2008 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: Berlin Room (lower level)

Session I: Complications and Caveats: Issues in Healthcare

Moderator: Professor Alfrieta Monagan

• 9:00 a.m. Prof. Monagan Opening Remarks
• 9:05 a.m. Amanda Jepson Operation Walk: Peru
• 9:25 a.m. Antonia Krupicka Association Between Family Structure and Alcohol/Cigarette Use Among Adolescents
• 9:45 a.m. Elizabeth Hlibichuk Caring for the Elderly: The Risks, Stress, and Pain of Caregiver Burden
• 10:05 a.m. Saydra Wilson Perceived Discrimination and its Effect on the Physical Health, Psychological Health, and Academic Performance of Ethnic Minority and Homosexual Students in College

Session II: Sleep, Learning and Obesity

Moderator: Professor Melinda Green

• 10:45 a.m. Prof. Green Opening Remarks
• 10:50 a.m. Nate Olafsen The Role of Toll-Like Receptor 2 on Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Obesity
• 11:10 a.m. Amanda Jepson Acute Moderate Sleep Deprivation Attenuates Physiological and Psychological Function at Rest and During Exercise
• 11:30 a.m. Michalene Otis Neuroprotection via Learning in the Hippocampus

Session III: Health, Culture and History

Moderator: Professor Tori Barnes-Brus

• 1:15 p.m. Prof. Barnes-Brus Opening Remarks
• 1:20 p.m. Page Marilene Strong The Diseases and Medicinal Practices of the Ancient Egyptians of the Western Desert Oases
• 1:40 p.m. Amy Moenning The Medieval Warm Period: How Climate Change Shaped European History
• 2:00 p.m. Michalene Otis A Look at Cultural Differences Between Medical Practices in the United States and Latin America

Oral Presentations: Harlan Dining Room

Session I: Pedagogical Paradigms: Casting Off the Cultural Lens

Moderator: Professor Gayle Luck

• 9:00 a.m. Prof. Luck Opening Remarks
• 9:05 a.m. Kate Freund Alternative Education: Comparing Montessori, Waldorf and Reggio
• 9:25 a.m. Rachel Leach "She Looks Like English-Only": A Caucasian Teacher's Experience as "The Other" in a Mexican-American Classroom
• 9:45 a.m. Kaleigh Boysen Empowering Minority Students: Lessons from Chicago and Beyond
• 10:05 a.m. Rachel Tjaden Breaking the Language Barrier: Teaching in an Immersion Classroom

Session II: War and Revolution: Miscarriages of Justice

Moderator: Professor Devan Baty

• 10:45 a.m. Prof. Baty Opening Remarks
• 10:50 a.m. Kristin Jauch The French Revolution and Marie Antoinette's Demise
• 11:10 a.m. Udai Malhotra Justice Denied: The ACLU During World War II
• 11:30 a.m. Elise Hogue El logro de la memoria argentina: Haciendo frente al terrorismo del Estado de la última dictadura militar argentina (The Achievement of Argentine Memory: Coping with State Terrorism of the Last Argentine Military Dictatorship)

Session III: Sensation, Interpretation and Communication

Moderator: Professor James Martin

• 1:15 p.m. Prof. Martin Opening Remarks
• 1:20 p.m. Paul Miller C.D. Broad and Berkeley's Unique Ontology
• 1:40 p.m. Joni Rice Examining Musical Borrowing in an Era of Sophistication, Transition and Turbulence: Johannes Ciconia's Sus Une Fontayne
• 2:00 p.m. Michael Mulholland Interpersonal Interaction in the Workplace: A Comparison Between Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Communication

Oral Presentations: Hedges Conference Room

Session I: Literary Landscapes: Paradise, Politics and Religion

Moderator: Professor Michelle Mouton

• 9:00 a.m. Prof. Mouton Opening Remarks
• 9:05 a.m. Jessica Jones Things Unattempted Yet in Style or Subject: An Exploration of Milton’s Paradise Lost as a Multi-Genre Masterpiece and Satan’s Role Within It
• 9:25 a.m. Nathan Sacks Telling a Man by the Songs He Sings: Claims and Counterclaims of Anti-Semitism in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus and Letting Go
• 9:45 a.m. Maggie Obermann Managing the Individual: The Modern Moral Subject in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
• 10:05 a.m. Beth Lueck Une Voix Forte pour Une Femme Idéale: A Discussion of Feminine Representations in George Sand's La Petite Fadette

Session II: Chemical, Environmental and Underground Investigations

Moderator: Professor Benjamin Greenstein

• 10:45 a.m. Prof. Greenstein Opening Remarks
• 10:50 a.m. Kristopher Rhodes Big Bend National Park, Texas: An Educational Spring Break
• 11:10 a.m. Kristina Pontarelli Studies of Polyoxometalates on Single Crystal Silica and Alumina
• 11:30 a.m. Kristyn Rodzinyak Stability of Melt-rich Channels in Earth's Mantle

Session III: Portrait of a Lady: Real or Imagined

Moderator: Professor Christina McOmber

• 1:15 p.m. Prof. McOmber Opening Remarks
• 1:20 p.m. Brooke Bergantzel Self-inflicted Freedoms: Elisabetta Sirani and the Image of the Empowered Woman
• 1:40 p.m. Lucy A. Boone The Saint and the Sinner: The Ideology of Jean, duc de Berry as Understood by the Limbourg Brothers
• 2:00 p.m. Sheila Jung Confronting the Mirror: Leibovitz, Goldin and Sherman

Oral Presentations: Paris Room (lower level)

Session I: Finding Voice: A Call for Social Justice

Moderator: Professor Charles Connell

• 9:00 a.m. Prof. Connell Opening Remarks
• 9:05 a.m. Leah Clemente Malnutrition in India: A White American's Perspective
• 9:25 a.m. Brittany Atchison Hunger, Poverty, Disaster and Hope: My Internship with the UN World Food Programme in Bolivia
• 9:45 a.m. Trisha Williams Alternative Spring Break in New York City: A Look Into Homelessness
• 10:05 a.m. Matthew Mundell The Chippewa Struggle for Environmental Protection and the End of the Crandon Mine Project

Session II: Dollars, Dimensions and Distances

Moderator: Professor Kara Beauchamp

• 10:45 a.m. Prof. Beauchamp Opening Remarks
• 10:50 a.m. Fadzai Fungura Unfolding a Three-Dimensional Sierpinski Gasket
• 11:10 a.m. Nicholas Berry Effects of World Oil Production on the U.S. Dollar/Euro Exchange Rates
• 11:30 a.m. Julia Kamenetzky SPIFI Submillimeter Astronomy and the Carina Nebula

Session III: Life Under the Microscope: Biological Investigations

Moderator: Professor Becky Graham

• 1:15 p.m. Prof. Graham Opening Remarks
• 1:20 p.m. S. Leigh Heathcote Targeting Cancer Cell Surfaces with Heteromultivalent Ligands
• 1:40 p.m. Katie Ward Serum Opacity Factor (SOF) Forms Cardioprotective Products from HDL via Rate-Limiting Apo A-1 Desorption
• 2:00 p.m. John Gammons Two mtDNA Lineages in Strauzia longipennis (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Poster Presentations: Orange Carpet

Morning Session 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

1A – Megan Michalski Lacunary Polyoxometalate Syntheses and Phosphotungstic Acid Interaction with Neodymium

2A – Brittany Szczepanik Colloidal Metal: The Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles and the Attachment of Modified Gold Nanoparticles and Nanochains to Alumina Surfaces

3A – Teresa M.J. Beary Computational Characterization of LuSb to Determine
k-space Orientation

4A – James J. Martin Wrestlers' Versus Non-Wrestlers' Performance Responses to Thermal Stress

5A – Steven Murray Biodiesel: Vegetable Oil Transesterification by Means of an Acid Catalyst

6A – Ewan Hamilton Using Artificial Nests: Patterns and Prevention of Turtle Nest Depredation

7A – Emily Wachutka Survival of Leatherback Hatchlings During Their First Night at Sea

8A – Ian McNish Differential Host Use of Helianthus by Two mtDNA Lineages of Strauzia longipennis

9A – Lucas Jorgensen Importing, Organizing and Analyzing Wind Data

10A – Thaddeus Barry Un-Reality TV

(This presentation will take place in Shaw Lounge. )   

Afternoon Session 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

1P – Sean Lehman In Vitro Mutagenesis and Metal-Binding Studies of Human Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase

2P – Adam Culberson Wireless Power Transmission Using Magnetic Resonance

3P – Julia Kamenetzky Detection of Extrasolar Planets

4P – Andrew Reindel Fractal Characteristics of Electrochemically Deposited Copper

5P – Kristopher Rhodes Paleobotanical Evident for "Pluvial" Intervals in the Western Pangean Tropics During the Early Permian

6P – Dana Friend Skeletal Morphology of the Genus Millepora Displays Phenotypic Plasticity

7P – Peter Lehr Speciation in the Millepora Complex: What Constitutes a Species?

8P – Megan Regel Sector Zoning and Age in Zircon Grains from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway

9P – Michael Quinn Scanning Electron Microscope Study of Zircon Grains In Gneisses and Pegmatites from the Western Gneiss Region

10P – Garrett Feddersen Use of Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis in Unknown Bacterial Identification

11P – Jada Hallengren Eating Disorders and Depression: Comorbidity Revisited   

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