Student Scholar Showcase
The annual Student Scholar Showcase, held during the spring semester, provides students with an opportunity to present their scholarly, research, creative, and/or service-learning projects to the campus community.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Undergraduate Students
6 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. - Graduate Students
4 - 6 p.m. - Reception, Flint Family Lobby, Schewel Hall
Abstracts
Undergraduate Oral Presentations Schedule
| Sydnor Performance Hall Schewel Hall |
Faculty Resource Room 231 Schewel Hall |
Room 232 Schewel Hall |
Hopwood Auditorium Hopwood Hall |
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| 8:30-8:45 a.m. | Entry # 118: Linda Renee Anderson Faculty: Sabita Manian Project: MICROCREDIT: A Comparative Study of Poverty Alleviation in Islamist States |
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| 8:45-9 a.m. | Entry # 119: Jillian Ryan Gates Faculty: Lorna Dawson Project: Analyzing Minorities at Risk |
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| 9-9:15 a.m. | Entry # 93: Daniel Cho Faculty: Lee Schimmoeller Project: Pre and Post WTO Accession: Should Countries Join WTO for More Benefits? |
Entry # 120: Sarah Lavinder Faculty: Kate Gray Project: The Rise of Apocalyptic Fiction in the 20th and 21st Centuries |
Entry # 146: Sharyn Marie Button Faculty: alisha Marciano Project: “Facebook Me!”: How Do Social Context/ Sexual Orientation Affect Perceptions? |
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| 9:15-9:30 a.m. | Entry # 94: Maggie Elizabeth Pearce Faculty: Jeremy Langett Project: Impact of Social Media Use on Athlete/Fan Communication during the Olympics |
Entry # 121: Ciara Nicole Gore Faculty: Elza Tiner Project: The Twelve Tables v. The Code of Virginia |
Entry # 147: Shelby Kienzle-Pappalardo Faculty: Bianca Sumutka Project: The Effect of SML Good Neighbors Summer Enrichment Camp on Reading Levels |
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| 9:30-9:45 a.m. | Entry # 95: Robert S. Arold Faculty: Jimmy Roux Project: Media Distortion of Violent Crime in the US and Its Effect on the Public |
Entry # 122: Tim Ryan Barzditis Faculty: Robin Bates Project: King James I’s Dissuasion of Smoking through Taxation |
Entry # 148: Michael Gregory and Nicholas Hagen Faculty: Bianca Sumutka Project: The Effects of Multitasking on Memory |
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| 9:45-10 a.m. | Entry # 96: William Paul Spaulding Faculty: Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp Project: Electronic Communication in the Life of the Modern Military Family |
Entry # 123: Sarah Lavinder Faculty: Elza Tiner Project: The Friar and the Summoner: Religious Hypocrisy in the Canterbury Tales |
Entry # 149: Kenneth Rose Faculty: Keith Corodimas Project: Neurogenesis: The Effects of Serotonin on P. clarkii |
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| 10-10:15 a.m. | Entry # 97: Kenneth A. Bosley, III Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Mozart’s Abendempfindung: German, or Italian? |
Entry # 124: Ashley N. Rynard Faculty: Robin Bates Project: Anything for a Quiet Life: Translation of a Seventeenth Century Ballad |
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| 10:15-10:30 a.m. | Entry # 98: Allison Marie Thomas Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Rafael Méndez and the Rise of Latin Music in the United States |
Withdrawn Entry # 125: Ciara Nicole Gore Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: Underground College Trading and Bartering |
Entry # 150: Chelsie Woods Faculty: Priscilla Gannicott Project: Intracellular Localization of ECE-2 and its role in Amyloid Deposition |
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| 10:30-10:45 a.m. | Entry # 99: Linda Renee Anderson Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Creativity Discrimination? Music by Women Composers of the Twentieth Century |
Entry # 126: Julia Katheryne Scales Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: Risk Factors Associated with High School Dropouts |
Entry # 151: Garrett Corless Faculty: Bill Lokar Project: Self-Consistent Field Analysis of Mixed Zwitterionic/Cationic Surfactant Systems on Anionic Surfaces |
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| 10:45-11 a.m. | Entry # 100: Christopher Badgett Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: The Twentieth Century Clarinet and Techniques of Igor Stravinsky |
Entry # 127: Trevor Jeanson Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: Benefiting the Youth Through the Boys and Girls Club 2013 |
Entry # 152: Brian Alexander Ramsey Faculty: John Eric Goff Project: Modeling the Tour de France |
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| 11-11:15 a.m. | Entry # 153: Chelsie Woods Faculty: Allison Jablonski Project: Downstream Effects of siRNA on HER-2 Signaling Pathways |
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| 11:15-11:30 a.m. | Entry # 101: Gillie Wisdom Martin Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: An Analysis of the Opera Orfeo ed Euridice |
Entry # 128: Kristina Ann Berry Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: Emotional Abuse in Children Ages 8-10 |
(Time change from 4 p.m.) Entry # 164: Michael Anthony Burks Faculty: Joe Meehean Project: LC Augmented Reality |
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| 11:30-11:45 a.m. | Entry # 102: William Joseph Sperrazza Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: The Armed Lion: A Modern Adaptation of a Renaissance Cantus Firmus |
Entry # 129: James Evan Parry Faculty: Clifton Potter Project: Fighting for My Ancestor’s Enemy: Choctaw and Navajo Code Talkers |
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| 11:45 a.m.-12 p.m. | Entry # 103: Brooke Lindsey Niblett Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: The Show Must Go On: The Development of Broadway Theatre |
Entry # 130: Jessica Wilson Faculty: Clifton Potter Project: William Walker: Filibustering from 1853-1860 |
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| 12-1 p.m. | Poster Session, Memorial Ballroom | |||
| 1-1:15 p.m. | Entry # 104: Nicole M. Balsamello Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Mikhail Glinka: Defining Russian Nationalism Through Music |
Entry # 131: Shinada Phillips Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: Child Trafficking: An Exploration of Tier 3 Countries |
Entry # 154: Naomi Tice Faculty: Thomas Shahady Project: Phosphorus Removal Potential of Three Native Wetland Plants |
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| 1:15-1:30 p.m. | Entry # 105: Alexandra Curinga Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Twentieth Century Influences on the Keyboard Works of Joaquin Turina |
Entry # 132: John Griemsman Faculty: Clifton Potter Project: The Choice: Virginia’s Fugitive Slaves in 1850s |
Entry # 155: Kyle Sullivan Faculty: Brooke Haiar Project: A Whale Graveyard’s Effects on the Size Distribution of C. megalodon |
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| 1:30-1:45 p.m. | Entry # 106: Elizabeth A. Cantrall Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: L’Homme Arme Masses and Star Wars: The Use of Contrafactum Then and Now |
Entry # 133: Michael Gregory Faculty: Stephen Dawson Project: Classifying Cults and New Religious Movements |
Entry # 156: Julia Rose Taylor Faculty: David Freier Project: Microbial Sherlock Holmes: Identification of an unknown feline oral biofilm isolate using biochemical and genomic methods |
Entry # 168: Caroline Elizabeth Hall Faculty: Mary Swiggum Project: AmTrykes and Their Impact on Development in Children with Cerebral Palsy |
| 1:45-2 p.m. | Entry # 107: John Pastorius Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Life and Career of Felix Mendelssohn |
Entry # 134: Jennifer Ethelle Smith Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: The White Act of Suicide and the Black Male |
Entry # 157: Tara Lynn Einhorn Faculty: John Styrsky Project: An investigation of the direct and indirect effects of a Crematogaster ant species on a honeydew-producing aphid and its host plant |
Entry # 169: Johanna Agustin Faculty: DuAnn Kremer Project: The Effect of Repeated Sprints on Field Hockey Driving Performance |
| 2-2:15 p.m. | Entry # 108: Randolph Todd Critzer Jr. Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: American Minimalism - Folk Music in the 21st Century |
Entry # 135: Taylar Kathryn Drane Faculty: Chip Walton Project: Domestic Violence from the Victimized Males Perspective |
Entry # 158: Alexandra Einstman Faculty: David Freier Project: The Innate Immune Response and Melatonin: Interaction of Responses of RAW 2 |
Entry # 170: Ashley Saba Faculty: Diane Wrisley Project: The Reliability of Three Tests Used to Determine Return to Play Post-Concussion |
| 2:15-2:30 p.m. | Entry # 109: Elizabeth A. Cantrall Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Carmen Fantasies of the Romantic Era |
Entry # 136: Toy D. Ayers Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: Teen Dating Violence |
Entry # 159: Ben Tumolo Faculty: Thomas Shahady Project: Fish as a Reflection of Coral Reef Stress |
Entry # 171: Brynn Workman Faculty: DuAnn Kremer Project: The Effects of Convective Cooling on Aerobic Performance |
| 2:30-2:45 p.m. | Entry # 110: Abigail Burnette Faculty: Alina Klein Project: Terrorism and Illicit Drug Prices: Does a Drug- Terror Nexus Exist? |
Entry # 137: Kendall Rae Whirley Faculty: Kim Mccabe Project: Women’s Participation in Dating Violence |
Entry # 160: Mallory Lynne Stewart Faculty: David Freier Project: In Vitro Effects of Lindane on RAW 264.7 Macrophage Inflammatory Responses |
Entry # 172: Logan-Ann Marie Gittman Faculty: DuAnn Kremer Project: Effects of Body Heat on BOD POD Estimated Body Composition |
| 2:45-3 p.m. | Entry # 138: Jason Payne Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: An Explanation of Jail Turnover Rates Related to Job Satisfaction of the Jail Environment |
Entry # 173: Patrick McCleary Faculty: Todd Olsen Project: From the Pitch to Life: Wellness Education through Soccer in East Africa |
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| 3-3:15 p.m. | Entry # 111: Rebeka Rowan Faculty: Michael Robinson Project: 19 Years Later: The Future of the Harry Potter Fandom |
Entry # 161: Avery Eriksson Faculty: David Freier Project: Effects of Trypsinization v. Manual Detachment of RAW 264.7 Macrophages |
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| 3:15-3:30 p.m. | Withdrawn Entry # 112: Alexandra Curinga Faculty: Paula Youra Project: “I am a Prophet”: An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Jim Jones |
Entry # 139: Olivia Catherine Johnston Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: The Knowledge about Sexting |
Entry # 162: Kristin Marstin Faculty: Joseph Meehean Project: Creating the Ultimate Monopoly Strategy |
Entry # 174: Lindsay Leonard Faculty: DuAnn Kremer Project: The Effect of Field Surface on Field Hockey Performance |
| 3:30-3:45 p.m. | Entry # 113: Vanya Grove Faculty: Bill Noel Project: Roots Animation Film |
Entry # 140: Matt Harmon Faculty: Chip Walton Project: Twitter as a Vehicle for the Prosthetic Self |
Entry # 163: Brandon Eric Gannicott Faculty: Will Briggs Project: Patent Warfare in the Smartphone Industry |
Entry # 175: Kelsey Shelton Faculty: Diane Wrisley Project: Gender Differences in Lifting Technique |
| 3:45-4 p.m. | Entry # 141: Samantha Chapman Faculty: Leslie Layne Project: Language Effects: A Discussion of Linguistic Relativity |
Entry # 176: Shelly Milks Faculty: DuAnn Kremer Project: The Relationship between Field Skill Tests and Field Hockey Game Statistics |
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| 4-4:15 p.m. | Entry # 114: Kelsey Cornell Faculty: Terri Cornwell Project: The Demographic Profile of Audiences Attending Cultural Activities |
Entry # 142: Brianna Hawkins Faculty: Robin Bates Project: Anti-Catholic Confessions in “Westward for Smelts” |
(Time change to 11:15 a.m.) Entry # 164: Michael Anthony Burks |
Entry # 182: Laura Michelle Albrecht Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: College Students’ Perceptions of Sentences for Environmental Crimes |
| 4:15-4:30 p.m. | Entry # 115: Kenley Hoover Faculty: Mike Robinson Project: Contemporary Text and Evolving Genre |
Entry # 143: Paige Hammock and Melanie Tenney Faculty: Robin Bates Project: The Application of Textual Scholarship to an Early Modern English Text |
Entry # 165: Kristin Marstin Faculty: Will Briggs Project: Online Website Builder: A simple way to create and maintain a website |
Entry # 183: Kayla Mohr Faculty: Kim McCabe Project: Perceptions of Guilt or Innocence of Child Abusers: An Analysis of Differences among Majors |
| 4:30-4:45 p.m. | Entry # 116: Carley Elizabeth Dobson Faculty: Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp Project: The Use of Social Media in Museums and Its Impact on Museum Audiences |
Entry # 144: Emma Kinsey Faculty: Allison Wilkins Project: Adding to the Noise: It’s Not About Sex |
Entry # 166: Sarah Lavinder Faculty: Joe Meehean Project: Processing Big Data with Distributed File Systems |
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| 4:45-5 p.m. | Entry # 117: Christina Gruber Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Gustav Holst, Folk Songs, and Literacy: Curriculum Development for HS Bands |
Withdrawn Entry # 145: Caitlin Ball Faculty: Sharon Robinson Project: The Dream Act: Implications for Domestic and Foreign US Policy |
Entry # 167: Michael David Sorensen Faculty: Kevin Peterson Project: The General Case of the Stick Game |
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Graduate Presentations Schedule
| Memorial Ballroom Hall Campus Center |
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| 6-6:15 p.m. | Entry # 177: Ann Elizabeth Key Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: Amy Beach: A Study and Analysis of Her Sonata for Violin in A Minor |
| 6:15-6:30 p.m. | Entry # 178: Tina Kepel-Young Faculty: Cynthia Ramsey Project: A Study of American Wind Ensembles and United States Military Bands |
| 6:30-6:45 p.m. | Entry # 179: Tami Strout Faculty: Dr. Jeanne Booth Project: Guidelines for Counselor Self-Disclosure |
| 6:45-7 p.m. | Entry # 180: Douglas E. Lewis, Jr. Faculty: Elizabeth Farnsworth Project: Clinical Interventions for a Grieving African-American Child |
| 7-7:15 p.m. | Entry # 181: Jonathan Geldmaker Faculty: Greg Eaton Project: Genetically Altered Seagrass |
| 7:15-8:15 p.m. | Graduate Poster Session |
