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7Th Annual Pathways Online Program Pathways Schedule/Agenda Friday, Nov. 13 12 – 5 p.m. Registration Student Center Rotunda, 1st Floor 12 – 2 p.m. Lunch Student Center Outer Rotunda, 2nd floor 12 – 2 p.m. Poster setup Recreational Center, Gym Floor 2 – 2:30 p.m. Welcome Remarks Student Center Ballroom, SC 203 2:30 - 3 p.m. Judges Briefing Recreational Center, Room 128 3 - 4:30 p.m. Poster Session #1 Recreational Center, Gym Floor Agriculture Business and CIS Engineering Social Sciences – Humanities 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Humanities Oral Session #1 Rec. Center, Room 129 and Room 131 Student Center, Room 225, 230, and 231 4:30 – 6 p.m. Poster Session #2 Recreational Center, Gym Floor Computer Science Education 4:30 – 6 p.m. Humanities Oral Session #2 Rec. Center, Room 129 and Room 131 Student Center, Room 225, 230, and 231 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. Poster removal 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Dinner and entertainment Student Center Ballroom, SC 203 Fine and Performing Arts Music Ensemble Experience the exquisite sounds of the Department for Fine and Performing Arts Music Ensembles. The beautiful music of México, Spain, classics and the new will be performed by our talented student groups. OR 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. David S. Gorfein, Ph.D. Student Center Auditorium, SC 236 “Meaning Selection: On the interaction of experience and context.” Saturday, Nov. 14 8 – 10 a.m. Registration Student Center Rotunda, 1st Floor 8 – 9 a.m. Breakfast Student Center Ballroom, SC 203 8 – 9 a.m. Dean’s Breakfast Meeting President’s Dining Room, SC 202 8:30 – 9 a.m. Judges’ Briefing Recreational Center, Room 128 8:30 – 9 a.m. Poster Setup Recreational Center, Gym Floor 9 – 10:30 a.m. Poster Session #3 Recreational Center, Gym Floor Environmental Sciences Life Sciences Physical Sciences 9 – 10:30 a.m. Humanities Oral Session #3 Rec. Center, Room 129 and Room 131 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Entertainment Center for Fine and Performing Arts Theatre A visit to the newly opened Center for Fine and Performing Art Theatre to experience the beauty of modern dance as well as journey through the folklore of Spanish and Mexican dance. 12 – 1 p.m. Closing Ceremony Center for Fine and Performing Arts Theatre Master of Ceremonies and Guest Performer: Hal Langford Door Prizes and Awards Our Guest Speaker David S. Gorfein, Ph. D. Dr. David S. Gorfein is Professor Emeritus of Adelphi University and a Fellow of Division 3 (experimental psychology) of the American Psychological Association. Professor Gorfein, “retired” from Adelphi University in 1996 to devote full-time to the fun part of his academic life- conducting research. That year he joined the University of Texas at Arlington, with a contract that gave him the privileges and obligations (except for teaching) of a full-time faculty member except that he neither received compensation nor earned tenure credit. In 2007 he moved to the University of Texas-Dallas. Since “retirement” he has been fully engaged in research and continues to supervise students in research. He has edited four books- the contribution to the most recent “Inhibition in Cognition” co-edited with Colin MacLeod reflects his current research which focuses on the processing of ambiguous words. His publications to date have included papers in attitude change, the authoritarian personality, conformity behavior, avoidance conditioning, episodic memory, implicit memory, memory and aging, and word association. His interest in lexical ambiguity grew out of his work on encoding processes in the Brown-Peterson short-term-memory task. Friday, November 13, 2009 Welcome and Opening Session 2 – 2:30 p.m. Ballroom, 2nd Floor, Student Center Greetings and Introductions Dr. Jeffrey M. Brown Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Welcome Dr. Kenneth R. Poenisch Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs TAMU System Dr. Pablo Arenaz Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Announcements Dr. Jeffrey M. Brown Saturday, November 14, 2009 Awards Ceremony Activities 10:30 a.m. - 1p.m. Center for Fine and Performing Arts Theatre Pre Awards Entertainment Fine and Performing Arts Dancers Master of Ceremonies Dr. Hal Langford, Dean College of Business and Technology Texas A&M - Commerce Awards Mary Treviño Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Traveling Scholarship Trophy Dr. Pablo Arenaz Closing Remarks Dr. Pablo Arenaz Oral Presentation Schedule Friday, November 13th 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Recreation Center, Room 129 Recreation Center, Room 131 Abstract # Presenter Abstract # Presenter 1000 Sandra Shu-Chao Liu 1003 D’Andra White 1007 Shelly Fox 1005 Thomas Avila 1012 Mario Martinez 1008 Karla Garcia 1017 Christopher Warner 1023 Hermelinda Garcia 1025 Elizabeth Melton 1024 Eva Harder Student Center, Room 225 Abstract # Presenter 1006 Abel De los Santos 1011 Luz Martinez 1013 Manuel Moya 1016 Tania Saavedra Friday, November 13th 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Recreation Center, Room 129 Recreation Center, Room 131 Abstract # Presenter Abstract # Presenter 1001 Sergio Pizziconi 1002 Daniel Redo 1010 Sean Kennedy 1020 Jacob Cates 1019 Michele Arishita 1022 Santos Dominga Trevino 1029 Juan Vasquez 1026 Maritza Morales 1027 Alexis Rodriguez Student Center, Room 225 Abstract # Presenter 1009 Andrew Johnson 1014 Lorena Robles 1018 Luis Aguila 1021 Emanuel Diaz 1028 Kirk Scarbrough Activities Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 3 - 6 p.m. Poster Presentations and Judging Recreational Center 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Campus Tour Guided tour meets at SC 126 Planetarium Shows Time’s vary by show; LBV Science Center Show Times Friday, Nov. 13 12 p.m. – Star Signs 1 p.m. – Seven Wonder 2 p.m. – Stars of the Pharoahs 3-4 p.m. Art Gallery and Exhibition Tour Guided walking tour at Center “Embracing Darkness and Loving Your Dreams” for the Fine and Performing Arts 6:30-8:30 p.m. Entertainment Experience the exquisite sounds of the Department for Fine and Performing Arts Music Ensembles. The beautiful music of México, Spain, the Classic and the New will be performed by our talented student groups. OR 7:30-8:30 David S. Gorfein, Ph.D. - “Meaning Selection: Student Center 236 On the interaction of experience and context.” Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 9 -10:30 a.m. Poster Presentations and Judging Recreational Center 10:30 a.m. Campus Tour Guided tour meets at SC 126 Planetarium Show Time’s vary by show; LBV Science Center Show Times Saturday, Nov. 14 10 a.m. – Extreme Planets 11 a.m. – Wonders of the Universe 10:30-12:00 p.m. Entertainment A visit to the newly opened Center for Fine and Performing Art Theatre to experience the beauty of modern dance as well as a journey through the folklore of Spanish and Mexican dance. 7th Annual Pathways Student Research Symposium Agriculture 100 TITLE: No Title Submitted AUTHOR: Suheb Mohammed Doctoral Level Texas A&M University AUTHOR(S): MENTORS: ABSTRACT: No Abstract Submitted TYPE OF PRESENTATION: Poster TITLE: Protection of Intellectual Property in R&D Outsourcing Contracts: When Sticks fail Carrots 101 Prevail AUTHOR: Rajorshi Sen Gupta Doctoral Level Texas A&M University AUTHOR(S): MENTORS: H. Alan Love ABSTRACT: R&D outsourcing has become a strategic tool for companies seeking to abate production costs and/or develop new products. While sharing of intellectual property (IP) by client firms can facilitate vendor learning, it can also be misappropriated by the latter. We design an incentive compatible contract mechanism that can help clients protect their intellectual property should they go for outsourcing. In particular, a carrot and stick approach is proposed for the client firm: while the mechanism we develop shares less than optimal level of pre‐existing know‐how (stick approach), it also provides enough incentive payments to the vendor such that the latter does not misappropriate the shared IP (carrot approach). TYPE OF PRESENTATION: Poster 102 TITLE: Incorporating Horticulture into a South Texas Community AUTHOR: Catherine R Simpson Doctoral Level Texas A&M University ‐ Kingsville AUTHOR(S): Gardiner MENTORS: Nelson Nelson ABSTRACT: The use of horticulture in our environment is used to beautify our surroundings. This has developed into many different facets of professional landscaping. In the spring of 2009, the course “Landscape Design” was offered at Texas A&M University‐Kingsville. For the course of Landscape Design, students learn professional techniques and skills dealing with designing, constructing and maintaining a landscape. To give students an applied perspective on this class a proposal was written and funded by the Quality Enhancement Program at Texas A&M University‐Kingsville to provide students with professional Horticultural and civic engagement opportunities. The city of Kingsville, Texas is a town west of the Gulf of Mexico made famous by Captain King who established the King Ranch and the American ranching industry. Kingsville lies in an area known as the Wild Horse Desert, populated by mesquite trees, bunch grasses and hardy native vegetation. This landscape project was developed in conjunction with the city of Kingsville and “Keep Kingsville Beautiful” on city‐owned land. The area chosen was a 9500 ft2 (˜ 1/5 acre) on what was formerly a detective’s station. The climate and water limitations made it imperative for the landscape to be drought and heat tolerant, i.e. a xeriscape. This project was constructed during the spring 2009 semester over 12 weeks. The students were required to design a xeriscape garden according to 1 Agriculture specified requirements and then construct the landscape on the designated area. This project involved not only the students enrolled in the class, but over 100 members of the community and city employees. In addition to the grant awarded, there was over $6,000 donated in supplies and materials towards the completion of the project. The enthusiasm and positive response to this project from the citizens and students truly made this a successful community project.
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