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 2026

Feraidon AbdulRahimzai, Beshir Said, and John Hurtubise, Computer Science (CS) 2026, DDoS Comps - Winter 2026

Yahnee Acklin, Special Major 2026, Reclaiming Agency: The Impact of Black Power on Self-Determination and Ethnic Nationalism

Kamran Ahmed, Economics (ECON) 2026, Paper Gold? The Effect of Dollarization on Sovereign Spreads During Interest Rate Surprises

Eli Allen, Economics (ECON) 2026, Beyond the Beef: An Event Study of the 2003 BSE Announcement

Ava Amthauer, Chloe Simanek, Ryan Choi, and Jamal Omosun, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Embedding Social and Civic Responsibility into Introduction to Computer Science

Gideon Antwi, Cynthia Lu, Andres Bracho Valles, Charlie Ding, and Helana Solomon, Computer Science (CS) 2026, AI Companion in CS257

Maria Anzalone, Economics (ECON) 2026, Paid Maternity Leave and Women’s Well-Being: Evaluating Family and Labor Market Outcomes for Women in the U.S

Luca Araujo, Indy Lyness, Joshua Lee, and Jiale Wan, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Transformer Zoo: A Comprehensive Analysis of Transform Coding in Image Compression

Ryan Bernstein and Nativ Berkovitz-Rave, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Crumhorn at the Function

Theo Bester, Economics (ECON) 2026, Prix Sans Frontières: A Dynamic Analysis of Border Policy and Violations of Purchasing Power Parity in the Schengen Area, 2000-2025

London Bettman, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, London Bettman Studio Art Comps

London Bettman, Floris Irakoze, Shalim Montes Hernandez, and Mustafe Osman, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Ethics in Data Structures: Graphs & Stacks, Queues, and Heaps

Oliver P. Black-Johnston, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Untitled (Birds and Concrete)

Savanna Blair, Biology (BIOL) 2026, From Degradation to Dissemination: How Zika Virus Repurposes Autophagy for Transplacental Transmission

Alice Bonnevie-Rothrock, Biology (BIOL) 2026, You think you know a (fun)guy: What CERK1-type receptor-like kinases reveal about the blurred line between symbiotic and pathogenic plant-fungal interactions

Ryder Bravmann, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Maeve

Abigail Burbery, Biology (BIOL) 2026, "Hidden in Plain Sight": Zika Virus Hijacks Exosomes for Deceptive Infection and v-miRNA Transport

Lilian Burrows, History (HIST) 2026, Inuit Art at Carleton: How Collectors and the Museum Define Authenticity

Jacob Bushee, Economics (ECON) 2026, Risk, Ambiguity, and Credibility: Does New Information Make Us Better or Worse Off?

Peter Calabrese, Emily Muenzer, Narjis Nusaibah, Rocío Avila, Aaron Lobsenz, Jack Rivkin, Madeline Tabora, Irene Tang, and Austin Zhu, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Using MS2 Viral Capsids as Targeted Drug Delivery Mechanism

Daniel Casper, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Overstimulation

Kaitlyn Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2026, The Integrated Functions of the NLR Sw-5b

Selina Chen, Biology (BIOL) 2026, lncRNA Tug1 Contributes to Parkinson’s Disease Through Disruption of PINK1/Parkin Mitophagy and Activation of the BAK/BAX Apoptotic Pathway

Sam Chutkow, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Circular RNA ciRS-7 as a Central Regulator of Proteostasis and Amyloidogenic Processing in Alzheimer’s Disease

Will Clausman, History (HIST) 2026, The “Outside Agitators” of the Iron Range: Understanding Newspaper Perceptions of Labor Action During the 1916 Mesabi Strike

Adiana Contreras, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Mommet

Caroline Cooper, History (HIST) 2026, Becoming Wives or Deviants: Postwar Conservatism and the Medicalization of Same-Sex Attraction at Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Wellesley Colleges in Mid-Century America

Dylann Cullinane, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Ethical Prevention and Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in Cancer Patients

Theo Demetriades, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Information is Physical: The Physics of Information Theory and Computing

Charles Dickey, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Viral Proteins Interact with Plant Host Immune Regulators to Promote a Balanced Relationship to Prolong Infection at a Lower Immune Response

Sylvia Dixon, History (HIST) 2026, Ireland’s Nursing Nuns: Imperial Authority and Social Welfare in the Nineteenth-Century Limerick Workhouse

Cameron Dolbow, Economics (ECON) 2026, The Price of Performance

Janet Duong, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Tear me apart

Ben Eveland, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Magnetic Relaxation in Inorganic Molecular Solids

Sivan Faruqui, Economics (ECON) 2026, Lying Behavior and Inequality: An Experimental Analysis of Payoff-Driven Dishonesty

Miah Francis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Still Lives Alive

Isabel Gable, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, A Case Study on Religion and Spirituality Across the Life Course in Northfield, Minnesota

Brynn Gaebe, History (HIST) 2026, "Where Women with Disabilities are Learning to Write for Each Other": Community, Disability, Feminism, and Womyn's Braille Press

Yinan Gao, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions via Triplet States: Mechanistic Insights

Jason Garcia, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Comps Project

Juan Garcia, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, The Faults and Promises of Canon Formation in Latine Sociology

Christine Gichimu, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Modulation of Interferon Pathways: Coordinated Type I IFN Suppression and Type III IFN Sustenance for Chronic HCV Persistence

Charlotte Gingo, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, Producing, sustaining, and experiencing illegality

Clark Gibson Glymph, Ronan Hacker, Jane Parson, and Nicholas Vlahos-Sten, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Ethics in Programming Languages

Maxima Gomez-Palmer, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Vital Vultures: Avian Scavengers Mitigate the Pathogenic Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors

Adrián González, Biology (BIOL) 2026, All Too Well (The Innate Version): Maladaptive Macrophage Reprogramming by SARS-CoV-2

Seth Grauer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, “Natural” Gentrification?: The Role of Social Inequality and Natural Disasters in Gentrification and Urban Resilience

Eleanor Gullickson, History (HIST) 2026, Mother Knows Best: African American Women Who Taught About Sexual Health (1883-1916)

Ashlyn Haigh, Economics (ECON) 2026, The Economics of America’s Fertility Decline: Why a $5,000 Baby Bonus Is Not Enough

Abdul Rahim Hamid, Lyn Chen, Hildegard Gangolf, and Katrina Ostrom, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Show Us Your Secrets: Malware As Art

Katelyn Harder, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, America’s Fastest Growing “Unhealthy Commodity” Industry: How Institutions Influence Casino Problem Gambling Prevention and Treatment

Elizabeth Hiatt, Biology (BIOL) 2026, HOTAIR lncRNA regulation of miRNA34-a/Bcl-2 axis in Intervertebral Disk Degeneration as a Potential Therapeutic Target

Griffin Hintze, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Vertebrate Scavengers Mediate Carrion Resource Fluxes Through Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

Leo Hu, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Sissyphus

Margaret Hu, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, Going Steady: Interweaving Individual and Community in the Experience of Parkinson’s Disease

Winston Ingalls, English (ENGL) 2026, “Terrorized in Its Authority”: Re-Writing the Canon in Wide Sargasso Sea and James

Yoel Izaguirre, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Nos Fuimos

Parker Johnson, History (HIST) 2026, Alexander, the Pilgrim King: Refractions of a Classical Legacy in Byzantine and Islamic History

Aurora Juarez, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Necrophagous Insects, Volatile Organic Compounds, and Microbes Interact on Carrion, Shaping Succession and Resource Use

Max Kingston, Physics (PHYS) 2026, Acoustics in Concert Hall Design

Palmy Klangsathorn, Rachel Azan, Daniel Lumbu, and Jeremy Gautama, Computer Science (CS) 2026, YARA: How to Detect Malware in Files and Websites

Nora Kushner, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, How Anti-Colonial Movements Internationalize: Institutional Pathways to Legitimacy in Algeria and Kenya

Anna Larson-Cheng, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, In Gratitude

Amelia Lawlor, Economics (ECON) 2026, The Impact of Over-the-Counter Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Outcomes

Leon Liang, Kritika Pandit, Anika Rajbhandary, and Lucas Schattenmann, Computer Science (CS) 2026, The Art of Compression: JPEG and JPEG 2000 on Multispectral Satellite Imaging

Lanmeng Li, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Application of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Care: Can it Replace Therapists?

Cynthia Lu, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Studio Art Comps

Heidi J. Mckim, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, The Inner Workings of the Individual

Hannah Mngodo, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Feeding on the Dead: Hyenas, Carrion, and the Ecology of Disease Suppression

Abdulrahman Mohamed, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, The Populist Divergence: Variation in Anti-Establishment Orientations in Latin America

Emily Muenzer, Biology (BIOL) 2026, The Invasion, Repression, and Escape of Human Endogenous Retrovirus K and its Implications in Targeted Cancer Therapies

Lydia Olson, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Grounded

Katherine Opria, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Epstein-Barr Virus-Encoded Circular RNAs CircRPMS1 & CircBART_2.2 Respectively Promote Immune Escape via miRNA Sponging and Regulating PD-L1

Malcolm Parnall, Physics (PHYS) 2026, The Plasma Display Panel

Fitch Perkins, Classics (CLST) 2026, The Father-Son Relationship in Declamation and Tragedy

Lily Petersen, History (HIST) 2026, “I Thought We Were Mates, You Rotten Sods!”: Reactions to Discrimination and Resistance to Sectarianism in the Deaf Community of Northern Ireland during the Troubles

Noah Reid, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Elusive Exosomes: Relationship of Exosomal PD-L1 and KRAS-MEK on Immune Suppression

Veronica Ross, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Seafood as a Primary Source of Concern for Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substance Exposure in Humans

Josh Sampson, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Inositol Hexakisphosphate Plays a Role in the Activation of NRC2

Elana Schwartz, Psychology (PSYC) 2026, Traumatic Stress Among Social Workers and First Responders

Andrew Sellers, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Synthesis of Microfracture and Growth-Factor-Loaded Hydrogel Scaffolding Techniques: One Possible Future for Osteoarthritis Treatment

Jerry Baoling Shang, History (HIST) 2026, Cartography as Conversion: Examining Time and Space in Matteo Ricci’s 17th-Century Map Kunyu Wanguo Quantu

Joella Shearer, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Moon Dreams

Charles Shemwell, Economics (ECON) 2026, Conditional Convergence in the Eurozone and West African Economic Monetary Union

Matthew Sigmond, Allie Hopper, Katherine Baker, Cuong Chi Tran, and Jonathan Woodall, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Guiding the Gobsmacked: Bridging the Digital Literacy Gap with Scaffolded Tech Support

Ryan Son, Gavin Saxer, and Jared Arroyo Ruiz, Computer Science (CS) 2026, From Bases to Bits: An Analysis of Early DNA Compression Algorithms

Ruby Spector, Hans Anderson, Ben Pennell, Per Johnson, Zev Charlson, Charlie Krajc, Eleanor Hebard, and Sophia Morse-deBrier, Chemistry (CHEM) 2026, What a Cluster!: An Analysis of Three Radical SAM Enzymes

Sophie Stein, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Riding the Red Line: Structural Forces and the Racialization of Urban Space in Chicago

Jacob Stern, Economics (ECON) 2026, Sovereign Debt Crises: IMF Conditionality as a Commitment Device

Luke Sugalski, Economics (ECON) 2026, Taxing the 0.01%

Perri Thompson, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Strengths, Limitations, and Complementarity of Airborne eDNA on Conventional Biodiversity Study Methods

Stella Thompson, Maddy Brown, Ella Visconti, Cameron Richardson, Alex Wcislo, and Daniel Estrada, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Quick to Order, Quick to Deliver: Providing Mobile Access to Sexual Health Supplies

Nicholas Toole, Economics (ECON) 2026, Teacher Compensation and Student Performance: A Policy Recommendation

Hadley Twichell, Biology (BIOL) 2026, Genes on the Move: What Ancient DNA Tells Us about Human Migration and the Spread of Food Production Strategies in the Ancient World

Nicholas Q. Vlahos-Sten, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2026, Our Little Block Universe

Alexis Wallace, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2026, Blueprints for Framing Activism: What We Can Learn From The Carletonian (1966-1972) About Social Movement Recruitment

Lucie Wolf, Rui Shen, Justin Vaughn, and Evelyn Xie, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Region-of-Interest Medical Image Compression with JPEG, JPEG2000, SPIHT

Lily S. Wong, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2026, Re-Imagined Communities: Inclusive Nationalism’s Challenges, Successes, and Lessons: A Case Study Analysis of Bolivia & Singapore

Zachary Wu, Studio Art (ARTS) 2026, Home

Chloe Xufeng, Emma Zhang, Auiannce Euwing, and Zubeyda Shute, Computer Science (CS) 2026, Civic Engagement in Algorithmic Choices