2005 Student Symposium

Schedule of Events

Oral Presentations: Harlan Dining Room

Session I: Input/Output: Body, Nutrition, and Performance
Moderator: Professor Suzette Astley

9:00 a.m. Prof. Astley Opening Remarks

9:05 a.m. Ashley Feltes Socioeconomic Impacts on Food Consumption

9:25 a.m. Brian Dooley We Just Can’t Stop!: An Introspective Look at the Key Factors That Affect What We Eat

9:45 a.m. Alexandra Myers The Role of Nitric Oxide in Platelet Proliferation

10:05 a.m. Rory O’Farrell Optimizing Performance

 

Session II: Images of Women: Constructing Feminist Identities
Moderator: Professor Shannon Reed

10:45 a.m. Prof. Reed Opening Remarks

10:50 a.m. Elizabeth Brown Feminist Perspectives and Body Image Disturbances

11:10 a.m. Mary Gallagher Independent Woman or Shameless Hussy?: Medea and the Social Construction of Shame Within Apollonios’ Argonautika

11:30 a.m. Kathryn Ward Women and the Olympics: A Story of Adversity
and Triumph

11:50 a.m. Laura Erceg A Preliminary Examination of Feminism in Russia

 

Session III: Law and Social Policy
Moderator: Professor Richard Peterson

1:15 p.m. Prof. Peterson Opening Remarks

1:20 p.m. Sarah Altmann Magnified?: The Connection Between Bias, Child Abuse, Socioeconomic Status and Neighborhoods

1:40 p.m. Steven Wieland Legislating Reproductive Rights: The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003

2:00 p.m. Donald Robertson Ex Post Facto

2:20 p.m. S. Kent Lehr The Operation Walk Mission

 

Oral Presentations: Hedges Conference Room

Session I: Advancing Society Through Law and Politics
Moderator: Professor David Loebsack  

9:00 a.m. Prof. Loebsack Opening Remarks

9:05 a.m. Anna Doherty “Suffer Any Wrong That Can Be Done You, Rather Than Come Here!”: Dickens’s and the Law of Bleak House

9:25 a.m. Andrea Bachelier No Child Left Behind

9:45 a.m. Emily Barwick The Fight Against Pro-Ana Websites: Freedom of Speech v. Harmful Content and Alternative Solutions

10:05 a.m. Brandi Logan Red, Blue or Purple: Understanding the “Culture Wars”

 

Session II: International Issues: Past and Present
Moderator: Professor Howard Miller

10:45 a.m. Prof. Miller Opening Remarks

10:50 a.m. Zachary Frazer Ideological Motivation for Soviet Workers

11:10 a.m. Elizabeth Andrews The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 50 Years of Controversy

11:30 a.m. Jennifer Hebel From Odysseus to Medea: Construction of a Female Hero

11:50 a.m. Ryan Taugher Training Democracy and Security: The Jordan International Police Training Center

 

Session III: Pathways to Discovery: Philosophy, Science, and Psychology Moderator: Professor Stephen Bean

1:15 p.m. Prof. Bean Opening Remarks

1:20 p.m. Jai Pattur How to Live With Your Brain

1:40 p.m. Justin Gohdes Continued Research into Counterproductivity: Self- control and Educational Counterproductivity

2:00 p.m. Jeffrey Klein Designing and Building a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

2:20 p.m. Matthew Nolte Morphology and Discovery of New Species: Biological and Philosophical Issues

 

Oral Presentations: The Rathskeller

Session I: Women in Art, Religion, and a Dorm
Moderator: Professor Marcela Ochoa-Shivapour

9:00 a.m. Prof. Ochoa-Shivapour Opening Remarks

9:05 a.m. Brandi Rheberg Bowman Hall and the 19th-Century Woman

9:25 a.m. Kelly Ciociola Caravaggio’s Saint John and the Criminal

9:45 a.m. Kathryn Lockard Woman in the Image of God: Elizabeth Johnson, Feminist Theology, and a Trip to the Principal’s Office

10:05 a.m. Alice L. Wagner Uncovering the Secret of the Unexposed: Modest Eroticism, Conservative Sexuality, and the Abrahamic Faiths

 

Session II: The Long and the Short of It: From Epic Music Drama to Short Fiction
Moderator: Dean Dennis Damon Moore

10:45 a.m. Dean Moore Opening Remarks

10:50 a.m. Kathryn Brown Schopenhauer’s Aesthetic and Philosophical Influence on Wagner’s Conception of the Music Drama and on The Ring of the Nibelung

11:10 a.m. Nicole Soboleski From Cheese Land: Short Stories

11:30 a.m. Meredith Clayton Wagner on Women: Revolutionary or Simply Non- Conformist

11:50 a.m. Kathryn Robinson Chicken Blood: Poetry From the Over-Fed

 

Session III: Literature and Opera: Creating Definitions, Resisting Boundaries Moderator: Professor James Martin

1:15 p.m. Prof. Martin Opening Remarks

1:20 p.m. Erik Jensen The Machinery in the Walls: Ken Kesey’s Individualistic Revolution Against American Conformity

1:40 p.m. Kelly Bartolotta Big Names in “Little” Places: Little Magazines and the Harlem Renaissance

2:00 p.m. Amber Swenson The Ideal Artist: Wagner’s Use of Character to Portray the “Ideal Art” in His Comic Opera Die Meistersinger von N ürnberg

2:20 p.m. Lysanna Naley Two Flowers of the Classical World: Sappho and Nossis

 

Oral Presentations: Shaw Lounge

Session I: Earth: Environments and Life Through Time
Moderator: Professor Benjamin Greenstein

9:00 a.m. Prof. Greenstein Opening Remarks

9:05 a.m. Adam Majeski Silicification of Corals, Stromatoporids and Brachiopods at the Weathered Surface Within the Devonian-Age Little Cedar Formation (Solon and Rapid Members) of Eastern Iowa

9:25 a.m. Meredith Clayton Response of Pleistocene Epibiont Communities to Terrigenous Sedimentation on the Western Australian Coast

9:45 a.m. Peter Cole, Jr. Uranium-Lead Dating of a Coral from the Neogene Gurabo Formation, Dominican Republic

10:05 a.m. Brian Hoye Stable Isotopic Trends in 23-16 ka Arkansas Stalagmite

 

Session II: Earth: Environments and Life Through Time [part II]
Moderator: Professor Rhawn Denniston

10:45 a.m. Prof. Denniston Opening Remarks

10:50 a.m. Alyssa Borowske A Stable Isotopic Analysis of and End Pleistocene- Age Stalagmite from Almonda Cave, West-Central Portugal

11:10 a.m. Dustin Waite Carbonate Sediments of Western Australia: An Introductory Investigation

11:30 a.m. Rory Martin Marine Influence on the Pennsylvanian Caseyville Formation of Muscatine County

11:50 a.m. Amelinda Webb Ancient Ecology: Interpretation of a Devonian Encrusted Brachiopod Assemblage

 

Session III: New Frontiers in Biology
Moderator: Professor Charles Liberko

1:15 p.m. Prof. Liberko Opening Remarks

1:20 p.m. S. Kent Lehr The Tarsal Strap: A Fresh Cadaveric Study

1:40 p.m. Danielle Bowen Are “Synonymous” mRNA Sequences Really the Same?

2:00 p.m. Aaron Mason Dissecting the Replication Protein DNA Interface

2:20 p.m. Sheila Teves An Investigation of Artificial Transcription Factors

 

 

Poster Presentations: Orange Carpet

 

Morning Session

1A - Jessica Butala Distribution of Wealth in Boliva

2A - Francisco Serna Discovery of Host Specific Tropical Fruit Flies: Behavioral and Molecular Evidence

3A - Jamie Wallace Predation and Ecology of Ornate Box Turtles

4A - Andrew Peternel More Money for Young Players: The NBA Rookie Salary Plan Backfires

5A - Phillip Bilderback Role of MdmX in Cell Proliferation and Immortalization

6A - Amanda Hauser Investigation of Lacunary Polyoxometalates as Traps for Radioactive Ions

7A - Timothy Harrington-Taber Sonoluminesence: The Elusive Light in the Bubble

8A - Cody Dunne Designing and Implementing the Arithmetic and Logic Unit for a Computer

9A - Nia Doherty Arthropods of the Fakahatchee: A Diversity Survey of Bromelaid Phytotelm Communities

10A - Holly Davis “Lost in Translation”: Cornell College and Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Cultural Exchange

11A - Jessica Harrison Strauzia Longipennis: One Species or Five?

12A - Heather Axen Helianthus: Three Species or Five?

13A - Marshall Tuetken Colloidal Particles with Polyoxometalate Surfaces

14A - Jessica Johnson Sites of Courtship in Tropical Fruit Flies (Blepharoneura: Tephritidae)

1P - Sara Marsteller Wing Shape in Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae): A Morphometric Approach

2P - Tyler Ulland The Path of a Federal Urine Drug Test Sample

3P - Jamie Wallace Wolf and Lynx Ecology in Northern Minnesota

4P - Ashley Meyer Isolation and Characterization of Viruses from Bacteria in Environmental Samples from Mt. Vernon, Iowa

5P - Kathryn Brown Ionic Liquid Dyes: A New Class of Organic Compounds

6P - Elizabeth Brown Alternative Spring Break: Cornell College Students and Staff Work with Rockbridge Area Habitat for Humanity to Build Affordable Housing

7P - Evan Metcalf-Putnam An Implementation of Networking Synchronization Through a Multiplayer First Person Shooter

8P - Amelinda Webb Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Drilling for Oil: Using ArcGIS to Locate Areas for Drilling with the Least Negative Impact

9P - Justin Valenstein Synthesis and Characterization of Superacids

10P - BreAnna Ruter Isolation of Genes Responsible for Phenotypic Plasticity in the Gray Tree Frog Hyla Versicolor

11P - Marc Myers Sportsmanship in the IIAC: Men’s Soccer

12P - Heather Axen Shadow of a Veterinarian

13P - Sara Reynolds History and Culture of Mexico: Seven Cornell Students Witness Four Thousand Years of Continuity and Change from the Ancient Indigenous Cultures to the Present

3:00 p.m. Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony, Harlan Dining Room. Reception following.