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Oral Sessions

SESSION I

9:00a.m.-10:00a.m.

Shriver Center Room 336 Benjamin Harrison Room Bystrom Reid Room

Moderator:

James Coons, English
Education for Nobility in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel
Advisor: Wieste de Boer and Renee Baernstein

Sophia Turczynewycz, English
The Pumpkin Show: Five Short Stories
Advisor: Steven A. Bauer

Rachel DeHart, History
Sovereign Power and Sovereign Culture: Indigenous People in the Bolivian and Guatemalan Revolutions
Advisors: Daniel H. La Botz and Susan A Paulson

Moderator:

Michael Gripshover, Geology
Tectonic Evolution of the Acadian Foreland Basin System, Eastern United States
Advisor: Brian S. Currie

Katherine Middleton, Geology
Using Gastropods to Date the Ice Ages
Advisor: Jason A. Rech

Matthew Miller, Microbiology
Alkaliphilus metalliredigens, a Novel Alkaliphilic Iron-Reducer
Advisor: Matthew W. Fields

Moderator:

Austin Kleon, English
The Pumpkin Show: Five Short Stories
Advisor: Steven A. Bauer

Belinda Fleming, Anthropology
Trinidad's Carnival
Advisor: Jim J. Aimers

Anglin, Robin L., English Literature
Fallen Women in the Victorian Novel
Advisor: Dr. Dianne F. Sadoff

SESSION II

10:00a.m.-11:00a.m.

Shriver Center Room 336   Bystrom Reid Room

Moderator:

Amy Morsch, Zoology
How Well Does Habitat Area Explain the Spatial Distribution of Biodiversity?
Advisor: Thomas O. Crist

Anne Reidmiller, Classics
Responsibility and Power in Seneca's Troades
Advisors: Judith de Luce and Denise E. McCoskey

Grace Schneider, Interdisciplinary Studies
Books or Bytes: Media Format and Literacy Education
Advisor: Christopher A. Myers

Moderator:

Sarah Vincent, French
Food Distribution in the Low-income Hamilton Hispanic Community
Advisor: Ann M. Jarrett Bromberg

Christine Norgard, Spanish & Portuguese
Palabra, Silencio, Acciónn: el Rodaje de Nada, una Alternativa para una Nueva Mujer
Advisor: Jose M. Domiguez Burdalo

Camilla Hileman, Psychology
The Cognition of Autism
Advisors: Cecelia M. Shore and Julie S. Rubin

Victoria Wysel, Psychology
Interpersonal Schemas and Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Abuse
Advisor: Margaret O. Wright

Miraj Desai, Psychology
Everyday Prejudice in a Post-9/11 World
Advisors: Roger M. Knudson and Amanda Diekman

SESSION III

11:00a.m.-12:00p.m.

Shriver Center Room 336   Bystrom Reid Room

Moderator:

Kimberly Collins, Zoology
Signaling Pathways Involved in Retina Regeneration
Advisor: Katia Del Rio-Tsonis

Ian Rice, Zoology
BRCA1 Interactions with BACH1, BARD1, and CHK2: Recent Evidence and Potential Developments in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Human Breast Cancer
Advisor: Katia Del Rio-Tsonis

Hilliary Folz, Zoology
Effects Rearing Environment on Activity Level and Foraging Behavior of the Wolf spider, Hogna helluo
Advisor: Ann L. Rypstra

 

Moderator:

Scott Hodel, Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering
The Effect of Cutting Fluid Velocity and Direction on Tool-Chip Interface Temperature
Advisor: James C. Moller

Brandon Smith, Political Science
Afghanistan, 1989-1995: Between the Soviets and the Taliban
Advisor: Karen L. Dawsiha

Nicole Kozdron, Economics
Moving Toward Equity? Ohio School Finance Reform 1990-2000
Advisor: Dennis H. Sullivan

SESSION IV

1:00p.m.-2:00p.m.

Shriver Center Room 336   Bystrom Reid Room

Moderator:

Scott Gruenbaum, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Fluorescence Enhancement Effects of Gold Nanoparticles
Advisor: Shouzhong Zou

Kelly Markle, Interdisciplinary Studies
Judging a Book by its Cover
Advisors: Christopher A. Myers and William H. Newell

Miranda Sheeks, Psychology
Shyness, Sociability, and the Use of Computer-mediated Communication in Relationship Development
Advisor: Zachary P. Birchmeier

 

Moderator:

Michael Seifried, Philosophy
The Law's Claim to Justice
Advisor: S.S. Rama Rao Pappu

Etha Walters, English
Disabled Sexuality in Society
Advisors: Kelli Lyon-Johnson and Jennifer Profitt

Nicholas Licastro, English
The Sopranos: Investigating Italian-American Gender Roles and Cultural Identity in Modern Literature, Film, and other Media
Advisor: Robert S. Martin

SESSION V

2:00p.m.-3:00p.m.

Shriver Center Room 336   Bystrom Reid Room

Moderator:

Bret Lehman, Zoology
Embryonic Retina Regeneration and the BMP Pathway
Advisors: Katia Del Rio-Tsonis and Tracy Haynes

Elizabeth Arnold, Zoology
The Use of Molecular Biomarkers, Habitat Evaluations, and Macroinvertebrate Communities to Assess Stream Quality in Mill Creek Watershed
Advisor: James T. Oris

George Carberry, Botany
Baculo-viral Expression of CPSF Genes of Model Plant Arabidopsis
Advisor: Qingshun Q. Li

 

Moderator:

Mark Wilson, English
Historicizing Maps of Hell
Advisor: Laura C. Mandell

Christopher Good, English
Feminism in the Literature of Haruki Murakami
Advisor: Margaret E. Davis

Patrick Alexander, English
Re-conceptualizing Representations of the Black Male
Advisor: Rebecka R. Rutledge

SESSION VI

3:00p.m.-4:00p.m.

Shriver Center Room 336   Bystrom Reid Room

Moderator:

Noelle Kujanek, Interdisciplinary Studies
At What Cost? School Funding in the State of Ohio
Advisors: Terry M. Perlin and William H. Newell

Melissa Hamann, Interdisciplinary Studies
Intertwining Environmental and Public Health Policy: Leishmania in Kenya's Game Reserves
Advisors: Terry M. Perlin and Joseph M. Carlin

Rachel Nagy, Interdisciplinary Studies
Pressures on Coral Reefs and Rainforests: A Costa Rican Case Study
Advisor: R. Hays Cummins

 

Moderator:

 

Kendra Underwood, History
Putting Her in Place: Women in Kinship in Renaissance Florence
Advisor: Renee Baernstein

Scott Bresler, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Total Synthesis of Trideca-3,5,7,9,11-pentayne-1,2-diol and Its Glucoside
Advisor: Benjamin W. Gung

Donald Frederick, History
University of Paris - 1120 to 1277
Advisor: Charlotte Newman Goldy

 

Shriver Center Room 336 Benjamin Harrison Room Bystrom Reid Room