Student Symposium Schedule

Student Symposium

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

L.A. Pittenger Student Center, 2nd Floor

1:00 — 4:30 p.m.

Full Schedule

1:00 – 3:30  Student Poster Displays 

             Ballroom, 2nd Floor 

1:00 – 3:40  Moderated Paper Presentations   

             See next page for locations an d times. 

3:45 – 4:30  Welcome Remarks  

             Justin Miller, Director Sponsored Projects Administration    

             Keynote Address               

             Jessi Ghezzi, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources 

             and Environmental Management        

             Presentation of Student Awards   

             Sue McDowell, Associate Vice President for Research 

             and Professor of Biology

 4:30—5:30  Clean-up of Projects 

             *Award winners: keep posters up for photos with them. 

  

Student Symposium Paper Schedule

1:00 – 2:15  Diversity                       

         Music Lounge

 History and Language

 Cardinal Hall C

Education, Memory and Practice

                     Pineshelf Room

2:25 – 3:40  Biology and Chemistry

                     Music Lounge

                     Matters of the Mind

                     Cardinal Hall C

                     Storytelling, Competition and Creation

Pineshelf Room

Paper Presenters by Category

Diversity | Moderator: Tya Arthur
1:00 – 2:15 Music Lounge

Bin Zhang

Educational Studies

Living in the Shadows—Gaysian and Lesian with Triple Exclusions

Faculty Mentor: Gilbert Park

Teachers College

Rachel Harvey

Computer Science

An Exploration in Computer Science Diversity

Faculty Mentor: David Largent

College of Sciences and Humanities

History and Language | Moderator: Sarah Lee

1:00 – 2:15 Cardinal Hall C

Alexandra Billhartz

Music

Adapting Historical Operas for Greater Audience Appeal: Guidelines from a Broad-Ranging Review of Literature

Faculty Mentor: Jon Truitt

College of Fine Arts

Raphael Kodjoe

English

Feminism and the Obsolescence of Genedered Items in Englisg – A Corpus and Cross-Generational Study of Words Usage and Frequency

Faculty Mentor: Mary Lou Vercellotti

College of Sciences and Humanities

Education, Memory and Practice | MODERATORS: KWANG-HO LEE AND STANLEY GEIDEL
1:00 – 2:15 Pineshelf Room

Anna Allen & Shelby Smith

Psychology

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Working Memory, and Theta Synchronization

Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Simon-Dack

College of Sciences and Humanities

Rosalinda Ortiz

Educational Studies

The Reality of Dual Credit: Student Perspectives on College Readiness

Faculty Mentor: Amanda Latz

Teachers College

Gilmar Cavalcante da Silva

Music

Self-Regulation: Efficient Practice and Results Among College Students

Faculty Mentor: Stephen Campbell

College of Fine Arts 

Biology and Chemistry | Moderators: Antonio Cancio and Maria Bumbalough

2:25 – 3:30 Music Lounge

Bryce Buchanan

Biology

Effects of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Kar2 Overexpression on Hrd1-Mediated Protein Quality Control

Faculty Mentor: Eric VJ Rubenstein

College of Sciences and Humanities

Ethan Pickerill

Biology

Investigation of Pseudouridine Synthase 7 Function in Pathogenic Yeast Candida Albicans

Faculty Mentor: Douglas Bernstein

College of Sciences and Humanities

Kirsten Vacura

Biology

Exercising the Nuclear Option: Biological Assessment of Invasive Lionfish Control via Gene Drive Technology

Faculty Mentor: Paul Venturelli

College of Sciences and Humanities

Brandon Watson & Olivia Grounds

Chemistry

Halogen to Hydrogen Bonding Switch in Complexes of Iodo-, Bromo-, and Chloroform with Anionic And Neutral Nucleophiles

Faculty Mentor: Sergiy Rosokha

College of Sciences and Humanities

Matters of the Mind | Moderator: Augusta Isley

2:25 – 3:30 Cardinal Hall C

Kierstin Riels

Psychology

Stress Responses to Visual Threat

Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Simon-Dack

College of Sciences and Humanities

Jessica Gundlach, Adrianna Caballero, Megan Slagel & Korey Smith

Psychology

A Reliability and Validity Analysis of the Shortened Ruminative Response Scale (RRS)

Faculty Mentor: Stephanie Simon-Dack

College of Sciences and Humanities

Samantha Bowser

Psychology
Predictors of Anxiety: Perfectionism, Enjoyment of Exercise, and Fitness Level
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Holtgraves
College of Sciences and Humanities

Storytelling, Competition and Creation | Moderator: Brenda Yates-Habich

2:25 – 3:30 Pineshelf Room

Rebecca Kurtz

Mathematical Sciences

Reality Competition Shows: Are You In or Are You Out?

Faculty Mentor: Rebecca Pierce

College of Sciences and Humanities

Zachary Kizer

Communication Studies

Two Plus Two Equals Fish: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Creation Science

Faculty Mentor: Kristin McCauliff

College of Communication, Information, and Media

Jules Patalita

Telecommunications

Auteur Theory in Video Games

Faculty Mentor: Ashley Donnelly

College of Communication, Information, and Media

Thomas Pensinger

English

Melville, Bartleby, and Depression

Faculty Mentor: Ben Bascom

College of Sciences and Humanities