Coronado, Jemsy Mathew, Lexi Kingma, Padmini Konidena, Sarah McKinley, and Hiroki Coyle, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Forever Fluorinated: The PFAS Problem
Ella Daniels, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, A Jaguar Eats a Human Eats a Mushroom (& That's Okay With Me)
Aurora Davis, Ben Scott-Lewis, Frankie Saraniti, Isabelle Riley, James Walutes, Katie O'Leary, Margaret Hall, and Sam Chackerian, Chemistry (CHEM) 2025, Nanoconfined Metal Hydrides as Hydrogen Storage Materials
Micah Day-O'Connell, Philosophy (PHIL) 2025, Functionalism and Ned Block's Concepts of Consciousness
Micah Day-O'Connell, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Physics and Information Theory
Piper Dean, Marc Eidelhoch, Ananth Iyer, and Owen Forman, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Thinning is Winning: Using Data Thinning as an Alternative Approach to Sample Splitting
Jiaying Deng, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, From Striated to Smooth: The Representation of Wandering Flâneuse and Space in Wanda (1970) and Trenque Lauquen (2022)
Shaan Dias, Mathematics (MATH) 2025, Communicating Mathematics Comps Profile
Shaan Dias, Physics (PHYS) 2025, Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer Interferometric Sensor: Detecting Gravitational Waves with Atom Interferometry
Sadie M. DiCarlo, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Effects of Pyrohydrolysis on Trace Element Analyses of Planet-Forming Processes in Chondrites
Lara Dominguez, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Will a Tick in Time Spread Lyme?: The Future Risk Landscape of Lyme Disease in Urban Greenspaces
Luke Drake and Bennet Tefu, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Siamese Neural Networks for Few-Shot Facial Image Recognition
Jenna Drummond, Biology (BIOL) 2025, The Role of Alternate Alleles in Instituting Reproductive Isolation in Homoploid Hybrid Speciation
Shira Dubin, Biology (BIOL) 2025, Dynamin-Related Proteins in Apicoplast and Mitochondrial Fission During Plasmodium falciparum Replication
Julia Dunn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2025, In Need of Transformational Women: Theorizing the Substantive Representation of Women’s Issues by Female Parliamentarians in the Anglophone Caribbean
Sofia Durdag, History (HIST) 2025, “I Looked to the Traces Where Love Hides”: The Eternal and the Ephemeral in the Diwan of A’ishah al-Ba'uniyah (d. 922/1517)
Collin Eldridge, Economics (ECON) 2025, Estimating Parameters of the Matching Function for Labor Search
Collin Eldridge, Billy Bratton, Jivana Nagpal, and Christie Song, Statistics (STAT) 2025, A Statistical Analysis of Network Review Data From Goodreads.com
Chris Elliott, Statistics (STAT) 2025, Gridiron Fortunes: Analyzing the NFL Prospects of College Quarterbacks
Ami Endo, Linguistics (LING) 2025, The Semantics of Conditional Evaluative Constructions in Japanese
Albert Ezem Osakwe, Sho Tanaka, Issa Mohamed, and Aidan Khan, Computer Science (CS) 2025, Agent Showdown in Pokemon: A Comparison of Different ML Algorithms in Pokemon Battling
Kate Fair, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2025, Jenny and the Alien
Eva Fischer, Psychology (PSYC) 2025, Is ADHD a Universal Disorder or Culture-Bound Syndrome? A Cross Cultural Review
Myles Fisher, History (HIST) 2025, The Ecological Empire: Corporate and State Power in Midcentury Guatemala
Orion Fisher, History (HIST) 2025, The Theatrics of Resistance: Gendering bodies through infrapolitics in post-Soviet Central Asia
Owen Flanagan, History (HIST) 2025, Race to the Market: Neoliberalism and Polarization in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic (1989-1996)
Sebastian Forero Escovar, Geology (GEOL) 2025, Crystallization history of Footwall Gneisses and Plutons of the Paparoa Core Complex, South Island, New Zealand
Dylan Fox-Arnold, Political Science (POSC) 2025, Who Defines the Truth? Populists' Post-Electoral Challenges to Media Independence
