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2009 HONORS PROJECTS

The honors program challenges students of exceptional achievement to do extended original research in the field of their choosing during senior year. Honors students usually spend the first term of their senior year engaged in research and the second term writing and revising their papers. The final step in the process is an oral examination conducted by the adviser and two other examiners. Successful completion of an honors project is noted on the student's transcript following graduation.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Eleni Malka Zimiles
Marching Loyalty: Reconstructing Belonging With the Blood and Thunder Bands in Northern Ireland

Benjamin David Glickstein
The Rainbow Grave: Race, Nationalism and Truth in a South African Burial Ground
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BIOLOGY

Rebecca Delventhal
Characterization of DNA-Binding/Targeting Mechanism for Holocarboxylase Synthetase.

Grace Elizabeth Linder
Changes in Levels of Semaphorin 4A mRNA in Subsets of Developing Thymocytes and Thymic Structural Cells in C57BL/6 Mice

Carolina Mora Solano
Inflammatory Thermail Hypernociception in ND4 and C57FL/6 Mice: A Possible Role for Mast Cells in Initiating Inflammatory Pain

Suzannah Clark Szymowski
Comparative Phylogeography of Pocketbook and Pimpleback Mussels (Family Unionidae) in the St. Croix River

CHEMISTRY

Matthew Robert Hermes
Computational Comparison of Tropospheric Criegee Intermediate Unimolecular and Biomolecular Reaction Kinetics
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Amanda Katherin Hulke
Quantification of Methyl Mercury and Selenium in Preserved Common Loon Feathers by Cold Vapor and Hydride Generation
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Benjamin James Knurr
Electronic Spectroscopy of AuF: Analysis of the Rotational and Hyperfine Structure

Sylvia Kunakom
Synthesis of Novel Bidentate Ligands for Chelation of Metals and/or Metalloids Derived From 1,2,3 Triazoles

Jamal Ahmed Malik
Towards a Total Synthesis of Azaspirene

CLASSICS

Jaclyn Suzanne Baker
A Taphonomic Examination of the Roman Cemetery at Kenchreai, Greece

David Michael Wheeler
The Sed Festival and Performance in Ancient Egypt

ECONOMICS

Todd Bancroft Copenhaver
How Does NBA Attendance Respond to Increased Quality of Offensive Production and Prolific Scoring?

Benjamin Torres Galick
Does Unemployment Decrease Cancer Mortality?
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Jayant Gokhale
Why do Macro-Forecasters Forecast Inaccurately? An Examination of the Impact of Information Herding on Accuracy
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Colin Joseph Hottman
Does Violent Crime Cause Individuals to Join Gangs?
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Yuen Ting Vivian Liu
Does Sorting Make a Difference in SAT’s Prediction of Course Grades and Cumulative GPA in Macalester’s College?
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Xi Luo
Post-displacement Wages: Theory and Evidence From Mexico

Nicholas Anthony Marchio
Are Credit Unions in Ecuador Achieving Economics of Scale?Analyzing How Institutional Development Affects the Tradeoff Between Access and Efficiency

Hiroyuki Miyake
Can Fundamental Factors Explain Asymmetric Correlations in Stock Market Returns?

Lilla Ne' meth
Wage Differentials Between the United States and Mexico: How Much is a Mexican Willing to Migrate For?

Isra Salim
Are Certain Channels of Delivery Better at Delivering Effective Foreign Aid?

Maximilian Ecker Sirianni
Vertical Integration and Wage Inequality in Mexico in the NAFTA Era

Cael F. Warren
Globalization and the Wage-Working Conditions Relationship: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories

Keaton Current White
Is There Country-of-Origin Bias in the Video Game Market?
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ENGLISH

Timothy David Weber Lehman
The Conscript

Alison Marie Liss
Henry James and the Performance of Women

Cassedy McCright Mahrer
Show Stoppers: A Screenplay

Tyson Michael Robert Morgan
The Androscoggin

Adam Louis Troldahl
The “Salient Point”: Henry James & the New Woman in Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Samuel Meadows Adels
Restoring the Mississippi River Ecosystem in the Twin Cities: The Values of a Historical Aproach
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GEOGRAPHY

Christine Elizabeth Chung
At Risk? Exploring the Relationship Between HIV-Related Knowledge and Risky Behavior in Young Females in Jamaica
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Megan A. Macpherson
“The Bus Stops Here”: Place-making and Transit Justice Issues in the Metro Transit Bus System
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Anna Krystyna Popinchalk
Refugees, HIV/AIDS and Access to Medical Care: A Case Study of Cairo,
Egypt
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Elias Diaz Popuch
Empowerment Zone Designation and Community Economic Development in Minneapolis, MN

Suzannah Clark Szumowski
Comparative Phylogeography of Pocketbook and Pimpleback Mussels (Family Unionidae) in the St. Croix River

Michael Abraham Samuelson
A Homeowner’s Last Gasp: Examining the Redemption Process in
Hennepin County, Minnesota
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GEOLOGY

Hannah Catherine Wydeven
Paleoenvironmental Change Over the Past 4000 Years in Glacier National Park, Montana: Carbon and Nitrogen in Lake Cores from Lake Josephine and Swiftcurrent Lake

Alana Marie Bartolai
Reconstructing the Paleoenvironment of the Great Salt Pond, BlockIsland: A Stable Isotopic Analysis of Foraminifera Ephidium Excavatum Over the Past 1800 Years

Rachel Helen Murray
Lithologic Rare Earth Element Signatures and Vertebrate Fossil Infared Absorbance: Implications for the Paeogeochemistry of Microfossil Bonebeds from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine and Judith River Formations of Montana

Kenneth Daniel Nelson
Clay Minerology Across a Sequence Boundary in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation, North-Central Montana

GERMAN STUDIES

Tara Allison Hottman
Das Verschwinden des Erzählers: Formen und Signifikanz der erlebten Rede in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften OR The Disappearance of the Narrator: The Forms and Significance of Free Indirect Speech in Goethe’s Elective Affinities
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HISTORY

Molly Miller Brookfield
Pioneer Mothers and Victorian Prudes: Representation of Women atthe Oliver H. Kelley Farm, the Alexander Ramsey House, and the James J. Hill House

Marie Veronica Gray
A Land with a People: Palestine under the British Mandate

Natasha Marie Leyk
New Rhetoric, Old Practices: Combining Old and New Diplomacy in 1919

Fiorella Ormeño Incio
Paulo Freire and Juan Velasco Alvarado: A Partisan Alliance?

Anne Louise Reeder
To Die a Noble Death: Blood Sacrifice and the Legacy of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme in Northern Ireland History

LATIN AMERICANS STUDIES

Annie Stilger Virnig
Growing Change: Local Foods Movements and the Emergence of Global Social Change

Caitlin James Wells
A Tale of Two Freedmen: Comparing Black Self-determination in Post-Emancipation Atlanta and Salvador

Laura Kathleen Cullenward
African Immigration to Spain and Argentina in the Age of Globalization

Amy M. Hill
Choreographing National Identity: The Political Use of Samba and
Tango

Cybele Christine Kotonias
The Politics of Lynch Violence in the State of Exception: Citizen
Rights and Vigilante Justice in Bolivia and Guatemala

Hannah Nelson Pallmeyer
Beyond Corporatism and Liberalism: State and Civil Society in
Cooperation in Nicaragua
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MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Casey John Battaglino
Implementing Graph Algorithms in Parallel on a Graphics Processing Unit

Jacob Alan Evans Bond
Prime Walks in Cyclotomic Fields

Henrik Bernt Haakonsen
Shadowing Chaos Via Optimization

Stiliyana Boycheva Stamenova
Solving the Maze: Robot Localization Using the Monte Carlo Localization Algorithm and Shape Context

Meng Wang
Extremal Random Walks on Trees
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MUSIC

Caolfionn Bhreidé Yenney
Re-envisioning Tragedy: A Comparative Analysis of Gender and Madness in Three Twentieth Century Operas

Drake Ralph Andersen
Confianza (for mixed choir and string quartet)

Ian Christopher Boswell
Fifth Wheel (for Mac Jazz)
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PHILOSOPHY

Miroslav Kneller Lošonský
On Kant’s Distinction Between Appearances and Things in Themselves

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Jillian Marie Scudder
Planck and the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect : A New Constraint on Dark Energy?
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Matthew Julian Webster
Supersymmetry and Shape Invariance: Soliton Excitation Spectra in Anti-de-Sitter Space
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Supersymmetric Solitions in Anti-de-Sitter Space
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Jeffrey David Gustafson
Some Results for the Higgs Boson Decaying into Scalar Branon Particles

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Kabir Sethi
New World, New War: Understanding Global Jihad
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Rebecca Fae Sherman Sheff
The Problem with Eating Money: Remittances and Development in Senegal’s Muridiyya
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Andrew Franklin Ver Steegh
Historicizing Cosmopolitanism

Zoë Blanche Whaley
Timing Justice: Lessons From Tribunals in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia
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Oriel Fernandes
Politics and Prevalence: The Effect of Political Factors on HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rates

Robert Collins Painter
Weak States and Political Constraints: Experiments With Truth in Liberia and Sierra Leone
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Talon John Powers
The Social Evolution of War and Transformation in Political Organization
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PSYCHOLOGY

Margaret Marie Soli
Integrating Transitional Objects into a Therapeutic Preschool Classroom

Sarah Maria Tisel
Developing Behavioral Measures Indicating Central Sensitization As a Plastic Process

Erin E. Twamley
The Role of Gender Identity on the Effects of Stereotype Threat: An Examination of Girls’ Math Performance in a Single-sex Classroom
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Evan John Welo
Mental Imagery and Basketball: The Effects of Cognitive Specific Basketball Imagery and Flow Basketball Imagery Interventions on Performance on a Basketball Shooting Task

Lisa Ann Herndon
Voter Perception: Skin Tone Bias and the Electability of Black American Candidates

Sarah Moskowitz
Motivation to Appear Non-Prejudiced: Implications for Willingness to Engage in Interracial Dialogue

Mai Youa Moua
The Relationship Between Hmong American Students and the Model Minority Stereotype
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SOCIOLOGY

Shantee Lorraine Rosado Sprankle
El Que no Tiene Dinga, Tiene Mandinga: Black Collective Identity Formation Among Afro-descendants in Latin America

Chen-Yu Wu
Remedial Strategy or Subliminal Racism? A Comparative Study on the Origins of Affirmative Action Policies in South Africa and Malaysia
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Style and Consumption Among East African Muslim Immigrant Women: The Intersection of Religion, Ethnicity, and Minority Status
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Miroslav Lestanin
The Impact of the Gay and Feminist Liberation Movements on the Objectification of the Male Body in Popular Magazines that Target the Male Audience

THEATER AND DANCE

Emily Lynn Gastineau
Moving Between Objects: The Body and Subjectivity in Contemporary Dance

 

 

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