Browse comps and student work by academic department.
Awarded in 2023
Xingyi Zhang, MurphyKate Montee, Erik Carlson, Willem Fletcher, and Chi Nguyen, Mathematics (MATH) 2024, Graphs with Many Hamiltonian Paths
Awarded in 2021
Grace Leslie, Yoshiko Lynch, and Tuomas Sivula, Environmental Studies (ENTS) 2021, Climate Migration: Implications of Duluth as a “Climate-Proof City”
Brooke McKelvey, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2022, Wanted
Sophia Rogers, Studio Art (ARTS) 2021, things i hold onto when i get worried it'll all go away
Benjamin Wightman, History (HIST) 2021, A Paragon of Virtue: Conceptions of Imperial Authority in Fourteenth-Century Japan
Shane Zerr, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2021, Scared into Submission? Hardly: The Unusual Affects of Economic Anxiety on Support for Authoritarianism
Awarded in 2020
Avery Davis, Studio Art (ARTS) 2020, Large Scale Figure Drawing
Naseem Dillman, Psychology (PSYC) 2020, The Nature Buffer: The Missing Link in Climate Change and Mental Health Research
Jacob Isaacs, English (ENGL) 2020, The Kings of Nowhere: Challenging Place and Identity Boundaries in NW and There There
Awarded in 2019
Juliette Bobrow, History (HIST) 2019, Exhibiting Empire: London’s India Museum as a Contested Site of Imperial Display, 1875-1914
Jen Chan, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2019, Kymlicka's Aporia: Arguing for a Culturally Adaptive Model of Multicultural Liberailsm
Russell Li, History (HIST) 2019, Debating Ancient History in Early Italian Renaissance: Antiquarian Historiography, Morality, and Politics in the Scipio-Caesar Controversy
Fabio Silva, Economics (ECON) 2019, Financial Development and Economic Growth - Channels of Transmission at Different Stages of Economic Development
Awarded in 2018
Jared Oak Johnson, Music (MUSC) 2019, Composition and Production
Awarded in 2017
Malcom Halpern Fox, Political Science (POSC) 2017, Buying Elections in a Post-Citizens United World: The Effect of Campaign Spending in House Elections Since 2010
Noriega Alondra Rodriguez, Political Science (POSC) 2017, Power in Positive Advertising? Spanish Political Campaigns Say Sí
Awarded in 2016
Claire Anne Kelloway, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Cows, Colleges, and Conservation: How Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges managed erosion and promoted biodiversity on their rented agricultural lands
Hannah Jean Nayowith, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2016, Being Palestinian, It's a Curse: Non-Activist Women's Perspectives on Palestinian National Liberation
I-Hsuan (Claire) Su, Madeleine Lewis, YaQin (Jessica) Zhou, and Camila de la Vega 2016, The promise and threat of copper-sulfide mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness: How sense of place shapes opinions and perceptions of the recent mining proposals.
Awarded in 2015
Samantha Chao, Ellen Currier, Grace Fremont, Sarah Meister, and Sarah Olson, English (ENGL) 2016, Carleton College English Theatre & Literature in London: A Commonplace Book
Anna Kathleen Lascher Guasco, American Studies (AMST) 2016, Anacapa and the American Sublime: Perceptions and Representations in Channel Islands National Park
Ian R. B. Reeves, Geology (GEOL) 2015, Seismology in Theory and Practice: Translation of the Disputatio Philosophica De Terraemotibus Anni 1670
Kathy Yu, Crystal Lai, and Benjamin Russell, Mathematics (MATH) 2015, A solution to the arithmetic problem of finding a number which, divided by given numbers, leaves behind given remainders [translated from the original Latin by Carleton math students]
Awarded in 2014
Alexander Monroe Deetz, Chemistry (CHEM) 2015, Formation of Chlorosilyl Pincer-Type Rhodium Complexes by Multiple Si-H Activations of Bis(phosphine)/Dihydrosilyl Ligands
Will A. Gray, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Emilean Self-Sufficiency, Or, Rousseau's Education of Cosmopolitan Love
Danny William Shields, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Impact of the Competitive Balance Tax on Major League Baseball: Does the Luxury Tax actually work?
Awarded in 2013
Linnea Monroe Bullion, Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 2013, ... AND FOR A MOMENT, TIME STOPS
Andrew Alan Chael, History (HIST) 2013, Sitting at the Feet of the Ancients : Gerbert of Auillac's Search for Meaning in the Classical World
Awarded in 2012
Margaret Constance Holladay, Religion (RELG) 2014, Issues and Questions in Language Endangerment and Revitalization
Colin Prescott MacArthur, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Finding the Lost Navigation Guidelines: Next Generation Website Usability Guidelines
Awarded in 2011
Anna Hare Newman, Biology (BIOL) 2011, Investigating flowering in Chamaecrista fasciculata: Unpacking genetic and environmental influences
Samantha Leigh Thompson, Chemistry (CHEM) 2011, Emissions from the Construction-Related Grinding of Metal and Carpet Glue
Hillary Jane Doesche Wiener and Amy S. Teller, Environmental Studies (ENTS), Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Variation in bitter taste perception between moral vegetarians and non-vegetarians
Awarded in 2008
Kate Webb, Undeclared 2011, Dwellings in the Cradle of American Slavery: An Archaeological Analysis of Slave Household Structures in the Early Chesapeake
