2006 Student Symposium
Abstracts
Full abstracts for each of the presentations listed on this page can be found in the program booklet for the event. Note: the schedule on this page lists only first authors; the abstracts contain a complete list of authors.
Schedule of Events
Oral Presentations: Stockholm Room (lower level)
Moderator: Professor Kara Beauchamp
9:00 a.m. Prof. Beauchamp Opening Remarks
9:05 a.m. Phillip Bilderback The Role of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System in Cell Senescence
9:25 a.m. Sarah Collins The Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Photovoltaic Cells and the Measurement of Their Efficiency
9:45 a.m. Saydra Wilson Pandemic Influenza from 1918 to 2006: What Have We Learned?
10:05 a.m. Yiyan Liu Perceptual Priming with Picture Stimuli: A Pilot Study
Session II: Altered States in Body and Mind
Moderator: Professor Barbara Christie-Pope
10:45 a.m. Prof. Christie-Pope Opening Remarks
10:50 a.m. Corinne Riopel An Exploration of the Variables Influencing Eating
Disorder Pathology
11:10 a.m. Danielle Schutzman Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Treatment of
Schizophrenia
11:30 a.m. Emily Decker The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Cardiac Autonomic Tone, Mood, and Exercise Performance
11:50 a.m. Tyler Ulland Dietary Effects on Inflammatory Response in Adipose
Tissue
Session III: Scientific Research in Wide Open Spaces
Moderator: Professor Robert Black
1:15 p.m. Prof. Black Opening Remarks
1:20 p.m. Alyssa Borowske To Flock or Not to Flock
1:40 p.m. Julia Clark Fire-Cracked Rock Composition and Distribution in
Palisades-Dows State Preserve, Linn County, Iowa
2:00 p.m. Elizabeth Bach Evidence of Deposition of Commercial Fertilizer in an
Unplowed Floodplain Prairie Remnant
2:20 p.m. Michael Lommler Population Dynamics of Ornate Box Turtles at Hawkeye Wildlife Area
Oral Presentations: Berlin Room (lower level)
Session I: Seduction, Secrets and Subversion
Moderator: Professor Kirilka Stavreva
9:00 a.m. Prof. Stavreva Opening Remarks
9:05 a.m. Kelly Bartolotta Sex in the City: The Red Light’s Mirror of the White City
9:25 a.m. Jennifer Chamberlain Manon and Des Grieux: Transforming Life Through Love
9:45 a.m. Kyle Talley Seduction, Adultery, and Catholicism: The Secret Lives
of English Professors in David Lodge’s Novels
10:05 a.m. Melissa Bruce How One Man’s Sexuality and Insecurity Can Lend
Motivation to The Merchant of Venice
Session II: Change in Ancient and Modern Oceans
Moderator: Professor Rhawn Denniston
10:45 a.m. Prof. Denniston Opening Remarks
10:50 a.m. Amelinda Webb Character Displacement in Productoid Brachiopods From the Late Pennsylvanian of Central Texas
11:10 a.m. Michael Lommler Comparison of U/Ca and Sr/Ca Ratios in Neogene Corals From the Dominican Republic
11:30 a.m. Jessica Harms Constituent Particle Analysis of Reefal Sediments from the Houtman-Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia
11:50 a.m. Dustin Waite Hurricane-Controlled Beach Dynamics on Windward and Leeward Sides of San Salvador Island, Bahamas
Session III: Crime and Punishment: Attacking Social Problems
Moderator: Professor Christopher Carlson
1:15 p.m. Prof. Carlson Opening Remarks
1:20 p.m. Laura Maile The Sources and Effects of Stress on Police Officers and
the Organizational Changes that Need to be Made
1:40 p.m. Steven Wieland Dangerous Drinking: The College Norm for Integration and Socialization
2:00 p.m. Aaron Reykdal More Poor, More Guns, More Murder: A Cross-National
Study of the Determinants of Per-capita Murder Rates
2:20 p.m. Sarah Altmann The Impact of Social Isolation and Deviant Social Association on Criminal Deviance
Oral Presentations: Paris Room (lower level)
Session I: Myth and Legend in Art and Literature
Moderator: Professor Howard Miller
9:00 a.m. Prof. Miller Opening Remarks
9:05 a.m. Katherine Kunau Paragone: Bernini’s Sculptures in the Villa Borghese
9:25 a.m. Jennifer Hebel The Unwanted Guest: Violations of Hospitality in the
Homer’s Odyssey
9:45 a.m. Ashley Flanagan Clytemnestra and Penelope’s Agency in the Odyssey
10:05 a.m. Katherine Kunau Giotto’ s Arena Chapel and Scrovegni Patonage
Session II: Mosaico Hispánico (Spanish Mosaic) (presented in Spanish)
Moderator: Professor Carol Lacy-Salazar
10:45 a.m. Prof. Lacy Salazar Opening Remarks
10:50 a.m. Lauren Page La familia Buendia y el sistema solar
11:10 a.m. Gretchen Osland Sin propia vos: la Malinche
11:30 a.m. Sarita Knoll El Papel del Mestizo en la Sociedad
Session III: Utopias and Dystopias
Moderator: Professor Charles Liberko
1:15 p.m. Prof. Liberko Opening Remarks
1:20 p.m. Charles Trodick Race and the Pullman Company, 1913 - 1948
1:40 p.m. Brittney Shireman Woodrow Wilson Crumbo’ s Land of Enchantment: Satire and the Euro-American Consumer
2:00 p.m. Chelsea Stillmunkes Grant Wood’ s Concept of Regionalism: The Use of Decorative Arts as “Native Material”
2:20 p.m. Lisa Lefebure A Modern Reconstruction of Eighteenth-Century
Financial Accounts
Oral Presentations: Harlan Dining Room
Session I: Individual Ostracism in the Social Sphere
Moderator: Professor Carolyn Zerbe Enns
9:00 a.m. Prof. Enns Opening Remarks
9:05 a.m. Anna Doorenbos A Devil in Massachusetts?: The Anne Hutchinson
Controversy
9:25 a.m. Rebecca Canovan In or Out?: Irish-American Self-Identity
9:45 a.m. Andrew Rankin The Perpetuation and Amelioration of Homosexual
Prejudice Through Intrapersonal Media Contact
10:05 a.m. Mark Gordon Political Attitudes of Minority Groups: Social Identity
Theory vs. Social Dominance Theory
Session II: From Market to Market
Moderator: Professor Mary Olson
10:45 a.m. Prof. Olson Opening Remarks
10:50 a.m. Jeffrey Bessmer The English East India Company and the Textile Trade of the 18th Century
11:10 a.m. Valerie Abel HACCP: One Size Doesn’ t Fit All When it Comes to
Consumer Safety and Assuring Quality of Food Products
Session III: Decoding the Unspoken Language
Moderator: Professor James Martin
1:15 p.m. Prof. Martin Opening Remarks
1:20 p.m. Bridget Hilke Comparing and Contrasting the Improvisational
Approaches of John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins
1:40 p.m. Theresa Chappell Musical Temperament: An Explication of the Primary Tuning Systems of Western Music
2:00 p.m. Brian McMillin U2’ s Sunday Bloody Sunday: The Music and the Message
2:20 p.m. Ashley Flanagan Dionysian Music in Twelfth Night
Oral Presentations: Hedges Conference Room
Session I: The Body: Real and Imagined
Moderator: Professor Julia Moffitt
9:00 a.m. Prof. Moffitt Opening Remarks
9:05 a.m. Brian Dooley A Biopsychosocial Review of the Effects of Exercise on Stress and Health
9:25 a.m. Emily Barwick Indian Women' s Body Image
9:45 a.m. Maria Neis Hook, Line, and Skin: The Body Suspension Subculturein Modern America
10:05 a.m. Ashley Feltes PED 101: Lifetime Physical Fitness and Activities Study
Session II: Curves, Lines and Color
Moderator: Professor Derin Sherman
10:45 a.m. Prof. Sherman Opening Remarks
10:50 a.m. Chad Compton TEA Nitrogen Laser
11:10 a.m. Michelle Peterson A Robot Named V.I.C.I. - Vision-based Intelligent Color Interpreter
11:30 a.m. Julie Jozwiak Foucault Pendulum
11:50 a.m. Smriti Angara An Introduction to Elliptic Curves
Session III: The Sacred and the Profane
Moderator: Professor Shannon Reed
1:15 p.m. Prof. Reed Opening Remarks
1:20 p.m. Derek Jacobs Iago the Secular - Demonstrating the Deadly Powers of Organized Religion in Shakespeare' s Othello
1:40 p.m. Leah Houtman What a Long Strange Trip It' s Been: Madness and the Legacy of King Lear
2:00 p.m. Jennifer Hebel Despoiling the Flower: The Evolving Face of the Villain in Medieval Chivalry
2:20 p.m. Stephanie Wendler The Triumph of Christianity : Constantine, Sixtus V, and the Renovation of Rome
Oral Presentations: Shaw Lounge
Session I: Heading West: Boom Towns , Ghost Towns and College Towns
Moderator: Professor James White
9:00 a.m. Prof. White Opening Remarks
9:05 a.m. Andrew Fowler A Forgotten History: Iowa ' s Ghost Towns
9:25 a.m. Danielle Topping “Public Sentiment is Everything”: Iowa Newspapers and the 1864 Presidential Campaign
9:45 a.m. Julia Clark Women in Alder Gulch During the Vigilante Period
10:05 a.m. Lena Hann What Really Happened West of the Mississippi : A Glimpse into the Herstory of Cornell College , 1853-1930
Session II: Activism for Welfare and Dignity
Moderator: Professor Leon Tabak
10:45 a.m. Prof. Tabak Opening Remarks
10:50 a.m. Andrew Peternel A Week in the Lives of Disaster Survivors: An Alternate Way to Spend Spring Break
11:10 a.m. Jeanne Firth Current Issues in Indian Family Planning/Welfare
11:30 a.m. Tizeta Bekele Clean Water for Economically Disadvantaged Countries: The Potters for Peace Answer
11:50 a.m. Mary Niec Herding Communities in Mongolia : Finding a Place for the Rural Poor
Session III: Working with Words
Moderator: Professor Lynne Ikach
1:15 p.m. Prof. Ikach Opening Remarks
1:20 p.m. Holli Gipson A Reading of Excerpts from a New Full-Length Play Entitled Peace Blood
1:40 p.m. Charles Fox Life in the Wild
2:00 p.m. Andrew Fowler After Chicago
2:20 p.m. William Nenadal Dispelling the Myth of Netspeak: Language Shift or the Death of the English Language?
Poster Presentations: Orange Carpet
Morning Session
1A - Justin Valenstein Corrosion Inhibition Studies Using Polyoxometalates
2A - BreAnna Ruter In Search of Genes Responsible for Penotypic Plasticity in Tadpoles
3A - Jessica Johnson Quantitative Analysis of Wing Pattern: A Tool for Distinguishing Among Cryptic Sympatric Species
4A - Charissa Kaspar Nesting Ecology of Ornate Box Turtles, Terrapene Ornata , in Iowa : Estimating Nesting Frequency and Nest Predation Rates in a Natural Population
5A - Lindsey Griepenstroh Bobo and Me: A Radiation Story
6A - Jeanne Gonwa Aquatic Environmental Chemistry
7A - Luke Behaunek The Admissions Question: Who Will Come?
8A - Zoe Downing Ruby Pulse Laser and Holograms
9A - Emily Moore Media, The American Woman' s Body Image, and Attitudes Towards Beauty
10A - Heather Axen Piecing Together the Strauzia Puzzle: S. longipennis and S. vittigera
11A - Jennifer Bean Alumina-Supported Polyoxometalate Impregnation with Neodymium
12A - Charles Trodick U-Th Chronologies of Stalagmites from Two Caves in Western Portugal
13A - Kathryn Brown Metal-Binding, Activity, and Production of Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase
Afternoon Session
1P - Cassandra Peterson-Holec Alternative Spring Break: The Trip of a Lifetime
2P - Sara Marsteller Wing Shape Difference Among Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Eastern Ecuador : A Morphometric Approach
3P - Nicole Musgrave Johnson Noise and Secure Communications
4P - Danielle Bowen Millepora : Speciation or Phenotypic Plasticity
5P - Ian Dees Six-Legged Robot
6P - John Ugaste A Test of Island Biogeography Theory in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
7P - Brittany Gitch Preparation of Biodiesel from Waste Vegetable Oil: An Experiment for the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory
8P - Lara Moellers An Ozark Stalagmite Record from the Penultimate Deglaciation
9P - Alyssa Johnston Media, Body Dissatisfaction, and Maladaptive Eating Behaviors: A Review
10P - Francisco Serna Speciation of the Blephaneura Fruit Fly in Jatun Sacha
11P - Megan Andresen Taphonomic Comparison of Modern and Pleistocene Coral Assemblages: The Houtman-Abrolhos Islands , Western Australia
12P - Jeffrey Welder Investigation into the Structure and Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles
13P - Britton Walker Isolation of Viruses from Bacteria in Environmental Samples from Mount Vernon , Iowa and the Characterization of the Swarming Phenotype in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains
3:00 p.m. Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony, Harlan Dining Room. Reception following.
